It’s always pretty tragic when a highly anticipated video game disappoints us.
But luckily, thanks to expansions and updates, a lack luster release still has a bit of hope.
These ten games our on our list are proof of that; they’re all games that despite
their initial failings managed to rise up into a game that people these days can genuinely
enjoy.
If you decided to give them another go, that is.
So with that in mind, let’s jump into the top 10 video games that redeemed themselves!
10 Street Fighter V Street Fighter 5 was a major let down.
For starters, when it was released, the game was so very thin and bare boned that players
felt like they had been cheated.
There was no story mode.
The character selection was incredibly limited.
The servers were pretty darn bad, too, and lots of software bugs.
The gameplay mechanics were praised though, along with its graphics, so at least they
did something right.
Eventually, Capcom revised the game in a big way, adding a story mode filled with cinematics
titled A Shadow Falls, weekly challenges, the new Arcade and Extra Battle modes, combo
trials and an expanded character roster that continues to undergo nerfing and buffing in
order to balance out the game over time.
They also had to tone down some of the game’s animations due to their sexual content, which
had mixed reviews.
9 Destiny When Destiny was released in 2014, the lead
up had people hyped.
Developers and publishers claimed it had so much potential in its marketing, and instead,
it turned out pretty lack luster.
There were a few components that fans had a distinct dissatisfaction with.
There was no PvP when it was first released.
The leveling system was a mess.
And people were pretty bummed out about its lack of content.
But after a series of updates and expansions, the game’s reception quickly changed, now
receiving a significantly larger amount of praise.
And the devs learnt a lot from their former mistakes; Destiny 2 has improved upon its
predecessor, and has much more story content than the first title ever did.
8 GTA Online The GTA franchise is consistently one of the
strongest video game series upon release.
GTA V in particular got one of the best receptions in the history of video games, with the game
making a ridiculous amount of money with the first 24 hours of its release.
But one part of the GTA empire struggled a wee bit when first coming out; GTA Online.
When GTA Online first hit the scene, it was a bit of a work in progress.
It debuted as a content update, and its servers were pretty wonky and unstable, suffering
from widespread technical issues that would even prevent you from playing missions or
cause some players to lose their character data.
It had a serious lack of direction.
But after several free updates that expanding on the content, the modes and fixed the technical
issues, it became a mega success, still managing to be one of the biggest online games with
a large, thriving community still consistently played to this day.
7 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege may have
a whole lot of respect in the first person shooter fan base these days, but back when
it first came out, it had a pretty rough start.
Despite having really solid and well-developed gameplay mechanics, everything else within
the game was quite lacking; specifically the modes and maps.
Ubisoft didn’t give up on the game though, and to this day continues to release major
launches for the game.
6 Diablo 3 Diablo 3 had three major problems when it
was first released.
The first, which was fixed in its early days, was that for PC users, the game required them
to always be online while playing.
This caused a whole lot of issues with the servers.
Luckily, it was addressed and fixed.
But the second and third issues stuck around much longer.
The game had a short campaign mode, meaning players would run through the game much quicker
than anticipated, and they were left with not a whole lot to do, especially since there
were only 4 difficulty levels to begin with.
The third issue was a really messed up loot system called the auction house.
Many consider it to be the feature that ruined the game, since hackers would use it to generate
money, and players had to rely on it to the point where it felt they were using it more
than playing the game itself.
Plus, the ability to trade and get OP gear right from the start of the game versus working
your way up to a high level and finding the gear that way just made the game seem pointless.
After the expansions and updates, Diablo 3 now has new classes, 17 difficulty levels,
more gear, an adventure mode, and new story expansions.
Plus the auction house was removed.
The game has had some pretty solid longevity ever since.
5 World of Warcraft World of Warcraft has been one of the longest
standing popular MMORPGs of all time.
But considering how old the franchise is, it should be no surprise that WoW has had
its ups and downs over the years.
One of those downs was a pretty monumental disappointment; the Warlords of Dreynor expansion.
Its commonly seen as being one of the worst expansions in the history of the game, and
devs Blizzard lost A LOT of players to it.
