10 Video Games You Were Ready To Hate
6. Marvel's Avengers
Tragically, DC isn’t the only comics studio that has faced pre-release hate for its games, and Marvel’s Avengers sadly did fulfil its own negative expectations. Following the huge success of Playstation-exclusive Marvel’s Spiderman, another Marvel property being adapted for interactivity was highly likely, and E3 2019 debuted the first trailer for the upcoming Avengers game.
Safe to say, fans were not pleased. In an era where the MCU iterations of these characters are so familiar and iconic to the vast majority of the target audience, the deliberate decision to not go for movie tie-in look-alikes and instead deliver alternative visuals for the titular Avengers went down worse than a lead balloon.
Once it was revealed that you actually spend the majority of the single-player campaign as teenage fangirl Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel - a character beloved by comic fans, but at the time missing from the MCU - and that the multiplayer would be a microtransaction-filled grind-fest, expectations truly tanked.
The final nail in the coffin saw the game launch with a bloated, bug-filled campaign and costly live-service model that fans felt more than justified in hating.