Top 5 Worst Video Game Launches

[@FletcherReedsRandomness]

You know what I like? Games being finished, polished, and good right from day one. Maybe publishers should start doing that.

[@csolisr]

If it weren't for company shareholders constantly pushing for their return of investment. No wonder why most indie games out there are released more completely than some AAA's

[@A2forty]

I mean that is hard to do with these large games. Don't just blame stockholders. The people playing games also put a lot of pressure to get games out. Before blizzard was owned by Activision it was common for the games to come out a year when they said they would and now a days that would be a death knell to the game let alone the company.

[@LotteYanson]

I despise the “we’ll fix it later” mentality that so many devs have adhered to in recent years. Maybe it’s just my age talking but I remember when games came out and if it was a glitchy buggy mess, you couldn’t fix that. You actually had to TRY to make a good game. Now it seems like as long as you have a good idea you can market it as something amazing, half ass it when it comes out and excuse it with “we have a patch coming soon.” Save patches for minor non game breaking bugs or for future expansions NOT fixing what shouldn’t have been there the first time around

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Nintendo has entered the chat

[@Rinku588]

again

[@korhol2065]

I think the scary thing about no man sky launch was just how violent the community was willingly to get, from death threats to sabotage

[@christiandauz3742]

Don't blame them. Blame video game developers for false advertising and other stupid shit

[@CJ-tj8ge]

@@christiandauz3742 no? defo blame the people sending DEATH threats and physical violence against staff members?? That is never okay

[@christiandauz3742]

@@CJ-tj8ge Maybe if Video Game Companies STOP DOING ALL THIS SHIT! Violence ended slaver in Amerika!!!

[@TheSutanian]

@@christiandauz3742 it’s a video game

[@CJ-tj8ge]

@@christiandauz3742 right.... you're clearly unhinged

[@EZOnTheEyes]

Personally, I think GTA Definitive Edition is up there with one of the worst. Deceptive marketing, removing the original listings, downgrading many aspects the game, broken and unplayable launch. I'm surprised the devs didn't even do proper QA before release date.

[@thepenguinsrafterme]

It should have been on there rather than Halo. That makes zero sense to me

[@TheBlackSeraph]

The GTA Definitive Edition saga is still ongoing, and it is not certain whether it will eventually be patched to an acceptable state or whether Rocksteady will cut their loses. Last I heard, the v1.02 patch was meant to fix a major portion of gameplay bugs (but didn't).

[@MasterLPG]

No Battlefield 2042 now eh? *Interesting.*

[@EZOnTheEyes]

@@MasterLPG 2042 was a brand new game built from the ground up. GTA DE ruined classic games that have already been out for 20 years. Comparing the two, I'd say ruining completed games is worse than messing up a new one

[@MasterLPG]

@@EZOnTheEyes Ah, but at least you can still play the original GTA games unlike... *...Say, a certain beloved classic game by the once-legendary Blizzard studio, 'Warcraft 3' was it? :)*

[@Roboshi2007]

the internet historian video about no mans sky really shows how Sean Murry wasn't really the main guy to blame as he had sony breathing down his neck at every opportunity, and that can get a guy who was used to making small downloadable games to say some stupid shit.

[@exxor9108]

I agree. Having a giant corporation as the monkey on your back definitely doesn't help things.

[@stebmcdreb3627]

I've always been saying, go back and watch any of those old bullshit interviews and his facial expression definitely says "I know I'm probably talking bollocks but if I don't talk bollocks then a man from sony is gonna come round my house at 3am with a crowbar"

[@DR3ADER1]

Err, no. Sean was lying from the very start. Guru Larry called that out early. So did Heelvsbabyface.

[@felyndiira]

I don't think that's what the video says. Sean certainly has his share of the blame; there's just a lot of mitigating circumstances because - well, Hello Games was an indie studio and he's not an experienced marketeer, and has no clue on how to control runaway hype or setting proper expectations. The video isn't saying that Sean Murray is blameless or Sony is the bad guy. It's saying that his heart is in the right place, and we should forgive him for that mistake.

[@EvilPikachu]

I'm surprised the original version of Final Fantasy 14 only got a small visual nod. A game so bad they literally had to summon Primal Bahamut to nuke the entire world and rebuild it from scratch. What stuns me is that it went from that absolute diahhrea typhoon to the unstoppable juggernaut that is Endwalker. How modern gaming companies don't see that effort and respect for the players is the key to making disgusting amounts of money is beyond me, the prime example is right there. A game so bad they had to nuke it became a game so good they had to stop selling it because the servers couldn't cope. How do the likes of EA not learn from that and put some effort in?

