Yeah seriously we shouldn’t be praising companies for releasing broken games then coming back later to finish the job. This only incentivizes this behavior.
@@Lawrence_TalbotThey took major hits to their reputations before Cyberpunk everyone had unwavering faith in CD project red. Now? Not so much. Reputation in the gaming space affects your preorders, hype, and early sales. It’s not like they’re getting off Scott free. Most of these game/companies would of made significantly more money with no cost to their reputation if they’d released full quality
@@Lawrence_TalbotI don’t think it’s praise. I think it’s just posted f you lost your money, at least the game is fixed and can get some of your value back. Praise isn’t going to stop the problem. The consumer has to by avoiding pre orders and watch reviews before buying. Stop buying them first is the only way
I hate how we live in a time during gaming where we praise companies for fixing games that were absolute crap at launch whether being buggy messes or missing so much content...
Whether it’s how it should be or not if I had to choose I’d rather a company that will continue to fix it no matter what rather than put out slop, let it flop and then give up on it. A lot more respect for the dedicated than the quitters. I do feel like we underestimate how dead gaming would be right now if every developer gave up on a game that wasn’t enjoyable for the players or didn’t make them enough money.
Why do game companies get a hall pass for defrauding thousands of consumers for millions of dollars? Because of gamers saying stuff like "at least they fixed it and now there's one more good game in the world".
Especially way after their original release date. And then they just get to a point where they're abandoned completely after being "fixed" into a playable experience.
@@lobaandrade7172 About a month or two ago, I re-download it and put maybe 10 hours into it. They definitely improved the stability and added great QOL features, but it still doesn't feel like a battlefield game to me. I hate the setting, the maps, the operators and I REALLY hate swapping attachments on the fly. I understand that it is necessary to try implementing new things into the franchise, but 2042 just doesn't feel like a Battlefield game to me.
I also want to point out one thing you didn't mention for Dying Light 2. TechLand also changed and altered entire cutscenes, I can't think of many games that have done that. Remember all those times that Aiden gets sucker punch in a cutscene? They change some of those scenes entirely.
When Dyling 2 came out it was filled with bugs and while usually I’d count a game out for that (BF 2042 had just came out) I had faith that techland would fix and improve the game overall
@@14mgodno. They lied about the story, which was half finished, they removed a bunch of things from the first game like guns, thrown weapons etc, and it was one of the buggiest games on launch. They cut everything made by Chris Avellone because of false sa allegations which was mostly story and choice based, and they lied about crossgen coop. Techland can gladly die.
That's true, I can't actually think of *any* other games that significantly changed story cutscenes through a post-release patch. That's serious commitment to your game.
Everytime I return to BF2042 after an update I still came away disappointed. I think my hope for the series has finally died. BF4 and Bad Company 2 were some of my favorite multiplayer shooters. Heartbreaking
I like bf2042 I waited until 2023 to play it and I had a lot of fun. Some maps were annoying, but I thought it was pretty good. Inexcusable launch state, but playing it on game pass I had a good time.
Another great comeback is State of Decay 2. I have over 1,000 hours in it, and played since launch in 2018. The launch version was fun for me, but I get why people were saying the things they were saying. Undead Labs buckled down and has been overhauling the game little by little every update. They even did a visual remaster where things looked a ton better, played better, and added new maps. Along with dlc which were included in this visual overhaul. In 2024 they’ve finally wound down support so the entire team can work on SoD3. My favorite comeback.
The biggest issue is every update broke the prior update or never fixed it to begin with. I dont know how many times the release notes said "fixed blah blah" and within ten minutes i saw every "fix" still there broken. Last i layed they at least got the bloaters to stop spawningn in bases and on rooftops at least. I see the latest update you can drop rucks into outpost. That being said i have 1500 hours on it as well and would have never done so without the community editor. Had to use it for the longest time gifting myself back repair kits. You basically had a 60/50 chance of repairing a vehicle and it either worked or exploded and threw the vehicle across the map.
I also don’t really appreciate how every single game is chronically played on controller as well. Like, don’t get me wrong, it feels good to sit back and play games on a controller where it’s warranted and it fits the game (Spider-Man and the Star Wars games are good examples). But FPS games in general shouldn’t be using controllers and the review footage all has the same floaty and crazy low sensitivity look to them. Literally the only game on this list that doesn’t use controller is a 4X game that doesn’t support it
But it can't be truly fixed without a major overhaul of the main quest line. The pacing in particular sucks and it's missing the awesome set pieces that CDPR demonstrated they are capable of making when they finally released the DLC. It's as if they cut out random chunks of it and hastily tied together what's left. There's even a major questline that starts after the point where you're supposed to enter the point of no return. The latter isn't even in a task that can be delayed in a narratively justifiable way since it should be a quick and risk-free event.
finally someone who knows why techland initially excluded guns from dying light 2, bc it broke dying light's difficulty curve back in the original, kind of hard to keep a good difficulty curve when the players have a shotgun that deals 400+ damage a shot (damage is not exaggerated, there were shotguns that dealt that much damage)
I know that Battlefield 2042 got TECHNICALLY fixed but the game still lacks a soul in the most obvious ways. The game never achieved its full potential because EA/Dice never really gave a F to it anyway. Let’s not even talk about Battlefield Portal which could’ve been their biggest redeeming point that they never acted on it
I agree about it not reaching its true potential, but idk what you’re talking about with the soul. If you watch or listen to anything the dev team has put out you’d see the love they have for the franchise and for 2042. And imo it’s more fun than the previous game
I don't even remember hearing of 2042 coming out. I've considered getting it still a few times but something just looks off about it too. I wish Dice understood they should release a new improved one. I wish Call of Duty would slow down and not release one every year.
I love that Outriders made it in here! It was rough in the beginning. But I´m still playing it (on the grind) and I just love the whole power-fantasy vibe once you understand how to make your build work.
