my favourite thing about assassin's creed unity is that its rendition of the Notre-Dame Cathedral is being used to help restore the actual one. or at least was considered for that
@phoenixflamegames13 жыл бұрын
It is.
@MarySunshine253 жыл бұрын
YES! I love that too. Unity is probably one of my favorite ACs anyway because of the setting. The story was bleh, but I loved the people you meet too.
@HovektheArtist3 жыл бұрын
@@MarySunshine25 i like the story, except how they killed off arnos love interest
@NeoSaturos1233 жыл бұрын
Mine is that Ubisoft was giving the game out for free after the Notre Dame fire.
@HovektheArtist3 жыл бұрын
@@NeoSaturos123 i remember that, honestly thought that was really cool
@Aska24683 жыл бұрын
The fact that No Man's Sky had such a disastrous launch makes Hello Games' redemption all the more impressive
@DewaKrishna_3 жыл бұрын
NMS is a complete blast to play through nowadays, honestly
@Larcona_3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, huge props to them for sticking with it and realizing their vision.
@NottherealLucifer3 жыл бұрын
@@Larcona_ They still shouldn't have released it in that state regardless. They shouldn't get bonus points for doing the work they should have already done, and also promised to do. Do you all not remember what their excuse was for the sorry state at launch? They expected the game to be more niche, they didn't expect millions of people to play it. They expected to be able to fuck over a small group of gamers by promising them content that wasn't ever going to be implemented. The fact that they stuck around and fixed it is good, but it should break them even not earn them praise.
@samtepal38923 жыл бұрын
@@NottherealLucifer it wasn't hello games decision. It was Sony's to release and Hello games had to oblidge.
@Dyrnwynn3 жыл бұрын
@@samtepal3892 Sony didn't tell Sean Murray to lie about multiple features in the game right up through launch. Hello Games have done a great job fixing and expanding on the game, but Sony has nothing to do with Murray deceiving people.
@shepardcommander68113 жыл бұрын
Mike is literally wearing a Mass Effect Andromeda shirt, a game famous for it's disastrous launch
@Zayphar3 жыл бұрын
As I stated above -- I played Mass Effect: Andromeda a year after launch, and was quite pleased to discover that it was actually an excellent game, though it's story was a bit predictable. The big problem with the story was that it withheld a lot of story resolution because it was supposed to be part 1 of a 3-part story, and thus the story at endgame was not very satisfying.
@willbrolley2623 жыл бұрын
On the plus side for Mass Effect, Cyberpunk 2077 will help mitigate that launch disaster.
@edaraujo21693 жыл бұрын
How ironic is that, huh?
@fendelphi3 жыл бұрын
Does that count as a "dishonourable mention" then?
@timothyoswald86183 жыл бұрын
I want that shirt, honestly. And the Quarian ark DLC, dammit
@tirone2313 жыл бұрын
Don't forget that with Battlefront II, EA didn't just retract the microtransactions due to public pressure. The public outcry was so intense that politicians and governments around the world got involved to grill EA about its practice of using lootboxes, which EA decided were actually called "surprise mechanics", in order to avoid admitting that they were choosing to pursue gambling mechanics in a game with a massive audience of children.
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
At least the governments did something right. Hopefully, they'll bring the ChiComs to the international tribunals for Uighur, the South China Sea, the COVID-19 epidemic, rampant censorship, Hong Kong, and so much more.
@annana60983 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly despise loot boxes and blind bags/blind boxes. Just charge me more for things I can see, dammit. I'm sometimes tempted by cute figurines, but then I get angry about blind bags all over again. I might even be willing to pay for several of them to get what I want, but ending up with six duplicates I don't want drives me nuts. What should I do with them? Throw them out? I bought them just to throw away? Bullshit. And why should I buy and sit through the stupid opening animation of digital blind bags full of garbage consumables to get a cool costume? No.
@Dorma_3 жыл бұрын
Gacha games are like that these days, praying on gambling addiction for profit. There should definitely be regulations on that stuff.
@MarkFaamaoni3 жыл бұрын
James Stephanie Sterling's "Surprise Mechanic" character was probably the funniest thing I've ever seen them do.
@zetterburger3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelandreipalon359 I wouldn’t hold my breath
@captaincluckers86863 жыл бұрын
I feel bad for the guy who had to make E.T. by himself in such a short amount of time. I'd assume he got some flak for the way it turned out but I doubt he could've done much better given the circumstances.
@annana60983 жыл бұрын
Apparently he gave an interview when some group dug up the landfill to find the cartridges and made a documentary on it. They really screwed him over, five weeks to make a hot game like that.
@tastymonkey2 жыл бұрын
Growing up I had a copy of ET that didn't make it to the landfill. I can honestly say that is one of the worst games I ever played and I had a fair amount on the Atari.
@eggiboiroi Жыл бұрын
the way i’m genuinely so proud of the ONE GUY who made et. for atari? y’all what the fuck. for one man in the year of 1983, over the course of five weeks? high fuckin praise, i need him to receive a medal of some kind,
@MegaZeta Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Much of the video games industry came from people quitting Atari, where the owners famously treated programmers much the same as they treated their equipment. And in that era, you had to sneak in an Easter egg to get a credit in the game at all.
@BogeyTheBear3 жыл бұрын
9:00 Let nobody forget that Mike's grandma owned an Uzi. No joke.
@joseybryant75773 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I'd forgotten. Thanks for this reminder.
@ZaiyadR3 жыл бұрын
_What?!_
@prof.d.red-maa3 жыл бұрын
Everyone should be entitled to own a self protection device,.. Including Grandma's! 😉
@prof.d.red-maa3 жыл бұрын
@@BennyGoId Thanks, but I never said that it did! Do you not agree with granny owning a PPD(?) ..Or do you just have nothing to contribute... other than pointing out typos?
