dead battle royale games that failed..

[@RocketSloth]

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[@Xerty_Did_U_Dirty]

Dude ark sotf came out in 2016

[@BAXEN]

pubg is free

[@toilet_paper_gaming]

@stretch-on1wyyes it is

[@OppGoblinTv]

Idk why the tanked Apex we loved it, it was great could’ve took down PUBGm as King ,PUBG Mobile might actually have a bigger player base than PUBG

[@TheRageLivesOn]

surprised Radical Heights wasn't mentioned. a literal dead game that you can't play anymore by a company that doesn't exist anymore. actually had a decent bit of fun with that game, but it was pretty janky and it was obviously extremely unfinished (although there is a team of 3 people attempting to completely remake the game, so we'll see how that goes)

[@jethromason8160]

I think my comment got deleted... they research a lot but there are definitely some blind spots, and I think it's due to rushing to meet the deadline to get a video out every week.

[@soppo_404]

​@@jethromason8160i mean its already an hour long video

[@ollieblass9370]

@@soppo_404yeah, maybe they’ll have one in the future for Evil Dead The Game’s Splatter Royale

[@JB2FROSTY]

Aww You called it the Fortnite killer, didn't you

[@TheRageLivesOn]

@@JB2FROSTY never said that in my life actually. anyone with a functioning brain could see that it wasn’t up to par with basically anything on the market, it was just a bit of mindless fun

[@Mirltones]

Blackout will forever hold a special place in my heart, A genuine looter where you had to find guns to win, I know some may not have enjoyed it but as a massive Black Ops fan having the best parts of every map and new parts felt so great, Unlocking characters through challenges like Reznov and Woods were so much fun to me due to how challenging it took, I wish Bo4 had crossplay , maybe many would have a different take on the game

[@VicksDog]

Blackout was so fun man, it was better than warzone imo and having no cross play definitely ruined how long it got played

[@kami3449]

I tell my friend all the time that they should've kept Blackout and then had Warzone at the same time. Blackout was a great BR and im not even a big COD fan.

[@joeschipper6465]

honestly i was more of a zombies guy but i enjoyed mp too, when i realised the zombies in bo4 was kinda trash i tried out blackout and i actually rlly liked the game, a lot more than i liked warzone when that came out, i just wish they released it free with crossplay and maybe the new game engine that came out with mw2019 might have helped it too

[@KomeFits]

The best thing Activision has done since BO3

[@KevinRegalado1117]

Iirc u can still play it, the map, on cod mobile

[@coreytrevor1920]

Gotta stick up for blackout, that shit was insanely fun especially with the switching attachments and all the iconic locations. But no cross play killed it. Wish I could play it again at its peak

[@kintsugi6093]

It was so much fun, have a lot of clips saved from those days

[@ck712510]

To this day my favorite BR RIP

[@almostkinda]

Right to the construction sight. Only br I've ever played more than a few times

[@thispersonistedious1101]

I still play to this day but population is low😔

[@GhostedPizza]

Blackout was a success, but once they found and refined Warzone that was the nail in the coffin for this amazing gamemode (even if it came at the cost of a story)

[@The1000YearWhore]

Blackout definitely had some issues, but I think if it were Free 2 Play like Warzone instead of being tied to buying Black Ops 4, it would've had much more staying power.

[@Skdjefkrkfnfne]

I personally think its way better than warzone is tbh, wish it was what he had now

[@ex2c8]

Duos in blackout was fun, warzone is stressful lol

[@sturgen]

​@@Skdjefkrkfnfne I hate that Warzone has custom loadouts in it. One of the best parts of battle royales is the looting aspect. But when you go against the same 3 meta loadouts it just feels like a normal Cod match.

