games that almost killed their franchise...

[@RocketSloth]

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[@patricks.7951]

These companies are dumb sometimes. They put out horrible games, then they’re like “oh well, no one wants to play *insert franchise here* anymore, guess we’ll just forget it exists”

[@thewhitewolf58]

Usually it is either rushed out the door or they are trying to cash in on a trend.

[@rafael12121998]

Why would they keep funding a game no one bought? Regardless of the quality, they still lost money so continuing a series after that just doesn’t make sense. Very few companies have the money to fund continuations of bad games.

[@thatguynobodywants3716]

​​​@@rafael12121998 Becaue they would rather let a series that was doing well die instead of admitting their mistakes and connecting the dots where surprise, the excecutive meddling they willingly did was what it affected the last entry they made. But, they would rather blame it on the developers and make them completely accountable for the mistakes they made. The developers cannot approve the monetization that is used at the end beacuse they don't have that power to begin with.

[@arthurfleck629]

@@rafael12121998 It isn’t just the game series which suffer in multiple ways, the most notorious of which of course when they’re put to the chopping block or at the very least placed on ice indefinitely. It’s also the employees, the ones who so often actually perform the lions share of the labor, while their management refuse to take any accountability when things go poorly, blaming the workers and cutting their pay and of course even letting them go in enormous numbers in small periods of time with little to no warning. It’s pure lunacy, but unfortunately it’s hardly unique to the video-game industry, it occurs anywhere else, especially in other entertainment mediums where projects are also extremely expensive to create like games. You’ll always have muppets slipping through the cracks, faking it until they make it, becoming instilled within managerial roles even though the issues they have are significant enough that they will never be management material, and thus shouldn’t ever be in charge of anybody in the workforce to any real degree. Particularly regarding their personal insecurities and deeply held beliefs about themselves (many have inferiority complexes they can never shake), when such fools get into positions of power, things go south very quickly, all it takes is for a little bit of pressure to come cracking down on them and they start running around like chickens with their heads cut off, and of course, since they aren’t qualified, they can’t can’t even imagine what it might take to improve the circumstances, so they do the first thing that comes to mind, they take shortcuts to save their own asses, backstabbing loyal employees in the process. The lack of accountability is a serious issue, as it means a comfortable lie is perpetuated and good franchises are left on the cutting room table, the execs and investors are almost never wise nor savvy enough to look closely enough to determine that the franchise is fact highly beloved by fans, but was contorted into a hideous corpse of its proper form, masquerading as such in what’s often a ridiculous deviation and potentially even an outright cash grab. It’s almost never the case that fans don’t truly want more of the franchise, take the 2022 Saints Row reboot for example. Us fans had been yearning for another Saints Row game for YEARS, nearly an entire decade by that point. Instead of being given anything that even vaguely resembled the franchise’s true identity we all fell in love with so many years ago, we got a woke and out of touch piece of garbage with no right to even call itself “Saints Row”. Now the series is dead in the water, cryogenically frozen until further notice so to speak, with the “further notice” being when another person with the power, connections, and know how required to do so, finally resurrects it, which may not even ever actually happen. If it does, it’s not like there’s any guarantee they’ll get it right then either, that’s how terrible some of these people are at what they’re being paid tens of millions of dollars to do, they’re completely clueless, or close enough to that they can’t accurately gauge what fans really want even when we’re screaming it out at them. They ignore everything and just follow the money, they see dollar sighs and they pounce, and naturally, this means they get it wrong, very wrong, a lot, but do they ever pay the price for it? Never, and when things are starting to look less than aesthetically pleasing in the quarterly fiscal earnings calls, the hard workers who’ve invested their blood sweat and tears are axed so these idiots can maintain their exorbitant salaries and bonuses for which they perform little to no actual work for. They’re lazy douchebags who plague the gaming industry and snatch hard earned jobs from struggling people who are sometimes only just getting by, as cowardly and heartless as it gets.

