Gaming

Final Fantasy XVI.

Cities Skylines 2 must be up there. Streamers told to keep hush about performance issues, a dumpster fire of a release, a game lacking in the detail and depth promised. And now nearly as many people playing the predecessor which has been out a decade

Cities Skylines 2, wasn't expecting the specs to be as high as they were, so I decided I'd pick it up on console, only to find out a week before release that console was pushed back like 6 months. Since then, some of the issues with the game are outright disappointing me.

The Greyhill Incident. The premise is exactly what I want and it of course always looked to have less polish than triple A games but final product was astoundingly bad.

I have 96 hours on Starfield but after playing Cyberpunk + its DLC (although two different games) my likelihood of ever returning to Starfield is likely gone. Story, worldbuilding, quests, mechanically, graphically, Starfield just feels way behind to its contemporaries.

Starfield. Bought a whole damn console for that shit. Will make the console worth it but the game? Myeah….

Diablo 4... but I'm mostly just disappointed in what Blizzard has become

I wasn’t even excited about Starfield and I was still disappointed. Just such a generically bland game.

Diablo 4!
Way too easy than the other ones, the lore, dungeons and missions were too repetitive, and the story was kinda meh to me considering the previous titles!

Starfield.

Starfield for me. I wanted to like it and hoped I would be playing it for months. Not the case. I regret buying it and not using Gamepass.

Final Fantasy 16. I hope some people at SquareEnix are paying attention to the wild popularity of Baldurs Gate 3 so they can realize that more tactical, strategic gameplay can work.

Starfield. The only right answer is starfield.

All I wanted was Skyrim in SpaaAAaaaAaAAAaAAce, and instead all I got was boredom.

It doesn't even have the decency to be a bad game. It's just painfully meh entirely across the board. Meh combat. Meh story. Meh characters. Meh everything. There isn't anything egregiously bad. There just isn't anything great either.

Hands down Diablo 4. Nothing else comes close.

Diablo 4.

I wanna say ARK: Survival Ascended. I wasn’t really surprised but still disappointed

COD is always the answer

I didn’t think it was bad by any means. But Sea of Stars felt like such a generic JRPG with nothing special about it whatsoever. It was still overall good, but I was expecting so much more as someone who backed the project.

Starfield

I was expecting a jank but fun Bethesda game.

But somehow my expectations were completely off and we got a broken boring piece of shit instead.

Mortal Kombat 1. Audio still broken

As is tradition, every year is a Microsoft game.

My vote is star field. M$ over hyped the hell out of it and completely fooled us

Cities Skylines II

Can I still be disappointed in Battlefield 2042?

FIFA 24 absolute dog shit of a game

For me Spider-Man 2, some things were great like the web wings and the combat was a slight improvement, but the skill trees really weren’t that interesting and the fact you can’t use the black symbiote powers at the end of the story even though they give you the black suit is so dumb and kills all replay-ability for me.

The story was also incredibly short and just not well written. Venom was totally underused, it felt like he was in less than a third of the game and it just felt like a rehash of web of shadows. The city of New York looks way better but by the end of the story there was really nothing to do in it and all of the side mission endings just seem like they were sequel/dlc bait instead of actually completing properly.

MJ missions were still incredibly boring and she was OP as hell by the end, why have 2 Spider-Men when one normal girl with a taser can one-shot the symbiotes? I hated what they did with Miles because he is so cool but they relegated him to nothing more than Adidas marketing. His conflict with Martin Li was somewhat interesting but I just think the game needed to be longer to accommodate both Spider-Men and all of the villains. It felt like there were too many ideas rushed into one project, like the Spider-Man 3 Raimi film but with none of the campy dialogue and iconic memes, just the cringe.

Forza Motorsport

Mortal Kombat 1 and Cities Skylines 2
Both were really the only games I was looking forward to this year (never got into Zelda, don't have a PS5 for Spider-Man 2), and they both were released in very unfinished states with MK1 also being plagued with a MTX store rivalling that of Fortnite and Overwatch 2 while having a $70 price tag thrown on it.

To summarize how bad MK1's MTX problem is: A character to play as costs $8, a skin for a character costs about $12, and an announcer pack for the same character costs $10. It also feels barren for content which is even worse.

Cities Skylines 2 is also hardly able to be ran on 30XX series cards. I think the core game there is better than its predecessor and we're also coming off of like 8+ years of mods and DLC, but there's just so many bugs and performance issues that I've since put it down and am waiting for things to get fixed.

Incredibly sad year for gaming for me :(

Really, scrolled and scrolled and noone mentioned cities skylines 2

People rag on starfield but it was good if you don't consider the hype train that it rode in on

Redfall, Payday 3, or Starfield. All equal let downs.

Starfield. Tbh I was more disappointed by the performance on pc that the game itself, which I knew it was gonna be another Bethesda rpg which I kinda dig

Wasnt nearly everything but re4r ass this year… sure close to it.

Diablo 4 What a waste of a Game in a Great Franchise.

Lords of the Fallen. Was hoping it would absolutely knock of out the park. Or Lies of P. A good game but also not spectacular.

Company of Heros 3 for me. Excited for Last Train Home though!

Return to Moria.

It was supposed to be Valheim Lord of the Rings, but instead it was just a disappointment.

Total War Pharoh. The Total War game no one asked for and was a complete dumpster fire.

TOTK honestly.

I thought I’d fall in love with it like I did BOTW.

I didn’t. I just lost all interest I had.

I cannot decide between Starfield, Lords of the Fallen, or Payday 3.

All 3 games I looked forward to and Lords of the Fallen for coop with my buddy I always go souls adventures with.

Starfield is just plain boring and lies here and there from Todd. Lords of the Fallen is buggy mess and horrible coop along with gameplay. Payday 3 is just unplayable.

What a disaster. BG3 and RE4 are the best for this year

Baldur’s Gate 3, simply because it was turn based. Blows my mind how someone could enjoy the slow boring combat sequence. #TOeachTHEREownIsuppose

Starfield and Diablo 4

Back to back Bethesda games..Redfall and Starfield..Although,i love Starfield but i am somewhat disappointed..

Hogwarts Legacy. Was looking forward to a super good HP open world. And it is good, but feels like a Revelio simulator

It’s Starfield, I didn’t expect much and it still managed to be so much shittier than I’d have guessed.

D4 for me. Lifeless greedy shit

Starfield was my personal "biggest disappointment." It's not that I hate the game, I just think it lacks soul compared to other procedural space games. Oh, and not to mention the sheer amount of loading screens. No Man's Sky allows you to enter and leave planet pretty much seamlessly. Hell, you can warp to other planets and then immediately land on them without triggering a single loading screen. Not to mention, NMS came out in 2016, almost seven years prior to Starfield.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum