The Biggest Flops in Gaming History – Gaming Podcast
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What games and hosts are introduced at the start of the episode?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Many games in the world go unnoticed and disappear into quiet obscurity. However, occasionally a game fails so spectacularly that the world knows about it. What causes them to flop? Was it poor development, an oversaturated market, or did they just plain suck? Well, on today's episode, we're going to be breaking down some of gaming's biggest flops, discuss what happened, and why they made the list no studio ever wants to be on. Before we get to the epic failures, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he's never met a good game trailer that ever steered him wrong. Well, except most of the games on today's episode.
It's Ryan. We know I'm easily excitable. It's not my fault. It's a condition. Call 1-800-excitable. They'll take care of you.
To be fair, all of these games had pretty good trailers to them.
They were. You know what I mean?
I'm like, I'm in. I'm in, baby. Yeah. There was a reason to get excited about all of these games. I mean. I don't remember. I'll be honest. I don't know. Listen, listen, I volunteered to take more of these games than you two stooges. Cause you know, that's what I do. And now I have forgotten. I have forgotten what games you guys have, um, to be honest. So I only know the games that I did my research on. Um, and so I, it'll come as a surprise to me what the other case, even though we all came up with this list together. Uh, Yeah, well, there you go. And joining us, he believes there's no such thing in the indie world as a flop, just learning experiences. But AAAs deserve it when they flop, and he's here to tell us why.
It's Ace. That's darn tootin', bud. It's Ace. It's funny because it's true.
He doesn't even deny it. It's funny because it's true. He doesn't even deny it, man. It's a learning experience, all right? You got to get your toes wet when you're in the indie world. Yeah. But you're just learning how to develop. If you messed it up in the AAA world, that was a $1.2 billion game.
Man, there's some mighty expensive flops that we're going to be talking about. Before we get to the bad news and the gaming flops, guys, what's the opposite of a flop? Like a success?
I'd say it's a success or a win.
A success story? Well, we're going to talk about a few wins. I like that, Ace. Wins. We're going to talk about a few wins because we've got some more people to thank. Guys, the community, the listeners have stepped up the game, dude. Honestly, this is just humbling, man. People... So people have been answering the call that we have put out there to support the show. This might also have something to do with the wanting to hijack all of us to make us play games, which we do have an update on. But before we get to that, we want to thank some people. So a huge shout out to Jayuna. For signing up for rare status, we had an in-person get-together, the first annual VGP get-together the other night, Ryan, which was an absolute blast.
Giuna was trying to make it, didn't make it, but we had a really good time. But Giuna, thank you for signing up for rare status. Thank you. Thank you. I had a great time, too. This next one. This next one. Guys, we have a new supporter by the name of Bald Beard. Oh! Yeah, Bald Beard, the pirate, making his appearance in the supporters of the show. So Bald Beard, the pirate, making an appearance, signed up for rare status. Oh my God. I concede. I concede everybody. Baldbeard is a great name for me. If I was a pirate, I, I, that will be my moniker.
You've got exactly one supporter in your court. So I think we won. Yeah.
I think I said, I, man, I accept. I said, if the people say it's a good name, it's a good name. The people came out and they said, that's a great name. And so it's a great name. And then AJ Thompson, AJ Thompson signing up for rare status. Thank you, AJ. And then guys, the one, the only Sully. So Sully came into the community as a rare member. Sully upped his, his, support for the show to epic status, which is huge. That's a huge help for us. And then not only that, but Sully went, Sully just became Santa Claus and started just giving away games to the community.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What games and hosts are introduced at the start of the episode?
0:11–9:24
2
How did the show update listeners and thank community supporters?
9:24–33:17
3
Which games are on the flop list and why were they chosen?
33:17–49:08
4
Why did Star Wars Outlaws underperform despite positive gameplay?
49:08–57:15
Speakers
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