Top 5 Games That You CAN'T Play in 2024

[@UncleSlam]

The inclusion of Pac-Man 99 footage hits home real hard for me. I was fortunate enough to get flown out to PAX East last year to participate in the Pac-Man 99 event Bandai Namco was hosting, and when they announced they were pulling the plug only a few short months later, it hit the whole community like a freight train. Met plenty of fantastic individuals thanks to the game, so to have the online lobbies taken away was rough.

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

Wow. Knockout City is a rare case where ditching EA was a *bad* thing. True, it might have been milked to death for nickel and diming, but it probably would have survived longer.

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

It also didn’t help that the Knockout city trailer that Interviewed the characters, which were Falsely advertised and never appeared in the game.

[@KhepriProd]

I wanted to see you talk about Overwatch 1. I remember you really enjoyed Overwatch when it first released, even saying that you “can’t see yourself going back to TF2”. I want to know how you feel now, especially with the state of Overwatch 2.

[@0MidnighttheDragon0]

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring: Atlas Reactor. It was SUCH a unique game (basically pvp XCOM style combat but everyone takes their turn at the same time then watches the chaos. with unique/fun characters with their own powers/personalities a la overwatch, league, etc) and there is NOTHING else like it out there. The downside? it had a small playerbase. literally so small that multiple people recognized other players by names MANY MANY times. That's why it eventually shut down. They couldn't, financially, support keeping the servers up with how small of a playerbase it was. But man it was SO fun and I miss it SO MUCH. They tried to pseudo-revive it with Atlas Rogues (a Roguelike) but due to tons of salty Reactor vets just raging at it not being a re-release of Reactor (Despite the devs saying MULTIPLE times that they wanted reactor back too and THIS was the only chance they had to show the People With The Money (tm) that there was interest in the Atlas Reactor IP...) and couldnt focus on ANYTHNIG else so they review bombed it with false information on steam and got their funding gutted and eventually rogues got cancelled. Despite the positive feedback from those who actually spoke with devs, hung out in the discord server, and actually played the beta releases of the game. The devs were obviously very passionate about wanting to make this work and cared a lot about the community and toxic salty fans just...ruined it. (an example of lies in the review bombs: they claimed the devs didnt care and werent listening to fans. despite multiple patches being nearly 90% FAN-SUGGESTED CHANGES.) the worst part? because it was so unpopular, I can't even easily look up old youtube videos to sorta 'relive' the old times. What few ARE there are...mediocre at best and the ones playing it were uh...very bad. so I cant even show friends "oh this character was cool" because I cant find videos of that character being played and played at least half decently. sorry, long rant but...yea. Atlas Reactor was a great game that you cant play anymore :(

[@BenjaMage]

Honestly, while the initial marketing for Knockout City didn't do itself any favours, it was a genuinely fun game and one of the few live-service PvP games I played a fair amount of. A shame it ended up going under, but the devs at least left the PC version compatible with privately-hosted servers, so players who had it on PC before it got delisted can continue playing the game in some form.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

9:51 Imagine a game that's just about interviewing random game characters as they shill each other's games.

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

I think he’s Talking about Wanting a Princess Charm Game. ( Which I currently want to make as a Fan, but it’s hard to do it by myself at the moment) But your idea doesn’t seem that far fetched.

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

9:50 thanks for mentioning Princess Charm, as a Massive fan of this Character I've been trying to make a fangame with her as the Main Protagonist, with Corgon and Alex Jackson as side characters with other folks. It's been quite roughing doing it by myself for the past 3 years since I'm so inexperienced with game dev. (I did however worked on composing the Music for this project) Any help on this Fangame Project would be appreciated

[@BigBoss15310]

Man, it's great to get a rabbidluigi video. Better yet to get one on a Friday!

[@Simte]

This is thw problem with live services. People invest money and worst of all, a lot of time, to servers ending up being killed. No company is truly invested in game preservation.

