10 Games That SUCKED in 2023 

Gollum or Kong?

lol so sad but so true

Gotta be the day before because at least the other bad games weren’t legit scams

​@@WestHamParker8That's True man. That record will not be beaten

The Day Before is the undisputed worst game of 2023.

It was the balance we needed all along. No more down the middle, you're getting GOTY for something.

Issac Newton Gaming

@@VoidRA1Nplays I think this may be more darwinism gaming as it's weeding out the studios.

Darwinism….gaming….are you just trying to sound smart

@@GDKF0238 Why are you here? I didn't ask for you. You weren't invited. Go back to fortnite if you can't handle the idioms.

Oh there was, believe me. lol

Seriously.. what game was great?

@@Devilspuppets89Definitely was at least one great game this year

​@@Devilspuppets892023 has been one of the best years for gaming in a while, unless your purview is limited to just fps.

​@@Devilspuppets89yakuza gaiden for example

It’s not a Top list…

Agree, most hyped up game and ended up being a total flop.

I think that number one is best of the worst so Day before makes sense to be on 9th place

@@leedexyou aren’t a top either

@@leedex then why they numbering them? her-der-der

Fr I liked Pay Day 3 and Forspoken, could they have been better? Yes. But they’re not terrible. I wouldn’t consider them terrible games, just poorly executed

@@woahitscoby9122yeah I agree forspoken was a good timepass nothing special tho but it does not deserve so much hate either

@@EastSheriff I think forspoken was hammered moreso for not meeting expectations, rather than being straight up awful

​@@nathanduncan6919 like fr I'd get it on the cheap just to mess around with the combat system

Except Gollum then hahaha

Do it!

But you know what’s crazy they gave the dlc to everyone who owned the game for free

Why would you willingly play video games during new year's eve? Especially a bad one? Jesus, go outside man

@@boiimcfacto2364 people enjoy things differently. Not saying you are wrong and they are right, but let folks end the year how they want.

@@EIyptionbecause it was garbage.

I remember a game a decade ago that had a Gollum do just this, I swear GPT just rehashed a pre-existing story.

I don't think that stricter laws would solve the issue in most cases. There is already consumer laws that protect consumers from false or misleading in the most part that can let you get your money back and leave the game to die on its own. What we actually need is to stop pre-ordering games and to wait for reviews from the community rather than from the media and influencers who get paid to say nice things about a game. A lot of the games on this list made a decent size of the money it made from pre-orders which dried up at launch where the people who bought the game told everyone about how trash it was.

@@Algebruh2407preach brother. We gotta stop preordering. Even if the game is going to be good. You should not preorder!!! You’re giving people money for a product that isn’t DONE

@@Algebruh2407 yeah well folks keep per-ordering. Everyone says don't it makes the industry worse and years keep on ticking by and folks keep doing it, so this really isn't a realistic solution. Best thing i could think is make it illegal for the industry to do per-order sales all together.

@@------837I personally am against banning it because of the precedent that it would give and because taking it away is ultimately anti-consumer choice to do so. Companies would also move on to more loopholes or predatory ways of selling their games, like turning pre-orders into early releases where you can only play a demo until the game comes out or turning the game into a microtransaction. The best action to take is to tell people why they shouldn't pre-order games and let it run it's course. If the quality of the games being pre-ordered don't improve, then more and more people are going to get burned when they blew money on a bad game or feel let down when they have to refund it. When more and more people are being burnt, then there will be less pre-orders, leading game companies to be forced improve the quality to make the sales on release rather than throw a lot of the budget onto the marketing team to shove pre-orders down everyone's throats.

@@Algebruh2407 what precedent would it make? It’s a simple law about selling broken games to customers and running with the bag never fixing the game. Everything else you said was a complete ramble of made up rubbish.

Forgot Silent Hill Ascension.

Redfall?

Truly a funny year. Can’t wait for how 2024 gonna go

@@amkren4158Redfall was bad but players showed their hate on the game because of the reputations set on Arkane. I'm sure if any other studios developed Redfall, it would still be rated poorly but might have gotten less hatred

Fr tho

One of the games of all time

@@erso_returned2530one of the original jokes of all time

@@OfAngelsAndAnarchist it's equivalent to farting nowadays.

