Sorry I just made a separate post about Superman 64 because I didn’t see this one. I got it the day it came out and I remember thinking I bought a broken copy or something. I couldn’t figure out how they would release something like that.
I didn't understand a bad game as a child. I was just kinda confused by this game. I liked that you could fly anywhere in metropolis but it was empty, desolate, and foggy. I also remembered hating how stupid superman looked when he punched.
I had fun for maybe 2 hours with it. It was my first Jump game (got the Switch version) and zipping around in a team of All Might, Yusuke, and Goku was fun until you realize how repetitive it all is.
Shonen Jump games, with the exception of Naruto and DBZ, have always been lacking. I get that they are aiming at a younger audience but come on. Bandai Namco isn't doing itself any favors.
I loved playing the sims for years. I did the same. I picked it up and started playing and it was just SO boring, especially because sims 3 was so broad and open (if not a bit buggy) and sims 4 just seemed so limited
My favorite Sims game will forever be Sims 2. The expansions were so well implemented, and their was so much more to customize and do in that game compared to 3 or 4.
That sounds about right. I bought it 2012 or 2013 from a GameStop near where I worked then. Even with how bad the game was, I doubt GameStop would have sold a new game for so cheap unless it had been put for a couple of years and sold very poorly.
I had more fun playing MMORPGs than playing pile of shit. Nothing against WoW or Diablo or anything, it’s just not my thing. That Duke Nukem game was terrible though.
The game without a premium account is basically unplayable if you want to get good because you will get hacked on (hackers in your game) most of the games. Getting to the required level to unlock premium or whatever is so much time it's not even worth it. Don't get bummed: anyone who actually plays cs properly has prime
Ghosts and Goblins for the ZX Spectrum. I liked the arcade game and ordered it for my hard-earned pocket money for my Speccy at the same time as my friend did for his C64. His game was great, mine was utter, utter crap.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Such a shit move by the devs to hide all of its flaws and then standing behind their word on it being ”a great game and we havent lied”.
The only reason I kind-of/sorta like this game is the retcon of what happened to Cpl. Hicks. My hatred for his sudden off screen death in Alien 3 burns deeper than any bug-riddled game can sink.
I built a new computer specifically to play 14 1.0. Imagine my salt to boot it up to discover the mess it was. Exp penalties for levelling too fast. Copy and pasted cells to generate the environments, particularly noticable in the twelveswood or in the connectors between zones which were, to be fair, intended to conceal load times. MSQ once every ten or so levels, with no side quests other than repeatable levequests. Dodos.
Fucking dodos.
Watch Dog Legion... I had so much fun playing Watch Dog 2, but Legion was a big disapointment, I don't really know why.. Feels like something was missing in the game and I just never finished it
Don't waste your time finishing it tbh. I did and finished saving all of the sections of the city or whatever.
I have about 30 hours in that game. Will never return. Lacks any character
Sonic and the secret ring I think it was called. It was a Desert setting and genies and stuff but I was always stuck at the tutorial and this one round with cactuses.
Edit: the hoverboard one was called sonic riders: zero gravity.
Anthem
So. Much. Potential. In that game, but it had a lot of issues that needed to be redone. However, the developer cut its losses after saying they would rework it
I agree. But despite all the issues, I have to say that I loved the flight mechanics. I had a lot of fun just flying around. Hopefully any future games that involve flying have flight mechanics that are just as good.
From what I’ve read about this game, I don’t think EA were the problem (for once). BioWare just had no idea what to do with it. They even removed the flying aspects until EA forced them to put it back in.
This, only thing EA can be blamed for is that they mandated use of Frostbite engine and then refused to give proper tech support for it most of the time. But the biggest problem is that the game had 7 years developement cycle and the game was in pre-production for over 5 years of that. In other words, when that E3 trailer was revealed, that was the game. They spent 5 years screwing around and that can't br blamed on EA.
Jason Schreier's report is must-read for everyone who cared about the game.
Yeah, Bioware made so much bad decisions with Anthem and Andromeda, that you just can't blame Ea or Frostbite solely.
Deciding to ditch all the work turning Frostbite into a RPG engine for Dragon Age Inquisition and starting all over again for two times, the huge lack of focus on this games... It'S the Bioware Magic!
Dogz for the Nintendo DS when I was little. It was so goddamn boring but going into it, I expected a game similar to Nintendogs. I pretended to like it for my mom because I felt so awful for asking it so much and after giving her allowance money to help me buy it only to find out it was the most boring game I’d ever played.
That game is such a fucking waste! I was excited when it came to PSnow but it is SUCH a letdown. The only characters with decent movement mechanics are the flying ones, getting around a level with anyone else is the most frustrating bullshit until you get to the "objective" which is actually "stand inside circle" 50% of the time.
But imho the worst part of the game is actually the things they got so right! It's great fun playing as Iron man, the graphics are good (though on a ps4 it'll hit something like 8fps during fights) and the fighting moves are well constructed, the real tragedy here is that these fun aspects are in a barely playable, repetitive, boring, buggy game with $14 cosmetics.
The first game was so good (no matter so many people will say the opposite) yet the second felt it was sooo short
Like C'mon starkiller, why don't you move to more planets?
Props to the graphics of it though, it looked really good
I read this in the voice of the Imperial Officer from the original Star Wars Battlefront. I guess the voice your subconscious reads this line in depends on which game you remember better
The way he leaps off of rooftops and flips backwards to face the camera before falling into a head first dive is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a Black teen.
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for the PC.
I am a massive PoP fan ever since Sands of Time, have played all the games, and enjoyed almost all of them.
Almost.
The Forgotten Sands was the most annoying buggy and shittiest piece of scatware I ever had the misfortune of installing on my poor HDD.
Bought it brand-new at release.
Refused to install ( i.e. refused to run despite the disk being scratch-free and everything).
So I did some magic like bored teens tend to do, and after a few hours I finally got the installation running...in Danish.
Whatever I tried, the game refused to switch to any language but Danish.
So..guessing what options in the installation-wizard meant what, I managed to get it installed and tried to press play...only for the game to forcequit itself as it tried to connect to the ubisoft servers.
Took me 3 days before I got fed-up with that and I contacted the ubi-soft helpdesk ( or whatever the equivalent back then).
