Board 8 > What's the most forgettable successful game?

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A game that sold a bunch and might have even reviewed well, but no one cares anymore, it didn't influence anything, and it's hard to remember it exists. Basically the game equivalent of Avatar.

Nintendogs? Gran Turismo? Dragon Age 3 maybe?

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Maybe like the Resistance series? A pretty high profile PS3-exclusive series for the time but it's been MIA for ages and wasn't different enough to be all-that influential or memorable. Insomniac plain seems to have abandoned the franchise to focus exclusively on Ratchet & Spider-Man.

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first thought was Red Faction

then thought maybe Advance Wars

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Bioshock Infinite comes to mind
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Gears of War?

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Killzone 2 has gotta be up there. Maybe GTA: Chinatown Wars too.

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Wii play.

Everyone thinks of Wii Sports, or Wii Fit. Wii Play sold over 28 million copies with a bunch of garbage mini-games.

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Titanfall

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Hbthebattle posted...

Bioshock Infinite comes to mind

I remember nothing of that game other than zip lining and the last like, two hours

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KamikazePotato posted...

Gran Turismo?

Wait what?
This influenced a tun and was relevent for like 20 years.
Why was this an example?

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Probably a Killzone or Resistance

This one is a little controversial but GTA IV is way up there too. The only thing anyone EVER talks about this game for is bowling with cousin Roman even though it sold tens of millions of copies

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Dragon Age: Inquisition is a fantastic game. I can appreciate people disliking the exploration design of the areas, but the characters are phenomenal.

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ScareChan posted...

then thought maybe Advance Wars

People have been wishing hard for a successor game. Within the past few years, something came out to fill the void a bit with Wargroove. I picked it up recently in the summer sale and it's pretty clearly a love letter to the AW series.

I can't think of the most likely candidate for 'good but forgotten game', although one I loved that I wish would see more games like it is Freelancer.

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Aion

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Sorozone posted...

Wii play.

Everyone thinks of Wii Sports, or Wii Fit. Wii Play sold over 28 million copies with a bunch of garbage mini-games.

I like this answer. The only reason it sold even half as much was because it came with a free Wii Remote anyways.

That being said, I don't think Avatar's the best movie to liken a game to for this topic. If nothing else, it's the reason most blockbusters are still released in 3D to this day even though most developed countries don't care about the format anymore.

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Johnbobb posted...

Titanfall

The sequel is not talked about enough! Best FPS single player campaign of the past decade other than DOOM. I know it's not a high bar but both are leagues above anything else

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advance wars is a terrible answer lmao. some of the biggest switch indie games sold purely on the buzz of "being advance wars"

i see wii play talked (or, more often, memed) about a fair bit more than wii party... but also i didn't know it sold that much better so it's still a pretty good answer

gran turismo is also not forgotten, it just fell out of favour. i don't think people that played them back on ps1 or 2 just ignore the impact they had

anyway

Remember SingStar and Buzz?

I'm thinking homefront

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Casual DS stuff like Nintendogs/Brain Age

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voltch posted...

Casual DS stuff like Nintendogs/Brain Age

oh god now you just made me realise it could totally be some wii shovelware

Resistance and Wii Play are particularly great answers. Chip's Challenge might qualify as well. That game was a BFD among early gaming publications and found a wide audience on PC, but was basically memory-holed after the turn of the millennium.

I've gotta mention The Conduit, too. Remember when that was supposed to be the UBER 1337 shooter that'd make the Wii a respectable system among hardcore gamers? So many people pinned their hopes on that game.

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Aecioo posted...

The sequel is not talked about enough! Best FPS single player campaign of the past decade other than DOOM. I know it's not a high bar but both are leagues above anything else

So true, the TF2 campaign is amazing! And Titanfall eventually lead to Apex Legends which is still a relatively popular BR.

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Depends on how forgettable is forgettable. I feel like my first reaction to the way I'm interpreting the question is Assassin's Creed. Not exactly flying under the radar, and still having games released, but it's the hardcore gamer equivalent of Madden.

So, on that note, the answer's probably Madden.

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It's not Nintendogs, are you kidding? Nintendogs was huge. And has a stage in Smash Bros. Kawashima's floating polygon head is in that too. Wii Play makes more sense, as the hardware version of "Buy this demo and get a free game". But the sequel is even more forgettable, assuming it was successful.

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Nintendogs is a great answer what are you talking about

I gotta say - as awful as most of Nintendo's "casual gamer" efforts were in the 2000s, Nintendogs was fucking LEGIT. I really should pick up the 3DS sequel at some point.

