During the current year 2023, which is about to end, we witnessed the introduction of a large and diverse number of huge (AAA) games, including horror, adventure, action, open world, racing, and much more, which made this year one of the best years in the history of the gaming industry, along with 2018 and 2015, but despite that, nothing is perfect and you will always find something bad, and this applies to the gaming industry because you will not find a year that contains only good games, but there will of course be bad games.
This matter, of course, happened during the current year 2023 as well, as many bad games were released that were subjected to harsh criticism from critics and the public alike, because those games were expected to be successful, but they disappointed the audience, such as the game RedFall From Arkane Studio, which gave us the Dishonored series of shooting games and the game The prophesied PlayStation 5 exclusive, in cooperation between the Japanese companies Sony and Square Enix, and let us not forget Call of Duty Modern Warfare III. Since there are only two weeks left until the end of 2023, today we will present to you the most prominent games that disappointed the audience during the current year. So let’s go!
The Day Before: 2023’s latest bad game
The Day Before game presentations suggested to us that it would be one of the best open-ended games of the year in history, or at least one of the best this year, which is what I personally thought at first. But for a moment it seems to be just a hoax! Yes, this game, from the first moment you watch it, you will think that it is wonderful, but when you examine the presentations, you will notice that it is perhaps a trick, as you will see that the gameplay clips do not come sequentially, but rather move from one area to another or between some different stages in a strange way, as if they were made with montage programs and not Screenshots from inside a real game ready to play.
What is even more strange is that this game took some things from other games, especially The Last of Us and The Division, and the studio placed them inside the game world, which is what you will also notice when you check the presentations. What has confirmed the certainty that this game is just a hoax is that it was postponed several times, as it was supposed to be released in 2022, and now it has been released at the end of the current year 2023. With the release, all doubts were already confirmed, as it received a rating of 1/10 from some critics, in addition to receiving hundreds or even thousands of negative reviews from players through the Steam store, and the number of its players quickly decreased from 38 thousand to 5 thousand, reaching only 600 players today.
A few days later, the studio confirmed all doubts about it and announced the failure of The Day Before game, not only a failure in terms of ratings or player numbers, but also a financial failure, which… Fntastic studio was forced to close its doors He apologized in full to the players and returned the money in cooperation with the Steam store to the players who wished to do so, which confirms to us that it is just a hoax and the most failed game of 2023 after it was initially expected to succeed.
The Walking Dead Destinies: Joke of the Year
If you are looking for a game that is like a joke that you laugh at every time you play it, you should know, my friend, that you are in the right place, because at the beginning of November 2023, the publishing company Gamemill Entertainment launched a new game adapted from the famous The Walking Dead series under the title The Walking. Dead Destinies, when we try it, we will be surprised that it is bad in all its aspects and is like a joke, and perhaps it would have won the award for best joke in 2023 if such an award existed.
First, let’s talk about the cinematic clips, which are considered the biggest disaster in the game and the most provocative thing in it. In the cinematic scenes, the characters are frozen in place as if they were mere idols. Even when speaking, they do not move their mouths or anything in their faces, which is the most funny and strange thing at the same time, and even provocative for those who paid money in this game.
I refuse to believe The Walking Dead: Destinies is an actual game. I’m convinced it’s an elaborate prank by the developers to see if anyone actually takes it seriously. pic.twitter.com/2aRxPk6s14
— GmanLives (@GmanLives) November 18, 2023
The gameplay had its share of badness as well, as it seemed very strange and annoying. As you can see above, the aiming seems strange, the way the character runs and moves, the way he evades, and fights enemies manually. Everything in this game seems very strange and bad, even the movement of non-playable characters is very strange, and even the graphics of some PlayStation 2 games are better than this game’s graphics. All those bad things in the game made players think that it was just a prank by the developers. All of these bad elements made the game receive an average rating of 29% on Metacritic and an average rating of 2.7/10 from players, making it the worst game of 2023, if not the worst ever.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3: the worst in the series!
