Of the games I fully completed, my answer would be Indivisible. It was a fine enough game, but it was overly long and the game often had too much backtracking.
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What's the absolute worst game of 2020 you played?
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Probably Animal Crossing or Doom Eternal. In both cases I was so ready to be wow'ed and transported, but... It just didn't land. AC is so slow! And not good slow! The crafting genre has evolved so much and none of those QoL features are present.
The TakeOver. Awful SoR wannabe. Bosses are all the same, checkpoints suck, the story's horrible, every stage is the same, (Hey dodge these rocks/bouncing barrels/arrows/bouncing EXPLODING ROCKS....) and suffers horribly from dude comboitis.
A Short Hike did nothing for me.
I don't think it's bad or anything, and I'm sure the developers are lovely people. I just felt nothing, and when it was over I was happy to uninstall it.
I don't think it's bad or anything, and I'm sure the developers are lovely people. I just felt nothing, and when it was over I was happy to uninstall it.
The gameplay was amazing, one of the best action rpg systems I've ever played. The story was pretty though, had to skip most scenes.
If you exclude the pile of shit games I bought off PSN because they were 10 minute games designed just to give you a platinum trophy... Then it's Doom: Eternal. By far the most disappointing game I played this year.
I feel like a bit of an asshole typing this out, but I bought a lot less indie games this year and I think that has meant that the quality of games I played has increased. I used to buy a lot of them based on hype and ultimately feel disappointed in them.
With that said, the worst game I played this year was The Avengers. The game had absolutely no idea what it wanted to be. Did it want to be a story centered on Kamala Khan's experience with reassembling the Avengers? Did it want to be a game about the five popular Avengers from the MCU? Did it want to be a Destiny-lite GAAS? Yes to all of them. But not well to any of them. The loot system was lame. The story was uninteresting and lifeless. There's a complete lack of environments. The combat isn't satisfying. A complete waste of $60 in my book.
With that said, the worst game I played this year was The Avengers. The game had absolutely no idea what it wanted to be. Did it want to be a story centered on Kamala Khan's experience with reassembling the Avengers? Did it want to be a game about the five popular Avengers from the MCU? Did it want to be a Destiny-lite GAAS? Yes to all of them. But not well to any of them. The loot system was lame. The story was uninteresting and lifeless. There's a complete lack of environments. The combat isn't satisfying. A complete waste of $60 in my book.
I only played about 10 new games. So Assassin Creed Valhalla. It's too repetitive, like all the puzzles on the open world. I guess about half the chests have keys on a guard/table across the town. I think this was done to make it more varied, but it has the opposite effect.
Game was released in a rough state and requires way too many patches, to fix the crashes, frozen NPCs and buttion prompts.
Game was released in a rough state and requires way too many patches, to fix the crashes, frozen NPCs and buttion prompts.
It's not a bad game at all, but I was completely let down by Ghost of Tsushima. I was bored a few hours in. It felt like an open world game stuck in 2014. BUT I can see why people loved it, it's a beautiful well put together game.
Mine are easy. I play a bad game or two every year, on purpose
I was thinking about playing the sequel, but now I've decided not to.
- The Dread X Collection - not sure if this even counts. this is an "anthology" of short horror games created during an indie dev game jam. i played it on halloween to see what was up. most of them couldn't run. the games than could were not great, but i was happy to see creativity.
- Guitar Hero: World Tour (for the Nintendo DS) - the only game that causes me physical pain. the DS was not mean to be played like this. ask me anytrhing.
Wow what a shame. I liked the first game a lot (though admittedly it has some vaguely transphobic themes now that I think about it).
I was thinking about playing the sequel, but now I've decided not to.
EDIT: oh YEAHH Paratopic!! I played that too. I was expecting something mind-bending rather than scary. I would've been fine if it was nonsensical, but only if it payed off somehow.
Paratopic did not pay off
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Avengers. I think the single player is great and the Kate Bishop dlc is a blast to play with, but the post-game content just sucks. They can add a dozen amazing characters to the game if they wanted and it wouldn't matter if the endgame content continues to be dull and repetitive as hell. I'm really worried that all those leaked characters will never happen at this point, just based on the amount of time it took for the first one to appear after being delayed and the supposed drop off of player count. Also, I'm in awe that they didn't capitalize on skins for that game. There's so much potential there, and they don't even give you anything worthwhile to spend in-game currency or real money on with the cosmetics. Black Widow has like five original skin designs and the rest are recolors of them. Why leave money on the table like that??? That's easy $$$. I don't get it.
