Any games disappoint you in 2022?

@niikitsu5173

Жыл бұрын

Nekopara 4 just didn't live up to the others for me. Unsure if that was 21 or 22 tho

@ToadTimewiiu

Жыл бұрын

Security breach not the 100% just it released broken

@dennisvillamor2806

Жыл бұрын

Nintendo Switch Sports

@REfan2002

Жыл бұрын

The Callisto Protocol

@DragonHeart613

Жыл бұрын

Mario Strikers Battle League & Calisto Protocol were very disappointing.

I like the focus on disappointing games. I think it's a good thing to call out when a company makes a game that is fine or even good, but is still disappointing

@abadenoughdude300

Жыл бұрын

That's a blurred line to walk on though, because that applies both to devs and publishers overhyping their games and to players overhyping themselves and expecting who knows what from games. Unfortunately we live in an age where nuance doesn't exist and if something isn't a 14/10 then it's utter useless 0/10 trash in people's opinion.

@Rountree1985

Жыл бұрын

That usually doesn’t exist on the internet. Things are either perfect or awful, no room for nuance. Fuck the internet.

@clappeddd

Жыл бұрын

Disappointing is entirely personal though? That’s really dumb

@redshift912

Жыл бұрын

@@clappedddany kind of review is a personal opinion

@steelbear2063

Жыл бұрын

@@redshift912 Well kinda, but they like to add "facts", and if that backfires - then they fall back to "it's just my opinion, man" like cowards

Jirard's not mad, he's just disappointed.

@keijijohnson9754

Жыл бұрын

That’s basically what this list should’ve been called instead.

@InnerRise

Жыл бұрын

I was suspicious of this, which is why I clicked to see if he could really do it.

@werc85music

Жыл бұрын

This 😂

@nathanthomson777

Жыл бұрын

@@keijijohnson9754cry

@stack12190

Жыл бұрын

And that somehow makes it worse.😄

Funny thing is Overwatch perfected their Loot box system, It was really good, you could get a loot box just for playing a round for the day. Then they ruined it for a bad battlepass.

@stephenasmithfanfan5971

Жыл бұрын

You know the monetization is bad when people want loot boxes back

@TheDapperDragon

Жыл бұрын

Nah, Lootboxes are always shit, especially when you base your entire game around them The only people who liked that system were people who played nothing but Overwatch, all day, every day. Everyone else would much rather the new system. That being said, the new system with *decent pricing*. 20 USD for a skin you'll never see anyways is insane.

@bobafett4265

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I would really love it if the law stepped in on Monetization where it can can still exist and make some bank to pay for the servers and what not, however the more BS they make them and hilariously unbalanced between paying and playing the more it's treated like a Gambling Product and/or a scam thus either getting shut down or having it age restricted, so that will be fun.

@mrcoldman1515

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDapperDragon my main problem is them locking characters out with the battle pass, and you can't buy skins anymore, you can't really earn money. Also I play more single player games than online.

@paulhemschik4128

Жыл бұрын

The only reason why the lootboxes of Ow1 were good, was because you got enough credits to buy skins anyways

Jirard calling out that being able to buy characters is pay to win is so refreshing. The League of Legends crowd has been pushing the narrative that it's "not P2W and if it was then it would acceptable pay-to-win" for so long that I completely forgot I'm not the only one who sees the issue.

@pixel57

Жыл бұрын

So true ! Champions in League of Legends are so goddamn expensive, literally took me weeks, even months sometimes to get a champion I wanted because of the little amount of points they give you at the end of each game, even with a win and the bonus amount for the first victory of the day, you don't even get 10% of the price of these champions, completely ridiculous ! The first champions were at a very reasonable price but for atleast the last 5 years, pretty much all of the champions that comes out are too expensive and I hate also the fact that whenever there is a sale on the price of a champion, it's always a sale on the currency connected with real money rather than the in-game currency, a real scam.

@sonofahorde5368

Жыл бұрын

Another victory for dota master race

Blizzard. They never fail to disappoint.

@CookyMonzta

Жыл бұрын

Pay no attention to the troll who responded here. As for Blizzard, if they fuck up on _Diablo IV,_ they will have just successfully killed a franchise, all for greed. 👎

@weighedclock9045

Жыл бұрын

What troll ?

@pannnella

10 ай бұрын

@@CookyMonzta was it bad idk i didnt play

@CookyMonzta

10 ай бұрын

@weighedclock9045 There was a troll who left a message here. I assume it has long-since been erased.

Another very disappointing thing with Overwatch 2 is that all of the old skins now cost actual money. Skins that could be earned through either loot boxes or bought with in-game credits that were also earned and not bought. It’s really bad that there are seasonal skins that people tried to earn without paying anything, but now they are unable to earn them at all (the challenges that give coins don’t count because of how long it takes to get enough for even 1 skin)

@Nightsmith_After_Dark

Жыл бұрын

Legit I stopped playing overwatch once I realised it was gonna be a rough go for me to get skins and shit. Only reason I really played that game and I dont enjoy it enough to spend money on it

@aba7968

Жыл бұрын

Ironic how the loot boxes system was infinitely better than this, They should've let the game stay b2p so they could keep it. I guess they thought the game going f2p was a valid excuse to make a battle pass system with p2w skins.