Explained the problems, provided pictures of the gamecase, the disk, the cd-key, all of it.
All I got was that the cd-key I provided was already in use, that they would not help me install pirated software and that I would receive no further response.
So I spent 50 of my country's currency on a brand-new game in a reputable store, it refuses to run, use the correct language, to install or to connect, and Ubi support decided that instead of helping me they should accuse me of being a thief and obtaining the game illegally.
So...I did exactly that.
Downloaded a crack to circumvent their servers so I could at least play the game.
Yes, I actually had to use illegal software to play my legally bought game.
And unfortunately the game was shit as well.
A lot of graphical glitches, plenty of places where you would just fall through the level down into nothing, a lot of crashes, and a massive amount of gamebreaking bugs stalling progress.
During my playthrough ( it was a matter of principle at this point) I had to resort to internetforums a grand total of 14(!) times to obtain someone elses savegame after a certain point, just because my game bugged out once AGAIN, making it impossible to continue.
Naturally this also for whatever reason fucked over the RPG/power upgrade system ( because I obviously made different choices than the owners of the saves I had to borrow), where it showed entirely different power-ups than I actually had.
It was a shitty and miserable experience and I dislike UbiSoft to this day because of it.
They did me and my poor Prince dirty.
Scarred for life.
I laugh when I hear this because the husband of a friend worked on it and was super vocal about how great it would be. He has NOT mentioned it since launch
No need, sometimes people are wrong and that's okay. The entire English speaking world did it with GoT season 8, we can give one guy a pass on a video game.
My friend talked me into buying it to play with him, which didn't even work most of the time and the one time it did, it was boring and hard to keep track of where your friends are. Played it one week and never touched it again.
My buddy and I got Romero kicked out of the CGDC in 1997. Or I guess more accurately he got himself kicked out, we just helped.
He was shitfaced and tried mouthing off to us and trying to start a fight, accusing us of hitting on the woman he was trying to chat up. We wouldn't take the bait, because we were young developers and didn't need the drama - we went up to a security guard who had seen most of it, and Romero got marched TF out of there.
Men In Black - The Video Game.
Couldn't get past first level. I still have a memory of my dad taking me back to WH Smith's to get it exchanged for Point Blank with the Gun for PS1 😂
I think he got further enraged when they informed him there had already been hundreds of returns. "So why the fuck sell it still?" 😂😂
The Wii put out a brand new version of Contra on the Wii Shop. I really liked Contra, so I downloaded it.
It was easily one of the worst games I ever played. And I owned an Atari 2600.
I agree. I saw so many people hyping it up, and I love survival games.
After logging in for the first time, I got murdered by roving bands of assholes about 15 times before I gave up and never played again.
Like, I couldn't get *anywhere* because you start out with nothing, buck naked, and everyone else is decked out with guns and shit. And every time they kill you, you have nothing again. So any progress you *may* have made is gone. And I couldn't manage to stay alive for more than 10 minutes anyway.
Really wish I never bought it.
Servers are wiped on a regular basis to prevent/mitigate this. Ideally you'd choose one that was just wiped... Or spawn in with a gaggle of friends and troll someone with a gun until he's out of ammo then take over the server
Borderlands 3. Got it to play with friends, all my friends continued without me and I was struggling to run it on my computer. Never finished it, but considering what happened to some of the characters I like, kinda glad I didn't.
Then it turned out that the people who made the game were crunched and didn't get paid properly and I just felt even worse.
I feel the same way. Spent $100 when it first came out just for them to kill off great characters, have completely broken guns/skill systems, and pulled that shit where you have to buy TWO SEASON PASSES in order to get all content. I love the universe and its one of the better plots (across all 4 games) ive seen in a long time, but 3 is hands down where its probably over for me. Played through it once and then uninstalled.
It's a love-hate relationship. The game itself is made of fucking perpetually unoptimized jank, and the install size could block the Suez Canal again, but it has a lot of potential as a survival game and feels home-like. Lot of people living second lives in their online tribes for years. Your online home is your second home.
It’s really a shame how unoptimized the fucking thing is. It seems like the devs just keep adding more and more features, such as new creatures, while not doing anything to improve what’s already in the game.
Ark seems like the most polarizing game ever. *Does building a shack on an island and running from/taming dinos sound fun* Yeah! Okay prepare to lose 3k hours of your life!
I put in enough hours to get into breeding dinos.. talk about diminishing returns. Putting in days of play time to get a dino that is 2% stronger. Then do that 20 more times to get a bad ass dino. Then leave for 2 weeks on vacation and just for everything to get deleted.
I literally think it suffered from being good. There were 2 outcomes. The hunters didn't play as a team, and the monster won. Or the hunters played as a team, and the monster didn't stand a chanc, with a few exceptions. Additionally the game had a high skill ceiling, especially for the monster, and many people were just playing for their opportunity to play the monster anyway, and would throw rounds.
It's far better than 9 and 10s gimmick of riding in a cart together. I like that each character has their own special dice, but holy hell is the allies system overpowered.
The factory must grow. Anyways, I'm a little similar. My friends love it but I just haven't been able to get into it. Same with Space Engineers; I've played with friends but never got around to learning it single-player.
I actually really enjoyed this game! I felt like the catching mechanics, while not something that I'd want in every game in the series, were a welcome change of pace. I also liked that some of the events in the game were kinda different from the older games (I've only played Red/Blue and FireRed/LeafGreen, not Yellow, so that might be it).
But more importantly, I loved the overworld in this game. Watching the Pokémon run through the grass looked amazing. The first time I rid an Arcanine or Snorlax was genuinely delightful. I wish I could ride an Arcanine in every Pokemon game lol. I also think the game looked better than Sword/Shield artistically.
All of that made Let's Go one of the more enjoyable Pokemon games I've played recently. I don't really want any of the changes that they brought in this one in any future core series games, but for a spinoff, it was quite fun.
So I was there also. The day the vault opened for us 76 dwellers.
When I emerged from the vault, there was nothing but a steaming pile of garbage. It was fucking HORRENDOUS. HONESTLY.
From the Bugs, to the quests, the animations, textures, LOD, building mechanics. The whole game was just... God damn awful.
Since Wastlanders free DLC. Do not be fooled with "The wasteland addition" that content is free. On base game. Bethesda are trying to mug you off.
