10 BAD Games That Happened to Be Uniquely Different

[@lisah-p8474]

6:48 I love Falcon explaining the pet breeding mechanic in Balan Wonderland while casually chucking the little critters off a cliff. 😂

[@LordRazer3]

The sadist part of werewolf the apocalypse is that we are now vary unlikely to see another game with such a unique werewolf mechanics because this game makes it look like something nobody would play and that's such a crime! This game looked so damn awesome and I always want more werewolf games to match the abundant amount of vampire games...but now we will and have seen even less now.

[@liamcollinson5695]

I don't know it gave me flashbacks of the warehog levels in sonic unleashed

[@ShadowedHandParish]

it damn near broke my soul to see at WtA come out and be as bad as this one was.

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Very

[@TheDarkShinobiX]

I feel the same. Im so tired of the oversaturated Vampire Market. Lycans are so rarely used for main IPs. This goes for movies, games, and anime. Shame smh

[@AxeltheGreen]

At least there is the werewolf guild in Skyrim

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

I was disappointed with Werewolf the Apocalypse. I wanted a really cool Werewolf game, and this did not deliver. The only game I’ve seen of some merit is an older pc multiplayer game WolfTeam.

[@goorthgaming4466]

Trespasser getting some love!

[@SuperSpeed21]

Fun fact: if you go through the tedious of getting a special tim, you can fly up to a floating island to get the Balan skin. Which is 100% broken. And if you lose the skin then yeah gotta do it all over again. Also I hated that werewolf game. I thought it was gonna be fun, but I was wrong. Because the sneak mechanic suck, you're going to end up just fighting most of the time.

[@OhCorny]

Falcon give us a list of your most influential games growing up!! Mine would be boogerman (sega genesis) road rash, OG prince of Persia , and of course Pokemon

[@maxp4573]

Yo, either I'm from a different timeline or Bad Day LA is an absolute CLASSIC remake of a long forgotten Gem. It has Jank, obviously but damn does it have character, what a Gem

[@whyjnot420]

I always loved the art/aesthetics of Nights. For like 30 years now it has stuck in my head. Never played it outside of a demo Saturn at a store back in the day. Don't really have any will to play it these days, so I never emulated it. But that art is just great.

[@Mike-jr5hq]

Falcon, the first video game that I know of where you play as a firefighter, titled Fire Fighter, came out for the Atari 2600 back in 1982.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@PupRockruff]

Most of these games I had never heard of and I'm glad that I don't feel like I missed anything, but I loved Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Just like you said "I get to play as a werewolf? Sign me up!" And I honestly had fun playing it. It wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed it.

[@Killoffmanjarhoe]

Man it was the first game i bought on my xbox when i got it. And i could never get into it.

[@dreadpirateroberts7532]

It was, as Charlie would say, “fun bad”.

[@e7193]

your taste in games must be abysmal

[@chillhour6155]

Buy a Fortnite werewolf skin

[@PupRockruff]

@@chillhour6155 I don't play fortnite

[@bloodrunsclear]

Nobody likes Risen 2…but I did! It’s a rare pirate RPG with actual role playing and quests and stuff. Also you have a swearing gnome and you can train monkeys!

[@0num4]

You missed Too Human. That was a game with an awful story, riddled with bugs, but it had a very cool and unique combat system which was actually fun to play when it didn't jank out on you. It was also made by a company, Silicon Knights, who failed to pay licensing fees/royalties to Epic for the use of the Unreal Engine 3 (same as Gears of War and many others of the late 2000's), so they never made a sequel of this game which was supposed to be a trilogy from jump. They were sued into oblivion and all remaining copies of the game were pulled from shelves, so the only ones you can get now are second-hand. I played the crap out of it, despite it being so bad.