[@sweepingmotion]

@@ex2c8 right? Even when in WZ you can get revived, Blackout doesn’t feel as tense

[@SilverWolfGaming0527]

Something else that helped kill BO4 blackout, it was the pay walled DLC weapons, when they started releasing DLC they were usually locked behind the black market, and those that unlocked them could find them in safes that had hard spawns in the map, anyone who didn't have money for the market tokens couldn't get them, unless they wasted hours grinding

[@CharismaticGamer]

Warzone was the nail in the coffin

[@sgtroach1510]

@@CharismaticGameryup when warzone launched blackout died

[@justinmabb1997]

I loved nuclear winter in fallout 76. Now most of the rewards you could have gotten with that mode you can't get anymore they said you could but they're nowhere to be found

[@AriaTheFoxVT]

Same though, like Nuclear Winter was what kept my interested in F76 now it just gathered digital dust in my steam library

[@ingamingpc1634]

@@AriaTheFoxVT I actually enjoyed playing it just tried it does feel like a Fallout experience and you can sell things for bottle caps you can legitimately get decent stuff it's pretty fun

[@whocares9033]

Nah, most people were burnes so bad by the shitty launch that we refused to give it another chance That's not an opinion based off of ignorance, it's based off of experience

[@ingamingpc1634]

@@whocares9033 their choice to choose to not try to have fun my choice to give people a chance you know after waiting a couple months

[@whocares9033]

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[@nicogeo9193]

I miss Darwin project so much the idea of being the game master closing zones chosing where drops would go setting zones to have abilities like zero g when you see a fight in one of them was so cool and still hasn't been done by other brs

[@Leohsp]

Literally the best BR ever created.

[@l1ttl3br0]

having bows and melee weapons was a lot more fun than all other BR's, it meant no camping and very aggressive play.

[@dankboidonk]

it was so fun!!!!

[@fastflack8194]

Darwin project was the best, whether it be sending nukes as the game master, or battling it out as a contestant

[@metalbob123]

I love luke and elijah talking back and forth at the end just sharing their thoughts and memories playing stuff together

[@aydenhansen304]

God bro I miss hyperscape, I really enjoyed the game and even pumped many hours into ranked with some friends and dominated, really wish it would of survived because of how much fun I had but hey when Ubisoft tries to create things it usually doesn't go so well.

[@MyName-bw1kz]

Ngl, Realm Royale was REALLY fun. Only reason my friends and I stopped playing was because we almost always got to playing with bots. But that game was super fun

[@neonnight5228]

Spell break was such a fantastic game honestly. Super fun and unique

[@HoboG0blin]

As a massive Fallout meat rider Nuclear Winter was pretty okay from the hours I sank into it back in the day but it had a pretty serious core flaw: the vast majority of your progression came from how long you stayed alive. Combine that with bushes you can crouch inside and a literal ghillie suit that was an event reward at one point you get a lot of people just AFKing in the bushes all around the map. The issue was further compounded by the rewards from Nuclear Winter carrying over to the main gamemode of 76, meaning that a lot of people who wanted a cool looking skin for their Pwer Armor but had 0 interest in BRs could just do the aforementioned AFK strat and get like 80% as much progress towards said rewards as a player actively engaging in combat with other players.

[@imillnotsick420]

The Culling was so fun when it was at its peak popularity. The melee combat was like a game of rock paper scissors.

[@Isaacfess]

As a vet of that game, so true. Really wish the devs gave us the ability to host our own servers.

[@colecovington8133]

Yeah and then they decided for no reason to abandon the game and then out of the blue come out with the garbage fire that was culling 2. But the culling was by far one of my favs

[@daddiodan6846]

Last Tide was an underwater BR featuring scuba divers and sharks. I think it was meant to be an offshoot BR of Depth. It was a pretty neat concept and quite fun, but died real quick.

[@axmoylotl]

vampire the masquerade bloodhunt was pretty fun. It had really fun movement, you could do a lot of movement tricks. Also the Vampire: the masquerade theming is just really cool if you're into world of darkness stuff.

[@Random.i]

Fr bro it's was so special it had very different feel to it and graphics

[@TheFoxInTheSoKS]

Yeah, I still pop into it every once in a while. Wish it became more popular.

[@bassbone98]

Minecraft Hunger games is the original Battle Royale, I have spoken

[@fpsesadorsomethinglikethat1859]

Minecraft hunger games crawled so pubg could run

[@matthewearp3642]

Looking for this comment

[@anthonyheeney6131]

Yes this was 2014 days minecraft hunger games

[@MrBoxMan20]

Arma 2 Dayz mod was my bro it's settled

[@tripx3033]

Good days brother…..

[@44turnips]

Used to play this game called Battlerite, then BR's blew up and they decided to focus on their new game Battlerite Royale. They had a really good game, then decided to make a br, now they have 2 dead games.

