LOL, you did pick some good ones dude!

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Spore is still playable, but it was just too diluted in gameplay value from what they had promised. Also the drm debacle didn't help.

The reasons you give for games not taking hold are nonsense. Assassin's Creed failed to stay current due to lack of online play? Oh. THAT'S WHY. ppssshh,.

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I disagree with both Dead Space and Mass Effect, these were awesome games.

The lack of multiplayer for Dead Space was not a big deal because the people that play these kind of games don't generally care too much for it. Also, the gameplay more than makes up for this omission.

Mass effect does finish very quickly if you concentrate on the main missions, but if you do a lot of the side missions it can last awhile. I think they probably should have encouraged you to do more of the side missions. Don't forget it has got two sequels to come, so these should finish of the storyline.

Assassin's creed was also a great game with the best graphics I've ever seen. But the repetitive gameplay did stop this game from really excelling. I also thought escaping the guards was a little too easy sometimes. In the demos they showed Altair knocking stalls over to slow the pursuing guards down. However there is very little motivation for doing this.

It's funny. SF IV has been out at the arcades for almost a year. So for it to still be consistently played both at the arcade -and- console proves that it has lasting appeal.

I wouldnt say resident evil as a game was a disappointment. but it was nothing like its predecessors. from a slow paced horror game - waiting for stuff to bash in a window when u go past a dark gloomy corridor, with super freaky monsters - to a fast paced action adventure with incredibly easy puzzles (ok, not much has changed there!)when did the genre change?WHY did it change??also, i absolutely HATE games where you may be doing so well (on much harder difficulties) and you are forced to replay the section because your f*dging sidekick went and got her head cut off!!
Assassins creed was a cool game but i thought the fighting was way too easy. much like bioshock, incredibly easy opponents make a game really boring sometimes. The AI in games like Gears of War and Drakes fortune were quite a surprise. it you aim at them, they actually duck, try to avoid you, get behind obstacles! thats neat and well presented!And in inFamous, as long as you're aiming, they're taking cover!
Dead space was an incredibly monotonous game, the same over and over and over again. hmm, which of my two guns shall i use to beat THIS monster now??and the ending (spoiler!) wtf???sorry but that is not how a game should end!I mean, im playing the game to see how the people who made it thought the story should progress and finally end!showing a flipping alien-midget-thing jumping at your face and ending the game is ridiculous!so what the hell happened?did our guy take him down, kick him in the nuts and shoot off his legs?did the midget thing kill us and suck our blood??im not playing your game so you can shove a "its up to your imagination, YOU end it"..i could have just "imagined" playing your game then, whats the point?.. Best game i've played, on the ps3 at least, is MGS4!smooth and crisp gameplay, good humour, cool opponents, great graphics (the hour-long fmvs were sometimes a bit too much), but overall, classic!:)

What the fuck is the point of this article? It's total bullshit. People still play these games! They're still pretty relevant. Stop making bullshit lists for the point of making them.

@Skamando:

The point of this list was not to say no one plays them, I know people do. The point was to examine how the coverage of each game dies down to crickets quickly after release. At no point in this article did I mention lack of players, simply lack of talk from the game media. That was clear to everyone who took the time to read the article and those who didn't simply spent 30 seconds reading the headlines and quickly commented calling me a hack or complaining that a game they like was on the list, despite my praising nearly all the games.

Assassin's creed was a very good game and I think everyone in my circle has a copy and they all love it and I am really looking forward to the second part.

You are right about Haze it was a utter waste of time and money and Mass Effect was like what the fuck is going on, I know everything is going to lead me in a mission anyways so why do you want to choose what the character says lets shoot some bad guys and hit back with some bears :-).

To further push the point driven by Skamando, in the case of SFIV, there are global tournaments, forum based teams and clans, arcades being rejuvenated. SFIV is the most popular fighting game known to man, instead the editor should have mentioned Prototype, or even Infamous two recent games that get little to no exposure basically because they are mediocre GTA clones. Do the editors on this website even play games?

Mass effect is the worst game I have ever played. I don't know what is the point of us choosing what to say next because we are going to end up in the operation killing bad guys anyways.

Haze was a fantastic waste of my time and money, like others I was inspired by the hype to bought the game.

