20 PHENOMENAL Video Games From Closed Studios

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[@Jerriz_Dabster]

When you find out lionhead did not make fable but instead basically consumed the studio that was making it and the peter took credit for everything thus becoming the face of fable by default

[@TheStarlightKing]

No one ever talks about Saint's Row 4. I really like how weird and off the wall it was. Granted, you didn't need cars because you could run and fly, but that was part of the fun. You had super powers.

[@Maryfs1]

Same!

[@DJRaverTeddy]

As a Jamaican I remember playing The Getaway and coming into the Jamaican gang territory and hearing the music and the people actually speaking Patois with actual curse words. It blew me and my brothers minds. Then we shot out one speaker and the audio would go mono, until shooting the other speaker the music would cut off completely. The game was revolutionary at the time with all it's mechanics and attention to detail.

[@infernas]

I'm digging this kind of list format. Please do more. ❤️

[@Bman32x]

3:41 You mean to tell me, that Scott “My music tastes are 100% inspired by early 2000s WWE PPV themes and THPS just like me” Tailford was ALSO a bmx fan?! I don’t believe you lol.

[@DrewTheGamer]

Jackie Chan’s Stuntmaster! One of the best brawlers on the Ps1. I know what game you’re talking about my friend! ☝️😎

[@jasonlynch153]

Will always remember getting halfway through The Getaway and getting stuck on a shoot out cause I didn't know there was a healing mechanic where you rest against the wall.

[@LinkSergilBelmont]

Wish God Hand and the Viewtiful Joe games get remastered and released on modern platforms.

[@Bman32x]

Viewtiful Joe would work incredibly well on Switch. Right kind of pick up play, put console to sleep and come back later gameplay.

[@LinkSergilBelmont]

@@Bman32x yeah. Switch is also my preferred way to play those games again if they get officially ported.

[@kicksandswords]

Good picks my dude.

[@SteveGameSDG]

I bought Web of Shadows for Wii at just $9.99US. It wasn't that long ago either. I remember playing it on PS3 and couldn't finish it because it was so broken the world would stop loading textures and I got stuck in the air and couldn't move. I finished it on both Xbox 360 and Wii, though.

[@maxyw9366]

The fact Theme park and Theme Hospital was mentioned not only shows your alls true depth of play but knowledge, it also reminds me of my childhood as i was CLUELESS but addicted to those titles alongside Final Doom ,Twisted Metal, MGS and others. Which, I own still, all those games for the PS1 and then some :)

[@maxyw9366]

And Timesplitters, LORD, that series was a top tier one for PS2 esp the map editor, i'd dedicate hours to making my own maps/missions and then the arcade mode and allllll those settings you could apply. My mother even loved playing that game and she rarely played any games!

[@zevlopez8906]

Evil within is one of my all time favorite franchises. Such a cool concept.

[@Motorboatasaurus]

So glad Psy Ops was mentioned. Easily my favorite game that no one I know played or had even heard of. Like you said I cannot comprehend how we have not gotten another game like that of "this is the Havok physics engine here are some bad guys have fun."

[@solidkwon]

The most innovative thing about The Walking Dead for me was that I played it on my iPad. It was pefect as a touch-screen mobile game. The choices u get to make added to the replay value so I ended up replaying it on my PS4. Amazing game series, tho I’ve yet to play the final season, will soon get around to that eventually as I do actually own it

[@solidkwon]

Second season of The Walking Dead is my fav so far tho

[@cppblank]

The Scarface game is great.

[@chanceallen3586]

I appreciate you taking time to pay homage to the studios that created our gaming past. Nostalgia glasses aside, I miss the time when studios could throw anything at the wall to see if it stuck. With the costs and politics of the gaming industry the way they are now and going forward, I don't think we will ever again see big studios given creative liberty to make wacky, or inventive games, or create new risky I.P.s because it won't be profitable to stray too far from the proven formula. I am glad I got to experience that era firsthand.