[@thecrispymaster]

@rafael12121998 This sounds sensible until you consider that the games in that series WERE profitable before that entry. I am a programmer who has worked in various industries but the games industry totally baffles me. In any project I've worked on, if you're working on a previous iteration of a product and this current one doesn't sell you think about how you could improve or assess if you need to make any alterations to adapt to the current market. Games companies just scrap everything they had and then build a product from scratch again to appeal to roughly the same market. I can't fathom how that is at all cost effective.

[@IronLung865]

That food you advertised at the beginning look absolutely awful bro. Those are microwave frozen food at a premium price

[@emarskineel]

It looked so nasty

[@jakel2837]

My dad got hello fresh for a while, supposedly one of the better ones. It wasn't bad, but those "fresh, never frozen ingredients" are noticeably low quality. Lower than what you'd get at a grocery store, but a little better than the average frozen meal

[@IiI_Gogeta_IiI]

@@jakel2837 you cant say never frozen and then have them in the form of a frozen meal thats what gets me. Reminds me of gordon ramsay on some of the kitchen nightmares episode where people will say "fresh frozen" as in brought in fresh but then frozen afterwards effectively not making it fresh anymore

[@KadeemG61]

It wasn’t Infinite that nearly killed the Halo franchise, it was actually Guardians that nearly ruined the franchise.

[@MiSambra]

there was a pretty big player exodus after 4 if I remember correctly

[@BLARG0w0]

Actually it was halo 4 most people hated the art design

[@Tako258]

It was halo 4 with 343s who didn't care about what the fans wanted

[@yeetus_the_feetus4858]

Guardians didn’t nearly kill halo it sold heaps

[@SuppositoryPerc]

It was halo 4. Because halo 4 changed basically everything it qas also the beginning of the ugly elites

[@invokedbyred]

Elijah not being able to pronounce bolognese is wild 😂

[@sirflex-a-lot3811]

😂

[@silenttripmine4230]

In german its literally Bolognese, is is it the same in eng.?

[@reclaimerbeats]

Fucking insane

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

Spaghetti Baloney

[@Shilobotomized]

Baloney/bologna is pronounced the same, can you blame a man for thinking bolognese is just a 'fancy' version of that?

[@commissardale]

Destroy All Humans 3 should take place post gulf war. That way we get post 50's, vietnam-era, and after the gulf war

[@andersonmendoza7336]

coca cola santa in fortnite

[@jamesvancam]

Yea, like after the 2nd games Remake I always ask myself "where is the next game THQ Nordic?" Bc it was also in the Nvidia leak & alot of those became true like Tekken 8 & GOW:PC

[@KlomboFanClub]

No one is ready for destroy all humans set during the war on terror

[@dominiknemeth6218]

7 out of 10 = mid? That's the problem with the game journalists as well nowadays. 7/10 is a GOOD game. 6/10 also. 5/10 is mid/okay. What the hell happened to people's rating system...

[@LordOOTFD]

They reserve sub 5 ratings for literal trash. IGN hasn't rated anything under 3 this year.

[@haroldasusus4684]

And when they do use it, it’s for alien isolation 😂

[@Safersephiroth777]

I agree. I mean if there was a test and you got a 7/10 it would be considered a good score actually. Even 6/10 would be considered decent. But man things changed...

[@jamesvancam]

Also, ppl throw around the word mid so nonchalantly everywhere nowadays almost making it meaningless to me now. Lol

[@jimmyv3170]

Mid is a gen Z term to try to dunk on something. Most of them would call 95% of all the games before they were born (late 90's) mid or trash without even understanding what they're saying.

[@TheMaLiK5966]

The whole Halo segment pissed me off….cuz it’s just all the bad 343 has done and it is an eye opener

[@lutherheggs451]

Its hilarious when people still to this day try to pretend that LMFAO 343i is some sort of "other company" . 343i exists because MICROSOFT put them together INSIDE Microsoft and alot of those people are/were ex Bungie devs SPECIFICALLY to make Halo games which haven't been good since Reach because they clearly aren't sure what to even do with the story and, trying to cater to the idiots who think every game needs to be open world

[@SLAMJOSE]

It hurts hearing these dudes talk about different games . Sometimes it sounds like they have no idea what they are saying but just reading a script , like “this game is bad too , right guys?”

