I was surprised to see that, most people don't add Starfield because they have a very toxic community (xbox I mean), but anyone that knows anything about games knows that it's probably the worst game this year (if we count the amount of money and human resources that have been put in it, so Gollum doesn't count xDDD)@@acorahil
This year definitely had a LOT of bangers, and even some misfires were still fun despite bugs but one thing this year definitely proved is that graphics need to start taking a backseat to tools that improve optimization. Graphics are amazing enough and can chill for a bit. Start focusing more on tools that can streamline and better the gaming process in the next iteration of engines, instead of bleeding every last drip of the processing power
I feel like the problem here is that the devs don't put enough work on optimizing the games, because he have other really good looking games that don't have those problems, seems more like a problem of the higher ups on companies wanting to rush the product, rather than a tool problem.
that was not a problem if you use the powers and mechanics the most problem i had that it was too short and it wasn't open world game because open world was so bad that it felt something like place there you reach other missions they could have implemented survival elements into open world as type of experience and to be able to upgrade before missions in here you kill to upgrade . story in end was a 2 hours cutscene and story was too short @@drewrobinson5562
I felt the same way seeing Starfield at #2. I've played some bad games, but never requested a refund for any of them. Starfield was so bad I requested a refund. (Unfortunately Steam is being an asshole about it, so I've had to go through PayPal instead.)
@@karimcheese7257 Honestly, I don't even hate it. It wasn't even enough to hate. It was boring. But to a degree that "playing Starfield" should be the new "watching paint dry". You start out as a miner, diging for ore. And you come across an artifact, that when you touch it, it gives you a vision. One that I can't remember anything about. You pass out, do the character creation, and wake up with a couple of teammates that are entirely forgettable. They tell you someone has come for you because of your experience with the artifact. You go up, talk to this guy, and are interrupted by pirates for some reason. So you fight them. And the guy gives you his ship. You leave the planet, fight more pirates in space, go to a planet where you have to do something (I forget) which is just an excuse to go through your typical Bethesda dungeon level (kill random NPC's, find junk, fight a boss, leave). Then you go to the main hub planet. There's a random group at the space port talking about something that I'm sure is meant to get you interested in whatever quest they're giving away, but by that point I couldn't care less. I went to the meeting place, got a massive exposition dump from a group of exceedingly bland characters, and gave up on the game when I still didn't care about the main story even after all that. 3 1/2 hours, and not one interesting moment to hook you. Compare that to Mass Effect 1. Similar premise, you have to go get an artifact off a planet. Only this one is under attack. Before you even start the mission, you've met at least 3 or 4 interesting, dynamic characters. You get to the planet which is under attack, and just after landing, you lose one of your squad members, establishing the stakes of the mission. You find out that the big bad of the story is a super-agent spy type, turned traitor. You get to the artifact and have a vision that to this day, almost 20 years later, I still remember because it's visually striking and disturbing. So in far less time, you've established a compelling mystery, introduced a cast of dynamic characters, and set up a major villain. All things that Starfield failed to do in like 6 times the amount of time. Even other Bethesda games like Fallout 4 or Skyrim do their openings infinitely better. Within the first few minutes of Skyrim, you escape execution because of a dragon attack, and you have to run for your life. In Fallout 4, your idyllic afternoon with your family is interrupted by a nuclear attack and you have to run to safety. But Starfield, there's just nothing to hook you in.
I thought Atomic Heart was good tbh. Yeah it's not a game changer compared to similar games but I think the story was cool and the design of the game was fanstic. Combat was kinda clunky but you get the hang of it. The only real annoying thing was the open world and it's "wanted" system where repair drones constandly spawn and repair your downed enemies. You can disable the system responsible for that for a short while but it gets annoying fast. I began to ran past the open world enemies at later stages of my playthrough. All in all, I don't think Atomic Heart deserves to be on this list
true currently playing and really enjoying it. yes moving from one training grounds to another is a bit annoying but there are ways to over come it. you can disable towers in the region temporarily giving you plenty time to explore. just in to really get the hang of it. so far its a 9/10 for me
For Starfield I was actually pretty shocked how reviewers managed to miss on how mediocre it was. Like it went basically all the way away from quality and full into quantity. With huge lack of any locations worth exploring, because they are often almost, if not completely storyless, copy/pasted over nine thousand times, with same old, same old enemies, same quotes from companions,... like exploration has very little to make it worth it. Like even Earth, where I was hoping for some interesting exploration of old abandoned locations, finding out what was happening before it got abandoned was slimed down to just huge buildings you can't enter with each having one of those globes somewhere around. Also not to mention how cites are most populated ever, so quantity is there, but what made Bethesda cities really interesting, Radiant AI, is completely absent, aka lack of quality. For those who don't know, Radiant AI allowed NPCs to have daily cycle of work, sleep, free time, they walked around, had those random interactions,... Also crowd just has nothing interesting on them anyway, they are just clutter. So just feeling souless. Not that your colonists are any better, they are no need souless husks there only to be buff to production. Like I don't need 1600+ planets of copy paste locations and stuff, I would take single map, like Skyrim with small feeling towns that feel alive any day. Like even ratio of boring locations to interesting storied ones was infinitely better in Skyrim. Like here you get stuff like quest to find escaped colonists, so you can then find one dude and give him persuasion option to go back and that is it. No story or whatever, why he escaped, could you maybe fix situation, are others in camp silently suffering,.. we can't have that, we need that copy pasted 10000 times. Like it really feels like reviewers had more interesting, on the rails copy that didn't show actual game.
Atomic heart was a fun game, i had a good time with it,the graphics were awesome,and the gunplay was fun,the boss fights were pretty decent also,i guess everyone had different opinions,and that's all good
Starfield was NEVER going to live up the expectations everyone heaped on it. Through showcases and directs, Bethesda took a lot of time and literally showed everyone EXACTLY what the game was, yet no one payed attention. There’s a massive difference between not living up to expectations vs not living up to false expectations. And there were an absolutely massive amount of false expectations directed at this game. Starfield doesn’t belong on this list.
It's a sooo slow, so repetitive and so empty. It lacks character & soul and the 90% drop off in player base backs this up. Zero longevity and as such a disappointment. It's at best mid tier... 5/10.
@@TheHairlessChimp I’m not here to tell you you’re wrong. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, likes and dislikes. My point was that a lot of the criticism this game gets circles around how the game doesn’t do space exploration like No Man’s Sky, or combat like Cyberpunk, the list goes on. Bethesda never promised any of that, yet people assumed the game would have it. The game is being considered a disappointment because of these false assumptions. But to be honest, those same people were probably never going to like the game to begin with. Space exploration isn’t a genre for everyone. I promise you that GTA6 is going to suffer the same fate as Starfield. The expectations are simply too high for the devs to ever live up them. And it will be labeled a failure even if the game is fantastic. It’s going to have aspects people don’t like. And in today’s world, if something isn’t a flawless experience, it’s the worst one they’ve ever had.
Nobody labelled it a failure just a disappointment, which it most certainly was for the vast majority of players. I've been a massive Bethesda fanboy since Fallout 3 but I can't honestly say they've released anything above mediocre since 2015.
