You don’t know how badly I wish that IP would continue and have a reboot. The gameplay is phenomenal! An iron man suit type game is my dream. Man disappointed is an understatement
I figure it came down to putting either Anthem or Andromeda on the list. They chose Andromeda. I agree that Anthem should've been the Bioware entry instead.
I'd argue Battlefield 2042 deserves to be on the list. They promised catering to OG fans and bringing back authentic battlefield experience, but ended disappointing everyone. shitty maps, half baked portal system and not to mention broken during launch. As a battlefield fan since bad company 2, I've never been more disappointed. BF4 had a horrible laugh but the core game was great which it eventually showed. BF2042 feels heartless.
Thankfully I got the game from Humble Choice, and you know what? It's not even arguably worth the money with that price either, everything feels so janky and unfun..
@@batbeast873what? It's literally a mobile port of the original, ported to newer consoles and PCs. The release was so, so buggy & bad they waited before releasing a physical version of the game.
@@batbeast873it is based on a mobile port that is also broken. Native issues of the original mobile port that where not present on the original ps2 release are still present on the Defective Edition
It sucks but just like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk, they contiuned to put the work into it and make an awesome game. Its so good now and its just like a generic FO game but with other players. No game should release in a terrible state but atleast they got the balls to admit it and build on it
Skull and Bones is *easily* my #1. Ubisoft turned what looked to be a surefire hit when it was announced into a decade-late dumpster fire. It boggles the mind just how badly they threw away such a golden opportunity.
I mean we got what, one trailer from like 7 years ago and that’s it? Idk why any got so hyped for a game that essentially disappeared after its E3 reveal. People need to stop hyping things in their heads and instead learn to look at the evidence before they blindly throw away money
I would counter that by saying a lot of people bought into the hype of Rocksteady doing another Arkham-verse game while also the devs pushing this as on par with those games. It would have been fine as a game-as-a-service model if the game had the story and playability at the level of the previous Batman games.
It was more that it was Rocksteady, and all the teases and clues over the years pointed towards a superman game. Then...7-8 years after their last game, we got Suicide Squad 🙃
I think there was some hype when it was first announced, long before we learned that it would be a live-service game and a third-person looter shooter. Sure, practically no one thought it would be good once we learned what it really was, but at the very beginning I think I remember some excitement for it.
Question: where was Forespoken? Major publisher in SquareEnix, big online marketing push, big UA-cam gamer push from the Final Fantasy community as folks originally thought this was the FF14 name for what became Endwalker, and a much edgier and brash main character dropping F-bombs in the trailer with open world exploration and magic and tie-ins with modern day settings… Only to deliver the worst written main character who made you hate her more as the game progressed, with an open world that was immensely empty, and a story that sounded like it came from a modern-day Disney writer… And let’s not forget about Anthem, the game who’s letdown launched multiple channels to new heights of fandom.
I think they were trying to avoid pulling too many games from the same year. They already pulled a few titles from 2022, the absolute worst offenders, so they probably skipped it (for now, unless they decide to make a second list)
Forspoken couldn't possibly dissapoint. Nobody expected it to be anything other than boring, empty trash, with a garbage main character ...which it was.
I love your videos guys and agree with this list but a part 2 is needed for sure. Anthem, Evolve, Skull n bones were at least 3 games that i reackon were some massive missed potentiels and dissapointments on/ after their launch. They were more out there like you said and i would like to see a part 2 to this list going over some of the other missed big games from the bigger studios. Anthem and Evolve still hurt :(
Saints row man 🤦🏾♂️ The fact that we will never get another saints row game because of there shitty decision is insane. What a horrible way for a franchise to end
If you're going to put a BioWare game on this list then replace Andromeda with Anthem. Not saying Andromeda shouldn't be here, but Anthem certainly deserves it more than Andromeda
It is a worse game but I think Andromeda gets the spot because of the name. The Mass Effect Hype was insane. Thus, the disappointment was higher even tho Anthem screwed up more from a gameplay-POV.
I love ME. I mayhe got through 3 hours of Andromeda. It sucked bad. And I'm not a purist about this stuff either, but it was a bad game that us fans had been waiting years to play.
Nah Andromeda set the stage. Anyone dumb enough to still preorder EA/BioWare collab games after that should instead be disappointed with themselves. It’s like that slow kid who touches a hot stove then for some reason touches it again
Andromeda is way better on NG+ when you can mostly skip all the crafting bs and just enjoy the combat. Jet pack+ vanguard charge combo is still epic af
Ikr, complaints about studios releasing poor quality stuff and then half their videos are dud output or rehashing another video slightly differently.. would be better as a fortnightly magazine style with special editions for games events etc
The really crazy thing about PT is that graphically it still holds up and in many respects looks better than some current action adventure games. It's so disappointing that Konami decided not to back the development of Silent Hills or at least sell the rights off to some other big studio because it had massive potential to be yet another era defining game from Kojima.
+1 or even fo4 or starfield. bethesda is rly dropping the ball for many reasons and deserve the award of being on this list instead of "most innovative gameplay"
And both games were rare day 1 purchases for me, I got into the hype for both. I got cyberpunk on stadia (which I miss) and no man’s sky on PC. Today I have both and they’ve redeemed themselves well.
eeeeeeh right it's immersive with some story aspects, the gameplay though is really weird and boring. it's an interesting setting and everything but i honestly got sick of it pretty quickly too.
As a person who has Jake’s style of optimism and neutrality, the big disappointing thing is losing your money when you have the hope of these games succeeding but see it fail miserably and holding the brick of a game.
Speak up with your wallet. Stop preordering games. Wait for reviews from trusted sources. Wait for sales. Otherwise, things won't change. Look at COD and Madden. Same games every year, but people always buy them expecting a different experience than the last 400 games in the series.
First moment i saw Suicide Squad gameplay it looked like Fortnite to me and i wasn't about it at all lol. Ya it should have been this way at launch but Cyberpunk is amazing now man. Phantom Liberty is a masterpiece
Finished Phantom Liberty earlier today. They really turned it around with patches. It’s almost night and day from how the game was at launch to how it is now
I love you guys, so please don't take this as anything other than constructive criticism... The recycled content is getting old. When Jake has to say "I know we're beating a dead horse..." a dozen times, it's clear y'all either need a break or something new to talk about. Just want what's best for y'all, because when you guys are on you are ON! ✌️
I am surprised you guys didn’t mention that Marvel Avengers game that game was so hyped up and it left me so disappointed. Lost my faith in gaming after that. Indies have been fun though!
