Bro Penguinz0 forgot to add these games in the video: 1. NBA 2K24 2. Mortal Kombat 1 3. WarioWare: Move It! 4. Detective Pikachu Returns 5. Cocomelon: Play With JJ 6. Bluely The Video Game 7. Peppa Pig: World’s Adventure 8. FIFA 24 9. Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)
You should have told him “oh bro I loved that game, I got this trash called BG3 and refunded it for Rise of Kong, and let me tell you, best choice of my life!” Assuming you are doing the chaotic evil run of your life that is.
i'd like to see gamemill just go completely dark for a couple of years and then all of a sudden drop a game of the year quality release. would be one of the most memorable things in gaming in a while
I think the worst part is knowing that Gollum was one moderately awful game that closed down a good studio. You can see that they tried, they just didn't know what they were doing with that kind of game and fell short of the mark. But they HAVE made good games and could have continued to do so. Then you have Game Mill, churning out three pieces of shit in one year that are unparalleled in how awful they are to a point that it is obvious they do not care. No effort was made. And they will probably be fine because they're almost definitely being used to commit tax fraud by big, popular brands and IPs.
@@KadenHartleythey mde the deponia series, which is a bit old by now, and a completely different genre from gollum, and was well recieved when it released. I played it myself multiple times, the games have great humour, story and puzzles. The complete collection is at 87% positive on steam as of writing this comment. The complete collection of all four games is actually on sale for 90% on steam right now, so you might wanna check it out.
The fact that the publisher of Big Rigs is still alive and well and publishes 3 of the worst games in one year is nothing short of impressive. Seriously, who's funding them?
@@xaxos9273 That did get fairly good reviews, by GameMill standards. I am sort of wondering if they will ever 'accidentally' release a classic, one of those cases were the stars align and the right licence, right development team, and ironically a publisher that doesn't really care that much, will all work together to create magic.
In all honesty, it's gotta be a money laundering thing. Like no joke, the games are always terrible, yet they've been going for decades and somehow getting all these licenses
I love that the only reason GameMill didn’t shut down like the studios that made Gollum and The Day Before is that GameMill never put in enough time, money, or effort to feel shame in the first place. They know what they are, and they’re not going anywhere.
You can check on their website that I think they're backed up by people that were related with Activision. I don't know how things works but I smell something funny here.
Just wanted to give my thanks and congratulations to GameMill. A very lofty achievement and a title well deserved. Also thanks to GameMill's families for sacrificing and allowing their loved ones to spend at least 4 hours a month to work on these valuable games. Paraphrasing Neil Young by way of Kurt Cobain "It's better to burn out than fade away" 🙌🏻👏🏻🔥
What's crazy is that GameMIll has also published BOTH Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl games, which although they were flops still reviewed fairly well as Smash-esque fighting games. It seems GameMill's biggest problem is that they will literally accept any developer to make their games since their priority is just to pump out recognizable IPs as fast as possible. All-Star Brawl HAS to be the only reason that they're still in business, otherwise there's absolutely some sort of conspiracy/fraud going on there somewhere.
I honestly think it might be a misconception that the NASB games, especially the first one, "flopped" necessarily. You gotta understand, for simple Nicktoons games they comparatively made serious BANK. Those normally bring in barely any money and yet here NASB 1 & 2 are getting tons of attention and being featured in eSports tournaments. No other similar games on that scale could even DREAM of getting as huge. They'd probably still be absolutely over the moon that they even made back a dozen rusty nickels over it.
There needs to be a “raspberry” game awards ceremony where awards are presented to the worst games of the year in various categories. (worst story, worst gameplay, worst overall, etc.) It would be interesting to see the razzies come to gaming.
RE4R does because it's distinct from it's source material Stuff like Demons Souls, Dead Space or Metroid Prime R however I agree with since they're the same just with a fresh coat of paint RE4R stands on it's own@@INFILTR8US
1:24 Dante didn't suffer a lot of agony when he went to hell, compared to all the residents he observed on his journey through. In fact, some supporting characters made it a lot easier than it should've been. I guess that still works if we're talking about all the cringey pranks and youtuber apologies you've endured
I just want to express how incredible it was to be a gamer this year, experiencing some of the highest highs and the lowest lows for the first time in a while. What an incredible time with games like Alan Wake 2 and Walking Dead: Destinies in the same year.
What's even sadder is that they could make a good game. They could make something similar to "It Takes Two" but utilizing the different bending skills, or they could produce an ESO-style MMO in the Avatar universe which people have been BEGGING FOR forever. But no. Nickelodeon just throws Avatar to Game Mill like it's a rotten piece of meat, no good for anything but a chew toy for the dogs. Shameful behavior.
I can’t even fathom why any IP, especially ones with massive fanbases like AtLA or TWD, would ever let GameMill anywhere NEAR their IP given their track record.
thats been like every year since- >desperately looking through stone tablets when did we start keeping track? of ya know... just things in general? *about then*
I feel similarly about the Avatar game, but the irony of how trash that game is kinda goes deeper... There are so many diehard Avatar fans out there who have been waiting for a fun and replayable Avatar game. Personally, I've been keeping up to the content creator Elca Gaming for the last 3 (or so) years. Elca has been using the game-creation platform "Dreams" to this create this game, and he really took Dreams' potential to the next level. He has been consistently working on it for the last 3 years and the amount of detail he puts into each area of the game is astounding. But unfortunately, Dreams did not take off as they expected it to, and it stopped receiving support from the company. Dreams is still usable, but it was thrown on the backburner. Despite this, he's still using the platform and finishing what he started. About a year or two ago now, Elca planned a meeting with the Avatar team. He was looking to pitch his idea and display what he could to in hopes to have it officially funded, but instead, they declined him and basically said they want no part in it. The team said that they were going to come out with other games themselves within the next few years... Then come those "few years", we get this game. It just makes me so sad to know that there is a single person working his ass off to deliver for the Avatar community, then the creators of Avatar turn around and give trash companies power over their property.
