7 Big Franchises We Can’t Believe Got Past the First Game
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- We often look back at the very first entry in a famous game series and wonder how the heck these flawed first games managed to get even one sequel, let alone an entire franchise. Consider these long-running and much-loved series that we can’t believe made it past their shaky first starts, then subscribe for videos like this every week!
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You guys are surprised these games got a franchise. I'm astounded (and mortified) Ride to Hell: Retribution got a DLC.
Sovash Chetty Truly the world is a strange place.
It did? Oh my
DLC being cancelled due to poor sales is not the most common thing.
ajmrowland I'm just surprised that the makers of the game made DLC as well. Not the fact that it got released.
Sovash Chetty let's be honest, that game shouldn't even have made it to release
That's not a bad drawing of Solid Snake, Andy. You should see the sketch I did of all of the Snakes together in an airplane! Samuel L. Jackson was not impressed and had some very strong words about it.
Nathan Weeks
Lol
Lol indeed. That made my day.
FUCKING GENUIS
Such epic references! Thumbs up! Not. Jesus Christ. Ugh...
Finally, an original joke and not something everybody just spams.
I wish hojima had named Snake "coward duck" instead. The intro theme to duck eater would have been a thing of beauty
Defector from Decadence i think you meant kojima.
....I'm a duck eater
I don't think Konami would've considered "Metal Gear Coward" to be the most marketable of titles.
Well, Arena was pretty terrible, and I doubt anybody expected The Elder Scrolls to survive its first couple sequels until Morrowind came out.
Seven Day
Battlespire and Redguard are pretty crappy.
Josh Adams
Yeah, pretty much my sentiments.
Was just about to comment this especially given the cultural phenomenon Skyrim is right now
Daggerfall was actually a very good (albeit buggy) game for its time.
Jacopo Bertolotti hilariously enough you can still say that about the latest outings.
I guess you could say that about your selves too guys. I mean when I first saw you guys back all those years ago, I never thought that these two skinny dudes and one dudette would become my favourite channel of all time.......especially when one of those dudes was just lured in by false promises about finding his missing dog.
Ayan Haider yeah I'd like to hear this missing dog story please
Ayan Haider same
They have worked with various magazines and websites over the years.
Ayan Haider
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
it´s their first or second video on the channel, I think, look it up it´s quite funny
Elder Scrolls, fullstop. I played Arena when it first came out - for about ten minutes. Then I put the disks away, and went back to Eye of the Beholder, old as it was.
Compared to later games, yeah. Arena seems pretty bland. The randomly generated dungeons were apparently revolutionary, but...the game itself was pretty dull. But then....I never got much further than the first dungeon because I got stuck in sneak mode, couldn't get out, accidentally pickpocketed someone while trying to get out of sneak mode, and was killed by guards. ....Kind of made me not want to play it.
Even Fallout is kinda like that too, but both did what they could with what they had. Maybe that's how they convinced people to buy the sequels
Elder Scrolls I agree with, Arena was not exactly a rolling start to the series, but Fallout? Absolutely not. Interplay's isometric CRPGs may be drastically different to Bethesda's open world 3rd person "rpgs" but insinuating that the first two games were terrible and didn't deserve a sequel is utterly ridiculous. The original is at least as good as Fallout 3 if very different, and I (and many others who have actually played them) would argue that Fallout 2 still contends with Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas for the title of best game in the franchise. I like all the main series Fallout games for different reasons, but I'd argue that the 2 developed by Bethesda are the weakest among them albeit by a small margin.
I would be so thrilled if BSG announced total overhauls of Arena and Daggerfall, though.
TheBlues32
If you get The Ultimate DOOM on GOG you get Arena and Daggerfall. They’re all set up to run through preconfigured DOSBox windows. The worst part of Daggerfall is the RNG based combat.
Mario Bros. was a really fun and addictive game for it's time. It's one of my favorite retro games. And FYI, the insects were called fighter flies. Get it, fighter flies instead of fire flies? Oh well.
I'm impressed at how far the Tomb Raider games have come. The series started with blocky character models and awkward controls but now it's a beautifully crafted masterpiece in the latest entries.