@Heroltz9983 жыл бұрын
@@BennyGoId The topic change from spelling correction to political correctness is the weirdest I recall ever seeing, and I've been on the Internet for a fair amount of time.
@shad26903 жыл бұрын
I have a few suggestions: 1. The games that defied all expectations 2. The video game heroes with the worst moral codes 3. The most unique sidescrollers
@Usernametaken13 жыл бұрын
Number 2 especially
@arundownshack10193 жыл бұрын
I most definitely wanna see the second one.
@fraserhenderson94413 жыл бұрын
I’m adding my vote for number 2 as well
@bern96423 жыл бұрын
The 2nd one is a good idea
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
OK, since the majority is with the second vote, who are the examples for the morally debatable heroes?
@meff32583 жыл бұрын
the skinless nightmare in Assassins Creed Unity just made me almost spit out my drink with laughter...twice
@Queen_Of_P.A.T3 жыл бұрын
Same 🤣
@kirbyfanprime3 жыл бұрын
Patching them out was a travesty.
@cyberneticsquid-godofmassd37593 жыл бұрын
Our nerdy teacher once used it in a lesson about the importance of proofreading XD. That was a fun day
@maxvel0city9063 жыл бұрын
I got the Mike simulator 2020 game, but instead of a game disc, the box just had a hot wheels car, a blow torch and some explosives. 🤔
@sstsalazar3 жыл бұрын
The explosive rubber duck and an eternally unfinished Dark Souls save file are the first DLC.
@raptorroundyourfinger63603 жыл бұрын
Should have got the deluxe edition. Mine arrived pre-exploded with some pretty sweet concept art
@mellow_mallow3 жыл бұрын
Really? If you buy the platinum edition, you get a sweet Mike figurine that you can paint yourself. Still no game, though. Unfortunately.
@AndorRadnai3 жыл бұрын
I suppose that will work like a whale oiled machine..!
@Malkontent10032 жыл бұрын
I think you're supposed to have a VR system, but you can't *use* the VR system for it, you have to instead use a SNES controller, but put the game into an Xbox 360, and plug the VR into that.
@00pugsly483 жыл бұрын
Most of these are from poor/greedy management decisions, and they deserve the rep to stick. The fact they had to completely rebalance battlefront 2 shows that microtransactions aren’t purely “optional” but are a very deliberate, calculated way to grind down a players patience. End of the day, only free games should have a free to play economy.
@Larcona_3 жыл бұрын
The fact that our response sent a shockwave all the way up the corporate ladder actually gives me a bit of hope.
@moonlitxangel57713 жыл бұрын
I mean they've even done studies on the predatory nature of microtransactions. I can only hope that one day things will be different in a good way. But I already see people shrugging off crappy microtransactions and fear it's only a matter of time before a game company can get away with what EA tried to with Battlefront 2.
@Larcona_3 жыл бұрын
@@moonlitxangel5771 We did make enough noise to get national governments involved, hopefully people will continue to fight against shit like this.
@Azazantei3 жыл бұрын
@@Larcona_ Yeah EA's Loot Box System was Goddamn Awful to the point even My Uncle like a Tryhard Gambler said "This shit is beyond Gambling why the fuck you play this? Japanese Pachinko and Japanese Gacha System in Game is still better ffs!" Well that said Something.
@nightmarethrenody82323 жыл бұрын
@@Azazantei From what I've heard, there are actually regulations in Japan that limit lootbox mechanics. The result usually being that every lootbox comes with a secondary currency that can be used to buy anything from that lootbox's drop-table.
@iainjames033 жыл бұрын
Anthem and Marvel's Avengers really ought to get a nod too.
@mohsin90ish3 жыл бұрын
They'd need to actually improve before you can just call it a launch disaster
@iainjames033 жыл бұрын
@@mohsin90ish good point
@theoutsiderjess18693 жыл бұрын
They were functioning just boring
@NottherealLucifer3 жыл бұрын
Anthem was a totally unplayable mess. I played Avengers solo and only had like five crashes the whole time I was playing it. Anthem would crash like 9/10 times for the first few months every time you started a mission. Ffs Avengers was like 200 times more stable than Cyberpunk but it gets a break because those people made a single good Witcher game years ago.
@iainjames033 жыл бұрын
@@theoutsiderjess1869 Some of the games on this list were functionally sound just controversial. Anthem would certainly fit squarely into that hole given how much of its development and release was plagued by controversies - like the accusations of widespread crunch and stress casualties, or the accidental loot drop rate increases that exposed how rigged the game's grind mechanics were. Even BioWare had to admit the launch was way worse than they'd expected.
@freaknr13 жыл бұрын
I would highly recommend the Internet Historian video on The Engoodening of No Man's Sky. Hello Games truly cared about both their work and their audience and did their damndest to fix their mistakes and broken promisses. If only all developers cared that much.
@skimshady5103 жыл бұрын
Their issue is that they put out an unfinished beta as their launch product. Should've just called it early access.
@jinhunterslay16383 жыл бұрын
This made me sad! It was fun to hate them during the launch and see how low they can fall! (Not to mention I never liked No Man's Sky when it was first announced, since I don't like space games at all, and it's entertaining to see a game you hate crash and burn!)
@freaknr13 жыл бұрын
@@skimshady510 That could be said about several game-releases, but I think Hello Games deserves some slack, as they where an indie-studio who got dragged into the big-leagues way to fast and got caught up in everything, making it difficult to do such a thing without upsetting Sony. They deserve criticism, but they at least made up for their broken promises in a way few other have done.
