10 Promising Video Games That Totally Botched Their Launch

Batman: Arkham Knight, the third in Rocksteady's critically acclaimed trilogy, launched absolutely fine. In fact, it went off without a hitc- oh, sorry, you were playing on PC? Ah.

Ah.

In that case, Arkham Knight was an unfinished, buggy mess that effectively ruined the game what many players were very much looking forward to.

The game suffered from a litany of problems on the PC. For starters, it was capped at 30 frames per second, yet the game often stuttered and dropped frames whenever Batman would enter the Batmobile. Alongside frame rate issues, the game was plagued by texture problems. Everything from enemies to environments featured low resolution textures which failed to load into more detail upon the character approaching them. Performance across the board was bad, with the game crashing for some, and not even starting for others.

Of course, word spread that Arkham Knight's PC port wasn't up to snuff and Steam's newly-introduced at the time refund system received a bit of a workout. Warner Bros. confirmed that the PC version of the game had been outsourced to an external studio, while the console version worked absolutely fine.