@horacewillis1457

Жыл бұрын

Also the rewards for events are just old overwatch 1 skins

@High_Bread

Жыл бұрын

Blizzard is really trying there best to be more hated then ea and ubisoft. That diablo for mobile was garbage city. I got diablo 2 on the switch. Its fun but i gave up after a while. I wanna be excited for diablo 4 but at this rate itll be a let down

@Diphenhydra

Жыл бұрын

@@horacewillis1457 I haven’t played the “sequel” but i was reading that there’s an event right now where a prize is the winged victory mercy skin. I’m pretty sure that skin came out in summer 2016.

God it really pains me to see the House of the Dead remake here. As a kid those games were a very real bonding experience for me and my Dad. He had sole custody of me but we had a lot of different interests, I liked wrestling, he liked rugby etc. so to find something we both loved was amazing, and on a plus note those games were also my introduction into horror movies too. When the first trailer for the remake came out I showed my dad and we was both hyped for it. Sadly he passed away before the game released, and I’ll be honest it was an emotional time playing the remake first time round because I didn’t have my player 2 with me. On the one hand I will always love the remake because it is a remake of a game I grew up bonding with my dad over, but on the other hand it hurts to see how disappointing it was. It’s bittersweet for me

@KurtRobson

Жыл бұрын

I feel you. No matter how the remake has been received though, you have those special memories and that’s amazing. You never know, there might be a father and son duo bonding over the remake too - a shared experience can occur anywhere in gaming, not everyone is a hard critic

@TheTrueThompson

Жыл бұрын

Mf shares his lifestory in the comment section of a gaming video

@mikekavanagh

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your life story

@davidt3563

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how bad it is with the joy-cons. You would think that right out of the box it would have nearly perfect aim but it takes 30 minutes to configure it. HOW.

@hamzaayaz7482

Жыл бұрын

A beautiful story brother. May one day you also have such a bonding experience with your children.

Man, I feel you on Mario Strikers... I talked my friends into buying it, and not only was it all disappointing, I for some reason assumed we would all be able to play on the same team rather than it only being 2v2...

@jardex2275

Жыл бұрын

It feels like they were so focused on a competitive multiplayer game that they forgot to make a fun party game. It's the exact opposite of Smash Ultimate in that regard.

@LinkDawnbringer

Жыл бұрын

Could you not all be on the same team? I thought that's how my brothers and I played but that was a while back now

@turkeyman631

Жыл бұрын

@@LinkDawnbringer nope, I’m 4 player, it has to be 2v2. We thought we would be able to play the clubs thing with the 4 of us. Was pretty disappointed.

@turkeyman631

Жыл бұрын

@@jardex2275 yeah that’s part of it for me for sure

Blizzard getting two spaces on this list is very appropriate.

Even if one were to theoretically grind for 10+ years to reach maximum rank in Diablo Immortal, the frequent updates, new items and downgrading of existing gems (in order to make way for new gems) means that you actually can never catch up. And even if you spend a ridiculous amount of money achieving maximum stats, they will take that away from you and give you new gems and new items to chase. They want you to spend money on their game forever.

@cybertramon0012

Жыл бұрын

I read an article about a person who spent real money to get to max level (probably to see what happens). It turns out that the multiplayer system locks you to players around your level. So this person found out that because he was so high leveled, he couldn't play with anyone else. So with one hand they encourage you to spend money, and with the other they punish you for spending too much money.

@astonmartin8537

Жыл бұрын

I just play until the end of the story then quit.

@Volvagia1927

Жыл бұрын

@@cybertramon0012 That just makes a gross story even worse.

@sinteleon

Жыл бұрын

Unless they stop updating the game, which is also entirely possible... but then it becomes a race to actually unlock between the time of "stop updating" and "shutdown" :P

Scarlet and Violet just feel completely unfinished which feels especially frustrating because there was no reason for it to come out this soon. Legends Arceus easily could have been the holiday game for that year since bdsp was there for the previous year, they didn't need another generation so soon

@mitchsz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I could forgive if GF was a indie company but they're not so that makes it even worse.

@Hayson898

Жыл бұрын

I agree, The Pokemon Company needs to let Game Freak breath and like not be in crunch mode 24/7.

@xmgaming2444

Жыл бұрын

Plus legends arceus could've ALSO benefitted with some more development time. It's not nearly as much of a mess as SV is but it's far from polished.

@EclipseHighroller

Жыл бұрын

@@Hayson898you do know that Game freak is an owner of the Pokémon company right? They aren’t forcing game freak to do anything

@FeiFongWang

Жыл бұрын

@Hayley Storm lmao this "It's the Pokémon Company's fault!" narrative needs to die as it's completely untrue, the only thing forcing these PokeCeo's is money, plain and simple. Gamefreak just happens to be a horrible developer.

I feel bad for Scarlet and Violet, especially since I took Violet and channeled maximum Jirard for the first time in my life. I Completed, capital C, this game. But I can't imagine any other Nintendo first party title that could get away with having crashed on me over ten times in the course of a complete playthrough. Thankfully auto saves are generous and I'm old school so "save early save often" lives rent-free in my frontal lobes. But every single other thing about the game, technical difficulties aside, is Best in Series. If this game gets all its bugs patched out, it will absolutely be the best one in the franchise for now. The stories, plural, are all spectacular, the 'mons look the best they've ever looked, the new ones are mostly inventive and fun, and all the characters are worth meeting and interacting with. I went. to. school. On purpose!

My biggest disappointment this year is probably the Saints Row reboot. With how bad it turned out I would have rather the studio let the IP lie and try something else instead of making a game that neither captured the charm nor the fun of the old games.

