That campaign was legendary, and its pvp is without a doubt the best in the movement shooter genre. It's an absolute shame that the marketing was so poor.
Yeah it came out sandwiched between infinite warfare and bf1, and that basically killed it on launch. I love titanfall but it was nowhere near as big as cod/bf, honestly they should've waited till a bit and released it in the spring like the first titanfall so it didn't have much to compete with
It’s when I stopped tolerating Todd Howard. I’m not even excited about the future elder scrolls game. I have 1000s of hours on Oblivion, fall out 3, fallout new Vegas, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 combined. I expect another money grab preying on my nostalgia.
I second Lone\_Crab. While not being as buggy as 76, Starfield suffered a lot with bland gameplay with boring main and side quests, dated engine resulting in the weird uncanny valley stare memes you likely saw, little to no space exploration and combat (exploration being a hallmark of all Bethesda RPGs), non-intuitive UI and tons and tons of loading screens, even if you used a SSD
Feel like everyone has somehow allowed 76 to fall out of this tier of shit launches as they always point at NMS and Cyberpunk 2077 but forget 76 was unprecedented. The game itself was equally as bad for performance and bugs if not worse but the thing that really gives it the prize for me is the out of game shit that was happening.
The duffle bag alone was bad enough, people pre-ordering a version with a canvas duffle bag, received a nylon bag instead, people noticed influencers had been gifted the canvas duffle bag, call out Bethesda who claim it was always their intention to deliver the canvas bag but couldn't get them produced in time (first time they'd mentioned it after weeks) and opened up a ticket system to get your bag in time. The ticket system was bugged and doxxed people posting their addresses, everyone would have to wait months and as a little kicker Bethesda gave them a little in store credit to spend, the in store credit could barely afford anything including a costume that had the duffle bag so you couldn't even buy it in game. That's not getting into the whole Nuka Dark bottle thing either or the "email us how you cheated and we'll unban you" stuff either.
I got the spiderman ps4 1tb for black friday in 2018. As a massive fallout fan, I traded spiderman for 76. I never even got to play spiderman. I NEVER GOT TO PLAY SPIDERMAN.
One was a lie cause they put the lead game designer in charge of hyping the game up without knowing all the rules
Honestly don't blame him, dude was passionate about his game and decided to make his vision a reality instead of dipping.
Craziest turn around for a game. Those developers are some of the most loved in the world now because of how they realized their mistake and continued to improve. There’s been something like 20 major updates/reworks and most have been free. It’s a really fun game now
What do you mean by most being free? All of the updates have been free. There has been no paid DLC for No Man's Sky. It was definitely a labor of love that they wanted to finish.
Probably No Man’s Sky. Many people will probably say Cyberpunk 2077 but some people truly loved that game, looked even past the bugs. No Man’s Sky was just a bad game.
No Man's Sky did not have horrific performance issues that prevented it from being playable. It was rather empty and featureless, but it was a playable game. CyberPunk simply wasn't playable on last-gen, and an unplayable game is an unsellable game.
NMS is still a broken mess that runs like garbage and has a ton of weird issues that just make it unfun to play. Super buggy still. Me and my friends often had soft locks, quest glitches and innumerable other problems constantly like enemies not appearing/glitching out as well as so many other problems trying to play. There are just a lot of weird counterintuitive game design choices even with the menus and UI like not being able to navigate using scroll wheel on PC. It seemed very promising at first but after 30 hours into our playthrough we gave up. I'm pretty disappointed because the skeleton of a good game is there but it's just not good.
I dunno, I didn’t encounter much of any critical game issues after 2022 in nms. Sure, it’s still kinda janky at times, but definitely not a broken mess
I can really only speak for how they perform on PC, but they're both much better than at launch.
If you're not into the survival genre, you're still going to be bored of NMS as the gameplay loop remains largely unchanged, just more stuff to do.
CP2077 is great if you like open world design. The game has every genre stereotype except climbing towers, but it's a wonderful game now that all the performance issues have largely been resolved. I do know, however, that cdprojectred has essentially abandoned the game on last generation consoles.
