N4G Contest - Day 16: Who Hasn't Delivered

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Congratulations to IamTylerDurden1, our fifteenth day winner and proving that you can win multiple times if you offer up the necessary sacrifice to RNGesus.

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On the sixteenth day, the question we have for you is "What developer has been the worst at delivering on their promises this generation?"

Now, the trick to this question is that it's not the publisher, it's what developer. There's a massive difference in those. EA, for example, is a horrible publisher that affects many of their games and have led to failures of many types recently. But, that's from a publisher standpoint, not from the actions of the developers directly. Additionally, this question is made harder because many bad development studios are not gone (I mean, BossKey Productions is now gone thanks to poor management and chasing fads rather than passion).

My answer right now, and thinking of mainly major studios, is going to have to be Gearbox Software.

Sure, Borderlands is great, but it's also been six years. There's less time between the release of GTAV and RDR2 than Borderlands 2 and whatever is supposed to come next.

But, let's look at their other offerings. From the ever-so-stellar Aliens: Colonial Marines job to the poorly thought out and online-required but solo-able Battleborn. Both failed for different reasons, but were poorly received in general. And that's what they have to show for since 2012. That's it.

For a company of their caliber, they have disappointed by only saying they're working on a new Duke Nukem game since 2015, haven't really said anything about their most popular franchise, and there's supposedly a Brother's In Arms game coming that no one knows about?

Other than that, the company has shifted mostly into a role of publishing other studio titles or posting golden key codes on Twitter each week for Borderlands 2.

So, they went from making good games to doing nothing of note unless you're into playing 6-year-old games in VR. There's no reason they would be taking this long to develop something that they couldn't show by now.

[TheGoodestBoi]

I'd say Gearbox too. No borderlands this gen and giving us the dumpster fire Battleborn instead

[Last_Boss]

Keiji Inafune of Comcept!!!

[SephFF]

Gearbox.

[mkis007]

Todd Howard/ Bethesda. The man straight up lies on video and people keep buying his crap. They are the buggiest games out there and they always move on without fixing all the problems. Case in point: Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 have the same bugs.

[UltraNova]

Bethesda Studios. Fallout 4 and F76 are games we'd expect to see back in the ps3/360 era not current gen. Not only graphics-wise but the games quality as well, from bugs to frame rate to sub par storylines to none at all, all the way to the amount of content on release day. No other developer has been more underachieving this gen in my opinion.

[THC CELL]

I dare not say

Rock star on red dead
Yes this game was over hyped
Reviews high for the name alone
Very slow and poor predictable story

[slang201V]

A predictable story doesn't mean it is bad..
Also the details of the world is on another level... I can't see how someone doesn't like this game.But,anyway,everyone have their own taste

[Skankinruby]

Unless you just dont like rockstar you have nothing here. Red Dead 2 is the least guilty of every game theyve ever made on every single one of your accusations.

[PhantomS42]

No, he's completely right. The pacing of the game is dreadful, the story is predictable though the characters were written well. The level of detail in the game is outstanding but the game punishes the player way too much for trying to play the video game. It's also ridiculously buggy. Bring all that over to multiplayer but add it trolls that ruin anyone's enjoyment of the online by just killing them over and over. It's not a terrible game but it certainly was very overrated simply because of the game R*. R* gets a free pass while Fallout 76, while deserving, is getting hung out to dry.

[Nucler100]

Bethesda Studios. Bugged, half hearted games. Poor service. But yeah with your reasons I would say Gearbox is also up there.

[monkey602]

Bioware. I remember a time when the mention of a Bioware game got me giddy about spending 100s of hours exploring great locations with diverse characters but it has been so many moons since they've had that effect. They're a shell of their former selves both creatively and literally. They merely exist as a brand name for EA games now.

[Nacho_Z]

I went for Bethesda but BioWare's fall from grace was worse, their games used to be fantastic but like you say they're a hollow shell now. Big shame.

[kneon]

I didn't even bother with the last mass effect. And from all that I've seen, I didn't miss much.

[monkey602]

I bought it despite the feedback because I had to try for myself. I did get it after launch for cheaper but I couldn't enjoy it. I pursued through for about 10 hours and I had to stop. Wasn't able for it

[Geobros]

Nintendo for Nintendo Switch Online service. They promised special offers for members but I have not received any offer yet. Also, they promised data cloud but it does not work for all games.

