Remember, for every game that didn't get any continuation but you wish had one, there's an extremely big chance that, had that continuation happened, it would end up in this list.
Dude you're so correct you don't realize just how right you are. You just retorted every single "I wish this got a sequel" bot comment ever. Good stories know when to end and stay ended
Notice how so many franchises seemed to peaked around the mid 2000's. I think it's because gaming was a growing industry but not quite as large as it is now. It was more about building and growing franchises than appeasing shareholders. I consider myself lucky that I was a teenager at that time and got to experience that era at that age.
I think it's because gaming was for enthusiasts until 2010 or so, then it became mainstream and casual. Games used to be hard and interesting, now they're mostly bland and easy. At least the ones from major developers. Lucky for us we have a huge indie game market these days, thanks to holy Gaben.
guess what became popular around that time... social media. gaming was a relatively niche market that didn't have a huge following aside from actual gamers. then social media became a thing and all the casuals were introduced to gaming. it went from niche to mainstream in a few years. the thing with niche markets is that quality is paramount. selling bad quallity to a small audience has huge reprecusions. selling bad quality to a massive audience not as much. I think that is why gaming sucks these days.
Maybe you and Jake are just similar in age and are both the same level of jaded? Honestly even the "bad games" that release these days are more fun than the games of our youth, nostalgia is just a powerful thing
@@contramundi1 except 2o23 was probably the best year of gaming the industry has every had. Hogwarts legacy, Jedi survivor, tears of the kingdom, starfield, resident evil 4, Alan Wake 2, balfurs gate 3, spiderman 2, etc and I know I'm forgetting several great games from last year. The people that complain about the state of the gaming industry today vs 30 years ago is just an anhedonic curmudgeon wearing rose covered glasses and disillusioning themselves with the nostalgia. video games were not a niche market in the 90s and 00s, there's a reason the PS2 is still the best selling console of all time even though it was the PS3 generation that was introduced with social media. It only seemed niche to you at the time because you were a child. Gaming doesn't suck today, your ability to enjoy things in life does though
You have to remember for saint's row,they were trying to get away from the "GTA clone" image that they unexpectedly gained when it was first released. For Ninja Gaiden and Dead Rising,they just had trouble with the new ideas and directions they tried
In a world where a franchise like Dark Souls has taken off and become so beloved, I'm genuinely surprised that Ninja Gaiden hasn't re-emerged. The controls for that game felt a little clunky and the enemies and level design were incredibly unforgiving, but much like dark souls, once you kind of figured things out and stuff clicked into place you were like "Actually, this has to be one of the best action games I've ever played."
Literally. My cousin was stuck on this horse rider boss, I def can’t remember who they were, but I remember beating the boss after just a few tries. One of the funnest fucking games.
Because the creator was out and the team left were the ones that made Ninja Gaiden 3 and that was trash. Since then they made Nioh and that is way more successful than Ninja Gaiden ever was. Now they are making Rise of the Ronin. So Ninja Gaiden is probably a low priority for them.
Since you mentioned FromSoft games, Sekiro is probably better than any Ninja Gaiden resurrection would ever be. Though I'm not sure FromSoft will ever make it a series, so maybe it would have been nice...
I'd rather have a new tenchu game than a new ninja Gaiden. As other have said there's much better successors to ninja Gaiden. Tenchu hasn't really had any kind of successor.
What about the demo for that one silent hill game where you just kept going through the same room over and over again but each time it just basically got more creepy and threw new things at you? I think it was PT?
I think fifa starting to include a story is quite a good next step. Yeah the story isn't great, but I'm happy they're trying it and the manager mode keeps improving
I don't play sports games and I'm not a FIFA person, but that's a good pick. That series has evolved so poorly that even I know about it, and like I just said, I'm not a sports gamer and I'm not a FIFA person, but the series has gone so downhill that even gamers like me know to steer their sporty friends away from it.
we're in an era of remakes so fuck it, I'd love to see a Deadrising 1 remake, I was too scared as a kid to leave the first couple sections of the mall and reset after every 72 hours just killing shit so fun
That I'd love to see It's to the point I'd try editing and make a remake from scratch since the guy who did the hit and run remake did that I'd just wouldn't be able to release it
A dead rising remake is my dream, it doesn't need one but with the revivals and remakes Capcom has done for its other franchises over the last 5-ish years, it'd be extremely interesting to see how they tackle this one.
I would love a Dead Rising remake because i have tried giving the game a go multiple times since it released over the years and every time I stop playing about an hour in and don't return. I absolutely despise the gameplay loop and the actual gameplay itself too, way too floaty
I agree and same here, i beat it eventually as a young teen but i was intimidated way back then to play it due to the timer, small windows to save everyone and difficulty, for my age at the time. But I feel if they added coop, for you and a buddy to roll through the campaign together, would be a fun option too as I know they didnt do coop until like 2 or 3
Man, most of that list had me going "Oh yeah I remember this!....oh...yeah....that happened..." I remember going to a launch event for Perfect Dark Zero, even as a pre-teen, I knew that something was wrong with it. Was blown away by the 360s graphics, but I just knew Perfect Dark was a stinker.
I'm surprised Command & Conquer wasn't on this list. My favorite campaign was Red Alert 2, and favorite Skirmish mode was Generals Zero Hour. After C&C 3: Tiberium Wars, it went downhill fast. RA3 was too kitchy, and C&C4 was not only a departure from the C&C framework gameplay wise, the story ended with such a dud. I was a huge fan on MOH back in the day and replayed Allied Assault and Pacific Assault so many times.
C&C serie actually had a decent run in RTS until C&C 3 showed up. It's a franchise that started in '95. C&C 3 wasn't their first failure in the franchise tho: Renegade comes to mind.
@@NexuJin Wouldn't really count Renegade though. First off it is actually kinda fun and it is a spinoff not part of the mainline games. But damn i miss good C&C, i played the shit out of Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge back in the day. And let's not talk about the mobile one...
The sequel to MoH Allied Assault was Call of Duty. Seriously, the team that made Allied Assault started Infinity Ward and made Call of Duty. They even ran on the same engine. Also yeah, Red Alert 2 was my favorite. Also where I started getting into game modding. My game had nuclear cows.
Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge are absolutely goated games and I've never found anything that scratches that itch since. If anyone's got suggestions I'm down, just don't tell me age of empires 😂 that's so whack
If you follow the development of fear 2 and 3 it will make some more sense. The companies that made the original fear split and both had the rights to the title and they both started working in fear 2 simultaneously. The fear 2 we know came out first and then the other company completely bought the rights and made their fear 2 into "f3ar". Fear 3 is a reworked game forced to be a sequel to 2 instead of 1.
I honestly feel that this is true for most big franchises. There are so many games I can instantly think of without having watched the video: Halo, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Diablo 4, Gears of War. All the latest games pale compared to earlier entries.
Look, i never played any of those games you mention with the exception of Diablo 4, and i have played Diablo 3 and let me tell you something, its an unpopular opinion but i think Diablo 4 is so much better. I bought it in new years, and i can't stop playing. It's honestly so good, that i honestly don't understand why people hate it so much. It's one of the best video games i have ever played. Cut scene wise it's the best game i have ever played. Now i haven't ranked it yet on my all time list of favourite games, but from the top of my head is for sure gonna fall down between 2nd best and 5th best.
@@ShaneDanger42069 I'd day that's very debatable. I found the open world in Halo Infinite to be fairly boring. From what I've read they improved multiplayer a lot, by that point I already lost interest. Diablo 4 has an incredible art style, a great soundtrack and the combat mechanics are fun, but the character builds are lackluster compared to D2 where you could do some really whacky things with the correct gear. I haven't played D4 since season 1. Maybe now it has more depth.
11:25 frontline was amazing. The D-Day landing and the build up to it was great. Riding the boat during the credits was filled with suspense and then the ramp drops!
Crackdown is the one for me on this list. Had so much fun playing with friends, and then they got too ambitious. Development took too long, and even Terry Cruz couldn't save Crackdown 3.
Crackdown 3 did get too ambitious then decided to go back to the basics last minute i still enjoyed it a lot because it was still crackdown a simple open world game to turn your brain off and play
@NastyGamer13 no they are dead games with less players than even concord had. If they were so great by today's standards the number of hackers would be minor compared to the actual player count. Black ops 2 which for some stupid ass reason everyone claims was the best had a player count of 500 the other day.
Gears of War. It kind of lost its horror aspect that the first game had, but can't deny the graphics and gameplay got better with each iteration and I personally enjoyed the stories more as they went on.
@@charoleawood Me as well. I'm not sure where this recent 2014 Thief hate is coming from. I've seen a lot of videos and threads pop up about how it was so awful recently. And I don't really get it?
@@paulw858 Purists wanted to hate it from the start --- when it was shown off the dev said "We're doing our own Thief" and that sealed it. No such hate was given to id for so drastically changing the Doom formula with 2016 and Eternal --- that it wasn't grandpa's Doom was a selling point there!
@@charoleawood dude? The 2016 was a return to the original formula BECAUSE everyone hated Doom 3, you need to do ur research cause Doom 2016 and Eternal ARE your grandpa's Doom lol like wut
@@PatrickLockamy-e4p Yup, I surely remember having to execute enemies in order to get the ammo and health that spewed forth --- oh, wait, that never happened in Doom before. Enemies being able to leap all around the stage and follow the player anywhere? Nope! That wasn't there either. As for Doom 3, I stand by what it did, I think it's superb. Whether or not the changes to the Doom formula made by 2016 and Eternal were good isn't my issue, it's the double standard where Thief was unfairly criticized when it didn't really make such drastic changes as new Doom did.
Great video as always. Like to see more of that 🙂 THPS on PS1 was my first Tony Hawk game but after THPS 2 the series got weaker in my opinion... But I was so happy with the remake that really brought back memories of spending nights with my buddies trying to get the best runs 🤩 And I don't think that Dead Rising 3 was that bad... Played it more than part 4 actually 😅
thps 3&4 were good games too and it got better when underground came our thps underground 2 was the best in the series with all the added stuff you could do but after that it went downhill big time thps5 was garabage
NBA 2K. Ever since they added VC as a myCareer microtransaction, everything went super grindy. They also don't improve graphically on the PC. They put good gameplay features on hold so that they can add something 'new' to the next year release.
Pro Evo. As a follow up to various ISS series and subseries; it really went after FIFA and was regularly getting better critical response. Something changed after they switched from numbered entries to years. When they did the whole backing away from games thing, they still put Pro Evo titles out since it was almost guaranteed yearly income, but the actual games were bare minimum efforts, until the series died and they replaced it with the free-to-play eFootball
I remember getting stuck on Kameo and then I played perfect dark zero and there’s an ad for Kameo on the game and it showed me the exact scene I was stuck on so I was able to go back onto Kameo to carry on the game. Bear in mind I was about 7 at the time so my recollection of the whole thing may be wonky
@@valsokbs everyone shit all over it when it released. The entire community is already trashing black ops 6 and even though that's the biggest section of cry babies in the community they're still tearing into it.
