Top Ten Kickstarter Fails

[@TheQuarterGuy]

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[@centurynerdbr]

Aside the polemics with Square Enix i am still super hyped for the new Final Fantasy XVI and i hope it becomes one of the biggest and Best games of 2023 EVER. Hopefully.

[@centurynerdbr]

I know this may sound silly this video suggestion but how about a Top 13 Worst Elemental Bosses? Each boss for each of these elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Ice, Eletricity (Lightning), Light, Dark, Metal, Nature, Undead, Poison, and Magic.

[@centurynerdbr]

Even Joshscorcher also talked about the NFTs in his Top Ten 2022 Fails list.

[@heathazezero3967]

Nice frames my guy

[@dylansmith5206]

Well Quarter. While Smash Overload is bad. I will give it this. At least it's not Super Smash Bros Ultimate levels of scumbaggery or awful (Smash Ultimate itself is a bigger scam than Smash Overload if you ask me).

[@sarasaland4709]

Nearly seven years later, he finally got to blow off some MN9 steam. This man has quite the willpower to wait this long.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

If only Gaijin Goombah would admit to the kickstarter being a disaster, instead of sucking it up to the project when it was fresh and being silent about it during the whole controversy.

[@bluestreaker9242]

@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 I mean...a lot of people have differing reactions to disappointment; some people do mental gymnastics to justify it wasn't as bad even though they know in their heart of hearts it is (otherwise colloquially referred to as "Phantom Menace Syndrome"). My guess is he was one of the many backers who invested a metric ass-load of money on the project. Maybe I've just not been watching them for a while, but notice Game Grumps never seemed to mention anything about Mighty NO! 9 (side note, thank you, QG, I will now officially be calling it that from now on, it's SO bloody perfect! XD)...and their faces are plastered on the billboards in the background of the highway level. Just food for thought, really...some people prefer ignoring the problem, some blindly deny there being a problem, some people...exhibit justifiable rage and/or sadness. ;)

[@sonicstar917]

@@bluestreaker9242 Phantom Menace Syndrome?

[@bluestreaker9242]

@@sonicstar917 Basically denial. Urban Dictionary defines it as the delayed reaction to disappointment of any work of art or entertainment, the term coined from the reception to "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" upon its release. Yeah...hindsight's a bitch, innit? *sigh* :/

[@sonicstar917]

@@bluestreaker9242 Huh. I see. Although, I'd say the Phantom Menace is nowhere as bad as the Sequel Trilogy.

[@BugsyFoga]

I’ll definitely give Mighty Number 9 this, it actually made Capcom realize people wanted something new out the Mega man series, giving us the 11th entry in the series, so at the very least something good came from that whole situation.

[@ddjsoyenby]

keija fell so mega man could mega run!

[@GatorRay]

Also at least Beck went on to be in a couple of not bad titles in the form of the Mighty Gunvolt games.

[@xdomeman]

If only they didn't drop Legends 3. I bought a freaking 3DS just to play it!

[@cosmicspacething3474]

Will there ever be a Megaman 12?

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

Too bad after that they went back to legacy collection hell. (I'm still waiting for that cliffhanger on advent inti)

[@erichfiedler1481]

Ah Kickstarters, these are a gamble, for every Shovel Knight and Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival (TWICE), there's a Mighty No. 9

[@KryztovTank]

For every undertale there's an OUYA.

[@christheleavittman7080]

@@erichfiedler1481 For every Trogdor the Board Game, there’s an Oaxis.

[@BaxterAndLunala]

​@@christheleavittman7080And for every Freedom Planet, there's a Shaq Fu A Legend Reborn.

[@ThatChadWithTheAnchorArms]

For every Death Battle Revival, there's the Coolest Cooler

[@gallantserver]

MST3K LETS GOOOOOO

[@jvts8916]

MN9 is also a good example of a sunk cost fallacy. According to MattMcMuscles, the game did not actually reach the amount of funding they said it did, someone just royally screwed up at math and they realized it too late. But rather than try to clear up the misunderstanding, the team thought it would be better to try to make the game as if they had that kind of money. As we can probably guess by now, they chose poorly.

