In 2020, the various 3A masterpieces are full, and many players are excited. However, whether a game is fun or not, only after the release can you experience it. Marvel’s Avengers, Godfall Fallen Gods, and The Last of Survivors 2 were all expected, but in the end, they all had their flaws. Although there are many great games in 2020, 10 games may be the most disappointing for players. Perhaps the gap after the game experience is too significant.
From a gaming perspective, 2020 is one of the unique years fans may have seen. Although the global epidemic may shift other attention to some extent, many major 3A versions have been launched this year, and surprising indie games have been released.
Besides, in 2020, Microsoft and Sony also released two brand new game consoles. Although the launch process was not smooth due to shortages and problems, they could gain the favor of Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 fans.
Although there are many highs in 2020, there are also lows for this year. Many of the following games exceeded expectations, but they did not meet expectations at the time of release, making them the ten most disappointing games in 2020, in no particular order.
Marvel Avengers
Following the unprecedented success of Insomniac’s PS4 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man, SquareEnix and Crystal Dynamics showcased multiple platforms in the exciting crowd at E3 2019.
Learn from other heist shooting games such as Destiny and Borderlands. After completing the mission, players will play iconic heroes such as Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, gain new loot to become stronger, And use new skills to customize heroes and other forms of progress.
On the surface, everything sounds very promising, but the actual content released did not meet fans' expectations. Although many people like each hero's story and feeling, after the event, once the field service staff took over, the game began to suffer.
To make matters worse, the team was forced to work from home due to the California wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic, which delayed the content expected to be released shortly after the game was released. However, this was clearly due to the state of the world rather than the game itself.
Although the first Operation Pack is scheduled to be released on December 8, the game has suffered huge losses due to experience, errors, and a general lack of work. In fact, since its launch in September, the number of people in the game has fallen by 96%, so the PC fan base seems to continue to grow.
SquareEnix’s latest quarterly financial report confirmed a loss of 6.5 billion yen to make matters worse, and the game only sold 60% of the company’s expectations.
Although it is still possible to save Marvel's "Avengers," especially with the upcoming free DLC, Crystal Dynamic needs to do some work to achieve it.
Godfall
After being announced at the 2019 Game Awards, Godfall is still one of the first next-generation games announced, undoubtedly attracting PlayStation fans.
Unlike many other RPG-style games, it does not use a typical career-based system. Instead, it enables players to switch between 12 different Valorplates, which changes the player's appearance and provides various benefits.
Players can further customize their characters through various items, choose between different weapon types, and, inspired by the Dark Soul game, fight enemies through other worlds based on elements such as water, earth, and air.
Part of what makes Godfall frustrated is marketing, which usually releases weird short game clips but lacks the core game details that many fans want to know.
Unfortunately, after the game was released, the game received the best lumpy comments from critics and fans due to the unforgettable story. The gameplay redesigned and reused the mission's content, and Valorplates did not Make it feel different in visual appearance.
Although most people think that fighting is the highlight of the game, "Fall of the Gods" also suffers from many technical problems, including frame rate drops, various errors, and a wholly crashed game, which will only further drag down the game experience.
Warcraft 3 Remake
For many fans, the classic RTS game "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos" is the most popular series. Considering that it helps spawn the famous "World of Warcraft" MMO, most people have a high opinion of this game. Therefore, when Blizzard announced the remake in 2018, fans were very excited. Blizzard promised to provide all-new visual effects, revised characters, new features, and a story that has been partially reworked to better suit World of Warcraft.
After being postponed to 2020, fans' games lacked many promised features, poor design choices, and technical issues. The fans' response was incredible and triggered a large-scale censorship bomb campaign, which eventually made "Warcraft 3 Remake" the lowest-ranked game on Metacritic in user ratings. This achievement continued until a few months later. "Madman Rugby 21" comes out.
Fans were not only upset about the mistakes and missing features that Blizzard promised after the game was released but they also completely redesigned the user interface, which was also severely criticized.
To make matters worse, all original copies of "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos" were forced to update to the new version due to the Reforged shared game's client interface. In turn, this makes many Refrigerd gameplay decisions primitive decisions.
Blizzard also announced that it would require ownership of user-created content created in the Reforged editor, criticized. Blizzard issued an apology and a full refund for the matter, but the damage has been caused.
Crucible
One of the wildest rides in 2020 comes from Amazon Game Studios. Trying to break into the online role shooter game market, Crucible represents the first original major platform game in the Amazon gaming department.
Players can choose from different heroes with their abilities and enter various goal-based game modes. Another feature that Amazon relies on is that Crucible can play games for free on Steam, hoping to attract players' attention.
After its release in May, the game finally failed to catch up with fans, was hardly marketed or popularized by players, and quickly attracted 100-200 concurrent players. The developers unexpectedly announced that a month later, because the studio believed that Crucible was launched too early and lacked many essential features, Crucible would return to Beta status.
After the game was not released and pushed back to the beta version, the situation did not improve. Developer Relentless Studios announced in October that the team had made a difficult decision to terminate development on Crucible.
The statement did not mention the specific reasons for the decision. Still, it did indicate that the studio could not find a healthy or sustainable future for Crucible, and the server would be permanently shut down on November 9.
XIII
When Microids and PlayMagic announced a new version of Ubisoft classic, the most popular shooting game with fans since 2003 came back to life in 2019. One of the original game's outstanding features is the comic-style visual effects, which refers to the comics of the same name that the game originated in 1984. The game was initially scheduled to be released later in 2019 but was delayed for an additional year of development time.
