Most Disappointing Games of the Generation

to your point about not being a great setting for an open world game, whilst i agree on paper, i never considered the game open world, at least not in the same way as something like falllout 4 or gta is open world.

it was a sandbox, allowing you to approach a mission area from whichever direction you felt tactically most suitable. sure, there were missions in which you were required to travel but it was all very linear and at no point, to my recollection, did the game expect or rely upon you to explore.

i agree that there was a lot of repetitiveness and a lack of diverse mission areas in the name of staying "true to life." i'm with you on that front, and particularly considering the long length of the game, it suffered overall as a result. compare to the sandbox levels of dishonored, particularly d2, and they're worlds apart. obviously, despite both being stealth games, there's quite a few fundamental differences in style between dishonored and mgs but it's a shame the game wasn't more balanced in that regard

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I'm not saying I don't like Pokemon. Pokemon Diamond for the DS is what largely got me into gaming to begin with, but I just think that the recent entries have been subpar and a lifeless-looking remake of Yellow won't help anything.

@toonlonk: "lifeless remake" fully agree.

Got into the series with X then Sun and I like the competitive play online aspect. The newer main entries have a lot more depth than they had in the older games and I appreciate that.

Let's Go however is essentially a Pokémon Go sequel for Switch.

It's hard to say really. Out of all the games I played this gen and I see everyone mention some of the games I played already, I wasn't disappointed in anyways really. But however, I can somewhat say if there was "one" game that left me disappointed it's Dragon Age: Inquisition! Now I personally didn't hate the game, I just felt like it wasn't nowhere near as good as Dragon Age: Origin, I couldn't finish the game at all.

Guess I'll say Dragon Age: Inquisition is the only game left me disappointed so far cause this generation isn't over yet.

I know this is an unpopular opinion but my biggest let down was god of war. GOW is one of my all time favorite series and I was super excited for the new game. I never buy games day one, but I did buy this and it is just a major letdown. I am only a few hours in but so far it is just dull, I have not officially given up on it(although it has been a few months since I played it), I will give it another chance at some point but the game has not hooked me at all.

The odd thing is I do enjoy the setting, I think the idea of doing norse gods is a really good one, I even like kratos personality and his interactions with his son, but I just cannot get into the gameplay at all. I really want to like the game too, maybe I will eventually get into it and really enjoy it but for now it is definitely the biggest letdown of this gen for me.

You was disappointed by that? I haven't played it, but a Metal Gear survival game set in an alien world doesn't sound right to me. It must be pretty bad if you were disappointed by it. Glad I didn't buy it.

@heljar75: It's really not a bad survival game, the main problem is that people thought that it's going to be similar to the main MGS games.

@dorog1995: Then they should read more about the game. I read one article and knew that this wouldn't be a typical MGS-game.

ghost sniper and the Call of Duty games

Fortnite

Can't be disappointed by a game you did not expect to be any good in the first place. So most were exactly what I expected from them.

So far I've only been pleasantly surprised by DX: Mankind Divided.

Spider-Man PS4 is the biggest disappointed game in this generation

is it disappointed in your weird obsession over it?

I'm guessing it's the over-the-shoulder camera; doesn't help any slasher. It was clearly done to give the game a more cinematic view point, at the cost of fluid gameplay. It works great for TPS but for an Action Slasher it breaks the structure of the game. And the indicators added near the end of development shows they knew it was a bad overall choice_

While everyone got excited for a NG+ mode, I just want a classic camera mode.

Also wasn't personally a fan of throw axes or gather orb puzzles. Very repetitive and lacked the puzzle variety we see in most GoW games. Add to that masking the Fire Troll throughout the game was overly repetitive even for GoW standards.

With that, compared to Ascension. GoW(IV) gets mostly my praise for what it gets right. But it certainly gets a lot wrong as well. .

I see a lot of people are just naming bad games. When I think disappointing I think of a game that I had sky high expectations for that just weren't met but it wasn't necessarily a bad game. In fact I still really enjoyed it overall. That game was Arkham Knight. The Batmobile although it was an awesome edition was used to much in puzzles. There was also a surprising lack of boss battles which are a necessity in superheroes games. Overall I really enjoyed it but I was expecting it to be TW3, GoW level great and it just wasn't there.

Mass Effect: Andromeda, and it's not even close.

I never played God of War(PS4) and I never planned to. What I heard about other people on the game they are disappointed with Santa Monica Studio had removed sex and nudity(most likely to appeal feminist and/or SJW crowd) and major overhaul to its core gameplay from fast, over-the-top hack-and slash action similar to Devil May Cry and Bayonetta series into a slower, Last of Us-eque gameplay. While far from disappointing but it just don't deserve most of its praise.

Not really a disappointment but I don't like to see how the development of Phantom Brigade turned out right now. In late August its studio, Tetragon Works was bought and merged with Brace Yourself Games(Crypt of the NecroDancer) after hanged in limbo for more than a year. At first glance the merging looks good as the project got more resources and manpower but I'm afraid that the developers could remove most of its strategy elements which have been removed in order to cater much bigger crowd.

@sonyfan03: Who's alt are you?

Speak for yourself. I was very, very disappointed with the likes of Little Big Planet 3.