10 WORST AAA Games of All Time
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- Some games spend a lot of money and take a long time to make but still completely miss the mark.
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0:00 Intro
0:38 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
2:39 Alone in the Dark (2008)
5:10 APB
7:18 Redfall
9:31 Driver 3 - Driv3r
11:09 Lair
13:03 Medal of Honor: Warfighter
14:12 Umbrella Corps
17:06 Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
18:44 Babylon's Fall (2022) - Hry
I feel like this was inspired by Modern Warfare 3…
Redfall too
100%
Has to be
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there’s definitely worse games
I grew up playing Driv3r. It was the first “open world” driving game I played. I have such fond memories of it because I definitely didn’t know any better.
i was exactly the same, being younger than 13, and only using it to cheat and crash into other drivers or see how long you can avoid police definitely helped :D
man i was searching for this comment, i remember jumping on my bed after buying this game after knowing that this is alike gta stuff and you know what ? driver 3 didnt disappoint me bacause of its graphics , i was 8 back then now im 18.
but they atck ur eyes with the gta experience and say u played dark souls.
there were more interior environments in this than people remember, and on the free roam mode you could get in them. such a clunky game but i also have fond memories
Same😂
Can't add Skull & Bones to the list; It's a AAAA game.
Which is bs because it is worse than just about any game(excluding et of course)
You wouldn't understand until you get the purple cannon @@Sk83rNinja
I worked on A.P.B. and, OH BOY, it was doomed from inception. Reason was, the idea wasn't terrible, but the execution was guesswork. The tech of it was extremely confused, all the server side controlled functions were deeply confused, and worst of all, it never had a feasible monetisation strategy. Died pretty much on launch and the studio closed immediately after. A sad, but deeply educational moment in my career.
I loved playing APB in its early days, was quirky and different and was amazing by to customize my cars and characters. I loved the Vegas G20 (Cuda/Challenger) in the game I genuinely bought multiple in ReLoaded and made them all different. Great concept
I played this game so much! It was really competitive and fun to play with friends.
Man I loved APB when it first came out, it was a lot of fun and I've got friends today that I met while playing the game. I appreciate your work on it because it was something I really enjoyed spending time in.
Most likely you did :)
I played it back when it went free in 2011. It had its problems but there were some really fun ideas. But the games still around today with a pretty dedicated community, so Id say it was successful in its own way.
Funny part of the "games as a service" push is like 90% of them seem to end up bad because of how developers just don't enjoy making them. Bioware with Anthem, Arkane with Redfall, Platinum with Babylon's Fall, and I am sure there are plenty more that devs never spoke up about. Half-hearted games with huge budgets and massive teams are usually worse than cheap games made by 3 dudes in a basement because those 3 dude are actually passionate about their project.
Art vs Corporatism
I don't even see how Redfall is a GaaS. There's no microtransactions, ongoing updates or events or anything.
@@werewookiee It's supposed to have those but it crapped the bed the moment it was out the door and no-one was playing it, so why put any of that work in when no-one is around to even buy that stuff.
nailed it
Yep. Sad to see Sony is doubling down on GaaS with their next in line 1st party games smh
I remember playing Deathly Hallows 1 and 2.
In Part 1, you could run through levels without stopping.
In Part 2, you could finish the game almost as fast as watching the film.
Major LJN vibes from hollywood games still
Is it really a AAA game though?
@@DrViilidefinitely not
I'm nostalgic enough for them. Are they good games? No. Are they the "worst AAA games of all time"? I don't think so.
Both were terrible games but I remember playing both when they came out and Part 2 as bad as it was was at least really fun albeit really easy and short unlike Part 1 which was super boring and super easy. Both were still better than the Goblet of Fire game though thats for sure.
We need a "The worst AAAA games"
MOH: Warfighter. There were some rough edges but the idea of having a comrade with a mic being your wingman in combat was a good one. It could have led to friends being made and friends playing together for each other. That being the best hope for online gaming.
Warfighter was significantly better than the rest of the games on this list
Im genuinely surprised Anthem wasn't mentioned. But what else can be said about it that hasn't been told.
Because it's not really bad per se, just immensely disappointing.
Too easy.
@@JABRIEL251it’s BAD too. Taken on it’s own is like 5 outta 10z
@@MrSpartan993 5 out of 10 is average. Not the worst.
How would a 5 out of 10 game make the list of top 10 worst games ever when there are hundreds of games...thousands that are 1's, 2's, 3's and 4's? @@MrSpartan993
I remember having decent amount of fun in Driv3r, but I was also a little kid that didn't know a great game from a bad one. I have real good memories with it haha
I remember having fun with all kinds of bad games as a kid, we simply didn't really know any better, and hadn't developed a proper sense for what is and isn't good yet. Hell, I enjoyed Seek and Destroy when I was around 12 years old, and that game suuuucks.