I wasn't born when it was released, but Mario Bros was my first game that a got with a NES in 1990. & I played hundreds of hours of it...don't destroy my childhood Andy!
Kudos on pulling of Ryu's hadouken though...that is the most impressive thing you have ever done.
the clouds and bushes were just the same sprite recoloured..... how's that childhood holding up ;)
The first GTA was incredible for the time! I remember my friend bought it first and told me about it. When he said it had a whole city and it let you go wherever you want i literally had to see it to believe it. Never seen so much freedom and open ended fun in a game before.
Apparently it was originally an accident. Supposedly, they were originally making a fairly generic racing game, but due to a glitch the cops would try to kill you for bumping into them and they found that to be more fun than what was originally planned and went with it. I forget where I heard that, but supposedly that's how it started
@@Halloweenman33 the cops were supposed to chase u but they were super aggro, and they leaned into it lol.
I would also mention that Street Fighter had two arcade versions, one with a "classic" six button plus joystick combination, while the other displayed two rubber "pressure pads" (one for punching and one for kicking): the harder you pressed (read as: the harder you whacked) on the pads, the more powerful the attack.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoni-
OH WAIT.
Haha. Haha. Ha....
ashtherion Too soon, man. Too soon....
nice to have known of you ashtherion. lol
I should play Kingdoms of Amalur... * Ellen then yells YES COME ON! then I get dragged to her console and she starts to ramble on*
Hey Now! That's was actually a good game and some of us would love at least one more. (Or at least see it on a new console. )
Street Fighter might not hold up today, But it was actually pretty revolutionary for it's time between ushering in the 6-button system and joystick input special moves.
Then explain why all home ports received 50 or less.
8 dumbest reasons for the main character to risk his life
Jellyfish Someone stole his sandwich. Don't know what game but surely something like that has been done.
john wick to revenge a dog
Recurvess I think in Freddy fish
some broad that keeps getting kidnapped over and over and over again.
DemonicGodKiller Oh my gosh I loved those games when I was a kid! I recently found you can get them, Pajama Sam, and Zoombinis on Steam.
wow who knew that games that were made in the 80's/90's with limited hardware power would turn out to be so graphically awesome 30 years later. Most of these games were brilliant for their time.
Half of these games where amazing at the time of release
THIS!
I was thinking the same. I remember the original Duke Nukem also being a hit as a platformer before it became an FPS.
It’s basically a list of old games from the 80s and early 90s
@@EezeeGroover I played a lot of the original Duke nukem as a kid. That and paganitzu were a couple of my favourite PC games at the time(that series should get a remake). Personally I was confused at first when Duke nukem 3d came out. Until....after playing for about 10 minutes, somehow nobody realized what it was and I was allowed to play this.
I was about to post this. I guess it's hard to grasp what the video game world was in 1981 when Donley Kong (actually the first Mario game) came out. But Mario Bros was a fun and popular game at the time.
Grand Theft Auto was a scandal and people asked for the game to be banned. It was also very popular and fun to play.
I remember playing Street Figter at the arcade then and there was nothing like it. Van Damme movie Bloodsport probably helped it too.
What about Final Fantasy ? It was the "final" attempt of Square to do something great, who would imagine that they would do 348 games of it ?
Tulio Andrade that rumor has been debunked
It's called Final fantady because the creators thought the FF acronym to be appealing
Believe it or not, Final Fantasy was originally supposed to be called Fighting Fantasy, but because that name was already taken, they decided to go with Final Fantasy
Although, FF1 was, for all intents and purposes, a pretty good game that helped define the classic "Turn based JRPG" genre we all know and love
It was an interesting accessible take on the more complex RPG formulas found in games like Ultima, Wizardry and Shingen the Ruler (the latter being nearly impenetrable)with fresh (for the time) well designed highly detailed monster sprite work which provided a satisfying sense of character progression.
It really isn't that surprising that it would spin off into a franchise but it was unexpected that the games would become so narrative based when the original's plot just existed to give context to all of the level grinding and side-questing.
Actually, Tulip is corrrect. Final Fantasy was named because Square thought it was going to be there last game as they were going under and thought that it wouldn't be a success. Looks like it was the right choice.