[Christopher]

That's some harsh criticism coming from you (this is a good thing, just in case you wonder). Hope they get things in gear with that stuff.

[Necron]

How about Konami, they gave us the crappy spinoff Metal Gear: Survive and haven't released anything good even after that. Why aren't they giving us a good Metal Gear, a new Contra, Castlevania, or Silent Hill? It's like they're over there just twiddling their thumbs and they just don't care.

[slang201V]

Konami is a publisher

[oasdada]

easy peasy lemon squeezy it's Bethesda/Todd Howard with fallout 76

[stefd75]

Konami hands down for the whole Kojima / Silent Hills crap. The Silent Hill series is maybe one of my favourite series of game other than Halo. So when I found out that PT was a preview for a new Silent Hill game I was over the moon, more so when I have been waiting for a new decent Silent Hill ......and then they cancelled it , fired Kojima for reasons and my heart was broken. I am still salty about it today...now if you don't mind I need to play PT again and have a little cry while having the shit scared out of me.

[Jorjk]

Bungie /Activision

[solideagle]

Gearbox and Bathesda.
We should not forgive Bathesda for having 100,000 bugs in their games and was expecting Borderlands3 this gen.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Gearbox absolutely dropped the ball, they did everything but give people what they want. All they had to do was make BL3, instead they make a failed hero shooter moba, invest strangely into everything Duke Nukem, become a poublisher, and tease

[DaDrunkenJester]

Don't forget the half hearted attempt at making Borderlands VR!

[aleccherkov]

Ubisoft and the game would be The Division because they gave us false hope and they blatantly lied to us all we never got the product we was shown or promised at E3 reveal it was changed a lot and it was not as great as it was originally.

[Platformgamer]

whoever promises good games and delivers shitty ones are all the worst on a tie.
the most recent is bethesda with fallout 76

[Artemidorus]

EA and Ubisoft some of these senior management should be in jail or heavy personal fines.

I've watched over the years provide fake gameplay, lie about features missing or removed, creep their way buying licences and providing a choke hold on die hard fans who yearly keep spending money for the choices they want.

Ubisoft though gets a special mention, the amount of times they provide early gameplay and it ends up being a downgrade it's criminal. They don't even listen to fans when they ask for another Splinter Cell.

[-Ghost]

I'll say Visual Concepts for the WWE/NBA 2K series. From awful online servers and not to mention the microtransations for NBA.

Visual Concepts and Yuke's haven't delivered a great wrestling game in a long time.

[capjacksparrow]

Microsoft studios is a publisher, but I feel most things under their development umbrella (barring Forza) have underdelivered this gen.

[Nacho_Z]

Bethesda, obviously Fallout 76 was below par but I'm mainly pissed that the last ES game was fully seven years ago. What have they been doing? It'll be a next gen game and god knows when that will be or if it'll be a shoddy effort on their knackered old engine. One of my favourite game series' missing in action or at least I think it was I'm starting to forget it's been been so long.

[bluefox755]

Bioware. It's been a slow trip downward with each game released being worse than the previous. After DQ:I with its boring, preachy story I made it about halfway through and I was done. Didn't even waste my time with Andromeda.

[ninsigma]

Gotta go with Bethesda. Absolutely appalling work from them this gen.

[pabadamus1]

Hello games. Even though they redeemed themselves in the end NMS launched without the majority of what was promised.

[ziggurcat]

"Hello games. Even though they redeemed themselves in the end..."

so then... they delivered...

[Christopher]

Eh, yes and no.

You go out to eat, they get your order wrong, you have to wait for them to get it right, the rest of the table has eaten their meal and you get to sit and eat while they talk and wait for you.

They did a lot of what was promised or hinted at, but they didn't do it at the beginning, which is what they inferred.

I can definitely see how people put the onus on release delivering and not 'down the road'.

In the end, it's just opinions here.

[pabadamus1]

They fixed a lot of the issues and brought the game closer to what was originally promised. The consensus is that the game is now in a better than acceptable state. Hello Games, to their credit, worked tirelessly to right many of their wrongs and regain some amount of trust from their consumers and the industry as a whole. So did they deliver? Not in the beginning, not for a long time and as of today not entirely. Redemption comes from their desire to keep their promises even if those promises are never fully realized.

[PhantomS42]

Redeemed is pretty generous. It marginally improved what they launched, very marginally but no matter how much you polish a turd it will always be a turd. Sea of Thieves is another failure.

