damn, and here my first gaming forum was the Wind Waker forum on Gametalk, back in 2003.
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@charizard1605 said:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Because it had a lower than expected score? I looked at the review and it got an 8.8 which is pretty good but not enough to generate widespread butthurt. Also not bad enough to be labeled as a flop.
I'm gonna guess you didn't frequent this board in 2006 lol :P
System Wars used to be frequented by thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of posters a day, it was the most active gaming board on the internet, and a substantial portion of that population was Nintendo fans. Twilight Princess had been hyped to high heavens as the successor to OoT, the 'most perfect, greatest game ever made,' was hyped a high 9 (I think 9.8 or above- you must remember, Gamespot used to have the .1 rating scale back then, so every .1 above or below hype counted, it's not like today where a game hyped a 9 getting an 8 is just one notch below the hype on the scale- people had overshot Twilight Princess' hype by 10 points), and widely expected to get a 10. When it got an 8.8, a very substantial portion of SW- far bigger than the total size of the board right now, to be honest- went absolutely ballistic. It was actually a bit embarrassing and sad, but it was entertaining as hell.
I have never known any one game to cause as much outrage on this board, ever- that happened right at the peak of SW's life, and it was beautiful to see.
Look at this image- I know it's from GameFAQs, but it should give you an example of what things were like back then:
Zass's thread's OP may also be a good reference for the state of the board back then
The Uncharted 4 butthurt and outrage is honestly extremely tame compared to back then. I mean, when UC4 got a 10, it took nine hours before the stickied hype tread had more than a hundred additional posts. Back during TP? Holy shit, the board exploded.
Just checked the time on those last posts. First page has threads with last posts all in same minute.
As you already explain it, I had no idea Twilight Princess was a huge thing back on SW many years ago, I really like that game only because I find Midna to be an interesting character at the time. I was lurking here on GS back in 2011, I couldn't join GS due to college at the time and now I'm here, (join GS October 2014) but I must ask, how did things here on SW handle LoZ: Wind Waker when the Zelda series was going for cel-shaded? Also did the whole FF13 riot here as well when it was going to Xbox 360?
@blue_hazy_basic: lol that's what I was thinking... Uncharted 4 was as tame as it gets... You wanna read a great thread go back and look at the Fable :the journey thread... That kinect game scored as well as the last of us and it scrambled so many brains... But even that is small potatoes compared to twilight princess... That 8.8 could be heard around the world.
Uncharted 4 seems to be one of them. I've rarely seen a game generate so many negative responses from people who ironically never played it. Guess it does kinda hurt not to be able to even try the game. The game starts a bit slow and you don't do much in the first hour or so but once it picks up it never let go and is really a game and not a movie-game.
That said, what other games have rustled jimmies like Uncharted 4? I mean people are pissing and moaning about its scores, sales and technical accomplishments non-stop. It's the perfect example of an exclusive done right.
Any other examples? I'm talking System Wars mostly.
The Last of Us. That 8 score made this place explode for weeks.
Just checked the time on those last posts. First page has threads with last posts all in same minute.
Oh my goodness.
This place is so boring now.
You can thank GS staff for the horrible mess revamp 2013 and now, GS has lost like hundreds of members and all of them were piss off because a lot of changes have been taking away what made GS so unique then the rest other gaming sites. Truth be told, I'm finding myself posting way more in the social network and GS is actually my last gaming site that I always come to just about everyday and now just SW but the rest of GS is definitely getting way boring by the minute.
As you already explain it, I had no idea Twilight Princess was a huge thing back on SW many years ago, I really like that game only because I find Midna to be an interesting character at the time. I was lurking here on GS back in 2011, I couldn't join GS due to college at the time and now I'm here, (join GS October 2014) but I must ask, how did things here on SW handle LoZ: Wind Waker when the Zelda series was going for cel-shaded? Also did the whole FF13 riot here as well when it was going to Xbox 360?
I wasn't lurking GS until 05. I did hear that WW winning GOTY over KOTOR was a big controversy here where lemmings and hermits whined about but like I said I wasn't there.
FFXIII going multiplat was hilarious here just for the simple fact that cows went apeshit.
It's funny that you claim that people that are negative about the game automaticly never played the game. I played it, it's not a bad game by any means, it's just not as good that everyone claims. It's a b-movie at it's best.
The flop from us was just the biggest butthurt in SW history
I never got into halo 4 mp, so I can't comment there. I enjoyed Reach mp. Not as good as 3. Reach was just on the ugly side, too. Stills look alright, but the entire game had this odd blurring effect.
Not a chance. Halo 4 was incredible. Myself, and everyone I know, began to lose interest in the series. Halo 4 reinvigorated the series for me. Everything from art design to music--it was all top notch. I almost want to buy Xbox one just for the halo stuff.
Regarding Uncharted 4, I wasn't aware aware there were responses in positive or negative regarding the game's merits, only talk of scores and sales.
Maybe the greatest meltdowns in recent years was Rise of the Tomb Raider crybabies. But nothing beats the pathetic display of people over the Mass Effect 3 endings. I mean sure they sucked, but I was over it pretty quick when I began my second and third playthroughs. But some people wouldn't let up on it. Even now after we've been delivered a redo to the ending that's much more satisfying people still complain like they've been wronged.