Crazy enough, I absolutely ADORED MoH 2010. I played the shit out of it online. I legit couldn't understand the hate for it and at one point, even thought that it was a troll campaign funded by activision to protect call of duty. It was just so much fun to me. Obviously, I can recognize that I am a very small outlier but damn, I still have incredible fondness for that MoH 2010 multiplayer.
I remember loving everything about the game. From the characters, to the way they dramatized it, The story, especially the controls. Damn did it play well. Some of the missions were legitimately memorable too. Like that Ranger ambush one is still one of my favorite SP shooter missions of all time. I remember being suuuuper disappointed in BF3 because they controls sucked, the story was awful, and it's only claim to fame was the duper HD uniform texture patch you could get...
The long range sniping levels were great. I appreciated it because they actually tried to give a proper nod to the modern military. Warfighter was rushed and were forced to use Frostbite so it turned into too much of a Battlefield clone. Which people just stuck with in the end. The driving level was annoying as hell.
Mortal kombat should be on this list. Mk9 and x seemed like they were going in a great direction and than 11 and mk1 are such a step back. Only looks worse because sf6 and t8 are both really well done
You could see it starting back in Injustice 2, but NetherRealm is clearly now all about a stupid amount of ingame grinding for stuff, while pushing overpriced shop content and DLC.
Mortal kombat hasn't been good in a long time, they were doing great in ps2 days but then they turned around and went the other direction and made them button mashing and basic, yeah the graphics got better but the game play got worse
fun sad fact, the studio that made saints row VOLITION was closed at the end of last year or this one, the big ones decided to close the studio cause it wasn't making money and wasn't going to
Which is a shame they really could have made another red faction guerrilla styled game but I guess I'll just live on ignoring the existance of the final game 😅
@@hamilton2861 honestly the last game is pretty fun to play with friends but that's it, i'm flad they gave it for free en epic but yeah after agents of mayhem the studio was just on a timer, it was jus a matter of time
I remember getting FEAR on pc for my dad when I got it early at EBGames for some reason. I had it the week-end before launch. My dad played it over and over and I would often sit down next to him as played or restarted another run. He would smoke cigarettes and drink coffee with his teenager sitting next to him. It was the hobby we shared. Im 37 and dad passed away from cancer in nov. 2022 at 67years young. He loved FPS, especially great ones like FEAR and Half life.
Sorry to hear about your dad my dad loved fps too and gta and such my dad passed away from cancer too in September 2023 I am 30 almost 31 he passed away at 54 he was a awesome player he loved video games in gernal my dad and I played switch even when was bed ritten do to kemo treatments and such
Def Jam unfortunately with “Icon.” I still pray for a remake of Vendetta and FFNY with online and cross play. Maybe even a new entry with the old formula
I loved _Fight For NY_ as a kid. Christopher Judge (Teal'c, Kratos) as D-Mob and Snoop Dogg as Crow were iconic, and the story was actually really good for a relatively simple fighting game. Unfortunately, boy is it clunky to play compared to modern standards.
@@TheRawrnstuff to me it’s not really clunky but buttons can be mapped a little better when playing on an emulator. That AKI engine was something special
I agree with nearly all your points. My only disagreement is your take on Dead Rising. DR1 was groundbreaking, amazingly fun, and frustratingly hard all at the same time. Finding stuff around the mall and discovering how each handles in combat rewarded exploration. Having to keep up on a strict mission schedule was cool but felt overwhelming when coupled with all the side encounters and constant radio calls but honestly the whole time management thing was part of the charm of that entry. The main story being serious with survivor encounters being a grab bag of silly or brutal psycho made meeting them interesting and scary at the same time. Now if you ask me, DR2 did a lot of things right. It introduced the idea of combining weapons to make really cool and fun McGuiver style weapons which was a huge staple in zombie movies that no one realized was lacking in the formula until they had it. Transitioning the time management to focus on zombrex as well as being late helped mantain a sense of urgency while cutting down on the number of encounters to feel more manageable. The story was cool, focusing on a more personal story while also showing off what our society would be like once we became accustomed to the idea that zombies are just apart of everyday life now. DR2 introduced a lot of cool ideas and still maintained this identity of being stuck in a hopeless world, surrounded by tragedy and struggling strangers, where your only means of survival was dependent on your creativity. For me DR3 is where the framchise peaked. It made for an excellent launch title, showing off all sorts of cool ideas like the best smartglass integration of xbox games and vehicle combos. The graphics were amazing without bogging down the system and they introduced so many new weapon combinations with the ability to build them on the fly. The characters were a great balance of memorable, satire, and weird. The story was fun and well paced, had fun beats and was actually engaging. The leveling system was awesome because it actually was given depth beyond level milestone perks. It was just bursting with originality and good ideas. DR4 is where it kind of just gave up. There wasn't really anything new going on at all. No new ideas outside of a limited time exosuit that felt more uninspired than intended. Like they were trying to recapture the first game without understanding what made the series fun in the first place. It straight up has the same feeling as the saints row reboot.
Silent Hill: Homecoming was the first real "Horror" game I played, I was probably 10 or so when I played it. At the time it was beyond scary, and really stood out to me as weird and fun since I had no precedence for what makes a good Silent Hill game. I'll never go back to it again though to preserve those positive nostalgic vibes it gives me when it is brought up! Years later when I played Downpour, and with more horror under my belt, I definitely felt where people's disappointment came from. Ignorance truly is bliss sometimes! Great episode Jake n crew!
It's possible you will still enjoy it, though. I definitely did, and I know what makes a good Silent Hill game. It wasn't a great Silent Hill game, but I still found a good amount of enjoyment in it, nonetheless.
Homecoming was great. I will never understand the hate. Downpour was ok. The way everyone feels about Homecoming is how I feel about The Room. It had bad enemy design. The gorillas were just plain stupid. Ghosts were really bad. And just repetitive and tedious . How lazy was that to make you play the levels over with Walter chasing you. I couldn’t finish it. Nothing but fond memories go 5 though. Loved Scarlett. Definitely favorite SH boss fight
I’m the exact same way with ninja gaiden. I was around 10 and I only played ninja gaiden 3. I loved it, and it was different than most other things I had played at the time. If I went back and played the first 2 and then 3 I’d probably wind up hating 3, so I just wont do that lol.
tbh I don't feel sorry for Volition at all. When the announced the new Saints Row nearly all of their fan base literally said "Oh wait, this looks like its gonna suck". Then they went on a years long campaign of fighting and making fun of their fans on Twitter and other socials, so they kinda got what they deserved. Also Medal of Honor Rising Sun was phenomenal. The Pearl Harbor intro still lives in my head to this day and im nearly 30
Agreed. It's not like Volition put that game out without knowing what people were saying about it. It got badmouthed from the very start and they persisted in "no, you are all wrong, this will be awesome, shut up" then were surprised when everyone who said they thought it would suck said it sucked. Different from even something like Aliens: Colonial Marines or even The Last of Us 2, which faced backlash for the opposite reason (devs outright lied in trailers to make the game look better or different to what it was), so players were taken by surprise when they got something they didn't like. Nobody was surprised the Saints Row remake sucked, except Volition.
@@Banjo-Oz EXACTLY. I just really don't understand what the hell they were thinking when the entire fan base literally explained what they loved about the older games. They had the perfect formula in their hands, and the fans telling them that, and they just spit in our faces. Well, look what happened Volition!
Oh boy, so many to mention: call of duty, battlefield, international superstar soccer, contra, wolfestein, batman arkham, the list never ends. I'm actually impressed how Capcom managed to save Resident Evil out of the abyss it had fallen with 5 and 6, but at the same time I utterly hate Capcom for the treatment they gave to other great franchises like Breath of Fire, MegaMan and Viewtiful Joe, those really deserve better.
Capcom is sitting on gold and doing nothing with it. If I was a billionaire I would probably fund a remake of the RE Outbreak series That game came out at the wrong time
@@oldgregg86. I suppose if you count Suicide Squad since it does take place in the Arkhamverse, then yeah that’s a massive step down in quality for sure. I know people were sour on Batman Arkham Knight because of the over reliance on the Batmobile (which is greatly over exaggerated imo) and some elements of the plot like the Arkham Knight’s identity not being completely satisfying, but goddamn if that game wasn’t made with so much heart and passion and otherwise perfects pretty much everything else the Arkham games did up to that point.
Related to number 10 where where I miss Dishonored so much that I might even try Deathloop to see how it is but ik it won't be completely the same it's just I really love going back to Dishonored especially Dishonored 2
I remember one of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun producer’s describing a trip to location as ‘pure hell’. The irony of people having to spend far longer there whilst fighting and dying was totally lost on him.
For me, for the Saints Row games it was the fourth one, I'd get quite far but it doesn't matter how many times I start over, I end up losing complete interest in the game, I think it was because there were way too many side missions, with some getting really hard and the red door story mission being glitched so I could never get all the achievements. The insane amount blue lights you had to go to and the false sense of security it gave you that the game might be broken in this area too so you always feel it might end up being impossible to get them all.
If you go into it with the attitude that it was supposed to be a saints row 3 dlc and not a sequel it’s pretty fun. Or at least I thinks that it was supposed to be a dlc. And I played some of the mission but the open world and the powers are really fun to dick around with.
If you ever revisit this topic: Breath of Fire. 1 though 4 were great, kept on theme while exploring new ideas and other kinds of systems to use. Then you got to 5: Dragon Quarter. Complete shift in from fantasy to post apocalyptic, limited magic, turning into a dragon actually starts a game over timer making you have to restart the game multiple times to get more time as a dragon. Then there's the old RE style of saving, just this time with a payphone and coins. Ugh. Ruined the series. There was a 6, but it was a Japan only MMO kind of deal. I wish they would remake the old games with today's graphics.
And the box art for 5 Dragon Quarter was complete ass. I remember as a kid passing over it multiple times at my local Blockbuster. Compare that box art to BoF 1 and 2. It's such a fall from grace that it's hilarious.
A personal one for me which almost made me cry.. Sacred. The second game was so insanely addictive, huge, fun, customizable, you could easily spent hundreds of hours in it.. and then Sacred 3 came out and.. it wasn't Sacred
Playing through Sacred 2 for my first time right now and yeah like what the hell happened with 3? It was so bad that I never even bothered to check out the other games till recently. Glad I am because Sacred 2 is amazing
Dragon Age… fell off. Dragon Age: Origins - classic, never better. Dragon Age 2: not what we loved from origins, but still a decent and serviceable game. Dragon Age Inquisition: Bro, what are you doing? There’s a decent game in there somewhere but it’s clogged up with so many bad decisions in development that it’s hard to deny that this franchise fell off completely.
