10 Biggest Video Game SCANDALS You FORGOT ABOUT

[@Dakuu75]

I would love a list of video game loading screens, with mini-games.

[@bruhdon4748]

Best one was dragon ball doing press ups or whatever it was

[@MrTerrorzone2012]

Are there many? Because I remember when I first saw one with the OG Tekken. I loved it and wished every game had that, but then found out Namco owned the rights to do that. Always imagined that more games would have had it if not all for the PS1/2 gen if Namco didn't own it.

[@scottpilgrim2]

Too bad one company patented it so you can't have any. Not like having a ssd allows for much time for one.

[@derekwilhelm1555]

I swear they did this if not them then triple jump maybe or the outside xbox

[@psychedelicpunk5031]

Litteraly the only one I know of is the Sims where you just click on whatever item they tell you to find and you get some aspiration points IG

[@RedRabbit-ZA]

It's crazy to think that Activision was once upon a time the "good guys".

[@vishwanathasharma1409]

"Live long enough to see yourself become the villain "

[@Dr.Yakub22]

The same thing can be said about Rockstar and Blizzard. We almost lost CDPR to the darkside too.

[@jamiemaguire6988]

@@Dr.Yakub22 Is Rockstar a bad guy now? I don't really follow gaming news outside of major releases now but i always thought it was Take-two that was the problem

[@TheMasterPandaBear]

It happens a lot, Ill add EA to the list, they used to be pretty good at the start. Most video game companies that make it big will eventually fall from grace as the key people leave and greedy corporate people become directors/officers

[@marzialalfonzocanada888]

So was EA hearing "EA Games, challenge everything" back in the PS2 era was a guaranteed banger game

[@minze202]

I always thought that it was interesting how the horse armour thing played out in the end. It was so universally hated and mocked and still it made so much money that it caused its own trend. It sadly also feels like it also set an example for big gaming companies to sometimes to just ignore the player base and it can pay out massively.

[@JM1993951]

They’re not ignoring the players, though. The players say one thing with their mouths/keyboards and another, completely opposite thing with their wallets They’re listening to the players’ wallets.

[@VolkovAlexandernovskiOfficial]

The psychology of it is super interesting. But the economics is weird too. Like the value of dlc is derived from the original value set by the developers. Because supply and demand doesn't come into it's value. As it's unlimited supply. So what makes them more or less valuable is it's rarity which comes from the price the developers set. Which is insane. If it's cheaper more people can afford but less will want it because it will be common. If it's more expensive less people can afford it. So more will want it. So it's this entirely rigged system where it's value doesn't actually come from the item itself. Or how many are available. It's comes from it's rarity which is set by the price they decide. They literally go "This is the one everyone will want. This is the one everyone will want and can't get, this is the one most people will want and can't get. This is the one some people will want and can't get, this is the one everyone will have and not care about" They are literally printing money

[@jspres86]

They're not ignoring the player base if the player base buys whatever they're selling. It'd be a whole different story if no one bought it. They're a business, their first priority is to make money. Good ol' capitalism, friends. "The answer to all of your questions is money."- Don Ohlmeyer

[@BuildinWings]

Right? Now I look at Horse Armor DLC and I'm thankful it's not a lootbox.

[@kosmosXcannon]

​@@JM1993951it's more like they just need a fraction of the player base to buy it for it to be profitable. It probably cost them pennies to develop skins in comparison to developing the game since it is just one aspect of said game. Then they can charge like a tenth of the price of a game at best. All they need to make sure is that they can bring in more money than it cost to make and it becomes a money printer since the assets are digital.

[@Milocinia]

Karl Jobst's videos on Billy Mitchel are really good. I love the fact that he's Australian so Mitchel's frivolous lawsuits will backfire on him since in Australia if you lose a case you have to pay for the legal costs of the defendant.

[@brendanroberts1310]

Surely that would only be the case if the case was heard in Australia as far as I am aware its being held in the US.

[@nuckinfuts920]

That often happens in the US too. Lol

[@Milocinia]

@@brendanroberts1310 Karl Jobst is an Australian citizen and the lawsuit against him is in Australian courts. Mitchel is also in a lawsuit against Twin Galaxies , which is located in the US.

