Post games that no one actually played back in the day but now have the misconception of having been popular due to zoomers parroting e-celebs
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VR Revisionism: Games that no one actually played
This overrated artsy shit was popular enough to get its own normie Hollywood movie at least
I'm pretty sure nobody played this back in the day
t. European
But seriously Chrono Trigger was huge in Japan. JRPG's only gained popularity in the West after Pokémon and FF7.
>I didn't play a game, so nobody did
Your anecdotal experience is not representative of the entire world.
At best, there are examples of people thinking games were more popular than they actually were, but there was still somebody playing it. is not a case of one, I've heard people call this game "the best jrpg ever" for pretty much ever even though I didn't play jrpgs myself until adulthood.
An example of retroactive popularity is the Street Fighter 3 series, it's way more fawned over these days with the popularization of the "fgc" than it was at release so people these days think it was always the most popular, when in reality it was kind of just another of many fighting games in the mix that wasn't a huge hit at all.
>Getting mad because people started to like games they've never played before
What's this mental illness?
>discovering games through my favorite streamer means they were always popular
Nobody said that
you must have meant to reply to this post
Shadow of the Colossus was always popular. When i bought it in 2006 it was already considered a groundbreaking game
Literally everyone I knew played it. The gimmick of climbing on giant enemies was very impressive at the time
>muh artsy game
Normies just saw it is an epic blockbuster, it's the e-celebs in fact who have created the muh artsy game narrative around it.
Also they don't do expensive remakes for games nobody played you know. No money in that. Note the lack of Ico remake
>its not even on the top 163 best selling PS2 games
man your friends had niche tastes.
I finally understand these posters, this is just zoomer on zoomer crime. Shadow of the Colossus was always extremely respected by critics and the reason you don't know is because you were barely alive when the game came out.
>muh e-celeb critics
Not real popularity zoomer. Look at the sales. No one owned it.
everyone had picrel, but no one played it more than a few minutes. it was universally hated. then, once the internet came out, everyone realized they could use it to fulfill their contrarian fantasy where, ackshually, they loved it, and of course beat it blind. anyone criticizing it or complaining about how obtuse it is just a le bad gamer.
There's value in creating a game that does't "require" a guide
Just because you were too young to read when you played it doesn't mean everyone was. People who knew how RPGs worked played Zelda 2 just fine
>this thread
It's not even bait, it's literally zoomers.
Silent Hill 2.
Actually all of the Silent Hills.
They aren't good either. They appeal to the "I'm 15 and very mature" crowd, because they reference Jungian psychology.
Resident Evil is the good survival horror series.
Someone got filtered
>no, you see the town represents their repressed shadow and...
I don't care. The game plays poorly.
I played this in 2006. Can't speak for its popularity aside for myself knowing about it and reading a lot about it in magazines and on the internet. And when I had friends over who tried it they all liked it and specifically asked to play it again next time they came over, not with any other games.
Bottom of the barrel thread. You suck at this OP and never post low quality stuff again, damn fool.
Shadow of the Colossus was, at the very least, quite popular here on Ganker. There were constant threads about it. This, Persona 3, and Godhand actually made me cave in and buy a PS2 in 2006, having been previously only on PC.
Shadow of the Colossus was indeed popular back in the day, just not when it released. It spread through word of mouth and soon after everyone that had a softmodded PS2 was pirating it. Sales figures for these niche late-gen titles don't really reflect how rampant piracy was at that point in the console's lifespan, also even legit copies of this game got passed around through several people back then, this happened because the game became talked about after it was already out of print.
Super Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker being bad games is 100% zoomer revisionism brought on by ecelebs and "video essays".
That and the CRT hype. Nobody who grew up playing on a CRT actually misses that shit. It's like when millennials suddenly starting liking vinyl ten years ago.
People into CRTs and vinyl now are usually comparing top of the line equipment that pretty much nobody actually had back then.
>Nobody who grew up playing on a CRT actually misses that shit
I wouldn't say "nobody". For instance, I was blaming the games for being worse, when I switched to LCDs. But it turns out I was sensitive to the input lag. High refresh rate LCDs finally gave me back that feeling of playing on CRTs, to the point that I use them less and less.
>Super Mario Sunshine
If anything people were too kind to this game when it came out. It's essentially a tech demo. The basic structure is not improved from Mario 64, the Hover Nozzle is a huge crutch which makes the moment-to-moment platforming less interesting, the no-fludd special stages suffer from a huge lack of depth and orientation perception due to the background and simple lighting. Plus the game freaks the frick out whenever you have to do a non-standard control scheme, like riding the squids, the lilypad, or the pachinko machine. Really no excuse why a mainline entry in Nintendo's flagship series should be like this.