There's a great game with co-op somewhere in the Avengers, it just got muddled up with trying too hard to be a Destiny clone. Post-story, they popped out an even more boring version of vanilla Destiny 1 with nothing much to do than Hives, Elite Hives and Mega Hives. Oh, and recycled vaults where you have to stand on numbers to complete the mission. The mission design is at the bare minimum.
There's a great game with co-op somewhere in the Avengers, it just got muddled up with trying too hard to be a Destiny clone. Post-story, they popped out an even more boring version of vanilla Destiny 1 with nothing much to do than Hives, Elite Hives and Mega Hives. Oh, and recycled vaults where you have to stand on numbers to complete the mission. The mission design is at the bare minimum.
In terms of expectations and initial impressions compared to the end product, it has to be Cyberpunk 2077. I finished it more than a week ago and had time to think about it and I'm still baffled by the "10s". No amount of graphics and frames can polish this dated undercooked and unfinished game. And when I have to reload and restart multiple missions because the game glitched, something that happened across platforms, your game isn't just buggy it's broken, and that is worse when the game doesn't really have anything new or interesting outside "nice graphics" on high end PCs.
I wouldn't say that I hated it, but of the 2020 titles I played, Wasteland 3 was the one that did the least for me. I played about 12 hours and felt that it was just... Fine. The combat was okay, the world was okay, but none of it rose to a level where I felt compelled to keep playing it, so I stopped.
Warcraft III Reforged.
And I didn't even buy it.
It did, however, take my existing installation of Warcraft III and made it unplayable for a long time (game would crash on startup), as well as needlessly inflate the install size by like 25GB. Apparently Blizzard thought their shiny new remaster would be so good, everyone would just completely forever forsake the original and do nothing but hand them $30+ and play Reforged for time eternal.
There's been some stinkers this year, but Reforged was the only one so bad it took another game away.
And I didn't even buy it.
It did, however, take my existing installation of Warcraft III and made it unplayable for a long time (game would crash on startup), as well as needlessly inflate the install size by like 25GB. Apparently Blizzard thought their shiny new remaster would be so good, everyone would just completely forever forsake the original and do nothing but hand them $30+ and play Reforged for time eternal.
There's been some stinkers this year, but Reforged was the only one so bad it took another game away.
Of Animal Crossing NH, Xenoblade DE, Hades, TLoU2, Super Mario 3d All Stars, and Tony Hawk, Animal Crossing was my least favorite experience.
I loved the series when I was younger but it's just not for me anymore. Still I think the game is a good creative outlet, with how you can combine furniture pieces to create clever scenes around the island.
I loved the series when I was younger but it's just not for me anymore. Still I think the game is a good creative outlet, with how you can combine furniture pieces to create clever scenes around the island.
Played a lot of games, but my god Avengers bored me to death. Repetitiveness set in real quick with combat and the open maps were lame as hell. And really three villains?
I was thinking the same thing. Probably more of a "most disappointing" games list, rather than "worst"
Unless everybody in this forum only plays the major AAA releases of the year, and nothing else (which I doubt)
Bugsnax :( got it as a PS+ game on PS5, was so excited to play it, but it is Indie Game Jank from the visuals to the gameplay to the plot. disappointing.
...still keeping my "It's Bugsnax!" 7" tho
...still keeping my "It's Bugsnax!" 7" tho
That's a hard one. The one game I played this year that was really bad was Pokemon Shield, but it's a 2019 title. Haven't played many 2020 titles though.
Watch Dogs probably. I hated the first one, liked the second one ok, back to hate on the third.
Doom Eternal was a bigger let down by far though since I actually had high expectations going in on that one...
Doom Eternal was a bigger let down by far though since I actually had high expectations going in on that one...
The big majority here probably aren't actually playing that many games per year overall, so it's easy to see why there are a lot of AAA answers.