Any bad game beats doing homework 😅
For me, that game was duke nukem forever
the only criteria is if you enjoyed it really, Driver 3 was one of my favourites growing up but this guy just doesnt like it
@@Xeonortsame here. My first computer was a Spectrum, followed by an Amiga. Games were just thrown out by the dozen. Being a kid with very little money most of the ones I played were budget games that cost £1.99 because I couldn't afford any other ones. The rest were copied tapes/disks that were just handed round at school. I played so many objectively crap games but being little I still enjoyed them because I had no frame of reference. I couldn't afford computer magazines to check out reviews if I wanted to actually play any, they were more expensive than the actual games.
Medal of Honor Warfighter’s multiplayer was great, my friends and I sunk a lot of hours into it, the shooting mechanics were pretty good too
Yeah I have some really fond memories playing it circa 2013
It's a decent by today's standards. I know people have nostalgia for it now, but when it came out it was horribly generic. The market was over saturated with extremely similar FPS games at the time.
doesnt deserve to be on a list like this at al lol the market was killed with similar games but it did it better.
I'm surprised Haze wasn't on this list. So sad what happened to Rare and the many gold standard games they came out with. I think (at that time) they modernized Timesplitters from Goldeneye and made a gem of a first person shooter. They are missed...
If you are talking Free Radical Design, they still exist, but now they are called Dambuster Studios (Homefront: The Revolution, Dead Island 2, Crysis 3 multiplayer).
I wanted to like Haze so bad. I remember being so excited for it as a kid
Yes
Haze could have been good if it wasn't a "Halo killer".
I used to be OBSESSED with Driv3r as a kid, I would spend hours driving around. Never played any of the missions, just used to drive around the whole time!
I went on police chases and then used the replay system to edit a police chase scene.
@Varasalvi2 that's so cool, I feel like I may have done similar things! I know I used to find carparks and park as many cars as I could there 🤣
Bruh I got one of the driver games when I was like 7 and couldn't make it out the tutorial.
@@McYeroc haha that'll be driver 1! I skipped that one 👀🤣
@@Taylor23-oj7yea I never touched the series after, need for speed was more to my skill level.
The reason the soundtrack for Alone in the Dark (2008) is so good is because it's composed by none other than Olivier Deriviere himself. He also did the scores for both A Plague Tale games, Remember Me, Vampyr, and more recently Dying Light 2.
The Obscure soundtrack is a hidden gem too!
crazy such talent was wasted on such a piss poor game.
it may be good on it's own but it never really fit the atmosphere of the game. As a soundtrack composer this should be your goal.
His score for Streets of Rage 4 is mind blowing.
Am I the only person who enjoyed playing the game?
I’m surprised that Brink is never brought up in failure videos. That game was so highly marketed and I swear almost a year after release they were being sold used at EB Games for $0.99.
I actually remember being kinda interested in Brink too, I played the demo back in the day, the movement system was actually a really goddamn cool idea, it's a real shame it folded so fast
The best part about Brink for me is that it was released less than a year after the launch of Fallout: New Vegas. In the DLC "Honest Hearts", there is a perk called "Fight The Power!" that shows the Vault Boy with a bandana and molotov in the same pose as the Brink cover photo.
Both Brink and Honest Hearts was released in May 2011.
Wow i forgot about brink. It really was so bad
I've gotta say, the intro to driv3r and the various ways of trying to say the name got me good, i had to rewatch it several times and it was just as funny each time, 👏 kudos 👏
Redfall makes me so sad. Not really because it's a bad game--you see bad games all the time--but because it destroyed that Arkane studio. Even if they go back to making the types of games they're known for and do amazingly, like was said in the video, 70% of the staff who made those amazing games in the past left! So I don't see much hope for future Arkane games either. It's infuriating that corporate executives turned this incredibly talented, popular and profitable studio into a husk of its former self that probably won't recover just to chase some stupid live service pipe dream.
And to add some awful insult to that injury, the corporate execs won't miss a single paycheck or a single ounce of stress over their job security after such a horrible, misguided and greedy decision - while the 70% of Arkane literally left their livelihoods and may or may not ever find an equal or better replacement in the industry. I hope, at least, that other studios immediately reached out with offers as soon as they heard about this... But what we really need is for corporate meatheads to be held accountable for shit like this.
As soon as I saw the announcement for Redfall and that it was Left 4 Dead, but vampires. I had 0 interest. However, learning it was a GAS makes it even worse.
still sony fans wants it on their platform. funny how a game no body ask for is gettin asked for 🤣🤣
I feel bad because their later good titles like Dishonored 2 and Pray were commercial failures.
Sadder still, they could of done an amazing game using 'as-a-service' monetization doing rpg sim mechanics which is what they were good at. Arx Fatalis with near endless floors would of been great.
I will say with MoH Warfighter, I did admire the graphics of the cutscenes. They were really good for that time.
I thought Warfighter was okay, though the 2010 reboot was better. Honestly, MoH 2010 is a very underrated game.
Warfighter was a good game, the multiplayer was actually well done. The amount of guns to choose from was nice to and the maps were well designed ecspecially the Novi Grad Warzone
2010 had great campaign, but shit multiplayer. Warfighter is opposite
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The multi-player was perfect blend of BF and cod
Honorable mention: MW3 2023
APB was helluva fun to mess around for hour or two with two last friends after work. Going full on shoplifting on my packer with meshuggah out loud. Also I LOVED the "stickers" system where you could recreate almost any graphic piece on square canvas and sell it. I remember I got good sells on decepticon logo which was on each one of my obtained vehicles.
