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Is that just gonna be a thing on reddit now, Every post talking about starfield then moving on to a different game they were more disappointed in?

Really starting to hate how every damn post from gaming subs has to involve starfield.

i only played re4, ff16 and lies of p. ff16 would be my weakest of the three

Kerbal Space Program 2.

Hogwarts Legacy is overhyped and looking past the nostalgia it was not worth the wait at all it looks like a ps4 game

Final Fantasy XVI. Never let a MMO dev near a single player game ever again.

Anything released by a Microsoft studio

Spider-Man 2

Final Fantasy XVI. The first quarter or so of the game was cool and showed promise, but holy shit is it awful

We need an award for most disappointing disappointment of the year

FF16. Didn't feel like FF and the action combat was all flair with no depth once you got your combo sorted.

I'm just so disappointed because this was my favourite series back in the day, and I feel like I've gone years without a decent one unless it was a remake.

Score stood to expectations though.

Destiny 2. They squandered the excitement and goodwill created by Witch Queen and delivered an awful expansion, with boring repetitive seasons on top of completely deteriorated and predatory MTX avenues and options. Not to mention it being old and bugged.

Apparently they are very far off the mark with revenue and part of me wants them to crash and burn.

Didnt play that many but Alan Wake 2. Its creativve at times but mostly its just boring. Boring gameplay,enemy variety, lame jumpscares, asspull of a story, awfully overdone effects, shitty camera. It was a slog to get through

Cities Skylines 2 has to be in the top 5.

As a HP nut and RPG lover, Hogwarts legacy let me down big time. It wasn't terrible but it could have been legendary. Hopefully the next one improves on it.

Starfield - I had concerns that the lack of a dense map to explore would ruin the fun and Bethesda magic, and sadly I was right.

Hogwarts: Legacy. Still haven't been bothered to finish it. So repetitive

Tears of the Kingdom. Aside from changes, it’s basically BOTW again.

Starfield.

Bethesda made some of the best games of all time. I think oblivion might be the best western RPG ever made. Fallout 3 was spectacular. I think Skyrim is overrated but it’s still a seminal piece of work in the eyes of many.

Starfield was just so bland, uninspired and uninteresting. I kept waiting to be enthralled. I kept waiting for a character to care about. I kept trying and trying. But ultimately I was forcing myself to play the game that I just wasn’t enjoying and hoping it would get good. Threw in the towel eventually.

Starfield was so boring. Fuck this metal object and watch it float.

No thanks

Diablo IV for me.

What the fuck are all these numbers? What is good gear?! What does that even look like?

The skill tree and the paragon system is just… not intuitive to me.

Diablo 4 for sure. I can’t say I wasn’t enjoying it but definitely a lot of meh in there. I rarely buy anything day 1 anymore and this is one of those times I wish I’d waited.

Starfield. I’m a huge Bethesda fan. This one really made them look bad now.

Definitely Starfield.

Such a boring, bland game. Voice actors are really good, but the dialogue and script is absolutely terrible. Missions are boring, story is lame, etc

Starfield, although I'm disappointed with how boring I found baldur's gate... I don't think story games do it for me anymore.

I think it’s clearly red fall. It was a priority first party game for Xbox and a very prestigious studio that made it. I think some of the other disappointing games at least delivered on what they were supposed to be

Forza Motorsport. 6 years of waiting for a great sim-ish racer and we get da poop.

Starfield was my new Cyberpunk, made sure I bought next gen to play and both of them clunked to start.

Just hope Starfield makes the recovery Cyberpunk did.

Hogwarts Legacy. All I ****ing want is Bully at Hogwarts, why am I running around the while countryside killing people?

Why do people support bethesda still, they refuses to make a new engine, they been using the same engine since morrorwind

Final Fantasy 16 for me. I love FF. I’ve played most of the mainline stuff, so of course I was interested. The game looked good too, especially since I had only ever seen the demo section (the best part of the game). My friend had been hyping the game up—they absolutely love it. They got into FF through 15, which they also love (this should’ve been a sign). I got the game, got through the amazing opening section, and then it all started falling apart. The combat is boring, side quests are some of the worst I’ve seen, the main story is constantly going from awesome to boring to awesome, but the awesome moments don’t last long enough to really make a difference and they killed off the only character I liked really early on. That death made me lose interest in playing the game, honestly. I got about halfway before I dropped it, knowing that I wasn’t going to enjoy the rest of my time with it.

Also, it’s barely a JRPG, so that was disappointing. I wish I could say that I didn’t buy it, but I did. I could’ve gotten something better with my limited funds, but I didn’t.

The Walking Dead: Destinies. I know it’s not exactly a high profile game or anything. But as a fan of the walking dead and a person who thought the concept was very cool it was disappointing to see it handled so poorly.

The Last Case of Benedict Fox. There's a great MetroidVania in there somewhere, but it's buried deep beneath inscrutable game mechanics, technical issues and absurd difficulty spikes

D4..not even close for me

I haven't been disappointed by a game this year yet but also I haven't been really buying many.

I had high expectations for starfield and it matched most of them (apart from building). Was not disappointed for the most part. There was so much cool stuff I never thought of that appeared in the game.

My only disappointment is the outpost building. I was hoping for more individual building pieces but it's nothing mods won't fix but still kinda wack.