@@Jackfromshackyes but (from the last time I played) their is no game chat for that. They probably fixed it with that last update but god it was hell when you couldn't use discord on a console
Dying light 2 should get an award for the degree of effort they put in . I didn’t like it at all in the beginning and now it’s one of my favorite games! I’m so glad I gave it another chance after I seen all the updating they were doing
No I will never play Fallout 76. Not because it was a bad game at release but because of Bethesdas greed. Even bricking older games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 with out of the blue patches to break your Nexus Mods and force you to BUY your mods all over again through their store. Luckily I was able to turn off forced steam updates to the game and now I just run the game from the Vortex launcher problem free. I am currently done buying any more Bethesda games at the moment. They didn't stop with fallout 76, they continued their BS in Starfield. Honestly at this point I can no longer justify buying their games. It just DOESN"T work.
And how does ‘76 still look so much worse than Fallout 4? The lighting is worse, the colour palette is more dull and the small-scale scene composition is so ugly. Being made after 4 and having had all of these patches that’s an achievement in itself😁
The Darktide segment is a bit lacking. They've also added a few new maps. A few new bosses. They've redone the Penance system. Which has a ton of cosmetic rewards and titles behind it. They've added a lot more than the video lets on. Makes me wonder if the last time gameranx looked at Darktide was back in October.
5:24 As a massive hater on Fallout 76 at launch I can confidently say that in its current state May/14th/2024 This is easily my favorite game right now! This game has easily obliterated all previous Fallout titles by far for me. Obviously New Vegas, FO3, and FO4 have good memories and nice aspects, but what they have achieved with 76 definitely surpasses the original vision and I am MASSIVELY ADDICTED! If your sleeping on this title, your doing yourself a diss-service!
@trk1b28varianrhesa4 okay, remember 3 years ago when you could buy a game that wasn't unfinished garbage? It's not because games were more simple it was because game makers were passionate not in it for monetary reasons
Seriously, if you go to broken games that have been updated from unplayable insult to mediocre garbage, you prove every dirty practice and every shady company decision and every cynical CEO right.
14:33 "If you gotta give it to Ubisoft for anything, it's that they generally don't abandon their games" Rainbow Six Extraction would like a word with you.
Dark tide is a big disappointment, they’ve neglected features like solo play that were promised at launch and instead release weekly updates to their cosmetic shop
What list is this? The Outer Worlds, that special edition, is somehow worse than the original, but "it's playable now"? How? How can you put it on a list of "FIXED" (because you like to use all caps) games, when you literally said it's worse than the original? I cannot understand that.
Hey guys at Gameranx! I love your vidoes And I appreciate the work that you do! Great work as usual. with that said, you should make a video just like this but opposit, 10 games that got ruined over time looking at you Destiny 2.....
Maaaaan I absolutely loved Outriders. Fantastic story, good progression, the looter shooter esque skill tree and builds. All of it was really enjoyable. I just could never get anyone to play with me.
Just watched this video and now i want to buy Outriders! It looks fantastic fun. He said you can play on your own. Does it have a full single player campaign/story?
@@hazy33 if you haven't bought and played it yet. yes it has full single player campaign story. a very fluid difficulty system and me and my SO enjoyed playing it a lot. the story is great and reading about the world is interesting. ohh and the small expansion he mentions (world slayer) doesnt feel small, it takes a good number of hours and the ending after completing the end game stuff leaves you wanting a sequel. great game, can only recommend!
@@hazy33 its not part of the main game, so you would need to buy the complete edition, or the main game and then the dlc afterwards. depending if the game looks good to you, you could wait buying the dlc, as it takes place after main game has been completed anyway. but on steam you save 5$ buying the complete edition instead of them separate so there is that.
@@TheMegaSmashGamer thanks. I've been thinking about this way more than I really should but I think I'll wait for an online sale 🙂 I've far too many games to play as it is.
People are still upset DICE got pulled from Battlefront II/III for Battlefield. And yeah, they’re right to be upset. We had a good thing going with Battlefront 2.
I was afraid the whole video that cyberpunk or no mans sky would be #1 since they're always talked about and the obvious answer. But I was pleasantly surprised to see they were just mentioned at the end 😂 thank you, gameranx
I have to defend the OuterWorlds remaster though. We are literally told what to do in the name: "Spacer's Choice Edition". Anyone who played this knows, "it's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice."
i finished it recently and it played without issue on the hardware i have. i actually really enjoyed the gameplay and story for the most part and thought it looked really good. tbf many devs have issues with pc ports for some reason and im not a dev so i dont know the reasons for that. my comment is more of an observation than a criticism in that regard.
00:02 Dying Light Two received significant improvements post-launch 02:01 Sea of Thieves significantly improved over the years 04:13 Game received a major class overhaul patch 06:17 Game improvements and fixes have made gameplay smoother and more enjoyable. 08:32 Game improvements through updates and remasters. 11:04 Games like Imperator: Rome and Outriders have been fixed and improved. 13:40 Ghost Recon Breakpoint has improved despite initial issues 16:13 Halo Infinite has improved with new content and game modes. 18:27 Several games have improved over the years.
Homefront Revolution can be on this list. It gets a lot of hate because the launch was bad. But I played it a year or so after launch and by that point it was a decent game. I'm surprised cyberpunk, no man's sky, and battlefront 2 are not on the list. So many games out there released unfinished
Props for going for the roads less traveled in this list instead of the usual games everyone talks about. Like the ones mentioned at the end, Cyberpunk and NMS.
sad to say i actually put so much time into it before the updates. i played a bit of 2.0, got started with Phantom Liberty and completely fell off. love the new gameplay stuff though, they finally made doing anything fun.
I've had a blast playing Fallout 76! I tried it when it was released and was incredibly disappointed, but these past few weeks have had me and some friends all playing almost daily. Quite the turnaround.
SoT only has plans to make more $25 ship skins with $15 add ons for those skins for the nicer items. And they want the game to play like a cracked game of rust.
The biggest issue with Halo Infinite MP was desync. It's way better now, but for the 1st year or two everyone was having connection issues, and it was borderline impossible to play 5 games without being DC'd at least once.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is an absolutely beautiful looking game, the open world is impressive, and the combat is relatively fun. However, it's just so life-less or soul-less. The Division games are so much more captivating.
Gaming isn’t gaming anymore. You can’t own game you buy. Companies rushing games out that are not complete.Needing to have accounts for certain games to play in with you are most likely to get hacked. Paying extra just to have an edge in something competitive. Every game is a “jiggle keys” that to get what you pay more and it isn’t even worth playing. I do feel bad for the newer generations of players having to play in a time where companies are in so greed that they will never understand what it means to have an actual game. Don’t get me wrong there are some games that did get love and took time to make it right but that rare now. I’m rooting for the small gaming companies/community to show and have the bigger companies understand the importance of making a game.