[@nonnoumby]

Also them wanting to have ALL the feature unlocked by the campaign on D1, including online multiplayer and ALL the console versions. Most other successful Kickstarters like Shovel Knight, Bloodstained and Shantae Half Genie Hero released the base game and added the extra feature as free updates to not have a bloated and confusing development.

[@ivrxr8693]

Kickstarter is a fickle thing. It did lead to Shovel Knight, but this list will show how it doesn’t always work like that. Also hello QG

[@Snooplax]

Thanks for the shout out, that smash Kickstarter scam is so bad!

[@alvaroperez2349]

You know, at this rate Kickstarter might as well be a Gambling site because it’s never clear if the project will work or not, and no one really wins.

[@Aragorn7884]

True 😬🤑

[@manuelvasconcelos8982]

Let's hope the people behind kickstarter doesn't fall into the nft rabbit hole

[@aliastheabnormal]

At least when you're in a casino you know the house will win eventually.

[@bluestreaker9242]

For all good will of all humanity on Earth, there will always - inevitably - be those who seek to abuse it for their own selfish gains. To a degree, we're all of us selfish...some of us are just better at hiding it. This video clearly shows 10 examples of people...not being so good at hiding how selfish and/or greedy they are.

[@thelegendarygitarooman8833]

Kickstarter where either dreams go to become reality or die.

[@LadyLunaNini88]

Kickstarters can be a hit or miss for some franchises. Heck, Shovel Knight still doing so well; even has a recent game as well. Shantae Half-Genie Hero(probably some forgot) was a kickstarter project that did pretty well. I actually thought Mighty No.9 was gonna be #1, cause that one still give me nightmares.

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

Personally (and I don't care if someone calls me a Mighty No. 9 sympathizer or such), I was surprised to find Mighty No. 9 to be as high on the list as it had gotten in the countdown, since despite the PR disaster that came with its Kickstarter campaign mismanagement, I personally found the game to... actually be quite the decently, if not nicely, entertaining game to play. Rather, while I had expected Mighty No. 9 to still make the list, I was hoping to find even bigger Kickstarter blunders than that, where unlike Mighty No. 9, which at least gave us an actually enjoyable game to play, those other Kickstarter trash heaps wouldn't have even offered anything remotely as enjoyable, or even playable, as Mighty No. 9.

[@Fatalis690]

I also thought mighty no. 9 would be number one.

[@alphonsejohnson5601]

I wish they had a Kickstarter for megaman x9, or a 3rd Mega man ZX game. I bet a bunch of people would have paid to see either of those games become reality.

[@thelivingdrawing2262]

Mighty No. 9, realistically, deserves to be 10 (or or 9 if you want to be cute) since it released which puts it above 99.9 percent of all kickstarters that get funded.

[@dantevalehuntik28]

It will never cease to amuse me that mighty number 9 managed to get Matthew Mercer on the cast lmao

[@dubstepbee6892]

I Cant Believe It Myself Even............................... (Turns around, hunches over, pulls out phone and starts whispering) google who the fuck is Matthew Mercer

[@gamerofgamers1417]

Nice new glasses. I knew that Untamed Isles was gonna be on the list somewhere. A neat Kickstarter story I like to talk about is the one for There is No Game: Wrong Dimension. Despite not reaching their goal, the developer made the genious move of making the failed Kickstarter part of the plot. Talk about improvising with what you have.

[@centurynerdbr]

Even Joshscorcher also talked about the NFTs in his Top Ten 2022 Fails list.

[@alexkidd580]

Of course he would put them on his little list. Why would he not?

[@zeldasmetaknight]

Hes got it on the list. And NFTs shall not be missed.

[@gustavochavarria8161]

@@zeldasmetaknight He has it on the list.

[@ddjsoyenby]

the only good things is the joy it gave us all to laugh at them.

[@Twilight17Petkoton]

@@zeldasmetaknight Yeah NFTs should be getting the middle finger for being cons than pros.