@@killiskey it was fine but best?are we talking cod style fps?because wolfenstein is better in almost every way,also titanfall 2 is superb,the metro games
I feel like the Warcraft series should be on this list. That game used to be my childhood. I would fondly remember the days where I would play Wacraft 2 and 3. Heck I would even make my own maps which basically started my love for game development. After the fiasco that is Warcraft Reforged, I feel like that series deserves new and more competent developers that will give it justice.
I don't think that Warcraft has gotten worse yet in the way that they intend though. It seems like the list is about series that got so much worse that they died. Warcraft isn't there yet. It still has a few years before Blizzard ruins it for good.
@@aurious5821right? Like you have 1, 2, and 3, then World. World of Warcraft itself could possibly fit the list under the guise of its expansions depending on who you ask they'd argue that the single game has gotten worse with expansions. But the franchise itself has only gotten better.
Bro!, you nailed the coffin on these games! Very nice selection and when you talk about them it's so true when the franchise started going down hill because that's exactly when I started to feel that way as well! 👍🏾
Dead Rising did brought back Frank in Dead Rising 2 Off the Record which had Frank the main character en added a sandbox mode which did help me learn about the game as I know I didn't know wha I was doin and learned that stuff respawn if exit and renter a level
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 on PS2 was my jam back in the day. Keeping the tricks linked with manuals was so immersive. Great memories with lots of non blinking and sweaty palms lol
Both were for the PS1. And manuals were only introduced in the second game ;-) But yes, I loved them too. Two years ago I got the platinum for the 1+2 remake (and it was MUCH harder than expected XD)
I had a lot of fun in dead rising 3. I loved the original dead rising too but hated how restrictive it was to complete fully. At least how I remember it. Keen to given Dead Rising 4 a go when it goes on special.
Dead Rising 3 was a great game. I would never call it a downgrade. Dead Rising 4 was absolutely a step back though. I am not sure what they were thinking.
@@stupid0244it felt more polished, but lacked any spirit of what the originals had. If anything, it was actually too easy compared to every other game.
I think the Tomb Raider games went down hill after the 1st 3. Lara was a tough strong willed explorer. They later turned her into a frightened girl who went partially psychotic lol. Good list gameranx
@@mephistovonfaust lmao yeah the HD reboot Lara didn't make sense a lot of the time, going head on into battle 1 seond then a wimpering puppy the next. The games are still great though, even for an Uncharted clone.
@@mephistovonfaust made sense in the reboot.. young and never killed anyone. Enjoyed that aspect. Reminded me a little bit of spec ops the line, where the characters mental state starts to change after repeated killings.
If Medal of Honor VR were to be expanded into a full PC/console release, I think it’d genuinely be a hit. Even getting it to PSVR would be awesome, but to see it with the power and fidelity of PS5/XSX/PC capabilities would be a wet dream come true.
6:45 the reasons why i don't like dead rising 4 is because one they removed the Psychopaths/bosses two you don't have cool combo cars and three the power suit you have looks like a power armor frame
@HALFSQUASHED That's a subjective opinion. Being able to drive around freely in a 3d city, not always in a race, Driver 1 invented that! Then they watched as GTA took their ideas and made it one of the biggest gaming franchises ever. While most people don't even know Driver went past a 2nd game...
Hey, Silent Hill Homecoming was my intro into the series and I LOVED it. Still do. I tried Downpour and I didn't care for it. Got to the part where there's a cop car going around a city block or something and kept dying. Didn't care enough to keep going. Plus it just didn't give the same vibes as Homecoming.
Regarding Fear 3 you said big publishers were making weird, out-of-touch, moves. Sounds like the entire 2020's so far. You might consider adding Far Cry to this list in another video.
Really hopeful for a reboot of the Dead Rising franchise. The original game is what made me buy a Xbox 360. Hope JezCorden is correct and Capcom is reviving the franchise.
1. Metal Gear: Konami tried to push out a copy-paste of MGS5, got caught, went back to making arcade machines. No word from the series since. 2. Mass Effect: Development of a flagship series handed off to an inexperienced team. Andromdea support dropped almost immediately after launch. Series been in limbo ever since. 3. Dynasty Warriors: Fell off and is a shell of its former self. 4. Star Wars: Battlefront: Had two good games from the early 2000's, got rebooted by EA into one without most of the content and a second that landed EA in court. DICE fixed BF2 but then EA pulled the plug because it wasn't a live service anymore. 5. Battlefield: Peaked at Battlefield One. Devs attacked fans who questioned series choices going as far to way 'just don't play it' and the most recent release was missing basic FPS features like scoreboards. 6. Fallout: Peaked at Fallout: New Vegas and has been chasing the high ever since. 7. Command And Conquer: One of the best strategy game series of all time was turned into a mobile cash grab. 8. Diablo: Diablo Immortal and Diablo 4. Need I say more?
ngl, if you try diablo immortal and think of it "as a game in the diablo universe" it makes more sense. They clearly used it as a push to see what they could get away with with different audiences. Overall, its not bad. Rest of it 100% agree, especially C&C That's why I stopped playing RTS games.
Fear 3 is a weird one for me because it was the first one I actually played. My friend let me borrow his copy so that was the first one I got to try. After that I played the rest of the series and read into all lore and everything. I still think it has one of the scariest moments in the franchise… ladder
As far as Ninja Gaiden goes, Nioh 2 is kind of a successor to that. Hell, it's got a ninja skill tree, Izuna Drop, and you can even make your character look like Ryu.
The reboot only has two mainline entries. You can skip Youngblood it's a dumpster fire on the flip side it's a spinoff Wolfenstien got the better end of the stick
The New Colossus wasn't really that bad - a bit predictable and sometimes it missed out on the opportunity to present the monsters it was throwing at you - like you destroyed them and only caught a glimpse of their intricate design while they were in one piece, because of hiding behind obstacles most of the time.
@@CobraFat2000 I don’t think it was bad really I just didn’t have interest in finishing it and I loved the new order. This comment is more about the entries after those which I’ve heard are terrible.
@@justinc5151 I sometimes admire people who are capable of just walking away from a game without finishing it. Especially if they don't even hate it. Feels very badass.
Interesting note about Dead Rising 4: Capcom Japan even spoke out against it and apologized to the fans over it. They closed the studio behind it, tried to salvage it, but there just wasn't anything they could do about it. It was made by people who just didn't understand Dead Rising. Dead Rising 1 and 2 were made by Capcom Japan, 3 and 4 were Western Studios. I think 4 specifically was Ontario? 3 probably was too.
The last two Splinter Cells for me. Assassin’s Creed’s success really played a role I feel. They tried fixing it in Blacklist but not enough, the soul of the franchise was already altered. Not to mention that whole releasing Michael Ironside nonsense too.
I remembered thinking Double Agent was dumbed down until Conviction came out. Never thought I'd actually prefer playing DA 😂. I never tried black list though. I may have to go back to that
@@swishfish8858 Yeah I hear ya. The whole essence of the game was altered. Hopefully in the future they might release something close to the earlier games, hopefully lol
@@TheForbidden_1ne Yeah DA was a bit of a dramatical leap for Sam's character lol. Didn't like that one as much either, then they went ahead and did a similar thing with Conviction. Blacklist was better i must say, but the series was too compromised at that point, in my opinion lol.
@@beveon "compromised" is definitely a nicer word than I would've used but is accurate. Conviction took the series and story in such a bad direction. I kinda wish they'd hit the refresh button on this franchise and start back at square 1
I think its worth mentioning the game Skate when talking about tony hawk. It kinda came in doing things differently, and suddenly tony hawj had direct competition
mass effect would be a perfect entry to this list considering andromeda basically butchered the reputation that helped the original games established what is regarded to be 1 of the greatest gaming trilogies of all time and while they announced a new game, it's hard to have confidence in the next mass effect game considering just how negative of a reputation bioware has now
Yeah, I thought it'd be in the video. But the problem is, it didn't get worse over time. It was more abrupt. ME1,2,3 all have their fans and are all awesome. And then we got Andromeda... Maybe Dragon Age would fit better for this video. But then again, DA:I wasn't that bad.
NFS: Was great with Hot Pursuit, Underground 1 and 2 and then peaked in 2005 with Most Wanted, then Carbon was still good but definitely not on the same level, then it went completely downhill with some small ups in between like Hot Pursuit 2010, but even that had a lot of issues. Heat was the exception, the most fun I've had in any NFS since MW 2005
I was totally looking for this comment.😂 I agree with most of what you say. For me the best in their worst period was a NFS (2015). I liked Playback and Heat too, but totally hated the last one. We need something at the level of Underground 2 or the original MW.
The saints row reboot could have actually been so good but no they went and fucked that up too. And their interaction with fans who criticised the game was appalling "haters gonna hate" yeah? Well now look at you. Your whole studio got shut down, congrats 👏🏻
I guess this is what it means to be an old grump in 2024. It used to be "Damn kids, get off my lawn." --- Now, it's "Damn kids, show respect to old video games."
What I don’t like about NG post 2000s is how they try give Ryu a new lady over Irene. Though I never played the games, through Nintendo Power magazines and other sources, they were legit pairings, then came other games that tried to give him women other than her. Never liked that decision.
For me, it's the Saints Row franchise that got worse. The 1st 3 games were amazing, and I can replay those games all day long but 4, gat out of hell and the recent Saints Row remake or revitalize version just wasn't it, I tried to defend the most recent one but it's just a massive disappointment.
THPS3 was easily my favorite even after starting with the series from day one. The original excuse was Bam's face rendering for why 3 wasn't remastered. Such a shame to let it die like that since I lost my N64 years ago
What a lame excuse, lmao. Just pull the guy, replace him with some modern gimmick skater if you've got the time and budget. I'd take the big dude with the beanie on the Neversoft team, loved that guy
It wasn't the biggest series but at least in the hood where i grew up the Def jam games were the shit, tight fighting, cool rappers, nice customization, the first game, vendetta, was absolute fuego, def jam ffny expanded its catalog of playable characters and added some better graphics and a few new mechanics and then def Jam icon came out, scrapped the whole blazing moves system that made the game so unique and cool in my opinion and they gutted it and made a basic ass fighting game with the ability to, and i shit you not, " dj scratch the air and influence the environment " the series died the day icon got released
I think that Perfect Dark Zero had a couple of things going for it to be so disliked. One is that expectations were so high because of the original, but also because as you say it was touted as a next gen experience when in reality it was an original Xbox game that was given higher resolution textures and some lighting effects to be brought to the 360.
