The Most Disappointing Games Of 2024 - Luke Reacts

[@brandonreyes7113]

Concord, Suicide Squad and skull and bones paid Luke’s bills this year lol

[@qadi796]

And now next year is gonna full of even more insane stuff, February is so close

[@scarlettrose7303]

He's had better profit margins too😂

[@ForceG27]

And starfield!

[@CaptainYokkiller]

At least someone profited from those shit games

[@tukaluna5576]

Paid him more than the devs themselves lol

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

Please keep calling it the Concord award(unless a bigger flop comes along)

[@Paradox-es3bl]

I'm not sure it's even possible anything will ever die in like a single digit number of days. Most of these companies are way too stubborn and will likely think they'll be able to at least recoup SOME of their losses if they DON'T pull the game. But it's not the most disappointing.

[@TheHK_47]

I highly doubt that there will be a bigger, more concord-y game than concord

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

@TheHK_47 the other Marathon? failgames?

[@Pacman1102]

@TheHK_47you underestimate the art of the western developers😂

[@mattmiltenberger145]

Is that even possible. I feel like if there's going to be a bigger flop of a game the whole industry might go out of business. lol (not really though)

[@Zonnyzone96]

How dare you nominate a dlc for the concord awards 😤

[@wibblesmcscribbles3018]

Disappointment requires a level of excitement that was not met. Now who the fuck was excited for Concord

[@joenarrf6501]

I agree. Nobody ever expected anything from Concord, let alone Dustborn (!). Pretty odd choice of nominees.

[@Azyrr-e7f]

Well, it is a severe case of "I expected nothing and was still disappointed"... thus The Concord Awards

[@Chackravartin]

Sony

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

This is Luke, the way he actively ignores talking about the actual problems of the industry i wouldn't be surprised if he was excited for it. Name me one game he has given a negative opinion on before the general gaming audience, dude really hyped up so many trash games this year to get flown out like some high class street walker

[@Dungeons-jb5vp]

It’s disappointing that they spent like 200 million and 8 years on it

[@mullaoslo]

"2024 the year of games made by people who don't like gamers "

[@bigman17777]

This year of gaming was so weird, so many terrible games but also a lot of good games to

[@numberonedad]

tbh luke stephens was the most disappointing of the year for me. i thought he'd move on from his style of long-winded middle-of-the-road opinions but he hasn't. maybe next year!

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

So a regular Tuesday.

[@yuyeastray3541]

@@numberonedadI mean, Luke was the one who said that gameplay of Concord and Veilguard was good, you can’t really expect him to go against his income source completely.

[@extinctbaryonyx]

so...like every year the past 5 years? XD

[@ContrastCopy]

@@numberonedadwell, it’s his opinions. I don’t find his content the most entertaining, but it’s fair. It’s not rage bait or hopium. It’s a bit passionless, but with how much fury and polarizing opinions is on the internet these days, I find the moderation a bit refreshing.

[@AkZeal76]

Not mentioning Dragon Age in 'most disappointing games' is criminal. It might not be the 'worst' game, but biggest delta between expectation and delivery? It has to be top 5 at least

[@andrewcoehoorn6505]

Well it's probably because it wasn't universally panned as terrible. It did fine sales wise (cracked the top ten in a few countries sales charts I believe). Some people loved it, it was their game of the year. Some people hated it, others yawned and moved on. I highly doubt that Duskborn made anyone's game of the year list.

[@mullaoslo]

I forgot it even came out

[@AkZeal76]

​@@andrewcoehoorn6505 yeah because nobody had any expectation that Duskborn would be good, so no one cares when it was bad. Disappointment, as a concept, is tied to expectation, and considering the gulf between expectations (DAI sold 12 million copies and won many GOTY) to the delivery, it has to be on the list.

[@andrewcoehoorn6505]

@@AkZeal76 Those are all very sound and reasonable arguments. I was going to continue to argue for my point but I guess at the end of the day no one group of 5 or more people will ever agree on what should be included in any list of this nature. Guess that's what comments sections are for (smiley face).

