Flinthook, Dead Cells, Owlboy, and Nuclear Throne. What do these games have in common besides all being indie titles? Characters for each one of these games and more are playable in the new crossover fighting game Bounty Battle from Dark Screen Games. Although bringing all these indies together for a game is rather ambitious, so far Erroll found Bounty Battle to be rather disappointing.
Phil writes, "It's an annual tradition at SuperPhillip Central's year-end award show to talk about the best and brightest in gaming each and every year. It's also an annual tradition that we take the good with the bad--the yin with the yang, if you will--and publish one less-than-stellar category to have your game nominated for, and that's SPC's Most Disappointing Games of the year. 2020 is no different--save for a grotesque pandemic threatening all of us, of course--so the SuperPhillip Central Best of 2020 Awards rolls on with the games that didn't live up to the hype, as the kids say, didn't live up to their potential, or were just plain bad! Here are the list of "winners" as we count down the Top Five Most Disappointing Games of 2020."
Wild guess: cyberpunk is number 1. Not even clicking. I just know this was written largely as a cover to complain about cyberpunk. Am I right? Be honest now, dearie.
From a business point it doesn't make sense, but they should have avoided releasing Cyberpunk for PS4/XB1.
CD Projekt after years and years of impeccable reputation, all went down the drain for a bad console port...
Ah the Avengers game, initially started off looking rough with character faces and low gamer excitement. The devs worked on the faces and tried to make thr game look more exciting, still really no takers. Now the fame has released and is a wasteland will little to no players dying a slow painful death.
"...and while the execution was off-putting, the numerous bugs and glitches, matchmaking errors at launch, and painful progression meant that the player base vanished as quickly as a snap from Thanos' fingers."
Bu... bu... but crossplay play tho, it will swoop in and save the day replenishing dead servers with players from other platform, it will bring seperate universes together for one great gaming community. So I ask where are all these people now who were championing crossplay, why are multiplayer games still dying?
TGG says: "A game that brought together so many fantastic indie game characters to fight it out has no business being as rough as this is."
Guacamelee, Owlboy, Dead Cells..... wow, way to really drag some gem indies through the mud!
Player 2 discovers a cool idea completely let down by terrible execution.