Everything have to be a 0 or a 10 nowadays. It's either complete trash or some god tier stuff. The Avatar game isn't perfect but it's not trash either. It's fun but with issues, but no no... the hypocrisy in gamers make the issues into something else. You know how a lot of people complained that the NPCs don't react when you shoot at them in Starfield? People made it into something worse than it actually is, because they were absolutely fine with it in Hogwarts Legacy. In that game the NPCs don't even die when you shoot them. But no, it's perfectly fine because it's not cool or "in" to hate on it. IMO people would be a lot happier if they could just enjoy games and movies more, instead of picking up the pitchforks and torches the moment it's popular to hate something. It's like everyone just gets off on being angry. But what does this have to do with your comment? Well, you make the Avatar game sound like the worst game ever when in reality it's more like a 6 or 7 out of 10. I know everything below 8 is considered trash because people "don't have enough time for anything that isn't a perfect score". What the heck are you doing in your lives that make you so busy? I have 2 kids ages below 5 and I still have enough time for 4 -5 hours of gaming a day. Sometimes even more. Anyway, all of these "bad" games share the same issues with the considered perfect games. People just bunch up and circle-jerk-hate because it's cool. Everyone online are either fanboys or the opposite instead of just being adults and enjoying stuff at different degrees. The world isn't black and white.
You seriously would give the new Avatar game a 7? Out of what? 50? It's not an exaggeration, the game could barely pass as a 4 if you also consider joke and meme games on steam, and a 2 if you only consider games with a budget. It's the longer version of old free games you would find into cereal boxes.
@BertyBertsson 😂 "instead of being adults and enjoying stuff" bud just said he himself is a child with that talk literally. 🤷♂️ if you pay for a game and 80% is the same fights and scenes and moves over and over than 100% is a garbage game. And you giving it a 6 or 7 shows how pathetic your taste is go back to candy crush
I again have to note that Game mill in the span of about 4 months released 4 notable games, three of which being on this list, with the last one sandwiched between them being Nickelodeon: All-Stars Brawl 2, not a magnificent game by any means but absolutely insane to line up next to these stinkers. It reminds me of when Into the Spiderverse came out and people put the Emoji Movie and Spiderverse next to each other since their both made by Sony.
Happy New Year everyone, especially to GameMill. I hope they can make some more insane bangers, absolute piss-missiles, slam dunk, masterpieces like they did this year. Maybe they can start making games for other companies, a Zelda game by them would be FIRE.
Charlie, how could you forget The Last Hope? LMAO 1:28: Redfall 3:28 The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 5:20 Skull Island: Rise of Kong 6:37 The Walking Dead: Destinies 8:20 The Day Before 10:18 Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance
Quest for Balance makes me the most depressed because as a huge ATLA fan I was actually really looking forward to playing it. Like I saw the trailers and I was like: “Yeah the graphics may not be the best but maybe the gameplay is fun, right?” I remember counting down the days when it would release then I immediately purchased it the moment it was available on Steam. I started playing it and I was like: “Eh, it’s ok, right? I mean, it’s for kids! I’m no game critic, so it’s…fine, I think?” But I was probably just blinded my nostalgia because I stopped playing after about 30 minutes, and a day later I saw the game was being slammed with negative reviews. I was shocked for a few seconds until I realized: “Oh, I guess it was bad.” Then I refunded the game and I felt miserable for not seeing through this game’s bullshit on first play through and then thought about what could’ve been. I MEAN IT I WAS MISERABLE GODDAMIT!!! Still better than the Last Airbender movie though. P.S: Also had no idea GameMill made Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and some of the other bad games that came out this year, so how I didn’t see the warning signs I do not know. I guess I’m just a huge sucker for nostalgia, unfortunately. 😔
Was expecting MW3 (2023) to be on here but the competition this year was incredibly competitive. So many companies gunning for the most dog-shit game of the year
@@kitothekito915 In my Opinion, Payday 3, A game supposedly 4-8 years in development (10 if you believe some people) that was to be the sequel to possibly one of the best pure PVE FPS games. The entire community was super excited that we were finally gonna get a new Payday after 10 years with the same game, which content creators in the game's fan base praising its mechanics when they early access... What we got was a game with half as many missions as the base Payday 2 (17 heists before first DLC compared to 10 before first DLC) two of which are just two heists from PD2 but put into Payday 3's engine, a completely bastardized "Skill System" where instead of creating a massive build with tons of skills (which was probably one of the best things of PD2) you get to pick a certain amount of skills from different trees, and your first pick has to be the base skill in each tree (and If you wanna be picky you don't even get these skills at the start of the mission you have to get buff effects to even activate a lot of them for a short time, as long as those boosts are active), and a frankly boring story where the gang gets targeted by 3 people they robbed in the past who somehow gathered enough money between them to call down assassins to kill all of them, the same crew that mows down waves and waves of cops with just four of them and somehow only 5 survived and now there's some mysterious woman whose helping them get their revenge by robbing buildings. The good thing I can say about it is at least its stealth mechanics are much better? But thats about it. It might not have been bringing fans from outside the fanbase in (cause lets be honest what content creator is gonna see a trailer for a game and immediately start playing a nearly 20 year old franchise they've never played before) but for it to be worse than the previous game with its current fanbase hella excited they were finally getting a sequel it's going number one just barely above Call of Duty.
@@kitothekito915 if you REALLY WANTED to go deeper on the missions part, technically the first 8 that came out on launch all have the same motif as previous heists from the previous game, and have been redesigned and written to fit the stort and make it NOT look like a rehash of the old game on a new engine (A Bank, A Bridge, A Jewelry Store, A Night Club, A Art Gallery, A Slightly Bigger Bank, A Warehouse, and A Penthouse.)