[@goranisacson2502]

I'd say EA wouldn't learn from it because of one key factor- SquareEnix HAD to improve XVI or the company would DIE. It's very survival was dependent on getting a new game to provide a continuous stream of monthly revenue. It was why it was all hands on deck (which HEAVILY delayed or altered plans revolving around practically every game they were making at the time). Which means that unless EA ever develops one game that is SO important to their survival that they MUST get it right, they're gonna keep up with the "shove it out halfcooked and patch as we go along"-style.

[@merabledawnspark5827]

@@goranisacson2502 probably the other reason is because FF14 has Yoshi-P. The man, with his team, is the reason why FF14 was extremely successful. He also is very humbled and stays in touch with the players. This was especially true in EW with the server queue times were bad and he was apologizing to it and explaining on the process and what the players can do to try and play. In short, a developer that cares for the players

[@DR3ADER1]

@@merabledawnspark5827 He was also one of the first people to hold responsibility when the game was beyond fucked at launch. To the point where several Square-Enix executives had to apologise on live Japanese TV(due to how popular FF14's predecessor, FF11 was and still is in the Island nation). To this day, however, aspects of FF14's spaghetti code linger on, due to the rushed and expensive development of its game engine, which nearly bankrupted the company.

[@jordanhunter3375]

7:57 All things aside, if your opponent came in riding an invisible monster truck like this, you'd be equally terrified and jealous.

[@Realunmaker]

I never buy a game at launch. Never. And the industry has only strengthened this opinion. Some I wait until a goty version is available, some until the gotyversion is at a discount. That’s how I enjoyed many games other people suffered with, like Batman Arkham knight and assassins creed unity

[@Bartholomule01]

Yeah, the power is with the people on this one. If pre-sales plummeted across the board and it was known that it was in response to the endless release of unfinished games, things would change. Money speaks

[@DR3ADER1]

Incorrect, when people stopped playing Anthem and Fallout 76, EA and Bethesda simply discounted their games to inflate their sales figures. It's why I ALWAYS say it DOESN'T MATTER if you pre-order a game or not. Because publishers aren't as dumb as you think they are, and they always know how many people are buying and playing their games, and more to the point, how they can get more idiots to play their games post-release, usually by discounting their games shortly after release.

[@Huszti89]

FFXIV launched so badly and was such a flawed game they destroyed the world (it was an in-game event), unreleased the game, fixed it and now it's one of the most popular MMOs

[@LordofSadFac]

FFXIV is in second place on the biggest redemption ever after No Man Sky, that cinematic is beyond fantastic, and how they fixed everything wrong with it is outstanding.

[@merabledawnspark5827]

@@LordofSadFac yeah with FF14, damn… What a tale for a redemption story. No Man’s Sky was the other I heard about that was really loved after the developers tried again and get the game fixed. Apparently it worked, too, so that’s pretty awesome!

[@felman87]

If you're looking for another older example, FF14 was so bad that they started just giving away subscriptions for free to everyone who bought it and eventually rebooted the game by blowing up the original world and aptly calling the new one 'A Realm Reborn'. GTA Definitive Edition definitely was the most recent example, it was definitive in name only. A lot of the older music was taken out for licensing along with a few extra bits, so you got less game for a slight graphical enhancement that could essentially boil down to PS2+ graphics. The game was such a buggy mess that it could barely be considered an alpha build.

[@jadedheartsz]

that licensing issue wasn't new to the definitive edition to be fair, Rockstar lost those licenses like a decade ago and it was big news as the Steam and digital versions got patched to remove songs.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Actually, Rabbid, Sean’s apparently an introvert who, while overall a nice person, simply prefers working with lines of code as opposed to dealing with gaming press looking to make all sorts of wild claims on his behalf just to push clickbaity Internet articles. That being said, Sony really should have loaned Hello Games a PR person since it would’ve helped a lot, methinks.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

People really like to use "being an introvert" as an excuse for everything these days lol

[@AllHailMe12431]

Not really an excuse, but it does explain how Sean got roped into saying the things he did by journalists. Introverts aren't exactly good at keeping control of a conversation.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

@@AllHailMe12431 I think people just don't really know what being an introvert means. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're shy or that you have no social skills. It just means that by default, you're paying more attention to what's going on inside you than around you. That's it. It certainly doesn't make you lie your ass off. And saying he got "roped into saying" these things is, once again, making excuses for him. He' s not a little kid, he's a grown man and he's responsible for what he says, not his conversation partners.

