Right? It almost feels like they haven't really playtested their own features. They should be the first group of people to be hyped about their own game, yet I can't believe that they would release some of those titles if they had the opportunity to actually play them.
I’ve always thought that that confusion in Falcon’s voice makes him sound like he’s been drinking. Not like he’s had way to much and is hammered, but has had one to many. Kinda like Bender on Futurama.
You know a game's bad when Falcon barely has anything to say, I love it. His sarcasm and the way he just goes "ooohh" and then starts chuckling a little bit gets me everytime. Then just out of the blue in a nice and jokingly way calls out Jake is icing on the cake
because he does not play the majority of the games on his list🤣 falcon rides the wave, but I guess he did not get the memo social media likes Forspoken now..... "Ten 2023 games that were disappointing at first"
I was actually interested in Greyhill Incident, because it looked like Signs. The farm house, aliens etc. could have been scary and fun! I don’t mind janky looking horror games either, sometimes janky is good for the horror genre. Shame it’s just so so so bad.
Greyhill like Choo Choo Charles is good if u know what it is beforehand. I very much enjoyed Greyhill. Its a satire and not meant to be taken too seriously.
Yeah falcon is dumb af for putting a game made by one person the “most disappointing games of 2023” I’d love to see him make a game and let’s see how shit it is.
Redfall and Forspoken are probably the worst culprits, because there was actual hype around these games,as opposed to something like gollum which people were calling a stupid idea from the start.
Ngl completely forgot Forspoken came out. Redfall tho, yeah. Sounded super cool. Then we got a half finished, empty open world with AI so dumb they’d legit couldn’t walk around a box and would just run in place 🤦🏻♂️
Forespoken hype was immense because it was first rumored to be the name of the Endwalker expansion (that’s how long ago the tease was). Thus when it was hyped as an independent title, the FFXIV fans were already on board, creating artificial excitement. Toss in the excellent Endwalker and excitement about 16, and Forespoken was being tied in with those sentiments being from SE. however, once we learned SE outsourced this to a small studio, all bets were off. It should be higher on the list, though, if only because the witting of the main protagonist’s character arc was awful. She’s as insufferable as they come.
@@BlakeAustin2011 Was it? If anything, it was crapped on well before it came out by fans and social media warriors, and VG media was very skeptical. Who hyped it "immensely"?
It shouldn't really be in this list though. For a game to be disappointing, it needs to be at least a bit hyped. It needs to have expectations around it, otherwise who does it disappoint ? No one ever asked for a game where you control Gollum during the period of time he was imprisoned in Mordor. Like, how did it get greenlit at all ?
@@dayokii in no particular order: Pikmin, Stalker, Avatar, Starfield, Mario, City Skylines, Alan Wake, Assassin’s Creed, and Spider-Man. There are others too. Lots of great potential!
@@mattk2740 Sad thing is that atleast one of these is probably going to be a dissapointment if none are though this could be one of the greatest years in gaming.
Gollum wasn't disappointing. It looked like a low-budget game made by an inexperienced team, and that's exactly what it turned out to be. I'd say Redfall was the most disappointing because it was made a team that had previously put out very good games. You could say the same for Forspoken, it definitely looked like it had potential with the magic/parkour system and the pedigree behind it.
I think this list was reverse, 10 being the worst. Or wait 10 usually is the worst, now I'm confused. In a top ten list 10 is the worst, so I guess it's true to form.
@@havoc8600 damn chill, im pretty sure the developers themselves dont set the price, they just get told to make a game and they do so, its unfair to pin the price on them
@@tonyt5711 I blame the devs for the games themselves more. Devs used to care about making games in the past, you know. Today it’s Minimal Viable Product and attach a battle pass. I’m not respecting any of those clowns
This was a well needed video. Thank you. Shouldnt downplay a company's lack luster effort or greedy decisions when releasing a game, and expecting great results
Not sure i would put Gollum on this list at all. To be dissappointing there has to be expectations to fail and i am pretty sure most people forgot this thing was even announced. Me and a Friend sure did.....
