Games You Can't Buy Anymore 2 - Lets Get Digital [Bumbles McFumbles]

[@Sigurdr78]

I was actually an alpha tester for Evolve! It was a train wreck! During testing, the lag was so unbearable that it took an eternity to get anywhere. At one point, the lag was so bad that I was stuck on one frame for ten minutes. When the game finally started working again, I was in an all white area and the map was in the sky far away in the distance. The other testers kept asking where I was and my only response was “Purgatory, I think.” Thanks for bringing up this forgotten memory of a game, keep up the great work big guy!!

[@andreanardelli6468]

So evolve needs to evolve, sound good to me

[@isaagamerplays]

Dang. This is rough and i wish that it was better.

[@GrumpyMunkyGameDesign]

I actually inadvertently coded a similar bug into a space sim I'm working on where as a 'fail safe' if x condition was met, shift player pawn by x units along X axis then check to see if the player ia in safe location, if false repeat the previous code and shift to a new position long the X axis. Problem is if those first few checks move you OUT of the playable area, then every subsequent check will fail and the code will loop ad infinitum til you exit the playable/Renderable area/Level bounds. (Probably why it froze for a while and dumped you into a white screen far away, you most likely literally were out of the world and in all reality actually THAT far away from the playable area and it was calculating the error correction routine to shift your position multiple times a second with each cycle both moving you then checking then moving then checking occupying all the CPU cycles) The lesson here? Why doesnt a multi national corporation with a team of devs hundreds strong miss a bug that one guy, in his bedroom writing a game solo, catches immediately!)

[@madmanmortonyt4890]

Man, Evolve was a mess of ideas. Without any concrete management or deadlines, all the cool ideas they had ended up half-baked at best.

[@wify0241]

I own evolve and itssssss quite fun except i can’t get ANY OTHER characters to play except the default ones and ur now someone to blame for that so GOD DAMN U NO ONE ELSE EVEN OWNS THIS LET ME PLAY IT

[@crabulonbestgirl9130]

Towerfall was made by Maddy Thorson, who you probably know made Celeste. this means celeste might not have happened if not for the Ouya and that is making me LIVID.

[@notkelomorii]

that’s crazy

[@jockohomosexual]

wish this was correct bc its very funny to imagine but sadly i fully believe celeste would have still happened. maddy thorson made tons of some of the greatest platformers of their era - Jumper, An Untitled Story, and Runman being featured in *SUPER MEAT BOY*, one of the most popular indie games of all time. tl;dr she's a great game dev and even w/o towerfall she woulda been fine in the industry lol

[@castform7]

The Ouya is the first time I've ever seen something be marketed as "unspecial". Really makes you wonder if the team was doing crack to think that basically downplaying your product would make it look better in the public eye. The Wii U had more self respect than this and it's....the Wii U.

[@Tigerman4545]

That lady definitely looks high most of the time

[@CassiDS]

29:58 Apparently the games most often downloaded on the Ouya storefront were emulators, which speaks volumes as to why so many people didn't buy games. And if you need a further explanation as to what I mean, it's because they were emulating them.

[@aether6293]

Modern vintage gamer has a video recently of emulation on the ouya, seems like a decent emulation box rather than a console proper

[@abridge2]

At that point just buy a fucking vita theyve gotta be cheaper at this point just due to how rare ouyas are

[@BouncingKetchup]

The ouya did have half decent emulators to be fair, I used to have one and they all were pretty good and really user-friendly (except the N64 one, that one ran like ass)

[@abridge2]

@@BouncingKetchup n64 emulators in general suck ass

[@astronights]

I don't keep up with Sonic content that much, so this video was how I found out that they're charging you extra FOR FUCKING ANIMATIONS

[@King_Minos64]

Sega Moment

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

Jump Force is worth preserving for the character creator alone. Cheers from France, where City Hunter (AKA the one playable character with just a gun in a game with Goku and Naruto) is popular!

[@AnAverageGoblin]

Jump Force has a mediocre character creator.

[@thatonebonkchoyguy]

The Culling 2 was pulled from stores on my 9th birthday, and I couldn't have asked for a better present.

