It should be mentioned that only about a week before this video was released, the original creators of City of Heroes gave their blessing for the open source code being distributed to allow players to continue playing on their own servers. There's nothing the devs can do to officially bring the game back, but this is absolutely a win for game preservation, as they have given the go-ahead for the community to keep going.
God tier. One of those games that you just had to play. It didn’t offer a lot as far as content and customization, but it was down right fun! You simply overlooked what wasn’t there and enjoyed what was.
I'm willing to bet if it was more polished, less buggy, and, most importantly, better lawyers, there would have been no issues with the license. In short, it is on the devs for not doing their job right and cutting corners.
@@AFLoneWolfyeah that's how lawsuits over licences work. If it wasn't buggy the lawyers fighting for the ownership for their client would have agreed on that to keep going but nothing else..smh
@AFLoneWolf lol like wtf xD. Dude the devs are not at fault its the dude who lied about owning the ip then gave them his blessing to use said ip that was the problem. They basically could only fix game breaking stuff after the lawsuit.
The Marvel MMO kinda hurt, because it shut down around the time I got a 95% off coupon for all toons......then they basically gave them away weeks later lol.....
DCV should've been put into a separate launcher so it could've been playable...or, you know, Destiny 3. But I get why they didn't want to reset again....but hindsight is always 20/20 eh?
Isn't that the sad truth for a lot of MMOs that a part of them has become inaccessible as time went by? That's the whole reason WoW Classic exists and is popular - there was a lot of locked out or permanently altered content in retail WoW
Literally why I didn't play 2. Got into it late, but just in time for the main campaign. It then get removed half way through me beating it. Absolute con artists
Regarding City of Heroes - NCSoft has come to an agreement with the Homecoming project and given that project a license to run servers for the game with the caveat Homecoming can't charge subscriptions to cover costs but *can* get donations to cover server costs for the 5 servers the project runs (4 in Canada, 1 in Germany).
Well then I've got good news. NCSoft has done a lot more than just "not stamp out" the private servers like this video mentioned (and it kind of seems like the end of the video got cut off), they've given official approval to the biggest of those private servers. Go look up City of Heroes Homecoming and enjoy.
The one that hurt the most for me last year was Gundam Evolution shutting its servers down. It’s one of the few games of its type I actually enjoyed playing I miss my Zaku 😩
If anybody remembers _The Orange Box_ I think we need a new version of that just so people can get their own version of PT. Just bundle it (for free) in with a couple of other short games that actually have their licensing ducks in order, so that whoever publishes it can claim that their profits are coming from those other games, and none coming from PT. I dunno: _something_ to appease the lawyers, because that teaser is one of the greatest games ever made, and it's just languishing in lawyer Hell. It's tragic when we are denied great art because some lawyer is getting paid to make it happen.
I still have a physical copy of BLUR that I pop into my 360 every so often to remind myself how good it still is. The one time I brought it over to a friend's house, calling it "the equally mixed baby of Mario Kart and Need for Speed", they loved it.
I highly doubt that, which is a shame. Vendetta wasn't particularly great, but it was enjoyable. Fight for NY, however, was fantastic and I loved how the fighting styles for the created characters worked. You could eventually get three different styles, but the order that you got them would essentially determine how that character fought. Making it so that you can have characters with all the same fighting styles play entirely different from each other. Not to mention, I dislike rap, but the game was presented so well that it would suck you into that world. There I was singing a DMX song while decked out in some serious bling beating up DMX. Good times.
Speaking of MMOs, one game I wasn't fortunate enough to play was The Matrix Online. I was too young and, by the time I caught wind of it, it was already too late.
NC soft granted a licence to a city of heroes private server called home coming, they only did that around Jan 4th this year so that may have been a bit too close to this getting filmed- really want to avoid being the "I think you will find..." guy.
4:20 While there's no denying that claiming P.T. was "downloaded over a-hundred times" is entirely accurate, Sony's more specific estimate of "over a million" downloads does conflict with it, somewhat, in spirit...
