Topic: Biggest Disappointment in Gaming in 2024

So we another year has coming and gone and everyone tends to do there best game of 2024 but what was your biggest disappointment in 2024? Was it a game you played for the first time? Was it the delay of a game or piece of gaming equipment? How about an announcement for a game. Let's talk about our greatest gaming disappoiments in 2024

Mine would have to be Borderlands 3. I never played this game until this year mainly because of the lack of vertical split screen upon launch and then just getting busy with other games. With the news of 4 releasing next year I figured it was a good time to play it.

I was a huge fan of 1 and 2 but 3 was just lacking for me. First off the characters weren't as memorable as the ones from 1 or 2. The vault hunters were just bland and the main villians were just annoying. I liked the fact that the vilian was acting like a Youtuber that I got a kick with but to me they just seem to me like they were trying to hard to be Handsome Jack.

As for the story there wasn't much,.at least for me it was just go to this planet and get this before the twins not exactly the most engrossing story and after the third planet, it just felt the same no variety unlike 2. I ended up dropping the game after awhile and haven't gone back. I am still interested in 4 but that's another story.

So that was my greatest disappointment in gaming in 2024

The PS5 Pro was the biggest disappointment for me this year. Unnecessary product and the equivalent of misused resources.

My biggest disappointment hands down was Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Not awful by any means but the more I keep thinking about it the more baffled and frustrated I am by how Acquire seriously thought they were making good creative decisions when all they just did was sap away everything that made the series great in a poorly designed, unfunny and overpadded package. It's a so-so Mario RPG and a bad Mario & Luigi game. The Sticker Star of its series, and given that the previous mainline title was Paper Jam, that's saying a lot.

@Dev1024 that's of course if Sony doesn't buy out their parent company.

@N00BiSH Pretty sure if Sony did buy the company, Nintendo would just get another studio to make it.

@Tasuki that just means there's a slightly higher probability that any new devs will have a better grasp of making a new installment.

Only disappointments for me was Luigi's Mansion 2 HD & Paper Mario: TYD. The former I didn't really buy since it was my brother's & he let have it since he was done with it. Plus, it didn't feel any different from the 3DS version.

The latter I just suddenly lost motivation upon reaching CH.6 Don't know why...I just didn't wanna go any further.

Probably Final Fantasy XII. I had heard a ton of hype for this game since release, and considering the difficulties the series would have after it, it always seemed to me (and other people to an extent) like the last hurrah of quality Final Fantasy for like a decade+, Realm Reborn aside.

Considering the backlash the cringier elements of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, this feels like the first "scared to be made fun of by the internet" media. Where instead of trying something, you make everything as safe as you reasonably can. Which is why instead of being embarrassing like FF X-2, its instead...boring. I know in reality its probably more just trying to appeal to a more grounded, slightly more realistic fantasy story, but it does still really come across as something scared to be the other Final Fantasy games or Kingdom Hearts. From the outside XVI seems fairly similar to me, if a bit darker. Or maybe XII just isn't great at making its characters charming, I dunno.

Not overall, its an enjoyable video game, as is presumably the gameplay parts of FF X-2 are. But there just wasn't a lot to latch onto for story, which is a big issue for a Final Fantasy. Everything was fine to good, and not much was great. Compared to FFX, which has some fantastic and some terrible elements. Normally I prefer a consistent good quality over dealing with terrible stuff to get to great stuff, but this was a bit too lacking overall of much to get excited about or care about the second I finished it.

And considering how I'm pretty certain the flash forward ability was added for the remaster, I can't even imagine how repetitive and slow it felt in the original.

(my actual disappointment of the year are the many stupid and terrible decisions made by AAA western game publishers, but that's no fun to talk about, and I think only Xbox really surprised me by their bad decisions)

The best way is not to expect anything, that way, you can't be disappointed

@Princess_Lilly what if I'm disappointed because I wasn't properly disappointed? What then?

_{what then?}

Honestly I'm inclined to agree with @N00BiSH. Out of the games I was most excited for and ended up disappointed in after playing, it was pretty much Brothership. It sucks because I genuinely wanted to love the game- as we haven't had a Mario and Luigi game in so many years.. however with every interview and through playing the game myself, it's clear that the dev team genuinely has no clue what the series was originally supposed to be- and yet they act like they somehow cracked the code.

Out of the other games I've played this year though, I genuinely can't think of anything more disappointing than that.

@kkslider5552000 The reason XVI probably feels similar to XII is because the devs of XIV and XVI are huge fans of the Ivalice games. Tactics, Final Fantasy XII, and I think one other game series that was also set in Ivalice.

To me, I personally didn't like XVI- so I don't think I'll click well with XII either. I've heard it was good, but I can't stomach another game with "Ultima" in it after how bad XVI's Ultima is.

I suppose my biggest disappointment was that Switch 2 didn't come out this year 😆 It's hard to remember but back in January 2024 a lot of us thought it would be here by now.

Kind of related, although I wasn't exactly disappointed by any games, the constant Switch chant of 'good game but worse because of performance issues' on most third party and even many first party games has gotten tiring. I'm not much of a performance snob but it's been obvious even to me that the experience on a lot of games is less good than it really should be.

Same with @NOOBISH and
@VoidofLight = M+L Brothership I am afraid. While by no means bad, it is not great when considering that it came in a period spanning 12 months that saw the release of both a Mario RPG and a TTYD remake. Sure, a different sub series, but they share DNA.

Something about the writing is just bland, the flow never lets you get going for long, and it has more padding than a mattress factory.

The battle mechanics are fun! But getting them to the full potential takes a very long time. Plus, THAT dancing game.

A good enough game, but not a great Mario and Luigi game. I sunk a stupid amount of hours across 7 weeks to beat it, but more just because I wanted it out of the way. I wanted to scream when it just kept adding and adding to the run time. I wish I had bought it physical, as I would happily sell it now.

The Plucky Squire. The 2D segments had good puzzles, but felt way too linear for a clear Zelda homage. The 3D segments just didn’t do anything interesting at all, and basically amounted to walk down corridor->One-shot enemies->Repeat.

@N00BiSH well, what a question. Let me think

so if you are not disappointed enough, wouldn't the disappointment from that fill the gap, making you not disappointed anymore, thus creating a paradox?

I tend to disregard and forget mediocre or bad experiences. But running into a game breaking bug in Potion Permit hurt a little bit. About twenty hours in, I was genuinely having a good time, and then I suddenly couldn't treat patients anymore. So I moved on.

Eh, I tend to take every year/game as it comes so nothing's ever a crushing disappointment.

PS5 continues to be a rather disappointing console though. I'm sure I'll enjoy Astro Bot...but really Sony, is that all you could deliver this year? 4 years into your console?

Nintendo didn’t bring back the old dead franchises that I wanted so that means the world is ending, obviously

Where’s my new f zero ultimate with all returning racers and 6 dlc packs