[johndoe11211]

I'm gonna have to say EA. Not because they are the biggest scam artist in gaming, but because their games consistently fall short of anything that feels even remotely complete. From battlefront to battlefield to mass effect. it seems like they are quite happy to be churning out buggy, half baked, incomplete messes that makes you end up paying more than double what they're actually worth with God awful microtransactions.

[KevDro22387]

EA hands down

[DarkOcelet]

Bethesda, i was extremely disappointed by their self made games like Fallout 4 and 76 and i doubt their upcoming games will be as good as fallout 3/skyrim/oblivion/new vegas.

[anonymousfan]

I'm still hoping for a Borderlands game by the end of the generation so I'm gonna say Bethesda. We know TES VI is coming but now they've confirmed it's gonna be next gen I feel very disappointed.

[Crazyglues]

Please Put --Mr. Bethesda Studios.-- At the top of the list..... they have failed beyond words with Fallout 76, worst piece of trash I've ever bought.. it's so bad.. so bad,, The game is a Multi-player, with out real Multi-player... And it's about Story but has no story...

What is this, what in the world? What a waste of money that game was.. It can't even be fixed in patches, it needs to just be thrown-out and redone...
A whole new game is needed to fix this.

[NecrumOddBoy]

Iggicreates or whatever that fever team is. Mighty Number 9 was a disaster and now Bloodstained is looking like it's in some trouble. The Vita version was canceled. They put out a cheap CV3 Clone and have yet to release this indie.

[The 10th Rider]

Eh, most kickstarter projects are heavily delayed and some still turn out excellent, so I wouldn't take a kickstarter delay to be indicative of quality. It's also understandable they cancelled the Vita version. A lot of kickstarter games were also promised for Wii U, but in 2012-2015 no one could really see the trajectory that the Wii U and Vita would be on in the past couple years.

Obviously Bloodstained could still be a completely awful game, but I don't think either of those things are signs that the game is going to be terrible.

[BlackDoomAx]

Bungie. Made me love Destiny 2 , then disgust me of it just after. Most greedy publisher.

[Plyzz]

Definitely Bethesda. Doubt explanatiom is needed.

[dedicatedtogamers]

Microsoft. They are a publisher/manufacturer too, of course, but as a development studio they haven't delivered on squat.

[annoyedgamer]

Ubisoft. Watch Dogs anyone? Remember the Far Cry 3 demo?

[robtion]

I see plenty of people naming publishers so I will also go with that and say Microsoft. It has been an abysmal generation for them. All talk and spin and largely irrelevant outside the US.

Scalebound and Fable both cancelled, constant downplaying of single player games and pushing gaas as the future.

Hopefully they improve things next gen thought to be honest I am not optimistic.

[FullmetalRoyale]

Gearbox has been terrible since Borderlands 2. They didn’t seem to realize what they had, and instead went to bad licensed released, and whatever that terrible mp game that they released was.

Also what @Last_Boss said. What Inafune and Comcept did in not only releasing a terrible game(I played it when we got it on ps+), but getting more funding for other project, using that money for other projects, and at the time they still hadn’t fulfilled all of their prior promises.

[Relientk77]

Bungie - for Destiny 1 and 2 being absolute repetitive grindfests and overall disappointing

Infinity Ward- Ghosts and Infinite Warfare both sucked so much. Man I miss the old Infinity Ward.

Bethesda - For no Elder Scrolls 6, just re-releasing Skyrim like 20 times, and a buggy disaster that is Fallout 76. Also, basically releasing no games (that they developed) I'm interested in this whole gen.

[franwex]

But the old infinity ward is still kicking as Respawn and their games have been good :)

[slang201V]

Bethesda is the right answer.Amazing how they managed to make everything wrong in the last years

[Arty84]

Ea or Bethesda for sure nobody else gets close

[UnicornMyst]

Accolade: right up there with Bubsy and the worst Bubsy 3D

[Daeloki]

Bethesda. They've basically been recycling Skyrim for everything since 2011. Fallout 4 was a soulless piece of buggy husk, and I thought that it couldn't get worse. Then I saw them announce FO76. I thought that might be cool, Fallout 4 but with co-op.... Except they kinda took FO4, stretched out the map, removed pretty much every NPC.... But yeah... My answer is Bethesda

[Emilio_Estevez]

Gotta go with Bugthesda - hurry up and give us ES6. I've never been a fan of the regular FO games so I was excited to see what 76 had to offer. So much two faced non-sense before release trying to appease every type of fan without really ever saying what was in there. Top it off with a litany of bugs and yeah, no thanks.

