10 Most Disappointing Games of 2024, Ranked

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tl;dr

  Broken roads.
  Deathbound.
  Open roads.
  Star wars outlaws.
  South Park: snow day.
  Funko fusion.
  Left horizon adventures.
  Alone in the dark.
  Skull and bones.
  Concord.

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  • De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a strange list, after all you gotta have expectations to be disappointed. Half the titles on here already flopped with their announcement.

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  • Intergalactic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I actually liked Outlaws tbh

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    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look at it this way, Disappointing =/= Bad. One of my biggest disappointments is Metal Gear Solid V and I love that game, but I know that my expectations were not met.

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t played Outlaws yet but putting anything on the same list as Concord seems a little harsh

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll play it when it’s $10 and when there’s mods to fix the absolutely fugly character models

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t believe they would have the audacity to put the world’s only AAAA game on a bad game list.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The AAAAudacity!!!

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• egrets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  [Funko Fusion] game feels like an off-brand LEGO game in all the worst ways

  I have a significant (possibly controversial) bias here because I’ve never understood the appeal of model collecting in general, and of dead-eyed, amorphous Funko Pops in particular, but I am shocked that a cash-grab on the back of emotionless, artistically-bereft figurines wasn’t a smash hit.

  Well, not that shocked.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was quite satisfied with Alone in the Dark. It could have used some polish, but it was delivering more Resident Evil 1 style gameplay in a way that even the Resident Evil series refuses to do.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m more curious if there were any AAA games that didn’t disappoint this year.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t call Factorio AAA, but with their ever increasing price tag, Space Age certainly feels like one of the best made “AAA” Games of the year.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the line between AAA and Indy games is kinda blurred at this point. Especially because quality has split into production quality and gameplay quality and higher production quality seems to be getting more accessible to smaller dev teams.

      Like I’ve been playing Enshrouded and have been enjoying it. It’s a large game (like I think the map is comparable to a WoW continent with fewer total regions but each region is larger… I think it’s a bit bigger than breath of the wild) but I have no idea if it would fall into the AAA box or not. Nothing about the game screams “Indy” or “small development team” other than the game being (IMO) really well done and not feeling like a product of a ??? step between “start making game” and “profit” like so many AAA games have felt like with all their season passes and MTX.

      Ultimately, “good game” vs “bad game” is more important than “AAA” vs “Indy” (or whatever other categories), which is why I first asked about it. My bias has gotten to the point where I’ll ignore a lot of the games that look like they are AAA games tuned for engagement and profit rather than necessarily being fun, but I could be missing out.

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  • Valencia@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought dragons dogma 2 was pretty fun. It had its issues but I don’t regret buying it

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    • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think Dragon’s Dogma 2 is great for newcomers to the series, but I can understand if a fan of the original was disappointed that it’s basically just the first game again.

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