@Quinxed2 жыл бұрын
@@jinhunterslay1638 So you want a game to crash and burn just from the mere fact that you hate the entire genre? Interesting view considering you can simply ignore its existence. (I know it's late but nonetheless)
@oshura25062 жыл бұрын
Uhhh if they really cared they wouldn't charge $60 for what is at best a space exploration base builder. Not to mention most people had to buy it twice because it was so awful at launch it was returned in droves and now that it's fixed they're still charging full price. Definitely not what I would call the most caring developers
@magic713m3 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention tMass Effect Andromeda. The glitches from the opening launch were infamous, even if improved later
@Zayphar3 жыл бұрын
As I stated above -- I played Mass Effect: Andromeda a year after launch, and was quite pleased to discover that it was actually an excellent game, though it's story was a bit predictable. The big problem with the story was that it withheld a lot of story resolution because it was supposed to be part 1 of a 3-part story, and thus the story at endgame was not very satisfying.
@fendelphi3 жыл бұрын
It kind of got a "dishonourable mention", due to Mike's shirt.
@carlsiouxfalls3 жыл бұрын
@@Zayphar If I remember right, I even teared up slightly at the end when all the people you aided along the way come to help you out. I'm a sucker for "unexpected heroes arrive when all seems lost" moments though.
@plinius9022 жыл бұрын
@@Zayphar we are talkimg about horrible launches not if you enjoyed it a year later
@steaketc24762 жыл бұрын
@@Zayphar 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@eyedeasneverdie33483 жыл бұрын
It was so unfortunate with AC Unity, that was actually the first and last time I ever pre-ordered a game. I went back to play Unity before Valhalla came out and man, its a great Assassins game. Paris is a proper playground and loved how dense it was, and it really is visually stunning. The movement is the best the series ever had, such a shame they rushed it out because the game deserves a lot more love than it actually got.
@Brasc3 жыл бұрын
It's good, but the main story is really short and *good lord!* the amount of collectibles.
@therealArchmageTeslar3 жыл бұрын
The only assassin's creed game I've played are AC Blackflag and AC Rouge, and now I want all of the games.
@Degenerecy3 жыл бұрын
It's just another example of releasing too early. Little extra time took it from a joke to a good game. Just like Cyberpunk, few extra months would change it from worst to maybe one of the best titles, but they botched it. Greed>Gameplay
@kanglongshankz33133 жыл бұрын
Yeah the gameplay of Unity (especially the parkour & stealth) is the best in the franchise, shame about the buggy launch
@thewerewolff72483 жыл бұрын
Gonna be honest. I despise AC unity. I did a year where I just played and 100 percented every assassin creed up to and including origins in a row and AC unity was by far the most frustrating and one I least enjoyed. Whilst it does have redeeming qualities (particularly the return to the one big city gameplay) I found it extremely unfun and hated the story.
@TheSwiftNinja13663 жыл бұрын
My life is both a game and disaster and I just can't seem to live it down either
@River-pg1uk3 жыл бұрын
@ESparda A.K.A.悪魔の死神 more like a lifestyle
@BogeyTheBear3 жыл бұрын
My life is an ever-continuing episode of The A-Team. You get used to it.
@youindeedsuck3233 жыл бұрын
Are you saying when you were born your parents thought it was a disastrous launch? Ouch
@ethanrobyn23993 жыл бұрын
Would you say that the launch of Fallout 76 had a....... huge Fallout?
@SirMethos3 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Which is impressive, considering it was a Fallout game, containing essentially no Fallout.
@insaincaldo3 жыл бұрын
Indeed. One of the gaming blunders that has most people in panic every time anything vaguely related comes up.
@JohnSmith-hs3po3 жыл бұрын
Aht was shite mate
@DFloyd843 жыл бұрын
(canned booing and thrown tomatoes ensue)
@zzach_attack46023 жыл бұрын
To quote andy: BOOOOOOO!
@notoriousbmc13 жыл бұрын
Imagine that kid who befriended E.T grew up to purchase an old mansion called Hill House. It turned out to be haunted and not a good time. Trouble just seems to follow some people.
@julianmarpez39313 жыл бұрын
Yep, he went to the Overlook later and it caught fire. Poor man
@dmcgee33 жыл бұрын
Few days ago I was reading about a armored car robbery that happened in ‘81, this guard Joseph Trombino was shot several times nearly severing his arm and I’ll let Wikipedia pick it up from there “Trombino survived his injuries, and continued to work for the Brink's company for the next 20 years; he was almost killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and eventually was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks while making a delivery in the World Trade Center North Tower.”
@julianmarpez39313 жыл бұрын
@@dmcgee3 Nice story and all, but... The hell are you doing here, Curufinwë?
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
@@dmcgee3 Wait, is this true?! If so, that man just can't die easily, huh.
@sallyphilpin11042 жыл бұрын
@@dmcgee3 Oh wow, 3rd time unlucky.
@devontricmoore3 жыл бұрын
Mass effect Andromeda was completely destroyed by it’s launch. They didn’t even give us any dlc.
@DPowered23 жыл бұрын
@Nolan Is Innocent its actually not that bad now. I enjoy it even though its not all that good a story
@Red_Robin_Guitars3 жыл бұрын
Or any chance of a sequel..... now as much as I’m looking forward to the remastered originals and wondering how they’re going to deal with ME3’s ending controversy for the 2nd time. I was really quietly looking forward to BioWare learning from the rushed bug riddled launch and building on this “universe”.
@benjaminbrown-keely69653 жыл бұрын
Agreed, was the game bad?:No. Did it have a terrible game launch?: Hell yes!
@devontricmoore3 жыл бұрын
@@Red_Robin_Guitars I would rather have a sequel or at least a full remake of the trilogy. A remaster just feels cheap to me. We’re like two generations away from those games now.
@Zayphar3 жыл бұрын
I played Mass Effect: Andromeda a year after launch, and was quite pleased to discover that it was actually an excellent game, though it's story was a bit predictable. The big problem with the story was that it withheld a lot of story resolution because it was supposed to be part 1 of a 3-part story, and thus the story at endgame was not very satisfying.
@McChes3 жыл бұрын
I’m going to start a petition demanding that it be made mandatory for Mike to sing in every OutsideXBox video.
