I would say that for me the greatest gaming fail of 2022 is Calisto Protocol, the game was supposed to be the chosen one, the game that would resurrect AAA Dead Spaces-like games, created by some old Dead Space games devs without EA evil fingers meddling with it.

In the end, even forgetting the technical issues, it ended up a rather mediocre low quality Dead Space wannabe clone, with a broken combat system definitely not fit for a survival horror game (as in : look a terrifying zombie running toward you, but don't be afraid just move your stick from left to right continuously and you will dodge 100% of its attack unless there is more than one in which case you are dead.), forgettable and annoying characters, abuse of badly timed jump scares, awful level design, at the end it even manage to make Dead Space 3 looks good in comparison, at least in DS3 there was a good game hidden behind all the dumb decisions (i.e. coop, mono-ammo, weapons, etc...)

Yeah I know, there is always another argument to be considered.

At least the revamped version in CHASM's instance is reputedly well done, unlike with Blade Runner. So to me the included DOS version is likely unnecessary, and just included to look more cost effective, falsely so. The only reason I could see to bother playing the original now would be on a low power PC, or to just do a quick comparison.

I am not going to support a higher price that I cannot justify to myself. So I am going to be patient and wait. Their loss really not mine, as I have more than enough to go on with. And if I really got desperate I'd just pull out the disc and wrestle with DOSbox ... or just play the new demo now and then.

I collect Linux versions at GOG, so I am certainly sympathetic, and wish there were more, better support and so on. But I don't know why you and a few others find GOG's stance baffling.

It would cost to provide more support for Linux, and that always has to be offset against profit, and let's be completely honest, Linux gaming is still very niche. The huge majority of gamers, simply don't play games on Linux. So even though GOG seem to be doing okay, they often haven't appeared that way, and seem to struggle a lot, so time and money and resources dedicated to Linux support probably feels like a bridge too far to them, too costly in fact.

It was no doubt easier or more imperative in GOG's early days to support Linux better, where they were doing all they could to get customers. They have a much bigger customer base now, and percentage wise probably a lot less Linux gamers in the mix.

It just seems exceptionally counterintuitive to support DRM-free, and only release it on a system that is full of user control, and that expands its control with every iteration. A system that has tried to enforce its own walled garden at one time. It's especially counterintuitive when a free and clear alternative is right there.

Finest gaming fails of 2022?

Ubisoft crippling their outstanding older Anno and other games by removing their servers. Chris Pratt cast as american Mario. Diablo's name tarnished as a mobile game with pay-to-win scams. Paying fuck all to artists and composers in the video gaming industry whilst selling millions of copies. Keeping toxic workplaces operating under corrupt CEOs and supporting them with billions (Activision-Blizzard).

Nice thread topic btw! :)

It is very baffling. It's definitely a missed opportunity. So many Linux gamers flock to GOG thinking DRM-free gaming is the perfect fit only to discover how atrocious the user experience is for Linux gamers on GOG.

Personally this was the reason I came here to GOG, but have been really disappointed and would consider the digital distribution service unusable and almost broken without 3rd party tools like lgogdownloader, gogrepoc, Lutris, or more recently Heroic.

Valve's contribution to Linux gaming is really hard to ignore these days. I wouldn't blame anyone who jumped back on Steam after they tried out drm-free gog gaming on linux.

I don't really get that argument.
GOG is about DRM-Free games, not DRM-Free OS.
And the majority of games are Windows based, just like the huge majority of gamers.

If GOG had started out as everything DRM-Free I could understand your argument, except they would never have survived. GOG started out with a point to prove, that DRM-Free games were viable to sell. Nothing about that had anything to do with DRM-Free type OS, that is a separate thing altogether, even though as you say DRM-Free games and DRM-Free OS almost sound like a marriage made in Heaven .... except they don't, because the majority of DRM-Free games are Windows only.

To me are all coincidentally recent:
1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, should I even say more on this mess?
2. Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, the publisher/developer has replaced perfectly working Game of the Century edition from 2013 by this 2015 "re-master" that literally does attempt to install Epic Games Launcher (!) by default. De-activating that trap is a bit convoluted, but even then, the basics like autosaving is broken and all the customers of systems like Windows 7 are screwed because it'll never launch on this system without an unusual Windows 8.1/10-specific DLL that the installer provides not. GOG does not care, it quickly closed the voting on returning the sane version. My dust particles in any trace of trusting GOG are quarks now (at best).
3. Unreal Tournament 3 X & Removing Other Unreals. Once again, Epic Games ruins everything, even an imperfect UT. The 3rd UT was not and is not fully DRMed on Steam, I can just copy my old key from the box of my local version and it accepts that, runs without Steam OK. To publish it on GOG like with UT 2004 (that did demand a key too) is extremely easy, I have no clue why it never did right. And guess what? That's not Epic Games' plan to be nice, no: It stole all the other Unreals, removed, what a "gift," then it replaced the older 3rd with this in the Steam library and it will demand to have an Epic Games account always, plus murdered other projects like the 4th UT (wasn't very successful anyway but still a loss). I suspect it'll attempt the same like what on the "Saints," nothing good will come out of that.

The biggest 2022 gaming fail to me would be eveything that happened with Blizzard and its latest games. I wasn't a big fan of their games since The Lost Vikings 2 on SNES (only this version) but I respected later games such as Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. Diablo 2 Ressurrected was their last good game and they ruined 4 playable characters design, especially my favorite Amazon.

I can only be sorry for the people who invested their time and money on Overwatch game(s) and World of Warcraft.

I heard that one major ex-Blizzard employee is back now and they promised not only to fight off any harassment issues within thier staff but also to have more independent operation from Activision management than before. I can only hope for their very best in future but I don't beleive in Blizzard anymore. But who knows maybe Diablo IV is just what I wanted all this time.

There is no such thing as "truth" anymore, only interpretation. Today's trend is applying collective guilt according to place of birth. Tomorrow there will be another one, probably worse for us all.

Better to not discuss it here unless we want this thread to be locked. I see that you created a new account just to make that statement, so you might expect some risk for yourself, but let's not ruin the OP's topic.

Unless I misunderstood, it's so much better now after some patches, that it actually deserves the "Enhanced Edition" moniker.

My friend, who tends to play low hanging fruit like the series that can be abbreviated for a fish and easily mistaken for a Tom Clancy novel, gave it a 6/10 and said the combat sucked. The Zero Punctuation review made Dead Space look glowing by comparison, but went on about how overwrought the animations were.

It sounds like the project was too artist led and not actually designer lead.

Well maybe I should take another look at it.
But going by the nature of the flaws I read about, source and all, I am not sure how much better it could be, as in better enough.

That's kind of the problem, the game is basically more a third person action shooter (or brawler) rather than a survival horror, so if the combat sucks there isn't that much left. Heck if anything if they removed the "horror" part, improved the melee and shooting combat, it might have been a ok/good pure action game. I wonder if it's not linked to the fact it was originally supposed to be a PUBG game before it was refactored into a DS clone.
One of the main issue is how they screwed up the graphics, I am not sure they could fixed that unless they added an option to have the original unfiltered ones.