That was a terrible choice anyways. Sega was a console manufacturer and Software developer...Meaning Shenmue was an in house development, meaning it was an exclusive. Clearly they thought Shenmue was a console saver, so why on Earth would they have ported it to other consoles?...Not to mention most U.S gamers like to just shoot and blow stuff up. They don't like games that are slow paced and make you think. Shenmue was way better than GTA3. But at that point Shenmue couldnt compete with the violence of gta3. Americans don't like to think.
Starlink is and always will be my favorite game. As someone who 100% the game and got a 97 hour safeslot (pls send help) i am just upset that it stopped developing. It had so much potential but the problem Ubisoft had with the game (apart from it being toys-to-life) is the fact that it was made by Ubisoft.
Agreed - I always enjoyed the Guitar Hero games and was quite late in joining the hype but so much changed and even the pre-order bonus was unavailable after a set time period after release. Making it so you HAD to stream songs to learn them and couldn't pick and choose tracks you wanted made it wholly disappointing but I don't think it was due to oversaturation.
Not surprised about number 6. I don't recall who said it, but the following quote is appropriate here: "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - try to please everybody."
Saints rows formula works well in part 3 and 4. The characters has edges, the Story is unhinged and make fun of it by being political incorrect, but still without crossing the line. The reboot ... well, there r no edges at all and they put more work into delivering make up choices for the smooth family thing charcters than delivering interesting characters. It isn't even doomed bad, but at the end not memorable like the former gta clones Saints roow 1 and 2 ... which where greatly mocked in part 4, mayby they go on with the timeline idea of part 4 and mocking this average title too while brining the fun back
If Star Fox Zero offered more control options, such as a Classic Mode where players use the same controlling mechanic from Star Fox 64 3D (from 3DS) and a multiplayer mode in Main Story mode (where Player 1 mainly focuses on controlling/piloting Arwing but also able to shoot enemies at the same time and the rest of the players focuses on shooting enemies), just like Sonic Free Riders, then it would have been a better video game and would sell even more
Graphics don't matter. I don't play games for the graphical fidelity ... and I could not care less about "photorealistic" ... . Just make better and more accessible games.
It's sometimes fine to like bad games, but not when you genuinely believe they're good. Therefore I'd suggest you to play older games to get some standards.
It's not really a "Saint's Row" game. It's more like the publisher wanted to use the name to sell somebody's concept of a "kinder, gentler" gang of friends, built on a 15 yr old engine to save money. Saint's Row The 3rd is great if you want to see the zany side of the franchise, but Saint's Row 2 has the best story, possibly out of all the open world crime drama subgenre.
Funny enough I literally just beat it 2 days ago. Heard good things about it over the years and wanted to be in the loop. Grabbed it on sale on Xbox awhile back, just got too busy to get to it for awhile. But totally agree with you. The story was so gripping and I'm not gonna forget it anytime soon. However the controls while still very much playable today, could be tightened up a bit; and graphically it made my eyes bleed with how dated it looks. I feel like modernizing the graphics would make the story hit you in the gut even harder than it already does
@frostbite3820 yeah I miss that era of games. Games like Spec ops would always release with short campaigns, COD and Halo still had good campaigns, my favourite the Transformers cybertron games, now we mostly just get bland open worlds and failed multiplayer
As someone who has played and beat every Saints Row game except the first, honestly I feel like the biggest issue was the story and certain parts of the gameplay loops. It seemed pretty clear who they were making the game for, fans of the third game. Serious yet wacky. The world building was actually really interesting, with the city being a real highlight for the series, and the characters weren’t bad for just starting off. The problem was the story kind of flopped in the latter half, and certain missions for districts were just annoying. The second problem is that it just wasn’t spectacular. It was a good game, don’t get me wrong, but when you’re rebooting a beloved series after driving it off the rails, you need better than just good. You need something great enough that even the hardcore fans at least grumble that it may have something. About the only things that reach that level are world building and most gameplay. Combining that with the sometimes clunky character writing, technical issues, story that crashes towards the end, annoying missions, and overall executive meddling and you’re left with a game that can’t begin to succeed because any good parts are dragged down in the eyes of others by the things they were worried about since they first heard it was a reboot.
Oh, *hell* no. The Saint's Row reboot was _not_ made for fans of the 3rd game. It was not made for fans of _any_ Saint's Row title. It was made for people that don't like Saint's Row. Nor was it a good game, sans license. It was simply a terrible game that would have been average back in 2007. The characters were all around failures in design and execution. The mechanic girl was the only one salvageable as a potential side character in a real Saint's Row title - as long as there was a different writing team, as the least-boring part of her personality was revealed _after_ it would have been relevant. (A _good_ writer introduces the pivotal background _before_ the emotional hook scene, not after.) The rest of the characters would be stereotypical NPCs that the original gang would run over at a crosswalk. Gameplay was boring and uninspired. Shooting mechanics were somehow too loose and too stiff at the same time. The story fell flat after the first shootout. The game was in no way decent or acceptable, not in this or the last console generation. Volition wanted to make Saint's Row 2.5, but they were overruled by their publisher, who wanted to use the franchise to push a friendlier, less gang-heavy story about "friendship."