[@jeanmalave1823]

This was one of you guys best videos!!! I loved every single game mentioned on the list!!! Great choices guys!!

[@chrisjones5949]

I didn't know Future Cop: LAPD was by the same dev as Dead Space 2. Wow. I loved both games, so that's pretty cool.

[@TeacherGalante]

I kept thinking Origin Systems, Monolith, and Sierra/Dynamix would have made this list, but they weren’t “indie” studios as defined today.

[@cppblank]

That Godfather game was great too.

[@brushdog1680]

Matt Hoffman's pro BMX was so effing good. I almost forgot how much time I spent on that as a child. Thank you for reminding me.

[@hip2besquare1972]

Absolutely love Prey, can't stop playing it

[@reecefrench4836]

Bullfrog....Theme park Bitmap brothers.....The chaos engine

[@solidkwon]

Saints Row 2 is my absolute fav of the series, and for me I actually preferred it to GTA IV when it came out cause it’s the right balance of wacky fun yet still grounded and plausible storytelling. The sequels got too wild for me and the prequel was too bland. My ranking would go: 1. Saints Row 2 2. Saints Row 3 3. Saints Row 4. Saints Row 4 5. Saints Row Gat Out of Hell

[@danconklin2542]

"A thousand people have unsubscribed" got me good.

[@johnnypay]

Binary Domain is a game i think needs a lot more love.

[@michellemartin6689]

there are tons of indie games where you can play as a wolf, fox, other animal. Lost Ember, The First Tree, Endling, Shelter, Spirit of the North...and so on

[@milkmanchannel1]

Wakeboard Unleashed was tons of fun. Tons of memories playing that as a kid

[@GReLLz2497]

Everyone always mentions Tony hawk and Dave mirra. My favorite game of that genre was aggressive inline. Tony hawk on rollerblades, game had a banger soundtrack too and I'm not in to rock.

[@alphagreywolf33]

Here are the games I want either, remake, remastered, or rebooted: Def Jam: Fight for New York, Army Of Two, Fight Night, Bloody Roar, Rival Schools, Need 4 Speed 1, Underground, Most Wanted, all .Hacks, all Shadow Hearts, all Xenosagas, Bloody Omen, Soul Reaver, Street Fighter EX3 Mega Man Legends 1,2,&3, Fatal Fury, Art Of Fighting, Marvel vs SNK. I will spend a whole month's salary for these games.

[@sargetyu]

Never heard of marvel vs snk

[@alphagreywolf33]

@sargetyu it's pretty much exactly like Marvel Vs Capcom, just replace the Capcom roster with the SNK roster.

[@colbymclemore7642]

I’ll personally never get over Pandemic Games being shut down. Made so many favs of mine.

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

22:07 tbh MY favourite season of TWD telltale is the last one s4. I Loved seeing the dynamic between AJ and Clem and teaching AJ to be a good person (although u can choose but I always chose to have Aj regret what he did no spoilers) Also WE GET TO HAVE A DOG IN S4! Rosie's such a good girl and I like the play on sterotypes by having Clem be scared of dogs because in s2 (i think?) she was attacked by the golden retriever/lab a dog that's normally known for being friendly and then Rosie is a pitbull which is known to not be friendly and she acts hostile towards u at first but u can win her over. Note in order to get FULL Rosie ownership visit the school's graveyard where Marlon and the others are buried as this is how u convince Rosie to like u.

[@scottburnside3218]

I have a copy of scarface still..kept it for years..is it worth anything?

[@MrSkullMerchant]

Fantastic game

[@DreamSoulBoi]

Web of shadows is still one of the greatest Spider-Man games of all time

[@valetboy21]

Jet Moto 2: SingleTrac/989 Studios, the franchise never gets the love that F-Zero or Wipeout gets.