[@KennyFrierson]

You would think Sega would be decent at re-releasing the same roms at this point

[@lavenzavantas]

late I know, but Sonic Origins doesn't contain any of the original ROMs, instead they're full recreations of the Genesis games using Sonic Mania's engine

[@adirisdewitt]

i can't believe bumbles has already defeated 45 ranked assassins of very questionable names

[@can-xe5ub]

Babe, wake up. New Bumbles McFumbles video

[@cannonballking7]

Really been hitting out of the park consistently this month! Let's keep this train of quality going strong, keep up the good work, and have a nice day.

[@imoutotrash390]

Please get better Big E, we're pulling for you. Also someone besides me remembers the hype for evolve.

[@CybeastGregar24]

Two 30+ long videos in 2 days? Is this early Christmas?

[@Skarmory22]

I think that if Capcom were to create monster hunter as an asymmetric multiplayer, maybe as an endgame mode, I would buy it

[@General_C]

Wait, is Frontier on this list?

[@Skarmory22]

@general c I was thinking this after the evolve section.

[@ZTimeGamingYT]

I really hate how Nintendo both advocates against piracy and destroys its eShops while simultaneously focusing their time on a paid internet service with much more limited content than the Virtual Console. Also. The Satelleview. I would have loved to play these obscure titles with actual licensed songs. Additionally, Sonic Origins Plus actually exist with an actual new character and a lot of Game Gear titles, along with a physical copy and art book as well.

[@andreworders7305]

2:47 from the makers of Style Savvy, with the world’s weirdest double genre talent

[@ZayZenBlaze]

I still think it’s awful that Square Enix didn’t update Song Summoner The Unsung Heroes, which was a JRPG (that used actual music from your iPod or iPhone) that was made for IPOD Touch and early iPhones, but hasn’t updated it for newer phones. So as in stands, the only way is have the game is on a Touch that you keep updated, an old iPhone, or maybe an emulated version I think.

[@bigmoneyswager]

I HATE 2K so much. I am basically no longer able to play an NBA game i bought 3 YEARS AGO because most of the modes are tied to online servers they’ve now shut down. Even the “singleplayer career mode” is unplayable because it was tied to online servers. It seems ridiculous but they’re allowed to brick your game and because you signed the EULA you hve no legal right to complain. Gotta love modern gaming. :)

[@lillambert6812]

Imagine calling DBD bad. imagine not having and 100% agreeing with my opinion. Imagine being a living breathing human being. Thats very of you and you should when NOW you are should yes

[@joshuapatrick682]

Why would you ever spend money for something you can’t keep as long as you want? That’s dumb, and whoever talked anyone into thinking it was s good idea is a genius.

[@TitaRussellTrails]

I guess we could add shine Megami Tensei 5 to the list now. Though Vengeance had all the old content (outside of a few old bosses having levels adjusted and level scaling was fixed)

[@vwnt]

it's crazy how the kill la kill game that failed outlived jump force

[@JujuInFlames]

So sad about evolve, I was in middle school when it came out but beforehand I remember being so excited about it, then it was released and man I didn’t hear a single thing about it I completely forgot it existed until a couple years later

[@yakkyrwhackr]

I'm still pissed about the Sonic games being delisted

[@genericname2747]

You can emulate them for *free*

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

Sonic Origins failed so that Sonic Frontiers could thrive. Basically the opposite of what happened in 2017 with Mania and Forces.

[@khalidamin53]

It’s funny that the ouya failed looking at it now cause at the very least so many older games are dumped on the app stores so often and even though it’s not an insane hit everyone’s lining up to use people do use Apple Arcade

[@VoidBornHuman]

18:38 I played this game in like 2021 on one of my friends xbox one

[@sawinater7526]

Im looking forvred to the danganronpa video mr mc fumbles

[@selenalulamoon1167]

Honestly dlc is such a hit or miss type thing. Game freak seems to have how dlc should work figured out after... the gates to infinity dlc disaster. Monster hunter rise and world did dlc good as well. But so many triple A companies seem to think dlc means extra skins. Shit like that. Which imo is kinda lame rewards for a triple A dlc. A mobile game doing that is fine. Not so much big companies.