I'm still sad to this day over the closing of the PS3 multiplayer shooter MAG. The fact that we had a game that could handle 128v128 play on a PS3 with minimal lag was phenomenal, even more so when you consider at the time I was using my neighbor's wi-fi and it still ran beautifully. I never was a fan of FPS PvP games, but that one finally hooked me. I made friends via it that I still can contact to this day and it's sad that I really feel like we haven't seen anything in the online FPS space since that's been able to handle itself as well as that game had.
A lot of fan speculation says NCSOFT closed Paragon Studios and shut down CoX in order to use the server banks for Guild Wars 2. Not only did a lot of players on one server banded together in solidarity against shutting down, former developers heavily criticized the Korean publisher on Glassdoor.
The Capcom Made Dungeons and Dragons Games that hit Arcades In the mid 1990's such good games wish Capcom can make an agreement with Hasbro and release them on modern hardware
If we're talking about the same thing : they are available on the Xbox store as Chronicles of Mystara (Tower of Doom + Shadow over Mystara). Bought them a few weeks ago with my Xbox Series S!
G.I.T.S or Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex was shut down around 2017 and I miss that game so much. That was my first pc fps love. Press F to show respects
They techically did. Rise of the Dark Spark combines the story from War for/Fall of Cybertron and the Live Action Movies, acting as a midquil to the former 2.
lol Well I mean, City of Heroes just did get legal privately. Like, I mean we've been playing privately for longer than the game was live. I've never been so happy to see the company actually listen to their fans. The legal team has done a great job, and here we are. ... For real lol this last one could have been a positive realization, but I have to assume this video was actually made several weeks or maybe months ago...
@TheStarlightKing Its backwards compatible with the xbox one version. I think it's been up for about 5/6 months (from when I saw it appear on the store) at least.
Back in the Days there was this nice MMORPG Shooter called ''Tabula Rasa'', the stragedy behind that his bad as it is but i'll never forget the final stand in this Crater in Manhatten against the onslaught of the Bane, Earth was freed at a high cost
There's a city filled with sandwiches while people attack you? What a bizarre combination... I could go for a hero sandwich though: Turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and sliced black olives, please!
I'd also add World Gone Sour (a Sour Patch Kids game) to one of these lists. Though I think you're still able to download it if you bought it previously.
As a big fan of the Legacy of Kain series, I was actually quite bummed out by Nosgoth's... creation. I'm sure it was a fun game and all, but I wanted a single player story narrative like the rest of the series. Mainly wanting to see the series reach its natural conclusion. The likelihood that will ever happen is quite bleak, sadly. Irony is that I was also bummed out by Nosgoth going under. I felt that it would at least keep the series alive in some form. Kind of sucks being a LoK fan.
Two recent stand out games come to mind: Knockout City & Rumbleverse. Both were great games which had fornite levels of potential. I really like The Finals but, they keep F-ing the game up with patches.
Oh my gods, Rumbleverse! I loved that game to death! It was the only Battle Royale that was actually any fun because it was all melee-based and you couldn't get sniped from literally across the map by some bush-camping asshole with a rifle! So cartoon-ish and delightful and I weep for its loss!
Trials: Evolution. For some reason. You can still download it if you bought it, but no new customers. First, third, and fourth game are available. Second game must have licensing issues.
Sometimes, these things can change, though, so don't give up hope! For the longest time, there was no legal way to play Creatures 3 on PC, released in 1999, EVEN IF you had the hardware at home. The is because after installing the game, you were required to download a patch from the Docking Station some time after the original game released. The thing is, the Docking Station was no longer online and there were no other ways to legally download the patch, so even if you had the game installed via CD and adjusted your PC in order to play it, you couldn't. Let alone legally acquire new Norn, Ettin or Grendel breeds etc. And nowadays, the game is on Steam and actively supported due to it's still thriving community and Modders, available for like 6€ :) It's really nice to be able to just buy, install and play it when the gamer nostalgia hits. So yeah, there is always a chance, even for 20+ year old games to be supported once again!
