Gaming Fail of the Year 2018 | Voting Thread (Read Rules)

[theaface]

And the winner is FALLOU... oh wait, sorry. Voting. Right.

Welcome to the 2nd ResetEra Gaming Fail of the Year 2018, wherein we celebrate the worst that the industry has had to offer in the past 12 months.

2018 has been another stellar year for positive and memorable experiences including the likes of Celeste, God of War, Spider-Man, RDR2, Forza Horizon 4, Astro Bot and many more. But forget all that! This is the time to reflect and poke fun at what wasn't so great in gaming in 2018.

Hopefully the banners are seen as tongue-in-cheek as intended. To counter any perceived bias (honestly, I have none and haven't played FO76 myself), here's a handy link of everything that released in 2018.

Without further ado...

1. Include an explanation with each vote. This is in accordance with the site rules about list threads.

2. INCLUDE AN EXPLANATION WITH EACH VOTE. List posts without any explanation will not be counted.

3. You can have up to 5 picks. Everything else will be an honorable mention. You do not have to have 5 that is simply the maximum number that will be counted.

Given that so much of the bad news this year has been heavily backloaded in November, I've decided to expand the maximum number of picks from three to five. This will help give a broader representation of opinion (and not just have the same 3 or so obvious choices appear).

4. Scoring is simple: your number 1 pick will earn 5 points, 4 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 2 for 4th and 1 point for your 5th place pick.

5. You can vote for anything gaming related that occurred in 2018. That includes, but isn't limited to; a game, a publisher, a developer, a review, a journalist, a special edition, a character, a soundtrack, a piece of DLC and so on.

6. Please clearly list your votes with a number in front of it like the below example. Failure to do so will result in your votes not being counted. Example:

1. Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
2. Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet
3. Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back​

2017 - Electronic Arts
2016 - No Man's Sky
2015 - Konami
2014 - Gamer Gate
2013 - XBOX ONE no used games / always online
2012 - 38 Studios
2011 - PSN Hack
2010 - NBA Elite
2009 - PSPGO

To allow the inclusion of any last minute catastrophes, voting remains open until 31st December 2018. Results will be posted in the first week of January.

 

[Aters]

PSPGO was fail of the year? How?

1. PS Classic
How can Sony fuck up something so easy is beyond me.
2. Fallout 76
A joke of a game.
3. Nintendo Switch lineup
Didn't buy a single Switch game this year.

 

[ThisIsBlitz21]

I almost laughed out loud when I saw all the banners done in the style of the fallout logo. Awesome work there.

 

[Dwebble]

1. The Collapse of Telltale Games. Years of greed, short-sightedness, over-extension and good old-fashioned stupidity conspired to completely dick over all of their employees, robbing them of their rights and benefits. No one game product can match that.
2. Fallout 76. For a large, well-respected publisher like Bethesda to put out something this bad is simply remarkable. The positive aspects of Bethesda's game design are stripped away, while the negatives have grown and overtaken the entire project- to call it half-baked would be an insult to baking.
3. Filip Miucin. Grubby little plagiarist dares the internet to catch him at it, and it does in spectacular fashion. Delicious.

 

[Ricelord]

1.Fallout 76 - its an train wreck that keeps on giving.
2. PS classic - Sony had one easy job and failed at it.
3.Diablo immortal - its an out of season April fools joke.

 

[Mezoly]

1. Fallout 76: a 49-50 MC for AAA game from Bethesda is an astounding failure.
2. PS Classic: a half baked cash grab copycat product.
3. Labo: not the thing itself but the price they put for cardboard.

 

[Protome]

1. Nintendo Switch Online. Still tied to a terrible mobile app, you can't even send invites to friends to get them to join your game. Just a shitshow across the board.

2. Fallout 76. Goes without sayings Buggy, broken, as Jim Sterling said it's a bad idea executed badly.

3. Ninja refusing to stream with women. One of the most high profile internet people at the moment straight up refusing to treat women as equal colleagues because the toxic community he fostered might be toxic.

 

[Deleted member 2791]

1. Playstation Classic: how do you release PS1 games that are laggier than the original in 2018
2. Fallout 76: self-explanatory, it's a 60$ game that looks like it had the budget of a 10$ shovelware
3. Diablo Immortal: the most out of touch announcement of the year by far

incredible how they all happened in a short span of time

 

[MadeULook]

1. PS Classic: It blows my mind how Sony fucked this one up so hard. The fact that some of the games actually run WORSE than on the original Playstation hardware is mind boggling.