[@orchid9]

CS Danger Zone was very easy to get into before CS2 release, I guess there was enough players. I dunno, I think CS' Danger Zone was the best BR take as the Battle Royal concept as a whole - one life and stakes are sky high. True to the original expiration for the whole genre. You don't rely on loot and their arbitrary rarity or numbers or other fantasy game-y stuff, but straight up on your resourcefulness and skills how you tackle unperdictable situations. CS DZ was way slower, methodical and intense. Loved it, really hope it'd make a return in CS2.

[@skarano]

they released cs2 way earlier than it should have been released So they will just dripfeed readding Modes from csgo like they did for arms race and eventually danger zone will come back

[@A__E]

No just no fuck no

[@Leon_2777]

Fortnite's world-wide domination, Apex's competitive edge, and Warzone's monstrous weight effectively killed the, "BR Gold Rush." Thank god for that too. Every game being advertised and teased as potentially have a BR was annoying.

[@Butley]

I miss Ring of Elysium. It was like pubg but on a giant snow map and it had different classes that gave you different modes of transportation. It was super fun I'm not sure why it died. I do remember being disappointed when they removed the snow map, it was the best and they were never able to make another map as good as that one.

[@NoahMercy11]

My friends and I had so much fun with RoE. There was no other game where you could snowboard down a mountain and shoot someone lol. Also we loved cuisine Royale and had so much fun messing around in that game.

[@Hxttrick]

I was looking for a comment about it hah. I miss it too. I'm a die hard RoE fan, even played in an official tournament. The downfall really began with the removal of the snow map. No new map for season 3 or any other season for that matter too. Devs weren't listening to the community and they even scrapped the whole deploy thing that made RoE unique for one season. They came out with a new map when it was too late, all the players had already left and what little players stuck hated the new map, just as a final nail in the coffin. They are shutting down the servers on December 1 and you can't even play offline then. RIP Ring of Elysium, you will be missed.

[@GoldSrc1198]

46:35 Darwin Project was so good when it first dropped just a bow, ax, and some traps. With everyone using the same stuff fights felt like if you lost if was because the other person was just better. Its the only BR I think I will miss once this trend is dead.

[@GoldLBS]

Respect blackout. My favorite BR till this day. When ot goes to game pass on xbox and pc i think it will.see a slight resurgence. People still play it.

[@savage751]

Couldn't agree more. This was the only BR game I really enjoyed and played a lot of. Pissed they abandoned it for Warzone which imo is no where near as fun

[@i-Sparki]

Super Animal Royale is niche but has a feverishly loyal fan base. You can see it from the sheer amount of fanart made for it. They actively encourage it too with contests and such. It helps that the game has such a simple style and overall package, content isn't hard to make.

[@dawelsh241]

I really enjoyed playing the Darwin Project, the gameshow aspect was really cool

[@joeyturncoat420]

Darwin Project is second best battle royale after Fortnite

[@BlackSnow2393]

Darwin Project was so much fun. A cool concept, but a major flaw I always ran across was directors teaming with their friends to give them easy wins.

[@dazerrazer3018]

Yeah playing as the director was so fun

[@Safersephiroth777]

Personally I am glad for this. For a while EVERYTHING was a Battle Royale game. I am happy to see that isn't the case anymore and like 3 games are still standing.

[@rathtane1238]

I played Cuisine Royale a bit with my friends when it first released and I absolutely hated the looting system each weapon had its own ammo type so it made finding a decent amount of ammo super difficult.

[@exoticbutters4212]

Another noteworthy one was Creative Destruction. It got a lot of flak for being a fortnite clone, but I really loved the crafting system and the cool guns and traps they had. My personal favorite being the one inspired by the halo needler, which would track targets and explode after hitting a certain amount of shots

[@empirednw6624]

I miss nuclear winter lol. It was weird and clunky but it was a nice change of pace for a bit when playing. They have stated that they are still looking into some kind of curated pvp mode though.

[@2fast4dad]

A huge reason realm royale fell off was because of the removal of the class system which essentially just turned it into fortnite with no building. It took them months to add it back and they've still continued to try and recover that game.

[@xXDeiviDXx]

That's ironic with how Fortnite surged in popularity again after Epic introduced a no building mode.