[@BroShredGnar]

YES. I always think this. It’s like you plug in online information on a video game you’re never played into an ai and it writes what they say

[@thesfdoctor3603]

Found these video randomly just to hear about Metroid Other M and oh my God, so much of the information of the game was missing. Nothing about Sakamoto, why he wanted to talk about Samus and he even said that Other M was a reboot, wtf

[@TheSnekDen]

Hot take. I actually love Path of the Furon. I hope it gets a remake like the first two. But one that actually improves and expands on the original (because I agree it's sure not as good as the first two).

[@Shin_Gojira]

Is more probably that they make a DAH 3 ignoring Path of Furon, like Crash 4

[@commando0062]

I liked path of the furon too

[@OneRandomVictory]

I wouldn't mind another 3rd person Metroid game tbh. If the Other M's writing wasn't so bad and they fleshed out the level design and combat more, it could've easily been a hit.

[@Descrapto]

Yeah the combact had some good things that could have been way better with another control scheme. They should have done a prequel of Samus being a bounty hunter with the same ninja theory team with improved gameplay. But without sakamoto, at the end of the day he was what went completly wrong with the game (mostly story and voice direction)

[@CyberHangman]

Metroid Other M's story seems like it was written like this on purpose to put the main female character "in her place" amongst her male superiors. I can't confirm if this is true, but I definitely could see that when I watched the cut scenes. Before that game, Samus was a lone commando that did stuff her way, WITHOUT having to follow another dude's orders

[@orangeslash1667]

@@CyberHangman Before Other M's development, Sakamoto did not think too much about "what kind of person Samus Aran was and how she thinks and her personality", particularly because the games tried to depict Samus as a mysterious person. Sakamoto and Team Ninja put much focus on backstory in the game to present Samus as an "appealing human character". This explains why Samus barley talks in Dread, and even then he had to take a break from Metroid to get that right.

[@orangeslash1667]

@@Descrapto Team Ninja would go on to make Hyrule Warriors, so at least some good came out of this.

[@BaxterAndLunala]

​@orangeslash1667 Don't forget, the localized script is completely different from the Japanese script. So, it was clearly some sort of disconnect, I blame it on a lack of understanding from either the localizers or Sakamoto. But Hunters? Tanabe gets no excuses from me for that trainwreck.

[@ExtraHecticana]

Technically... every land mass is an island

[@gacd2104]

yeah, but we can't talk about California as an island. Even with that logic, it's just one small part of an island.

[@Mqmn]

@@gacd2104with that logic California is exactly that, apart of a big island doesn’t make it anymore less of one.

[@gacd2104]

@@Mqmn But you can't say Dead *Island* is an island if it's just a part of one

[@Mqmn]

@ who even cares tho like actually

[@codyhenry1530]

⁠@@Mqmnyes… it literally does lol. You can’t say a city is also a continent just because it’s a “part of one”

[@Vinny2142]

Some absolute not-bangers turned banger (and vice versa) on this list - always a good watch from ya all!

[@X.A.1]

Can you send me 10$ :(

[@Chad_Wick]

"are they gonna remake silent hill one?" shattered memories living up to it's name once again.

[@pyrocomusic8345]

Calling Spec Ops: The Line “decent” hurts to hear. That is one of the best games ever made imo!

[@sirlolthecrazy9852]

they probably never played it

[@nu5723]

the narrative is unique but the gameplay in a video game is more important

[@Mr.Wiksila]

That dead island moba was hella fun game, had blast playing it with my friends

[@lukewarmwaterr]

27:25 the saboteur is actually fire i remember an older family member playing it when i was a kid so i bought it for like $5 on steam recently and its a fun game

[@ardent9422]

Dead Island 2 was nowhere near "JUST OK" It was excellent! Especially because I played it on Game Pass, that just made it sweeter!

[@harmagedonFR]

I want to do it but i don't think making him in vidéo for my come-back IS a good idea

[@yeetus_the_feetus4858]

Nah it was just ok

[@lutherheggs451]

Dead Island 2 is nowhere near "excellent" it was mid at best, just because people played it on WelfarePass doesn't make a mid game excellent. Dead Island in general is meh at best its not bad, but its not great or LMFAO excellent. Its generic

[@harmagedonFR]

@lutherheggs451 it's ok, not mid, but it's not good, it's like a bit higher than mid but a bit slower than good

[@Nobody1mportant999]

@@lutherheggs451Welfare pass? 😂 nah you’re just paying an idiot tax dude

[@ChillGamer365]

Possibly a controversial take but i actually really liked Doom 3.

