10 Abandoned Things That Are MAKING A COMEBACK 

I loved demos during the 360/PS3 era. It really made me decide if a game was for me or not. And it exposed me to more games. It also gave me new short experiences since i was a broke kid. I just wish more companies would bring back the red faction guerilla destruction. Who doesn't love collapsing buildings and seeing bits of it come off one by one? I've never met a person that didn't like it. I want that back.

I hope releasing complete games becomes a thing again. With the contents the developers promised to be in the game.

I’d love to see more split screen co-op available. I love playing video games but my best memories are the times I played them with my friends or dad on the couch.

This is really the only video game channel needed anymore

Wish we had more games that worked well as both single player and coop.

Stories. Good stories need to make a comeback.

Me playing the Darkness 2 demo 40+ times as an 11, or 12 year old, is the reason I even remembered it was a thing, and caused me to look into it a couple years ago. Got it for 8 bucks on Xbox, and it became onna my favorite games I've played. I just thought I had fun with a demo, and ya know, children like anything, but that endlessly replayable demo made me remember it for damn near 10 years before I even bought it

Does anyone else remember when the PS3 came out and devs were showing off intricate destruction physics? It released with a game called Pain where you shoot a character through various objects which break dynamically and you could see the grains in the wood stretching and pulling away from themselves. It was brilliant and I was really excited to see other games with this in. 2 generations later and nothing.

thank God for demos coming back ! That's DEFINITELY A PLUS for everyone !

Heck. I still watch your "Before you buy" videos even after i know everything about the game/preordered. I like how they are structured and executed.

Proper QA and optimization as if the games can no longer be changed once they are released would be really nice to make a comeback.

I see Demo(s) as an amazing business thing for you guys. In your Before you Buy videos, you can compare the Demo experience with the full title, and see if anything was potentially held back in the Demo version (Less customization options as an example) then the full experience, Or similarly, if anything has been improved upon. Gives you more to talk about!

Demo's I definitely missed and I am glad they are starting to resurface more. Even more access to Open Beta's are nice.

I'd like to see a comeback of something like street NFL. That game was amazing, just being able to style on people or your friend just felt great.

Great list! Definitely some things I love are coming back around. What I see little glimmers of, and would love to see more of… is world enhancing or altering add ons. We explore the world a developer builds and then a little down the road we get a whole new perspective. I associate this with the ps2/ps3 era. The big boys like R* putting out the “stories” accompaniment to GTA3 and GTA: VC. Or the lost and damned/BOGT. Or one of my absolute favorites: Undead nightmare. Or Valve taking us on a different trip thru Aperture Science, or the episodes of half life. And less AAA but still big titles like what telltale did for the walking dead universe. I really liked investing into a narrative or a world and then over the next few months or years getting a new perspective on it. A what if style scenario like a zombie outbreak, or an alternate perspective like stepping into the shoes of who was on the receiving end of that shoot out? yeah. Bring that back 🤣

Id loke to see hidden/secret characters make a comeback

We need ragdoll physics more often. Yeah realism is good and all, but i always get just a bit happier when i see enemies ragdoll out from explosions. Makes a game a bit more enjoyable to me

I love how Roguelites and Rougelikes have been bringing back the 8 and 16 bit difficulty.

I love that demos are coming back! At the beginning of the last gen, demos came to just a halt seemingly. I’d check the demo section on the Xbox One and rarely anything new. So glad everybody is starting to do them again! Also, for the longest time, I always thought he said Jiggle Sandwich. I think it’s funnier

I also love how demos save ur progress,so if u like it u pick up from where u left of instead of restarting like 20 years ago

i never had that much money in the 90s but i did have a ps1 and i used get "official ps magazine" and others just to get demo discs wich would have 3-6 playable demo levels of different games and the odd game trailer, they were pretty awesome tbh

First, huge props for bringing up Demo's. I absolutely LOVE when a new game has a demo on the PlayStation Store, i can't tell you how many times I've bought a game after playing the demo, that i wasn't previously interested in but was convinced by the demo. They're back and I'd argue even better than before. My nomination would be Retro- 2D games. I think of Octopath Traveler, but there's a multitude of old school style 2d rpg's & metroidvanias that have made a resurgence of late, and I'm HERE FOR ALL OF IT.

