Disappointing games of 2018?

[FakeSympathy]

Okay, there were a lot of amazing games as well as bunch of terrible games, but what about those games in the middle? These are games that had so much potential or was hyped, yet led to a disappointing release. Here are 10 games I thought were pretty disappointing.

10. Detroit: Become Human
Okay, please put down the pitchforks and torches for a minute. This game isn't inherently a bad game. The voice acting and motion capture are nice, and the graphics are very pretty and well detailed. But this game is also very repetitive in gameplay design. QTE, Button mash, and Dialog choices. The story is great with the branching paths, but I ended up liking Connor while other player characters felt really boring.

9. Fable Fortune

This was Fable's take on virtual card game like hearthstone, and instead of that game I decided to go with this one instead because of the fond memory I had with Fable 1 & 2. But I found it was no where near the level of Gwent from Witcher 3. I don't know if the cancellation of Fable Legends affected the release of this game, but it certainly did not called me back to the lands of Albion

8. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (XB1)

I never got around playing this game in the past gen consoles. After having fun with Black Flag, I thought this game would be interesting. Aside from a few cool Templar Characters and their side of the story, I didn't think I found much difference in the core gameplay as how assassins would've handled each situation. It is almost same as Black Flag, which I felt really disappointed because I think this game could've been so much more. Oh well, at least the story was kinda neat

7. Sea Of Thieves

I'm sorry, but this game still feels more like a tech demo for Xbox one X. There is little to no content here. I don't know if they added the AI crew like they said they would, but this game forces people to get friends and other players to operate a ship. I never could get anyone to play with me, and those short moments of laughing and arguing while sailing were too short. The gameplay is very repetitive. I would say the game still looks nice.

6. Far Cry 5

Some people might disagree with me on this, but I found FC5 to be lackluster. Yes, the game looks gorgeous (IDK how well it portrays Montana) and the outpost liberation is fun, but the story was kind of a bummer. First, you play as a silent protagonist named Rook, having a personality of sandpaper. Then, you face off against the crazy cult family. The characters are interesting, but I'd say they are nowhere near the levels of the ones found in FC3 and 4

5. State of Decay 2
So you know how in Angry Joe Show the Other Joe asks "You wanna play a zombie game?". That's how I feel about SOD2; The survival resource gathering aspect of the game is great, and it is even better when friends are involved. But the repetitive mission and the world feeling really barren (special zombies? Other survivors? Hello?), makes SOD2 disappointing sequel.

4. Vampyr
Love the setting, and the characters. Hate the gameplay and the combat.

3. We Happy Few
Ever since the announcement, the concept and the setting grabbed my attention. I was one of the first few people to try out the early-access, and I found the game to be alright back then. After the full release, I can see they made many improvements here and there, but was really disappointed by how the three story arcs basically played out the same. Yes, the stealth and scavenging for resources are nice. But there is very little consequences for acting out in the public.

2. The Walking Dead Final season ep. 2
Just like the TWD TV show, I feel the game series has also worn its novelty off. Same QTE, Button Mash, Dialog choices, walking around the map finding clues and items. It's all the same. The characters aside from Clem and AJ, feels really boring. I'm actually kinda glad TTG ended after this game because the future games, no matter what IP they decide to borrow from, would've followed the outdated format.

1. Battlefield V
The "I'm not educated to buy this game" Joke aside, My initial thoughts were that BFV was gonna be alternative scenarios of WWII. What I got instead was a game that can't decide whether it wants to be a game based on traditional WWII or an alternative timeline scenario. The campaign is kinda bad, especially the one with the ski girl as it completely disregards of efforts of the real soldiers who attempted very similar operation. But I guess we got this girl instead because "it's a possibility". The multiplayer is kinda fun, but the modes and maps are very limited, and the class roles are messy. Why add a time frame to cling on to life? That defeats the purpose of having a medic class. BFV isn't a terrible game, but it's not a great game either.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I haven't really had any major disappointments. I didn't like Red Dead 2, but then I was kinda expecting that. I guess Spyro: The Reignited Trilogy is my biggest let down, but that probably has to do with nostalgia.

I also didn't care too much for Monster Hunter World, but again, not what I would classify as a disappointment. I just expected it to have the action gameplay of Horizon: Zero Dawn or Dragon's Dogma, and it really didn't. Its odd stiff combat really wasn't up my alley, and all it really seemed to amount to was grinding for gear with zero narrative drive.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

1. Octopath Traveller
To preface, I didn't finish it, I got in about 10 hours. I ended up not liking anything about it, save the soundtrack, which is quite nice. Not the storylines tho, that made me feel I'm playing a game made up entirely of character side quests, except the characters are boring and all stories play the same: go to town, meet character, learn about problem, go to short simple dungeon, beat boss, repeat 7 times, then start all over again but a little harder each time. The combat system is sort of ok, but didn't have the tactical depth to keep me engaged. The visuals? The excessive depth of field and bloom make a lot of areas a blurry over-exposed mess except for the thin strip your characters are on. Looks nice in screenshots and I get why people praise the graphics, but I really dislike the way they looks in motion. Maybe I'm wrong and it gets better, but I don't feel like playing another 10 or more hours to find out.