The best thing with the Ghost Recon Breakpoint upgrades, is that they were all optional. Smart move, because there were people who preferred to play it as Breakpoint instead of Wildlands. New controls etc. were also optional. UBI made sure they pleased both groups of players. UBI even added new difficulty options, so even casuals could play it basically in God Mode. Other developers would have removed the old system and replaced. Kudos to UBI for making it all optional. There is long lists of settings in this game...
2:04 Is it though? I'm not sure they've changed the parkour at all since launch and they made a lot of the new zombies just 1 shot machines. It also has had a lot of unsolved glitches, some being game breaking.
They have, they made it more “physical” idk how else to describe it, basically your character has more weight when he jumps and momentum plays a bigger role. Also some moves were given new animations (like the far jump skill)
I do believe we, as gamers, have to talk more about how games become after launch.. we still pre-order(for those who dare) games and expect them to be amazing.. if its not, we love to pull them down to the ground. Jet we never look back and see what it has become over time.. good job on this list🤘🏾
These hardworking developers deserve all the money and respect in the world for delivering entertaining and complete games. Nowadays its early access inside of early access with INCONSISTENT updates. where have the times gone?
To be fair Outriders was great at initial release. It was net code changes an balancing in the first major pass that essentially ruined the game. The security software had a bug where it did a capture of your character before your save state and if the capture glitched it could result in your characters gear being gone. They tried for months to fix it and finally figured out a way to mostly restore people gear. But by that point the damage was done. A bunch of balance passes later the game ended up in a better place. The biggest issue was still the lack of content. There was very little reason to continue playing after a point. The game didn't really have an end game loop that made continued grinding for better stat weapons make any sense. No horde mode, no boss run mode, just time trails.
The problem with "fixing" the night in DL2, and honestly the reason the nights aren't scary, is because they force you to go out in the dark so often in the early game. In DL1 you could play the vast majority of the game only in the day time. If you force me to go out it, it can't be as scary.
Jedi Survivor is another example. While it wasn't completely broken and unplayable at the start, it had serious optimization issues and technical matters that put a lot of people off the game, far more than even the previous game, Fallen Order. Now, the game runs much better with far less hiccups and even some much needed options that weren't originally present back at launch.
Dying Light 2 also completely changed the way the enemies look. They now look far more realistic rather than the bland cartoonish look that they had at launch. This was huge for me as they are always rift in your face throughout the entire game. More companies should follow suit rather than just giving up once people hate the game.
I never thought there'd be the day Imperator Rome would people say "it wasn't so bad", a game I loved even I thought the mana system (it even got removed) was rough, and it needed a lot of quality of life updates.
Correction with dying light 2. It was completely broken at release, and I was playing on console. I couldn't even finish completing the game it was so broken. It pissed me off how much of my time it wasted that I never went back to the game and never will...
Don't forget that in Dying Light 2 they also improved the gore system quite a bit and while it's not on the same level as Dead Island 2 it's still way better than what it was before.
Halo Infinite still has a strong enough player base so you never really need to worry about finding a game. Considering crossplay across Steam, other PC launchers and Xbox, it's probably in the 10-15K range daily. The game is great if you haven't tried it yet.
TOW: Spacer's Choice got rid of the level cap on players and weapons. The biggest issue was the fact that you couldn't transfer a save from the original game so you could pick up where you left off, and that made things kinda suck for those of us who had pretty much 100%ed the original game. Redoing those achievements was a turn off.
I've put 100+ hours into Fallout 76 in the past month or two. It's VASTLY improved. Honestly really liking it. Couldn't get more than 2 hours in at launch.
Here's one of my favorites. Nintendo spent several updates cracking down in glitches for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom while there was a known dangerous bug left in for months. If you put all the icons onto the map the game would bug out and start have graphical glitches that resulted in dangerous flashing lights that could easily harm someone sensitive to such things and cause seizures. But they prioritized removing enjoyable glitches FROM A SINGLE PLAYER GAME.
I quite enjoyed Breakpoint when I played it for the first time a few months ago, never played it at launch but the fixes seem good from what I've heard and read of the state of it at launch. I want to go through Wildlands too at some point.
Halo Infinite being abandoned is insane. The game was sold as a platform for the next 10 years of Halo stories and left us on a lame cliffhanger with 343 incompetence to blame. I'm glad they improved and built upon the multiplayer but the heart of Halo is a story driven experience with a solid multiplayer community to support it. If they were bringing in story content with the seasons, it's would be amazing. Everyone knows the Halo franchise has such huge potential, so it's heartbreaking to see it be so poorly handled. XBox is f@#$ing up.
I absolutely love Ghost Recon, especially GR Wildlands. I couldn't get into playing GR Breakpoint. Why, they messed with the formula from GR Wildlands to GR Breakpoint, I simply don't understand. They should have just expanded on the Wildlands template.
As a die hard dying light fan I think the fans were waaaay too harsh on DL2 at release. They made some changes yes, did I agree with all of them, no. But, fans acted like they gutted the whole game. Combat alone is waaaaaaaay better than the first one, same with parkour, they just lightened up some of the horror elements (which I disagreed with) but overall it felt like everyone was waaaaay too harsh at launch. Overall I think my point is I definitely prefer the horror and story of DL1, but going back is near impossible because the combat and parkour feel clunky in comparison and the color palette is very bland.
I agree that they improved a lot from what was already great in 1, and I'm tempted to try 2 again with these new changes, but I found the main story and characters, including the character you play as, so inferior to 1. So often the interactions between you and the female side character would take me right out of the game, just destroy the immersion. At least with 1 it was a believable experience and wasnt full of inane pointless dialogue and irritating characters.
I do want to say, Halo Infinite in co-op was a ton of fun straight out of the gate. Jake seemed to focus more on the PvP gameplay, which is fine, but the two modes are very different. It also sucks that the campaign seemed to end on a cliff-hanger that was pretty clearly setting up additional DLC content, which is probably never going to happen.
