The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Most disappointing video games of 2020

Release Date: May 2020
Genre: RPG
Platforms: Switch, AND, iOS

Dedicated to mobile platforms, The Elder Scrolls spin-off was already raising a lot of questions at the early access stage, where it was released for smartphones from March 2019. At the time, complaints were made about lengthy loading screens, emphasis on grind, formulaic ideas, and most importantly, aggressive microtransactions. In May 2020, the game made its proper debut, the list of target platforms expanded to include Switch and... well, it wasn't better than Early Access at all.

The difficulties that plagued smartphones mostly remained after a year – it continued to be a not-so-impressive "mobile" game, far too often reaching out for players' money. Debuting on a full-fledged gaming console, where the competition was sometimes really strong, further exposed and exacerbated the problems and added a few new ones – very poor visuals when we chose to play on the big screen, and not the best controls.

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Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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