Respect for CDPR for never giving up on Cyberpunk 2077 and making something good out of that shit launch. Unlike what Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics did with Marvel’s Avengers.
Dude they fully turned that game around and it wasn't even that bad at launch. Sucks thry cut support right when fans were gonna get everything requested and it was even deved. They Gave war machines character design to iron man as a skin.
@@jinuouslopez9069Cyberpunk wasn't a bad Gane to begin with. Story, characters, gameplay, workd design were solid from the start. Technical aspects were bad. Marvel Avengers is pretty bad all the way
2 words: Embracer Group When Avengers was getting the love it needed, Embracer made an offer for Crystal Dynamics that SE didn’t want to refuse. 2022 they sell, and now in 2024 they are posting a massive loss due to the games no longer in development as they want to refocus on primary IP. That screams tons of remakes and remasters of their older games, and it’s about time they start considering a new MMO.
@@BlakeAustin2011 To be fair to Embracer Group, they had a lot of people interfere with a big deal with a Saudi interest that would have bankrolled a ton of stuff instead of them having to try and suddenly make things work with a much more limited budget across all studios.
If your family and friends still love you you’re fine. Screw what society views as being successful. Our society rewards criminals more than normal good morality having hard working people.
The fact that idiotic CEO’s and executives keep getting millions and millions while laying off thousands of talented devs and employees that can barely afford life.
It was publisher shenanigans. Volition wanted Johnny Gat and the rest of the Saints in the reboot but they got told no. They got thrown under the bus for something they didn't even want to develop. It happens more often than people care to admit.
The biggest disappointment for me was scale bound, between platinum and Microsoft. I was super excited to play that game and now I’m disappointed it will never come out. I hope platinum or Microsoft whoever owns IP can do something with it later.
And it's crazy because ever since they canceled that project they hadn't released a noteworthy first party title outside of Forza and Halo (and recently Starfield, but only because they had to buy Zenimax/ BSG to even be competitive with their 1st party titles)
1000% agree with this choice. Couldn't believe when this got cancelled. Especially after it was playable at some media events and was getting good feedback.
My main problems with SSKTJL was brainiac talking all of the time, what they did to Batman, the micro transactions for outfits that you should’ve been able to unlock in game in someway, and how repetitive it was
Great list, I can see in the comments people are unhappy with certain games not being on it, but let’s be honest. There could be a list of 100 disappointing games and there will still be some left off. It says more about the state of games than the list. Thanks Jake!
I bought and played Saints Row 2022, and as a fan of the older games.. Its just not the same. It's not mechanically a BAD game, it just shouldn't be a Saints Row game. Imagine if this was a way to introduce a new group of gangsters, trying to claim the Saints Row enterprise as their own, only for the REAL Saints to show up in the sequel and it'd be an all out gangster war. See how easy it is to make something awesome like that?
I recently tried to sit down and play it and two things finally got me to drop after 5 days of plugging away at it. The guns didn't feel right at all. Everything felt too much like a automatic shotgun and I had no real accuracy which bothered me. The money and the plot. I was making thousands on missions and yet my character is worried about student loans and his roomates that are likely making simular money are worried about a $300 toaster. It was too much to trudge through and now I am looking at playing the first Saints Row for the first time.
as someone who played all the previous Saints Row games the reboot was kinda fun to play its just the story and certain other things that didn't make sense and felt unnecessary for a Saints Row game..
@@Hybris51129 Have you played Saints Row 2 before? Literally the perfect balance between over the top goofiness and serious, straight up violent, gruesome scenes
It's very crowded list of just the last two years. I would like a list that's something like the most disappointing thing in gaming of each year of the last two years.
For Redfall: It's made by Arkane Austin, Dishonored and Deathloop are made by Arkane Lyon! Those are two different studios. They might share some workforce in asset creation and art direction but in terms of game direction and lead as a whole they're entirely different studios. So it's not really a question of what happened with the studio since Dishonored but rather it's an issue between two different studios, different directors and leads and higher ups
You know what's disappointing? AAA games. I'm having SO much more fun with indies and smaller teams games. Those who care about the actual games and not just 💰
Gonna need a part two and three for this video, there was so many more disappointments. No Man's Sky at launch, Starfield, Forespoken, that Battlefield game that came out last year I think, Total War Pharaoh, metal gear survive, AC Unity at launch, Starwars Battlefront 2, anthem, company of heroes 3 and on and on......
I played the trilogy In 2021 when the remastered version came out ,one of the best gaming experiences i've ever had, i've been wondering, is andromeda At least decently enjoyable,? All ive heard is its garbage dont play it.
@@DrizzyEmin3mit has a slow start but it’s a lot of fun when it eventually gets going. Definitely doesn’t feel the same as the OG trilogy, more of a generic open-world sci-fi 3rd person shooter with fun abilities
@@DrizzyEmin3m I think it depends on how invested you get in the story and character development. The OG games were so much better in that respect that Andromeda felt like a slap in the face.
Crazy concept, but I recommend not watching as much trailers and deep dives for some, if not most, games. Like starfield, I didn’t read anything about it, and played at launch. I was very happy with it for the most part, but after looking at comments, I see why some people were mad because it wasn’t what they thought it was going to be. Cyberpunk I followed for many years, and was MASSIVELY disappointed. That’s where I learned that lesson.
I have zero pity for anyone actually disappointed in Suicide squad, y’all knew it was gonna be bad from the start. We knew it was gonna be live service, the people behind the Arkham games already left, and anyone who bought it and was disappointed is the reason it made more money than it deserved.
It's gets a lot of undeserved hate. Andromeda was a big shift in tone from the original series. Removing the original's renegade/paragon system of storytelling made it a regular RPG.
Then that makes sense why you loved it, which is not a bad thing whatsoever. ME fans that played the OG trilogy just had a different level of expectation when it came to storytelling and characters after falling in love with the narrative and cast of the first saga. Andromeda's gameplay was great though imo, even though I couldn't bring myself to care for the narrative
Dirt 5 and Project Cars 3 are 2 games that should be on this list 2, both stepped away from the roots, both were big disappointments, and both were ruined by EA sadly.
I'm a huge Dragon Age fan. I'm also one of those who came to the Mass Effect series late, and basically played them in reverse, starting with Andromeda. I honestly loved Andromeda. It was my introduction to the ME series, so I wasn't weighed down by nostalgia over the original trilogy, and I had a lot of fun and even replayed it a couple times. Sci fi isn't normally my thing at all, but I thought of it as DA:Inquisition with blasters and robots and aliens, and it was a solid 8 out of 10 for me. I played the original (remastered) trilogy for the first time recently, and I was kind of underwhelmed based on the gushing reverence for it I see constantly. They were really good games, and I'm glad I experienced them, but I was expecting a transcendent experience way better than the hated Andromeda, and I'm still waiting. I suspect Mass Effect was pure heaven to starved sci fi RPG fans in the late aughts, and today nostalgia is skewing things as it tends to, and a decent follow up game gets shit on unfairly.