[@doomsday6372]

I think overall people have warmed up to it

[@higherground9888]

Doom 3 aged spectacularly

[@CaperClash]

Doom 3 was awsome man. I loved it way back when first released. I'm a big horror survival fan . So loved the atmosphere. Revisited on ps3 years ago and still enjoyed it .

[@BaxterAndLunala]

Yeah, Doom 3 might not be a good Doom game, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game.

[@nizzleprizzle9783]

I spun out on an icy bridge in 2014 for the midnight release of mcc. They I had to wait like 6 years for it to begin to be updated again. I sat in the lobbies for hours when it launched just waiting to play…on launch night I thought it was just a bug maybe lol. What a disaster and recovery

[@loveunitedhateglazer7033]

That psp cars game was my childhood, so much fun was head replaying the same 8 races / missions over and over again

[@brycetheoddball]

“Just a remake” is crazy. Please go play both Metroid 2 and Samus Returns.

[@BaxterAndLunala]

Just don't play Hunters, it's bad.

[@haroldasusus4684]

55:54 Castlevania experienced this with bloodstained. Basically the director was fed up with Konami giving him tiny budgets to make bigger and bigger games so he left and went on to make a massive series that is bloodstained. Might get some of that wrong

[@Crissaegrim-xv9cu]

Order of ecclesia not selling that well was also a big reason why we didn't have 2D castlevania games for literal years

[@KOTSOSMC2002]

DOOM 3 was pretty good, Mass Effect Andromeda was alright (and outright outstanding in gameplay and presentation). Post-YotD Spyro is overhated, all his GBA solo adventures were great, Enter the Dragonfly and A Hero's Tail are fine, the Legends trilogy was a nice and cool change of pace (as was the Titans timeline for Crash) and Skylanders was a fun take as well, arguably the second best toys-to-life game series ever behind LEGO Dimensions.

[@cameroncastro1157]

I loved dead island 2. In a industry where games are live service and filled with microtransactions it was a breath of fresh air and extremely fun/casual. 8/10 for me

[@takeshelter5313]

Agreed

[@MishraArtificer]

Splinter Cell...but I'm not sure if we can really blame Blacklist: it released in a lull in the Stealth genre's popularity.

[@boubayaga_]

I think the Harvest Moon IP and lore was created by the localisers in the west, kind of like how Power Rangers is a western program based on (I can't remember the Japanese show name). So then the team who localised the original game got other studios to make knockoffs while the original devs found another name to use to sell their game

[@Aye_itsju]

Super sentai

[@BozoTheLost]

Let's be thankful Dead Island 2 was absolutely killer.

[@Scarecr0wn]

Selling off your PS4 with Silent Hills PT in time of crisis... yeah I know that pain as well man.

[@TheyWillKnowAnother]

I haven’t watch a video of yours in a while, I had almost forgotten about why I quit watching….now I remember why I quit

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

I hope Dead Rising 4 is in here 🧟

[@vvocky]

I beta tested Dead Island Epidemic and it was actually a pretty cool game. I’ve always disliked MOBAs but I think I just liked it because it was Dead Island.

[@benlipka5417]

Don’t you dare disrespect LotR: Conquest that game rocked.

[@ip2]

343 only fired a small amount of people and renamed themselves whatever the newest Halo studio is, I don’t even care to remember anymore. They have not learned from their previous mistakes, look at the people in the leadership positions.

[@Marksman3434]

What about them? Most of the old leadership of 343 is gone, especially Bonnie Ross and Frank O'Connor. Those 2 were the most responsible for the crap that Halo turned into.

