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[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

I just can't think of anything being more disappointing than these three. Amazing potential for all three games, all made by solid devs with experience, AND THIS IS WHAT WE GOT? Fuck off.
No way are we seeing an AA/AAA title released this generation that has the potential of surpassing the extreme disappointment of DD2, Wilds and Callisto.


Wilds is a mobile game on autopilot. Can't believe this is where we're at with this IP.

Callisto felt like it was made by a team that doesn't understand level design, combat, or anything relevant to the actual gameplay.

DD2 - Capcom launched it in pre pre pre alpha stage, way before they had the time to add actual content to the open world.

 

[T-0800]

Callistio is great and I really enjoyed the combat. I would like to hit your avatar face with a large pole.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

Callistio is great and I really enjoyed the combat. I would like to hit your avatar face with a large pole.

You can't do that.

 

[Gonzito]

I still dont understand the hate for Callisto. It was a good game and doesn't deserve all the hate it got.

The other two games from Capcom, yeah, they are average at best and were quite disappointing

 

[duck_sauce]

Is this just a random rant or do you want attention? You can post your impressions in the Games OT. Everything else is just personal opinion.
Dont like it, dont play it. There are enough games around.

 

[Soodanim]

Regardless of whether you're being over overly dramatic or not, this is why even Capcom in a "good" phase isn't infallible.

Yes, I've said I'll probably end up pre-ordering RE9, but I am under no illusions about Capcom's ability to fuck games up.

All you can do is hope that Capcom learn lessons about what went wrong with Wilds to drive off the long time fans of one of their tentpole franchises. DD might not get a third chance though.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

I still dont understand the hate for Callisto. It was a good game and doesn't deserve all the hate it got.

The other two games from Capcom, yeah, they are average at best and were quite disappointing

Their combat system wasn't designed for more than 1v1's. Combat system that relies this much on melee in a dead space-like title makes zero sense. The game had the most pathetic enemies variety of any game i've played this gen (even DD2 did this better, which is telling so damn much). Absolutely atrocious level design to boot. 4/10 game if i ever saw one.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

Is this just a random rant or do you want attention? You can post your impressions in the Games OT. Everything else is just personal opinion.
Dont like it, dont play it. There are enough games around.

What? I thought that all three were heavily criticized by most. So my question is: can a game be more disappointing this generation? Nothing to do with me not liking them, i was super excited for all three, so obviously wanted to play them.

 

[FingerBang]

I would understand this kind of bait if we were on X since you get paid, but here on Gaf?

 

[duck_sauce]

What? I thought that all three were heavily criticized by most. So my question is: can a game be more disappointing this generation? Nothing to do with me not liking them, i was super excited for all three, so obviously wanted to play them.

Yeah but to make a dedicated post about how disappointed you are in certain games is not really needed. Post in the Game OT and discuss the games. Besides that it is all personal opinion.

I for one like all three games.

 

[lh032]

but MH WIlds is actually fun
the devs still adding content and expansion is going to be great.

cant say the same for DD2

 

[lh032]

Their combat system wasn't designed for more than 1v1's. Combat system that relies this much on melee in a dead space-like title makes zero sense. The game had the most pathetic enemies variety of any game i've played this gen (even DD2 did this better, which is telling so damn much). Absolutely atrocious level design to boot. 4/10 game if i ever saw one.

Callisto combat system feel like "pokemon battle field", the 1 on 1 combat feels very "scripted" and limited to me

 

[Black_Stride]

Thats a pretty tame list.

Dragons Dogma 2 is Dark Arisen -1 Nextgen Remaster, so still an okay game just not better than Dark Arisen
Monster Hunter Wilds is actually an okay bordering on good game.
Callisto Protocol has some bad design decisions(combat, enemies), but is actually an alright game, im actually kinda disappointed we will likely never get a sequel.


Ill raise you this set of disappointments considering the initial hype.

Suicide Squad - The amount of talent wasted on this will never be matched and should be studied so higher ups learn to shut their fucking mouths.