Odessey was so bad. Too big, the naval combat is worst than Black Flag, too many pointless side questa, shitty romance system, terrible characters, and so many bugs and glitches.
In case anyone needs the list written out because they need a record of everything (like me): 10. Perfect Dark 9. Fear 8. Saint's Rw 7. Dead Rising 6. Ninja Gaiden 5. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. Medal of Honor 3. Duke Nukem 2. Mega Man X 1. Silent Hill
@@Lawrence_Talbot cause they still pretty good franchise idk about the new Halo but I enjoyed the heck out of the new assassin's creed formula, my favorite definitely is still 2 and brotherhood but still.
Gotta add Call of Duty to that list as well.. IMO Battlefield has only ever had 1 not so good game and that being the most recent one, the rest have been quite good but everyone has their own opinion.
I clicked on this mainly because I was curious to see which of these I had played in the past. It turns out that I have played none of them. I suppose the reason is that they are all action games, and I'm not a fan of action games unless they are really easy and have something else besides action going on. Other types of games have experienced franchise rot too. Two of my old favorites that still pain me to this day are SimCity and Ultima. SimCity went from strength to strength beginning with the first game and culminating with SimCity 4. Then, it went off in a different direction with Societies (which old fans did not like) and then it crashed and burned with the disastrous launch of SimCity 2013. Cities: Skylines ended up being the spiritual successor, but with the disastrous launch of Cities: Skylines 2, maybe history is repeating itself. Ultima went through some strange experiments in the earlier games, but the series really found its footing with Ultima IV, and it continued to have strong entries through both parts of Ultima VII, the spin-offs of Ultima VI, and the Underworld games. Then, Ultima VIII came along, and with it, the full expression of the malign influence of Electronic Arts. It introduced action elements (which were not appreciated by the long time nerdy fans who don't have reflexes), including some very clumsy platforming (which was fortunately made somewhat less bad in an update). On top of that, it released in a buggy and unfinished state, and the expansion, which might have fixed some of the problems, was canceled. There are good ideas at its core, but its execution is mixed. Then, Ultima IX was a disaster. It got into development hell, and then the developers focused too much on the new 3-D engine and the graphics, and as a result, there isn't much game. It was a rushed out, buggy mess, and it was the end of the main line of the franchise. (The spin-off Ultima Online was successful, but it was never relevant to me since I have no interest in online games.) As for more recent franchises, I fear that Fallout is on this trajectory, and Elder Scrolls could be too. Fallout 4 is a mess in many ways but still has enough good points to be worth playing with mods. The launch disaster of Fallout 76 and the negative responses to Starfield do not leave me with much hope for future Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. If there is to be a follow-up to this video (and there should be, since the game industry has been littered with franchise rot almost from the start), it would be nice to see it branch out into different genres.
You talk as if you are an expert on games. However, the fact is that you just wrote off an entire genre of games as bad just because ‘I am not a fan of action’. That means you think most games are beneath you, which means your views about games are generally gonna be hot takes. In other words, your views will be off track for the most part. Until you can learn to be more open to other types of games instead of just sticking to your small bubble, I suggest that you hold off on expressing your views. You’re not as insightful as you think you are, Ms. ‘I’m too good for action games’.
Sports games are probably too easy of a target. Granted, I haven't played *every* installment, but Madden, MLB The Show, and NASCAR Heat have gotten increasingly disappointing every year.
The 2010 game was the only one I played and I loved it. It was my first ever console game so I’ll always remember it being fun but also challenging in certain spots
Tho I've only played the 1st game, I've heard the Lost Planet series dropped off after Extreme Condition, AKA the first game. The multiplayer of the sequel is enjoyed to my knowledge, but the single player stuff I'm unsure of due to not playing it. While Lost Planet 3, which I have access to on PS Plus Premium, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. I've heard people weren't very happy with it, and the slightly more horror-ish angle they went with it... and now the series is officially dead. Kinda sad, cuz I do actually enjoy Lost Planet more than Capcom's other popular IP, the Monster Hunter series. So it's unfortunate that we might not see another entry anytime soon, even in a remake form.
I'll put the Call of Duty franchise on this list somewhere. To me these games died when they went all futuristic on us. I stopped actively playing after Black Ops 2 in 2012. The last good series of Call of Duty games to me was the original Modern Warfare Series.
Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Command & Conquer, Dynasty Warrior, Fifa, Arkham, Battlefield... Pretty much every franchise that gradually faded from our view.
I was going to say Dynasty Warriors, as a kid to an adult, I played EVERY DW game ever made outside of the first. Even the empires, Xtremes and the Orochi series. Once I heard what 9 was and the reviews for it that's when I didn't buy it and was sadden to hear , a series I literally grew up on and had fond memories playing coop on with buddies, was finally dead + radically changed. Hoping, even if it's more of the same, when 10 comes out if it does, it's the old formula and can be mindless joy again though haha
Assassins Creed... Ohh dear..
Assasins creed was never good to begin with.
Assassin's Creed was amazing untill Odyssey. The last two really killed it
Then why did it get game of the year nominations???? Assassin's creed is amazing you just suck at those games.
@@kingjabonYou don’t like Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood or Black Flag?
@@mtnman8783I personally liked Odyssey but I kinda get it. Now Valhalla was GARBAGE.
Nice video Jake, how about a video with 10 games that saved their franchises from a bad streak of releases
I second this!
That would be quite nice actually
There’re not any 😂
Can you give an example? I’m genuinely curious as i can’t think of any
@@FatherDinny I heard Sonic Frontiers was regarded a good game
Assassin's Creed? Mass Effect? Halo? Gears of War? Crackdown? We definitely need a part 2 to this video.
Forgot postal
Call of duty lol
Remember, for every game that didn't get any continuation but you wish had one, there's an extremely big chance that, had that continuation happened, it would end up in this list.
Dude you're so correct you don't realize just how right you are. You just retorted every single "I wish this got a sequel" bot comment ever. Good stories know when to end and stay ended
Now what about half life 2
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Things are different if it ends on a literal cliffhanger
Nah, midnight club 5 would have been amazing
It's still a shame that Rockstar didn't release a new one
@@XnerzTheNerd Valve themselves didn't think any of the prototypes lived up to their standards which is the reason why we don't have HL3.
Notice how so many franchises seemed to peaked around the mid 2000's. I think it's because gaming was a growing industry but not quite as large as it is now. It was more about building and growing franchises than appeasing shareholders. I consider myself lucky that I was a teenager at that time and got to experience that era at that age.
I think it's because gaming was for enthusiasts until 2010 or so, then it became mainstream and casual. Games used to be hard and interesting, now they're mostly bland and easy. At least the ones from major developers. Lucky for us we have a huge indie game market these days, thanks to holy Gaben.
guess what became popular around that time... social media. gaming was a relatively niche market that didn't have a huge following aside from actual gamers. then social media became a thing and all the casuals were introduced to gaming. it went from niche to mainstream in a few years. the thing with niche markets is that quality is paramount. selling bad quallity to a small audience has huge reprecusions. selling bad quality to a massive audience not as much. I think that is why gaming sucks these days.
Maybe you and Jake are just similar in age and are both the same level of jaded? Honestly even the "bad games" that release these days are more fun than the games of our youth, nostalgia is just a powerful thing
@@contramundi1 except 2o23 was probably the best year of gaming the industry has every had. Hogwarts legacy, Jedi survivor, tears of the kingdom, starfield, resident evil 4, Alan Wake 2, balfurs gate 3, spiderman 2, etc and I know I'm forgetting several great games from last year.
The people that complain about the state of the gaming industry today vs 30 years ago is just an anhedonic curmudgeon wearing rose covered glasses and disillusioning themselves with the nostalgia. video games were not a niche market in the 90s and 00s, there's a reason the PS2 is still the best selling console of all time even though it was the PS3 generation that was introduced with social media. It only seemed niche to you at the time because you were a child. Gaming doesn't suck today, your ability to enjoy things in life does though
@@Scribz1212 starfield lol. Easily one of the worst games.
You have to remember for saint's row,they were trying to get away from the "GTA clone" image that they unexpectedly gained when it was first released. For Ninja Gaiden and Dead Rising,they just had trouble with the new ideas and directions they tried
An image created by the media. 🤦🏽♂️ Any damn game with free roam that lets you commit crime will be labeled the same. It's dumb.
@@SpaceGhostMars94 Not really,it's that now a days it's easier for companies to sue one other over copyright laws
In a world where a franchise like Dark Souls has taken off and become so beloved, I'm genuinely surprised that Ninja Gaiden hasn't re-emerged. The controls for that game felt a little clunky and the enemies and level design were incredibly unforgiving, but much like dark souls, once you kind of figured things out and stuff clicked into place you were like "Actually, this has to be one of the best action games I've ever played."
Literally. My cousin was stuck on this horse rider boss, I def can’t remember who they were, but I remember beating the boss after just a few tries. One of the funnest fucking games.
Because the creator was out and the team left were the ones that made Ninja Gaiden 3 and that was trash. Since then they made Nioh and that is way more successful than Ninja Gaiden ever was. Now they are making Rise of the Ronin. So Ninja Gaiden is probably a low priority for them.
Since you mentioned FromSoft games, Sekiro is probably better than any Ninja Gaiden resurrection would ever be. Though I'm not sure FromSoft will ever make it a series, so maybe it would have been nice...
Ninja Gaiden Black is still highly playable.
I'd rather have a new tenchu game than a new ninja Gaiden. As other have said there's much better successors to ninja Gaiden. Tenchu hasn't really had any kind of successor.
What about the demo for that one silent hill game where you just kept going through the same room over and over again but each time it just basically got more creepy and threw new things at you? I think it was PT?
What about it
That was never released
It's P.T. and I would assume because it was never released? I don't know. There was quite a few games in these series they glossed over. Kind of odd.
Honourable mentions should include Stronghold, Total War, Brothers in Arms, and Fifa
I think fifa starting to include a story is quite a good next step. Yeah the story isn't great, but I'm happy they're trying it and the manager mode keeps improving
Unfortunately fifa was destined to eventually be bad once EA realized that the fans of that game will drop ungodly amounts of money on players
What, Hell's Highway is the best one. Also, FIFA is still really good just lacking any innovation.
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I think he’s referencing the cancelled Brothers in Arms game where it went Team Fortress 2
I don't play sports games and I'm not a FIFA person, but that's a good pick. That series has evolved so poorly that even I know about it, and like I just said, I'm not a sports gamer and I'm not a FIFA person, but the series has gone so downhill that even gamers like me know to steer their sporty friends away from it.
we're in an era of remakes so fuck it, I'd love to see a Deadrising 1 remake, I was too scared as a kid to leave the first couple sections of the mall and reset after every 72 hours just killing shit so fun
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That I'd love to see It's to the point I'd try editing and make a remake from scratch since the guy who did the hit and run remake did that I'd just wouldn't be able to release it
A dead rising remake is my dream, it doesn't need one but with the revivals and remakes Capcom has done for its other franchises over the last 5-ish years, it'd be extremely interesting to see how they tackle this one.