Funny thing is, I was playing Outriders till about a week ago. Finally played through the DLC, only to get an ending that felt tailored for more content that never arrived. It was so depressing I dropped my post game build ideas and uninstalled the game
I played dying light 2 a few months ago on ps5. Me and my friend were sending clips and screenshots back and forth of all the bugs we have encounterd. I have come across several quest bugs that made me reset the quest or close app. The audio glitches were the best.
I played it earlier in its release and got stuck because the floor didn’t have any collision and after a few updates that was fixed but some other things were messed up after that.
As someone who is now on PlayStation, but grew up on Xbox, and Halo being the first game I ever fell in love with, it truly pains me to see the state Halo has been in since 343 took over.
I just picked up Breakpoint for 5 dollars on a Steam sale, I like it, being able to jump into a base with my friends and try to take it out either loud or quiet, lots of fun just running around haven't even started to pick away at the story yet and I'm 40 hours in it lol
Kind of weird that they used WH 40K Darktide in the intro but it doesn't get a mention in the video because it rocks pretty hard now, people that were interested at first but turned away because of rough reviews or performance issues should give it a try again, fun as hell and, all else being equal, the consensus is that it's the best co-op horde shooter ever, with a high skill ceiling.
For Imperator: Rome, it's criminal that you mentioned that it's been improved by mods but didn't cite *the* mod that has improved the game the most - Imperator: Invictus. The Invictus team has been praised by the I:R team and lead designer as being what they wanted to do if they were to continue supporting the game. They even included a bunch of the fixes that the team made to the game in the recent patch.
While Ubisoft did drastically improve Breakpoint you have to give a lot of credit to the modding community for Spaetan mod, First Person perspective and a metric ton of tacticool gear and drip.
one of the greatest improvements for fallout 76 has got to be the community there are loads of nice genuine players that actually like to help new players unlike the times around launch
Another title for this video: Ten games that were released in early access for full price.
Yeah seriously we shouldn’t be praising companies for releasing broken games then coming back later to finish the job. This only incentivizes this behavior.
Worst one of all? This years fifa!
Why would you buy that shit and support copy paste @@nathan-m8s
@@Lawrence_TalbotThey took major hits to their reputations before Cyberpunk everyone had unwavering faith in CD project red. Now? Not so much. Reputation in the gaming space affects your preorders, hype, and early sales.
It’s not like they’re getting off Scott free. Most of these game/companies would of made significantly more money with no cost to their reputation if they’d released full quality
@@Lawrence_TalbotI don’t think it’s praise. I think it’s just posted f you lost your money, at least the game is fixed and can get some of your value back. Praise isn’t going to stop the problem. The consumer has to by avoiding pre orders and watch reviews before buying. Stop buying them first is the only way
I hate how we live in a time during gaming where we praise companies for fixing games that were absolute crap at launch whether being buggy messes or missing so much content...
Whether it’s how it should be or not if I had to choose I’d rather a company that will continue to fix it no matter what rather than put out slop, let it flop and then give up on it. A lot more respect for the dedicated than the quitters. I do feel like we underestimate how dead gaming would be right now if every developer gave up on a game that wasn’t enjoyable for the players or didn’t make them enough money.
At least they fixed anything, they don’t have to since most of them already have your money.
So its bad for a company to keep working on it and not give up on it thats a weird take
I feel like it's less about praise and more about "hey everyone, this game is actually pretty good now if you were looking to play it"
Why do game companies get a hall pass for defrauding thousands of consumers for millions of dollars? Because of gamers saying stuff like "at least they fixed it and now there's one more good game in the world".
No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 have the biggest comebacks in gaming history.
Comeback has to mean people actually play and not just 40 neckbeards
@@sillygoose4263 Pretty appropriate username you got there
@@sillygoose4263and I’ll have you know I have a full beard thank you very much 😏
@@sillygoose4263😂😂😂 Ur pfp explains it all
Your pfp doesn't suit for winning the argument lol, just saiyan...@@sillygoose4263
It’s a sad day when we have to resort to games being “at least playable now.”
Yeah I thought the same. The fact we all collectively have been screwed by bad games so much that saying at least is playable is a plus sucks.
Especially way after their original release date. And then they just get to a point where they're abandoned completely after being "fixed" into a playable experience.
@CRAZYMUGMAN Maybe because it keeps happening and some are demoralised to the point that they'll just take the drek sandwich and wait for more.
did we watch 2 different videos? the whole video is about games that are much better than "playable."
@@carmactionable And two or three of those games are specifically stated as being not great, but at least playable...
“10 games released too early and in shoddy states but we’re trying to be nice.”
I thought sometimes dev team needs the earnings of selling some copies of the game to improve it.
I think calling Battlefield 2042's launch rough is a massive understatement Jake.
and it still sucks.
@@Floptarthave you played it all in the last year?
@@lobaandrade7172 I have and I can confirm it still sucks.
@@lobaandrade7172 can confirm its still the worst battlefield released too date..
@@lobaandrade7172 About a month or two ago, I re-download it and put maybe 10 hours into it. They definitely improved the stability and added great QOL features, but it still doesn't feel like a battlefield game to me. I hate the setting, the maps, the operators and I REALLY hate swapping attachments on the fly. I understand that it is necessary to try implementing new things into the franchise, but 2042 just doesn't feel like a Battlefield game to me.
I also want to point out one thing you didn't mention for Dying Light 2.
TechLand also changed and altered entire cutscenes,
I can't think of many games that have done that.
Remember all those times that Aiden gets sucker punch in a cutscene? They change some of those scenes entirely.
Companies like TechLand are worth treasuring
When Dyling 2 came out it was filled with bugs and while usually I’d count a game out for that (BF 2042 had just came out) I had faith that techland would fix and improve the game overall
@@GreenSupreme.223 and would you look at that, both games got worked upon and improved
@@14mgodno. They lied about the story, which was half finished, they removed a bunch of things from the first game like guns, thrown weapons etc, and it was one of the buggiest games on launch. They cut everything made by Chris Avellone because of false sa allegations which was mostly story and choice based, and they lied about crossgen coop. Techland can gladly die.
That's true, I can't actually think of *any* other games that significantly changed story cutscenes through a post-release patch. That's serious commitment to your game.