I only quit one 2020 release this year and that was Raji: An Ancient Epic. Started off decently enough, but some of its strange design, repetitive combat, and mediocre voiceover work made me lose interest by the third chapter. I appreciate it for what it is, so I wouldn't say it's bad; it's just the "least good" game I played this year.
deadly premonition is an all around trash game
- the story is problematic, and feels unfinished and rushed (the 2019 sections are pretty good)
- the game is buggy and janky as hell
- the gameplay is a big downgrade from the original, and the original didn't have the best gameplay either
- the story is problematic, and feels unfinished and rushed (the 2019 sections are pretty good)
- the game is buggy and janky as hell
- the gameplay is a big downgrade from the original, and the original didn't have the best gameplay either
Oh shit. I forgot about this, but how'd you pay for it? I got it for free.
I'm going with Bugsnax. I'm convinced the only people who like it is because of the song from the trailer.
#Funtime on Switch. The main levels are incredibly boring and the coolest part of the game has incredibly awful performance with freezes that are only solved by going to home menu and returning to the game, plus multiple game crashes. I've heard it's fine on other consoles but good lord it's bad on Switch.
I found the 1.0 release of Black Mesa to be a very poor experience, unfortunately. I'd never played Half-Life but I'm a big fan of Half-Life 2 and thought that the remake of 1 looked really nice. So, like everyone else, I waited and waited until it was done and it just didn't seem to be finished at all, despite being the 1.0 release. There was a severe lack of polish in the menus, lots of graphical and audio bugs, bad sound mixing that couldn't be adjusted, and frankly I just thought the whole thing was too long and not very fun to play.
Seeing that they've continued to update the game insofar as putting out a "definitive edition" months after the 1.0 release annoys me quite a bit, because the so-called 1.0 version was clearly not complete when they put it out. The game looks to be in a much better state now but I doubt I'll ever play it again after having such a sour experience.
Seeing that they've continued to update the game insofar as putting out a "definitive edition" months after the 1.0 release annoys me quite a bit, because the so-called 1.0 version was clearly not complete when they put it out. The game looks to be in a much better state now but I doubt I'll ever play it again after having such a sour experience.
Between Bastion and Hades in my Supergiant games Binge, Transistor Really didn't clicked with me, Maybe I should give it another chance. but even the Unique protagonist and the sublime Atmosphere couldn't sell that game to me. Gameplay and specially the Crude and ugly interface of the game put me off.
and from 2020 itself...
Like many, I also got bored of ACNH but I still like the game for occasions like visiting friend's Islands or just chilling in the open. It's still a good game in my book for that
And While I HATE Tlou2's Story from start to finish (except some part of Abby's campaign), The Gameplay and Visual Presentation is still top tier in my book. can't call it the worst game.
I think from 2020, Immortal Fenyx Rising was really the worst game for me. overall it's a mediocre game. but my mistake was buying it on Switch and man the port is just slightly above "Playable state".
And gameplay wise, It really shows what was that made BotW so good and why that game's whole design philosophy was beyond some gameplay mechanics alone
and from 2020 itself...
Like many, I also got bored of ACNH but I still like the game for occasions like visiting friend's Islands or just chilling in the open. It's still a good game in my book for that
And While I HATE Tlou2's Story from start to finish (except some part of Abby's campaign), The Gameplay and Visual Presentation is still top tier in my book. can't call it the worst game.
I think from 2020, Immortal Fenyx Rising was really the worst game for me. overall it's a mediocre game. but my mistake was buying it on Switch and man the port is just slightly above "Playable state".
And gameplay wise, It really shows what was that made BotW so good and why that game's whole design philosophy was beyond some gameplay mechanics alone
I 1000/1000'ed Deadly Premonition on 360 in 2010, loved every minute of it, replayed it 2 more times over the years. When I replayed it again (Origins on Switch) earlier this year to prep for the sequel, a lot of the more problematic aspects of the game were extremely hard to ignore. I then played through The Missing (pretty good) and D4 (uh, fine I guess) just to have the most complete SWERY experience possible.
I got 10 hours into Deadly Premonition 2 before calling it quits. It's just an ugly game from top to bottom, inside and out; and only got more ugly the longer I played. You're right to skip it.
I am also finding my least favorite part of Bugsnax is where you have to play it.
Cyberpunk, the AI, the NPCs etc it was really a huge dissapointment for me personal. And my trust in cdpr is lower than low. Wich its a shame because after the witcher my expectations were huge (but realistic). I also believe the game isn't fixable, yes they can patch the bugs but my complaints are beyond the bugs.
