10 Most DISAPPOINTING Games of 2022

 

Let's get started off with number 10

"House of the Dead" remake.

So "The House of the Dead" is one of the cooler arcade light gun games. Like, if there was a "House  of  the  Dead" cabinet, that's where you would find us.

So a "House of the Dead" remake was really

right up our alley, but unfortunately it's just okay.

Visually it looks better, sure,

but everything else is kind of, eh, you know.

Playing with a controller doesn't feel that good,

but I mean, obviously it's a light gun arcade game.

What would you expect?

But you'd think at least on Nintendo Switch,

where the game first launched and where we played it,

playing with joy-cons would mean the game play

would totally work, but unfortunately on Switch,

it's not great, and that's what really,

really disappointed us.

You'd think by now in 2022, on a Switch,

you'd be able to replicate the light gun arcade experience

with modern motion controls, but "House of the Dead"

unfortunately just couldn't quite nail the feel.

The shooting just isn't great.

It's awkward, and you lose your cursor and despite

a good amount of options and settings to really fine tune

the controls to get the right feel,

for us, we could just never get it feeling

quite right and fun and natural.

Overall, this remake was such a bummer for us

and we were really hoping for a lot more

because the franchise deserves it.

Next, over at number nine, we have "Choco GP."

Now, you'd think a cute looking "Final Fantasy" mascot

cart racer would be a blast, right?

I mean, who doesn't love Chocobos and all that stuff,

but Square really missed the mark on this one.

Yeah, the races can be fun, sure.

From a gameplay perspective, that's fine,

but the track variety is sorely lacking,

which could be fixed with DLC, sure, but nah.

Also there are some really bad monetization stuff here,

which is also super lame.

Never did we expect a cute yellow anime pigeon to try

and take all of our money.

There is a Lite version that you can play that is free

to play and honestly, maybe just stick with that

and see if you even like it.

Do a few races and just get it out of your system

and go back to something better like "Mario Kart 8"

or hell, even "Crash Team Racing."

I don't know, anything is better than this.

Next, over at number eight,

"Vampire: The Masquerade-Swansong."

Now, "Swansong" is unfortunately not

"Vampire: The Masquerade" game that we all wanna play.

"Bloodlines 2" has been delayed indefinitely,

and we're still feeling the pain from that and honestly,

this game does not make things any easier.

"Swansong" at first did seem like a pretty intriguing title

with being a narrative-heavy RPG set in this world

that a lot of us really like, but what we ended up

getting wasn't really that great.

For the amount of speaking in the game, the voice acting

isn't the best and facial animations aren't great,

which really sucks because you spend 99% of the game

listening to dialogue and looking at faces.

You're thrust into what seems like the middle of a story.

So you don't have too much of a clue as to what's going on,

which narratively might be a choice, that's fine,

but it just makes it hard for us to care.

The use of willpower points in conversations is

a kind of cool idea, but sometimes you'll have 100%

success rates and you'll still fail conversations,

which just makes no sense.

There's a lot of stuff that just doesn't really flow

with this game, and ultimately it's not even about that.

It's just that we weren't really excited

while we were playing.

Nothing really enthralled us here, and we love "Vampires"

and we love this world.

So like, if you care enough about "Vampires"

and you just need a quick fix,

maybe it'll be for you, but probably not.

Next up at number seven, we have "Diablo Immortal."

Oh man, what more can you say about this one?

Now I know this is on a most disappointed games list,

and obviously we were kind of

setting ourselves up for disappointment.

We knew it was going to be a mobile Activision Blizzard

style game, and with that comes a bunch

of micro-transactions and all that bad free to play stuff

that a lot of us don't like here and yeah,

"Diablo Immortal," it turns out is filled with it,

and it's a real shame because the core game play,

like the actual hacking and slashing,

just feels like a nice, fun little mobile "Diablo" game,

but when you saddle it with all the free to play

monetization elements, especially the ones that kick in

later on when you're at like level 35, 40,

how it really slows down to a halt and encourages you

to pay more to progress through the game,

it's just so unfortunate.