[@epiccthulu]

werewolf the apocalypse deserves a AAA quality remake. I guess i didn’t have an issue with it because I played the table top version for World of Darkness

[@fernandogimenez7520]

The jiggle physics on Jurassic Park game was miss placed. If they put that code on other place the game would get more recognition 😂

[@jl.4563]

You're awesome Wood, deflect the haters. "They hate us because they ain't us!" 😅

[@KB-jz3ys]

Werewolf the apocalypse was such a huge let down.. I mean I was so damn ready to play as a werewolf and have fun but that was obviously not the case😢

[@bryanchristianabrigo]

Honestlt Quantum Error kinda looks satisfying but it also looks like a Powerwash Simulator but with fire haha

[@JustPablo5000]

Did any of you ever get the chance to play "Don't Even Think"? I miss it. RIP.

[@bio-weaponn5576]

Most of these games have untapped potential that could've been reached in an alternate timeline or with a second chance.

[@Soapbox81]

Surprised Spore didn't at least get an honourable mention

[@BlueBlur24]

Werewolf: The Apocalypse being mediocre makes me so mad because I want a good game where you play as a badass werewolf but the combat being stale, the stealth being barebones, and the story being shallow makes not only the game but also the idea bad because now I don't think anyone will take a shot at it. Guess it is another comeback to Sonic Unleashed since it's probably the only good werewolf game right now despite it being only one half of it.

[@benfletcher8100]

I don’t get games that have live action cutscenes, especially when the actual gameplay graphics aren’t that good because then it just emphasises the flaws in the graphics

[@THEN0B0T1]

Some times the game being bad is what makes it good as it just so funny

[@GodofChookie]

For a lot of gamrs i am really confused what's the unique factor. Just felt like a random 10 bad games list

[@bnutz3k]

I want to play Quantum Error purely because you compared it to Burning Rangers. 🦅

[@RWSlick]

You might say, "Oh Falcon, why are you beating up Square Enix so much?" No, there are three Square Enix titles on this list and there could probably be more with what they have put out in the last six years or so.

[@hombuswacuracao]

Great video as always

[@Splatboy0612]

Number 5's interface is straight up from God of War

[@n8doggy733]

Godfall had pretty fun combat, especially the Polaerm Weapon Techniques. ❤

[@DrWakeWalker]

i finished Jurassic Park Trespasser. it was something for sure

[@Terraff6]

quantum error had more than the issue with its pricetag and being exclusive to ps5. it ran like shit and looked like it was an unity asset flip game

[@darrellwetzeljr.1886]

I’ll try again, bad games with great stories

[@rjhorne1993]

I wanted so much for Earthblood the Apocalypse to be good. We don't get to be werewolves often enough.

[@Bobby-z6c]

Ahhh man... i waited for the original prey to be on here but sadly it wasnt....😢

[@WhoIsMikeJones568]

They should make a Wolf Corps game based off the comic book. That’ll be sick

[@BikerLobster]

Werewolf is actually a fine game. People call it bad comparing it with AAA games but that is not correct.

[@KiloGames]

I actually bought bad day LA on Ebay and played it on my channel. It was terrible.

[@SorcererSanguine]

I actually just reinstalled Werewolf the apocalypse....

[@devinlupei5071]

It makes me so upset that Werewolf was mishandled. I hope that someday WTA can get the Vampire the Masquerade treatment, character creation, five forms you can transform into, breed choice, gifts, a proper story, etc.

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Same

[@Cameroo]

Big same. I still remember seeing Capcom was working on a W:TA game in the 90s that was going to be an isometric action RPG and it got canned. Then there was the Unreal engine one from the late 90's that got canned. Werewolf needs and deserves good adaptation. Hell, I'd take a digital version of the RAGE CCG at this point.

[@reapersasmr5483]

I have gave up at this point !!! This is one of those games I want to attempt in UE5

[@ironhell813]

@reapersasmr5483 Interesting concept, might be worth looking into….

[@anonymuswere]

there's a guy working by himself making a sprite style platformer inspired by this. he's just released alpha footage of the build. it's got it's own plot and such, however.

