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.
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 :(