If you're playing it and you're not putting any money

into it and you're having fun, you do you,

but here we just were not happy with it, and unfortunately,

all it really did was make us want to go back

and just play old "Diablo."

We don't know how "Diablo IV" is gonna turn out,

and obviously after this, more people

are a little skeptical, but thankfully

the original "Diablos," specifically II and III,

are still there, they're not going anywhere,

and we'll cherish 'em forever.

Sometimes you gotta play a not very great version of a thing

to realize just how good you have it.

Next over at number six, we have Dolmen,

which is a smaller game that was on our radar,

but it disappointed us.

It's kind of like a sci-fi "Dark Souls" wannabe.

You know, it kind of reminds us of "The Surge,"

but more poorly executed.

"The Surge" is actually pretty awesome.

This game and its controls are really unresponsive

to the point where like, a lot of deaths feel like

the controls are to blame and not you.

Definitely has a non-traditional control scheme,

but not as bad as other games on this list,

but still, weapons are mapped a bit weird

and they don't feel natural in combat either.

The gameplay in general just lacks complexity and like,

what fans of the genre really want, and it started

to feel pretty boring and repetitive pretty quickly.

The level design too just comes off kind of cheap

and not very interesting, and doesn't do

a good job of incentivizing you.

So really we're harder on it because we thought

it was gonna be cool.

Like the game isn't totally terrible,

but it feels like an early access game to be honest.

It can be fun for Soulsborne fans, but only if you look

at it through the lens of it being a small indie

with some quirks and some flaws in the design,

and pricing was a little better because as it is right now,

we feel like a lot of people won't think it's worth it.

Next over at number five, we have

"Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires," which for us here

feels like a downgrade from "Dynasty Warriors 9."

The general consensus is that this game isn't quite worth

the price, and some people just think it's outright bad.

We also still just have had a bad taste in our mouth

with the "Dynasty Warrior" games for a while now.

If you've been watching our videos for a while,

you probably know about Falcon's very deep-seeded issues

with the series as of late despite being a real big fan

and "Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires" isn't really

gonna win anyone over.

It just needs more.

It feels a bit lifeless.

It needs more modes.

It needs more options, more customization,

and there's something about it, it's hard to put

our finger on it, but it just feels kind of meaningless.

Again, it's not the worst thing in the world.

Like, you might go look at reviews and see them

pretty mixed, but we were not a fan.

Next down at number four, we have

Platinum Games' "Babylon's Fall."

Now to be fair, one of us here on the team

did have fun with this game, but for the most part,

we all could see why it so easily flopped.

It feels like a really rushed game, but it is so crazy

considering it was given a long time to get it done.

It just makes it feel like it was underfunded

or just like had some development hell.

It just feels like something went wrong

'cause you see glimpses of Platinum's pedigree,

but it feels so rough around all edges and not polished

in stuff like gameplay and the mid-air combat,

which is something that Platinum usually excels in.

Voice acting is pretty annoying,

cinematics are kind of all over the place,

and there's this weird and annoying filter

that simulates a painting canvas that is really distracting

over the whole thing and kind of made us

thought our screen was dirty.

Also, the story.

It's hard to care about it at all.

Like, the whole plot, the characters, anything that happens

on screen, it all feels really generic but again,

I want to emphasize that it hurts so much

because we like Platinum Games.

They've put out some really incredible games.

Every once in a while they strike out or it feels like

they were just doing some sort of quick job for money,

a contract gig, if you will, and "Babylon's Fall"

really feels like that.

It hurts more just because we know they are capable

of developing so much more, such a cooler game than this.

Now down at number three, we have "CrossfireX."

Yes, remember this one?

You probably don't.

It released earlier in the year and it is a Western version

of a famous free to play multiplayer shooter

that was an absolute smash hit for years in Asian markets.

Here you get that multiplayer and an optional

single player campaign that was developed by Remedy.

Yes, Remedy, the people behind "Control" and "Alan Wake."

It is such a weird product because the multiplayer

isn't really that exciting, I don't know.

Maybe it's because there are so many other games

out there in the multiplayer realm,

just begging for your time and money.