Everytime I return to BF2042 after an update I still came away disappointed. I think my hope for the series has finally died. BF4 and Bad Company 2 were some of my favorite multiplayer shooters. Heartbreaking
I’m the opposite, I keep wanting to play every time I boot it up. I find it way more fun than the previous two games
@@lobaandrade7172 I mean there's people who would say the same about Suicide Squad. Doesn't make them good games though.
I like bf2042
I waited until 2023 to play it and I had a lot of fun. Some maps were annoying, but I thought it was pretty good. Inexcusable launch state, but playing it on game pass I had a good time.
@@BerserkKnight Exactly
do enough people still play bf3 or 4? i miss 3 in particular and its always on sale
Another great comeback is State of Decay 2. I have over 1,000 hours in it, and played since launch in 2018. The launch version was fun for me, but I get why people were saying the things they were saying. Undead Labs buckled down and has been overhauling the game little by little every update. They even did a visual remaster where things looked a ton better, played better, and added new maps. Along with dlc which were included in this visual overhaul. In 2024 they’ve finally wound down support so the entire team can work on SoD3. My favorite comeback.
Just started this today on Gamepass for the first time. I’m enjoying it so far.
The biggest issue is every update broke the prior update or never fixed it to begin with. I dont know how many times the release notes said "fixed blah blah" and within ten minutes i saw every "fix" still there broken. Last i layed they at least got the bloaters to stop spawningn in bases and on rooftops at least. I see the latest update you can drop rucks into outpost. That being said i have 1500 hours on it as well and would have never done so without the community editor. Had to use it for the longest time gifting myself back repair kits. You basically had a 60/50 chance of repairing a vehicle and it either worked or exploded and threw the vehicle across the map.
10: Dying Light 2
9: Sea of thieves
8: Warhammer 4000K Darktide
7: Fallout 76
6: Battlefield 2042
5: Outer Worlds Spacers Choice Edition
4: Imperator: Rome
3: Outriders
2: Ghost Recon Breakpoint
1: Halo Infinite
Also worth a mention that Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr is getting an offline mode 6 years after release.
Fuk yeah really nice I got it on sale and can see myself playing for a long time. Offline is better and if it runs on steamdeck fuk yeah!
Gotta spend real money for items unless you grind a crap ton of hours too the game sucks
Oh good to hear! I liked it on ps4 and wanted the expansion and new class, but hate the online only :\
sometimes watching the gameplay in these GameRanx clips, it looks like I'm watching a bot play
Lmfao I’m saying, but can’t blame them since they mostly talk about games and play them just enough to get a review out
I also don’t really appreciate how every single game is chronically played on controller as well. Like, don’t get me wrong, it feels good to sit back and play games on a controller where it’s warranted and it fits the game (Spider-Man and the Star Wars games are good examples). But FPS games in general shouldn’t be using controllers and the review footage all has the same floaty and crazy low sensitivity look to them. Literally the only game on this list that doesn’t use controller is a 4X game that doesn’t support it
have to agree
@@JLogg444majority of gamers play on console.
@@JLogg444You might be surprised to learn a lot of people either just play on console or just don't like using keyboard and mouse
How is Cyberpunk2077 not here? That's the most egregious example of a comeback.
Pretty obvious that's why I guess.
Imo because it has always been in these videos so ppl knows already
Same with no man's sky? Maybe cause they have covered both of those games as comebacks already? Idk both seem obvious.
But it can't be truly fixed without a major overhaul of the main quest line. The pacing in particular sucks and it's missing the awesome set pieces that CDPR demonstrated they are capable of making when they finally released the DLC. It's as if they cut out random chunks of it and hastily tied together what's left. There's even a major questline that starts after the point where you're supposed to enter the point of no return. The latter isn't even in a task that can be delayed in a narratively justifiable way since it should be a quick and risk-free event.
The fact that people gave cdpr another chance after releasing broken games two straight releases is wack.
finally someone who knows why techland initially excluded guns from dying light 2, bc it broke dying light's difficulty curve back in the original, kind of hard to keep a good difficulty curve when the players have a shotgun that deals 400+ damage a shot (damage is not exaggerated, there were shotguns that dealt that much damage)
Thanks for mentioning Breakpoint, it's had an underrated turnaround and no one ever seems to talk about it. It needs more love!
I know that Battlefield 2042 got TECHNICALLY fixed but the game still lacks a soul in the most obvious ways. The game never achieved its full potential because EA/Dice never really gave a F to it anyway. Let’s not even talk about Battlefield Portal which could’ve been their biggest redeeming point that they never acted on it
I agree about it not reaching its true potential, but idk what you’re talking about with the soul. If you watch or listen to anything the dev team has put out you’d see the love they have for the franchise and for 2042. And imo it’s more fun than the previous game
They couldn't figure out how to monetize portal so it was left behind.
same with cp.
I don't even remember hearing of 2042 coming out. I've considered getting it still a few times but something just looks off about it too. I wish Dice understood they should release a new improved one. I wish Call of Duty would slow down and not release one every year.
Dice isn't dice. Something like 70% of the original devs of the franchise have migrated on.
no mans sky and cyberpunk 2077 will hold the title for the best comebacks ever ... but also the worst launch of all time lol, love both of em
cp still sucks as a game. mediocre, empty shell of a game and it always be.
@@sinenomine4540 bad take
@@b4d0r90 cope
@@Optimusprime56241 The recent steam reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
@@Optimusprime56241 The recent steam reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
I love that Outriders made it in here! It was rough in the beginning. But I´m still playing it (on the grind) and I just love the whole power-fantasy vibe once you understand how to make your build work.
I did find enjoyment in it for awhile
Is it cross-platform?
I always thought it was underrated. Really fun if you enjoy co-op looter shooters.
@@JackfromshackYes, apparently.
@@Jackfromshackyes but (from the last time I played) their is no game chat for that. They probably fixed it with that last update but god it was hell when you couldn't use discord on a console
Dying light 2 should get an award for the degree of effort they put in . I didn’t like it at all in the beginning and now it’s one of my favorite games! I’m so glad I gave it another chance after I seen all the updating they were doing
No I will never play Fallout 76. Not because it was a bad game at release but because of Bethesdas greed. Even bricking older games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 with out of the blue patches to break your Nexus Mods and force you to BUY your mods all over again through their store. Luckily I was able to turn off forced steam updates to the game and now I just run the game from the Vortex launcher problem free. I am currently done buying any more Bethesda games at the moment. They didn't stop with fallout 76, they continued their BS in Starfield. Honestly at this point I can no longer justify buying their games. It just DOESN"T work.
