10 Video Games That Put Fans In Denial

10. Anthem

EA and BioWare's years-in-development action-RPG Anthem was supposed to be the next big thing in the AAA "games as a service" sphere, yet its launch was, well, a bit of a disaster.

With a generic, minimal campaign, a piecemeal loot loop, agonisingly long loading screens, and terrible matchmaking, Anthem was pilloried by the press upon release. Worse still, it wasn't long before reports emerged of the game's troubled, rushed development.

To their mild credit, BioWare accepted responsibility for the unsatisfying release, and promised the game would be "fixed" through patches.

This led many fans to convince themselves that a No Man's Sky-esque resurrection was on the cards, that Anthem was just a few updates away from being the game everyone paid to play in the first place.

Yet 18 months since release, BioWare's promised "relaunch" has yet to come to fruition, and with each passing month it surely becomes far more likely that EA quietly drops the project and moves onto other things.

Though Anthem is indeed a better game now than it was on release, holding out hope for the full-fat experience we all expected to see back in February 2019 would be mighty foolish.