I thought this was going to be about games that aren’t backwards compatible and hard to find (or crazy expensive). Still good, but I refuse to play games like these for these reasons. I don’t understand why anyone would buy a game that needs online capability and constant updates and support.
lists like this are reason I buy physical media (games, music or movies) wherever and whenever possible I only buy digital if I ok with losing it at some point
Oh man lego universe was the greatest lego game ever. It was an mmorpg similar to free realms (rip that goated mmorpg too) but it was based around the lego tv shows that we’re going on at the time. It was a genuinely amazing game and it only shut down because they didn’t really incorporate or incentivize micro transactions making it unprofitable. I remember the last weekend it was open they gave everyone every rare object in the game including a jet pack that would let you fly outside the games barriers. I thought it was hilarious flying around the map and going to all the places I shouldn’t be. Honestly those last 24 hours were just as good as the years before it. I miss that game so much
The fact that "no longer playable" is the fate of most online multiplayer/always online games is a large part of why I'm not interested in them. I love that I can pick up any of the games I've gotten since the 80's and play them today; it would bother me to no end to get really into a game and then just have to accept it when one day either a server gets shut down or the player base dissolves, and my beloved pastime effectively ceases to exist.
I was so heartbroken when for honor went always online despite promising to be also offline. i was really exited for the game and concept and it looked really cool. and seeing they shut down the crew Im even more justified not buying it. why is this even allowed?
I know most people would disagree with this but in my opinion copyrights should expire if a game/movie official distribution stops after a couple years. For example if drywall studios put out a game called watching paint dry in 2024 and stops production in 2026 the said IP becomes public domain after maybe 3 years. Another example if a steaming service cancels a show, it should go to fair use as they are not loosening profits. Looking at you Disney and Netflix.
There's still games unplayable through emulation, whether they are too new of systems (ps4/xbone and on), or the current emulators we have can't emulate them, due to how the games use the original hardware or some other reason. Not everything is available to emulate, which means games unpreserved.
@@EliteSparda LOL that hit me right in the old age, but you're probably right. Edit: As I glance around the net, I see there is still some mutant version of DAOC up and running, so apparently it still can be played. Who knew?
It wasn't popular but I really liked the the Splinter cell black list multi-player I think it was called spies vs mercs I thought it wad so fun but it finally shut down one day and wasn't ever able to play again
Friday the 13th you can still play until the end of 2024. So I recommend everyone to overload the servers daily. Maybe it can make a comeback(one can wish)
Not actually all the way gone but the uncensored versions of the original Fallout games are no longer for sale on at least gog, not so sure about Steam. I have them in library but they show up as under labels like Fallout Classic.
Hellgate: London was a great game that was shutdown years ago. Well, great is a bit strong but it was pretty fun. Very Diablo like but 3rd or 1st person perspective and some gun play.
You forgot Twinkies and those little square shaped yellow stickers that EB Games (in the US) used to use as "things that will survive the apocalypse" besides cockroaches and World Of Warcraft.
Nosgoth TRUE story: The gam was running amazingly and was super popular for years in alpha and beta. Then Developer Psyonix decided to disconnect from Steam matchmaking and try to make their own matchmaking. Their matchmaking system was so bad it took 25 mins MINIMUM to get into a game so players started to dwindle off and wait for the fix that Psyonix promised would come to the matchmaking system. Then Psyonix's other little game "Rocket League" started to take off and they completely abandoned all work on Nosgoth and never fixed the terrible matchmaking system so when SquareEnix said it was being shut down because of lack of players we all went "we would play if we physically could, but you broke it and never fixed it!" This is why I boycott Rocket League, because Psyonix took my money for the Founders edition and then ran away with it and abandoned the game.
Ghost in the Shell video game, maybe wasnt popular but the anime was, and it had its movie. And one that bothers me particularly is Both Marvels Ultimate Alliance for pc and X-Men Legends 2.
Dnt say Gunmedia didnt get their IP ducks in a row cause they did. The game was originally a love letter to the franchise and called summer camp and had a completely different killer but the people who thought they owned the IP messages the developers and said they had the right to use the Friday The 13th name and likeness of Jason Vorhees. Gun Media was just caught in the middle of it all. So it was the studios and Cunningham who didnt have their IP ducks in a row not Gun Media
While piracy shouldn't be openly encouraged for legal reasons, these are actually examples of when it's okay. Archivists since the beginning have allowed games and roms to be accessible for when they're virtually unavailable by any other legal mean, and when it becomes abandonware it is free use to utilize. That's what the medium was created for, for preservation.
