10 2017 Video Games That Wasted Their Biggest Selling Point

6. Having The Most Balanced Third-Person Combat Ever - For Honor

Although Dark Souls is focused on being a "one character against the world" hack n' slash game with brutal difficulty, its multiplayer component has amassed swathes of hardcore fans perfecting which weapons, stances and abilities work against one another.

It's this framework that made For Honor look so tantalising. Just you, another player, and an elaborate rock, paper, scissors sense of balance to everything thereafter. Larger battles were included too, but the real meat came from perfecting your skills and pitting them against other players, one sword-slash and perfectly executed dodge at a time.

Sadly, despite all of the above still providing Ubisoft with one of their most unique games in years, launch saw servers dogged with lag and repeated disconnects. Still, Ubisoft would apply many patches to the game's burgeoning community... until they went one too far, ruining the in-game economy by making it nigh-on impossible to unlock anything without relying on blind box rewards.