Note: Turns out the TLOU PC port was done by Iron Galaxy, a small dev-team of 12 people who also did the PC port of Arkham Knight and we all remember what a mess that was! 😂
Well, Bethesda themselves called it "the most important RPG" before launch. Not even joking. So, yeah, the high expectations and then disappointment in them not being met is kinda on Bethesda in many ways
@@Bman32xI’m also bad at the upgrading your travel options in games😂 they usually give you a quick tutorial about it at the beginning of the game but it’s hours before you can actually upgrade anything and I forget it by then haha I went through the entire game of kingdom come deliverance without knowing you can buy faster horses😂
AAA game industry being disappointing? What a shocker! But seriously, I've heard so many varying opinions about Starfield that I kinda want to try it. I hadn't heard of a couple of these anyway but still, not surprised when the big budget publishers release crap.
If you have Game Pass it’s definitely worth it. It’s still a lot of fun if you like the Bethesda open world play style, but not any better than previous releases. And I enjoyed the (few) side quests it had better than the main story, but YMMV.
What is frustrating with Forspoken is that the potential was there. It's not the disaster lots of people told without playing it but it's a game who needed more time to develop. You feel what the team wanted to do more but couldn't cause the release date was too early.
The story was garbage, I was really looking forward to it after the demo because the combat is a lot of fun when you get it all down and can put together some amazing combos but I really really struggled to care about anything beyond that and it’s such a shame, the potential was there but the execution was way off
The open world was meh as hell. But the criticism is mostly because it was marketed as bioshock, and it wasn't. Thats not the game's fault. It was a solid 7. It just wasn't bioshock.
Played it as a throw away because I was bored and quickly became engrossed in the world. I played on Armageddon mode from the start and it was a solid game with a wicked soundtrack and decent bosses, enemies and good feeling combat.
I said this once during the pandemic and it bares repeating: Jules will never know how many lives he’s potentially saved just by taking a few moments to say “I see you. I see you and what I see is awesome.” Whether I agree with his takes on games or not I’ll always respect Jules from that.
He only said that because some one at WatchMojo off themselves so now every one has to give a positive message at the end and it has nothing to do with him caring
@@cheepersmommy Who told you that? It has literally nothing in common with Bioshock. Yes they were inspired by Bioshock environments a lil bit but that's it. They use retro futurism style that was well known way before Bioshock or Fallout. The setting of the game simply needs it because they use Soviet era, mid last century but with sci-fi element of the country is being way more technologically advanced so it is understandable that they use elements of interior and props from real USSR that are somehow stylized into something more fresh and futuristic. That is the whole idea of the retro futurism and it has nothing to do with Bioshok or Fallout. They also brought us some cool game characters while there is no single new character from well known AAA studios for the last few years but big fails. But those are completely different games on their very fundamental levels. And OMG even the main ideas of Bioshok and Atomic Heart lies on the opposite poles of the social and political coordinates. if you have ever played those games and tried to understand the message of course. Atomic Heart is pure capitalists anti-Soviet propaganda while idiots from Ukraine were screaming that the game is pro Russian or pro Soviet but after game realease they literally shut up because they realized that they look like idiots being slaves of Capital and fighting pro-capitalists propaganda even made by Russian devs. And Bioshok is the game from the left ideas sympathizers or at least from people that understand that right wing propaganda is a pure BS. The first Bioshock was literally a deconstruction of the book by Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged. So here we go. It looks like most of the people who say that AH is a clone of Bioshock and Fallout or wannabe those have never played none of those games or never tried to understand those games. That's it.
i love forspoken and genuinely don’t understand the hate-it’s pretty with a fun battle system, movement systems and memorable boss fights. it’s not perfect, but so much of the backlash is undue and from people that haven’t even played it. sad that there won’t be a sequel.
Dialogue on that game is pretty much trash and world is a bit too empty, also for me, combat didn't feel right, but that is personal. If that game had a good writer for the dialogues, and some more polishing before release, that game coul've easily been in the top 5 this year, sadly, it's just another forgetable open world game.
Remember Star field was originally going to be on ps5 before they got bought then the fact Bethesda refuses to change out the game engine since morrowind. The main reason fallout 76 was a dumpster fire on release. Will they ever learn and change the engine.
#10 - Starfield #9 - Starfield #8 - Starfield #7 - Starfield #6 - Starfield #5 - Starfield #4 - Starfield #3 - Starfield #2 - Starfield #1 - Starfield "Charming characters"? Seriously? In 3 hours, I met 7 characters who combined had all the charm of watching paint dry. This game isn't even interesting enough to be bad. It's tediously boring.
I feel as though a lot of people and reviewers, both inside and outside the CS community miss the point of CS2. It wasn’t really meant to be an updated game in what most gamers would think of. It was meant to be an upgrade to source 2 in order to give a more solid foundation for the years to come. This is why people and outlets like WhatCulture pick on things like lack of features, or differences in performance. They’re reviewing it as though it’s meant to be bigger and better like a new GTA. They tried to release with a smaller core game that was meant to be more polished than if they’d ported it all. They will obviously add to it once they have the core game ironed out. The argument is that they released it too soon and removed CSGO, but realistically, they needed it in the hands of more than the test groups to really reveal issues and bugs, and the community is too stubborn to put in the time if they could just go play CSGO. Keep the faith fellow T’s & CT’s. It’s going to get better.
Look, I'm no fan of Redfall, but as someone who spent a number of years as a journalist I am a stickler for accuracy, and it's wildly inaccurate to declare that Redfall's updates have been "sporadic" considering that two updates, version 2 and 3, were released within the past two months. I don't know about you, but two updates in two months don't fall within my definition of "sporadic."
As someone who is still on their first playthrough in Starfield despite playing it daily from launch, I understand its inclusion here. It's a great game, and Bethesda's in-house best of it's type, it still lags behind the games other studios of their have published, like Dishonored 1 and 2, Prey, and Fallout: New Vegas. One problem is that people are comparing it to mature versions of games like Skyrim or Fallout 3 and 4, instead of how those games were at launch. If you look at it from that perspective, it is far and away more complete and less buggy than its counterparts.
Atomic heart is probably on here because it’s story and where it takes place. The Soviet Union. Aka, a part of Russia. People need to stop letting bias for actual events effect your experience of any kind of game.
Genuine question: What is Starfield about? Ive seen a lot of talk about the exploration system, empty planets, the ability to spawn a bunch of potatoes, and really big ships. Yet no one talks about the plot
Because the plot is the dumbest one that Bugthesda has come up with yet. Apparently they spent more time crafring high polygon count food than they did crafting a compelling story 😆
Hey hey hey, what’s with all the questions buddy? Don’t you know you can enter and exit a planets atmosphere without the need for loading screens? Dont you know you can explore different solar systems? What about the fact you can spawn a bunch of potatoes? Thats all you need to know about the greatest game ever Starfield!!!
I have only seen some mention of the ending, which lead me to believe the story isn't very remarkable, probably because they dedicated all the resources to make the game as big and repetitive as posible whitout much regard for anything else.
The Forespoken & Starfield entries here just sound like ya'll had your expectations set too high for those 2 new IPs...compared to the rest of them at the very least. :/
Starfield's alright. I wasn't going into the game thinking GOTY, I went in thinking BATHESDA. I also feel like if recent games are on here then UFC 5 should've definitely made the list.
Jules I would watch one of your videos based on best dirt color in games simply for the motivational sign-offs that you do. You are awesome and a true Lege! Mad love for ya!
