The worst games are those that promise you fun, but are just barely too annoying to actually deliver. It’s the most aggravating if you can see that the idea is great, but it’s so badly executed.
Escape from Tarkov 😩
I really want to play that game, but the devs are working against me.
The whole genre is hilariously incompetent. It SHOULD be easy for somebody to come along, make an actually good extraction shooter, and cash out, but every time they do something dumb to screw it up.
Marauders was a blast for a short period of time before they made the mistake of listening to their community and made it Tarkov But Worse
Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Hunt: Showdown?
The best extraction shooter out there.
It has zombies. It has wild west. It is balanced. It takes two shots to kill and two minutes to reload. Come to the Bayou!
While I agree that Hunt is a great game, I think it's a bit dishonest to compare it to Tarkov. I guess it's my own fault for saying "extraction shooter" since Hunt IS a Shooter where the goal is to Extract something, but the economic component is paper-thin, to the point that it barely matters.
A strength of Tarkov is the frequent wipes. This isn't me saying Hunt should do the same - it's a different game. Rather that I want a game with an emphasis on economic risk, like Tarkov, but made by a developer with the competence of Crytek.
I wasn't aware of what you are looking for specifically in a game.
I switched from Tarkov to Hunt a while ago and never looked back, so I like to recommend it to others.
The crosshair being locked on the bottom third of the screen makes the game unplayable for me. It's the same feeling as when a game locks you to 60 fov where its slightly nauseating and very annoying at all times making every moment of the game feel terrible when it normally wouldn't be. Forced my self to play it when my friends were online assuming it was just something that I had to get use to, but according to steam I spent 24.8 hours on the game and I still can't stand it to the point where it is one of the 3 games I just straight up refuse to play at this point along with leauge and ark. I was really hoping the devs would add an option to be able to center the crosshair but the lead dev said that they weren't going to change it due to it being too much effort iirc.
Other than that one issue the game seems pretty good, everything seemed well designed at least when I played back in 2021 and I cant think of a another complaint I had. Not sure how people can deal with it but i'm glad that most people can enjoy the game.
Call of Duty DMZ was a fun mode at launch when the game’s identity was consistent and there weren’t p2w elements. That didn’t last very long.
Loved marauders when it came out. Recently tried to get back into it and it was so dead I was just walking around shooting the sky for funsies
The one person I know who plays that game hates it and hates life. He doesn't even recommend it. But plays it only because it's the only thing that makes him feel anything.
Destiny 2.
I love the core game to bits, it has excellent character progression and customization and I could just theory craft for hours in the inventory screen. It has excellent gunplay, movement, environments, so many guns to choose from and a good story if you look for it but GOD it sucks the life out of you.
All the endgame (actually good) content is behind an arbitrary power level wall and you simply have to grind to get past it. And you really, really have to grind for it. I played it for like 40 hours in a month and that was barely enough to reach the bare minimum (there's more content behind higher power level). Sure I wasn't grinding optimally but you also shouldn't need to follow a YouTube guide and abuse multiple characters and complete every weekly challenge to reach the power cap in only 20 hours instead.
What's worse is that the power level requirement is increased every couple months, not by much but it can still be a lot to grind (exponentially longer to gain power near the max cap). What's even worse is that every year or 2 it is completely reset and everyone is starting from square one.
Again I looooove the game but it genuinely requires more work than a career just to get to the good part. It requires so much that people legitimately "no life" it, playing for like 14 hours a day.
Stormworks? The core game idea is really awesome but it's also a broken mess with paid dlcs (which are somehow even more broken; I'm genuinely impressed by how fucked up that game is)
Right when StormWorks went on sale at my price point I saw the space DLC wrecked the rest of the game, and the devs weren't fixing bugs.
Off my wishlist it went.