Scarlet and violet were very fun plot wise, like it was a big step up, but my god it runs so badly and crashes so much, tested on my 2 dif switches. Makes it hard to ignore when a 4 fps gibble is stuck in a wall glitching out of existence

@marks9082

Жыл бұрын

they are releasing a huge patch at the end of February

@El_Luisenciado

Жыл бұрын

@@marks9082 so? we shouldn't have waited 3+ months for a version of the game that runs decently. Also, some things, such as the ass-looking textures on the overworld, are not things that will be fixed with a patch.

@marks9082

Жыл бұрын

@@El_Luisenciado I play Pokémon for the story, it was never a franchise known for its graphical prowess. Sure, VS has its problems and ya I understand people’s frustrations, but there’s more to the game than just graphics. Look at Callisto protocol, graphically incredible but it did poorly based on gameplay. To each their own.

@Jzwiz

Жыл бұрын

@@marks9082 they purposely cut the story for Callisto to sell dlc, aka sword and shield. Ive been a pokemon fan from before i even knew what i was playing with and even i wont kid myself about pokemon plots. Besides the mystery dungeon games, black/white, leg arc and sv they have pretty much no plot. Its hurdur bad team stop them meet legendary win elite 4. For one of the biggest companies in the world they get to spend minimal amounts of time on quality content cause they know itll sell anyways.

@marks9082

Жыл бұрын

@@Jzwiz not sure why you even play Pokémon, seems like you hate everything about it to be honest. I’ve been playing since red/blue. Love the franchise and always will. Anyways , have a good day.

All those online MMO with micro transactions can go into the game dumpster bit of hell. What a year.

The thing about Diablo immortal, is that what happened with that game, is exactly what we expected once it was originally announced. It also wasn’t helped by their patronizing question “Do you guys not have phones?” We all knew what was coming with that game.

@DeLePlays

Жыл бұрын

It sucks because I absolutely had a blast. Spent about 20 bucks total and had a great time. Completed the main story and was done with it. Too bad it was so... Greedy. So much hope for Diablo 4. It will make or break them

@no_idea8012

Жыл бұрын

The worst thing is that it got the investors more money than any other Diablo game and it's a highly successful *_business_* .. So yeah, we have no argument power doesn't matter how sh*tty and blatantly abusive the monetization is.. Microtransactions have proven to be the most successful business model in games, for the investors of course..

@abadenoughdude300

Жыл бұрын

@@DeLePlays Abandon all hope. If D:I was a flop then maybe there would be hope for CraptivisionPissard to change their course for D4 but they raked in millions so their strategy is working. No one in the company cares that you had a blast, they care that you spent "about 20 bucks" and their aim will be to make you spend more next time (and when I say MAKE YOU SPEND I mean that literally).

@DeLePlays

Жыл бұрын

@@abadenoughdude300 I mean I've consistently only spent about 20 bucks on games that are "ftp"and had enough content to satisfy the cost vs entertainment vs a full priced game. I'm aware of how predatory it is but I personally never spend more than a full release. Which in my pocketbook is a good thing. They can't MAKE you pay for anything. I don't play games that go that extreme. With DI I was able to finish the whole main story with zero problems. It got hard at the end but that's how games are. And only spending 20 bucks on a full 30 hours of gameplay was great. Predatory, but worth my personal while.

@wareforcoin5780

Жыл бұрын

I do surveys for petty cash, and I actually took a survey gauging interest in a mobile Diablo game. I tried to tell them that it was a bad idea. I even left them a little note at the end how no one was going to like that it was a (necessarily to be a mobile game) mechanically stripped down Diablo. I tried to tell them, but they didn't listen.

you know diablo immortal was a microtransaction cesspool when somebody actually made a simulator that will actually calculate how much you would have to spend to unlock all the best shit

God, I share your opinion so much on Overwatch 2 and Diablo Immortal. I had the EXACT same feelings about the games. I also played Immortal for about 30 hours and was excited for Overwatch 2 but stopped playing. Really deserved spots on the list

@jari2018

Жыл бұрын

Yup Activision drov overwatch 2 in the ground and fired the OW1 main dev in spite - it basicilly really unfunny game now .

iirc diablo immortal is the one where some dude spent like $100k on his character and was complaining that he couldn't find anyone to fight in pvp. crazy how far some people can go with their spending

Out of the entries shown, it is probably a safe bet to say the ones that could likely crawl their way out of the ditch they made for themselves would be Pokemon S/V, and Overwatch 2. With a recent announcement of a "Patch" for Scarlet/Violet and likely more patches to come throughout 2023 (with DLC), the game could probably shape up to what it was supposed to be (performance wise) by the time we get to the anniversary. As for Overwatch 2 (or Overwatch Version 2), Blizzard needs to wise up in both balancing the heroes better, getting the PvE up and running, and most importantly of all: Fix the damn monetization. Their biggest mistake was trying to make the game sound like a sequel when it was really just an upgrade to the next version (and how they screwed up so bad, people were demanding loot boxes to return. And when you have that going on, you know mistakes were made). As for the rest of the entries... Yeah, zero hope. Callisto Protocol could try and do updates, but that won't make the core mechanics any better, Mario Strikers Battle League hasn't done much to win people over since its launch (and will likely end support this year), Babylon's Fall already died, HOTD Remake can only hope to do better for its sequel (if it happens), and no one cares about Diablo Immortal if they aren't a whale. The hope will be Diablo 4 doesn't make the same damning mistakes Immortal did.

Was anybody else besides me absolutely blown away by Sonic Frontiers? It was so good.