The craziest thing about the day before is even after the launch I still found people actually trying to defend the game saying "its early access give it time to improve!" and i was just flabbergasted that anyone could be that high on the copium
I think that games and developers deserve a chance. I mean look at Cyberpunk now. Its great. One of the best games of this decade yet. Fntastic deserved a chance. Hell I even would have gave them a second chance for a revival like Cyberpunk had. But they don't even want that chance. I'm so happy that I never Pre Order. Not even for games of the few developers I trust.
The Walking Dead: Destinies is such a good idea for a game. Hell, it could have launched an entire genre of "alternate timeline" games. Pity it couldn't have been handled by literally any other studio.
The sad part is that Game Mill ALSO made NASB2 and that game...is actually pretty fun, all things considered. A VAST improvement over the first. I don't really get what happens behind the scenes but if they put that amount of effort into everything, maybe their other games wouldn't be here
Gamemills name is quite fitting. Like a puppy mill but for games, it just keeps on popping out games without a care in the world for the quality, just the quantity
I didn't really play new games this year but my two favorite by far that I completed and got the Platinum trophies in were Yoku's Island Express and MediEvil Remake.
2023 has been the most interesting/wacky year of gaming imo, not to surprised charles did a video like this.😂 Ps, loved watching you play these games charles always entertaining :)
You have to admit, it's actually impressive to see a studio make such terrible garbage while using beloved franchises. At this point it should be seen as an achievement because one REALLY has to try to be such a failure all the while standing on the shoulders of giants
I really love how most studios, developers and companies seemingly at least tried to make either something good or incredible and *most* succeeded....then there's GameMill.
@@DubberRuckstheyre a publisher, they dont make the games, they pay developers to make the game (in very very short time and small budget) and gets the first cut from the sales
My game mill theory is that they are lowering everyone’s the bar so unbelievably close to the floor and behind the scenes they are working on an absolutely masterpiece
The walking dead destinies is so sad because the concept is really cool. Getting to choose which characters survive and changing the story. Too bad it was given to gamemill
My best guess why GameMill make such bad games is tax write-offs. They do something similar with bad movies where "investors" put in a decent amount of money, and when it inevitably flops, they write it off as a bad investment. I'm guessing they negotiated that "tax benefit" to the IP holders who don't really suffer from major branding harm (after all they are not making the game), so it has a tax appeal to many wealthy people, who are about to get a big payday and don't want to pay as much tax. Just a guess though but there is something similar with bad movies hence why I think that is the case. Will explain why they are still open as a developer company.
Never thought I would see the return of LJN but with the name of GameMill. That's impressive. It's only a matter of time before we get like a Jimmy Neutron game where you chase llamas the whole time.
LJN was bad, but they never pulled no insane bullshit like Big Rigs or any of the half ass shit GameMill released this year. LJN games were at least playable and somewhat entertaining (for the right reasons).
LJN were publishers, not developers. They were more of a sort of shell publisher for Acclaim, back then Nintendo limited how many games publishers could release in a year so Acclaim acquired LJN and just used it to publish the worst titles they came across, allowing them to publish more games than Nintendo would've normally allowed. Not that Acclaim didn't publish crappy titles either, but it was also no accident that LJN was universally bad, they were given the worst games Acclaim didn't want to put their name on, aside from that Carnage game which was apparently good.
The funny thing is that Gamemill released one good game this year, Nick All Star Brawl 2. Thing is, it would be infinitely better if it wasnt associated with Gamemill. The devs tried their best
Hey Charlie, just gotta take a moment to say thanks for the year of engagement and entertainment you provide us all. My kids are even up to speed on who you are they see you on my T.V. so much. Hahah but hey, here’s to more years of this shit! We ❤ you Charles.
it must be on purpose if the studio is called "Game Mill." Like it literally means "we churn out games without any thought or passion." Its in the damn name. I'm with you, I don't know how they keep getting away with it.
A peruvian TH-camr made something similar, he called these TOTY or Trash of the Year, he put: Redfall, the Cuphead trash clone, forspoken, the Avatar PS2 looking game and Rise of Kong
Charlie should get the boys around next year and turn this kinda video into heir own game awards with honest votes from the community. Compete with the barely existing T.U.G.S. that used to be fun to watch.
Saved my younger sister from getting the avatar game when we were at gamestop picking out Christmas presents for eachother and I told her it would be the worst mistake of her life so she made our mom put it back
Your first sentence is probably the best summarised take of 2023 gaming, that it was "goofy" due to highs and lows. I've seen people call it one of the worst years in gaming, which would be true if you only looked at the negative, but there's a lot of positive as well. Actual contenders for GOTY awards, for example, not just one or two obvious choices. It was definitely a strange one, but not a bad one.
@@twoshu8940 if you thought it was 'obviously' going to be bg3 over alan wake 2 and tears of the kingdom, then well done to you. I would have picked bg3 also but the fact that there were actually two other reasonable contenders is saying something
I'm giggling at the fact that gamemill is still in business but the studio that made gollum isn't even though they at least tried to make a stealth platformer .
Charlie's specialty in the youtube community is playing and commenting on the worst games ever known to man kind. I've been watching bro do his thing over a decade 💯💙
Red Fall by no means is a fantastic game or a breakthrough however I really enjoy it lmao. Just as a game to chill and play, the music is good, and the theme is still really cool to me. They are working on trying to make it better, but I do enjoy it especially with friends and like I said a game to just chill out and play, sad that it wasn't what was expected out of the studio though. Alot of flaws and glitches but a pretty fun shoot and loot to me.
I can’t believe that IGN gave Fortnite Festival the same review score as Gollum and Avatar. Fortnite Festival was a pretty messy experience, but it wasn’t *that* bad
Game Mill releasing three absolutely shocking games from three massive franchises is insane. How did they even get the rights to produce these games? There’s no way a company like Warner Bros were looking at getting a game made for King Kong and decided to go with Gam Mill…
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Huge congratulations to Game Mill for having 3 of their games featured in this list! What an honor.