This just kind of feels like another

"Counterstrike" style game and it's not ashamed

that that is pretty much all it is,

and all it really looks and feels like.

There are some differences of course.

I'm glossing over some things, but really

it's pretty simple, and then when you couple that

with a single player campaign package,

it's just weird because it does feel here and there

like it was developed by Remedy.

Clearly they needed some cash and wanted to do

some cool, weird side project,

but there was only so much they could do.

In certain moments, it feels like, what if Remedy

made a generic "Call of Duty" campaign?

So you see flashes of weirdness and creativity,

but overall it's just kind of whatever.

Microsoft invested in this whole thing,

and they seemed pretty amped to kind of bring this game over

to modern audiences, North American, European audiences,

whatever, and I don't know what they were thinking,

'cause it's just kind of boring and unremarkable overall.

Again, there are so many other free to play shooters

that just kick ass and this isn't really one of them.

If you really like video games and you're fascinated

with how they're made, I still recommend checking out

the single player campaign stuff by Remedy

just because it is so weird and bizarre.

It's not great, but it's not a complete disaster.

That's probably an unpopular opinion.

The story's dumb.

Still, even with that, "CrossfireX" just overall

feels like a failure.

Now down to number two, we have "Postal 4: No Regerts,"

which is a spin on no regrets, I guess.

Haha, funny meme.

So like, to be completely fair,

we all have had some fun memories with the old games,

like, really, but this one's just kind of boring.

Gameplay is clunky and it has a very small FOV

that makes you feel a bit sick or uncomfortable.

Shooting is unresponsive and controls are not standard.

They're very all over the place.

They feel like control schemes from the early '90s,

early 2000s where there were no standard controls

and everything was different for every game,

and then the missions are just uninteresting

and long for the sake of being long.

It feels like they were probably trying to stretch the game

to make it feel longer, something, I don't know.

It ends up just feeling like you're doing chores.

Like, you're not playing a game.

It's just grating.

Then, the world is lifeless.

There's generic NPCs, really bad artificial intelligence,

especially the police 'cause shooting people

just feels inconsequential and not fun at all.

Now you'll notice I didn't really mention much

about the humor because humor is subjective.

So, some people might find this stuff funny.

Some people might find it cringeworthy.

I don't really care either way.

I like edgy humor, but it's really just,

the game itself is really rough.

Maybe that's part of the joke,

but that that's the part of the joke I don't get.

Now down to number one, we have a game.

Oh boy, I can't believe they're making me

talk about this one, it's called "Waifu Impact."

This just seems to be like one of the

worst reviewed games of the year.

So we wanted to talk about it.

What this essentially is like bootleg small,

cheap "Fortnite," but with waifu anime girls

that are like half naked and it really just kind

of seems to exist for some people somewhere.

I don't know.

Look, if you need this in your life, that's fine.

I won't judge you, but there are better like,

fan servicey type, like overindulgent games than this.

I mean, look at it again.

It's just like grassy fields, bad third person shooting.

It's a third person shooter and it has impact in the name,

implying that it's kind of like a waifu pornographic rip off

of "Genshin Impact," but it's not.

It's just a weird shooter and this is on

the modern gaming platforms, the store marketplaces,

which I think is kind of crazy considering,

yeah, like edgy material aside, whatever.

The real thing is that it's kind of broken and weird.

It's barely a game.

Yeah, this is the dark side of store pages,

PSN, E-shop, Steam, whatever,

the stuff you gotta really dig for to find,

the stuff that's buried.

"Waifu Impact" is like the poster child for this.

Don't touch it.

"Waifu Impact" isn't disappointing.

You know, it didn't disappoint us.

We weren't anticipating it,

but it's definitely one of the worst games of 2022.

So that's our list.

We definitely wanna know what you guys

think in the comments.

You might wanna argue, please be civil,

but if you have your own top five or your own choice

of just disappointing games that you played this year let us know in the comment section

If you're new, always remember that like, while gaming

might seem bad, that's just the negativity stuff.

There's still plenty of great games out there to play