2. Timespinner
A metroidvania that leans towards the Vania rather than the Metroid? Neat, not a lot of those around, but that's about it. Too short. Too easy. Very poorly written. Bland level design. A whole bunch of mechanics that are barely used beyond their introduction. It's ambitious, but at the same time, very unambitious. Like the dev set out to make a game like Symphony of the Night, checked off al the bullet points, but didn't understand what made SotN work. Finished it, but didn't 100%, despite how much of a sucker I am for metroidvanias

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I wasn't hyped for Fallout 76, and it still managed to dissapoint me.

Okay, there were a lot of amazing games as well as bunch of terrible games, but what about those games in the middle? These are games that had so much potential or was hyped, yet led to a disappointing release. Here are 10 games I thought were pretty disappointing.

10. Detroit: Become Human
Okay, please put down the pitchforks and torches for a minute.

What pitchforks? It's a David Cage game. Most people here are already aware those tend to be a mixed bag at best. If anything, knowing previous Quantum Dream games, Detroit actually positively surprised me(partially).

 

[Saelune]

Dynasty Warriors 9. Mainly cause it doesn't even run on my computer, but even so, it is too different in all the bad ways from DW8. Also apparently it has gone free to play, but where you have to buy everything piecemeal. I bought it when it was new and one full game, but now I have DLC for each and every character cause you can apparently buy them all separately. :/

Come on Koei, don't do this shit.

 

[meiam]

I wasn't hyped for Fallout 76, and it still managed to dissapoint me.

Okay, there were a lot of amazing games as well as bunch of terrible games, but what about those games in the middle? These are games that had so much potential or was hyped, yet led to a disappointing release. Here are 10 games I thought were pretty disappointing.

10. Detroit: Become Human
Okay, please put down the pitchforks and torches for a minute.

What pitchforks? It's a David Cage game. Most people here are already aware those tend to be a mixed bag at best. If anything, knowing previous Quantum Dream games, Detroit actually positively surprised me(partially).

Detroit is strangely popular, I don't know why and it seems like it might be with different community or something but I keep seeing it pop up (there's also lots of porn of it, strangely enough).

I'd go with pillar of eternity 2, I played it long after release and there were still quite a few bug that ended up running one of the main quest by forcing me down a route I wouldn't have chosen. The boat/sea/pirate aspect ended up being mostly a waste of time, with the boat battle being pointless and uninteresting. None of the faction were that engaging, I always felt like I was forced to work with them rather than actually wanting to. The UI was atrocious and felt like it was designed by someone who never played the game and really fueled the feeling that most fight just dissolve into a clusterfuck. The difficulty curve was a complete mess, with the initial section being way harder than later one (not helped by the fact that there's plenty of high level quest in low level area). Voice acting didn't bring anything to the game, except saddle it with a bigger budget (which they apparently aren't even close to paying back). There was good stuff in the game, the class system was nice and I liked the way they did equipment, but that didn't save it.

 

[Dalisclock]

8. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (XB1)

I never got around playing this game in the past gen consoles. After having fun with Black Flag, I thought this game would be interesting. Aside from a few cool Templar Characters and their side of the story, I didn't think I found much difference in the core gameplay as how assassins would've handled each situation. It is almost same as Black Flag, which I felt really disappointed because I think this game could've been so much more. Oh well, at least the story was kinda neat

That's pretty much my take on it. It has an interesting premise, but the main gameplay is exactly the same as every other AC game, except every so often an assassin will attempt to shank you from a haystack or a bench(except If you've played any game before this, you already know to watch out for haystacks and benches). The Templars don't end up looking better as opposed to the assassins looking like jerks(and other games have covered that angle already). I'm also annoyed that the whole incident that causes Shay to defect is pretty much dependent on Shay and the rest of the assassins not having a 5 minute conversation because of something that is unprecedented in the series Lore(a Piece of Eden that causes massive earthquakes, something that has never been shown before or since in the series).

It basically fits in with the whole Post-Black Flag, Pre-Origins AC period where they were all just some measure of disappointing.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

For me it's Red Dead 2.

The writing is great, the game looks fantastic, the world is extremely well realized and impressively made, but the game itself just isn't fun to play. The mechanics of the game are not very good, and there's too many mechanics that were added to seemingly just be annoyances without actually adding anything to the gameplay.

I'm going through it and I'm just not really having a good time. I have a bunch of other games that I can be playing, and it's taking me everything in my power to boot up Red Dead instead of those other games, and the only reason that red Dead is getting played at all is because I like the story.

Honestly, it almost feels like this would be better as a TV show because the gameplay is just that uninteresting to me.

 

[Lufia Erim]

Dragonball fighterz and blazblue t
Team tag.

I fucking hate intrusive autocomboes. Persona 4 arena did it right. Everything else is horrible.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I wasn't hyped for Fallout 76, and it still managed to dissapoint me.

