10 Video Games That Put Fans In Denial
5. Mighty No. 9
Might No. 9 is the textbook cautionary tale for crowdfunded video games, a spiritual successor to Mega Man which raised over $4 million in Kickstarter funding within a single month of its announcement.
Fans were excited to see a nostalgic homage to the iconic action-platformer franchise, yet as the years dragged on, it became clear to all but the most blinkered of fans that the project was caught in the thrall of major scope creep.
With funding exceeding 400% of its original target, the project began to grow in scale and ambition, yet by the time it finally hit storefronts in 2016, the end result was an infuriatingly basic, visually ugly shadow of Mega Man.
For fans, the months leading up to the game's release was a slow-motion car crash of sorts, as they gradually realised they'd spent their hard-earned cash on mis-managed mediocrity rather than the heartfelt love letter they'd hoped for.
To make matters even worse, backers had to suffer the indignity of the game's final trailer literally insulting many of them, with the infamous one-liner, "You'll make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night."
There's nothing quite like paying money upfront for a video game that doesn't even exist yet, only to then try and convince yourself it was anything but a total waste of money when it turns out bad. Oof.