Yeah I liked Andromeda and I liked th efact it was trying t ogo for a lighter tone after th etrilogy. I mean sure th etrilog ywas great in it's own way too that's why I still play it. But fo rme it's the fact that they actually said that Andromeda was trying to be it's own thing and don' t compare it with the trilogy and the problem was people still did which for me is what ruined any chance Andromeda had not the fact of the game bein gnecressarily bad. I liked what they did with Andromeda but then I listened to wha tthey said and judged Andromeda on it's own merits which I felt mad ei ta good gam efor the time and a refershing chang eof direction for the franchise.
@@sjsharp2007 I also enjoyed Andromeda, but mostly for the gameplay. And it's odd when you think about it: The previous games' story was top notch, but the gameplay was not that great (ME 3 being the exception). Andromeda's story is certainly the weakest, but has the best gameplay in the series. And driving the Nomad is miles better than the paperweight known as the Mako and the tissue paper-armored Hammerhead.
No starfield? the brand new ip from bethesda, supposed to be skyrim in space? i did play, i did like it, but i still havent gone back to it, but i would skyrim
Having a game called infinite and the character roster being the smallest it's been compared to any other sequel was probably the largest letdown. With any fighting game you always have to do bigger and better. Otherwise, you have to completely reinvent yourself to justify the sequel in fighting games
It’s sad to see that most of the disappointments from the last decade are actually very very recent. It says a lot about the gaming industry right now.
They didn't put Starfield or Fallout 76 on the list... for some reason. I'd rather play a few of these games than Starfield. And Fallout 76 was flat out just unplayable and broken at launch... along with all of the not in game scandal that came along with it. Even now that it is fixed, it is still trash.
Some bigger disappointment than few games in the list: Overwatch 2 (Mainly the promised PVE contents), Diablo 4, Battlefield 2042 (All the hypes from the trailers that being killed in launch), No Man's Sky early release, Fallout 76, Starfield's emptiness, and Crackdown 3 (After long years of waiting)..
You touched on P.T., but glossed over MGSV and the fact that the game was released without an actual ending. For such a strong series to just come to an end like that, without even a real ending... I mean that's a massive disappointment.
to be fair, the game was genuinely well recieved as fuck and honestly the fact that they practically enslaved kojima and then kicked him out right before he could finish and STILL people loved the game says quite a bit.
Saints Row 5 gets way too much hate it’s insane. I got the ps5 version platinum and enjoyed it honestly. People will bandwagon hate on 5 but act like Johnny Gat Out of Hell never happened 😂😂
Honestly Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and New Tales from the Borderlands deserve a spot on this list. Wonderlands had NO real endgame and a repetitive grind of Chaos levels. While New Tales could never live up to the 1st Tales from the Borderlands.
@@Rutherfordbcrazy12 BL3 is way better than Wonderlands. Only thing wrong with BL3 is the story having 2 crappy villains and a blotted Eden 6 run. While Wonderlands only has gameplay and a decent story, but nothing to do but grind as a endgame. Honestly with BL3 I don't think Gearbox could of come up with a better bad guy than Jack. So they went cringey streamer to annoy the players.
@@Frank_Torre well I think the franchise needed a refresh with new environments and I enjoyed the DnD aspect to it. The DLC was trash though and a rip-off.
@@Rutherfordbcrazy12 I know. Wonderlands hit on the gameplay, story and Will Arnett as the Dragon Lord. Yet they gave us endless Chaos chambers and meh dlc Mirrors. Which mirror bosses at their most powerful weren't close to raid bosses. If only they put a DnD twist on current BL2/BL3 raid bosses in Wonderlands.
Man I just posted about this. It had so much potential. I remember finishing it and sitting in front of the TV thinking: well this was a short ride, but the DLCs could be wild... I couldn't be more wrong and disappointed in my life.
Forza motorsport 2023 was and is still a big dissapointment, been waiting for so long for new next-gen game with sub-par graphics ( worse than FM7 ), sound and just so many bugs and a career mode that forced you to do lots of grinding to upgrade your car, thankfully fixed now. It's just a lackluster game that is not what players expected after such a long wait between FM7 and FM 2023
Capcom employees, including ex-employees, aren’t even allowed to acknowledge PT’s existence. I worked as a cameraman for an independent gaming journalist for a while and she managed to snag an interview with a programmer who used to work for Capcom and when asked about PT the guy was like “I don’t know what kind of fever dream nonsense gobbly-goop you’re talking about, I’ve never heard that, it never existed.”
Anthem and No Mans Sky would be 2 as well. Both were terrible at launch but had a lot of potential, I'm happy No Mans Sky managed a come back but will forever be disappointed with EA and Bioware for Anthem
The Order 1886 needs to be on here. A launch title for the PS4, set in a sort of steampunk Victorian age close to our own world, and your hunting werewolves. It looked wonderful. And then we were given what amounted to an interactive cutscene.
Andromeda is a legitimately good game and has been since like 6 weeks after launch. If you are going to put a Bioware game on, Anthem is much worse in my opinion. Go play Andromeda again, its way better than you remember, if you ever even tried it after they patched the whole (admittedly terrible) bricking consoles thing.
Kinda agree? Andromeda is an awful mass effect game, but a fine enough sci-fi shooter. (Still not my cup of tea, but even I can admit it’s not awful or bad. Just kinda middling haha)
It's not that it's a bad game per se, it's just a monumental disappointment in terms of storytelling, dialogue, choice, and characters..... all things that players came to love about the ME franchise. Just like the above comment said, it's a good Sci fi game but a very disappointing entry to the Mass Effect franchise
My gf and I are fighting and I was waiting for the first video by gameranx to cheer me up. But two of them? Just what I needed All I can say is thank you guys and love your videos.❤️
I actually really enjoyed the Saint's Row reboot, but I know most people didn't. I thought it had a lot of really fun moments, like playing the LARPing missions where you're running around going 'pew pew!' in this cardboard armor... I thought it was great
For me one of the disappointments is the latest Harry Potter, had a huge potential, it felt and played amazing at the beginning but as the game went on, I was disappointed by how the world was lifeless and empty of anything interesting to do.
Hot take: my biggest disappointment was RDR2. Not the game, it was phenomenal! The lack of post launch support and total absence of DLC is a travesty. That game was so good I never wanted it to end.