[@JacktheLightningRipper]

As someone who really isn't a fan of "Fails" videos or anything of the sort, I thought this was pretty good.

[@noah_ignis]

I have to agree Mighty no 9 also broke my heart as well because the game felt like it was trying to be a true successor to Mega Man. Mighty no 9 could have been a good hit if it weren't for the delays a animated series even when the game wasn't out and the whole Red Ash Kickstarter as well. But to be honest I'm glad this game made Capcom realize that Mega Man actually matters and we got Mega Man 11 along with accessibility to the other games through compilations. Not only that we do have the Gunvolt series from inti creates which I think are the true successors to Mega Man. Great video by way keep it up as always 👍

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

Yeah give mega Man a a break good thing

[@Scholar57.0]

Good video, QG, even though the subject being talked about isn't exactly a very happy one. You described each of the failed projects in excellent detail, both colorfully in your writing and in explaining how the projects started and how they unfortunately concluded. The advice you gave at the end is very sound.

[@timmyreobed5043]

Based on this list it seems like it's usually up to the fans to create proper spiritual successors to beloved IPs. Except Bloodstained. That turned out pretty well.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I mean iga is literally doing everything in his power to make sure he completes _every goal_ he can, even to the point he halted a sequel just to complete it. He didn't want to fall into inafune's trappings, which honestly, I still think that's a good quality of him

[@Twilight17Petkoton]

Yeah, Bloodstained has 3 three games 2 of them being old-school Castlevania games of Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 1 and 2. Bloodstained Ritual of the Night has a Meta game called Bloodstained a Castlevania of the whip and knockback.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 He's not letting vengeance get the better of his perspective like Inafune had and still is. As hit-or-miss as he was with Castlevania as opposed to Inafune who's misses were largely out of his control, he gets that a spiritual successor is not the original and so should never aim to be a full-on replacement, plus he isn't using his reputation as an excuse to hastily lay a ton of product eggs at once *coughMN9anime* *coughRedAsh* .

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

​@@CarbonRollerCaco um. Curse of the moon 1 and 2

[@Michael-bb5dd]

To be fair, the Mighty No 9 IP is now completely under ownership of Inti Creates (for FREE at that), and they did make a good Mighty No 9 game in the form of Mighty Gunvolt Burst. So, at least something good came out of it; especially with it not being under Keiji Inafune while he's on an NFT binge.

[@X2011racer]

I thought Level-5 owns the IP after acquiring Comcept and absorbing them (or merging) into Level-5 Comcept.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

@@X2011racer That's the thing: Comcept was deliberately designed to not be the developer or publisher, but rather a company that pitched ideas and, well, concepts; Intercept was the actual game development studio, though they seem to have been shut down even before MN9 got past pre-production, so Inti-Creates probably purchased the IP in some form, or it's possible that the IP is in public limbo copyright wise.

[@meganpayette5996]

I'm honestly surprised that Joshscorcher didn't do a list like this.

[@erichfiedler1481]

He did mention all that NFT crap in his latest Fails list

[@Dust3290]

Maybe one day.

[@lukejohnston3117]

Honestly, with this being a "fails" countdown, I honestly thought that Josh would join QG here.

[@alvaroperez2349]

Seems true to form.

[@Twilight17Petkoton]

Yeah, they did a top 10 Capcom fails on the Fiery Joker channel.

[@ddjsoyenby]

that could be cool, but i understand josh has a lot on his plate.

[@StormRulerKazunagi]

ah Kickstarter, another day where i'm extremely grateful for how much of a masterpiece Bloodstained was and still is and how much of a letdown Mighty Blunder 9 was

[@donovanboykins1995]

22:47 - 23:09 The part about an animated series and spin off part was even more disappointing considering what happened with "Cuphead". At least with That game, the developers took as much time as they need to make sure the game was Animated Correctly Before they considered making DLC for the game, as well as an Animated Series based on said game and releasing both of them Last Year with critical acclaim!