Somebody didn't actually live through the 80s/90s when these games were technological marvels.
The only game I thought I'd still be playing in 30 years time was World of Warcraft. Except, due its addictiveness, it was more like "I'm still going to be playing this in 30 years time; please kill me."
You heretic! World of Warcraft is bar none the greatest computer game ever made. I thank the Light every day for its existence. In 30 years, I hope I'll still be playing this game, or whichever version it becomes! Hopefully it will be transmitted directly into my frontal lobes so I can truly feel myself in Azeroth...help me.
I tried it once but couldn't get into it, there just wasn't enough story to get me engaged.
@Willie Oelkers Oh, there is a looooot of story. It's just not very good.
I think I'll still be playing the Batman Arkham games in 20 years.
technically the first fallout wasn’t fallout 1, but it was a game called “wasteland” which was fallout 1 running on a potato
Toaster oh Right I forgot all about Wasteland! should have been on this list...
WAT, both wastelands are awesome
While wasteland is a post apocalyptic RPG, and made by the same people it is a completely different franchise and different universe. That's why Wasteland 2 is called Wasteland 2 and not Fallout 4.
I think the list suffers because the people putting it together are too young. They just take for granted that certain things wouldn't be enjoyed because they're old. I played the hell out of Duke Nukem and Duke Nukum when I was a kid, although taking it 3D was definitely a surprise, the fact that it had a sequel wasn't.
Didn't Wasteland get a pretty good reception at the time?
How about this, but with video game companies. Video game companies that started off with bad games but grew to be some of our most beloved video game developers.
Such as CDPR?
oh that's a good idea
Rockstar making Uniracers could work.
THQ, sure they make some great games now, but their SNES era games sucked more than a two-buck broad on the corner of thoity-foith and thoid.
Paul Beenis Games
On Street Fighter, you forgot to mention that if you are on the Player 2 side, you'll play as Ken instead of Ryu.
While street fighter 1 may be bad, I argue mortal Kombat still holds up. How could it not with that title music?
MORTAL KOMBAAAT
But the gameplay was cancerous as the AI is beyond unfair
It’s fucking difficult though took me ages to finish it again recently because I’m not used to using a d pad for all movement anymore
Oh please. take out the" deff muvs" and Mortal Kombat couldn't fight sleep.
Can you do a video on the times a character really ought to have died from their injuries (either in gameplay or in a cutscene) but didn't, because medical and physiological accuracy is just completely absent from a lot of games?
You might need a snappier title than that though...
Jenny Hay How about "X number of times that injury should have killed you?" Then again you could find an example in pretty much every game so maybe go with cut scenes or things like jumping off the Throat of the World and being ok cuz you landed in a deep enough puddle.
Recurvess I like that, yeah!
It could be a collection of times when your character gets some horrific fatal injury but just walks it off because, you know, they're the protagonist.
Red dead redemption John got shot by a shotgun in the chest and woke up the other day no problem
Jenny Hay Now THAT sounds like an OX video title.
The Elder Scrolls? Arena was so difficult and it must of been hard to imagine it would churn out greats like Oblivion and Skyrim...
It's not really that hard to believe see we are looking at it backwards. Comparing games of the 80's and maybe early 90's most games followed a trend and used the technology available. Arena was a success and as the technology evolved the creators could do more with the story and action. go on GOG most of the games look exactly like Arena during that time and now they all have changed. Maybe i see it this way because I played those games and thought they were amazing as a kid and now as an adult I view RPG's and Adventure games totally different.
Yes because they were so old and the tech can't be emulated properly anymore but if you look it up they won awards. Plus a lot of games similar to Arena in those times died on the vine even ones better than Arena.
Catrin Sara interesting that you miss not only the greatest elder scrolls game of all time, but also the greatest piece of art ever assembled by humanity, Morrowind, from your list my man.
Morrowind was a masterpiece underrated indeed.
TheBlues32 there's a bunch of fast travel options though? Silt Striders, boats, mages guild guides and almsivi/divine intervention get you to settlements, while mark and recall lets you set personal teleportation locations where ever you want. This is a much better system than what Skyrim and Oblivion have, because it encourages organic exploration of the game world.