[@KingNerdius]

2:17 that's not Wrestling, it Pro Wrestling, two completely different things also you can still buy a copy of Jump Force, they had physical releases

[@GoldDragon20]

Origins…yeah. Origins. Ouuuch

[@abadlydrawnimageofthelorax8997]

Cool hat paul

[@andreanardelli6468]

I like forces, Also for origins the games where remade and there is mission mode sooo, the price seems good

[@genericname2747]

Bruh

[@marx4538]

What SEGA did with Origins is definitely scummy, but Origins in of itself provides things that can be argued to be better than perfect recreations, being full widescreen remakes with cut content restored and bonuses, making it's version of 3&K completely unique. On the other hand, while there is nothing scummy about, say, the Mega Collection, that one is just a poor emulated rompack and became worthless the moment it released.

[@christianbotter3125]

You comparing Culling to RC Cola is a disgrace to RC Cola.

[@srcoeiu6100]

Rip Team Sonic Racing i guess

[@nesrinsalama5337]

Yes

[@gabehembling1088]

who cheats the most in knowckout leage vr

[@tempestflare4339]

Fortnite has existed far longer than playerunknown's battlegrounds the Battle Royale is actually a spin-off it is a four-player co-op but zombie killing experience not a battle royale game it is embrace the Battle Royale or aspect but save the world is the actual game Battle Royale is the spin-off multiplayer mode

[@PinionPlays]

Media preservation and archiving is such an important topic I'm glad to hear you feel the same. Support the Internet Achive people, it's not just the wayback machine they do.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

It sucks that this is happening to both video games and shows. Looking at you, HBO Max! Seriously, this video could not have been better timed.

[@bigs5078]

Never forget what happened to Megas XLR: tax write off, ie no-one can use the IP now

[@luckycapgaming5957]

Yeah the HBO stuff is *dumb.* I feel so bad for the people who loved those shows, as well as the animation teams behind them. Meanwhile, we won’t be able to add funds on the Wii U or 3DS eShop starting August 29th, so we’re losing TWO ENTIRE DIGITAL LIBRARIES. Nintendo deems this as the “natural life cycle” for their products. If the Switch loses its ability to update games, then almost all of Nintendo’s library on that console loses something.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

@@luckycapgaming5957 just mod your 3ds and wii u. its easy as fuck.

[@luckycapgaming5957]

@Chief Sitting Feather (We iz fake natives!) Right, I prefer to buy my games physically. It’s the deals that attract me. I’ve focused specifically on virtual console releases because I can buy them for a quarter of what they cost on the physical market. I want to own these games, and while downloading a ROM on a computer is valid, I can play it on official hardware with official controllers. I get buying a digital game is pretty much buying a ROM, but it’s less space on my laptop and easier to put on the TV.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

@@bigs5078 What even is the point of tax write offs? That's the monetized version of pissing people off.

[@griefingg0lem685]

When Jump Force showed up, all I could think is "As much as I like Spike Chunsoft, who thought putting the teams who are known for Dungeon Crawlers and Visual Novels in charge of the 3D Fighting game was a good idea?"

[@masterofchaos7282]

There’s a bunch of old mobile games from the early days of the App Store that are impossible (or near impossible) to get any more which is kind of a shame since some of them were really good. The main ones that come to mind are some of square enix’s early games like Symphonica, Bloodmasque and the chaos rings series.

[@EeveeShadowBacon]

Jelly Car

[@kainthedragoon8081]

I’d kill a man for zenonia 3

[@projectalpha22_va]

@Simple Barghest kzbin.info/www/bejne/h52zeHaYoqhsbK8

[@projectalpha22_va]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2e8eYmkasiEftk Here you go, please re-enjoy Infinity Blade.

[@GooberInternet]

WHAT ABOUT SONIC AND ALL STARS RACING TRANSFORMEDS MOBILE PORT?!!?!?

[@RegalRoyalWasTaken]

The funniest thing about Jump Force; if you pick the sword class for your OC, you can literally just mash the basic attack button to win against AI. I don’t mean move to keep them in range. Your basic attack will move you towards your opponent.

[@ShibuNub3305]

What a balanced game :)

[@boiyado6717]

I’m truly sorry for surprising you, I have committed an unforgivable sin.

[@fish4814]

I'm not sorry

[@thecommonman9524]

@@fish4814 you monster.

