[–] DoubleHappyDog 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
DJ Hero was released right on the tail-end of the plastic instrument fad if I'm not mistaken.
[–] Contrabardus 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
This is exactly what happened to Duke Nukem 4ever.
[–] TotallyNotAFed 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Star Wars: The Old Republic. They wanted to make a WoW theme-park MMO in space, which people thought would have been amazing when it started development, but that people didn't give a flying fuck about when it released because they were tired of WoW and MMOs in general.
[–] Donbuster 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
All the survival games wherein you had no real goal other than to craft stuff, ya know, all the games that wanted to be minecraft after minecraft was already big. Only one that gained ANY traction was terraria, and only then because they had significantly unique ideas an mechanics, and they STILL ripped off minecraft for about their first year or two.
[–] PirateBear 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
There was this game on PS3/PC called Retro/Grade. It's a shmup that uses a lane based system and was designed around the use of a guitar controller. It came out after Rock Band 3 IIRC, which was on the tail end of the button mashing rhythm games itself, so the whole gimmick was lost by the time RG came out. It was really fun still though, and playable with a normal controller.