[@Milocinia]

@@nuckinfuts920 I'm pretty sure it's only if you counter-sue. In the US that's not always an option and it's not standard practice for the defendant to be reimbursed.

[@nuckinfuts920]

@@Milocinia it is in civil. - done it.

[@Paraguai123]

The Kojima one pisses me off because not only the team got dissolved and mistreated, but they're also butchering the legacy of Kojima's games, with mobile, pachinko, etc.

[@manashieldmedia]

Don't buy another Konami product ever.

[@Matt-md5yt]

Heck Konami messed up Silent Hill recently

[@kadosho02]

​@@Matt-md5ytAscension. 🤦 Ugh

[@travisturner6761]

Yeah. I've never even been a fan of the guy's work, but Konami really did him dirty. Especially how they stopped him from attending the Video Game Awards that year.

[@MrSpartan993]

@@travisturner6761it was EXTREMELY shitty of Konami in every way they treated him. I don’t like stealth games no matter what type they are and horror games aren’t usually my thing, but I can RESPECT Kojima for what he created and did for the industry. Haven’t bought a Konami game since before PT and I never will now, not that it’s a difficult task anyway. FUCK KONAMI.

[@Dragonoid9810]

The real kicker for #2 is the fact that a big portion of the legal drama and lawsuits he got into was actually HIM filing lawsuits against anyone and everyone that accused him of cheating his World Record, Twin Galaxies (the 1st website he'd originally uploaded his world record scores on to) included after they investigated, then subsequently, removed his scores off their forums ~11 years after he'd submitted them

[@StageRight123]

Eh, dude's a loser either way.

[@adamcaretta4715]

I really wish the nemesis system was allowed to be used in more games What a truly incredible system wasting away in WB’s hands

[@bruhdon4748]

Me too, it’s bullshit that they copyright it & then have practically sat on it and done nothing with it except two games, there’s 10’s of games I can think of off top of my head that would benefit immensely from the nemesis system, don’t even think game developers can even make their own version of it either and call it something else they’ve practically copyright the whole thing it’s pathetic.

[@delayedcreator4783]

whats so great about it

[@George_M_]

There are ways around the copyright. Warframe for example has a nemesis system (not as good but that's besides the point) without getting sued. The real reason it's not showing up as much is because it's an example of missable content (the extra voices, mechanics, etc) and most companies are too lazy to have depth.

[@bruhdon4748]

@@Weegschaal yeah makes no sense from any stand point honestly, they’ve created something they could make tons of money off of it & instead they decide to just sit on it & not let anyone else have it

[@bruhdon4748]

@@delayedcreator4783 a lot, it’s a really good system and could be used in things like GTA to do gang warfare or elder scrolls, literally so many games would be enhanced with the use of that system, its just stupid so many systems and mechanics get copyrighted now, imagine if saving the game was patented lol

[@MrSTVR]

My favorite is the story of Too Human where Silicon Knights basically destroyed themselves because they didn't want to pay for Unreal Engine.

[@gameranxTV]

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[@princealmighty5391]

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[@localhobo5362]

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[@maynardperalta3188]

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[@AverageJoel1985]

I would love some more personal lists. Maybe Jake’s 10 favorite gaming memories or Falcons biggest gaming regret. Stuff like that would be cool, we love you guys!

[@wingman-1977]

What Konami did to Kojima is unforgivable.

[@peaceblasterr]

And waffle fries for free!

[@demontwashington9576]

lmaoooooooooo classic @@peaceblasterr

[@MR_stone69]

I forgive them

[@jonbotwesley]

You’re telling me you wouldn’t forgive them if they released a public apology for how they treated him, brought him back on board to finish MGSV with a new complete/ultimate/whatever you want to call it edition and announced they were working on MGSVI? Don’t lie, you’d forgive them. Unfortunately that’s probably not gonna happen lol

[@ArkRaptorsNest]

​@@MR_stone69you're 1 person out of 8 billion

[@JohnWilliams-bp8xf]

The one thing you left out about #1 is that that situation allowed third-party publishers to publish games without any kind of oversight and they ended up creating tons of shovelware which led to the video game crash in the 80’s.