[@AkZeal76]

@@andrewcoehoorn6505 indeed. its all subjective anyway its not like i'm gonna throw a fit over this, just wanted to make a comment on DA because I know a lot of people are disappointed with it and i'm surprised it didn't even come up 🤷‍♂

[@ar_reactions612]

Back in like 2007, Rocksteady was brought on to make a movie tie in game for The Dark Knight. But they managed to convince WB to give them an extra year to create something original, and thus one of the best superhero games ever made was born. Now WB breathed down Rocksteady’s neck the entire time they were making something they didn’t wanna develop in the first place. It’s honestly just sad.

[@dr.loomis4221]

The Dark Knight game was being developed by Pandemic and published by EA. It was cancelled in October 2008.

[@jimmyv3170]

Hate to break it to you but Rocksteady wanted to make a multiplayer live service game the whole time and step away from the Arkham series to do something different. WB just suggested to use the Suicide Squad IP as that first movie was still fresh in people's minds in 2017.

[@ar_reactions612]

@ the project was passed onto Rocksteady before it was outright canned

[@dr.loomis4221]

@@ar_reactions612 Are there any stories on this? I know about the cancelled Pandemic and Monolith games, but I've never heard of Rocksteady doing a game in that universe. Their wiki page makes no mention of it.

[@JRRR92]

​@@jimmyv3170 This. Everybody was at fault.

[@KainGerc]

DA: the Veilguard might have literally killed Bioware I'm not sure if anyone is excited anymore for the next Mass Effect after we saw what they did with their other big franchise.

[@professionalshooter1]

Not when we have exodus game made by original bioware devs

[@mitchnewland4916]

I’m still happy sticking with the original Mass Effect Trilogy it’s one of my favourite games

[@andyespinozam]

They are dead, they just don’t know yet

[@renderlifestyle]

Nonsense 😂

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

They already got weird in Andromeda and I'm assuming they are going even weirdo. Asari will have all feminity stripped from them and every female in the alliance will look like it's post op

[@el_mer01]

13:20 I am a black guy from Uganda and I've been playing games for a long time. My favourite video game characters of all time are Kratos, Arthur Morgan and Nathan Drake and I look nothing like them and I have never wanted to play a game just cause I see someone with my skin colour 😂

[@Zer0Hour17]

Concord literally brought me more joy than any other American made video game this year. Shit was so funny.

[@josephbugeja3208]

The subtitle slogan to the Concorde award should be: “The Concord awards: The Biggest Industry Cons To Ever Rob Your Wallet’s!”

[@MortalCoil64]

@@josephbugeja3208 not my wallet. I'm nonbuynary.

[@nashdiy8570]

*Alleged Cons For legal reasons lmao. 😂

[@BlaizeTheDragon]

To be fair, very few people fell for the scam. Thats why they had no choice but to issue refunds.

[@josephbugeja3208]

@ that & it’s literally illegal for them to pocket the funds after destroying the product in question since that’s straight up theft..

[@sulijoo]

There is NO formula for writing a successful book, writing a successful movie, or creating a successful game. Why is this still so hard for the people at the top to understand?

[@clippedwings0]

Dragon Age: the Veilguard was it, for me. Not as cataclysmic of a disaster as Concord or Suicide Squad, but a massive disappointment given how much I love Dragon Age.

[@ollie8788]

Same for me. Very disappointed. Been a huge fan of Bioware and the Dragon Age franchise and played hundreds of hours in all of them. But I couldn't even be bothered to finish DA Veilguard. Uninstalled and forgotten.

[@renderlifestyle]

Really loving the game so far 🤗

[@masha22092000r]

Indeed. I was naively exited for it as I am not that invested in industry politics. Started researching who's working on it after the "magnificent" trailer reveal and oh boy... To kill a beloved IP like that. Holy sh!t

[@kraosdadafusfus8034]

The entirety of Southern Thedas, stripped of life to promote fringe views.

[@rymoremorris5287]

Concord is like thousands of E.T cartridges dumped in the desert, except we all got to enjoy it together ❤️.

[@SlamBolts]

and it didn't need a giant hole in the desert

[@Velventian]

Marvel Rivals is the antidote to concord and great pallet cleanser for the bitter taste flops like concord and suicide squad have left behind.

[@sailaway30]

It is still amazing to me how many executives In the video game industry nowadays are so out of touch they don’t understand what gamers actually want. This also goes with a ton of studios as well. These people just keep making the same mistakes over and over again and if it’s going to take a complete in utter collapse of the western video game industry to get it through their thick skulls then that’s what it’s gonna take.

[@shary1116]

I'll at least gives props to Sony for putting Concord out of its misery and refunding everyone.

