I remember playing “No Russian” without having heard of the controversy and knew nothing about the game. I’ll never forget that, ever. I was floored and kind impressed devs would have the balls to do something like that in the US.
@@creepywaffles4783 back in the day, people were talking about it everywhere. I remember listening to the radio and hearing the hosts talk about it and blaming video games for the increased violence in the USA today. Which is totally bullshit, since violent crime in the US has been at a constant decline since the mid 90s and is at its lowest point in decades.
@Bass Player gta is an open world where you can avoid pulling off mass shootings in the streets with over the top exploding cars and the police and army swarming within minutes, where you shoot helicopters out of the sky and blow up tanks. Also, GTA was also filled with humour and doesn’t take itself too seriously No Russian on the other hand puts you in a linear situation, where yes, you don’t have to shoot, but at the very least you have to sit through a mass shooting through a tight environment of an airport in first person which made it much more ‘intimate’. It also carried strong undertones of political terrorism, which quite simply wasn’t really seen before in a videogame in such a manner I too was unaware of the news at the time of playing. When I played it for the first time, I was confused at first, then it turned to shock when you realised what was happening, but by the end of the level (great plot/level twist) I was like fuck yeah that was awesome!! But also knew at that moment it was going to be a controversial moment particularly if you were Russian 😅 gta, never leaves you feeling those emotions
And to think we've basically got the same thing happening again. There's some SWAT game being developed where one of the levels was defusing a school shooting. Of course that obviously means promoting school shootings and was labelled a Columbine Simulator. I can't remember what happened to it. It either got blocked in most of the world, or Steam refused to host it so they pulled the plug.
Also knew nothing of the controversy when I played it for the first time. And yea for sure never forgetting that moment and the following day when I talked about it with my friends and was asked “so did you go along with it or did you just walk through and not shoot anyone?” And boy the GUILT I felt finding out you could choose NOT to do it and still finish the mission 😂.
Prolly coz they focus on Matured audience unlike other companies making games for prolly Tiktok audience. Eg: like Watchdogs 2 , legion, the latest saints row
Bully is one of my favourite childhood games. I started playing as early as 5 I believe. I remember being bummed out that I couldn’t play it some days because we had people coming over and my mum didn’t want them seeing her little girl playing such a game😂 I still play it to this day at almost 21
@@BarbecueBaconn yes we are living proof. No matter how Morbid, Dark, or Edgy any type of story content a game happens to be or just is that doesn't mean that person is just automatically evil or crazy as long as someone doesn't do those Things in real life, especially towards innocent people then it shouldn't matter
Just imagine a Bully game with the Concept of allowing the your M.C to be either in high school or better yet college level allowing the MC to drive motorized vehicles be a part of certain social groups having a cell phone going online like you could in GTA IV or GTA V bring up Pop Culture references talking about Memes or hashtags going to optional parties like they did in a very popular game called - life is strange. Just make a Bully game similar to a game like that minus the superpowers or Supernatural phenomenon
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Lol my mom was the same, she´d be like "aight, play watchu want, but if my friends are coming over you gonna be well behaved to show their bratty kids I know how to educate". Her rule was if they brought their kids over I couldn´t play video games and had to go outside or play board games with them, if they didn´t, I only had to be in the couch pretending to read a book while they came in, got settled to start gossipping, and then could go down to the basement to play whatever I wanted.
The No Russian level rocked me when I played it. I was saying OMG to myself. Definitely shocking but set up the villain very well and made you want to finish the game.
When i was 8 or something i watched gta vice city stories the first time at my cousin's house and i was immediately hyped. Seeing an endless open-world with shit to do was so mindblowing as a kid.
Back in my day, other teens were waiting and asking strangers outside a liquor store to buy them booze. I was outside gamestop waiting for someone to buy me leisure suit larry.
glad to see Manhunt at #3 at least... cause that was a huge game-changer when it came out. I vividly remember playing it around age 18- sure other games have you killing monsters/ppl in mass amounts, but in Manhunt it just felt different using a wire to choke and/or decapitate a guy, or the hammer, and as mentioned the plastic bag... and all weapons had a few different fatality moves I think
Let me toss a wild guess - you thought your parents would flip out if they found out, just how they flip out about every single thing you say/do the "wrong" way (basically any way that's not their way).
Same. That's the single game on this entire list that I really remember as something that I, as a young teen, thought I maybe shouldn't be playing. I actually worried it might damage me but eh, I turned out fine.
Rockstar should make manhunt remake. Not like the definitive edition of gta trilogy edition but like the mafia definitive remake. I would pay good money for it.
I still remember the controversy around "Soldier of Fortune" because it was one of the first games with dismemberment. I think it might have been one of the first games to get an Adult Only rating too.
Thats what I said. Many channels have videos like this. But never mention Soldier of Fortune. Game had 26 different hit box removals. Only game I can recall in North America were parents caused enough outrage, a patch was put out in Canada and other countries stoping the body parts and splatter gore.
I fucking loved that game. Wish a company would bring back that area specific violence with modern tech. Along with the first Red Faction glass breaking effects 😂 the good ol days.
I played the first GTA and I remember people constantly trying to run over lines of monks for high scores and the utter carnage. It felt like playing something that wasn't like anything else. The press slammed it. Even more than Carmageddon (which wasn't in any way as fun).
people say this shit about every game from that era. its not because they were particularly good but because we miss being young with no responsibility. in reality gta 3 is kind of barebones and ass.
@@BradyDoesntMissthat's called nostalgia, that can be accurate for alot of games but not gta. You can't compare it to what's come out after, you have to compare it to what came before it.
