I was deeply involved in the game's development, and was even flown out to events to help present it. This video was like having all of my concerns during that time condensed into a single video. It elicited a ton of nostalgia, but also a somber melancholy; watching the team systematically get laid off was like watching a whole era of my life die. Thanks a ton for making this summary.
As a factory worker for 17 years I know the feeling of watching layoffs and being laid off all too well. It destroys your life if you're not prepared for it.
i don't really think so, the game will sell for 20 bucks and usually games like these require a LARGE fanbase to work, and people like when things are free, so i see another death unless marketing gets really good and attracts people to buy it
@hee_hee9964 they've got the support of gearbox abstraction games and Xbox. Xbox is keeping bleeding edge alive somehow, at least keeping the servers up. Gigantic isn't going anywhere this time. I'd pay hundreds of dollars to play this game again
@tigerfalco it is, some how. Thanks to gamepass. No updates, obviously. But I legit got into a match in avout 6 minutes last week. If Gigantic is coming to game pass we will be set!!!
sad i totally forgot about this game, just what was said in video wasn't this suppose to be out like 2015, either way it would of bombed anyways being on windows store and just xbox would still hurt it, PC players don't bother with window 10 store preferred choice is steam, and xbone might not had the audience
I think a cool fact that was left out was that at a certain point in the games development they ran out of money to actually pay their employees at all. Quite a few stayed and worked for free until they got the game to a point where they could actually have a wage again. Sucks to see the game go like this, and I can't even imagine how much this much suck for the devs that believed so much in their game.
LoL wasn't all that ambitious, was it? DotA was a simple mod to Warcraft and LoL was a simple game made in a similar way. They had to make original assets and all, but have you _seen_ orignal LoL? It didn't have nearly the polish or detail that Gigantic has. LoL is the story of a game with very satisfying gameplay that hooked people, and they used that success to polish it up later.
I really miss this game. The maps were enormous, and maybe the fighting felt a tiiiny bit flighty (I never played melee characters so I wouldn't know), but the movement! Gosh, the movement made you feel like an action movie hero.
This game is a masterpiece imo and the best thing hero shooters and MOBAs had to offer. When people talk about underrated games that never get the appreciation they deserve they never mention Gigantic.
Shit game? Toxic community? Are we even talking about gigantic anymore? Most dynamic combat system of any multiplayer game I've ever played. The discord and every pub game was full of shitposters and memelords it was an absolute blast and I'm sorry more people didnt enjoy it.
i've seen the hawk dude making the rounds on pinterest, i've always thought it was just some random character an illustrator made, not a character in a fully fledged game shame, it looks like something i would play at least a couple of times
theres few games that really hurts because i feel that they didnt anything wrong, gigantic is one of them. I played 20 hours of it and to be fair, it was a very good game, its graphics were cool, the gameplay was fun , the sound design and music was also great. Its sad to see projects dying like this
HTY - I wish Overwatch never came out, or at least that it came out later. Seems like it contributed to the deaths of so many promising franchises we'll never see again.
slvrcobra1337 if it was,t overwatch, it would be something else dominating entirely. Problem with multiplayer games is that there is only room in the market for certain amount of them
NineTailedLiligant - One of the reasons I always facepalm at the whole "all games gotta be multiplayer now" boardroom and shareholder groupthink. There's only so many people in any niche who will play multiplayer constantly, only so much of the time. It's a comparatively small pool. Meanwhile, making singleplayer games almost ensures an audience, because someone somewhere will pick it up - provided the makers don't fail marketing.
I feel bad for Motiga because they made a fantastic, unique game and no one really got a chance to experience it. Now everyone is hopping onto the BR genre and games like IronSight and Halo Online are around, being praised for being almost literal carbon copies of other games. Just goes to show that the world doesn't need another MOBA.
Not sure why you put Halo Online into that, it's basically a fan-made PC release of Halo 3. It's not "almost a carbon copy", it's literally Halo 3 cobbled together by fans of the game.
slvrcobra1337 I put it in because everyone was freaking out about it when 0.6 dropped, same with Ironsight, which is essentially Black Ops 2. That combined with everyone now trying to milk the cash cow that is Battle Royale, if I was a former Motiga employee, I'd be so upset at the gaming community for being obsessed with unoriginal ideas that my product got left to die.
Optimus Prime - Dude it's Halo 3, it had a massive fan base that's been begging to have it on PC for over a decade, then they got it for free and with added content, what did you expect lol? I also doubt IronSight is taking away that many players, but again people are hype about it because it's closer to old school CoD than CoD itself. But I agree on the BR games, I think they're doing more damage to the industry than anything else on the market by a long shot.
I mean, its not as original as you think. Combine league of legends, overwatch and smite and you got this game. The only original thing they had was the art syle and how boring it was to play due to the long af fights (since your ability did like no damage).
Everyone: So you died? Gigantic: Sadly, yes. But I lived! This game WAS my childhood. I get to play it again for the first time in 6 years oh my god I'm goingnto throw up
These are so much better than those “didn’t just die, it was murdered” videos, which are often repetitive and boring. Good job making interesting videos on the same subject.
Tehfiddlers You're talking about Cleanprincegaming right? He makes good videos, but I agree, and the title is over dramatic. "Death of a game" is a lot more in depth and detailed but I enjoy them both.
Come on guys don't be mean with Cleanprincegaming... He has a template, is the same for every video, he just changes the content. While this is boring in the long run, is the only way he could keep making so many videos as fast as he can. Nothing is perfect.
The death of Gigantic was pretty sad tbh. It had potential but was never given a chance to improve because of the costs involved. As you said, the money they made at launch was to replenish what was spent initially. They probably hardly made a profit and just did not have the funds/manpower to improve on the game. These guys basically signed a deal to two major publishers just so their game could see the light of day. The shutdown of Motiga and Gigantic is definitely a really sad story. Another good video!