Exactly. On Point! 👌
And how does ‘76 still look so much worse than Fallout 4? The lighting is worse, the colour palette is more dull and the small-scale scene composition is so ugly. Being made after 4 and having had all of these patches that’s an achievement in itself😁
This upload reinforces more eloquently than i ever could, why preordering and day one is not the best idea
Go for the Netflix effect, if it doesn't do well first season then dropping it.
Star Trek Bridge Crew no longer requires VR
I don't think it ever required VR, or if it did, they made it playable on pancakes soon after launch if memory serves
My backlog cant take this anymore but Gameranx recommendations are always welcome
Ffs!!!! 😂 yes
The Darktide segment is a bit lacking.
They've also added a few new maps. A few new bosses.
They've redone the Penance system. Which has a ton of cosmetic rewards and titles behind it.
They've added a lot more than the video lets on. Makes me wonder if the last time gameranx looked at Darktide was back in October.
5:24 As a massive hater on Fallout 76 at launch I can confidently say that in its current state May/14th/2024 This is easily my favorite game right now! This game has easily obliterated all previous Fallout titles by far for me. Obviously New Vegas, FO3, and FO4 have good memories and nice aspects, but what they have achieved with 76 definitely surpasses the original vision and I am MASSIVELY ADDICTED! If your sleeping on this title, your doing yourself a diss-service!
10 games that are finally what they should have been at release but years later
I’m happy to see Dying Light 2 mentioned here. I remember when it was in early access and it was ROUGH, it’s come a long way
It was never in early access. It just didn’t release with the same features it has now
@@lobaandrade7172 I played it before it came out, that's what I meant
It's still bad
Remember Cartridge games? How they were COMPLETE when they shipped? Good ole' days...
the games are also more simple in those good ole days....
@trk1b28varianrhesa4 okay, remember 3 years ago when you could buy a game that wasn't unfinished garbage? It's not because games were more simple it was because game makers were passionate not in it for monetary reasons
Seriously, if you go to broken games that have been updated from unplayable insult to mediocre garbage, you prove every dirty practice and every shady company decision and every cynical CEO right.
14:33 "If you gotta give it to Ubisoft for anything, it's that they generally don't abandon their games"
Rainbow Six Extraction would like a word with you.
Was it UBI or the developers? I don't know.. but it is a legitimate question here.
@@rbarnes4076 It was Ubisoft Montreal, so yeah
This video reminded me that 343i still exists after shitting the bed with Halo 3 separate times but Tango and Arkane Austin got shut down.
No Tango got sold to Krafton the publisher of PUBG.
Dark tide is a big disappointment, they’ve neglected features like solo play that were promised at launch and instead release weekly updates to their cosmetic shop
yeah i am confused its on this list at all game is far from fixed or complete the fact they are dragging they feet doesn't help
Try Back 4 Blood, it's better than Darktide imo
@@Jackfromshack lol no
@@LunaPPK why?
I wish Ghost recon and Rainbox Six would go back to their roots. Loved future soldier and Vegas for Rainbow Six.
Dumber than a box of rocks AI.
neither games are "their roots"
@@quinnmarchese6313 dude give me a fckn break man you know what i mean. To make those types of games
What list is this? The Outer Worlds, that special edition, is somehow worse than the original, but "it's playable now"? How? How can you put it on a list of "FIXED" (because you like to use all caps) games, when you literally said it's worse than the original? I cannot understand that.
I wish they would make a warhammer 40k battlefield style game with all the races it would be epic
Hey guys at Gameranx! I love your vidoes And I appreciate the work that you do! Great work as usual.
with that said, you should make a video just like this but opposit, 10 games that got ruined over time
looking at you Destiny 2.....
Wrong channel bud
@@EJH783 how?
Maaaaan I absolutely loved Outriders. Fantastic story, good progression, the looter shooter esque skill tree and builds. All of it was really enjoyable. I just could never get anyone to play with me.
Just watched this video and now i want to buy Outriders! It looks fantastic fun. He said you can play on your own. Does it have a full single player campaign/story?
@@hazy33 if you haven't bought and played it yet. yes it has full single player campaign story. a very fluid difficulty system and me and my SO enjoyed playing it a lot. the story is great and reading about the world is interesting. ohh and the small expansion he mentions (world slayer) doesnt feel small, it takes a good number of hours and the ending after completing the end game stuff leaves you wanting a sequel. great game, can only recommend!
@@TheMegaSmashGamer Excellent. One more thing do you know if Worldslayers is included on the disc or if you just get a DLC code card included?
@@hazy33 its not part of the main game, so you would need to buy the complete edition, or the main game and then the dlc afterwards.
depending if the game looks good to you, you could wait buying the dlc, as it takes place after main game has been completed anyway. but on steam you save 5$ buying the complete edition instead of them separate so there is that.
@@TheMegaSmashGamer thanks. I've been thinking about this way more than I really should but I think I'll wait for an online sale 🙂 I've far too many games to play as it is.
Middle Earth Shadow of War is completely fixed now. It has some flaws but it has become one of my comfy games. Amazing!
I remember feeling pretty terrified on the first night of dying light 2 with headphones on it was pretty tense.
People are still upset DICE got pulled from Battlefront II/III for Battlefield. And yeah, they’re right to be upset. We had a good thing going with Battlefront 2.
I was afraid the whole video that cyberpunk or no mans sky would be #1 since they're always talked about and the obvious answer. But I was pleasantly surprised to see they were just mentioned at the end 😂 thank you, gameranx
Bought Cyberpunk couple of months ago
Gotta say they really done amazing work compared to first release
Really love this game
Same. I got it for Christmas and I love it!
Heard the writing is like really, REALLY bad... that the case?