[@fabiancarrascalsalazar5793]

ironically i actually began playing the game during the period where it was removed and i prefered it. i jumped to fortnite after that since i got a beefier pc. but still enjoyed the game. but oh boy, everything feels janky in comparison.

[@Shadow0fd3ath24]

Early Apex(as in the first 2 months) and Blackout in the first 3 months was the best and funnest times ive had so far in BR gaming. Back before those franchises BR modes werent absolute sweatfests.....Now no build Fortnite is the only one thats even playable due to SBMM and the ability to drop so many places and do so well without it being so RNG on loot and its easy to keep from getting 3rd partied

[@odyssey308]

So true man. I was there for the first 2 months of apex and it was a blast. Same with blackout. They were killer in the beginning before it was a sweat fest and such. Unlocking dudes in blackout was legit. Had to do some wild stuff not just pay money.

[@cococock2418]

Blackout was garbage from day one, what are you smoking

[@S.o.u.n.d.w.a.v.e]

On PlayStation at the beginning of fallout 76s nuclear winter i was a top player. One of the first level 100s in the mode. The gamemode was most definitely flawed and 100% broken with certain perk setups. I abused the automatic weapon perks and my lord i shredded anyone if i found a tommy gun or handmade rifle. I found nuclear winter very fun though. Idk why it just had a charm to it for me and i played and took that mode way to serious lol. It had a very small playerbase. the game mode not being free and the game being $60 at the time most definitely was the reason the playerbase for nuclear winter was so small just like the pvp community in the normal mode. I think it only ever reached at most like a few hundred players on at a time. I always ran into the same players over and over again. I wish it wouldve showed stats like how many kills and wins you got. I know i had a lot but man i wouldve loved to see an exact number. Sad to see it go but it was amazing imo. Nukes were super cool in that mode. Ez wins most of the time. Nuclear winter got me into the PVP side of fallout 76. Again PVP was also way broken but in a fun kind of way. Ever sicne legacies got removed (legacies being weapons with legendary effects that got removed from them at a latwr date) i stopped pvping and ever since the pvp community is basically dead. But any ways thats my story of pvp anf nuclear winter. Was great and plenty toxic lol but i made 2 great friends from it i can luckily still call friends to this day

[@zemotika]

Never got to try if sadly but I love f76

[@EA_SP0RTCENTER]

Frog legs perk was OP as heck.

[@kosmosfan01]

I love the BR games that aren't just shooters with a different coat of paint. Played Fall Guys since its launch and picked up Headbanger Rhythm Royale after hearing about it months ago for its unique take on the BR gameplay and really enjoying it.

[@odyssey308]

I agree! We Need an awesome racing BR one day.

[@evandaymon8303]

@@odyssey308 Forza horizon 4 and 5 have that called the eliminator which is decent but nobody in the community asked for it. Not saying i hate it but didn’t feel they had to make it.

[@kosmosfan01]

@@odyssey308 I would be down for trying that.

[@kosmosfan01]

@@evandaymon8303 I think I'd want it to be its own thing rather than just an extra mode for a known game because it feels like some devs only added a BR in the past just to have it and didn't really care to support it.

[@evandaymon8303]

@@kosmosfan01 They cared enough to include it for forza horizon 5 and there is a update plan to expand the mode to have a duos mode too along with other neat stuff. Unfortunately they haven’t implemented it but the code for that mode is hidden in the game files waiting to be used one day.

[@piercerivera1906]

My Favorite BR that was added to an existing fanchise would be The Division 1's BR really interesting concept trying to stay warm and collect guns and packages runninng around New York with but of PvE as well

[@savage751]

Yeah that mode was fun as hell. I'll go back and play a round here and there...just solo cause there no one lol

[@BassistDood]

Ideas for Part 2: Isles of Nyne Radical Heights S.O.S. Fractured Lands Rapture Rejects Totally Accurate Battlegrounds Bonzai Royale Ring of Elysium Or you could talk about Mavericks Proving Grounds, the absolute MOST hyped up battle royale that NEVER released

[@vincentwygers220]

Blackout did not really fail, just was part of a cod and was never free. and when the lifecycle was done then everyone moved over to the next cod.

