Biggest Fail of 2012?

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#1 TheDidact
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2012 is winding to a close and we've all had mixed opinions about this year. We've had some good times, like with ME3, BL2, Halo 4, Journey, and more, but 2012 has had its fair share of flops and failures. Now that basically all games and systems have been released this year (except Far Cry 3 :P ) we can now determine what was the biggest flop. Was it the fact that most GOTY contenders like The Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite were delayed? Was it RE6, a game that could have resurrected the franchise yet instead severely tarnished it? Was it the PS Vita's overall year, along with its third party titles? Was it the horrible endings to beloved franchises like ME3 and AC3? Or was it PS Allstars?
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#2 balfe1990
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Halol 4. What a flop.

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#3 Meeeper282
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This thread

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#4 locopatho
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The delays of many amazing games (I wanted to play Sly 4 over Christmas :( ) and also the WiiU seems to have luanched with little fanfare and some significant problems.
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#5 TheDidact
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This thread

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No u :|
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#6 speedfreak48t5p
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The PS3's only games flopping hard.

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#7 Plagueless
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Probably just Sony in general. Their year started out looking good with Journey, but then literally everything after that flopped, and they are now even closer to bankruptcy. Sony had better get it together for 2013 or they're gonna have a tough time launching the PS4.
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#8 hiryu3
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Duke Nukem is a better choice
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#9 TheDidact
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Duke Nukem is a better choicehiryu3
Forever? It came out last year.
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#10 Eddie-Vedder
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You really think a game getting 7.0 hype and scoring 6.5 is worthy of biggest fail of the year lol?

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#11 Sushiglutton
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Wii-U. Really underwhelming exclusive launch lineup. There hardcore bait ZombieU flopped horribly. CPU is reported to be very weak, too weak to bother for Metro developers. Gamepad adds nothing to normal games and in fact is a distraction for many of them. Gamepad has a very short battery life.
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The Vita which is a dang shame, that thing had so much going for it :(

PSASBR is fine, scored decently on metacritic last time I checked it had a metascore of 7.5, hardly a fail in my book.

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#13 nervmeister
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Pretty bad for most everyone (with the possible exception of PC) Sony's 2012 Vita and PS3 lineup underperforming The one major 360 release failing to even be nominated for GOTY. Wii-U getting walloped in multiplats by last-gen consoles
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#14 speedfreak48t5p
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[QUOTE="nervmeister"]Pretty bad for most everyone (with the possible exception of PC) Sony's 2012 Vita and PS3 lineup underperforming The one major 360 release failing to even be nominated for GOTY. Wii-U getting walloped in multiplats by last-gen consoles

There were multiple major 360 releases.
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#15 Joedgabe
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The Vita. Nobody expected it to do that horrible. Poor thing.. I want it to do good... but I'm not even supporting it.:?

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#16 BigBoss255
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Definitely Vita. The hardware is great but the software has been awful.
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#17 Ondoval
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Diablo III for me.

The thing didn't look good at all under the development phase, with all the doubts about the system, the multiple nerfings in the mechanics and the overall simplification, but no one was prepared to play a game so dull and plain in so many facets compared with its precursor.

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#18 StormyJoe
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Halol 4. What a flop.

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Exactly howis Halo 4 a flop?

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#19 gensigns
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Sony in general.

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#20 AdobeArtist  Moderator
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Halol 4. What a flop.

balfe1990

AAA here and met the hype. Try again.

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#21 freedomfreak
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balfe1990 scores!
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#22 SecretPolice
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4 way tie me thinks... PS3 / Vita Wii / Wii U :P

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balfe1990 scores!freedomfreak

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#24 TheDidact
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[QUOTE="balfe1990"]

Halol 4. What a flop.

StormyJoe

Exactly howis Halo 4 a flop?

It didn't get 10/10 in every site in existance and sell 10 million copies on day 1. These are the reasons why returned this POS game, sold my 360, and bought a second PS3. Thank You Sony! Because of your existance I've seen the error of my ways by purchasing that filth Halo 4 and now I can partake in the glorious community of the mega innovative masterpiece Call of Duty Black Ops 2 on the PS3, the definative version. In fact, due to Sony's generosity, I will purchase two more PS3's on Black Friday and help spread the good news of the Playstation Family by converting those who out of their own free will choose to by that disgrace of a console, the Wii U.

[spoiler] :| [/spoiler]

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#25 deactivated-5b78379493e12
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The Vita

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#26 Blabadon
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[QUOTE="balfe1990"]

Halol 4. What a flop.

