The decision of whether to pre-order a video game or not is always a controversial topic in the gaming community, and for good reason. It has become a gamble not only on whether the game will meet your expectations, but also on whether it will be playable to begin with, even if the game is developed by a famous studio or part of a popular series.
With the hype of new video games starting years before their actual release, developers have more time to finish their games and make false promises. Unfortunately, it seems that many of them focus more on the latter than necessary.
If there’s one thing gamers hate more than losing a game, it’s losing their money. Add to that the lies about the product and bad consumer practices, and you’ll get what can be called a “storm of launching a perfect game.”
We hope you have avoided pre-ordering many of the games mentioned in this list, to save your wallet.
10. Days Gone
From the director who publicly complained, saying: “If you love a game, buy it at full price,” the game Days Gone from Sony in 2019 started off strong, meaning it directly disappointed the players who pre-ordered it.
The game was full of technical errors at launch, and is still to this day an apocalyptic epic that focuses more on spying on enemies and conversing with your deceased partner rather than fighting zombies.
This type of approach can be a successful way to contemplate character and understand the human condition, as demonstrated by The Walking Dead and The Last Of Us series, but buyers were disappointed when they realized they had invested in a game that was nothing more than a poor version of these big names.
While the game was commercially successful, the story of Deacon St. John, and his failure to fulfill his promise to “ride his wife like he rides his motorcycle” (yes, this is a real line in the game), did not captivate players enough to guarantee the sequel that developers wanted. This led them to blame the audience instead of acknowledging that their game did not meet the required standard.
9. We Happy Few
Sometimes, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the game itself, but it simply doesn’t live up to fans’ expectations. Unfortunately, We Happy Few is one of those games.
Before its release, the game attracted many with its story reminiscent of Bioshock, about a dystopian city in the sixties under the influence of the drug “Joy” that constantly makes the residents happy and easily manipulated.
Indeed, We Happy Few presented these themes and story well, with a distinctive aesthetic design. However, the game received significant criticism for its gameplay mechanics, repetitive scenes and missions, and technical issues at launch.
Part of the commercial disappointment can be attributed to exaggerated expectations if you expect AAA-level from a game originally funded by a Kickstarter campaign, you won’t get it.
But with the game’s price doubling to £60 upon release, pre-ordering it was not worth the trouble, especially because you were asked to pay for a more extensive and higher quality game than what you actually received.
8. Marvel’s Avengers
With Spiderman being one of the best PS4 games, fans had been waiting for years for Marvel to seize the opportunity to deliver an Avengers game. With one of the most successful media franchises in the world based on superheroes battling villains, what could be a better premise for a game?
Unfortunately, Marvel’s Avengers faced its first hurdle when the gameplay footage was first revealed, shocking many fans of the MCU world due to the different character designs and new actors for these familiar faces.
Jokes and memes about “what was ordered versus what was received” circulated, weirdly predicting what happened at launch. The game was filled with errors at launch. There’s no better way to scare a child fan of Captain America than to make them watch his eyes pop out of his head in the middle of a scene while attempting to get through an unsaturated and boring campaign.
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