Yes, this. In fact, I don't know what upset people more, the original 8.5 when the game "clearly" was a 10, or the HD versions recent 9, when the world now views it as one of the lesser Zelda games.
Just checked the time on those last posts. First page has threads with last posts all in same minute.
Oh my goodness.
This place is so boring now.
You can thank GS staff for the horrible mess revamp 2013 and now, GS has lost like hundreds of members and all of them were piss off because a lot of changes have been taking away what made GS so unique then the rest other gaming sites. Truth be told, I'm finding myself posting way more in the social network and GS is actually my last gaming site that I always come to just about everyday and now just SW but the rest of GS is definitely getting way boring by the minute.
BTW love the avatar ACP.
I wasn't too active on these forums back in 2013. I used to have another account which I forgot the password to. Nowadays I stay away from most forums but I still end up coming here out of habit.
Yeah? Had to wait a bit until someone finally made this bloddy gif.
Currently UC4 but that was to be expected given the dynamics of SW. The meltdowns would have been better though if the game had received not so stellar reviews.
GTA 4, Devil May Cry 4, and FF 13 going multiplat was pretty epic last gen. I remember people saying they were going to not buy the games because they felt betrayed. When Devil May Cry 4 was said to be built around the PS3 and the textures looked better on the 360 caused some salt too.
Uncharted 4 getting a 10 has caused some serious hate.
Overwatch scores seem to be hurting some feelings.
Last of Us getting an 8 caused some serious hate threads.
Twilight Princess probably wins. There were people calling for Jeff to be fired.
Because it had a lower than expected score? I looked at the review and it got an 8.8 which is pretty good but not enough to generate widespread butthurt. Also not bad enough to be labeled as a flop.
I'm gonna guess you didn't frequent this board in 2006 lol :P
System Wars used to be frequented by thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of posters a day, it was the most active gaming board on the internet, and a substantial portion of that population was Nintendo fans. Twilight Princess had been hyped to high heavens as the successor to OoT, the 'most perfect, greatest game ever made,' was hyped a high 9 (I think 9.8 or above- you must remember, Gamespot used to have the .1 rating scale back then, so every .1 above or below hype counted, it's not like today where a game hyped a 9 getting an 8 is just one notch below the hype on the scale- people had overshot Twilight Princess' hype by 10 points), and widely expected to get a 10. When it got an 8.8, a very substantial portion of SW- far bigger than the total size of the board right now, to be honest- went absolutely ballistic. It was actually a bit embarrassing and sad, but it was entertaining as hell.
I have never known any one game to cause as much outrage on this board, ever- that happened right at the peak of SW's life, and it was beautiful to see.
Look at this image- I know it's from GameFAQs, but it should give you an example of what things were like back then:
Zass's thread's OP may also be a good reference for the state of the board back then
The Uncharted 4 butthurt and outrage is honestly extremely tame compared to back then. I mean, when UC4 got a 10, it took nine hours before the stickied hype tread had more than a hundred additional posts. Back during TP? Holy shit, the board exploded.
That's funny. I noticed "Jeff" called out a lot...who was/is he? One of Gamespot's editors I presume? Is he really fat? lol
*Ops never mind, I see that's from Gamefaqs not this site. I jumped the gun a bit.
your assumption that people that talk about it never play the game its just wishfull thinking you just cant accept peoples opinions
uncharted Extremist just the worst the game is good but the fans expect it to be treated like the best and it is not
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and they done this for every uncharted the forums is the same every time a new uncharted comes all forums topics go to this game clamming best everything and bashing all games even fans who have not play the game worship it
I remember when UC2 came out you cud google over 10 mil forum topics braging on the game when the game at the time only had 3 mill sold there was more people worshiping out of fanboy fever then actual people playing the game
Yep. Doom 3 was the death of hermits back then just as TP was the death of sheep. Neither camp ever fully recovered.
Everything these days is tame by comparison. I mean, there is no comparison lol. People took this shit very serious back in the day. Think of the most dedicated true fanboys on this board, the very few that are actually here, and multiply their numbers by 100 or more. Shit was wild.
I think the last mega-butthurt thread this board had was with MGS4.
(people are confusing this thread with hyped games that flopped. this is about games that were getting alot of hate but turned out good and it pissed haters off for a long time.... rustle their jimmies)
TP and DOOM 3 were pretty big ones,but in recent years I dont remember so much salt as the GT5 flop,the hype thread alone reached 20k posts in a couple of days or some shit like that.
Combined it would still not be even a patch on TLOU's butthurt, let alone Twilight Princess.
Seriously man, everything these days is just a drop in the ocean compared to old SW. Hell, even DMC4 or FFXIII going multiplat were bigger deals than anything that happens now.
The last true SW shakeup was E3 2013 Xbone vs. PS4. And even that shit was pocket change.
The last of us, Overwatch, Uncharted 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Every Halo game, Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, Rise of the Tomb Raider Xbox only announcement are few others that come to mind.
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