10 WORST AAA Games of All Time

[@Duskraven377]

I feel like this was inspired by Modern Warfare 3…

[@DevinPosey20]

Redfall too

[@EddieSalomonFriberg]

100%

[@cfiber_inc]

Has to be

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@jeremyrennerpornotruth]

there’s definitely worse games

[@KitasaurusRex93]

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.

[@Laoruperteen18]

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

[@mughilsivakumar7791]

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.

[@cosmincoco3679]

but they atck ur eyes with the gta experience and say u played dark souls.

[@nyodene]

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

[@Majinkusi]

Same😂

[@chrisidoo]

Can't add Skull & Bones to the list; It's a AAAA game.

[@Sk83rNinja]

Which is bs because it is worse than just about any game(excluding et of course)

[@BigBillsBadDeals]

You wouldn't understand until you get the purple cannon ​@@Sk83rNinja

[@reniervandermerwe]

I feel pleased that I was the 69th like

[@raphaelsupertrampe6088]

Hey… I like skull n bones…

[@Tsupek]

@@raphaelsupertrampe6088predecessor, assassin creed Black Flag

[@CerbearusBane]

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.

[@MrSpartan993]

Art vs Corporatism

[@werewookiee]

I don't even see how Redfall is a GaaS. There's no microtransactions, ongoing updates or events or anything.

[@Wereshaman]

@@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.

[@patrickbutler87]

nailed it

[@andyscoming4919]

Yep. Sad to see Sony is doubling down on GaaS with their next in line 1st party games smh

[@SupernovaCola115]

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.

[@bonbyhaud6661]

Major LJN vibes from hollywood games still

[@DrViili]

Is it really a AAA game though?

[@maximilianl4453]

@@DrViilidefinitely not

[@Nightwing-bh2tn]

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.

[@mihirphadke1256]

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.

[@trashpanda003]

We need a "The worst AAAA games"

[@MforMovesets]

Top 1 worst AAAA games.

[@yutakahano]

We already got that...it's called before you buy skull and bones

[@resumindo857]

@@yutakahanoconcord is way worse tho

[@cupatea5972]

​@@resumindo857Yeah but they didn't try to justify the shit quality by calling it a AAAA game. In a game of delusion and stupidity, Ubisoft can't be beat

[@Jakeinlivincolor]

Skull and Bones

[@DaveTheScwede]

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.

[@OldTownRanch]

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

[@swmkay]

I played this game so much! It was really competitive and fun to play with friends.

[@dragonzord6615]

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.

[@seapearl3175]

Most likely you did :)

[@KingKimwer]

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.

[@Jatt2613]

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.

[@ScentSense]

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.

[@stevetischler5910]

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.

[@hungreebear]

still sony fans wants it on their platform. funny how a game no body ask for is gettin asked for 🤣🤣

[@koshetz]

I feel bad because their later good titles like Dishonored 2 and Pray were commercial failures.

[@helluponearth4386]

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.

[@GriffinatorOriginal]

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.

[@TripleXMango]

Love when games do that. GTA V always cracks me up with that. If you shoot from cover, the character just holds the gun directly above their ear and sprays. Tinnitus who?

[@AbsolutelyJason]

lol

[@Taylor23-oj7]

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!

[@Varasalvi2]

I went on police chases and then used the replay system to edit a police chase scene.

[@Taylor23-oj7]

@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 🤣

[@McYeroc]

Bruh I got one of the driver games when I was like 7 and couldn't make it out the tutorial.

[@Taylor23-oj7]

@@McYeroc haha that'll be driver 1! I skipped that one 👀🤣

[@McYeroc]

​​@@Taylor23-oj7yea I never touched the series after, need for speed was more to my skill level.

[@kitsu5013]

Im genuinely surprised Anthem wasn't mentioned. But what else can be said about it that hasn't been told.

[@JABRIEL251]

Because it's not really bad per se, just immensely disappointing.

[@FernandoMartinez-ny3cy]

Too easy.

[@MrSpartan993]

@@JABRIEL251it’s BAD too. Taken on it’s own is like 5 outta 10z

[@JABRIEL251]

@@MrSpartan993 5 out of 10 is average. Not the worst.

[@darknesswave100]

​@@MrSpartan9935 out of 10 is literally average

[@HeathenMonk]

APB Reloaded was great fun back in the day. Glad the customisation got praise but you didn't do it justice. The marketplace of user created content was amazing. I made pretty accurate Jill Valentine and Harley Quinn toons and a Mad Max Interceptor skin (the red, blue and yellow one) that took ages but was totally worth it.