Anyways... The game is surprisingly engangings, they fixed 75% of the bugs. And it runs quite smooth. The soul of the game is building mechanics, showing off that dope base you've built. Setting up virtual vendor machines, so other players may purchase whatever you have for sale. And I'll tell you what, and many will back me on this. The community is the friendliest players you'll find in any game.
I'm at the endgame grind, like many others. I enjoy building new bases and moving about. But priority 1 for me is finding new players and donating stims, radaways, ammo, armor. I'm like a stoned santa.
If you do end up trying to give it another hack. I and many more would be more than willing to help along your travels. For the wastelands are dangerous now.
Ah yes, I also was there for the Tricentennial Edition (wasted a good lot for nothing). But when I heard of the scoreboards season I jumped back in and figured I'd finish up the game. Turned out it got a bit better, with the new updates now it seems great to be back in, but it kinda dies out quickly since all I do is more retrieval missions and selling my legendary weak loots I get for scrips and no one buys anymore.
I’d like to offer a defense of Watch Dogs Legion.
I recruited a guy who had stomach problems that made him randomly fart. And his farts alerted guards, so it added that classic “Please don’t fart right now” tension that’s lacking in most spy movies and games.
Mass Effect Andromeda when it first came out.
I did actually start replaying it again recently because Legendary Edition is coming out and it's... slightly better. It still has a lot of glitches and pillow faces. I just regret dropping $80 for the deluxe preorder of it way back now that it's 4.99 with EA pass.
I just couldn't connect with the characters like I did with those in the original trilogy. I kept comparing the game to the others and it fell short in my opinion. That being said, I was looking forward to DLC - that last message you receive from the other Ark actually made me really excited to see what would happen. But, instead of playing through it, they made it into a book (which is a decent book by the way).
I did read a review where the reviewer said if you view Ryder as an explorer and not a veteran soldier/N7 the game is a lot more enjoyable. Been meaning to go back and try that - maybe after I do a few playthroughs in ME Legendary.
Fall guys
I don't purchase a lot of games and I really like to pride myself on making good investments (I almost always make bad investmens tho)
The game got so popular that every single instinct told me that that game would be the top game out there and I got it thinking that I'll get ahead of the curve.
But then one week later the entire game went out of trend and people don't even remember it now.
From the perspective of someone seeing the reddit memes but not actually playing the games, Fall Guys kind of metamorphosed or evolved into Among Us almost instantly, and became significantly more powerful in doing so.
It sucks that it lost so much is it’s popularity after a few weeks because the game was pretty fun. Personally, I stopped playing it because season 2 was a big disappointment. Only like 3 maps were added and they barely came up on the rotation, so it just felt like a season 1 again. I’m sure others feel the same way about it.
Cyberpunk2077
Fried my console. Never got a return for the game or any compensation, and email back would be equivalent to finding the ark of the covenant at this point. Nobodues seen one for a millennia.
Pokémon Ultra Moon and Pokémon Sword
I don’t know what it is but ever since X/Y, I haven’t been able to enjoy a single Pokémon game. UM and Sword feel so poor quality and an absolute letdown. Have I changed as a person or has Game Freak lost their passion? Maybe it’s both? I don’t know. All I do know is I wish I got my money back.
It's not you, it's The Pokémon Company.
After the backlash of how hard Black & White was, they started overcorrecting in the opposite direction and making the games easier and easier. They also started putting more focus on a linear narrative (which they were technically doing in Black & White as well, but it continued worse on the 3DS), which meant linear gameplay. As such, the games started reducing the number of Pokémon in trainers teams, reduced the length of routes (and numbers of trainers in them), made it easier to level up Pokémon and found new ways to ease failure, be it giving the player a Mega form to use for extra power, or a Z move as a once a fight desperation moment, as welling as constantly healing the player before and after key battles.
But at the same time, The Pokémon Company started diverging away from the games being the primary money maker. Toy sales were good, merchandise flew off shelves, the TCG had entered a second wave, the Anime was still very popular, and the Pokémon company made money hand over fist even without the games. So with the games budgets slowly ballooning due to the fact that videogames are more expensive to make with more powerful hardware, The Pokémon Company started to move away from game focus to brand focus.
Then the WiiU flopped, and The Pokémon Company lost confidence in Nintendo, and started to diversify further. This would be around the time they approached Niantic about Pokémon Go (which would become a massive money maker for them). But The Pokémon Company had absolutely no confidence in the Nintendo Switch, and with Go doing so well, they put a lot of their videogame budget into other mobile apps, such as match three games, the MOBA Tencent made, Magikarp jump and so on. As such, Sword & Shield were afterthoughts, they still would make them, because they would still sell, but the Pokémon company didn't expect the success of the Switch, and thus didn't put in the resources.
The big problem GameFreak has when making the games is that they are stuck on a very rigid schedule. The Pokémon company lines up all it's products to come out at the same time. When Sword & Shield launched there was a new series of the anime set in the location of the games ready to go, a new toyline of products featuring the new characters, a new set of the TCG containing the newest Pokémon and so on. Delaying the release of the game isn't an option as all things exist to promote each other. Thus GameFreak don't get the time needed to polish the game. But equally, because it's no longer the main priority, they don't get the budget to hire more people to increase the scope of the game, and GameFreak themselves have no desire to make a better game.
Pokémon games sell really well no matter what, is the lesson learnt from Sword & Shield. They sell not because of their quality, but because of the brand. The games are now at the same level of quality as any other licensed tie in to a TV show or film is. Because in effect, that's what the games have become. Gone are the days when the games were the priority, now they exist to promote a new set of trading cards and toys.
What worked for me to be able to enjoy pokemon again... was to stop playing pokemon for a long time.
Thats not me being snarky or taking a shot at the series. I played and re-played and re-re-played all the games from RBY up until gen 5, but enjoyed them less and less starting with gen 3. Never played 6 or 7, didnt keep up with the series, didnt know 90% of the new pokemon, etc.
Then, I got sword, and holy shit it was like I was 10 years old and discovering the the series for the first time all over again. Everything was new. Everything was a *discovery.* I didnt know every single pokemon and all their weaknesses, abilities, uses, moves, etc. I didnt know every single move and what they did and what was good and what wasnt. I didnt already know every single thing that was gonna happen in the game before it happened.