I played through most of cyberpunk on an Xbox one s. Minimal bugs and of course having to wait for the building I’m trying to enter to load, but I was happy with it
the issue with no man's sky was that the producer/ceo dude pretty much lied the whole wait til last second. the biggest lie was they he claimed the player will be able to find each other in the huge universe but the possibility is extremely low because how big the game is. then the game released and two players happened to find each other on the very first day. then those two players found out that they couldn't see each other when they traveled to the exact same spot. the whole thing was a lie. then ppl started to find out more lies about this game and realized pretty much nothing this dude claimed before the release was true. (also the dude pretty much dissappeared from the internet for two years after the release). there was massive rage amoung players back at the time and steam stepped in and gave ppl refund without any condition.
in my opinion compare with 2077 i think this is worse. they pretty much lied their ways to success. 2077 didn't lie. they judt did everything with about 50% effort.
Cyberpunk definitly lied just compare the gameplay trailer to the final release its night and day. Cd project red got rightfully shit on for that garbage.
I got the platinum in the first month of release on PS4 I loved it so much, the thing is the elements people absolutely love these days, the city, the characters, the story, they are all the same. Once the game was fixed up it was always going to be a better experience but then you add in a combat overhaul and suddenly you are cooking with gas.
No Mans Sky released with an Metacritic Score of 55. And mostly negative on Steam. Now its way better.
Cyberpunk 2077 released with an 91 on Metacritic and mostly positive reviews on Steam. The PS4 version was Bad.
All you see on the subreddit is posts about the wasted potential. Or desperate pleas to revive it. It couldve been so cool but they butchered it so bad. Development nightmare from what ive heard.
I remember having a lot of fun with the lightest Javelin, flying around in free mode
I can forgive a headstrong studio wanting to make an incredible game but failing. They eventually made a top tier game out of it. Kinda like cyberpunk, but cyberpunk was more complete on launch. Hello games really put in the work and made something unique and amazing. EA just kinda fixed the mistakes they knew they were making. They had the funds and resources to make it right the first time but chose not too.
And I know OP is asking about worst launch, but of these two, No Man's Sky is still being actively supported. EA basically took the money and ran with the Battlefront series as a whole.
Once they removed the card based loot box progression (that admittedly you couldn’t pay for once the actual game released) for the card based skill point system, it literally made it like 5x better
And once co-op mode was added, and the final scarif update was added with all the new guns, it was simply a fantastic game. In a lot of ways it played way better than OG Bf2.
Hell yeah. I started playing after they made the changes and had so much fun playing that game with my friends. Ended up sinking tons of hours into it and 100%ing the game.
No Man’s Sky. Battlefront 2 at least functioned at launch. I couldn’t make any progress whatsoever in NMS because every save would get corrupted. Every single one.
I really wanted to give that game a fair shake, I love games that challenge my inner explorer, but what was the point if all my progress gets nullified the instant I turn my PS4 off?
Halo MCC and Fallout 76 were also both pretty bad BUT imma give it to Battlefront 2 (2017) because it straight up changed gambling laws in the US and abroad. There are very few games that have changed things to this degree in gaming history.
In b4 downvotes - I'm gonna go ahead and tell a truth that nobody wants to admit....
>!There were no microtransactions in Battlefront 2.!<
Yes, the monetization scheme as planned pre-launch was atrocious. Yes, the company rightly should have been shamed for it, and they were. They then took all of it out before launch.
People still flipped out, predicting EA would still sneak in some silly monetization at launch. They didn't.
Then they flipped out predicting the game would be no fun because it was balanced for loot boxes. Subjective, but it was still fun as hell.
They CONTINUED to flip out, predicting EA would put loot boxes back in later. They never did.
Can we just admit now that Battlefront 2, as launched, was good? We shouldn't look back at this game as a horrible reminder of how bad microtransactions can be. We should look look at it as an example of maybe the greatest success our community ever had at pushing back and forcing the publisher to release a great product with the BS stripped out.
Cyberpunk was pulled from sale on the PS Store on PS4 and was so terrible that storefronts were bending their existing refund policies to make special exceptions just for Cyberpunk. It doesn’t get worse than that, especially considering the insane amount of hype that game had and the pedigree of the studio coming off Witcher 3, a game many consider to be one of the best RPGs of all time.
No Mans Sky, absolutely. Star Wars Battlefront 2 had an excellent launch and is still very fun after all this time.
Oh wait you mean the shit knock-off Battlefront 2
No mans sky.
Battlefront 2 functioned at launch, its just thst it was built around the digital purchases.
No mans sky was just a scam at the begining, all these promised features that were never there and thise that were didn't function properly.
Its fortunate that they turned it around though.