Starfield

An unpopular opinion - Armored Core 6. I waited for this game when practically everyone was saying it would be crap, and now it's out, everyone lives out, but I just can't get into it.

Black Skyland, the new update with the change in the story was horrible :c

Starfield by a mile...

It had all the depth of a Kardashian and it was soulless..

It was like they deliberately only put in the most basic of mechanics just so they could expand them in future DLC's.

Take outposts, you can completely heir entire game and never have to Once build an outpost which is utterly ridiculous.

Ship building is the same,sure it cool until you realise that you can run through the entire game using ships that you aquire via missions because the space combat AI is so basic.

Try it yourself, just build a massive cube and put nothing but auto cannons on the top and then in fights just fly towards the enemy nice and steady.

The enemy AI doesn't try and stay out of range it does the exact opposite,they will always fly towards and then get obliterated by your auto cannons.

Each of the main story line missions are boring and run by the numbers.

The NPC's all have the exact same head movements.

Crafting is another one that at no point do you have touch.

You have about 5 - 6 POI that never change in anyway, They are literally copied and pasted on each planet.

Starfield is a 2013 game made in 2023....

Look I'm a massive Bethesda fan, I've been playing F076 since launch, only a Bethesda fanboy would subject themselves to that.

I know what Bethesda are like but damn I never thought that they would get this lazy...

Starfield mostly because I played it after bg3

redfall i just wanted a spooky looter shooter

I had very low expectations of Starfield, and got shat on anytime I brought up concerns before launch.

And wow. It's far more boring than I expected it to be. Did 30 hours, have 0 desire to touch it again.

Also, Callisto Protocol. I didn't even boot it up before refunding it.

BG3. It's the most annoyed I've been in a long time for giving into the hype.

Jedi survivor

Loved the first one and played it twice but couldn’t even get this one to run on my PC and it doesn’t seem like they’ll keep trying to optimize it so I guess I won’t ever have the chance

For me it was FF XVI big time. One of the most boring and repetitive gameplay loops I've ever experienced in an RPG, hilariously uninspired writing (Dollar Store Game of Thrones), maybe the worst side quests outside of low tier MMOs, and even the sound track is bad (fight me). And the ending is a pile of dog crap.

Starfield is disappointing as well but it didn't hit the lows that FF XVI did.

Not released this year, but had been looking forward to AI: the Somnium Files. Played it not long after Christmas, and whilst the story was fine... I was sorely disappointed.

I was looking forward to it after playing the Zero Escape games (escape room visual novel games by the same devs - good puzzles, crazy twists etc.), and even more so because AI was advertised as a murder mystery where you dive into victims'/ suspects dreams. Figured you'd go searching for clues/ evidence... But nope. Instead it was mostly dive into dreams, and have to "trial & error" style fumble through picking different things to interact with whilst a timer ran out. I really found the core gameplay outside of the visual novel segments pretty damn bad... And worse yet, diving into dreams almost never actually helped to solve anything. More often than not, it actually led the main character to false conclusions, or down dead ends instead. 😬

There was one part where I thought I had an exciting "oh shit!" revelation, but instead they went down a much less satisfying route. >!Really felt like they missed a trick by not having the MC inadvertently jump timelines by altering events during people's dreams (similar to how Zero Escape handled/ explained all the different visual novel routes, & retaining impossible knowledge across timelines)... And instead the big twist was explained with look-alikes & mistaken identity.!<

Aside from all that, the game did have some heartfelt moments, and decent twists. There was plenty in the story that was handled well... But then the game would ruin it with out of place innuendos & "the MC is being a perv again" gags. Tonal whiplash was how some reviewers described it, and I have to agree. Worst of all, the very heartfelt, teary-eyes reunion at the game was completely ruined with a cringe-worthy song and dance routine. Literally every character, joining in with this "perfectly choreographed", badly written, badly sung finale'...

And seriously, I wish I was joking...

Odd choice I feel but Modern Warfare 3

There are tons of games that I was somewhat hoping to see turn out well, but I had very low expectations for Starfield, Redfall, etc.

I also expected less than nothing from Modern Warfare 3, however I was hoping for at least a big dumb, over the top action movie in game form. What I got was a step back from the previous games in every way, baffling character decisions, subpar acting from actors who frankly knocked it out of the park in previous games, and bland, uninteresting enemy encounters on empty levels.

Starfield wasn't as much as I hoped for. I think I ended up with 35-40 hours or so and it was anywhere between meh and OK. Took way too long for me to get interested and it didn't hold me for too long compared to stuff like Fallout. Diablo 4 also gets a mention even though I've played every season so far. It's lacking some of the basics present in older games and end game is just boring, even for S2. Eventually it's just NMDs over and over again trying to level glyph XP just like S0 and S1. Not sure how many more seasons I'll tune in for and unless the expansion offers a mountain of content for reasonable price, I'm passing on it.

Diablo 4 really hurt me. I think mostly I was just so hyped that it would have been hard to live up but it didn’t even get close. Thought I’d be playing it for several months if not years… made it like 5 weeks.

Hogwarts Legacy. However, it does have the potential for growth/expansion if the developers so choose. They have a huge open world that they can occupy and they have to improve the forbidden forest. Honestly, just follow the Fable formula.