Luckily, WoW managed to redeem itself with a follow up expansion; Legion, which, in hilarious
contrast to Warlords of Dreynor, is considered to be one of the best expansions the game
has ever seen.
4 Batman Arkham Knight Batman Arkham Knight had one of the worst
pc launches in the history of PC launches.
The PC port of the game was even pulled off of Steam because of how bad it functioned.
Driving around in the batmobile or gliding through the skies made the frame rate drop
down significantly, and the graphics severely suffered.
The game received a bunch of patches, and while at first it was still a bit rocky for
some (players complained about low frame rates) most of those issues have been resolved.
But it took a whole lot of time to get to somewhere reliable.
3 Final Fantasy XIV (14) The Final Fantasy 14 MMORPG was meant to impress
the hell out of final fantasy fans.
But then Square Enix dropped the ball, pretty hard core, too.
The 1.0 version of the game was blemished by a series of unfortunate features.
The story was bad.
The locales felt very copy and paste, giving the game a sense of poor diversity.
The lighting was pretty terrible.
And there was a whole lot of lag; the server based mouse controls were the equivalent of
utter despair.
But, Square Enix realized what a mess it was, and came up with a really creative way of
fixing the problem; by having a giant meteor crash into the game and then releasing a 2.0
version called Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn.
2.0 had a new director, a brand new story, and new and improved mechanics.
It looked better, felt better and was much more fun and fitting of what expectations
players initially had for the title.
2 No Man’s Sky Upon its release, No Man’s sky wasn’t
what people thought it was marketing itself to be.
Players had issues with how limited the game felt, contrary to the promise that it was
a massive map with many unique things to explore.
The procedural generation felt repetitive, with players easily exhausted its finite assets,
making the variations feel weak and too similar.
The game’s marketing had promised so much more.
So how did they fix that?
Hello Games was committed to making the game more representative of the game they wanted
to released in 2016, with much more story, third person view, consistent support and
a new multiplayer mode.
Its fourth and latest major update, No Man’s Sky Next, let people create and customize
their avatars, work with others to explore planets and star systems, build their own
bases anywhere they want on a planet, and even fight against one another.
You can build bases underwater, too.
You can assemble fleets of starships to send out on missions.
The way the game is procedurally generated is significantly more complex, giving players
a much more detailed look at the life forms and resources you can encounter on a planet.
More frequent updates are in the works, weekly content, special events that are community
driven and no micro transactions.
1 Star Wars Battlefront 2 Star Wars Battlefront 2 was riddled with controversy.
For starters, it had high expectations to fill.
Battlefront 1 had been pretty lack luster when it came to content, but at the 2017 E3
EA showcase, Battlefront 2 looked pretty slick, and players were optimistic that devs would
have learnt from the previous game’s mistakes.
Then, leading up to the game’s release, EA started introducing loot boxes in other
titles of theirs, much to players disdain.
And when Battlefront 2 came out, guess what it had?
LOOT BOXES!
It soon became apparent that a player could gain a distinct advantage during multiplayer
by buying loot boxes, putting those who couldn’t afford it or didn’t want to spend the money
on it at a severe disadvantage.
Microtransactions were king.
And that didn’t go over well.
Then began the back and forth of EA making half assed revisions; the epic loot was removed
from the crates.
But there’s still problems; the most iconic characters in the game are the most expensive
to unlock with credits, and since credits are available in loot boxes, rather than grinding
to get credits, you can just spend a bunch of money on crates and get these characters
faster.
EA starts addressing the issue on reddit, with one comment becoming the most downvoted
comment in Reddit history.
The Belgian Gambling Regulator even got involved, trying to determine whether loot boxes constituted
as unlicensed gambling.
By the end of November 2017 EA had lost 3 billion dollars in stock value since the launch
of the game.
Since, the game has shut down micro transactions, with only cosmetic items available for purchase
with real money.
New content has been added, like the Clone Wars season, new maps, new playable heroes
and new modes.
So at least they’re trying, but damn, did it take a while for them to get there.
There we have it friends!
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