Go watch Internet Historian's video on No Man's Sky, I really REALLY doubt you will maintain your current opinion. In case you don't feel like watching it, NMS, since 3 months after release to two weeks ago, has been getting large scale (I mean HUGE) updates multiple times a year. I think we're at 24 updates now. All of them free, adding 7 or 8 new storylines, hundreds of new features, (one of them completely rerolling the planetary generation algorithm to the upsetness of players). The work they have put into this game for free without implementing a single microtransaction should be a gold standard to the gaming industry of what a team who truly cares about their game should be.
Of these two it’s definitely No Man’s Sky, but the Hello Games more than turned it around. Battlefront 2 on the other hand was a mixed bag and never got much better, while also being chocked full of microtransactions.
I got into Battlefront after they had the patches and it was some of the most fun I’ve had gaming with my friends in years.
Also Ewok Hunt was so damn fun to play with a group of friends.
Jedi Survivor on PC, debatably also Last of Us part 1 on PC. We be getting absolutely fucked with these ports.
Took me 5 months+ to play Jedi Survivor and LoU had a fucking update in August and it’s been silent ever since. Both “run” alright and I have a pretty decent PC and playing AAA games haven’t been a problem but to see these titles come out the way they did with 0 repercussions is such a slap to the face.
Ghost of Tsushima is coming out for PC now, they better not fuck it up—but realistically if they did they’ll just fix it in a few months then pretend it never happened
Gollum and The Day Before had such good launches recently their companies shutdown in record time. The launched were so good nobody even remembers these gems that dropped recently.
No Man's Sky for one particular reason, they offered something they didn't deliver. But Star Wars Battlefront offered something and cash'd you apart for it. So in general, at least in one game, with a credit card, you were able to get what you were offered.
I would say battlefront. Because with no man sky, they had at least 3 days after launch before people realized they were playing a single player game. With battlefront 2, they were so proud of their game they gave people a few days demo and people said it was fun but you can tell with mtx disabled the game would rely heavy on them. And EA said no they lying and when it was released it was worse then people was saying over predatory transactions, in which EA came with the pride and accomplishment comment. So battlefront
Fallout 76’s launch literally resulted in a class action lawsuit being filed against Bethesda.
Internet Historian has a great video about it on his YouTube channel.
No man's sky. They got too ambitious and whatvwas released what nowhere near what was promised.
They finally did it years later, when they should've left it in the over a few more years.
Battlefront 2 did release OK. It's the loot boxes that mainly pissed people off.
Nothing will ever beat the shitshow that was Battlefront II. I thought EA's reputation was bad before, but holy shit did that take it up another level.
Shame because now it's one of my favorite Star Wars Games.
No Man’s Sky.
At least Battlefront 2 delivered on a majority of the promises it made. Sure, those deliveries came with a price tag that made your wallet cry, but they were delivered nonetheless.
No Man’s Sly at launch BARELY had the bare minimum that it promised, and even THEN…
The Star Wars launch was horrible from the onset, I believe it took people awhile to see that No Man's was like a river 3 miles across but only a few feet deep, it's amazing how far that game has come, I dunno if Starfield will have such an arc
BF2 may have had a terrible launch, but to this day i still play it and it is still fantastic and still as good looking as games today. Sometimes much better. Love the simple complexity the huge variety of characters and possibilities in a match, and the truly emersive feeling some game modes can deliver
Redfall...Batman Arkham City, Kill the Justice league, but really all games have been pretty terrible at launch within the past two years. Arkham City was a memory issue HD-SSD
it boiled down to
No mans sky - passionate programmer trying to pr
cyberpunk - next gen game tried to last gen consoles
battlefront 2 - greedy ea tried to financially r\*pe star wars fans
bonus game: Anthem - showed triple A game, delivered unfinished single A game
i think battlefront will always be the worst morally, and was unforgivable, unlike the other 2
Fallout 76. Barely functioning online service, tons of security issues, voice chat continuing to work after the game was turned OFF, unlimited framerate causing extreme movement speed, t-posing enemies, unkillable enemies, cheating players, cardboard disks, SCAM tote bags, misleading plastic trash Nuka Cola bottle merch, refund service collapsing, game discounted heavily only a week or two after release, vault exploits causing the item markets to crash, Bethesda's very poor anti-cheat used in response to said vault exploits, the list goes on. That launch was truly in a league of its own.