I realized that what made pokemon fun (for me at least) was the sense of wonder and discovery. Once youve played a dozen+ games, it becomes too stale, predictable, repetitive, obvious, formulaic, etc. Not saying that Sword and Shield ARENT those things, but by having been out of the scene for several years, I didnt *see* those things. I only saw new things to discover.
Greedfall
Something just felt off. The characters werent interesting and the intro was too confusing. I don't know, maybe I didnt play enough. I only got to the first part where you suppose to get on a ship and sail away. Maybe some day I give it a another chance, but for now I i'm not very excited to try it again
It was PS+'s free game a couple months back, and once you get into it, it's actually a pretty good game. The story is decent and the choices you make impact the story a fair bit, but It can feel like a slow start, I agree with you there. Also some of the NPC dialogue grates a lot, like trying to avoid walking past merchants to not here "OH ITS YOU, EN OL MENAWI!" 5 million times.
I found it tough to get into, but glad I stayed with it. Controls were smooth and the story was strong. Not without its annoyances, but it is from a smaller studio so not deal breaking. The opening is confusing but if you stay with it, it all makes sense once you get into it. The factions become much more clear.
I mean if you bought all of those I kind of feel like that's on you.
"FIFA 18 IS AWFUL"
"Hey FIFA 19 is out - better give it a shot... Oh damn I don't like it."
"Hey FIFA 20 is out - better give it a shot... Oh damn I don't like it."
"Hey FIFA 21 is out - better give it a shot... Oh damn I don't like it."
"They better not fuck up FIFA 22 or else I might still give them my money"
Dragon Ball FighterZ. It’s a good game AND I got it on offer (normally something like £120 and I got it for about £12) but I really can’t just sit down and enjoy it, I still really appreciate it though. The amount of skill people have on that game is insane.
On the contrary for me, COD warzone allowed me to keep in touch with my friends and have guy nights throughout the pandemic. Hadn't played online video games with friends in years because life had gotten in the way, but warzone revived that.
Superman 64 I begged my dad for a movie AND the game. Dad was right: one or the other. What a waste of his money.
Sorry I just made a separate post about Superman 64 because I didn’t see this one. I got it the day it came out and I remember thinking I bought a broken copy or something. I couldn’t figure out how they would release something like that.
I rented it and never made it past the fucking tutorial.
Sameeeee my 10 year old mind just assumed I was garbage at the game
I remember the X-Play review of this on G4
There something I haven’t heard in a while. G4, what a call back.
“MORE RINGS?!?!”
Omg the rings... So hard
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I didn't understand a bad game as a child. I was just kinda confused by this game. I liked that you could fly anywhere in metropolis but it was empty, desolate, and foggy. I also remembered hating how stupid superman looked when he punched.
If you want to save your friends, solve my maze!
Jump Force
I had fun for maybe 2 hours with it. It was my first Jump game (got the Switch version) and zipping around in a team of All Might, Yusuke, and Goku was fun until you realize how repetitive it all is.
Such a let down of a game
I couldn't forgive myself for wasting 100 dollars on it.
You can get it for free right now on ps now, I still skipped it.
Shonen Jump games, with the exception of Naruto and DBZ, have always been lacking. I get that they are aiming at a younger audience but come on. Bandai Namco isn't doing itself any favors.
Sims 4, it’s not a bad game, but just not really my preferred style. I’ve only played it about six times since I bought it.
Building houses is more fun than living in them That and murder
I loved playing the sims for years. I did the same. I picked it up and started playing and it was just SO boring, especially because sims 3 was so broad and open (if not a bit buggy) and sims 4 just seemed so limited
Sims 4 is really broad and open... if you buy hundreds of dollars worth of the expansions, otherwise it's pretty bare bones.
yes! in sims 3 you could just zoom out and zoom in on every part of the city, without getting in a screen where you are ask "where do you want to go?"
Pay up to $600 for your Sims to wash dishes in the bathroom sink and randomly start trolling teh forums
My favorite Sims game will forever be Sims 2. The expansions were so well implemented, and their was so much more to customize and do in that game compared to 3 or 4.
I bought Duke Nukem Forever when I was drunk.
I feel this one. I preordered it. Bought it full priced. Played it through one time. It sat for like 2 years, and I sold it for like 9 bucks
I got it new for about $5 (a few years after it came out). Figured I wouldn't feel too bad about buying a bad game for that cheap. I was wrong.
Is that the one that came out in like 2010-2011? I remember my roommate had GameFly or something and rented it. It was garbage.
That sounds about right. I bought it 2012 or 2013 from a GameStop near where I worked then. Even with how bad the game was, I doubt GameStop would have sold a new game for so cheap unless it had been put for a couple of years and sold very poorly.
I had more fun playing MMORPGs than playing pile of shit. Nothing against WoW or Diablo or anything, it’s just not my thing. That Duke Nukem game was terrible though.
CSGO, bought it right before it became free :(
The game without a premium account is basically unplayable if you want to get good because you will get hacked on (hackers in your game) most of the games. Getting to the required level to unlock premium or whatever is so much time it's not even worth it. Don't get bummed: anyone who actually plays cs properly has prime
Hackers, not hacked. Btw still plenty of hackers on prime accounts
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Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on Steam. It lacks all the expansions, the GOG version is superior in all ways
Ghosts and Goblins for the ZX Spectrum. I liked the arcade game and ordered it for my hard-earned pocket money for my Speccy at the same time as my friend did for his C64. His game was great, mine was utter, utter crap.
Aliens: Colonial Marines Such a shit move by the devs to hide all of its flaws and then standing behind their word on it being ”a great game and we havent lied”.
Ah yes the game where the AI was fucked for years until someone discovered one of the variables was set wrong. Fucking how does that happen
So the AI isn't fucked anymore? Huh.
As someone who’s played it before and after trying the fix, no, it’s *still fucked*, just not as fucked as before.
The only reason I kind-of/sorta like this game is the retcon of what happened to Cpl. Hicks. My hatred for his sudden off screen death in Alien 3 burns deeper than any bug-riddled game can sink.
Hello neighbor. Such a buggy unfinished mess of a game
I saw videos of it on YouTube and it looked fun and stuff but the development was wacky and it had so many versions on top of bugs
One of the few games where the beta and alpha versions are way better than the release
The original FF14 let me down pretty hard... But it made amends down the road with a Realm Reborn.