They've worked hard this year. Yes, I use the word "worked" loosely here. 😂
Yes
It almost seems they do that on purpose so they can get atleast some attention
@@Apologetic231 exactly, its their business plan. and videos on bad games do well so here we are
yep
Props to you for actually playing through those
Bro Penguinz0 forgot to add these games in the video:
1. NBA 2K24
2. Mortal Kombat 1
3. WarioWare: Move It!
4. Detective Pikachu Returns
5. Cocomelon: Play With JJ
6. Bluely The Video Game
7. Peppa Pig: World’s Adventure
8. FIFA 24
9. Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)
Im just gonna stop looking at comments holy
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@@ThisGuyDannyyy I don’t think warioware was bad
@fpsUTTP have a lame new year.
“The hits were hitting and the shits were shitting”
The perfect line.
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The fact we had games like Gollum versus Baldurs Gate in the same year is INSANE
And a "game" like The Day Before launching and collapsing all within a week. Crazy fun times lol😂
Baldur gate has a zoo philic moment...
@@maxpower-un1zenobody care
yep
We could say that gaming in 2023 was perfectly balanced...as all things should be.
I actually witnessed someone purchasing Rise of Kong at Best Buy and felt an unbelievable sadness.
That's a teachable moment there. Let them find out for themselves how bad it is, or tell them not to do it. 😂👍
You should have told him “oh bro I loved that game, I got this trash called BG3 and refunded it for Rise of Kong, and let me tell you, best choice of my life!”
Assuming you are doing the chaotic evil run of your life that is.
huh, you remind me of that weirdo that was staring at me when i purchased rise of kong at best buy. Strange
Best Buy still exists?!
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The fact that there were not one, not two, but THREE $50 shovelware games from the same studio this year is astounding.
i'd like to see gamemill just go completely dark for a couple of years and then all of a sudden drop a game of the year quality release. would be one of the most memorable things in gaming in a while
Then go on to release banger after banger before revealing they started out to troll the community but got bored.
@@DubberRucks they'd go down as absolute legends for that.
What is this fantasy realm you people live in
@@NoNameEst1992 the funny one.
Sony Pictures Animation-style redemption arc
I think the worst part is knowing that Gollum was one moderately awful game that closed down a good studio. You can see that they tried, they just didn't know what they were doing with that kind of game and fell short of the mark. But they HAVE made good games and could have continued to do so.
Then you have Game Mill, churning out three pieces of shit in one year that are unparalleled in how awful they are to a point that it is obvious they do not care. No effort was made. And they will probably be fine because they're almost definitely being used to commit tax fraud by big, popular brands and IPs.
One had its publisher force out the IP game due to a business deal
The other keeps grabbing IPs due to a business deal
Name one game then that they produced that is good then? I'm waiting.
@@KadenHartleythey mde the deponia series, which is a bit old by now, and a completely different genre from gollum, and was well recieved when it released. I played it myself multiple times, the games have great humour, story and puzzles. The complete collection is at 87% positive on steam as of writing this comment.
The complete collection of all four games is actually on sale for 90% on steam right now, so you might wanna check it out.
Good studio? Tf you on about boi?
Apparently I was crazy for expressing this sentiment
The fact that the publisher of Big Rigs is still alive and well and publishes 3 of the worst games in one year is nothing short of impressive. Seriously, who's funding them?
You gotta respect the honesty in their choice of name, though.
On the bright side, they did publish Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
@@xaxos9273 That did get fairly good reviews, by GameMill standards. I am sort of wondering if they will ever 'accidentally' release a classic, one of those cases were the stars align and the right licence, right development team, and ironically a publisher that doesn't really care that much, will all work together to create magic.
@@xaxos9273that one's not great either though
In all honesty, it's gotta be a money laundering thing. Like no joke, the games are always terrible, yet they've been going for decades and somehow getting all these licenses
I love that the only reason GameMill didn’t shut down like the studios that made Gollum and The Day Before is that GameMill never put in enough time, money, or effort to feel shame in the first place. They know what they are, and they’re not going anywhere.
Yup!!!! So stay mad.
You can check on their website that I think they're backed up by people that were related with Activision. I don't know how things works but I smell something funny here.
@@KadenHartleyBad bot, back to sleep mode with you.
@@KadenHartley 👦🤖
I swear GameMill might just be an internship stepping stone to an actual game dev job. 😂
How GameMill hasn't gone bankrupt by this point is simply an enigma.
How could they go bankrupt when they're pumping out such bangers?! /s
Gamemill made $175 million in profit this year
@@superbtrilogy5049if that’s true it is most definitely a money laundering scheme
@@superbtrilogy5049It’s because they published Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2. They didn’t develop it, but it’s actually a really good game!
it must be money laundering
Just wanted to give my thanks and congratulations to GameMill. A very lofty achievement and a title well deserved. Also thanks to GameMill's families for sacrificing and allowing their loved ones to spend at least 4 hours a month to work on these valuable games. Paraphrasing Neil Young by way of Kurt Cobain "It's better to burn out than fade away" 🙌🏻👏🏻🔥
This deserves more likes 😭😭
What's crazy is that GameMIll has also published BOTH Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl games, which although they were flops still reviewed fairly well as Smash-esque fighting games. It seems GameMill's biggest problem is that they will literally accept any developer to make their games since their priority is just to pump out recognizable IPs as fast as possible. All-Star Brawl HAS to be the only reason that they're still in business, otherwise there's absolutely some sort of conspiracy/fraud going on there somewhere.
I honestly think it might be a misconception that the NASB games, especially the first one, "flopped" necessarily. You gotta understand, for simple Nicktoons games they comparatively made serious BANK. Those normally bring in barely any money and yet here NASB 1 & 2 are getting tons of attention and being featured in eSports tournaments. No other similar games on that scale could even DREAM of getting as huge.