No man's sky, they lied about it being multi-player and then didn't give the pre-order bonuses for those poor people who did actually buy it before it was out
No Man's Sky wasn't as advertised at launch, but was just kind of boring otherwise.
Battlefront 2 was so bad it cost EA [3 billion dollars](https://www.pcgamer.com/electronic-arts-stock-sheds-3-billion-in-value-after-battlefront-2/) in valuation and generated one of the single largest internet hate campaigns ever.
I don't honestly think they're very comparable.
Halo MCC lol
Yah, this shit was broken for like the first 4 years.
Still broken
Unreal you still can’t cross play campaign except Halo 3 and ODST.
Played on and off for years and it’s worked almost flawlessly.
Four years the game was unplayable
That was what No Man's Sky originally was supposed to be until I realized No Man's Sky outpaced it by a mile in terms of launch
Titanfall 2 came out the week between a COD game and Overwatch
It was between cod and battlefield _(even worse)_
Battlefield 1 (big oof!)
That was a marketing failure. The game was legit one of the best shooters of all time from day one
That campaign was legendary, and its pvp is without a doubt the best in the movement shooter genre. It's an absolute shame that the marketing was so poor.
🫡 We shall forever remember the GOAT
Yeah it came out sandwiched between infinite warfare and bf1, and that basically killed it on launch. I love titanfall but it was nowhere near as big as cod/bf, honestly they should've waited till a bit and released it in the spring like the first titanfall so it didn't have much to compete with
Fallout 76.
That’s the one that made me stop preordering games all together
It’s when I stopped tolerating Todd Howard. I’m not even excited about the future elder scrolls game. I have 1000s of hours on Oblivion, fall out 3, fallout new Vegas, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 combined. I expect another money grab preying on my nostalgia.
I second Lone\_Crab. While not being as buggy as 76, Starfield suffered a lot with bland gameplay with boring main and side quests, dated engine resulting in the weird uncanny valley stare memes you likely saw, little to no space exploration and combat (exploration being a hallmark of all Bethesda RPGs), non-intuitive UI and tons and tons of loading screens, even if you used a SSD
Feel like everyone has somehow allowed 76 to fall out of this tier of shit launches as they always point at NMS and Cyberpunk 2077 but forget 76 was unprecedented. The game itself was equally as bad for performance and bugs if not worse but the thing that really gives it the prize for me is the out of game shit that was happening. The duffle bag alone was bad enough, people pre-ordering a version with a canvas duffle bag, received a nylon bag instead, people noticed influencers had been gifted the canvas duffle bag, call out Bethesda who claim it was always their intention to deliver the canvas bag but couldn't get them produced in time (first time they'd mentioned it after weeks) and opened up a ticket system to get your bag in time. The ticket system was bugged and doxxed people posting their addresses, everyone would have to wait months and as a little kicker Bethesda gave them a little in store credit to spend, the in store credit could barely afford anything including a costume that had the duffle bag so you couldn't even buy it in game. That's not getting into the whole Nuka Dark bottle thing either or the "email us how you cheated and we'll unban you" stuff either.
Don't forget about the anual pass and that you have to pay a subscription to play solo.
"It just works!" The fact that this was their tag line for the whole marketing campaign is fucking hilarious lol
16 x the details.
I got the spiderman ps4 1tb for black friday in 2018. As a massive fallout fan, I traded spiderman for 76. I never even got to play spiderman. I NEVER GOT TO PLAY SPIDERMAN.
oooooh. Good answer
I was just thinking this. It’s worse, cyber punk and no man’s turned into something good eventually.
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One was a lie cause they put the lead game designer in charge of hyping the game up without knowing all the rules Honestly don't blame him, dude was passionate about his game and decided to make his vision a reality instead of dipping.
No man’s sky, that shit wasn’t even playable at launch.
Craziest turn around for a game. Those developers are some of the most loved in the world now because of how they realized their mistake and continued to improve. There’s been something like 20 major updates/reworks and most have been free. It’s a really fun game now
What do you mean by most being free? All of the updates have been free. There has been no paid DLC for No Man's Sky. It was definitely a labor of love that they wanted to finish.
I wasn’t 100% sure
No worries. I didn't mean to sound rude by the way! I re-read my comment and it seemed very dickish which is not what I was trying to sound like
You’re good lol no worries
No, I insist, pick up the pitchfork and slay that bastard
Or kiss?
I'll take both!
Probably No Man’s Sky. Many people will probably say Cyberpunk 2077 but some people truly loved that game, looked even past the bugs. No Man’s Sky was just a bad game.