@@garyballard179 well I mean what am I supposed to say to that? You’re wrong? You don’t really leave much room for discussion when your whole post is that everything was garbage in a reply to a post about how not everything was garbage. I mean did you even play the game or read my post? I stated that it had problems, one being generic characters, but that’s not different from any other starting out game. Having played Saint’s Row 1 since, I can say that those characters were pretty generic as well. It wasn’t until 2 that they actually became interesting people. If your opinion is that it was completely garbage and mine was that it was flawed with some good or even great points that weren’t enough to outshine the bad, I can’t really say anything except that you’re wrong because you don’t leave any room for any other opinion. I guess I’d say just go back and play one and then play the reboot and actually take the time to explore the world of both. If you still feel that the world building wasn’t any good and that the reboot has no good points at all, then so be it. You have your opinion, I have mine.
@@Torr3697 You can't say anything because I'm right and you don't have an argument against me. It was a crap game, and even the studio didn't want to make it.
@@garyballard179 I can’t say anything because you don’t have an argument, you just said I’m wrong and it’s garbage. My argument was in the start, I can’t really argue with someone whose just posting that I’m wrong based on their opinion. Or in the words of the great Lebowski, “Well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion man.”
Mass Effect Andromeda's was trying to go full open-world. For as much of a dick move as EA made by forcing Bioware to use the Frostbite engine, if ME:A had followed the same basic gameplay model as the second and third games it would have worked absolutely fine. Going full on open-world, to say nothing of the stupidly impractical No Man's Sky-like concept they originally tried to go with, just caused things to fall apart.
Actually, what they did was move the date for Battlefield because they wanted to compete with CoD. Ironically, had they kept Battlefield's later release date than Titanfall 2 would have probably beaten CoD in sales anyway.
I'm in the camp of people who thoroughly enjoyed Immortals of Aveum. Had no interest in the run up to launch but once I picked it up a bit cheaper a few months later I was hooked from start to finish. A shame they overcooked and overcharged for it.
I wish I had kids so I could've gotten in on the whole toys-to-life fad. Would've loved to have little mini-me's begging and pestering me for new figures.
I loved Starlink. I wish they had been able to make it to work long term. If you get the game on Switch, it’s the best Starfox game in 15 years. (Aka the only Starfox game in 15 years.)
Well I played all the saints row games including gat out of hell that adds a plot point for infinite reboots of the series. That keeps any new saints game they make technically Canonical. Even that Agents of mayhem game...
I do remember Saints Row 2022 being not great, even though I did beat the main story. It did do 1 thing that was original for the series. If you created a female character, she could be completely topless, without putting pasties over her nipples. All the other games would censor the nudity without pasties. I guess they learned from Cyberpunk 2077, women can be naked. Yes, my female in that game runs around without a shirt as well.
Spec-Ops The Line was an amazing game. They could've made a franchise out of that if they didn't mess up the marketing. A shooter game which heavily focuses on environmental and the psychological harm that war can do to people.
The Shenmue argument is dumb because it doesnt take into account business practices back then. Why would anyone in the late 90s release their 1st party game on a competitors hardware? Theyre all still reluctant to do that these days, but back then it'd have killed the Dreamcast earlier. If you think about the consoles at the time there wasnt much carryover for a lot of games between eachother and thats just how they got your attention. That carried all the way up to the PS360 era. I appreciate theyre more open to finding business with their competition niw, but back then it was all about bragging rites to our own detriment.
"The Order 1886". They did save content for two more sequels in that game and is why the first game were so short. They probably planned 3 x 5-6 hour games and it failed. I didn't have problems with the controls in Starfox Zero...Anyway. I completed Titanfall 2, The Order 1886 and Spec-Ops The Line from this list.
I haven’t played the game but I’ve heard people say that the awful control scheme and motion controls of Star Fox Zero were not actually required and you could (allegedly) switch to traditional controls
@@Saddonghussein You seem incredibly easily entertained To answer your question, depending on what part of the story they're adapting, I'd go with either Yasmin Finney or Laverne Cox
Planetside:Arena chased the battle royale fad hard and launched in an oversaturated market. Worse the only people who seemed to know about its existence was the Planetside community, which as one of the only MMOFPS's in existence was the polar opposite type of game. Planetside 2 players hated, and I mean HATED it, and within just a month or two of launching the servers were shut down. As a result, there is unlikely to be a Planetside 3, despite the series being one of the most unique FPS's around.
Liked Guitar Hero a lot but i think where Live went wrong is changing the guitar controller. The other one was miles better tbh took me a lot of time to get used to the GH Live one. Thought Warriors of Rock was the best Guitar Hero game tbh. Liked Rock Band as well but 4 was a fail!
I certainly hope Respawn gives us a Titanfall 3 - preferably with minimal input from EA - and it lives up to the hype. Storywise, I wasn't that impressed with Titanfall 2, but in terms of mechanics, the wide arrange of weapons and general tone of the game, I was floored. As far as multiplayer goes, it's still unmatched, imo. Just _that_ good.
With the benefit of hindsight, how do we think Spec OPs the Line SHOULD have been marketed? In a way where it wouldn't give away it's big twist, but got people interested in playing it?