@@DomLoganGRP wtf no it's top notch
@@DomLoganGRP nope
the narration and storytelling is amazing
ps4 or ps5
I have to defend the OuterWorlds remaster though. We are literally told what to do in the name: "Spacer's Choice Edition".
Anyone who played this knows, "it's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice."
i finished it recently and it played without issue on the hardware i have. i actually really enjoyed the gameplay and story for the most part and thought it looked really good. tbf many devs have issues with pc ports for some reason and im not a dev so i dont know the reasons for that. my comment is more of an observation than a criticism in that regard.
00:02 Dying Light Two received significant improvements post-launch
02:01 Sea of Thieves significantly improved over the years
04:13 Game received a major class overhaul patch
06:17 Game improvements and fixes have made gameplay smoother and more enjoyable.
08:32 Game improvements through updates and remasters.
11:04 Games like Imperator: Rome and Outriders have been fixed and improved.
13:40 Ghost Recon Breakpoint has improved despite initial issues
16:13 Halo Infinite has improved with new content and game modes.
18:27 Several games have improved over the years.
Homefront Revolution can be on this list. It gets a lot of hate because the launch was bad. But I played it a year or so after launch and by that point it was a decent game.
I'm surprised cyberpunk, no man's sky, and battlefront 2 are not on the list. So many games out there released unfinished
Props for going for the roads less traveled in this list instead of the usual games everyone talks about. Like the ones mentioned at the end, Cyberpunk and NMS.
Stuck with Cyberpunk since day 1. Was pleasing to see new stuff as i played.
sad to say i actually put so much time into it before the updates. i played a bit of 2.0, got started with Phantom Liberty and completely fell off. love the new gameplay stuff though, they finally made doing anything fun.
I've had a blast playing Fallout 76! I tried it when it was released and was incredibly disappointed, but these past few weeks have had me and some friends all playing almost daily. Quite the turnaround.
SoT only has plans to make more $25 ship skins with $15 add ons for those skins for the nicer items. And they want the game to play like a cracked game of rust.
I will never forgive Dice for dropping battlefront 2 for battlefield 2042
The biggest issue with Halo Infinite MP was desync. It's way better now, but for the 1st year or two everyone was having connection issues, and it was borderline impossible to play 5 games without being DC'd at least once.
Oh wow this just came out! Already knew DL2 would be on this list just based off the title.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is an absolutely beautiful looking game, the open world is impressive, and the combat is relatively fun. However, it's just so life-less or soul-less. The Division games are so much more captivating.
Gaming isn’t gaming anymore. You can’t own game you buy. Companies rushing games out that are not complete.Needing to have accounts for certain games to play in with you are most likely to get hacked. Paying extra just to have an edge in something competitive. Every game is a “jiggle keys” that to get what you pay more and it isn’t even worth playing. I do feel bad for the newer generations of players having to play in a time where companies are in so greed that they will never understand what it means to have an actual game. Don’t get me wrong there are some games that did get love and took time to make it right but that rare now. I’m rooting for the small gaming companies/community to show and have the bigger companies understand the importance of making a game.
The best thing with the Ghost Recon Breakpoint upgrades, is that they were all optional. Smart move, because there were people who preferred to play it as Breakpoint instead of Wildlands. New controls etc. were also optional. UBI made sure they pleased both groups of players.
UBI even added new difficulty options, so even casuals could play it basically in God Mode. Other developers would have removed the old system and replaced. Kudos to UBI for making it all optional. There is long lists of settings in this game...
2:04 Is it though? I'm not sure they've changed the parkour at all since launch and they made a lot of the new zombies just 1 shot machines. It also has had a lot of unsolved glitches, some being game breaking.
They have, they made it more “physical” idk how else to describe it, basically your character has more weight when he jumps and momentum plays a bigger role. Also some moves were given new animations (like the far jump skill)
I do believe we, as gamers, have to talk more about how games become after launch.. we still pre-order(for those who dare) games and expect them to be amazing.. if its not, we love to pull them down to the ground. Jet we never look back and see what it has become over time.. good job on this list🤘🏾
I got tears of the kingdom at launch and it was amazing but most games are hit or miss nowadays.
These hardworking developers deserve all the money and respect in the world for delivering entertaining and complete games. Nowadays its early access inside of early access with INCONSISTENT updates. where have the times gone?
To be fair Outriders was great at initial release. It was net code changes an balancing in the first major pass that essentially ruined the game. The security software had a bug where it did a capture of your character before your save state and if the capture glitched it could result in your characters gear being gone. They tried for months to fix it and finally figured out a way to mostly restore people gear. But by that point the damage was done. A bunch of balance passes later the game ended up in a better place. The biggest issue was still the lack of content. There was very little reason to continue playing after a point. The game didn't really have an end game loop that made continued grinding for better stat weapons make any sense. No horde mode, no boss run mode, just time trails.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is great nowadays. Minimal HUD and Conquest Mode is the true experience.
Outriders was actually really fun, I enjoyed it with friends
The problem with "fixing" the night in DL2, and honestly the reason the nights aren't scary, is because they force you to go out in the dark so often in the early game. In DL1 you could play the vast majority of the game only in the day time. If you force me to go out it, it can't be as scary.
Jedi Survivor is another example. While it wasn't completely broken and unplayable at the start, it had serious optimization issues and technical matters that put a lot of people off the game, far more than even the previous game, Fallen Order. Now, the game runs much better with far less hiccups and even some much needed options that weren't originally present back at launch.
Dying Light 2 also completely changed the way the enemies look. They now look far more realistic rather than the bland cartoonish look that they had at launch. This was huge for me as they are always rift in your face throughout the entire game. More companies should follow suit rather than just giving up once people hate the game.
I never thought there'd be the day Imperator Rome would people say "it wasn't so bad", a game I loved even I thought the mana system (it even got removed) was rough, and it needed a lot of quality of life updates.
Cyberpunk 2077 made such an unbelieveable comeback with 2.0 and the patches after. the game now feels insanely good to play
Correction with dying light 2. It was completely broken at release, and I was playing on console. I couldn't even finish completing the game it was so broken. It pissed me off how much of my time it wasted that I never went back to the game and never will...
Don't forget that in Dying Light 2 they also improved the gore system quite a bit and while it's not on the same level as Dead Island 2 it's still way better than what it was before.