[@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE]

Activision is a perfect example of the saying “you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”

[@vibingwithchaos5349]

Billy is definitely interesting. Everyone knows that he cheated, even without the evidence. And all these actions he takes to silence his critics solidifies this statement. But even after years, he still doesn't take the L. That's what he will be remembered for. A stubborn fool that led pride ruin his life. Or at least reputation.

[@David-ud9ju]

With the amount he's demonstrably lying in court, it might not just be the L he takes.

[@jspres86]

He REALLY reminds me of Mike Lindell.

[@StageRight123]

The guy has always been a loser.

[@StageRight123]

@@jspres86 No doubt. At least Lindell had millions to throw away

[@MlnscBoo]

Crazy to think that, if Driv3r had an extra 6 months to a year of polish and testing, it could have been an awesome game and Atari would have easily recouped dev costs and maybe even massively profited for just releasing a good polished game.

[@Shadows_Inc]

There's a reason no one got credit for working on the old games, Nintendo famously refused to use real developer names fairly often even up until the 90s. The reason why the companies did that, was to prevent talent sniping. Making games back then required a niche skill for programming that very few had at the time, so there weren't very many people capable of making actual games, let alone good ones that worked. So they had to keep the identity of their workers private, to prevent other companies from finding out who they were, and offering better wages and positions to snipe talent away.

[@RyanBrown2K5]

Atari did the same thing.

[@Shadows_Inc]

@@RyanBrown2K5 Yes, that's who they were talking about in the video. Most companies did it. Atari, Nintendo, Sega, DataEast, Capcom, Namco, etc. The only reason why Sony and Microsoft didn't do it, is because the practice was abandoned by the time they started making games, otherwise they absolutely would have. (Especially Microsoft)

[@harrison777ify2]

Good ole sheitbags

[@BuildinWings]

Borderland's original voice of Claptrap won't work for Gearbox anymore. Nobody seems to care what caused it.

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Same

[@FranciscoTChavez]

That's because no one wants to hear Claptrap talk.

[@bradyeiler1869]

This has nothing to do with the video but can we just appreciate Gameranx and their longevity and ability to keep making intriguing videos. I’ve been watching them since middle school and I’m in college now. The fact they’re still coming out with new topics to talk about and videos is just awesome. Plus they aren’t throwing out lazy and quick content, each video is greatly edited, topics thoroughly researched and they are almost always one of the first channels to review a game or trailer. I’m just amazed and always excited to see a video from them❤

[@SilverSpectre266]

The Billy Mitchell thing is still so funny to me. Its crazy how the guy was able to make a whole living off a couple of high scores he got at an arcade decades ago. He somehow managed to turn those brief instances into whole careers, and when you look into the recent dealings of how his empire is crumbling around him from the bribes to the secret audio tapings being released, its crazy how much he did to get away with it and yet believed his own hype so much he tried suing Regular Show for having his likeness in an episode.

[@SilverSpectre266]

Around 6 years ago I worked in a small retail store at the mall and at one point we got in Blu Ray players as merch. It kinda shocked me because I hadnt seen a standard Blu Ray player in years because either everyone I knew used their game console, computer, or just watched stuff digitally. So seeing a standalone player was odd. The absolute most crazy part was the price though...it was $200. All I could think of is, who the f is paying $200 for a Blu Ray player especially nowadays when there are a bunch of better way to watch it, and most people are going digital anyway if they dont have a console. And no, it wasnt some premium player either.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Funny enough I was just playing Oblivion, But if Bethesda didn't do it someone else would have

[@IIOver9000]

Such a great game I still play it

[@user-pn1fe6sg2w]

By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! It's the Grand Champion! I can't believe it's you! Standing here! Next to me! Best Elder Scrolls game and soundtrack.

[@joshuawebster8891]

Yeah, Bungi....

[@uplinkx1126]

The (still ongoing) story/drama of Billy Mitchell is crazy and very much worth to get into. It's my favorite soap opera.

[@12345.......]

He just prays for a settlement, but he sued the wrong people this time. Even if Billy believes he didn't play on mame, the evidence indicates otherwise.

[@Forever_Zero]

It's astonishing how the Kojima vs Konami fight was such a hit on Konami's reputation and the game industry that after all these years people still recent them for it

[@RX29]

Apparently not as all it took was for them to announce the Snake Eater remake and consoomers are clapping like trained seals.