[@dyllanrogers4859]

Missed my favorite “battle Royale” In Tom Clancys the division, their survival game mode was iconic, and is now dead. PVEVP with bosses and survival mechanics, it was incredible

[@BattleSteam3821]

I wasn’t around when it was a thing but war thunder a game based on military vehicles had a BR mode for time even had a tournament where players could game some prizes

[@PoSyOfficial]

I genuinely enjoyed blackout even after a couple years

[@marcoshaubert8727]

I played it for years, and I much preferred it to war zone

[@ElectricalSmith]

I found out recently that PlanetSide 2 had a BR game called "PlanetSide Arena" that failed pretty hard as well.

[@babo3873]

Realm Royale was my favorite BR on release because it originally had a mechanic that allowed you to forge your legendary weapon after getting 1-2 kills. This was a fresh take after spending countless hours dealing with PUBGs 2017 RNG because you would always have your favorite weapon. This made the early game fun and exciting hot-dropping to get your chosen weapon early to fight against the lobby. Although this introduced the problem of Bad/New players never getting their weapons because they would lose early game fights against better players while also putting players at a huge disadvantage if unlucky nobody else dropped with them. To "fix" these issues there was a patch that removed the kill points and made the Legendary weapons also world loot, losing the appeal of what made the game great. Every patch until the hiatus majorly changed the game in some way and made it worse as the studio/execs did not know what they wanted the game to become. TBF any class-based game is very hard to balance and make every option viable (see overwatch balance issues). In addition to the bad patches that didn't listen to community feedback, they wasted money on streamer tournaments with huge payouts in an attempt to start an esports scene. While the game proved popular enough at first because of this, interest quickly faded and makes the large investment from hi-rez into invitational tourneys could have been instead better spent on improving the content of the game. Additionally the game was PC only and released on xbox after the hype died down. I have 364 hours on steam with almost all of them from before the big hiatus patch. It was nice to see the revival from the few devs that still believe in it and the streamer/designer Thor, but it did not fix enough to get me to restart playing the game again, especially when compared to its formal glory.

[@NoahMercy11]

Realm Royale was so good and unique.

[@mrsaltydino4817]

the reason wz1 had to shutdown is that activision wanted more money out of the f2p audience so if they kept wz1 around when they didnt want to support that f2p model it would ultimately cost them more money to keep the servers up well with the amount of greed activision got

[@sakuracs]

Can’t believe you never mentioned Last Man Standing. It was a fun third person battle royale focused around deployable shields as cover and first person gunplay. Pretty unique for how barebones it was.

[@randomdumdass6829]

I remember when warzone was dropped and all my friends started playing it and I didn’t even know it existed at the time because I didn’t play cod

[@KlausCiocannis]

You did Blackout dirty man. The game was pure fun, the type of br in which you win by getting the best weapons through active movement and combat. If you didn't do anything and camp all game you had no chance. It was all about looting and it would have probably been supported even today if it was free and properly marketed. Firstly, in order to play Blackout, you had to have Black Ops 4. Secondly, the game didn't have cross-progression, thus players from console couldn't be matched up against pcs. Moreover, as I said, the devs and ATVI didn't advertise the game pretty much at all if you compare it to Warzone for example. I wish I could still play Blackout today but here in Eastern Europe you can't find any lobbies. It sounds pathetic but I still don't even like the idea of br, but Blackout's gameplay loop was different as it felt like a real CoD, not like what it has been released ever since 2019. Truly sad ending for Blackout... Edit: Sorry, I didn't stick to the end ofthe Blackout section when originally writting this comment. I should have listened to everything before typing that you didn't talk about X or Y

[@Swordslinger-hb1ns]

As much as I dislike Fallout 76, I actually had some entertaining fun with Nuclear Winter. Earned a couple trophies playing it specific to pvp multiplayer.

[@FuzzyLiama]

Rest in peace Planetside: Arena, its entire original premise was scrapped to rush a battle royale mode and remove everything else, which then the game was sunset only months later because none of the players who played Planetside 2 wanted a battle royale, and ESPECIALLY the dev team who didn't want a battle royale either. There are horror stories from former devs who have expressed their distaste with how the game turned out, just look it up on youtube.

[@TheTurtza]

Was looking through the comments and was happy to see Ring of Elysium mentioned. Good times on that. I was going through my Steam and lost memory was unlocked: Islands of Nyne? Like ... The gunplay in that was smooth!