That game is /seriously/ forgotten,these days & doesn't deserve to be... Shame we never got another Punisher game or even an HD-re-master. Which,I would GLADLY accept over a new game,actually... I would think it would be the EASIEST game to make modern! It's the most-basic concept in gaming,"guy w/ guns/other weapons,gets revenge by killing the bad guys". Seriously,it must be stupid licensing-reasons holding it up. Otherwise,WTF is keeping it from coming-back?? Anyways,glad U brought it up. "Spezial Interrogations" was 1 of the 1st YT-vids of the game I ever saw & I remember it showing EVERY kill,w/ a heavy/industrial metal song,playing in the BG(it was "hardcore",for early YT)... It was probably 1 of the 1st vids posted about that game,in general & I always recall that awesome vid(helps I saved it & watched last year at some point). Sadly,it was only in StandardDef,like 480p. & looks nearly to be rendered in pixels! Also,unfortunately,I'm pretty-sure it's long gone,by now. But,if it came-back,maybe it could be up-scaled somehow,using modern-tech?? Anyway,just bringing it up,in case any1 else recalls the vid/uploader of it. Or,has a better-copy,that could be posted,someday... ;) -Peace
I remember playing Conkers Bad Fur Day as a kid and going, “I can’t let my parents see this otherwise they will take this game away!” Looking back at the game now it’s pretty tame, funny and kinda stupid but back then I thought I was really getting away with something
I remember playing No Russian for the first time, and while certainly shocking, was the moment I knew the story was going to be great. The fact that the developers added a level that could essentially force a moral quandary in the player, while also giving the player a heart-rending reason to absolutely loathe the primary antagonist is truly indicative of a well crafted story experience, in my opinion
My only problem with No Russian was I was too young when I played it. Not too young as in it would corrupt my young mind and turn me into a psychopath, but as in I was too young to understand the story and what I was doing. I played MW2 and loved the gameplay but that mission in my 11 year old mind was just “yay cause mayhem.” I feel like it would be much more interesting to experience it for the first time now that I have more perspective on the world. When I was young I didn’t even think of the motivations or ethics. I should replay that game.
i wasn't paying attention when that mission started, i just looked up and was like oh okay i'm in an airport, then they just start mowing down civilians lol
It’s crazy to see how the pendulum has shifted with what’s “offensive”. Violence, sex, drugs, etc seem to be negligible in video games and movies anymore. Meanwhile any simple language or themes used is WILDLY misinterpreted and people call for heads to roll if they’re personally offended. It’s bizarre
Bully's TITLE CAUSED A CONTEOVERSY WHEN IT WAS RELEASED the pendulum hasn't shifted at all its just these easily offended people have a louder voice thanks to better internet and guess what game devs usually don't care because the amount of easily offended people doesn't affect their bottom dollar their customers don't fucking care most time and even the fans that do care still buy the game
@@Dovah_Slayer mehh i agree that the voices are louder because of social media but also our culture has embraced anti-harassment to an extreme where free speech no longer exists. So yes it has shifted. People used to be concerned about offensive and harmful material for the greater good (from their perspective). Now it’s “offensive” because a handful of squeaky wheels hold the fire to companies for personal clout or to make them personally feel better, not others.
I think the No Russian level works as a storytelling device pretty well actually. I think it does a good job of emphasizing the moral price that an undercover agent has to pay in order to not blow their cover. Also it clarifies to the player that the attack was intentionally made to look like it was done by a different group of people.
I remember South Park - The Stick Of Truth also really offending people (especially Randy's abortion section). I remember them stripping certain sections from the game depending on where you live.
I actually never played Bully and it's one of those dusty digital downloads sitting in my library. Would really enjoy seeing a retro-review by the Gameranx team
First time playing Manhunt I was like 10. It was the scariest thing I'd experienced back then, to a point that I was shaking playing it! But It wasn't just the gore and executions, it also had that unsettling creepy atmosphere.
I watch this channel religiously it still amazes me they come up with fresh and actually cool topics EVERYDAY. Shoutout to the crew at Gameranx you guys make being a gamer that much more fun 💯💯
How dare you play videgames about guns thats evil! Here, have easier access to a real gun and no permit or I.D. required for purchase instead thats clearly safer
Regarding Bully, the game has a lot of social commentary about both Public and Private schools in the Western World, yes not just the USA, as well as how we deal with the bullying problem over the decades, how Adults perceive adolescents and how adolescents view authority figures in general, and how each young individual sees themselves in the world. Also, yes gameranx, you guys should definitely should do a retrospective on the game or something.
Postal 2 at the time was definitely not 'boring'. It was quite fun and the multiplayer was ok too. It should be higher though on the list. It was way more gruesome than most games on the list. You could light people on fire, then piss them out while they're entire skin would be fire wounds. They'd be crawling away on the floor until they passed out and died. It was banned in my country, Netherlands, which made a lot of sense.
I LOVED both Conkers Bad Fur Day AND Manhunt. I played them both religiously. After trading off my copy of manhunt for some money one week, (with full intention of buying back the next week), I was recasted to find they took it from the shelves before I could get it back. I remember that game fondly, but everytime I see footage of it now I can’t believe how polygoned it looks, I remember it looking so cool. So it’s probably for the best I can’t play it anymore and not ruin the memory. Haha.
It's normal to discover that old games look like crap. Your brain doesn't really "remember" the past, it keeps a mathematical construct of it. So when it reconstructs, it uses whatever remains from back then - positions of people, general clothing, etc. An example - if you try to remember how the soldiers in Prototype look, you would almost certainly remember them with the wrong uniform, as your brain will just toss in the best thing it can come up with to fill in the natural gaps in the memory. Those are always there, as the brain tosses away uninteresting things like small details that are not pivotal to the memory. You can remember the soldiers using M4, but which M4 model from all the games you've seen it would be? Noone knows. It's kinda fun, as it points out just how little we actually care about the graphics in the long run.
What bugs me the most is that here in Germany, if there's a controversial game, they sometimes release a special "low violence" version of it. And that's it. No, you do not get to choose. No, there are not two versions of the game - one for under and one for over 18. So they basically cut my right to play the game as intended because of "youth protection".... silly enough: they sometimes slap an "USK ab 18" (Germanys version of the M rating) on it anyways. It just defies logic.
not only controversial games, but games "someone" saw inappropriate for... , well, german adults? Even games like Left 4 Dead, Killing Floor, or even Team Fortress 2 had cut german versions, Call of Duty: world at war was missing the whole zombie mode in the german version, Dead Island and Dying light couldnt be bought in Germany, same goes for Dead Rising. the worst part is: these were the "good old days", now you cant even view or buy the "controversial" games anymore, if you look at steam you cant even view "adult" games on steam, but ads for gambling sites that are for 18+ only can run all day in TV. I really hate the hypocrisy here in germany...