Agreed. Such a shame it doesn't get the love it deserves. Instead Rockstar is milking out the online. I suppose they are putting all their money on GTA6.
One of the biggest missed opportunities in gaming for me. So sad they shat all over the online and added nothing for the masterpiece that is the single player
A lot of people will disagree with me on this, but, to me, as a long-time Remedy fan (from the first Max Payne up to Control), Alan Wake II quite frankly disappointed me a lot with all the stuff I looked into as research before deciding to grab a copy (gameplay, story, and so on) that I decided not to purchase and support it. And, before anyone says so, yes, I like that style of action-survival horror, and I was anticipating it at first... until I eventually decided to watch full walkthroughs and was just plainly saddened by the gameplay loop and how a crap ton of its runtime dragged on and on. And that's not even talking about how Alan himself was treated in his own game. He gets the less interesting enemy types to fight against, and he barely gets any weapons to use. The only positive thing I can say about Alan's side of the campaign would be him getting the more intriguing, mind-bending set pieces. That's it. And I'm not a fan of Saga Anderson as a character at all. Not even mentioning the involvement of SBI here with my personal feedback in terms of Saga's character writing and personality. Oh, and I know lots loved it, but I did not like at all how that musical segment was done. And I grew up loving a lot of musicals as a kid. The integration here was just not it for me. It's really a combination of things I know are subjective to my preferences and expectations along with what I believe to be objective issues with the game's overall structure, pacing, writing, and gameplay mechanics.
Not putting Anthem on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd spot on the disappointing list is almost criminal.
not a list made by Falcon
One might say, it's disappointing
This was the biggest flop in my gaming history
I had so so much hype for the game when I’d heard about it a week before release
Sure enough, wiff
You don’t know how badly I wish that IP would continue and have a reboot. The gameplay is phenomenal! An iron man suit type game is my dream. Man disappointed is an understatement
I figure it came down to putting either Anthem or Andromeda on the list. They chose Andromeda. I agree that Anthem should've been the Bioware entry instead.
I'd argue Battlefield 2042 deserves to be on the list. They promised catering to OG fans and bringing back authentic battlefield experience, but ended disappointing everyone. shitty maps, half baked portal system and not to mention broken during launch. As a battlefield fan since bad company 2, I've never been more disappointed. BF4 had a horrible laugh but the core game was great which it eventually showed. BF2042 feels heartless.
Nowadays I’ve actually been having a lot of fun with the game
Agree
Battlefield 2042 was going to be a shit game and you knew it.
Haven't even watched the full video and it's mental if it not on there
You are right. The hype for this game after the trailer drops was out of roof. But it turns out to be the greatest disappointment ever created.
Callisto protocol being $70 for a 5 hour game and absolutely nothing else was criminal. Then they had the nerve to release dlc for like +$15 lol
Thankfully I got the game from Humble Choice, and you know what? It's not even arguably worth the money with that price either, everything feels so janky and unfun..
@@irvancrocs1753 i beat it so fast i was able to get a refund from xbox. people think im lying when i say this lol
You guys overlyhate on it, it was a fun experience
@ no I agree I enjoyed it but it’s not even close to being worth $70
I feel like y'all missed out on a bunch of remakes that flopped. The GTA remasters and Warcraft 3 Reforged come to mind.
Gta definitive edition has been fantastic for years now
@@batbeast873what? It's literally a mobile port of the original, ported to newer consoles and PCs. The release was so, so buggy & bad they waited before releasing a physical version of the game.
@@batbeast873it is based on a mobile port that is also broken. Native issues of the original mobile port that where not present on the original ps2 release are still present on the Defective Edition
Fallout 76 - paying £45 on release for an online only game that you couldnt play online.
It sucks but just like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk, they contiuned to put the work into it and make an awesome game. Its so good now and its just like a generic FO game but with other players. No game should release in a terrible state but atleast they got the balls to admit it and build on it
@@ShootLuckGaming i have like 10 fps constantly for no reason when playing....
Skull and Bones is *easily* my #1. Ubisoft turned what looked to be a surefire hit when it was announced into a decade-late dumpster fire. It boggles the mind just how badly they threw away such a golden opportunity.
I think they were trying to avoid that bit of low hanging fruit
Tbf peoples expectations were super low since last few years before release
I mean we got what, one trailer from like 7 years ago and that’s it? Idk why any got so hyped for a game that essentially disappeared after its E3 reveal. People need to stop hyping things in their heads and instead learn to look at the evidence before they blindly throw away money
I wouldn't say N1, I doubt a game launch will suck more than Cyberfunk for me.
But definitely top 10.
Eh. I would've been really surprised if it ended up being good.
I wouldn't say Suicide Squad was that big of a disappointment, as no one really expected much from it to begin with
100%……had zero expectation that it would be good. WHO did?
I would counter that by saying a lot of people bought into the hype of Rocksteady doing another Arkham-verse game while also the devs pushing this as on par with those games.
It would have been fine as a game-as-a-service model if the game had the story and playability at the level of the previous Batman games.
It was more that it was Rocksteady, and all the teases and clues over the years pointed towards a superman game. Then...7-8 years after their last game, we got Suicide Squad 🙃
😂🎯🤣 the first film was,, meh.. 😅 I automatically knew the game would be worse 😅😂🤣
I think there was some hype when it was first announced, long before we learned that it would be a live-service game and a third-person looter shooter. Sure, practically no one thought it would be good once we learned what it really was, but at the very beginning I think I remember some excitement for it.
Question: where was Forespoken? Major publisher in SquareEnix, big online marketing push, big UA-cam gamer push from the Final Fantasy community as folks originally thought this was the FF14 name for what became Endwalker, and a much edgier and brash main character dropping F-bombs in the trailer with open world exploration and magic and tie-ins with modern day settings…
Only to deliver the worst written main character who made you hate her more as the game progressed, with an open world that was immensely empty, and a story that sounded like it came from a modern-day Disney writer…
And let’s not forget about Anthem, the game who’s letdown launched multiple channels to new heights of fandom.
They even show clips of Forspoken in this video, lol.
Forespoken wasn’t highly anticipated so what was there to be disappointed by? 😂
It's a Sweet Baby game. So.. No criticism from game journalists. 🤪
I think they were trying to avoid pulling too many games from the same year. They already pulled a few titles from 2022, the absolute worst offenders, so they probably skipped it (for now, unless they decide to make a second list)
Forspoken couldn't possibly dissapoint. Nobody expected it to be anything other than boring, empty trash, with a garbage main character ...which it was.
