Ever since last month's presentation of The Game Awards, a lot of attention has been placed on Highguard, the upcoming live-service hero shooter, that had the unfortunate luck of being the "final" announcement in a show that saw the return of Mega Man, a new Casey Hudson-led Star Wars title and the Divinity reveal.
Its studio's radio silence in the time since the reveal hasn't helped things, even though it was later reported that Highguard did not actually pay to be the "final" announcement.
No news is good news.
However, as one sleuthy gamer found out, Highguard isn't alone in being a "disappointing" final announcement at the annual year-end award show. In fact, historically speaking, the final announcement at The Game Awards has been pretty mediocre.
Over on Reddit, one user compiled the final announcements for each of the last 10 editions of The Game Awards, and outside a few rare instances, it's a rather disappointing bunch.
Over the past decade, here's the last thing revealed:
The Walking Dead: Michonne experience hit right when Telltale fatigue was at an all-time high, and wasn't very well-received to boot. Mass Effect Andromeda was heavily criticized at launch and sits...