I want to see a top ten of “mindless games.” Games you can just jump into with no pre-knowledge or skill. Just games you start and get into real quick.
I wasn't expecting such a wholesome comment here, but that's a good idea nonetheless. Whenever I'm in a mood like that, I go for Audiosurf. Recent gems include Dorfromantik & Cloud Gardens (by the same developer). If you can't sleep, try Mountain (not much in the way of gameplay going on there) or Flower. The old Simcity games could be pretty soothing. What Remains of Edith Finch is awesome for its atmosphere & story. Blind Eyes is intriguing and well presented, but not for everybody. Driving around in one of the Train & Truck sims can be nice, just like tinkering with SimplePlanes, but these technically do require some base knowledge & actions.
Back in the day Carmageddon caused a huge stir and got banned, both the 1st and 2nd game. Kids around the school yard went nuts trying to get pirated copies of it. For a while Bully and CS were both prohibited. Real weak reasoning too.
RIP Leisure Suit Larry 😪 Only game I'm shocked yall missed. Played LSL2 on a floppy disk when I was like 6-7 years old (think my 11 year old brother got a copy from the local PC nerd)... then we lost the Xerox'd copy of the Girls photos/numbers that was like a password/form of copyright protection back then
Sometimes when I see snipets of gaming history, it amazes me that video games survived at all, let alone turned into what they are today. We've been through a lot, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah games have really changed since the 1970s. I think the 90s were the decade of innovative ideas, the early 2000s was the decade of pushing the limits of video games, and the late 2000s thru today has been the decade of bringing video games to life in a realistic way.
@@Joreel plus to think it basically all started when some guy made virtual table tennis, it's amazing looking back at the Atari because that thing is so simple by today's standards of course, but of course it was such an advancement for the time to bring gaming into the home like that And now look where we are The power we hold in storytelling through games like The metro trillogy God of war Ghost of Tsushima Red dead redemption The last of us Mass effect Resident evil The list could honestly go on forever with games,
Bully a true classic. My kids love it. My youngest plays it all the time. He cracks me up. He wants to stop the bullies. Where’s our bully sequel, where our man hunt remake like we are getting with Max Payne.
Just recently replayed Bully on 100% and man…. i love that game.. it has everything 😂😂 Kids bullying each other, romance, trashy school system, kids annoyed with adults, adults annoyed with kids, great protagonist, mentally unstable villain, nerds, jocks, bullies, preppiws, outcasts… IT IS A GREAT GAME ASF. ❤️
I think games don’t push boundaries like they used to and I kinda miss it, while yeah it depicts some horrible events they aren’t real and it can add to the story if it’s done well
My mom was so cool, when I was 7 years old, she would type out all of the moves from Mortal Kombat on a typewriter and tape it to a ripped off book cover. She then did it for every release of Mortal Kombat until I was old enough to do it myself lol
Original Doom and Doom 2. Ability to easily modify the game content via .wad files and editor tools resulted in people replacing monster images with pictures of real people they didn't like, as well as the ability to replace things like sounds. Some immature modders doing things like replacing the faces of former humans with their parents, teachers, politicians, etc. caused more of a disturbance than any of the games on this list. Similarly, ability to use level editor to recreate real world locations led to theories that the game could be used by people planning things like scool shootings, etc.
@@haarisajmeri9811 yea i guess I was lucky just because of my brother who was like 16 by then I played it on PS2 never understood what the game was about and what they were saying but somehow I finished the game 😂
I would love some more Bully content. It is one of my favorite games of all time. I remember being quite young when I rented it at Blockbuster as a joke because my brother and I thought it was a silly anti-bullying game, but it ended up being amazing.
Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of my favorite games, my mom bought it for me, she got mad, she got over it. Her main problem was the poo level, she said it was disgusting.
It’s my favorite game of all time I have so many memories of me and my cousins playing the multiplayer and playing through the story that’s the only four player multiplayer game we had so we played it all the time and to this day I go back to it a couple times a year just to play the story
Manhunt is an absolutely intense, fresh take on what a horror game can be. It's world and story is mature, graphic, and refuses to lighten up its morbidly dark tone. The game trusts players to have a tolerant mindset for its commentary on some of society's most despicable man-made horrors. The series deserves a comeback.
Thumbs-up! U said it PERFECTLY! I rarely have so little to say,but U echoed my sentiments /exactly/! :D More than any other series(besides SilentHill, R.I.P.),this series deserves another release. Or,at the very least,re-masters w/ just better graphics & maybe,if possible,a blur-less ver. of MH2(I wish)... The only other thing to say,is that the "film grain" effect should,at the very least,remain an OPTION for those wanting it. And,even an option to play w/ the original graphics,switch-able,on-the-fly,like was done for HALO Legendary edition,would be /really/ nice... ;) In any case,the series should NOT be left gathering dust,like it is. Such a shame. But,given the way the gaming industry treats such adult subjects/concepts,I'm not really /that/ surprised nothing has been done,so far... : / -Peace
Manhunt. This was a masterpiece. Obviously, the game was pointed at, it's always the case. They blamed Marilyn Manson for Columbine, they blamed Scream because a guy killed his parents.
have you guys ever done “Top _ moments when you actually have to die to progress in games” Super Hot does this with the Die Dog level and it’s been on my mind now. Anyway, thanks for the fun content
Conker's remains relatively unknown to many, and while I haven't experienced Bad Fur Day, I did play Live & Reloaded probably about 20 years ago on the Xbox. It showcased impressive remastering ahead of its time, and the multiplayer aspect was so enjoyable. I've accepted the series fading away, I prefer it to be remembered and valued, rather than becoming a fragmented echo of its former self like Halo.