[@Seoul_Soldier]

The funny thing about Evolve? If it released now, it would have been a hit since their style of monetization has been (unfortunately) normalized. And amazingly, the game still graphically looks phenomenal compared to current games.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...I'll just say it. Square needs to learn when to be _patient_ before pulling the plug on their mobile games. Because _holy shit_ the amount of their mobile games and online service games that die before they get off the ground is staggeringly disgusting. Granted there was some genuinely sketchy crap, but literal games that never made it out of their BETA

[@Jackpkmn]

I'll bet its because they expect whatever slop they release to instantly dominate its section of the market. If they released a shooter then it better thanos snap fortnite and cod mobile out of existence instantly and supplant their market share with its own or else it's automatically a failure.

[@SolstaceWinters]

I remember being in college and looking for SOMETHING to do and do quickly when I'm between classes. Sure I had a GBA and DS, but I didn't always want to dedicate a large portion of time, or have to hunt for a save spot if necessary if I needed to rush to class. I remember trying "FF All the Bravest" and thinking, "Square made this? This is ass. There's no thought or complexity, I just swipe mindlessly." Then I found "FF Record Keeper" and stuck with that for like 7 years. ... until they closed the servers down..... only ever spent $15 bucks on the game because I happened to have the cash and felt the game was worth supporting. Of course... that mentality is probably why they closed the game down Globally. We weren't profitable enough for them compared to the Japanese servers which are still operational.

[@JAnne_Bonne]

When the music came in for number 2 I was all “wait, I didn’t play it in forever, but it’s GONE!?” Turns out I was worried for nothing.

[@Byakkoya11037]

8:20 Man....this one HURTS.

[@buttholeweeb621]

Why. What the fuck is it

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

Not as much as Princess charm and the Other characters that were being interviewed not get their own game. I would love a Princess Charm game.. And the Idea of a Video game equivalent to wreck it Ralph were video game Genres Cross over with one Another.

[@404Errored]

The whole situation on the day before still baffles me to this day because it just kept going. If you've seen what even was revealed after the company shutdown it's even more astonishing how abysmal fantstic were at management.

[@harkenrebirth]

This is why it was a massive mistake for these game devs to THINK that an always online and ONLY ONLINE game would be a good thing. Becuase of just how volatile the market is... They wasted millions or who knows how much money... On TRASH games nobody asked for.. When they could have done somethign ACTUALY good.. Single player.. OFFLINE.. Games that people would remember.... maybe not the year they released it.. but a year or two later. But they cant. Since they make online only games. Multiplayer shooters that are copy paste of thousands of other games. Thinking they are special with their take.. And then end up crying... As people laugh at them for being massive failures.

[@ekimmak]

"They're making so much money. All we have to do is copy them, and we will make the same amount of money!"

[@harkenrebirth]

@@ekimmak Which is hillarious considering how they FAIL...Something they dont see. They just think "ITS MAKING MONEY.. I MAKE MONEY AS WELL"... But... They never do. They always fail. You would have to be a low iq mron to copy a failed idea like this.

[@headwindshield]

The funny thing is that your rant does not apply to Evolve at all. The game, by design, only works as a multiplayer game. And it was extremely innovative, being an asymmetrical 1 vs 4 rather than copying the CoD/Overwatch/PUBG formula like everyone else did. The BIG mistake was not releasing the server tools to the player base. Someone could've set up a matchmaking server for P2P in their attic and the game would still be playable, entirely without 2K's involvement.

[@espurrthestupididiot2405]

that gacha ad will definitely be on this kind of list in a few years.

[@claytonrios1]

This is why I'm guarding my physical copies with my life. They can never be taken from me!

[@chrisj320ac3]

Make backups if you haven't, disc rot and cartridge failure are real.

[@claytonrios1]

@@chrisj320ac3 Don't I know it.

[@headwindshield]

What a true boomer you are. A physical copy won't help you play Evolve. The problem with always-online games is that once the servers get shut down, even with a physical copy you will not be able to play them anymore. The only way forward is to force publishers to release the server tools to the player base so we can set up our own servers and aren't at the publisher's mercy. Or in the case of EA, give players the option to rent servers from a third party service. Battlefield 3 and 4 can still be played over a decade after their releases because players keep renting servers for them. With or without physical copies. Also, technically, a game downloaded to your HDD/SSD is a physical copy. A CD or bluray disk is not any more physical than an HDD or SSD.

[@jacktwelve1710]

That doesn’t really work for games that are online multiplayer only……………….

[@chrisj320ac3]

@jacktwelve1710 I don't play those so I'm not particularly worried about multiplayer games. It's single player that needs saving because it isn't (shouldn't be at least) tied to online.

