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

[TheDiceMustRoll]

For me it's probably Fallout 4.

 

[Wunderbar]

Silent Hills cancellation

 

[laclongquan]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

 

[Tehdagah]

Age of Empires IV looking like a remake of Age II

 

[Frank Capicoli]

Waiting years for Bannerlord to release just to have to wait years more for it be finished.

So that 10 years from now maybe the mods will be finished.

 

[Butter]

Warcraft 3 Ref***ed.

 

[JDR13]

Dead Space 3

Also, Rune II. I haven't even played it, but you can just tell it's that bad.

 

[J_C]

Warcraft 3 Ref***ed.

Yeah, probably this for me as well. You expect shittyness from new games, but the fact that Blizzard fucked up one of their most treasured game is mind boggling.

 

[HansDampf]

Sim City 2013

 

[Eirinjas]

EA's Star Wars Battlefront games. The second one was particularly bad.

Edit: Those games were disappointing, but Tyranny made me mad. Fuck that game and everyone who worked on it.

 

[Falksi]

Witcher 3

Seriously, a very lacking game which not only stole the limelight & coin away from far superior games, but also meant a large portion of gamers have been focusing on Cyberwank 2020 since, and that again far better games will be going under the radar.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

The new "RPG renaissance" kickstarted a lot of nuts.

 

[Ol' Willy]

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

 

[NJClaw]

Torment: Tides of Numenera, nothing comes even close. Being a big fan of both Torment and Numenera, I didn't think that "Tides" could ruin everything. I wasted 45€ on that shit.

Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.

 

[Star Citizen]

LOL Still Underworld Ascendant for me my dude. I bought that in good faith. Avoided all spoilers, previews, tech demos or whatever. Like getting raped by my favorite athlete when asking for an autograph.

 

[Semiurge]

Bloodlines 2. Why is the world of darkness so cursed and almost always falls in the hands of lesser developers?

 

[Star Citizen]

Bloodlines 2. Why is the world of darkness so cursed and almost always falls in the hands of lesser developers?

I think the OG was mostly that fluke. A hit and run. Worked where it shouldn't have. Pleased where it shouldn't have too. I don't think that experience is remotely replicable, sadly.

 

[Silverfish]

Trials Rising. Shit progression, lootboxes (that can be earned offline, but only opened online), unnecessary, distracting stuff added to the screen / hud, removal of air tricks / trick maps, a looping soundtrack with an alleged 20+ songs, but where only about half actually play and a tacked-on story about my character "going places" in the Trials world.

 

[DalekFlay]

I think Fallout 4 is better than 3 by a mile, despite its shitty dialog wheel thing, so I can't call it a kick to the nuts.

I think I might say Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda as a double-header. That empty MMO style design for a singleplayer game just depressed me. A lot of open world games had issues with that, even the vaunted Witcher 3, but those two Bioware games were probably the worst examples of it. Even shooters like Rage 2 got in on that bullshit. "MMO design" in general wins my razzie.

 

[rado907]

Diablo 3.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Realms of Arkania HD

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Muh cuhvud killing fightinggame tourneys. Fucking BS.

 

[Twiglard]

Torment: Tides of Numenera, nothing comes even close. Being a big fan of both Torment and Numenera, I didn't think that "Tides" could ruin everything. I wasted 45€ on that shit.

Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.

What's more aggravating is that the EA area was pretty decent. It was the only decent part of the game. That living underground area was sort oh meh, and everything else was shit.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Did someone say nuts?

 

[Skene’s Gland]

Disc storage being rendered obsolete because of 100 gig “day one” patches. Even if you get a GotY Edition or whatever you’ll likely end up downloading gigs an gigs of patches and dlc.