Most Disappointing Game of 2018 - Article
by Craig S , posted on 06 January 2019 / 5,074 Views
High expectations going undelivered. Not exactly uncommon is it? And yet time after time gamers fall for it; indeed most of us do, at some time or another. Be it hyped derived from a spectacular trailer that ends up being highly unrepresentative of the final product, or developers who oversell the revolutionary nature of their creations, or just the fact that it's a sequel to a hitherto incredible series that ends up being just a little bit crap, each year several titles come out that thoroughly fail to deliver on expectations. Here are four of this year's worst offenders.
The Shortlist:
Fallout 76
Sea of Thieves
Metal Gear Survive
We Happy Few
The 'Winner':
Fallout 76
The warning signs for Fallout 76's spectacular fall from grace actually came quite early - almost immediately with its announcement in fact. Not only did Bethesda comprehensively fail to take heed of these warnings, the company ploughed on and made a multitude of additional unforced errors well before the game even came out. Ordinarily such a scenario would fail to make the title in question a candidate for Most Disappointing Game of the Year, since in order to be a disappointment the title needs to have a serious prospect of critical success. But Fallout 76 was treated a little differently, by virtue of the fact that it bears the name of one of the industry's most beloved franchises, has a dedicated fan base with huge expectations, and is the product of one of the modern era's more well-regarded developers.
Bethesda and Fallout have both taken a huge reputational hit from the initial release of Fallout 76. It remains to be seen if the company can turn things around for the title in the year or two to come, but for the time being Fallout 76 is a huge disappointment.
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Honestly this was a rather easy pick. No other game here has had such a terrible fall from grace like Fallout 76. We Happy Few had promise, but there were some clear clues of problems, and the game is not in an unfixable state. Sea of Thieves lacked content at launch, but that can be solved in the long run, especially with Microsoft backing the whole thing. And MGS Survive cannot be dissapointing because noone expected anything good out of it. But the amount of crashing Fallout 76 has had to deal with (and is still dealing with) since launch is almost unprecedented.
Who expected anything from Metal Gear Survive?
I was so excited for 76, but it let me down severely. I really hope that they can make it better, like what has been done with NMS.
I don't think anybody was disappointed with MG Survive; We all knew it would bomb.
Outside Fallout 76, I was severely disappointed by We Happy Few. Ever since Bioshock went away, I've missed those sorts of period piece meets sci-fi first person story centered experiences.
Well I can't say I'm disappointed with the outcomes listed. Like they were expected as soon as it was know more about the games.
Sea of Thieves shouldn't really be here, it was delivered as advertised unlike the 3 other games. It was polished, and gave no false promises at launch, people were delusional to think this game is a disappointment trying to put it in the same boat as No Mans Sky. We were all told it would have amazing post launch support, and 9 months later it is safe to say they delivered.
Yea that game was a joke. Than again sort of expected coming from a skall team. Fallout just had too much high expectations from Besth
I am not drunk, just my spelling sucks on a phone.
True, Atlas came up too close to the end of the year, it kinda flew under everyone's radar.
Whilst I can understand people been disappointed with Atlas it's probably the most fun I've had in gaming for many many years now, Server problem and bugs can make the game annoying at times but the core of the game along with the ship battles are amazing fun and there is a good amount of content already at launch to expand upon. The game for sure has some massive potential going forward through the early access development process.
Wont ever forget you saying fallout 76 was great that the beta was just a taste and that the final product would be far better, also that it would do well in sales yet it is considered one of the biggest flops not just do to low sales but also because of many different controversial things. In simple terms you predicted wrong really wrong and it is the worst big budget game of the year hands down on dozens of lists and i told you fans of the series hated it and were not going to be ok with it.
If it was announced at Game Awards and released days later then it hardly built enough expectation to disappoint.
It sold waaay less than fallout 4 and is panned critically by both reviews, users, and fallout fans so it is a FLOP and it damaged Bethesdas reputation pretty badly lol
Seems you can't accept the cold hard facts that fallout fans, critics and the gaming community see fallout 76 like a rotten carcass. Hey man it's cool though we all have a few horrible games we like in our library this happens to be yours, mine is Duke nukem and both are equally as panned :D
You love posting links and data well I could post dozens of links to pages and videos of the severe backlash this flop caused from customers, fallout communities, critics all over the world and from the profit standpoint. You think they made enough money back to cover advertising servers development etc? Nope
You are in denial it's OK man I won't bother you more over the plain facts of how this is a stain on the fallout IP and how millions of people worldwide agree while only a tiny amount of people think it's a good game and go giving it 5 stars on PSN and Xbox store to justify their purchase but it never will cover up the dozens of websites appalled by it and the hundreds of videos mocking it and the hundreds thousands of comments on social media claiming it to be the biggest fail of 2018. Even those playing the game at the moment say it's terrible but play it sometimes because they already payed for it digitally and can't sell it.
Yes makes perfect sense... let's wait 4 years before saying the game is bad, because they can change the whole game in that time.