[@AllHailMe12431]

Not trying to make an excuse at all. Journalists are always gonna be sensationalists, blowing even the tiniest things out of proportion. It's their job, after all. Sean's decision to face them himself without a plan of action, wasting valuable time he could better spend developing the game, instead of letting a marketing expert handle it, is entirely on him. I still wouldn't peg him as some kind of compulsive liar, though. More like a fool who didn't know what he was getting himself into.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Wrestling fan here!! Simply put, Yuke's was originally developing 2K20 but quit due to frustrations with 2K. 2K tried to skip a year due to this but WWE being the ever understanding company that they are hissed at them while shouting "money" loudly and longly. So, with probably a quarter of a year away from release, 2K got Visual Concepts to work on the game from scratch as they didn't know anything about the game's original build and, well, yeah. Hell, they even cancelled 2K21 so that 2K22 will be given more time and(hopefully) polish. Oh, btw, THQ was publishing WWE games till 2013 when they went bankrupt and THEN sold the license to 2K.

[@allegedlyfalse6779]

Happy 2022, RL, great video as always. Since I'm not sure my suggestions last year were posted early enough to be recognized, I'm just going to post what I think could make great videos in the future: -Worst mandatory mini-games. -Hardest levels (bonus levels, hardest levels in easy games, or just vanilla hardest levels) -Games that hate the player (i.e. Spec Ops: The Line) -Best boss intros.

[@Wiimeiser]

My guesses/opinions/own personal experience: -The statue puzzle from Twilight Princess -Wario's Castle (SML2) -Paper Mario: Sticker Star -I'd have to replay most Metroid and Zelda games to figure this one out.

[@allegedlyfalse6779]

@@Wiimeiser -I've never played/never seen/forgot the first two examples, so I looked them up. Both definitely seem like pains in the ass. -I was meaning more along the lines of what you'd find in the "You Bastard!" page on TV Tropes, but I guess it could be interpreted in a number of ways. -Got the idea after seeing Kraid's introduction in Dread. (Still haven't beaten the game, rage quit after reaching the part where you fight two chozo robots).

[@Fonzzz002]

Games used to be a lot easier to make. So a yearly new sportsgame made sense. Nowadays, making a proper & functioning game that meets moderns standards takes way more time. I feel if EA stopped the yearly new release tradition, and wait for when the game properly functions, they'd avoid a lot of hate. Probably not going to happen though. Money, money, money.

[@DR3ADER1]

Err, incorrect. Some of the worst games ever made were developed in the past, particularly Squij and some of Ocean Software and U.S. Gold's games on the microcomputers during the 1980s. Furthermore, in the old days, you'll still get a busted pile of wank because the game design and good business practices were still poor, if not worse due to a lack of swift communication and networking landscape. After all, the internet was in its infancy then and was limited to universities.

[@goranisacson2502]

Witcher 3 was not so much an open-world game as a very detailed RPG- the mechanics developed for that game couldn't really be lifted and applied to a more "true" open world game like Cyberpunk with cars and patrolling NPC's and so on. So while it may have looked like it on the outside, the success that came from their LONG experiences in making RPG's couldn't really be lifted right onto Cyberpunk- expecting them to have an easy street when they were actually building from the ground up (and at no point admitting this to the outside world since they WANTED a hype-wave to ride) was never gonna end well.

[@DR3ADER1]

Furthermore, both games were made on a modified version of Bioware's Aurora engine. An engine that's over 20 years old and one that was never designed to run Open-World FPS games full stop, with or without mods.

[@goranisacson2502]

@@DR3ADER1 That I did not know- I thought they were making a brand new engine for Cyberpunk, rather than trying to bend a VERY old one into increasingly worrying pretzels in order to do things far beyond it's limitations. Guess that's even more context for why one should've been worried...

[@elstormcaller]

@@DR3ADER1 that's not true. The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk were both built on RedEngine, CDPR's proprietary game engine. Aurora was only used for the first Witcher game and a very, very early alpha version of the Witcher 2

[@DR3ADER1]

@@elstormcaller False, the RED Engine is a heavily-modified version of Aurora. All versions of RED can trace their origins to Aurora. CDPR never had the ability to make their own engine from scratch (if they did, then the PC port of Saints Row 2 wouldn't have been such a trainwreck in the first place), so like most developers, they modified another engine for the cause. Wonder why The Witcher 3 was so busted at launch? Wonder why Cyberpunk was and still is a mess? This is why. They're using an over 22-year-old engine with a different badge. Similar to how Bethesda still use Gamebryo under a different name. They CLAIM it's their own engine, however, this is a LIE. As another example that backs this fact up, it took Square Enix several years to develop and unfuck their new engine, at the cost of bungling FF14 and cocking-up the development for FF15 (which took over 10-12 years to make due to issues with both game design and the engine). It was a very, very expensive affair that lost Square-Enix billions of Yen in the process. You can't just go out and make your own engine from scratch anymore, in fact, most developers lack the expertise, funding and infrastructure to do so. As a result, they either use other engines (which require a license for legal reasons) or they modify another engine and use that as a base.