@koso35803 жыл бұрын
only if we can also have Jane punishing him for singing
@nunyobidniz3 жыл бұрын
+1 on both of these notions
@Chris_Sizemore3 жыл бұрын
Just going to say that Fable had as much of a disappointing disparity from how it was described by its producer as No Man Sky did. Many people were pissed with Fable when it was released.
@marneus903 жыл бұрын
Maybe but at least you expect that from a game headed by Peter Molyneux
@sheilamyers12173 жыл бұрын
It’s definitely not what was promised but once you get past that let down, the Fable games are all very good and unique in their own way, but Fable: The Lost Chapters will always have my heart over the other 2 (we don’t talk about Fable Journeys)
@masterblaster26782 жыл бұрын
The game is cool but the producer oversells it when advertising. Pretty much the entire gaming industry. They all make the same mistake. Build up the hype train, make it go faster... you know that train has to stop at some point, right? But they just make it go off the rails with false promises and then get crashed and burnt along with it. Not every game has to be advertised like it's a gift sent by god with 10.000 hours of playtime, featuring melee and ranged combat, farming, fishing, mining, bird watching, and some other sarcastic series of useless meaningless features that don't come to mind. People don't trust developers anymore because they just lie so damn much. Even the ones thought to be honest and dignified pull this crap on their customers. If you have already produced a good game, and describe your next game as-is, without overselling it, people will still flock to it. In fact you have a lot to gain from underselling the game. People will lose their minds over how good it is compared to the mediocre description you gave them, and it will create a bond of trust between the company and customers. Hype may be good short term, but awful long term. It will permanently damage any good will you had with your customers, and they don't buy your games with excitement anymore. Yes, the entire time I was writing this, CDPR was on my mind.
@Randallsilver3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I missed No Man's Sky at launch, didn't hear the bad rumours (no, I can't explain why. Completely missed it) and got it a year after launch. It's such a great game now.
@NottherealLucifer3 жыл бұрын
I heard every bad "rumor" (they were true) and kept up with the production. I bought it when it was on sale a a year or two ago, and it was worth that price. Anywho, you can hear bad information about a game and then just research the game and decide whether you want to buy it or not.
@oshura25062 жыл бұрын
Just feels like a space version of Subnautica without the sense of danger or story. I bought it at launch and now again I've been disappointed twice
@singmeastory66343 жыл бұрын
One to add to the list would be Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. If I recall correctly, while trying to update the gameplay the then developers of the Tomb Raider series, Core Design, made things harder for the player by also keeping with some of the older tech as well. Plus other development issues occurred with some things being done 'last minute' and other key points being cut. This resulted in having poor control over Lara and several glitches and bugs, a few were even game breakingly bad. Which lead to Core Design losing the IP for the series and Paramount blaming the game for the poor turn out for the second Tomb Raider movie.
@vksasdgaming94723 жыл бұрын
Why blame game from movie's bad success when movie itself is crap? First one was also crap.
@singmeastory66343 жыл бұрын
@@vksasdgaming9472 Some people have a hard time believing that they might be either fully or partly at fault for something.
@bdo77653 жыл бұрын
Now that you mention it, that was the first game in which I got to see an NPC's facial parts floating outside their head. My reaction was similar to Andy's in the video.
@jpkjnn67332 жыл бұрын
@@singmeastory6634 well, America was led by a man who literally never took responsibility for anything that went wrong.
@singmeastory66342 жыл бұрын
@@jpkjnn6733 *long sigh* Yeah, I sadly know.
@RepKyle953 жыл бұрын
Surprised Aliens: Colonial Marines wasn't on here...
@philiphunn1943 жыл бұрын
Relax, Mike, I think it's obligatory to sing along to Country Roads...
@annana60983 жыл бұрын
I know I started in, and I sing almost exclusively off key.
@philiphunn1943 жыл бұрын
@@annana6098 Same. I have a singing voice like nails down a chalkboard and I still sang along.
@Book_Golem3 жыл бұрын
My immediate thought was Total War: Rome 2. By all accounts a bit of a mess at launch, but like No Man's Sky it's received enough support since to turn it into something great.
@siddykong3 жыл бұрын
All the TW games are an absolute mess at launch. Good thing is CA are quick to fix them!
@samius11493 жыл бұрын
That's the game that made me quite playing the series
@Steve-YT3833 жыл бұрын
You could also do a series on games that survived a bad launch. Final Fantasy XIV being a prime example. Square literally blew up FFXIVs world and started over after bad reviews. The game was given away for free while Square fixed it causing Square to lose money, and offer a public apology. Thankfully four expansions later things have turned around and it's one of the remaining pay for play MMOs with such a rich and compelling story that ranks up there with any RPG title.
@AbsolXGuardian3 жыл бұрын
EA learned so hard from battlefront II that there aren't any micro transactions in Squadrons. Like not even the kind you'd expect with modern AAA games who want to stay away from the possibility of lootboxes becoming illegal. No two dollar special paint jobs. A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Shame there was no story tie in book like the two battlefront games got. Unity was my first assassins creed game and I had no idea with about the problems. And it's very good when you don't know about the launch problem. The bug fixing patch is solid and the DLC was made free as an apology.
@shadowcat16063 жыл бұрын
I gotta be honest, though. I played Battlefront 2 from launch and allways found the hate it got to be wildly overblown. And that was before the game pretty much made a 180° and became way better still.
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
I really hope Squadrons will have a far more superior sequel in the following years. Just imagine if they made the campaign more epic, interactive, and enjoyable.
@AbsolXGuardian3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelandreipalon359 I didn't get it because I only like story driven games, but from what I've heard of the mechanics, it would easily be able to sustain a full campaign. Although you'd probably need to add out of ship action to make things feel less passive. Even if it's just walking around and talking to people.