Psychological horror, or psychological drama. Protecting your twist over telling a good story is a common problem. (I also heard they had to remove the option to not do the terrible thing because people in tests kept... not doing the horrible things and undermined the game. Which if true, may contribute. It was meant to have a choice but people kept being better humans than they expected.)
Shenmue’s mistake was the overbloated Budget. But it was always meant to be dreeamcast’s killer app. Little to no sense in telling people to go buy it on ps2.
@@vgtrp No they should have never been only on it If Sony made a game/s that had to sell double the PS1 to not kill it and they said nope we would kill the company then put it on anyone else is
Immortals of Aveum was.....aight. Not at all bad, but I wouldn't say great. But damn, they REALLY went all in with those graphics. It's almost like TLOU status.
I both love and hate The Order:1886. It's just long enough, and cliff-hanger ending, makes me want more, but that'll never happen. It's no Darksiders, after all.
As long as Sega had a console on the market, they weren't going to release one of their games on another console, however when Sega went 3rd party they should've released Shenmue on PS2 and Xbox.
I always wonder what the game plan was for Shenmue in Sega's mind. How did they expect to make their money back on that game with it being Dreamcast-exclusive?
Sega's game plan was that Shenmue would be the ultimate killer app of all time that would sell millions of Dreamcasts on its won. Why the hell Sega thought a game as bad as Shenmue would be the savior of their dead-on-arrival sinking ship, goes to show how dumb Sega was.
what killed crash rumble for me was the non stop spyro content after season 1, i dont care about spyro so seeing crash characters be abandoned after just 1 season gave me no incentive to return to it
Has the free-to-play model completely destroyed the humble multiplayer title? You know, games like Left 4 Dead that are sold as a complete game, not live service. Just a simple, single purchase of a game you play with friends. I think it has.
Yep. Why sell a game for $60, when you can hook people in with a "free" marketing tag, then nickel-and-dime them with loot boxes and premium content fees? Warner Bros just looked at the success of the single player Hogwart's Legacy vs the failure of the live service Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, and decided that turning Hogwart's Legacy 2 into a live service game makes sense. 🤦
Crash's modern downfall came from the fact that Crash "4": It's About Time decided to pander to "OG trilogy is the only good games" extremist fans of the franchise by soft-rebooting the timeline, excluding EVERYTHING after Crash 3 from canon. A portion of fans btw that were and always will be just a vocal minority. CTR, Nitro Kart, Tag Team Racing, Bash, Boom Bang, Huge Adventure, N-Tranced, Purple, Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, even the manga if they were even considered part of the main timeline I'm not sure, all of it gone so we could get a not-at-all funny joke one-liner in the game about only defeating Cortex 3 times. It diminished the value of the entire brand. It didn't help that in terms of difficulty, progression, visuals and design the game was a complete bastardization of everything that came before it while also featuring by far the least entertaining and least engaging story in the franchise. Crash "4" shouldn't have been a soft-rebooting Crash 3 2, it should have been a Twinsanity 2. Should have evolved THAT formula, picked up where THAT story left off. That's why they fumbled and the game bombed. That's why it was received well at first but now remains forgotten and not missed. It decided to turn its back on the fans and the fans in turn did the same to it and the franchise as a whole. Crash has literally died a second time due to Toys For Bob's mishandling.
You know its bad when even hardcore/high-skilled Crash players felt the game was unfairly difficult. Some of those requirements and locations of the relics/gems/boxes were ridiculous. After watching some streamers play Crash 4 those first couple of days it dropped, I'm glad I didn't preorder it.
You've got to be joking. The story is hot garbage. It starts nowhere, it goes nowhere, it's poorly designed, poorly plotted, and full of amateurish mistakes. Example: the mechanic girl (can't remember her name, and she's the _most_ memorable of the characters), when the [default name] gang drives her car off the cliff and she breaks down in melodramatic tears, you have no connection as to why the scene is so melodramatic. It's not until _after_ the car is destroyed that the exposition comes telling you why this was a dramatic scene for the character - when it's too late to make an impact. That exposition should've come several hours earlier. And the entire story has that lack of proper technique, that continually kills the pacing, meaning, or even the point of the story. Not to mention that the "story" - in a franchise all about the drama of being in a violent gang - is instead about the "power of friendship," and not beating the rival gangs (who have no background and no exposition to set them up - they were literally inserted as cannon fodder, not as antagonists).
There's an easy fix to StarFox ... ahem ... STOP MAKING THE FIRST GAME OVER AND OVER! Continue the story or reboot post-first game with other playable characters like Krystal, Miyu, Fay, Katt, Bill, Fara, ETC. (StarFox Horizon is a fan game and it's getting the job done)
The Order 1886 isn't just shitty for being short. The gameplay was just bad...... They went full on for looks and story and barely asked themselfs if it was fun to play
Idk why The Order 1886 gets ragged on for being short when I went through resident evil 5 in 4 hours. Hell I beat the original deadspace in a little over 6 hours. Yes, deadspace is a horror classic and should be treated as such but I liked The Order 1886 over resident evil 5.