PT is 10 years old and still looks better than the recent horror games.
I love your videos guys and agree with this list but a part 2 is needed for sure. Anthem, Evolve, Skull n bones were at least 3 games that i reackon were some massive missed potentiels and dissapointments on/ after their launch. They were more out there like you said and i would like to see a part 2 to this list going over some of the other missed big games from the bigger studios. Anthem and Evolve still hurt :(
Saints row man 🤦🏾♂️ The fact that we will never get another saints row game because of there shitty decision is insane. What a horrible way for a franchise to end
I mean who knows? Hopefully the IP will be bought one day and a Studio that cares will work on it
I loved saints row 3 and 4 and gat out of hell with a passion bro devastating
I'm the only person who enjoyed it lol
Saints Row one and two are the pinnacle of the series. especially the first game. Saints row 1 is one of the best games of all time and that’s a fact💯
@@Catchaidz those was the worst ones
Without Anthem this is just wrong.
agreed
This list should have that one marvel game that had the shitty version of all the characters and you played as the one girl
Well for anthem to made ppl actually needed to expect something good
If you're going to put a BioWare game on this list then replace Andromeda with Anthem. Not saying Andromeda shouldn't be here, but Anthem certainly deserves it more than Andromeda
It is a worse game but I think Andromeda gets the spot because of the name. The Mass Effect Hype was insane. Thus, the disappointment was higher even tho Anthem screwed up more from a gameplay-POV.
I love ME. I mayhe got through 3 hours of Andromeda. It sucked bad. And I'm not a purist about this stuff either, but it was a bad game that us fans had been waiting years to play.
Nah Andromeda set the stage. Anyone dumb enough to still preorder EA/BioWare collab games after that should instead be disappointed with themselves. It’s like that slow kid who touches a hot stove then for some reason touches it again
People seem to forget that Andromeda was made by Bioware Montreal not their Edmonton studio where the original trilogy was made.
Andromeda is way better on NG+ when you can mostly skip all the crafting bs and just enjoy the combat. Jet pack+ vanguard charge combo is still epic af
It's insane how many videos game ranx releases. These guys are absolute grinders
Ikr, complaints about studios releasing poor quality stuff and then half their videos are dud output or rehashing another video slightly differently.. would be better as a fortnightly magazine style with special editions for games events etc
The really crazy thing about PT is that graphically it still holds up and in many respects looks better than some current action adventure games. It's so disappointing that Konami decided not to back the development of Silent Hills or at least sell the rights off to some other big studio because it had massive potential to be yet another era defining game from Kojima.
I'm surprised not to see Fallout 76 here, As a massive fan of those games and Bethesda in general I was super disappointed about that.
yep. not just that the game was in bad shape when it was released - the additional grifts from Bethesda made it even more worse.
+1 or even fo4 or starfield. bethesda is rly dropping the ball for many reasons and deserve the award of being on this list instead of "most innovative gameplay"
I’d say Starfield too. It’s not as bad as some on this list, but I think it was a major disappointment for most fans of Bethesda.
Yeah. FO76 and Starfield both, I'm not buying another Bethesda game ever again.
Even though it's really fun now, I agree. When it launched, it was a complete joke.
"More glitches than you've ever seen...."
Fallout: New Vegas long-timer: Wanna bet?
Those are features. lol
Funny enough, I just replayed NV and didnt come across anything that stood out. few crashes, but that was about it.
No game makes me feel more insane than trying to play un modded Fallout 3 on pc
@@TheBlademan-Why you need them?
Whole game feels like Bingo Bango Bongo.
@@TheBlademan- I just did a vanilla play through. Mods or not, FO3 did not age well.
If Cyberpunk is on here then No Man's Sky should be also.
@deannal.newton9772 It wasn't 1 per year in the list. It had a few games from 2022 and 2023.
@deannal.newton9772I get your point, but they didn’t make this point very clear
This video concept definitely has enough content for another video
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And both games were rare day 1 purchases for me, I got into the hype for both. I got cyberpunk on stadia (which I miss) and no man’s sky on PC. Today I have both and they’ve redeemed themselves well.
Almost ten years and I still feel the phantom pain of the game we never got
Cyberpunk 2077 now isn't just a solid game, but one of the most immersive open world experiences ever.
the DLC really made Cyberpunk feel like it should have been from the start
most immersive open world ive ever played
Sure, if you don’t play much…
eeeeeeh right it's immersive with some story aspects, the gameplay though is really weird and boring. it's an interesting setting and everything but i honestly got sick of it pretty quickly too.
As a person who has Jake’s style of optimism and neutrality, the big disappointing thing is losing your money when you have the hope of these games succeeding but see it fail miserably and holding the brick of a game.
Speak up with your wallet. Stop preordering games. Wait for reviews from trusted sources. Wait for sales. Otherwise, things won't change. Look at COD and Madden. Same games every year, but people always buy them expecting a different experience than the last 400 games in the series.
Anthem, Skull and bones, Bf2042, Starfield, Fallout 76, Battlefront 2, Immortals of Aveum etc. So many games deserved to be on this list.
in a top 10, some of the games you mentioned aren't as terrible to qualify for it but they seem like it because the expectations were simply too high
I can't believe more people aren't saying Starfield. Easily the worst HUGE game of recent memory
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Whats wrong with Immortals of Aveum? Havent played it, but it looks cool, and reviews said it was alright, just a bit short
@@Frost4Real it had a 120 million dollars budget. When it was first showed off it looked so cool.
First moment i saw Suicide Squad gameplay it looked like Fortnite to me and i wasn't about it at all lol. Ya it should have been this way at launch but Cyberpunk is amazing now man. Phantom Liberty is a masterpiece
Finished Phantom Liberty earlier today. They really turned it around with patches. It’s almost night and day from how the game was at launch to how it is now
I love you guys, so please don't take this as anything other than constructive criticism... The recycled content is getting old. When Jake has to say "I know we're beating a dead horse..." a dozen times, it's clear y'all either need a break or something new to talk about. Just want what's best for y'all, because when you guys are on you are ON! ✌️
I am surprised you guys didn’t mention that Marvel Avengers game that game was so hyped up and it left me so disappointed. Lost my faith in gaming after that. Indies have been fun though!
I have played it recently so I might miss release chaos, and it preformed well plus the story is cool.
Respect for CDPR for never giving up on Cyberpunk 2077 and making something good out of that shit launch.
Unlike what Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics did with Marvel’s Avengers.
Dude they fully turned that game around and it wasn't even that bad at launch. Sucks thry cut support right when fans were gonna get everything requested and it was even deved. They Gave war machines character design to iron man as a skin.