We need a Bully sequel!!!!
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@@SeriousDragonify yes, we do
@insanity wolf these days I'm afraid your right but it IS Rockstar... if anyone can do it, they can.
@@Miveth07 The Rockstar of 2006 is not the Rockstar of 2022
@@RileyBanksWho that guy's just some petty hater
I remember playing “No Russian” without having heard of the controversy and knew nothing about the game. I’ll never forget that, ever. I was floored and kind impressed devs would have the balls to do something like that in the US.
Not in that part of the vid yet and never heard of it either so I’m actually kinda floored too lol
@@creepywaffles4783 back in the day, people were talking about it everywhere. I remember listening to the radio and hearing the hosts talk about it and blaming video games for the increased violence in the USA today. Which is totally bullshit, since violent crime in the US has been at a constant decline since the mid 90s and is at its lowest point in decades.
@Bass Player gta is an open world where you can avoid pulling off mass shootings in the streets with over the top exploding cars and the police and army swarming within minutes, where you shoot helicopters out of the sky and blow up tanks. Also, GTA was also filled with humour and doesn’t take itself too seriously
No Russian on the other hand puts you in a linear situation, where yes, you don’t have to shoot, but at the very least you have to sit through a mass shooting through a tight environment of an airport in first person which made it much more ‘intimate’. It also carried strong undertones of political terrorism, which quite simply wasn’t really seen before in a videogame in such a manner
I too was unaware of the news at the time of playing. When I played it for the first time, I was confused at first, then it turned to shock when you realised what was happening, but by the end of the level (great plot/level twist) I was like fuck yeah that was awesome!! But also knew at that moment it was going to be a controversial moment particularly if you were Russian 😅 gta, never leaves you feeling those emotions
And to think we've basically got the same thing happening again. There's some SWAT game being developed where one of the levels was defusing a school shooting. Of course that obviously means promoting school shootings and was labelled a Columbine Simulator. I can't remember what happened to it. It either got blocked in most of the world, or Steam refused to host it so they pulled the plug.
Also knew nothing of the controversy when I played it for the first time. And yea for sure never forgetting that moment and the following day when I talked about it with my friends and was asked “so did you go along with it or did you just walk through and not shoot anyone?” And boy the GUILT I felt finding out you could choose NOT to do it and still finish the mission 😂.
You can put almost all Rockstar Games on here and you'd have a complete list😂
Seriously, the writing is phenomenal but they go so far sometimes 😂
Prolly coz they focus on Matured audience unlike other companies making games for prolly Tiktok audience.
Eg: like Watchdogs 2 , legion, the latest saints row
@@ahgksi Have you played GTA V? I wouldn't exactly call it mature.
Absolutely agree game called manhunt went way to far definitely not meant for kids
So true 😂
Bully is one of my favourite childhood games. I started playing as early as 5 I believe. I remember being bummed out that I couldn’t play it some days because we had people coming over and my mum didn’t want them seeing her little girl playing such a game😂
I still play it to this day at almost 21
And you don’t seem like a bully. Hmmm… I wonder if people can just enjoy games and not be crazy… we are the living proof lol
@@BarbecueBaconn yes we are living proof. No matter how Morbid, Dark, or Edgy any type of story content a game happens to be or just is that doesn't mean that person is just automatically evil or crazy as long as someone doesn't do those Things in real life, especially towards innocent people then it shouldn't matter
Just imagine a Bully game with the Concept of allowing the your M.C to be either in high school or better yet college level allowing the MC to drive motorized vehicles be a part of certain social groups having a cell phone going online like you could in GTA IV or GTA V bring up Pop Culture references talking about Memes or hashtags going to optional parties like they did in a very popular game called - life is strange. Just make a Bully game similar to a game like that minus the superpowers or Supernatural phenomenon
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Lol my mom was the same, she´d be like "aight, play watchu want, but if my friends are coming over you gonna be well behaved to show their bratty kids I know how to educate". Her rule was if they brought their kids over I couldn´t play video games and had to go outside or play board games with them, if they didn´t, I only had to be in the couch pretending to read a book while they came in, got settled to start gossipping, and then could go down to the basement to play whatever I wanted.
The No Russian level rocked me when I played it. I was saying OMG to myself. Definitely shocking but set up the villain very well and made you want to finish the game.
Conkers bad fur day is an absolute gem.
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The funny thing is everyone of us have played almost all of them when we were kids.
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Amen to that brother and look at us we turned out all right
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When i was 8 or something i watched gta vice city stories the first time at my cousin's house and i was immediately hyped. Seeing an endless open-world with shit to do was so mindblowing as a kid.
Back in my day, other teens were waiting and asking strangers outside a liquor store to buy them booze. I was outside gamestop waiting for someone to buy me leisure suit larry.
Something worth mentioning is that most if not all the violence in postal 2 can be avoided
true you can go the whole game without harming a single thing
Now that we are talking about this: would you like to sign my petiton?
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@@lemaygaming6952 Xaxaxxaa that's part of a mission in POSTAL 2... postal dude going around asking people to "sign his petition".
@@joanmanuel9223 sorry, Gary Coleman stole my pen
glad to see Manhunt at #3 at least... cause that was a huge game-changer when it came out. I vividly remember playing it around age 18- sure other games have you killing monsters/ppl in mass amounts, but in Manhunt it just felt different using a wire to choke and/or decapitate a guy, or the hammer, and as mentioned the plastic bag... and all weapons had a few different fatality moves I think
Yes they did, I was 16.
The atmosphere of the game is so good and dark. Another game that gives me the same vibes is The Suffering for Playstation 2
Bully is such an underrated game! I’m playing it right now for the 200th time and it never gets old
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I remember feeling like I'm doing something terribly forbidden when I played manhunt. It really made my heart pump.
Let me toss a wild guess - you thought your parents would flip out if they found out, just how they flip out about every single thing you say/do the "wrong" way (basically any way that's not their way).