@Evanz111

Жыл бұрын

I’m selfishly glad it’s getting bad reviews, because it means I can wait for it to go on a deep sale sometime soon and play what I know will be a surprisingly fun game. I’ve heard so much high praise despite the large negative wave it’s gotten.

@chesspunk489

Жыл бұрын

@@Evanz111 I don't understand the bad reviews at all. It is very close to a perfect game in my opinion. It is also nice being able to play an open world game without needing a guide at all. I own almost every 3d sonic game and it has become my new favorite.

Overwatch 2 is a textbook case of "be careful what you wish for". People started an uproar about loot boxes, so Blizzard decided to capitulate to the community's wishes and got rid of them... only to replace them with a system that's _far_ worse and more predatory than loot boxes could have ever dreamed of being.

@uberculex

Жыл бұрын

This system sucks, don't get me wrong, but loot boxes are still more predatory due to the nature of gambling in them. At least now if you want a skin, you can buy it or get it on the battle pass which is a one time purchase.

@mrflyingace

Жыл бұрын

@@uberculex You could've gotten a skin for free before since you got credits from loot boxes for free. Now you basically have to pay with money if you want ANYTHING besides the few free skins that everyone already gets anyway.

Good video man, hope next year is great for you. Okay, bad game hot take? I am a huge fan of Supermassive Games. Not just Until Dawn but I really enjoy the Dark Picture Anthology too. But I went from being bored with the Quarry, to flat out hating it after a while. I enjoy their games because they make me feel like my decisions matter to the story, and I know that what my decisions can change are actually kind of limited, but they still do a great job of making you think that any decision could change everything. But as I was playing the Quarry I thought "Huh, I did this... but this thing still happened anyways... So did my decision actually do anything?" So I played it a few times because that's what I do with all Supermassive Games to see how different the story can get, and after playing it multiple times making different decisions, I found that this game is the most linear of any of their titles. Almost none of the choices I made actually changed anything in the story, I could fail every quick time event and 95% of them didn't matter, the game will tell you "This character is mad at you," but that never comes up again. As I said, I love Supermassive games because of how many directions their games can go, but after playing this one I felt kind of ripped off.

Ah, a "Not 10 Top" but just a numbered list. That's cool. And yeah, I too rather look for good games, and actively avoid bad games. Still there will be disappointment, and I'm not surprised with what I'm seeing.

Apart from the frequent crashes, I can forgive the graphical issues on Scarlet and Violet. Where I think they really phoned it in was with the world design. It's like they heard reviewers from Sword and Shield calling for an open world game so they mixed up the gyms and other quests in a way that makes the player criss cross across the island, but still keep the preferred order of things, but don't really indicate to the player what that order is. It really seems like a confusing approach for a game that's targeted to kids, particularly when you consider the circular design of the island really lends itself to more guided game progression.

Babylon's Fall hurts. I remember being so insanely hyped for it after the first trailer they showed. The moment I heard it was live service, all of my interest was gone and I'm not surprised it died so fast.

Scarlet/Violet being on this list is outrageous.

Hey man, sorry to hear that your Callisto Protocol video got demonetized; I'm gonna watch it right now. I just heard bad things about the game through the grapevine, but never watched anyone play it yet. You'll be the first; please keep up the great work. I'm one of those old-schoolers from even before Normal boots. "Bears".

I love good games too but a bad games list is fun to watch.

The one I was most disappointed by was Mario Strikers battle league. After such a long hiatus, I thought Nintendo would let Next Level Games make this a massive comeback. But no, they forced them to strip its flesh to bare bones.

@joehayes8795

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the developer could take some of the blame?

@cadendicky1855

Жыл бұрын

@@joehayes8795 no, this is the thing Nintendo does. Nintendo did the same thing with most of its other Mario sports games on the switch. So we cannot blame Next Level games. They were bought directly by Nintendo and they are being forced to do their bidding now.

This is the first video I've watched by you and great job on it! I just wanted to say that your logo in silhouette format really makes me want to play borderlands lol

Personally, Sports Story is very disappointing for me. Golf Story was like a hidden gem. Sports Story was like a “we are about to go bankrupt, ship it out now!” What the hell happened?!

@scottnisbet6455

Жыл бұрын

I started it, got to the bees and it was so buggy I couldn't get any further and haven't picked it back up yet. I'm now more in the mood to play a different type of game but I think I'll try it again when its what I'm looking for. But man, Golf Story was so good, how I could've wished Sport Story was the same.

I think the most disappointing game of 2022 wasnt even a game. It was G4 management. I'm sorry to hear how it affected you, you were the highlight of the network.

@saedt

Жыл бұрын

Why what happened?

@jic1

Жыл бұрын

@@saedt Basically, everything that could have gone wrong with a relaunch of something that was a hit in the early 2000's went wrong.

@bigdumbjosh

Жыл бұрын

@@saedt you missed out on a lot lol

@angrytheclown801

Жыл бұрын

@@saedt We got to watch every stereotype of gaming journalism coalesce into people and host a show together.

I really liked Stranger of Paradise and Valkyrie Elysium, but I felt that with some minor adjustments/ developer choices, they could have been top tier games. I am mindful that game studios may be working to a budget and deadline though

@ryanbauer3680

Жыл бұрын

I was just pissed off at SoP walling of the DLC behind a difficulty mode. I swear, sometimes I think these game makers get off on angering their player bases with ideas like that.