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
@@AbsolXGuardian True, and your out of ship idea does give me memories of Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader and Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. Still, they better make sure the sequel has a strong singleplayer campaign. I already tried Project Wingman so to compensate, and believe me, it was pretty much worth it. Also, there's that game's soundtrack! Squadrons *should* have a unique and awesome soundtrack as well! You might want to check it out PW's soundtrack, it's really nice.
@chrisramsteck58663 жыл бұрын
Mike can keep singing County Roads, he'll need something to keep him entertained when counting all of NMS new planets.
@MrKrory3 жыл бұрын
It's mildly mind-boggling that Cyberpunk 2077, a game that was released so broken that it was removed from the Playstation Network entirely (and, note, is *still* not there because every patch they release just introduces MORE bugs), was still so successful despite dipping stocks that the people in charge were able to give themselves each a nice new millions dollar bonus to congratulate themselves on fooling millions of people.
@sladeofriviatv3 жыл бұрын
I didn't see Anthem. That games launch was so disastrous that even the developers didn't know what they were making till 6 months from launch. Bioware better not mess up Dragon Age 4 or I am absolutely done with that company.
@tach-uq5tw3 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I forgot that game even existed!
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
Oh, they better not mess up the upcoming Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.
@sladeofriviatv3 жыл бұрын
Would be really hard to mess up a game that is already done. Just remastering the graphics engine.
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
@@sladeofriviatv Tell that to the Silent Hill HD Collection, the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection (it's fine now, though, apart from Combat Evolved Anniversary's insistence on using Gearbox's PC port), and Warcraft III: "Reforged".
@TheTrueTreeHugger3 жыл бұрын
Has anyone offered up Sims 4 yet? Lacking the customization of its predecessor, a full life stage, and series cornerstone 'the pool' (among many, many other things) The launched game was a wreck
@annana60983 жыл бұрын
I've watched a lot of videos comparing the different Sims games, and it astounds me how many things 2 had that were dropped from the others. But even during Sims 2, there were unofficial fan-made patches after expansions to fix all the crap EA broke. Iirc, the apartment life pack caused all vampires to commit suicide by having them go outside to pay their rent in the afternoon. There was a mod item I downloaded specifically to more easily free my Sims who somehow got stuck in a bed, and a bathtub I used because if I used anything else my Sims wouldn't stop bathing their toddler to feed her or let her sleep. I was really baffled by that one, I never had another family so obsessed with cleaning their child.
@TheTrueTreeHugger3 жыл бұрын
@@annana6098 Haha oh man feel that. Been playing since the first game, and 2 is bae honestly. But yeah, the broken shit was always there. Like not being able to delete sims or it corrupts the save game? But with all that, glitches and weird stuff included, it still feels like a full game. 4 just feels like... A shell? Like, very pretty don't get me wrong. Would kill for build mode too. But it's so...empty feeling. The non-stop child bathing is wild though xD *Sims*
@BLaccnt3 жыл бұрын
I would have liked to See "Evolve" on this list, which was nothing but a thinly veiled store front at launch but, ironically, Evolved into a great multiplayer game with stage 2. Edit: didn't safe it from being shut down for that (deservedly) desasterous PR tho. So if you're gonna make a "commenter Edition", you know what to Do ;)
@insertclevername41233 жыл бұрын
The ET cartridge in the desert thing is an urban legend--I know this because I spent about an hour and a half watching a documentary about the game on Netflix, which is approximately an hour and a half more than I spent playing the game as a kid when my cousin bought it. ("What's that?" "It's E.T. Want to play it?" [Watches for 20 seconds] "Noooo.....")
@wojtek15823 жыл бұрын
1. WWE 2K20 1:07 2. SW: Battlefront 2 3:59 3. The War-Z: 6:57 4. AC: Unity 9:55 5. No Mans Sky 12:07 6. ET: 15:37 7. Fallout 76 18:10
@thepyroghoul3 жыл бұрын
10:52 my Arno concluded that doing the splits at a high velocity on the roof of the Notre Dame was the best way to descend from it.
@TheKingdomEntertainment3 жыл бұрын
As much as I love Mass Effect Andromeda, and clearly Mike does as well given his shirt, we all have to acknowledge the disastrous launch. Whatever problems there may have been, the launch tragically crippled the game, and turned a lot of people off of it, which is a tragedy in itself to me.
@smelterguy23 жыл бұрын
The existence of the word "catastro****" has made my day 100x better, thank you.
@MrFutago873 жыл бұрын
Little bit of trivia concerning The War Z, the designer of the game, Sergey Titov, was also the producer of another rather well known game beforehand, that game being Big Rigs Over The Road Racing.
@dragonlord33763 жыл бұрын
And no one expected any problems? This is straight up foreshadowing
@MrFutago873 жыл бұрын
@@dragonlord3376 And he is still making games, the names of the games he worked on after War Z are: War Inc. Battlezone, Infestation: Survivor Stories and Outbreak New Dawn. All of these are essentially the same game. And also a woman named Lana Titov directed an War Z movie called War Z Day One. My best guess being that she's his wife.
@dragonlord33763 жыл бұрын
@@MrFutago87 how is this person still finding work? He's like the f***ing mothman!
@richbuilds_com3 жыл бұрын
I giggled like an errant schoolboy at Mike's ending.
@michaelt4823 жыл бұрын
no bioware games? Mass Effect Andromeda was eventually fixed but had a rough first couple months. Anthem on the other hand is still in development almost 2 years after its release.
@sheilamyers12173 жыл бұрын
If BioWare fucks up dragon age 4 like they did with anthem I’ll literally blast them on every social media, the dragon age games are my all time favorites, I own basically every piece of dlc and even bought King Cailens armor for my Xbox avatar, I have such high hopes based on what we’ve seen so far and I just pray that EA keeps their big fat money hungry mitts off of it 🙄
@michellewilt44793 жыл бұрын
@@sheilamyers1217 good luck with that. EA ruins everything it touches. Company should have been sued into oblivion for many many reasons. Absolutely garbage company.