I agree with the assessment of Starfield. While I am playing through the game and generally enjoying it, it feels undercooked. The exploration which was supposed to be one of the selling features is underwhelming at best and tedious at its worst. It doesn't help that you have to fast travel everywhere, and the individual planets aren't too exciting. If you have explored one type of planet you have seen what the next one of that type will be, just maybe a different color. It has a feeling of No Man's Sky, where they promised the universe and only gave you Earth and Mars. Hopefully DLC will come in for the rescue, but at present I wouldn't pay full price for it.
Feels like a low effort to fill a “top 10 list” rather than the list being a specific value based on the amount of games that are worthy of it. Atomic Hearts isn’t even a AAA game. If that’s not low effort I’m not sure what is. Aside from leaving out Gollum since Atomic Hearts is here….so bizarre….
As far as Atomic heart goes, would say that it looks like a good game. I feel that CS2 was a good concept but just implemented badly, I play CS2 everyday and played CSGO for a few years and CS2 feels almost like a downgrade with it's gameplay but graphically the game looks fantastic, great video though.
WHERE'S SONIC SUPERSTARS, WHATCULTURE!? IF THERE'S A DISHONORABLE MENTIONS, SEGA'S LATEST 2D SONIC DISAPPOINTMENT SHOULD BE IN THERE! IT WAS SO INFERIOR TO SONIC MANIA IN TERMS OF PRESENTATION THAT'S NOT VISUALS, GAMEPLAY, LEVEL DESIGN, SPECIAL STAGES, & ESPECIALLY FOR WHAT SEGA HAS DONE TO THE BOSS FIGHTS! AS THE RESULT OF THE MASSIVE DOWNGRADE FROM MANIA, IT HAS SEVERELY LOST TO NINTENDO'S SUPER MARIO BROS WONDER IN TERMS OF OVERALL PLATFORMER GALAXYTRAIL'S FREEDOM PLANET 2 IN TERMS OF RECENT HIGHSPEED PLATFORMER!
Nah, Atomic Heart was one of the surprises this year, was a lot better than everyone expected, if you read the comments, a lot of them disagree with that one game on the list.
Wild Hearts - a promising new contender in the Monster Hunter genre, sadly plagued by severe technical propblems... After pushing out 3 Performance-Patches in the first month they pretty much left it at that and continued with QoL and new content, mostly ignoring the still existing technical issues, including switching Audio from 2.1 to 5.1/7.1 to improve your FPS.
Lets see.....$70 game that looks almost a decade old, yet was still locked to 30 frames on XBox & was horribly optimized for PC. "16 times the loading screens" to boot. Yeah, it totally belongs here 😆
Atomic heart does not deserveto be on this list, its only problem was that it was kinda short and limited but that makes sence for a brand new studio, it would have been tough for them to do more. And Starfield wasnt a disappointment because my expectation for it was that it would be utter garbage. And it managed to be a solod high 6 low 7 out of 10. I finished it with over 100 hours of play time and thourouggly enjoyed my time with it. It doesnt hold a candle to Bethesdas pre-fallout 4 games but i do think it surpassed fallout 4 for me.
#3 is a reminder to people to stop pre-ordering games #2 is a result of over hyping. It's a "good" game, just not a "great" game. It's just getting (deserved maybe) hate because ES6 was delayed for it, and fans would have preferred ES6 instead.
First two being considered disappointing is wild- first one was an action RPG, and the second is a looter shooter, anyone playing either of these genres and expecting a game that’s good is stupid.
I don’t agree with Starfield landing as the #2 spot and furthermore, AEW: Fight Forever should’ve been on here because it looks and feels like a throwback to No Mercy, but the studio just didn’t realize that the game just wasn’t been able to fix the bugs and other problems at launch.
I’ll say it overall especially for people arguing over specific entries… disappointing =\= bad. It just means it didn’t live up to hype or deliver what was promised. For me AEW Fight Forever was the most disappointing game of 2023. I was sold on it being current graphics No Mercy, not Smackdown v Raw 2007 but a downgraded CAW mode w/less features.
I stopped liking Arkane when I found out they scrapped everything from Prey 2 in order to make the Prey Bethesda wanted. Prey 2017 is awesome but why couldn’t they call it a different name? Its obvious they were massive fans of System Shock so they could have tried finding a way to make System Shock 3 and let someone else work on Prey 2; someone who would have kept the original concept of the game. PS: Starfield is Bethesda’s attempt to make a game similar to the Outer Worlds which was already a fancy redesign of Fallout New Vegas; they could have Remastered New Vegas instead of wasting their time on Starfield.
When it comes to most single player AAA games flopping, I blame Callisto Protocol. I enjoyed the game and the patches really fixed the stuttering and bugs quite fast even tho gameplay was a bit stagnant, with too much emphasis on melee. However the biggest reason why i think Striking distance and Krafton is to blame is that Callisto Protocol was the one to start this trend of "release now, fix it later" or "hype up the game that wont live to it's expectations"
Counter Strike was actually put up over the top of CSGO as a patch so they could ride the coat tails of the good reviews for CSGO instead of starting a new vote for CS2.
I agree with the starfield pick…I had huge hopes for it but could not moved past how to do one mission I went through 5 different loading screens..it’s almost like they should’ve stuck with one planet and vast exploration with a good tree leveling system…oh wait that is just fallout 😂
Honestly I think the new cod itself makes this a terrible gaming year. The fact they straight up used a DLC and pretended it was a full game by adding the dumb open combat missions. The only good thing about it is I’m pretty sure the next modern warfare is gonna go hard in order to make up for it
@@trentwise3762who cares about cod lol? I basically ignore it every year just like sports games and racing games... All those can stop existing right now and I wouldn't notice.
@@DeathcoreManiac uh millions of people? it's like one of the most successful franchises of all time lol you know just because you don't play a game doesn't mean others don't. like I don't play LOL, but it doesn't mean i think nobody else plays it lol
@@trentwise3762 your first reply makes me believe that you are one of these people cuz how the hell a cod release can make the entire year a disappointing year for gaming?
You brought up the idea that 2023 might be the best year of video games ever. As subjective as this sounds, maybe an opinion-based list on what You think the 10 best years for video games is might be fun. Just for my money, the best year for video games for me is beyond a doubt 2011. My literal 2 favorite games of all time came out that year (Skyrim and Mortal Kombat 9) so from my perspective I can't see any argument (hence why it would be fun to heat your opinion on the matter). Mass Effect 2 & The MGS Collection (both of which also make my top 10 of all time) came out that year as well. Also, Arkham City blew the world away. Deus Ex Human Revolution, L.A. Noir, Gears 3, Skyward Sword just to name a few.
Atomic heart shouldn't be on this list, yeah the protagonist is cringy but its a videogame, most of the stuff on them are. Is not like it came from a big reknown studio either. I'd say it was between decent and good
Gotta disagree with you here on the atomic heart stance Jules. The game was great, everyone just thought it was another bioshock clone and was dissatisfied when they found it wasn’t
I feel like this year has been the worst for the entertainment industries. Everyone is making the same "cyberpunk" -esk games. No one seems to be able to make a decent open world fantasy game that isnt just a hack and slash
I actually kinda liked Atomic Heart, but I really only played it for a couple hours one night and never went back to it. Same for Forza Motorsport, although was a lot more meh on that one. And Starfield... I put over 90 hours into Starfield, took a little break to play some spooky games in October, and still haven't gone back to finish it off. Not really feeling like going back to it for some reason.