I would love a Dead Rising remake because i have tried giving the game a go multiple times since it released over the years and every time I stop playing about an hour in and don't return. I absolutely despise the gameplay loop and the actual gameplay itself too, way too floaty
I agree and same here, i beat it eventually as a young teen but i was intimidated way back then to play it due to the timer, small windows to save everyone and difficulty, for my age at the time. But I feel if they added coop, for you and a buddy to roll through the campaign together, would be a fun option too as I know they didnt do coop until like 2 or 3
Man, most of that list had me going "Oh yeah I remember this!....oh...yeah....that happened..."
I remember going to a launch event for Perfect Dark Zero, even as a pre-teen, I knew that something was wrong with it. Was blown away by the 360s graphics, but I just knew Perfect Dark was a stinker.
I'm surprised Command & Conquer wasn't on this list. My favorite campaign was Red Alert 2, and favorite Skirmish mode was Generals Zero Hour. After C&C 3: Tiberium Wars, it went downhill fast. RA3 was too kitchy, and C&C4 was not only a departure from the C&C framework gameplay wise, the story ended with such a dud.
I was a huge fan on MOH back in the day and replayed Allied Assault and Pacific Assault so many times.
C&C serie actually had a decent run in RTS until C&C 3 showed up. It's a franchise that started in '95. C&C 3 wasn't their first failure in the franchise tho: Renegade comes to mind.
Tiberium wars was solid imo. Maybe not as good as red alert 2 and generals and such but still solid game. Ra3 and anything after that is just garbage
@@NexuJin Wouldn't really count Renegade though. First off it is actually kinda fun and it is a spinoff not part of the mainline games. But damn i miss good C&C, i played the shit out of Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge back in the day.
And let's not talk about the mobile one...
The sequel to MoH Allied Assault was Call of Duty. Seriously, the team that made Allied Assault started Infinity Ward and made Call of Duty. They even ran on the same engine.
Also yeah, Red Alert 2 was my favorite. Also where I started getting into game modding. My game had nuclear cows.
Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge are absolutely goated games and I've never found anything that scratches that itch since. If anyone's got suggestions I'm down, just don't tell me age of empires 😂 that's so whack
If you follow the development of fear 2 and 3 it will make some more sense. The companies that made the original fear split and both had the rights to the title and they both started working in fear 2 simultaneously. The fear 2 we know came out first and then the other company completely bought the rights and made their fear 2 into "f3ar". Fear 3 is a reworked game forced to be a sequel to 2 instead of 1.
FEAR 2 that we got was good.
I honestly feel that this is true for most big franchises. There are so many games I can instantly think of without having watched the video: Halo, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Diablo 4, Gears of War. All the latest games pale compared to earlier entries.
Look, i never played any of those games you mention with the exception of Diablo 4, and i have played Diablo 3 and let me tell you something, its an unpopular opinion but i think Diablo 4 is so much better. I bought it in new years, and i can't stop playing. It's honestly so good, that i honestly don't understand why people hate it so much. It's one of the best video games i have ever played. Cut scene wise it's the best game i have ever played. Now i haven't ranked it yet on my all time list of favourite games, but from the top of my head is for sure gonna fall down between 2nd best and 5th best.
@@alexandrenabais6053 I'm talking about Diablo 2. I don't really care about 3.
@@alexandrenabais6053Diablo 4 is awesome. People just like to complain for no reason
The most recent Halo is excellent, as is Diablo 4
@@ShaneDanger42069 I'd day that's very debatable. I found the open world in Halo Infinite to be fairly boring. From what I've read they improved multiplayer a lot, by that point I already lost interest. Diablo 4 has an incredible art style, a great soundtrack and the combat mechanics are fun, but the character builds are lackluster compared to D2 where you could do some really whacky things with the correct gear. I haven't played D4 since season 1. Maybe now it has more depth.
11:25 frontline was amazing. The D-Day landing and the build up to it was great. Riding the boat during the credits was filled with suspense and then the ramp drops!
first FPS I ever played. I remember being so hyped that my dad finally let me play it. I'll never forget that game. incredible menu music
Same but with half life 2
Did this guy say Ninja Gaiden started in 2004? What? Games from the 80's don't count anymore?
@@nerdjournal Who said that?
Crackdown is the one for me on this list.
Had so much fun playing with friends, and then they got too ambitious. Development took too long, and even Terry Cruz couldn't save Crackdown 3.
I really enjoyed Crackdown 3 tbh
Man I loved crackdown
Crackdown 3 did get too ambitious then decided to go back to the basics last minute i still enjoyed it a lot because it was still crackdown a simple open world game to turn your brain off and play
That first Crackdown, the one developed by Real Time Worlds, was so much fun and filled with loads of creativity and memorable moments.
The first one was so good. I loved playing it.
COD should be number 1
100% hell, just give CoD all 10 spots!
Old cods are just looked back at with nostalgia. Every one of them are still active server wise but none of you guys have went back to playing them.
@@Unknownusername1004because they are full of hackers lol
@NastyGamer13 no they are dead games with less players than even concord had. If they were so great by today's standards the number of hackers would be minor compared to the actual player count. Black ops 2 which for some stupid ass reason everyone claims was the best had a player count of 500 the other day.
@@Unknownusername1004 it’s only open to Xbox. If you get on ps you run the risk of being hacked. They don’t keep up with the servers
I'd love a flip of this video, with game franchises that get better with each game. Great video as always :)
erm... persona?
RDR and GTA would definitely be on this list
Y-Y-Y-YAKUZA??
actually that’s probably pretty debatable but eh
The Witcher!
Gears of War. It kind of lost its horror aspect that the first game had, but can't deny the graphics and gameplay got better with each iteration and I personally enjoyed the stories more as they went on.
The thief series is biggest example I can think of that fell off a cliff.
I love both Deadly Shadows and Thief 2014.
@@charoleawood Me as well. I'm not sure where this recent 2014 Thief hate is coming from. I've seen a lot of videos and threads pop up about how it was so awful recently. And I don't really get it?
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Purists wanted to hate it from the start --- when it was shown off the dev said "We're doing our own Thief" and that sealed it.
No such hate was given to id for so drastically changing the Doom formula with 2016 and Eternal --- that it wasn't grandpa's Doom was a selling point there!
@@charoleawood dude? The 2016 was a return to the original formula BECAUSE everyone hated Doom 3, you need to do ur research cause Doom 2016 and Eternal ARE your grandpa's Doom lol like wut
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Yup, I surely remember having to execute enemies in order to get the ammo and health that spewed forth --- oh, wait, that never happened in Doom before.
Enemies being able to leap all around the stage and follow the player anywhere?
Nope! That wasn't there either.
As for Doom 3, I stand by what it did, I think it's superb.
Whether or not the changes to the Doom formula made by 2016 and Eternal were good isn't my issue, it's the double standard where Thief was unfairly criticized when it didn't really make such drastic changes as new Doom did.
Great video as always. Like to see more of that 🙂
THPS on PS1 was my first Tony Hawk game but after THPS 2 the series got weaker in my opinion... But I was so happy with the remake that really brought back memories of spending nights with my buddies trying to get the best runs 🤩
And I don't think that Dead Rising 3 was that bad... Played it more than part 4 actually 😅
thps 3&4 were good games too and it got better when underground came our thps underground 2 was the best in the series with all the added stuff you could do but after that it went downhill big time thps5 was garabage
NBA 2K. Ever since they added VC as a myCareer microtransaction, everything went super grindy. They also don't improve graphically on the PC. They put good gameplay features on hold so that they can add something 'new' to the next year release.
that doesn't mean its a dead franchise thats just means 2k i doing what every other games is doing making extra money off of us
@@AizenXCIX video says franchises that got worse, not franchises that died.
Really any sports game 2k, madden, WWE, fifa
Pro Evo. As a follow up to various ISS series and subseries; it really went after FIFA and was regularly getting better critical response. Something changed after they switched from numbered entries to years.
When they did the whole backing away from games thing, they still put Pro Evo titles out since it was almost guaranteed yearly income, but the actual games were bare minimum efforts, until the series died and they replaced it with the free-to-play eFootball
I totally agree! PES 13 was the peak for me.
I used to play Iss on the PlayStation 2 getting stoned playing it were fun 😂
I remember getting stuck on Kameo and then I played perfect dark zero and there’s an ad for Kameo on the game and it showed me the exact scene I was stuck on so I was able to go back onto Kameo to carry on the game. Bear in mind I was about 7 at the time so my recollection of the whole thing may be wonky
Filed under never happened , got it
Number 10 to 1 should be call of duty
Nah people complained about Cod fo years when there was no Need to and we finally got bad games with mw2 and mw3
@@valsok i never complained about older cods and I'd rather choose advanced warfare over the newer cods
@@PotatoGummy advanced warfare was goated
MW1-3, BO1-2, and WaW are CoD’s golden era
@@valsokbs everyone shit all over it when it released. The entire community is already trashing black ops 6 and even though that's the biggest section of cry babies in the community they're still tearing into it.
Crazy enough, I absolutely ADORED MoH 2010. I played the shit out of it online. I legit couldn't understand the hate for it and at one point, even thought that it was a troll campaign funded by activision to protect call of duty. It was just so much fun to me. Obviously, I can recognize that I am a very small outlier but damn, I still have incredible fondness for that MoH 2010 multiplayer.
I completely agree it was fun!
Stabbing was so violent in that game lol you could spam the knife and just stab people in the throat
I also played the crap out of that multi-player. Thought it was more challenging and fun than cod
I remember loving everything about the game. From the characters, to the way they dramatized it, The story, especially the controls. Damn did it play well. Some of the missions were legitimately memorable too. Like that Ranger ambush one is still one of my favorite SP shooter missions of all time. I remember being suuuuper disappointed in BF3 because they controls sucked, the story was awful, and it's only claim to fame was the duper HD uniform texture patch you could get...
The long range sniping levels were great. I appreciated it because they actually tried to give a proper nod to the modern military. Warfighter was rushed and were forced to use Frostbite so it turned into too much of a Battlefield clone. Which people just stuck with in the end. The driving level was annoying as hell.
Final Fantasy never returned to the heights it had in Squaresoft era. Those are still considered classics for a reason.
Silent Hill 1 is the one they should properly remake. That game scared the hell out of me when I was 13 back in 1999.