[@Hatsworthful]

19:55 calling fortnite's melee a 'side focus' may aswell be the overstatement of the century

[@iceblaster1252]

The fact there was a game where Kaiba could fight Goku makes me sad I never knew about it

[@thecommonman9524]

If it makes you feel better. You could probably create characters that look like them in other fighting games.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

several jump games exist with that specific thing.

[@General_C]

...it was not a good game. Don't worry.

[@FrostGlader]

I would have cared, but they decided to not make Light Yagami a playable character, so it can stay dead for all I care.

[@ShadowKnux372]

Well, say what you will, but the franchise was well-named: every time it came back, it kept Culling its playerbase.

[@JokerInTheCardDeck1273]

i remember play the culling, got bored of the "get blocked and then instakilled" combat, left it came back to gone servers, then came back a second time to see the limited plays a day. its a shame that all the neat battle royale that are more melee focused (the Culling, Darwins project) were liked, started dying, then pushed themself of a cliff by changing a large part of the game

[@daltonmcghghy9215]

@@JokerInTheCardDeck1273 the Darwin project was honestly really fun, then a revisit a while after launch just felt like it was a completely different game

[@M.F.Hafizhan]

Goddamn the og Darwin's Project was fun

[@Hugelag]

I still remember when all of the Tetris games were delisted from the eShop to make way for Tetris Ultimate. Axis and the Gameboy version? Gone. I'm also pretty sure that's part of the reason why they didn't localize Puyo Puyo Tetris until the Switch. They wanted it to be the only option. And the Tetris publisher at the time? Ubisoft. (Beginning to notice a pattern.) The funniest part is that Ultimate itself got delisted a couple years after launch. Turns out that it sucked! And now there's multiple ways to play Tetris!

[@michaelnelson1127]

How have you managed to put out 4 high-quality 30+ minute videos within a month?! You’re seriously awesome, Bumbles!

[@lucyarisato6850]

Unironically the Firefly Funhouse Match might be one of the single coolest things that WWE’s ever done. I would *genuinely* watch a breakdown of that-or any wrestling related content you decided to put out.

[@nichegamelover2359]

Sega doesn't fuck up everything, it just fucks up everything with the word sonic in it

[@somik-i3x]

And thank for piracy to keep game from being forgotten to time. And fuck every compagny trying to close rom site. You don't want those games, because you never release them again.

[@BrySkye]

The classic Sonic games are... complicated when it comes to redistribution. Now this is pretty well known in regards to Sonic 3 in particular, because the issues with its soundtrack (which was changed in Origins). So it shouldn't come as a surprise that S3K on Steam was always going to get delisted at some point. Along with the Backbone Entertainment emulation on Xbox 360, those were the only ways the game was in active circulation. Less known is that the same applies to Sonic 1 and 2. Sega do not 100% own the Sonic 1 and 2 soundtrack, which was work contracted out to Masato Nakamura and he still owns the rights to them. In the early 90's, no body really thought about the proposition that people might still want to buy old games in the future, once the initial production runs were done. That's why the Sonic 1 and 2 remixed tracks do not appear in the Sonic Mania OST's and why the Sonic 1 & 2 soundtracks were released by him via DCT Records like his other albums, rather than just Sega. So just like with how GTAIV had an update to remove the expired licensed music, re-releases of the 16-bit Sonic 1 and 2 are also susceptible to licensing surrounding its soundtrack which can expire, meaning that particular version of distribution has to be delisted (or renewed). It's easy to assume 100% scummy, but there are a lot of legal shenanigans at play that we aren't privy to the full details of. It's partly been suspected some of the reason why the older versions were removed is because the licensing with those specific releases was due to expire, and it timed out nicely to finally port the Retro Engine versions (and complete the S3K version) into a new package, and that the old S3K release may have become an issue. It's worth noting that the more recent Switch versions of Sonic 1 and 2 via Sega AGES were *not* delisted when Origins came out, and are still available, and those are thee original games emulated by M2, with some optional enhancements if desired.

[@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749]

At least goku can beat naruto up in Fortnite I guess ( I don’t know ifs that a worse fate than jump force to be honest)

[@_-Lx-_]

I mean I hate Epic games and all, but Jump Force isn't a hard game to be better than. Fortnite's personality is really grating to me and I hate the actual company, but it's a actually competent game and isn't a laughable wreck like Jump Force is.