Great idea on the topic/content in this video. Really nice to see other gamers feeling the same way I do. Thanks again!

Number 6 is one i really hope to make a comeback. I tend to completely forget a game exists if they announce the release date way too early. It kills the hype for a new game.

Include the demo in your reviews! Tell us if they are providing an experience close to full product or whether it feels worse or better

honestly I love how the Resident Evil demos have been prequel stories to the main game, so by playing them, it's a double punch of getting to experience the game while also getting the player invested in the story

I love the comeback of game demos and Linear games. When I was in my teens I loved the idea of super long open world games but now that I'm working a full time job and wanting to spend time with my girlfriend, it's hard to juggle free time and I get burnout from playing just one game for too long. Beyond that, linear titles just feel more solid in terms of narrative experience and don't overwhelm you with fluff/filler content. Fallout and Elder Scrolls type games are the few exceptions where I love having a huge world with a long story.

Man,as a kid i replayed uncharted demo's over and over again,i'm happy it did a come back and finally decide if i should buy it or not,and love your vids Btw really entertaining!

The return of super difficult games is something I`m honestly not about. I don`t have vary good reflexes or hand/eye coordonation, and I no longer have the free time and patience I once had as a kid, to dedicate myself to a game, and "git gud". I also don`t like it when games are constantly showering me with tutorials for arbitrary new mechanics, or are generally just trying to hold my hand throughout the whole game. I vary much prefer the simplistic approach where a game gives me a quick rundown of what`s going on and what I`m doing, gives me a brief explanation and a small area to figure out any abilities or game mechanics I may come across, points me in the general direction of where I should maybe be headed next, and than sends me on my merry way to figure stuff out for myself. This is something BOTW did beautifully IMO, and I'd say that even TOTK, didn't pull this off as well. BOTW also found a great balance of difficulty IMO, where it kicked my ass with the first few enemy encounters, but the challange didn't feel insurmountable to me, and Lynel and early guardian encounters aside, I never felt like I was being brutaly punished by my lack of skill (the game generally gives you the tools and resources you need to compensate for a lack of skill, in other ways. You can also avoid or run away from most encounters, ther than Ganon and the Blights). I was super interested in Bloodborne, but having attempted to play it for a few hours, I can`t seem to get to grips with the combat mechanics, and I felt like I made basicly no progress, so it was a case of a difficulty that is too punishing for me to ever be able to ever make meaningful progress and enjoy the game, which is a shame because the world seems super intriguing, and I`d love to actually be able to explore it... Sekiro is another game I`d be super interested in playing, if it weren`t for the difficulty.

Credibility takes a serious nosedive when you mention "the hit" Redfall. Also, FF!6 isn't capped at 30 FPS in performance mode as you suggest; it runs at 60 FPS but does have frame drops when out of combat.

My cousin told me yesterday how he and his little brother played a demo disc of Tony Hawk Pro Skater, and then their aunt gave them the PS1 game for Christmas. He said the months of playing that game with his brother was one of the happiest memories of his life.

One of my favorite open world linear games is persona 5. Because the dungeons and time limit set is pretty linear but its open world enough to let you do your own thing during down time. You can sink as much time into random stuff as you want or just follow the main story its really up to you.

Definitely agree with 6. Pretty annoying seeing a teaser trailer for something that looks good then u realise it comes it in 4 years as they just started making it. End up forgetting about it

12:00 Oblivion had a lot of this too. You could put things on the tables, or pick up a bucket for the shop, or the paintbrush glitch, etc

Speaking of Demos, last night I was scrolling through Playstation Plus store and all its offerings again and I noticed Hogwarts Demo (a game I really want to buy but unsure of) I love that Demos are making a comeback to the point you can tell if you want it before you buy it (especially if games are getting more expensive with $70 and 3 tiers of Editions)

Great videos keep up the good work

With the release of Age of Empires 2 DE a few years ago, I am hoping there will be some more great RTS games coming out. That's not to say there aren't any today, but it would be amazing to see a new game of the same caliber as Age of Empires and even Starcraft!

for number 6, i really miss the hype of apex legends coming out. it was so crazy to see apex get announced AND RELEASED at the same time, it literally blew up my mind. i would love more games to do this

I still have my PS1 demo that came with the console had MGS1, Gran Turismo, Crash 3, Medievil, Spyro. Really put me on to a lot of games

Gex. That's somehow making a comeback. 😂

I would like to see a revival of the 2/4 player action story games; X-Men Legends, Marvel Alliance etc, Baldurs Gate/Dark Alliance etc. Love that single player story games are making a massive revival, but we need more co-op story games.