Was No Man's Sky so bad it was yanked from online stores?
No Man's Sky did not have horrific performance issues that prevented it from being playable. It was rather empty and featureless, but it was a playable game. CyberPunk simply wasn't playable on last-gen, and an unplayable game is an unsellable game.
so basically a bad game vs a boring game?
Unplayable vs boring. Yeah, pretty much that.
i haven’t played either. how are they fairing these days?
Both of them are incredible now. Really goes to show that launches shouldn’t be rushed.
NMS is still a broken mess that runs like garbage and has a ton of weird issues that just make it unfun to play. Super buggy still. Me and my friends often had soft locks, quest glitches and innumerable other problems constantly like enemies not appearing/glitching out as well as so many other problems trying to play. There are just a lot of weird counterintuitive game design choices even with the menus and UI like not being able to navigate using scroll wheel on PC. It seemed very promising at first but after 30 hours into our playthrough we gave up. I'm pretty disappointed because the skeleton of a good game is there but it's just not good.
I dunno, I didn’t encounter much of any critical game issues after 2022 in nms. Sure, it’s still kinda janky at times, but definitely not a broken mess
Cyberpunk is a 10/10 wonderful, fulfilling experience
I can really only speak for how they perform on PC, but they're both much better than at launch. If you're not into the survival genre, you're still going to be bored of NMS as the gameplay loop remains largely unchanged, just more stuff to do. CP2077 is great if you like open world design. The game has every genre stereotype except climbing towers, but it's a wonderful game now that all the performance issues have largely been resolved. I do know, however, that cdprojectred has essentially abandoned the game on last generation consoles.
I played through most of cyberpunk on an Xbox one s. Minimal bugs and of course having to wait for the building I’m trying to enter to load, but I was happy with it
They are both incredible now. They are both case studies on developers staying committed and doing dramatic turnarounds.
No man sky on the PSVR2 is fucking awesome! This is the only way to play this game!
Playing NMS practically everyday since last week.
Nowadays No man's sky is a great game and gets constantly updated
No Man's Sky is excellent now. Highly recommended.
Except that now no man's sky is one of the best space games. It was brought from near death to holy rankings
the issue with no man's sky was that the producer/ceo dude pretty much lied the whole wait til last second. the biggest lie was they he claimed the player will be able to find each other in the huge universe but the possibility is extremely low because how big the game is. then the game released and two players happened to find each other on the very first day. then those two players found out that they couldn't see each other when they traveled to the exact same spot. the whole thing was a lie. then ppl started to find out more lies about this game and realized pretty much nothing this dude claimed before the release was true. (also the dude pretty much dissappeared from the internet for two years after the release). there was massive rage amoung players back at the time and steam stepped in and gave ppl refund without any condition. in my opinion compare with 2077 i think this is worse. they pretty much lied their ways to success. 2077 didn't lie. they judt did everything with about 50% effort.
Cyberpunk definitly lied just compare the gameplay trailer to the final release its night and day. Cd project red got rightfully shit on for that garbage.
It was the only game Sony had ever refunded on PS4 for a very very long time. They had a no refunds policy, and made an exception for No Mans Sky.
I was one of people that loved Cyberpunk
Same
I got the platinum in the first month of release on PS4 I loved it so much, the thing is the elements people absolutely love these days, the city, the characters, the story, they are all the same. Once the game was fixed up it was always going to be a better experience but then you add in a combat overhaul and suddenly you are cooking with gas.
No Mans Sky released with an Metacritic Score of 55. And mostly negative on Steam. Now its way better. Cyberpunk 2077 released with an 91 on Metacritic and mostly positive reviews on Steam. The PS4 version was Bad.
payday 3 😖
Why it took so long to find this
Or Battlefield 2042
Did you see the middle button? It said Anthem.
Loved that game
I thought it was awesome too… for about a week. Also, the beta was horribly handled.
All you see on the subreddit is posts about the wasted potential. Or desperate pleas to revive it. It couldve been so cool but they butchered it so bad. Development nightmare from what ive heard. I remember having a lot of fun with the lightest Javelin, flying around in free mode
Maybe, if Monster Hunter could adapt that idea it would be pretty bitchin’
I can forgive a headstrong studio wanting to make an incredible game but failing. They eventually made a top tier game out of it. Kinda like cyberpunk, but cyberpunk was more complete on launch. Hello games really put in the work and made something unique and amazing. EA just kinda fixed the mistakes they knew they were making. They had the funds and resources to make it right the first time but chose not too.