>Wind Waker
Nobody thought it was bad then and nobody thinks it's bad now. Aside from the complaints about the visual style which were mostly from people who haven't played it, WW's reputation has only improved with time.
>essentially a tech demo
Jesus if that's a tech demo what are the rest of 3D platformers not called Mario? Because Sunshine is more fleshed out than most of them
Most other developers were moving away from Platformers in that era, doesn't change the fact that Sunshine is a step down from Mario 64 in almost every way besides graphics and fluid physics
Nah I actually remember using an HDTV for the first time when they were new and thinking games looked like shit on it compared to a CRT. Now obviously the tech is better but at first HD wasn't anything to brag about.
this whole thread is a list of games I actually played and it's pretty much the only games I've played
I guess cope threads is the new thing huh?
My fricking dad talked about this game back in the day. He played it at his friends house and they both loved it. The real revisionist is you, homosexual.
Final Fantasy VI
>T. "i was sentient for a couple years of the late 90s, so the early 90s didn't exist to me at all"
I don't know why your generation is the absolute worst, but you are. Millenioomers be damned.
cope
https://nintendoeverything.com/sakaguchi-says-final-fantasy-vi-didnt-sell-well-in-the-u-s-when-it-originally-hit-the-snes/
>literally too dumb to understand relativity
As already mentioned ITT Jrpgs simply weren't as popular in the US. That has absolutely nothing to do with how the game was received by those who did play them, and there were people who played them. I don't know what mental problem you suffer from but please just lurk instead of posting.
>ackshully it was popular according to the formula I created
lmao, it's been 26 years since FFVII came out. You are just as bad as the Nintendo fans that are still mad about the Sega/Nintendo wars. Let it go. And thanks for proving my point.
>lmao, it's been 26 years since FFVII came out.
And you're no older than 26, and have no real experience with the era. You didn't grow up in the 90s, you were just born in them. You have absolutely no idea what they were like beyond your cringe obsession with "aestheticS"
Some zoomers have this obsession with trying to LARP as having participated in the 90s even though they were toddlers at best. It all falls apart when you realize they have absolutely no knowledge of anything in culture before 1997 or so, and even at that only the big mainstream memey things are "nostalgic" to them
Bizarre phenomenon
the funny thing about colossus is even the dudebros knew about that game. i wonder why zoomers are so insecure and care about social perception so much.
>if i keep samegayging it makes it true
The game didn't even sell 100k copies
>JAPAN: 129,482 FW, 223,156 LTD.
Why are you so mad zoomer? My father played this game with his friends. It was very popular.
I know this is a meme premise, but people do sort of forget that Rockstar themselves considered Max Payne 2 to be a total flop.
>a film noir love story
Which it is?
>I don’t like: thing!
Ok?
unpopular opinion
I like it better than the first
Too bad it's the greatest hits version.
I did not care for it.But I understand why it had such an impact for some people.
I elect Earthbound. Its just your regular JRPG with gay ass characters and plot, but it got memed into a cult classic.
>Its just your regular JRPG
not really
Mother 1 was a standout JRPG on NES though. Maybe the best one. And this is just a sequel to it
Everybody knows Earthbound sold like shit on release. Yeah it got pretty popular later but it not being big at the time is mentioned in pretty much every discussion of it at this point.
What a goddamn stupid thread. Ragebaiting homosexual. KYS
I played SoC at launch. All my friends who had PS2 also played it.
A game like this in 2005 was unbelievable. Seeing these large creatures and knowing that you would have to kill them somehow was a feeling of dread and hopelessness that no other game will be able to replicate.
I just don't appreciate how dramatic and sad each colossus' death scene is.
>I just don't appreciate how dramatic and sad each colossus' death scene is.
Why not? It's kinda like, the central theme of the game. They're not overlong either, and trying in vain to outrun the black streak things is kinda fun.
this type of post is so fricking gay
Anybody that was still tuned in to PS2 was either playing SotC or at the very least talking about it when it was released. It was pretty impressive especially given the technical limitations of the PS2. OP sucks wieners.
>SotC
>"played"
If nobody played it then how did it get a Player's Hit release...? Ico was the game nobody played. Like how everyone played Street Fighter II but nobody played Street Fighter 1,
Ask me how I know you are a zoomer.
