Crave - "Video games are difficult to make. That's why I only write about them rather than create them – even the terrible ones require a level of skill I don't possess.
With it being announced yesterday that the heavily anticipated Watch Dogs will be postponed until early 2014 in order for some improvements to be made to it, I thought now's as good a time as any to run down some other, much more lengthy video game delays we've experienced over the years."
Valve has finally introduced the much-needed 64-bit support in an unexpected Team Fortress 2 update after 17 years since its release.
64 bit support is not the same as a next gen upgrade. 64 bit has been used for like 12-15 years now?
BY JOHN: There are lots of commercially successful games that are, to put it mildly, not very good. Whether they launch broken, or they’re just a cookie-cutter version of another title, some games just hit the jackpot when it comes to sales numbers.
But, what about those games that are well worth playing but don’t sell well? It can be too easy to miss a great gaming experience just because it wasn’t a commercial smash hit, despite having a strong story or interesting gameplay mechanics. This can be due to poor marketing, the timing not being right in the market or dozens of other reasons.
Here are ten games that flopped commercially but are well worth checking out.
Prey shouldn't have been connected to the original, they should've changed the name. It looked good and had decent exploration but it was way too long and the ending was trash. Definitely gets more praise in the comments than it should.
I couldn’t get into Prey when I played it. I own it so I’ll try again someday.
I think the issue with Prey is how the media were infatuated with everything done by Arkane Studio and the Dishonored Universe.
For some reason they need to remind us all the time that Dishonored is among the best games and everything related to that suddenly becomes near perfection.
cue the same treatment for Deathloop.
Team Fortress 2 is back with a bang, and this can be the start of a new era for the game, but only if Valve is willing to help it.
Now if/when FFXV, The Last Guardian, Star Wars Battlefront, Half-Life 3 and Agent get released, we can add them to the list. I just hope they all live up to the expectations.
The longer a game is in development, the more expectations rise. Few of those on the list really were worth the excessive wait.
what about Kirby Return to Dreamland? i thought that took 14 years to release.
no Agent? FF vs 13?