They'd probably still be absolutely over the moon that they even made back a dozen rusty nickels over it.
It says they published those idk if gamemill is the developer of all these games or just the publisher
all star brawl has absolutely 0 player retention so no they were not good either
Nah they pretty much order studios to shove games out as quickly as possible. The Kong developers said as much.
As of my comment Steam Charts has 33 concurrent players active on NASB 2.
As someone who didn't waste a single dollar on these games, I appreciate you for dealing with these dumpster piles this year Charlie 🔥
Y’all need some new bot replies at this point cause this shit is boring
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There needs to be a “raspberry” game awards ceremony where awards are presented to the worst games of the year in various categories. (worst story, worst gameplay, worst overall, etc.) It would be interesting to see the razzies come to gaming.
We need to find a better name
Japanese call it Kusoge, or "crappy game".
I’d watch that.
Dang, its hard to believe that a single year could prove to simultaneously be both one of the greatest and worst years for games.
Penguinz0 forgot to add Detective Pikachu Returns in the video!
NO WAY, I JUST MET CHARLIE ON MY TH-cam! 100% REAL! (OMG HE JUST CAME TO MY HOUSE AT 3 AM!)😱💯
MY BALLS ARE SMELLIER THAN CHARLIES BALLS!
Remakes / remasters don't count.
RE4R does because it's distinct from it's source material
Stuff like Demons Souls, Dead Space or Metroid Prime R however I agree with since they're the same just with a fresh coat of paint
RE4R stands on it's own@@INFILTR8US
1:24 Dante didn't suffer a lot of agony when he went to hell, compared to all the residents he observed on his journey through. In fact, some supporting characters made it a lot easier than it should've been.
I guess that still works if we're talking about all the cringey pranks and youtuber apologies you've endured
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Didn’t Dante go to hell to get his wife back? She cheated on him, that was definitely agonizing given his journey and the reason all together.
Every great video game critic has a studio that's their worst enemy: AVGN had LJN, Scott the Woz has Data Design, and Charlie has GameMill
Meanwhile KiraTV, who covers other topics which include Video Game scams, has Fntastic as his worst enemy
The way Charlie put more detail into critiquing Game Mill games then they put into their actual games is astonishing
I just want to express how incredible it was to be a gamer this year, experiencing some of the highest highs and the lowest lows for the first time in a while. What an incredible time with games like Alan Wake 2 and Walking Dead: Destinies in the same year.
NO WAY, I JUST MET CHARLIE ON MY TH-cam! 100% REAL! (OMG HE JUST CAME TO MY HOUSE AT 3 AM!)😱💯
MY BALLS ARE SMELLIER THAN CHARLIES BALLS!
@@quartdude😂😂
Bro I Cant with these bots there’s so many of them 💀
Bro why so many bots? Penguinz0 needs to look at his comments for sake
It's absolutely amazing that GameMill have created not one, but all three bad licensed games that came out in 2023. It's like a record for these guys.
Well, when someone tells you what they are (a game mill), believe them
So... what you are saying Game Mill is the current day LJN?
"The hits were hitting, but the shits, they were shitting."
2023 was perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I feel like for every good thing that happend in 2023, another bad thing happened
@@sheatemyhearttsame thing can be said in reverse
@isabellek-q3183 hey you're right
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GameMill has truly been an innovator this year. I hope we will see more of their garbage in the future!
Hopefully GameMill gets the back to back mvp season of making the worst games of beloved IP
We prob won't have long to wait. 😂
GameMill making sure they produce more than 1 game per year so they can't get multiple worst game of the year awards.
This was in fact, a year for gaming
NO WAY, I JUST MET CHARLIE ON MY TH-cam! 100% REAL! (OMG HE JUST CAME TO MY HOUSE AT 3 AM!)😱💯
Time to donut these damned bots 🍩
MY BALLS ARE SMELLIER THAN CHARLIES BALLS!
What are these comments?
Time to drain the swamp of these bots
the pure unfiltered sadness in charlies voice when he said 'i love avatar' is heartbreaking
What's even sadder is that they could make a good game. They could make something similar to "It Takes Two" but utilizing the different bending skills, or they could produce an ESO-style MMO in the Avatar universe which people have been BEGGING FOR forever.
But no. Nickelodeon just throws Avatar to Game Mill like it's a rotten piece of meat, no good for anything but a chew toy for the dogs. Shameful behavior.
I can’t even fathom why any IP, especially ones with massive fanbases like AtLA or TWD, would ever let GameMill anywhere NEAR their IP given their track record.
"Hello, I like money"
this whole year felt like a fever dream tbh
How
I like how NBA 2K24 is not in the list of the video 😂
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thats been like every year since-
>desperately looking through stone tablets
when did we start keeping track? of ya know... just things in general? *about then*
I feel similarly about the Avatar game, but the irony of how trash that game is kinda goes deeper... There are so many diehard Avatar fans out there who have been waiting for a fun and replayable Avatar game. Personally, I've been keeping up to the content creator Elca Gaming for the last 3 (or so) years. Elca has been using the game-creation platform "Dreams" to this create this game, and he really took Dreams' potential to the next level. He has been consistently working on it for the last 3 years and the amount of detail he puts into each area of the game is astounding. But unfortunately, Dreams did not take off as they expected it to, and it stopped receiving support from the company. Dreams is still usable, but it was thrown on the backburner. Despite this, he's still using the platform and finishing what he started. About a year or two ago now, Elca planned a meeting with the Avatar team. He was looking to pitch his idea and display what he could to in hopes to have it officially funded, but instead, they declined him and basically said they want no part in it. The team said that they were going to come out with other games themselves within the next few years... Then come those "few years", we get this game. It just makes me so sad to know that there is a single person working his ass off to deliver for the Avatar community, then the creators of Avatar turn around and give trash companies power over their property.