[@squidge477]

Legends say Wraith himself put the servers back up. He has become too powerful.

[@sailorshark3334]

Wasn’t wraith a she?

[@devilseven6667]

"...except for you, Guy Game." Sums up the whole video pretty well, I'd say. Well played.

[@George-li1zi]

Yo your hilarious

[@_-Lx-_]

You're criminally underrated dude, you deserve way more subs than you really have, this episode was a blast.

[@TheSyntheticAbomination]

The worst part is that I remember ShadowGun, well the phone version and it was fun, like 6/10 by now but fun and the developers were very competent and made impressive phone games with good graphics and good history, even if it bursn your hands like 30 mins in The best under my opinion were ShadowGun Dead Zone, SG Legends and Dead Trigger 1 and 2 even if they retconned the history of 2 a ton of times Sadly now the last project they worked, a CoD Mobile like game on the ShadowGun universe, flunked and closed and now there is no news from them

[@gumeater6371]

I'm surprised you didn't mention any of the Infinity Blade apps on mobile considering the proximity of most topics discussed and how widely recognizable they were in the early 2010s! For those that don't know: Infinity Blade was a trilogy of action apps published by Epic Games (the fortnite one; formerly the unreal engine one) for Android and iOS that involved stationary combat, with your swipes determining the direction of your swings and parries. Not to gas up obscure topics but this app was HUGE- IB1 was the single most grossing app of its time, making 1.6m$ 4 days in its launch and 23m$ over 1 year. I don't remember the exact price of each app but they were each varying between 5-8$, and considering these games came out in a time period where phone gaming- especially paid phone gaming- was the anathema of gamers, this was nutso. The game went on to have 2 sequels that also sold well, and the piece de resistance of a Dave and Busters arcade machine. These games were fun too! Good aestetics and rpg elements! Sadly, Epic at the end of 2018 announced that they would delist all IB games without any plans to make then accessible to those that didn't already own them, forever damning the name Infinity Blade to "that sword that shows up in Fortnite every now and then."

[@jmurray1110]

I remember loving the first game since it was a display app on tescos iPads when I was a kid That and ravensword

[@angrybrony]

how timly given WB is stabbing it's animation content to death for no reason

[@atruepanda1782]

RIP Poker Night at the Inventory. You were too good for this world.

[@charscreamAA]

One single hacker really wanted to play Evolved and just decided to handle it himself

[@medes5597]

... That isn't how that works. At all.

[@haunting2234]

​@medes5597 shut up nerd

[@Tismdylan]

Who activated the servers anyways? Aren't they still up?​@medes5597

[@AnAverageGoblin]

funny part about Jump Force, there is still DLC that never came out. there was at least one more Season 2 character and a third wave that never happened.

[@ryantew1415]

That opening felt exactly like a Scott the woz video. That’s a huge compliment btw.

[@superkid2815]

Well you did apologize about the stab wound, so I guess I'm sorry about startling you

[@archmagemc3561]

I found Kraken was stronger than Wraith, because you could knock back someone into a thunderstruck and even if the assault had full shields and buffed shields, they still died. And this was an unavoidable combo. Most assaults could DPS wraith through the supernova otherwise since she was standing still and taking the hits.

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

Imagine an altrrnative universe where Ouya worked and titles like Undertale, Deltarune, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Five Nights at Freddy's and such where the big IPs of the console

[@jmurray1110]

An Indie specific console definitely sounds like a good idea But android wasn’t the best OS to run on

[@kimstmariejones6596]

Surprised you didn't talk about drive club. The game is really fun and looks AMAZING, but the main point of it, the multiplayer, was bad because of many issues like the fact you couldn't play the multiplayer for a while. The servers were shut down and I don't think you can buy the game anymore. Which sucks because of the fact the game is one of the best driving games ever

[@Ikea-sw3gn]

I feel bad for evolve, but it was so easy to fix the issue...NERF THE DAMN WRAITH, WHY DID THEY NEVER THINK OF THAT?