[ThePsychoGamer]

Honestly, I'd say Nippon ichi Software, primary cause because there Disgaea 1 remake promise was the most disappointing for me this generation. The idea of being able to play Disgaea 1 with all of the gameplay improvements and quality of life stuff they put in 5 was certainly exciting for fans of the series. Sadly that's not what we got, Instead this promised "remake" was actually just a port of the PC version of Disgaea 1 with updated sprites added in.

[Chris092]

Bethesda game studios. Still release broken games and fallout 4 didnt feel like it evolved The series and just played it safe. Fallout 76 is what it is...

[Valiar]

Bethesda, that company im afraid wont see brigther days. after the failure in terms of design,. Fo4 and F76 are a complete failure...

[Elwenil]

Sadly there are a lot of choices for this answer, DICE, Valve, and many others. I am going to have to go with the gigantic elephant in the room and say Bethesda. Their latest mess with Fallout 76 is a new low.

[The 10th Rider]

Oh man, so many for this one.

I'm not someone who runs around calling Star Citizen a scam, as I think they will eventually finish, but Robert Space Industries definitely deserves a mention for their constantly delayed updates.

Then there's Hello Games with all the over-promising they did for No Man's Sky. Now they've eventually gotten close to what they originally promised, but they definitely failed to deliver upon the initial release. Should have started s early access IMO. If it was a $40 early access title that launched on PC initially, then on consoles a year or year and a half later, the backlash would have been nearly completely gone.

It's not specifically a single developer, but EA deserves a mention for their absolutely gross handling of the Star Wars license. Star Wars games used to be respectable back when LucasArts was around, EA has turned them into a joke.

Last but not least, Bungie definitely over-promised and under-delivered with Destiny. All you have to do is look at the taglines they used while advertising and you can see that the actual game is nothing like that. Early trailers even had footage of DLC areas. Such a crazy fall from grace.

[DarXyde]

Konami for me.

Cutting MGSV short, MGS, MGS3 Pachinko, and the cancellation of Silent Hills really stand out in my mind.

[SilverDemon]

Konami
Nuff said

[septemberindecember]

Maybe it’s not something they’ve “promised”, but I feel Retro Studios has been one of the more disappointing.

We’ve gotten one game this generation, for the Wii U back in 2014. These are guys that are masters at their craft and haven’t made a single bad game, yet they have practically no appearance this generation.

[blaziliuz12]

Definitely Bethesda Studios. The promises and hype that they made for Fallout 76 was too much and they failed to deliver even half of what was promised. Physically they failed in getting the right orders to their customers (nylon bag scandal) and even with the recent breach in customer security.

I hope they fix themselves before becoming much worse.

[thepatientgamer]

BioWare. They’ve messed up so hard I don’t even look forward to their releases anymore

[bigmalky]

Dambusters Studio... Where the hell is Timesplitters?

This is all I ever wish for.

[ISHU]

I'd say Cliff Bleszinski and his team Boss Key productions. This man was behind one of my favorite games on the Xbox 360 but after leaving the company his every single work has been mediocre. He's just trying to chase the latest trends with Lawbreakers when overwatch was around and then Radical Heights when Battle Royale genre was on the boom. It really saddens me that such a talented guy hasn't tried to be creative with the team and make something unique and interesting.

[xHeavYx]

Gearbox

[victorMaje]

Bungie: Destiny 2.
Launch year was a scam.

[franwex]

Bungie. They basically made Xbox with their Halo games to create the embarrassment of the Destiny franchise.

[Fist4achin]

Platinum Games with the game Scalebound is my choice for a developer and their failure to deliver in this generation. Microsoft Studios and their handling of this game to lead to Scalebound ultimately being cancelled was unbelievable. I'm sure there were failures on many levels for it to not even be a trimmed down version of the game to be released.

[Tross]

Bioware. I blame EA for that, but the fact remains that the Bioware of last gen is not the Bioware we have now.

[-Foxtrot]

"and proving that you can win multiple times if you offer up the necessary sacrifice to RNGesus"

If you manage to win twice out of everyone here then what's the sacrifice? Little unfair if you do win twice.

Square Enix

Final Fantasy XV did not live up to the hype

[gangsta_red]

Bethesda

I remember having one of the best times playing Fallout 3. It was an office cooler round about discussion each day at work on what we did and discovered. One of my co-workers had the complete map on hung up on his wall and would mark the locations he had been. It was one of the best games I played last gen.