[@XBluDiamondX]

@@RX29 Lets be real. How many casual players are even aware of this drama in the first place?

[@hatad321]

​@@XBluDiamondX Probably not many. It did get brought up at the game awards that year (Kojima wasn't allowed to go), so it had some reach but there are definitely people who don't even watch those.

[@reappermen]

A big reason why it is still fresh for people when Konami comes up is because they barely did anything in video games since MGSV came out, so there basically are no newer news to replace that last drama with. As an example, take Bethesdagames. What was the first thing most gamers thought of last year when Bethesda games came up? Skyrim rereleases and the Fallout 76 fiasko. Now most will think of starfield first, simple because it's the current big thing about them.

[@travishowell290]

My absolute favourite thing about the Bully Mitchell saga is that, even though it's been proven to not work multiple times in the past, for whatever reason he just loves to sue people to only be basically laughed out of court.

[@Moloko_b]

The funniest was Mitchell taking Regular Show to court over a character in the show called GBF, Garrett Bobby Ferguson or Giant Bearded Face lol The character in the show owned the galactic high score which Mordecia and Rigby had to beat. Very funny episode called High Score ;) ❤️👍🏻

[@GameListPlus]

Love the content you guys put out, part of my morning routine. Thanks for being consistent!

[@thetruesimplegrid]

Gameranx still making me smile after all these years 😁.

[@user-em2pe3rf4h]

I think that a scandal that has NEVER been called out is just how cheap,yet expensive controllers have gotten. All you old farts like me will remember just how bulletproof the original Nintendo controller was. I know. Controllers nowadays are more complex with more functions... they are also P.O.S. I went through 7 PS4 controllers. I didn't abuse them, they were just garbage. All of them, left analog stick. If something is made to break, you have to buy it again X's 7.

[@Matt-md5yt]

Ikr

[@user-em2pe3rf4h]

​@@Matt-md5ytlkr? S.O.D.? T.S.O.L.? M.D.C.? K.M.F.D.M.? D.K.?

[@pokermitten9795]

They are just as durable today as they were in 1990. This is a myth. My bad I play Xbox where the controllers are good.

[@Mistahhuntah]

I've been through so many Xbox controllers the best warranty pays for it's self.

[@manashieldmedia]

Nemesis being patented is why I will never willingly support anything WB does. On top of a million other reasons, they're disgusting.

[@Matt-md5yt]

Yeah the system is so cool in general and could be awesome to see in something like a post apoc or other media type games

[@andremamola810]

As a kid, for some reason or another, my parents wouldnt let me have GTA games but did let me have Driv3r. I def look at that game with rose tinted glasses.

[@listerofsmeg884]

probably GTA's reputation put them off, it obviously made it into mainstream media, Driv3r not so much. I really enjoyed the first two games (even got passed the training in the first somehow) but the third was clearly unfinished

[@SilverSkyCloud]

did driver also have strip clubs and prtostitutes like gta?

[@joshjlmgproductions3313]

Driv3r wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. But because it ended up being so similar to GTA, while falling short with many of the things people like about GTA, it got a lot of hate.

[@ANINIMOUSE.]

I'm STILL mad about the Kojima thing to this day! They did him SO dirty!

[@jaysanj152]

So what you're saying we should thank Nintendo for motivating Sony,Allowing them the Creation of the PlayStation purely out of spite and thus the respected games released after. Which means,If it weren't for Nintendo,We would have never gotten game franchise like Demon souls,Dark Souls,Bloodborne,God of War,Uncharacted,Spiderman,The Last of us... Holy jesus,What a grateful time line we're all living in.

[@glitchypriest3462]

Or we would be sitting in front of 'NintenStation 5' now, that has the best of both worlds. Who knows how that would've gone. (Though, with less competition, It might have been as expensive as a top-level gamer PC...)

[@jaysanj152]

@@glitchypriest3462 It's funny because i think Nintendo wouldn't bother making Playstation titles as they purely stick with their own old IPs and safely make money that way. and worse,considering how anti multi platform they are with their games and loves exclusivity.PC ports are out of the picture too.