[@BouncingKetchup]

The ouya may have been a dumpster fire but at least it was good for emulators and it was the original home of Duck Game (yes that's what it's called ITS VERY GOOD TRUST ME) which is one of my favourite multiplayer games of all time. Had I not discovered it on Ouya years ago I would have had a significantly worse relationship with my younger brother lmao I believe the ouya had a thing for a while where every paid game had to have a free demo (either way Duck Game had one) which was a godsend for helping me get into the game as well The game is on pc, PS4 and switch now (though I don't think switch has the latest update yet) with much more content, trust me it's better than the name implies

[@theman6422]

It’s actually hilarious I have stepped away from twitter so I could feel like a normal person, but when I was still on there, people will STILL defend SEGA and all the best new games. They will say stuff that literally makes no sense like “the bugs aren’t a big deal, we get new characters, I passed the 5th grade”, and if you tell them wrong, they get their cringey-ass reaction memes out (which are all sonic-related) instead of just leaving you alone. This was reason #1 of infinity for why I stopped using twitter

[@Missingno0479]

I was actually a really big fan of jump Force. Before it was available for other consoles I remember hearing about the series and it being a PlayStation exclusive. When I heard it was coming to Xbox I got it quick. I never really had a problem with the art style and the over the top particle effects are what I expect from an anime fighting game. I had a great time overall with the game it's just too bad people didn't receive it as well as I did.

[@mythosinfinite6736]

Damn, that's really a shame that I can't get these games anymore. I guess digital copies of games are the death of preservation. Oh well. * Downloads a reupload online *

[@ZstackZip]

When you showed footage of Transformers Devastation in the intro, I literally scowled lmao

[@mooxsir]

I don't know if you'd count PS3 games, but the best game off all time, in my objective opinion, Project Diva F 2nd, can no longer be purchased

[@lukeedoplays3272]

As someone who plays Dead by Daylight, I can agree it is the most fun horrible game I've ever played

[@kennymccormick5972]

I still own jump force in my PlayStation with all the dlc characters you can still play it by yourself of vs a friend but the online servers are down.

[@autismandgaming4532]

It's a good thing I got Kirby Blowout blast while I had the chance

[@starcast3905]

You know what,I have jump force,I LOVE jump force.

[@koss7148]

Bumbles has a better record in Battle Royales than Brock Lesnar, pass it on.

[@marvlouslie2053]

Sega also butchered Sonic 3's awesome soundtrack, so.. yeah. That left a sour taste in my mouth.

[@icarusmarioFAN]

I gotta ask, how did they manage to screw up a classic Sonic soundtrack that's existed for 25+ years? Is it like Mega Man Anniversary Collection (I used to own the GameCube version) where they forgot to make songs loop infinitely like in nearly every game ever, good or bad, since 1985?

[@AnAverageGoblin]

@@icarusmarioFAN Sonic 3's soundtrack had involvement with Micheal Jackson and Sega took the easy way out and used inferior music instead of bothering to make something work.

[@zacherytaylor]

How will we ever recover from losing Doritos Crash Course?

[@wfjhDUI]

I never bought an Ouya but it seems like it delivered on what it promised and the real problem is that people have the unreasonable expectation that crowd funded projects with just a few million dollars should be able to slap together a new company and compete with AAA consoles and games in a matter of months.

[@medes5597]

The problem was, they pushed that expectation. The ceo went on reddit and talked about competing with Microsoft and Sony, having Skyrim on it eventually, etc. They pushed the audience to ludicrous expectations and then when it came out they were like "oh what this is just my phone but on the TV? Why would I want this".

[@broly1059]

4:06 it was literally 3:16 PM while I saw this clip how spooky 😭😭

[@General_X]

This is why I don’t buy digital and demand a physical copy of any game I buy. If games go entirely digital, I’m fine retiring with my collection. No developer has the right to take away something you already paid for.

[@GooberInternet]

Wasn't expecting a sequel to anything but The Chicken Little Duology (tm) BUT WE SURE GOT IT!