[@leonx3882]

Understanding that Concord did more damage then E.T did to Atari back in the day is actually wild lol

[@travellingslim]

Can't help but notice a distinct lack of mentioning a certain Ubisoft game with the most recognizable IP in the world that didn't do so great and might be the final straw that folds the company

[@AyaReikoTripleElite]

The final straw will come next February.

[@Sappery_]

It was pretty good so maybe that's why. Even Luke said he enjoyed it and was glad he played it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Tank-N-Spank]

It is not a bad game though, middle of the road sure but not a flop.

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

​@@Tank-N-Spanka flop is measured financially not based how you, some random online, feel about the game. The game flopped hard

[@Tank-N-Spank]

@DeShawnMcDonald nah it is fine it sold well enough. I mean if you want to say 1 million units is a flop then ok you release a game that sales a fraction of that and we will see how you judge a flop

[@eurotwink9740]

Half a billion dollars spent only to refund everyone? I have to wonder how many people at PlayStation were fired after that one.

[@Blast1314]

Concord created 1 thousand KZbin Channels, Suicide Squad Created 2 thousand, Star Wars Outlaws created a Thousand more as Did Dragon Age The Veilgard

[@daizenmarcurio]

people built careers off shitting on those games lmao

[@reloadedspade176]

@@daizenmarcuriodid more for its players than the actual gameplay itself 😂😂😂

[@XenoXuri]

The past few years have really shown developers, execs and publishers that the vast majority of gamers don’t care about weather they feel “represented” in a game as it’s a very vocal minority that is saying that. The vast vast vast majority of gamers just want a good game man! It’s shown last year with games like marvel rivals, helldivers, bg3 and so many more; PEOPLE JUST WANT GOOD GAMES

[@jetsssssss]

starfield is literally the only one you can say was disappointing, no one was expecting anything out of the others

[@NoNamoono]

What a ride this year was, man. Luke getting my close to only Streamer/KZbinr I watch. Him beeing one of the bigger people on the Internet now (reddit is acusing him of falling a game, what better confirmation can you get) and the industries with so many money lost they will reevaluate and if not they are screwed. Thank you luke and have great holidays, im celebrating on a new year and im hyped for all good games and fails (i guess im cynical) so we have something to be happy together and something we can laugh over together, but in the end we do it together :)

[@jaaayyy2532]

Why does Luke hate eating the rich so much 😂

[@ricardotaut7498]

Luke calling out activist writers - finally !! The elephant has been pointed out. This video just made my year! 👍

[@blockmasterscott]

What’s amazing is that Skull and Bones is still $70.

[@isaiahdismuke1472]

People of certain demographics love when they are represented and can be swayed to something that speaks to them. But a bad character is a bad character no matter what or how they align. Was I more hyped for Spiderman: Miles Morales over Spiderman PS4 because of Miles…Yes. I have friends who boot up GTA5 and instantly switch to Franklin. Growing up I didn’t see myself in the video game characters I played and when games offered character customization…creating a POC that looked halfway decent was almost impossible. So now we are getting all this but it’s being packaged in games with terrible writing, bad game mechanics and more.

[@jeffdono8096]

3:00 On the level of Star Wars is crazy lol

[@priorwitness]

Possibly the best year in gaming for Indie and the AA studios, and conversely the worst for the AAA industry (Ubisoft, Microsoft, EA, Sony, etc). Even Nintendo didn't exactly knock it out of the park with it's library of games in 2024 compared to previous years.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Suicide squad pissed me off No other game has ever done that to me

[@professionalshooter1]

Ye me too only because my brother got me to buy it so we both bought the deluxe edition each 🤦‍♂️

[@AVWUVU]

For me it was Starfield.

[@lightsydedean]

The way it handled Batman was an absolute crime. I know that the live service story was going to retcon it, but the fact they had the audacity to do him like that was absolutely shocking.

[@brianestrada1993]

Live service is a common factor with alot of these games

[@fishman21-f5b]

but why they big company like WB not hire people good at make live service game but why they force dev that good at single player game working on live service game

[@lewiswasrobbed8407]

​@@fishman21-f5b it was rocksteady who wanted to make live service, WB was happy for them to make another single player game.