Mass Effect Andromeda - Mate, new engine, new gen......how?

Shenmue 3 - Not even nostalgia could save this

Anthem - You got the gameplay, you got the graphics.......wheres the rest of the game?

Skull and Bones - The game could ahve made itself, Black Flag minus all the Assassins Creed fluff im just a pirate with an MP PvPvE mode..........thats all you had to do.......thats all.

Dont tempt the Videogame industry.
Remember when Marathon was initially announced there was hype out the ass for it........look at it now.....look at it now.
There will be true disappoints within 12 months of this post.

 

[MrRibeye]

Lock this thread.

 

[fallingdove]

MH Wilds wasn't terrible — kind of a RE4 to RE5 situation.

DD2 and Calisto Protocol were absolute travesties.

 

[Bernardougf]

Jedi Survivor was pure dogshit..

 

[Branded]

My steam review for Callisto:
Amazing visuals can't hide the fact that The Callisto Protocol feels ancient and a chore to play. From the archaic audio logs scattered about to the slow movement speed and awful combat, it's all very clunky and derivative. There's nothing here you haven't seen before.

Everything about it feels unearned as well. The cheap jump scares (that you see coming from a mile away), the nonsensical story, the unlikable characters, the awful pacing, the uninteresting environments, etc. None of it sticks and it boggles the mind that they expected to turn this into some multi-game spanning IP (with it being a PUBG tie-in no less?).

It's a pale imitation of Dead Space at best, one that lacks all the nuance of that title. Instead it's quite literally in your face (on multiple occasions you'll have some character or enemy scream at the camera) and the audio design especially was a real low point for me in that regard. After the first few chapters the general experience does get somewhat better as you get into the rhythm of it all but ultimately I was glad It was over after about 8 hours of play.

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[nnytk]

I agree with you on MH Wilds, such a waste of potential. The wounds system, low difficulty, lack of a decent roster, "immersive living and breathing area's" replacing "numbered arena's with actual soul", and its agressive MTX/DLC push, absolutely disappointed with MH Wilds.

MH Wilds wasn't terrible — kind of a RE4 to RE5 situation.

I see what you're trying to say and MH Wilds had some core gameplay and aesthetics that were legit, were more than decent. But I feel like Capcom missed its mark, it put too many resources in fluff, in "living fauna and flora" and forgot what the MH fans are here for.

Give me Monster Hunter Generations 2 or something like that. Not this toned down, as OP puts it, nearly automated mobile game type of nonsense. My last matches on MH Wilds consisted out of "wound" and "slashing sounds" being spammed through the roof. Monsters being stunlocked in place and challenge/immersion being nowhere to be found.

Heck, I haven't even mentioned my gripes with the extremely lackluster story, cutscenes, obnoxious NPC's or terrible (PC) performance. I played on PS5 Pro with zero issues but my friends on PC were having a terrible time with the game.

 

[kunonabi]

I'd put REmake 3 ahead of them. While I never expected it to be as good as the original I fully expected them to at least build on REmake 2's formula and make something even better. Instead we got the most phoned in and insulting remake in recent memory. Even as bad as SH2 remake was you can tell they at least tried.

 

[HRK69]

Wilds being widely disliked is a shocking fall from grace

All they had to do was build on the rock solid foundation of World or Rise. Build on what worked, polish a few things, go bigger. instead we got whatever this is

Its the kind of miss that makes you retroactively appreciate older games more

 

[Zuzu]

I'm happy I didn't buy any of those games. I'm also happy I didn't buy Spiderman 2 and Assassin's Creed Shadows, though I'm interested in Shadows sometime down the line when it's a lot cheaper and comes with the expansion pack. The new higher difficulty mode sounds like it would make the game a fair bit more fun. But it's definitely not worth the money full price or close to it.

 

[Warspite]

Easy to top.

C&C4, any negative list of games that doesn't include this game is not correct.