2. Fallout 76: Where do you even begin with this one? The game was clearly not ready to come out and had patch sizes bigger than the actual game. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 76.

I probably got a third one but it's past midnight here. I'll edit this in the morning after reading some replies.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

Red Dead Redemption 2 for being such a huge disappointment of a game.

 

[NotLiquid]

1. Fallout 76. This is easily up there with Mass Effect Andromeda as one of the most high profile disasters in recent history, except there's really nothing salvageable about the experience. Only reason Bethesda doesn't get this vote as a whole is because Doom Eternal and Rage 2 announcements looked extremely good.
2. Playstation Classic. Sony were practically handed a blueprint for success after the NES and SNES Classic. Their failure in delivering on that front - especially after PS4 just doesn't want to provide on a proper backward compatibility - is a stark reminder of how much this company really doesn't care that much about its legacy.
3. Telltale Games. A monument to hubris, they lived long enough to see themselves become the villain.

 

[Landawng]

lol the fallout banner! Nice!!

Yeah it's Fallout 76

 

[RockmanBN]

1. Fallout 76. It's is a mess and poor excuse of a release. Some baffling reuse of old code coule be considered lazy.

2. Playstation Classic. Why in the world would they include 50hz PAL versions of games in this day and age?
3. Diablo Immortal announcement. Yes it's a great idea to have your big announcement at a hardcore gaming convention being a mobile game instead of the next iteration of the same series people were expecting to happen.

 

[Mr.Branding]

Red Dead Redemption 2 for being such a huge disappointment of a game.

Click to shrink...

That's not how you spell Fallout 76.

 

[Anti]

1.Bethesda (Fallout 76) - Bethesda as a whole became the joke of the game industry, not even their fanboys can defend them at this point, and they are getting more lazy with each game. I have no hopes in regards of Starfield and ES6, and hopefully next time Todd start babling bs people will call him out on it.
2. Diablo Immortal - Yet again, another AAA studio out of touch with their fanbase.
3. Filip Miucin - Even ign was not able to handle that level of incompetence.

 

[Deleted member 48991]

1. Fallout 76, obviously. I'm not sure if it is just a cash grab or Bethesda is really that incompetent.

 

[modiz]

1. Diablo Immortal reveal - teasing for weeks about an upcoming diablo reveal hyping everyone up for blizzcon.... for a mobile game. The amount of dislikes on the video are insanely high and then to find out through kotaku that blizzard was planning on revealing diablo 4 and are playing dumb like such a thing doesnt exist... like cmon.
2. Fallout 76 - i think many would like the idea of a multiplayer fallout, but their handling of the whole thing was unbelievable, and this all ended up in lackluster sales.
3. PSclassic -i cant believe they screwed up the emulation that badly. I can forgive them for the library because i assume they wanted to have a more diverse library instead of a jrpg machine, but how did thet screw up the emulation to the point they couldnt just apply the already made code to use a 60hz version of the games instead of 50... seriously dumb.

 

[Kuro]

1. Fallout 76. Bethesda tops themselves with quite possibly their buggiest release yet and even without all the problems the game underneath is just plain bad. People should learn by now to not buy Bethesda studio games at launch.

2. Telltale Games. The complete mismanagement of a company that got a lot of good writers and artists jobless. Shame.

3. PS Classic. I had no interest in the device but c'mon Sony, 50hz? Really? Bad selection of games too.

4. Eurogamer giving Tetris Effect GOTY. It's just Tetris. What's next, Pong with distracting lights GOTG?

 

[Marble]

Do we even need to vote?

 

[jviggy43]

1. Ninja refusing to play with women. This is quite honestly amazing that he hasn't caught as much flak as he should have for saying and acting on something so overtly sexist in 2018. Just utterly pathetic.
2. Lyin Philip. Dude is trying to skate by acting like he didn't plagiarize literally everything he created while working for IGN, and the gall to dare others to find more cases of your theft when you KNEW you had done it over and over again for your entire career is some mind numbingly stupid levels of ego.
3. Fallout 76. It has been a long time coming for a studio that has been allowed to get by by putting the quality of such games out to glowing praise.


Honorable mention: Blizzard's diablo immortal announcement. Say what you will about the reaction but the planning of this event by them was just awful, giving this news to a hardcore PC crowd that paid hundreds of dollars to come to your event. Asking if everyone has a phone was just the cherry on top.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

That's not how you spell Fallout 76.

