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Most disappointing game(s) of 2021?
| All of them?
Like, even indies are becoming more and more disappointing, so generic, so "I'm like this other popular game, but at the same time I try to be something different and I end up not being anything I want neither my marketing is saying I am!"
The only good new things about 2021 gaming is the annoucement of dlcs or updates of older games.
| Not Elona
| $50000 of disappointing games.
| Huh. Apparently I haven't played a lot of games lately.
The most disappointing one for me is Heaven's Vault (the Switch version was released this year so it counts). It's just too slow and disordered. The bad UI really hurts it.
Boyfriend Dungeon isn't as good as I expected, but it's fine, my expectation was just too high.
Only new bigish-budget game I played this year was Persona 5 Strikers (which was amazing) and The Great Ace Attorney (also amazing).
| >>800823
Yea, I found Tales of Arise pretty disappointing. Someone playing a game like it for the first time might enjoy it though
Humankind is pretty disappointing for me, didn't really seem like it did anything better than the articles claimed it did, but journalists are liars anyways.
| >>800926 "Good thing" - "dlc"
Please stop playing. You are part of the reason why video games are all becoming shit.
| Make a thread like this in January, please. I still have games yet to be seen.
| >>801010 Arise wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. Started off fine as an RPG, dipped in quality whenever I fought a damage sponge boss (all of them), then it took a nose dive during the info dumps and Final dungeon.
| There have been a pretty low number of interesting/hyped up games out at all that could even have been disappointing.
| last of earth 2
| >>801315
Why wouldn't I want more of the game I like? Sure, there are some scummy DLC practices, okay, but there also are legit expansions that back in the day would've been probably sold as standalone add-ons, or better yet, as an "upgraded" version of the base game, and sold for the price of a brand new game (or more).
| >>801315 DLCs can be either purchased or free, the later means developers dedicated their precious time knowing they may not get any profit but still make it for those who already play the game.
About paid DLC, what >>b1e9bf said, adding this:
Everyone knows few people buy DLCs compared to the main game. DLC is just there for those who want it, is not mandatory and you can totally play games without their DLC, even the games themselves don't advertise these DLC expansions.
| So no, DLC's are not ruining the videogame industry, that mentallity has been around since 2010s and still, DLCs haven't change a thing in the quality of the industry. Neither microtransactions, there are games that have them and there are games that don't have them. MMOrpgs already had them since the 2000s. Nothing has changed but the amount of both games with DLC, games with microtransactions and games without any of them.
| Look at No Man's Sky. It was a sign of a bad case of the industry? yes, did it get Free DLC? Yes. Did it get any better and the game is now considered good? Yeah.
Is the industry shit because of that? No, it's an example of a mistake that got and keeps getting fixed. Thanks to DLCs.
Imagine if Superman 64 got the chance to get updates, maybe the game would have transformed into something better, but as there were no DLCs... the game is shit, without DLCs.
| >>801432 You buy a full game. Then surprise, turns out it's not the full game anymore.
A price increase accompanying a free update is the proper way to go, but money is more important than respect. And if the DLC is free, then makig it a DLC only encourages Steam's toxic DRM policy.
DLCs are either ripoffs, or unnecessary and replaceable by normal updates. And people like you don't even see the problem.
And if you didn't see the quality change DLCs create, there's a big problem.
| DLC is fine it's AAA publishers that are the problem, plenty of smaller devs finish the game then release large DLC packs later, not features they held back
| >>801496
I buy a full game. And unless it's content that has been ready before release and held back (i.e. the scummy DLC practices I mentioned), it's gonna stay the full game forever. DLC is extra content that costs extra money to make and, consequently, costs extra money to purchase. Assuming you are entitled to free major content updates forever after buying the base game is ridiculous, you already got what you paid for once.
Just like >>d6be2a said, blame shitty publishers.
| >>801356 THIS pretty much.
Arise's enemies are basically terribly designed. They're just damage sponges and have nothing to bring to the table. Then the infodump before the final area was just horrible. Not to mention, it has some of the worst min-maxing system I've seen in a RPG (the accessories). Literally the worst RPG i've played since the pandemic started.
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| Name them.
For me:
Monster Hunter Rise - the shortest MH game I've played, literally nothing to do after the final boss except shitty event quests that give you nothing. Also way too easy for a MH game.
Tales of Arise - non-sense story with horrid exposition, lacking any innovation in gameplay compared to the older ones.
Kena - the nice graphics is the only thing it has going on for it. Mediocre puzzles and unoriginal gameplay, yawn.