Yeah same I had like 6 other friends over playing 13 multiplayer on gamecube. We also just got manhunt and damn that was a night!
Same. That's the single game on this entire list that I really remember as something that I, as a young teen, thought I maybe shouldn't be playing. I actually worried it might damage me but eh, I turned out fine.
Rockstar should make manhunt remake. Not like the definitive edition of gta trilogy edition but like the mafia definitive remake. I would pay good money for it.
Remakes are bad however, Manhunt on a PS5. 🤔
I still remember the controversy around "Soldier of Fortune" because it was one of the first games with dismemberment. I think it might have been one of the first games to get an Adult Only rating too.
I loved playing that game!
Thats what I said. Many channels have videos like this. But never mention Soldier of Fortune. Game had 26 different hit box removals.
Only game I can recall in North America were parents caused enough outrage, a patch was put out in Canada and other countries stoping the body parts and splatter gore.
Just don't even try Payback.. that game is terrible and it's one of the few games I see no value in.
I played SOF2 online for years. Was even an admin on Quakes*it ... 😆
I fucking loved that game. Wish a company would bring back that area specific violence with modern tech. Along with the first Red Faction glass breaking effects 😂 the good ol days.
The sense of awe and excitement when first playing GTA 3 was unmatched.
Yeah i can still remember the feeling. Was like entering a new world
I played the first GTA and I remember people constantly trying to run over lines of monks for high scores and the utter carnage. It felt like playing something that wasn't like anything else. The press slammed it. Even more than Carmageddon (which wasn't in any way as fun).
@@itotallyagreewithyou3451I agree, but for me, the "new world" was vice city.
people say this shit about every game from that era. its not because they were particularly good but because we miss being young with no responsibility. in reality gta 3 is kind of barebones and ass.
@@BradyDoesntMissthat's called nostalgia, that can be accurate for alot of games but not gta.
You can't compare it to what's come out after, you have to compare it to what came before it.
Surprised The Punisher game from 2005 isn’t on this list. That was one hell of a brutal and very fun game to play as a kid.
That game is /seriously/ forgotten,these days & doesn't deserve to be...
Shame we never got another Punisher game or even an HD-re-master. Which,I would GLADLY accept over a new game,actually...
I would think it would be the EASIEST game to make modern! It's the most-basic concept in gaming,"guy w/ guns/other weapons,gets revenge by killing the bad guys". Seriously,it must be stupid licensing-reasons holding it up. Otherwise,WTF is keeping it from coming-back??
Anyways,glad U brought it up. "Spezial Interrogations" was 1 of the 1st YT-vids of the game I ever saw & I remember it showing EVERY kill,w/ a heavy/industrial metal song,playing in the BG(it was "hardcore",for early YT)...
It was probably 1 of the 1st vids posted about that game,in general & I always recall that awesome vid(helps I saved it & watched last year at some point). Sadly,it was only in StandardDef,like 480p. & looks nearly to be rendered in pixels! Also,unfortunately,I'm pretty-sure it's long gone,by now. But,if it came-back,maybe it could be up-scaled somehow,using modern-tech??
Anyway,just bringing it up,in case any1 else recalls the vid/uploader of it. Or,has a better-copy,that could be posted,someday... ;)
-Peace
Literally thought the same thing, glad to see someone else say the same thing. Played Punisher on my OG Xbox.
I was in my senior year of high school and I remember friends telling me about the brutally.
I remember playing Conkers Bad Fur Day as a kid and going, “I can’t let my parents see this otherwise they will take this game away!” Looking back at the game now it’s pretty tame, funny and kinda stupid but back then I thought I was really getting away with something
I feel like the game was offensive for its time but as of now doesn’t really carry the same feel
I remember playing No Russian for the first time, and while certainly shocking, was the moment I knew the story was going to be great. The fact that the developers added a level that could essentially force a moral quandary in the player, while also giving the player a heart-rending reason to absolutely loathe the primary antagonist is truly indicative of a well crafted story experience, in my opinion
GHOOOOOOST 😭😭😭😭😭
My only problem with No Russian was I was too young when I played it. Not too young as in it would corrupt my young mind and turn me into a psychopath, but as in I was too young to understand the story and what I was doing. I played MW2 and loved the gameplay but that mission in my 11 year old mind was just “yay cause mayhem.”
I feel like it would be much more interesting to experience it for the first time now that I have more perspective on the world. When I was young I didn’t even think of the motivations or ethics. I should replay that game.
i wasn't paying attention when that mission started, i just looked up and was like oh okay i'm in an airport, then they just start mowing down civilians lol
the moment we knew we were playing history
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Let us never forget the OG offensive game: Custer's Revenge on Atari circa 1982.
It’s crazy to see how the pendulum has shifted with what’s “offensive”. Violence, sex, drugs, etc seem to be negligible in video games and movies anymore. Meanwhile any simple language or themes used is WILDLY misinterpreted and people call for heads to roll if they’re personally offended. It’s bizarre
Bully's TITLE CAUSED A CONTEOVERSY WHEN IT WAS RELEASED the pendulum hasn't shifted at all its just these easily offended people have a louder voice thanks to better internet and guess what game devs usually don't care because the amount of easily offended people doesn't affect their bottom dollar their customers don't fucking care most time and even the fans that do care still buy the game
Leftie logic!
@@Dovah_Slayer Controversy is free publicity. Still, like he mentioned for Postal, the game still has to be good.
@@Calekoflight yeah
@@Dovah_Slayer mehh i agree that the voices are louder because of social media but also our culture has embraced anti-harassment to an extreme where free speech no longer exists. So yes it has shifted. People used to be concerned about offensive and harmful material for the greater good (from their perspective). Now it’s “offensive” because a handful of squeaky wheels hold the fire to companies for personal clout or to make them personally feel better, not others.
Great list and I remember all of these. Was surprised Carmageddon didn’t make the list and I definitely remember the controversy around that one!
Bully needs more attention. We need a sequel already.