[@SagittariusAyy]

9:42 Ah, the grand return of the *THAT IS BULLSHIT* running gag. How I’ve missed it. But really, the one time I’ve backed a Kickstarter project, it was between Shantae: Half Genie Hero and Mighty No. 9…Needless to say, I’m glad Shantae was the one I backed.

[@SomePkmnlovingdude]

I backed Half-Genie Hero too.... well sort of, I helped with PayPal.

[@Hawkatana]

17:40 Two reasons. The first because the Japanese government is investing into companies who go ahead with NFT, cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies, and the second because Square Enix is the Japanese EA.

[@jamieodonnell8344]

I thought Konami was the Japanese EA.

[@gordontaylor2815]

​@@jamieodonnell8344 Konami doesn't even seem to be much of a video game company at all these days - it's all about the "pachislots" now...

[@x-blades2145]

Jeez I thought Kickstarters were always good thanks for making this video. (Plus I love the megaman series and I can't wait for the next legacy collection)

[@shinyocelot04archive]

It's not a game but a Kickstarter that disappointed me was Animusic 3. For those not in the know, Animusic is a series of 3D animated music videos with instruments and other contraptions performing different original songs themselves. Pretty neat stuff that released in the mid 2000s. Anyways the third entry was promised with a release of 2013, promising merch and even using updated hardware through the Unreal Engine. Unfortunately, the project faded away due to the over ambitious nature of the whole thing. Eventually members of the development team left the project and the rights to the series were given to a completely different company, which currently has no plans for it. Saddens me to see such a great idea go to waste like this.

[@korhol2065]

Kickstarter can go one of 4 ways: - it actually succeeds - it’s ruined by outside forces - ruined by too much promise and too little execution -ruined by simply being a scam to get a quick buck

[@sometf2player752]

2:25 funding for a rom hack sounds borderline illegal

[@bravewater5737]

21:05 yup. Here we go. Mighty Number 9 flopped SO HARD! 23:34 Capcom had to bring Mega Man back. I'm glad Capcom brought Mega Man back.

[@SomePkmnlovingdude]

Only for Mega Man to fail again. 11 sucked.

[@bonehead8803]

​@@SomePkmnlovingdudeAnd you think Mighty no 9 is a masterpiece?

[@SomePkmnlovingdude]

@@bonehead8803 Not really.

[@infernoman999]

You did great as always QG!

[@bradleydevron]

4:44 even with just some time spent trying to learn how to use Unity, I agree that making games, even small ones, is not an easy task at all. People really need to give game developers more respect.

[@rivaldocasallo237]

Out of the entire Mighty No. 9 segment, I was only surprised from the fact that Inafune went for the NFT stuff. How the “mighty” has indeed fallen huh?

[@DarkRedPsycho92]

Reminds me of the time of the Kickstarter for Paprium, people wanted a Beat 'em Up game for a while, and they send LOTS of money. unfortunately, all that money was sent to a bank in China and said bank was under the Chinese Mafia's ownership. Same thing with the Kickstarter for Beast's Fury, a fighting game that was supposed to be released ten years ago, but was canceled because the money was sent from a "Specific" Community that was supporting the Kickstarter. Guess we'll never have Benny the Dog of Hype nor Ego the Cyber Raptor in a fighting game.

[@keybladeduelist]

A poketuber I like was sponsored by something similar to Untamed Isles once. His comments chewed him out. He revealed in one video where he was going through his Reddit and found a post about it that he didn’t know the dark side of NFTs at the time, but can’t do anything about the video now since it would be a breach of contract to remove or edit it and he could be sued.

[@GojiraFan-in9oo]

Mighty No. 9- I am. Inevitable

[@SketchHusk]

For something as infamous as Godus, I have never HEARD of it until now.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Little reminder that Inafune-san apparently didn't understand the Kickstarter fees he had to pay, so that 4 million became more of a 1.5 million.

[@psychie8625]

Nearly half of these failures would move on to NFT-based projects. Oh, Vaas... Your description of insanity is well appreciated.