[@monkeyprojects129]

Love those cars, that was my C class main in forza 7

[@RocketDescends]

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

[@Xeonort]

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.

[@raulcferraz]

Any bad game beats doing homework 😅

[@robbiestratton5901]

For me, that game was duke nukem forever

[@scaleshack6780]

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

[@stuartmorley6894]

​@@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.

[@linkthehylian]

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.

[@eduardohernandezlopez3550]

The Obscure soundtrack is a hidden gem too!

[@Alesanahxc]

crazy such talent was wasted on such a piss poor game.

[@muldrake]

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.

[@rosiello5100]

His score for Streets of Rage 4 is mind blowing.

[@TheKaiTetley]

Am I the only person who enjoyed playing the game?

[@Oblivion4700]

Gameranx is starting to go in circles. I feel I’ve watched this video 20 times before

[@Dorky9394]

I will say with MoH Warfighter, I did admire the graphics of the cutscenes. They were really good for that time.

[@iamskyfall]

I thought Warfighter was okay, though the 2010 reboot was better. Honestly, MoH 2010 is a very underrated game.

[@ryanSLF]

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

[@fuctupkidmiles]

2010 had great campaign, but shit multiplayer. Warfighter is opposite

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@voidlight6006]

The multi-player was perfect blend of BF and cod

[@Simspon96]

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

[@Armysoldier8]

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

[@neubauerjoseph]

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

[@oldgregg898]

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.

[@ericlamb4501]

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

[@efancording6363]

​@@ericlamb4501Except battlefield 1 was a masterpiece

[@n3squ1k666]

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.

[@federicobravi5752]

Holy shit blasting Meshuggah, you sir are a man of culture

[@n3squ1k666]

@@federicobravi5752 you're breathtaking!

[@drinkinouttacups2665]

Back with the old soundtrack it was a fun time. Revisited later and the player base was just too good

[@dumbidiot2698]

'Helluva fun' cringe

[@SadSackGaming]

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.

[@FRANK45CASTLE]

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

[@Secretz316]

@@FRANK45CASTLE To be fair, they do have guns that do fire stakes, and they are one shot kills like you would expect.

[@FRANK45CASTLE]

@@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.

[@mafata4200]

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?

[@MarkHandlesFeatureBroke]

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.

[@MarkHandlesFeatureBroke]

@@pahub9256It still counts dislikes. There's an extension you can install on Chrome to see it.

[@geneb1719]

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.

[@ryan37971]

Warfighter was significantly better than the rest of the games on this list

[@revenant2550]

Medal of honor warfighter is one of my favorites back then.. It felt realistic for the time.

[@bruinbaseball7193]

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

[@Ace_Mace]

Warfighter was great

[@danielurosevic401]

Same here. The campaign is great. It's underated for me.

[@bearshapedbubs6626]

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

[@noacktion]

I actually kinda liked the story mode and the buddy system in multiplayer…was super fun with a friend but sucked solo

[@GameCrasher0]

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

[@guillermodiego819]

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

[@Mx.Dmg1999]

The car never stayed on the road for me on the PC version, ps2 Ver was kinda okay

[@samtepal3892]

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. 😂

[@RIlianP]

Alone in the dark OST was way better than it had any right to be.

[@Mx.Dmg1999]

@@RIlianP I loved the ps2 version main menu theme lol, I think the PCs ver is different

[@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_Bugle]

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.

[@delarroque]

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.

[@Rozza2k]

Yeah I actually bought it because I liked the style and idea behind it.....terrible decision😂

[@nicolasdawirs2340]

scull and bones in the corner : *i'm immune i'm a AAAA game*

[@richk6001]

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...

[@Mr.Corinthians]

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).

[@MrLJesus3D]

Yes

[@bruhgod123]

Haze could have been good if it wasn't a "Halo killer".

[@Linkonpark100]

I thought that it deserves to be in the "Hall of Mediocrity".

[@SuperCoon88]

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.

[@jacobcraft123]

Rip family video

[@vanillabeanboy]

Dude nothing worse than renting a game only for it to be shit and you stuck with it for a bit 😂

[@SuperCoon88]

@@jacobcraft123 Agreed man! I’d take it back for online marketplaces anyday.

[@DamienDarkside]

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".

[@Xurreal-LoL]

1:48 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!

[@alexjay8823]

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

[@ethanthompson1097]

Yeah I have some really fond memories playing it circa 2013

[@Rob712]

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.

[@chullinger3]

doesnt deserve to be on a list like this at al lol the market was killed with similar games but it did it better.