Mortal kombat should be on this list. Mk9 and x seemed like they were going in a great direction and than 11 and mk1 are such a step back. Only looks worse because sf6 and t8 are both really well done
You could see it starting back in Injustice 2, but NetherRealm is clearly now all about a stupid amount of ingame grinding for stuff, while pushing overpriced shop content and DLC.
Mortal kombat hasn't been good in a long time, they were doing great in ps2 days but then they turned around and went the other direction and made them button mashing and basic, yeah the graphics got better but the game play got worse
MK11 was great wym
@Tayte25 MK11 was NOT great lol neither was MK10
11 and 1 are great I prefer both gameplay and visuals personally just don’t really like the super repetitive feel of the krypt replacement
fun sad fact, the studio that made saints row VOLITION was closed at the end of last year or this one, the big ones decided to close the studio cause it wasn't making money and wasn't going to
Which is a shame they really could have made another red faction guerrilla styled game but I guess I'll just live on ignoring the existance of the final game 😅
@@hamilton2861 honestly the last game is pretty fun to play with friends but that's it, i'm flad they gave it for free en epic but yeah after agents of mayhem the studio was just on a timer, it was jus a matter of time
I remember getting FEAR on pc for my dad when I got it early at EBGames for some reason. I had it the week-end before launch. My dad played it over and over and I would often sit down next to him as played or restarted another run. He would smoke cigarettes and drink coffee with his teenager sitting next to him. It was the hobby we shared.
Im 37 and dad passed away from cancer in nov. 2022 at 67years young. He loved FPS, especially great ones like FEAR and Half life.
My condolences
Sorry to hear about your dad my dad loved fps too and gta and such my dad passed away from cancer too in September 2023 I am 30 almost 31 he passed away at 54 he was a awesome player he loved video games in gernal my dad and I played switch even when was bed ritten do to kemo treatments and such
@@Kelbeangirl93 my condolences, kelbeangirl !
@@p-o2938 thank you
Thanks for sharing that story, it's a good way to honour your loved ones.
Def Jam unfortunately with “Icon.” I still pray for a remake of Vendetta and FFNY with online and cross play. Maybe even a new entry with the old formula
I loved _Fight For NY_ as a kid. Christopher Judge (Teal'c, Kratos) as D-Mob and Snoop Dogg as Crow were iconic, and the story was actually really good for a relatively simple fighting game.
Unfortunately, boy is it clunky to play compared to modern standards.
@@TheRawrnstuffyeah.
Gameplay is a little rough now
same I loved FFNY
@@TheRawrnstuff to me it’s not really clunky but buttons can be mapped a little better when playing on an emulator. That AKI engine was something special
Still play FFNY from time to time on emulator. One of my favourite games ever
Love the video. I'm surprised Twisted Metal didn't get a mention in this list as it fell off the rails on the reboot.
The reboot was awesome
I can name 100 franchises that gotten worse. It is rare nowadays that games get better than their predecessors
Helldivers
Verdun series
Witcher series
Resident Evil.
tweakin off the meds @@chonkyseal7164
I agree with nearly all your points. My only disagreement is your take on Dead Rising. DR1 was groundbreaking, amazingly fun, and frustratingly hard all at the same time. Finding stuff around the mall and discovering how each handles in combat rewarded exploration. Having to keep up on a strict mission schedule was cool but felt overwhelming when coupled with all the side encounters and constant radio calls but honestly the whole time management thing was part of the charm of that entry. The main story being serious with survivor encounters being a grab bag of silly or brutal psycho made meeting them interesting and scary at the same time. Now if you ask me, DR2 did a lot of things right. It introduced the idea of combining weapons to make really cool and fun McGuiver style weapons which was a huge staple in zombie movies that no one realized was lacking in the formula until they had it. Transitioning the time management to focus on zombrex as well as being late helped mantain a sense of urgency while cutting down on the number of encounters to feel more manageable. The story was cool, focusing on a more personal story while also showing off what our society would be like once we became accustomed to the idea that zombies are just apart of everyday life now. DR2 introduced a lot of cool ideas and still maintained this identity of being stuck in a hopeless world, surrounded by tragedy and struggling strangers, where your only means of survival was dependent on your creativity. For me DR3 is where the framchise peaked. It made for an excellent launch title, showing off all sorts of cool ideas like the best smartglass integration of xbox games and vehicle combos. The graphics were amazing without bogging down the system and they introduced so many new weapon combinations with the ability to build them on the fly. The characters were a great balance of memorable, satire, and weird. The story was fun and well paced, had fun beats and was actually engaging. The leveling system was awesome because it actually was given depth beyond level milestone perks. It was just bursting with originality and good ideas. DR4 is where it kind of just gave up. There wasn't really anything new going on at all. No new ideas outside of a limited time exosuit that felt more uninspired than intended. Like they were trying to recapture the first game without understanding what made the series fun in the first place. It straight up has the same feeling as the saints row reboot.
Wait a minute WHAT is that intro song it sounds so familiar. Isn't that an Eliminate song?
Silent Hill: Homecoming was the first real "Horror" game I played, I was probably 10 or so when I played it. At the time it was beyond scary, and really stood out to me as weird and fun since I had no precedence for what makes a good Silent Hill game. I'll never go back to it again though to preserve those positive nostalgic vibes it gives me when it is brought up! Years later when I played Downpour, and with more horror under my belt, I definitely felt where people's disappointment came from. Ignorance truly is bliss sometimes!
Great episode Jake n crew!
It's possible you will still enjoy it, though. I definitely did, and I know what makes a good Silent Hill game. It wasn't a great Silent Hill game, but I still found a good amount of enjoyment in it, nonetheless.
Would like it *if* they release SH3 for modern consoles, including the Switch.
Homecoming was great. I will never understand the hate. Downpour was ok. The way everyone feels about Homecoming is how I feel about The Room. It had bad enemy design. The gorillas were just plain stupid. Ghosts were really bad. And just repetitive and tedious . How lazy was that to make you play the levels over with Walter chasing you. I couldn’t finish it. Nothing but fond memories go 5 though. Loved Scarlett. Definitely favorite SH boss fight
I’m the exact same way with ninja gaiden. I was around 10 and I only played ninja gaiden 3. I loved it, and it was different than most other things I had played at the time. If I went back and played the first 2 and then 3 I’d probably wind up hating 3, so I just wont do that lol.
@@knunn5171 oh snap! I nearly forgot about Scarlet. That boss fight was so fucked up and creepy and so fun at the same time.
tbh I don't feel sorry for Volition at all. When the announced the new Saints Row nearly all of their fan base literally said "Oh wait, this looks like its gonna suck". Then they went on a years long campaign of fighting and making fun of their fans on Twitter and other socials, so they kinda got what they deserved. Also Medal of Honor Rising Sun was phenomenal. The Pearl Harbor intro still lives in my head to this day and im nearly 30
Rising sun is one of my all time favourite games
Agreed. It's not like Volition put that game out without knowing what people were saying about it. It got badmouthed from the very start and they persisted in "no, you are all wrong, this will be awesome, shut up" then were surprised when everyone who said they thought it would suck said it sucked.
Different from even something like Aliens: Colonial Marines or even The Last of Us 2, which faced backlash for the opposite reason (devs outright lied in trailers to make the game look better or different to what it was), so players were taken by surprise when they got something they didn't like.
Nobody was surprised the Saints Row remake sucked, except Volition.
@@Banjo-Oz EXACTLY. I just really don't understand what the hell they were thinking when the entire fan base literally explained what they loved about the older games. They had the perfect formula in their hands, and the fans telling them that, and they just spit in our faces. Well, look what happened Volition!
I'm surprised Socom and Homefront weren't mentioned.
@@milliog-man1858 you are actually 10000% right. I loved the first two Socom games so much, and Homefront was solid for me!
Oh boy, so many to mention: call of duty, battlefield, international superstar soccer, contra, wolfestein, batman arkham, the list never ends. I'm actually impressed how Capcom managed to save Resident Evil out of the abyss it had fallen with 5 and 6, but at the same time I utterly hate Capcom for the treatment they gave to other great franchises like Breath of Fire, MegaMan and Viewtiful Joe, those really deserve better.
Agreed. Shame that they did not mention these huge franchises. As a huge fan of sports games, I'd add Nba, fifa and madden to the list
How did batman arkham get worse?
Capcom is sitting on gold and doing nothing with it.
If I was a billionaire I would probably fund a remake of the RE Outbreak series
That game came out at the wrong time
@@oldgregg86. I suppose if you count Suicide Squad since it does take place in the Arkhamverse, then yeah that’s a massive step down in quality for sure. I know people were sour on Batman Arkham Knight because of the over reliance on the Batmobile (which is greatly over exaggerated imo) and some elements of the plot like the Arkham Knight’s identity not being completely satisfying, but goddamn if that game wasn’t made with so much heart and passion and otherwise perfects pretty much everything else the Arkham games did up to that point.
Oof thanks for reminding me that I need more Megaman.
Related to number 10 where where I miss Dishonored so much that I might even try Deathloop to see how it is but ik it won't be completely the same it's just I really love going back to Dishonored especially Dishonored 2
I remember one of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun producer’s describing a trip to location as ‘pure hell’. The irony of people having to spend far longer there whilst fighting and dying was totally lost on him.
You can appreciate how hard someone else had it while also hating your own experience, you know.
@@swishfish8858 Totally agree, but the guy made absolutely no reference to the history that had led him there.
I actually had a lot of fun with Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. Though if I'm honest the best thing about it was it came with a Max Payne demo 😎
For me, for the Saints Row games it was the fourth one, I'd get quite far but it doesn't matter how many times I start over, I end up losing complete interest in the game, I think it was because there were way too many side missions, with some getting really hard and the red door story mission being glitched so I could never get all the achievements. The insane amount blue lights you had to go to and the false sense of security it gave you that the game might be broken in this area too so you always feel it might end up being impossible to get them all.
If you go into it with the attitude that it was supposed to be a saints row 3 dlc and not a sequel it’s pretty fun. Or at least I thinks that it was supposed to be a dlc. And I played some of the mission but the open world and the powers are really fun to dick around with.
If you ever revisit this topic: Breath of Fire. 1 though 4 were great, kept on theme while exploring new ideas and other kinds of systems to use. Then you got to 5: Dragon Quarter. Complete shift in from fantasy to post apocalyptic, limited magic, turning into a dragon actually starts a game over timer making you have to restart the game multiple times to get more time as a dragon. Then there's the old RE style of saving, just this time with a payphone and coins. Ugh. Ruined the series. There was a 6, but it was a Japan only MMO kind of deal. I wish they would remake the old games with today's graphics.
And the box art for 5 Dragon Quarter was complete ass. I remember as a kid passing over it multiple times at my local Blockbuster. Compare that box art to BoF 1 and 2. It's such a fall from grace that it's hilarious.