@duncanhenderson7094

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanbauer3680 I agree. I would have played the SOP dlc but got put off by the feedback on its unnecessary high difficulty

Despite the lag issues for Scarlet and Violet I still enjoyed it regardless and the story was the best mainline Pokemon story that we’ve had in a long time.

@Vyse195

Жыл бұрын

That's the thing I don't get, it is really bad performance wise, but why do I enjoy it so much. My favorite Pokemon game in a long time.

@Sachi10007

Жыл бұрын

@@Vyse195 Yeah, it is weird this became my second favorite generation.

@Terranigma23

Жыл бұрын

I mean, If you enjoy the story then I recommand you to play other jrpg who have much more good and deep story than that.

@Sachi10007

Жыл бұрын

@@Terranigma23 Don’t worry, I’ve played JRPGs that have better and deeper stories than this one I’ve played Personas 3, 4, 5, Royal, and I’m currently playing P4G. I’ve played all the Trails of Cold Steel games I’ve bought Trails of Zero and Trails in the Sky just haven’t gotten around to playing them yet. I just meant that for a Pokemon story this is by far the best mainline Pokemon story that we’ve got in awhile thats all.

@Terranigma23

Жыл бұрын

@@Sachi10007 Trails games are so good! Yes I agree that for a Pokemon game it was quite a nice surprise. However, voice acting would have helped a lot to bring more emotion (exemple the scene with the dog pokemon).

I feel like what really didn't help Battle League was the fact it came out after the last gold and tennis games, both of which added quite lengthy single player compaigns to play. Nintendo set a new bar for engaging but wacky sports games, and this just fell short.

i unapologetically love pokémon scarlet/violet. i’m easily 150+ hrs in between completing both games and doing a ton of raids. that being said, the performance (especially two months post-launch) is pretty inexcusable even for me.

@LoponStormbased

Жыл бұрын

"in between completing both games" Aka. They could have handed you a dog turd in a bag on fire and you'd have thanked them. No one who buys AND PLAYS both versions is going to be honest about it's flaws beyond performance.

@digitalmonmon

Жыл бұрын

​@@LoponStormbased Well the games also have a huge amount to offer. The same gameplay as ever (so if you liked it before you'll like it now), great characters, cool Pokemon, and an engaging story. You're allowed to enjoy any number of things about the game, because the game does some things very well. The game isn't perfect, and the performance issues are many, but the game's positives outweigh its negatives in the opinions of many, even if it doesn't excuse those flaws.

@robertnomok9750

Жыл бұрын

man, finaly I see who are those people without dignity and pride. Mindless ships that consume guano year after year.

@digitalmonmon

Жыл бұрын

@@robertnomok9750 We're outright saying that the game has flaws and are acknowledging them. What more do you want, for us to say that 100% is bad in every way and that it has no redeemable qualities? Literally nothing on Earth is all bad or all good.

@robertnomok9750

Жыл бұрын

@@digitalmonmon Not buy them and force nintenso to do better.

One that got overlooked for a number of reasons was GT7. I LOVE racing sims but GT injected f2p levels of manipulative crap into every crevice of that game. Just awful.

Never seen a completionist video this earlier after posting!

What’s funny to me about Diablo immortal is that I’ve played gacha games with healthier monetization practices than that game

Such a fresh outlook compared to every other list of 2022 bad games.

@Evanz111

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I almost didn’t click on this video because every creator has just gone for the easy dunks. This video felt far more fair and objective.

My worst game is the cowabunga collection. I got it home and thought I was going relive my child hood. Those games made me feel like I was wasting my life. I immediately sold it at a game store. That Sheddars revenge blew away all those old beat ‘em ups.

I'm not only disappointed with The Callisto Protocol bad gameplay concepts, but also the mistreatment of Striking Distance devs. 20 people came forward and revealed to not be credited for the contributions to the game, and that really makes me sick. GLEN SCHOFIELD, YOU SHOULD GO TO HELL!!!😡

I remember the first trailer of Babylon's Fall, I was expecting some grand JRPG with an amazing setting, instead we got.. that.

On Calisto Protocol, I feel like these spiritual successors made by people from the original team are usually bad, but people still get hyped for them. I think once problem is that they try to recapture how the old games were rather than doing something new

Dying Light 2 felt really disappointing to me. A character and story I didn’t care about, excruciatingly long NPC cut scenes for main and side quests, frustrating game mechanics when it comes to completion, and the parkour was great when it worked, but beyond frustrating when it didn’t

I will never forgive Nintendo for adding Daisy as DLC in Mario Strikers Battle League.

Honestly my take on Pokémon scarlet is that it's some of the most fun ive had in a Pokémon game, the story is fun and the graphics are mostly fine but the performance is completely unacceptable. I'm not a performance or graphics guy but if a game is crashing multiple times on a system it's designed for then that's bad. It should've gotten another six months to a year.

@riversan90

Жыл бұрын

See, that's the problem I can't get around. I don't believe it was designed for the Switch. Just like with BotW running awful back in the day, it's almost like these games are built to run on a console that Nintendo hasn't released yet. I personally experienced this when I played Age of Calamity on my friends docked Switch. It looked awful and stuttered regularly.

You know, I think I prefer the idea of a disappointing games of the year list, because as you mentioned there are some easy targets everyone has, but disappointing games can be good games that were hyped beyond reason and were just okay, or were pretty good but missed the mark in one vital point. Edit: Adding to the Diablo point, I was a fan of Blizz for the longest time, but after the incident involving Blitzchung I started to back off on some of their games, figuring I'd read reviews carefully and if a game sounded genuinely good I'd buy a preowned copy (at least until leadership gets replaced with something better). Then Reforged happened. Then Immortal happened. Then OW2 happened. I stopped following too closely after Reforged because it was really obvious quality wasn't their priority anymore, but I'm still kinda hoping I might get to enjoy Diablo 4 some day, even if it's a preowned copy if the company's still crap.

