10 Biggest Gaming Disappointments of The Last 10 YEARS 

Not putting Anthem on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd spot on the disappointing list is almost criminal.

Not a single pokemon RPG on a biggest gaming disappointment list is insane

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

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 wouldn't say Suicide Squad was that big of a disappointment, since no one expected much from it to begin with

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.

Anthem, Skull and bones, Bf2042, Starfield, Fallout 76, Battlefront 2, Immortals of Aveum etc. So many games deserved to be on this list.

You forgot Starfield.

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'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.

Fallout 76 - paying £45 on release for an online only game that you couldnt play online.

I feel like y'all missed out on a bunch of remakes that flopped. The GTA remasters and Warcraft 3 Reforged come to mind.

Without Anthem this is just wrong.

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

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 :(

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.

Question: where was Forespoken? Major publisher in SquareEnix, big online marketing push, big RU-vid 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.

If Cyberpunk is on here then No Man's Sky should be also.

I genuinely enjoyed The Callisto Protocol even though the ending didn’t really stick. I went with a day one preorder/season pass purchase for it, and honestly even though it was short, The Final Transmission DLC was pretty cool, and it gives a definitive ending to the game. Really wish it would get a sequel, but I don’t see that happening at all.

this could be a top 30 list easily, sad seeing so many games ending up being so disappointing

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!

"More glitches than you've ever seen...." Fallout: New Vegas long-timer: Wanna bet?

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.

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

*Its me. I'm the biggest disappointment of the last 10 years*

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

You should do a top 10 underrated bangers of the early 2000-2010s those were the golden days of gaming I swear.

It's insane how many videos game ranx releases. These guys are absolute grinders

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.

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.

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.

After looking through the comments sections I think yall definitely gotta add a part 2 to this topic 😂😂😂

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

im very glad you also mentioned how cyberpunk redeemed what it was meant to be, after quite some updates

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!

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.

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

I loved The Callisto Protocol and Mass Effect Andromeda. I also wish people would quit saying that Cyberpunk 2077 was so bad it had to be delisted. That is not case at all. It was delisted because CDPR promised refunds and they didn't have the authorization to do that, they overstepped their bounds and PS pulled it to avoid selling something they would have to refund because some company said they could.

Starfield deserves a spot here

I'm amazed Anthem didn't get on the list

@ 5:40 the before you buy pop up made me laugh so hard 😂

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.

No Man's Sky? Starfield? Diablo?

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.

PT is 10 years old and still looks better than the recent horror games.

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.

Just why rocksteady ?!

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?

Thank you for mentioning Cyberpunk 2077. They have done a lot of progress and made incredible changes that now the game is amazing. However, We should not forget how they tried to play us and just pushed the game half-baked. Just a reminder, the higher ups are to be blamed, not the devs.

Starfield hands down.

I only played Mass Effect in 2023 with the ultimate edition and then moved to Andromeda and acctualy had a good time.

I like how Jake doesn't even count "Forspoken" as a game (it is utterly dissapointment)

I love it when yas spoil us. Gamerthanx !!

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.

The frame rate for Scarlet/Violet was unacceptable considering it's the best-selling entertainment franchise of all time.

Starfield I think could deserve a spot on this list, people were expecting a huge densely packed game with things to do on thousands of planets but instead got a few planets to do things on with a mostly empty space but I agree with this list thanks for another great video

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......

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.

imo Mass Effect Andromeda is a better game than Starfield.

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

The fact that one of the biggest disappointments in gaming history isn't on here is mind blowing. No man's sky was THE disappointment. Also starfield

My biggest gaming disappointment of the last ten years is that friggin halo tv show adaptation

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

I never played the original Mass Effect games but I loved ME Andromeda

I actually played Mass Effect Andromeda before I played the originals. I remember andromeda having crisp combat but that’s about it. The trilogies combat was clunkier but my character and relationships and story were way more memorable for sure

Halo Infinite, Redfall, Starfield, Fallout 76, Wolfenstein Youngblood, Forza Motorsport... basically everything associated with xbox studios

Battlefield 2042, never been so disappointed and felt ripped off after buying at launch.