You have a good point, it would've been different if gollum had any hype or expectations from the start but literally everyone looked at it, called it a bad idea, and moved on, so its absolutely trash launch is no surprise
I agreed with Jake Baldino's take on a separate vid, which is that the idea of an actually well executed Gollum stealth game similar to Thief really isn't all that bad. They just flopped hard making Gollum
Man, learning about Roberta William's return to games this way is a little heartbreaking, not gonna lie... Though as far as I can tell, she was always more of a writer than a game developer. It's a bit of a shame that she didn't try to adapt to the new world of gaming a little more. I guess she's still burnt from King's Quest 8...
Game grumps actually did a really long playthrough/podcast of this with Roberta Williams. The main reason she made the game was to re-release it for older audiences and to act as a more accessible time capsule of what gaming was like for that time period. So saying it's a bad game doesn't really do it justice, but it's easy to say that without the context.
Part of me wishes she was ceo, with a modern veteran game designer/director under her. But then we probably would have gotten a modern game that paid lip service to classic games. It is heartbreaking. If anyone needs me I'll be above the bar.
I highly recommend “Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings” by Ken Williams (Roberta’s husband and head of Sierra) to anyone who is interested in the rise and fall of Sierra Online.
That's funny, before i watched this i was watching an interview with Ken and Roberta cause i was suddenly feeling like watching something about the good old times. Infogrames is next
I'll still argue it's been a great year for gaming so far with greats like Dead Space, Hi Fi Rush, RE4make, W40k Boltgun, Amnesia the Bunker, Zelda, and FF16
This year is easily one of the biggest years for gaming in a long time, the fact we will get Hollow knight Silksong, TOTK , Starfield, RE4 Remake and FFXVI all in one year is incredible
The reason for so many games like this is because people are focusing too much on looks instead of focusing on gameplay and making it look good after. Story and mechanics are 90% of a game.
Yep, the concern of hyper-realism and everything looking life like really hurts a lot of games, ifs possible to have a solid looking game and have great mechanics and story but you can tell when devs/companies have a major imbalance
@@jujuchonkit took him to complete the "first area" not the end ire game. I've beaten it and it took me 30 to 4o hrs. Of course it's a open world so it depends on how much side quest, explorring you do.
@@bronzin1445I mean yea? It could have been something really cool and different, they just fumbled it so hard it’s almost hard to believe until you see it
When we saw the first look at Redfall, I knew something was wrong, I hoped it would be delayed again, but after hearing about development, I don't think it would've been saved with more time.
Honestly forspoken still looks fun to me even in all the clips you're complaining about. I bought it and haven't played it, but I really don't think it looks like a bad game. At the very least it looks fun. Which is kind of the most important part man.
Yeah give it a shot. I played it at release and it was frustrating seeing the game get bandwagoned. I had a blast during my playthrough. The combat and movement is a lot of fun. I didn't feel like I HAD to do all the world map things, but they were there if I was making my way to some other point of interest. All in all it's a fun game, not game of the year, or a 10/10 or anything, but I don't regret playing through the entire story.
Is wanted dead really as bad as people say.. reminds me of Dreamcast sega games dialog tbh, also I want a good hack and slash .. I don’t care about the story. Honestly Ninja Gaiden no one cared about the story.. and the games mechanics look the exact same as Ninja Gaiden.. I’m so tired of slow paced “souls like” games 🤦🏾♂️. Any recommendations out there besides god of war games
Bro, wtf!? My friends mom used to play Phantasma Goria when I was a kid and we used to sneak in to watch the cutscenes. That sh*t gave me nightmares for real, never thought I would hear that games name again.
As someone who platted Forspoken, I have to say they absolutely nailed the magic combat. Starts off slow but once you get all the abilities, combat is a blast.
I’m assuming that the rest of it makes it bad I’ve never seen so many people shit on a game that looks not that bad especially considering that I feel like cyberpunk got way more Grace
It's definitely going to be a cult hit. It seems like some people really really couldn't get on with it. While those who did loved it. It feels like in ten years they'll be people singing it's praises still and calling it an overlooked gem.
@medes5597 No way this is happening 😂😂😂. Let me put it this way. The combat is neither new nor improved from games we've seen before. It has elements from inFamous series and not even good visuals. The world feels empty af and there are little things to do. That's no gem. I believe the original poster hasn't played many games and it was her first encounter with that type of over the shoulder shooter.
Dishonored 2 really really impressed me. It was the first game I spent over 50 hours on. I play a lot of games but give up in the first 15-20 hours. I am on the 2nd last level. This is why Redfall disappointed me.