Click to shrink...

I don't play Fallout.

 

[ggx2ac]

1. Red Dead Redemption 2 Crunch
The gaming community commended Rockstar on their approach to labour. Rockstar's workers get plenty of work hours and they get to sleep at their desks, how good is that? They don't even have to pay for rent.
2. Telltale Games closing down
The one time where a gamer can say, "I could run that business better than their management could. You can't say they know better than me!"
3. Diablo Immortal announcement
Blizzard upset so many children at BlizzCon because they needed to be coddled and told that Diablo 4 is coming so that they could stop throwing tantrums from not being paid attention to.
4. Switch has no Big Boy Games - 2018
Where are the Big Boy Games!? The only games that I want are AAA third party games and Switch can't even get them, but even if they did I'd rather play them on my PS4 Pro where the graphics are a million times better and the online service isn't incompetent.

Honorable mentions
- Sony changed policies to act as their own ratings board censoring and even preventing the release of third party games
- Sony skipping E3 2019
- Nintendo and the stock market, where everyone's hot takes show they don't understand the stock market
- Smash Bros Ultimate Grinch Leak, what an embarrassment where the fanbase was hostile to those that didn't believe the "leak".

 

[Quinton]

I rock countdown order. This is a rebellion, isn't it? I rebel.

3. PlayStation Classic. My most nostalgic console has been thrown to the wolves. And it doesn't even have DualShock, which surely would have soothed the wolves into sparing me. Remember when Psycho Mantis did the thing and everybody was amazed? Sony doesn't.

2. Fallout 76. I'm a Bethesda Games Studios fan, but this one didn't really interest me from the outset. Online multiplayer is just never going to be a draw here. That said, I wished folks who feel otherwise nothing but the best and I was hopeful about their odds when The Making of Fallout 76 hit YouTube. I'm, uh... pretty sure we're gonna need another pass at that documentary.

1. Diablo Immortal. As rough as 76 is, nothing quite summarizes an out-of-touch publisher moment like "Don't you guys have phones?" I mean, I get it, the poor guy was sweating up there. I'd say some stupid shit too at that point. But it nevertheless epitomizes a ridiculously stupid marketing maneuver that's caused some real waves.

 

[theaface]

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[The Doomed One]

1. PS Classic - Instant hype upon announcement, followed by a horrible downward spiral of progressively worsening news. Glad I cancelled on time.

2. Fallout 76 - Never had any personal interest in the game or the series, but to see the final, supposed AAA product so horrible is astonishing.

3. Megaultimate Gold editions of games - No publisher is off the hook, but it seems to me that Ubisoft is the leader of splintered editions so jumbled you need an advanced degree to identify what each offers. And the price is now $120 for... who knows what.

 

[Trickster]

1. Fallout 76. We all know why. Horrible attempt at cashing in on the service craze plaguing AAA gaming these days. Even without bugs it'd be an awful game, however it seems to be as buggy as random steam early access games on top of it being an awful game.

2. Diablo Immortal. Announcing a mobile only Diablo game as your big reveal at Blizzcon, the event for your most dedicated fans, is a mindbogglingly bad decision.

 

[Wingus]

1. Filip Miucin - Plagiarism is a big deal. Not only did it he do it once, it seemed like he copied from many sources across several of his reviews.

2. Fallout 76 - Launch, the beta, the communication. Everything that could go wrong, did.

3. Diablo Immortal - Making a mobile title the big announcement at a paid event totally misread their audience.

 

[QuixoticNeutral]

I'm only going to vote for one item here, as there is only one I can think of that truly deserves it.

1. Telltale Games. Bad games, bad announcements, bad products, bad launches, and bad people come and go (and may I add how telling it is about our collective attention span that the other suggestions here exhibit such a heavy lean towards the headlines of the past month or even week). But to sink an esteemed, prolific, and by all appearances booming studio overnight, and to run away from the unavoidable consequences of gross mismanagement to the point that your own new hires are caught by surprise—well, that takes talent. Just over two months ago we had no idea we were in for a fiasco that would envelop everything from questionable labour practices in the face of insolvency to rescues of half-finished episodic efforts to the mass delisting of software for which the licenses could not be renewed. Given the unique place this studio occupied in the industry as synonymous with its own kind of game, ever since the runaway success of The Walking Dead S1 a mere six years ago, this was a collapse as sad as it was disgraceful; and all of us, even those who had lost interest in their saturated output by the end, should be alarmed.