They just now released a 2-day event where they booted the servers again for those days. Really hope its to gauge how well it would do if they would relaunch it. I hope they do.
As someone who got access to the game fall of 2014 and played it daily, streamed it, was a community coach and went to Gamescom, this video really sums up many of the things that I had been commenting on that eventually led to its death. I honestly believe that if they released the game at the end of 2015 on Steam and Windows 7, have founders packs, then make changes to the game (such as the power orb system), add an in-game store, more heroes, more levels and Windows 10 support it would have looked differently today. Gigantic is and will be my favourite multi-player game ever and will be VERY hard to beat. I truly hope that someone picks it up and gives it another chance when the time is right, if I could I would.
Such a cuuuute game. Loved every single one of the characters, the art... They all felt alive with their own personalities even while merely seeing them for brief 3 seconds. So sad. I cannot stand Mobas or such type of competitive games, as the communities push me away, however I'm sad to see the people's hard work go to waste. I'd love to play this if it was a normal MMO.. the art alone would make me buy it and pay a subscription.
I never played MOBA and Liked them . Trust me this game is far greater then those LOL and DOta 2 You know everytime my my teams's guardian shouts 'Ready for impact' i got chills cause of that it felt too amazing.
Very sad it died. While I'm not a big moba guy anymore, i could tell this was a game with alot of love put into it, and its never a good thing to see passion fail like that.
i never got to play evolve online but i played it offline for a bit and even though i didn't really know what i was doing i really liked it. sad that the devs marketed it horribly and the monetization behind it was just pure laziness. Glad i didn't end up spending any money on it. i just hope the new predator game will be successful even if by a little
Thanks for making this video. I actually played it at launch not knowing it was at launch lol. I actually enjoyed this game too. So sad to hear what happened behind the scenes :(
Ark lmao you sound like a COD player. How many games are all variations of ‘people in military gear shoot eachother in a brown landscape’ but sure, THIS one is generic.
Man i will tell you my story. I was scrolling videos in youtube and just had a flashback of his game i rememberd how much i loved it and how much i enjoed it so i went on a hunt to find the name of this game Gigantic in an 1h and half i found it and i must tell i nearly cryed but then i couldn't find it on steam so i found this video and realised the game is dead.Talk about a bad day i rlly want this game back.
I loved Gigantic SO MUCH, it was really special in a lot of way, I especially loved the character design and overall art style, and it was very fun to play.
I loved this game more than the rest of the other games I've played. And it's really sad to see it go. It's just one of the games that I felt that really stood out for me.
Oh man this game was a real gem. I got one of my friends to play it with me right before the game died and we had an absolute blast, after a few months we tried to play it again but nobody was on and I was heartbroken. I wanted more of my friends but what's the point now. It felt so epic running alongside my guardian as we attacked the other team's guardian as it became this huge brawl.
I literally only started playing this game because of its amazing art style and animations. I loved it and found it unique. After playing a while, I found myself logging in hours and hours of gameplay because it was fun. When it died, I felt so sad and couldn’t believe it. Hopefully, another publisher can relaunch it.
Please please please! Do a video on Paragon. If you need any references, I've played the game for two years. I can definitely tell you what happened. Because whilst the majority of it is Fortnites fault, there are a lot of other factors that went into it's demise
Yeah, I'm interested in a video about this as well. I played the game for a month or so but there was some gameplay/balancing stuff that needed to be worked out so i was gonna check back in later. Then I heard they were shutting down.
Paragon would be a very short video. "Epic dumped money into a game, had no plan or direction, and told their player base repeatedly they wouldn't take feedback, so no one put money into the game.' There's really nothing more behind it; They just showed they have no idea how to be a developer anymore, and decided to go the Zinga route.
Truly the most tragic death of any game, it had so much potential and outshined all its competitors in just being outright fun on top of that absolutely gorgeous with so much creativity
your channel and speaking skills in videos are improving quite a bit since your earlier days, keep up the good work! I enjoy your videos a lot now that you seem to have more confidence reading from your script.
As someone who has played Gigantic for over 300 hours, I have to say I intentionally didnt want to watch this video for quite a while. I remember seeing this game way back in 2014 and fell in love with it in a heartbeat! I waited so damn long and wondered where it was and why I heard nothing on it till last year when it came up on steam. When I finally got my hands on it? Ho ho boy did I fucking have a blast with the game. So many unique characters to play! All having such gorgeous designs! I gushed over this game with passionate love. I supported the game as much as I could with buying the founder pack for all the characters and occassionally buying in game currency for skins. I wanted this game to get popular, I wanted it to succeed... But I know it had its problems... huge ones like the optimization BS and constant texture glitches and models not loading or functioning correctly. The level up skill was so awesome in how you could build your character but often got in the way of fights when it would pop up and youd struggle to read and pick something fast enough. When I heard the news that Motiga was getting laid off and Gigantic was gonna shut down? I legit had tears come up, I couldnt bear losing such a wonderful game becasue it wasnt given the chance it deserved. I especially feel miffed because in my opinion I feel Gigantic was WAY ahead of its time in terms of Hero Shooters... if itd gotten the support and attention it deserved it could have easily competed with the likes of Overwatch and Paladins. But alas... the day passed long ago when Gigantic finally shut down... and now its lost to the winds of time Heres to you Motiga, thank you for the passion and love you put into making Gigantic... to the unique characters you brought to life and had a blast playing as like Charnok, Lord Knossos, Voden, Mozu, Rutger, HK-206, Xenobia, Vadasi, Uncle Sven, and to my main character I had the time of my life playing as Griselma. As she would put it "See you later alligator~"
Damn, this is my first vid and you sold me with your opening and kept impressing. Id hoped to see something like this for gigantic that wasnt just whining and you nailed it.