[@listerofsmeg884]

'loading screens went on for a very long time' 8 bit tape loading memories: hold my beer... We did get some great SID tunes at least as we waited that 7-10 minutes

[@xSavedSoulx]

I loved playing Driver 3 back in 2004.

[@noahfecks7598]

The great thing about taking Kojima's name off MGS was the fact that most people immediately caught that and Konami ended up look like a bunch of chumps for doing it.

[@tobi_versace]

Imagine if games that had loading screen games had games that earned you a little in game currency or items so it really didn't feel like a waste of time. Because it still did even with little games you could play.

[@Yulweii]

Oblivion was my first real RPG. I bought every piece of DLC that was available. Lesson learned was wait for GOTY edition or equivalent with all DLC for a flat price.

[@themusesquad8554]

The mini games in loafing screens was integrated to games before Nemco copy right it Which make you wonder how can they copy right something they didn't invent. I remember many older games with mini loading screen game. For example Strike Commander.

[@travisturner6761]

Pretty sure you can patent most thought-out ideas regardless of whether you were the first to come up with it. Just need to be the first to patent it. That's why there is a lot of nuance around major inventions and who "invented them" (e.g., Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, or Edison and the light bulb).

[@bruhdon4748]

@@travisturner6761Edison literally worked in a patent office too, there’s a lot of theories and rumours that suggest he stole a lot of patents that came in & didn’t process them. He was well known to have stolen a lot of teslas ideas too.

[@travisturner6761]

@@bruhdon4748 Ha. I'm aware of the feud with Tesla. Culminated in the AC-DC wars and the petty electrocution of an elephant. Forgot he worked at a patent office, though.

[@droljanz]

Then he said that patient expired in 2015 , and in fact i remember FIFA09 on ps 3 had minigames before game loads ,and every other new fifa have it to this day

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Honestly, it's a shame the Saturn and Dreamcast got shafted. They were always overshadowed by bigger and more advertised systems, with the Genesis being one of the few great successes they had. The Saturn and Dreamcast, while not 100% perfect and certainly had some corkers on their systems, had some amazing games on offer.

[@animehuntress9018]

The blue ray feature was the reason I actually bought the ps3. Unfortunately there weren't many ps3 games I wanted to play and my money saving strategy is there have to be enough games to either equal the price of the console or at least half of it. The blue ray was what decided me buying it. There weren't enough games but there were more then enough movies, lol.

[@samslenderman]

The Fallout between Sony and Nintendo and VZ/JW and Activision, are two things i am VERY grateful for.

[@tylerphilco]

You could make a top ten scandal list for each of these companies.

[@iDEATH]

I've said it before, but I'll say it again every time it comes up: that MGSV will forever remain unfinished is one of the most tragic things in gaming. It's still a pretty great game (I still fire it up every once in a while when I want to get my stealth on), so imagine if Kojima had been allowed to finish it? Who cares about time and money when you're dealing with a long running, popular franchise by a beloved developer? Konami was so short sighted.

[@hatad321]

From what I understand it just would've been Episode 51, and Kojima actually wanted it to be DLC because it might've given "The Truth" less impact.

[@jonheinrich4068]

Surprised yall didn't mention EA making P2W microtransactions an absolute must in games, despite the community doing all it could to ban them

[@jspres86]

Talking about scandals people likely forgot about. And the community could've....y'know...not bought them. Or stopped buying EA games. That would've been a push in the right direction.

[@life_of_antonioh97]

It’s hilarious that I’m now realizing Eddie plant from pixels is based on Billy Mitchell

[@corym.m.3084]

Imagine if the armor pack never happened. We’d have free cosmetics in current games or the very least, they’d be at a lower price

[@margaretrose6178]

Realistically someone else would have done it anyways.

[@cpljimmyneutron]

You talked about how Infinity Ward split.... but you forgot they were created in controversy, having left (and taken their crew from) EA, where they had been working on Medal of Honor, and then joining Activision.

[@JonahTV]

Careful, Billy might sue you

[@SilverSpectre266]

Honestly Im still surprised Sega is still around. That company has been through the ringer for decades and has had more downs than they have had ups, but they managed to persevere and brave through a lot of things that would seemingly bankrupt any other company and managed to hit their high highs especially in recent times.