[@TitaRussellTrails]

I really hope the armed Fantasia Kickstarter comes to fruition it’s the first one I’ve backed because a modern version of wild arms seems awesome. At least the devs are being fairly active about updating on its developments

[@jamessnedeker4799]

I could hear the 'Hello, you' the second I saw Peter's bald head. Can we get Armin Shimmerman to play Petey in a movie?

[@AlonzoTompkins]

Reminder that Inafune was taking credit all these years for Mega Man’s creation. He didn’t create shit beyond Zero.

[@gustavochavarria8161]

At Number 10, but hey, there's Smash Remix though. And the later versions lets you play as Conker and even the Mad Piano from Mario 64.

[@CountShaman]

Boy I can't wait to be on this list one day By that I mean failing to reach a goal, not scamming I'll be damned lol

[@WillieManga]

Sup, Count?

[@Shantae1188]

Don’t sell yourself short.

[@ClockwerkSamurai12]

15:06 Comrade Black, but how?! (Not gonna lie, I was NOT expecting him to show up.. still, great to see de Blob talked about in modern times.)

[@scottlentfert1827]

Great countdown as always with you're vids, also those new glasses Rock!

[@lunatic0verlord10]

20:54 Ah yes, the entry we all knew was coming.

[@yousefslimani99]

Oh wow thanks for blowing my eardrums! geez that's so loud!! 8:00

[@WillieManga]

I think even Wario would know how unviable NFTs would be.

[@angelshark64]

Kinda surprised that Beast's Fury wasn't on this list or as a dishonorable mention. Anyone remembers that game?

[@derrickhaggard]

I do and I wish I didn't.

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

Who

[@infinitedreamer9359]

Two words: Night Cry. If anyone's watched the video by tangomushi,you'll know why.

[@angelshark64]

@@infinitedreamer9359 The title NightCry is one word, but yeah. Thank you for telling me this.

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

NGL the gradual building anger reminds me of Top 15 Worst Mavericks, which was one of the best parts of both vids. (Next month: MORE KAMEN RIDER JOKES!)

[@theenderengineer1943]

Dang. Buyer beware indeed. I knew Mighty Number 9 would be on here since you are a massive Mega Man fan. Even if you weren't, I'm sure it would have been on here.

[@gordontaylor2815]

Mighty No. 9 was one of the few examples of a Kickstarter fail becoming at least somewhat well known outside the gaming community, so it would've been high ranking for sure one way or another.

[@treybrunet8090]

First time I was ever introduced to Kickstarter was a game called Kaiju Combat or how it’s now called Colossal Kaiju Combat which was said to be a successor to the Godzilla Pipworks Trilogy and me being a Kaiju fan and loved all 3 of those games when I was young I was excited… 😒 god was I disappointed

[@crimsoncrusader518]

I haven’t seen you this furious in a long time QG.

[@Nassaro30]

a rom hack as a kickstarter that's a first i heard that QG

[@derrickhaggard]

I played MN9 and yeah it sucked but it had potential. Only Kickstarter project I actually backed was the Lionwing Gaming's localization of the Tokusatsu themed Japanese TRPG Convictor Drive: Armored by Grief and it's actually awesome.

[@bluestreaker9242]

I mean...come on...we ALL knew Mighty NO! 9 would be on here; even if you've been living under Patrick Star's rock, you've most certainly heard of it. Random aside, I recall hearing from Guru Larry that the WiiU version has two game-breaking, console-bricking bugs: one is triggered by pausing the game...the other by firing your weapon. I...don't even have a joke for that, that's just funny. Meanwhile, while it wasn't developed via Kickstarter (that I know of, anyway), Axie Infinity is just...no. What's worse than an NFT game? An NFT game made by exploiting poor Filipino citizens for free labor via Pyramid Scheme. Thankfully interest in the NFT market is near-zero; I guess, in this case, NFT stands for "No Fucking Thanks". You'd think people would learn by now that "get rich quick" schemes are...just that: evil schemes. *cue up the Tom & Jerry Movie clip "We've got to have...money."* Oh sure, the allure of a quick and easy profit is tempting, but nothing truly worthwhile is ever so easily gotten: certain...sacrifices...must be made. Beh...can Dio please just steamroll the NFT/crypto/blockchain bullshit in to oblivion already? :/