Titanfall II was (and still is if you can find a lobby) incredible! Such a shame that EA found their sugar daddy in Apex, or we may have had a chance at Titanfall III 😔 And now even if they did make it it would just be filled with microtransactions and battle pass garbage like every other game like it nowadays
What are the three figurines on the shelf behind you up top to your left? One in the middle looks like Alice from Alice in wonderland, then there's a girl in white with a hand scythe looking thing. And I can't make out the other.
The arm scythe girl is from the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, the middle is Alice from American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, and I can't make out the third
bad controls? check out the play-station version of forsaken 64 then get back to me XD ps the n64 version was way better despite needing an expansion card for story iirc
Never heard of that Crash game, surely the reveal of Spec Ops would have been spoiled if it was marketed differently, how about XBOX & PS2 exclusives get ported to other consoles?!, there are countless games released annually which could be accused of oversaturating the market but they always sell like hot cakes (it's assumes), no idea what double A or triple A means; they're just games at the end of the day & everyone who didn't get the Wii U are idiots
This video seems like it was rushed and done just to check a box. No outro no heart just reading from notecards... idek why i still watch this channel anymore. Jules hard carried
Stop perpetuating the bullshit idea that no one buys hard copies of games anymore. Many people stand by their reasons and choice to still buy physical. There’s plenty reasons every day to still buy physical. Many of them even mentioned in videos like this, whether they realize it or not.
Yeah Jess is here save us from that awful Simon miller video, at least we can count on the gaming channel for a steady stream of good videos, unlike the wrestling channel where it’s Simon miller pretty much 24/7.
Saints Row only failed because it didn't have the main cast in it. Like Johnny Gat, Pierce Washington, Shaundi, Kinzie Kensington and those other people. Enough said.
Saints Row 2022, still hurts me as I was hardcore fan of the first 4, and even had a decent time with 'Gat out of Hell'. Such a shame they made it completely abandon the series sense of humor and gameplay, like she said thus making all of us old fans just sigh and be sad at the shutdown of Violition. Then I also heard the company out maybe the same company as Violition bought THQs IPs of Saints, Darksiders and also Deus Ex off squarernix and all three series were canceled as off 2024. What a shame!! 😢
I believe you pronounced it wrong, it's:
"Shenmuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue!!"
Thanks Jules lol
That was a terrible choice anyways. Sega was a console manufacturer and Software developer...Meaning Shenmue was an in house development, meaning it was an exclusive. Clearly they thought Shenmue was a console saver, so why on Earth would they have ported it to other consoles?...Not to mention most U.S gamers like to just shoot and blow stuff up. They don't like games that are slow paced and make you think. Shenmue was way better than GTA3. But at that point Shenmue couldnt compete with the violence of gta3. Americans don't like to think.
Starlink is and always will be my favorite game. As someone who 100% the game and got a 97 hour safeslot (pls send help) i am just upset that it stopped developing. It had so much potential but the problem Ubisoft had with the game (apart from it being toys-to-life) is the fact that it was made by Ubisoft.
I always thought Guitar Hero Live's biggest mistakes involved its redesigned guitar controller and DLC only being released in streaming form.
Agreed - I always enjoyed the Guitar Hero games and was quite late in joining the hype but so much changed and even the pre-order bonus was unavailable after a set time period after release. Making it so you HAD to stream songs to learn them and couldn't pick and choose tracks you wanted made it wholly disappointing but I don't think it was due to oversaturation.
1:46 Spec Ops The Line returns to a What Culture list!!!!!!!
Not surprised about number 6. I don't recall who said it, but the following quote is appropriate here: "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - try to please everybody."
Titanfall 2 was an exceptional game.
And still is🥲
So sad we probably won't see another sequel. It was just pure fun
Nah it’s trash, like every FPS games out there, the FPS genre shouldn’t even exist everything related to it are all irredeemably terrible.
@@1003JustinLawYou tried
You’re not wrong
Saints rows formula works well in part 3 and 4. The characters has edges, the Story is unhinged and make fun of it by being political incorrect, but still without crossing the line. The reboot ... well, there r no edges at all and they put more work into delivering make up choices for the smooth family thing charcters than delivering interesting characters. It isn't even doomed bad, but at the end not memorable like the former gta clones Saints roow 1 and 2 ... which where greatly mocked in part 4, mayby they go on with the timeline idea of part 4 and mocking this average title too while brining the fun back
If Star Fox Zero offered more control options, such as a Classic Mode where players use the same controlling mechanic from Star Fox 64 3D (from 3DS) and a multiplayer mode in Main Story mode (where Player 1 mainly focuses on controlling/piloting Arwing but also able to shoot enemies at the same time and the rest of the players focuses on shooting enemies), just like Sonic Free Riders, then it would have been a better video game and would sell even more
Spec ops: the line was awesome!
Starlink was a great game, I will stand by that.
Switch version was superior due to Star Fox pack. I still have it and the arwing that came with it. Closest we came to a Star Fox game in a long time.
Great Internet service too when you live in the mountains.
If only the toys shouldn’t be the main tool to use
Graphics don't matter.
I don't play games for the graphical fidelity ... and I could not care less about "photorealistic" ...