@@jinuouslopez9069Cyberpunk wasn't a bad Gane to begin with. Story, characters, gameplay, workd design were solid from the start. Technical aspects were bad. Marvel Avengers is pretty bad all the way
2 words: Embracer Group
When Avengers was getting the love it needed, Embracer made an offer for Crystal Dynamics that SE didn’t want to refuse. 2022 they sell, and now in 2024 they are posting a massive loss due to the games no longer in development as they want to refocus on primary IP.
That screams tons of remakes and remasters of their older games, and it’s about time they start considering a new MMO.
@@thelastpersononearth9765 the bad thing was their shameless attitude and lies,
@@BlakeAustin2011 To be fair to Embracer Group, they had a lot of people interfere with a big deal with a Saudi interest that would have bankrolled a ton of stuff instead of them having to try and suddenly make things work with a much more limited budget across all studios.
*Its me. I'm the biggest disappointment of the last 10 years*
never too late to change things around, stay strong bro!
If your family and friends still love you you’re fine. Screw what society views as being successful. Our society rewards criminals more than normal good morality having hard working people.
No matter how disappointing u think u are you defo better than all these game companies
How do you live with yourself?
Emotional Damage
The fact that idiotic CEO’s and executives keep getting millions and millions while laying off thousands of talented devs and employees that can barely afford life.
when you are known for greatness, simply ok will not do.
Never forgiving Volition for their unacceptable behavior and actions towards the fans who made them famous in the first place. R.I.P Saints Row
It was publisher shenanigans. Volition wanted Johnny Gat and the rest of the Saints in the reboot but they got told no. They got thrown under the bus for something they didn't even want to develop. It happens more often than people care to admit.
Exactly
The biggest disappointment for me was scale bound, between platinum and Microsoft. I was super excited to play that game and now I’m disappointed it will never come out. I hope platinum or Microsoft whoever owns IP can do something with it later.
And it's crazy because ever since they canceled that project they hadn't released a noteworthy first party title outside of Forza and Halo (and recently Starfield, but only because they had to buy Zenimax/ BSG to even be competitive with their 1st party titles)
1000% agree with this choice. Couldn't believe when this got cancelled. Especially after it was playable at some media events and was getting good feedback.
I'm mainly on Playstation and even I was sad/disappointed when Scalebound got cancelled. The concept sounded so cool man!
Starfield deserves a spot here
Debatable.
Judging by the comments seems like you need a part 2... maybe even part 3.
My main problems with SSKTJL was brainiac talking all of the time, what they did to Batman, the micro transactions for outfits that you should’ve been able to unlock in game in someway, and how repetitive it was
Warcraft III Reforged. An utter mess that destroyed the original game, literally, you couldn't play it anymore. I still think about it sometimes.
Why nobody is taking about what mess was the skull and bones game
I don’t think anyone really had high hopes for that game in the first place people already knew it was gonna be bad
I love Betas / Demos, they save me so much money.
because nobody expected a game claimed to be "AAAA" to have anything worth playing in the first place
@jamesconlin5099 I retired at 39, cuz I don't throw away money.
because no one cared about it in the first place.
No Man's Sky?
Starfield?
Diablo?
Starfield was good
Diablo 3 or 4?
@@stlegion-kt4hj no it wasn't
@@Rutherfordbcrazy12 3 and 4
@@sprmn1983 okay I can agree with Diablo 3 but 4 is pretty okay. It isn’t revolutionary but it is way better than d3
Calisto was not a disappointment, it IS a very good game. Unpopular opinion here, its a masterpiece.
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I loved Callisto protocol. Ended up getting the platinum for it. Great game
Great list, I can see in the comments people are unhappy with certain games not being on it, but let’s be honest. There could be a list of 100 disappointing games and there will still be some left off. It says more about the state of games than the list. Thanks Jake!
I bought and played Saints Row 2022, and as a fan of the older games.. Its just not the same. It's not mechanically a BAD game, it just shouldn't be a Saints Row game.
Imagine if this was a way to introduce a new group of gangsters, trying to claim the Saints Row enterprise as their own, only for the REAL Saints to show up in the sequel and it'd be an all out gangster war. See how easy it is to make something awesome like that?
I recently tried to sit down and play it and two things finally got me to drop after 5 days of plugging away at it.
The guns didn't feel right at all. Everything felt too much like a automatic shotgun and I had no real accuracy which bothered me.
The money and the plot. I was making thousands on missions and yet my character is worried about student loans and his roomates that are likely making simular money are worried about a $300 toaster. It was too much to trudge through and now I am looking at playing the first Saints Row for the first time.
Thats why i still had fun with it. It was my first saints row game.
as someone who played all the previous Saints Row games the reboot was kinda fun to play its just the story and certain other things that didn't make sense and felt unnecessary for a Saints Row game..
@@Hybris51129 Have you played Saints Row 2 before?
Literally the perfect balance between over the top goofiness and serious, straight up violent, gruesome scenes
The people that made this game themselves said they weren’t fans of the original saints rows & didn’t like stuff such as fb’s (freckle bitches)
I like how Jake doesn't even count "Forspoken" as a game (it is utterly dissapointment)
Is it worth $15?
Asking for a friend.
@@travisspazz1624 Hell nah, instead try investing on Indie games like oneshot, eastshade, katana zero, coccon, undertale
@@nikkeydcundertale is not indie at least not anymore
I'm amazed Anthem didn't get on the list
Callisto Protocol didin't deserve to be on this list....I genuinely loved that game.....but that's my humble opinion
It's very crowded list of just the last two years. I would like a list that's something like the most disappointing thing in gaming of each year of the last two years.
Just why rocksteady ?!
For Redfall: It's made by Arkane Austin, Dishonored and Deathloop are made by Arkane Lyon! Those are two different studios. They might share some workforce in asset creation and art direction but in terms of game direction and lead as a whole they're entirely different studios. So it's not really a question of what happened with the studio since Dishonored but rather it's an issue between two different studios, different directors and leads and higher ups
You know what's disappointing? AAA games. I'm having SO much more fun with indies and smaller teams games. Those who care about the actual games and not just 💰
Saaaame
Gonna need a part two and three for this video, there was so many more disappointments. No Man's Sky at launch, Starfield, Forespoken, that Battlefield game that came out last year I think, Total War Pharaoh, metal gear survive, AC Unity at launch, Starwars Battlefront 2, anthem, company of heroes 3 and on and on......
@ 5:40 the before you buy pop up made me laugh so hard 😂
Battlefield 2042, never been so disappointed and felt ripped off after buying at launch.