Expected to see the same in this list, as I've seen in all others, where they leave out Starfield, which is literally one of the worst games this year (if we count the amount of money and resources put in it), but I have to disagree with Atomic Heart, imo, it's one of the surprises this year, was a lot better than I expected, I'd put it in the top 5 of this year games.
I liked Starfield. I've played nearly 100 hours of it. It's not perfect, and it's not the game of a generation as seemingly advertised, but it's a solid 7/10. I love what they did with the Nasa-punk style and the overall tone of the story. That said, the story fell flat in the end, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the first expansion adds to the narrative.
The problem, is that you need to rate a game, thinking about how big the company that made it is, how much money and time was put in to the game, and how much they make you pay for it, having all that into account, I'm sorry, but starfield has the level of a indie company in every aspect, and the price is excessive, I'd say it's decent if they charged you 20$, but for 70? I expect something on the same level as The Witcher 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Horizon (ZD or FW), etc., and Starfield can't even be compared with those games in quality. Apart from all that, the company said a lot of stuff to hype the game, that was 100% fake, that also does hurt the game. @@Adam-M-
@@Adam-M- I think what kills it for many people is that it's a 6-7 out of ten game, but a 3-4/10 for bethesda. it just lacks any of the fun and charm of previous titles, especially in exploration wich would have helped with the boring bland story quests.
*Forspoken:* REPETITION! Short campaign... and it could've been SO~OOO Good! *Redfall:* Arkane: This'll show you that we won't make games we don't like!!
Is anyone really surprised that a game developed by Bethesda wound up being disappointing? I think there's a well established pattern now that they're going to launch games with tired writing and big but empty worlds. Honestly, I'm surprised it released in a state where the game was functional, but I suppose even the moneygrubbing dumbasses running the company learned a lesson or too from the absolute fuckery that was the release of Fallout 76.
I think Starfield should not be that high on the list and I don’t think it should be on this list at all. There are still updates coming out for the game and dlc is planned for it
It was suppose to be Bethesdas next Magnum opus, and it severely fell short. 25 years in the making for such a mediocre game. It DEFINITELY deserved its spot.
The disappointment wasn't about the bugs so you can't really fix it with updates... Everyone was hyping it up as the game of the generation and it wasn't even top 10 this year...
Bland, forgettable main story and side-quests, travel & exploration that largely boils down to menus, load screens and repeitive environments, & extremely vanilla main companions (seriously, I doubt you'll be hearing any Panam versus Judy style arguments about the Starfield romances anytime soon 😆).
It doesn't matter about the updates. Just go by the amount of people who stop playing the game. It's dropped harder then most game's this year. If it wasn't so bland it would be good.
You shouldn't look forward to anything from Konami. They're a Pachinko and Keno game developer now, with video games basically being the red headed side project. Just look at that weird Silent Hill thing they're putting out. That IP is ripe for nostalgia farming and maybe even some modern twists, and they brought it back from the grave with.. a pay to win animated webseries.
Lol. Atomic Heart is simply one of the best games and the most inspiring game of the Year. Perhaps the story could have been better but... If we start thinking the way that this is not a AAA game but a game from a small newly built studio that was looking for financing for years it changes everything. The game looks and feels better than most AAA games yet it was polished and working on Steam Deck from day one while famous AAA studios fail again and again and somehow have 4080 in System Requirements having not even close visuals to Atomic Heart while they have decades of experience, tons of staff and money. Channels and gaming media just like yours are literally a cancer of the gaming industry.
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0:32 10. Forspoken
1:44 9. Redfall
2:53 8. Forza Motorsport
4:00 7. Atomic Heart
4:54 6. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1
6:05 5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
6:32 4. Firewall Ultra
7:29 3. The Last of Us Part 1 (PC Version)
8:34 2. Starfield
9:38 1. Counter-Strike 2
Thanks bro save time to watch the video
3 games from Microsoft, looks suspicious
Thank you
I was surprised to see that, most people don't add Starfield because they have a very toxic community (xbox I mean), but anyone that knows anything about games knows that it's probably the worst game this year (if we count the amount of money and human resources that have been put in it, so Gollum doesn't count xDDD)@@acorahil
@@acorahilor maybe they were disappointing. The general consensus is that they were.
Wasn't The Lord of the Rings: Gollum supposed to be a Triple-A title as well? If so it should definitely take the first place on this list.
To quote Smegol; "Not. Anymore."
To be fair, I don't think most people had very high expectations
This year definitely had a LOT of bangers, and even some misfires were still fun despite bugs but one thing this year definitely proved is that graphics need to start taking a backseat to tools that improve optimization. Graphics are amazing enough and can chill for a bit. Start focusing more on tools that can streamline and better the gaming process in the next iteration of engines, instead of bleeding every last drip of the processing power
I feel like the problem here is that the devs don't put enough work on optimizing the games, because he have other really good looking games that don't have those problems, seems more like a problem of the higher ups on companies wanting to rush the product, rather than a tool problem.
Atomic Heart is fun. I would like to see some good post game content, maybe a boss rush mode.
Honestly it should not be on this list, another whatculture L. The game was very funb and actually did pretty well.
The only legit criticism I've ever heard was the enemies start to get spoungie.
that was not a problem if you use the powers and mechanics the most problem i had that it was too short and it wasn't open world game because open world was so bad that it felt something like place there you reach other missions they could have implemented survival elements into open world as type of experience and to be able to upgrade before missions in here you kill to upgrade . story in end was a 2 hours cutscene and story was too short @@drewrobinson5562
game sucks cringe writing boring fights
When I saw Redfall at #9 I was shocked thinking what could be worse?
CS2.......CS2 could be that worse.
I felt the same way seeing Starfield at #2. I've played some bad games, but never requested a refund for any of them. Starfield was so bad I requested a refund. (Unfortunately Steam is being an asshole about it, so I've had to go through PayPal instead.)
@@jonathanhibberd9983 I never played Starfield nor do I have the desire to. So in your experience what did you hate so much?
@@karimcheese7257 Honestly, I don't even hate it. It wasn't even enough to hate. It was boring. But to a degree that "playing Starfield" should be the new "watching paint dry".
You start out as a miner, diging for ore. And you come across an artifact, that when you touch it, it gives you a vision. One that I can't remember anything about. You pass out, do the character creation, and wake up with a couple of teammates that are entirely forgettable. They tell you someone has come for you because of your experience with the artifact. You go up, talk to this guy, and are interrupted by pirates for some reason. So you fight them. And the guy gives you his ship.
You leave the planet, fight more pirates in space, go to a planet where you have to do something (I forget) which is just an excuse to go through your typical Bethesda dungeon level (kill random NPC's, find junk, fight a boss, leave).
Then you go to the main hub planet. There's a random group at the space port talking about something that I'm sure is meant to get you interested in whatever quest they're giving away, but by that point I couldn't care less. I went to the meeting place, got a massive exposition dump from a group of exceedingly bland characters, and gave up on the game when I still didn't care about the main story even after all that.
3 1/2 hours, and not one interesting moment to hook you. Compare that to Mass Effect 1. Similar premise, you have to go get an artifact off a planet. Only this one is under attack. Before you even start the mission, you've met at least 3 or 4 interesting, dynamic characters. You get to the planet which is under attack, and just after landing, you lose one of your squad members, establishing the stakes of the mission. You find out that the big bad of the story is a super-agent spy type, turned traitor. You get to the artifact and have a vision that to this day, almost 20 years later, I still remember because it's visually striking and disturbing.