So imagine waiting and anticipating for part 4 to release, especially when there were so many rumors through out the YEARS between the two games.

And when it finally dropped...Fallout 4 was the most underwhelming game I have ever played. It was such a disappointment and I seriously tried to give it a chance and like it. But it just lacked everything that made F3 such a terrific game.

[endclickbait]

Bethesda, easily

[Dragonscale]

Rare and SoT.

[SegaGamer]

Yep, that is what I am going with too. The devs bigged this game up so much at any given opportunity and even released regular video's telling us how great it was........but it was all BS, the game is hallow and dull and nothing like they said it would be.

[ziggurcat]

Rare, Undead Labs, BioWare, and Bethesda all seem to have not delivered on their promises this generation.

[Kribwalker]

Ready at dawn have released multiple subpar games this gen. The Order and Deformers were both rough

[ThiagoMysterio]

Comcept. Keiji Inafune is an auto lose.

[kltpzyxm]

Bethesda (Fallout 76), Bioware (Mass Effect Andromeda), Rare (Sea of Thieves), Dice (Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2), Blizzard (Most WoW-expansions really).

[cl1983]

Turtle Rock Studios

[GameBoyColor]

E A

[Dirtnapstor]

Bethesda Softworks.
The innovative talk is always there to reel you in, but they can never deliver a product as advertised. Never. The Fallout series has always been a sanctioned mess.

[Theknightofnights]

Polyphony Digital. They used to be the king of simulation racers, but Sport missed the mark. Not to mention they're only releasing one entry this generation instead of the two every other generation.

[Smokey55511799]

Bungies handling of Destiny 1&2. Shame.

[SegaGamer]

Pretty much every person commenting didn't read the opening post. It's DEVELOPER, not PUBLISHER.

[Segata]

Bioware. They went from Great to good to mediocre to awful last 6-7 years. DAI was mediocre. ME:A is a massive POS. No faith in them whatsoever. Anthem looks to be another over hyped big budget crapfest. Stupid media will jack it off but the game will still be bleh.

[TheLastHoorah]

Have not been a fan of Bethesda’s last few titles. Including ESO and both fallouts. I love them as a company, but they have definitely under delivered.

[RioKing]

Bethesda for sure 👍🏼

[DuckOnQuack35]

Dice imo. They turned my favorite shooter battlefield into a cod clone with vehicles. Let's go back to tactics and guns that have recoil and take skill to use. Also battlefront was terrible. Haven't liked anything they've come out with in a while.

[gobluesamg]

I've been disappointed with Rockstar this generation. They promised single player DLC for GTA and didn't deliver and just the overall lack of games. They have put too much emphasis on online gaming and have lost me as a first day customer. I now wait for the bargain bin to buy their games like EA.

[Vokun13]

How about the shit show over at DICE/EA? I have never seen two games that were so different in terms of hype that released back to back. BF1, people were storming the fields when the trailer dropped, (with some people hating of course, comparing it to Verdun for example) and it was a pretty great game to boot.
BFV trailer comes out, people are hating on it, no ones impressed, virtually no hype (marketing didn't help), there's an aura of PC culture around it, which I would agree saying majority don't want that business in the Battlefield franchise, and it became a complete fiasco all the way up to and after the release. I enjoy the game, but damn, they messed up pretty bad with all of it.

[Jimboms]

I'm honestly not disappointed by any developers from 2018, but I also don't think it's fair for us to be disappointed. Yea, they might not always deliver on their promises, but they're making games still. If anything I'm disappointed in the communities that have been built around games before they came out, only to rain fire down upon the developer once the game releases, like the Fallout 76 community.

[SaveFerris]

Telltale Games.

[optimus]

i would say konami...outside of metal gear 5 and after the kojima debacle, most of the games they releases since then have been lackluster at best.

[DemonChicken]

There is so much to choose from this gen, but I have to go with Bethesda. They dropped the ball with the buggiest games this gen, Todd Howard with his BS (complaining about Sony not doing crossplay then when Sony back pedals, they said it can't be done yet), and finally the drama with FO76 with the game and also the canvas bag.

[TheGamez100]

EA, its always a mess with them.

[Yi-Long]

Has to go to EA for me. Not because of 'broken promises' so much, and also not because of Battlefield 5 or Battlefront 2.

