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Originally Posted by Salshun  Reading the Planetside thread got me thinking. Since you've been following game development which one proved to be the biggest let down for you? With the way advertising is now, it seems we know everything their is to know about a game months of even yeas before it comes out. I remember reading about Planetside thinking "Oh man a FPS and MMORPG combined? How can you go wrong?" Another one that comes to mind is Savage. For one guy, it's an RTS but for the people he's controlling it's an FPS. Great idea, but poorly executed. No one wanted to be told to mine gold, they wanted to go fight. |
Since you mention "another one", I assume that you think that Planetside was a failure. In fact I think it was not. The game still has players fighting the very same maps for years now and that's not that bad of an archievement. It is true that Planetside had a few disasters of it's own though. The expansion wasn't that stellar and the introduction of BFRs cost them a lot of players, still Planetside is a lot of fun and the playerbase has a lot of cool people.
I reactivated for the free time two days ago and I like it. What makes me wonder though is the fact, that it still runs much worse than Team Fortress 2 on my machine and that's something I will never understand.
Talking about the biggest disappointment, I am not sure. I really didn't like SWG in the Beta, so I never gave it a try. Everquest 2 didn't exactly remind me of Norrath and EQ gameplay, so that was an obvious failure and finally with Vanguard I am not sure anymore. A lot of good reports are coming in lately, but overall the game is still way behind the expectations.