The Friday the 13th cancellation hits really hard as there was so many rumors of them adding a Pamela, and Freddy which I so wanted to be true and come fruition since just with the Freddy thing alone there was a bundle of iconic Nightmare on Elm Street maps to add not to mention the possibility of there being a Freddy vs Jason, Vs mode would of been great.
It should be mentioned that only about a week before this video was released, the original creators of City of Heroes gave their blessing for the open source code being distributed to allow players to continue playing on their own servers. There's nothing the devs can do to officially bring the game back, but this is absolutely a win for game preservation, as they have given the go-ahead for the community to keep going.
Transformers war for cybertron def deserves a remake....man that multiplayer was fun as hell...💯
God tier. One of those games that you just had to play. It didn’t offer a lot as far as content and customization, but it was down right fun! You simply overlooked what wasn’t there and enjoyed what was.
The Friday the 13th one hurts a lot. Game was aweosme. Stupid legal battles over the franchise and the game was caught in the cross fire.
You can still play it.
U can still play it just can’t buy it but if u own it u good
I'm willing to bet if it was more polished, less buggy, and, most importantly, better lawyers, there would have been no issues with the license. In short, it is on the devs for not doing their job right and cutting corners.
@@AFLoneWolfyeah that's how lawsuits over licences work. If it wasn't buggy the lawyers fighting for the ownership for their client would have agreed on that to keep going but nothing else..smh
@AFLoneWolf lol like wtf xD. Dude the devs are not at fault its the dude who lied about owning the ip then gave them his blessing to use said ip that was the problem. They basically could only fix game breaking stuff after the lawsuit.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 are impossible to get your hands on these days but i have number 1 on ps2, still😢
Both of those are like 15-45 online
The Marvel MMO kinda hurt, because it shut down around the time I got a 95% off coupon for all toons......then they basically gave them away weeks later lol.....
Not a video game by itself, but a HUGE part of Destiny 2 universe is no longer available after the sunset
DCV should've been put into a separate launcher so it could've been playable...or, you know, Destiny 3. But I get why they didn't want to reset again....but hindsight is always 20/20 eh?
Isn't that the sad truth for a lot of MMOs that a part of them has become inaccessible as time went by? That's the whole reason WoW Classic exists and is popular - there was a lot of locked out or permanently altered content in retail WoW
Bungie sunsetting paid for content is the reason i stopped playing
@@oregonoIt was only one paid-for DLC as well as all the free story content.
Personally I stopped playing after Solar 3.0 ruined the gameplay.
Literally why I didn't play 2. Got into it late, but just in time for the main campaign. It then get removed half way through me beating it. Absolute con artists
Regarding City of Heroes - NCSoft has come to an agreement with the Homecoming project and given that project a license to run servers for the game with the caveat Homecoming can't charge subscriptions to cover costs but *can* get donations to cover server costs for the 5 servers the project runs (4 in Canada, 1 in Germany).
You beat me to it. So glad that Homecoming got licensed
Was looking for Homecoming comments!!
Actually commented on this before I saw this comment.
@@Thrythlind it needs all of the love & exposure it can get. That team is doing the lord's work 🤘🖤
I heard about it, I downloaded it. And I am loving my teenage year game again.
Man,City of Heroes(and Villains) was the first mmo i've ever played. I had such a blast! Rip Paragon Studios,we miss you.
Well then I've got good news. NCSoft has done a lot more than just "not stamp out" the private servers like this video mentioned (and it kind of seems like the end of the video got cut off), they've given official approval to the biggest of those private servers. Go look up City of Heroes Homecoming and enjoy.
The biggest of the private City Of Heroes Servers has been granted a full liscence by NCSoft. They have loads of content updates planned.
The one that hurt the most for me last year was Gundam Evolution shutting its servers down. It’s one of the few games of its type I actually enjoyed playing I miss my Zaku 😩
Can always go play gbo2
GUNTANK WOOOOOO! I was there for the literal last moment.