In regards to Medal of Honor Warfighter, I honestly think that if they got that game right and it became popular to act as the go between for BF and COD with it's gameplay that EA/DICE wouldn't have messed up the BF games in the years after trying to catch up with COD again
I really enjoyed Warfighter for a time, until the player base shrank and the only people left were the hardcore fans which we just flat out better than me and highly leveled compared to me as I was bouncing between many game. I think this really did hit EA/Dice hard like you said, now we have this janky operator system in BF instead of just classes
It was supposed to be a special forces simulator…. Which I think it did was it was suppose to be. As a fun game could have been better
I had a great time with Warfighter for many years. Their Home Run game mode is still my favorite game mode of any FPS to date. The community grew smaller in year leading up to the PS4 dropping but you could still get lobbies even after that. It was refreshing at the time to get something that wasn't just another identical BF and CoD shooter.
I think it's a lot more complex than that honestly, after seeing a few vids mentioning Warfighter specifically while talking about Medal of Honor. To start with, MoH had its time, which has long passed, Warfighter was just too late, it was literally dated on launch, no matter how good or not it may be. As for CoD, they haven't changed in literal years, it's not that Battlefield was trying to catch up with them, EA and their condom DICE basically just doubled down on chasing 'get richer quicker' schemes which made every Battlefield game worse from there on, starting with the disastrous launch of 4
The thing that stuck with me about redfall was that you needed to have a stake on a gun to finish the vampires. You telling me no one thought, hey, why don’t we just have it be part of melee. Human, vampire, jam them in the chest. Nope, have to have a gun with a stake on it like it’s world war 2.
I've also seen movies with stake shooting weapons lol. But yeah, put a steak in the buttstock or anywhere a sharp point about can go lol
@@FRANK45CASTLE To be fair, they do have guns that do fire stakes, and they are one shot kills like you would expect.
@@Secretz316 Good, I would expect that for sure. But when all else fails, gotta have a melee of some sort. Look at the COG in gears of war, chainsaws on the machine guns.
I'm so glad that you mentioned the score of Alone in The Dark. After all these years that is the one thing that stills stays with me from playing that game. I even listen to it when I study.
I swear every 2 out of 5 videos you upload, I end up buying a game on the list. Or at least putting it on my wish list. Seeing some comments in this thread saying the channel just churns out content mindlessly, or that the concept for the video is kind of a stretch.
(current like to dislike is 5.2k:502, eleven hours old with 100k views)
Both of those points may be true, but I don't care. Your videos are digestible and informative. I always get something out of it, and I can binge a few eps that I skipped over upon release.
I haven't subscribed to video game journalism since the era of physical magazines(Xbox Magazine and Nintendo Power, also in tandem with any other VG media like cheat books and strategy gides). But what you have going on here feels like lightning in a bottle to me. So many videos, I find a game new to me, or remember a forgotten old one.
Looking forward to the next upload, thx
Also this video sold me on Mafia DE, and City of Gangsters.
The music in Alone in the Dark, the car chase scene, and a couple of other moments were great. The rest, not so much, especially the combat. Still remember it fondly, though
The car never stayed on the road for me on the PC version, ps2 Ver was kinda okay
The fire mechanics was something definitely ahead of its time...but then far cry 2 came out the same year and did it better anyways. 😂
Alone in the dark OST was way better than it had any right to be.
@@RIlianP I loved the ps2 version main menu theme lol, I think the PCs ver is different
PC version was bug-filled mess, you couldn't play for more then like 10 minutes before something bug out. The car chase scene in particular was unplayable, you would fall into the ground (aka out of map layout), etc.
Sadly I think this series will never be a thing anymore, even the recent remake was mediocre at best. It's helluva lot better then previous few games, but it's still mediocre RE clone at best.
The thing about Babylon's Fail is that it had a gameplay trailer in 2019 with much better graphics where it looked like a normal Platinum game with smooth combat, then it got reannounced in 2021 as an online game with gameplay showing blurry graphics and sluggish combat. Maybe there was a forced change of direction in 2020?
Despite sonic ‘06 being bad, I have extremely fond memories of this game as a child I loved every aspect of the game
This game wasn't bad imo. My mom loved all things Sonic and when she passed I buried a game with her❤❤🧡💙💙
I personally love Driv3r. That game was horribly fun.
Medal of honor warfighter is one of my favorites back then.. It felt realistic for the time.
I bring the modern combat MoH games up all the time. I loved how the campaign felt like real life small team missions and the multiplayer you had to be smarter than W keying everywhere
Warfighter was great
Same here. The campaign is great. It's underated for me.
It's absolutely terrible, the development was an utter disaster and it's the one game on my resume I'm glad that the management was spiteful enough to not credit me properly for working on.
Tragically it could have been great, we had an awesome set of preproduction levels running in Unreal before the switch to frostbite, but EA has a terrible habit of handing over control of talented teams to people who have zero business being in charge
I actually kinda liked the story mode and the buddy system in multiplayer…was super fun with a friend but sucked solo
Damn, this vid unlocked some repressed memories from my pre-teen years. I picked up most of these games from Family video in middle school. So many dissapointing weekends from these dumpster fires.
