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While you ponder that lets jump into todays list of the Top 10 Big Lies Told by Gaming
Developers
#10 Mass Effect 3 Ending (show photo https://bit.ly/31txF9v)
Over the span of the first two games developers at BioWare had promised their fans something
big was coming for the third installment.
More specifically that your actions finally had a big role in the plot of the game and
each of your decisions would create a unique ending.
Sounds great, also sounds really ambitious.
Director Casey Hudson had even stated that he wouldnt just boil the ending down to an
A, B, or C choice, but that every fan would get something different.
However that just wasnt the case and when players finally reached the ending of the
game they were met with exactly an A, B, or C choice that would close the trilogy in one
of three ways.
Before that even you have this really long chat with this hologram boy, it was weird
but he does end up at least explaining what each of the three choices will do to end the
game.
You can either destroy the reapers, control the reapers or you can synthesize making everything
in the galaxy a synthetic organic hybrid because Mass Effect.
#9 False Promises Back in 2011 Battlefield was looking for a
way to gain an edge over their call of duty competition.
They had built a decent fan base but were nowhere close to matching the kind of player
retention that COD was having.
In order to sweeten the deal for those looking to switch over to a nearly identical game,
EA announced that if you were to pre-order Battlefield 3 you would be rewarded with a
completely free game on the same disc called Battlefield 1943.
Which honestly was more fun than the main game.
It gave Sony the opportunity to be braggadocious with their exclusive deal and EA got to rack
up a ton of pre-orders.
Ws on the board for everyone right?
Wrong.
When the game was finally released fans immediately noticed that the free game they were promised
wasnt included.
There was no heads up, there was no email, there was no pop up window upon starting the
game saying - we regret to inform you - nothing.
So as angry gamers do they took to Twitter to unleash their frustration.
Their response to this was weak if anything (show photo https://bit.ly/2yPwu84) It reads
- In lieu of 1943 being available on disk for PS3 customers, EA has made all BF3 expansions
available early to PS3 customers.- This wasnt good enough for fans and it would take the
threat of a class-action lawsuit for false advertisement to finally give the company
motivation to fulfill their end of the bargain.
#8 Misleading Promo (show photo https://bit.ly/2YTuIBq)
Keeping on the EA lies lets give you another.
Back when the promotions were running for EAs NHL 09 the listed a review on the back
of the cover art that would make you believe this is going to be the greatest hockey game
in history.
It says and I quote - Winner of Seven Sports video game of the year awards - Which would
make you wonder how could this game been awarded before its even been released.
The truth was that it never did.
The statement was in regards to their previous game, but EA was totally cool with making
many think it was this game that had won.
#7 Hunt The Truth (show photo https://bit.ly/2ZM1ceb)
Developed by 343 Industries the lies for Halo 5 began from the very first day it was revealed
showing Master Chief wandering in a desert.
The advertisements continued to promote to players waiting for the game that they will
have to Hunt The Truth.
The trailers would go on to lie a little more and show two separate perspectives of the
Chief and the new playable character Locke, yet once players began they soon found out
that the opposing perspectives were never part of the game.
They even built up a story of the Chief becoming the villain and Locke was hunting him down
believing he had betrayed his people.
Yet again when it came to the actual gameplay none of this relationship was ever really
capitalized on.
#6 Battlefront 2s Empire Focus (show photo https://bit.ly/2KoziPU)
Although the majority of complaints for Star Wars Battlefront 2 came by way of its multiplayer
and EAs loot boxes, the big lie from their development team was the campaign mode.
Initially they had promised fans of the series that the campaign mode would be all about
the perspective of the Empire.
Which would give Battlefront Bros the chance to see their precious Star Wars universe from
the dark side and play through a story as the villain instead of the hero.
The developers promised that they were committed to this perspective and would refrain from
plot twists of your character switching sides.
Unfortunately thats exactly what happened.
They did allow you to fight with the Empire, but then about half-way through the campaign
mode they forced you to switch and work with the rebels.
#5 Arkham Knights Villain The Batman Arkham Knight video game developed
by Rocksteady Studios was such a highly anticipated release because it was the finale to their
Batman trilogy.
They knew that in order to do this right though the story would have to be free from relying
on the insanity of the Joker.
With the character being without a doubt killed in the first sequel the villain torch had
to be passed over to their Arkham Knight character (show photo https://bit.ly/33qnK6c).
The idea that Rocksteady had concocted this entirely original creation was exciting and
with the opening scene of the Jokers corpse being cremated we all took their lies hook
line and sinker.
Of course though this didnt last long and before we knew it the Joker would reappear
as a figment of Batmans imagination and yet again being the sole driver of the games narrative.
#4 Broken Destiny Developed by Bungie the original Destiny game
was plagued with controversy and diaster leading up to its release.
The story for the game had been worked on for years by their writers only for it to
be all thrown out just six short months before its release and then tossed together like
a last minute art project.
As such, with all of the massive changes the promotion for the game became increasingly
difficult and on more than one occasion the developers would swallow their words after
promising what they just couldnt deliver.
During the multiplayer integration display the devs remarked at how seamless it all would
be, how you could explore other planets and enjoy new raids with each DLC.
All promises that would end up being false.
#3 The Xbox One Before the Xbox one console was released in
2013 they were already faced with backlash from fans with many calling out Microsofts
for its creepiness.
Reports had been released that the console would require users to be online 24-7, it
would block used games and heres where the creepiness comes in, its kinect camera was
always on.
Meaning that if Microsoft wanted to they could easily tap into your camera.
Its like a surveillance system you set up in your own home without knowing.
The big lie however was much more devious.
A secret PR campaign was launched to change this image of the Xbox One.
Microsoft enlisted the help of game-centric YouTube network Machinima to pay their five
biggest streaming personalities a total of 30,000 dollars to pump up the system (show
photo https://bit.ly/31x9rej) The YouTubers would mention how excited they were for the
Xbox and showcase certain games to influence the market into wanting to buy from Microsoft
again.
#2 Fallout 76 Bethesda games doesnt have the best reputation
when it comes to following through with their promises and the worst part is they know this
(play video 2:32-2:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WREidENJ8w).
Fallout 76 was no different, they overly hyped up this giant immersive world set in Appalachia
25 years after the great war.
You had Todd Howard on stage boasting about how great the details were going to be (play
video 4:25-4:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WREidENJ8w) 16 times the detail doesnt mean 16 times better.
It means 16 more ways they could mess this game up.
The game never really stood a chance from the beginning after players had waited hours
to download it they were met with an error requiring many to restart the download process
all over again.
#1 No Mans Sky Also known as the story of one mans lie (play
video 0:29-0:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVrDaudzn64) Of all these lies this game is the king of
false promises and big let downs.
Although we should have known a game talking up such wild features would have been too
good to be true.
We all wanted this not to be the case.
You would see the developers continuously altering their pitch for the game as the promotions
went on.
It started as there will for sure be interactions with other players, then went to theres a
low probability of meeting other players in game and finally arriving at theres no possible
way (play video 2:06-2:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVrDaudzn64) The vast disappointment upon finally playing
the game resulted in the internet renaming it No Mans Lie.
And that has been the Top 10 Big Lies Told by Gaming Developers.
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