Everything have to be a 0 or a 10 nowadays. It's either complete trash or some god tier stuff.
The Avatar game isn't perfect but it's not trash either. It's fun but with issues, but no no... the hypocrisy in gamers make the issues into something else.
You know how a lot of people complained that the NPCs don't react when you shoot at them in Starfield? People made it into something worse than it actually is, because they were absolutely fine with it in Hogwarts Legacy. In that game the NPCs don't even die when you shoot them. But no, it's perfectly fine because it's not cool or "in" to hate on it.
IMO people would be a lot happier if they could just enjoy games and movies more, instead of picking up the pitchforks and torches the moment it's popular to hate something. It's like everyone just gets off on being angry. But what does this have to do with your comment? Well, you make the Avatar game sound like the worst game ever when in reality it's more like a 6 or 7 out of 10.
I know everything below 8 is considered trash because people "don't have enough time for anything that isn't a perfect score". What the heck are you doing in your lives that make you so busy? I have 2 kids ages below 5 and I still have enough time for 4 -5 hours of gaming a day. Sometimes even more.
Anyway, all of these "bad" games share the same issues with the considered perfect games. People just bunch up and circle-jerk-hate because it's cool. Everyone online are either fanboys or the opposite instead of just being adults and enjoying stuff at different degrees. The world isn't black and white.
You seriously would give the new Avatar game a 7? Out of what? 50? It's not an exaggeration, the game could barely pass as a 4 if you also consider joke and meme games on steam, and a 2 if you only consider games with a budget. It's the longer version of old free games you would find into cereal boxes.
Did GameMill pay you say this ? xd@@NedransVikingar
@BertyBertsson
Are you mixing the Avatar game in this video for the “Frontiers of Pandora” that came out? GameMill doesn’t deserve a seven
@BertyBertsson 😂 "instead of being adults and enjoying stuff" bud just said he himself is a child with that talk literally. 🤷♂️ if you pay for a game and 80% is the same fights and scenes and moves over and over than 100% is a garbage game. And you giving it a 6 or 7 shows how pathetic your taste is go back to candy crush
"the hits were hitting but the shits were shitting"
-Charlie 2023
I again have to note that Game mill in the span of about 4 months released 4 notable games, three of which being on this list, with the last one sandwiched between them being Nickelodeon: All-Stars Brawl 2, not a magnificent game by any means but absolutely insane to line up next to these stinkers. It reminds me of when Into the Spiderverse came out and people put the Emoji Movie and Spiderverse next to each other since their both made by Sony.
The fact that anything could be worse than that Kong game is truly horrific
And here I was thinking Redfall would win, then Gollum, then along comes Kong. What a year! 😂
Happy New Year everyone, especially to GameMill. I hope they can make some more insane bangers, absolute piss-missiles, slam dunk, masterpieces like they did this year. Maybe they can start making games for other companies, a Zelda game by them would be FIRE.
Let them cook and the CDI games aren't the worst Zelda games anymore.
Sure would be Fire 🔥🔥🔥
Put it out 🔥🔥🔥
@@_Orafu_
Atleast Zelda the faces of evil had ICONIC(still doesn’t mean good quality) Cutscenes. Especially in YTP scenarios.
you know how goddamn funny it would be if gamemill's next game was an actual innovative masterpiece
Charlie m'a touché dans un endroit très privé et l'a léché ensuite
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Charlie, how could you forget The Last Hope? LMAO
1:28: Redfall
3:28 The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
5:20 Skull Island: Rise of Kong
6:37 The Walking Dead: Destinies
8:20 The Day Before
10:18 Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance
Whats that
Never heard of The Last Hope
@@3Guys1VideoThe Last Hope was that Last of us knockoff, Charlie made a video on it not too long ago
@@Evanz111 oh
the massive dichotomy of games like Baldur's Gate 3 vs stuff like Gollum and The Day Before was wild to see this year.
Quest for Balance makes me the most depressed because as a huge ATLA fan I was actually really looking forward to playing it. Like I saw the trailers and I was like: “Yeah the graphics may not be the best but maybe the gameplay is fun, right?” I remember counting down the days when it would release then I immediately purchased it the moment it was available on Steam. I started playing it and I was like: “Eh, it’s ok, right? I mean, it’s for kids! I’m no game critic, so it’s…fine, I think?”
But I was probably just blinded my nostalgia because I stopped playing after about 30 minutes, and a day later I saw the game was being slammed with negative reviews. I was shocked for a few seconds until I realized: “Oh, I guess it was bad.” Then I refunded the game and I felt miserable for not seeing through this game’s bullshit on first play through and then thought about what could’ve been. I MEAN IT I WAS MISERABLE GODDAMIT!!!
Still better than the Last Airbender movie though.
P.S: Also had no idea GameMill made Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and some of the other bad games that came out this year, so how I didn’t see the warning signs I do not know. I guess I’m just a huge sucker for nostalgia, unfortunately. 😔
Was expecting MW3 (2023) to be on here but the competition this year was incredibly competitive. So many companies gunning for the most dog-shit game of the year
No that goes in the most overhyped game of the year in...second place sadly
@@vaporwave2339 who is hyping up call of duty in 2023?
@@vaporwave2339behind what?
@@kitothekito915 In my Opinion, Payday 3, A game supposedly 4-8 years in development (10 if you believe some people) that was to be the sequel to possibly one of the best pure PVE FPS games. The entire community was super excited that we were finally gonna get a new Payday after 10 years with the same game, which content creators in the game's fan base praising its mechanics when they early access...