I only played Mass Effect in 2023 with the ultimate edition and then moved to Andromeda and acctualy had a good time.
I played the trilogy In 2021 when the remastered version came out ,one of the best gaming experiences i've ever had, i've been wondering, is andromeda At least decently enjoyable,?
All ive heard is its garbage dont play it.
@DrizzyEmin3m You may not enjoy the story, but the gameplay and combat were better than the other ME games.
@@DrizzyEmin3mit has a slow start but it’s a lot of fun when it eventually gets going. Definitely doesn’t feel the same as the OG trilogy, more of a generic open-world sci-fi 3rd person shooter with fun abilities
The combat is fun but the role playing and story are mediocre at best. It’s basically your typical ea open world game lol
@@DrizzyEmin3m I think it depends on how invested you get in the story and character development. The OG games were so much better in that respect that Andromeda felt like a slap in the face.
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite was a total disappointment they had less characters
Yeah the roster was not as good as 2 or hell even 3 😒
My biggest gaming disappointment of the last ten years is that friggin halo tv show adaptation
Nice work Sweet Baby Inc. You're killing it.
Crazy concept, but I recommend not watching as much trailers and deep dives for some, if not most, games. Like starfield, I didn’t read anything about it, and played at launch. I was very happy with it for the most part, but after looking at comments, I see why some people were mad because it wasn’t what they thought it was going to be. Cyberpunk I followed for many years, and was MASSIVELY disappointed. That’s where I learned that lesson.
Gamers have been screwed over by this industry so many times over the last 5 to 10 years that I just can't get excited for new releases anymore.
I have zero pity for anyone actually disappointed in Suicide squad, y’all knew it was gonna be bad from the start. We knew it was gonna be live service, the people behind the Arkham games already left, and anyone who bought it and was disappointed is the reason it made more money than it deserved.
I never played the original Mass Effect games but I loved ME Andromeda
It's gets a lot of undeserved hate. Andromeda was a big shift in tone from the original series. Removing the original's renegade/paragon system of storytelling made it a regular RPG.
Then that makes sense why you loved it, which is not a bad thing whatsoever. ME fans that played the OG trilogy just had a different level of expectation when it came to storytelling and characters after falling in love with the narrative and cast of the first saga. Andromeda's gameplay was great though imo, even though I couldn't bring myself to care for the narrative
After looking through the comments sections I think yall definitely gotta add a part 2 to this topic 😂😂😂
Dirt 5 and Project Cars 3 are 2 games that should be on this list 2, both stepped away from the roots, both were big disappointments, and both were ruined by EA sadly.
I'm a huge Dragon Age fan. I'm also one of those who came to the Mass Effect series late, and basically played them in reverse, starting with Andromeda.
I honestly loved Andromeda. It was my introduction to the ME series, so I wasn't weighed down by nostalgia over the original trilogy, and I had a lot of fun and even replayed it a couple times. Sci fi isn't normally my thing at all, but I thought of it as DA:Inquisition with blasters and robots and aliens, and it was a solid 8 out of 10 for me.
I played the original (remastered) trilogy for the first time recently, and I was kind of underwhelmed based on the gushing reverence for it I see constantly. They were really good games, and I'm glad I experienced them, but I was expecting a transcendent experience way better than the hated Andromeda, and I'm still waiting. I suspect Mass Effect was pure heaven to starved sci fi RPG fans in the late aughts, and today nostalgia is skewing things as it tends to, and a decent follow up game gets shit on unfairly.
Yeah I liked Andromeda and I liked th efact it was trying t ogo for a lighter tone after th etrilogy. I mean sure th etrilog ywas great in it's own way too that's why I still play it. But fo rme it's the fact that they actually said that Andromeda was trying to be it's own thing and don' t compare it with the trilogy and the problem was people still did which for me is what ruined any chance Andromeda had not the fact of the game bein gnecressarily bad. I liked what they did with Andromeda but then I listened to wha tthey said and judged Andromeda on it's own merits which I felt mad ei ta good gam efor the time and a refershing chang eof direction for the franchise.
@@sjsharp2007 I also enjoyed Andromeda, but mostly for the gameplay. And it's odd when you think about it: The previous games' story was top notch, but the gameplay was not that great (ME 3 being the exception). Andromeda's story is certainly the weakest, but has the best gameplay in the series. And driving the Nomad is miles better than the paperweight known as the Mako and the tissue paper-armored Hammerhead.
No starfield? the brand new ip from bethesda, supposed to be skyrim in space? i did play, i did like it, but i still havent gone back to it, but i would skyrim
Having a game called infinite and the character roster being the smallest it's been compared to any other sequel was probably the largest letdown. With any fighting game you always have to do bigger and better. Otherwise, you have to completely reinvent yourself to justify the sequel in fighting games
Covering ten years of gaming history is ambitious
It’s sad to see that most of the disappointments from the last decade are actually very very recent. It says a lot about the gaming industry right now.
I expected to see Diablo 3, Overwatch 2 and Fallout 76 on this list for sure. I do think #1 is correct tho for sure
imo Mass Effect Andromeda is a better game than Starfield.
Low bar.
Damn 🤔..... damn you might be right on this 😂
They didn't put Starfield or Fallout 76 on the list... for some reason.
I'd rather play a few of these games than Starfield. And Fallout 76 was flat out just unplayable and broken at launch... along with all of the not in game scandal that came along with it. Even now that it is fixed, it is still trash.
@@ransom-- I played 76 at launch on PC and it was not broken, and I did everything that was on the map.
Some bigger disappointment than few games in the list: Overwatch 2 (Mainly the promised PVE contents), Diablo 4, Battlefield 2042 (All the hypes from the trailers that being killed in launch), No Man's Sky early release, Fallout 76, Starfield's emptiness, and Crackdown 3 (After long years of waiting)..
You touched on P.T., but glossed over MGSV and the fact that the game was released without an actual ending.
For such a strong series to just come to an end like that, without even a real ending... I mean that's a massive disappointment.
to be fair, the game was genuinely well recieved as fuck and honestly the fact that they practically enslaved kojima and then kicked him out right before he could finish and STILL people loved the game says quite a bit.
Nah it’s a real crime that fallout 76 isn’t at the top of this list.
Saints Row 5 gets way too much hate it’s insane. I got the ps5 version platinum and enjoyed it honestly. People will bandwagon hate on 5 but act like Johnny Gat Out of Hell never happened 😂😂
Honestly Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and New Tales from the Borderlands deserve a spot on this list. Wonderlands had NO real endgame and a repetitive grind of Chaos levels. While New Tales could never live up to the 1st Tales from the Borderlands.