Creed is the best game after Kill Zone II I have played on ps3. Its different though every mission is the same thing but still it is intresting and different and can't wait to get my hands on the second series.

Everything said about rest of the games is true word by word.

Great article and good choice of games. You don't hear much about these games and I agree with every title listed.

Thank you!

First off, Nice Article! You have a good list here. The only two which may be a little off is Assassin's Creed, that was a strong game that died out because of no online play. Resident Evil 5 is a solid game and one of the best co-op games seen todate. Oh and nice pic of Jade Raymond :)

These are all games which were rightfully forgotten. Red Faction: Guerilla, on the other hand..

Who the fuk hype Haze? I been wondering through the years... For that time every PS3 owner hated on Ubisoft really bad for their crappy ports to the console and their statement about SC:Conviction that it couldn't run on PS3...

Lair on the other hand was hyped as hell and is not on this list.

@WWII

My choice of Haze was actually formed from a toss up of it and Lair. I chose Haze because it was being called a "Halo Killer" and that's a very bold statement. And when they failed, it was epic, therefore they were the better pick in my mind.

I disagree with Mass Effect and Dead Space. Both games still have a devoted cult following, one of which I am apart of. Over 2 million hardcore Mass Effect fans eagerly await the release of Bioware's next title, Mass Effect 2. As for Dead Space, I know plenty of friends who continue to play it.

Everything else was right, but mention ME was overkill.

The funniest thing is, Haze wasn't a Halo-Killer, but neither was Killzone 2. Xbox fans still wait for the time when the PS3 will get a shooter that's better then Halo.

Just to let you know, Jade was on G4 long before she produced Assassin's Creed. She used to be a regular announcer on a little show produced by Tommy Talarico's studio. It ended up getting cut several months after the Tech TV merger. It can't be all that sad that she stayed loyal to her roots. [even though G4 isn't what it used to be :-(]

dead space shouldn't be on this list because first of all that game scored a 9.0 rating on gamespot and secondly it was a excellent game that screams squeal all over it.

Good list, although I don't agree with Deadspace and Masseffect, it was great.

As for 'anonymous' 'showing a flipping alien-midget-thing jumping at your face and ending the game is ridiculous!' Did you not pay any attention to the story whatsoever?? The 'midget' is your girlfriend, you can clearly see this.

every ps3 exclusive could be put onto that list to.
sony does not advertise there games nearly enough.
when gears 2 came out every single time i went to the movies there was a add for gears before the movie.
everytime i went to the shops there was posters and billboards for gears 2.
every single day there would be at least 2 adds on tv for gears 2.
when resistance 2 came out to this day.
movie adds 0
posters and billboards 0
adds on tv 4.
so in what 8 months ive seen 4 adds for R2.
KZ2 adds since launch.
movie adds 2
posters and billboards 3
tv adds 3.
so thats 8 adds for KZ2 in 5 months.
infamous adds since launch.
movies 4
posters and billboards 2.
tv adds 8.
so thats 14 in 2 months.
there getting better but compare it to halo wars.
halo wars adds since release.
movies 6.
billboards and posters 2.
tv adds well lost count but say 2 per day, 5 months later and im STILL seeing halo wars adds.
i see more adds for halo wars than i see for infamous.
sony has to lern you have to spend money to make it.
they need to pay for exclusives otherwise big 3rd party devs like capcom and SE are going to continue to back stab sony.
they need to market there games, its pathetic theres more adds for a 5 month old M$ game than there is for a 2 month old sony game.

street fighter, resident evil 5 and mass effect were not forgotten in the least bit

dead space is a flop, stupid, sterotype, design flawed shit

I agree with Creed. It was one of the most boring game I'd ever played. Mass Effect is good but not as good as the hype. Street Fighter IV has great graphics but that's about it. You have to buy a game to play it so just because 1 million or so people buy it, doesn't really prove if it's any good or not...

I agree with you about assassin's creed, too human ,haze, tom clancy ,spore , mirrors egde but when it comes to mass effect u are a 100% wrong mass effect to me is the best RPG game on console .
RPG games dont necessary need to have multiplayer , the multi it's just an excuse to criticize a game

Creed sucked because it was super duper repetitive. & a few other reasons but mostly the repetitiveness.