Great video, as always, but I think the title should really be more like "Game franchises You'd be Hard-Pressed to Recognize with Their First Installment" as the only game that is a surprise made it past the first title is Street Fighter. All the other games don't really fit that category.
Guys, I love your metaphors and similes... "he handles like a defective shopping trolley full of house bricks" =)
If my elementary school education is serving me well, I believe that’s actually a simile.
Similies are metaphors.
Oh, you're right. How embarrassing. =P I must rectify the matter immediately.
Nah you're good; all similes are metaphors, but not all metaphors are similes.
feels kind of copy pasted of what Yahtzee said about car handling in one of his GTA review videos. I think it was 'Handles like a shopping trolley full of rocks'
Honestly, based on its first game, and just how deep in the uncanny valley it sat, you wouldn't think that Tekken would get a sequel-- but here we are, 6 iterations later with a roster that has ballooned from around 16 characters (according to Wikipedia) to over 40 characters, not including palette swaps (again, according to Wikipedia).
I have to disagree with you there. The first Tekken game, back when it came out, was hugely impressive. The only points of reference we had for 3D fighters at that point were Virtua Fighter 1 and Toshinden, and Tekken eclipsed those two easily. Of course it aged very quickly and didn’t hold up well at all, but it helped that only a year later we got Tekken 2 which massively improved upon the formula in every conceivable way.
Astfgl That's a valid point. Just looking back on the cutscenes creep me out-- and compared to the titles that came after, they managed to drag the character models out of the uncanny valley.
Can't express quite how hurt I am that some of my childhood favourites are having this much shade thrown their way. The first two Duke Nukem games were brilliant and stylistically cool as all heck. And GTA 1, with huge sprawling cities to do whatever you wanted, was hours of impossible fun. Way back then I hadn't played anything like it.
that MS paint drawing of snake was pretty good.
the main thing I'm getting here is you don't like non-3d games.
Like, seriously, GTA1 was AMAZING. There were people who played the _demo_ - just one city - for MONTHS.
*Raises hand* I was one such people
Same here, I actually havent played GTA 3 thru 5 at all - to me it lost its appeal when it went 3D. Love GTA 1 & 2 though and think they are the best of the whole franchise
"I only played 2 of the games but think they are the best in the franchise!" fucking lol
DashCam Gatt exactly. Perhaps the 3d games are good. I never bothered to try them. The 2d installments were perfect.
I kind of agree. I admit that I could not get into the original top view GTA games, but that was mostly because I had already played GTA 3, and that is what got me introduced to the series. However, they weren't bad games, just harder to get used to if you didn't start with them. Some of these games on the list were not bad at all, just not game changers till their sequal came to fruition.
7 games that had a third in the series that was the last good one or dissapointed the series.
Metal Gear Solid 3
Silent hill 3
Mass Effect (I liked 3 sorry), KOTOR, Final Fantasy 13-3, Battlefront, Half Life
keynan martinez assassins creed 3
RoboCoffee Agreed, that was the most scariest yet had a balance of action but soon when down.
Before Ubisoft bought the rights, the first Tom Clancy game was Hunt for Red October on the ZX Spectrum. It was fine but is a far-cry from modern TC games like Rainbow Six or The Division.
(Also, Far Cry)
Most of this first games were great games for their times. They are obviously bad if you compare them on todays standards, but i remember gta, mario or duke nukem as pure gold. I wouldnt play them now, but I am aware that they were good games.
fernando obregon They're not bad for today either. It's just that people won't take 30 minutes to get used to a game. If it's not press X to awesome then it's bad. All of these games sans OG Street Fighter are great even today.
Street Fighter 1 was NOT good back then, I assure you.
MilkyMint: Street Fighter 1 was never great (although it looked pretty damn impressive for 1987), but there wasn't really anything better like it so it had to do. The fighting games that came before it were generally even clunkier, and most didn't even have any multiplayer yet.
The same kinda goes for the other titles... Duke Nukem 1 was a big hit, being one of the very best platformers on the PC at the time. Mario Bros was a major step up from Donkey Kong, had simultaneous multiplayer, and is still fun today (at least in short bursts), and games rarely had much music in 1983.
