10 Video Games That Got EVERYTHING Wrong
8. The Quiet Man
Square Enix strikes again with one of the most baffling video games of the last decade - The Quiet Man.
This low-key beat 'em up certainly had a lot of potential with its intriguing hook, that the protagonist is a deaf man and the game lacks sound or subtitles in an attempt to put the player in his shoes.
Ultimately The Quiet Man was quietly shoveled onto storefronts in 2018 and met with near-universal scorn for its failure to get basically anything right.
For starters, the combat was clunky and awkward - unaided by a wretched camera - and the lack of sound ultimately made the story's presentation feel more frustratingly nonsensical than intriguingly mysterious.
A post-launch update allowed players to re-play the game with sound, yet considering you had to beat the game once to do that, who really had the motivation to play through such a miserable experience twice?
There's such a huge gulf between the developers' intent and the end product that the comparisons to Tommy Wiseau's The Room aren't in any way exaggerated.
As both a meaningful work of deaf representation and a basic, meat-and-potatoes action game, The Quiet Man stinks.