[@STONEAJE]

As someone who works for a massive corporation I'm not the least bit surprised at how so many really neat concepts can get so derailed by the final product

[@beezyj3227]

Yup. Almost always due to "other financial priorities" or other times just the egos of the higher ups that think they know better and want to stick to "what works" aka all they're used to doing without taking any risks on the unfamiliar.

[@dajokerwild4854]

Haha😂 the Jurassic Park arm jiggle when you turn is killing me.

[@fernandogimenez7520]

Is a new level of noodle arms

[@rudasaeorien]

Why would you make a stealth game where you can't take out enemies with a headshot

[@iKrazyyi]

One game I've wanted for as long as I can remember is a game that you play as a werewolf. A legit werewolf game were you run a pack, fight other monsters, ect. We have so many vampire games but no werewolf games so I was so excited for Werewolf Earthblood. I hate that it wasn't a good game

[@chrisj320ac3]

It's sad the closest we've ever gotten to this are the amazing werewolf mods for skyrim.

[@cenciende9401]

Can kinda do that if you want as a werewolf in Skyrim, there are mods to expand the werewolf stuff too, but I hear ya a legit werewolf game would be nuts!

[@iKrazyyi]

@cenciende9401 yeah I've played alot of Skyrim just for the werewolf mods lol.

[@corvega_joe]

Same. I’m tired of playing as vampires. I want a brutal, Mortal Kombat levels of gore and violence werewolf game.

[@Zathren]

Damn it I bought the game in the thumbnail 😅 I literally played for like 2 hours and it was so . . . not good, I never finished it.

[@FlobsterforLobster]

The even sadder part about American McGee is that his Third Alice game is done. You can find his portfolio online with all the art, direction, gameplay, story, etc. But EA won’t give him the license to Alice so after 11 years of hard work he can’t give us Alice Asylum.

[@door_productions4896]

The saddest part about American McGee is his name

[@EdwardLorn]

Says someone named​@@door_productions4896 😂

[@INikeAir]

Alice Madness Returns is so good and so much fun. Didn’t know there was a third title

[@SpecShadow]

@@door_productions4896 considering his childhood - yeah. Spoiler - his mother wasn't right in the head. Also ID Software fired him because they had a-grade-holes in their management and quite toxic culture - once they don't like you (even for petty reasons or none at all) it's game over.

[@pinatadonkey5934]

For anyone more curious about The Quiet Man or Balan Wonderworld, Rerez does an It’s Just Bad video on both of them. I highly recommend it.

[@captainvimes6079]

*sped up gut-punches* I study ASL and that was my first rerez video ❤

[@pinatadonkey5934]

@@captainvimes6079 that’s so cool!

[@neighslayer768]

I was practically raised on Werewolf: The Apocalypse. As someone who owns all the books from the original game form the '90s, I can say Earthblood nails the visual and audio style of that game perfectly. Shame it does the bare minimum with gameplay and story telling. But if you really want a great WtA game, go look up Heart of the Forest. It's more akin to a Telltale style, chose your own adventure. But it's very rich in immersive storytelling and the oppressive atmosphere the World of Darkness is known for. Which is what Werewolf was at its core: a storytelling game first. Action RPG second.

[@nazgulsenpai]

More of this video series please. I can't get enough bad games.

[@mclovin6829]

I feel like the Quiet Man devs lost the sound files, so they just changed the title

[@jenni8200]

That Michigan one sounds amazing on paper... I hope someone else picks up an idea like that and makes a new game

[@chrisball3778]

Yeah, an open-world game where some kind of event happens across different parts of it, and you have to replay it and film different parts to put the story together and solve the mystery... it's an absolutely incredible idea on paper. You could have a time loop mechanic like Deathloop (but hopefully not as shallow), or play as different people experiencing the same thing, each with their own skills and abilities... it could be incredible if done right.