 

[Linus815]

1. Playstation Classic - I dont think sony could've possibly put any less effort into this, even if they tried. From the game list, to the performance... even the menu system. It's just bad, and franky disrespectful towards their own legacy.
2. Fallout 76 - An awful, awful videogame from a well respected studio.
3. Diablo Immortal - Imagine hosting an event for the most hardcore blizzard fanbase, and announcing a freaking mobile game as the big zinger. But the fun didn't stop there. "Do you guys not have phones?"

 

[Saint-14]

Yep, should be an easy win for Fallout.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

1. Telltale Games
After spending a better part of the last decade using the same engine, it finally caught up with them. Upon the revelation that almost none of their games turned a profit since Walking Dead Season 1, their staunch refusal to change their engine even though almost all of their problems stemmed from it, and blatant professional abuse of their staff from hiring workers as contractors and even hiring important jobs a week before announcing their bankruptcy. Telltale Games is a stain.

2. Sony Crossplay/Fortnite Account Hostage
Although the issue with Crossplay restrictions existed years before now, it was a revelation that Crossplay was not a technical hurdle for modern games the moment the Nintendo Switch allowed it, it was a Sony hurdle. Fortnite, however, brought the topic of this in the spotlight with the additional knowledge that not only was Sony disallowing Crossplay on their console, they also disallowed a player's Epic Account to be used on console but PS4, effectively locking the progress one made with that account to the PS4, mobile, and PC. It was this and Sony's response to the entire matter, proclaiming that they were the best platform to play these games on anyways and that the matter didn't seem important to them, that would make their reluctant surrender months later all the more awkward.

3. Fallout 76
A promise of open world adventure from Bethesda is once again plagued with glitches, broken promises, and fanciful words of excuse. Fallout 76 was marketed as the first online foray of Fallout much like Elder Scrolls Online did for that series, but from its disastrous beta to its somehow more disastrous release, almost nothing good has come out from Fallout 76. And with an impending criminal investigation on its business practices surrounding the game, the controversy of false advertisements for their collector's editions, and the resulting accidental leak of customer data through their support program, it's a fail that will haunt Bethesda for years to come.

4. Filip Miucin
Not only was his plagiarism under the radar of a lot of big name video game websites for years, but the moment he got caught he did not hide his tail and kept away from the internet to let the controversy simmer down, he instead goaded people to find more evidence that he's done any plagiarism. Which people did, in droves. Not only did it serve to completely undermine any work viability he had left in the industry, but it also resulted in even more scrutiny on an already embattled IGN, who had just fired its EIC earlier that year on counts of sexual harassment.

5. PlayStation Classic
What should have been an obvious slam dunk that would be capitalizing the immense nostalgia and general desire for old PlayStation era gaming and following in the market cashcow trend that Nintendo started with its Classic Minis, Sony put in the bare minimum when it came to its holiday plug-n-play. Not only was the emulation bare-bones and the selection only slightly above average, the decision to use inferior PAL versions of games as well as leaving its open-source emulator un-optimized to the point where other non-PAL games ran worse than on original hardware turned an obvious holiday stocking stuffer to a lukewarm novelty.

Honorable Mention:
Gaming Industry's Rise in Misconduct (Riot Games, Rockstar, Quantic Dream, Telltale, etc.)
Nintendo Switch Online
Diablo Mobile Announcement and Backlash
Command and Conquer Rivals Announcement
Square Enix's Old Guard Collapse
Radical Heights and the Closure of Boss Key
Sony's Mandatory Secondary rating review on Japanese Developers
Sony Exiting E3 after lackluster year of announcements.

 

[Cordy]

1. Fallout 76. Everything surrounding this thing from reveal to pre-release to release has been horrible. I haven't seen 1 good video about it, ughhhhhhh.
2. Diablo Immortal. Man, what can I say? It was a shittttttttt sssshhhhhhooooowwwwwwww.
3. Playstation Classic. Everything seemed good until they announced the games and then it was downhill since.

 

[kurahador]

1. Square-Enix --- hyped up a stream for FFXV DLC only to announce their cancellation and Tabata resignation.

2. Filip Miucin plagiarism --- an IGN reviewer who were caught plagiarizing reviews, try to deny them, got fired and issued a monetized video apology.

3. Telltale Games imploded --- such blatant competence by the management causing all the ppl to lose a job, The Walking Dead final season not completed and bunch interesting projects scrapped.