[@Paradox-es3bl]

Meanwhile I drastically preferred the previous one (MOH 2010 or whatever), as well as MW2, BF3, BF4, and probably MW3 (where I bowed out of the series).

[@richardfisher8460]

It was made by dice that's why

[@richone5411]

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 🥂

[@Skullzi]

Falcon takes any moment to talk about himself more seriously than the actual content of the video

[@AntonMorrow]

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

[@justincohen4823]

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.

[@serrafon354]

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.

[@MsHarpsychord]

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.

[@Alesanahxc]

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.

[@serrafon354]

I'm totally agree with you @@Alesanahxc

[@Froezone]

Despite sonic ‘06 being bad, I have extremely fond memories of this game as a child I loved every aspect of the game

[@babytoshiro7014]

This game wasn't bad imo. My mom loved all things Sonic and when she passed I buried a game with her❤❤🧡💙💙

[@LinFamily-t7w]

resident evil 5 and 6 split screen co-op are actually really fun

[@collin1240]

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.

[@WolftenDragon]

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

[@itslife1399]

I wasn't a dragon kid and I loved Lair too.

[@joshmartin2744]

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

[@Tyler01i]

I loved lair to. I was actually able to carry the profile icon from lair all the way to my ps5

[@kingslaphappy1533]

Nice job on this, I like your narrative style. I was curious to know what year each of these was released but hey, a bad game is a bad game anytime.

[@Turismoshepard]

Lets Go, Gameranx Consistency is unmatched!!!

[@LaMuerteLeather]

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.

[@D4rkKn1ght311]

I'm glad they're remaking it.

[@Nitro_Foundry]

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.

[@crimento]

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.

[@LetUsPlayBetter]

I really liked it as well

[@Pekka.Pekka.1296]

Ubisoft in 2024: hold my beer 😂

[@Mall-Nutrition]

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.

[@ericlamb4501]

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

[@DamienDarkside]

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.

[@trickers24]

Wow i forgot about brink. It really was so bad

[@jslice5967]

Me and all my buddies loved Brink, not sure why it got all the hate.

[@damienmcdonald7610]

Every FIFA game ever, wait a year and it's available somewhere for basically nothing lol

[@Drequan]

we need a new list of best games of all time

[@Shiestey]

They would have to do highest rated because “best game” depends on who you talk to

[@GoodfellasX21]

​@Drequan don't do anything like IGN, please.

[@HGritzan]

@@Drequan That always ends up as a popularity contest and A LOT of bad games are really popular. So yeah, no.

[@SteelTiamat]

​Well, if they end up doing the video you can just not watch it. That seems to work wonders for me.

[@androidweeklygame]

can't agree with you more

[@ColinLenehan]

"All time" is an infinite range of time so I would assume an update or two should be expected in the future :-)

[@majorpwner241]

There's already several games that would shake up this whole list, like Starfield and The Day Before.

[@TheRealSyckflo]

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.

[@MrRevengeracer]

I totally agree. I loved the music that played too

[@TheRealSyckflo]

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.

[@Biring1]

Clouded by nostalgia lol

[@Renkencen]

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!

[@FarangBish]

Yeah and the frustration if you drive into that huge hole in the ground. Underrated game for sure.

[@ScytheNoire]

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.

[@John-kx9vq]

I put some much time into that game wanting it to be good.

[@joshmartin2744]

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.

[@cattysplat]

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.

[@alucard624]

Tabula Rasa comes to mind too.

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

It wasn't bad. It just did not meet expectations at all.

[@oozlefinchlover]

As a soldier I thought MOH War Fighter was quite fun and I thought the whole operator thing they did for the multiplayer was super neat, getting to try out other countries Tier 1 units and the weapons they used while also getting to customize them was extremely interesting to me

[@Trollseason]

Gameranx easily the best channel on KZbin 🤞🏽

[@allonsy3695]

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.

[@ezraveenemans9327]

@@allonsy3695 so true

[@faerieknight2298]

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.

[@cattysplat]

You should farm your friend for easy cash if they are so easily parted from it.

[@faerieknight2298]

@@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.

[@why_tho_]

​@@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?

[@faerieknight2298]

@@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.

[@gaymohammed3137]

​@@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.

[@RatchetClankFan112]

I’m glad Frontiers and the movies saved the Sonic franchise and im happy

[@januvanzyl1452]

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😅

[@GamerBoy-et7oj]

I can confirm that Alone in the dark is a scary game when your little.😂

[@You-hh1if]

Horrifying as a kid😂

[@vandarkholme4745]

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.