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

There's also another common factor in literally every one of these games but youtube censors normal people while promoting weird degenerate shit so i doubt i can never em with out getting my comment removed. That said literally all the major failures of this past year can be attributed to one small protected class of people no one likes and until those people get removed from development were gonna get the same problems over and over

[@Vizzard27]

"And the Concordian award goes to...CONCORD!!!"

[@sol5916]

Why would anybody want to play as a character they personally find kind of gross? Why would they want to play a game where they are surrounded by those gross people as well? To say that this doesn’t affect your enjoyment of a game is a wild take

[@ThanosDidTheRightThing]

Who are the “gross”‘characters ?

[@sol5916]

@ every character in Concord for starters

[@ThanosDidTheRightThing]

@@sol5916 Yes Concord flopped and it still would’ve flopped if the characters looked different.

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

​@@ThanosDidTheRightThingthe cope yall have is wild. Normal people find that stuff disgusting stop trying to force normal people to change their views and naturally occurring perceptions because you can't handle a video game not doing well

[@jaidarling8855]

It's crazy to think that Ubisoft has the EASIEST lay up just sitting there, waiting to be made: Black Flag 2 (except not a sequel). China literally had an Empress that started out as a pirate, Ching Shih. Hell, she doesn't even need to be the main character, just invent a character and put them right there in that time period.

[@MrMarvell]

I wouldn't trust them to make a Black Flag 2 now though, would be like Gladiator 2.

[@718Hokage]

@@MrMarvellthe damn cgi monkeys / dogs

[@Manic.miner2077]

I would like to see interviews with these legendary devs asking them why they decided to leave these iconic studios.

[@mariokarter13]

"A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad." And a game built on a bad foundation can't be fixed with delays.

[@VyndrosNoldor]

Concord award is an appropriate name for the phenomenon. Gollum was just a badly executed game by a small studio, it COULD have been good and it was based on a strong IP so it had a built-in audience that would try it out. Concord was bad on multiple levels: way too much money invested, designed to appeal to a non-existing audience and was competing in an oversaturated market where it's not easy to convince people to try you out.

[@XenoXuri]

Moral of the story: you make a good game people buy it

[@Elydir]

BG3 already proved that, and all it got from other devs was hate for setting "unrealistic standards".

[@SlamBolts]

Concord was not disappointing because everyone knew exactly what it was and how it was gonna end up. What we didn't know was it would last WAY less than we thought.

[@Slothhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

The “Concord Award” can be like how movies have the “Raspberries” for all of the bad movies from that year, but it’s for videogames

[@zombiehampster1397]

The Concord award...a 400 Million (allegedly) award in the making. I hear it has replaced the phrase "Munsoned"

[@whosaidthat84]

Ernie McCracken will never allow any word to replace Munsoned!!

[@AyaReikoTripleElite]

12:40 We call that "appealing to the MoDeRn AuDiEnCe." An audience that does not exist.

[@joshuacollins9346]

Veilguard needs a mention. Things like Dustborn never had a chance in hell of being successful. First entry, questionable premise, inexperienced devs from a no name company. Compared with Veilguard, which is from a AAA developer with significant past successes and it's the most recent entry in a mostly well received franchise. Just the budget and dev time alone make it a massive failure. It's so bad that it has dampened enthusiasm for the new Mass Effect game, similar to what Shattered Space did for ES6.

[@TheHK_47]

Dustborn is not a disappointment because no one had any kind of expectations for it

[@ThanosDidTheRightThing]

Veilguard is sitting at an 82% on metacritic

[@joshuacollins9346]

@@ThanosDidTheRightThing with a 3.9 user score. Dustborne was one of the worst games I’ve ever seen and managed to scrape up a 68 critic score. Starfield has an 83 critic score, they’re basically meaningless. Sales and user scores matter. Veilguard fails both.

[@ThanosDidTheRightThing]

@@joshuacollins9346 No an unverified user score does not matter since anyone can review bomb a game if they have an agenda against it .

[@joshuacollins9346]

@@ThanosDidTheRightThing sure buddy.

[@CaymanS-ug8ii]

The Word "CONCORD" in its Main-Meaning is: "harmony, unity, agreement" And at the End the Game reached this Goal more than perfectly. Not the Way it was the Idea of the Devs and SONY, but that`s still some kind of reached Goal.

[@XenoXuri]

Can we all just agree that people’s agendas and political views need to stop being at the forefront of a game, the core of the game should be about I dunno making a good game?