Re3 remake, the chance to make Re3 into the game it should have been and they rush the development of RE3 for a second time

Skyward Sword, small, poor playing and ugly Zelda game, never thought I would see the day.

 

[Pejo]

I enjoyed my time with Callisto Protocol, but I had no expectations going in and I bought it cheap, so it's probably different than if you were anxiously awaiting it.

But yea MHWilds and DD2 were pure squandered potential and overcomplacency.

I literally can't believe that Dragon's Dogma got a second chance and made all the same mistakes as the original and even some new mistakes. I still think the biggest issue was lack of enemy variety and ZERO post-launch support in the form of content. The world itself is fine, the combat's (still) good, but there's so little to do in the world.

As a one-time mega MH fanboy, Rise and Wilds thoroughly helped me get over that. At least I'll always have World, 4U, and MHGen to go back to. Capcom cant' take them away from me. The next game will probably have a one-button solution to auto-hunt the monsters for you while you ride on the back of a pet Zorah Magdaros and watch the awful fucking story for 10 hours until the credits roll.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I was super hyped for MHWilds.

Didn't even buy it when I saw what they released.

Are they trying to go COD route of making everything brown / inoffensive / homogeneous with their visual style? They didn't quite nail it, unlike COD which now looks quite good despite of that.

 

[Hypereides]

This thread honestly reminds me to give Callisto protocol a spin one of these days. Most gamers come across as quite narrowminded imo and almost never wander out of their comfort zone. Its probably why so many of them clamor for remakes and remasters over anything that dares to do things different or stray away from the usual. The gaming community should encourage developers to "go their own way" instead sticking to the same tired templates.

 

[Connificent]

#WEDOIT

 

[kunonabi]

This thread honestly reminds me to give Callisto protocol a spin one of these days. Most gamers come across as quite narrowminded imo and almost never wander out of their comfort zone. Its probably why so many of them clamor for remakes and remasters over anything that dares to do things different or stray away from the usual. The gaming community should encourage developers to "go their own way" instead sticking to the same tired templates.

I honestly didn't mind Callisto Protocol at first but the ridiculous linearity and the Asian chick being such an uber bitch that made me lose interest.

I'd probably still take it over Dead Space though to be honest. I didn't like a thing about that game.

 

[cireza]

I'd put REmake 3 ahead of them.

Super awesome game. Finished it at least 3 times. My favorite of all three remakes. Straight to the point, pure fun.

 

[Labadal]

Final Fantasy XVI, dragon Age: Veilguard, and Avowed.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Callisto was an underrated gem. Enjoyed it very much. Shame it's not getting a sequel. It had a lot of potential.

 

[GymWolf]

I would put callisto in an even lower tier than dogma2 and mhw, at least the combat can be fun in these games and they are not THAT brainless (even if they are pretty brainless).
I guess callisto at least looks decent graphically, the other 2 look like mid ps4 games at best but callisto is still a dogshit game for everything else.

Gaming is full of shit games so it's not hard to come up with shitty triplettes.

 

[Fabieter]

I preferred wilds over vanilla world. The performance sucked but I preferred the game itself by a landslide.

 

[balls of snow]

I would stay away from open world by capcom. Clearly they dont know how to do it. Luckily Resi 9 and Onimusha are hub based /linear.

 

[StereoVsn]

Final Fantasy XVI, dragon Age: Veilguard, and Avowed.

I had 0 expectations for Avowed and while it was certainly mediocre, can't quite say it was a surprise.

The fact that Square thought FF XVI was a good idea after FFXV is just crazy, "but why.gif"!

And Veilguard… again, no expectations after what we have seen in previews, but this "Return to Form" was so pathetic it is just mind boggling.

I have not played DD2 or MH Wilds since reviews showed they were . DD2 especially was disappointing since I was hoping Capcom took Dark Arisen and kicked it up a notch after all that time, but no.

Callisto I played and really didn't like. Combat was dogshit for the genre, level design sucked, encounter design was bad, and storyline/characters were disappointing.

Original Dead Space 2 was still best in genre.