[@louiemarks8501]

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.

[@TheAkselerator]

Keep in mind that in Sonic 06, a HUMAN PERSON kisses Sonic ON THE LIPS in order to resurrect him sleeping beauty style. That alone should be worth the #1 spot.

[@Mohammed-et6gw]

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

[@SoapMacLavish]

you must love hogwarts legacy then

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

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 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ashtonhamilton2218]

Same lol I played it on wii and didn't think it was terrible but I was younger lol

[@FunkyFunky7345]

@@Lawrence_Talbotthey gotta remake all the hp games that would be fire

[@isaiahgeorge906]

@@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.

[@emilybaxterthecartoonywitc1805]

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

[@cuchanu]

There's totally room for a good driver game. Maybe not a gta clone though

[@Kill_Binho]

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.

[@FoxSullivan]

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.

[@steelvalor]

Falcon, I weeped... WEEPED when Rabbit died in MoH 2010. It's a shame that Warfighter was my most looked for game in the past 40 years. 😅

[@PleeferTV]

My childhood was hurt when he said: “maybe you don’t think of SEGA as a major publisher.” He’s right though, SEGA truly had fallen from what it could have been.

[@ayoo_keenan8246]

Alone in the dark was underrated I loved the game

[@mordiHarbinger]

Ill wait for the Remake. Looks better.

[@Clasteau]

I'm watching that gameshot from Redfall and... damn. The bones are there, but no muscles or flesh, hair and nails. It's like you can see what it could have been if it was done-done. Kind of sad.

[@nick_malone]

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.

[@t0mmyb0y1983]

Absolutely LOVED when CoD & MoH were younger lol. Lan parties with headphones on sneaking around in MoH:AA and CoD2

[@attacklifeuk]

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.

[@Frggy-bo4yo]

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.

[@alucard624]

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.

[@Angelosanto]

Coming back to see if they added Veilguard

[@Fishpasta4]

1. Metal Gear Survive 2. Anthem 3. Golum 4. Back 4 Blood 5. Battlefield 2042 6. Dynasty Warriors 9 7. Warcraft 3 Reforged 8. Pretty much every 2K sports copy/paste game ever made 9. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 10. Duke Nukem Forever 11. Aliens: Colonial Marines 12. Sim City 2013

[@okpoiiika_b_kopblte_ctaca7084]

Well, I've completed Duke Nukem Forever for 2 times. It was something like Saints Row compared to GTA, but with Half-life 2 now. The physics and ammount of interactive objects was quite impressive

[@crazy117]

I've scrolled surprisingly quite far, far too far to find someone mention Aliens: Colonial Marines

[@Deimos667]

Gollum was never AAA, it was AA at best.

[@CharterForGaming]

Time to add Concord to the top of the list

[@luckybeast7452]

Driv3r was soooo fun and you had different city maps you could go to. And the story was pretty solid

[@realQuestion]

Umbrella Corps was not even CLOSE to a AAA game. Micro budget.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

same with Harry Potter…both were third rate games

[@JoosySmooyay]

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

[@MrSpartan993]

Trust what everyone says. It’s NOT good and it’s aged like milk filled with maggots.

[@Astracore357]

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.

[@hitofuuki]

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.

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

​@@hitofuukithis fucking thank you

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

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.

[@gaymohammed3137]

​@@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?

[@pokemongo-up3rq]

It's pretty impressive that the entire world looked at Concord and collectively went, "nah..."

[@joshuarogers4774]

Always love your videos! Personally, im a fan of all the harry potter games, they were just dumb fun.

[@Taylor23-oj7]

Apart from GOF... that game was TRASH. COS though is by far the best! (Or Quidditch if we're including spin offs)

[@dougr8646]

I liked OOTP and HBP bc of hogwarts being fully explorabl3

[@DAFUKAMATEVAFUCK]

Hogwart was bad too.. i could be better if some well known develilopper made it

[@awsm253]

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'

[@goodjoejoe]

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.

[@DaDaDo661]

The original Alone in the dark pioneered the tank control survival shooter. The way you presented it was like the 360 version was the first alone in the dark game

[@comfy9645]

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

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

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.

[@charlescalthrop6041]

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...

[@CarlosJunior-pu3up]

@@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.

[@snwcalic6453]

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

[@sparkingconduit]

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.

[@snwcalic6453]

@@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.