No Mans Sky? Fallout 76? I mean seriously.

Covering ten years of gaming history is ambitious

Callisto Protocol only has two problems: -it was half-baked from the start, like CP2077, and fixed only year later -members of the team moaning they were developing it overtime. The first problem is fixed- I've played the game for the first time only last year and on my PS4 Slim. And this game is glorious, I like it so much. After it, I can't play Dead Space series as it was before- Dead Space seems so much half-аssed and outdated, while I get so used to the impact from the controls and battle system in Callisto Protocol. The second problem is money, envy and ill will. The moment like "fans ruin the music of their idol"- the people who know how much the budget was, ruin everything with their envy. Great game after all, even without sequel.

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 think you forgot the announcement of Diablo Immortal.

Cyberpunk 2077 now isn't just a solid game, but one of the most immersive open world experiences ever.

I got a wait and see approach!

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 💰

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

I didn't play Cyberpunk until about two years ago, and even at that point I didn't have high hopes after following the debacle at release. Turned out to be one of the best games I've ever played.

I’ve just finished cyberpunk 2077 (March ‘24) and have to say that it is absolutely an amazing game now. Easily the best game I’ve played in years, really really good. I didn’t want it to end so I platinumed it.

Are you kidding me. Callisto Protocol was no way near the biggest disappointment list. You tripping my man

Alright where is starfield?

I’d totally love to see a sequel to Callisto Protocol, such a beautiful game and it is fun.

Here's some you missed: Anthem, Destiny, Battlefield 2042, Battlefield V, numerous COD games, No Man's Sky, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Starfield, Pokemon Sw/Sh, Pokemon Sc/Vi, Skull & Bones, every AC game since Origins, everything Supermassive has touched since Until Dawn, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2, Diablo IV, Far Cry 6, Resident Evil 3, Lords of the Fallen, Forspoken, Shadow of War... I would even add The Last of Us 2. Fantastic gameplay but abysmal story.

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.

Definitely gotta mention Anthem

Nice work Sweet Baby Inc. You're killing it.

Ive said it before and ill say it again, CDPR said the 2077 was not ready, they knew it wasn’t ready, they got bullied, pressured, and threatened into releasing it because people didn’t want to wait. Im not saying let them off completely, but we should,at this point, have eased up on them by now.

I'd add two things about this generation: the rough start, with most people not able to get them (even desconsidering world's situation at the time) and specialy the price hike. It's harder to justify buying a new AAA game. The good part is the push for smaller budget projects, more good games on the spotlight

Marvel vs Capcom Infinite was a total disappointment they had less characters

Crackdown 3 and the Battlefront Classic Remasters are high up on my list for disappointing

I’m probably a rare case but I played Cyberpunk on launch on the Base PS4, and aside from a few crashes, I experienced minimal bugs and I played through the game twice before any major updates. I actually started getting more bugs after they released updates lol.

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.

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

Personally wouldn't say SS was disappointing simply cuz never had any expectations even when it was first announced

I quite enjoyed Andromeda and have never understood why the disappointment that it was not the same as the Mass Effect Trilogy turned to so much hate 🤷‍♀

Very personal and it's a loooong list. Missed quite a few.

A lot of the problems from MvCI stemmed from things like having basically all non-MCU characters being cut, bad single player with laughable story, moving from 3v3 to 2v2 gameplay, really bad art style and graphics compared to other games like DragonBall FighterZ coming out shortly after. It was just a big shot in the foot from capcom.

With all the years it spent in development, for Halo: Infinite to come out in the state it did was such a huge let down.

Would be nice if there was a list for most underrated games in AAA, AA, and Indie games, I wanna know if I missed a game. For example, I almost missed Ghostwire Tokyo because it wasn't popping out in my youtube algorythm.

For me, the biggest disappointment was Metal Gear Solid V. I loved the storytelling of the previous four MGS games (and also the first two, Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake) and then 5 came out and there was almost no story.