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Just make better and more accessible games.
I actually really liked saints row 2022. To be fair it was my first game in the series but I still really liked it
Oof, I'm sorry.
It's sometimes fine to like bad games, but not when you genuinely believe they're good. Therefore I'd suggest you to play older games to get some standards.
I enjoyed it too, but it’s not perfect
It's not really a "Saint's Row" game.
It's more like the publisher wanted to use the name to sell somebody's concept of a "kinder, gentler" gang of friends, built on a 15 yr old engine to save money.
Saint's Row The 3rd is great if you want to see the zany side of the franchise, but Saint's Row 2 has the best story, possibly out of all the open world crime drama subgenre.
Forgot the Crash one even existed 😅
*Jess's* gaming reviews *taste* *good* 🍰
What
WTF?!?
I really want a spec ops remaster. That game was great
Funny enough I literally just beat it 2 days ago. Heard good things about it over the years and wanted to be in the loop. Grabbed it on sale on Xbox awhile back, just got too busy to get to it for awhile.
But totally agree with you. The story was so gripping and I'm not gonna forget it anytime soon. However the controls while still very much playable today, could be tightened up a bit; and graphically it made my eyes bleed with how dated it looks. I feel like modernizing the graphics would make the story hit you in the gut even harder than it already does
@frostbite3820 yeah I miss that era of games. Games like Spec ops would always release with short campaigns, COD and Halo still had good campaigns, my favourite the Transformers cybertron games, now we mostly just get bland open worlds and failed multiplayer
As someone who has played and beat every Saints Row game except the first, honestly I feel like the biggest issue was the story and certain parts of the gameplay loops. It seemed pretty clear who they were making the game for, fans of the third game. Serious yet wacky. The world building was actually really interesting, with the city being a real highlight for the series, and the characters weren’t bad for just starting off. The problem was the story kind of flopped in the latter half, and certain missions for districts were just annoying. The second problem is that it just wasn’t spectacular. It was a good game, don’t get me wrong, but when you’re rebooting a beloved series after driving it off the rails, you need better than just good. You need something great enough that even the hardcore fans at least grumble that it may have something. About the only things that reach that level are world building and most gameplay. Combining that with the sometimes clunky character writing, technical issues, story that crashes towards the end, annoying missions, and overall executive meddling and you’re left with a game that can’t begin to succeed because any good parts are dragged down in the eyes of others by the things they were worried about since they first heard it was a reboot.
Oh, *hell* no.
The Saint's Row reboot was _not_ made for fans of the 3rd game. It was not made for fans of _any_ Saint's Row title.
It was made for people that don't like Saint's Row.
Nor was it a good game, sans license. It was simply a terrible game that would have been average back in 2007.
The characters were all around failures in design and execution. The mechanic girl was the only one salvageable as a potential side character in a real Saint's Row title - as long as there was a different writing team, as the least-boring part of her personality was revealed _after_ it would have been relevant. (A _good_ writer introduces the pivotal background _before_ the emotional hook scene, not after.) The rest of the characters would be stereotypical NPCs that the original gang would run over at a crosswalk.
Gameplay was boring and uninspired. Shooting mechanics were somehow too loose and too stiff at the same time. The story fell flat after the first shootout.
The game was in no way decent or acceptable, not in this or the last console generation.
Volition wanted to make Saint's Row 2.5, but they were overruled by their publisher, who wanted to use the franchise to push a friendlier, less gang-heavy story about "friendship."
@@garyballard179 well I mean what am I supposed to say to that? You’re wrong? You don’t really leave much room for discussion when your whole post is that everything was garbage in a reply to a post about how not everything was garbage. I mean did you even play the game or read my post? I stated that it had problems, one being generic characters, but that’s not different from any other starting out game. Having played Saint’s Row 1 since, I can say that those characters were pretty generic as well. It wasn’t until 2 that they actually became interesting people. If your opinion is that it was completely garbage and mine was that it was flawed with some good or even great points that weren’t enough to outshine the bad, I can’t really say anything except that you’re wrong because you don’t leave any room for any other opinion. I guess I’d say just go back and play one and then play the reboot and actually take the time to explore the world of both. If you still feel that the world building wasn’t any good and that the reboot has no good points at all, then so be it. You have your opinion, I have mine.
@@Torr3697
You can't say anything because I'm right and you don't have an argument against me.
It was a crap game, and even the studio didn't want to make it.
@@garyballard179 I can’t say anything because you don’t have an argument, you just said I’m wrong and it’s garbage. My argument was in the start, I can’t really argue with someone whose just posting that I’m wrong based on their opinion. Or in the words of the great Lebowski, “Well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion man.”
@@Torr3697
I gave a solid argument.
Did you want a twenty paragraph in-depth breakdown of all the technical and writing failures in the title?
Mass Effect Andromeda's was trying to go full open-world. For as much of a dick move as EA made by forcing Bioware to use the Frostbite engine, if ME:A had followed the same basic gameplay model as the second and third games it would have worked absolutely fine. Going full on open-world, to say nothing of the stupidly impractical No Man's Sky-like concept they originally tried to go with, just caused things to fall apart.