So in far less time, you've established a compelling mystery, introduced a cast of dynamic characters, and set up a major villain. All things that Starfield failed to do in like 6 times the amount of time.
Even other Bethesda games like Fallout 4 or Skyrim do their openings infinitely better. Within the first few minutes of Skyrim, you escape execution because of a dragon attack, and you have to run for your life. In Fallout 4, your idyllic afternoon with your family is interrupted by a nuclear attack and you have to run to safety. But Starfield, there's just nothing to hook you in.
I thought Atomic Heart was good tbh. Yeah it's not a game changer compared to similar games but I think the story was cool and the design of the game was fanstic. Combat was kinda clunky but you get the hang of it.
The only real annoying thing was the open world and it's "wanted" system where repair drones constandly spawn and repair your downed enemies. You can disable the system responsible for that for a short while but it gets annoying fast. I began to ran past the open world enemies at later stages of my playthrough.
All in all, I don't think Atomic Heart deserves to be on this list
If you had to be annoyed in a feature, it definitely deserved to be on the list.
true currently playing and really enjoying it. yes moving from one training grounds to another is a bit annoying but there are ways to over come it. you can disable towers in the region temporarily giving you plenty time to explore. just in to really get the hang of it. so far its a 9/10 for me
For Starfield I was actually pretty shocked how reviewers managed to miss on how mediocre it was. Like it went basically all the way away from quality and full into quantity. With huge lack of any locations worth exploring, because they are often almost, if not completely storyless, copy/pasted over nine thousand times, with same old, same old enemies, same quotes from companions,... like exploration has very little to make it worth it. Like even Earth, where I was hoping for some interesting exploration of old abandoned locations, finding out what was happening before it got abandoned was slimed down to just huge buildings you can't enter with each having one of those globes somewhere around. Also not to mention how cites are most populated ever, so quantity is there, but what made Bethesda cities really interesting, Radiant AI, is completely absent, aka lack of quality. For those who don't know, Radiant AI allowed NPCs to have daily cycle of work, sleep, free time, they walked around, had those random interactions,... Also crowd just has nothing interesting on them anyway, they are just clutter. So just feeling souless. Not that your colonists are any better, they are no need souless husks there only to be buff to production. Like I don't need 1600+ planets of copy paste locations and stuff, I would take single map, like Skyrim with small feeling towns that feel alive any day. Like even ratio of boring locations to interesting storied ones was infinitely better in Skyrim. Like here you get stuff like quest to find escaped colonists, so you can then find one dude and give him persuasion option to go back and that is it. No story or whatever, why he escaped, could you maybe fix situation, are others in camp silently suffering,.. we can't have that, we need that copy pasted 10000 times. Like it really feels like reviewers had more interesting, on the rails copy that didn't show actual game.
If we can agree that not much money was put into the Metal Gear Collection, can we really call it a AAA game?
Atomic heart was a fun game, i had a good time with it,the graphics were awesome,and the gunplay was fun,the boss fights were pretty decent also,i guess everyone had different opinions,and that's all good
Starfield was NEVER going to live up the expectations everyone heaped on it. Through showcases and directs, Bethesda took a lot of time and literally showed everyone EXACTLY what the game was, yet no one payed attention.
There’s a massive difference between not living up to expectations vs not living up to false expectations. And there were an absolutely massive amount of false expectations directed at this game. Starfield doesn’t belong on this list.
It's a sooo slow, so repetitive and so empty. It lacks character & soul and the 90% drop off in player base backs this up. Zero longevity and as such a disappointment. It's at best mid tier... 5/10.
@@TheHairlessChimpyou gave it 5 out of 10. I give it 3 at best.
No it belongs below this list. It's boring.
@@TheHairlessChimp I’m not here to tell you you’re wrong. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, likes and dislikes.
My point was that a lot of the criticism this game gets circles around how the game doesn’t do space exploration like No Man’s Sky, or combat like Cyberpunk, the list goes on. Bethesda never promised any of that, yet people assumed the game would have it. The game is being considered a disappointment because of these false assumptions. But to be honest, those same people were probably never going to like the game to begin with. Space exploration isn’t a genre for everyone.
I promise you that GTA6 is going to suffer the same fate as Starfield. The expectations are simply too high for the devs to ever live up them. And it will be labeled a failure even if the game is fantastic. It’s going to have aspects people don’t like. And in today’s world, if something isn’t a flawless experience, it’s the worst one they’ve ever had.
Nobody labelled it a failure just a disappointment, which it most certainly was for the vast majority of players. I've been a massive Bethesda fanboy since Fallout 3 but I can't honestly say they've released anything above mediocre since 2015.
Note: Turns out the TLOU PC port was done by Iron Galaxy, a small dev-team of 12 people who also did the PC port of Arkham Knight and we all remember what a mess that was! 😂
Why do they keep getting work!?
8:34 belive me, you're not. It perfectly fits "Disappointing game of the year" not bad but holy hell is it just an "ok" game
for a skyrim in space it is an empty game
100 percent they hyped it up way to much and honestly i was disappointed
Honestly, Microsoft is doing pretty terrible with PC/Xbox exclusives this Gen...
Well, Bethesda themselves called it "the most important RPG" before launch. Not even joking. So, yeah, the high expectations and then disappointment in them not being met is kinda on Bethesda in many ways
Not AAA but bloodbowl 3 deserves a mention on this or any disappointing game of the year list. Not a patch on its predecessor
Give it ten years to become remotely playable and sell as a complete game for a reasonable price, and then we'll have something compareable.
Starfield spent more time in my inventory then fly8ng in space.
For me it was the homestead & upgrading ships mechanics. I just am not good at those parts of the games.
@@Bman32xI’m also bad at the upgrading your travel options in games😂 they usually give you a quick tutorial about it at the beginning of the game but it’s hours before you can actually upgrade anything and I forget it by then haha
I went through the entire game of kingdom come deliverance without knowing you can buy faster horses😂
AAA game industry being disappointing? What a shocker!
But seriously, I've heard so many varying opinions about Starfield that I kinda want to try it. I hadn't heard of a couple of these anyway but still, not surprised when the big budget publishers release crap.
Starfield was incredibly boring.
Well, there is varying degrees of intelligence in human beings, so the response is predictable.
Atomic heart was not disappointed that’s the only one i wouldn’t listen to them about
@@donrightgaming1455 Have some self-respect.
If you have Game Pass it’s definitely worth it. It’s still a lot of fun if you like the Bethesda open world play style, but not any better than previous releases. And I enjoyed the (few) side quests it had better than the main story, but YMMV.
Tell me you were paid by Sony without telling me you were paid by Sony: "Starfield sucks."
i adored atomic heart i even beat the dlc i 100 percented that game. i cant wait for the next dlc.
You are right🎉 I love it tooo!!!!
Me too
What is frustrating with Forspoken is that the potential was there. It's not the disaster lots of people told without playing it but it's a game who needed more time to develop. You feel what the team wanted to do more but couldn't cause the release date was too early.
It’s a decent game I think dialogue is what kills it
Nothin could save the blandness of that open world and the dialog.