[@elstormcaller]

First of all, the Saints Row 2 port was handled by CD Projekt, the parent company of CDPR (in fact, it was even referred to as CD Projekt Black by Volition specifically to avoid confusion internally). Which is a pretty big difference, and one that in no way validates your claims that CDPR was incapable of creating their own engine. Secondly, I thought the reason why The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk were so unstable at launch would have been self evident. The games were made with shorter development time comparatively to other RPGs of a similar scope, and most of those were usually just building on an existing framework. With Cyberpunk especially we already have a lot of anecdotes from former and current devs where they mention that work on the engine was happening *as the game was actively being made* which would also play a part in that. Also, I'm not really sure what bringing up Final Fantasy and Crystal Tools does to support your argument of RedEngine being Aurora. Considering Square Enix did what you claim is the solution to developing your own engine and modified Crystal Tools to make FF14's new engine and as the base for Luminous Engine. If you have some proof or sources that claim that RedEngine is simply a modified Aurora that CDPR have claimed as their own (which is heavily illegal considering the developers of Too Human were sued because their game engine was a modified Unreal Engine derivative) I'd love to see it and be proven wrong, but right now I have your word against literally every other source I can find along with your "proof" which is bringing up other games' troubled productions and claiming that somehow means developers are unable to develop engines anymore

[@JustJulyo]

I miss when games were released and all you had to worry about was making sure you finished the last game you bought half a year ago Good times

[@dusklunistheumbreon]

Love the shade being thrown at cryptobros.

[@TheHylianBatman]

I miss when you just bought a game, and you had it forever, and it just worked. Now you buy broken shit which gets taken away from you anytime the people in charge feel like it. I hate video games, and that's such a shame, because I love video games.

[@shadowlinkbds]

Game launches are a pretty big deal since they determine to others whether the game has great sales and popularity. Though it's never good when they flop or don't do so well. Lately it's the latter with many failures such as cyberpunk, fallout 76, GTA trilogy, battlefield 2042, WWE 2K20, etc. Makes me glad I don't pre-order.

[@Wiimeiser]

The last non-Nintendo game I remember preordering was Cities: Skylines. The next closest, I got Psychonauts 2 and Age of Empires 4 shortly after release, though I haven't played the latter yet.

[@amirgarcia547]

The fact that publishers feel the need to release half-baked or buggy games just to improve them with patches nowadays is why I only pre-order games that I’m mostly certain I’ll enjoy *and* will be complete at launch. Nintendo isn’t exempt from this, if Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the Switch Mario Sports games are anything to good by, but I’ve already pre-ordered BotW2 and Kirby and the Forgotten Land since I know they’ll be finished and satisfied products once they’ve been released.

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

Update: You liked them, I presume?

[@Doggie1999]

Kinda expected LittleBigPlanet 3, but in comparison to THESE releases... yeah.

[@lazypaladin]

God reading this hurts...cause its true :/. Look I'm like No.3 LBP fan but even I can admit LBP3 was just...off...

[@hanniballahr94]

What happened with LBP3? Didn't hear much about it.

[@lazypaladin]

@@hanniballahr94 Exactly, just faded away. It was beautiful, played well, creative. Staple LBP game...but I dunno it didn't feel right imo. Like it was too polished for LBP...I'm bad at explaining :/

[@amirgarcia547]

@@hanniballahr94 Basically it switched developers from Media Modicule to Sumo Digital, since the former was busy with other games like Teraway and Dreams at the time. And while Sumo has made good games in the past, mainly the Sonic and Sega racing games, Sony basically had them rush the game out so that the PS4 had a LBP game. And so the game was just very bare bones compared to its predecessors, had plenty of technical problems and the online servers barely worked.

[@gooseyboygavin9143]

@@amirgarcia547 It literally had more options and content then lbp2. How was it barebones? You literally have no idea what you're talking about

[@drenkrod9811]

Lesson of the day: Fuck crunch, and double-fuck greed

[@Jeppo1457]

Top 5 games with good voice acting, Top 5 Favourite sonic levels, Top 5 games with good messages, Top 5 video game crushes

[@gothicbutterfly013]

The crushes one would be way too subjective to make an entertaining video. Especially given that not everyone likes the same *gender*, let alone physical characteristics or personality traits.