[@CaptainYokkiller]

I think a lot of people that worked at Playstation did see Concords character roster and thought "wow this is hot dogshit" but they didnt want to say anything because of the drama it would stir up. Art is all about being able to take a step back and not take criticism personally. This is a problem when you hire artists that take EVERYTHING personally.

[@danialyousaf6456]

Toxic positivity and token hiring. Hire people with actual talent that are mentally mature and you'll never have issues like these.

[@lewiswasrobbed8407]

​@@danialyousaf6456Concord was made up of former bungie senior devs, that dog whistle doesn't work mate. Toxic positivity is the only reliable thing we know happened based on reports.

[@youngveach]

i personally enjoyed Skull and Bones but i can completely see how MOST people didn't like it

[@Bombardier15]

When I played the beta, I didn't hate it but checked out when it started to feel repetitive to end it on a high note (after about an hour)

[@Elydir]

I think the issue with Skull and Bones is that people expected modernized Black Flag. Which lets be fair is not an unreasonable expectation, Black Flag is a 10 year old game from the same company.

[@Ph33NIXx]

13:00 - I dont know why people seem to have unlearned the marketing lesson.. that if you appeal to every one, you appeal to no one...

[@homerhat420]

It's "Zombie Rocksteady" and "Zombie Bioware" everyone who helped create the classics we love is long gone.

[@mickeycee8559]

Hey Luke Real longtime fan here, I really miss your long form video analysis type videos, would love to see one of those again maybe?

[@RyanThomas-y9p]

Yes.!!! The CONCORD Awards 🎉 it lives on

[@gleyno]

Happy new year everyone

[@ylc8798]

Unknow 9 didn’t make the cut, I’m disappointed 😭

[@hoffacity9125]

I feel like Bungie is making a huge mistake with so much focus on Marathon and they're making a lot of bad decisions out the gate.

[@iandavis8725]

Bungie is only just living off its name.

[@monkeybrains5077]

Dragon Age the Valeguard also deserves to be nominated for biggest disappointment this year.

[@EJaDav]

Concord was such a massive failure that the 15 minute isolated episode of a tv series was more interesting than the entire game.

[@Bleedblxck]

I was actually excited for Concord when I saw the cinematic trailer and thought it was going to be a single-player action adventure game. Once the trailer ended, they said it was a live service hero shooter, I was committed to never playing it.

[@BlueBloodPenn]

Government grants, especially in Europe are not really uncommon even for big studios. Rockstar have got them before for example and they certainly are not short of funding. Just pointing that out since making a big deal over a government grant (especially since it only gets brought up when a game is bad) is kind of pointless since so many creative projects get them.

[@lewiswasrobbed8407]

yh but it helps spread a narrative tho 😭😭😭 CDPR, Ubisoft Singapore, Creative Assembly etc have all recently taken government grants. It's a common thing but grifters aren't about the truth, they're about twisting the truth to fit a narrative. I know that the UK and Poland have grants specifically to help bolster the industry and inde studios.

[@DeShawnMcDonald]

There's a big difference between an area making a grant so spur development of an industry and being paid to spread propaganda. No one complained about those companies because those companies didn't make some shovel ware

[@diplomatic.haircut]

I'd love for this segment to eventually gain the production value of the Game Awards.

[@EricSamaNYC]

Concord is the only game with reverse nostalgia lmao; everyone hated it when it was a thing and we still all hate it now that it's gone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@arianugroho]

14:55 Luke... please give a much easier advice about hiring people.. Not hiring activist is impossible task for them. Because the HR are all activists too🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jhit2026]

I think it's important to be inclusive and diversified but it must be done right.

[@brandonreyes7113]

Wonder what the worst games next year will be?

[@lmostdead]

AC shadow clone jutsu

[@Viilap]

​@@lmostdeadif it will be like this then ubisoft will be even closer to bankruptcy

[@solanoguz]

Intergalactic THP already looks like a strong candidate.

[@TheAndrewJohnBennett]

@@solanoguzno shot that releases next year

[@whoareyou3781]

GTA

[@xRoeJogan]

To be fair. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon technically made more money on Concord than Sony did.

[@intothevoid2046]

Funnily and ironically the "Concord Episode" is actually one of the best in the Secret Level series.... It suggests that a story driven Concord Adventure game could have been actually fun.