Why the heck would they have released their blockbuster game on rival consoles at the time?
EA wanted to kill titanfall 2, thats why they released it in that window
Never forget what they took from us. 😡
And apex legends happened and made more money than titanfall 2
Unbelievably stupid comment
I genuinely will never get over that
Actually, what they did was move the date for Battlefield because they wanted to compete with CoD.
Ironically, had they kept Battlefield's later release date than Titanfall 2 would have probably beaten CoD in sales anyway.
Star Fox Zero also being a remake of a remake didn't do it any favors either.....
I'm in the camp of people who thoroughly enjoyed Immortals of Aveum. Had no interest in the run up to launch but once I picked it up a bit cheaper a few months later I was hooked from start to finish. A shame they overcooked and overcharged for it.
Best musical stages in non-musical games. (Playing Rayman and enjoying every minute of it)
Hop to it, What Culture!
I love Titanfall 2. I played it years after release and still play it at times now!
I wish I had kids so I could've gotten in on the whole toys-to-life fad. Would've loved to have little mini-me's begging and pestering me for new figures.
Spec Ops: The Line. The only 'War Game' I've ever played, and it certainly leaves an Impression! I have never forgotten it.
I loved Starlink. I wish they had been able to make it to work long term. If you get the game on Switch, it’s the best Starfox game in 15 years. (Aka the only Starfox game in 15 years.)
Well I played all the saints row games including gat out of hell that adds a plot point for infinite reboots of the series. That keeps any new saints game they make technically Canonical. Even that Agents of mayhem game...
I do remember Saints Row 2022 being not great, even though I did beat the main story. It did do 1 thing that was original for the series. If you created a female character, she could be completely topless, without putting pasties over her nipples. All the other games would censor the nudity without pasties.
I guess they learned from Cyberpunk 2077, women can be naked. Yes, my female in that game runs around without a shirt as well.
Spec-Ops The Line was an amazing game. They could've made a franchise out of that if they didn't mess up the marketing. A shooter game which heavily focuses on environmental and the psychological harm that war can do to people.
I like to believe the marketing of Spec Ops was part of the concept.
The Shenmue argument is dumb because it doesnt take into account business practices back then. Why would anyone in the late 90s release their 1st party game on a competitors hardware? Theyre all still reluctant to do that these days, but back then it'd have killed the Dreamcast earlier.
If you think about the consoles at the time there wasnt much carryover for a lot of games between eachother and thats just how they got your attention. That carried all the way up to the PS360 era. I appreciate theyre more open to finding business with their competition niw, but back then it was all about bragging rites to our own detriment.
"The Order 1886". They did save content for two more sequels in that game and is why the first game were so short. They probably planned 3 x 5-6 hour games and it failed.
I didn't have problems with the controls in Starfox Zero...Anyway. I completed Titanfall 2, The Order 1886 and Spec-Ops The Line from this list.
As a diehard crash bandicoot fan, 4 is a blast to play. Definitely didn't ask for crash team rumble tho. Really would of loved a 5th game
its not to late for a 5th game
I haven’t played the game but I’ve heard people say that the awful control scheme and motion controls of Star Fox Zero were not actually required and you could (allegedly) switch to traditional controls
The Immortals game is currently a free game of the month for PlayStation Plus. I would say it’s worth that price.
Like I've said the orders 1886 feels and acts like a PS4 launch title/tech demo
Originally the whole Saints Row reboot angle turned me turned me off of the game, but I eventually picked it up and I honestly loved it
Cool story, is Morgan Freeman playing you on the movie?
@@Saddonghussein What are you even on about? 😂
@@MxEuphemia that your story is so amazing than it was already buy from paramount right? Or was it Sony? Don't tell me it was life time?
@@Saddonghussein You seem incredibly easily entertained
To answer your question, depending on what part of the story they're adapting, I'd go with either Yasmin Finney or Laverne Cox
@@Saddonghusseinjudging by your slew of disgruntled comments, you need a hug. Sorry your dad never came back with those smokes, Mr. Hussein..
Man the order was such a fun game it really needed like 10 more hours
Planetside:Arena chased the battle royale fad hard and launched in an oversaturated market. Worse the only people who seemed to know about its existence was the Planetside community, which as one of the only MMOFPS's in existence was the polar opposite type of game. Planetside 2 players hated, and I mean HATED it, and within just a month or two of launching the servers were shut down. As a result, there is unlikely to be a Planetside 3, despite the series being one of the most unique FPS's around.
1:08 £25 or $30 USD, it was $45 here in Australia.
Spec ops was definitely a surprise when I 1st played. I honestly thought it would be like any military shooter. Boy were we wrong 😅
Liked Guitar Hero a lot but i think where Live went wrong is changing the guitar controller. The other one was miles better tbh took me a lot of time to get used to the GH Live one. Thought Warriors of Rock was the best Guitar Hero game tbh. Liked Rock Band as well but 4 was a fail!