What we got was a game with half as many missions as the base Payday 2 (17 heists before first DLC compared to 10 before first DLC) two of which are just two heists from PD2 but put into Payday 3's engine, a completely bastardized "Skill System" where instead of creating a massive build with tons of skills (which was probably one of the best things of PD2) you get to pick a certain amount of skills from different trees, and your first pick has to be the base skill in each tree (and If you wanna be picky you don't even get these skills at the start of the mission you have to get buff effects to even activate a lot of them for a short time, as long as those boosts are active), and a frankly boring story where the gang gets targeted by 3 people they robbed in the past who somehow gathered enough money between them to call down assassins to kill all of them, the same crew that mows down waves and waves of cops with just four of them and somehow only 5 survived and now there's some mysterious woman whose helping them get their revenge by robbing buildings.
The good thing I can say about it is at least its stealth mechanics are much better? But thats about it. It might not have been bringing fans from outside the fanbase in (cause lets be honest what content creator is gonna see a trailer for a game and immediately start playing a nearly 20 year old franchise they've never played before) but for it to be worse than the previous game with its current fanbase hella excited they were finally getting a sequel it's going number one just barely above Call of Duty.
@@kitothekito915 if you REALLY WANTED to go deeper on the missions part, technically the first 8 that came out on launch all have the same motif as previous heists from the previous game, and have been redesigned and written to fit the stort and make it NOT look like a rehash of the old game on a new engine (A Bank, A Bridge, A Jewelry Store, A Night Club, A Art Gallery, A Slightly Bigger Bank, A Warehouse, and A Penthouse.)
The craziest thing about the day before is even after the launch I still found people actually trying to defend the game saying "its early access give it time to improve!" and i was just flabbergasted that anyone could be that high on the copium
I think that games and developers deserve a chance. I mean look at Cyberpunk now. Its great. One of the best games of this decade yet. Fntastic deserved a chance. Hell I even would have gave them a second chance for a revival like Cyberpunk had. But they don't even want that chance. I'm so happy that I never Pre Order. Not even for games of the few developers I trust.
The Walking Dead: Destinies is such a good idea for a game. Hell, it could have launched an entire genre of "alternate timeline" games. Pity it couldn't have been handled by literally any other studio.
The sad part is that Game Mill ALSO made NASB2 and that game...is actually pretty fun, all things considered. A VAST improvement over the first. I don't really get what happens behind the scenes but if they put that amount of effort into everything, maybe their other games wouldn't be here
What’s crazier is that both NASB2 and the original got nominated for best fighting game.
Game Mill is publisher not developer
Gamemills name is quite fitting. Like a puppy mill but for games, it just keeps on popping out games without a care in the world for the quality, just the quantity
2023 is really one of the worst years for gaming in a long time while simultaneously being one of the best in a long time
Ikr. When one bad game dropped it seemed to open the gates for an arms race to make the worst one yet. 😂
But at the same time we get amazing games like baldurs gate and super Mario wonder
@@Jimmygibbjristhemanresi 4 remake
@@Ranni854 forgot bout that tbh
Yeah it’s good not as good as the original but still good
@@JimmygibbjristhemanI'd argue it's better solely because they got rid of Ashley screaming "LEON!!!! HELP!!!!!"
3:06 my finger what now
this year felt like it went by so fast yet also felt like it went by at the pace of a snail
That's also how it felt to me lmao
I'm hoping I can make better use of 2024
0:27 Shakespearean level poetry.
Game Mill is like the modern day LJN.
I didn't really play new games this year but my two favorite by far that I completed and got the Platinum trophies in were Yoku's Island Express and MediEvil Remake.
Surprised to find another fan of medievil!
Spider-Man 2 is a really good game if you like the first one you should get it
Glad to be alive to experience Baldur's Gate 3 and The Day Before. Both were entertaining in their own way.
2023 has been the most interesting/wacky year of gaming imo,
not to surprised charles did a video like this.😂
Ps, loved watching you play these games charles always entertaining :)
You know the games this year were bad when 6 games make it into a top 5 list
“The hits were hitting, but the shits were sitting” Lmao that quote was hilarious 😂😂😂
Shitting*🤓👆
You have to admit, it's actually impressive to see a studio make such terrible garbage while using beloved franchises.
At this point it should be seen as an achievement because one REALLY has to try to be such a failure all the while standing on the shoulders of giants
I really love how most studios, developers and companies seemingly at least tried to make either something good or incredible and *most* succeeded....then there's GameMill.
I wonder if they're happy with themselves. Takes a special kind of person to make trash and own it. 😂
@@DubberRuckstheyre a publisher, they dont make the games, they pay developers to make the game (in very very short time and small budget) and gets the first cut from the sales
the fact that charlie had to play through all these games to make this list is respectable
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nice pfp
@@SullBhit nice pfp too
Not respectful
@@beanzbeanzbeanzbeanznice pfp
We need people like penguinzO to go through the agony of playing horror like this
I love that Gollum is so miserable in its existence. Very meta.
Stay salty.
It does make you feel like gollum
@@KadenHartley the f are u on about
We need a 2-24 remaster of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. It’s the greatest game of the 21st century and deserves more praise.
This year needed an honorable mentions list
My game mill theory is that they are lowering everyone’s the bar so unbelievably close to the floor and behind the scenes they are working on an absolutely masterpiece
Game mill releases red dead redemption 3
Grateful to have discovered you this year, Charlie! May God bless you going into 2024! Have a Happy New year :))
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“The hits were hitting, the shits were shitting” - is crazy ☠️
GameMill really put their best effort in this year! The deserve the awards they received!
The walking dead destinies is so sad because the concept is really cool. Getting to choose which characters survive and changing the story. Too bad it was given to gamemill
You know the shit's shittin when forspoken somehow evaded the list
My best guess why GameMill make such bad games is tax write-offs. They do something similar with bad movies where "investors" put in a decent amount of money, and when it inevitably flops, they write it off as a bad investment. I'm guessing they negotiated that "tax benefit" to the IP holders who don't really suffer from major branding harm (after all they are not making the game), so it has a tax appeal to many wealthy people, who are about to get a big payday and don't want to pay as much tax.