AdobeArtist

AAA here and met the hype. Try again.

loldobe taking the bait.
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#27 JohnnyCageMK
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PS All Stars and the Vita are 2 of the biggest failures in gaming history. Lets also not forget about LBK Kart which was Sony's 2nd failed attempt this gen to ripoff Mario Kart. Starhawk was another huge failure that didn't meet hype. Gravity Rush too but since its a Vita game that's just expected.

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#28 Heil68
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i would say the xbox's Summer of Flops.
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#29 Seabas989
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Seeing the Japanese sales this year, the Vita especially from the hype from E3 2011.

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#30 Ballroompirate
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I have to say it's a toss up between delays and ME3 ending, I would say the ME3 ending probably stirred the most controversy in recent gaming that wasn't something to do with violence or sex in a game.

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#31 1PMrFister
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The Vita and Sony in general. Here you have a handheld system that trounces the 3DS in almost every conceivable way, yet it still sits on store shelves because it lacks in the one thing that matters the most: compelling software. Even the big hitters like Uncharted and Call of Duty are supposedly underwhelming compared to the 3DS' best offerings. Next year doesn't look that much better, either. The 3DS has notable games like Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, and Luigi's Mansion coming out in 2013. What does Vita have in comparison, Killzone and a card battle game based on Uncharted? Sony really needs to buckle down and shape up, or I fear they will be heading on a slow decline to irrelevancy soon.
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#32 game_masta14
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As much as I would say Vita, what happened with ME3 was possibly the most controversial thing to ever happen and the one of two games this year to really piss me off (the other game would be KH3D). Screwed up Talia, dumb ending, my choices hardly mattered at all, and the new ending was a powerpoint presentation. Never again, never again.
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#33 SamiRDuran
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Far cry 3
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#34 platniumgamer
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The PS3's only games flopping hard.

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This and the Vita.

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#35 Zeviander
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The PS3. Every major exclusive was a flop.
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#36 CanYouDiglt
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You really think a game getting 7.0 hype and scoring 6.5 is worthy of biggest fail of the year lol?

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You are right. I think the PS3 is the failure since its games are so bad that the fans know by now to just hype the games AE.
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#37 PAL360
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PSV. PS3 came close, though :P

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#38 Eddie-Vedder
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The biggest flop of the year HAS to be the 360's sales.

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#39 Blabadon
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The biggest flop of the year HAS to be the 360's sales.

Eddie-Vedder
I wonder how many months of sales you took away this time to reach this conclusion.
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#40 Zeviander
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The biggest flop of the year HAS to be the 360's sales.Eddie-Vedder
Denial is the path to the Butthurt. Denial leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Just give it up and accept the ways of the Manticore. Adherence brings relief that no amount of Preparation H could give.
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#41 gensigns
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The biggest flop of the year HAS to be the 360's sales.

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Somebody's cow-hole is hurting...

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#42 StormyJoe
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The biggest flop of the year HAS to be the 360's sales.

Eddie-Vedder

Xbox: 24 million.

360: 70+ million.

Sales increase 291%

OMG! What a failure. :roll:

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#43 ShadowMoses900
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I don't consider any of those things to be failures. I enjoyed them all.

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#44 CleanPlayer
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Vita in general because of sales and Resident Evil 6. I haven't played ZombiU yet, but that is in consideration as well. I picked Resident Evil 6 mainly because all the money poured into that was for a really inferior product compared to the previous entries in the series.
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#45 PinnacleGamingP
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halo 4 and 360 hitting last place
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#46 gensigns
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halo 4 and 360 hitting last place PinnacleGamingP

buh-buh-buh-buh-bhutthurt!!!!!

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[QUOTE="PinnacleGamingP"]halo 4 and 360 hitting last place gensigns

buh-buh-buh-buh-bhutthurt!!!!!

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#48 gensigns
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[QUOTE="gensigns"]

[QUOTE="PinnacleGamingP"]halo 4 and 360 hitting last place PinnacleGamingP

buh-buh-buh-buh-bhutthurt!!!!!

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#49 PAL360
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halo 4 and 360 hitting last place PinnacleGamingP

Halo 4 delivered and 360 isn't in last place. Poor cows, always relying on lies :lol:

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#50 PinnacleGamingP
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[QUOTE="gensigns"]

[QUOTE="PinnacleGamingP"][QUOTE="gensigns"]

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