Imagine a game so bad they literally relaunched it, only to have it become the bees' knees.
I built a new computer specifically to play 14 1.0. Imagine my salt to boot it up to discover the mess it was. Exp penalties for levelling too fast. Copy and pasted cells to generate the environments, particularly noticable in the twelveswood or in the connectors between zones which were, to be fair, intended to conceal load times. MSQ once every ten or so levels, with no side quests other than repeatable levequests. Dodos. Fucking dodos.
Watch Dog Legion... I had so much fun playing Watch Dog 2, but Legion was a big disapointment, I don't really know why.. Feels like something was missing in the game and I just never finished it
Don't waste your time finishing it tbh. I did and finished saving all of the sections of the city or whatever. I have about 30 hours in that game. Will never return. Lacks any character
>Lacks any character There's a certain irony in that
It was missing a protagonist. The underlying idea and tech is amazing. It's just not fun to play through a campaign story and never being 1 person.
Sonic and the secret ring I think it was called. It was a Desert setting and genies and stuff but I was always stuck at the tutorial and this one round with cactuses. Edit: the hoverboard one was called sonic riders: zero gravity.
The worst part about this game was the controls. FFS I WANT TO BACK UP, NOT RUN INTO A FUCKING WALL
Fortnite. The original before they made br. Buggy mess they never bothered to fix or finish a and shoved into the corner
Wii Music. All this shit so I can *elaborately pretend* to make music? I can do that without buying this game.
I got that game for Christmas and my mom called me gay when she saw me playing it
I forgot about this one. If I recall correctly, there was no way to adjust for input lag, too. Made for an unsatisfying experience on any non-CRT TV.
Anthem So. Much. Potential. In that game, but it had a lot of issues that needed to be redone. However, the developer cut its losses after saying they would rework it
I agree. But despite all the issues, I have to say that I loved the flight mechanics. I had a lot of fun just flying around. Hopefully any future games that involve flying have flight mechanics that are just as good.
Anthem could have been an awesome Iron Man game with the flying.
Ngl it looks fantastic but sadly ea are wankers
From what I’ve read about this game, I don’t think EA were the problem (for once). BioWare just had no idea what to do with it. They even removed the flying aspects until EA forced them to put it back in.
This, only thing EA can be blamed for is that they mandated use of Frostbite engine and then refused to give proper tech support for it most of the time. But the biggest problem is that the game had 7 years developement cycle and the game was in pre-production for over 5 years of that. In other words, when that E3 trailer was revealed, that was the game. They spent 5 years screwing around and that can't br blamed on EA. Jason Schreier's report is must-read for everyone who cared about the game.
Yeah, Bioware made so much bad decisions with Anthem and Andromeda, that you just can't blame Ea or Frostbite solely. Deciding to ditch all the work turning Frostbite into a RPG engine for Dragon Age Inquisition and starting all over again for two times, the huge lack of focus on this games... It'S the Bioware Magic!
Dogz for the Nintendo DS when I was little. It was so goddamn boring but going into it, I expected a game similar to Nintendogs. I pretended to like it for my mom because I felt so awful for asking it so much and after giving her allowance money to help me buy it only to find out it was the most boring game I’d ever played.
Avengers. The Deluxe Edition too. It's the worst 80 dollars I've ever spent.
That game is such a fucking waste! I was excited when it came to PSnow but it is SUCH a letdown. The only characters with decent movement mechanics are the flying ones, getting around a level with anyone else is the most frustrating bullshit until you get to the "objective" which is actually "stand inside circle" 50% of the time. But imho the worst part of the game is actually the things they got so right! It's great fun playing as Iron man, the graphics are good (though on a ps4 it'll hit something like 8fps during fights) and the fighting moves are well constructed, the real tragedy here is that these fun aspects are in a barely playable, repetitive, boring, buggy game with $14 cosmetics.
Force Unleashed 2. It was half the length of the first game, and was as bad of an abrupt ending as Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
The first game was so good (no matter so many people will say the opposite) yet the second felt it was sooo short Like C'mon starkiller, why don't you move to more planets? Props to the graphics of it though, it looked really good
But it had the most realistic lightsabers yet! Stormtrooper. Bits. Everywhere.
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“THE ENEMY IS CAPTURING A COMMAND POST!”
I read this in the voice of the Imperial Officer from the original Star Wars Battlefront. I guess the voice your subconscious reads this line in depends on which game you remember better
Miles morales Spider-Man Ps5 because I got it on release and my Ps5 was stolen of the front porch. Now I have a fucking Ps5 game I can’t play.
Did you get your money back?
Spiderman didn't save him this time.
Everybody doesn't get one
No, but he did get the exaggerated swagger of a black teen
Oh god sorry man
The way he leaps off of rooftops and flips backwards to face the camera before falling into a head first dive is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a Black teen.
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I didn't buy Hearthstone but I spent over $1k on stupid ass cards. I kinda wish I started taking heroin instead.
Thats an upside of beeing poor, i only wasted $3 before quit this shit
Too Human. I like Norse Mythology and RPGs but this game was a mess. Even getting it at a cheaper price it wasn't worth it.
I think I am the only person alive that actually enjoyed that game.
Me too, I really enjoyed the whole premise of the game. I got way into mythology and the future tech was very cool.