Ico was a cult classic via word of mouth but shadow was a huge hit. Pretty sure they even played it in some Adam Sandler movie
>IM NOT A ZOOMER YOU'RE A ZOOMER!!!
cope. You just saw the game on youtube
homie. Just admit that you're a fresh face youngster that saw this game on your favorite eceleb and wasn't too very bait
>.t played sotc at launch and now a father
Yes that's the premise of my thread anon. Zoomers saw this game played by their favorite e-celeb and think it was popular when in reality it's not even in the top 200 best selling PS2 games.
We get it. You are a zoomer who missed it or your parents didn't let you use the internet at the time but it was popular when it came out.
Stop getting your opinion from homosexual ecelebs and actually listen to people who were alive at time tone
I think you're replying to the wrong person anon. I'm agreeing that zoomers are just parroting shit from e-celebs. Like SoTC being popular even though hundreds of games sold more on ps2.
>starcraft was not popular because Mario sold more.
homie you make no sense
You clearly weren't there for it so you don't know what it actually was like. All you can do is go "muh numbers" without any context.
It really is sad. They have ruined everything with their stupidity because they refuse to listen for 5 seconds and learn the culture.
Pretty much why I don't bother with any fandoms anymore. Better things to do then listen to prepubuscent zoomers try to tell me about something I lived through.
I remember when shadow came out. Everyone at SA was excited for this
I just wanna know who played this growing up, really.
I played it at a walmart kiosk and found it boring and the environments uninteresting. This is what the kiosk experience gave me, which may have not been what the developers wanted me to take but blame the employees at the middle island walmart electronics section circa 2002/2003 (i dont remember when it came out) for putting it in their demo kiosk and letting everyone try it.
I still have my copy. Good times. Except the fricking wienertease first-person mode, and the story at the end where they dump a whole LOAD of bullshit on you, including a loredump so fat it goes through multiple goddamn saves. Post-game is sick, though - unlocking (and using) illegal parts.
The game has multiple arena layouts that are just a variation of "computer zone," and they kinda suck - not in their layout, but thematically. Especially when there are things like a food bowl, a factory complete with conveyor belts, literally outside, toyland, and "I'm insecure, so I commissioned this huge arena with my face on it."
I rented it and beat it then never thought much more about it.
Almost this entire thread is either bait or actual zoomers. Here's a real objective example of a game literally no one played but is viewed as a classic.
This was a pretty good rental. First exposure to hearing or seeing japanese stuff. It was weird as frick but it was still a good time
I was 17 when Shadow of the Colossus came out, it was VERY widely praised and considered the pinnacle of graphics for the time. Anyone who thinks nobody played or talked about it when it came out simply wasn't there.
OP is the revisionist he's warning us about, if you haven't noticed there's been a limp wristed campaign to shit on sotc for the past few months.
>THEY are trying to make you hate this game!!!
meds. It was never popular to begin with.
>I can’t read but I’m going to chime in anyway!
Revisionism on display. By the time SoTC came out we were already looking at previews of the next gen and it looked incredibly dated. Namegay journalists and e-celebs "widely praising" the game doesn't mean anyone played it.
Pinnacle of PS2 graphics is more accurate. Also it was 2005, e-celebs didn't exist.
I’m 41 and this thread is just an embarrassment. The frick happened to this place.
>due to zoomers parroting e-celebs
This was written by a zoomer unironically
We really need a phone filter and India filter on this board. Too many homosexual zoomers and pajeets these days.
The state of retro game zoomers sure is something
I honestly blame social media. It's all clout chasing morons now trying to get hits.
These homosexual zoomers really are like locusts. They invade, ruin and move on to the next fotm
They say dat boy be beatin his own CIB
It's unfortunate. Earlier days of online retrogame content and gaming ecelebs was fun, with things like the Retrogaming Roundtable forum, Spoony, AVGN, and the like, because it felt like you were dealing with actually passionate gamer-collectors and engaging with, and consuming entertainment made by, people about a shared interest. Now it seems like it's more about saying what you have to buy or whatever because so and so is bound to go up in price, and you don't want to be caught with your gameshelf missing such an integral piece.
I got this the year it came out, back when I was in highschool, and loved it. Remember having a friend stay over night as we figured our where to go and how to defeat each colossus. Even grabbed a doujinshi or two based on it.
H or regular? Can't remember any good looking colussi's in the game
Regular
>6th gen
>retro
Except for Dreamcast
you're old
Just forced myself to play SotC for 1 hour and it's still as garbage as I remember
I played and I know lot of people who played. It was very popular on my country for all PS2 owners.
(not a single copy wasn't bootleg tho)