 

[Deleted member 16908]

1. Fallout 76
A complete failure that will hopefully serve as a wake up call for Bethesda.

 

[casiopao]

1. Ps classic
When u already have a proper template to follow but u F it up so hard. Thats is exactly what PS classic as a product is. The announcement is a truly hype moment for many old Playstation fans however each next news from the next batch of games, no dualshocks to pal version of game on us ps classic is truly a shit storm.

2. Sony censorship fiasco
Sony suddenly acting like they are above the rating board and punishing smaller devs. The worst thing of course is the hassle where jp devs need to report to US branch in english which is not something that should happen to a multination company like Sony.

3. Nintendo Switch Online
After the period of free online on switch and how the paid online period is delayed for further ironing. Nintendo launched its online program which sadly still highly lacking vs many of its competitors. Nintendo probably will keep ironing it, years to come however right now. It is extremely lack luster program.

 

[WeWereGiants]

3. Playstation Classic
- I love that they put SMT Persona on here but with the barebone features, average game library and so many other disappointing features. I'm out.
2. Filip Miucin / IGN Plagiarism
- This one's unforgiveable, single handedly tanked the reputation of IGN and is just an awful way to treat others in your line of work. This still sits with me, It'd be number one but...
1. Fallout 76
- A highly anticipated game that turned out to be an incredibly broken mess that not even playing with friends could make fun.

 

[Paul]

1. Fallout 76

Bethesda continues devolving Fallout franchise from golden standard RPG into looter shooter. FO76 is its final form - half-broken shooter with horrible shooting mechanics. They deserve all the roasting they get and then some.

 

[Zolbrod]

1. Fallout 76. Bethesda screwed up not just with the game itself, but with the collector's edition too. And they ain't even sorry.
2. Sexist culture at Riot Games. Yes, they're taking steps to combat this, but it's clear that the problems go up all the way to the top, so I'm not expecting any changes anytime soon.
3. Filip Miucin. Gets caught for plagiarism, dares people to find more evidence (has he never spent ANY time on the internet?), gets buried in it, half-asses an apology still without actually admitting to what he did. Fuck him.

 

[Xx 720]

1. No pro controller support for Pokemon let's go. It's a fun game, probably in my top 5. But I only play handheld. Forcing motion control/Not letting u use the pro controller sucks. The motion controls aren't accurate enough, especially if the Pokemon are on the sides.

2. Playstation classic. Was going to get one but it's missing too many games and they should of made better controllers.

3. Fallout 76. The Fallout no one asked for, filled with bugs, depressing.

 

[Zem]

1. Nintendo Switch lineup - terrible year after such a great one
2. PS Classic - they did everything wrong
3. Diablo Immortal - come on.

 

[CaviarMeths]

1. RDR2 crunch / Rockstar work culture in general

Putting this as my #1 because it's an actual issue that affects people's lives. We already have the studies to prove that excessive overtime and crunch actually reduces productivity. We have pilot programs assessing the viability of a reduced work week that have had positive results so far. And yet... Rockstar brags about how horrid their working conditions are. Almost as upsetting was the apathy the reports got from gamers, like we're just supposed to accept Industrial Revolution-era working conditions as normal, because that's the way things have always been done. Terrible, regressive attitude to take towards worker's rights and societal advancement.

2. Fallout 76

It kind of feels like Bethesda flew too close to the sun on this one. They have a long history of releasing broken games. This one was significantly more broken than usual, but Bethesda seems to have really thought they could get away with it. Just release it, bro. It's Fallout. People will buy it anyway. Who cares about QA. Just do it and be legends. Bethesda used to be a leader in open world games, but they've fallen so far behind pretty much all of their competitors, none of whom expect community modders to fix their games for them.

3. PS1 Classic

What a mess of a product. The quality is so poor that you could be forgiven for thinking that Sony just went to a torrent site, downloaded some ISOs, and threw them on an open source emulator. After Jim Ryan's comments last year that nobody cares about playing older Playstation games, this really feels like the product that detached corporate execs would throw together over a weekend with the same care and respect for their legacy.

Edit: Looking over other posts in this thread, woof, what a year it's been, hasn't it? Could easily make a top 10 biggest fails of the year.

 

[AdaWong]

1- Fallout 76 -- I mean, lol

2- Capcom and RE2make Ada Leaks -- Every single RE2 leak that had Capcom issuing DMCA notices and copyright strikes has involved Ada, no one can contain her.