Halo Infinite still has a strong enough player base so you never really need to worry about finding a game. Considering crossplay across Steam, other PC launchers and Xbox, it's probably in the 10-15K range daily. The game is great if you haven't tried it yet.
Remember when games came out and it was just good. No updates, no bugs to get fixed. Nothing. Just a good time and we knew what we were getting.
"Ubisoft...They don't generally abandon their games..." - they just remove them from your library.
TOW: Spacer's Choice got rid of the level cap on players and weapons. The biggest issue was the fact that you couldn't transfer a save from the original game so you could pick up where you left off, and that made things kinda suck for those of us who had pretty much 100%ed the original game. Redoing those achievements was a turn off.
Quote: "Ubisoft generally don't abandon their games"
Oh my, I've been living under the rock this whole time
"Ready or Not" was one of those games that got really improved too! Love that game!
I was not expecting Outriders, maybe it's time to give him another go.
I've put 100+ hours into Fallout 76 in the past month or two. It's VASTLY improved. Honestly really liking it. Couldn't get more than 2 hours in at launch.
Here's one of my favorites. Nintendo spent several updates cracking down in glitches for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom while there was a known dangerous bug left in for months. If you put all the icons onto the map the game would bug out and start have graphical glitches that resulted in dangerous flashing lights that could easily harm someone sensitive to such things and cause seizures. But they prioritized removing enjoyable glitches FROM A SINGLE PLAYER GAME.
Another issue with outriders was that many people lost all their progress. Two of my friends at the time both lost all their progress and gave up
I quite enjoyed Breakpoint when I played it for the first time a few months ago, never played it at launch but the fixes seem good from what I've heard and read of the state of it at launch. I want to go through Wildlands too at some point.
Breakpoint is a joke, Wildlands is 10/10
Halo Infinite being abandoned is insane. The game was sold as a platform for the next 10 years of Halo stories and left us on a lame cliffhanger with 343 incompetence to blame. I'm glad they improved and built upon the multiplayer but the heart of Halo is a story driven experience with a solid multiplayer community to support it. If they were bringing in story content with the seasons, it's would be amazing. Everyone knows the Halo franchise has such huge potential, so it's heartbreaking to see it be so poorly handled. XBox is f@#$ing up.
I absolutely love Ghost Recon, especially GR Wildlands. I couldn't get into playing GR Breakpoint. Why, they messed with the formula from GR Wildlands to
GR Breakpoint, I simply don't understand. They should have just expanded on the Wildlands template.
As a die hard dying light fan I think the fans were waaaay too harsh on DL2 at release. They made some changes yes, did I agree with all of them, no. But, fans acted like they gutted the whole game. Combat alone is waaaaaaaay better than the first one, same with parkour, they just lightened up some of the horror elements (which I disagreed with) but overall it felt like everyone was waaaaay too harsh at launch.
Overall I think my point is I definitely prefer the horror and story of DL1, but going back is near impossible because the combat and parkour feel clunky in comparison and the color palette is very bland.
I agree that they improved a lot from what was already great in 1, and I'm tempted to try 2 again with these new changes, but I found the main story and characters, including the character you play as, so inferior to 1. So often the interactions between you and the female side character would take me right out of the game, just destroy the immersion. At least with 1 it was a believable experience and wasnt full of inane pointless dialogue and irritating characters.
I do want to say, Halo Infinite in co-op was a ton of fun straight out of the gate. Jake seemed to focus more on the PvP gameplay, which is fine, but the two modes are very different. It also sucks that the campaign seemed to end on a cliff-hanger that was pretty clearly setting up additional DLC content, which is probably never going to happen.
Funny thing is, I was playing Outriders till about a week ago. Finally played through the DLC, only to get an ending that felt tailored for more content that never arrived. It was so depressing I dropped my post game build ideas and uninstalled the game
I played dying light 2 a few months ago on ps5. Me and my friend were sending clips and screenshots back and forth of all the bugs we have encounterd. I have come across several quest bugs that made me reset the quest or close app. The audio glitches were the best.
I played it earlier in its release and got stuck because the floor didn’t have any collision and after a few updates that was fixed but some other things were messed up after that.
an honorable mention should be Crime Boss: Rockay City, that game is completely different now and it's actually quite enjoyable
As someone who is now on PlayStation, but grew up on Xbox, and Halo being the first game I ever fell in love with, it truly pains me to see the state Halo has been in since 343 took over.
I was fully expecting those two to be top two but it's glad to know there are other games out there with the same redemption arc
2:59 I didn't know Sea of Thieves developers were six years old lol
I just picked up Breakpoint for 5 dollars on a Steam sale, I like it, being able to jump into a base with my friends and try to take it out either loud or quiet, lots of fun just running around haven't even started to pick away at the story yet and I'm 40 hours in it lol
Techland has fallen from Grace.
They literally explained why there were no guns in the world, then they go back ON ESTABLISHED LORE and add guns.
Kind of weird that they used WH 40K Darktide in the intro but it doesn't get a mention in the video because it rocks pretty hard now, people that were interested at first but turned away because of rough reviews or performance issues should give it a try again, fun as hell and, all else being equal, the consensus is that it's the best co-op horde shooter ever, with a high skill ceiling.
Remember back in day when games were actually finished when they got released?
Just because a game wasn't as good as its prequel doesn't mean it's bad. It's simply not the prequel. Judge the game on its own merits.
We should not praise the ones that fixes broken games, but the ones that releases a complete and fun game
Halo was never fixed after Reach, where the franchise died with Noble 6.
For Imperator: Rome, it's criminal that you mentioned that it's been improved by mods but didn't cite *the* mod that has improved the game the most - Imperator: Invictus. The Invictus team has been praised by the I:R team and lead designer as being what they wanted to do if they were to continue supporting the game. They even included a bunch of the fixes that the team made to the game in the recent patch.
While Ubisoft did drastically improve Breakpoint you have to give a lot of credit to the modding community for Spaetan mod, First Person perspective and a metric ton of tacticool gear and drip.
The biggest thing these games have in common….they’re all fairly recent releases..when it comes to modern gaming. 3-6 years old.
one of the greatest improvements for fallout 76 has got to be the community there are loads of nice genuine players that actually like to help new players unlike the times around launch