Rip family video
Dude nothing worse than renting a game only for it to be shit and you stuck with it for a bit 😂
@@jacobcraft123 Agreed man! I’d take it back for online marketplaces anyday.
Before Blockbuster was canned in Canada, they had this deal where you basically paid them ~$30/month and you could infinitely rent games from them.
It was the physical version of the Game Pass now that I think of it, and boy did I save money not buying quite a few of these stinkers. Say what you want about Call of Duty, when you play enough ~2010 military shooters you realize why Call of Duty was always on top. It was one of the few FPS games that really felt amazing to shoot guns in apart from Battlefield. You'd need Crysis or Farcry to get similar gunplay on console.
Everything else felt like clunky pea-shooters. Everything was "cheap" and "off".
This makes me think of 'Black Sheep' games. Those games within a series/franchise that stand out for all the wrong reasons that we either remember all too well or forgot too easily
I had such high hopes for APB. Like it was basically gonna be Saints Row online. You didn't have to be a cop or thug, you could be a fashion designer or other things that would be considered "crafting jobs." As a gamer who's big on character creation and dress-up, I had to heed the call. What I stepped into was a half-baked glitchfest with a playerbase that makes Chernobyl seem like a resort destination. Imagine an entire mob of kids with tourettes. That was the average experience when I logged in. Played for about a week and deleted it.
I actually liked the concept for Umbrella Corps and I actually did want a resi style multiplayer shooter... the problem was that the shooter gameplay itself was bloody terrible. It was like they asked a bunch of people who have never made a shooter or seen a shooter to make one based on description alone.
Yeah I actually bought it because I liked the style and idea behind it.....terrible decision😂
Being a huge dragon kid, I unironically LOVED Lair. I played the shit out of it back in the day (I also had like a total of 4 games so not much choices lol) I remember beating it quite a few times. As messed up as it was, it's nostalgic for me
I wasn't a dragon kid and I loved Lair too.
I wasn't a kid, and had a couple of decades of gaming/hundreds of games under my belt, and I enjoyed Lair too. It wasn't actively bad, and the motion control for *steering* the dragon felt natural. Steering is an analog action, so analog controls felt right. What felt truly awful was the 180 and the boost. Those were digital actions, and most certainly should have been buttons, not a poorly recognized motion gesture that would often interpret a boost as a 180 and vice versa. (Seriously, the last thing I want when I want to go fast is to TURN AROUND)
It bothered me to no end that when they "fixed" the motion controls they only changed the steering, which was the only part that worked fine. They even had two buttons that weren't being used, and could have been boost and 180!
lol, apparently I'm still mad about it :P
I loved lair to. I was actually able to carry the profile icon from lair all the way to my ps5
I remember the controls in Alone in the Dark making it so difficult to perform combat. As seen in the video the swords swiping was so awkward and the enemies were so spongy. Needless to say I didn’t finish that game. As a kid it was a sad waste of my hard earned money!
As an old man who enjoyed the heck out of the original Alone in the Dark as a kid, I had really high hopes for the remake.
I recall a patch for Lair coming out that made it so you could control your dragon with the sticks instead of motion controls, but I don't recall how well it worked.
I love it when Falcon gets to roast
For example, I appreciate that he stuck to saying "Driv-three-are" for the entire segment. 😅
Woah... I see your comments all the time on sumo videos! Crazy to randomly see you here, fellow sumo fan!
I actually loved that sonic game as a kid. I played it at my friends house and had never played an open world game before, so I thought it was absolutely amazing
Just supporting the fact that kids are dumb, inexperienced, and will be entertained by bad products almost as easily as good ones.
Guess it depends, though. Even at the tender age of 9, I knew Superman 64 was a raging pile of garbage.
@@sparkingconduit it was more probably the fact that I really loved sonic at the time and had never played an open world game. Also, we just don’t have as high of standards. That doesn’t mean we’re stupid.
The rant about the harry potter game made me flash back to Theif. I remember going through the whole game and didnt realize there were upgrades for your tools and such. You didnt really need them if you played it like first person Tenchu.
I had a friend who thought APB was the greatest thing since sliced bread. In fact, he paid for 3 years of subscription time up front within a week of it going live. Only for the game to be shut down within a month or two.
You should farm your friend for easy cash if they are so easily parted from it.
@@cattysplatThat friend was a huge GTA fan, bearing in mind that GTA was still a PS2 franchise primarily at the time. You wouldn't believe how angry he got when the servers shut down, and he couldn't get a refund for his 3 years of game time, paid for up front.
@@faerieknight2298WHAT?! They shut down servers and didn't even refund people that paid for more than a month? Did they not get sued by their customers?
@@why_tho_ Game time sales are typically "all sales are final", with "no refunds" being somewhere in the fine print too. Especially if you pay for it via time cards (which were big at the time). If you're dumb enough to pay for 3 years of subscription time to a fledgling MMO up front, and the game doesn't even last a few months... That's all on you.