[@foreternum]

Bloodhunt is true tragedy, if youve never played it give it a try before its to late. player base is small but loyal and its a pretty good time

[@tayderryberry8326]

I wish they would have made a game out of Spellbreak using the spells were so fun

[@itsmehere1]

Nuclear Winter is still to this day my favorite BR mode, its main downfall was it being basically completely abandoned and never added to after it first being added, so the points around players leaving and removing it for more resources are very much wrong, it saw a loss in players because it was never updated, and its kinda baffling that they would free up any resources at all buy removing it when it was on a skeleton crew in the first place.

[@taenavx]

Original H1Z1 King of the Kill - Hands down the best battle royale I have ever played. I fell in love with the genre because of that single game. Sad that nothing like that exists anymore

[@rayto_V2]

the best br ever m8, the 2 tap bro ...

[@lacids9816]

Yea this guy is making h1 seem like it was a pubg rip off and trash hands down best br

[@EA_SP0RTCENTER]

My favorite BR ever was rumbleverse. The only BR with fighting game mechanics ive played. Wonder if its gonna mentioned in this video. Criminally underrated game.

[@ThreeSkin]

Amazing video, i had no idea it was an hour long and i was hooked the whole time

[@CoRxx9]

Hearing hunt showdown in the same conversation as the culling 2 was a whirlwind

[@ChillBlinton]

Blackout was more of a product of the time, which is crazy to say since it wasn’t that long ago lol. It was the first AAA BR mode from a big publisher, the first time cod had a massive map, first time in ages we had vehicles in pvp for cod, they added some minor pve functions with zombies incorporated into it, etc. it definitely felt like a test run of BR before war zone though

[@stockpicksbytim1228]

I miss the days playing blackout, pubg, and h1z1

[@NorthstarEvil]

World at war had vehicles in multiplayer maps

[@SlvrWlf88]

Ngl the 2 or 3 timee i played firestorm was extremely satisfying..had tension and atmosphere not just run and jumps

[@CrashMcCloudX29]

Super Animal Royale is still really fun. It is a niche game for sure but it does have life to it.

[@dazerrazer3018]

You two are so chill and your talk was so interesting. It was sooo interesting and almost nostalgic when you guys had a chat

[@A-name_i-guess0]

Rest in piece nuclear winter a hidden masterpiece

[@judasleal5237]

personally spellbreak was a super fun game and i had an amazing time playing it, i wish it didn't shut down

[@imillnotsick420]

I was pretty hyped for spell break, played it for like a couple hours then never played it again. Idk what it was but it just wasn't for me.

[@wyattz4672]

The Culling was a masterpiece. I miss it so much. I think it being so melee centric was awesome. Getting a gun was pretty tough. If i remember right, there was only a pistol, and someone would only get one every like 10 games. It made it so much more intense when you heard a gunshot in the distance, knowing you're going to have to try and take them out with a spear or something. The Finals 100% drew inspiration from The Culling. The whole atmosphere is the same. A big game show arena, with the announcer taunting you. The crafting system and the atmosphere were SO good. It was my favorite BR ever I think.

[@jwest9606]

Not gonna lie... I liked black out 🤷‍♂️

[@Lambert_fr]

Me too man me too

[@waynestanton3734]

So did I

[@Vulpes_Shinbi]

Blackout was popular as hell, same with BFVs Firestorm. It's a shame they died off

[@roonkolos]

I never heard of Cuisine Royale until watching this video and for a brief few seconds i thought it was gonna be like a Cooking Mama sort of theme where people do different dishes as quick and accurate as possible or be eliminated (sorta like Chopped i guess) Even weirder is how i kinda liked the made up idea my head Frankenstein'd together XD

[@atomicyeeter1423]

I dont like BRs all too much, but occasionally, a good one comes around and gets shut down for no reason :(

[@void7837]

There is always a good reason, its either a lack of content/balancing or low playerbase

[@johnnyknadler1157]

@@void7837it’s because of low playerbase caused by things such as the ones you said

[@ozzcoremidmx8287]

I think you forgot to add the context in which Battlefield V Battle Royale mode was conceived. Battlefield V was involved in a lot of controversy after Patrick Söderlund's declarations over the historical approach of the game where fans were questioning the realism of women in WW2 frontline combat and called them 'uneducated, his response to the controversy? "either accept it or don't buy the game." This Buried the popularity of the game and condemned the launch, Patrick Soderlund left a few weeks after his declarations, but the damage was already done, then DICE decided to announce the BR mode just exactly when EVERYBODY was doing Royale, we honestly didn't need another one at that point.