@@OfAngelsAndAnarchist one of the replies of all time

It's one of those games that you bury in the Nevada desert

It was originally PS2 and I played it as a kid and loved it! Probably the first game I ever finished to completion.

I remember seeing the first trailer and thinking the same thing.

Bro me too lmao, my friend showed me some gameplay and i was like "oh, its not that bad for a mobile game" and he was like "BRO THIS IS NOT ON MOBILE"

That is an insult to good mobile games.

And you can kinda excuse the pacing if you look into it a bit cuz apparently the writers were basically forced to change the story last minute. All in all I really don't think it belongs on this list. At BEST it's mid, I wouldn't say it was one of the worst games or one of the best.

@@moonlitxangel5771 It's just popular to hate on it for the people that spent their 10 minutes on it. Funny IGN Japan gave it a 9/10. Western audiences tend to be hive minds when it comes to opinions.

The voice acting was the worst offender.

It was a blast i beat it and enjoyed every bit of it just the dialogue kept going when i wanted it to stop. But the game itself is awesome i still love it

@@fartzhapy4165 oof. Lost another one.

That was always wild to me. I loved the Deponia series, I love point and click adventures. I don't know why they moved out of their comfort zone which was normally riddled with humor and silliness

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They also released the DLC early, granted for 10 bucks or for 18 with a weapon pack

Stop making excuses for starbreeze, everything except for the gun play was an after thought, and even then what did we even get like 10 guns? Pay day 2 had time but the game gave itself that time because, it launched with absurdly more content than pay day 3 did.

@@KingKari_ 20 guns, and while payday 3 has considerably less than 2, it still is a good game, it's got good mechanics, it's a diamond in the rough basically

@@KingKari_ The heist launch roster in Payday 2 was arguably worse than 3's bar a couple and launched with 12 heists in total. The majority of Payday 2's launch heists were awful. There was also a similar amount of guns between the two during their respective launches. Payday 3 launched with 8 heists and while there is little variety in objectives all 8 certainly have more depth than any of the launch heists in 2. There are other more important things to criticize about PD3, especially the qol missing from 2, but the amount of heists isn't a big issue.

@@DrStryde Yeah, I was going reply to him with this info too because @KingKari_ obviously has no idea what he is talking about. I've played Payday since PD:TH and loved every one of them, including 3 so far. Payday 3 was far better than Payday 2 at launch, Payday 3 a few months on I still think has been better than Payday 2 was a few months on. Payday 3 being number one on this list is a scalding hot take.

2021 Sucked

I understand, but unfinished, unpolished, anything. Shouldn't be celebrated and praised. Oh you made good on your initial promise way later after you already took the sale? Okay you're garbage.

Hello.. CDPR apologist! 🤡

I dont really think that any of these still try to improve their game, not like cdpr who did an amazing job with cyberpunk

that could happen if some of the studios simply shut down cause of how bad it was lol

Yeah. That world had legs. Now the IP will be sat on until no one will care when they finally dust it off and make its corpse dance around for a nostalgic buck.

@@adamwest8711 dude it really is so disappointing. I remember when I first played Dishonored 2, and I found a map of the world in the game and there are SO MANY cities and different island nations aside from the two in both games. They could have thrown a dart and wherever it landed it could have worked!!

Maybe they want to hold off and release a game when people actually really really want it instead of spamming people with a new game from each series every year and a half like Ubisoft. I’m not sure i’d have been ready for a new Dishonored this year. Tbh i’m just now replaying the originals for the 2nd time now.

@@sub-jec-tiv honestly you are 100% right. But it's been a healthy amount of time since the last entry in the Dishonored series, and they made those games with love and respect for the world and lore. I will say after Deathloop it seems, to me, that Arkane kinda just gave up a little. And with so many devs leaving Arkane because of Redfall, it just seems like Dishonored as a whole is dead now. All the devs who created it and cared might be gone now

@@sub-jec-tiv the first game is over 10 years old and the last one was 6 years ago. As far as I know, they’ve not even started on concept work for another which means it’ll have been 10 years at least before there’s another game, if ever. No offence to you but but most people don’t need nearly 12 years to get through 2 playthroughs.