Just a guess though but there is something similar with bad movies hence why I think that is the case. Will explain why they are still open as a developer company.
So rise of Kong and Gollum are GameMills’s “Hitler In Springtime”? Lmfao I like that idea.
@@littlebird7383 Gollum is from a different studio, Daedalic
Never thought I would see the return of LJN but with the name of GameMill. That's impressive. It's only a matter of time before we get like a Jimmy Neutron game where you chase llamas the whole time.
LJN was bad, but they never pulled no insane bullshit like Big Rigs or any of the half ass shit GameMill released this year. LJN games were at least playable and somewhat entertaining (for the right reasons).
LJN were publishers, not developers. They were more of a sort of shell publisher for Acclaim, back then Nintendo limited how many games publishers could release in a year so Acclaim acquired LJN and just used it to publish the worst titles they came across, allowing them to publish more games than Nintendo would've normally allowed. Not that Acclaim didn't publish crappy titles either, but it was also no accident that LJN was universally bad, they were given the worst games Acclaim didn't want to put their name on, aside from that Carnage game which was apparently good.
The title 0:01 : my precious
The funny thing is that Gamemill released one good game this year, Nick All Star Brawl 2. Thing is, it would be infinitely better if it wasnt associated with Gamemill. The devs tried their best
Hey Charlie, just gotta take a moment to say thanks for the year of engagement and entertainment you provide us all. My kids are even up to speed on who you are they see you on my T.V. so much. Hahah but hey, here’s to more years of this shit! We ❤ you Charles.
I just had a realisation that as of now in 2024 not even Disney can hide from GameMill
This is the greatest rewind from Charlie of all time.
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@@quartdudegen alpha be like
Did you know my balls are sweaty
Oh, so you watched the whole video in 1 minute?
The bots replying 3 times on the same comment 💀
Charlie’s new tattoo makes me want to make it liquid snow everywhere
even the name GameMill, it just sounds like a mass production factory pumping out bare minimum quality to meet quotas
it must be on purpose if the studio is called "Game Mill." Like it literally means "we churn out games without any thought or passion." Its in the damn name. I'm with you, I don't know how they keep getting away with it.
Anyone could've just listed down the horrible games this year without having to play them. Thank you Charlie for your sacrifice.
To think these all exist. Today. For money. 😂 Well, except The Day Before that is. 🤣
A peruvian TH-camr made something similar, he called these TOTY or Trash of the Year, he put: Redfall, the Cuphead trash clone, forspoken, the Avatar PS2 looking game and Rise of Kong
Its absurd to think that Game Mill was nominated for a Game Award this year.
I like how Charlie goes from an end of the world video to this
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Lol your reply’s
My dog has passed away today. Thanks for alwayd making me laugh charlie i really appreciate ya. I needed a good laugh and that intro was a solid laugh
Gamemill slowly becoming the modern version on LJN
Better call Angry Video Game Nerd.
How is gamemill still running and getting all these beloved franchises ip is mind boggling to me
Charlie should get the boys around next year and turn this kinda video into heir own game awards with honest votes from the community. Compete with the barely existing T.U.G.S. that used to be fun to watch.
I really feel for anyone who got one of these games for Christmas
Saved my younger sister from getting the avatar game when we were at gamestop picking out Christmas presents for eachother and I told her it would be the worst mistake of her life so she made our mom put it back
Crazy how I’ve never heard of game mills until now but I actually know of their games. They’re all bad but didn’t know they were connected
Your first sentence is probably the best summarised take of 2023 gaming, that it was "goofy" due to highs and lows. I've seen people call it one of the worst years in gaming, which would be true if you only looked at the negative, but there's a lot of positive as well. Actual contenders for GOTY awards, for example, not just one or two obvious choices. It was definitely a strange one, but not a bad one.
P sure the GOTY was obviously gonna be bg3
@@twoshu8940 if you thought it was 'obviously' going to be bg3 over alan wake 2 and tears of the kingdom, then well done to you. I would have picked bg3 also but the fact that there were actually two other reasonable contenders is saying something
every video charlie seems to be getting more and more expressive... his newfound goofiness is scaring the hell out of me
I'm giggling at the fact that gamemill is still in business but the studio that made gollum isn't even though they at least tried to make a stealth platformer .
Charlie's specialty in the youtube community is playing and commenting on the worst games ever known to man kind. I've been watching bro do his thing over a decade 💯💙
I can't wait to hear your top 5's. You make the best lists Charlie!
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Buckle his pants when your done lil bro
Bots incoming!!
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How do some people manage to even endure playing terrible video games all the way to the end ?
I think the only thing that really needs to be said summarize all of this is that game Mill is really living up to the standard of its actual name
That’s what I was thinking too.
Red Fall by no means is a fantastic game or a breakthrough however I really enjoy it lmao. Just as a game to chill and play, the music is good, and the theme is still really cool to me. They are working on trying to make it better, but I do enjoy it especially with friends and like I said a game to just chill out and play, sad that it wasn't what was expected out of the studio though. Alot of flaws and glitches but a pretty fun shoot and loot to me.
Special mention for Fear and Hunger. It wasn’t released in 2023, but this year it blew up.
Someone remember Forspoken?
Just you wait for 2024
I can’t believe that IGN gave Fortnite Festival the same review score as Gollum and Avatar. Fortnite Festival was a pretty messy experience, but it wasn’t *that* bad
Honestly Redfall looks like a GOTY game compared to the rest of this shit
Game Mill releasing three absolutely shocking games from three massive franchises is insane.
How did they even get the rights to produce these games? There’s no way a company like Warner Bros were looking at getting a game made for King Kong and decided to go with Gam Mill…
They think that the only way that Games can sell is Marketing, but lets hope they learn the lesson.