I just found this channel. The game was so beyond fun, it just felt like it never actually launched. I played so many many hours in the beta and then it just kind of...disappeared. I never realized it launched until it was already dead. I also remember for a really long time during the beta, people couldn’t even get in to the game because the account merger with Microsoft just didn’t work.
Seeing gameplay and reliving moments from my hundreds of hours in this masterpiece brings me sadness. I’ll never forget not being able to get a pentakill and getting angry at Imani and Tripp or making new friends through seeing them in matches one after another. I’ll always cherish the memories of getting the level 10 weapon for Charnok and rolling around as Pakko, tossing cards around as Oru and just having a blast messing with all the new characters as they released. This is my favorite game of all time and nothing really comes close in terms of memorability and how much I just miss playing it.
A year later and the game is still installed on my Xbox One. I refuse to uninstall for how great and fun of a game it was. I loved playing this so much and would kill just to play another match as my favorite character.
Gigantic, Nosgoth, Evolve, games I loved, games that outshine most of the garbage offered to us nowadays, and all gone with no hope of ever seeing the light of day again. I still feel, years later, the strong desire to play all three of these games very frequently. It's actually depressing thinking about how I will never be able to do so.
You don't understand how sad I am about its shutdown, It was my Multiplayer GOTY by far. I also believe its possibly the most consumer friendly F2P game out there. Its such a shame to see a great game like this and its developers not being rewarded :c
I blame Windows 10 primarily. Once that was mentioned it left my radar entirely because the impression was that Win10 was the ONLY available platform thanks to all the previous Win10 ports being exclusive to it.
M$ was a clear reason to why the game failed with how they push Win10 so hard. Yet when it comes to gaming as of late they're not thinking with profit in mind. You want a game anybody can play easily as long as they can run it should matter.
A lot of people saw the inherent issues with Win10 right out the gate and didn't upgrade. Windows 10 at the time had serious customization, compatibility and privacy concerns, had some abysmally optimized ports and a UI almost preferring touch screens. That's not something you want your games tied to.
@@angelknives2843 Yes, but god win10 back then was shit af. I got win10 in 2017 and it was incredibly horrible. All sorts of problems, blue screens, freezings, compability issues, you name it. It was not worth it to get all these problems just for one game, I really liked windows 10 despite the problems and sticked with it, however I know many people who simply couldnt stay cause of how shitty it was. Its like going on a flight 1st class and someone saying you got a ps1 console with a really meh game if you "upgrade" to sitting on your feet near a garbage bin. Not worth it at all
I loved this game the moment I jumped into my first match. Everything flowed so well. It mixed Paragon's strategic elements with the fluidity of a free roaming sandbox game, fast-paced action of a fighting game, and the ability system of a MOBA. I liked how attacks didn't absolutely gut you inside out. Kills had to be earned through resilience and long skirmishes. That made the game feel rewarding to win and feel immersive even when losing. Battles felt rigorous. In games like Overwatch where Doomfist can one-bang you from god knows which rooftop, it feels cheap and unsatisfying. I don't even need to explain why that's an issue in LoL. It's sad how Gigantic never got any recognition. It's a gaming masterpiece of this decade.
It's sad, because I fucking loved this game. Friends who no longer play games anymore had introduced me to it, and we played a shit ton because it was so fun and we had a lot of time with it. It hurt to see the queue times go longer and longer, and the dev stream become smaller and smaller. Kudos to the devs who stuck with it.
As someone who was heavily involved in the small competitive Gigantic scene, sure it had its problems, but I can say that I have never loved a game more than this one. It truly saddens me that this game did not get the proper exposure it deserved. I'll never forget the great memories created with friends, but I'll definitely miss the uniqueness and amazing mechanics of the characters most of all. RIP Gigantic
The year is 2023 and I still hope and pray that this game comes back for whatever reason! It was so much fun, the art style, the combat, the movement, even the cosmetics were cool, the characters! 😮💨 man I miss Gigantic
Played the beta on the xbox when it was first released, and it was alot of fun at first. However, all my friends and I could not continue playing after the first or second month because of the frustration caused by a single character, tripp. She was the only character in the game that could roll into a group, kill someone within 2 to 3 seconds and escape again without consequence on anything but the highest level of play. This took alot of skill to pull off, but was something we were seeing multiple times a night, and were events that tended to put our team at a major disadvantage during teamfights, putting us towards a spiral of defeat. I actually started tracking and almost every loss we had was one where the enemy team had a tripp on it, blowing up our backline and crumbling our pre made. She must have been eventually fixed as your video says that the fights tended to drag on too long, but those fights lasting 10 to 20 seconds, felt good to us. They rewarded thought out gameplay, skill, and teamwork even if they did tend to downplay twitch reactions other games tend to favor. This, along with the art style, interesting characters and solid gameplay felt fresh and fun to us while it lasted. Hearing the game is being shut down, even after more than a year of not playing it, is a bit sad to me as this game did have alot of promise. There are very few games that I played for only a very short period of time, yet have a lot of nostalgia for. I doubt majority of players stopped playing this just because of tripp, but that character didnt help them stay afloat for sure and stands out as a highlight of a great game ruined by a out of place character.
This game was so close to my heart. I was, and still am a founder. And I have no regrets, even if the game failed.. I adored this game. I still do. I wish there was some way to save it.. It's such a good game. It didn't deserve to fall through, with a whimper.. Not like this. House Devadra will live on.
I put around 250 hours into Gigantic and I'm very sad to see it go. I got as many friends into it as I could and talked it up to everyone. It hurts to see a project that was just bursting with passion and vibrancy die like this. And I can't even get a t-shirt to remember it by because they don't sell merch.