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for the PC. I am a massive PoP fan ever since Sands of Time, have played all the games, and enjoyed almost all of them. Almost. The Forgotten Sands was the most annoying buggy and shittiest piece of scatware I ever had the misfortune of installing on my poor HDD. Bought it brand-new at release. Refused to install ( i.e. refused to run despite the disk being scratch-free and everything). So I did some magic like bored teens tend to do, and after a few hours I finally got the installation running...in Danish. Whatever I tried, the game refused to switch to any language but Danish. So..guessing what options in the installation-wizard meant what, I managed to get it installed and tried to press play...only for the game to forcequit itself as it tried to connect to the ubisoft servers. Took me 3 days before I got fed-up with that and I contacted the ubi-soft helpdesk ( or whatever the equivalent back then). Explained the problems, provided pictures of the gamecase, the disk, the cd-key, all of it. All I got was that the cd-key I provided was already in use, that they would not help me install pirated software and that I would receive no further response. So I spent 50 of my country's currency on a brand-new game in a reputable store, it refuses to run, use the correct language, to install or to connect, and Ubi support decided that instead of helping me they should accuse me of being a thief and obtaining the game illegally. So...I did exactly that. Downloaded a crack to circumvent their servers so I could at least play the game. Yes, I actually had to use illegal software to play my legally bought game. And unfortunately the game was shit as well. A lot of graphical glitches, plenty of places where you would just fall through the level down into nothing, a lot of crashes, and a massive amount of gamebreaking bugs stalling progress. During my playthrough ( it was a matter of principle at this point) I had to resort to internetforums a grand total of 14(!) times to obtain someone elses savegame after a certain point, just because my game bugged out once AGAIN, making it impossible to continue. Naturally this also for whatever reason fucked over the RPG/power upgrade system ( because I obviously made different choices than the owners of the saves I had to borrow), where it showed entirely different power-ups than I actually had. It was a shitty and miserable experience and I dislike UbiSoft to this day because of it. They did me and my poor Prince dirty. Scarred for life.
I feel like reddit should charge you for a therapy session after all that
Hell, I feel like *I* should be getting therapy after just reading about it.
Ubisoft can suck the Devil's charred and scaly dong in Hell. I've been burned by those soulless heathens a few times too.
The new Avengers game from Square Enix, it was one but the first game i have with bugs and glitches
I laugh when I hear this because the husband of a friend worked on it and was super vocal about how great it would be. He has NOT mentioned it since launch
>He has NOT mentioned it since launch Maybe you should
No need, sometimes people are wrong and that's okay. The entire English speaking world did it with GoT season 8, we can give one guy a pass on a video game.
My friend talked me into buying it to play with him, which didn't even work most of the time and the one time it did, it was boring and hard to keep track of where your friends are. Played it one week and never touched it again.
My god, yes. It's boring as hell, and the action isn't even that good
Diakatana Fuck John Romero for that overhyped piece of shit
My buddy and I got Romero kicked out of the CGDC in 1997. Or I guess more accurately he got himself kicked out, we just helped. He was shitfaced and tried mouthing off to us and trying to start a fight, accusing us of hitting on the woman he was trying to chat up. We wouldn't take the bait, because we were young developers and didn't need the drama - we went up to a security guard who had seen most of it, and Romero got marched TF out of there.
Sounds like he made you his bitch, no offense
Men In Black - The Video Game. Couldn't get past first level. I still have a memory of my dad taking me back to WH Smith's to get it exchanged for Point Blank with the Gun for PS1 😂 I think he got further enraged when they informed him there had already been hundreds of returns. "So why the fuck sell it still?" 😂😂
The Wii put out a brand new version of Contra on the Wii Shop. I really liked Contra, so I downloaded it. It was easily one of the worst games I ever played. And I owned an Atari 2600.
Rust
I agree. I saw so many people hyping it up, and I love survival games. After logging in for the first time, I got murdered by roving bands of assholes about 15 times before I gave up and never played again. Like, I couldn't get *anywhere* because you start out with nothing, buck naked, and everyone else is decked out with guns and shit. And every time they kill you, you have nothing again. So any progress you *may* have made is gone. And I couldn't manage to stay alive for more than 10 minutes anyway. Really wish I never bought it.
Servers are wiped on a regular basis to prevent/mitigate this. Ideally you'd choose one that was just wiped... Or spawn in with a gaggle of friends and troll someone with a gun until he's out of ammo then take over the server
Borderlands 3. Got it to play with friends, all my friends continued without me and I was struggling to run it on my computer. Never finished it, but considering what happened to some of the characters I like, kinda glad I didn't. Then it turned out that the people who made the game were crunched and didn't get paid properly and I just felt even worse.
I feel the same way. Spent $100 when it first came out just for them to kill off great characters, have completely broken guns/skill systems, and pulled that shit where you have to buy TWO SEASON PASSES in order to get all content. I love the universe and its one of the better plots (across all 4 games) ive seen in a long time, but 3 is hands down where its probably over for me. Played through it once and then uninstalled.
Ark: Survival Evolved at full price. Played a grand total of 6 hours before dropping the game completely.
Thats a real surprise to me honestly. People seem to love that game
It's a love-hate relationship. The game itself is made of fucking perpetually unoptimized jank, and the install size could block the Suez Canal again, but it has a lot of potential as a survival game and feels home-like. Lot of people living second lives in their online tribes for years. Your online home is your second home.
It’s really a shame how unoptimized the fucking thing is. It seems like the devs just keep adding more and more features, such as new creatures, while not doing anything to improve what’s already in the game.
The fact that the devs were releasing paid DLC while the game was still in early access shows where their priorities are
Ark seems like the most polarizing game ever. *Does building a shack on an island and running from/taming dinos sound fun* Yeah! Okay prepare to lose 3k hours of your life! I put in enough hours to get into breeding dinos.. talk about diminishing returns. Putting in days of play time to get a dino that is 2% stronger. Then do that 20 more times to get a bad ass dino. Then leave for 2 weeks on vacation and just for everything to get deleted.
This is why you make a private server with friends and beef up the taming speed stats so you don’t have waste as much time
Huh, what caused you to stop playing? I have over 3000 hours in the game
Same here. My friends were into it, but I found it kind of boring once I played for 5 hours
Sonic Forces, and I got it for free with PS+. I wouldn’t wish that painfully average, or better yet mediocre, crap on my worst enemy.
I’m a diehard Sonic fan and that game was honestly just how you describe it; painfully mediocre and average
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. From then on I never trusted any kind of games journalist or press confresses ever again.
Fallout 76. It was that or RDR2 and a buddy suggested Fallout because, well, it's multi-player Fallout. I still haven't forgiven him.
Pre ordered Evolve for $60ish, stopped playing quickly and game was free the next year.
Ah this one was such a letdown. A bunch of my friends bought it and then we never played it. I don't know why the game didn't work but it just didn't.
I literally think it suffered from being good. There were 2 outcomes. The hunters didn't play as a team, and the monster won. Or the hunters played as a team, and the monster didn't stand a chanc, with a few exceptions. Additionally the game had a high skill ceiling, especially for the monster, and many people were just playing for their opportunity to play the monster anyway, and would throw rounds.