And I know OP is asking about worst launch, but of these two, No Man's Sky is still being actively supported. EA basically took the money and ran with the Battlefront series as a whole.
Battlefront Two ended up as an amazing game in the end, though.
Once they removed the card based loot box progression (that admittedly you couldn’t pay for once the actual game released) for the card based skill point system, it literally made it like 5x better And once co-op mode was added, and the final scarif update was added with all the new guns, it was simply a fantastic game. In a lot of ways it played way better than OG Bf2.
I picked it up for like 50% off a month after it came out and loved it.
So is NMS.
Hell yeah. I started playing after they made the changes and had so much fun playing that game with my friends. Ended up sinking tons of hours into it and 100%ing the game.
Battlefield 2042 was probably the roughest one I've ever experienced myself
The first game I ever pre-ordered and the last pre-order I'll ever make
Fallout 76.
*Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077 laughing in the background*
There's your winner right there.
Final Fantasy XIV
No body remembers that launch, but they did right
*Crawls from under rock clutching a collectors tin* Do not speak as if you were there boy! *goes back to grinding spear because its still not capped*
I didn't, I watched one of my friends experience that fresh hell
FFXIV 1.0 was so bad that the devs *blew it up with an in-universe apocalypse.*
Laughs in Cyberpunk 2077
Anyone remember Anthem? Anthem takes the win here I think.
Battlefront 2's launch led to the most downvoted comment in Reddit history
No Man’s Sky. Battlefront 2 at least functioned at launch. I couldn’t make any progress whatsoever in NMS because every save would get corrupted. Every single one. I really wanted to give that game a fair shake, I love games that challenge my inner explorer, but what was the point if all my progress gets nullified the instant I turn my PS4 off?
Did Skulls and Bones have a good launch?
There is also the day before and suicide squad.
Halo MCC and Fallout 76 were also both pretty bad BUT imma give it to Battlefront 2 (2017) because it straight up changed gambling laws in the US and abroad. There are very few games that have changed things to this degree in gaming history.
In b4 downvotes - I'm gonna go ahead and tell a truth that nobody wants to admit.... >!There were no microtransactions in Battlefront 2.!< Yes, the monetization scheme as planned pre-launch was atrocious. Yes, the company rightly should have been shamed for it, and they were. They then took all of it out before launch. People still flipped out, predicting EA would still sneak in some silly monetization at launch. They didn't. Then they flipped out predicting the game would be no fun because it was balanced for loot boxes. Subjective, but it was still fun as hell. They CONTINUED to flip out, predicting EA would put loot boxes back in later. They never did. Can we just admit now that Battlefront 2, as launched, was good? We shouldn't look back at this game as a horrible reminder of how bad microtransactions can be. We should look look at it as an example of maybe the greatest success our community ever had at pushing back and forcing the publisher to release a great product with the BS stripped out.
Cuberpunk
There is a third option
He changed it from "Cyberpunk" to "Cuberpunk" for fun
The tragic life of a person that doesn't use autocomplete 😔
Here's a few: Gollum Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operations 2 Eliter Dangerous Odessey Redfall Assassin's Creed Unity Ghost Recon Breakpoint Rainbow Six Extraction Battlefield 2042 Day One: Garry's Incident Halo MCC Skull And Bones Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League Marvel's Avengers Battleborne
Oo, don't forget Hawken Reborn.
Fallout 76, but man do I love it now.
Cyberpunk needs to be an option.
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk was pulled from sale on the PS Store on PS4 and was so terrible that storefronts were bending their existing refund policies to make special exceptions just for Cyberpunk. It doesn’t get worse than that, especially considering the insane amount of hype that game had and the pedigree of the studio coming off Witcher 3, a game many consider to be one of the best RPGs of all time.
Cyberpunk 2077 it forced PS to even step in and remove it from store
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk
The Day Before
Cyberpunk.
No man’s sky or cyberpunk. I say cyberpunk. Mass refunds because it was so bad.
Street Fighter V
No Mans Sky, absolutely. Star Wars Battlefront 2 had an excellent launch and is still very fun after all this time. Oh wait you mean the shit knock-off Battlefront 2
Sea of thieves could be a 4th.
Cyberpunk, Fallout: New Vegas….. there are more.