Street Fighter???? You are obviously either a Tekken player... or not a fan of the genre.

Resistance and Resistance 2 were halo killer, I have played Halo I & II and I had not interest in buying Halo III or wars or anything, you say creed is repetitive but so Halo, like Halo every episode about the flood was the same just going up the building killing the same bad guys and wouldnt end for atleast 4 - 5 levels, atleast in creed you can do other shit like killing people or saving people or punching a guard and running all crazy until all are behind you and loosing them is fun.

PS3 has better and more advanced games than XBOX and you are right PS3 is being back stabbed by a lot of companies because they think they are the market leaders and stuff which they are not.

I disagree with Mass Effect. You realize the company has been supporting the series by continuing to release novels (one before the first game, and one after) to keep us hyped for the next game.

I understand the nature of this list and think that it's riding on a double-edged sword. A lot of the reason for these games falling to the way side is due to the lack of downtime for big releases. Generally, this is the time of year when you get a chance to go back and remember a lot of these single player games that fall to the wayside. But, currently we are in an unprecedented gaming season where AAA titles just keep coming. The summer drought (at least for the past 25 years I've been gaming) is not happening this year. This creates a scenario where the media / journalists aren't going back and revisiting some of these gems that, apparently, got forgotten. I may be in a weird camp, but, I'm still playing several of the games on this list (Too Human and Haze being the glaring exceptions).
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On a side note, Dead Space did have quite a bit to go back to if taken as a whole. I was enamored by this game and followed all of the tie-ins and media that surrounded it. When I was done with the game, I re-read the comics, re-watched the PSN animated comics and movie, then did a second play through to see the modified symbols and writings. I think a lot of people have missed out on some of the more subtle details of this game.
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Mass Effect won a number of game of the Year awards. Not sure how that constitues "disappearing". How long do you think a single player game should be covered? After the release marketing and hundreds of reviews and awards what more is there to say? Why would media keep bringing it up? It got the appropriate amount of mass coverage, as did Assasins Creed. I believe your reasoning behind these picks is flawed.

There are vibrant Mass Effect communities all over the net and a series of books. Though, I do believe BioWare dropped the ball with dlc. They could have kept this game perpetually in the spotlight, but from what I've seen recently, it looks like they were VERY busy.

Mass Effect vanished? Huh?

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=7635®ion=All

It sold 2.08M and the sequel is one of the most anticipated titles of the year.

Assassin's Creed vanished? DOUBLE huh?

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=assassin's+creed&keyword=&console=®ion=All&developer=&publisher=&genre=&boxart=Both&results=50&order=Hits

It sold 8M units on the 360 and PS3, and again, the sequel is one of the most anticipated titles of the year.

I very much disagree with the Street Fighter 4 choice. SFIV is perhaps THE only arcade fighting-style game that has kept my attention, and will never get old to me.

I would change Assassin's Creed for Prototype.

Wait...Too Human got released?
I thought it was still in development or something. I haven't seen it in any shops anywhere

@Deepak Sharma: If you had actually taken time to play the game properly instead of Zerging it, you would have found that your conversation choices influence parts of the game. They will also influence what happens in future episodes if you choose to import the save data from the first episode, etc. Hence, why it is an Action-RPG.

Your complaints reek of twitch-gamer.

IMHO, stick to games like Halo or Counterstrike if all you want to do is Zerg everything, as this genre of games isn't geared towards gamers of your type.

Street Fighter IV? There's a lot of people playing.. you mention XBoxLive numbers, but what about PSN?

This is the only game I play oftenly despite being "old".

endwar was a great game, but halo wars got all the fucking publicity, despite the fact it was shit

One thing I thought I would point out is that vary few of you posters are not paying attention to what this article is saying. There is a glaring difference between what you like to play and how fun it may be to you and your friends, BUT the article is about media coverage and popularity contests. Yes Assassin's Creed rocked the box office...for a bit. After you got three cities in it was the same shit over and over, and thats the authors point, it lost MEDIA coverage. Not your inflated fan boy bullshit spearheading the editor. Now if the title was, "10 Recently Hyped Games That Failed In Gamers' Hands" then I could understand more than half of your posts. Please just pay attention to detail readers.