2018’s Disappointments of the Year

The Player 2 team looks back at 2018 and points out the games that failed to live up to our expectations.

[UltraNova]

For the first time ever you only need to list one, just one game on the annual "Most dissapointing" list because this year we had a game that encapsulated all that is wrong with games and developers these days.

Namely: Complacent - taking their fans for granted and never improving, well on anything. Arrogant - Release a barren, incomplete game so far removed of what previous entries offered at full price knowing that today's gamer is conditioned to suck it up and wait for them to "finish it later". Lying: See E3 Bethesda press event for more.

Bethesda is the most dissapointing gaming aspect of 2018, by far.

[PhantomS42]

I applaud the bravery at saying RDR2 is disappointing. Fanboys and a lot of the press outlets are giving it a free pass because it's a R* game and are never able to argue the valid criticism that people bring up about the game and why it's disappointing. While games like Fallout 76, Sea of Thieves, and Metal Gear Survive were just pure abominations and far worse than RDR2, you can't be disappointed in games that we all knew were going to be terrible from the beginning.

To add, I'm pretty shocked at how disappointed people are with the PSOne Classic. I didn't get one myself but seeing how many people were upset and the reasons why just makes it look like Sony really didn't put much effort into it.

[UltraNova]

Well put. The PS Classic was a dissapointment, no question about it. Sony shouldn't have released it as is.

[neutralgamer1992]

That's right RDR2 isn't the best game of 2018. What's truly sad is the fact most journalists only care about being on good terms with publishers and developers

It's their jobs to be objective and subjective at the same time but instead they are the first ones to buy into hype and than spread their hype on to others by writing articles or releasing videos

RDR2 needs some major patches because the potential is there to make it one of the best games ever released

Fix the fast travel

Eliminate the long drawn out animations to Loot it skin animals from 6 seconds to milliseconds

Let us carry all our guns like I'm RDR

Make our horse magically Soper when we whistle

Overall make the gameplay and controls more responsive

Look it's a game make it fun. Realism shouldn't come at cost of fun

[UltraNova]

Allow running in camp, patch in a proper HDR outpout, make the horses more...durable, make hunting and gathering to unlock vital equipment upgrades less of a grind...I could go on. RDR2 is far from the perfect game every one and their jizzed up pants want us to believe.

[neutralgamer1992]

ultra

yes they don't need to make single player aspect filled with grind

[bluefox755]

Agreed. I don't hate the game, just a little disappointed, so far at least., I'm only about 5 hours in. Was kinda hoping it would pull me in more. The fanboys are some of the worst I've seen though. God forbid you point out some of the game's issues that the press almost completely ignored (this irritated me most of all), lest you be branded a heretic.