@@faerieknight2298this. Even when your platform offers refunds (steam) and the product says "no refunds" you will be time/permanent banned.
Happened to people with the elder scrolls online and buying multiple months, only playing 1 and then refund just to realize, your eso account was suspended.
The reason I love your page guys is cause you bring me back to the G4TV days. Those born in the 90s know what I’m talking about, nostalgia at its finest 🥂
99/100 is still a fraction so they weren't wrong
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Pros: Looks amazing if blinking rapidly
Cons: You probably are going to hate the hard-easy learning curve of sniper magic
4:06 Alone in the Dark
Pros: Solid Difficulty Curve and psychological jungle gym experience.
Cons: By the time you get to this game, you are too desensitized by modern standards to take the production fear-value seriously (horror craze era product)
7:00 APB
Pros: Takes itself seriously. Has a lot of customization, including custom designed music and audio bytes.
Cons: Microtransactions. . . and temporary purchases (all shop items)
9:09 Redfall
Pros: It's a badass supernatural shooter.
Cons: It will remind you of other games. Not in a good way.
10:39 Driv3r
Pros: It has funny multiplayer physics.
Cons: We couldn't pass the 1st game's tutorial. Sorry.
12:55 Lair
Pros: It looks amazing (texture).
Cons: It looks horrible (animation).
13:30 Medal of Honor
Pros:
Cons: EA Games
Umbrella Corps **No comment**
Sonic 06 **No comment**
Babylon's Fall **No comment**
Have a nice day!
I did actually enjoyed Alone in the Dark back when it came out)
Behind all the junk, it had a lot of interesting systems and ideas, which i would not mind seeing return to survival horror games of today.
Just reiterated and much improved
Seriously. I loved the parts that were basically open world survival horror in Central Park. Breaking into cars to look for items and drive around a bit, how you could look like under the sun visor was a really nice touch, a lot of nooks and crannies to explore. It was great. But yeah like he said, over ambitious is the best way to describe it. It tried to do so much that no one thing was really polished. But I feel like if they gave it one more shot they could really nail it the next time.
Yeah! The game had too much good ideas in terms of concept, but not executed in the best way. One example is, I remember being so anxious trying to start a car with the cables, and get put out of there through a window because of the monsters demon/zombie guys. I can't remember a game doing that, commonly you can read the map or doing other actions, without interruptions from the bad guys, well that's not the intention in Alone in The Dark buddy.
There were so many mechanics I found very interesting too.
You could duct tape a bottle of petrol with glowsticks, flares and boxes of bullets for extra storage space. You could also ducttape medical spray and deodorant too for more space also.
Then you can pour some fluid on your magazine to make fire bullets and then put rags on the bottles to use a molotov.
You could even remove the rags at any point in case you needed a bandage in an emergency.
If you threw a bottle that had a box of bullets attached to it this would take an improvised molotov into a freaking hand grenade with 9mm shrapnel and blow your enemies to bits.
fr. when i played it as a kid, it was different than re,silent hill, fear, etc. its hard to go back and play it now because it is so bad but at the time, i remember it being good.
I'm totally agree with you @@Alesanahxc
I almost thought this video was here to mock my childhood 😂 Because I and other kids alway fought to play that Harry potter game in Spur when I was little and Alone in the dark was my first horror game and because I was still little I was too scared to play it up to a certain point because that when the demons come😅
I can confirm that Alone in the dark is a scary game when your little.😂
Horrifying as a kid😂
Haha I had a similar experience with mass effect 3. The set pieces are sick and the plot was high stake! I didn't care much for the lack of branching story because hell I only got 2 computer hours per week anyway.
My favorite part of Umbrella Corps is the fact that the characters all hold their weapons right up against their right cheek when firing them to ensure without a doubt that they will blow their own eardrums out with each pull of the trigger.
Honestly I loved Alone in The Dark. The ONLY downside was how... Kinda bare the Story holding it together was? The melee was a bit hard to get used to but felt great to get a hold of. The partial Open world was fun to run around in. And the simple inventory was enough. Really I wish the game was longer. But that ending. God it was such a huge 'MEH'
I think everyone should play it at least once. It's so unique in its horribleness, there hasn't really been another game like it.
Honestly, I didn’t have high expectations for alone in the dark. But it actually surprised me. It had a lot of things going bad but during that time in gaming it was a step in the right direction for features and animations. Think if they would have spent more time refining things it would have been a modest 7.
I'm glad they're remaking it.
Agreed. Tbh I thought the whole having to blink thing was kinda cool. Weird, and a little cumbersome at times but cool nonetheless. Also combining elements with weapons to make upgraded versions like adding lighter fluid to your bullets to make fire rounds was actually really cool.
Disagree on Alone in the Dark being miserable as well. The game was extremely atmospheric and unique. Yeah, the controls were clunky and inventory management was troubling (especially in the endgame when you realize the entire stockpile of loot on the map is limited), but the physics were years ahead. The whole game feels like you're in the world of The Darkness, except you're just a bystander on the path of Jackie and just trying to survive.