I really miss this game. It was very fun and the concept was really cool. The mechanics were also pretty interesting for the way the gameplay was. I really wish there was a chance it could come back in some way.
i remember beta testing this game a number of times, recorded some gameplay but never published it anywhere. it really is such a shame such a beautiful game with unique character designs never got a big enough audience. wish it got another chance
Such a shame to see this game go, I'd been following it since its announcement and was so happy playing it. In fact I'm gonna try and play it while I still can, and see this unfortunate period of time to a close
I was super stoked for this game when i was reading about it, it sounded chaotic and fun, and wherever i read about it seemed to imply that your guardian would be roaming around a big map, wreaking havoc and occasionally bumping into players or the enemy guardian for some epic moments. Instead everything was very scheduled and predictable. Idk that might be fine, but the game i thought i was going to play seemed so much more fun in my head than what I actually played.
Great analysis, you’re pretty much highlighting everything the community has been saying for months. Great job! Now to drown my sorrows in another Sven flash.
I was deeply involved in the game's development, and was even flown out to events to help present it. This video was like having all of my concerns during that time condensed into a single video. It elicited a ton of nostalgia, but also a somber melancholy; watching the team systematically get laid off was like watching a whole era of my life die. Thanks a ton for making this summary.
Pretty much
Thats really interesting! Didn't know you of all people were involved in it's development in that way.
Wow I'm genuinely sorry to hear about your game, it looks incredibly fun and I'm really sad I didn't hear about it before this video
As a factory worker for 17 years I know the feeling of watching layoffs and being laid off all too well. It destroys your life if you're not prepared for it.
Fredrik Knudsen did you help create the owl character? If thats the case: good job! He looks badass
Time to make either a "Rebirth of a game" or another "Death" for Gigantic
Guess what game is coming back to life soon lmao
i don't really think so, the game will sell for 20 bucks and usually games like these require a LARGE fanbase to work, and people like when things are free, so i see another death unless marketing gets really good and attracts people to buy it
@hee_hee9964 they've got the support of gearbox abstraction games and Xbox. Xbox is keeping bleeding edge alive somehow, at least keeping the servers up. Gigantic isn't going anywhere this time. I'd pay hundreds of dollars to play this game again
@@HeWhoSoars. yeah me too even if it was the price of a triple A i would still pay it, i just fear the game won't be alive anyomore
@@HeWhoSoars. Bleeding Edge is still going? why? Even the Devs said they were done working on the game
@tigerfalco it is, some how. Thanks to gamepass. No updates, obviously. But I legit got into a match in avout 6 minutes last week. If Gigantic is coming to game pass we will be set!!!
Gorgeous game, incredible animation. Maybe a publisher can pick it up and relaunch? Seems like so much lost potential and wasted, beautiful assets.
i fuckin hope so, id cut a finger off for that lmao
sad i totally forgot about this game, just what was said in video wasn't this suppose to be out like 2015, either way it would of bombed anyways being on windows store and just xbox would still hurt it, PC players don't bother with window 10 store preferred choice is steam, and xbone might not had the audience
They can turn things out and hopped the battleroyal theme train. I think it will work out for them.
Segata Jonshiro I hope it gets picked up and relaunched as well
I want a kickstarter.
Gigantic years later: “my death was. Greatly exaggerated.”
but alas...
Nah, it's dead again
I am so sad that this game could not get the audience that it needed. it had so much potential.....
ya i really liked this game, shame.
[KiG]Bredera Microsoft store.
Yea well "potential" alone doesnt pay the bills
Thanks Captain Obvious! Didn't know you went by Cedric these days
I think the fact it was on windows store didn't help, most gamers still play on Windows 7
you're not gonna believe this
I think a cool fact that was left out was that at a certain point in the games development they ran out of money to actually pay their employees at all. Quite a few stayed and worked for free until they got the game to a point where they could actually have a wage again. Sucks to see the game go like this, and I can't even imagine how much this much suck for the devs that believed so much in their game.
Some were literally sneaking into the building to work. Very sad to see it all shake out this way.
think project was just to ambitious for small company, yes you could say the same for riot with LoL, but they went for far simple style and play style
LoL wasn't all that ambitious, was it? DotA was a simple mod to Warcraft and LoL was a simple game made in a similar way. They had to make original assets and all, but have you _seen_ orignal LoL? It didn't have nearly the polish or detail that Gigantic has. LoL is the story of a game with very satisfying gameplay that hooked people, and they used that success to polish it up later.
BokkoThe Bunny that's not cool that's pathetic mismanagement of money.
god0fgames100 It might not be "cool", but it is still and interesting fact left out of the video.
who's in 2020 and still wants the game to be brought back
Here! I know the "Project Stamina" will make gigantic great again
@@tresvecesno7071 There is also "Bleeding Edge" and free to play game called "RaidLand", they both resemble Gigantic in some way
@@troodss OMG, thanks for sharing so value information. Please, have a nice day!
@@tresvecesno7071 No Problem
Troodons The Firelord bleeding edge don’t even compare to this
WE ARE SO BACK BABYYY
fantastic game that I'd gladly pay for again, I loved everything about this game.
Played the game for a week before it shut down and that made me really sad because I really enjoyed it
Check out project stamina
Its was low key boring
I fucking loved that game and definitely considered it to be in my top 5 at the time
Do you want to play it again?
I really miss this game. The maps were enormous, and maybe the fighting felt a tiiiny bit flighty (I never played melee characters so I wouldn't know), but the movement! Gosh, the movement made you feel like an action movie hero.
“The game is still playable”
YAY
“...until July 2018.”
Oh...
Rip
It's still playable 😁
@@sethandroo wait, really?