[@crystallakedood]

If you do another list of these, you could add Assassin's Creed Unity. The game barely ran on launch, was buggy AF, had a mediocre story, and devs blamed performance problems on users' hardware! Also I'm told Counter Strike on the original Xbox was pretty bad, too. There's also MVC Infinite, which I think maybe 12 people still play. And if you want to get slightly obscure, Tekken Revolution for PS3. Free-to-play Tekken game where you have to upgrade your character, but your online experience was not matchmade based on character stats... so new players would get slaughtered by anyone who's been playing for more than a week, regardless of skill (generally speaking). And who could forget Fallout 76? That's low-hanging fruit.

[@boblionia]

AC Unity was not nearly as bad a launch as AC2, people just forget this because at least AC2 was a fun game. Ubisoft's DRM prevented legitimate customers playing on release while the pirated version of the game worked perfectly. This obviously led to huge piracy numbers which Ubisoft has tried to use as a shield ever since, ignoring that the main reason for piracy was entirely Ubisoft's fault

[@crystallakedood]

@@boblionia I didn't play AC on PC at the time of AC2, so I can't comment on that. But I do have perspective from later entries, and hoo boy, were they rough for me (on high-ish end hardware). I hate their DRM regardless, but they've always used it as a shield and it's ridiculous. But it's sadly a well-known and well-documented issue that Denuvo DRM and similar are AWFUL for even singleplayer games. Depressing, man...

[@TheKgr320]

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.

[@DJ_JCRUSH]

I looked at this just to see if Anthem made the list 😩

[@generalsubject8661]

part 2 with Concord? Or is that beating a dead horse?

[@Slothyshire]

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!

[@ging3rbreadtiger618]

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.

[@rasmuzgamingz7655]

I agree its so good

[@markymarc12]

APB was my game back in 2013 -2016. Got max COP rank. Fun times.

[@cryo9shadow91]

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

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

I am with you i enjoyed the hell out of alone in the dark i liked the mechanics of the gameplay and driving

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I actually think Driv3r is amazing, you just have to look at it as more of a crazy physics sandbox like goat simulator.

[@neubauerjoseph]

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.

[@chriswilliams8159]

Honorable mention: MW3 2023

[@xenrgx]

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

[@diegoparga9324]

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.

[@ARIXANDRE]

I love how people are coming around on the lukewarm reception of The Order 1886. Short , pretty, tight, no microtransactions.

[@Biring1]

Way too short without a story that concluded. Such a disappointing time to me

[@C0LPAN1C]

Heart dropped when you said alone in the dark, but once you said 2008, all was okay.

[@flighttaker]

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.

[@mr.voidout4739]

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.

[@skillissu3s]

I'm really surprised Aliens: Colional Marines isn't on here

[@DarthClaws]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@XxJohnnyGATxX]

I actually thoroughly enjoyed Alone In The Dark 2008 at the time of release lmao something about it was refreshing for me at that age

[@tasper2226]

Same I was 12 when it released terrified me but enjoyed it

[@XxJohnnyGATxX]

@@tasper2226 dawg I was 13 and I thought the whole inventory on body was such a cool feature. gameplay wise, I was impressed back then, it didnt captivate me as if it was GOTY but I thought it was unique nonetheless

[@OrionTheAussie]

This video needs an update for the recent Concord stuff lol

[@noUGames]

Driv3r isn't that bad, it's gunplay & on foot isn't great but the driving is solid.

[@JulioAl-oe6dg]

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...

[@EricSanf]

I personally love Driv3r. That game was horribly fun.

[@TheAwkwardGamer]

Hey, all things considered, Babylon's Fall at least made it almost a full year. Concord didn't even make it past 11 days before it was announced to shut down.

[@ttaa6645]

I honestly really enjoyed both of the Deathly Hallows Harry Potter games lol. They’re far from perfect but they’re very enjoyable

[@mrsantoro8306]

There's always one of you in these comments by the gods.

[@jeroxasgaming6083]

i enjoyed them too, preferred order, prisoner, and half-blood prince though

[@darklighter66]

Disnt even know they existed

[@HereToWatchNotRead]

Seem the game and your opinion have something in common... there both so far from perfect.. there bad. Lol😂

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@Gwyn1stborn]

APB. I kept getting messages from people asking me to delete my char so they could use the name. I have never played APB.

[@drinkinouttacups2665]

I like apb

[@ImagikaAli]

One of the best things about driv3r is how politely everyone shoots at each other

[@moistsock5847]

Game companies playing chicken with the consumer to see what they can get away with is (in my opinion) one of the leading causes to why a lot of games never reach their full potential.

[@Gatorade69]

People somehow act like this is a new thing. It isn't. At the end of the day all the decisions were made because of one thing, money.