I really liked it as well
Hellgate: London could be on this list. It was hyped to insane levels, from former Blizzard North developers who had made Diablo II. It had Weta Works statues, so much hype, and it ended up killing Flagship Studios. Of course, a lot of that was caused by NCSoft, but still, it didn't end well.
I put some much time into that game wanting it to be good.
Make no mistake, a large part of the blame also lay squarely on the shoulders of the creative director. The game was a tonal nightmare. The opening cinematic is dark, gritty, and emotional, and then you jump into the game and the first NPC's you encounter are all spouting memes. The dissonance was staggering.
It was fun but extremely limited. It was like Borderlands before Borderlands existed, but without the comedy aspect or unique weapons. Only so many times you can grind mindless monsters for tiny stat increases.
Tabula Rasa comes to mind too.
It wasn't bad. It just did not meet expectations at all.
I remember APB Reloaded on PC. It was fun! If im not mixing up games they had this physical hangout area lobby when not in games and I would run to the stereo to play Dimmu Borgir or Meshuggah lol. We had a good time chatting about language learning once.
Driv3r was my first intro to the series and I've never played a driver game since.
I thought warfighter was a great game recently replayed it and thought it held up well, i cant remember if it was Warefighter or MoH before but it got rinsed in the media for having the enemy side named 'taliban' in multiplayer was calls for a mass boycott so they changed them to OPFOR. Was a great mutiplayer.
this is what I was thinking. I loved that multi-player. staying close to your buddy for extra ammo and I think healing as well made for a powerful mechanic that encouraged team play. reminded me a lot of army of two.
It was the 2010 game that originally had the Taliban listed as the enemy in MP. Other than that mistake, it was a pretty good shooter.
I played Lair for like a day, didn't mind it but I found it pretty tough. There's an early mission where you're supposed to be protecting this barge on a river, and you got a different score based on how damaged the barge is, and I just couldn't keep the damned thing in one piece. Doesn't help that, if there's an upgrade system to make your dragon more powerful, I wasn't there yet. I do love the idea of flying around on the back of a dragon so I probably gave Lair more of a shot than it earned.
I will say one thing that could make a dragon flying sim awesome; set it in modern times. Let me fly that dragon down main street NYC and blow up cars and burn down buildings. You will make a zillion god-damned dollars.
Falcon derisively saying “Driv, three-r” gets me every time 😂
Sheesh I remember being so excited for Lair because I love dragons. I was 8 years old when I played that game. I remember being so enthralled by the concept of being able to ride a dragon. It was such a fantasy for me at the time. The game is atrocious but 8 Y/O me thought it was the best thing ever. The good ole days 😢
I was such a die hard Medal of Honor fan as a kid and I enjoyed early Call of Duty games as well but I was so hyped when I heard MOH was coming back, and then SO disappointed when I realised it was just a COD clone going after some of that dollar. I still go back and play 2007's MOH:Airbourne every few years, fantastic game for those who might have checked out with the series by then.
Absolutely LOVED when CoD & MoH were younger lol. Lan parties with headphones on sneaking around in MoH:AA and CoD2
Really would like to see the Driver series rebooted and do the third one right. Loved the first 2. And liked the original Medal of Honor games, and Brothers in Arms. If we had more competition in war franchises maybe CoD would get back to actually making great games
There's totally room for a good driver game. Maybe not a gta clone though
Rumors says Watch Dogs started as a new Driver game. And, sadly, WD went downhill just as much. Ubisoft owns the right to it but they don't really care about the games they make, is just a bunch of cash grabs.
It's kind of a pain in the ass to get it to run proper in the current day and age, but Driver did release a game after the failed one: Driver Parallel Lines. It's an absolute masterpiece, I've replayed it countless times, and it's on Steam! I highly recommend it.
Also, the Soundtrack in game has some gems from artists like Bowie, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blondie, etc.
I played Redfall for about 5 days straight when it first came out cause I've been looking for a online coop game for a while.
I STILL have yet to finish the final two missions.
Great video per usual! I'm surprised Anthem wasn't #1 much less on the list lol
I loved Alone in the Dark. I guess thats an unpopular opinion... driving through new york while everything is collapsing and blowing up is one of my favorite set pieces ive ever played.
I totally agree. I loved the music that played too
I think nostalgia plays a big part in my opinion, though. I just remember being blown away by some of the different concepts and mechanics at the time.
Clouded by nostalgia lol
The Wii version was god awful and the marketing was super misleading! Thanks to that game, I no longer preorder a game until I read or watched a review first!
Yeah and the frustration if you drive into that huge hole in the ground. Underrated game for sure.
we need a new list of best games of all time
They would have to do highest rated because “best game” depends on who you talk to
@Drequan don't do anything like IGN, please.
@@Drequan That always ends up as a popularity contest and A LOT of bad games are really popular. So yeah, no.
Well, if they end up doing the video you can just not watch it. That seems to work wonders for me.
can't agree with you more
I watched this video 7 days from release, and now 10 terrible games are gonna crawl out of my TV and force me to play them,
I had such good memories of driv3r from when I was younger, but recently went and played it again now and I can’t believe I ever enjoyed playing it in the first place.