[@Windwalker88]

It reminded me of that Godzilla game where you are just a civilian trying to survive the carnage

[@qster4]

There is a series you may be interested in called Disaster Report that, I believe, Michigan: Report From Hell is technically a part of.

[@chrisball3778]

@@qster4 Thanks. Will look it up.

[@XenonXyanide]

This was an excellently done video. I would gladly like to see a part 2.

[@Marx1684]

You and Jake are the best duo online. I watched a lot of different types of videos online and the dynamic that you display is the kind people should strive for. You & The Dynamic Duo Podcast but they’re literally twins.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@foxmind2490]

I love this channel for how much research goes into the games you all list. I can’t imagine how many games you’ve played from the mainstream to the obscure to figure out which ones are good to talk about.

[@ceruleanfc813]

But Falcon did not mention, Yuji Naka says he was removed as director of Balan Wonderworld by the other people on the team. There maybe more to it for research in that regard.

[@foxmind2490]

@@ceruleanfc813He has mentioned, Jake as well, that Yuji was kicked off his team because of repeat legal troubles. Tax evasion and insider trading I believe. These points have come up more than once in other videos. Just because it wasn’t quickly mentioned here doesn’t mean the team doesn’t do research.

[@eon-one2182]

This comment is very much cap

[@marybdrake1472]

I do like the firefighter aspect of Quantum Error. It reminds me of Cold Fear in which you played the part of a member of the Coast Guard.

[@turbobuddah]

Cold Fear was incredible

[@marybdrake1472]

@@turbobuddah Yes it was. It's too bad it went so underrecognized.

[@Valiant1ord]

coool another banger from gameranx 6:47 i like how he casually throws the critters off the cliff

[@Valiant1ord]

i didnt know that when u edit the creators like gets taken off 😭😭

[@derekallard4599]

Glad to see number one. I have always thought the idea of a survival horror that changed depending on what you filmed and would skip parts of the game when dying or running out of battery to pick up in another tense scenario would be really interesting. I know Echo didn't receive a lot of praise, but it does do some more of the adaptive AI people have always wanted. Though I hear it doesn't amount to more than go loud during the first half of the day, stealth at night, then alternate each day and you do just fine. The AI will only change it's playstyle based on one part of the day and it only changes whether they come at you or counter stealth.

[@CommanderBohn]

There is absolutely nothing wrong to have a health meter in the form of a tattoo on your left breast. Get over it.

[@christophergreenwell2564]

As a male gamer i agree...

[@hadiferlan3760]

Wait, did you think "Michigan Report From Hell" is a bad game? What is wrong with you.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

Werewolf still breaks my heart to this day

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@Tysonator1000]

If Quantum Error was about $10, I'd probably give it a chance. I don't imagine there's many firefighting games without getting into simulators. Aside from the stealth sections, I had fun playing Werewolf: The Apocalypse. It's wasn't a great game, but going full aggro was entertaining. I wish more games let you play as a werewolf.

[@dylanbyard4594]

Yes I had werewolf earth blood through gamefly kept hoping it would get better gave up like 8 or 10 hrs maybe sooooo disappointed. I really wanted to like it too.

[@SireDragonChester]

Yeah I played werewolf, apocalypse. I wanted it be somewhat decent. We don’t have enough good games with werewolves. Last decent one was skyrim SE, been replaying in ps5. Yeah werewolf apocalypse, combat was werewolf was floaty, the story was not bad but not great, and direwolf form was so under utilized. They should have direwolf stealth skills and made him useful. But all did was sneak around, but you had shift back to human to do anything, open door, push button on elevator. Made wolf form so useless. It’s not bad game at least for story. But rest was so meh. We need more decent werewolf games.

[@an0idiot0of0use]

My goodness, I've only just now learned that American McGee is the name of an actual person.

[@zachmartin3347]

Gotta love that the bad games makes the good games just so much better.