I know puzzle logic in games is just generally weird, but that gate puzzle in MG2 is really something else. Why would they turn the security system _off_ at night?
I dunno, I loved Street Fighter 1. Played it all the time in the arcade, it was one of my favorites. Also love Mario Bros and played it in the arcade all the time too. Guess most of these games you had to have lived through them to enjoy them and see why they got series made from them. You know what your problem is? You're all just too young.
Basically you just can't believe people played 2D games
The Elder Scrolls, a game series that's notorious for it's starting dungeons starts in a dungeon that's nearly impossible to escape from
TheBlues32 Initially the dungeon was near impossible. There was a patch after that makes it less harsh.
I think that’s why after the first two, they gave up on the dungeon escape idea to became more linear(and helpful). Morrowind didn’t even have an ‘escape’ sequence while Oblivion and Skyrim have actual tutorials.
I'm surprised that The Elder Scrolls, which started with a game that was so massive that it took several real-world hours to travel between cities, ever found enough of an audience to spawn the empire it rules today.
Daggerfall has the most detailed character sheet and biggest map to this day sooo
Played all of these back in the day except Saints Row (and had Metal Gear on the Amiga). Beyond Castle Wolfenstein was a particular fave, and despite its simplicity the original GTA was really addictive. My point being they are not the disasters this vid would have them seem, and the fact they all became ongoing franchises is testament to that original spark.
Did you guys buy that Mario cereal just so you could merciless attack Mario for his ape-abusing past?
Ofcourse. Its totally not like they would buy it for the delicious marshmallows and the amiibo code.
Ayan Haider makes cents
I think they just used a picture, seeing as it was US exclusive
I beat Street fighter 1 two days ago ! LOL it was a nightmare!
Same, I know your pain as I was slowly losing my insanity to Sagat at the end.
Why tho.........
Agreed. It reached the point where I had to spam the save state function every time I managed a fireball to get past Sagat.
What strength! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over the world.
Though why they would all go to the trouble of beating SF1 is perhaps something of a mystery.
The achievement
The PES series has a humble beginning when it started out in 1995 and was called Winning Eleven for the PS1
Those old Apogee platformers were great! I put way more hours as a kid than could have been healthy into games like Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, and Crystal Caves. I put about five minutes into Duke Nukem Forever.
GTA (1) was really popular. How exactly was it getting more sophisticated sequels surprising?
A no. of the others were from the eighties, all games were limited back then. I think you are just taking easy shots a dated tech.
Almost all of the games on this list were wildly successful, and were the first of their kind, so additionally they had zero competition. Fighters, stealth games, whatever GTA1 was... these didn't even exist when the games came out.
Wait, in metal gear if you get an owl, they turn off the gate cuz they think its evening? So they turn off the gates at night? When its harder to see, and most people would think to break in? And when most activity on the base would occur in the daytime, and you would have to let a lot of people through if you had the gate on? Great logic there guys....you got the shit backwards!
They must have been closing the gates outright at night. The weird part is why he would do that if he can see the sky clearly. I guess Africa's a weird place like that.
CMP so many older games were just like "logic? The heck is that?" Lol
CMP actually that parts from metal gear two, which is basically in a small country around the China/Mongolia area
That was the 2nd game though, the first game didn't have those logic leaps.
Guards thinking it's evening when they see an owl? Sounds like the same sort of credulity that leads to guards seeing moving cardboard boxes and assuming nothing's wrong
Got an idea for a video. 7 side characters we’d much rather play as then the main character
Inside XBox, I mean, who would have known we would get Outside XBox and Outside Xtra!
I had no idea Duke Nukem loved Oprah. Must’ve been the “Oprah’s Favourite Things” episode that got him so rattled.
Looking back at the original game that started it all, kinda explains his habit of spewing one-liners.
I can't believe you dissed the original Duke Nukem....Next you'll tell me Commander Keen was a bad game.
Ian Carter they are to young to appreciate 3 1/2 in floppy games
@@Evaonk *too.
You have to remember these games paved the way for the newer generations of games you see today and without them what you see or play today may not exist . In other words everything starts somewhere .