[@darshura8429]

I'll never forget when I was 10 going to Toys R Us with my dad to get Primal because I played the demo and loved it, only for my dad not to get it because a worker told me and my dad how it was a crap game and not to waste his money. Only to see a decade later how much of a great game it actually was.

[@thegamingchef3304]

I wish they would make another Project Snowblind. That game was fun.

[@allercon]

Bullfrog was a great studio back in the day

[@Relaxedplaythroughs]

I remember having the demo for Punisher On Xbox the Piranha Scene uncensored was crazy.

[@raphaeltremblay8639]

I bought Spider man Web of shadows for 40$ recently and I thought it was expensive

[@AllBlackAirpods]

Scarface : The World is Yours

[@cppblank]

The bad thing with Telltale was the episodes were supposed to be monthly and never really were.

[@RzmmDX]

Maxis and Sim Tower/Sim City. Westwood for Tiberium Sun

[@TheJokers_3]

I’m surprised The Suffering wasn’t mentioned

[@Zaftikins]

"Telekinetic third person shooter" I got good news for ya! Control might be what you're looking for.

[@CoreyKaha]

There is also the Destroy All Humans! games.

[@damiancrowley569]

The best games ended in underground, looking at you THUG 2, but I also did like THAW despite no one Else seeming to lol

[@kbk22]

I still have my copy of Psyops: The Mindgate Conspiracy incase they ever make it backwards compatible for the Xbox

[@kyle3298]

Saints row and saints row 2 are both so good I wish they got more love. It’s a shame to see what the franchise devolved into

[@AngelXterror]

I will always mention DEF JAM: The Takeover

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

Psygnosis? Shadow Of The Beast, Wipeout, Colony Wars.

[@pimplimpgaming616]

I just found copys of The incredible hulk,Avatar the game,Deadpool,and The green lantern movie game for my ps3 and iv been having a FN blast

[@brxtndog]

Yall should do another list of great games from studies who don’t make those kind of games anymore - im thinking of xmen legends and marvel ultimate alliance as being such amazing games that we cant enjoy anymore

[@Stoned_apeTheory22]

I'm getting that wakeboarding game asap

[@Zirus_Blackheart]

How bout a "Once great studios destroyed by an EA buyout, their games b4 and after" vid?

[@mohamedfaroukelewa5905]

MGS V TPP technically it ended the Kojima Konami era

[@KegOfMeat]

Dead Rising 2 by Capcom Vancouver and TimeSplitters Future Perfect by Free Radical are my two picks. Scott mentioned the games Pandemic made and didn't mention Destroy All Hymans or Destroy All Humans 2 and that is unacceptable.

[@james61978]

Saints Row 2 was my top. 3 or 4 went too much into being twisted over a good competition to GTA. The newest Saints Row wasn't great, bit I enjoyed it.

[@Maryfs1]

Gonna write this while i remember (they may mention it later) but, Vigil Games! Darksiders

[@westonlong]

Rollerdrone is in my top 5 forever.

[@Station27Steve]

Control did what Psy-ops did, in a way. Play that

[@loganwolfhowl2405]

Really not gonna mention Syphon Filter from 989 studios? For shame!

[@scotty2210ss]

Blood and truth is amazing. I've put so many hours that.

[@jakubpyka8205]

No 3DO and Heroes Might and Magic 3?

[@cppblank]

Everything or Nothing is amazing.

[@nwgverified]

Simpsons hit and run is goated

[@smurphftw2008]

Looking Glass Studios

[@CommanderWolf104th]

my favorite saints row games are definitely the first 2 out of the series

[@SSjMarkyMarrk]

Finally some Stuntmaster love

[@archangel2015]

If notice all these games they mention where either niche games or licensed games.

[@lorddmarek]

Does Scott have a tick for saying "shout out"? Might make a drinking game outta it.

[@stratuvarious8547]

I just want Bloodborne to come to PC, and Tony Hawk's Underground is the GOAT of the series. Everyone talks about Pro Skater 2, but for me, the depth of the character creator and the storyline of you and your jerk friend who's trying to steal all your accomplishments so he can be famous. It's just so good.