@LuciferSpiro19933 жыл бұрын
You missed AC Rogue. They forgot to make enough copies to cover the Limited Edition preorders for the north of england, so even if you told them months in advance you wanted it, and gave them money to secure a copy, you didn't get a game. 50 of us showed up for a midnight opening to get our copy, and there were 3.
@atikashahnaz70823 жыл бұрын
i wanna play mike simulator 2020
@mullyboats3 жыл бұрын
2021
@katatonickkatastrophe35393 жыл бұрын
Me too! 2020 had so many twists... We really need a continuation of the murder hornets!
@octochan3 жыл бұрын
But will it contain any singing content
@CaptainFunk1273 жыл бұрын
13:02 Are you implying Spore does not belong on this list?
@FrankyBabes3 жыл бұрын
That WWE video is still the one on this channel that made me yell "WHAT!?" the most times
@sceligator3 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there
@danieldundon63 жыл бұрын
I for one wouldn't mind more videos of Mike's singing
@cheseburger45763 жыл бұрын
Anthem could be use as an example for a list of all the bad things in videogames
@Chris_Sizemore3 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest launch disasters belongs to Everquest, the granddaddy of MMOs. Somehow when the Kunark expansion was released a bug was introduced that caused the servers to crash. It took two weeks to isolate and fix the bug so players could log in to the game they paid monthly subscriptions to play. SoE compensated players by giving them a free month of subscription.
@thewaywardgrape38383 жыл бұрын
I'd disagree outsidexbox - No Man's Sky has successfully restored it's reputation. Apart from NMS, I believe FFXIV 2.0 (re-release) is one of the tiny number that has managed to achieve this feat.
@HewleyxAngel3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact about the ET cartridge demise, I actually live near where they were buried and they unearthed them a couple years ago, and as it turns out it was just clearing out a landfill created from a warehouse dumping supplies. Then again so much weird stuff happens in the desert who knows.
@fearoffema3 жыл бұрын
Still haven't bought an EA game since BFII, thankfully Disney has opened the door for new studios to come in.
@jacobs18343 жыл бұрын
I only EA Star Wars game I bought was Jedi Fallen Order.
@Necroscrow3 жыл бұрын
I haven't bought an EA game since they desecrated the Dead Space franchise.
@Yumiyuri3 жыл бұрын
Final Fantasy XIV 1.0, the game so bad they fired the director and put Yoshida in charge, nuked the game, built a new one, and literally made it part of the lore. And now it's one of the best MMORPGs ever.
@jasonmartel8543 жыл бұрын
Mike Simulator 2020 ended up far simpler than originally intended. Not due to Covid restricting the workforce working on it, but due to Covid restricting the activities Mike could do during 2020.
@coltonsteele41463 жыл бұрын
For how much the outsidexbox crew love to make fun of it, I’m surprised to see that “Aliens: Colonial Marines” didn’t make the cut! Buggy gameplay and awful graphics are just some of the disappointing features that let fans of the series down in what could’ve been an amazing game
@TandJgaming2 жыл бұрын
Companies that sell a game with the condition that “there will be no microtransactions” and then go back on their word should be charged.
@SevCaswell3 жыл бұрын
No Man's Sky has mostly lived down it's launch at this point...
@StygianIkazuchi3 жыл бұрын
Yeah kind of annoyed to see it listed here as if they haven't worked their asses off for 2+ years. Edit: Ok I hadn't watched the full section yet. I still don't think it belongs on this list but at least they DO mention that it's been actively developed since then.
@MyerithRae3 жыл бұрын
Final Fantasy XIV, the original producer Hiromichi Tanaka was fired and our Lord and savior Naoki Yoshida took over by crashing a moon, that contained Bahamut, into Eorzea and rebooting the world.
@Nope_handlesaretrash2 жыл бұрын
One year later and Cyberpunk finally (mostly) fixed the engine and base game, some hiccups with audio driver induced crashes. 1.5 was a serious improvement and has the game to "release day" quality instead of "broken beta" quality.
@jaykerzp36432 жыл бұрын
14:14 They were in a no-win situation at that point. Either the investigation finds that you did indeed mislead consumers, which is bad for obvious reasons, or the investigation finds that you didn’t mislead consumers, which will further piss off your unhappy customers. I’m surprised they got through that without losing any limbs.
@ryanhalien84683 жыл бұрын
ET has got to take the cake on this one, not many games can say they almost killed the entire video game INDUSTRY lol
@KurtAustin24483 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and it took Mario to bring it back from the brink.
@angrymokyuu19512 жыл бұрын
Except ET's quality wasn't strictly to blame: they mentioned Atari was banking on five million copies, but what they _didn't_ mention was that Atari hadn't even sold anywhere near that many consoles. Combined with other dumb decisions, a game simply poor enough that it suffered frequent returns(yes, this was an option at the time) would've destroyed Atari the same way - and even then it's questionable if they could've survived anything but the ultramassive hit they were banking on.
@Neoyoshi-FFXIV2 жыл бұрын
E.T. wasn't the actual cause of that though. For anyone who lived to remember the great video game crash, it was already happening well before E.T. the video game even came out. ET just became an easier target then the more complex explanation of what really happened.
@johnkelly-qe7rk Жыл бұрын
What about that whole mess with Final Fantasy 14 where SquareEnix had to go back to the drawing board after launch and redo a huge part of the game, then relaunched it 2 years later.
@TheLeannansidhe3 жыл бұрын
Poor Anthem could definitely go on this list. I would even say that though its early days, Cyberpunk is a pretty good contender too lol
@vernonbender33842 жыл бұрын
Anarchy Online. It released pretty much as an unfinished alpha, and took a solid six months before it was even remotely playable. Literally nothing worked, from weighted inventory that would actually stop you from moving, to pathing that never really got sorted out. And yet, the game is still around today, on official servers, in F2P format, some 20 years later. It did get much better, but some of us remember just how abysmal it was at launch.