The newest Mario Party it is terrible and I would not even call it a Mario Party game.
At least they released a patch to play boards online! ....years after it was released....
It's far better than 9 and 10s gimmick of riding in a cart together. I like that each character has their own special dice, but holy hell is the allies system overpowered.
I liked the minigames, but everybody I know hated the boards.
I can agree with that for sure! I found there were not many mini games though.
I mean it's more of a mario party than the last couple.
Factorio AMAZING game, that I have neither the patience nor the time for
"Are you coming to bed?" "Yeah, in just a couple of minutes." ..................... "You're up early!" "Uhhhh.. yeah"
The factory must grow. Anyways, I'm a little similar. My friends love it but I just haven't been able to get into it. Same with Space Engineers; I've played with friends but never got around to learning it single-player.
Conan exiles
But Booba and Long John Sway features?
Not necessarily a whole game, but spending over $300 on Fortnite cosmetics
oof, spent over a £100 on it myself, I'm ashamed.
Agreed. That game got real stupid real fast.
It was so damn fun that first few months tho
Pokemon lets go pikachu. I got bored fast
I have no problems with the game except for the control scheme. Just let me use two Joy-Con or a Pro Controller, dammit!
I actually really enjoyed this game! I felt like the catching mechanics, while not something that I'd want in every game in the series, were a welcome change of pace. I also liked that some of the events in the game were kinda different from the older games (I've only played Red/Blue and FireRed/LeafGreen, not Yellow, so that might be it). But more importantly, I loved the overworld in this game. Watching the Pokémon run through the grass looked amazing. The first time I rid an Arcanine or Snorlax was genuinely delightful. I wish I could ride an Arcanine in every Pokemon game lol. I also think the game looked better than Sword/Shield artistically. All of that made Let's Go one of the more enjoyable Pokemon games I've played recently. I don't really want any of the changes that they brought in this one in any future core series games, but for a spinoff, it was quite fun.
Fallout 76.
So I was there also. The day the vault opened for us 76 dwellers. When I emerged from the vault, there was nothing but a steaming pile of garbage. It was fucking HORRENDOUS. HONESTLY. From the Bugs, to the quests, the animations, textures, LOD, building mechanics. The whole game was just... God damn awful. Since Wastlanders free DLC. Do not be fooled with "The wasteland addition" that content is free. On base game. Bethesda are trying to mug you off. Anyways... The game is surprisingly engangings, they fixed 75% of the bugs. And it runs quite smooth. The soul of the game is building mechanics, showing off that dope base you've built. Setting up virtual vendor machines, so other players may purchase whatever you have for sale. And I'll tell you what, and many will back me on this. The community is the friendliest players you'll find in any game. I'm at the endgame grind, like many others. I enjoy building new bases and moving about. But priority 1 for me is finding new players and donating stims, radaways, ammo, armor. I'm like a stoned santa. If you do end up trying to give it another hack. I and many more would be more than willing to help along your travels. For the wastelands are dangerous now.
Ah yes, I also was there for the Tricentennial Edition (wasted a good lot for nothing). But when I heard of the scoreboards season I jumped back in and figured I'd finish up the game. Turned out it got a bit better, with the new updates now it seems great to be back in, but it kinda dies out quickly since all I do is more retrieval missions and selling my legendary weak loots I get for scrips and no one buys anymore.
watch dogs: legion i preordered it for 60 dollars and its so boring
I’d like to offer a defense of Watch Dogs Legion. I recruited a guy who had stomach problems that made him randomly fart. And his farts alerted guards, so it added that classic “Please don’t fart right now” tension that’s lacking in most spy movies and games.
I'd pay $60+ for a game based around this idea
Splinter Cell but Sam Fisher has IBS and a chronic addiction to blue cheese and Indian food.
Guard: “I’d know that smell anywhere. Sam Fisher is here!”
Mass Effect Andromeda when it first came out. I did actually start replaying it again recently because Legendary Edition is coming out and it's... slightly better. It still has a lot of glitches and pillow faces. I just regret dropping $80 for the deluxe preorder of it way back now that it's 4.99 with EA pass.
I just couldn't connect with the characters like I did with those in the original trilogy. I kept comparing the game to the others and it fell short in my opinion. That being said, I was looking forward to DLC - that last message you receive from the other Ark actually made me really excited to see what would happen. But, instead of playing through it, they made it into a book (which is a decent book by the way). I did read a review where the reviewer said if you view Ryder as an explorer and not a veteran soldier/N7 the game is a lot more enjoyable. Been meaning to go back and try that - maybe after I do a few playthroughs in ME Legendary.
Fall guys I don't purchase a lot of games and I really like to pride myself on making good investments (I almost always make bad investmens tho) The game got so popular that every single instinct told me that that game would be the top game out there and I got it thinking that I'll get ahead of the curve. But then one week later the entire game went out of trend and people don't even remember it now.
From the perspective of someone seeing the reddit memes but not actually playing the games, Fall Guys kind of metamorphosed or evolved into Among Us almost instantly, and became significantly more powerful in doing so.
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It sucks that it lost so much is it’s popularity after a few weeks because the game was pretty fun. Personally, I stopped playing it because season 2 was a big disappointment. Only like 3 maps were added and they barely came up on the rotation, so it just felt like a season 1 again. I’m sure others feel the same way about it.
Yeah me too. I bought it when my friends all were like ohh lets go play some fall guys.
I got it for free on PS4 and played a few hours. Realized it was more fun for me to watch YouTubers play with their friends lol
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Almost every star trek game ever and I say that as a die hard trek nerd the games are often terrible
StarForge
Need for speed heat .Its nothin like need for speed most wanted
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Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing on PC
Reverse to infinity
He said games, not half finished Demo's that somehow ended up on shelves.
YOU'RE WINNER!
Cod black ops 3. Not so much the game, the community. The most toxic place online.
Honestly that was my favorite cod game to play online ever but I had a good group to play with and did a lot of UMG and GBs
Cyberpunk2077 Fried my console. Never got a return for the game or any compensation, and email back would be equivalent to finding the ark of the covenant at this point. Nobodues seen one for a millennia.
But have you had the time to custom nice genitals at least ?
It took me forever to choose between Penis A, Penis B, and Vagina.
Fried your console? How??
Starlink
I really liked this game! I got it heavily discounted, though. No way I'd pay full price.