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Not sure of the gaming answer to this question, but I don't think Avatar matches the title description well from the movie side of things. It was hugely influential in proving that every theater in the world needed to be able to play 3D films and that they could make serious money (which they did for the next few years) and is the reason action movies were still being put out in 3D right up until COVID killed the industry.

It also spawned a theme park and five (or something?) sequels, though they keep getting delayed.


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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_games

Literally Game Party
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I feel like its something like Killzone

killzone theoretically sold well, they made a bunch of games, but have you ever actually seen a Killzone fan? If there isnt a new Killzone game on the PS5 will anyone care?

also a more direct analogue to Avatar might be Crysis? It was kind of a big deal but mostly just notable for technical reasons rather than the actual quality of the game.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_games

Literally Game Party

I dont think this a great answer for the question because its not even that Game Party is forgettable, its that we were never even aware of it in the first place.
Its less like Avatar and more like Sing, an animated movie about singing animals that came out four years ago and made over 600 million dollars. Game Party was just some ephemeral product targeted at kids.

I think the game equivalent of Avatar needs to have had some hype at some point and been a big deal at the time of its release, but now have very few people who are actually passionate about it.
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Ngamer64 posted...

Not sure of the gaming answer to this question, but I don't think Avatar matches the title description well from the movie side of things. It was hugely influential in proving that every theater in the world needed to be able to play 3D films and that they could make serious money (which they did for the next few years) and is the reason action movies were still being put out in 3D right up until COVID killed the industry.

It also spawned a theme park and five (or something?) sequels, though they keep getting delayed.

The Force Awakens is a better example obviously!

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people at least remember the force awakens to get mad about it
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I guess that would be more comparable to Titanic then?

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I actually think Nintendogs is a pretty good answer - in the year that Nintendogs was released, the game was a HUGE cultural phenomenon, like, everyone had to have Nintendogs, it was a big, hot ticket item, and while it's a fine game by all measures, the hype for it didn't last much longer than that, there isn't a huge fanbase for Nintendogs anymore, and while it has influenced some trends in marketing it hasn't really been all that influential to the broader culture or the state of the art. Not saying that to be mean or anything, I just think that's a pretty straightforward thing to say about Nintendogs and I think it kinda describes Avatar. Fine, did influence some marketing practices (the constant release of 3D films for a while), but I wouldn't say has a very large cultural footprint.

MadWorld

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

I dont think this a great answer for the question because its not even that Game Party is forgettable, its that we were never even aware of it in the first place.
Its less like Avatar and more like Sing, an animated movie about singing animals that came out four years ago and made over 600 million dollars. Game Party was just some ephemeral product targeted at kids.

I think the game equivalent of Avatar needs to have had some hype at some point and been a big deal at the time of its release, but now have very few people who are actually passionate about it.

I mean, if you replaced 'game' with 'movie' in the topic title, Avatar would be quite a questionable answer for previously cited reasons, even before getting into non-Western perspectives. Taking the title at face value, Game Party is an even better answer than Wii Play. However, that's a rather different subject from the video game equivalent of Avatar, and it's admittedly confusing to have KP conflating the two.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts
Kinect Adventures!

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kinect adventures is a strong contender but really so is every kinect game, and it at least has the edge of being one of the maybe 3 games people are strongly likely to associate with it

*checks list of kinect games*

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Fruit Ninja

Maybe Forza Motorsports 3 as it kind of got overshadowed by Forza Motorsports 4
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If its the most forgettable then no one will actually remember it

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iiaattgg posted...

If its the most forgettable then no one will actually remember it

Hey, I had to look up the names of the games I listed.
Or just scrolled through a list till i saw one i didn't remember till i saw it.

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Any successful MOBA other than LoL or DOTA 2?

Heck, even those are in a weird position of "I know they still have loads of players, but because hardcore MOBA players never do anything except play MOBAs and the casual crowd has moved onto Battle Royale, they're hardly ever mentioned any more"
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Oh I know a better movie example: Jurassic World.

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Nintendogs is the wrong answer because it influenced a B8er to eat it

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Aladdin was the first that I thought of.

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I feel like i don't see anyone talk about destiny any more

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Just Dance
Guitar Hero in that literally no one cares about it anymore

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MZero posted...

Just Dance
Guitar Hero in that literally no one cares about it anymore

What? How are either of these forgettable? They're two of the most recognizable game franchises of all time to anyone who isn't a big gamer

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I feel like a lot of people are picking stuff they don't care about and assuming no one else does either

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