[@shenloken2]

“Rabbidluigi talks about terrible video games for about fifteen minutes.” As Obi-Wan would say: “That’s..why I’m here!” X3

[@supersasukemaniac]

alot of the issue with WWE 2K20 was that Yuke's the original developer, had a falling out with 2K and left halfway through, apparently taking the source code in the process, so a lot of the dev time was damage control and trying to salvage what was left.

[@TruFalco]

Bad game launches are a good thing, imo. Makes people realize that maybe, just maybe, preordering is a bad idea. Back in the day you'd at least get a skin or something exclusive for a few days, but now you get nothing except MAYBE a chance to preload. MAYBE.

[@ethan_jackline]

One thing about battlefront 2, there was gonna be a few more updates and bits of content planned to be released now that the game is actually decent. Then battlefield 2042 happened and they actually killed any chance of that, leaving the game in limbo while they work on a new shitty game

[@NoizeTank]

Regarding Halo, only Halo 1-4 were in the collection at launch. ODST and Reach came later

[@Ahalaya]

Th No Man's Sky story just gets more sympathetic when you learn about how they lost everything in a flood soon after first announcing the game.

[@ZeroDurability]

I've only pre-ordered one game recently and that was Elden Ring for obvious reasons. And say what you will of No Man's Sky but they have *certainly* had a damn good come back. Maybe not to what was promised but they have tried and done good.

[@SuzuNoUtaTX]

Halo Master Chief Collection only had Halo 1 through 4 at launch with only 2 getting a full remaster that was new (H1 was using its anniversary remake from the 360) Not sure that makes the situation *better* though

[@DR3ADER1]

One thing to note here is that Cyberpunk 2077 remains a busted mess on PC. In fact, if you played the PC version early on, your saves would inflate in data size and corrupt themselves. Crowbcat's video on the matter details how tepid the game was on PC and how it pales in comparison to games 12-20 years older than it.

[@bloring1222]

Just an FYI, 2K Games started publishing WWE games after they acquired the rights from THQ When they closed their doors back in 2013. The first game they published was WWE 2k14.

[@Insill]

Got an idea for a video! "Top 5 most overanalyzed games". Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Metal Gear Solid 2 came immediately to my mind.

[@andrewollmann304]

Kingdom Hearts too?

[@omargrand55]

you missed the beginning of this plague of terrible launches which is Assassin's Creed Unity

[@felyndiira]

People should be allowed to make mistakes and right their wrongs. Corporations too, however much we might hate them recently. Sure, there's a breaking point. If a company keeps making bad releases to fix them later and never learns from their mistakes, you can and should call them out on that. But if you are going to draw that hard line in the sand and preach "FIRST TIME ONLY, NO REDEMPTION ALLOWED" even on the first mistake then you won't actually get perfect launches every time. You just get shit games that are permanently shit.

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

FO76 and GTA remaster were on my list until you said it was games that "redeemed" themselves (which I'd argue against on cyberpunk imo but hey, your list)

[@jadedheartsz]

GTA has redeemed itself and 76 got a lot better once they came out with the expansion that had actual human NPCs

[@Jeppo1457]

Top 5 video game characters RabbidLuigi would punch in the face

[@Newportal1]

@11:28 Yep, that's a thing. From the company that also participated in the VG crash of 1983 too.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Many people don't seem to understand this, but Sony didn't pull Cyberpunk from the store because it was a glitchy mess. It's because CDPR told people that everyone who wanted a refund would get one, but that they had to contact the store about that first before emailing them. So Sony got absolutely flooded with refund request (which they famously don't care for) which caused them to pull the game.

[@PrinsaVossum]

Haven't watched the video yet, but I bet Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077 are on the list.

[@PrinsaVossum]

I was half right.

[@ShenDoodles]

A lot of people forget that The Witcher 3 was a mess at launch. It wasn’t as bad as Cyberpunk, but it was still very glitchy and lacked polish in many areas.

[@mr.e9502]

You know there’s a problem with your game if it says that it can be upgraded to a next-gen console. Just make the game properly, and there’s a chance that you won’t need to put that notice on your game’s box.