[@revampersand]

RIP the Unreal Tournament multiplayer servers. 2004 and UT3 both still had a semi-active player base up until Epic pulled the plug on them last year. Damn shame, too, as the Unreal series was my gateway to PC gaming, and UT2004 was my go-to multiplayer game for several years.

[@Baileography]

No one tell Rabbid that they took Spec Ops The Line off sale in January.....

[@bretginn1419]

As much as I hate Spec Ops The Line and everything it does, it being delisted does genuinely suck.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@bretginn1419 I don't mind the game itself, but the fact that it had a long run of showing up on practically _every_ games list that was even remotely positive that turned me off of it in a big way.

[@Erablier]

It’s a bit wild that both Pokémon and Yugioh, two of the biggest card games, both had a digital card game go down on 2023

[@metleon]

Would not be surprised to see Pixel Heroes (the sponsor) to be in a video like this in about 2 years. I know nothing about the game other than the ad, but it definitely requires servers that will be shut down eventually. I'm currently playing Monster Rancher 4, so although getting another copy of the game or another PS2 would be difficult if something happens to them, I can at least continue to play the full game without worrying about an online service shutting the whole game down.

[@Castersvarog]

I’m not sure if it’ll be mentioned, but Dragalia lost is my example. For a gacha game it had no right to have been as amazing as it was, and it’s sad that it’s effectively gone in the eyes of the devs cygames and especially Nintendo. At least there’s the fan servers, but in this day and age, who knows how long that could keep going

[@fizzplease6742]

I played a bit of that. I really enjoyed the character designs, it had a long story, and it's a real pity they didn't make some kind of single player conversion.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

Here's hoping they make a new game.

[@bretginn1419]

I enjoyed Dragalia Lost a lot. It's likely not mentioned much by either Cygames or Nintendo because they both have a hand in it, so there's probably concerns for the licensing talks. Still, wouldn't be surprised if it gets revisited later on, like Little Noah or Princess Connect. Maybe with inspiration from Relink.

[@mechaswool]

Man, the second half of 2022 and the first half of 2023 was a rough time to be a fan of Cygames' games that aren't Granblue, Shadowverse, or Uma Musume. I'm content with Dragalia ending, as it got an actual ending, but the English server for Priconne got done *dirty*

[@JETEP3]

A RabbidLuigi upload on a Friday? Good start to the weekend!

[@Triforce_of_Doom]

*sees footage of Rumbleverse* STILL IN PAIN THAT GAME WAS FUN. For those who saw a wrestling battle royale & had questions, it was a wrestling battle royale made by Iron Galaxy AKA the current dev team behind Killer Instinct 2013 (KI was originally made by Double Helix before they moved on to other projects) so you have guys behind the current seasons of content in a well loved fighting game making a wrestling based game filled with all the love & charm that would have (YOU COULD SPINNING PILEDRIVER PEOPLE OFF SKYSCRAPERS)... and it died after only six months.

[@jtalkalot19]

I really liked playing Smb35, and it's really dumb that we can't play it anymore

[@Lucariogamer14]

Uggh the mentioning of E3 just hurts me

[@toumabyakuya]

Sad but ubderstandable. E3 became obsolete, every company can showcase to us the latest games in Nintendo Direct-like videos at anypoint of the year, so E3 lost its main function.

[@criticalmass7841]

SMT:Imagine is my top pick, unironically

[@zaneheaston8254]

Add Concord to the pile of unplayable games

[@expendableindigo9639]

The funniest part of Only Up to me is that someone with a very similar studio name stole their assets to make “Only Up 2.”

[@blurgalsklech2929]

Boss you should do an episode about Spec Ops going dark on Steam.

[@boboftibia]

FireFall is a game that's gone forever. I miss it. I wish someone managed to get a private server up and running before it disappeared.

[@shawnheatherly]

Babylon's Fall was seriously a rough moment for Platinum.

[@jotarokujo7955]

Can you play babylons fall in single player? or you have to play it online multiplayer?