Biggest regret till this day not playing the X-men origins wolverine game
Better get your pirate hat on.
I have that game but it’s on my 360 nd my 360 broke
If anybody remembers _The Orange Box_ I think we need a new version of that just so people can get their own version of PT. Just bundle it (for free) in with a couple of other short games that actually have their licensing ducks in order, so that whoever publishes it can claim that their profits are coming from those other games, and none coming from PT. I dunno: _something_ to appease the lawyers, because that teaser is one of the greatest games ever made, and it's just languishing in lawyer Hell. It's tragic when we are denied great art because some lawyer is getting paid to make it happen.
I still have a physical copy of BLUR that I pop into my 360 every so often to remind myself how good it still is.
The one time I brought it over to a friend's house, calling it "the equally mixed baby of Mario Kart and Need for Speed", they loved it.
Also the Deadpool game from 2013 and probably Lost Planet 2 as well could be added
Yu can still get hard copies of Deadpool. It's hard to find and ur gonna pay, but it's out there
Is lost planet 2 unavailable for purchase online now?
Warhawk was a savage game. could play that for hours. definitely needs a re-make/ re-release on the current-gen!
Warhawk.. Socom.. Resistance.. Motorstorm.. Killzone. All need remastering at the very least.
I'd add Evolve to this list as well
I wonder if they will ever remake Def Jam Vendetta and Def Jam Fight for NY. I want to play them again
I highly doubt that, which is a shame. Vendetta wasn't particularly great, but it was enjoyable. Fight for NY, however, was fantastic and I loved how the fighting styles for the created characters worked. You could eventually get three different styles, but the order that you got them would essentially determine how that character fought. Making it so that you can have characters with all the same fighting styles play entirely different from each other. Not to mention, I dislike rap, but the game was presented so well that it would suck you into that world. There I was singing a DMX song while decked out in some serious bling beating up DMX. Good times.
Doubt it. The voice actors got paid little to nothing and the licensing was extremely expensive
City of Heroes/Villains was the first MMO I fell in love with. The player base was friendly and a blast to be around, especially on holiday events.
Speaking of MMOs, one game I wasn't fortunate enough to play was The Matrix Online. I was too young and, by the time I caught wind of it, it was already too late.
P.T was so good as a playable demo and so tense and scary and only made worse when you realised you're followed the entire time hahah 😮
Was hoping to see Star Wars Galaxies on the list. Before the changed that game and it eventually shut down it did so many great things.
everyone points at NGE as the reason the game died... it wouldn't have gotten NGE if it was doing very well
4:20 Downloaded over 800 times? Wow that’s a lot!
I mean I cannot play battle for middle earth 2 anymore and that saddens me
It was soooo good.
NC soft granted a licence to a city of heroes private server called home coming, they only did that around Jan 4th this year so that may have been a bit too close to this getting filmed- really want to avoid being the "I think you will find..." guy.
I still have blur on the ps3. It’s a good game. It’s seriously similar to split second but it’s still a lot of fun.
I will forever miss Spartacus Legends 😭 such a great game
Yes! I loved that game too!
4:20 While there's no denying that claiming P.T. was "downloaded over a-hundred times" is entirely accurate, Sony's more specific estimate of "over a million" downloads does conflict with it, somewhat, in spirit...
Rumbleverse was an awesome couple of months that made me a lot closer to one of my best bros. Miss that game
I still have P.T. on my system. Hopefully it's still playable
You could make a top 10 and more of shuttered MMOs alone. God I miss Wildstar and Vanguard.
I'm still sad to this day over the closing of the PS3 multiplayer shooter MAG. The fact that we had a game that could handle 128v128 play on a PS3 with minimal lag was phenomenal, even more so when you consider at the time I was using my neighbor's wi-fi and it still ran beautifully. I never was a fan of FPS PvP games, but that one finally hooked me. I made friends via it that I still can contact to this day and it's sad that I really feel like we haven't seen anything in the online FPS space since that's been able to handle itself as well as that game had.
