{"id":104489,"date":"2016-11-04T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T06:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=104489"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T07:00:32","slug":"the-biggest-gaming-disappointments-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/104489-the-biggest-gaming-disappointments-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"The biggest gaming disappointments of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

While nothing gets us excited like a new game announcement, it’s hard not to be a little disappointed with the gaming industry at times.<\/p>\n

While it’s easy to point at games like Homefront: The Revolution or Mirrors Edge Catalyst as disappointing titles, they never looked like they were going to blow our socks off to begin with.<\/p>\n

Below (in no particular order) are 2016’s biggest gaming disappointments, the topics that cut deeper than the others:<\/p>\n

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No Man’s Sky and the Hype Train<\/h3>\n

While we made a point of not calling out specific titles as disappointing, it’s hard not to bring up No Man’s Sky and its marketing.<\/p>\n

While No Man’s Sky is an incredibly flawed game, the biggest problem lies with the game’s marketing or rather the expectations created by the marketing.<\/p>\n

It happens every year that a game is hyped up only to disappoint, but never to these massive levels.<\/p>\n

We’re not sure if we’re more disappointed in the gaming public for continuously falling for it or Hello Games for their refusal to provide actual information surrounding the game.<\/p>\n

Regardless, it’s disappointing all round.<\/p>\n

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Pokemon GO<\/h3>\n

Pokemon GO’s massive nostalgia hit and incredible simplicity was responsible for the game’s meteoric rise over the month of June.<\/p>\n

Never have we seen a game enter the mainstream quite like Pokemon GO, and for two weeks that was all anyone was talking about.<\/p>\n

The fact that the game was as deep as a puddle and incredibly broken at launch was responsible for an even more brutal descent as the game went from a good time to a running joke overnight.<\/p>\n

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South African Pricing<\/h3>\n

This is the big one.<\/p>\n

Blame it on the rand, the government, or just the rising cost of living it has never been a more expensive time to be a gamer in South Africa.<\/p>\n

While one could argue that pricing increases every year, it has never been quite so obvious as in 2016.<\/p>\n

As both PC and console games creep past the R1,000 point, PC hardware becomes less affordable and pre-owned prices soar, our wallets have never hurt so much as in 2016.<\/p>\n

We’re not quite sure what happened to the R600 AAA titles of the previous generation.<\/p>\n

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What is your biggest gaming disappointment of 2016? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The year isn’t even over but there are already plenty of things to be disappointed about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":100968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[753,11828,8679,2163],"class_list":["post-104489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-list","tag-no-mans-sky","tag-pricing","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104613,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104489\/revisions\/104613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}