Slight problem. Mario was originally a carpenter in Donkey Kong. Or, was our Wario engaging in identity theft in Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.
I also enjoyed the challenge of Mario Bros back in the 1980s.
Red Dead Redemption. I played Red Dead Revolver back in the day and was less than impressed. Not surprising that the 2 sequels share almost nothing in common with it other than they're westerns.
Michael Fisch i loved it actually
Michael Fisch I didn't dislike Red Dead Revolver but it was very middling. I was shocked they made a sequel at all.
I suspect you can't image how cool wolfenstien 2D was way back then. It was amazing, especially hearing a word through a speaker.
Don't forget Final Fantasy. Square (Just Square) was out of money after pouring what little they had left into a unique Japanese RPG. If it failed, it would have been in the end of the company. Hence why they called it "Final" Fantasy. Also, remember that GTA didn't start as game. It started as a glitch for a different game.
Snogard
Actually, the reason for the name "Final Fantasy" was because the game was originally going to be named "Fighting Fantasy."
However, the name was already taken, so they decided to go with Final Fantasy.
Tell me more about GTA glitch history plz
How about games that were really good but hardly made it past the sequel. *cough* golden sun * cough*
I think they already did a list of "Great games with terrible sequels".
@Trebmal I thought the idea was focusing on very good series that never really kept going for whatever reason. Golden Sun was great and Golden Sun: the Lost Age was a phenomenal sequel yet it took ages for another installment to be made. Dark Dawn wasn't even bad, it was actually pretty alright I dare say.
Okat I should rephrase ment I ment more of both games were really good but getting the sequels took long or just were not expected
oh ok, good idea then.
Thank you for reminding me how much I love the Saint's Row games. I'm off to go play it :)
You forget that Wolfenstein was incredibly innovative and complex for it’s time
Several of these games were actually highly regarded when they came out. The fact that time passed, technology evolved and tastes changed does not make them bad games.
Jacopo Bertolotti yes it does they’re virtually unplayable today
Yeah, I remember most of these games being very well received, definitely no where near being considered bad.. Well maybe with the exception of street fighter
I can think of three, kind of.
Marathon and Marathon 2 being a precursor to Halo, which is kind of a precursor to Destiny.
Red Dead Revolver, the spiritual predecessor to Red Dead Redemption and its successor Red Dead Redemption 2.
Fallout, being the old ones created by Interplay Entertainment and got remodeled by Bethesda when Fallout 3 was being developed.
I find with a lot of these games you had to be around at the time of their release to understand what made them popular at the time.
I remember when mario was new..Wow im getting old.
I just downloaded The Elder Scrolls Arena for free. I can’t get out of the sewer, you have to move the sword by dragging it with the mouse. Series sure came a long way since then
You seem to have confused 'bad game' with 'game that had technical limitations'. Mario Bros, GTA, and Metal Gear were really good games for the time when they were released.
Gotta disagree. Mario Bros was generic and uninspired, even a by then old game like Burger Time had more play value, GTA was novel but repetitive and lacked any kind of long term motivation. I cannot talk about Metal Gear.
Thing is: they (MB, GTA) were okay games for the time, but certainly not ones you thought "Oh, this'll go on". They wouldn't be remembered as screw-ups, but without the sequels they wouldn't be remembered, much less missed, at all by now. There were hundreds which would have fit the same bill which never got a sequel and by now are utterly forgotten.
In Outside XBox's defense the walking sound effects in Mario Bros actually hurt my brain listening to it.
@@Ulkomaalainen I sank so many quarters intro Mario Bros, and every time they bring it back as a mini game in newer titles, we flip out. These games are only bad in retrospect. They were really big hits, and made a ton of money in their day.
Funkopedia so because as kids you had awful taste in games?
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 . There was nothing else at that time. Games had to start somewhere. You would have been the same. Seeing new ideas and games grow ( what you take for granted today) was wonderful.
I remember chuckling at the spiral staircase in MG2 with the UP direction marked with an arrow... Then I remembered the guards from the owl puzzle and figured that even in-universe it was absolutely needed.
Don't forget the Dynasty Warriors series, not only did it do well enough to make 9 total games, the first one was completely different to the others
OutsideXbox never had the problem, their content was awesome from the beginning :)
Caitlin RC We still don't know if Mike ever got his dog back.