Edit: I think Sony's upcoming hat trick of terrible gaming with Concord (hard to beat this one), Marathon and Fairgames will top everything, especially in the money wasted category.

 

[Traxtech]

Meanwhile I loved all 3 like many did. Quit putting the bar so high my man

 

[Ristifer]

Sounds like a lot of whining. I really enjoyed Callisto. It's far from perfect, but as usual, people scream about it as if it abused their families.

 

[Signalis]

Callisto Protocol is freaking great man. Don't know what the hell you're smoking

 

[Black_Stride]

Edit: I think Sony's upcoming hat trick of terrible gaming with Concord (hard to beat this one), Marathon and Fairgames will top everything, especially in the money wasted category.

Holy shit it just clicked to me thats a hattrick of MP games that are gonna be pure fire.......dumpster fires that is.

And they bought all those studios to actually bring out those games......damn should have just left those studios alone.

How much is that in the hole for all three studios with near zero chance of return on investment? Well Firewalk was obvious they didnt even try to salvage the studio they just closed it straight up.
Haven I can see them shuttering too, Jade Raymond did her thing, got her paycheck and dipped.......the poor souls left at that studio who probably had to relocate for the job only to be left unemployed, the studio really should have remained independent, if the game bombed its on the publisher, they could hustle another publisher to give them a chance.......under Sony, they are gonna get cut outright.
Bungie......well Bungie is big enough I could see them surviving this storm.

But damn it really is a thing to behold.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Dragons Dogma 2 was pretty good I thought

 

[Lunarorbit]

Callistio is great and I really enjoyed the combat. I would like to hit your avatar face with a large pole.

Strong disagree. Played dead space on ps3 for the first time and then callisto a month later on ps plus. It was night and day with yhe only advantage callisto had was graphics.

I thought it was so disappointing and boring

 

[adamsapple]

Dragon's Dogma 2 does not belong on that list, lol.

 

[corgiix3]

Callisto was awesome. Dogma 2 is good but disappointing yes. Wilds is in the same boat as dogma2.

 

[Magic Carpet]

PSVR2, Series S, Nvidia 5000 cards.

 

[Roman Empire]

Dragon's Dogma 2 is a very good gameplay in the gameplay aspect of it, but it clearly suffers from lack of content. From enemy variety, dungeon variety, and quests post-vermund. It feels like an unfinished game due to rushed development to meet yearly fiscal reports as it was released a week before Capcom's 2024 fiscal reports. If anything, it's on Capcom to blame the game feeling incomplete while still has a very solid foundation.

MH Wilds suffers from the same issues DD2 does. Beyond the campaign is very light in content, and anything post-launch has been drip-fed to players in large 3 months windows. Gameplay is top-notch just like DD2, but it suffers of the same over-casualization of many systems to appeal to a broader audience. And this is an issue across the whole capcom games as of late.

Callisto Protocol feels like a great game in concept but poorly executed as the devs already achieved something better years prior when they originally worked on Dead Space. So anything lesser would have been met the way it has.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I like Callisto Protocol but I also didn't go in expecting it to be Dead Space.

 

[Audiophile]

Monster Hunter got that porridge image quality.

 

[Hashassin]

Some opinions here are staggering. Praising the likes of RE3 remake and DD2. This is why they can get away with it. Fart out shit and there'll be someone saying: "yummy yummy, crap for my tummy".

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I don't like any of them since I only enjoyed Resident Evil games from Capcom. Shame on Callistro Protocol as I was hoping it would be great but yeah the melee being a big focus ruins it.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

I've only played a couple of hours of collisto but so far I've enjoyed it.

The problem with collisto and why it failed is. You don't sink 150 million dollars into a single player horror game that's just bad business. It's never going to do RE numbers and even a RE isnt going cost that much.

Graphically it looks amazing.

 

[Dynasty8]

DD2 and MHW are the two games in recent memory where I really feel like I was scammed. Shit was just not good....What a waste of $140 for both. I honestly think I am done with Capcom.