Five Disappointing Games I've Reviewed In 2023 So Far

You can remove Jedi survivor now it
Runs perfect now

Glad someone I follow is on the same page on wo long. Thought maybe I was missing something because a ton of people were clamoring about it. Your review for it had my exact sentiment, but I didn't have to 100% before stopping haha, I just unintalled

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Haven’t had any problems with Jedi survivor on ps5

3,2,1 Forspoken incoming lol. I remember seeing people trying to convince others online that Forspoken was going to be GOTY, lololololol

I play Jedi survivor on the ps5 right now and already have over 100 hours with 3–4 crashes and zero bugs so far. I am absolutely amazed by the game. It’s one of the best open world games I played in a long time and I enjoy every second of it. But I agree with your opinion because if the performance on pc is really that bad it’s impossible to really experience it or even enjoy it. I think it’s sad that so many games lately have this kind of problems and i am especially sad that’s it the case with jedi survivor on the pc because it is actually a masterpiece im my opinion.

in contrast to the video i am enjoying avernum right now

Wo lon didnt deserve to be on this list 🙁

There have been a few games released this year that I probably would have bought if they launched in a stable condition. Now they've been put in my "Maybe I'll buy them once they run well" pile but, really, I won't get to them all now. A busy year is a terrible time to drop a busted game. 🤷‍♂

oh, if your biggest problem with Wo Long were uninspired secondary systems (I haven't played it yet, so I can't comment), then you're gonna LOVE Nioh – these systems are incredibly refined in those games, especially the sequel

The sad thing about Jedi Survivor is someone basically fixed it with a dlss mod, if you have an Nvidia card. If EA hadn't gotten greedy and made it an AMD sponsored game, a lot of people (Nvidia cards are by far more popular than AMD) would have had a much better experience. With the mod, almost all the problems I had were fixed. It went from a stuttery blurry mess, to pretty awesome. Frame generation made it smooth with a steady 120+ fps, and fixed the stutters, and dlss fixes the horrid fsr2 blurry garabage.

I agree about Wo Long. It had great combat and boss fights, and I actually enjoyed my time playing a great deal. However, the complex, Diablo-style loot system, along with many other mechanics, felt half-baked and redundant, and added little of meaning to the experience.

On Wo Long, I think if you have played Nioh2 and Sekiro, you would find the conbat to be very underwhelming as well.

For me virtually all my crashes on Jedi Survivor were related to ray tracing. I assume by "second planet" you mean Jedha (even if it's technically the 3rd, it's the 2nd after the prologue). There was one room on Jedha between the landing pad for the ship and the library where every single time I used the force to push the ball thing to switch which door was open (I assume in this case used to hide loading), the game would crash.

Once I turned ray tracing off I got one crash in around 100 hours of play time (and I had cheat engine open at the time, so I can't be sure it wasn't my fault).

Not that ray tracing crashing your game is acceptable, though even without it the games visuals were pretty good.

Wo Long's biggest problem was going from Ni-Oh's gear system to Dark Souls' system, without changing the amount of loot drops. In Ni-Oh you feed gear into each other to level it up, so there is a need for constant drops; once you have a +9 set of armor in Wo Long with the affixes you want all the loot you get from then on is worthless, but it keeps dropping at a Diablo/Ni-Oh rate

Wild Hearts deserved a place on this list. Another EA game that launched with unacceptable performance on PC. Core gameplay was decent but the stuttering was horrific for very mediocre graphics.

wo long in your list 😡😡😡😡 how dare u? just joking💓💓💓

Surprised atomic heart did not make the list. For all of the negativity forespoken got atomic heart was worse in every category

The poor technical state of these games is just one other reason pre-ordering hurts everyone.

Don't reward a corporation for releasing a game. It sends a message that we don't care. (Maybe we don't?)

If we want to represent our performance standards to these publishers, we need to start waiting until after-release reviews come out BEFORE we buy. If the game is crap, sales should reflect that.

Pre-ordering, and release-day purchasing is just irresponsible consumerism. I think we, as a whole, share a lot of the blame for corporations finding value in lowering their QA standards.

Another option is to have a credentialing-like organization that vet games before release so that companies can advertise that their games passed performance standards. Not sure if we'll ever see that though. I think Nintendo used to have a gold standard on the NES, if memory serves

For me the biggest dissapointment was the Last of Us PC port. I have wanted to play this game ever since I watched the live reveal during E3 (I think, might be misremembering the exact event). I didn't have a PS3 or a PS4 and every time I saw gameplay or clips or anything of the game, all I could think about was getting to play it one day. Imagine my excitement when the PC port was revelead. This was also only a couple months after I bought a new PC after 10 years of gaming on a potato. It has a 12700F processor and an RTX3070Ti. I still haven't found a game that I couldn't play on at the very least high, with most of the time the game in question running on ultra at 1440p, even Cyberpunk ran smoothly.

Then the port came out. I waited half an hour for the shaders to compile. Ok, a bit strange but at least the game will run better if it doesn't have to do it as I play, right? Game starts, characters hair looks like its made from pissed on straw. Some weird visual artifacts here and there. Ok, internet says to restart the game, fixes it. A minor bump but now I'm ready to play this thing I've been waiting on for 10 years. Nope, apparently my GPU isn't good enough. Okay, I will drop down to high, after all it says the VRAM is maxxed out. Still stutters. First crash happens. Fine, I will drop it to medium. Game now looks like ass with textures on objects looking about the same as a PS2 game. Damn okay, but at least it's stable now, right? Nope again. Still stutters randomly, and I've experienced about 4 more crashes in the span of about an hour. Uninstalled the game, haven't gone back to it yet.

I know it had many patches since then. Maybe if I go back now, it will be smooth, it will be stable, it will run at graphics that don't look like they got sat on. But I just don't want to anymore. This port has forever sullied the series for me, and even when I do play it to the end in the future, that feeling will never go away. So thank you Sony, or Naughty Dog, or Iron Galaxy. You have ruined maybe one of the best games you've ever made for me. All to save money on porting and to get it out fast.

Wo Long was just….boring. I wanted to like it so much, so I ended up playing quite a bit more by sheer willpower than because I was enjoying myself. I ended up giving up and never going back to it. So glad it was on GamePass so I didn't have to waste a direct purchase on it.

How about Darkest Dungeon 2 and Last Spell. For me games of this year. I'm curious how fast you can clear them.

@Mortis When you play Nioh at some point, you will get tons of loot. Remember:
You can mark all at once and sell / dismantle / exchange for xp
On your first playthrough, wear what you find is better, get xp for the rest at shrine.
Second playthough forward, dismantle for crafting mats and craft your gear when you farmed the smithing scrolls for the items you want. (or just play the rng and hope it drops)

what are your most surprisingly fun games? What about story twists, games that took you by surprise n their story.

mine was the new dark alliance game. though it may have been released before 2023.