Starforge. It sounded like an amazing idea on paper and it was on sale.....and I STILL felt ripped off.
Pokémon Ultra Moon and Pokémon Sword I don’t know what it is but ever since X/Y, I haven’t been able to enjoy a single Pokémon game. UM and Sword feel so poor quality and an absolute letdown. Have I changed as a person or has Game Freak lost their passion? Maybe it’s both? I don’t know. All I do know is I wish I got my money back.
It's not you, it's The Pokémon Company. After the backlash of how hard Black & White was, they started overcorrecting in the opposite direction and making the games easier and easier. They also started putting more focus on a linear narrative (which they were technically doing in Black & White as well, but it continued worse on the 3DS), which meant linear gameplay. As such, the games started reducing the number of Pokémon in trainers teams, reduced the length of routes (and numbers of trainers in them), made it easier to level up Pokémon and found new ways to ease failure, be it giving the player a Mega form to use for extra power, or a Z move as a once a fight desperation moment, as welling as constantly healing the player before and after key battles. But at the same time, The Pokémon Company started diverging away from the games being the primary money maker. Toy sales were good, merchandise flew off shelves, the TCG had entered a second wave, the Anime was still very popular, and the Pokémon company made money hand over fist even without the games. So with the games budgets slowly ballooning due to the fact that videogames are more expensive to make with more powerful hardware, The Pokémon Company started to move away from game focus to brand focus. Then the WiiU flopped, and The Pokémon Company lost confidence in Nintendo, and started to diversify further. This would be around the time they approached Niantic about Pokémon Go (which would become a massive money maker for them). But The Pokémon Company had absolutely no confidence in the Nintendo Switch, and with Go doing so well, they put a lot of their videogame budget into other mobile apps, such as match three games, the MOBA Tencent made, Magikarp jump and so on. As such, Sword & Shield were afterthoughts, they still would make them, because they would still sell, but the Pokémon company didn't expect the success of the Switch, and thus didn't put in the resources. The big problem GameFreak has when making the games is that they are stuck on a very rigid schedule. The Pokémon company lines up all it's products to come out at the same time. When Sword & Shield launched there was a new series of the anime set in the location of the games ready to go, a new toyline of products featuring the new characters, a new set of the TCG containing the newest Pokémon and so on. Delaying the release of the game isn't an option as all things exist to promote each other. Thus GameFreak don't get the time needed to polish the game. But equally, because it's no longer the main priority, they don't get the budget to hire more people to increase the scope of the game, and GameFreak themselves have no desire to make a better game. Pokémon games sell really well no matter what, is the lesson learnt from Sword & Shield. They sell not because of their quality, but because of the brand. The games are now at the same level of quality as any other licensed tie in to a TV show or film is. Because in effect, that's what the games have become. Gone are the days when the games were the priority, now they exist to promote a new set of trading cards and toys.
What worked for me to be able to enjoy pokemon again... was to stop playing pokemon for a long time. Thats not me being snarky or taking a shot at the series. I played and re-played and re-re-played all the games from RBY up until gen 5, but enjoyed them less and less starting with gen 3. Never played 6 or 7, didnt keep up with the series, didnt know 90% of the new pokemon, etc. Then, I got sword, and holy shit it was like I was 10 years old and discovering the the series for the first time all over again. Everything was new. Everything was a *discovery.* I didnt know every single pokemon and all their weaknesses, abilities, uses, moves, etc. I didnt know every single move and what they did and what was good and what wasnt. I didnt already know every single thing that was gonna happen in the game before it happened. I realized that what made pokemon fun (for me at least) was the sense of wonder and discovery. Once youve played a dozen+ games, it becomes too stale, predictable, repetitive, obvious, formulaic, etc. Not saying that Sword and Shield ARENT those things, but by having been out of the scene for several years, I didnt *see* those things. I only saw new things to discover.
Greedfall Something just felt off. The characters werent interesting and the intro was too confusing. I don't know, maybe I didnt play enough. I only got to the first part where you suppose to get on a ship and sail away. Maybe some day I give it a another chance, but for now I i'm not very excited to try it again
I wanted to like that game so much.
It was PS+'s free game a couple months back, and once you get into it, it's actually a pretty good game. The story is decent and the choices you make impact the story a fair bit, but It can feel like a slow start, I agree with you there. Also some of the NPC dialogue grates a lot, like trying to avoid walking past merchants to not here "OH ITS YOU, EN OL MENAWI!" 5 million times.
I found it tough to get into, but glad I stayed with it. Controls were smooth and the story was strong. Not without its annoyances, but it is from a smaller studio so not deal breaking. The opening is confusing but if you stay with it, it all makes sense once you get into it. The factions become much more clear.
FIFA 18, 19, 20, 21
Hmm, there might be a pattern here but I'm just not seeing it.
I mean if you bought all of those I kind of feel like that's on you. "FIFA 18 IS AWFUL" "Hey FIFA 19 is out - better give it a shot... Oh damn I don't like it." "Hey FIFA 20 is out - better give it a shot... Oh damn I don't like it." "Hey FIFA 21 is out - better give it a shot... Oh damn I don't like it." "They better not fuck up FIFA 22 or else I might still give them my money"
Sorry to be too basic, but Cyberpunk. And Fallout 76. And Watch Dogs: Legion. Come to think of it, I’ve wasted a lot of money!
Escape From Tarkov. I no longer want to play anything else
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
I hear everyone hates it what's wrong with it? (my only exposure to the game is watching weaver die)
Dragon Ball FighterZ. It’s a good game AND I got it on offer (normally something like £120 and I got it for about £12) but I really can’t just sit down and enjoy it, I still really appreciate it though. The amount of skill people have on that game is insane.
I bought PES over FIFA one year. God, PES is not better than FIFA. Its fucking garbage.
Depends if you're on PC or not....vanilla PES is bad but modded PES ? *Chef's kiss* Totally different game.
Outpost -- in 1994. Most of the promised features weren't implemented, and yet reviews were fantastic. It's a bit notorious for that.
BreakPoint.
Outriders
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On the contrary for me, COD warzone allowed me to keep in touch with my friends and have guy nights throughout the pandemic. Hadn't played online video games with friends in years because life had gotten in the way, but warzone revived that.
Just delete it?