10 Ways The Video Game Industry Has Gotten WORSE This Decade

Sadly, gargantuan patches before you even get to a game’s main menu have now become commonplace in gaming for most, when in reality games shouldn’t be released to the public before they’ve either had a full quality assurance assessment or a thorough beta test period. This decade saw some poor examples indeed.

Probably the most infamous example is from Assassin’s Creed Unity. Arguably Ubisoft’s champion franchise (at the very least at the time of its release), Unity saw major file crashes and some freaky animations that caused characters faces to disappear or become distorted.

While it was received well (sort of), Bungie’s next-gen foray into the MMO-FPS hybrid genre in the form of Destiny had some accusations levelled at it after it’s fairly lukewarm and abrupt “story” mode. Thankfully, they stepped up to the plate and delivered a better product with Destiny 2.

As much as it pains me to say, the prime candidate for unfinished game of the decade goes to Bethesda’s burning mess of Fallout 76. Promising so much in it’s reveal, 76 quickly left players feeling duped after finding their wasteland literally empty, with radroaches just one of the many bugs found in the game...