[@lutherheggs451]

No you mean MICROSOFT renamed them, after Microsoft created them. EVERYONE who works/worked there were placed there by Microsoft. MICROSOFT has not fired a small amount of employees, they've fired over 6,000 people the most hilarious being when they fired 2,000 people 12hrs after they had a private $500,000 Sting concert for their executives

[@benboylan-kelly6763]

Im surprised they Didn't talk about jet set radio, the creators made a continuation called bomb rush cyberfunk

[@justweirdout]

You guys mentioned Hitman but I was surprised you didn't talk about how Absolution kinda killed the franchise for a few years before IO revived it in 2016

[@Neoniq41]

What about Sonic The Hedgehog? The franchise literally almost died TWICE, first time with Sonic 06 and THEN with Sonic Boom.

[@jimmyv3170]

Yeah but they kept making Sonic games after those. They never took a hiatus off the series. They even put him in the Olympics.

[@Neoniq41]

@jimmyv3170 Still, if it wasn't for the Sonic movies the franchise would've been dead by now, because of how awfully Boom performed.

[@masturch33f66]

I actually love Sonic 06

[@commissardale]

I never thought I'd see Halo on a list like this. Sad times.

[@harmagedonFR]

Gears of War Can be consider like halo ? I honestly think game After Gears of War 3 (except jugdment) IS better than most of halo games After reach so...

[@traigongames]

21:23 they are making a new Fable game however I don't know if it will actually come to life as it's now been two years since their last trailer for it

[@harryallsopp9136]

Grew up loving Destor All Humans 1 and 2 on PS2. I didn't hear about Way of The Furon for years and only just heard about the WII game.

[@NeglectedChild-ih1jt]

22:00 didn't think id be hearing Life Will Change from Persona 5. Just barely caught it but still an amazing video all around. Really enjoy this podcast esc style videos a lot

[@harmagedonFR]

4:57 have a ugly armor, what the hell happened

[@doomsday6372]

I don’t get it that’s pretty much the same armor he had in Combat Evolved is it not? Or do you just not care for the design overall?

[@harmagedonFR]

@@doomsday6372 the halo 1 design IS the one i like the least, the infinite version was thé perfect match between old and new

[@Tako258]

From what I seen with destroy all humans 2 remake it said it was compatible with the Xbox one on the page to preorder it but when it came out it wasn't compatible with the Xbox one

[@DemocracyOfficer289]

5:43 I have never laughed harder in my life

[@hihibye2324]

Other M was a fantastic game. I will die on this hill. Gameplay/Gimmick was phenomenal, the only metroid game (until dread) where the hard mode was actually hard. Finally gave Samus a personality, and I really liked that they showed there is Trauma there with Ridley (the psychopathic boogeyman that has murdered two of her families and keeps coming back to life for the sole purposes of hunting her down, killing her and everyone she is close to) And ya the reason for her not having all her upgrades right off the rip wasn't great, but at least they gave a reason. Ya others have but some Metroid games don't.

[@Mr.Midwest]

I recommend actually playing Metal Gear Survive, I think it just got such negative response from the fans because of what happened with Konami and the series. Yea its a cheap reskin of MGSV trying to jump on the survival crafting train but it really gets carried by how great the gameplay of MGSV and the fox engine.

[@X2011racer]

Except that the enemies are braindead compared to the likes of Call of Duty Zombies, Left 4 Dead or even Resident Evil 6 (specifically the Zombies from the Leon campaign). It's like Konami copied the AI behaviors from the infamous The Walking Dead Survival Instinct, which also has bad AI. Just how? Especially when MGSV had intelligent enemies that completely negates any previous strategies to avoid detection in MGS4...

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Agent Under Fire was really good as well, and was made by the same studio as Nightfire, I'm pretty sure there was that Goldeneye spin off which wasn't based on the film, which was supposed to be pretty good as well.

[@LunaPPK]

Rogue agent is the one you talking about

[@scorpion0498]

only played like 5 hours or so of dead island 2 but it kinda slaps :)

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Problem with Destroy all humans reprobed is mostly technical tbh

[@hexonictheverymediocre]

bro was munching on that spaghetti

[@mustard_96]

So the thing is Nintendo has always kinda treated the Metroid Prime games separately from the main Metroid series (which Other M is a part of). It’s all one franchise, but Prime is its own little subseries within the Metroid universe, which is why Federation Force is a Prime game and Other M isn’t, and why Dread came out before Prime 4, despite being announced years after.