A lot of fan speculation says NCSOFT closed Paragon Studios and shut down CoX in order to use the server banks for Guild Wars 2. Not only did a lot of players on one server banded together in solidarity against shutting down, former developers heavily criticized the Korean publisher on Glassdoor.
No mention of what was single handedly my favorite moba that was killed so fortnight could fly , RIP PARAGON
Was looking for this. I played this soooo much.
The Capcom Made Dungeons and Dragons Games that hit Arcades In the mid 1990's such good games wish Capcom can make an agreement with Hasbro and release them on modern hardware
I have fond memories of beating one in lake Tahoe at a casino called the horizon. I think it took 3 bucks in quarters
If we're talking about the same thing : they are available on the Xbox store as Chronicles of Mystara (Tower of Doom + Shadow over Mystara). Bought them a few weeks ago with my Xbox Series S!
Those games were and still available on the Sega Saturn BTW
G.I.T.S or Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex was shut down around 2017 and I miss that game so much. That was my first pc fps love. Press F to show respects
city of heroes is actually coming back oficially and its UNREAL, very excited to see it again
Transformers war and fall were so brilliant, a shame they couldn't do a trilogy
They techically did. Rise of the Dark Spark combines the story from War for/Fall of Cybertron and the Live Action Movies, acting as a midquil to the former 2.
@Jetthehawk1994 technically you are correct.
I just refuse to accept such a poor game in the triliogy.
lol Well I mean, City of Heroes just did get legal privately.
Like, I mean we've been playing privately for longer than the game was live. I've never been so happy to see the company actually listen to their fans. The legal team has done a great job, and here we are. ... For real lol this last one could have been a positive realization, but I have to assume this video was actually made several weeks or maybe months ago...
Deadpool the game🗿
I'll miss Transformers: Devastation the most.
If you have an xbox you can still play it. I've been playing it recently
@@MUTATEDMEDIA I originally had it for the PS4, but I own a Series X. When did they port it to current gen?
@TheStarlightKing Its backwards compatible with the xbox one version. I think it's been up for about 5/6 months (from when I saw it appear on the store) at least.
I miss playing redmoon back in the early 2000s lol
I love Blur I wish this game would come back I still play it to this day
Blur is still playable on the PS3, maybe not multiplayer, but there's nothing wrong with the main game. Need For Speed meets Mario Kart...GREAT fun! 🙂
Back in the Days there was this nice MMORPG Shooter called ''Tabula Rasa'', the stragedy behind that his bad as it is but i'll never forget the final stand in this Crater in Manhatten against the onslaught of the Bane, Earth was freed at a high cost
Anyone remember playing Happy Wars or Spartacus Legends?
There's a city filled with sandwiches while people attack you? What a bizarre combination... I could go for a hero sandwich though: Turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and sliced black olives, please!
seeing Nosgoth here was amazing, but the same heart ache is felt for hawken which i cant remember if it was featured before or not
City of heroes lives!
I had to pause once I seen knockout city… my heart breaks again.
Warhawk was a sequel to the PS1 game Warhawk: The Mercury Missions. I still have the PS3 game saved on my hard drive. RIP.
I'd also add World Gone Sour (a Sour Patch Kids game) to one of these lists. Though I think you're still able to download it if you bought it previously.
As a big fan of the Legacy of Kain series, I was actually quite bummed out by Nosgoth's... creation. I'm sure it was a fun game and all, but I wanted a single player story narrative like the rest of the series. Mainly wanting to see the series reach its natural conclusion. The likelihood that will ever happen is quite bleak, sadly. Irony is that I was also bummed out by Nosgoth going under. I felt that it would at least keep the series alive in some form. Kind of sucks being a LoK fan.
Aw man, I loved Blur and have been wondering what happened to it.
I have the Cybertron games on Steam. They work well on the Steam Deck. I also have the Minecraft Story Mode games on the Switch.
Given PT isn't a game, yes, you could make a list without including it.
Top ten tintilating teastery teases
Wow COH I didn't think anyone would ever talk about that game.
Two recent stand out games come to mind: Knockout City & Rumbleverse. Both were great games which had fornite levels of potential.
I really like The Finals but, they keep F-ing the game up with patches.
