What was the swiftest kick in the nuts (*gaming wise) for this gen? 2013-2020?

[user]

Many kicks in the nuts lately, but F4 takes the cake. After 3 and then Vegas, there I was, waiting for Bethesda to evolve and give their newly acquired FPS-esque fallout the rpg-ness it deserved. Little did I realise of how much of a retard I was for expecting that.

 

[Star Citizen]

I don't get How F4 was a kick in the dick tho LOL. Was pretty clear after Skyrim or Fallout 3 even that Bethesda or whatever couldn't make an endearing game.

 

[Star Citizen]

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Gaming-wise, I haven't taken many kicks to the nuts in that timeframe (most of those came in the years before), but even I flinch a little over Underworld: Ascendant.

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

I quit games in 2012 and resumed playing stuff only in 2019. Thus, my nuts are unharmed.

uh. can we get a "chad' button? DarkUnderlord Infinitron

 

[Alienman]

One that comes to mind was that deterministic spy-xcom game that I have forgotten(suppressed) the name off.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

One that comes to mind was that deterministic spy-xcom game that I have forgotten(suppressed) the name off.

Phantom Doctirne?

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

While I've heard good things about the gameplay itself, (I only played the demo, which doesn't really allow you to get a good feel for the game) Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite was a pretty swift kick in the balls in every other respect. It's a double kick in the balls too as Capcom seems to have the utterly baffling view that that particular style of fighting game can't be done with just Capcom characters, so you could have another situation like MVC2 and MVC3 where there's 11 years between games. There Tatsunoko game did come a few years before MVC3, but that was also partly made as a test from for the already in development MvC3 too.

Other than that, it's kind of hard to say, most stuff that sucks you kind of expect to suck.

 

[Terenty]

No kicks, on the contrary i wallowed in schadenfreude every time a bunch of senile veterans shit the bad with their gifts to humanity.

Kickstarter era was glorious.

Cyberpunk 2077 will be next in line it seems

 

[JDR13]

but even I flinch a little over Underworld: Ascendant.

Damn, how did I forget about that one? Yeah, a massive disappointment would be putting it mildly.

 

[Sam Ecorners]

Cyberpunk 2077

 

[Azdul]

It was pretty great generation overall.

All franchises that could be dumbed down were dumbed down and driven to the ground long time ago. Nowadays no one tries to make "Divinity: Dark Alliance" or "Wasteland: Brotherhood of Steel".

Output from EA / Activision / Ubisoft / Sony was 'consistent' - meaning that the games were obviously terrible from the moment they were announced, so there were no major disappointments.

The minor one was Beamdog not going bankrupt fast enough. Now we need to live in the world where "enhanced editions" exist.

 

[Urthor]

I finished 8 Assassin's Creed games this decade as well as Mass Effect Andromeda, I don't think any mule kicked hard enough to stop my ability to consume junk food video games.

Whilst personally I never booted the thing till 2020, the flight sim/spaceship flying game crew was SO gutted by No Man's Sky. After Elite Dangerous which was extremely promising if flawed the optimism for the genre was HUGE, and they got wrecked.

 

[Ivan]

NumaNuma

 

[Cyberarmy]

I lost my nuts after Gothic 3 so...

?

 

[JarlFrank]

I don't wanna talk about this right now, it's No Nut November

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Imperator.

 

[luj1]

Anything by Bethesda

 

[Thac0]

Final Fantasy XV.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Hard to say. I did want Resident Evil 2 to be like the first remake, meaning true survival horror - not third person Gears of War shit. Maybe that. MGS V being botched hurt pretty bad too.

 

[Snorkack]

I'm pretty good at ignoring upcoming games, and when they are finally out I usually evaluate other people's nuts before jumping in.

In two instances minor kicks were applied to my nuts nevertheless: Might&Magic X Legacy and Grimoire.
MMXL is probably an okay game, but it didn't really feel like a M&M game to me. Tried hard to squeeze out some fun, but ditched it after a couple of hours.
And Grimoire, its praise around here got me hyped up... Started it, crash, crash, crash, managed to run it stable, got into an encounter, enemy barks fired like a machine gun stakkato, yea thanks but I'm too old for dealing with that kind of bullshit.

 

[agris]

Pillars of Eternity - my optimism and enthusiasm for a return to BI's days from OE died on a hill.

It was for the best, hope lies in the future - not looking back.

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

Pillars of Eternity - my optimism and enthusiasm for a return to BI's days from OE died on a hill.

It was for the best, hope lies in the future - not looking back.

I agree!

https://gamerant.com/mass-effect-5-sci-fi-rpg-competition-starfield-outriders/

https://www.gamesradar.com/dragon-age-4-confirmed-release-date-solas-wishlist-news/


Can't wait to finally kill myself from despair.

 

[pakoito]

Street Fighter V for me. I'd been following SFIV for a few years, watching most tournaments, playing on and off, etc. SFV just killed it, cold turkey. The game run like dogshit, the netcode was bad, and even on locals the game felt...bland. Joyless. And watching it was even worse. It destroyed a good chunk of the scene overnight.

 

[Sjukob]

After experiencing Divinity: Original Sin 2 I'm never going to play anything related to Larian, not even the games they've made before DOS series.