Redfall was in a REALLY REALLY troubled development phase to the point where the devs wanted Microsoft to cancel the game but Microsoft was like nah we going through with this
None of what you are saying is true. Microsoft has a hands off approach to all studios so they allowed Bethesda to release the game you goofball. You clearly don't understand how companies work
@@gabrielraspatelly Lemme know how all those bugs, crashes, poor sales, and boring ass interactive movies disguised as games been going for you greaseball lol cope
I think we're seeing the effects of the pandemic interruptions in combination with the insane push by AAA game companies to build GaaS products. AAA games are more about monetization than they are entertainment.
In the case of Redfall upper management made Arkane "chase trends" as there other games hadn't sold as well. Which made them develop a COOP shooter with very little experience in the area. Just wish whoever calls the shots just let them make good games instead of trying to make money as the Dishonoured series is phenomenal.
A few of these ones hurt ngl, that's why now more than ever we need to have moderate expectations when it comes to new games that come out, no matter how good a game studio is or how promising a game looks it's always a possibility it'll turn out awful
To your point, we shouldn't overhype games, rather give it some time and make an informed decision before spending money on it. Pre orders are a big time Nope for gaming now.
if it was me three years ago i wouldve pre ordered hogwarts as well, but this time i waited to find out the combat is massively disappointing and not for me, saved i think 70 bucks?
@@SuryaGupta-te7fq I don't get the hype around Hogwarts. Played it, tried hard to get into it but the longer I played the more boring it got. It might be that I'm from a pre-Harry Potter generation and never read the books or watched the movies because everyone I know from my generation who played it felt the same. At least now I know that the Harry Potter universe is just not something I'm interested in.
I feel like people don't really know how to play that game. The difficulty and checkpoint system is probably supposed to be more like old Japanese arcady games like ninja gaiden. The Katana does do more damage than the guns but the guns are there to be just used to take out more annoying enemies from a far and if you aim for the head they go down pretty quickly. You are mostly supposed to get upclose and personal and use your katana and the hand gun mostly. Once you get the combat down, it is pretty easy. Only problem I can say is that it's a little too short.
Tbf the gollum game would be the same idea when you put the next elderscrolls in the cat territory. Their was simply no way possible that it could work.
When a major developer starts dropping flubs, I genuinely wonder what their priorities to gamers are and if those priorities have changed. I think it's all too easy to get sucked into profit over product, and it's equally detrimental. I'm glad none of these are on my current PC list.
I was absolutely shook for a moment there when you mentioned Roberta Williams, because that name is associated with someone very different in Australia 😂
Totk, ff16. There you go. Oh and Jedi survivor, Lego race, bramble the mountain king, annnd I don't agree on it but dead island 2. (I may have missed some games that are good but I don't remember.)
I wouldn't call Gollum disappointing. For something to be disappointing you have to expect something good and I dont think anyone expected this game to good.
Yeah it's true even if they've put more effort it's hard to make a good game with Gollum as the main character. When I read Lord of the Rings, Gollum is one of the characters I don't care much about, so hardly any game would impress me at all. I would prefer Tom Bombadil any day.... at least it would have been more entertaining also because almost nothing is known about him they could have made a very interesting game to that character.
You just make a little mistake. The Arkane who did redfall are actually Arkane Austin, the Arkane who did Dishonored/deathloop/prey are the french studio Arkane founded in the city of Lyon. Both belong to bethesda but Arkane Austin is just a secondary studio. 😉
I remember them hyping the ps5 up with Forspokan, and I thought I was going to buy it. After the demo I thought I’d wait and thankfully saved some money
Me personally, because I’ve finished/played every other game I’ve wanted and am now waiting for the next one😂 I actually enjoyed Forspoken besides the extremely frequent, annoying and cringe dialogue anyway😂
@@MrWar2050 Or we're going to get another Fallout 76-esque disasterpiece, which is equally likely. Seems unlikely it'll fall anywhere in the middle, it's either going to be hot garbage or phenomenal.
Unpopular opinion: I actually really liked Forspoken. I liked the story and I was bummed that it got bad reviews so probably won't be getting a sequel or dlc.
I agree. It was more fun than people gave it credit for. It got bandwagoned pretty hard, but the game itself was a blast and is one of the games I actually completed this year before moving on to another one.