This year’s Call of Duty was one of the most awaited games of the year for players who love first-person shooter games, especially since it is part of a series of iconic and historical games and belongs to the Modern Warfare trilogy, as it completes the Modern Warfare reboot through this year’s part, and what increased enthusiasm Players are more confident that it will witness the return of the Russian villain and criminal Vladimir Makarov, but despite all this enthusiasm, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 has disappointed all fans of the series.
The game was originally just additional content (DLC) for the game Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, which was released in 2022, but Activision turned it into a full game at a price of $70, which was developed in approximately a year and a half, which led to its release with a shorter story that could be completed in 4 hours. Hours of boring stages recreated from previous games and the slow pace of events, in addition to the poor introduction of a character the size of Makarov. This is relative For the game’s story As for the multiplayer modes, there is nothing new or significantly different from the previous part, if we ignore the zombie mode, which is the best element in the game.
All of these negatives made the game not worth the price of $70 and it received disastrous ratings that reached 56% on Metacritic, making it the worst rating in the history of the series. However, the game achieved good sales and is played by a good number of players, so it is not this disastrous.
Lord of the Rings: Gollum
At the end of May 2023, the German game development studio Daedalic Entertainment presented its first game adapted from the Lord of the Rings series of novels, which was about the character Gollum, one of the most important characters in the world of The Lord of the Rings, who had never had a game of his own before, which excited the players a lot, especially fans of the series. Famous narrators.
With the launch of The Lord Of The Rings Gollum, it became clear that it had many problems, including a weak story and poor gameplay, which suffered from repetition in the stealth and barco system, which are the basis of the game, in addition to weak artificial intelligence, and the poor graphic level cannot be forgotten. All of this caused the game to receive an average rating of 34% from critics, which made the studio cancel the second part of it and decide to move away from development and focus on publishing games only after the game failed.
RedFall: A disappointment for Xbox gamers
Xbox also had its share of bad games. During this year, owners of Xbox platforms and fans of Arkane Studio games, especially fans of Dishonored, were excited about one of the most important Xbox exclusives for the year 2023, which is the first-person shooter game RedFall, and the reason for their enthusiasm is the wonderful gameplay and the fact that it was developed by The same studio developed Dishonored, but in the end it disappointed all of these players and presented a mediocre, substandard story with weak artificial intelligence and mediocre technical performance. It seems like all the bad games this year share the same problems!
Despite all the problems with which the game was released, which made it one of the worst games of the year and because of which it received an average rating of 56% from critics, it is not disastrous and can be considered good, especially since the studio tried to fix most of its problems with various updates. It is also fun with your friends and is available on Xbox Game Pass means that you do not have to pay its full price to try it and it can be played at a nominal price, which means that it is considered an acceptable game, nothing more and nothing less.
The prophesied
At the beginning of January of this year, Square Enix, in cooperation with Sony, prepared to release one of the games that caught the spotlight during promotions due to its fast gameplay and distinctive magical abilities, which is the open world game Forspoken. With its release, it presented the same fast gameplay and abilities that we saw in the game’s presentations. It presented fun, enthusiastic battles, but it disappointed in other aspects, causing it to face a huge amount of criticism and get many negative reviews, whether from players or critics, especially since it comes at a price of $70, to eventually get an average rating of 64%!
The reasons for Forspoken receiving a negative rating like this are not related to the gameplay, as it offers a fairly enjoyable gameplay, but most of the reasons are related to the story and the main character, “Fry”, as it presents an ordinary story in which the characters are almost not paid attention to, with the side character considered the most annoying. In gaming, this is with an almost empty world with almost nothing much to do except fight, as well as over-the-top operating specs that don’t offer a super graphic level.
Although its development cost about 70 million dollars, all of the above reasons were enough to make it fail to collect the required profits, which made Square Enix dismantle the developer Luminous Productions and include all its employees in the company’s internal studios, and later the price of the game was reduced by up to 90%. %, bringing its price to only $10 in the hope of achieving some profits. Earlier, an add-on called “In Tanta We Trust” was launched for the game, which improved it well.
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This was our list of games that dashed players’ hopes during the current year 2023, and of course there were many bad games, but in this list we presented to you the most prominent bad games that were greatly attacked and sparked widespread controversy at the time of release.