The demo for Arkane's prey was my favorite ever. That game introduced me to Arkane/immersive sims and I am forever grateful 😊

A guilty pleasure of mine and a very linear, arcade-y game is Hunted: The Demon Forge. Just one of those games thats a blast to play despite its simplicity

THANK YOU, for also considering the importance of player CHOICE when it comes to difficulty!! The options in Jedi: Survivor where a big part why I actually decided to complete it!!

Looking forward to them❤️

I'm so SO happy that demos are getting a comeback. And it needs to stay.

Splinter Cell dialogue always got me going. Chaos Theory guards happy to be caught by a ninja? Priceless 😂

Retro games/graphics in general, specifically retro JRPGs. Just started Chained Echoes, wish I would have sooner. I'm a couple hours in and freaking love it, its like Chrono Trigger, FF6, BOF3, and Secret of Mana all rolled into one with a ton of quality of life additions like auto run, auto save, auto heal after each fight, etc. etc.

I’d say that older studios are making a comeback. Sega, Capcom, Konami, Square were all of the old staples from the 80s to the mid-late 2000s that kind of fell of during the late PS3/PS4 era. But they’ve all come roaring back at the top of their game with Konami set to rejoin the party very soon.

You know what I really miss when they used to make achievements pretty hard but you would get something really really cool and unlock-able and usable for multiplayer sometimes like if you saw somebody using a specific item it was like behind a difficult challenge you would know if they were bad ass, and I just feel like more games don’t do that often especially in multiplayer, and that includes carryover data like in gears of war. If you played the previous titles and you beat them on high difficulty you get exclusive skins for the next game.

Action replay man. By far one of my favorite parts of gaming back in the day

I was so happy to find Heartworm (PS1 era throwback game coming out soon) had a demo too! Completed the nostalgia pit nicely

Awesome list guys! The main 3 things I would like to come back is: 1. Those awesome giant video game guides 📖. I used to have the Fallout 3 & NV guides(even came with a map). I still have the Fallout 4 game guide in my closet. 2. Those nice booklets that come with the game. They always gave a description for each character and it had some funny lines in there. 3. More story for Halo infinite!! Please no more multiplayer stuff!! Give us more story!! Lol 😂

Thanks for shouting out Plague Tale, those games were really fun and were the perfect length. I do recommend playing them with the French dialog, it is really good.

I love all the dialogue in Solasta, it’s so ridiculous and cheesy and fantastic

I loved getting the demo disks every month in my PC Gamer magazine. I remember they had an exclusive demo for Deus Ex (the original one) that allowed you to play the first three levels; the regular demo you could download (we are talking dial up here, son) only had the first level.

We love a good comeback story!

Smaller scale AA games seem to make a comeback as well. Hi-Fi Rush is a perfect example of an AA game done right.

I wish couch coop would make a come back. Graphical improvements are ok but i miss the simplicite fun you get out of being on the same tv with friends and family enjoying a game.

I think my favorite demo ever was the overlord Demo. It is a unique adventure that is not from the game. It gives a great slice of the game but it is worth playing even if you buy the games. The humor is great.

A few of these have been brought back much earlier by the wider Indie Scene and the Mid-Market, or just never left them. I can tell ya that for the first entry of demos it might have been inspired by the *HUGE* push of the wider Indie Scene and Mid-Market with every Steam Next Fest and the HauntedPS1 Demo Discs. Difficulty can be found *in spades* in Indie Titles... at least if you know where to look >.> One of my faves from this list is that the Indie Scene and Mid-Market have never given up the linear game. Ever. The one on this list I'm glad is coming back since it didn't seem to be there even outside the Triple-A is the horror games with *actual mechanics*.