I'm 39, so I'm taking a break, but I love gameranx so much, that I'm literally just here to listen to the guy talk because it reminds me of simpler times..
I love how everytime I see forspoken gameplay it’s from the first hour of gameplay lol nobody cared to go further and see how good the combat and world is
I don’t think Gollum was disappointing because no one asked for it. I remember seeing the first trailer and people were like “Who thought this was a good idea?”. It looked bad even from the trailers. How it managed to even sell one copy for $70 is actually impressive.
Not really? The only moments i noticed it they seemed thematically in the right place (Not going to spoil it) but the end of the demo is a good example
I disagree, excluding the demo and that one guy who screams fuck like 15 times, there's been very few times where a character used the word, and when they do it feels genuinely impactful
Some games really get you from the start and I wish there where more like that. I hope that future games don’t have parts where you don’t like or are famous for that bad part
You seem to know what you're talking about. Care to mention some good zombie games for PC like that ? I've already played dying light & dead Island & I'm not into TLOU & the walking dead. Any other suggestions ? I'd appreciate it.
I'm sure Final Fantasy XVI will be in the latter end of the year video. It broke my heart! For a game to be released in 2023, just off the back on Final Fantasy VII Remake, it's criminal 😮
The minecraft legends one suprised me a little bit. Haven't played it myself but i've only heard positive things about it. The entire point is about pathing issues, showing the most crooked and badly constructed bridge ever tho :D
I was digging through the comments to see if anyone else said it. That bridge was garbage lol. It barely touched the upper level and mostly just guided the units to their doom. The fact that some of them made it up there is impressive.
I would argue that Crime Boss: Rockay City Has a lot of potential to be fantastic. The core of the game is a turf war and you run heists to make money to run your turf war. The thing that makes Crime Boss disappointing to me as someone who actually likes the game, is that the turf wars get overwhelmingly difficult. The controls are a bit janky on PC as well. That aside the game is actually fairly decent to be honest and the big name actors make it fun on another level.
I could be mistaken, and if so, own up to it in advance. But, in defense of Greyhill Incident, it's no so much that the aliens look cheap, but, I believe the game is an homage to UFO paranoia in the '80s-2000s, and, this is quite honestly the alien everyone back then expected to find... The Grays. If seen through the light of homage, this game is actually pretty spot on, even if a bit spoofy at times, to how people were, and what they expected.
Forespoken should've been given way more time. It looked like one of those games that could really show off the capability of next gen gaming, but it ended up not even being a finished product.
I had a lot of fun playing Forspoken. It's a perfectly okay game and there was nothing else really going on at the time. The movement and magic were great. Like I wish another game would adopt the magic system and push it further with a stronger narrative. There's a great game that could rise out of Forspoken's ashes, I'm sure of it. I'd give the game a 6.5/10 probably. It wasn't too long to beat and was fun while I played, so mission accomplished.
@2:51 says magical parkour misses the mark, but shows really cool gameplay of magic parkour lol - @3:22 says the combat is less spectacular when fighting normal enemies, but shows cool movesets and destroying enemies with some badass magical attack XD. I guess Forspoken is something I have to play to understand, because it's looking good in my opinion.
Was Forspoken really disappointing? The biggest problem with Forspoken was the price tag and the hate wagon every1 jumped on rightly so but overall it was a generally good game a standard open world game to be precise with a "new" combat idea! And Wanted: Dead well i would say literalyl ONLY the price tag was the problem there would it have cost around 30€ it wouldnt had flopped that hard i guess but 60€ for such a janky combat and rly short game is unacceptable
He and the rest of the crew are all perfectly suited for what they have been doing for years which is why they are the best channel for video game info IMO
I loved Wanted Dead...one of my games of the year for sure. It was straight up fun and knew when to leave my system. Way to many games these days are way too long in my opinion.
Gollum wasn't disappointing for me cause I expected it to be bad. There was no way they could make a good game out of that story. Any other character would have been fine. A Legolas game would have sold like crazy. Stealth archery turns into badass archery turns into blades. Sick.
The saddest thing about redfall isn’t the game, it’s the fact that it made the people who made Dishonored LEAVE the studio. So they’ll never be the same studio again.