[@punkt7752]

The thumbnail lmfao

[@willyonamountain]

Concord may have been the biggest flop for the boardroom or investors, but it's hard for me to consider something disappointing that I never had one shred of anticipation for.

[@stalkholm5227]

I feel like Destiny 2 should get at least an honorable mention.

[@timelesschronicles2182]

Last night we watched the Secret Level episode on Concord and we both thought if they used that story as a single player RPG it could have been a solid game.

[@Pavel-Geleznov]

you forgot "Dragon Age Veilguard", and maybe you should, maybe we all should forget about it, even PC Gamer turned 180 on this flop of the year, but they are forgot to change their review rating, still 8/10

[@noezen2416]

Bro couldn’t help himself. Had to kick Bethesda on the way out

[@polodinioproductions2870]

Concord can be saved. What they should do (imo) is the following, Change all the characters with PlayStation characters, add PlayStation inspired levels into the mix, add gamemodes and change the name (for obvious reasons) and I think you can have a pretty decent game. I'll admit that it won't cover all the costs Concord has made, but I think it can save some damage.

[@MrFuggleGuggle]

I'm just glad I never bought or invested in any of these. In my older age (38) you learn to be a bit more skeptical with the industry marketing and more discerning with your time (and money). Plus, there's plenty of great games from 2023 and 2022 that were dirt cheap during 2024 and this recent holiday season you could pick up and enjoy at a major discount, across platforms and storefronts.

[@tehbeernerd]

1:17 That’s not going to happen. If a game fails, the executives don’t get punished. If a game succeeds, the executives get rewarded. One way or another, they still get to make the same failures for the next however many years. That’s why “vote with your wallet” doesn’t work.

[@needsanameedit4982]

While Concord was the biggest failure, S Squad was the most disappointing because of how much fun it could have been if they would have used more likeable characters that each had custom playstyles. Concord was always going to fail but S Squad could have been so much fun and a great way to highlight the lesser known DC villains

[@Monothefox]

The Concord Award needs to become an annual event, to keep the memory alive.

[@JRRR92]

Several things wrong with this video: - Concord is not the shortest game to exist, the day before lasted 4 days and the culling II 8. - Also for Concord, physical copies exist and were sold, so Sony did make some money back, basically nothing but something. - SSKTJL didn't lose WB 200million, as a whole WBD lost that money not just WB gaming, how much money did the game lost? Who knows but the info is misinterpreted. Also this is supposed to be the most dissapointing games of the year, but I don't think Luke knows what the word "dissapointing" means. There wasn't excitement and hype for any of these games.

[@oneshotwolve3246]

Those are incredibly semantical points. Hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into these games (not hyperbole) and some were in development for over half a decade and yet they disappointed both the people who played it and the developers who made it but I guess it's not disappointing because... you expected it to be bad? That's not how disappointment works, take any sports team that sucks and you'll expect them to barely if ever win because their roster sucks but when they actually don't win any games you'll still say "What a disappointing season" even if you knew months ahead of time you weren't gonna be winning.

[@JRRR92]

@oneshotwolve3246 That's literally what dissapointing means though. If you don't have expectations, you can't be dissapointed. Read a diccionary.

[@oneshotwolve3246]

@@JRRR92 Oh how convenient you directly omitted the dictionary definition and also didn't add it to your comment because you needed it to fit your needs.(lol) Hope is synonymous with disappointment matter of fact it's IN the dictionary definition. People hoped these games would perform well and rake in millions but unfortunately they did neither. Ah but if you find a better definition of disappointment in your "diccionary" do make sure to quote it to me would love to be proven wrong.

[@JRRR92]

@@oneshotwolve3246 🤣😂

[@styranki1966]

To me, the biggest disappointment here was Shattered Space. But that's because I didn't expect any of the other nominees to be good, whereas Shattered Space actually looked interesting and was focusing on the faction I wanted to know more about. I like Starfield and the updates it had received prior to the dlc really heightened my expectations for it + Bethesda games usually have had good dlc that improve on the base game. Shattered Space wasn't that, which made it disappointing. I still haven't gotten myself to finish it, even though I am a fan of the base game. But when it comes to biggest failures of the year, the rest of the nominees definitely come before Shattered Space and Concord is absolutely the biggest failure of a game in 2024. Both subjectively and objectively.