@@sethandroo go on
@@ber7967 there’s a discord “private” server that can play the game with each other through some sort of connection. Not 100% sure as I haven’t tried
This game is a masterpiece imo and the best thing hero shooters and MOBAs had to offer. When people talk about underrated games that never get the appreciation they deserve they never mention Gigantic.
Gravestone Videos mobile games lol
Gravestone Videos you must not have played very many games
Sailor it was a fucking shit game made worse by the toxic community. Good riddance.
god0fgames100 Toxic community? What? lol
Shit game? Toxic community? Are we even talking about gigantic anymore?
Most dynamic combat system of any multiplayer game I've ever played. The discord and every pub game was full of shitposters and memelords it was an absolute blast and I'm sorry more people didnt enjoy it.
i literally have never heard of Gigantic before, and I watch the gaming news like a hawk.
They were more known in moba circles and at conventions (they had a huge presence there). Otherwise I don't even know if they cross advertised lol
This is part of the reason it got shut down! Not enough reach
Same here. Huge online player, never even knew this existed until just now.
i've seen the hawk dude making the rounds on pinterest, i've always thought it was just some random character an illustrator made, not a character in a fully fledged game
shame, it looks like something i would play at least a couple of times
@Larry Bundy Jr Clearly you didn't, or you just watch videos but don't actually game alot. Gigantic was easy to find.
I played this once and enjoyed it- too bad it died :(
It died cuz you only played it once. This video is because of you.
Yeah, good job on letting the game die!
This guy killed gigantic. F this guy
NearlySeniorCitizen Yetagamer why did you let the game die?
I know- I KNOW and I feel HORRIBLE about! I was my fault- ALL OF IT!
You might have to make a new series called revival of a game if this one actually does come back
Its back so revival of a game when?
He hearted the comment theres a chance lol@@dsshocktrooper7523
WE FOUND THE ORACLE
theres few games that really hurts because i feel that they didnt anything wrong, gigantic is one of them. I played 20 hours of it and to be fair, it was a very good game, its graphics were cool, the gameplay was fun , the sound design and music was also great. Its sad to see projects dying like this
Releasing around the time Overwatch released didn't help.
HTY - I wish Overwatch never came out, or at least that it came out later. Seems like it contributed to the deaths of so many promising franchises we'll never see again.
slvrcobra1337 if it was,t overwatch, it would be something else dominating entirely. Problem with multiplayer games is that there is only room in the market for certain amount of them
at lease this game launched, i still pissed at EA cancelling an amazing moba/arts game that didnt' even leave the beta stage
NineTailedLiligant - One of the reasons I always facepalm at the whole "all games gotta be multiplayer now" boardroom and shareholder groupthink. There's only so many people in any niche who will play multiplayer constantly, only so much of the time. It's a comparatively small pool. Meanwhile, making singleplayer games almost ensures an audience, because someone somewhere will pick it up - provided the makers don't fail marketing.
Never heard of this game, but seeing this art and some gameplay makes me mad I didn’t, It looks really nice
Broo! Gigantic is back!
Go play it when it releases! :)
I literally never even heard of this game. It seems like something I would have loved. What a shame.
You can still download it on Steam and play it before its too late.
www.reddit.com/r/gigantic/comments/a1yk0m/discord_link_for_gigantic_private_server/ fans are making a private server if you're interested
Same
5 years late, but it's back.
LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES WE RIIIIIISE
I feel bad for Motiga because they made a fantastic, unique game and no one really got a chance to experience it. Now everyone is hopping onto the BR genre and games like IronSight and Halo Online are around, being praised for being almost literal carbon copies of other games.
Just goes to show that the world doesn't need another MOBA.
Not sure why you put Halo Online into that, it's basically a fan-made PC release of Halo 3. It's not "almost a carbon copy", it's literally Halo 3 cobbled together by fans of the game.
slvrcobra1337 I put it in because everyone was freaking out about it when 0.6 dropped, same with Ironsight, which is essentially Black Ops 2. That combined with everyone now trying to milk the cash cow that is Battle Royale, if I was a former Motiga employee, I'd be so upset at the gaming community for being obsessed with unoriginal ideas that my product got left to die.
Optimus Prime - Dude it's Halo 3, it had a massive fan base that's been begging to have it on PC for over a decade, then they got it for free and with added content, what did you expect lol?
I also doubt IronSight is taking away that many players, but again people are hype about it because it's closer to old school CoD than CoD itself.
But I agree on the BR games, I think they're doing more damage to the industry than anything else on the market by a long shot.
Optimus Prime at least not yet
I mean, its not as original as you think. Combine league of legends, overwatch and smite and you got this game. The only original thing they had was the art syle and how boring it was to play due to the long af fights (since your ability did like no damage).
Everyone: So you died?
Gigantic: Sadly, yes. But I lived!
This game WAS my childhood. I get to play it again for the first time in 6 years oh my god I'm goingnto throw up
I spend more hours in this game then League of Legends... That means *ALOT* and I already miss this game :'(
Cute pfp
Do you want to play it again
the queues were longer than an average league match lol
Well guess what? It lives again.
WE ARE BACK BABY!
SOFECH IS A AMAZING MAD LAD!
These are so much better than those “didn’t just die, it was murdered” videos, which are often repetitive and boring. Good job making interesting videos on the same subject.
Tehfiddlers You're talking about Cleanprincegaming right? He makes good videos, but I agree, and the title is over dramatic. "Death of a game" is a lot more in depth and detailed but I enjoy them both.
^good, really? all he does is says the same shit over and over again while using shitty clip from Family Guy.
Come on guys don't be mean with Cleanprincegaming... He has a template, is the same for every video, he just changes the content. While this is boring in the long run, is the only way he could keep making so many videos as fast as he can. Nothing is perfect.
personaglo Quality> quantity. You really need to re think your decision.