Based on the thumbnail, I thought that Lego Brawls was going to be on the list. I guess it didn't quite make the cut, or whatever. I don't know. I haven't really played it, so I can't say if it's any good or not. Anyway, solid list Jirard! Weird how you only made it a top 7 this time. If it wasn't for the "no remakes" rule, you could've easily put Chocobo GP on this list since it was an even more scummy remake of a kart racer than Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fuelled.

*Referring to the #1 Slot Random Audience Guy ~ "Is this an out of season April Fool's joke?" Blizzard Executives ~ (ANGRY GORILLA NOISES)

@browncoatkevin

Жыл бұрын

Do you guys not have phones? That disastrous reveal event should not have been as revelatory about the final product as it was. Inviting Diablo superfans in, hyping them up, and giving them mobile trash over a PC masterpiece.

While I still think Pokemon Scarlet/Violet has great aspects, I'm holding out on playing any further until the performance issues get a patch. It's just too frustrating when I glitch below the ground in like every single Pokemon battle.

@kingrobotnik6950

Жыл бұрын

I chose to hurt myself with Security Breach, but I use it to remind myself how important performance is in a game. I don’t care how super fun your game is, if it runs like trash, I’m not going to play it, atleast not until it’s on sale and fixed…

@sinteleon

Жыл бұрын

I'd note that the game runs somewhat better in handheld mode, but due to selection bias you'll find a lot more videos of glitches because people will be recording from a docked setup instead of handheld. Granted if you also plan to mainly game docked then yes, you might want to wait for them to patch in some stability.

@Evanz111

Жыл бұрын

I kept seeing people say the performance patch was coming in December, but I have no doubt it’s going to take many months before us patient people can actually play the game properly.

@CringeAnimePFP160

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't that already patched? I started playing the game on christmas and the only bugs I see are pokemon getting stuck behind walls.

Ah yes, the Callisto Protocol. The game where everyone lost money on it.

@WH250398

Жыл бұрын

I was at home with Covid and had absolutely nothing to do. I stupidly ordered it day one. Felt like a real kick between the legs at that time specifically. I sold it the same day for 15 euros less.

@BreadCatMarcus

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the hell out of it. It has janky combat....and that's about the only flaw to me. Calling it a massive failure is insane hyperbole.

@InnerRise

Жыл бұрын

@@BreadCatMarcus it isnt a success. It's a fail.

@WH250398

Жыл бұрын

@@BreadCatMarcus That's interesting, because pretty much the entire game is that wonky combat. But hey, great you enjoyed it.

@koolaidman82509

Жыл бұрын

@@BreadCatMarcus dont listen to these haters. They either thought it was gonna be just like dead space 1 and NOT the whole series which is on them or they played on something other than ps5 which sucks for them. The game isnt as bad as people make it seem and I can easily see it becoming a cult classics after people get over their hurt feeling. Like Jirard said it wasnt what he though it would be and once again that on him and other like him. Sorry but these are facts.

Strikers is underrated? What about Mario hoops!? I’d love for a new Mario basketball game with Square Enix stuff. Though, what with how the new strikers game is, I’m afraid of what a new basketball game would look like.

I wonder if Jirad was referring to G4 as his "stressful, embarrassing, depressing" time in 2022. If so, that breaks my heart... Y'all really did give it your all and I for one enjoyed every minute of it.

@imwithstupid086

Жыл бұрын

That's probably part of it.

@donovanchilton5817

Жыл бұрын

The lesbian who couldn’t keep her mouth shut sunk them before it even began. Terrible, terrible optics.

I mean... once you realize the monsters in Calisto Protocol can never hit you if you dodge and it's INCREDIBLY easy to do the combat loses a tad of it's edge. Well, you'll die anyway once multiples just jump you from nowhere but oh well

@sinteleon

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like they need to tune the dodge mechanic to be more of a last ditch thing like in Metroid Dread (you technically can always dodge the EMMI, but good luck actually managing the near frame perfect and slightly time-randomized inputs)

Callum Upton has a great break down of how evil the monetization of Diablo Immortal really is. If Upton isn't your flavor than Josh Strife Hays has a highly detailed video showing how Diablo Immortal is just a money grab.

@browncoatkevin

Жыл бұрын

Its immorality may well be the most Immortal part of its legacy.

Diablo Immortal was so full of microtransactions, it got the attention of politicians from Texas for having unfair odds with the gamboling systems. Asmongold had an interview with Texas Senator Ted Cruz discussing what kind of Loot box systems and general other gamboling systems should be made illegal because it is a scam and targets minors. Asmongold also showed off the RNG simulation to see how much money it would cost to get some of the basic 'legendary' items (about $100 or more per item including duplicates). Asmongold also talked about the top player in the game not being able to play because he spent so much money on the game, there weren't any other players he could play against because his character's level was too high.

Good lord my niece plays Overwatch 2 religiously with her friends and every time I heard about it it’s been nothing but bad things about the game. To be fair she never played the original so she has no baseline to compare the game to to understand why most people jumped off the overwatch train with the sequel. She even bought the damn season pass…. It seems hardcore PC and console players aren’t their target demographic anymore….