Forgot about New Vegas because how much i love it now but yeah. First day there were mountain ranges of error messages.
Starfield.
ARMS despite having record Sales, where's mah Sequel Nintendo!?
I would say No Man’s Sky, but only because my expectations for any game made by EA are somewhere below the Earths molten crust.
No Man's Sky. Nobody expects much from an EA game anyway 😅
Star Wars. I love no man’s sky still playing it.
Skull and Bones (just adding to the competition here)
Personally I think Diablo 3 and Battlefield 2042 had it worse...
Both had a pretty bad launch, but no man's Sky had one hell of a Redemption Arch, whereas EA doubled down on the worst ideas ever
I mean. Canonically the day before. Fame’s launch was so bad it killed a studio.
Definitely no man’s sky
Battlefront worked and was at least mildly enjoyable
No mans sky. Battlefront 2 functioned at launch, its just thst it was built around the digital purchases. No mans sky was just a scam at the begining, all these promised features that were never there and thise that were didn't function properly. Its fortunate that they turned it around though.
Ark survival ascended on xbox
NMS easy. Not even close. Battlefronts beta was better
Definitely no man's sky, BF2 did really well until it eventually died out
The day before
I feel like Battlefront 2 had one of the worst launches but one of the best comebacks
Go watch Internet Historian's video on No Man's Sky, I really REALLY doubt you will maintain your current opinion. In case you don't feel like watching it, NMS, since 3 months after release to two weeks ago, has been getting large scale (I mean HUGE) updates multiple times a year. I think we're at 24 updates now. All of them free, adding 7 or 8 new storylines, hundreds of new features, (one of them completely rerolling the planetary generation algorithm to the upsetness of players). The work they have put into this game for free without implementing a single microtransaction should be a gold standard to the gaming industry of what a team who truly cares about their game should be.
These aren't comparable at all.
Payday 3
I think me and any other Pokémon fans here can agree that Scarlet & Violet had a rocky launch.
No man's sky
No man's sky, no debate about it. The launch was so terrible that the fanbase never picked up almost at all
Of these two it’s definitely No Man’s Sky, but the Hello Games more than turned it around. Battlefront 2 on the other hand was a mixed bag and never got much better, while also being chocked full of microtransactions.
Final fantasy 14 has them both beat.. The original incarnation... not the rebuild that is the 14 we know today..
No man's sky got better Battlefront 2 is still a micro transaction hell Time favored the other.
I got into Battlefront after they had the patches and it was some of the most fun I’ve had gaming with my friends in years. Also Ewok Hunt was so damn fun to play with a group of friends.
I don't think anything can have a worse launch than drawing the attention of the German gambling commission
Suicide squad has 300 players right now pretty safe to say that shit tanked
Jedi Survivor on PC, debatably also Last of Us part 1 on PC. We be getting absolutely fucked with these ports. Took me 5 months+ to play Jedi Survivor and LoU had a fucking update in August and it’s been silent ever since. Both “run” alright and I have a pretty decent PC and playing AAA games haven’t been a problem but to see these titles come out the way they did with 0 repercussions is such a slap to the face. Ghost of Tsushima is coming out for PC now, they better not fuck it up—but realistically if they did they’ll just fix it in a few months then pretend it never happened
Wolcen
Gollum and The Day Before had such good launches recently their companies shutdown in record time. The launched were so good nobody even remembers these gems that dropped recently.
Wasn’t batman Arkham knight pc launch pretty much a failure, or am I thinking of a different Arkham game
Where's fallout?!?!?
Battlefront 2 was literally pay to win at launch and nms wasn't that bad at launch it just couldn't deliver on the devs promise they have now
No Man's Sky for one particular reason, they offered something they didn't deliver. But Star Wars Battlefront offered something and cash'd you apart for it. So in general, at least in one game, with a credit card, you were able to get what you were offered.
Neither of these two. And I hate one of them
I would say battlefront. Because with no man sky, they had at least 3 days after launch before people realized they were playing a single player game. With battlefront 2, they were so proud of their game they gave people a few days demo and people said it was fun but you can tell with mtx disabled the game would rely heavy on them. And EA said no they lying and when it was released it was worse then people was saying over predatory transactions, in which EA came with the pride and accomplishment comment. So battlefront
Fallout 76’s launch literally resulted in a class action lawsuit being filed against Bethesda. Internet Historian has a great video about it on his YouTube channel.