I went back and played it recently aswel and i actualy still enjoyed it
Lets Go, Gameranx Consistency is unmatched!!!
I think the best thing about all the Sonic 06 hate that I regularly see is that my entire memory of that game as an 8 year old is incredibly positive and I remember absolutely loving it. I refuse to play it again now because I don't wanna ruin my memories of having as much fun as i did in that game
Trust what everyone says. It’s NOT good and it’s aged like milk filled with maggots.
(Oh dear...) In defense of Redfall, most of the haters didn't play it or bought it and refunded immediately just to leave a negative review. 75% of players didn't beat half the game. Currently recent reviews for Redfall are "mostly positive" on Steam. That's not due to the updates, it's due to time passing and new people experiencing the game.
I mostly enjoyed Redfall for around 50 hours, two playthroughs with different characters. The exploration and environments were solid. The town of Redfall was an interesting and well designed location imo. Player backpacks have a lot of inventory space and you can salvage weapons right in your backpack which is a nice quality of life measure. Jacob was a lot of fun to play with and I liked his skills. Some of the vampires were frustrating like Siphons and Anglers. Using the UV Beam, Stake Gun, and Flare Gun was very satisfying and aren't your usual FPS weapons.
On to the negatives. Customization was lacking and half the outfits were furry costumes (wtf). The mobility and traversal we were used to from Arkane games was not there, just generic FPS shooter mobility which was really sad. The game is pretty much just an FPS, the skills aren't quite useful enough. When your character's unique skill is on cooldown, all you have is shooting especially as a solo player. Dishonored and Deathloop were all about the fun, useful powers, and in Redfall each character only has a couple abilities and they aren't THAT useful and you can't use them frequently enough. The weapons and loot, flare guns and stake guns, are much more essential than the powers. Jacob is probably the most useful character to solo since he can cloak, recon, and has the powerful ghostly sniper rifle.
Redfall was a mediocre, underwhelming game, but to call it one of the worst AAA games of all time is an extreme exaggeration. 100% there are fundamental issues with the game that can't be fixed with a patch. However, there are two more characters on the way so I'm hoping for another reason to launch the game
It always shocks me when alone in the dark end up on these lists, cause I remember genuinely enjoying it as a kid when it came out
When i played that Harry Porter game when it came out, i quite enjoyed it ngl. Didn’t even notice all these problems until now
you must love hogwarts legacy then
I will say it was a unique Change in direction. I went through all the 360 HP games back to back one summer. I get that the devs were basing this game off the movies where it’s much more action based instead of goofy kiddy stuff (like in the previous games). But it just didn’t work. What’s ironic is that a prior game (order of the Phoenix I think?) had an extra mode where you use the Kinect to quickly cast spells and take down enemies. That mode was FUN and made me wish they made a rapid fire casting game like that. But sadly that ls what the deathly hallows games tried to do yet missed the mark 🤷🏻♂️
Same lol I played it on wii and didn't think it was terrible but I was younger lol
@@lawrencetalbot8346they gotta remake all the hp games that would be fire
@@SoapMacLavish Hogwarts legacy is much better than the deathly hallows games by far. Does it have it's flaws? Yes, but it's nowhere near as bad as the deathly hallows games.
Driv3r left a special place in my childhood.
Can't remember how many hours I spent just playing at the draw bridge lmao
And the actual driving experience is also good at that time, even compared to some racing games
My favorite spot was probably the beach in Nice, I would spend hours launching cars off the ramps their and watching them tumble along the sand.
I haven't played the game much, but I'd love to see the game remembered for what it was at that time. the scope of the cities, the driving (ok the shooting was not great ). It could have been a real deal at the time. I wouldn't mind if there was more modern urban open world franchises, GTA aside...
@@scottthewaterwarrior For real, I spent so many hours launching myself around in Nice and screwing with the bridge draw bridge in Istambul, also using unlimited ammo and blowing stuff with the grenade launcher. The one thing I really disliked about the game was swimming. Apart from that I had a lot of fun.
the only reason to play DRIV3R its when you are a kid and wanted to play GTA but your parents wouldn't let you for being too violent
Rip James mccaffrey 😢
hot take. RE6 is one of my favorite resident evil games I
enjoyed the multiple storylines and how they all intertwine. If you play it with a friend its actually allot of fun.
I agree its so good
Funnily enough I have fun and fond memories of Lair. It wasn't the admittedly terrible early motion controls that ruined the game for me but rather another hated enemy of this channel... The dreaded forced stealth section. There's a mission where you have to fly through a narrow pass/inlet at night without alerting anybody by flying into anybody or any search lights. I never got past it.
4:50 the car race is literally all I remember from this game because I had to do it about 700 times.
Gameranx is starting to go in circles. I feel I’ve watched this video 20 times before
Honestly, as a kid, playing APB and Driv3r was a BLAST, both of them had something unique and a certain vibe to them that for some reason made them enjoyable, idk. Maybe it's the soundtrack or the aesthetics, I dunno. But I remember them fondly, despite their obvious shortcomings.
Most likely because kids don't have any taste. They will play whatever and they will like whatever, even if it's most bland thing.