[@relt745]

While not fully qualifying i think Arkham Origins deserves a mention since the only place you can get it anymore is Steam as you cannot buy the digital version on consoles and the online mode has an incredibly similar story to evolve

[@MrBucketlist]

Wow. I had no idea knock out city was gone. I loved that game lol

[@KerzacTransformed]

The Tales of series games on PS3 were delisted in various forms recently

[@frankyquilavafireblast895]

This is rapid luigi, and even though we live in the modern age of social media, where the world seems more interconnected than ever, just remember that, even in the year 2024, there is still loss media being discovered… As well as lost media, forming in front of our very eyes, or what I should say, is disappearing…

[@galaxyblade111]

The topic reminds me of battleborn... it was really fun in the begining but the playerbase became so toxic and then the game kind of died...

[@lewa3910]

My top game that can't be bought legally anymore (at a reasonable price) is platinum's Legend of Korra game. It maybe mediocre for a platinum game, but i still love it, and its still the best avatar game in general. I can still play it legally thankfully having bought it on ps4 before it was delisted and can download it to my account, but it sucks that scalpers are ripping off pckeys of the game for 100s of bucks.

[@steveh1474]

surprised Mario Maker wasnt even mentioned, tbh. i know theres still SMM2 on the Switch, but the original on wii u with millions of levels is being shut down just next week, and that whole chunk of incredible game design is gonna be gone forever. its unfortunate to see!

[@minhv5513]

The rhythm of algo made your uploads disappear from my feed. You are back :)

[@cheezybegga]

Project Spark was one that hit home, I loved that game

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

Half video and no knockout City mention ... XD Edit: oops (When those tmnt expensive skins appeared was a tell of the end )

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

It’s still insane to me that they brought the TMNT skins in But Not put in Princess Charm, Corgon, Alex Jackson, Captain Wrangler and Max Splintz.

[@woodenaiden2054]

Gotta remember Call of Duty Warzone 1

[@ThymeSplitter]

What do you mean no one's played Babylon's Fall? (I'm looking at Austin Eruption for this one)

[@bighamspamjr]

Can't wait for the next video in July

[@xFAM3xSkollx]

What’s the character used for the thumbnail?

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

Captain Wrangler, From Knockout City Interviews.

[@VanessaVersus]

"they even had bayonetta 3 come out the same year for them!" yeah it was a rough year

[@Shantae1188]

Bayonetta 3 was good. Just ignore the story

[@VanessaVersus]

@@Shantae1188 I disagree, the combat was much worse than previous games and the environments and enemy design were much more boring

[@Shantae1188]

@@VanessaVersus Nah, the combat was great, I loved the weapons you could use

[@VanessaVersus]

@@Shantae1188 go play the games where you can have different weapons on your hands and feet and don't have to use the stupid demon slave and get back to me

[@Shantae1188]

@@VanessaVersus I have. I still think Bayonetta 3’s combat is fun

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Kinda surprised with how long it's taking TPC to do anything outside of "closely monitoring the situation" with Palworld when it was revealed they straight up ripped 3D models from Pokemon and adjusted them. And no, just cause the person that found out adjusted the size of the models does not mean they're totally different. That's like saying I can draw a picture of Modern Mickey Mouse but really small and then call it my own character.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Ah yes, because "internet sleuths" know better than Japanese copyright lawyers. The answer is that they won't do anything because even by the absurdly strict rules of Japanese copyright law, where fair use does not exist, Palworld... is in the clear. Time to get over it. The Pokemon Company certainly has. They were trying to tell you little weirdos "stop emailing us and move on".

[@ThisIsCSDX]

@@FelisImpurrator I never said I was a sleuth of anything, nor have I emailed any company about it cause I don't feel threatened by Palworld like you do about Pokemon. Hell, your comment admittedly comes off as if you're some kind of elitist about Palworld that's weirdly paranoid and fragile about the criticism it's gotten.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@ThisIsCSDX Love how you managed to make up an entire narrative in your head that doesn't correspond to anything I said. Peak projection. I was referring to the rando on twitter who claimed the models were stolen, and the fact that you actually trust what they say for some reason. It's just someone playing internet detective for drama, and you're taking it seriously. That's the problem. And the point is, "we are monitoring the situation" is corporate speak for "we know it exists, it's not our problem, stop emailing us" as a general statement. You seem to have conveniently chosen to interpret this as a personal statement about you so you could take it a different way and make up this character for me in your head. The fragility is coming from inside the house, methinks. No, there's no proof they stole anything. No, TPC is probably not going to do anything about it. You know what you should do about this non-issue? Stop caring. I don't. I just think it's ridiculous for people like you to be trying to keep dead internet drama relevant past its sell-by date, that's all. It's not about me being "threatened by Pokemon" (Literally how? I don't own stock in Pocketpair and I don't work for them. Pretty sure I couldn't even if I wanted to. What does that even mean?) so much as not liking your brand of parasocial teamsports. The short version is: Nintendo doesn't care about Palworld and it doesn't care about you. They're doing their own thing (which looks cool), and Pocketpair is doing its own thing (which is also cool). There are no real sides. Just a bunch of little internet weirdos who desperately want this to be some kind of Keemstar beef.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