[@jameshonaker585]

I feel like your entire Metroid: Other M section just misses the mark. Like, painfully so. Metroid: Other M was meant as a sort of interquel, not a reboot...the story was set between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, sort of meant to clear up some of the unexplained story beats and contextualize Fusion. Matroid Prime is its own sort of side-branch, chronologically set between the original Metroid and Metroid II. Metroid's always been a bit of a weird franchise, since it feels that the main guy is really the main driver. The game that was Dread was kiboshed after several failed attempts, though MercurySteam's success with the Metroid II remake gave the series head confidence that they could potentially deliver on the game he wanted to with Dread.

[@dkn_chkn]

what’s the game in the beginning with a horse wagon it looks familiar like something i vaguely remember playing on xbox 360

[@jacobcooperlong]

I gotta say. Calling the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series a "fighting game" franchise is a HUGE mischaracterization

[@SkinnyFG]

How about a copy/paste job every title? Is that better? Tell that studio to learn how to make new assets. It is in it’s own COD cycle

[@ShadowMage]

Sly Cooper is another game series that has basically died, despite it being well loved.

[@art-5464]

Haven't watched yet, but I'm guessing Doom 3 will be on the list.

[@pawel2669]

With dead island, it was the 1st time I actually followed game news that was not from G4. I was 16/17 and thought this game was much bigger than it was because to all the KZbinrs I subbed to were playing it. Prior to this I was subbed to pokemon battle KZbinrs and than COD KZbinrs, the COD KZbinrs were leaving COD behind at this time and were doing more things

[@darkhobo]

To be fair to Konami, not that they deserve it, but re-making Metal Gear is exactly what Metal Gear is all about.

[@blemishednicely8402]

An interesting thing about the Yakuza series, when it 1st came out it was actually (loosely) based on an actual situation...known as "The Yamaguchi-Ito War(s?)", IIRC~

[@lutherheggs451]

Doom "3" was a remake of the first game but using modern design for the time

[@BaxterAndLunala]

My friends and I hope we're wrong about what 343 will do next will likely run Halo further into the ground, but given their track record, it's highly unlikely.

[@gloriamitchell9878]

People said that the crash of the titans trilogy ruined the crash bandicoot series

[@christopherson93]

tony hawk 3+4 remake died because Activision pushed Vicarious Visions into Blizzard to help with Overwatch 2. fuckin shame..

[@thedude1234561]

007 quantum of solace was a sleeper game I stg

[@gantakanata2550]

Deep silver, the notorious publisher that ruins games and doesn't give studios freedom. Ruined saint's row as well.

[@SethyAnd]

Dead island was easily YEARS ahead of its time for sure. Dead island 2 was doomed from the start

[@SoxxTheBot]

It hurt hearing y’all talk about dead island and saying it was mid :/

[@Cookiemaster98_98]

DI2 is mid? Really?

[@littlebadassgaming]

Dying light 2's maps felt too open and that the biggest map of the two areas relied too much on the glider and grappling hook whereas in old town in the first game you could parkour from one end of the map to the other

[@Cookiemaster98_98]

@littlebadassgaming DI2 as in dead island 2

[@Cookiemaster98_98]

@@littlebadassgaming i dont where you pulled dying light from, it wasnt even talked

[@BaxterAndLunala]

Ah yes, Hunters, the one Metroid Prime game I feel should've just been canceled if they were just going to focus on multiplayer.