I can’t believe its been this long without a sequel 😪
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With rockstar being taken over by snowflakes i doubt this is gonna happen
Bully, the most wholesome game R* ever made?
@@abdullahshabaneh8648 agreed lol
I think the No Russian level works as a storytelling device pretty well actually. I think it does a good job of emphasizing the moral price that an undercover agent has to pay in order to not blow their cover. Also it clarifies to the player that the attack was intentionally made to look like it was done by a different group of people.
I remember playing that mission and being like, damn man, this is rough on the feelz lol.
Shit now a days the feds would do it and say people from another country did it. Oh wait, they do
and in last gets shot
Their cover dude. THEIR!
@Timothy Bowman I don't think anybody was thinking that this was realistic. Realistic is boring, that's why nobody writes about it
I remember South Park - The Stick Of Truth also really offending people (especially Randy's abortion section). I remember them stripping certain sections from the game depending on where you live.
i also love that, instead of just cutting these scenes out, they tell you that this part was banned and try to explain it in details
Was that the one where changing the difficulty to harder made your skin tone darker😀
@@queefqueefington no that wasn't it was the second one south the fractured butt whole
Damn they're kinda losers.
In The Stick of Truth, us Australians get a crying Koala and a description of what we miss out on.
Manhunt is such a great game. A third entry in the series would be awesome!
Bully is criminally underrated. I actually prefer it over GTA. Please do more coverage on this gem!
I actually never played Bully and it's one of those dusty digital downloads sitting in my library. Would really enjoy seeing a retro-review by the Gameranx team
It's a really good game.
One of the best games Rockstar ever made, my fav Rockstar game tbh
@@thegamingking1972 I'm a big fan of The Warriors personally, but going to give Bully a shot
@@lordofallusion5862 bully is better but they’re both good games
It's my fav. game of all time. Prolly cuz of the memories attached to it, the nostalgia. But try it, it's super fun
First time playing Manhunt I was like 10. It was the scariest thing I'd experienced back then, to a point that I was shaking playing it! But It wasn't just the gore and executions, it also had that unsettling creepy atmosphere.
The man in the pig mask gave me nightmares lol
@@Kalypso_Belador poor pigsy :(
I watch this channel religiously it still amazes me they come up with fresh and actually cool topics EVERYDAY. Shoutout to the crew at Gameranx you guys make being a gamer that much more fun 💯💯
👍🏼 thanks
Exactly it's really impressive love their work.
Not to mention the deep cuts! It's clear these boys game. love it, and keep up the good work Gameranx.
me too, the way they work and each video is mesmerizing and so useful
That judge that shot down the bully ban is a huge W
Postal 2 with the expansions was the $hit! Also playing the multiplayer sometimes felt like you're doing something illegal. :D
Once again, politicians worried about something other than real life problems. Gotta love it
when you play games, you don't watch TV, and they can't brainwash you, also no commercials, so no money for them from big companies
How dare you play videgames about guns thats evil!
Here, have easier access to a real gun and no permit or I.D. required for purchase instead thats clearly safer
@@kiriuxeosa8716 - Where do you not need ID to purchase a gun? Also, a lot of the anti-game-bang-bang folks are also anti-real-bang-bang folks.
@@dobricb - Until they started pumping money to put real companies' products and real political ads in games.
@@kiriuxeosa8716 educate yourself
I have fond memories of mortal combat on the arcade machine in 92 when it came out. It was one of the 10 arcade games in my town growing up.
Love to see these awesome daily uploads Gameranx. And thank you Jake for the great commentarywzgt5bfdavsn on all your vids
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Did u have a stroke?
bro started speaking enchantment table in the middle
Did your hands fall asleep for a second there?
I know right? I love Jake’s commentarywzgt5bfdavsn also!
Love your content after work, thanks man.
Also, Man Hunt was awsome.
manhunt, to this day, is one of my favorite games. I'm always hoping for a remake.
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Regarding Bully, the game has a lot of social commentary about both Public and Private schools in the Western World, yes not just the USA, as well as how we deal with the bullying problem over the decades, how Adults perceive adolescents and how adolescents view authority figures in general, and how each young individual sees themselves in the world. Also, yes gameranx, you guys should definitely should do a retrospective on the game or something.
Lmao
@@johnmcfall5723 😂 these people always want to be the smartest person in the room with their lengthy opinions
It needs to be banned!! Terrible influence for kids!
Why don't you do something
That's how I understood Bully as well.
I just remembered that Carmageddon caused tons of controversy, specially at Europe
Indeed, that's a blatant absence in the list
Australia as well
Replacing people with zombies was a good move but didn't affect the fun part
I’d love to see a new Bully sequel.. it’s one of my favorite games of all time
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Or even a remake of the game.
Postal 2 at the time was definitely not 'boring'. It was quite fun and the multiplayer was ok too. It should be higher though on the list. It was way more gruesome than most games on the list. You could light people on fire, then piss them out while they're entire skin would be fire wounds. They'd be crawling away on the floor until they passed out and died. It was banned in my country, Netherlands, which made a lot of sense.
I just remember it being boring when it came out. It was very tryhard.
@@GwenActuallyyea same quality as goat simulator.
That sounds so exciting
I LOVED both Conkers Bad Fur Day AND Manhunt. I played them both religiously. After trading off my copy of manhunt for some money one week, (with full intention of buying back the next week), I was recasted to find they took it from the shelves before I could get it back. I remember that game fondly, but everytime I see footage of it now I can’t believe how polygoned it looks, I remember it looking so cool. So it’s probably for the best I can’t play it anymore and not ruin the memory. Haha.
It's normal to discover that old games look like crap. Your brain doesn't really "remember" the past, it keeps a mathematical construct of it. So when it reconstructs, it uses whatever remains from back then - positions of people, general clothing, etc. An example - if you try to remember how the soldiers in Prototype look, you would almost certainly remember them with the wrong uniform, as your brain will just toss in the best thing it can come up with to fill in the natural gaps in the memory. Those are always there, as the brain tosses away uninteresting things like small details that are not pivotal to the memory. You can remember the soldiers using M4, but which M4 model from all the games you've seen it would be? Noone knows.