Forspoken is actually decent and I understand most of the criticism but it is not as bad as people called it out to be and the banter between the main character and her Cuff was not as annoying as people called it as I played Ocarina of Time when it launched and it's far from Navi levels of annoying. Story does take too long to pick-up and the combat and traversal needed a bit more polish and the writing and character portrayals is mid at best it's a decent game but not 70$ worth if you paid 30$ or less it is definitely worth it.
@@AnimeCatDad I agree. Like it's not the best thing ever but it isn't the worst either. I ended up returning it after I finished it because it wasn't worth full price to me, but I would definitely buy it on sale again in the future. The story was good for awhile (even if Frey made me roll my eyes quite often with her attitude) but kinda falls flat towards the end but I get that because apparently the writers were forced to re-write the story last minute. So ya know, for having to rewrite it quickly last minute it's passable.
I love the fact that in the Gollum devs "apologize post" they even misspell it. "The Lord of Ring: Gollum"? thought it was The Lord of The RIngs: Gollum"
I could see how Forspoken might be disappointing, but it's an ok game. The visuals are nice, the environments are fairly varied and each one has monsters and enemies unique to them. Sadly, it looks like they only played the first two areas which were plains and a desert, but there are other areas to the game and other abilities.
As someone who played this and platnium’d it,combat and traversal is a learning curve. I played it on max difficulty with manual spell changing. ( NO SLOW TIME OR STOP TIME ) It FLOWS so well!😏 ( See what I did there? Ehhh 😏 ) Love it!!! You’ll either love it or hate it. Turn up the difficulty and give it another shot. That’s my advice. 💜👍🏻
Out of all this junk, the Last Case of Benedict Fox seems to be the best of a bad bunch. It is a great looking game with a big map. If the devs release enough patches and fix the issues to an extent, I may try it out. Steam review score will rise if the game becomes better, so gotta wait and see.
@paulbuck4947I absolutely agree it fully deserves a Sequel! It would be the perfect time to release a next gen update, if any game is begging for it it's Alien Isolation. It's still my favorite survival/horror and remains in my top ten favorite games.
@@johnwrath3612The sad thing is that it has sold well at this point in time, it just took a long time for people to realize the idiot who wrote that IGN review was a COD fanboy who had no business reviewing survival horror games. So.. kind of a too little too late situation.
The thing with LOTR: Gollum is that it's Daedalic's first 3D game. They made only 2D game until now, which are awesome and fun, like Harvey's New Eyes. I just think that it was too ambitious for them. Hopefully, they learn a lot from it and in the future can pump out some cool 3D games as well.
@@RyanS406 I won't excuse anything they did. Daedelic should absolutely have known better. It's just an explanation on why it ended how it ended because I don't think that many people know this.
I didn't buy Forspoken because not a fan of open world games, but for me the demo before patches was better than the action rpg's of the first half of 2022. I would buy Forspoken over 2022's GotY, I found the demo to be far more enjoyable.
Elden ring blows foreskin out of the water. It's not even comparable. You can like forspoken, that's fine. But it can never stand next to elden ring sorry.
I feel bad for Gollum. Daedalic Entertainment has made some of the very best modern point and click adventures, but with Gollum they had to go into a realm of different game genre, since point and clicks dont sell currently anymore. And they failed, and now probably go bankrupt and more of their forte from their, their well written and beautiful point and click games.
I really enjoyed Forspoken. The story is decent, combat was fun. Could have had more costume options, but other than that, I thought it was pretty good.
Story is so bland and the world is just empty and dead, idk, maybe just make it not an open world bur section wise like dead island or GoW, then maybe it’ll be okay. But the story is just so boring, not really leave any impression at all
@@hieumongous2908 The story is literally about a homeless girl from new york who finds a gold cuff that teleports her to a magical word ruled by powerful sorcerers and the world is on the brink of destruction… how is that bland?? also the world is no where near empty there is something to do in every section you go to and plus the world has unique land formations and beautiful weird skies not to mention that the magic is actually fun to play with. did we play the same game?
Wamted Dead is a Game of the Year contender for me. It reminds me of the ps2/ ps3 days and how games were more fun and experimental unlike todays games which tries to focus on cinematics and story with bland gameplay and calling it 9/10... The vibes and atmosphere is something I haven't felt in a long time...
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