[@MarioPikachu626]

23:13 epic reference

[@cofagrigusfan24]

and on the other side of the coin we have games like Shovel Knight and Undertale

[@Pc_98_Fan]

To me it's hilarious how Smash Overload may or may not have inspired the amazing Smash Remix, which not only adds the same characters that were hyped in that Kickstarter, but gave them unique movesets too instead of being blatant model swaps. As they say, you can kill the man, but not the idea.

[@Titanking6475]

4:44 That indie dev wouldn't happen to be Wayforward(creators of Shantae) by any chance, would it?

[@fpspwny995]

People are starting to get emails from Deep Silver to inform them their preorder for Mighty No. 9 on the 3DS have been officially cancelled... in 2025. Every time we think it's over...

[@pootissandvichhere9135]

A common thread behind lots of good kickstarters is a good proof of concept shown off. A game demo, a video clip trailer, a sample track, all these serve not only as a great way to provide marketing for the campaign, but it shows that they are working on it. If they just over promise without any progress reports or anything to show, don’t pledge.

[@natk205]

I'd thought MN9 would be ranked 1 on this list (given how personal this felt for you), but giving it #2 does feel a little bit deserving… Because this game can go take a Giant No. 2, and BURN TO THE GROUND!!!

[@bulborb8756]

Seeing how many people on this list are banking on NFT's is frankly disgusting cause it's universally agreed on that they are BS and will NEVER WORK, and if anyone tries to sneak them into a game, they are always going to get caught, so hopefully NFT's go away forever

[@KingdomHeartsBrawler]

Well, it looks like Antonblast might be that exception to the rule, like Shantae and Shovel Knight.

[@Xenobears]

Mighty Number 9 turned out to be a Mighty Number 2… So the placement on this list was appropriate!

[@scottholtom7551]

20:54 We don't talk about Mighty No. 9

[@ChrisX_212]

When it comes to Kickstarter fails, it is... inevitable...

[@PokeMaster22222]

10:34 I mean, Bravely Default has a history of save-data-deletion psychs, and from memory Banjo & Kazooie threatened it if you cheated too much. Oh, and of course Undertale - a major part of that game's _story_ is about the ability to save and reload.

[@bloodrunsclear]

I’m impressed a certain mighty number wasn’t #1!

[@Canadiansamurai]

Nightcry should have been mentioned. A Clock Tower spiritual Successor that failed in every way and a garbage collector's edition that they charged $200 for something that cost $5 to produce

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Ugh. Inafune really went that route? He sounds desperate as all Hell. He should REALLY take a cue from Iga and especially Mega Man itself and stop trying to shoot for the stars in one blast. And Molyneux will be Molyneux.

[@gordontaylor2815]

Mr. Molyneux actually was more than a pitchman for overly ambitious "remake" projects, but I'm convinced that his time in the top echelon of EA (he was a VP at one point I think) inflicted irreparable damage to his creative genius.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

@@gordontaylor2815 Yeah, I know, Populous and Dungeon Keeper blah blah. Thing is he grossly underestimates how much it takes to make anything more complicated, and so consistently, too, meaning he's either deliberately conning us based on his glory days for easy money or is LUDICROUSLY incompetent outside of being an idea guy yet refuses to humble his projects. Sure, the original Kinect got nerfed shortly before release, throwing him and its other devs under the double decker bus, but there was no fucking way Milo was going to live up to the hype regardless, and Fable being compromised already called the guy's rep into question. It's like he sees computers as literal magic boxes that can do anything in the right hands-like he's literally living in a fantasyland-and doesn't care about the lies he tells, seeing them as white lies because he thinks shit will work out in the end. And when it doesn't, he's just "ah, well, life goes on" and moves on to the next thing he can't perceive as implausible, not thinking about how much of others' time and money he wasted. Way too chill, unserious and confident in others.