[@colingznetworkplus4618]

Fast food restaurants make good food

[@jordanhunter3375]

Top 5 Catharic Boss Fights (not only in means of foreshadowing and payoff, but also in means to the Player Character getting emotional closure)

[@shinysilverstardust]

I wonder on how many "worst" list Cyberpunk is going to end up on this year

[@paperip1996]

I was fortunate enough to play Cyberpunk on my PS4 mostly glitch-free; occasionally I'd fast travel and textures wouldn't fully load for a couple seconds, or there was that weird audio thing where characters sitting next to you in a car sounded underwater if you weren't looking directly at them, but I didn't understand why people were so mad. It seemed pretty on par with what I'd expect from Rockstar or Bethesda! And then my friend who also owned it on PS4 spent an afternoon showing me the sheer number of ways you could accidentally break the game in a way that required a hard reset, corrupt a save file just by doing too many sidequests, or render main story missions impossible to complete and then I understood.

[@jadedheartsz]

I've got it on Xbox One and I feel the same, I really don't see where all the hate is coming from.

[@theotherjared9824]

You know what I want when I spend money? A hollowed out shelf of something I used to like and an I.O.U note that will likely never be fulfilled.

[@VulturePilot]

Something to note about no man’s sky was that Sony picked it up as an exclusive and Sony PR was a huge driving force behind the hype wave, that’s more on them than it is on Sean

[@LadyLeomon]

I’m kinda hoping the Castlevania “reboot” Lords of Shadow is on here, cos they really botched that one by _hiding_ the fact it was a Castlevania game until the day it launched 😅😅😅 Thanks for the new vid RabbidLuigi 💙🐱💙

[@hayato1886]

Is that actually what they did? Those games are really stinky

[@LadyLeomon]

@@hayato1886 I know that’s what they did with the first one, no clue about LoS 2 or the midquel DLC (unlikely cos ... you know ... DLC?), heard about it in one of JoshScorcher’s Top Ten Konami Fails, looked it up and yup they hid the fact it was a Castlevania reboot until it launched resulting in poor sales. But if there are worse launches and it didn’t make the cut then oh well, I’m not a particularly big Castlevania fan (the Netflix show is pretty good) but I just really liked the story (for the most part, I hated Marie and what Gabriel’s “brotherhood” put him through)

[@hayato1886]

@@LadyLeomon I didn't get far enough in the first game to learn anything about the story, I've never touched the second and Mirror of Fate is basically a meme so that's my experience with Lord of Shadow. I'm a huge Castlevania fan, but man those last few games for the franchise really did not do it any justice

[@LadyLeomon]

@@hayato1886 oh Christ on a stick I *loathed* that Mirror of Fate game, just made me want to throttle that “not-a-ghost-boy” little shit version of Trevor! Sure the writing sucked in parts (Marie had no problem believing that her husband would “turn evil” and handed their baby over to those same people who raised him thinking his father murdered his mother in cold blood which, yeah he _did_ kill his wife but it was all a plot by the first bad guy who was hiding among the good guys for years) but I honestly liked Gabriel enough to overlook it in 1 and 2. But that’s just me and I can’t deny they both flopped harder than a lv100 Wailord 😅😅😅

[@tehbeernerd]

…you only picked five? That’s every game at this point! What a trooper

[@rexbk09]

Pre-order from developers such as: Playground Games, Techland, Platinum Games, Remedy Entertainment, & Guerrilla Games. Maybe again from: Bend Studio & Experiment 101. Still a needle in a hay stack.

[@jasperfox6821]

MCC is a pretty good example of games bouncing back after a bad launch, it's now gone beyond what it set out to do, even fixing halo 1 and 2s classic visual, not to mention its on pc now.

[@MetaDHedge28]

So are you gonna update this list with Concord now?

[@LifeWithMatthew]

Gog and steam keep trying to get me to buy cyberpunk by putting it on sale, but after the release they had there is no sale good enough to convince me to buy that game 🤣

[@dusklunistheumbreon]

Yep. PR got moved to my blacklist for releasing CP77. It'd be one thing if it was just a rocky and glitchy launch, but the game didn't even *work* on some targeted systems. People struggled to get past the *title screen* on the ps4, for fuck's sake.

[@shawnheatherly]

I remember when it was a safe bet that Cyberpunk 2077 was going to be the GOTY. Fast forward to now, I don't think much of any cares enough to go back and see if it's fixed yet.

[@jadedheartsz]

it got fixed months ago actually after several mega-patches for it came out.

[@Homerstar]

Don’t want to be that guy, but 2K only took over the WWE games in 2013. Before that the games were published by THQ.

[@nodansland303]

I almost felt bad for Anthem and Avengers. For all their failure they couldn't get on a list of failures. Maybe that's success, but it doesn't feel like it.

[@wariodude128]

You did a video on the top 5 best years in videogames. Maybe soon you could do a Top 5 Worst Years in Videogames. A contender would be 1984, just to get started.