[@isaacwest276]

Like Activiosn, EA started out as "the good guys." They were imperative in making the video game industry play nice as to prevent Nintendo from establishing a monopoly in the '90s. I would love to see a list about the inspiring stories of how these major companies came to be, regardless of their current reputation.

[@faizalf119]

I'm surprised you don't mention Christoforo's marketing pr disaster and that guy who copyrighted the word "EDGE" for years. The Kojima drama is still pretty new and Billy Mitchell news always getting new updates thanks to Karl Jobst

[@lilyugi]

You know I grew up playing both GTA and Driver. I’ve played and beaten every single one. I never had the problems that everyone else had with driver 3. It makes so much since now why all my friends never really knew about it. Also I believe saints row also came out at the same time as well.

[@mtnman8783]

I grew up playing the driver games. I didn't care for GTA at all untill 4. Something about how the cars handled bugged me. Idk why

[@natansoto3673]

The 1st Saints Row had the potential to challenge GTA as king of sandbox games had they kept with the Gang Wars formula they had. Somewhere down the line they started following trends and the core game and fanbase suffered for it.

[@cuddleTrollop]

Worth pointing out that IIRC the PS3 was expensive for a console at the time, but it was like half the price of any other Blu-Ray player at the time, so a lot of people were buying them purely as a blu-ray player while it was still gaining traction as a console.

[@DerangedWhale]

Yea my parents bought a ps3 because it was much cheaper then a blu-ray player

[@Lil-Britches]

God I love Sega and the Dreamcast.

[@manashieldmedia]

Dreamcast and N64 are THE consoles.

[@AndiAnnasHugo]

This! I really missed my Dreamcast. My parents bought it alongside PS1. Spent hours playing Sonic, Crazy Taxi, and Shenmue. It arguably had better graphics than PS1 (imo).

[@manashieldmedia]

@@AndiAnnasHugo Plus early internet connectivity and those super cool animated memory cards.

[@AndiAnnasHugo]

@@manashieldmedia yeah, God dang it! PS1's memory card looked sooo plebeians compared to those. Sadly, not many games followed it ended up sitting unused until I bought PS2 and 1st-gen XBOX.

[@Larry]

Ha, thanks for the shout out guys!!! 😉

[@gameranxTV]

Always 👆🏻

[@Larry]

@@gameranxTV Aw, bless you! If you ever want to do any more stuff together in the future, just give me a shout ^_^

[@SithLord17]

You guys always come up with interesting and unique content. I love it! Thank you!!!

[@St.petersEye]

Off topic fact: if you had a console in the early 90s you was one of the coolest kids on the block and yes in those days people knew each other and socialised in the area.

[@Swift96]

There's another scandal I recently found out about, about a game that you almost never discuss on this channel - Genshin Impact. Apparently, on the game's 1 year anniversary, tons of apps on the Google Play store got caught in the crossfire between the developers and the community. People in the community were mad at Hoyoverse because of a leak that didn't turn out to be true.

[@mercury_0080]

Probably because nobody but genshin fans care about genshin impact lol

[@Triggernlfrl]

Who cares about mobile crap?

[@nuckinfuts920]

LMFAO genshin impact

[@Swift96]

@@Triggernlfrl It's not just a mobile game, it's on PS5 too

[@Lorronzo]

My friend and I loved Driver 3 when it came out. At the age of 13 and never having heard of GTA, it was mind-blowing for us 😅

[@JvvScar]

Hey guys, love your content, keep it up

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks

[@bioassassin]

You neglected to mention the fact that the the Adult Entertainment Industry invested in Blu-Ray and that was the knockout blow to HD-DVD.

[@Forcemaster2000]

A point about #1 that I think you should have made was that Atari actually sued Activision, saying that it was "illegal" for them to make and sell games for their hardware. The court though, thankfully decided that a console wasn't proprietary and that opened the door for third-party developers to become a thing!

[@jedison2441]

I am always reminded of the ET atari game. A bunch are apparently buried in in the desert somewhere.

[@wasabisushi128kb]

The GTA hot coffee scandal always amuses me.