Okay, there were a lot of amazing games as well as bunch of terrible games, but what about those games in the middle? These are games that had so much potential or was hyped, yet led to a disappointing release. Here are 10 games I thought were pretty disappointing.

10. Detroit: Become Human
Okay, please put down the pitchforks and torches for a minute.

What pitchforks? It's a David Cage game. Most people here are already aware those tend to be a mixed bag at best. If anything, knowing previous Quantum Dream games, Detroit actually positively surprised me(partially).

Detroit is strangely popular, I don't know why and it seems like it might be with different community or something but I keep seeing it pop up (there's also lots of porn of it, strangely enough).

Hmm, i wasn't really left with impression of Detroit being more popular than say, Heavy Rain. Atleast on the west. It is probably the first really popular Quantic Dream game in Japan, due to theming seems like. And Connor, widely regarded as "best boy" of Detroit. And Bryan Dechart that seems to be a cool dude. And his in game chemistry, which is the last thing i expected in David Cage game, with Clancy Brown. Okay, so that one third of the game probably explains why it's popular(also the porn).

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Okay, so that one third of the game probably explains why it's popular(also the porn).

There's porn in the game? Or porn of Connor and Clancy Brown?

I'm willing to believe both, btw.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

Okay, so that one third of the game probably explains why it's popular(also the porn).

There's porn in the game? Or porn of Connor and Clancy Brown?

I'm willing to believe both, btw.

There's fan porn outside the game. That's to be sure.

 

[Yoshi178]

Spiderman: Spidey Arkham Asylum

 

[Casual Shinji]

Spiderman: Spidey Arkham Asylum

What did it take from Arkham other than the stealth sections? And don't say the combat.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Spiderman: Spidey Arkham Asylum

What did it take from Arkham other than the stealth sections? And don't say the combat.

He hasn't played it and has admitted that on multiple occasions. He says it's exactly like Arkham because he saw it in trailers and that's all he needs to make a judgment that it's Arkham combat and therefore bad.

Also, hard to be disappointed by something that one did not play and has no intention of playing.

 

[Kyrian007]

Its really easy though to be disappointed by a game you have not played, if you have intentions of playing it at some point. My most disappointing game of 2018 I just bought. Its Just Cause 4. Its disappointing because its unplayable in its current state on PC. I haven't played it, and it IS massively disappointing. I'm sure I'll love it next year, when they get back from vacation and actually patch it so it plays for more than 10 minutes without crashing.

 

[Yoshi178]

Spiderman: Spidey Arkham Asylum

What did it take from Arkham other than the stealth sections? And don't say the combat.

He hasn't played it and has admitted that on multiple occasions. He says it's exactly like Arkham because he saw it in trailers and that's all he needs to make a judgment that it's Arkham combat and therefore bad.

Also, hard to be disappointed by something that one did not play and has no intention of playing.

Want me to take a photo of my copy then?

oh that's right nah. that would only prove you wrong. we wouldn't want that to ever happen now would we?

 

[Casual Shinji]

Want me to take a photo of my copy then?

oh that's right nah. that would only prove you wrong. we wouldn't want that to ever happen now would we?

Okay so.. how is it just an Arkham clone? Other than it being an open-world super hero game, which Spider-Man did before Arkham, and the stealth sections, which is just one aspect.


Not saying you can't be disappointed in it, just wondering where that 'Spider-Man: Spidey Arkham Asylum' claim comes from.

 

[Dalisclock]

Is it okay to use games that you played this year as opposed to games that came out this year? Because I rarely play games the same year it comes out and so I don't have much to say.

As for games I played this year....

MGSV:The Phantom Pain.

So, on one hand, much of the gameplay is top notch. The FOX engine is really good at allowing freedom of action in a large open world and there's a lot of fun things you can do beyond picking how you want to accomplish a given objective.

OTOH, almost everything else is just a giant ass mess. The plot starts off decent until becoming nearly nonsensical(even by Metal Gear Standards, which is saying something). The characters all end up being rather unlikable(Miller, Huey) or boring(Ocelot) with Snake being almost mute(apparently Kiefer was expensive or something). The ability to walk around Mother Base as you build it is amazing until you realize there's pretty much no reason to. The confrontation with Skull face is a bunch of narcissistic monologuing before he's out of the picture entirely and the 2nd act, while having some good missions, is very incomplete. The Twist at the end pretty much negated any character development for Snake and the most of the good series lore stuff is buried in the audiotapes.

So yeah......

Assassins Creed Syndicate.

It's a good game, but compared to the other AC games it rather pedestrian. It's just way too safe. It has nothing really to say, the Frye Twins are generally likable but there's no development for them and the present day plot feels like yet again, nothing is really happening(and what does happen is there to lead up to something that's resolved in the comics). On the bright side, London is very well depicted and the grapple hook is fun. It's just not as free-roaming fun as Black Flag nor is as environmentally engaging as Origins.

 

[Yoshi178]

Want me to take a photo of my copy then?

oh that's right nah. that would only prove you wrong. we wouldn't want that to ever happen now would we?

Okay so.. how is it just an Arkham clone?

i never said it was a clone. don't twist my words.