It's unfortunate that Pokemon S&V is on this list, but it's hard to argue that its problems didn't bring the enjoyment down. It's a great game with too many issues to give it an approving rating, but it still has many good steps in the right direction that hopefully get expanded on.

@jameslawrenson1208

Жыл бұрын

They have money to burn, use it to hire more people to alleviate the time crunch.

@dun0790

Жыл бұрын

It is an odd game to talk about as i love it and it's my favourite pokemon game in years but its just a mess and obviously needed a few more months

It is a shame that Scarlet and Violet was on this list. I can't blame you because of the technical issues. However beyond that is a fantastic adventure that I look forward to experiencing again, which is more than I can say for Sword and Shield which I probably hate more than any other video game.

When it came to the Callisto protocol, the death animations were so long, drawn out and repetitive that when they started to activate, I just went through the menu and hit "reset checkpoint" 😂 I ain't got time to have my head stomped on for the 50th time

Blizzard is becoming the new Konami. Very disappointing.

Scarlet/Violet was so great, it's a huge shame about the technical issues. Best storyline so far IMO, I liked the branching paths and that you could (more or less) go anywhere you want, I liked a lot of the new Pokemon, area traversal was fun, the endgame stuff was genuinely interesting... if they'd just spent a little more time polishing it, it would've been so great. Or if there was a Switch Pro to go along with it, since apparently it can run amazingly on better hardware. Make it run well and add an option to skip through dialog (the second run-through was a button-mashing nightmare) and it could be one of (if not the) best mainline Pokemon games.

Apparently Sega lost the source code for The House of the Dead.

@sinteleon

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but people (aka fans) have been "remaking" games without source codes for ages. And given that house of the dead isn't THAT complex, remaking it from scratch shouldn't be that much of an issue if given proper time and budget.

Love your videos

Hey Completionist! I'm a long-time watcher, barely ever commented, and I just wanted to thank you for including Overwatch 2 on this list. This is the game I play, and it's in a state right now that makes many people frustrated, and I just wish we could have back some of the charm we had before. People making videos about it does just that, and that's really what I hope for. I really mean it, thank you.

The saddest part about this is that it's more often than not the fault of the higher ups when a game is bad.

For as much as I played and enjoyed Pokémon SV, I refused to put it as one of my top games this year over Legends Arceus because of the technical performance issues. I’ve never had a mainline game crash on me ever, let alone as much as SV did.

@mitchsz

Жыл бұрын

Yep, unforgivable for a billion dollar company

@doono346

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I feel the same, although I never had the game crash on me luckily.

Where do you show your full playthroughs?

8:49 did that zombie just kindly wait for his turn to get shot😂

EA deserves all the "praise" it gets here.

I was so bummed about Callisto protocol, that was the game I was most looking forward to last year but man did it fall flat.

great vid as always

Remember, the most insulting thing about Overwatch 2 isn't the battlepass system. It's the fact the MAIN NEW FEATURE THAT WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE the franchise, THE GOD FORSAKEN PVE MODE WITH STORY, was DELAYED TO THIS YEAR AFTER MONTHS OF REVEAL. The literal reason why ''You SHOULD play Overwatch 2 over the original'' WAS DELAYED A WHOLE YEAR

Scarlet and Violet can be described like an Archeops, Regigigas, or Slaking. REALLY DAMN GOOD… just has one thing holding it back by A LOT.

I honestly liked S/V. Yeah it has issues but the exploration aspect is so fun

@kclink1579

Жыл бұрын

Sadly no freely catching Pokemon ruin it as it's a perfect thing that has no reason not to be in a Pokemon game now, which makes it more confusing as GF left it out of S&V because............................

@vexaria7939

Жыл бұрын

@@kclink1579 yeah that is a point against it

@AndresLionheart

Жыл бұрын

When I hear people say the exploration aspect is fun I feel like htey never played any other open world game. What was fun about SV's open world? I played it for a few hours and I found it extremely bland compared to pretty much every other open world game I played before.

@Batterskull

Жыл бұрын

@@AndresLionheart yeah the overworld is basically just a big field. It’s better than SwSh’s wild area, since you can actually catch Pokemon above your badge level and there are at least a few caves to explore, but it’s not very interesting visually. Area Zero was the best part of the entire game both exploration and story wise and it’s not even open world, and frankly I wish the game was structured more like that instead of the watered-down open world that we got.

@sinteleon

Жыл бұрын

@@Batterskull It's not about the environment, it's about what you do in them (aka finding and catching mons). Though I'd say Legends Arceus did a better job of that even if it's not true open world. Open Zone concepts should still totally be a thing; Frontiers, Legends Arceus, and Mario Odyssey shows it's a perfectly good way of balancing open gameplay with limitations

A few missed points about Overwatch 2: 1. Earning Heroes isn't as dire as you're making it out. By the time you unlock Competitive, you've usually played enough games to naturally unlock all but the most recent Hero. 2. The PvE is currently MIA and unknown when it will be added. 3. The F2P is lax in regards to gameplay altering mechanics - Paying gets you the most recent hero faster, that's largely it. The catch is that your cosmetic options with F2P are SEVERELY limited - skins are given away only rarely, sprays are exclusive to achievements, and you can forget about Highlight Intros and Emotes. And the Premium currency used to obtain said skins is delivered at a slow rate - 60/week, which is ridiculous when Battle Passes cost 1000 and most hero skins cost between 1000-2000 (often with some useless junk like a weapon charm tossed in to feather the price up).

