10 Broken Video Games That Are God Tier Now

Now it's a sad fact of the video game industry today that games tend to come out in a, well to use the most generous term possible

utterly broken, insultingly unplayable state that makes you want to tear your own brain out with a plastic spork

Don't ask me what the least generous term is, some things are best left unsaid

But you know what, sometimes these games do get the love they deserve from a dev team that wants to deliver a quality product

and after patches and so many updates, they end up being something so utterly amazing that they are undeniable

And that is what we're here to talk about today. As I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 broken games that are God-tier now

Number 10. Street Fighter V Now, it's hard to imagine a bigger bag fumble than Street Fighter V when it first released

mainly due to it being a follow-up to Street Fighter IV, which many fans consider to be the saviour of an entire fighting game genre

So anything less than saviour of the entire genre was bound to be a bit of a disappointment

But even with that olive branch being extended, that doesn't change the fact that Street Fighter V was just flat out not finished upon its release

On the single-player front, Street Fighter V shipped with no campaign, no arcade mode, and a survival mode that one would call bare-bones

if they felt inclined to be insulting to bones. And then there was the multiplayer, which was the most egregious insult to fans

The standard number of players hosting for multiplayer lobbies in a fighting game is around 8, but Street Fighter V could only host 2, and that's if the lobbies worked at all

This was a bit beyond what a simple day 1 patch could fix, and sure enough, Street Fighter V took

three entire years before it entered a state that fans consider to be decent. Nowadays, Street Fighter

V has an entire fanbase who, shock of shocks, are absolutely willing to pay money for it now that

it's in an actual finished state. Number 9. Halo Master Chief Collection

So Halo has been around as long as the Xbox, so it was inevitable that Microsoft and 343 Studios

would try to make sure that the current-gen players could access all of the previous games

without having to spend hundreds of dollars on multiple previous-gen systems. Unfortunately, Halo, the Master Chief Collection, really could have used a little more time in the oven

Upon release, the game was panned across the board by both fans and critics for being virtually unplayable

unplayable. The game came out of the gate riddled with technical issues, both on the single-player

and multiplayer front. Trying to improve the frame rates for the original trilogy from 30 to 60 FPS

ironically made the frame rate worse, if you were playing co-op but weren't the host, because you'd

get a full second of input lag, and that's on top of all of the usual stuff like constant crashes

But the multiplayer the thing that Halo fans buy a Halo game for was the part that got hit the hardest Matchmaking was an absolute nightmare with teams being obscenely uneven and that was assuming matchmaking even connected you to a game at all It wasn until the PC port that things began to improve and after that and a heavy bunch of patching

the Master Chief Collection has finally seen the success that it should have had from the very

beginning. 8. Fallout New Vegas Obsidian's reputation is a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they're known for being

one of the best Western RPG developers in gaming history, making RPGs that stand the test of time

But on the other hand, their games can often come out a little undercooked. And one of the

funniest offenders of this, ironically, is their magnum opus, Fallout New Vegas. Now

Fallout New Vegas was definitely not unplayable upon its release, but it was damn close to it in some ways. Even looking past the occasional glitches like the infamous rotating

head, the launch version of New Vegas also suffered from obscenely long load times

low FPS, and constant crashing, the CTD problems still being an issue for many players to this

very day. Fortunately, after a ton of patching, the biggest holes in Obsidian's proudest ship

were plugged, and New Vegas has since gone on to be widely accepted as the best Fallout game

in the entire franchise. While it may have had an incredibly rough first year

barely anybody remembers that anymore, allowing New Vegas to thrive as it deserves

7. Sea of Thieves When you're making a purely online game, the first thing, the primary thing one could actually say, that you have to get right is

making sure the connection remains stable across the board, especially for an online game like

Sea of Thieves which requires you and your friends to be working in tandem to keep your ship running

Unfortunately, this was the biggest issue that many players had with Rareware's pirate title

upon release, but even beyond that, the game was just flat out empty for the first few months of

life. The primary goal of becoming a pirate legend required months of boring grinding through

repetitive battles, meaning that Sea of Thieves was just not interesting enough to commit to it

for the first stretch of its life. Fortunately, the game has more than turned things around in

that time since. Now, not only are the connection issues basically fixed across the board

but the updates have stuffed this game to bursting with things to do with your pals as you traverse

across the seven seas. It also helps that the core gameplay loop of Sea of Thieves was always

solid and fun, unlike the more recent Skull of Bones, which is missing many features that Sea

of Thieves had at launch. With better online connection and loads more stuff to do, Sea of

Thieves is one of the most fun online games out there right now. Number 6. Battlefield 2042

Okay, so 2021 was not a good year for Battlefield, and this game is unfortunately why. Upon release