[@kademarlowe1419]

Glad to see Nuclear Winter getting some love in the comments. Was definitely taken for granted by the player base. Too bad it didn't get this much attention when it was around

[@roonkolos]

Seems like 76 as a whole can be given that sentiment

[@Th3_n3rdtavrn]

It's only because most of the commenters have forgotten how broken frog legs were. Nothing quite like getting sniped out of a tree you shouldn't even realistically have to look in lol

[@Nexxus088]

It real speaks volumes how much of a flash in the pain BR games usually are that I've not heard of like.... Half of these games/modes in games and I look at steam pretty much at least once daily.

[@getoffmylawn6275]

Honestly Fallout 76 being hated is insane. I seen Fallout 4 hate but those are more like "Oh it's more casual and mainstream." Which it was but it still actually was good in some of the ways the game was made. But Fallout 76 was just ripped to shreds from people that played the game, then people that saw gameplay while deciding to skip it. Which I hope doesn't actually stop a "real" sequel to Fallout 4 after Elder Scrolls 6.

[@SilverWolfGaming0527]

I mean I played it day one, and I've been a Fallout Fan since 2, so I get the hate, it's like took a fallout themed world, deleted everything, amd had an amateur network specialist throw some net code together and say "screw it, good enough"

[@shaymorcormick8743]

The failure of eider scrolls 6 will be the reason fallout doesn't get a sequel

[@dariusdafigga]

Only reason why I would ever even think about downloading BO4 would be to see the different POI’s they ported from the previous Black Ops games

[@rubbertoe.]

I don’t remember the name of it but my favourite was the BR that used the assassins creed map. It had tournament style gameplay but it was a BR. Really miss that game

[@pootzmagootz]

BFV's Firestorm was so laughably ass 😂 I'm someone who enjoyed the multiplayer of BFV (even if it wasn't as good as BF1), but that gunplay was not built for a battle royale and the map was just too empty

[@DouglasA96]

Blackout still remains my favourite BR experience. When Warzone came out, me and my mates expected to not go back to Blackout but we played Warzone for a day or two and hated it, ended up going back and continuing to play Blackout for another year or two, pretty much most days. Even with a lack of player base (most games near the end were always against the same folk) and lack of updates it always had a charm to it. I do appreciate that you can still jump on the game today though and play several modes of the BR, they have the standard experience and then a rotating playlist with two other modes, one that gives you a jet boost and unlimited grapple and another like cops and robbers with lots of cars, both modes allow you to redeploy too, which may have been a first at the time for BR (not 100% sure though, first for me though). Yeah, it had issues overall, not free to play, cross platform, the best guns behind paywalls/big grind and some rather annoying glitches like the under the map one. But I just loved the map layout, extra game modes (heavy metal heroes/hot pursuit) and the mechanics, like the grapple gun, mesh mines etc, made for lots of unique plays. I have lots of great memories and clips from the game and just haven't found anything that matches it for me so far.

[@OzdiSinter]

Blackout was hands down my favourite fast paced battle royale. i bought bo4 at launch for full price on pc just to see the game mode going completely dead on pc 4-5 months later. What a shame it was the perfect fast paced battle royal ive played and ill never understand why it died. Tried Warzone and enjoyed it but i much preferred BO4 blackout...

[@youngbastion]

darwin project was so fun i wish it would've taken off being able to play as the host was super original where you could choose the portions of the map to shut off and where to drop care packages etc. plus the balancing your warmth was a unique aspect.

[@MyGamesterGaming]

i dont think Black Out Failed i think it was a test to see how a COD battle Royal would do. Everyone liked BO so they made a F2P version known as Warzone (1.0)

[@DRFUZY1]

We all know the real OG battle royale was Minecraft Hunger Games

[@DashingDavid]

Nuclear Winter wasn’t one of the first to have NPC’s. Blackout had zombies. Like a year before Nuclear Winter even came out. 16:50 you don’t need to buy either Warzone or PUBG

[@Daman123isi]

I have a lot of love for Firestorm. It felt good and rewarded you for developing your skills and map knowledge like no other BR I’ve played.