A personal one for me which almost made me cry.. Sacred. The second game was so insanely addictive, huge, fun, customizable, you could easily spent hundreds of hours in it.. and then Sacred 3 came out and.. it wasn't Sacred
Playing through Sacred 2 for my first time right now and yeah like what the hell happened with 3? It was so bad that I never even bothered to check out the other games till recently. Glad I am because Sacred 2 is amazing
Dragon Age… fell off.
Dragon Age: Origins - classic, never better.
Dragon Age 2: not what we loved from origins, but still a decent and serviceable game.
Dragon Age Inquisition: Bro, what are you doing? There’s a decent game in there somewhere but it’s clogged up with so many bad decisions in development that it’s hard to deny that this franchise fell off completely.
Medal of Honor (2010) is a top tier game that was overlooked. Biggest problem Warfighter had was netcode which they took too long to fix.
No the hell it wasn’t, the multi was simple yet fun, but the campaign was ass, budget CoD campaign wannabe.
I thought the big thing that put Warfighter down was the controversy surrounding playable Taliban fighters?
@@Lajos_KelemenMoh 2010 campaign is the best campaign to ever feature in an fps game. Saying it's a cod wannabe is just copium
@@killiskey it was fine but best?are we talking cod style fps?because wolfenstein is better in almost every way,also titanfall 2 is superb,the metro games
I feel like the Warcraft series should be on this list. That game used to be my childhood. I would fondly remember the days where I would play Wacraft 2 and 3. Heck I would even make my own maps which basically started my love for game development. After the fiasco that is Warcraft Reforged, I feel like that series deserves new and more competent developers that will give it justice.
Sounds an awful lot like you're just stuck on the nostalgia..
Warcraft got better with every addition besides the remake, do not see how that could fit this list
I don't think that Warcraft has gotten worse yet in the way that they intend though. It seems like the list is about series that got so much worse that they died. Warcraft isn't there yet. It still has a few years before Blizzard ruins it for good.
Same
@@aurious5821right? Like you have 1, 2, and 3, then World. World of Warcraft itself could possibly fit the list under the guise of its expansions depending on who you ask they'd argue that the single game has gotten worse with expansions. But the franchise itself has only gotten better.
Bro!, you nailed the coffin on these games! Very nice selection and when you talk about them it's so true when the franchise started going down hill because that's exactly when I started to feel that way as well! 👍🏾
Instantly thought of Ubi's multiple ball-drops.
And let's not even get me started on the Call of Duty franchise 😅
They keep teasing beyond good and
Evil but nonthing follows up.😂
CoD was never that great
@@mygetawayartCOD World at War would like a word with you
@@lesterbronson2385 lol please 🤣🤣
Far Cry.
My simcity should be on this list, EA just... ruined everything
Dead Rising did brought back Frank in Dead Rising 2 Off the Record which had Frank the main character en added a sandbox mode which did help me learn about the game as I know I didn't know wha I was doin and learned that stuff respawn if exit and renter a level
I was anticipating you to include the Dynasty Warriors series!
My favorite series. Gonna make a man cry.
I still play on my PS2. So sad it went downhill
Yeah, I loved warriors orochi first though.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 on PS2 was my jam back in the day. Keeping the tricks linked with manuals was so immersive. Great memories with lots of non blinking and sweaty palms lol
Both were for the PS1. And manuals were only introduced in the second game ;-)
But yes, I loved them too. Two years ago I got the platinum for the 1+2 remake (and it was MUCH harder than expected XD)
I just downloaded that on my Xbox
They were the days 👌
Ninja Gaiden being here and not Tenchu is criminal
I had a lot of fun in dead rising 3. I loved the original dead rising too but hated how restrictive it was to complete fully. At least how I remember it. Keen to given Dead Rising 4 a go when it goes on special.
Dead Rising 3 was a great game. I would never call it a downgrade. Dead Rising 4 was absolutely a step back though. I am not sure what they were thinking.
@@stupid0244it felt more polished, but lacked any spirit of what the originals had.
If anything, it was actually too easy compared to every other game.
I loved dead rising 3 but 4 was terrible! It had no heart, botched the ending and then put the true ending behind a pay wall!
I recall thinking Tony Hawks Project 8 was really fun. I never hear it brought up tho.
2:08 This was an exciting time for games. Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo and Call of Duty 2 blew me away with their graphics on the 360.
I think the Tomb Raider games went down hill after the 1st 3. Lara was a tough strong willed explorer. They later turned her into a frightened girl who went partially psychotic lol. Good list gameranx
They got better again with the reboot trilogy though, regardless of her being scared one second and an absolute killing machine the next.
@@mephistovonfaust lmao yeah the HD reboot Lara didn't make sense a lot of the time, going head on into battle 1 seond then a wimpering puppy the next. The games are still great though, even for an Uncharted clone.
@@mephistovonfaust made sense in the reboot.. young and never killed anyone. Enjoyed that aspect. Reminded me a little bit of spec ops the line, where the characters mental state starts to change after repeated killings.
@@PressuredComedy sure but the way she went from being a scared girl to super soldier was a bit sudden.
Other than that great games
@@Nitroh-uh Uncharted is a Tomb Raider clone, Tomb Raider is way older than Uncharted.
If Medal of Honor VR were to be expanded into a full PC/console release, I think it’d genuinely be a hit. Even getting it to PSVR would be awesome, but to see it with the power and fidelity of PS5/XSX/PC capabilities would be a wet dream come true.
6:45 the reasons why i don't like dead rising 4 is because one they removed the Psychopaths/bosses two you don't have cool combo cars and three the power suit you have looks like a power armor frame
I will always remember how next level it felt to use the laptop gun as a wall mounted sentry back in the day when I first played Perfect Dark.
Awesome list. Please add "Driver" franchise!
Driver is a great add! My other series was Crackdown.
Doesn't make sense on this list though as The 5th game in the franchise (Driver San Francisco) is the best game of the lot!
@HALFSQUASHED That's a subjective opinion.
Being able to drive around freely in a 3d city, not always in a race, Driver 1 invented that!
Then they watched as GTA took their ideas and made it one of the biggest gaming franchises ever.
While most people don't even know Driver went past a 2nd game...
Hey, Silent Hill Homecoming was my intro into the series and I LOVED it. Still do. I tried Downpour and I didn't care for it. Got to the part where there's a cop car going around a city block or something and kept dying. Didn't care enough to keep going. Plus it just didn't give the same vibes as Homecoming.
Regarding Fear 3 you said big publishers were making weird, out-of-touch, moves. Sounds like the entire 2020's so far. You might consider adding Far Cry to this list in another video.
I think far cry is ok, 5 was good, but new dawn and 6 are terrible. They're not really doing the worst, but aren't great either.
We appreciate your videos. Thanks gameranx team!
Really hopeful for a reboot of the Dead Rising franchise. The original game is what made me buy a Xbox 360. Hope JezCorden is correct and Capcom is reviving the franchise.
1. Metal Gear: Konami tried to push out a copy-paste of MGS5, got caught, went back to making arcade machines. No word from the series since.
2. Mass Effect: Development of a flagship series handed off to an inexperienced team. Andromdea support dropped almost immediately after launch. Series been in limbo ever since.
3. Dynasty Warriors: Fell off and is a shell of its former self.
4. Star Wars: Battlefront: Had two good games from the early 2000's, got rebooted by EA into one without most of the content and a second that landed EA in court. DICE fixed BF2 but then EA pulled the plug because it wasn't a live service anymore.
5. Battlefield: Peaked at Battlefield One. Devs attacked fans who questioned series choices going as far to way 'just don't play it' and the most recent release was missing basic FPS features like scoreboards.
6. Fallout: Peaked at Fallout: New Vegas and has been chasing the high ever since.
7. Command And Conquer: One of the best strategy game series of all time was turned into a mobile cash grab.
8. Diablo: Diablo Immortal and Diablo 4. Need I say more?
ngl, if you try diablo immortal and think of it "as a game in the diablo universe" it makes more sense. They clearly used it as a push to see what they could get away with with different audiences. Overall, its not bad.
Rest of it 100% agree, especially C&C That's why I stopped playing RTS games.
ME died with ME3 and was killed off with Andromeda. I’m legitimately upset about what’s going to happen with ME4
I want a Dante's inferno remaster, remake or whatever.
Who gives a f... what you want.
@@johnaustin209 yo mama
@@vicrattlehead5051 Move along kid, adults are talking.
@@johnaustin209 uh my mama...I think
@@ANCIENTxDEATH IDGAF.
Fear 3 is a weird one for me because it was the first one I actually played. My friend let me borrow his copy so that was the first one I got to try. After that I played the rest of the series and read into all lore and everything. I still think it has one of the scariest moments in the franchise… ladder
As far as Ninja Gaiden goes, Nioh 2 is kind of a successor to that. Hell, it's got a ninja skill tree, Izuna Drop, and you can even make your character look like Ryu.
I actually never played the Nioh games. I'll have to give them a go now
@@TheForbidden_1ne great games but very different from ng. Diablo style loot, no air combat, rpg skills, sould style level design...
But they're very Soulslike inspired. You can't really play Nioh like Ninja Gaiden jumping from enemy to the next doing air combos etc.
The Wolfenstein reboot. The new order was amazing, I couldn’t even finish the new colossus and I’ve heard the ones after that are even worse.
The reboot only has two mainline entries. You can skip Youngblood it's a dumpster fire on the flip side it's a spinoff Wolfenstien got the better end of the stick
The New Colossus wasn't really that bad - a bit predictable and sometimes it missed out on the opportunity to present the monsters it was throwing at you - like you destroyed them and only caught a glimpse of their intricate design while they were in one piece, because of hiding behind obstacles most of the time.
@@CobraFat2000 I don’t think it was bad really I just didn’t have interest in finishing it and I loved the new order. This comment is more about the entries after those which I’ve heard are terrible.
@@justinc5151 I sometimes admire people who are capable of just walking away from a game without finishing it. Especially if they don't even hate it. Feels very badass.
Interesting note about Dead Rising 4: Capcom Japan even spoke out against it and apologized to the fans over it. They closed the studio behind it, tried to salvage it, but there just wasn't anything they could do about it. It was made by people who just didn't understand Dead Rising. Dead Rising 1 and 2 were made by Capcom Japan, 3 and 4 were Western Studios. I think 4 specifically was Ontario? 3 probably was too.
The last two Splinter Cells for me. Assassin’s Creed’s success really played a role I feel. They tried fixing it in Blacklist but not enough, the soul of the franchise was already altered. Not to mention that whole releasing Michael Ironside nonsense too.