[@CoffeeFruits-World]

I honestly feel so bad for Mr. Henderson, being cheated to that extent. I hope he's doing well.

[@mohdadeeb1829]

27:12 "I too was told something will be done by Christmas" 👴

[@shadowlinkbds]

Ah kickstarters; it's the one thing in gaming I never ever ever ever EVER do. Mostly because they usually end up being a disaster and you pretty much waste your money like going through micro transactions. There's many failed Kickstarter games I can think of that fail horribly. (Especially an obvious numbered one.)

[@iannations2543]

"How long before anarchy becomes the only solution left?" Well what if the NFTs miraculously manage to survive anarchy? what would we do then?!

[@jamieodonnell8344]

More anarchy, maybe?

[@gamerbear84]

My pick would've been Beast's Fury, which I supported both on Indiegogo AND Kickstarter (though with a lot less on the later platform to keep development going).

[@infinitedreamer9359]

Night Cry should've been on here and at a high spot too. If anyone's watched the video by tangomushi,you'll know why.

[@kostalking9747]

What vector said at 17:19 is how I feel about the re:legend Kickstarter that was posted over 6 1/2 years ago by square Enix

[@MST545]

Honestly I like the bosses of 9, I mean it could of helped they didn't try to extend to the moon before making an airtight shuttle that wasn't going to fall apart at the Stratosphere. The boss intros with the WARNING WARNING gave a good tone of "here's the boss, good luck"

[@Maya-nimations.Jar_of_acid]

Pretty sure Enchanted Portals would’ve made the list if it wasn’t released later in September

[@davidgeorge1943]

15:01 I know it's for visual aid, but how DARE you associate such an underappreciated landmark of my childhood as De Blob (2) with that absolute blight upon the Internet!

[@griefingg0lem685]

You know what, I have my own dishonorable mention for you that comes from last year. So a game early that caught my radar early on in its life was a game called Indie Rumble. It didn't look all that impressive and was meant to be an indie platform fighter that was a massive crossover, but the initial roster had mostly the creator's characters from their other games, which tended to be shorter versions of other popular games at the time (ex. Omori and Monkey Ball). However, though the project eventually got a glow up and was going to heavily focus and get what it needed to be done before it went to do the kickstarter. Everything was looking great, somewhat big names were being announced, everything was looking up. Hell, on the day of the kickstarter, it was confirmed that V-1 from Ultrakill would be playable and the guy from Postal would be a boss. The next day, allegations came out against the creator. Some were kinda dumb like being a jerk in the comments of Steam, and some a bit more serious. The whole project was on the line, and he stepped down from the project so that it could continue, even without him. The day afterwards, some people who had their characters in the game (won't be pointing fingers) pulled out after calling the team unprofessional for the situation, and the project and kickstarter got cancelled right there on the spot. It was heart breaking, to say the least. I was just someone who wanted to heavily back the game, the staff had it worse. I wish they are doing better now, but man was the whole situation just hurts a bit to look back on to see how everything fell apart in like 4 days of the kickstarter going up.

[@infinitedreamer9359]

Night Cry not only should've been a dishonorable mention,but also on the list at a high spot because of how much they screwed over the backers. If you've watched the tangomushi video,you know why. It's like they made the same mistakes as the MN9 kickstarter,except worse.

[@theotherjared9824]

Shovel Knight, Undertale, and the potato salad guy remain the only good kickstarters to this day.

[@SomePkmnlovingdude]

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, A Hat in Time & Bloodstained: Are we jokes to you?

[@BaxterAndLunala]

Not gonna lie, I totally expected Shaq Fu A Legend Reborn to be on the list, or at least a dishonorable mention.

[@reactiongamingesports-9873]

Really interesting and great video!!

[@Gokuzard97]

A'ight, who wants to guess where Mighty No. 9 is? My guess is top 3. Editor's note: Called it!

[@Dogesman]

I'm gonna guess number 6-5

[@shadowlinkbds]

Close enough

[@bezoticallyyours83]

MN9 wasn't terrible, but needed lots more time in the oven. Although I've heard that Mighty Gunvolt was a better version, something good came from it.