@@FelisImpurrator You're most definitely one to talk about imaginary scenarios, dude, cause if you weren't so paranoid and fragile about this, you wouldn't have typed 4 paragraphs bitching about the situation like this.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@ThisIsCSDX Project harder, dude. Paranoid and fragile about what? All I said was "it's not a big deal, get over it". Are you one of those types who thinks basic literacy = emotional overinvestment?

[@AathielVaDaath]

Luigi, brother, you've been missed. Bummer you come back with sad material - games as a service need to be stopped. But glad you're back

[@Vetaa]

Ngl knockout city was kinda fun sometimes

[@Kentman513]

Knockout City was dope. :-(

[@harrythehumansubstitutearr8804]

I miss yugioh duel generation, first fights teach you how to play, fair, first boss? 5 2000+ attack point monsters on turn one or two of the AI, because FUCK YOU! AND DIE! The game just shits of you in the boss fights until you learn to actually win with a better deck than the starting deck and good strategy, and then the ultimate insect deck, blue eyes ultimate dragon got turned down to under 2000 attack, you read that right.

[@joeykeilholz925]

Piracy is preservation 😉

[@toumabyakuya]

Nah, it isn't, at all.

[@nerdrage3626]

I'm confused ... is this some Online Gamer problem that I'm too much of a Single Player/Splitscreen/System Link Gamer to understand?!

[@DJAB87]

Online aspects of a game require internet servers that cost money to keep running. If a game is online multiplayer only like the ones in this video and the servers get shut down due to a lack of players or funds, the game will become literally unplayable. Exactly the reason why i will never play games like this.

[@KosmischesWiesel]

I miss Rumbleverse and The Cycle... Both great games, with bad desicions from the creators.

[@supersonicsaga]

Lightning?

[@SilverJakler]

I miss Rumbleverse, man...

[@madranking2024]

Thanks for the awesome video! It's fascinating to see what games are making waves in 2024. If you're as intrigued as I am, you'll definitely want to subscribe to MAD RANKING for more top-ranking content across various genres!

[@nightfrostbreeze]

Not that I care much about mobile games, but the sponsor of this video being one is pretty ironic. How exactly are those always online, microtransaction heavy, limited time event mobile games going to be preserved in the future?

[@socialaccount0000]

Evolve was the shit, until people started hacking the game and the devs just did not give a shit...

[@pricdd67]

Angry birds, overwatch, Pac-Man 99, super Mario Bros. 35, player Unknown battle grounds but the last one I don't know if is gone

[@skellington15]

Loadout

[@MarvinPowell1]

Am I the only one who liked The Day Before? Okay, that's not true. I never liked it.

[@Shmeve0]

First, guessing PT

[@Shmeve0]

Goddamn it

[@Jazzer995]

I do not see why everyone has such a hard-on for this 'game'; maybe because I'm not a fan of horror. If it's from Konami/Kojima I would rather see a HD update to Revengence or a new Zone of the Enders.

[@darthlazurus4382]

Incorrect.

[@toumabyakuya]

@@Shmeve0 Umm, I think Rabbid wanted to make reference to newer games.

[@KapitanPazur1]

That video was really lame. Like I was hoping that at least one game will be good but no, all 5 of those games was dogshit waste of time and money and people want to forget about those for good reasons so why the heck even bother wasting video on that when you can make a more entertaining video

[@themangomanjuice]

Interesting.

[@KingNerdius]

I miss good top 10s

[@johncosco2348]

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