[@cloudsaysthings]

Werewolf the Apocalypse makes me so sad. It was great in concept and ugh I wish there were more cool werewolf games but alas...

[@paulpardoe7808]

Actually I loved Michigan! Primative days it was made in, but that format for a monster/body horror with today's graphics and voice acting??? That makes me moister than another Evil Within! 😛

[@learycs]

Of bird and cage seems to be the game that offended Falcon the most…yeah that tracks.

[@nyghtmareblade]

Werewolf of apocalypse had so much potential to be one of the greats make my heart hurts I’m a die hard werewolf fan the whole concept makes me pissed some many games like that go to waste

[@NGMonocrom]

# 4 ~ A particularly bad day in LA.... So basically everyday. Got it!

[@krzysiekp.9555]

Metal Gear Survive was made of spite towards Kojima. That's all. Konami perfectly knew the game would flop.

[@potatospecgamer1534]

Love ya falcon

[@bubbafug00gle51]

I always forget if American McGee is a game developer or an Adult Swim show

[@louiemarks8501]

X-Men Destiny. It was interesting playing as someone who wasn't an established X-Men character, someone we haven't already seen in a dozen movies, cartoons and games. Also it was a nice change of pace seeing an X-Men property that didn't boil down to Wolverine and his less-important friends.

[@MadsterV]

in EVERYTHING is "awkward". Saying something is awkward because is also awkward.

[@TheSultan1470]

Exactly

[@terrystokes7893]

Crackdown 3 was actually fun . Just too short unlike the second one

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

Every like I get. I will just comment thank you.

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

Thank you Thank you

[@im-high-and-watching-youtube]

Lazy

[@IsThatAllStranger]

I got the werewolf the apocalypse platinum's trophy and man the game could have been better and in one scene when the Main charecter find his daughter inside that glass his voice acting really is top tier but the rest of the game meh... I got the platinum 1 or 2 years ago

[@milan.980]

Trespasser completely avoids HUD by adding health bar to the breasts, don't understand why it's called juvenile, the heart tattoo is positioned near the actual heart. Also you completely skipped over how the game doesn't have HUD for bullets or anything, have to listen to the voice to know bullet count.

[@Hempthusiast]

You forgot to say that MGS is litteraly Fortnite debut game in PVE... I also had my first look at a Kirby Game on Switch and made me feel like I was playing an updated version of Balant Underworld... KEKW

[@apcsox]

Jurassic Park Trespasser was an amazingly ambitious game. It’s not bad for what they tried, but janky as hell 🤣 And all I have to say is watch Critikal’s old playthroughs of video games and let me tell you, Michigan Report From Hell is one of his funniest

[@zizou-zwane]

I would say that when you try to emulate a franchise made by the very involved, inherently weird and different auteur like Hideo Kojima, you will loose the soul and spark of him, and in trying to emulate it you'll come up with something different and "uNiQuE" but also soulless.

[@Mirvra]

I actually quite liked a few of the ideas and mechanics from Metal gear survive 🤔 It was horribly executed though, and it was just re-using stuff from the other game. But the idea of being dropped in a big open world with tons of stuff the explore, discover, and bring back to your upgradable base where you sometimes had to hold off waves of enemies? Actually fun idea, never seems to get properly executed though :/ And the whole forced multiplayer stuff was just eh...

[@Jd34913]

I didnt even know quantum error was a thing.

[@MoboMcZero]

Oh man. I bought Quantum Error and I really tried to like it. I really tried hard. And honestly for just 4 Bros trying to make a Game like this I believe they put their heart and soul into it. But I just couldn't pull through. It was completely devoid of fun. That being said and I am 100% honest here: Wanted Dead!!! This is my Goty 2023! Now thats how you do it!! Fun Action 90s Trash Charme and a killer Soundtrack- now this is one of those misunderstood gems that just aren't made any more. They don't try to be old school its just f**king old school in the best way. I mean nothing comes closer to John Wicking MoFos than Wanted: Dead. Honestly I wished Cyberpunk could do it like this.