@@metaknightpl3912 not how youtube works "mostly" for alotta people now sadly.
Gigantic has gained new life we hold our breath for her to stay
The death of Gigantic was pretty sad tbh. It had potential but was never given a chance to improve because of the costs involved. As you said, the money they made at launch was to replenish what was spent initially. They probably hardly made a profit and just did not have the funds/manpower to improve on the game. These guys basically signed a deal to two major publishers just so their game could see the light of day. The shutdown of Motiga and Gigantic is definitely a really sad story.
Another good video!
Can't believe its coming back after nearly a decade since its initial announcement.
I've never been so happy for necromancy.
Motiga was my home for nearly 2 years. Gigantic will always hold a place close to my heart. Thank you for making this video.
I miss this game so damn much, it deserved so much better.
They just now released a 2-day event where they booted the servers again for those days. Really hope its to gauge how well it would do if they would relaunch it. I hope they do.
Same here!
Looks like it was!
@DI0NY5US they have and I am BEYOND excited! I have been reading every single comment on the official trailer since it launched!
They're coming back
oh we’re so back bby
As someone who got access to the game fall of 2014 and played it daily, streamed it, was a community coach and went to Gamescom, this video really sums up many of the things that I had been commenting on that eventually led to its death. I honestly believe that if they released the game at the end of 2015 on Steam and Windows 7, have founders packs, then make changes to the game (such as the power orb system), add an in-game store, more heroes, more levels and Windows 10 support it would have looked differently today. Gigantic is and will be my favourite multi-player game ever and will be VERY hard to beat. I truly hope that someone picks it up and gives it another chance when the time is right, if I could I would.
5 years later. Gigantic: Rampage edition relaunching, and the trailer has like 500k views
Revisting this video as I was reminiscent of it lately. Was such a good game, man.
Really enjoying the upgrade to the voice and visual effects you have blessed us with your work is awesome.
I’m happy to see you all here
Such a cuuuute game. Loved every single one of the characters, the art... They all felt alive with their own personalities even while merely seeing them for brief 3 seconds. So sad.
I cannot stand Mobas or such type of competitive games, as the communities push me away, however I'm sad to see the people's hard work go to waste. I'd love to play this if it was a normal MMO.. the art alone would make me buy it and pay a subscription.
I'm the same way. I don't like competitive pvp based games. Had it been a normal MMO I would have given it a shot.
I like MOBAs and MMOs but I play MOBAs in casual mode with friends so that was I stay away from the toxic fan base.
Look at the bright side - ALL professionals who worked on this game (including art team) got money for their hard work.
I never played MOBA and Liked them . Trust me this game is far greater then those LOL and DOta 2
You know everytime my my teams's guardian shouts 'Ready for impact' i got chills cause of that it felt too amazing.
Vireo this game had a toxic af community tho.
Very sad it died. While I'm not a big moba guy anymore, i could tell this was a game with alot of love put into it, and its never a good thing to see passion fail like that.
I loved the video, btw I'm not sure if you have it planned, but I think Death of a game: Evolve could turn out to be a really interesting episode
Evolve, died on release xD
Evolve was such a amazing game too. It deserves so much Bette tbh
Evolve's problem is its cowardice and greed. Instead of generously giving the fans what they want, they force monetization.
i never got to play evolve online but i played it offline for a bit and even though i didn't really know what i was doing i really liked it. sad that the devs marketed it horribly and the monetization behind it was just pure laziness. Glad i didn't end up spending any money on it. i just hope the new predator game will be successful even if by a little
Thanks for making this video. I actually played it at launch not knowing it was at launch lol. I actually enjoyed this game too. So sad to hear what happened behind the scenes :(
It`s sad when a truly unique, fabulous game flops while garbage like the annual COD`s keep selling the same gaem year after year.
Jose Echevarria or fifa. Or madden.
It's about marketings and decision making. This game Dev lacked both and didn't have clear direction of where to go from there
"Unique"
In what world is a generic cartoony hero shooter moba "unique"? It's literally the most unoriginal thing someone can come up with.
Ark lmao you sound like a COD player. How many games are all variations of ‘people in military gear shoot eachother in a brown landscape’ but sure, THIS one is generic.
Man i will tell you my story. I was scrolling videos in youtube and just had a flashback of his game i rememberd how much i loved it and how much i enjoed it so i went on a hunt to find the name of this game Gigantic in an 1h and half i found it and i must tell i nearly cryed but then i couldn't find it on steam so i found this video and realised the game is dead.Talk about a bad day i rlly want this game back.
I loved Gigantic SO MUCH, it was really special in a lot of way, I especially loved the character design and overall art style, and it was very fun to play.
I loved this game more than the rest of the other games I've played. And it's really sad to see it go.
It's just one of the games that I felt that really stood out for me.
How many Veteran players watching this?
Its Warpriest .... TornApathy here... it hurt to watch, so sad it see it go! :(
*raises hand*
no one
Present
I wish there was a way to revive. So many good memories
Time for a new video, Revival of a Game: Gigantic: Rampage Edition
Oh man this game was a real gem. I got one of my friends to play it with me right before the game died and we had an absolute blast, after a few months we tried to play it again but nobody was on and I was heartbroken. I wanted more of my friends but what's the point now. It felt so epic running alongside my guardian as we attacked the other team's guardian as it became this huge brawl.
I literally only started playing this game because of its amazing art style and animations. I loved it and found it unique. After playing a while, I found myself logging in hours and hours of gameplay because it was fun. When it died, I felt so sad and couldn’t believe it. Hopefully, another publisher can relaunch it.