Oh my gods, Rumbleverse! I loved that game to death! It was the only Battle Royale that was actually any fun because it was all melee-based and you couldn't get sniped from literally across the map by some bush-camping asshole with a rifle! So cartoon-ish and delightful and I weep for its loss!
Jess and Psy would be fun at parties
City of Heroes recently pulled itself off of this list. NC Soft gave an official license to the Homecoming server.
Honestly, I'm amazed that Marvel Heroes didn't make the list as that one is a deeply missed game.
Friday the 13th cannot be unfixable.... Call it Thursday the 12th with Jimmy Van Ives, We know what's up
No mention of Black and White and Black and White 2, both amazing cult classics you can't play, you need to crack even the legal copies.
deadpool game also worth a mention here
How did this not mention the infinity blade series?
Vigil : The Longest Night should be added to this list too - was an excellent horror-Metroidvania
Trials: Evolution. For some reason. You can still download it if you bought it, but no new customers. First, third, and fourth game are available. Second game must have licensing issues.
City of Heroes: Homecoming (one of the "baby private servers", that is not very "baby" anymore) just got NCSoft's blessing to keep the game going.
Sometimes, these things can change, though, so don't give up hope! For the longest time, there was no legal way to play Creatures 3 on PC, released in 1999, EVEN IF you had the hardware at home. The is because after installing the game, you were required to download a patch from the Docking Station some time after the original game released. The thing is, the Docking Station was no longer online and there were no other ways to legally download the patch, so even if you had the game installed via CD and adjusted your PC in order to play it, you couldn't. Let alone legally acquire new Norn, Ettin or Grendel breeds etc.
And nowadays, the game is on Steam and actively supported due to it's still thriving community and Modders, available for like 6€ :) It's really nice to be able to just buy, install and play it when the gamer nostalgia hits. So yeah, there is always a chance, even for 20+ year old games to be supported once again!
I thought this was going to be about games that aren’t backwards compatible and hard to find (or crazy expensive). Still good, but I refuse to play games like these for these reasons. I don’t understand why anyone would buy a game that needs online capability and constant updates and support.
I played a lotta Warhawk. Great game while it lasted.
lists like this are reason I buy physical media (games, music or movies) wherever and whenever possible I only buy digital if I ok with losing it at some point
I hope we get another good Super Heroes mmo. I don't see that genre anymore :/
Marvel Heroes Omega was heartbreaking when they shut down their servers
Oh man lego universe was the greatest lego game ever. It was an mmorpg similar to free realms (rip that goated mmorpg too) but it was based around the lego tv shows that we’re going on at the time. It was a genuinely amazing game and it only shut down because they didn’t really incorporate or incentivize micro transactions making it unprofitable. I remember the last weekend it was open they gave everyone every rare object in the game including a jet pack that would let you fly outside the games barriers. I thought it was hilarious flying around the map and going to all the places I shouldn’t be. Honestly those last 24 hours were just as good as the years before it. I miss that game so much
3:00 - Well, you COULD because it was merely a Playable Teaser, it wasn't a game proper...
I was let down Mass Effect 3 original ending wasn't number 1, but City of Heroes was a blast from the past, dang
Unless you own physical copies or download before it closed down, a lot of pokemon and ds games went bye bye as well.
The fact that "no longer playable" is the fate of most online multiplayer/always online games is a large part of why I'm not interested in them. I love that I can pick up any of the games I've gotten since the 80's and play them today; it would bother me to no end to get really into a game and then just have to accept it when one day either a server gets shut down or the player base dissolves, and my beloved pastime effectively ceases to exist.
I was so heartbroken when for honor went always online despite promising to be also offline. i was really exited for the game and concept and it looked really cool. and seeing they shut down the crew Im even more justified not buying it. why is this even allowed?
I know most people would disagree with this but in my opinion copyrights should expire if a game/movie official distribution stops after a couple years. For example if drywall studios put out a game called watching paint dry in 2024 and stops production in 2026 the said IP becomes public domain after maybe 3 years. Another example if a steaming service cancels a show, it should go to fair use as they are not loosening profits. Looking at you Disney and Netflix.