I certainly hope Respawn gives us a Titanfall 3 - preferably with minimal input from EA - and it lives up to the hype. Storywise, I wasn't that impressed with Titanfall 2, but in terms of mechanics, the wide arrange of weapons and general tone of the game, I was floored. As far as multiplayer goes, it's still unmatched, imo. Just _that_ good.
i really loved the order.. wish they had continued with it but it was to short for the price
With the benefit of hindsight, how do we think Spec OPs the Line SHOULD have been marketed? In a way where it wouldn't give away it's big twist, but got people interested in playing it?
Psychological horror, or psychological drama. Protecting your twist over telling a good story is a common problem. (I also heard they had to remove the option to not do the terrible thing because people in tests kept... not doing the horrible things and undermined the game. Which if true, may contribute. It was meant to have a choice but people kept being better humans than they expected.)
Shenmue’s mistake was the overbloated Budget. But it was always meant to be dreeamcast’s killer app. Little to no sense in telling people to go buy it on ps2.
Lol you just said what she did
Maybe they should've ported it when Sega went 3rd party.
@@vgtrp No they should have never been only on it
If Sony made a game/s that had to sell double the PS1 to not kill it and they said nope we would kill the company then put it on anyone else is
Yeah, I was alive then, as maybe you were. I think they should have changed tact, as she says.
Immortals of Aveum was.....aight. Not at all bad, but I wouldn't say great. But damn, they REALLY went all in with those graphics. It's almost like TLOU status.
Doesn't help that SBI also worked on it as well
Starlink is awesome, such an amazing story and heaps to do
Sometimes a game is doomed because their developers say the stupidest crap.
I both love and hate The Order:1886. It's just long enough, and cliff-hanger ending, makes me want more, but that'll never happen. It's no Darksiders, after all.
As long as Sega had a console on the market, they weren't going to release one of their games on another console, however when Sega went 3rd party they should've released Shenmue on PS2 and Xbox.
I always wonder what the game plan was for Shenmue in Sega's mind. How did they expect to make their money back on that game with it being Dreamcast-exclusive?
Sega's game plan was that Shenmue would be the ultimate killer app of all time that would sell millions of Dreamcasts on its won.
Why the hell Sega thought a game as bad as Shenmue would be the savior of their dead-on-arrival sinking ship, goes to show how dumb Sega was.
The new Saints Row was a decent game, it just wasn't a Saints Row game.
It wasn't decent one bit idk what you was playing 💀
Not only was it not a Saint's Row game, it was terrible.
It was the Saint's Row equivalent to that pathetic Willy Wonka experience.
what killed crash rumble for me was the non stop spyro content after season 1, i dont care about spyro so seeing crash characters be abandoned after just 1 season gave me no incentive to return to it
Yeah Star fox zero was much harder than it needed to be cause of the controls
I mean no price would save immortals of avenum with current optimization.
the problem with The Order 1886 was that it was marketed as a 'tech demo' to show off what the PS4 was capable of
didnt help that you could beat the game in like 3hrs either
For crash team Rumble it wasn't fatal
I didn't mind titanfall2, i would have liked to see more than 4 titans to pick.
Has the free-to-play model completely destroyed the humble multiplayer title? You know, games like Left 4 Dead that are sold as a complete game, not live service. Just a simple, single purchase of a game you play with friends. I think it has.
Yep.
Why sell a game for $60, when you can hook people in with a "free" marketing tag, then nickel-and-dime them with loot boxes and premium content fees?
Warner Bros just looked at the success of the single player Hogwart's Legacy vs the failure of the live service Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, and decided that turning Hogwart's Legacy 2 into a live service game makes sense. 🤦
when a game is going downhill fast i don't know why developers wouldn't make it free to play
👉Anthem and skull and bones
Spec ops: the line was an amazing game
Crash's modern downfall came from the fact that Crash "4": It's About Time decided to pander to "OG trilogy is the only good games" extremist fans of the franchise by soft-rebooting the timeline, excluding EVERYTHING after Crash 3 from canon. A portion of fans btw that were and always will be just a vocal minority. CTR, Nitro Kart, Tag Team Racing, Bash, Boom Bang, Huge Adventure, N-Tranced, Purple, Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, even the manga if they were even considered part of the main timeline I'm not sure, all of it gone so we could get a not-at-all funny joke one-liner in the game about only defeating Cortex 3 times. It diminished the value of the entire brand.
It didn't help that in terms of difficulty, progression, visuals and design the game was a complete bastardization of everything that came before it while also featuring by far the least entertaining and least engaging story in the franchise.
Crash "4" shouldn't have been a soft-rebooting Crash 3 2, it should have been a Twinsanity 2. Should have evolved THAT formula, picked up where THAT story left off. That's why they fumbled and the game bombed. That's why it was received well at first but now remains forgotten and not missed. It decided to turn its back on the fans and the fans in turn did the same to it and the franchise as a whole.
Crash has literally died a second time due to Toys For Bob's mishandling.
You know its bad when even hardcore/high-skilled Crash players felt the game was unfairly difficult. Some of those requirements and locations of the relics/gems/boxes were ridiculous. After watching some streamers play Crash 4 those first couple of days it dropped, I'm glad I didn't preorder it.
Honestly I enjoyed Saints Row 2022! Excellent character creation and entertaining main story.
You've got to be joking.