[@imillnotsick420]

From what i remember the culling had a similar thing to the cs battle royale with the drones and being able to steal peoples stuff.

[@vincejlite5397]

I genuinely quit Fallout 76 when they removed Nuclear Winter. Bethesda failed to keep engagement in the br by actually maintaining it. They released it to cash in on a trend, and decided not to follow through with any live maintenance for the gamemode.

[@mattlovelltv3794]

I always had fun playing realm royale, the guns were ridiculous and the chicken mechanic was cool

[@lesbianwars]

I had the hotdogskin for the chicken. It was a great game.

[@vonjt4077]

Blackout was actually really, really good. Most people who hate on it probably tried it once or twice and/or just assumed that cod's first attempt at a br wouldn't be good. But blackout is smoother and easier to learn than most BRs out there, and it's really fun too. I think what killed was that the rest of black ops 4 wasn't really worth the pricetag. If blackout was free, I guarantee people would've flocked to it

[@Caliburnz]

I’d like to say that Blackout was definitely the superior mode than Warzone. It’s a shame they didn’t make it F2P honestly because then it could see more growth. I also played a few matches of Nuclear Winter and it was alright, the best part was being able to nuke the area.

[@Endermatry]

A really goofy BR that i still play, even if Landfall stopped supporting the game and they're going to close the offical servers, but supporting player's hosted server is Totally Accurate Battlegrounds. It has a really intresting story because it started as an April Fool's game, to The Russianbadger videos that skyrocketed the game's popularity during the switch to to f2p, and the really devoted playerbase that it has even to this day (i'm part of this playerbase, it's a really good game)

[@notfan3539]

One missing game I think is Hyper scape, Ubisoft's take on BR.

[@hotfunyunsop6196]

Spellbreak shutting down hurt the most lol

[@SkyeBerryJam]

Rumbleverse was actually a fairly in depth fighting game. They just never told you how to do most of the tech

[@Chomakot]

Im sad about vampire blood hunt, just when we started to play it in our friend group they announced that they would be putting the game on life support and not receiving any additional updates

[@OptimisticSturmmann142]

Flourishing Battle Rifles - er - I mean, battle royales.

[@LazorFriend]

About Realm Royale: the developers were scared to be like Fortnite and changed way of development to “be like others” and that’s where player base left mostly. They removed many powers and interesting weapons at Reforged, so it’s became pubg with Fortnite movement (as I feel)

[@BrassBrutal]

I used to play Realm Royale because I couldn’t stand the building in fortnite. Since Zero Build I’ve had no need to go back to Realm Royale.

[@DemonKingHiei]

I will never get over how disrespected I felt when epic decided to turn its back on unreal tournament

[@EA_SP0RTCENTER]

As a UT99 vet, I feel your pain.

[@DemonKingHiei]

@@EA_SP0RTCENTERit's moments like these that make me happy that Microsoft bought gears of war from them

[@mang0gunk]

Loved the vid cause of how much more info it gave, plus it gives me an excuse to say the biggest crime ever is that hyperscape wasn't handled better and how it's one of the biggest crimes is how short of a life spellbreak had

[@exoticbutters2781]

The fact that you guys didn't even mention Battlerite and its failed battle royale mode means that that game is beyond dead.

[@ninjalemurdude]

I haven't watched the video yet, but Nuclear Winter was surprisingly good. Unfortunately, it relied on a playerbase that was interested in both Fallout 76 and battle royales. There just wasn't nearly enough overlap.

[@novared7]

another battle royale game i remember was Ring of Elysium, though it was also an extraction shooter, too. It was PUBG but based in snowy mountains, with gear to help you move down the mountain toward the centre, and the ring was an advancing avalanche. You won by getting onto a helicopter that spawned in the centre, and multiple people/squads could climb up in. That was my "PUBG but not PUBG" of choice back in the day. But i stopped playing years ago and checking in on the game it has like 300 players worldwide. RIP. Edit: i do accept rumbleverse slander :(

[@Gr3gLMAO]

Bro "The Culling" is the kickstarter for battle royale. It was a successful game but the devs were so greedy that it completely unalived its fanbase

[@voodooopaque6357]

Great video but yall missed one. There was a BR game by the name of DeathVerse and it was Melee only. It was one of the best experiences ive ever had in a BR