I don’t argue with you @schurem, my wife is an absolute cyberpunk-holic.
I REALLY tried with the witcher 3, i gave red dead 2 a fair chance. I really played cyberpunk, i almost enjoyed it. But i really think that possibly I can’t deal with “talkies” any more. I just find it interminably boring listening now. Its like a part of me broke
The other thing was the hit counter markings, they really irritated me the first time i tried 2077, @Harry_Bumcrack told me you could turn it off. That, admittedly made it much better. But the driving is so absolutely shite that i couldn’t hack it.
EA Sports WRC was a huge disappointment for me. I couldn’t get it to work and had zero help from the official forum. Total waste of time and money. And I enjoy the genre otherwise.
Can’t leave this alone - Red Dead Redemption 2 is my all time favourite game.
WRC is a weird one for me. I did get it to work, and enjoyed it to a certain degree, but wanted to wait with investing more time into it until the microstutters would be fixed.
…and then EA pulled Linux support, which disgusted me and I stopped playing (despite still being on windows at that time).
Ohhh, I’d forgotten that. Even thought I thought the dialogue was cheesier than a cheddar factory I actually stopped because I got sidetracked by Baldur’s Gate 3, and never got back to it.
I might have to pick it up again and see how I go - jury is still out on this one, but the verdict isn’t looking good.
For me, there are several games that fit the bill, but I’ll try to limit my list to the ones I found most disappointing.
Mass Effect: Andromeda - I loved the ME trilogy and had high expectations for Andromeda. I should’ve listened to the reviews… Where do I start about all that was wrong with Andromeda? It had more bugs than Starship Troopers. The animations were tough to look at. The characters did not grab my attention. There were enough issues that made the game frustrating. I installed and uninstalled it more times than I care to admit. Those who loved it defended it with some zeal. Good for them.
Anthem - I loved the idea, but I felt like the game did not live up to the hype. The experience was like watching a kick-ass trailer only to be let down by the actual movie.
Battlefield: Hardline - WTH!?! It felt like watching a bad cop movie while dining on stale pizza and Pepsi on a lonely Saturday night.
Corruption 2029 - I enjoyed the stealth and squad-based sci-fi combat but the game felt like watching a movie with recycled footage. The difficulty increased exponentially, while missions became repetitive both in structure and with the maps.
Callisto Protocol - reminded me of Dead Space, but the game felt like a shallow clone. The combat was frustrating and it quickly became repetitive.
Batman: Arkham Knight - I loved the Arkham series and had high hopes for Arkham Knight. It started out as fun, then came the Batmobile sequences. Game over for me. The feeling of driving on rails and quick time dodges turned me off.
You’re not alone. Space games are kind of my thing. TIE Fighter is in my top five games of all time.
Squadrons is one of my biggest disappointments in all of gaming. They tried to make a first-person shooter into a space dogfghter and failed miserably.