[@cppblank]

I can't pick a favorite Saints Row, I love them all (besides the newest one, but I wouldn't really call it a Saints Row game).

[@tadsnyder2756]

Crystal dynamics

[@vincentmichel5165]

The third Age was the only turned based I liked too

[@invisiblediscos9412]

Prototype 2. Story . Garbage. Gameplay peak. The only game that felt like a proper evolution on hulk unleashed. Miss those days

[@cppblank]

I love FAble and hope the new one can help save Xbox.

[@bencampbell198]

What an incredible list, and super thoughtful for the people who made these games. This channel keeps getting better and better. I love it.

[@Maryfs1]

Saints 4 for me.

[@cdjandybot]

Does Scott ever breathe?

[@allercon]

You guys ragged on Web of Shadows big time when it was out, as did a lot of reviewers and they were all wrong. It was such a great game.

[@darthmonkey7718]

Wait now just one moment, did I hear you say EA bought another game company and then gutted it by grabbing all the good programmers and putting them on EA projects while leaving barely a skeleton crew to create and maintain games they are or have produced, AGAIN ?? Does this make it the 20th time they did this or is it more ? Come on now, including EA should just be a list of companies they’ll done it to this year and then go on to the next. They only know one song and they play it on repeat.

[@errorcode1815]

That Jackie Chan shout out caught me off guard, literally never heard anyone else speak about that game. A proper little gem from my childhood.

[@mminaaku5582]

Hi-Fi RUSH was good, but The Evil Within 2 was a very disappointing sequel. The first game had way better atmosphere, art direction, boss fights and writing.

[@popatsot1]

Yes! I keep getting yelled at that as a story it made no sense but it was more fun trying to piece things together rather than 2's exposition dumps that it would do every couple hours. I love both but 2 lost a lot of the horror aspects I liked.

[@jasonwindsor9315]

Hello? Link wolf?

[@yotaruvegeta]

There’s more shoutouts in this one video than a DJ at a 90’s hip-hop station.

[@NotIfICU1st_]

Requiescat in pace

[@IIxSam]

this video has made me realise modern gaming is basically dead to me

[@cppblank]

Hi-Fi Rush is alright, but is Tango's worse game.

[@ClevTrev7]

Shout the time spliter series. Made my childhood

[@shipyardtown8155]

Wow can what culture not put time codes in. FFS. Sometimes people don't have the time. But keep up the Hubris.

[@Richyrich181]

Sleeping Dogs

[@madworld-ul2tg]

you guys should have put silent hill

[@allercon]

This very site crapped on Prey when it came out

[@666WolfWere]

I like your vid, but 1 hr is too long. It would be nice to have like a 5 min summary

[@cppblank]

I played so much Simpsons Hit and Run. If they remake it, they better not add anything from the later seasons of the show that are terrible.

[@ayushmaansingh4553]

Where's the timestamp guy?

[@jbthomas01]

I don't think it'd be appropriate to play Hi-Fi Rush either thru purchase on Xbox or Game Pass. Doesn't that now only support the company that shut the studio down? Is my logic flawed on that?

[@SirSugarSkull]

Yes and no. If no one plays Hi-fi Rush anymore thats confirmation for then they were correct in closing it. But the studio is closed and sales at this point won't change that. It'll only make Xbox think they made a mistake

[@travishunstable5283]

Vr shouldn’t be sold at all, it’s an bad idea and nobody wants it

[@CoreyKaha]

I think it's a fun gimmick. Like certain VR experiences are worth it. But personally I'm waiting until it reaches full dive levels like we see in anime and the likes of Ready Player One.

[@robbyw.8616]

2nd

[@StanHalen1936]

Pathetic

[@FreshOSelect707]

First

[@StanHalen1936]

Get a life, virgin.

[@Damakos]

Third

[@StanHalen1936]

Loser