20 Recent Video Games EVERYONE Knew Would Suck
18. The First Descendant
It's incredibly difficult for even good free-to-play live service games to survive in the current overcrowded market, and pretty much everything we saw pre-release from multiplayer looter-shooter The First Descendant made it look like the sort of flavourless, generic romp you'd expect an AI to spit out.
Now in total fairness to The First Descendant, the gunplay is actually relatively passable - and likely why the game has sustained something of a player-base for over a year - but in terms of its story, art direction, and quest design, it's just coma-inducingly dull.
More to the point, just as expected the game was widely criticised for its microtransaction implementation, ensuring the core loop is extremely grind-heavy for anyone not ponying up some dough.
Everything about this game feels like pure, snoozy formula, and when you've only got so much time to game, why give any of it to something that clearly doesn't respect yours?