No, instead of broken promises, it's more about just how disappointing they've been this generation considering the potential they have.

This is the company that once released games like SSX3, Skate 3, Burnout 3, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Jade Empire, NBA Street 3, Def Jam Fight for New York, Sim City 4, original Mirror's Edge, Sim City 4, etc etc.

This gen, they've basically been coasting on their sports games, and not even really great at that. FIFA14/15 were better games than FIFA18/19, their Need for Speed games this gen have been mediocre, and their follow-ups to last gen successes, were disappointing (new Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect)

The few risks they took (Titanfall, Unravel) might have paid off in review scores, but were heavily under-promoted, and often launched directly against bigger games from the competition.

I do feel they have done a bit of good though. The launch of Battlefront 2 was obviously a PR disaster, but they bounced back really well by listening to the criticism and great post-launch support. For free. And Battlefield 5 will also feature free post-launch support.

But given the huge potential EA has, it's been a disappointing generation from them.

[Hardiman]

They have the capital to fund literally anything any talented dev could think up but no. It's so sad!

[Yi-Long]

Yeah, they're one of the biggest companies in gaming, yet they don't seem to have anyone in charge who understands what gamers want.

Was playing SSX3 a few nights ago again on XBO X. A classic. Why? Because it knows it's a videogame. It's focussed on being fun & challenging and beautiful.

Nowadays, if EA would make a new SSX, it would be focussed on a whole lot of things, but few of them would be about.simply being a great, fun, gorgeous game. It would be big for the sake of being big. It would have thousands of unlockables, skill-trees, whatever. And no doubt it would offer Season Pass and do micro-transactions.

That's 'innovation' to them, but instead it would detract from what could be an amazing little focussed game, loved by.many for years to come, like SSX3.

Same goes for Skate 3, Burnout 3, NBA Street v3, etc etc.

Seems like 3 was indeed a charm. And after that, there was nothing.

[TiredandRetired]

Gearbox is an easy one, because they were already known for making crap games plus Borderlands.. their only saving grace.

One that disappoints me the most though is Team ICO. I know I'll get lots of downvotes, but hear me out. First, I love The Last Guardian. Well, I love the concept. I WANT to love it. It's gorgeous (mostly), I love the pacing, the evolution of the boy and Trico's relationship.. the atmosphere is fantastic.

With all that said... it controls like a turd. I WISH it controlled better, because it could have gone from one of my biggest disappointments to one of my favorite games of this gen. The climbing mechanic worked so well in Shadow of the Colossus because the beasts were so big. It became so frustrating though trying to climb on Trico in the midst of battle, trying to pull out enemy arrows, all because of getting continuously getting knocked off whenever he turned in certain ways. There were times where the camera would get stuck in weird positions in hallways where I couldn't see well enough to evade enemies.

Now Team ICO never released a game last gen, as The Last Guardian was supposed to originally release on the PS3. That's what makes it even more disappointing, having to wait 2 gens only to be less than satisfied.

At its heart, it's still a great game that wants to bust out, but it has shortcomings that hold it back. Being Team ICO, my expectations are higher than many other developers.

Now the remake of Shadow of the Colossus this gen was absolutely fantastic... but credit there has to go to Bluepoint for doing such an incredible job. SoTC remains my favoirte Team ICO game.

[Tzuno]

Capcom, they barely launch something.

[Fullmetalevolust]

Bethesda
Gearbox
Sony Japan, although I love GR2. I feel like they were helping other studios on other projects.
Keiji inafune and his team
Bioware

[redniku]

Bethesda. Especially after the catastrophe of fallout 76.

[JLynn943]

Bungie. I bought a ps4 on the hype of Destiny 1. It was supposed to be revolutionary. It was supposed to be fun. Instead, its only redeeming feature was the gunplay. It was boring, lifeless, and incessant grinding. I wanted to love it, and I gave it many chances, but it just couldn't deliver.

Then Destiny 2 came out. I was cautiously optimistic. I bought it and liked it at first. And then the fresh paint wore off and it was more of the same.

I've learned my lesson now.

[thorstein]

"and it was more of the same. "

It was LESS than the same. I couldn't believe how much they removed from Destiny 1 when D2 launched.

I played for maybe 2 weeks. Then it was over.

At least with D1 I was constantly Raiding or running around with friends which made it much more fun.

[Venox99]

Bethesda definitely. They went from one of the most beloved last gen, to this huge mess from F76.