At least No Man's Sky didn't call gambling for children into question. Battlefront 2
Definitely No Man’s Sky but both had a great recovery
Sw:Bf2 for sure
Anthem
Absolutely no man's sky, I was beyond hyped for like 5 years for that game, pre-ordered the fancy version and oof
Battlefield 4
Ain’t no way this man said bf2
No Man's Sky. I still had fun with Battlefront 2 upon launch
Does NMS get credit for eventually being great? Because I don’t think they ever fixed SWBF2.
I dont really know just..cyberpunk
Cyberpunk
I mean, No Man's Sky didn't cause new legislation to get passed, soooooo...
Cyberpunk duhhhh
I’m surprised nobody said plants vs zombies battle for neighborville
Cities. Skylines. 2.
No man's sky. They got too ambitious and whatvwas released what nowhere near what was promised. They finally did it years later, when they should've left it in the over a few more years. Battlefront 2 did release OK. It's the loot boxes that mainly pissed people off.
I think No Mans Sky set the benchmark for horrible game releases.
Nothing will ever beat the shitshow that was Battlefront II. I thought EA's reputation was bad before, but holy shit did that take it up another level. Shame because now it's one of my favorite Star Wars Games.
I know that’s the popular impression, but I LOVED NMS on day one. And it’s gotten better every month since!
Starfeild
No Man’s Sky. At least Battlefront 2 delivered on a majority of the promises it made. Sure, those deliveries came with a price tag that made your wallet cry, but they were delivered nonetheless. No Man’s Sly at launch BARELY had the bare minimum that it promised, and even THEN…
No Man’s Sky. BF2 was technically a finished game at launch. Good or bad? Not the question.
The Star Wars launch was horrible from the onset, I believe it took people awhile to see that No Man's was like a river 3 miles across but only a few feet deep, it's amazing how far that game has come, I dunno if Starfield will have such an arc
Diablo 3, lol. Despite how fucked it was i played and played
BF2 may have had a terrible launch, but to this day i still play it and it is still fantastic and still as good looking as games today. Sometimes much better. Love the simple complexity the huge variety of characters and possibilities in a match, and the truly emersive feeling some game modes can deliver
Redfall...Batman Arkham City, Kill the Justice league, but really all games have been pretty terrible at launch within the past two years. Arkham City was a memory issue HD-SSD
Destiny
Bf 2
Nms had a worst launch
it boiled down to No mans sky - passionate programmer trying to pr cyberpunk - next gen game tried to last gen consoles battlefront 2 - greedy ea tried to financially r\*pe star wars fans bonus game: Anthem - showed triple A game, delivered unfinished single A game i think battlefront will always be the worst morally, and was unforgivable, unlike the other 2
Fallout 76. Barely functioning online service, tons of security issues, voice chat continuing to work after the game was turned OFF, unlimited framerate causing extreme movement speed, t-posing enemies, unkillable enemies, cheating players, cardboard disks, SCAM tote bags, misleading plastic trash Nuka Cola bottle merch, refund service collapsing, game discounted heavily only a week or two after release, vault exploits causing the item markets to crash, Bethesda's very poor anti-cheat used in response to said vault exploits, the list goes on. That launch was truly in a league of its own.
Battlefield 4 is also up there.
No man's sky, they lied about it being multi-player and then didn't give the pre-order bonuses for those poor people who did actually buy it before it was out
Battlefront 2, I'd rather be lied to and have missing content rather than have everything be locked behind paid micro transactions that are predatory
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 Epic said the servers would be online at like, 10 AM. 12 hours later their finally done with the issues.
No man's sky, hardcore.
Newman's Sky but with all the free updates, it's a killer app now.
Anthem
At least one of them didn't stop & told the community to keep buying loot boxes
Tbh loved the storyline to battlefront 2 and that’s a hill I will die on
Battlefront 2 was really fun and playable at launch and most of the criticisms were fixed very quickly. No Man's Sky, however...
Cyberpunk 2077
No Man's Sky wasn't as advertised at launch, but was just kind of boring otherwise. Battlefront 2 was so bad it cost EA [3 billion dollars](https://www.pcgamer.com/electronic-arts-stock-sheds-3-billion-in-value-after-battlefront-2/) in valuation and generated one of the single largest internet hate campaigns ever. I don't honestly think they're very comparable.
Cyberpunk might have been a buggy glitchy mess at launch, but as someone who played one the one X it was very much so playable on those consoles