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welcome back to hardware unboxed a couple of days ago you might have seen a video on the best PC games of 2017 and if you haven't there will be a link to watch it below it's nice to talk about all the great games that were released this year but we're also not going to let's play the games that really disappointed us and there's a few that stick out this year like a sore thumb once again we asked you guys what you thought were the most disappointing PC games of 2017 and we got a ton of responses I've narrowed the list down to five worthy contenders most of which I've personally played extensively which I'll be going through in no particular order and king of this time is a doozy easily the most controversial game released in 2017 Star Wars Battlefront 2 when talking about battlefront 2 I do want to mention that some aspects of this game are genuinely fun the multiplayer gameplay itself is a blast and the presentation captures the essence of Star Wars in such a brilliant way there's a lot more content to enjoy than its predecessor - which was arguably a worse game in terms of its gameplay but the problems with battlefront 2 are numerous the much-hyped single-player campaign is very short and just complete garbage if our modes is actually not worth playing and the multiplayer progression system is one of the worst in modern multiplayer shooters it's confusing and unnecessarily complicated with items abilities and upgrades for both walked behind odd barriers as a regular player the progression system just doesn't feel rewarding and doesn't do a good job of incentivizing goals or unlocks and let's not forget the pay2win system that EA nearly thrust on us all if it wasn't for the enormous outcry from the community loot crate's you can buy with real money they give tangible in-game advantages to players have no place in competitive games it's a disgraceful money grab particularly when the game itself already cost $60 or more and while EAD temporarily remove the ability to spend real money on loot crate's at watch there is no doubt you'll be able to pay to win at some point in the future this would have been a good game if the progression system was completely reworked without the focus on pay to win mechanics instead EA chased the dollar II dues and ruined the hard work of the developers much to their annoyance I'm sure Mass Effect Andromeda disappointed almost every Mass Effect fan looking back I'm not quite sure why I played 50 hours of this game because it really isn't that good the main story in particular just wasn't that interesting and butchered what could have been a really interesting premise it takes a long time to kick into gear as well the best parts and most interesting worlds are reached after around a 15 hour opening slog which no doubt led to many players giving up early into the game my main issue with Andromeda is that in many ways it just didn't seem like a true Mass Effect game the characters were weak wooden and hard to care about not helped by port animation the choices you made throughout the story seem to have very little impact and there weren't enough of them and the game was also padded out with tons of boring fetch quests rather than compelling side stories and its side quests that make or break a strong RPG a huge disappointment from EA and buy away in the end and there's no doubt that the game suffered from a horrible and painful development cycle Middle Earth shadow of war is a boring game the story is boring the combat is dull and repetitive particularly if you played its predecessor shadow of mortal and the ending is downright disgraceful oh and there's lots of loot boxes with microtransactions - to enjoy just to cap off one of 2017 s great disappointments it's a real shame shadow of war turned out in such a mediocre state because shadow of Mordor was a fantastic innovative game that could have led to an interesting equally inventive sequel instead shadow of war is basically a stretched out shadow of Mordor with a couple of minor gameplay additions siege battles are a lot of fun by far the best aspect of the game and was nice to see a larger variety of environments but the Nemesis system feels stale and the story isn't interesting in the slightest and let's take a moment to talk about the ending for no other reason than to pad out the game and incentivize lootcrate purchases shadow of war gives you 20 consecutive fortress defenses of increasing difficulty 20 it's a 5 plus hour repetitive grind you're better off just watching the final cutscene it unlocks on YouTube I'm not sure who thought this ending was a good idea but it's a disgusting finish to a very disappointing triple-a game of 2017 everyone's least favorite game publisher has entered this list for a third time with Need for Speed payback so I guess it's congratulations EA for having three of 2017 s most disappointing games in fact I'm not quite sure why EA continues to make Need for Speed games as it feels like the last decade of entries has been subpar payback could be the worst entry yet the story is laughably bad with terrible characters though I guess that isn't all that surprising for a racing game the worst part of payback is that it's not a very satisfying driving experience especially compared to the better racing games of 2017 and it compounds that with grind filled gameplay and a bad upgrade system it's the last racing game you should play in 2017 if you're a fan of the genre and to be honest EA should retire the series for a while if it can't make good entries anymore wait what you might be wondering why we've put player unknowns battlegrounds in our most disappointing games list especially after we also included it in our best games list of the year well before you start slamming the dislike button pub G was one of the games you guys heavily nominated for both the best and worst PC game of 2017 particularly on Twitter it's also a great example of a game that gets a lot of things right but lets down players in other areas one of the key issues with pub G is optimisation the is not the prettiest and for some reason even with the latest release runs surprisingly poi on a range of hardware AMD uses I hit the hardest whether they have Rison CPUs or Radeon GPUs and while those with Nvidia Intel systems fit a bit better the frame rates you get out of this game aren't great to say the least it was easy to forgive pub G fees issues in early access but despite a large development team and plenty of resources the game is still poorly optimized even at the official launch pub G also suffers from technical issues and bugs many of which seem connected to the network code stuttering and rubber banding is reasonably common at least the last time I jumped in and there's also problems like texture pop-in and random graphical glitches pub G still needs a fair bit of work to improve how performs though the current technical problems are not exactly going to stop people from playing it's a ton of fun despite the problems that's for sure and I guess it's time to go into some dishonorable mentions I'd guess you have to call them you guys nominated a number of other games for most dissapointing including things like Call of Duty World War 2 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon wildlands lawbreakers agents of mayhem which I was looking forward to and just didn't seem to be that good in the end and even destiny too so there was no shortage of games that failed to live up to the hype in 2017 at least in your guy's eyes maybe nothing quite as bad as the no man's sky disaster of 2016 though loot boxes and microtransactions certainly dominated discussions this year hopefully a lot of the games we are all looking forward to next year don't turn out as disappointing as some of this year's tiles I've just been talking about if there's anything we've missed I'm sure you'll let us know in the comments below don't forget to check out our patreon as well links to that are in the description below if you feel like supporting us and I'll catch you next time