Probably could've redeemed itself had it been purposefully cartoony and not about King Kong. (Open-world Donkey Kong, maybe? 🤔)

It was probably designed for little kids.

left hand, right hand, slap. repeat

@@xoizhyk and how janky it is 😂

@@greatwavefan397 not even, the way those characters move feel too jenky and cheap lol.

Payday 2 also had 10 years of post-launch support. In those 10 years they added a lot of content. However I agree with you in regards to the class making, a definite downgrade

@@intrcptr7351 payday 2 didn't drop in the sorry excuse of a state that 3 did tho i am really tired of this type of excuse being thrown out

@@intrcptr7351 yeah I was a day one 360 payday 2 player I know how it was but it was also the Xbox 360 and over 10 years ago they had time

Aside from the lack of content, Pauday 3 embodies everything we hate in live service games

The problem is that they're gonna milk all the content into 100s of dollars of DLC like they did with Payday 2. Payday officially died, and become a pay to play game.

Yeah we were robbed of a second great MW trilogy by corporate greed and lack of originality

wow that sucks and has never gone well in the past.

Ikr MW19 was so sood but the sequels were so disappointing​@@SamFr1000

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I’m gonna eventually get TWD Destinies since I’m a huge fan, but I’m more looking forward to the laughs haha

“Finders Keepers”

@@S3RVANTofCHI3F “More ammo is always welcome” lol 😂

Well a lot of people are calling Starfield "midfield". Myself included. IMO it's probably the most meh game of 2023.

#1 on the meh list has to be Starfield.

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@@perceivedvelocity9914midfield for sure

Hogwarts Legacy, Avatar Froniters of Pandora, and Starfield.

@@Stfu56177You’re so cool and different

"No one will disagree with you here" Nah I disagree about Forspoken. It's not possible for "no one" to disagree here. Except with Redfall and the Day Before. What on earth happened there.

Sad to see Starfield didn't make the list. Can't have Todd believe it was a good representation of what his team can do.

Forspoken's inclusion was an abject mistake.

@@ZephyrFate I think plenty of people disagree with you. There's a very sizeable contingent of players who disliked it and felt burned by it. But to each their own.

why was it a great year for gaming

@@Prosthetics555 you been living under a rock or are you stuck in 2020?

@@SpreadTheLoveNotSTDs Relax nerd I just asked you a question

@@Prosthetics555 okay so living under a rock it is ✅

@@SpreadTheLoveNotSTDs Are you that low IQ you get mad at me asking you why it was such a great year for gaming?

I think the magic combat is really fun and there are creative ways you can defeat enemies

combat and traversal was fun enough to keeo me going for hours but my god was the game so dead. I didnt hate the MC as much as alot of people did especailly those on the hate wagon so hard they'd defend 'cuff' but the negative and annoying traits of her character were only broadcasted with how empty the game world was.

The world traversal alone, and how well it flows as you unlock the new parkour moves, is enough to keep it off lists like these.

Everyone who has actually played Forspoken uses the word “fun” to describe it. Everyone who hasn’t uses the word “cringe”.

I find the gameplay appealing. But the main character feels annoying and not charismatic at all, and they did dirty the person they used to model her.

Yep. It was legit embarrassing watching how she interacted with people

She was basically Miles Morales bro

As someone who’s a New Yorker born and raised, this is not how we talk

Isn't she too young to be a millennial?

@@TadRaunch no one (on this thread at least) called her a millenial.

right? i beat it about a month ago and honestly had a decent time for $30 for like 20 hours or however long it was

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I agree. I got it when it came out and want to get it again at some point on sale (I returned it cuz it wasn't worth full price). It's definitely not one of the worst games this year. The gameplay is pretty fun and the story is okay. I hope one day maybe they'll do a game that's what Forspoken was supposed to be (story got changed last minute which is why it's kinda lacking) but I don't regret playing it.

