10 Biggest Video Game Bombs Of 2018
4. Metal Gear Survive
Did Metal Gear Survive really come out in 2018? It's been a long year...
Releasing back in February, Metal Gear Survive is the game that no-one asked for based on the game that let a lot of people down.
After all the controversy surrounding Kojima's treatment, continuing the Metal Gear series was a big risk on Konami's part.
In all fairness, the Metal Gear games are fantastic enough that making a new one isn't really a bad idea. Making it about survival against weird crystal zombies, however, is.
Despite being based on The Phantom Pain's game mechanics, Metal Gear Survive just feels clunky and wrong, like something was lost in translation. Boring is really the best word for Survive.
Even if you can find some sort of enjoyment in the gameplay, the focus on online really hurt the whole experience and turned it into a grindy mess. The sales were bad enough that Konami omitted them from their earnings call this year, but that's telling enough.
The game ended up being one of the most mediocre titles of the year, and it seems like everyone was aware of how bad it was.