9 Incredible Features WASTED On Disappointing Video Games

8. Augmented Reality Pokemon Hunting - Pokemon GO

Pokemon GO was a bonafide phenomenon. Launching to immediate popularity in the summer of 2016, the millions of people who picked up this free mobile game will no doubt remember having a blast with it, venturing outdoors to catch new creatures, attack gyms, and bump into a bunch of people out doing the exact same thing.

It was a stroke of brilliance from Niantic. The game itself was incredibly accessible as well, requiring essentially only a flick of the finger, while focusing on Gen 1 Pokemon lit up the nostalgia receptors of anyone who had ever been interested in the universe at some point. For those first few weeks, collecting and evolving your collected Pokemon was ridiculously addictive, but sadly the developers didn't quite have the content to sustain the interest.

That's because the "game" of Pokemon GO was entirely in collecting the monsters in the augmented reality, rather than doing anything with them. That still made for a good time, but there was always the feeling that it could have been so much more, and while more features were eventually added, they were sorely missing from that first wave of interest.