It could have been good though. They had a great thing going with MW2019, trying to install a bit of realism in an arcarde shooter with Clean House. Went away from it with the next one, but not terrible, then they just went full on with throwing any sense of realism out the window (I get it, it's COD not a combat simulator but still) with making it basically warzone. It's hard to suspend disbelief when you've got me stacking SAPI plates and finding killstreak boxes with UAVs and air strikes on standby. It makes no sense and really killed any karma they got back from the original MW reboot.

That's bc the multiplayer is the main focus of the consumer. If people wanted to play more single player, attention would be shifted appropriately to that

It wasn't always that way

I just want something like SOCOM 3 for PS2 but on PS5 i tried cod and saw all that extra special shit and nuh uh, i wanna go fight in a desert and shit

They even managed to f*ck that up. The fact that I paid for MWII and now instead of updating fun mode like shipment under a global CoD banner...They create the exact same mode but only for those that own MWIII and just end up emptying out the lobbies of MWII shipment. Really pathetic if you ask me.

Merry Christmas

Starfield should have been on this list for Forspoken or Pay day

Honestly I loved my time with it, definitely not for everyone, but if you enjoy deadly premonition you’re gonna have a good time.

Agree

Forspoken wasn't even bad imo it is fun. I can see why ppl dont like it but compared to a lot of other games that came out this year definitely isnt nearly as bad. Now im playing through it so I don't know everything about it yet but for the hours I've put in already I've really been enjoying it. And Wanted Dead is a good game too. Kinda reminds me of WET back on the 360/PS3 Era.

Forspoken was half baked, underdeveloped garbage. Basically Hogwarts legacy for people who value their social rep over enjoying a good game

same-i love the game for that reason amongst several others. it’s not perfect and the game seems to be getting hate primarily for that. the fact that it ranks third on a list about worst games-higher than actually broken games, games that are literally unplayable are ranked lower than forspoken-that tells me all i need to know about this video. so much hate from people that haven’t even played the game-it’s not even about the game and the criticisms in this video even prove it-it’s basically a meme to hate on forspoken.

It should have released at $29.99

I got it at GameStop for 17 bucks brand new

@@kevinl6136 For PC?

0 bugs? Nah. Had a few but nothing gamebreaking. Tho it seems some of the newer ones made the game buggier than it was when it had a free weekend lol. Great game tho, also had a lot of fun.

I sort of agree, but it’s also apparent that with bad games, it’s usually only a few people making it bad (like the shareholders) whereas the rest of the developers have to helplessly watch as they’re forced to code a game that they hate and can tell will be hated.

indie devs with a good idea and a tiny budget can make games much more deserving of the goty title than any AAA product, like minecraft (before ms bought mojang) or factorio, but at the same time, if indie games were eligible for the razzies, the AAA studios could always find a game just as bad as theirs, but with a much lower budget (and therefore additional problems). it's not that i don't like the idea, but i think it'd devolve into one part of the industry bashing the other, with very little value.

Yeah this game is fire

The song "Maniac" from the game's OST is goddamn fire, got to know about this game from there.

Very well said. I agree

💯 put them on blast

Would be funny but a waste of resources and time when you take up a slot for devs who actually put in effort to make something worthwhile and want to express their appreciation. Gotta think too that the studio that gets the mail about being nominated and it says “For worst game of the year” they most likely won’t show up.

Like the razzies.

Jeff won't get the sponsors for TGA then because most of these triple A and double A game studios are responsible for these Abominations.The put ads for a crappy mobile game lol they ain't doing anything😂

​@@Sumirevins the hell are you talking about Did you actually watch this video? Most triple a and double aa studios released great games this year or do you call the team behind golum, Kong or the day before triple aaa?

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I think the list is ranked on disappointment based on how hyped it was before launch. We all knew Kong and day before were going to disappoint but having MW3 or payday up there is because people expected more but didn’t get it

I agree, people expect so much from a indy title but they forget it's not a AAA developer like infinity ward (and that they paid half the price of a AAA game)

I bought it for 40 and it was good. There have been games that are really bad. But yes I guess it gets shitted on so much cause many bought it at full price. And yes its not worth that.

​@@schwubmexxYeah got it for cheap don't think it was as bad as people were saying