@AGuyNamedRicky3 жыл бұрын
You should follow this up with games with launch trauma that have since been repaired
@kraziiXIII3 жыл бұрын
I second this!
@Santisima_Trinidad3 жыл бұрын
I maintain that I am the only person who liked no man's sky when it launched. It was something I could sit down and play for hours, absolutely nothing to do but wander around, collect stuff, scan stuff, and possibly fight robot's. Most games don't give you that sort of feeling. Sure, Skyrim and such are open world, but your always doing something, not doing nothing. And I liked doing nothing. Unfortunately, nobody else saw it that way, I ran out of time to play them, we uninstalled it to play other game's, and now I can't play it without a probabe week or two of downloading updates, and that's after deleting a load of games other people do actually play.
@ruzdaniellegarcia47743 жыл бұрын
Just finished ac unity. I got it for free after notre dame fire and the game is so amazing!!!!
@chipsk83613 жыл бұрын
FFXIV 1.0 's launch was so bad they scrapped the whole thing and rebuilt it from the ground up
@tba1133 жыл бұрын
That's an... Interesting choice of shirt for this video, Mike. Ah well, at least his singing is on point.
@Confron7a7ion73 жыл бұрын
Battle Front 2 was even worse than they described it. Don't forget, that is the game that caused INTERNATIONAL legal reform on gambling in videogames.
@dlxmarks3 жыл бұрын
At this point buying a game at launch and then complaining about the bugs is like being upset that your unlocked car was stolen after you left the keys in the ignition. It shouldn't have happened to you but what did you expect?
@joeyvanhaperen77152 жыл бұрын
I have played fallout 76 from the start and in all fairness it has made a full 180. Also I thought the no other people thing was boring yes, but it also really gave the game that last human in the post apocalyps world feel and it had it's charm.
@aerialmacaroon63122 жыл бұрын
Agreed it reminded me of 3’s desolate and lonely wasteland in that regard
3 жыл бұрын
I recall that the launch of Anarchy Online (one of the oldest still running MMOs, and I think the oldest Sci-Fi themed one at that) was *really* bad. And that too stuck to them for *years*. AO is by Funcom, which may be a more familiar name.
@Mary_Studios3 жыл бұрын
Wow okay some of these are funny while others are just horrifying. Though I will say E.T. was something I learned about in my game design class and the affects after it. Oof. I'm going to cuddle under the covers now.
@bdo77653 жыл бұрын
I cringed at the clip they included of that game's creator acting like he was proud of his accomplishment because people are still talking about his game.
@angrymokyuu19512 жыл бұрын
@@bdo7765 He's always been somewhat proud of it, given that he managed what he did in the short time frame. And I've heard it's actually a fun game after people patched out the bugs.
@damienedmiston31953 жыл бұрын
The fact y'all didn't even mention Mass Effect Andromeda should speak for itself about how disastrous the launch was. Bioware tried to patch it up, but it was too late. Eventually they gave up and abandoned the game, no more updates and no DLC. Hell, I'm surprised they are rebooting the series after all that. Edit: MIKE IS WEARING A FUCKING MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA SHIRT.
@jackjohnson60443 жыл бұрын
Idea for a list: 7 games that teach you that drugs are great. Flagship being Fallout 4 where drugs (or chems ingame) are plenty, really strong, easy to make, combining 2 chems increases duration and reduces inventory management and have basically no downsides. Best example being Psychobuff which gives you a hefty healthboost, +25% damage and more strength for 8 minutes. You basically never run out of chems thanks to the early game quest "diamond city blues" where you can get 60 units of each standard chem.
@tomacalin863 жыл бұрын
PLEASE MOAR MIKE SINGING!
@thatoneswordguy3 жыл бұрын
Final Fantasy XIV? I don't really know much about it, but from the little I do know, version 1 of it was utterly horrendous, so they shut it down and re-released it as A Realm Reborn, which is really good.
@HarbingersBuddy3 жыл бұрын
I see Mike wearing an Andromeda shirt and yet no mention of that or Anthem. I guess they didn’t want this video to be another EA exclusive
@speed6-god2 жыл бұрын
Both No Man's Sky and Battlefront 2 are great examples of games that had terrible launches and still were able to fix their game.
@warmlettuce9317 Жыл бұрын
It's so weird how EA and DICE had genuinely great games with BF1 (Battlefront 1) and, oh... BF1 (Battlefield 1) in 2015 and 2016, respectively, only for them to completely muck it up the next time, AND THE NEXT TIME AGAIN for 2042. Both games interestingly enough were very stripped down without campaigns/story modes nor an enormous amount of customization. People complained about that at the time, but as time went on and they actually answered these complaints with more DLC, customization, and story, but they also combined that with the lootbox system. Inadvertently extended the lifespan of those older games by an extra 6-7 years.
@GamingVeo3 жыл бұрын
i'd like to mention the whole story behind final fantasy 14 if i may- the game at 1.0 release was a mess where a potted plant had the same amount of polygons that a human player character had it's definitely amazing how the game was completely turned around to be a sub mmo to rival WoW- and imo surpass it
@laurenbastin88493 жыл бұрын
depressing that there are so many titles that could also fill these spots to a ludicrous degree: Anthem, Mass Effect Andromeda, Square Enix’s Crystal Dynamics’s Disney’s Marvel’s Avengers, Destiny, Star Wars Battlefront 2015, Battlefield V, Resident Evil Umbrella Corps (a game with a launch so disastrous you either forgot it exists or you’re hearing about it for the first time now), Metal Gear Survive, etc... Depressingly, not only are a lot of these games from the same developers or at least publishers, a lot of them also came from established and beloved franchises (or developers), were heavily crunched, and many of which ended up haemorrhaging sales/players and gutting all post-launch support. Worryingly this method of developing games has become increasingly normalised over the past decade, as developers have gotten used to being able to abuse their employees, underdeliver on actual content, leave a ton of bugs in, charge full price anyway and generally leave an empty product and still get away with it because they stuffed the game full with predatory microtransactions designed to feed on people’s addictions and also made a road map promising to make the game good eventually (thereby justifying all the other bullshit they did and any future bullshit). It’s the equivalent of a student handing in a piece of homework late, except they actually practically enslaved another student into doing it, left it riddled with spelling errors, spent half the essay saying nothing and then expect an A grade because they promised to make it better eventually at some point. Oh, and they charge the teacher actual money if they want to make the essay entertaining.
