8 Video Games That IMMEDIATELY Gave You Buyer's Remorse

8. Fallout 76

Even accepting that Bethesda appears to be almost magnetically attracted to jank, it was impossible not to be excited by the prospect of a multiplayer Fallout game, where players could wander the Wasteland while either teaming up with others or hunting them down like dogs.

Fallout, with its rich open worlds, was made for this, but within 30-or-so minutes of booting the game up, it was clear that something - many things, even - were very, very wrong.

For starters, on launch Fallout 76 felt painfully barren as online open worlds go, in large part due to the absence of human NPCs.

Between that, the dull missions, scarcely existent story, and brutal performance issues, upon release this was an experience as thunderously boring as it was infuriating.

And to make matters worse, there's still no way to play the game offline even if you're tackling it solo.

Yet many players saw the writing on the wall in the early going and sought refunds within the release window.

While Fallout 76 is definitely in a better state today, it nevertheless remains a cautionary tale of what can happen when even the most celebrated of developers rushes an ambitious game to market and simply expects their fanbase to guzzle it down uncritically.