[@flyingfist4203]

God, you have so many options for this video.

[@hideakikarate1]

You bring up MCC. Co-op campaign is nigh unplayable if you're not the host. Massive input lag makes it a horrible experience.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

No Man's Sky and Fallout 76, for sure. EDIT - feck me, how'd I forget about #1?

[@andyq524]

I pre-ordered Horizon Forbidden West Regalla Edition for the bonuses. Lol

[@NatetheNerdy]

Before watching, I honeetly hope No Man's Sky and Fallout 76 aren't here, or at least aren't high. They're both so infamous and have been dissected enough that it wouldn't be interesting.

[@h.m.chuang0224]

Surprisingly to see Anthem not being mentioned at all. It had a really bad start and didn’t even recover, wasn’t it?

[@Icarus_with_better_wings]

Found you thru game theory!

[@justsomesimplenuclearbirbs4313]

Sometimes it's better to just keep working on a game in the background instead of revealing the game *far* before it's even close to being ready for release. Especially if you're an Indie dev.

[@JumpyNedved]

For the first time I actually enjoyed a sponsor

[@CommissarMitch]

If Duke Nukem Forever is not on this list then we have truly moved past that game.

[@reksaiismaiwaifu578]

I have Cyberpunk 2077 installed, but I'm not sure if I want to play it

[@RobertSeeJen]

Very good list Rabbid. I dig it.

[@maxresdefault_]

The fire numbers! They're green!

[@callumjapp544]

Why does the Activision Microsoft deal raise a lot of concerns?

[@troykv96]

The potential of a Monolopy is looming each time a big corporation buys what could be considered the competition (like what happened with 21th Century getting bought by Disney).

[@dusklunistheumbreon]

You've got two incompetent, but massive, devs combining.

[@claytonrios1]

Battlefield 2042 should be mentioned!

[@MaxH0ward]

I really like your videos but why does your nes classic have to be backwards?

[@donovanboykins1995]

I hope you don’t put Sonic Colors Ultimate on the list! Because as rough as that remaster is, it at least kept all the good parts and new additions like the Jade Ghost and Metal Sonic’s Rival Races are fun to try out!

[@amirgarcia547]

Sonic Colors Ultimate might’ve been a mess at launch, especially on Switch, but it’s definitely nothing compared to these games.

[@TommyCrosby]

You forgot to mention that they had a freaking XBOX One X special edition made for Cyberpunk 2077.

[@NickName183]

Ok my predictions before watching: Battlefront 2 No Man's Sky WWE 2K20 Fallout 76 Cyberpunk 2077 Edit: 4 out of 5 ain't bad

[@somebodynowhere]

I thought I'd heard Battlefront 2 multiplayer is now unplayable due to a bug that makes characters incapable of being killed and ea doesnt care about it anymore enough to fix it

[@arkdetective]

Pc only problem, and they have come out to say they are working on it.

[@toamatoro570]

Hoping for No Man's Sky somewhere on here.

[@breakingyourlegs]

Ha, there it is!

[@aruce9]

At least no man’s sky redeemed itself

[@hidood5th]

Heh, Bungie jumping

[@MyBanannas]

Don't diss Halo campaigns. They're a close second to multiplayer, not something extra thrown in as a bonus. Especially the ODST campaign (except how they messed with the way grenades are thrown).

[@jadedheartsz]

yeah comparing them to fast-food seating is just dumb and nonsensical, a more apt comparison would be like if McDonald's had crappy burgers but good nuggets, for some people like myself who aren't that big on burgers that wouldn't be much of an issue, but for a lot of people like mickey D's it most definitely would be.

[@MyBanannas]

@@jadedheartsz It's more like the burger and fries are normally fantastic, but you'll be pissed off if the burger is burnt or they forget to put salt on the fries.

[@jadedheartsz]

plenty of us aren't burnt out on Star Wars at all.

[@maxord11]

Tales of Crestoria, since it is closing in about a week because of its poor launch.

[@Nyeshi]

2k20 had to be built off the 2k18 engine because they didn’t have the engine that made 19. They tried to make it work but it didn’t

[@landoftom332]

Yes finally an unsponsered Rabbid video so I don't have to skip the ads about dumb wallets and hair gains

[@oldmanharley4018]

not mentioning FF14 on worst game launches? the game was so bad execs had to resign, the producer and director had to step down, they had to fix the game while building another mmo from scratch in a different engine because that was the only way to make things better, square had to issue a formal apology and they chose to spend the money to build a second mmo as a replacement because the original ff14 was so bad it would have damaged the company permanently if they just let it slide. the company almost goes bankrupt trying to fix that mess.