Although excited about the modern version of XIII, the final product may be worse than anyone thought. The most significant change is the artistic style, which essentially removes the original character's personality and replaces the character models with transparent shadowed character models, which look more at home in games like Fortnite. However, the game has also suffered from outstanding technical issues and errors, which will only further drag down the experience, including bad AI behavior, visual pop-up windows, etc.
This thing went so badly, PlayMagic and Microids issued a joint statement to apologize to the fans and promise to repair the game. Ironically, the original 2003 version quickly sold the remake in the first week.
NBA 2K21
In recent years, fans of the 2K series of sports games have found many problems plaguing the game. From the off-road vehicles of WWE 2K20 to the current NBA 2K games, it seems that they attach great importance to microtransactions while continuing to introduce a large number of technologies, problems, and errors.
Some people hope that this year's NBA game can reverse the team's business situation, thanks in large part to the next-generation version of NBA 2K21 is built from the ground up and brings all-new features such as city mode.
After the release, fans found that NBA 2K21 again fell short of expectations. Fans have already added up to the price of $70, but people paid more attention to the game after the release than things like visual effects. After the game was launched, the range meter received a lot of criticism, including the Portland Trail Blazers cover star Damian Lillard.
The next-generation version has ads that cannot be skipped. WNBA players cannot use a new stand-out mode called NBA 2K21 City, and individual character models such as Andrew Wiggins of the Golden State Warriors continue to receive attention. With the popularity of social media, fan frustration reached a boiling point in November.
Madden NFL 21
The user rating that eventually prompted players to abolish "Warcraft 3: Reforged Edition" is the lowest on Metacritic, which is shocking. This year, fans gathered with Madden NFL 21, and according to Madden 21 US NPD data, the game finally became the best-selling game in August. However, this fact has not stopped fans from calling for EA because many believe that EA lacks an annual football championship title.
After its release in August, fans immediately noticed various errors, lack of retouching, and game issues, including player model malfunctions, strange physics issues, and performance issues. To make matters worse, due to the lack of new story content and significant game enhancements to the fan’s favorite Madden 21 franchise model, fans have gained the trend of NFL Drop EA hashtags on Twitter and are supported by many shared game clips. These experiences show how weird this experience is.
Although EA is slowly updating the game in the hope of reducing or eliminating many of these problems, the specially launched next-generation version of Madden NFL 21 (priced at $70) has only resolved the dispute. This new version is unlikely to contain many required features, so in essence, EA requires fans to make some upgrades when buying the game, but there are still many core defects in the current product. Fortunately, fans who have already purchased the game can upgrade to the next-generation game for free, so this $70 game's appeal may only be for new players.
Disintegration
Although this is the first release of the developer V1 Interactive, the studio's pedigree gives fans great hope that Disintegration is comparable to some of the best sci-fi shooters such as Halo. The main reason is that Marcus Lehto, the former Bungie developer, and Halo co-founder, led this new studio together with other industry talents.
Disintegration guarantees a sci-fi story about a group of criminals trying to prevent a futuristic radical organization from forcing the last remaining human to go through a process called "integration," which transfers the human brain into the robot body to reduce resources on the earth Demand. When viewed from a first-person perspective, the player will be in a chariot called Gravcycle to engage the enemy and issue commands to the allies below. Therefore, Disruption combines first-person shooters with real-time strategy elements.
For all the media reports that the game received before its release, the emergence of Disintegration did not cause much sensation. Reviews on the game are mostly mixed, and many people say that although this is an exciting idea, the experience does not reach its potential, and it feels a bit superficial.
Many characters are one-dimensional, the hub space is a bit boring, and ultimately, the game feels untidy in certain areas. To make matters worse, the game’s population seems to dry up quickly, significantly affecting the multiplayer game components. A few months after its launch, V1 Interactive announced that multiplayer support would soon be terminated, and it will finally come to an end on November 17.
Fast And Furious Crossroads
Since 2003, the Fast And Furious series has been developed for many years, and now it has grown into a profitable behemoth. The recent two mainline movies have earned more than $1 billion in global box office revenue, making them highly sought-after properties. Considering that this is ultimately the privilege of driving fast, inexpensive cars, it is well suited for video games. When "Fast And Furious Crossroads" was announced at the 2019 Game Awards, fans were naturally excited. Slightly Mad Studios developed the game. Slightly Mad Studios is known for its racing pedigrees such as Project Cars and Need for Speed Shift.
Then it’s a bit strange that Fast And Furious Crossroads has published a general negative comment from critics and fans, and many people call it the worst game of 2020. Unlike the movie series that is part of the game, Crossroads lacks the excitement and excitement of drama. Exciting moments, most games become simple and boring. Equally to no avail, the game's visual effects seem to be outdated, and many critics compare it to mobile games. Besides, the title has many problems, including the difficulty of displaying the car's camera on the screen, low control, and uninspiring mission design.
Cookstar
The Cookstar series took off in 2006 and first appeared on the Nintendo DS. The gameplay revolves around using a touchscreen-based screen according to the character’s mother's instructions, asking the player to cook various foods. The franchise has exploded and has reached 14 different games, sometimes involving gardening, babysitting, and camping. This year, Nintendo Switch launched its sixth mainline cooking game, but things quickly disappeared.
Only a few hours after the release, a legal disagreement between the developer Planet Entertainment and the IP holder Office Create removed Cookstar from the Nintendo eShop. What puzzles many people is that Cookstar’s release has no public announcements or press releases, causing many people to question the game's authenticity. Office Create publicly condemned the breach of contract and accused developers of terminating their license to use IP before releasing the product.