This is the first time I'm hearing of a House of the Dead Remake lol

Nintendo's new business model of releasing empty unfinished Mario Sports titles with the scope to add content later has honestly put me off buying them for life.

Hopefully 2023 has some amazing games ahead.

@calebfouts7118

Жыл бұрын

"Ehem." *Softly whispers* "Hollow Knight Silksong."

@lilliesupreme9767

Жыл бұрын

Just what I was thinking

@WH250398

Жыл бұрын

Really hope Dead Space, Hogwarts, and Resident Evil 4 deliver. That would be an insane first three months of the year.

When I saw footage of Kao the Kangaroo, I was like: "Oh, no. Is that game on his list too?". Because I actually like it and I hope Tate expands on it with an even better sequel

The biggest dissapointment of Mario Strikers for the Switch is the loss of Waluigi's crotch chop.

football not soccer

I’m so proud that Jirard didn’t force Saints Row 2022 into this list. People love to hate on it, but it’s actually a decent game, it just didn’t hit its full potential. The public outcry is very unfair. I respect his integrity.

Okay, this has to have the greatest thumbnail so far this year!

No honorable mention for Biomutant? Its character creation built up a really unique experience, then it pinched out a greasy, generic gameloaf onto our collective chest.

I feel if Nintendo (or whoever makes the release date for Pokemon games) gave them more time the glitches and slowdown would have been improved, but the graphics more than likely not.

Props for having Pokémon Scarlet and Violet here. They shouldn't get a pass for cranking it out in this state.

@abadenoughdude300

Жыл бұрын

But they will, because "I had lots of fun playing it". Guess when you groom your market long enough you can get away with anything. I'm expecting a future $100 Pokemon game to not boot and everyone still be giving it a 10/10 because a new Pokemon game, woohoo!

I don't live out West, but I gather that anyone, who went to BlizzCon 2018, and witnessed the fiasco that was their _Diablo Immortal_ preview, knew that the official rollout of this game was going to be the shitshow that it eventually became. The lower your expectations are for _Diablo IV,_ the better.

Blizzard shut down the original Overwatch’s servers? Wow and I was hoping to jump back into that game one day. I never played the second one and I don’t intend to but I enjoyed the first one as much as I played it.

@donaldmarotta1439

Жыл бұрын

Kinda….. the original game servers were converted to Overwatch 2. Internally the switch was a switch to a 2.0 model. It’s the same game with PvP overhauls (and it plays very similar controls and character wise, but the team play feels new). We are still waiting for the PvE Campaign. If you were ride or die for OW1 it’s still very fun

What a good year for Acti-Blizz

As someone who honestly loves Pokémon SV, I get it. The fact that it was released in such a state is abysmal. They need to extend their time developing the games to more than a mere 3 years now.

@silkdust8069

Жыл бұрын

They need to stop making games if you ask me

lets not forget about the fact that game freak doesn't know what makes a good open world game and expects people to do the 3 paths in a specific order they want you to do and treating it more like a linear game despite it being open world. there is also no level scaling so if you end up doing like say, only the victory road path where you battle gym leaders and beat that path, you'll be way too overpowered when you do decide to battle team star and the titan pokemon. and thats because the game does not have any form of level scaling. the only time level scaling even happens is the raid battles that get harder the more gyms you beat along with beating the end game.

3:00 i don't think the whole students walking in the middle of a battle thing is lazy design after all you're in the same overworld in and out of battle and i think that stuff like that makes the game fell more immersive

@InnerRise

Жыл бұрын

Found Gamefreak Risk Manager

I still enjoyed SV regardless of the technical issues (the lag on my copy was only a problem when it came to Terra Battles), but I definitely agree that Game Freak needs to start getting their shit together.

@Hayson898

Жыл бұрын

There is a reason why he says "Pokemon Company". Game freak is a separate company that develops the game(s). Should they hire more people? Yes and sure Game Freak was able to pull it off with 2D sprites, but they need more time with the switch to all 3d models and to go from Sw/Sh to the DLCs, to Arceus Legends and then S/V all with only 169 employees, that's insane. The Pokemon Company needs to take their foot off the gas pedal and give the developers time to breathe.

For Scarlet & Violet, I part of the camp that believes that glitches are hilarious! It's Fawful's Minion's 3rd funniest thing in video games. But even he would say that glitches in a Pokémon game are unacceptable for how it's been around for many years.

@andrewwojtas8486

Жыл бұрын

For me I just wish the switch and other consoles had a feature that allows users to send developers data from your system with logs when they encounter something that looks like a bug. I think this would be much better than how users are just posting screen caps on Twitter going "Fix it" instead of listing what they were doing so devs can reproduce and then solve the bugs

@andrewwojtas8486

Жыл бұрын

Don't get me wrong I think scarlet and violet should have had 3-4 months in the oven and hopefully the late February patch improves things. I just wish more people understood that bug fixing is extremely hard to accomplish in general no matter the project when you're given very little user information on what went wrong, visual bugs are especially hard to fix as you need to get a look at what's going on internally to see how to fix things externally

2:43 this looks like that one mountain side trail in botw just before kakariko village

No Chocobo GP? That was no doubt the worst game I played in 2022. I had high hopes for it, but boy were they unfulfilled. Even beyond the whole Mobile Game slime they drenched it in. Bad controls, four (4!) unique maps with different tracks upon them in which you in one case literally couldn't take the 90° curve and a tutorial that stops you from playing the game like a normal person. I brought it back the next day. For comparison: The last time I did that was with Paper Mario Sticker Star.