It's kinda fun, as it points out just how little we actually care about the graphics in the long run.
You guys really were playing it safe by showing zero gore for the Mortal Kombat bit.
they also didnt show killing for the No Russian part lol. stupid people remain stupid
Can you blame them?
@@SarcasticWanderer No I definitely understand why they censored it. It's just crazy to see how channels have to dodge demonization.
@@TheBandoBandito yeah man gore could get u banned but there are still movies like 50 shades of grey on youtube
I clicked on this because I saw Bully. Bully is one of the best games of all time and I am dying for a remake and a sequel.
What bugs me the most is that here in Germany, if there's a controversial game, they sometimes release a special "low violence" version of it. And that's it. No, you do not get to choose. No, there are not two versions of the game - one for under and one for over 18. So they basically cut my right to play the game as intended because of "youth protection".... silly enough: they sometimes slap an "USK ab 18" (Germanys version of the M rating) on it anyways. It just defies logic.
not only controversial games, but games "someone" saw inappropriate for... , well, german adults? Even games like Left 4 Dead, Killing Floor, or even Team Fortress 2 had cut german versions, Call of Duty: world at war was missing the whole zombie mode in the german version, Dead Island and Dying light couldnt be bought in Germany, same goes for Dead Rising.
the worst part is: these were the "good old days", now you cant even view or buy the "controversial" games anymore, if you look at steam you cant even view "adult" games on steam, but ads for gambling sites that are for 18+ only can run all day in TV.
I really hate the hypocrisy here in germany...
@@verrueckteriwan I wish I could beg to differ. The whole system makes no sense.
And the funny thing is, you don't even play as a bully in that game.
I can't imagine what kind of debauchery Jack Thompson got into in his personal life to take it all out on a videogame.
Not even an honorable mention for Leisure Suit Larry? 😢
Was looking for this comment
Fond memories of Magna on the Xbox but cackling like a madman with wet dreams don't dry
I remember playing state of emergency when I was 13. I was shooting everyone in the mall in the game.
I’ve heard that Manhunt 2 is even more controversial
Conker´s Bad Fur day... one of the best games of all time
Gameranx the only list based channel that i can consistently enjoy
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They just don't stop, baby!
You said it and I’ll repeat. Please talk about Bully more. One of the rare games that I can’t stop replaying.
It’s been downloaded on my PS2 for eons, and I only played a bit of it. I really ought to try it again one of these days.
Man I miss conker and bully lol. Love those games
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Play them again, they both hold up well
@@L.K.48 yeah I did like 2 years ago. Love em :)
I want to see a top ten of “mindless games.” Games you can just jump into with no pre-knowledge or skill. Just games you start and get into real quick.
I wasn't expecting such a wholesome comment here, but that's a good idea nonetheless.
Whenever I'm in a mood like that, I go for Audiosurf. Recent gems include Dorfromantik & Cloud Gardens (by the same developer). If you can't sleep, try Mountain (not much in the way of gameplay going on there) or Flower. The old Simcity games could be pretty soothing. What Remains of Edith Finch is awesome for its atmosphere & story. Blind Eyes is intriguing and well presented, but not for everybody.
Driving around in one of the Train & Truck sims can be nice, just like tinkering with SimplePlanes, but these technically do require some base knowledge & actions.
I love that it reaches GTA and it's like "no yeah not of them but literally every single game, it never fails to offend"
We need definitly more Bully content!
90’s kids grew up right! 😂
Hatred could be added along with a bunch of others, I believe a part 2 is essential 🙂
Its definitely not a AAA game, at all.
@@ameliawright6947 but it’s really disturbing.
I thought it was gonna be number 1. Not a AAA game but cmon, postal?
Back in the day Carmageddon caused a huge stir and got banned, both the 1st and 2nd game. Kids around the school yard went nuts trying to get pirated copies of it.
For a while Bully and CS were both prohibited. Real weak reasoning too.
Conker's CTF mode was so much fun back in the day. And you can't forget the matrix mission!
Don't forget Hitman 2 on PS2, they removed the ability to shoot the turbans off the gourds heads because of the backlash from the seek community.
*Sikh
@@waylonpark2340 *guards
I would like to hear more about Bully and Conkers. I thoroughly enjoyed both games.
RIP Leisure Suit Larry 😪 Only game I'm shocked yall missed. Played LSL2 on a floppy disk when I was like 6-7 years old (think my 11 year old brother got a copy from the local PC nerd)... then we lost the Xerox'd copy of the Girls photos/numbers that was like a password/form of copyright protection back then
Imagine having non-gamers trying to ban games so actual gamers cannot play them... reality. We need Manhunt remade.
Sometimes when I see snipets of gaming history, it amazes me that video games survived at all, let alone turned into what they are today.
We've been through a lot, ladies and gentlemen.
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Yeah games have really changed since the 1970s. I think the 90s were the decade of innovative ideas, the early 2000s was the decade of pushing the limits of video games, and the late 2000s thru today has been the decade of bringing video games to life in a realistic way.
@@Joreel plus to think it basically all started when some guy made virtual table tennis, it's amazing looking back at the Atari because that thing is so simple by today's standards of course, but of course it was such an advancement for the time to bring gaming into the home like that
And now look where we are
The power we hold in
storytelling through games like
The metro trillogy
God of war
Ghost of Tsushima
Red dead redemption
The last of us
Mass effect
Resident evil
The list could honestly go on forever with games,
Books, movies, music. They all survived their hazing, and can now go on to be memorable citizens.
@@brodriguez11000 very true every one of them has been attacked before/ still is being attacked
Bully is an underrated masterpiece
Yeah, RDR2 learnt allot from bully, the game was ahead of its time
Not underrated by anyone who has played it.
Bully a true classic. My kids love it. My youngest plays it all the time. He cracks me up. He wants to stop the bullies. Where’s our bully sequel, where our man hunt remake like we are getting with Max Payne.