[@manuelvasconcelos8982]

Kickstarter is getting a bad reputation at this point, let's hope it doesn't become a nft site Btw your anger against nft in this video is completely justified

[@infinitedreamer9359]

I think Kickstarter needs to heavily rework how it vets potential projects. Like putting barriers of entry/requirements for being able to do a Kickstarter. Don't know what those requirements would be,but if done right,it would cut down on the number of kickstarters that fail either because of scammers taking advantage of lax policies or inexperienced people overestimating their own skills and how hard game development can be.

[@josepharmstrong1788]

The number 1 pick is eerily identical to the introduction story of the character of Mr. Big from the PBS Kids cartoon Wordgirl.

[@thechainsawtoaster6854]

One of the biggest Kickstarter Fails in my opinion is Day Of Dragons, tons of money given to a project that only has a tech demo with preexisting assets to show for it, immature and toxic responses from the developers in the face of legitimate questions, 3 years since the early accesses release with no news in sight, and threatening the KZbinr IGP who made videos discussing the event with a Cease and Desist Order, there is a certain word that comes to mind.....SCAM

[@NAPALMANWITHTHEPLAN]

Surprised Yooka Laylee didn’t make the list

[@jasonmartinez5116]

Yooka Laylee got a sequel and it was much better than the original, maybe that's why it didn't make it on here. Although, you also got the cancellation of the Wii U version in favor of Switch

[@botbuster8841]

i thought yooka laylee wasn't that bad

[@X2011racer]

Well, look at Playtonic now; they have their own publishing branch, Playtonic Friends, and all of their published games were all well-received. Now, the question is, what is their development branch, Playtonic Games, currently working on? They left a micro teaser a year or two ago and we still don't know what it is...

[@jonmcknight18]

I hope Eiyuden Chronicles doesn't end up on a list like this but from what we've seen so far that probably won't happen

[@darkrai436]

24:07 Really curious that Fur Fun of all things was in the dishonourable mentions. That thing didn't even have that much presence in English-speaking communities at all, at best it made Jim Sterling go out and tear the game's creator apart (which was, admittedly a cool moment), but it was otherwise not really a memorable disaster.

[@AdamEspersona]

There are only a handful of Kickstarters I backed, and that's because I chose wisely AND they actually followed through on their promises: * Bloodstained * The Legend of Vox Machina * The Resident Evil board games This list of ten duds? A flat-out Mighty NO to those.

[@erichfiedler1481]

I should've backed them, and BOTH MST3K ones

[@thepuppet4321]

Kickstarters are a combo of a gamble and a coin flip. On the one hand, ya have giants like Bloodstained, Shantae, and our lord and savior with a digging appliance for a weapon. On the other hand…these guys who are on the list.

[@skylerwarren7300]

Wonder if fnaf will be in this list since it was on kickstarter, but not a single dollar was given

[@arthursnyder6935]

Yeah fnaf's Kickstarter was a fail but the game was so successful that it not only spawned a bunch of sequels and novels, it even spawned a movie that released about two weeks ago in theaters and on Peacock

[@lectordreadwood3273]

I'm surprised the Calico Chameleon wasn't on here

[@hoshi314]

About Untamed Isles, since the inspiration is Pokemon that game had a consultant in the name of Wolfe Glick, the pokemon VGC world champ. if only they have no web3 inspirations from the very beginning i might have give it a pass as a case of "be careful of who are funding your game"

[@Drawboy66]

Speaking of kickstarters... I'm still waiting for Ex Zodiac.

[@asmodeus58XX]

21:50 Mighty Number Nein ("no" in German) is just a better name, sorry not sorry. Or just go classic with AVGN style vulgarity and call it Mighty Number Two.

[@centurynerdbr]

I know this may sound silly this video suggestion but how about a Top 13 Worst Elemental Bosses? Each boss for each of these elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Ice, Eletricity (Lightning), Light, Dark, Metal, Nature, Undead, Poison, and Magic.