[JRPGsAreTheBest]

As a lot of people have said, Bethesda. The game being so underwhelming was one thing, but the whole canvas bag fiasco. Yikes.

[thorstein]

There are a lot of devs where I am waiting for delivery. But, it is on the way, so I am patient.

Who hasn't delivered? Capcom. Capcom used to be THE developer/ publisher. The best games, the most innovative. What happened?

And, I know it's cool to hate on Bethesda right now but this is more of a case of: what have you done for me lately.

[monkey602]

REmake 2 looks phenomenal and it is exactly what long time fans of the series have begged to get for a long time now. Monster Hunter World was also a huge success. Resi 7 may have a few heads here upset but overall it was a great game well recieved and showcase for VR. Capcom have been scarce with their games the last few years but they're definitely on the rise currently despite MvC:Infinite and Dead Rising 4 being dissapointing

[UltraNova]

I'd say Capcom did more for "you" this gen than Bethesda for sure. Being the Company to hate now has nothing to do with the question at hand.

[itBourne]

Rockstar... How many people worship them baffles me, and Red Dead is massively overrated. The game is decent, but not near as good as it's portraited, the online money system was a mess, the online is a mess with no free aim mode available so it's just a lock on cluster f***. Which leads to why is there lock on? Oh because the gameplay mechanics are pulled from the ps2 generation, omg it's so so bad, add in clunky button mapping, and it's nauseating how this passes now days. Going from Horizon or GoW or Uncharted 4, to Red Dead and you can really see how antiquated Rockstars gameplay is.

[InKnight7s]

SE for sure, just one main FF game and XV was a disaster in everything it just nothing as was expected or showed in Trailers, the game suffer from plot holes, suffer from makong no sense as example one of Royal weapons (which were scattred in very limited reigon for no reason) one of them was stolen but eventually it was underground in empty dungeon which is no problem until you fight a dragon and you beat him the sword appears just how dragon stole a buster sword then went under very deep intelligent dungeon???? No to mention the game was huge mess the gameplay was ok but battle system was pathetic the summon system is broken being zero control, the magic system is a joke (which changed only on online priced DLC), and Armiger Unleashed was there at the very start of very first trailer but for some reason we got half of it and waited for 2 years to get chance to get the epic EX power but again we have to pay to get it. I mean even SE said they cut the content to show certain philosophy and to make more media like movie and such. It should have left for Nomura from the very beginning but SE being SE. Just one main big hit FF game since FFXIII and not even delivering what fans really anticipated for and promised for.

[ldurham]

I have to agree with most people here and say Bethesda Studios.

[rlow1]

BioWare, is for me is the biggest disappointment. I was flatout shocked with Mass Effect Andromeda. To be fair they chewed off more than they could handle, Frostbite engine wasn't designed for that type of game.....But come-on you don't put out something that is going to kill your franchise. Talk about a fall from glory. Hopefully they'll redeem themselves.

[voidviper]

Bioware and for a smaller developer, team ico. They took a long time for the last guardian which took a long time to release and then didn't fully deliver

[monkey602]

Anthem is certainly not going to be their redemption.

[MasterofMagnetism]

Bethesda no doubt.

[coolbeans]

Bungie. They have this weird habit of "fixing" their games only after their next-year expansion; even then, they're only getting the game out of "nowhere near the level of promise those Bungie ads show" to "only mildly disappointing" levels.

Everything about those early trailers held such promise, the leaked Joseph Staten-penned scriptwork that was totally bungled, and the avaricious nature of Activision has seemed to poison Destiny 2 a lot (haven't gotten around to it yet).

[Cikatriz_ESP]

In previous generations my answer would’ve been Bungie (none of the Halo sequels could replicate what made the original so great). Now I’d say it’s Square Enix. They consistently miss the mark, demonstrating they either don’t really understand what made people love their games in the first place or don’t really care.

[Hardiman]

M$ Studios, EA, Bethesda, Gearbox, BIoware and Kanomi.

[SNACK_SHARK_TROLL]

Ubisoft because Division was nothing like they showcased, and watch dogs wasn't either. It was just to get people hyped up, and get their pre-orders (just like cinematic trailers).

[Shadowtaster33]

Bethesda

[death83x]

I think this generation is lacking from 3rd party games and innovations and taking risk with games. Now, it is all about how to milk customers and how to monetize their games. Bioware released lack luster games, gearbox nothing special, bungie with destiny, Bethesda with garbage 76.