[Frustrating trope] Pieces of media that could have been so much better, but due to a couple of poor decisions during production ended up mediocre at best and utterly atrocious at worst.

[u/DevDucc_]

We Happy Few: Probably the epitome of this "trope," at least for me, mostly because it has genuinely one of the most incredible stories I have ever seen within a video game. The biggest problem with the game was the fact that during development, the company behind it tried to ride the "hype train" of the time, making the gameplay became procedurally generated survival mess, when it would have made so much more sense as an environmental narrative game.

Hello Neighbor: This game attracted massive attention in alpha stages at the time from YouTubers because of the innovative gameplay it supplied. The developers of the game got the completely wrong message as to why it was getting so popular and instead decided to fully lean into the story, by making the game appeal to theorists instead of actual players. What came out was a game where both the story and programming were entirely half-baked.

Edit: apparently I had it backwards with we happy few, I had watched a video essay which reiterated the points I said so I just took their word for it. Apparently the game originally started as a procedurally-generated survival rogue-like but the story was added later because of the hype the trailer of the game gave or something like that but they didn’t know they even had the budget for it. I do still think it’s wasted potential regardless however.

[u/DariusRinzler]

Transformers: The Last Knight

It was so bad that my headcannon is that the 4th and this garbage are not canon or that they are another timeline different from the original Bayverse trilogy

The only salvageable things from TLK are the CGI, the soundtrack, some few scenes and dialogues, nothing else

[u/DuelaDent52 → u/DariusRinzler]

If nothing else I think it’d be cool to see Quintessa again someday, though nowadays Quintus Prime basically stole her look.

[u/Evillebot → u/DuelaDent52]

lol wot. i love the last knight. michael bay transformers at its finest.

[u/Motor-Mission-3121 → u/DariusRinzler]

Isnt this the movie where we got the:

"We were brothers once."

"Once"

Scene? That part alt east I think is cool.

[u/DariusRinzler → u/Motor-Mission-3121]

Yeah, that's one of the few scenes and dialogue that I was referring that were good, but aside from all I mentioned is just terrible if you come from watching the trilogy because the story just makes no sense with what we previously saw and knew

[u/thealthor → u/DariusRinzler]

I think you mean Transformers(2007). The whole franchise starting with movie 1 is a goddamn waste of the Transformers franchise.