[@asgads]

the sega collections are great, yakuza is the definition of a cult IP, sonic frontiers was fun while not being a goty and total war is the definition of a genre. And I say this as a giant mario and nintendo fan

[@Razmoudah]

Technically, Nintendo was the first company to do DLC, back in the 90s. It was only available in Japan, and required an add-on to the SNES. There were even a few digital games exclusively available via it. Sega also got in on it with the Dreamcast. Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2 had a LOT of DLC missions, and many of those missions included exclusive drops. PSO wasn't the only Dreamcast game with DLC, but it is the one I most distinctly remember. Horse Armor was just the first time DLC made it into the news, and it is also one of the first, if not THE first, cosmetic DLC.

[@axinhedgelion8417]

Sega did add ons first. With the Sega CD for the genesis

[@Razmoudah]

@@axinhedgelion8417 I wasn't talking about add-ons. I was talking about DLC.

[@carmineg]

13:55 (the reason the left Atari): There was a memo from the marketing department at Atari showing the sales of every game. The idea was to show which types of games were doing the best (let’s make more of these). 4 of the game designers noticed that they (out of 30 total designers), made up 60% of the sales. That 60% in sales translated to $60 million for the company. Those 4 designers were each making $30,000 a year. They went to Ray Kassar (new CEO of Atari) and asked for more money. Kassar told them that they (the game designers) were no more important the the person on the assembly line who puts the cartridge together. They left to form Activision and made it a point to put the Game Designer's name on the cartridge and in the credits in the manuals.

[@mixy4244]

I think "Call Of Juarez: The Cartel" is actually most forgotten mess

[@prabhiboyal7459]

Holy crap i totally forgot how cool i thought those dbz game loading screens were back in the day!and wondered why no one else ever did them!

[@Dr.Quarex]

Every time someone mentions the patent on the Nemesis system I have to mention that the game Generation Zero uses a nearly identical system for its robotic bosses, and it makes me wonder why the patent does apparently nothing to stop them

[@Faxie83]

I think Echo falls into that category too?

[@hatad321]

Patents are very specific, something similar but with differences is probably fine.

[@thelaitas]

Those Budokai loading screens are iconic

[@angrymikko]

Every time you mention the Kojima drama you never mention the draconian practices at Konami that affected ALL of their developers. Denying bathroom breaks, demanding constant overtime and public shaming as a common practice. These things that came out about just Hideous Kojima are relatively tame in comparison. These events were documented by the staff themselves and as journalists you really should mention them because they’re people too.

[@atanjacket]

@11:45 I think that Maplestory was the first to create a cosmetic in game purchase system when they made the cash shop ~ 2005 which generated a lot of revenue for them in NA and SEA. I think Bethesda saw that and dipped their toe in the water. Nexon via Maplestory was the one who created that industry though.

[@deantephillips2689]

Can we get a list of crazy video game patents? the loading screen minigame patent is crazy when you think about it

[@ejayl0l]

I'm surprised the whole mortal Kombat violence scandal wasn't here lol

[@masterman3178]

The nemesis system is so damn good and I wish it was in more game. Coupled with todays advancements in AI and it could be so amazing. Also I loved driv3r the car crashes we surprisingly good and it had a replay editor and that song destiny by syntax was so good from the ost. Yea the missions were bugged but I was 18 and just wanted to drive around and shoot things.

[@AsorTrebor]

Yall remember how regular show dedicated an entire episode to billy mitchell and spawned the funniest joke of all time: -"Im in my 20s!" -"yeah. 1920's!!"

[@naplzt4k]

It's funny how people were so against horse armor but now they happily buy all sorts of dlc, battle passes and games sold in chunks 🙈

[@SilverSkyCloud]

well tbf the prices of dlc's these days can be pretty rediculous lol, theres a dlc for a free game called sky, made by the same people who did journey and abzu, on their playstation version of sky you can buy the robes to make your character look like the travelor in journey, it cost $17 last i checked

[@KingKaleb77]

It’s so wholesome to see they were making patents to make sure they don’t waste a players time. Now it’s dystopian as hell and we see patents like “how to manipulate our fan base into spending all of their money while adding nothing to gameplay”

[@medes5597]

Except Namco knew that entire patent was invalid. Old computer games often had mini games when loading and namco were inspired by them. Meaning they hadn't invented anything patentable because it was based on prior art or innovation So while the wording is wholesome, them filing an invalid patent and using the cost of a legal fight against them as a way of stopping everyone else from having mini games during loading, is decidedly less wholesome.