4:20 Wow, PT has been downloaded over a HUNDRED times? :o
Some of these (blur, transformers) - can be played I have them on ps3. Can’t be played online, sure, but that’s all old games.
You can play just about anything with an Emulator on PC lol
There's still games unplayable through emulation, whether they are too new of systems (ps4/xbone and on), or the current emulators we have can't emulate them, due to how the games use the original hardware or some other reason. Not everything is available to emulate, which means games unpreserved.
Ascend: Hand of Kul was such a fun game!!
Was hoping to see Dark Age of Camelot on here. It was difficult, PvP action was brutal and addictive.
That's because almost no one else watching this is old enough to remember that.
@@EliteSparda LOL that hit me right in the old age, but you're probably right.
Edit: As I glance around the net, I see there is still some mutant version of DAOC up and running, so apparently it still can be played. Who knew?
@@johnnystorm5543 It's ok, Im old enough to have played it too. We're probably the only two here that did though lol.
It wasn't popular but I really liked the the Splinter cell black list multi-player I think it was called spies vs mercs I thought it wad so fun but it finally shut down one day and wasn't ever able to play again
Friday the 13th you can still play until the end of 2024. So I recommend everyone to overload the servers daily. Maybe it can make a comeback(one can wish)
Warhawks is one of my favorite games ever. I still have the game .
My version of P.t stopped working ages ago despite never uninstalling it.
Not actually all the way gone but the uncensored versions of the original Fallout games are no longer for sale on at least gog, not so sure about Steam. I have them in library but they show up as under labels like Fallout Classic.
Hellgate: London was a great game that was shutdown years ago. Well, great is a bit strong but it was pretty fun. Very Diablo like but 3rd or 1st person perspective and some gun play.
Wish I can play SM Web of Shadows again
You forgot Twinkies and those little square shaped yellow stickers that EB Games (in the US) used to use as "things that will survive the apocalypse" besides cockroaches and World Of Warcraft.
Nosgoth TRUE story:
The gam was running amazingly and was super popular for years in alpha and beta. Then Developer Psyonix decided to disconnect from Steam matchmaking and try to make their own matchmaking. Their matchmaking system was so bad it took 25 mins MINIMUM to get into a game so players started to dwindle off and wait for the fix that Psyonix promised would come to the matchmaking system.
Then Psyonix's other little game "Rocket League" started to take off and they completely abandoned all work on Nosgoth and never fixed the terrible matchmaking system so when SquareEnix said it was being shut down because of lack of players we all went "we would play if we physically could, but you broke it and never fixed it!"
This is why I boycott Rocket League, because Psyonix took my money for the Founders edition and then ran away with it and abandoned the game.
Rumbleverse? Amazing game, loving developers, actually refunded every single cent players spent on it
Oooof. I wondered what ever happened to Friday the 13th. That's rough. Also, Happy New Year Jess!
Ghost in the Shell video game, maybe wasnt popular but the anime was, and it had its movie. And one that bothers me particularly is Both Marvels Ultimate Alliance for pc and X-Men Legends 2.
Dnt say Gunmedia didnt get their IP ducks in a row cause they did. The game was originally a love letter to the franchise and called summer camp and had a completely different killer but the people who thought they owned the IP messages the developers and said they had the right to use the Friday The 13th name and likeness of Jason Vorhees. Gun Media was just caught in the middle of it all. So it was the studios and Cunningham who didnt have their IP ducks in a row not Gun Media
While piracy shouldn't be openly encouraged for legal reasons, these are actually examples of when it's okay. Archivists since the beginning have allowed games and roms to be accessible for when they're virtually unavailable by any other legal mean, and when it becomes abandonware it is free use to utilize. That's what the medium was created for, for preservation.
Either of the Def Jam games or marvel vs capcom 2
The Friday the 13th cancellation hits really hard as there was so many rumors of them adding a Pamela, and Freddy which I so wanted to be true and come fruition since just with the Freddy thing alone there was a bundle of iconic Nightmare on Elm Street maps to add not to mention the possibility of there being a Freddy vs Jason, Vs mode would of been great.
PT isn't a game.
It's a teaser