Number 2! On the point of environmental damage I don't understand why more modern game's don't have more environmental damage shouldn't it be easier?? Like I hope more game's adopt it and NO not just Battle Field and Legend of Zelda

What should also comeback is more co-op games, I miss those days when there were plenty.

I'd like to see the return of Achievements with meaning or bonuses: Another comment here (from zombiepie) had mentioned achievements that that unlocked something in multiplayer so when you saw it, you knew the player had done something difficult in the game. In addition to that I'd love to see the return of achievements with actual gameplay bonuses. The best example that comes to mind is the original Mass Effect had almost all of its achievements tied to some kind of bonus for your current or next playthrough so for example if you killed (I believe) 150 enemies with the pistol you unlocked that weapon specialization for all future playthroughs when creating your character. I thought that was really cool and rewarding.

Played mafia 2’s 1 hour demo for countless hours honestly. Same for the force unleashed!! Such a blast

I'd like to see us go back to the days where sequels would only take 2 or 3 years to come out. Not every series needs to have a new open world, upgraded engine or overhauled combat system each game.

After Redfall, I’d like to see Arkane and Dishonored make a comeback 🤞

The problem with games being announced too early comes with how many leaks get there first. Better to get it out on your own terms if you can.

Man, I waited the entire video to hear about beat em ups. They had been dead for years, now they are coming back in a big way.

The one thing I'm so excited about coming back is side-scrolling action games that aren't indie. Like Metroid Dread, both Ori games and the up come Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Some people say that they never left but it felt like there were none for years.

Demo discs were awesome I remember one with jak 3. I played that a 1000 times before getting the real game. There was demo discs for psvr 1 which brought me back.

"The 'Hit' Redfall"; He says casually. LOL! That gave me a chuckle for sure.

One thing I have been told is that cartridges for playing games might return due to the digital capabilities could store 250gb on them. It maybe because of the size of these games now that they would hold a lot more data so you don't have to download so much before you play. Do not know if it would happen because discs are so solidified but it would be interesting to see it developed.

I am so open- world tired, I love that linear games are coming back! Now hoping for some more (couch) co-op games.

Modern difficult games have a much better difficulty than old games; Old games were difficult for the wrong reasons. Time limts, continues and lives (often with a strict limit), unclear what you're suppsed to do, no guides or maybe there were bugs/glitches to mess things up. Nowadays, it's all about greating a challenge that's as fair as possible. And even if you have trouble, there is a wide community online, ready to give all kinds of tips & tricks.

If there’s two thing I’d like to have a comeback, it’s the found footage style games, and unexpected finds. Unexpected finds are like the Bethesda game torture rooms, gta 5 ambient noises when you go back to the location at a specific time, etc.

Just started Outer worlds recently, its actually quite a nice game. I saw some hated reviews on steam and was afraid to try it out but damn its fun to play

The human eye cannot detect anything over 55 fps that is why they set the standard for televisions at 60fps games were originally designed for the television screens and this was the same for home consoles, PC's and arcade games. As the technology improved, the screens could handle higher frame rates and pixel counts. The technology has improved, but the human eye has stayed the same, so 60fps is still the minimum required for smooth footage regardless of the screen or graphics capabilities. If a game can not be played at 60fps, the developers and coders are basically incompetent and should find a different form of employment.

Gamranx host are entertaining and not annoying, I’ll continue to watch regardless of demo

Am I the only one that misses the feeling of starting an E3 stream, just sitting there, waiting like a 6 years old for Christmas?

In terms of framerate, having experienced older pc games and earlier current gen games at 60 fps, it`s really hard to go back to 30 fps. If the newest games insist on being limited to 30 fps at 4k, than they should add a performance mode that brings the render resolution down to 1080p and the fps to 60, while maintaining all the other graphics settings the same where possible, and than either use FSR to bring the render resolution back to 4k, or just have the output resolution stay at 1080p. Alot of people still don`t have 4k displays anyway (such as myself), so not having the option to sacrifice some of that resolution I can`t take advantage of, in order to make the overall experience smoother, is kind of annoying, especially when the current gen consoles specificly promised 4k, and 60 fps. With that in mind, if we can't have both, we should atleast be allowed the choice between one and the other. In the case of starfield, I understand the choice to go for 4k 30fps, but I do hope we get the option for 1080p 60fps, atleast on series X (with the series S maybe getting a performance mode with a lower internal resolution, to try and reach that 60 fps target)

i personally don't think 30 fps is that bad, never understood why there was just SUCH a massive outcry about it.