[@IamH8ted]

Runescape 2 becoming RS3 then coming out with old school RS. That easily doubled their money and made you restart.

[@TaranTatsuuchi]

I still remember Crytek getting to the point they stopped paying their devs for a while. And quite a few of those devs leaving to get hired at CIG to go on and help them rebuild the Cryengine for their games XD

[@seniorzolo3433]

Remember when Bandai Namco wanted to patent "Souls" as a word?

[@marzialalfonzocanada888]

Aah the horse armor....kinda fitting since it turned out to be an actual trojan horse in the gaming community

[@offworlder1]

Revenge has created many of these rivals and titans, truly older then then feudism.

[@maineman5757]

When those Journalists got caught having seggs with devs for industry favors!

[@duncansnowden6857]

The worst thing about the loading-screen games patent is that it should never have been granted in the first place. There were games that played while loading from cassette on the 8-bit home computers as far back as 1984, and Amiga games used to load from disk during gameplay in the late '80s and early '90s. There was *so much* prior art, nearly fifteen years of it, that the whole thing was just absurd. Yet it stood for two decades.

[@RangerxTurbo]

Just refreshed my page to find this. It's like my netflix 😂

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@winniethepoor]

Man. People need to stop hating on driver when we were kids and our parents knew what GTA was all about driv3r was there for us looking all innocuous. That and Simpsons hit and run. Now that was the real gta killer.

[@cppblank]

I still regret not buying a bunch of HDDVD when it was on a huge sale after it failed at Hastings. I could have gotten the external drive for the Xbox 360 and about 50 movies for under $100. It would have been cool to have.

[@Machina_EX_Machina]

Thanks for shouting out the nemesis system! The thing deserves so much better.

[@RayvenTheNight]

Waiting to hear about Billy suing Gameranx next for saying his name...

[@dylanherron3963]

Number 2: Oh no, brother. None of us have forgotten about Billy Mitchell. We'd like to, he just... makes it difficult.

[@beuxjmusic]

Nowadays most games are selling their piecemeal cosmetics for huge amounts, but some games like Space Engineers still offer that good, old-fashioned $3 content and do alright without punishing their audience. Love them Space Engineers.

[@ChrisCarty97]

Driver 3’s character always reminds me of Simon Cowell. Simon wore that outfit plenty of times on American Idol and rocked that haircut.

[@dwightschrute2822]

I've been gaming on PC since 1997 and I've never seen a "loading screen mini game" so basically, they're either rare af or doesnt exist, meaning the patent was useless since they never licensed it out to anyone, made no money from it.

[@svpracer98]

I remember a long time ago... I was in best buy with my parents and wandered off to one of the blue-ray displays. I remember having someone who could have been my Grandma come up and start asking about the differences between dvd, hd-dvd and blue-ray. I remember have enough vague background knowledge to advise her twords blue-ray if they already had a compatible dvd player or sticking with regular dvds (HDTVs and especially 4k TV's were still a ways off).

[@coleredmond8459]

I'm surprised you didn't mention John Romero and ion storm. One of the creators of doom went onto make one of the biggest, overhyped flops of all time. From starting from scratch 3 times for each engine change, entire teams quiting, terrible mismanagement, the "suck it down!" Advert, the list goes on

[@RedAugust08]

My favorite thing about the Billy Mitchell story is that he cameos as a villain in Regular Show.

[@ROT4RYfc3s]

Tokyo extreme Racer on the Dreamcast was the best and the car customization was ahead of its time

[@5lim.0]

The Dreamcast was ahead of it’s time. If they would have implemented anti-piracy we would all be playing Sega consoles to this day

[@PhoenixRizez]

Definitely! When Quake 3 Arena on-line multi-player for the Dreamcast came out, pretty much NO ONE else was doing it yet, at least not on console. Dreamcast was the best system out when it was released.

[@acosma7730]

There was a mini game I played when a loading screen came up called “run and take a pee.” No patenting that one . A real beat the clock kind of thing. You’d lose points if you didn’t wash your hands.