[@JS06-h5d]

Imagine this time next year GTA6 is on this list the game industry might actually implode

[@jakearmstrong3528]

There’s def a difference between worst and disappointing I think veilguard should have been on this list it def wasn’t bad but disappointing? 100%

[@perunarieska9182]

Did not know Dustborn received EU money (only 150 000, tho). I knew it got Norwegian government grants and was developed in Norway, but Norway isn't a part of EU. So it's super odd that it got any monetary aid from European Union culture funds.

[@XBluDiamondX]

These disappointments aren't learning experiences for AAA devs and publishers. The reason I say this is, from all the public statements that I heard regarding these flops, I think a lot of leaders in this industry have their heads up their own asses. Instead of taking it on the chin, they double down and try to reason why they are not the problem and it's someone or something else that is at fault. Since they are so arrogant and egotistical, they will not take responsibility and think that maybe they are the problem. It's that entire meme with Principle Skinner on the Simpsons every time. Until they learn some basic humanity and be humble for once in their life, nothing will change.

[@HoodiezNTimbz]

What a lot of the developers either forgot or somehow don't know...not every game you make is meant for everyone. Games like mass effect has its own fan base. When you cater to who already supports you, you'll be better off than trying to cater to a broad audience that never was a fan to begin with.

[@pete6705]

Ya, Concord is pretty much the biggest flop in the history of the entertainment industry. The biggest movie flops of all time were over -$200M. But Concord lost at least 400M. It’s a truly historic disaster

[@TriggerJim88]

We don't need to imagine what's going on in other studios in the wake of concord's disaster. We can see the delays, the cancellations, the studio shut down and reworking.

[@theoldloveexcuse7860]

The cast of Dustborn looks around in disbelief. Scrapped thankyou-notes soaked in tears at their feet. This was supposed to be their night. 🤣

[@jeezycreezy4220]

Let's hope the studios making corrections because of Concord don't overcorrect. They can point to the character designs or whatever, but they have to remember that the main thing that killed Concord was that it was a $40 game that should have been free-to-play.

[@jccvzc3991]

I actually enjoyed the new Saints Row despite the obvious pandering and box checking. I put off playing the game due to all the negative feedback, but it still felt like Saints Row to me at least.

[@solanoguz]

Movies have the Razzies Now video games too have awards for its worst products The Concords... it has a nice ring to it

[@Moth94]

With Bethesda I think it mostly comes down to bloat, miscommunication and an unwillingness to change

[@lewiswasrobbed8407]

you're kinda right, based on what former devs say it's the lack of adapting to a bigger team size that causes alot of issues. BGS is like a 400 person studio but still handles like a 100 person studio. BGS really need to improve and I hope they do a capcom by completely reorganising themselves for a year or 2, it'll set them up for a decade.

[@Moth94]

@lewiswasrobbed8407 yeah you hit the nail on the head. This next bit is a bit generic but they need to move away from The Creation engine it's not doing them any favours

[@zuzisam]

Ok, I admit that these are really, reallly! bad but Dragon Age The Veilguard at least should've got honorable mention. If this is about disappointment, I could've tell you that Skull and Bones will flop but DATV just made me sad. I wanted it to be good.

[@bloodrunsclear]

Concord is fascinating. Even if the character designs weren’t laughed off the internet, it’s a SLLOOOOOOWWW game that feels stiff and is a system hog too

[@CxerRy96]

the level of ego to want to be "represented" in a game is actually so petty IMHO, I've never played a game where I'm a non-human thinking "smh this ain't me bruv"

[@justfilthygamin]

What’s funny is I don’t remember the Dustborn game. Like I don’t remember anything about it at all lol.

[@MetalGames95]

I haven't paid too much attention to the Concord situation but why the hell did they just delete the game from existence? Like even if it flopped, that flop was major news and for sure people would at least check out the game out of curiosity right? Any publicity is good publicity. It's so weird that they just yanked it out of existence within 2 weeks just because it didn't have millions of players straight away. My best guess is server maintenance costs but even then

[@JasperOosterveld]

4:52 Hulst should have been fired as CEO for the Concord debacle. Instead hundreds of other people lose their jobs.

[@faboo2001]

Man, it would've been awesome if Concord didn't win it's own award!

[@bowiesensei5574]

I still can't believe dustborn was real. It literally feels like satire on the kinds of people in the game lmaoooo.