The story is hot garbage. It starts nowhere, it goes nowhere, it's poorly designed, poorly plotted, and full of amateurish mistakes.
Example: the mechanic girl (can't remember her name, and she's the _most_ memorable of the characters), when the [default name] gang drives her car off the cliff and she breaks down in melodramatic tears, you have no connection as to why the scene is so melodramatic. It's not until _after_ the car is destroyed that the exposition comes telling you why this was a dramatic scene for the character - when it's too late to make an impact. That exposition should've come several hours earlier.
And the entire story has that lack of proper technique, that continually kills the pacing, meaning, or even the point of the story. Not to mention that the "story" - in a franchise all about the drama of being in a violent gang - is instead about the "power of friendship," and not beating the rival gangs (who have no background and no exposition to set them up - they were literally inserted as cannon fodder, not as antagonists).
I know I am in the vast minority, but I love Star Fox Zero. I understand why people dislike it, but I love the controls and levels.
There's an easy fix to StarFox ... ahem ... STOP MAKING THE FIRST GAME OVER AND OVER! Continue the story or reboot post-first game with other playable characters like Krystal, Miyu, Fay, Katt, Bill, Fara, ETC. (StarFox Horizon is a fan game and it's getting the job done)
The Order 1886 isn't just shitty for being short. The gameplay was just bad...... They went full on for looks and story and barely asked themselfs if it was fun to play
I love the order 1886
so glad i subbed to your twitch
Idk why The Order 1886 gets ragged on for being short when I went through resident evil 5 in 4 hours. Hell I beat the original deadspace in a little over 6 hours. Yes, deadspace is a horror classic and should be treated as such but I liked The Order 1886 over resident evil 5.
Aw man, Titanfall 3 WHEN
Agree. Crash Team Rumble should have been f2p.
Titanfall II was (and still is if you can find a lobby) incredible! Such a shame that EA found their sugar daddy in Apex, or we may have had a chance at Titanfall III 😔
And now even if they did make it it would just be filled with microtransactions and battle pass garbage like every other game like it nowadays
What are the three figurines on the shelf behind you up top to your left? One in the middle looks like Alice from Alice in wonderland, then there's a girl in white with a hand scythe looking thing. And I can't make out the other.
The arm scythe girl is from the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, the middle is Alice from American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, and I can't make out the third
Well, I'm glad I got Immortals of Aveum for free
"There is a slither of hope for titanfall 3". Don't do that, don't give me hope
By the time another titan fall game comes out, it'll be an entirely different team at respawn.
1.Suicide squad. For existing.
i enjoyed SR22
Good video!
Saints Row gets so much grief, but its really a good game
Saint's Row 1, yes.
Saint's Row 2022, *no.*
A 69 joke, Jess is the best!
Man, Shenmue is big as is, but if the game was ported to PS2 and Xbox, it would've been a giant.
bad controls? check out the play-station version of forsaken 64 then get back to me XD ps the n64 version was way better despite needing an expansion card for story iirc
I got the immortals game for $9 when Xbox mis priced it.
Loved Spec Ops & No we knew exactly what SR 2022 was and that’s why nobody bought it
Never heard of that Crash game, surely the reveal of Spec Ops would have been spoiled if it was marketed differently, how about XBOX & PS2 exclusives get ported to other consoles?!, there are countless games released annually which could be accused of oversaturating the market but they always sell like hot cakes (it's assumes), no idea what double A or triple A means; they're just games at the end of the day & everyone who didn't get the Wii U are idiots
Titanfall 2 is great :-)
This video seems like it was rushed and done just to check a box. No outro no heart just reading from notecards... idek why i still watch this channel anymore. Jules hard carried
The new saints row is not as bad as everyone tries to make it seem.
It's _worse._
“Trying to please everyone…and pleasing no one.” That’s how I feel about AAA gaming in general.
Stop perpetuating the bullshit idea that no one buys hard copies of games anymore. Many people stand by their reasons and choice to still buy physical. There’s plenty reasons every day to still buy physical. Many of them even mentioned in videos like this, whether they realize it or not.
wtf is number 2? looks like a cheap chinese cash grab.
I can tell you making the game for Twitter doesn't help please gamers.
Look at the saints row no one knew came out.
Bring bk ash
Yeah Jess is here save us from that awful Simon miller video, at least we can count on the gaming channel for a steady stream of good videos, unlike the wrestling channel where it’s Simon miller pretty much 24/7.
Saints Row only failed because it didn't have the main cast in it. Like Johnny Gat, Pierce Washington, Shaundi, Kinzie Kensington and those other people. Enough said.
Saints Row 2022, still hurts me as I was hardcore fan of the first 4, and even had a decent time with 'Gat out of Hell'. Such a shame they made it completely abandon the series sense of humor and gameplay, like she said thus making all of us old fans just sigh and be sad at the shutdown of Violition. Then I also heard the company out maybe the same company as Violition bought THQs IPs of Saints, Darksiders and also Deus Ex off squarernix and all three series were canceled as off 2024. What a shame!! 😢
Saints row wasn't bad
Yes it was
Wouldn’t have played crash team rumble even if it was free and I’ve played every crash games extensively. No one wants that live service rubbish