[@djradish4]

Is it bad that I like Path of the Furon

[@jimmyv3170]

No, you can't pay attention to everybody on the Internet. If you did then you would think 98% of the games of all time were trash with the 2% being some 500 hr JRPG no one played. It's all subjective

[@FIghtsAtDawn]

I'm never this early. Just wanted to say I've watched ur vids for years and love it

[@TheMaLiK5966]

ROCKET SLOTH SHOULD BECOME APART OF A VIDEO GAME PRESERVATIONIST GROUP (I know there is a major one out there)

[@DemocracyOfficer289]

mass effect andromeda is perfectly fine now

[@JORDAN-CHRISTOPHERSPENCER]

"peebee im ready for my surprise" O.o

[@catsabi]

I just played Angel of darkness yesterday. It might not be a good tomb raider game for the the time but a lot of what that game does that people don't like with the controls was industry standard just a few years later. Its not the best game ever but way ahead of its time

[@Rissshhahrrddoessomthin]

Not him messing up the names.😂

[@midsummercrop8446]

Hey Sloth just recently discovered your channel. U got me playing Halo again and im really enjoying myself...thank you and subscribed

[@jfwfreo]

Command & Conquer 4 should be on the list, the failure of that game pretty much killed any new C&C games with the only things we have had since are crappy mobile stuff and the C&C Remasters (which are great but most definitely not the new mainline PC game franchise fans like me want)

[@biggiecheez4203]

What I don’t like about the Destroy All Humans remakes is how they changed how some games mechanics and weapons work, making them more modern and tactical instead of dumb fun

[@pure1876]

R.i.p Rayman 4

[@CyberHangman]

I know Quake IV didn't kill the franchise, but Quake IV isn't available for download on any online game services that I know of; the only reason I have the game is that it's a physical copy. There has been no real Quake sequels since then, just a sequel to Quake III: Arena called Quake V: Arena. I don't understand why Quake IV isn't sold at discount on Steam; it isn't great like Quake and Quake II, but it's definitely playable

[@CyberHangman]

Quake IV's soundtrack is also "meh" compared to the 1st Quake, which had Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor compose the game's soundtrack

[@b8n2u]

i really liked dead island epidemic. it wasnt a moba but a co-op roguelite

[@TheMaLiK5966]

17:00 it took me watching this video to realize I finished Dead Island 2 without even being on a single Island 😂😂😂😂😂 (Dead Island 2 is MID and that is being nice/ they did really good with the gore and playing with friends)

[@Xpancakes11X]

I'd enjoy Dead Island 2 if they'd remove the online requirement.

[@zenone9698]

Xenosaga episode 2 almost killed xeno series.

[@MartimusEins]

another studio like you said with story of the season wpild be bugbear with flatout 1+2 then it became wreckfest! its quite sad to see how and what flatout had becmoe with 3+4...

[@dylives7667]

09:35 It's Modelo time, foos.

[@KegOfMeat]

Ever heard of chapters? Would be great if you bothered using them

[@alienunleashed]

I hate the vibrant color of Dead Island 2… It’s way too much like outer worlds.

[@vadamsvengeance3219]

halo infinite and mass effect Andromeda DID kill their franchise

[@JORDAN-CHRISTOPHERSPENCER]

kinect sold well because they forced it into bundles...

[@Robbiebandz2020]

I actually really enjoyed andromeda and it sucks ill never see a sequel.

[@z-nyxkibishidesu5380]

I absolutely adore Mass Effect Andromeda. It was the first Mass Effect game I ever played and because of that I had no expectations going in and ended up loving it. I will say that I played it years after launch so I never saw how buggy and chaotic the game was but as it stands now it’s a solid game. And I’m even more grateful to it cause it got me so excited for Mass Effect Legendary Edition that I bought and played the original trilogy. I can definitely see why people were put off and unhappy with Andromeda after coming from ME 3 though.

[@AynniV]

Metal Gear Survive was not the game that killed the series. It was the game that couldn't recover the series. MGSV was the game that killed the series. The Phantom Pain and the drama with Kojima made everyone hate the series and no one wanted to support the company anymore. It wouldn't have mattered how good the next game was, no one was going to support it. The fact that MGSV was "unfinished" and the series director was no longer with the company left everyone with a bad taste in their mouth.

[@PeterSkaOi]

Tomb Raider the angel of darkness

[@stevenjames5874]

Jesus Christ man that pronunciation nearly killed me. Bologne? Really?

[@theunqualifiedgamer2344]

Can't stand not having timestamps lol

[@BLARG0w0]

I’m more upset over the fact you bolognese as bologna

[@harmagedonFR]

There was not a Overlord moba ?

[@tyga454]

I wanted a crash bash remake