@@hitofuukithis fucking thank you
I still find the physics in Driv3r to be quite fun to mess around with. The way cars would flip and tumble wasn't exactly realistic, but was pretty funny. Sliding around corners was also really satisfying.
@@hitofuukiI wouldn't say no taste.
Kids don't have such a huge library of ganes played to compare something.
If you play apb and believe that's the standard because it's your first game of the genre, why wouldn't you like it?
Driv3r was soooo fun and you had different city maps you could go to. And the story was pretty solid
I remember getting Driv3r. I was not inpressed, but it had a Transformers demo on the disc so I played the hell put of that instead an the next day traded Driv3r for Transformers which is a awesome game!
even as a kid, I remember the dull atmosphere of DRIV3R, this game felt like a windless sunday, or waking up after a nightmare in hangover. That doesn't make any sense but it's exactly what I remember how this game feels
Alone in the dark was underrated I loved the game
Ill wait for the Remake. Looks better.
It's one of my best games
I remember my parents letting me pick a game when I was young and I picked alone in the dark. I think it was 20 bucks and oh boy it was serviceable for being in my teen years I did have some fun out of it to the point I almost got the plat. The ending was just a big kick to the balls tho. I was like that's it!? When both good N bad endings are just trash...
As a kid I loved Sonic 2006 . The glitches were hilarious . But as we grow older I see we seek too much perfection , without realizing how much effort it takes engineers and computer scientists to create the games we simply play and talk about after they spend years in development 17:46
My computer was so old and slow I couldn’t get past the riding with hagrid section
Always love your videos!
Personally, im a fan of all the harry potter games, they were just dumb fun.
Apart from GOF... that game was TRASH. COS though is by far the best! (Or Quidditch if we're including spin offs)
I liked OOTP and HBP bc of hogwarts being fully explorabl3
Hogwart was bad too.. i could be better if some well known develilopper made it
Important to mention that APB was f2p title in the end. And they did have content and decent playerbase at some point. Things fell apart with time, but it had a good phase, and it was free!
Driv3r is actually one of my favorite games of all time, it is just so hilarious how janky and broken it is! And then you can edit replays of all the crazy glitches and physics shenanigans you got up to!
scull and bones in the corner : *i'm immune i'm a AAAA game*
Gameranx easily the best channel on CZcams 🤞🏽
Even if you don’t play games the enthusiasm, comedy, knowledge of the topic and the way it’s presented makes their content so easily digestible.
@@allonsy3695 so true
I fully believe if the Driver 3 idea was given another chance to be done better, it'd work. The concept was great, and I enjoyed the game for what it was, but it just fell short in a lot of areas too
Also. I'm starting to feel like I'm the only one who enjoyed alone in the dark
I am with you i enjoyed the hell out of alone in the dark i liked the mechanics of the gameplay and driving
I actually think Driv3r is amazing, you just have to look at it as more of a crazy physics sandbox like goat simulator.
It wasn’t supposed be more of a better driving game. If driver San Francisco was mix with driver 3 location and story driver 3 would have been a massive success.
Tbh I enjoyed lair, the environments looked awful, and it was repetitive but I thought the animations for the dragons were really good at least, it’d be cool to have a similar/modernised mount system like that in an RPG one day
resident evil 5 and 6 split screen co-op are actually really fun
Falcon's really found his style over the past few months and I'm on board for it
I love how people are coming around on the lukewarm reception of The Order 1886. Short , pretty, tight, no microtransactions.
Way too short without a story that concluded. Such a disappointing time to me
Suicide squad killed the justice league, has entered the arena.
So sad because i really loved the fire physics in Alone in The Dark. Because it failed that real time fire physics was scrapped. One of the only Real time fire physics that complex. And so much other stuff was so far ahead of its time interaction with almost any object, being able to make weapons out of anything and combine stuff, you could get diuble sided tape and stick glow sticks on a wall if you wanted, gut open a blood pack make a trail to lure enemies, the insane real time fire physics really hasn't been matched even to this day.
I miss the days when a game came out and you played and beat it, then moved on. Now every game has a multi year plan on how to milk your money.
MMO's were the only games that had constant revenue, and constant patch/updates.
Now every game (it feels like) has a half baked battle pass or other nickel and dime shop.
I truly appreciate games that are one and done now. Like Callisto Protocol! It was exactly what I expected and wanted. Truck through the story, save the day, and move on.
1000% with you bro, so glad you also loved the callisto proto. I just beat it and my god its the first game I played in a long time that had me hooked and was engaging and where I cared about the characters all the way until the end. Truly nailed the feeling of playing Dead Space for the first time. I know its not a game from this year but I only got it a few weeis ago and I think its game of the year for me. You have a W take on this in general, games we can enjoy and beat are always better.
I rather buy 1 game I like that entertains me for 5+ years than buying 1 game every month...
MOH 2010 Had some questionable multiplayer for sure, but it had one of the best stories in almost any game ive ever played. I still think about that last mission before falling asleep some nights, only a HANDFUL of games have impacted me emotionally quite like MOH
The Redfall situation is like me and math class back in the school days...
Thank you for the "Wizard People, Dear Reader" voicing of the GEAR WARS