I did really like Blacklist, but I agree that it didn't do enough to bring the franchise back from the brink. :(
I remembered thinking Double Agent was dumbed down until Conviction came out. Never thought I'd actually prefer playing DA 😂. I never tried black list though. I may have to go back to that
@@swishfish8858 Yeah I hear ya. The whole essence of the game was altered. Hopefully in the future they might release something close to the earlier games, hopefully lol
@@TheForbidden_1ne Yeah DA was a bit of a dramatical leap for Sam's character lol. Didn't like that one as much either, then they went ahead and did a similar thing with Conviction. Blacklist was better i must say, but the series was too compromised at that point, in my opinion lol.
@@beveon "compromised" is definitely a nicer word than I would've used but is accurate. Conviction took the series and story in such a bad direction. I kinda wish they'd hit the refresh button on this franchise and start back at square 1
I think its worth mentioning the game Skate when talking about tony hawk. It kinda came in doing things differently, and suddenly tony hawj had direct competition
The first skate is the best skateboarding game imo.
I really think Starfox should be on this list.
mass effect would be a perfect entry to this list considering andromeda basically butchered the reputation that helped the original games established what is regarded to be 1 of the greatest gaming trilogies of all time and while they announced a new game, it's hard to have confidence in the next mass effect game considering just how negative of a reputation bioware has now
Yeah, I thought it'd be in the video. But the problem is, it didn't get worse over time. It was more abrupt. ME1,2,3 all have their fans and are all awesome. And then we got Andromeda...
Maybe Dragon Age would fit better for this video. But then again, DA:I wasn't that bad.
Idgaf as long as the multiplayer is as good and addicting as ME3 idc lol
NFS: Was great with Hot Pursuit, Underground 1 and 2 and then peaked in 2005 with Most Wanted, then Carbon was still good but definitely not on the same level, then it went completely downhill with some small ups in between like Hot Pursuit 2010, but even that had a lot of issues. Heat was the exception, the most fun I've had in any NFS since MW 2005
I was totally looking for this comment.😂
I agree with most of what you say. For me the best in their worst period was a NFS (2015). I liked Playback and Heat too, but totally hated the last one. We need something at the level of Underground 2 or the original MW.
I didn't like NFSHP2010 until I realized it's Burnout Paradise 2, then it became more enjoyable
The saints row reboot could have actually been so good but no they went and fucked that up too. And their interaction with fans who criticised the game was appalling "haters gonna hate" yeah? Well now look at you. Your whole studio got shut down, congrats 👏🏻
Ninja Gaiden started in 1988.
Damn kids, just ignoring 16 years and multiple games in a franchise.
To be fair, he did mention the classics were great.
I guess this is what it means to be an old grump in 2024. It used to be "Damn kids, get off my lawn." --- Now, it's "Damn kids, show respect to old video games."
I just want a NG4
What I don’t like about NG post 2000s is how they try give Ryu a new lady over Irene. Though I never played the games, through Nintendo Power magazines and other sources, they were legit pairings, then came other games that tried to give him women other than her. Never liked that decision.
ok boomer
Would love a list of Franchises that started great, went bad, THEN redeemed themselves.
Resident Evil and Deus Ex come to mind on that one
Wolfenstein maybe
Hitman
The worst part of dead rising 4 was probably how even on the hardest difficulty, difficulty wasn't there...like at all
For me, it's the Saints Row franchise that got worse. The 1st 3 games were amazing, and I can replay those games all day long but 4, gat out of hell and the recent Saints Row remake or revitalize version just wasn't it, I tried to defend the most recent one but it's just a massive disappointment.
THPS3 was easily my favorite even after starting with the series from day one. The original excuse was Bam's face rendering for why 3 wasn't remastered. Such a shame to let it die like that since I lost my N64 years ago
What a lame excuse, lmao. Just pull the guy, replace him with some modern gimmick skater if you've got the time and budget. I'd take the big dude with the beanie on the Neversoft team, loved that guy
It wasn't the biggest series but at least in the hood where i grew up the Def jam games were the shit, tight fighting, cool rappers, nice customization, the first game, vendetta, was absolute fuego, def jam ffny expanded its catalog of playable characters and added some better graphics and a few new mechanics and then def Jam icon came out, scrapped the whole blazing moves system that made the game so unique and cool in my opinion and they gutted it and made a basic ass fighting game with the ability to, and i shit you not, " dj scratch the air and influence the environment " the series died the day icon got released
I think that Perfect Dark Zero had a couple of things going for it to be so disliked. One is that expectations were so high because of the original, but also because as you say it was touted as a next gen experience when in reality it was an original Xbox game that was given higher resolution textures and some lighting effects to be brought to the 360.
The AC franchise has been a rollercoaster. Highs include 2, Brotherhood, Black Flag, and Odyssey with lows dependent on your personal taste.
Very accurate. Out of all the games I played, you named the only ones I was able to finish.
Technically the highs depend on personal taste too
@TheEsperKing1 I also finished the first and Unity well after the patches
Odessey was so bad. Too big, the naval combat is worst than Black Flag, too many pointless side questa, shitty romance system, terrible characters, and so many bugs and glitches.
Trade Odyssey for Origins and I agree with your list 💯
I'm torn between SR2 and 4 being my favorite. It depends on my mood, I guess.
In case anyone needs the list written out because they need a record of everything (like me):
10. Perfect Dark
9. Fear
8. Saint's Rw
7. Dead Rising
6. Ninja Gaiden
5. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
4. Medal of Honor
3. Duke Nukem
2. Mega Man X
1. Silent Hill
How are assassin’s creed, battlefield, and halo not on this list???
METAL GEAR!
@@Lawrence_Talbot cause they still pretty good franchise idk about the new Halo but I enjoyed the heck out of the new assassin's creed formula, my favorite definitely is still 2 and brotherhood but still.
@@extrashifty578 you are the first person I’ve heard actually enjoy Mirage. You prob enjoy skull n bones too
@@Lawrence_Talbot oh I didn't play Mirage I was talking about origin, odyssey formula
And I haven't tried skull and bones
There are so many more! Total War, Diablo, Battlefield etc etc... you will need to do a second video ;)
Gotta add Call of Duty to that list as well.. IMO Battlefield has only ever had 1 not so good game and that being the most recent one, the rest have been quite good but everyone has their own opinion.
I clicked on this mainly because I was curious to see which of these I had played in the past. It turns out that I have played none of them. I suppose the reason is that they are all action games, and I'm not a fan of action games unless they are really easy and have something else besides action going on. Other types of games have experienced franchise rot too. Two of my old favorites that still pain me to this day are SimCity and Ultima. SimCity went from strength to strength beginning with the first game and culminating with SimCity 4. Then, it went off in a different direction with Societies (which old fans did not like) and then it crashed and burned with the disastrous launch of SimCity 2013. Cities: Skylines ended up being the spiritual successor, but with the disastrous launch of Cities: Skylines 2, maybe history is repeating itself.
Ultima went through some strange experiments in the earlier games, but the series really found its footing with Ultima IV, and it continued to have strong entries through both parts of Ultima VII, the spin-offs of Ultima VI, and the Underworld games. Then, Ultima VIII came along, and with it, the full expression of the malign influence of Electronic Arts. It introduced action elements (which were not appreciated by the long time nerdy fans who don't have reflexes), including some very clumsy platforming (which was fortunately made somewhat less bad in an update). On top of that, it released in a buggy and unfinished state, and the expansion, which might have fixed some of the problems, was canceled. There are good ideas at its core, but its execution is mixed. Then, Ultima IX was a disaster. It got into development hell, and then the developers focused too much on the new 3-D engine and the graphics, and as a result, there isn't much game. It was a rushed out, buggy mess, and it was the end of the main line of the franchise. (The spin-off Ultima Online was successful, but it was never relevant to me since I have no interest in online games.)
As for more recent franchises, I fear that Fallout is on this trajectory, and Elder Scrolls could be too. Fallout 4 is a mess in many ways but still has enough good points to be worth playing with mods. The launch disaster of Fallout 76 and the negative responses to Starfield do not leave me with much hope for future Fallout and Elder Scrolls games.
If there is to be a follow-up to this video (and there should be, since the game industry has been littered with franchise rot almost from the start), it would be nice to see it branch out into different genres.
You talk as if you are an expert on games. However, the fact is that you just wrote off an entire genre of games as bad just because ‘I am not a fan of action’. That means you think most games are beneath you, which means your views about games are generally gonna be hot takes. In other words, your views will be off track for the most part. Until you can learn to be more open to other types of games instead of just sticking to your small bubble, I suggest that you hold off on expressing your views. You’re not as insightful as you think you are, Ms. ‘I’m too good for action games’.
I really liked Saints Row 3 and 4. Those were peak sandbox fun
Assassin's Creed.
And Halo. Hasn’t been the same post Reach
Sports games are probably too easy of a target. Granted, I haven't played *every* installment, but Madden, MLB The Show, and NASCAR Heat have gotten increasingly disappointing every year.
medal of honor 2010 was a "demo title" for the new frostbite engine, that later on, got improved to become the AMAZING Battlefield 3
The multiplayer was at least, the singleplayer used a different engine AND was developed by a different team altogether.
The 2010 game was the only one I played and I loved it. It was my first ever console game so I’ll always remember it being fun but also challenging in certain spots
Perfect dark was awesome and fear was AMAZING
Tho I've only played the 1st game, I've heard the Lost Planet series dropped off after Extreme Condition, AKA the first game. The multiplayer of the sequel is enjoyed to my knowledge, but the single player stuff I'm unsure of due to not playing it. While Lost Planet 3, which I have access to on PS Plus Premium, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. I've heard people weren't very happy with it, and the slightly more horror-ish angle they went with it... and now the series is officially dead.
Kinda sad, cuz I do actually enjoy Lost Planet more than Capcom's other popular IP, the Monster Hunter series. So it's unfortunate that we might not see another entry anytime soon, even in a remake form.
Halo, Call of duty, Battlefield, Assassins creed, far cry,
Halo is a sad one to admit, but yes..
You're wrong on this one Dead Rising 3 is way better than 4 !😂
I'll put the Call of Duty franchise on this list somewhere. To me these games died when they went all futuristic on us. I stopped actively playing after Black Ops 2 in 2012. The last good series of Call of Duty games to me was the original Modern Warfare Series.
Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Command & Conquer, Dynasty Warrior, Fifa, Arkham, Battlefield... Pretty much every franchise that gradually faded from our view.
I was going to say Dynasty Warriors, as a kid to an adult, I played EVERY DW game ever made outside of the first. Even the empires, Xtremes and the Orochi series. Once I heard what 9 was and the reviews for it that's when I didn't buy it and was sadden to hear , a series I literally grew up on and had fond memories playing coop on with buddies, was finally dead + radically changed. Hoping, even if it's more of the same, when 10 comes out if it does, it's the old formula and can be mindless joy again though haha