The story was garbage, I was really looking forward to it after the demo because the combat is a lot of fun when you get it all down and can put together some amazing combos but I really really struggled to care about anything beyond that and it’s such a shame, the potential was there but the execution was way off
I seriously don’t understand why atomic heart is on this list
Atomic heart was amazing it does not deserve to be on here
Was just going to say the same, that game did not get the love it deserves. I haven’t played it in a while and need to finish it
The open world was meh as hell. But the criticism is mostly because it was marketed as bioshock, and it wasn't. Thats not the game's fault. It was a solid 7. It just wasn't bioshock.
@@believeinmatter you kind of made the point for them 😅 (although I have to admit that my back catalog is pretty massive as well.. 😏
@@henrikryden8682I was about to say the same thing lol they both proved why it was disappointing
Played it as a throw away because I was bored and quickly became engrossed in the world. I played on Armageddon mode from the start and it was a solid game with a wicked soundtrack and decent bosses, enemies and good feeling combat.
This feels like a year of extremes… we’ve had some of the best and some of the worst in one year. Very polarising
I said this once during the pandemic and it bares repeating: Jules will never know how many lives he’s potentially saved just by taking a few moments to say “I see you. I see you and what I see is awesome.” Whether I agree with his takes on games or not I’ll always respect Jules from that.
He only said that because some one at WatchMojo off themselves so now every one has to give a positive message at the end and it has nothing to do with him caring
@K.C-2049 ya and the person who killed them shelves happen way before that to like in 2018 which is the same time he started doing that
I would love to see a list of all the top 10 etc lists you have made and help you make some new creative ones! 😃
I love how no one can agree on Atomic Heart being good, bad or mid.
We all agree it's not bad and not near to mid. Look at the comments
It wanted to be too much like Bioshock Infinite (which was the only Bioshock I personally didn't like) and it failed in doing so.
@@cheepersmommy Who told you that? It has literally nothing in common with Bioshock. Yes they were inspired by Bioshock environments a lil bit but that's it. They use retro futurism style that was well known way before Bioshock or Fallout. The setting of the game simply needs it because they use Soviet era, mid last century but with sci-fi element of the country is being way more technologically advanced so it is understandable that they use elements of interior and props from real USSR that are somehow stylized into something more fresh and futuristic. That is the whole idea of the retro futurism and it has nothing to do with Bioshok or Fallout. They also brought us some cool game characters while there is no single new character from well known AAA studios for the last few years but big fails. But those are completely different games on their very fundamental levels. And OMG even the main ideas of Bioshok and Atomic Heart lies on the opposite poles of the social and political coordinates. if you have ever played those games and tried to understand the message of course. Atomic Heart is pure capitalists anti-Soviet propaganda while idiots from Ukraine were screaming that the game is pro Russian or pro Soviet but after game realease they literally shut up because they realized that they look like idiots being slaves of Capital and fighting pro-capitalists propaganda even made by Russian devs. And Bioshok is the game from the left ideas sympathizers or at least from people that understand that right wing propaganda is a pure BS. The first Bioshock was literally a deconstruction of the book by Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged. So here we go. It looks like most of the people who say that AH is a clone of Bioshock and Fallout or wannabe those have never played none of those games or never tried to understand those games. That's it.
I wish you expounded on why you thought MW3 needed to be on here, even though I totally agree. Everyone knows it was basically $70 DLC to MW2...
Gaming just isn't what it used to be anymore because the game companies don't give a crap if the release awful or unfinished games.
True quite true.
i love forspoken and genuinely don’t understand the hate-it’s pretty with a fun battle system, movement systems and memorable boss fights. it’s not perfect, but so much of the backlash is undue and from people that haven’t even played it.
sad that there won’t be a sequel.
if another company snatched it up and improved it a bit it would make great fanbase
Dialogue on that game is pretty much trash and world is a bit too empty, also for me, combat didn't feel right, but that is personal. If that game had a good writer for the dialogues, and some more polishing before release, that game coul've easily been in the top 5 this year, sadly, it's just another forgetable open world game.
Remember Star field was originally going to be on ps5 before they got bought then the fact Bethesda refuses to change out the game engine since morrowind. The main reason fallout 76 was a dumpster fire on release. Will they ever learn and change the engine.
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"Charming characters"? Seriously? In 3 hours, I met 7 characters who combined had all the charm of watching paint dry. This game isn't even interesting enough to be bad. It's tediously boring.
I feel as though a lot of people and reviewers, both inside and outside the CS community miss the point of CS2.
It wasn’t really meant to be an updated game in what most gamers would think of. It was meant to be an upgrade to source 2 in order to give a more solid foundation for the years to come.
This is why people and outlets like WhatCulture pick on things like lack of features, or differences in performance. They’re reviewing it as though it’s meant to be bigger and better like a new GTA. They tried to release with a smaller core game that was meant to be more polished than if they’d ported it all. They will obviously add to it once they have the core game ironed out.
The argument is that they released it too soon and removed CSGO, but realistically, they needed it in the hands of more than the test groups to really reveal issues and bugs, and the community is too stubborn to put in the time if they could just go play CSGO.
Keep the faith fellow T’s & CT’s. It’s going to get better.
Look, I'm no fan of Redfall, but as someone who spent a number of years as a journalist I am a stickler for accuracy, and it's wildly inaccurate to declare that Redfall's updates have been "sporadic" considering that two updates, version 2 and 3, were released within the past two months. I don't know about you, but two updates in two months don't fall within my definition of "sporadic."
As someone who is still on their first playthrough in Starfield despite playing it daily from launch, I understand its inclusion here. It's a great game, and Bethesda's in-house best of it's type, it still lags behind the games other studios of their have published, like Dishonored 1 and 2, Prey, and Fallout: New Vegas.
One problem is that people are comparing it to mature versions of games like Skyrim or Fallout 3 and 4, instead of how those games were at launch. If you look at it from that perspective, it is far and away more complete and less buggy than its counterparts.
Atomic heart is probably on here because it’s story and where it takes place. The Soviet Union. Aka, a part of Russia. People need to stop letting bias for actual events effect your experience of any kind of game.
Genuine question: What is Starfield about? Ive seen a lot of talk about the exploration system, empty planets, the ability to spawn a bunch of potatoes, and really big ships. Yet no one talks about the plot
It's weird, as technically it has a plot.
Because the plot is the dumbest one that Bugthesda has come up with yet. Apparently they spent more time crafring high polygon count food than they did crafting a compelling story 😆
Hey hey hey, what’s with all the questions buddy? Don’t you know you can enter and exit a planets atmosphere without the need for loading screens? Dont you know you can explore different solar systems? What about the fact you can spawn a bunch of potatoes? Thats all you need to know about the greatest game ever Starfield!!!
I've literally just started playing it so not too sure yet 😅
I have only seen some mention of the ending, which lead me to believe the story isn't very remarkable, probably because they dedicated all the resources to make the game as big and repetitive as posible whitout much regard for anything else.
Diablo 4 not on this list is shocking
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Only had room for 10, I suppose.
The Forespoken & Starfield entries here just sound like ya'll had your expectations set too high for those 2 new IPs...compared to the rest of them at the very least. :/
Atomic heart shouldn’t even be in this list, there are plenty of letdowns this year that deserved to be on here
Atomic Heart and Starfield in this list? You need to pass me whatever you're smoking
Bro starfield is an ok game that piled up disappointment on disappointment
Starfield just felt flat. Really slow and boring most of the time. To many loading screens and the first two hours feel so uneventful takes to long.
