![]() We can only hope the Silent Hill 2 remake fares significantly better. It ends up being a fairly dull, repetetive, and rote game that relies on its visual prowess to the exclusion of almost everything else. Combining, connecting, and reimagining the first two games while adding its own new content on top, the new Layers of Fear looks excellent and has a fascinating premise- but as is often the case with Bloober, it doesn’t do justice to that premise. You endure it.įor a while, Bloober Team has been pumping out psychological horror games that range from middling to genuinely good, and this year, the studio went back to the very beginning to bring back Layers of Fear. You don’t play The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. It has boring quest design, little to no exploration, broken combat and traversal mechanics, and a deluge of technical and performance problems that make it nigh on impossible to get through. Nothing about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum works. Daedalic Entertainment’s stealth action-adventure game took its sweet time to finally release, and when it did, it stumbled with its first step and fell flat on its face. Let’s be fair here, no one really expected The Lord of the Rings: Gollum to be anything more than middling or passably enjoyable at best- but we also didn’t expect it to be literally one of the worst games in recent memory. Add to all of that some significan technical hiccups, and what you have is a game that woefully falls short of expectations for an Arkane joint. In the end, it definitely wasn’t. Not only does Redfall almost completely lack the strengths one usually associates an Arkane game with, it’s not even good at the new things it tries, with everything from its open world and its co-op gameplay to its loot mechanis coming with major issues. ![]() Redfall always looked like it was going to be very different from Arkane’s traditional offerings, but the general expectation was that, given the studio’s innate talent and impeccable track record, it would at least be a good, well put together game. To that end, here, we’re going to talk about a few games of 2023 that have disappointed us in more ways than one. Halfway through the year though, it’s time to take a pause and take stock of the year thus far, and maybe turn our attention to some of the games that haven’t met expectations. We’re only at the halfway point yet, and there has already been a constant stream of incredible games to keep up with, and looking ahead at the next six months, it’s clear that that momentum isn’t going to slow down. 2023 has been a banger year for video games so far.
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