[@apewithpen2960]

7:18 it was Ubisoft again

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

Advocating for our Heroes, the pirates, aside, Sonic all-star racing is an interesting mess that was introduced to because Sega paid for the rights to have Pyro, Spy, and Heavy from TF2 in the game. They did not, however, pay their voice actors to voice them. This went about as well as you'd expect. Also, The culling 2 might have actually been made bad on purpose to make people talk about the original culling again. Like, this isn't just a "they *couldn't* have made a game this bad" sorta theory, the way it was rolled out without much hype, the ways the game was obviously worse then the original and PubG/Fortnite, and most damning, the sheer speed at which the Culling 2 was yeeted and they announced the return of the original Culling, which was *conveniently* exactly when the spotlight on just how bad the Culling 2, all pointed to an alternative motive for the culling 2's release. Especially when companies that made worse games that stayed in the spotlight longer tried to keep them going for months before admitting defeat. It's not like this game was forced out by a shitty publisher or a forced contract, they CHOSE to release a game *that bad* in the *middle* of BRMania. A game so bad that *every single person* who talked about it talked about how the Culling one was a good game. How much they missed the culling one. How much of a breath of fresh air a melee BR would be in a Sea of shooters. And would you look at that! The studio realized releasing a bad clone game was bad and promised to bring back the good game everyone *just* hyped up (without being paid to do so) as coming back *for free*, *and* it was coming back soon! Like, really soon. They even gave a release date pretty soon after, and hit it, wow, that's impressive to have done with ZERO planning beforehand, huh? I don't know whether to be mad they did that just to get free advertising, or to congratulate them on getting so much free advertising that wasn't even able to be disclosed as advertising by the people giving it. Like, damn, no wonder they thought they could get away with this horseshit about play tokens in a BR, they played literally hundreds of news tubers and article writers like fiddles and *got away with it.*

[@YarnLalms711]

Firefly Funhouse Match will never be topped

[@KirbyStarAnimation]

Sonic has come back swinging with frontiers since people loved it and now can’t just hate on it because everyone else is for valid reasons because this game has flaws but isn’t sonic 06 to sonic forces Just if people are asking Sonic isn’t even in my top ten favorite characters games or probably even franchises since I am more of tails and Luigi than sonic and Mario while also rather play since I have never played a Mario game when forced to be Mario and same for sonic but Sonic has better movies so far and hopefully Mario’s new movie looks great and probably isn’t gonna put him out of movie commission for three decades

[@CrimsonMoonM]

The worst part about Sonic Origins is that the "Classic" versions of the games are a total lie. The classic versions are still built on the Retro Engine, just without widescreen support and with lives added back in. In other words: they removed the Genesis games in favor of a collection that does not contain the Genesis games.

[@PlayerZeroStart]

I feel really bad for the people who made The Culling. They clearly had a great idea they loved, but just had to release it at the worst possible time, and no amount if attempting to revive it seemed to work. And when they finally had the money of a larger studio to finally make the game come back into the fold, said studio instead decided to shoot it in the head before it even hit the starting line.

[@GMUACW]

Man, the original Culling got screwed it seems like.

[@KirbyStarAnimation]

We have the same birthday on September 1st which I find funny and I got really into games when I turned 3 and started playing smash bros

[@erinaah2812]

Mr doctor professor bubbles mcfumbles, what is your favorite color ?

[@bumblesmcfumbles]

Hot Pink or Neon Blue

[@nervaaugustus7089]

Evolve was broken on both sides. Sure, yeah, Wraith was broken on the Monster side, but on the Hunter side you had Lazarus's reviving ability that's three times faster than normal and prevents Hunters from taking penalties for dying, plus allowing Hunters to be revived from dead instead of just downed. You also had the combination of Cabot's damage amp plus either Torvald's weakspot creation, Lazarus's weakspot creation, or Crow's ability to ignore armor and damage health directly (or possibly all of the above) allowing them to melt Monsters at Stage 3 with full armor in seconds. Unfortunately, Evolve's servers went right back down within a year of being put up, and they never relisted the game for sale to try and get a new audience. So it's dead again now.

[@aortaplatinum]

Live service games are going to be a fucking nightmare for preservationists, all just because publishers want more money. The most popular game for the last like 5 years is going to eventually become completely inaccessible- large chunks of it already are due to epic games riding the "fear of missing out" train all the way to the bank- lost media intentionally created for the sake of profit. Repulsive.

[@brunoacuna4540]

It's weird to think that without the OUYA, we would never have gotten Celeste