3- Nintendo Switch Online -- ????

4- Smash Grinch Leak -- The whole "TEAM REAL" vs. "TEAM FAKE" thing was so cringe.

5- PS Classic -- Including inferior versions of games, questionable selection, using a fanmade emulator, the half-assed fuckery involved. A mess.

6- Telltale's Walking Dead S4 Shitshow -- People paid for a full season and they will only get 2 episodes. The RADNOMNESS of the news breaking out of nowhere. The fact that the employees had no idea.

 

[SpaceRipperStingyEyes]

1. Fallout 76 - Piece of shit that Bethesda should feel bad about.
2. Diablo Immortal - What a shit show. But at least it's mobile trash you can hand wave away. 4 is probably a thing at least.
3. PS Classic - Copying Nintendo poorly. How.

 

[Darkstorne]

1. Fallout 76 - Bethesda tripled their team size and took three years to produce... a glorified asset flip with less content than any of their previous games and more bugs. There's definitely a big story behind why this game happened at all (especially when Prey 2 and Battlecry were Bethesda games cancelled for not meeting quality standards) but for now we'll have to make do with simply vilifying its existence.

2. Diablo Immortal - A clone of a Chinese cash grab mobile game, announced as the big finale at a hardcore PC gamer show. Blizzard has no idea who their fans are any more.

3. Filip Miucin - A guy who made a career out of plagiarism, and then tried denying it in the most shameful ways possible. It was tempting to make this my number 1, but Bethesda and Blizzard are such huge companies they deserve the top spots for dropping the ball so hard.

 

[Pokémon]

1. PlayStation Classic - bland game list, bad emulation (open-source emulator lol) and 50 Hz PAL games just aren't acceptable. I still have no idea who at Sony thought that releasing the product in such a shape was a good idea.

2. Filip Miucin plagiarism - Plagiarism is a no-go, especially not on the biggest gaming site.

3. Square-Enix - first the uninspiring E3 livestream and then the infamous FFXV livestream a few weeks ago which has been hyped up just to announce that DLC is canceled and Tabata gone. Like that's one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen.

 

[Ximonz]

1. Fallout 76: It is still shocking how a well respected, triple A company with lots of experience and resource can output such low effort, poorly made product.
2. PS classic: The whole thing is a shit show, quick cash grab with little effort as possible.
3. Diablo Immortal: not the game itself but the reveal of the game on the Blizzcon is terribly handled

 

[SalvaPot]

1. PS Classic - I never got the chance to play this games when I was younger and I was really excited to finally try it, but the news and the constant troubles deflated my hype.
2. Filip Miucin. The plagiarims of that little Grubby, as he dared the internet to catch him at it, and that the internet did in spectacular fashion. Quite tasty.

 

[Azoor]

1. Fallout 76. Bethesda earned a good will in the past few years and they burned it all with releasing what is essentially an asset flip of Fallout 4 that doesn't even work. Not to mention how they falsley adveterized the $200 collectors edition with the buyers receive a nylon bag instead of the advertised canvas bag.

As bad as the PS classic is, at least Sony was mostly honest about it.

 

[MiguelBañón]

1. Fallout 76. This is easily up there with Mass Effect Andromeda as one of the most high profile disasters in recent history, except there's really nothing salvageable about the experience. Only reason Bethesda doesn't get this vote as a whole is because Doom Eternal and Rage 2 announcements looked extremely good.
2. Playstation Classic. Sony were practically handed a blueprint for success after the NES and SNES Classic. Their failure in delivering on that front - especially after PS4 just doesn't want to provide on a proper backward compatibility - is a stark reminder of how much this company really doesn't care that much about its legacy.
3. Telltale Games. A monument to hubris, they lived long enough to see themselves become the villain.

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Basically this. If I could ad points 4 and 5 they'd be Nintendo Switch line up and Michael Patcher -he has to be in all years' tops of failures-

 

[Savantcore]

1. Rockstar's work culture
The human cost of making games is absolutely ridiculous. These are playthings - they don't deserve years of torturous hard work, sending people into depression and worse. It's horrible that it's just accepted as part of the industry.

2. Fallout 76
There's nothing I can say here that hasn't been said a hundred times over already. A good premise done in just about the worst possible way.

3. PlayStation Classic
How do you take such an easy win and cock it up so massively? Sony could have had a blockbuster console on their hands for the holiday but they've skimped out massively and deserve what they get for doing so.