Many years later and "Remember no russian" scene began to make sense.
Just recently replayed Bully on 100% and man…. i love that game.. it has everything 😂😂
Kids bullying each other, romance, trashy school system, kids annoyed with adults, adults annoyed with kids, great protagonist, mentally unstable villain, nerds, jocks, bullies, preppiws, outcasts…
IT IS A GREAT GAME ASF. ❤️
I remember playing the MW2 mission not thinking about it in irl concept at all. I was more invested in Soap than anything else
Damn- I remember postal - it was a good memory. 😅
i got 2 words: cat silencer
I think games don’t push boundaries like they used to and I kinda miss it, while yeah it depicts some horrible events they aren’t real and it can add to the story if it’s done well
I have such nostalgia for GTA 3, Vice City, and to some extent San Andreas.
I loved bully so much it gave me a chance to do everything I wished but couldn't do in my school time
The kid who was killed was playing Manhunt not the guy who killed him.
Yes make videos of bully,
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My mom was so cool, when I was 7 years old, she would type out all of the moves from Mortal Kombat on a typewriter and tape it to a ripped off book cover. She then did it for every release of Mortal Kombat until I was old enough to do it myself lol
Original Doom and Doom 2. Ability to easily modify the game content via .wad files and editor tools resulted in people replacing monster images with pictures of real people they didn't like, as well as the ability to replace things like sounds. Some immature modders doing things like replacing the faces of former humans with their parents, teachers, politicians, etc. caused more of a disturbance than any of the games on this list. Similarly, ability to use level editor to recreate real world locations led to theories that the game could be used by people planning things like scool shootings, etc.
I remember Playing bully when I was like 7 and I loved the game! 😂
Damn your lucky i get to play it when i was 16 it was fairly because i didn't have the game LoL
@@haarisajmeri9811 yea i guess I was lucky just because of my brother who was like 16 by then I played it on PS2 never understood what the game was about and what they were saying but somehow I finished the game 😂
@@Soul._.Seeker LoL same i mean i also didn't understand what is going on i was just playing it
Teenager Jake playing BMX XXX sounds hilarious
I would love some more Bully content. It is one of my favorite games of all time. I remember being quite young when I rented it at Blockbuster as a joke because my brother and I thought it was a silly anti-bullying game, but it ended up being amazing.
I loved the MW2 story. I remember that part. You had to do that so your cover wouldn't be blown. It's a sad situation but a realistic situation imo.
Notification Gang!
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5:15 "... it definitely didn't land." Perfect timing.
Jack Thompson’s vision for bully must have been lit.
Maybe we can use his vision for the bully sequel? 🔥🔥
Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of my favorite games, my mom bought it for me, she got mad, she got over it. Her main problem was the poo level, she said it was disgusting.
It’s my favorite game of all time I have so many memories of me and my cousins playing the multiplayer and playing through the story that’s the only four player multiplayer game we had so we played it all the time and to this day I go back to it a couple times a year just to play the story
And oh yes the great mighty poo he’s gonna throw his shit at you
Manhunt is an absolutely intense, fresh take on what a horror game can be. It's world and story is mature, graphic, and refuses to lighten up its morbidly dark tone. The game trusts players to have a tolerant mindset for its commentary on some of society's most despicable man-made horrors. The series deserves a comeback.
Thumbs-up! U said it PERFECTLY! I rarely have so little to say,but U echoed my sentiments /exactly/! :D
More than any other series(besides SilentHill, R.I.P.),this series deserves another release. Or,at the very least,re-masters w/ just better graphics & maybe,if possible,a blur-less ver. of MH2(I wish)...
The only other thing to say,is that the "film grain" effect should,at the very least,remain an OPTION for those wanting it. And,even an option to play w/ the original graphics,switch-able,on-the-fly,like was done for HALO Legendary edition,would be /really/ nice... ;)
In any case,the series should NOT be left gathering dust,like it is. Such a shame. But,given the way the gaming industry treats such adult subjects/concepts,I'm not really /that/ surprised nothing has been done,so far... : /
-Peace
Plated manhunt t around 7th grade.......the gore left me shocked . Never told my mom knew she take the game back . Beat it n never got rid of it
Manhunt was definitely disturbed but one of the best of its time for its stealth mechanics.
One of the very first games I got on PC back in the 90's was Carmageddon. I'm surprised it's not mentionned on this list.
I remember playing that one i only had the demo which was basicaly only one level or track
@@BobanX1 I had a cracked version my classmates gave me. You could drive a speeder from Star Wars... But one level is enough tho.
The Manhunt murder case was actually pretty ironic, since the copy of Manhunt wasn't the murderer, but the victim's...
Manhunt. This was a masterpiece.
Obviously, the game was pointed at, it's always the case. They blamed Marilyn Manson for Columbine, they blamed Scream because a guy killed his parents.
Yes please make another video about Bully!
have you guys ever done “Top _ moments when you actually have to die to progress in games” Super Hot does this with the Die Dog level and it’s been on my mind now. Anyway, thanks for the fun content
Thanks for your suggestion
Lucky for me: my parents didn't know anything about games.
Lucky for my son: I know everything about games.
Before I played Manhunt, I had never thought of stabbing someone in the face, I think that really stuck with me.
Why are parents so mad they’re the ones who let their children buy the game for their children
I had completely forgotten Jack Thompson's name... thanks
Could have titled this
"Karens in videogame history"
We need some more bully and conkers bad fur day
Loved Manhunt. You'd think a game like that would be garbage but the gameplay was surprisingly solid for the time.
Conker's remains relatively unknown to many, and while I haven't experienced Bad Fur Day, I did play Live & Reloaded probably about 20 years ago on the Xbox. It showcased impressive remastering ahead of its time, and the multiplayer aspect was so enjoyable. I've accepted the series fading away, I prefer it to be remembered and valued, rather than becoming a fragmented echo of its former self like Halo.
I miss when games were allowed to be sexy and fun. Anyone remember the "Outlaw" golf and volleyball series? I loved those games! So fun!