It's not a list of BAD games, just disappointing games
Starfield's alright. I wasn't going into the game thinking GOTY, I went in thinking BATHESDA. I also feel like if recent games are on here then UFC 5 should've definitely made the list.
Why? Do you think it will make those awful games more fun?
Jules I would watch one of your videos based on best dirt color in games simply for the motivational sign-offs that you do. You are awesome and a true Lege! Mad love for ya!
I agree with the assessment of Starfield. While I am playing through the game and generally enjoying it, it feels undercooked. The exploration which was supposed to be one of the selling features is underwhelming at best and tedious at its worst. It doesn't help that you have to fast travel everywhere, and the individual planets aren't too exciting. If you have explored one type of planet you have seen what the next one of that type will be, just maybe a different color. It has a feeling of No Man's Sky, where they promised the universe and only gave you Earth and Mars. Hopefully DLC will come in for the rescue, but at present I wouldn't pay full price for it.
Feels like a low effort to fill a “top 10 list” rather than the list being a specific value based on the amount of games that are worthy of it.
Atomic Hearts isn’t even a AAA game. If that’s not low effort I’m not sure what is. Aside from leaving out Gollum since Atomic Hearts is here….so bizarre….
Firewall really hurts I'm so gutted they messed up so bad
As far as Atomic heart goes, would say that it looks like a good game. I feel that CS2 was a good concept but just implemented badly, I play CS2 everyday and played CSGO for a few years and CS2 feels almost like a downgrade with it's gameplay but graphically the game looks fantastic, great video though.
WHERE'S SONIC SUPERSTARS, WHATCULTURE!? IF THERE'S A DISHONORABLE MENTIONS, SEGA'S LATEST 2D SONIC DISAPPOINTMENT SHOULD BE IN THERE! IT WAS SO INFERIOR TO SONIC MANIA IN TERMS OF PRESENTATION THAT'S NOT VISUALS, GAMEPLAY, LEVEL DESIGN, SPECIAL STAGES, & ESPECIALLY FOR WHAT SEGA HAS DONE TO THE BOSS FIGHTS! AS THE RESULT OF THE MASSIVE DOWNGRADE FROM MANIA, IT HAS SEVERELY LOST TO NINTENDO'S SUPER MARIO BROS WONDER IN TERMS OF OVERALL PLATFORMER GALAXYTRAIL'S FREEDOM PLANET 2 IN TERMS OF RECENT HIGHSPEED PLATFORMER!
If half of these games were executed properly then 2023 being the best year for gaming wouldnt be a debate, it would simply be a fact
Was Atomic Heart really that bad? Sure, it was no Bioshock, but the gameplay I watched seemed fun.
Nah, Atomic Heart was one of the surprises this year, was a lot better than everyone expected, if you read the comments, a lot of them disagree with that one game on the list.
I just wish there was an actual new bioshock game out 😢
Jules, you're going to get a lot more hate for Atomic Heart being on here than Starfield...
Wild Hearts - a promising new contender in the Monster Hunter genre, sadly plagued by severe technical propblems...
After pushing out 3 Performance-Patches in the first month they pretty much left it at that and continued with QoL and new content, mostly ignoring the still existing technical issues, including switching Audio from 2.1 to 5.1/7.1 to improve your FPS.
Starfield absolutely does not belong on this list.
Yes it does.
Yes it does
Lets see.....$70 game that looks almost a decade old, yet was still locked to 30 frames on XBox & was horribly optimized for PC. "16 times the loading screens" to boot. Yeah, it totally belongs here 😆
Atomic heart does not deserveto be on this list, its only problem was that it was kinda short and limited but that makes sence for a brand new studio, it would have been tough for them to do more.
And Starfield wasnt a disappointment because my expectation for it was that it would be utter garbage. And it managed to be a solod high 6 low 7 out of 10. I finished it with over 100 hours of play time and thourouggly enjoyed my time with it. It doesnt hold a candle to Bethesdas pre-fallout 4 games but i do think it surpassed fallout 4 for me.
Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but I don't think we've had a "best year in video games ever" in over 20 years.
#3 is a reminder to people to stop pre-ordering games
#2 is a result of over hyping. It's a "good" game, just not a "great" game. It's just getting (deserved maybe) hate because ES6 was delayed for it, and fans would have preferred ES6 instead.
Atomic Heart is not AAA. It is disappointing even without comparing it unfairly with AAA titles.
There's a lot of good games, but the best year ever? Far from it.
I still think PS2 was the golden era
I remember seeing Last of Us Pt 1 pc port having polygonal water splashes, as well as Joel having multicolor lower jaw.
To be fair, the OG MGS is never going to be 60 fps, its physics are tied to that framrate. Most ps1 games work that way.
First two being considered disappointing is wild- first one was an action RPG, and the second is a looter shooter, anyone playing either of these genres and expecting a game that’s good is stupid.
Atomic heart Was a good game if not great
I loved it
I wish Atomic Hearts devs would LISTEN to the community and make a patch for things like the terrible controls.
And then you have Talos Principle 2 which goes so hard!
I don’t agree with Starfield landing as the #2 spot and furthermore, AEW: Fight Forever should’ve been on here because it looks and feels like a throwback to No Mercy, but the studio just didn’t realize that the game just wasn’t been able to fix the bugs and other problems at launch.
I’ll say it overall especially for people arguing over specific entries… disappointing =\= bad.
It just means it didn’t live up to hype or deliver what was promised.
For me AEW Fight Forever was the most disappointing game of 2023. I was sold on it being current graphics No Mercy, not Smackdown v Raw 2007 but a downgraded CAW mode w/less features.
I stopped liking Arkane when I found out they scrapped everything from Prey 2 in order to make the Prey Bethesda wanted. Prey 2017 is awesome but why couldn’t they call it a different name? Its obvious they were massive fans of System Shock so they could have tried finding a way to make System Shock 3 and let someone else work on Prey 2; someone who would have kept the original concept of the game. PS: Starfield is Bethesda’s attempt to make a game similar to the Outer Worlds which was already a fancy redesign of Fallout New Vegas; they could have Remastered New Vegas instead of wasting their time on Starfield.
When it comes to most single player AAA games flopping, I blame Callisto Protocol. I enjoyed the game and the patches really fixed the stuttering and bugs quite fast even tho gameplay was a bit stagnant, with too much emphasis on melee. However the biggest reason why i think Striking distance and Krafton is to blame is that Callisto Protocol was the one to start this trend of "release now, fix it later" or "hype up the game that wont live to it's expectations"
Counter Strike was actually put up over the top of CSGO as a patch so they could ride the coat tails of the good reviews for CSGO instead of starting a new vote for CS2.
Atomic heart was brilliant
Atomic Heart was a banger!
I don't think many people cared about a force multiplayer VR game, so it is hard to be disappointed.
KSP2 would’ve also been a great one for this list. Even tho it’s unfinished. Its release was underwhelming
i want to try atomic heart but feel like i'd loose braincells playing through it
I agree with the starfield pick…I had huge hopes for it but could not moved past how to do one mission I went through 5 different loading screens..it’s almost like they should’ve stuck with one planet and vast exploration with a good tree leveling system…oh wait that is just fallout 😂
The lighting on the Series X version pf Forza is super broken too.