2042 almost immediately took the crown as the worst Battlefield game in the entire franchise

and for a series that stretches back to 2002, that is an accomplishment. Now, Battlefield 2042

drew eye almost immediately for that most unforgivable of sins of SPF games and that is Awful Online Not only were the maps way too big and the combat not as interesting as it could have been but those two critiques require you to even be able to get into a match at all which most players

couldn't. There was also missing multiple industry standard features at launch, such as a f***ing

scoreboard. And then there were the glitches. Oh god, the glitches, many of which screwed up the

player XP progression. And if you wanted to give the single-player campaign a try instead, well

too bad, because there wasn't one. In the two years since, though, Battlefield 2042 has more

than turned it around. Not only is its online play stable, it's a marked improvement over previous

entries in quite a lot of ways. A single-player campaign has actually been added, and online

matches are made infinitely more fun with a variety of quality of life improvements

Battlefield 2042 has gone from one of the worst entries in the entire series to one of its best

by a considerable distance. 5. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Pokemon games, though as financially successful as they've ever been

have definitely seen a decline in quality over the last decade, mainly due to Game Freak's stubborn refusal to use that money to expand their development staff

And then Scarlet and Violet came along. While not materially worse than Sword and Shield, it wasn't a marked improvement either

and on a technical front, it was even worse. Upon release, the game was plagued by graphical and performance issues from top to bottom

Some of them were just annoying, like the inconsistent draw distance, while others were actual game-breaking bugs

Fortunately, in the two years since its release, Game Freak has implemented multiple patches to fix the worst of the issues

As for the lack of content, the game has seen multiple expansions with new areas, battles, storylines, and, of course, Pokemon

Plus, Scarlet and Violet have just released their last DLC expansion earlier this year, bookending a rocky beginning with a rock-solid finale

4. Star Wars Battlefront II One of the most reviled game releases of all time, Star Wars Battlefront II was, ironically, mostly solid from a gameplay standpoint

It was basically all down to the microtransactions where this game fell over

sh**ed itself, and then died in a puddle. Every online game has some form of microtransactions, that's for sure

but Battlefront 2 went over the line by locking incredibly powerful characters and weapons behind its loot boxes

This one tiny detail more or less broke the entire game over its knee

as it allowed players to essentially buy their way to victory. This not only turned the entire fanbase on the game

but even got EA in trouble with the law on accusations of gambling. As you can imagine, backtracking was inevitable. The loopbox system was completely reworked

and hero characters were unlocked for everyone. The tide turned in Battlefront 2's favour

practically overnight because Shock of Shocks removed the thing that's keeping this game

from being fun and it becomes fun. Who could have guessed? Number 3 No Man Sky Yeah yeah yeah you know this story by now It was bad to begin with he promised too much then it did a load of updates Look at it It the best game you ever played Trust me like the VR mode alone is worth downloading this game

I've got a script in front of me, right, that just goes through all of the tumultuous ups and downs of this game, but you know the story by now

Just look at what it was. This is the footage of what it was, and this is the footage of what it is now

Ooh, yeah. Number two, Cyberpunk 2077. Oh, God, I could just do the exact same thing

but I've just done for No Man's Sky for this. And you know what? I will

CD Projekt Red delivered an absolute stinker early on, right? But look at it right now

Look at the amount of effort that's been put into updating it, to expanding this already vibrant world

but making it so... You want to live in this place. I mean, it's pretty scummy

and you'd probably die just walking down the street or going to get your groceries

but still, I want to be in this world because it looks so beautifully crafted

Plus the latest DLC Phantom of Liberty is just chef's kiss my friend

1. Final Fantasy XIV So all of the previous entries pale in comparison to the utter disaster that was Final Fantasy XIV when it first launched

A bomb so complete and overwhelming that the president of Square Enix admitted to it having done great damage to the brand

The worst major MMORPG on the market by some considerable distance, Final Fantasy XIV definitely needed some work

So how did we get to today, where not only is Final Fantasy XIV still going

but running rings around whatever MMOs are still standing over a decade later

Well, simply put, they burned the whole godforsaken thing to the ground and started again

Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 just had too many fires to put out, so the best plan was to just start from scratch

And so 1.0 died in a glorious cutscene fire, and what came after was 2.0, better known as A Realm Reborn

A Realm Reborn relaunched the entire thing with a brand new UI, a brand new storyline

and completely overhauled combat. From there, Final Fantasy XIV is only built on itself

until it has just become the epic, fast-paced action MMORPG that it is today

Final Fantasy XIV Online is now the most profitable game in the franchise

and if we're being honest, probably the only thing that's really keeping the lights on over at Square Enix these days

I'm sorry, but yeah, they've delivered some stinkers. And there we go, my friends. Those were 10 broken games that are god-tier now

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