Please please please! Do a video on Paragon. If you need any references, I've played the game for two years. I can definitely tell you what happened. Because whilst the majority of it is Fortnites fault, there are a lot of other factors that went into it's demise
Yeah, I'm interested in a video about this as well. I played the game for a month or so but there was some gameplay/balancing stuff that needed to be worked out so i was gonna check back in later. Then I heard they were shutting down.
T3HM4N244 Just google it, lol? There’s barely any reason for a video when you can read a sentence to know why it died.
BirdieTheMofo there's also a really good video by Gamespot, but I would also like Nerd to cover it, too.
Paragon would be a very short video. "Epic dumped money into a game, had no plan or direction, and told their player base repeatedly they wouldn't take feedback, so no one put money into the game.' There's really nothing more behind it; They just showed they have no idea how to be a developer anymore, and decided to go the Zinga route.
"A majority of it is Fortnites fault"
You could not have been more wrong
Truly the most tragic death of any game, it had so much potential and outshined all its competitors in just being outright fun on top of that absolutely gorgeous with so much creativity
your channel and speaking skills in videos are improving quite a bit since your earlier days, keep up the good work! I enjoy your videos a lot now that you seem to have more confidence reading from your script.
I saw an ad for this game, got super hyped, forgot about it, remembered it three minutes ago, and here I am.
Gigantic: Rampage Edition
As someone who has played Gigantic for over 300 hours, I have to say I intentionally didnt want to watch this video for quite a while. I remember seeing this game way back in 2014 and fell in love with it in a heartbeat! I waited so damn long and wondered where it was and why I heard nothing on it till last year when it came up on steam.
When I finally got my hands on it? Ho ho boy did I fucking have a blast with the game. So many unique characters to play! All having such gorgeous designs! I gushed over this game with passionate love. I supported the game as much as I could with buying the founder pack for all the characters and occassionally buying in game currency for skins. I wanted this game to get popular, I wanted it to succeed...
But I know it had its problems... huge ones like the optimization BS and constant texture glitches and models not loading or functioning correctly. The level up skill was so awesome in how you could build your character but often got in the way of fights when it would pop up and youd struggle to read and pick something fast enough.
When I heard the news that Motiga was getting laid off and Gigantic was gonna shut down? I legit had tears come up, I couldnt bear losing such a wonderful game becasue it wasnt given the chance it deserved. I especially feel miffed because in my opinion I feel Gigantic was WAY ahead of its time in terms of Hero Shooters... if itd gotten the support and attention it deserved it could have easily competed with the likes of Overwatch and Paladins.
But alas... the day passed long ago when Gigantic finally shut down... and now its lost to the winds of time
Heres to you Motiga, thank you for the passion and love you put into making Gigantic... to the unique characters you brought to life and had a blast playing as like Charnok, Lord Knossos, Voden, Mozu, Rutger, HK-206, Xenobia, Vadasi, Uncle Sven, and to my main character I had the time of my life playing as Griselma. As she would put it "See you later alligator~"
Damn, this is my first vid and you sold me with your opening and kept impressing. Id hoped to see something like this for gigantic that wasnt just whining and you nailed it.
I just found this channel.
The game was so beyond fun, it just felt like it never actually launched. I played so many many hours in the beta and then it just kind of...disappeared. I never realized it launched until it was already dead. I also remember for a really long time during the beta, people couldn’t even get in to the game because the account merger with Microsoft just didn’t work.
Beautiful game, I love the artstyle and animations. I've never played this game before and I'm sad that I didn't able to try this.
IT'S NOT DEAD ANYMORE
I never gave up hope
I miss this game dearly. I even played one of the final games before the servers went down. RIP
Seeing gameplay and reliving moments from my hundreds of hours in this masterpiece brings me sadness. I’ll never forget not being able to get a pentakill and getting angry at Imani and Tripp or making new friends through seeing them in matches one after another. I’ll always cherish the memories of getting the level 10 weapon for Charnok and rolling around as Pakko, tossing cards around as Oru and just having a blast messing with all the new characters as they released. This is my favorite game of all time and nothing really comes close in terms of memorability and how much I just miss playing it.
I loved this game. Played it since launch extensively. My heart goes to the devs of Motiga, for their passion and dedication to the project.
After watching many of these I've learned something: If you are western developer, be very, VERY wary of teaming up with a Korean Publisher.
A year later and the game is still installed on my Xbox One. I refuse to uninstall for how great and fun of a game it was. I loved playing this so much and would kill just to play another match as my favorite character.
Gigantic, Nosgoth, Evolve, games I loved, games that outshine most of the garbage offered to us nowadays, and all gone with no hope of ever seeing the light of day again. I still feel, years later, the strong desire to play all three of these games very frequently. It's actually depressing thinking about how I will never be able to do so.
Every now & then I miss this game & have the urge to play it. I was an early supporter & it was one of the first times I did that.
You don't understand how sad I am about its shutdown, It was my Multiplayer GOTY by far. I also believe its possibly the most consumer friendly F2P game out there. Its such a shame to see a great game like this and its developers not being rewarded :c
Gigantic is coming back, apparently 🥹
I blame Windows 10 primarily. Once that was mentioned it left my radar entirely because the impression was that Win10 was the ONLY available platform thanks to all the previous Win10 ports being exclusive to it.
M$ was a clear reason to why the game failed with how they push Win10 so hard. Yet when it comes to gaming as of late they're not thinking with profit in mind. You want a game anybody can play easily as long as they can run it should matter.
Didn't everybody get a free upgrade to Win10?
A lot of people saw the inherent issues with Win10 right out the gate and didn't upgrade. Windows 10 at the time had serious customization, compatibility and privacy concerns, had some abysmally optimized ports and a UI almost preferring touch screens. That's not something you want your games tied to.
