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VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "In a year that was to a large extent carried by the game developers of Japan (and to some extent China), western games can rejoice that there was at least one category they managed to dominate: that of Most Disappointing. Sometimes disappointment comes from high expectations met with something middling, other times it comes from middling expectations met with something terrible. This year managed to deliver a bit of both, so either way there was enough disappointment to go around."
Why not mention the 19,000 Steam games of which 80% weren't good enough to merit "success" on the platform?
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Because the very *definition* of disappointment requires one has some kind of expectation for it. Concord was hoping to find its own niche in the crowded 'hero shooter' market, with ~8 years of development, $100 million+ funding, and marketable talent behind it, and went belly up in 2 lousy weeks. That's historical for a live-service game.
It's become a drinking game at this point. Disappointing games? It's the same games in every article with a similar title. Does no one have an original thought anymore?
@thorstein
**It's the same games in every article with a similar title.**
Because it's the same year? The games that got launched is a constant fact for everyone. And if the game was universally disappointing, then obviously everyone would echo the same thing.
Do you want for originality some writer would write up that instead of Concord and Outlaws, Silent Hills 2 was the most disappointing game, right? Coz, that'd be considered a click-bait article then.
And emphasis on the word "disappointing" games, not general bad games.
Veilguard was easily the most disappointing game of the year.
Highest expectation with Highest disappointment
Concord was just the biggest failure.
In fact it was not very disappointing.
Almost as expected.
@LordoftheCritics I disagree about Vailguard being the most disappointing game of the year. Going into the launch of that game, 90% of the comments I was seeing from this community were negative. Many also wanted the game to fail.
In my opinion, for a game to be disappointing, it would mean the game was highly anticipated for success going into the launch of the game only to bomb in the reviews and fail commercially.
I would say Hellblade 2 claims this title. I haven't played any of the games in the series as yet, however, the hate that game received was on another level. I am not sure if it was fanboys that felt threatened by it being the best-looking console game on the market or if the criticisms about it being a boring game were valid. I haven't played these walking games before so put it off since it doesn't seem to be my cup of tea.
Those 19,000 games have 80%. Dragon age is sitting at 70%, Star wars is at 75% and falling, Lego Horizon adventures is at 56%, Skull and Bones 65% and Concord was DOA. This would mean these games didn't even crack the top 19,000.
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This sounds like a great update. Today, Ubisoft announced the launch of Skull and Bones’ third season, “Into the Dragon’s Wake” in which players will face the formidable fleets of Li Tian Ning and Commander Zhang.
I guess they took the last year to pretty much just upgrade graphics. I'm not mistaken that this is pretty much an MP survival game, right? Like Rust or Age of Conan, just at sea?
I get that Ubi has a deal with the Singapore Government to release this but why they are dragging their feet on just releasing it, getting the bad reviews, lost revenue etc and just moving on is beyond me... nothing they do can make this some huge success beloved by all with top review scores.
Take the L, move on!
This was a cool idea 10 years ago when it was supposed to ride off of AC: Black Flags ship mechanic. Now it's just an embarrasment. Cancel it or release and move on.
How to say that you havent learned shit or taking in anything of the critisism from people without actually saying it.
Pirate ships with mortars, torpedoes and flamers... lol... what a complete joke.
What if they had taken the sailing and learning aspect from that from SEA OF THIEVES and just added cannons to it with destructible boats etc. Much like Assasins Creed Black Flag but with some extra "sailing" things.
Btw these guys gonna take over Black Flag Remaster... jesus christ if all i have to say about that.
Everything I've seen on this game just looks so.......unappealing. Generic even...