15 MOST DISAPPOINTING Games of 2023 So Far

foreign [Music] has been a banger year for video games so far we're only at the halfway point yet and there has already been a constant stream of incredible games to keep up with and looking ahead at the next six months it's clear that the momentum isn't going to slow down halfway through the year though it's time to take a pause and take stock of the Year thus far and maybe turn our attention to some of the games that haven't met expectations to that end here we're going to talk about a few games of 2023 that have disappointed Us in more ways than one redfall redfall always looked like it was going to be a very different kind of game from arcane's traditional offerings but the general expectation was that given the Studio's innate talent and impeccable track record it would at least be good on well put together game but in the end it definitely wasn't not only does redfall almost completely lack the strength that one usually Associates an Arcane game with it's not even good at the new things it tries with everything from its open world and its co-op gameplay to its loot mechanics coming with major issues add to that all of the significant technical hiccups and what you have is a game that woefully falls short of expectations for an Arcane joint the Lord of the Rings Gollum let's be fair here no one really expected the Lord of the Rings Gollum to be anything more than middling or passively enjoyable at best but we also didn't expect it to be literally one of the worst games in recent memory deadlike entertainment stealth Action Adventure game took its sweet time to finally release and when it did it stumbled with its first step and fell flat on its face nothing about the Lord of the Rings Golem works it has a boring Quest design little to no exploration broken combat and traversal mechanics and a deluge of Technical and performance problems that make it nigh impossible to get through you don't play Lord of the Rings Gollum you endure it layers of fear for a while blooper team has been pumping out psychological horror games that range from middling to genuinely good and this year the studio went back to the very beginning to bring back layers of fear combining connecting and reimagining the first two games while adding its own new content on top the new layers of fear looks excellent and has a fascinating premise but as is often the case with Bluebird it doesn't do justice to that premise it ends up being a fairly dull repetitive and rote game that relies on its visual prowess to the exclusion of almost everything else we can only hope that Silent Hill 2 remake fares significantly better chia we'd had our eye on Chia for a while before it launched with our seb's tropical action adventure game looking increasingly promising with each of its pre-launch showings and though the final product is certainly not without its merits it didn't quite live up to our expectations yes it has a gorgeous setting and making your way around the island is fun for the most part but the game's mechanics and systems never quite managed to get their hooks in leaving us with a pretty but fairly unremarkable experience Crime Boss Rock a city over the years many have tried their hand at the co-op first person shooter Heist genre and very few have managed to enjoy the kind of success that payday Series has seen Crime Boss Rocket City was certainly eyeing that throne and with its star-studded cast of actors it looked like it might actually take a big swing the game itself however was not only disappointing it was just downright terrible whether you're playing it single-player roguelike campaign or diving into its Co-op offerings the game's aggressive mediocrity taints every second you spend with it with its awful voice acting Bland design repetitive Loop and boring core gameplay dragging down the experience into the doldrums ravenbound ravenbound has a promising premise on paper as an open world roguelite set in a world inspired by Scandinavian folklore but when you actually get down to playing the game you realize that it's woefully underbaked in almost every way that matters its world is a vast one but given how empty Bland and vapid It generally feels exploration ends up being significantly de-emphasized combat can get repetitive instead of decent enemy variety while the game also does itself no favors with its poorly balanced difficulty curves add to that an unfortunately healthy dose of technical issues and you get a pretty underwhelming game forespoken a big new AAA open world IP from Square Enix to say that people were curious to see how for spoken would fare would be an understatement even back when it was called project Athea though unfortunately it didn't even come close to matching expectations a premise that's interesting on paper is let down by Annoying characters and poor writing an open world that should have been begging to be explored ended up being empty and uninteresting the combat system while flashy and enjoyable failed to make up for the deficiencies in boring Quest design the fact that forespoken failed to meet Square enix's commercial expectations was ultimately not surprising in the slightest The Last of Us Part 1 PC frankly we're still baffled that this was allowed to exist Naughty Dog more than almost any other studio in the entire industry is associated with an obsessive level of attention to detail and quality assurance polish and naughty dog go hand in hand which is why it's so surprising that the last of us is part one PC Port might be the worst PC port in recent memory even looking at a brief clip online and individual screenshots it was hard to believe that something this broken had been allowed to release when you actually played it it quickly became apparent that the state of the game was somehow even worse it's a real shame too because this will forever be remembered as the manner in which the legendary franchise made its PC debut Lego 2K Drive unlike many other games on this list Lego 2K drive is not without its merits its world is vibrant and colorful it has an impressive Suite of customization options for building any kind of car you want and as you'd expect from a Lego game it's very kid-friendly and easy to get into it is however also quite vapid what you see is very much what you get and with that lack of depth Lego 2K Drive ends up like a shallow experience that runs out of steam too quickly whether that's because of how uninteresting its open world exploration is or its lackluster optional content or just any number of other issues leap leap isn't exactly a game that's grabbed a whole lot of headlines so to say that expectations were high wouldn't exactly be fair but this is still very much a game that doesn't do justice to its interesting premise the Sci-Fi competitive FPS boasts slick visuals and cool traversal options but all of that gets bogged down in its tedious gameplay Loop and how unsatisfying its moment-to-moment gameplay largely feels especially in a genre that's this competitive leap fails to make a mark in any meaningful way strayed lights you don't want to be unfair on straight lights here because for a game developed by a small team with a unique Vision it does actually get some things right the story the music and the aesthetic for instance are legitimately solid and worthy of Praise there's plenty else in the game however that drags The Experience down from its frustrating combat to the lackluster platform to its technical issues the fact that there are parts of the game that are genuinely good makes the parts that aren't feel that much more frustrating Dre blade you'll never see us turning down the chance to play a new Souls like especially one that's trying to shake up the genre's formula the way that straight blade was promising it would but though there's something to be said about the idea of viewing the genre through a less gloomy lens the actual execution of many of the game's core pillars leaves a lot to be desired the clunky controls the uninspired level design and technical issues combined to make stray blade quite a frustrating experience even if it isn't one that's totally without its merits crash team Rumble again in the name of fairness it's worth pointing out that crash team Rumble is definitely a game that you can have plenty of fun with especially for fans of the series given how well it translates that crash feel into a MOBA experience as it stands right now though it's also pretty Bare Bones with its launch offerings especially in terms of the modes on offer being quite Limited of course we're hoping that crash team Rumble will be supported so well that including it on this list in retrospect feels like a mistake but with the live service games you can never really tell how long of a lifespan to expect gray Hill incident a small production in every way possible criticizing greyhill incident would almost feel unfair under most circumstances but unfortunately there's plenty to criticize in this game the core premise of a survival horror game where your main enemies are aliens is certainly an interesting one but from its awful dialogue to its painfully shallow mechanics to the mind-numbing level design greyhill incident messes up to say that they're released in too many ways to be anything more than a disappointment and even that might be a generous description risen in the many many years since its launch the original risen has amassed a reputation as one of the RPG genres proper Diamonds in the Rough though with its 2023 Port there was way more of the rough than there was of the diamond janky animations disappointing and minimal updates to the gameplay and visuals clunky combat and Technical problems combined to paint the Aging experience in what wasn't exactly the most flattering light maybe this is one flaw gem that should have been left in the past hey did you know that we had gaming bolts upload new videos every day stick around drop a like subscribe 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Keywords: disappointing games of 2023 so far, redfall, the lord of the rings gollum, forspoken, the last of us part 1 pc, crime boss rockay city, ravenbound, lego 2k drive, stray blade, strayed lights, layers of fear, tchia, crash team rumble, leap, gamingbolt

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Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 30 2023