@@angelknives2843 Yes, but god win10 back then was shit af. I got win10 in 2017 and it was incredibly horrible. All sorts of problems, blue screens, freezings, compability issues, you name it. It was not worth it to get all these problems just for one game, I really liked windows 10 despite the problems and sticked with it, however I know many people who simply couldnt stay cause of how shitty it was.
Its like going on a flight 1st class and someone saying you got a ps1 console with a really meh game if you "upgrade" to sitting on your feet near a garbage bin. Not worth it at all
WE DIED AND SURVIVED GIGANTIC IS ALIVE
I loved this game the moment I jumped into my first match. Everything flowed so well. It mixed Paragon's strategic elements with the fluidity of a free roaming sandbox game, fast-paced action of a fighting game, and the ability system of a MOBA. I liked how attacks didn't absolutely gut you inside out. Kills had to be earned through resilience and long skirmishes. That made the game feel rewarding to win and feel immersive even when losing. Battles felt rigorous. In games like Overwatch where Doomfist can one-bang you from god knows which rooftop, it feels cheap and unsatisfying. I don't even need to explain why that's an issue in LoL.
It's sad how Gigantic never got any recognition. It's a gaming masterpiece of this decade.
It's sad, because I fucking loved this game. Friends who no longer play games anymore had introduced me to it, and we played a shit ton because it was so fun and we had a lot of time with it. It hurt to see the queue times go longer and longer, and the dev stream become smaller and smaller. Kudos to the devs who stuck with it.
I honestly never knew it existed until all the videos and posts of it having died came out.
As someone who was heavily involved in the small competitive Gigantic scene, sure it had its problems, but I can say that I have never loved a game more than this one. It truly saddens me that this game did not get the proper exposure it deserved. I'll never forget the great memories created with friends, but I'll definitely miss the uniqueness and amazing mechanics of the characters most of all. RIP Gigantic
BACK FROM THE DEAD
I loved the game so much, it made me so sad to see it go like this
There’s a project going on called project stamina to basically make a replica of this game.
The year is 2023 and I still hope and pray that this game comes back for whatever reason! It was so much fun, the art style, the combat, the movement, even the cosmetics were cool, the characters! 😮💨 man I miss Gigantic
It's back! Look up Gigantic Rampage Edition.
@@Hydrogue I ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR THE BETA! 😄😄😄😄
Appreciate your great presentation my friend. Always continue to increase your production value.
This game had so much potential. RIP gigantic
Played the beta on the xbox when it was first released, and it was alot of fun at first. However, all my friends and I could not continue playing after the first or second month because of the frustration caused by a single character, tripp. She was the only character in the game that could roll into a group, kill someone within 2 to 3 seconds and escape again without consequence on anything but the highest level of play. This took alot of skill to pull off, but was something we were seeing multiple times a night, and were events that tended to put our team at a major disadvantage during teamfights, putting us towards a spiral of defeat. I actually started tracking and almost every loss we had was one where the enemy team had a tripp on it, blowing up our backline and crumbling our pre made. She must have been eventually fixed as your video says that the fights tended to drag on too long, but those fights lasting 10 to 20 seconds, felt good to us. They rewarded thought out gameplay, skill, and teamwork even if they did tend to downplay twitch reactions other games tend to favor. This, along with the art style, interesting characters and solid gameplay felt fresh and fun to us while it lasted. Hearing the game is being shut down, even after more than a year of not playing it, is a bit sad to me as this game did have alot of promise. There are very few games that I played for only a very short period of time, yet have a lot of nostalgia for. I doubt majority of players stopped playing this just because of tripp, but that character didnt help them stay afloat for sure and stands out as a highlight of a great game ruined by a out of place character.
This game was so close to my heart. I was, and still am a founder. And I have no regrets, even if the game failed.. I adored this game. I still do. I wish there was some way to save it.. It's such a good game. It didn't deserve to fall through, with a whimper.. Not like this. House Devadra will live on.
I put around 250 hours into Gigantic and I'm very sad to see it go. I got as many friends into it as I could and talked it up to everyone. It hurts to see a project that was just bursting with passion and vibrancy die like this.
And I can't even get a t-shirt to remember it by because they don't sell merch.
Its coming back now I pray for Spellbreak
Something this creative and fun can’t survive, yet fifa and madden pump out the same games every year AND has a loyal player base
please bring this back!
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this was a great video. you sir just got a new sub
WE ARE SO BACK
I really miss this game. It was very fun and the concept was really cool. The mechanics were also pretty interesting for the way the gameplay was. I really wish there was a chance it could come back in some way.
Sad, there was so much potential for this. I hope we see a resurrection of this concept sometime.
i remember beta testing this game a number of times, recorded some gameplay but never published it anywhere.
it really is such a shame such a beautiful game with unique character designs never got a big enough audience. wish it got another chance
Gigantic was one of the best games I ever played. So glad I got to enjoy it as an alpha/beta tester. Thank you Motiga.
Such a shame to see this game go, I'd been following it since its announcement and was so happy playing it. In fact I'm gonna try and play it while I still can, and see this unfortunate period of time to a close
Its back my friends
I was super stoked for this game when i was reading about it, it sounded chaotic and fun, and wherever i read about it seemed to imply that your guardian would be roaming around a big map, wreaking havoc and occasionally bumping into players or the enemy guardian for some epic moments. Instead everything was very scheduled and predictable. Idk that might be fine, but the game i thought i was going to play seemed so much more fun in my head than what I actually played.
Came here to reminisce. I miss this game.
Same
The game is coming back
Correction, it is back @@dsshocktrooper7523
WE BACK
Didn’t think i would see anyone covering this game. Nice video
No one is talking about your intro?
Its beautiful
Great analysis, you’re pretty much highlighting everything the community has been saying for months. Great job! Now to drown my sorrows in another Sven flash.