...or got that chip out of his brain.
Hate to play the "Old" card, but it was obvious right away that you weren't around when these games were new (except for Saint's Row, where I agree with you). As hard as it might be to imagine, those graphics and sounds were cutting edge excitement to people using rotary phones and the gameplay was fun and addictive. To be fair, Street Fighter was frikkin impossible and the voice samples were abominable, but the look and style were light years ahead of it's predecessor: "Yie Ar Kung Fu". Anyway, that's why there were sequels, and they improved on what they started with. Be a better piece to call it "Game Franchises that Kept Up With Gaming Technology" for your selections.
**END OLD GEEK RANT**
Prince of Persia series? from 'oops, i thought i could make that jump' to 'None can escape the rules of time and spa...wait, what are you doing!'
Did Prince of Persia survive that one game where you had a magical female companion who would 'save' you everytime you missed a jump? That one looked great but once I found out you couldn't really ever die I lost interest in it fast...never revisited the series again.
I started metal gear 1 few days ago, love the series so much
What about Elder Scrolls? Sure it was ambitious with having the whole Tamriel in the game but did we expect it to become Skyrim from that start?
GOOD VIDEO
KIDS GAME WATCH oh shut up, the video is ten minutes and the video hasn’t been up long enough for u to watch
You are not old enough to appreciate the games you are talking about. They were top of the line for their time and and what made gaming popular.
that soundtrack from the side scrolling duke nukem is awesome
The Hyperdimension Neptunia series. Even fans agree that the very first game was godawful and only found success through the writing and the sheer absurdity of its premise.
I recently changed my personal mantra to something like *Obey the preachings of the OxBox and things will generally be OK* ... this has now been ruined by this list. Why is GTA in this list, the first game was incredible, it had one of the best multiplayer experiences ever made. Also the soundtrack and general fact you could just play for hours without doing any missions was a really nice change. I'm not upset, just disappointed...
well... this kinda lift my spirit up... nobody starts as superhero when they first start... meaning that if everyone works really hard they can become recognized
Man, I loved both Mario Brothers and the original Duke Nukem games when I was a kid. In fact, since I don't like FPS games the original DN games are the only ones I like. I'm incredibly disappointed that in all that footage y'all never once hit the POW block though! That was one of the most satisfying feelings in gaming to my baby self.
Hey GTA 1 and 2 rocked
We played the Shit out of it :-)
Hmmm I like this game I think ill buy the first version! *buys it* what is this ****!
Nice art Andy, the Louvre would love it
Wow I had no idea Wolfinstein 3D wasn't the first. No idea at all and I never would if it wasn't for this video.
Dang it Andy! I was born in 83 but still couldn't speak about the Mario game. Stop rubbing your youth in our faces. Now excuse me while I drown me sorrows with my Atari games.
While Ace Attorney is my favourite franchise, I never thought that I'd play a Law Sim
s76trombone Yeah. And the weirdness is one of the best parts. That series is to Law&Order what Saints Row is to GTA.
The trick with the original Mario Bros. is that it could be played co-op - both player 1 and 2 (as Luigi) could play _at the same time_, and you could use strategy to knock those turtles off. You could also fart around by jumping on each other's heads - it wouldn't harm your friend, but you'd get a cute "squash" animation.
It was fun!
Thumbs up for Andy's Snake portrait in original MSPaint....a true masterpiece
The premise of this list is very flawed. Your applying modern day sensibilities to not modern games were talking about games that were around at the start of the industry so yeah by today’s standard they’re buggy and pretty terrible but back then I’m pretty sure many more people enjoyed them then you think
"7 Big Franchises with Very Humble Beginnings" would have worked as a better title for this video. Most of these are just you having a go at a game for being released on old hardware.
There's a series called Hyperdimension Neptunia. Its first game is considered to be a terrible RPG mostly due to how items would be consumed which made things really difficult. They remade the game after two sequels and fixed and changed pretty much everything.
Ahh the original Duke Nukem music took me back, I'd found it on a compilation of games cd for Windows. Gameplay was still pretty satisfying for its time and the music was great. I think you can actually play it online in your browser nowadays in the dos archives.