Forspoken's dialogue was fine. I truly and honestly don't understand why people hate it so much.
Ya starfield was a LETDOWN.
The common demominator here is that these companies want all the money without all the work. I think it really does boil down to that.
Man Forspoken does not deserve the hate it gets, I had a blast playing through it.
you prolly a millenial
@@ashemocha why because I didn’t mind the dialogue? Combat was fun, the progression was fun, traversal was awesome, the set pieces were well done.
This right here and other games this year is why I can't call 2023 the "Best Year for Gaming"
Honestly I think the new cod itself makes this a terrible gaming year. The fact they straight up used a DLC and pretended it was a full game by adding the dumb open combat missions.
The only good thing about it is I’m pretty sure the next modern warfare is gonna go hard in order to make up for it
@@trentwise3762who cares about cod lol? I basically ignore it every year just like sports games and racing games... All those can stop existing right now and I wouldn't notice.
@@DeathcoreManiac uh millions of people? it's like one of the most successful franchises of all time lol
you know just because you don't play a game doesn't mean others don't. like I don't play LOL, but it doesn't mean i think nobody else plays it lol
@@trentwise3762 most people that play cod don't play anything else
@@trentwise3762 your first reply makes me believe that you are one of these people cuz how the hell a cod release can make the entire year a disappointing year for gaming?
6:50 I briefly was reminded by Record or whatever that ultra realistic looking game is
I enjoyed Forspoken, had no issue with the dialogue either. But the open world is pretty empty.
Which is one of the main reasons why it belongs on this list 🤔 👀
You brought up the idea that 2023 might be the best year of video games ever. As subjective as this sounds, maybe an opinion-based list on what You think the 10 best years for video games is might be fun. Just for my money, the best year for video games for me is beyond a doubt 2011. My literal 2 favorite games of all time came out that year (Skyrim and Mortal Kombat 9) so from my perspective I can't see any argument (hence why it would be fun to heat your opinion on the matter). Mass Effect 2 & The MGS Collection (both of which also make my top 10 of all time) came out that year as well. Also, Arkham City blew the world away. Deus Ex Human Revolution, L.A. Noir, Gears 3, Skyward Sword just to name a few.
Starfield is a solid game I don’t truly see the problem with it it’s just Fallout 4 in space and did it a hell of a lot better than Fallout 4
Atomic heart shouldn't be on this list, yeah the protagonist is cringy but its a videogame, most of the stuff on them are. Is not like it came from a big reknown studio either. I'd say it was between decent and good
Metal Gear Solid 2 coolant spray won't work since the update😢😢😢
Gotta disagree with you here on the atomic heart stance Jules. The game was great, everyone just thought it was another bioshock clone and was dissatisfied when they found it wasn’t
I love my family jewels! Thank you as always and with much love enjoy your weekend!
Atomic heart is dope, what are you all smoking?
Konami now has DECADES of bad PR. It really must not matter to the company
I still want to play Starfield but my PC doesn't cut it anymore
I feel like this year has been the worst for the entertainment industries. Everyone is making the same "cyberpunk" -esk games. No one seems to be able to make a decent open world fantasy game that isnt just a hack and slash
I actually kinda liked Atomic Heart, but I really only played it for a couple hours one night and never went back to it. Same for Forza Motorsport, although was a lot more meh on that one. And Starfield... I put over 90 hours into Starfield, took a little break to play some spooky games in October, and still haven't gone back to finish it off. Not really feeling like going back to it for some reason.
Expected to see the same in this list, as I've seen in all others, where they leave out Starfield, which is literally one of the worst games this year (if we count the amount of money and resources put in it), but I have to disagree with Atomic Heart, imo, it's one of the surprises this year, was a lot better than I expected, I'd put it in the top 5 of this year games.
I liked Starfield. I've played nearly 100 hours of it. It's not perfect, and it's not the game of a generation as seemingly advertised, but it's a solid 7/10. I love what they did with the Nasa-punk style and the overall tone of the story. That said, the story fell flat in the end, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the first expansion adds to the narrative.
The problem, is that you need to rate a game, thinking about how big the company that made it is, how much money and time was put in to the game, and how much they make you pay for it, having all that into account, I'm sorry, but starfield has the level of a indie company in every aspect, and the price is excessive, I'd say it's decent if they charged you 20$, but for 70? I expect something on the same level as The Witcher 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Horizon (ZD or FW), etc., and Starfield can't even be compared with those games in quality.
Apart from all that, the company said a lot of stuff to hype the game, that was 100% fake, that also does hurt the game. @@Adam-M-
@@Adam-M- I think what kills it for many people is that it's a 6-7 out of ten game, but a 3-4/10 for bethesda. it just lacks any of the fun and charm of previous titles, especially in exploration wich would have helped with the boring bland story quests.
8:37 I have Starfield installed on my Xbox, and gave it a quick play. Need to get back to it and give it a real to as I think I will like it
Play darktide instead
DarkTide is a lot of fun and gets regular updates
*Forspoken:* REPETITION! Short campaign... and it could've been SO~OOO Good!
*Redfall:* Arkane: This'll show you that we won't make games we don't like!!
Is anyone really surprised that a game developed by Bethesda wound up being disappointing? I think there's a well established pattern now that they're going to launch games with tired writing and big but empty worlds. Honestly, I'm surprised it released in a state where the game was functional, but I suppose even the moneygrubbing dumbasses running the company learned a lesson or too from the absolute fuckery that was the release of Fallout 76.
You must be joking putting Atomic Heart on this list 😐
I had so much hope for forspoken when it came out 😞
That was my biggest disappointment this year too. It seemed like it had a lot of promise!
I think Starfield should not be that high on the list and I don’t think it should be on this list at all. There are still updates coming out for the game and dlc is planned for it
It was suppose to be Bethesdas next Magnum opus, and it severely fell short. 25 years in the making for such a mediocre game. It DEFINITELY deserved its spot.
Exactly. The game has many more updates to come and is in a pretty good state rn
The disappointment wasn't about the bugs so you can't really fix it with updates... Everyone was hyping it up as the game of the generation and it wasn't even top 10 this year...
Bland, forgettable main story and side-quests, travel & exploration that largely boils down to menus, load screens and repeitive environments, & extremely vanilla main companions (seriously, I doubt you'll be hearing any Panam versus Judy style arguments about the Starfield romances anytime soon 😆).
It doesn't matter about the updates. Just go by the amount of people who stop playing the game. It's dropped harder then most game's this year. If it wasn't so bland it would be good.
Whatculture gaming has a secret grudge against Atomic Heart
You shouldn't look forward to anything from Konami. They're a Pachinko and Keno game developer now, with video games basically being the red headed side project. Just look at that weird Silent Hill thing they're putting out. That IP is ripe for nostalgia farming and maybe even some modern twists, and they brought it back from the grave with.. a pay to win animated webseries.
Lol. Atomic Heart is simply one of the best games and the most inspiring game of the Year. Perhaps the story could have been better but... If we start thinking the way that this is not a AAA game but a game from a small newly built studio that was looking for financing for years it changes everything. The game looks and feels better than most AAA games yet it was polished and working on Steam Deck from day one while famous AAA studios fail again and again and somehow have 4080 in System Requirements having not even close visuals to Atomic Heart while they have decades of experience, tons of staff and money. Channels and gaming media just like yours are literally a cancer of the gaming industry.