Hm, I loved Tiny Tina. I personally thought it was miles better than BL3. I do remember it being pretty short though.
@@Rutherfordbcrazy12 BL3 is way better than Wonderlands. Only thing wrong with BL3 is the story having 2 crappy villains and a blotted Eden 6 run. While Wonderlands only has gameplay and a decent story, but nothing to do but grind as a endgame. Honestly with BL3 I don't think Gearbox could of come up with a better bad guy than Jack. So they went cringey streamer to annoy the players.
@@Frank_Torre well I think the franchise needed a refresh with new environments and I enjoyed the DnD aspect to it. The DLC was trash though and a rip-off.
@@Rutherfordbcrazy12 I know. Wonderlands hit on the gameplay, story and Will Arnett as the Dragon Lord. Yet they gave us endless Chaos chambers and meh dlc Mirrors. Which mirror bosses at their most powerful weren't close to raid bosses. If only they put a DnD twist on current BL2/BL3 raid bosses in Wonderlands.
Man I just posted about this. It had so much potential. I remember finishing it and sitting in front of the TV thinking: well this was a short ride, but the DLCs could be wild... I couldn't be more wrong and disappointed in my life.
arkham knight on the pc ran like it had a stone in its shoe
Personally wouldn't say SS was disappointing simply cuz never had any expectations even when it was first announced
forgot AC:Unity
Forza motorsport 2023 was and is still a big dissapointment, been waiting for so long for new next-gen game with sub-par graphics ( worse than FM7 ), sound and just so many bugs and a career mode that forced you to do lots of grinding to upgrade your car, thankfully fixed now.
It's just a lackluster game that is not what players expected after such a long wait between FM7 and FM 2023
I think you forgot the announcement of Diablo Immortal.
You forgot Starfield.
No one waits for Starfield we know it would be bad cuz it's Bethesda bro
so many love from india.. i watched your all videos
Capcom employees, including ex-employees, aren’t even allowed to acknowledge PT’s existence. I worked as a cameraman for an independent gaming journalist for a while and she managed to snag an interview with a programmer who used to work for Capcom and when asked about PT the guy was like “I don’t know what kind of fever dream nonsense gobbly-goop you’re talking about, I’ve never heard that, it never existed.”
Never heard of any of these games except for cyberpunk
Anthem and No Mans Sky would be 2 as well. Both were terrible at launch but had a lot of potential, I'm happy No Mans Sky managed a come back but will forever be disappointed with EA and Bioware for Anthem
Are you high?
The frame rate for Scarlet/Violet was unacceptable considering it's the best-selling entertainment franchise of all time.
The Order 1886 needs to be on here. A launch title for the PS4, set in a sort of steampunk Victorian age close to our own world, and your hunting werewolves. It looked wonderful.
And then we were given what amounted to an interactive cutscene.
I really enjoyed what was there. And I really hoped it might be a set up for a much more expanded sequel. But I doubt that'll ever happen.
this could be a top 30 list easily, sad seeing so many games ending up being so disappointing
honorable mention: not finding a better way to say "games as a service" after all this time.
Definitely gotta mention Anthem
Andromeda is a legitimately good game and has been since like 6 weeks after launch.
If you are going to put a Bioware game on, Anthem is much worse in my opinion.
Go play Andromeda again, its way better than you remember, if you ever even tried it after they patched the whole (admittedly terrible) bricking consoles thing.
Kinda agree? Andromeda is an awful mass effect game, but a fine enough sci-fi shooter. (Still not my cup of tea, but even I can admit it’s not awful or bad. Just kinda middling haha)
It's not that it's a bad game per se, it's just a monumental disappointment in terms of storytelling, dialogue, choice, and characters..... all things that players came to love about the ME franchise. Just like the above comment said, it's a good Sci fi game but a very disappointing entry to the Mass Effect franchise
so good game that no extra content was added to the game ? 🤔 🤣
Crackdown 3 and the Battlefront Classic Remasters are high up on my list for disappointing
The fact this video was made means we are living upon many, many gamer Karen’s in the world
“Disappointing games from the last 10 years” pretty much shows games from the last 2-4 years
My gf and I are fighting and I was waiting for the first video by gameranx to cheer me up. But two of them? Just what I needed
All I can say is thank you guys and love your videos.❤️
Oh shit beginning background music hard AF 🔥
I actually really enjoyed the Saint's Row reboot, but I know most people didn't. I thought it had a lot of really fun moments, like playing the LARPing missions where you're running around going 'pew pew!' in this cardboard armor... I thought it was great
Gollum was not a disappointment, because it never even reached the “appointment” status
Anthem is pretty high on my list. Original no mans sky as well
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For me one of the disappointments is the latest Harry Potter, had a huge potential, it felt and played amazing at the beginning but as the game went on, I was disappointed by how the world was lifeless and empty of anything interesting to do.
Hot take: my biggest disappointment was RDR2. Not the game, it was phenomenal! The lack of post launch support and total absence of DLC is a travesty. That game was so good I never wanted it to end.
Agreed. Such a shame it doesn't get the love it deserves. Instead Rockstar is milking out the online. I suppose they are putting all their money on GTA6.
One of the biggest missed opportunities in gaming for me. So sad they shat all over the online and added nothing for the masterpiece that is the single player
that's a rockstar thing
Starfield should of been #1.
The true number one is stellar blade getting censored
A lot of people will disagree with me on this, but, to me, as a long-time Remedy fan (from the first Max Payne up to Control), Alan Wake II quite frankly disappointed me a lot with all the stuff I looked into as research before deciding to grab a copy (gameplay, story, and so on) that I decided not to purchase and support it. And, before anyone says so, yes, I like that style of action-survival horror, and I was anticipating it at first... until I eventually decided to watch full walkthroughs and was just plainly saddened by the gameplay loop and how a crap ton of its runtime dragged on and on. And that's not even talking about how Alan himself was treated in his own game. He gets the less interesting enemy types to fight against, and he barely gets any weapons to use. The only positive thing I can say about Alan's side of the campaign would be him getting the more intriguing, mind-bending set pieces. That's it. And I'm not a fan of Saga Anderson as a character at all. Not even mentioning the involvement of SBI here with my personal feedback in terms of Saga's character writing and personality. Oh, and I know lots loved it, but I did not like at all how that musical segment was done. And I grew up loving a lot of musicals as a kid. The integration here was just not it for me. It's really a combination of things I know are subjective to my preferences and expectations along with what I believe to be objective issues with the game's overall structure, pacing, writing, and gameplay mechanics.