How about Assassin's Creed? Sure Maybe AC 1 wasn't as bad as the games on that list but, at least for me it was just boring. I remember playing it and wondering who decided that this game deserves a sequel.
Filip Bojanowski this. My first ac game was ac2 and sfter i finished it I thought I'd go back and see how it started. I had to force myself through it. It was so repetitive
It had a shit story but the gameplay loop was great - perfect material for a franchise. Before AC1 the only game with sort of similar movement was Prince of Persia and that wasn't that good
How about The Witcher games, the first one was PC exclusive and as dense as a brick
I just got a flashback to the combat, make it stop please .... also who the hell uses the aoe style?
Jellyfish combat in 3 still sucks, I can't imagine how bad it must've been in the first game.
Crysis would probably be a better example. Crytek it was new to video games and hadn't really learned about optimization, so they decided to build a game for what was then the VERY top of the line computers, so about 5 people could play it. But, then 4 years and EA later, they released a new, better optimized version for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
+Jellyfish Why the hell not?
You hit literally everyone in the room and you draw circles of blood on the ground.
Genesis23OPB lol nah it's not fine, it's godawful.
I was there back in the day as a young lad with 10p's lined on the street fighter 1 machine. I flipping loved it! I would go turbo wriggling the joystick in the south east position spamming weak punch. Pulling off fireballs and uppercuts like a pro and could finish the game on 10p. Ah those were the days 👍
Anyone remember the first Dynasty Warriors? There were significantly less than a thousand enemies for you to beat up per level.
Assassin's Creed would seem to fit here. In the first game all you do is collect information on your target, kill them, return to Masyaf for your next target, rinse and repeat until the end of the game. The combat was also a lot more punishing, rewarding you for running away instead of standing and fighting and for positioning yourself for instant kills. Compare that to the sprawling cities and landscapes filled with side missions of the games that came afterwards where you can easily take out twenty guards at a time without getting hit.
I also really liked how the guards didn't insta-die when you killed them. They cried out in pain and writhed a bit.
which sounds WAY more serial-killery than I intended but here we are.
I went back and played the first AC game the month before Revelations came out and was amazed at the fact that I enjoyed the game so much when it first came out. The main assassin missions were great, but pretty much everything between that was not.
I think a few things made the first AC worthwhile and revolutionary,: the story; the cool parkour/free running which made me reevaluate every building as potentially climbable; being able to do that climbing in the crusades was historically interesting; and also introducing the hidden blade was so badass.
All of the AC games are super repetitive, so that hasn't changed. I would have liked AC 1 more if the combat really was as hard as you claimed and forced me to run away. In actuality, all you had to do was hold down the block button and press counter whenever someone started their attack animation and you could kill the entire planet without taking a hit. For me, the series peaked at brotherhood because all of the toys introduced there and the ability to build my own order of assassins was fun.
That's what I said
Fallout one did look pretty weird too
And the elder scrolls arena looked like a very bad doom 1
Big color Fallout 1 was a good game and it looked good for the time tho
Neodeleux I tried Playing Fallout 1 couldn’t get passed Level 2...
No fallout 1 was good. It was made by a different company that sadly went under, but it had amazing RPG elements and you end the game having to actually convince the leader of the Super Mutants why he should give up and get rid of them. Not like the Enclave in 3 where it was three button clicks, you actually had to have picked up the knowledge and pick the right options which was often not obvious.
Fallout 1 is one of the best RPG ever made. Great story, great setting, an interesting and balanced system. It just got old.
Actually I feel like fallout 1 and 2 were better than 3
Touhou Project. One of the biggest and most well known bullet hell series and it started off as an odd brick buster game where the main character has to physically kick an orb to break stuff while dodging bullets.
Ha! I played that Mario game when I was a child! On a Commodore 64! With a joystick! ...or was that one keyboard controlled, I forget... lol. But I do remember that for years afterwards, whenever I tried to describe it people would look at me like I was crazy and be like, "That's not a Mario game." So happy to see it here! :D
Elder Scrolls: Arena anyone?
SevCaswell guess we'll have to wait for part 2.