@positronium35253 жыл бұрын
How is Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem not on this list? 🤔
@john-doemcalias47593 жыл бұрын
Check mikes shirt 😆 As for anthem? The less said the better.
@Clipped_Angel3 жыл бұрын
I'm missing two game on the list: 1) Skyrim, the only thing that rivals the amount of re-releases the game had is the amount of bugs it had on launch, showing once and fall all they only care about the amount of money the could squeeze out of people 2) Might and Magic iX, the unfortunate result of a parent company going bankrupt and dragging everyone with them. I had the dubious pleasure of buying and playing this broken pre-alpha mess
@voodoominerman3 жыл бұрын
Skyrim still has a lot of those bugs, and I'm honestly happy about that. They don't do much harm but kind of add character. As for MM9, I can't really argue. It's buggy as hell the whole way through, and has a very abrupt, clearly unfinished ending. And I really like it.
@Clipped_Angel3 жыл бұрын
@@voodoominerman I'm not talking about the little bugs they have in Skyrim nowadays, I'm taking about the game breaking bugs they had on launch which made the whole thing seem like a bad joke
@robertsimon28853 жыл бұрын
Not Anthem? Those EAdiots ruined it.
@melellison6901 Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised The Sims 4 wasn't mentioned. I know a lot of people were upset at launch for the lack of pools, toddlers, ghosts, amongst other stuff. To the point that I believe pools and ghosts were released in a free patch a few months after launch.
@johnnyspeedboat6656 Жыл бұрын
The way the single E.T. dev talks about the game is so surprisingly wholesome. He's right though, even if the game I made was so famously bad that it created all that negative buzz and literally affected video game history, I'd be proud of it too
@MrMathGames3 жыл бұрын
So was the fact that your "beware of spoilers" bumper only listed 2 of the 7 games you were highlighting a meta-joke on bad launches?
@bladeoconnor73153 жыл бұрын
I cannot forgive you calling undertaker “a magic wizard”
@JXDDXRY-3 жыл бұрын
you don’t even need to watch the video to know cyberpunk is gonna be on here lol
@anne.eyewitness3 жыл бұрын
@ESparda A.K.A.悪魔の死神 It wasn't on the list, but it was the entire intro.
@parsaautomatica3 жыл бұрын
The fact that Duke Nukem forever and Mass effect Andromeda and anthem didn't made it to the list gives me hope that Cyberpunk 2077 can be saved.
@WanderingQuill3 жыл бұрын
Wonder how long before Hitman 3 launch ends up on this list. A website-based transfer of previous content...that crashed due to overwhelming numbers (funny how no one thought that might be an issue) that wipes any content played in the new game, effectively making being able to play the game on launch day for veteran players an impossibility.
@Jsgamer1173 жыл бұрын
Ahhh Falout 76, shitty game, great song rendition.
@cala_mitie3 жыл бұрын
So we're just not going to talk about how Final Fantasy XIV went from a disastrous open alpha to one of the best MMOs on the market?
@Donaithnen3 жыл бұрын
@The Gaming Meta And yet they included No Man's Sky, so it's a question of how big the initial failure was, not whether the game eventually became successful or not. The launch of FF14 1.0 didn't include anything quite as obviously glitchy as Cyberpunk or some of the examples in this list, but it featured a large number of poor choices that overall led to a very disappointing experience. (Most infamously, making background decorations like flowerpots where each one required as much graphical processing power as a PC's character model.) Because of the poor reception they canceled subscriptions for over a year, a number of high level developers were removed from the project and replaced, and the _entire game engine_ was rewritten. The end result was a literal (in-world) apocalypse and a shuttering of the original game two years after the initial launch, and a relaunch with the new engine another year after that.
@MarySunshine253 жыл бұрын
Unity, 76, and No Man's Sky have all made so many fixes and the games show that when you play them now. Also it's so funny to me that people pay insane amounts of money for ET now. 😂
@300IQPrower2 жыл бұрын
Mike Simulator 2020 sounds like something an educational game a space age generation would use to experience the hellscape that was that year
@anarchyantz15643 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Fallout 76. I had the B.E.T.A. then when came to sign in for its final release over in the UK at unsociable o clock in the evening ended up having to re download all 60 gigs worth......four FECKING TIMES and spend 5 hours complaining on their forum as wouldnt let me sign in. Yet all the influencers and certain YT stars I was watching all had been in hours before anyone, well colour me surprised. Also, please tell us more about this Mike Dating Simulator!
@ggEmolicious3 жыл бұрын
How about FF14, it was so bad at launch that they had to have someone come in and fix the mess that it was and relaunch it with some extra words tacked on to the end of the title just to let people know “hey, it’s not the same anymore...please try it again”
@AdisonTeixeira3 жыл бұрын
Nobody remember but there is a game called Atlas (from the Ark developers) which launched unbelievably broken and missing a lot of features
@warlock10803 жыл бұрын
No Warcraft 3 Reforged? Game was considered an atrocious mess of a remaster
@davidgorman9943 жыл бұрын
Can we get the reverse of this and get the best launch titles?