The one I remember most was the Playstation underground demo with metal gear solid , midevil, armored core, and some puzzle game where you ran from blocks I believe it had parapa the rappa as well that one I played a whole lot.

Another video that didn't mention Baldurs Gate 3. Why are you guys sleeping on this game?!?! So many cool features that I can't wait to check out in August on full release, including the environment interactions!

Tears of the Kingdom gets a pass on being a huge open world because the open world exists to serve the gameplay rather than the other way around. My go-to for a great mostly-linear game that doesn't completely weld you to a rail is Control.

I love the sarcasm when you said “or the hit redfall” 😂

I remember the Fusion Frenzy demo on an game I can't remember hahaha, me and my buddies probably spent an equal amount of time playing the demo as we did the game it was on.

I remember we had a demo disk with a demo of destroy all humans. And there was a trailer on it for mortal kombat shoulin monks. When the game finally came out we played it for hours. Wish they'd make another more exploring mortal kombat game like that just to change things up

I'd have referred to #2 as "emergent gameplay". Where interesting systems interplay to produce unexpected, largely player driven outcomes. The "Oh shit, I can do THIS?" that makes you feel like a genius. TotK is a fantastic example, as was HL2.

Bro... Destiny 2 has been around for over 5 years now, it's got your difficulty in spades & difficulty settings, & it doesn't hold your hand, in fact it will let you wonder in the abyss for five years without a single notification if you're so inclined to. Now that's pro gamer.

Red Faction games will always hold a special place in my heart. Me and my Brother couch playing, blowing tunnels in walls to see if we can pot shot each other from them man that was the life lol. Bring back that kind of Destruction!

for number 5, Evil West is an amazing linear game. one of my favorite games i played last couple years.

100% agree the standard should be 1440p 60fps. Even though I have a big beautiful 4K tv, I’ve seen what a difference 60fps makes and I can’t go back.

My favorite classic game that is unintentionally hilarious because of the dialogue: Shenmue “You know where I can find any sailors?”

I used to play the Demo’s to Primal and Dark Cloud all the time on my PS2 as a kid. It makes me want to go and find them online and play them full but I’m afraid it might ruin the memory haha

Im so glad about demos TOO, last one i played was Arkham City, AND THAT SOLD EVERYONE WHO PLAYED IT!

Nice video, about the cheats in games I think we need more games with cheats in it. Today almost all games needed a trainer to cheat for fun or make the game easy for you. I miss the old PC game days

Here's a video idea that I'd like to see (voiced by Falcon): "10 BAD video games that are based on GOOD movies", there you go, now do your magic😉.

I pray for more destruction physics engines. I remember playing Red Faction Guerilla, Stranglehold and Battlefield just so I could destroy everything, that shit was my crack as a kid. We need more of that. Red faction Guerilla got a remaster, (armageddon never happened), Wreckfest and BeamNG Drive had some good softbody physics, Control has some dope ass physics destruction, Teardown is pure mayhem and The Finals has some of the best destruction I've seen for a while, I just hope they add a sandbox mode.

What do I want to see come back? --Single player games with love and art we saw in things like the first three Halo games. --RTS games that are simple and to the point. Not too complex to play. --For that matter, more games in general that are simple and not overloaded with "features" and "mechanics" that wind up leaving you needing a guide to understand how to play it. Games like that have their place, but so too do the ones that are just a fun place to escape to for a while. --Games like "Nexus, the Jupiter Incident". Now maybe I don't know of ones that are out there, but I want more games where you were in command of a ship, or several ships, and you are fighting battles or dealing with problems as a captain of that/those ships. Again, nothing overly complex, and something with a good SINGLE player story. --And of course, one we can all agree on; games I can play the single player mode of without it having to check for updates. Heck, at one point updates to C&C3 actually ruined the single player mode because it messed with all kinds of things. But even without that, once my copy of Starcraft 2 knows an update exists, I can't play it until I download it. Like dude, I just want the single player mode!