[@maproomgaming6886]

I thought this was going to be about bad PR surrounding a launch when it was basically just a list of bad games. It's like Miyamotois famously quoted as saying... a bad game is bad forever.

[@arkdetective]

It's "a delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad".

[@maproomgaming6886]

@@arkdetective the point is... if a game comes out bad it doesn't suddenly become good.

[@arkdetective]

@@maproomgaming6886 true to that. Unless a major shift happens, but it's a game by game basis.

[@maproomgaming6886]

@@arkdetective no it's really not.... if a game comes out bad it stays bad. Perceptions of it may change but the game itself is the same game it always was.

[@arkdetective]

@@maproomgaming6886 final fantasy 14 wants to talk to you. One of the worse launches ever, they went back to the drawing board, released a updated version called a realm reborn, one of the best mmorpgs ever that just got its latest critically acclaimed and commercially successful expansion just last month. Literally one of the greatest comeback stories ever. From one of the worse mmorpgs ever made to arguably the greatest ever conceived, from a major retooling. In this modern Era, a game can be bad at launch, but can end up in a good place at the end of its road. Street fighter 5 is also a good example. 16 characters, no single player anything outside of very short stories for said characters, and crappy rollback netcode at launch. Now, it has 46 characters, all the single player content you could ask for, events that happen regularly to get means of getting stuff for free with in game currency that isn't micro transacted at all, some of the most fun characters to play in any fighting game, and the netcode actually works to some degree. Games can change nowadays, versus, say, the snes where a game was released, and the only way you would get a working game is a revision, which was rare, or a new version, like street fighter 2 champion edition, which was a re balanced street fighter 2, which outside of capcom, was rare as well. Heck, even star wars battlefield 2, which as rapidluigi put it, was a dumpster fire at launch with Luke and Darth Vader, the best hero and villain in the game stat wise at launch, behind a random pay wall, literally a pay to win scenario. It now a decently good shooter once they removed the loot box mechanics from the game, and the heroes and villains are more based on how much resources they cost to summon than who is the most famous. That game, however, will have the stigma associated with its launch compared to others because it was multi-player sided than both single and multi-player game that it was because ea at the time ONLY CARED ABOUT MULTI-PLAYER BECAUSE MONEY. So, all in all, games can start out a caterpillar, but can become a butterfly if time and money is put in to actually fix the game. It's rare, that I agree with you, but saying all bad games at launch are forever bad at all times shows a very narrowed minded mindset and an unwillingness to accept things that are there, or you're an older individual who was from an Era where game just releases and gets no changes ever after launch cause older media didn't allow it on consoles and you think all games nowadays are still that way.

[@scottishblacklab]

just a correction 2k weren't the original publishers of the wwe games they only got it in 2013

[@goroakechi6126]

Sector is clear. *NOT CLEAR NOT CLEAR*

[@ddjsoyenby]

finished games never heard of that.

[@rittpro]

I'm surprised Assassin's Creed Unity isn't on the list

[@GatorRay]

All of them since the launch of the PS4 & Xbox One.

[@alansmithee3183]

Top 5 Best Modern Remakes/Remasters

[@Kpimpmaster]

I was expecting Fallout 76 to be on here

[@Jeppo1457]

Top 5 characters you love to hate, Top 5 Good video game launches

[@anasevi9456]

flying through the air bugs in an open world game= my computer has an absolute dogsh!t cpu, so bad even an AMD FX teabag's it bad. Cyberpunk was buggy, but it was only idiots who didnt heed the warning from assasins creed origins to join the last decade who were rightfully punished. Reminds me of when my teenage love played Crysis on a Pentium D

[@JABRIEL251]

We all knew what number 1 was.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

I rarely preorder games. I usually don't do it unless there's an incentive to do so, or I know it is good according to reviews. No Man's Sky = One Man's Lie. I heard that HMK returned that crappy game after he realized how bad it was. I never heard of this game until people started tearing it apart. Or you can fuck up the multiplayer and no one gives a shit anymore. OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO 2K20?! 2020 was a shitty year. 8:01 Lol Silly Spaghetti Monsters. Atari was around in the 70s? Good thing I wasn't hyped for Cyberpunk. I hate FPS games.

[@ShackleYT]

Rabbid... have you ever heard of Driv3r? it's one of the worst launches to one of the worst games in history... cause it's the most notable time that a games reviewer took a bribe for perfect review scores, making people want the game more and more, then when it released it was a dumpster fire.