[@kenbaker3337]

A truly underrated game was Indian Jones that gave was surprisingly fun I never leave my hat behind

[@BungieStudios]

Those environments do not look like a PS1 or PS2 game. More like an Xbox 360 or Xbox One game, but certainly not current gen. Edit: Maybe a modern day phone game. ❤😂

[@kishona69]

Ahh yes, and this is why I love this channel. The titles are uniquely unique, invokes curiosity and the videos themselves are very informative/entertaining. Added to that, I can come back here EVERYDAY and see something new. Keep it up guys!!!😁

[@Sergey-wg7ne]

Quiet Man is also somehow makes me think about the uncanny valley all the time.

[@jenniferp.8116]

Earthblood is quite possibly the biggest video game disappointment of my life. I love that setting and all of the promo stuff leading up to it felt really cool and on-point. And then they made...that. Why couldn't we get a game where the combat was fun? Or the stealth was good? Or just a good old fashioned Bloodlines-style RPG? There are so many things this game could have been and it breaks my heart that no one is likely to try to pick the concept up again after this bomb.

[@robozot]

Great list, I was unaware of most of these. The worst I played was a game on PS3 (or 4?) done in the style of school book scribbles. I forget the name, but it was so rank I even hid the game on my lists after downloading it. I think it was given away for free. Be curious if you could find it but that was just awful in every way.

[@junko4166]

6:49 Why though?!

[@Nighthawk--tn7nk]

Can we get a top 10 anime games plz

[@imnobody1906]

Quantum error looks awesome to me

[@Paradox-es3bl]

Werewolf The Apocalypse Earthblood is like a good 360 game, imo. Treat it like that and it's at least way better than Vampire The Masquerade Swansong. It has a checkpoint system and stuff. Just a shame it came out in the PS4/Xbone gen, and not long before PS5, iirc. Seriously, I rented both from GameFly and Werewolf was enjoyable when I treated it like a 360 title.

[@madmaniac3602]

I didn't mind Apocalypse Earthblood. Can't say it's worth buying because it lacks polish on both the stealth and combat sides of the spectrum and fails to deliver that power trip of actually BEING A F*CKIN WEREWOLF and instead it genuinely is just a lot of swatting aimlessly at random groups of enemies. (Great if we we're looking at a much older title like Skyrim but this is a relatively fresh game. Plus the human to wolf transformation in stealth mode is interesting but ultimately pointless.

[@checkthestache]

I WANT A METAL GEAR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GAME!! (I just want it to be good, The Last of Us understood that stealth was a good survival strategy, cmon Snake)

[@zaccoop6727]

bg3 is extensive, and good on gameplay, but as always... if you want to play a naughty character... you have to be REALLY bad. You can't just manipulate and lie, you have to kick local squirrels and talk terribly and treat your characters badly.

[@anonymuswere]

hilariously, I'm on the official Earthblood discord server, and we're kinda grateful we got ANYthing. the IP is thirty years old, and is still niche even now. being a combination of the 80's classic Horror revival movement, the 90's anvilicous Environmentalisim movement and the "take that, censors" era,it's mostly for middle and late Gen X and early Millenial gamers.

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

Michigan: Report From Hell - is very poorly explained. Yes, it’s a bad game, but because it’s a weird idea not because it’s badly made. It’s all about voyeurism in the media - do you help people or do you just film what horrible things happen to them, including your own reporters. Each reporter is different, and they’re all attractive women unless you burn through too many and then you get a guy. You can turn the story more voyueristic by filming people dying, or you can help people (which the reporter criticizes). You can even upskirt or down blouse the reporter to go for the perve ending. Such a weird game, but almost by design.

[@Justforvisit]

13:48 "Mixed with the ONE HANDED CONTROLS" I see what you did there, Falcon.