Video games are known for battles, but only a select few have legendary massive ones we still talk about. Here are our favorite examples. Subscribe for more: ru-vid.com?su...
Actually not that hard right now. They were selling online in Walmart today. I’ve bought 5 ps5 like 6 month ago from Walmart. Just gotta spam the add to cart.
@@luisrodriguez-bp2zs Not entirely true. You can pay to get in game currency, but you can also earn that currency through in game actions. Most of the people that were involved in that fight probably built the ships themselves, or earned the money in game.
@@jokkekims7111 most don't, the larger alliances certainly don't, they got way too much money funelling in on peacetime to even think about buying more ISK with irl money.
I would've put the battle of B-R5RB at #1. Over 7,000 REAL players, and costing in real money over $300,000. That is absolutely devastating. A lot of rage quitting, keyboard smashing, and possibly a suicide over such a huge high stakes battle.
And then not that long after we got M2-XFE and a few others that made B-R5RB look small in comparison. Every other game on here is player vs a shit ton of NPCs and no real stakes beyond some time. EVE was thousands of actual people, no NPCs at all, very real stakes in terms of control of space in the middle of a much larger war, the significant time (21 hours), the insane loss of ships and capital investment... plus trying to explain to people that all of this had to be coordinated in real time around the world by players and fleet commanders consulting with coalition and alliance leadership and defense departments (actual people in elected or appointed positions etc). The insanity that is EVE is nearly impossible to convey. I'm naught but a humble gas huffer, but even I felt the effects 50 jumps away from the war as market prices soared when the sides began trying to reconstruct fleets and suddenly everyone is on the hunt for specific things to meet the demand to rebuild.
@@mycroft16 adding more: each battle can take months to prepare, only a day to lose it all. Player put so, so much effort to play the game despite it being absolutely boring to outsiders. In some corporation you need to have an interview with the corp leader to join their corp. This is to ensure the person isn't a spy or trying to sabotage the corp. Everything in the game require spreadsheet. You want to buy a ship from your corp/alliance mate? Make a spreadsheet of stuff you want to buy. Want materials to build something? Spreadsheet. Selling stuff? You know what comes next.
@@blitzmustang1588 i thought about trying eve, but idc if u make money from it, its a game. im not investing thousands on it, or having interviews for a video game. some people....invest their lives in the wrong things. and im like a true gamer day and night but thats a bit much
A criminally underrated game that seems to go unnoticed is Spartan: Total Warrior. Haven't played in over a decade, but if memory serves me right, it definitely would fit in this list.
Im so happy I wasnt the only person that remembers how amazing that game was and how ahead of its time it was. I'd love ot see a remaster. It's fluid combat with huge battles was insane and always blew my mind
Surely the EVE Online battle/war is the biggest, the scope, the background story behind it all, the fact that those ships have some real world equivalent (even if they arent directly bought with money they could be sold for real money, if I understand correctly), and the stakes of it all just screams ''Biggest battle ever''
Sorry dube taht battle was darfed last year with up too 10k players 7k at once in system destrying over 100 titans in eve online. Sorry but bad research on thier part
They can't be bought with real currency. You can buy the ingame premium currency, then sell it for the ingame regular currency. That's how they put a $ value on ships. I doubt gameranx did their research on the materials required to craft said ship and converted it to a $ value, they probably just googled someone else's work and called it a day. You can also get it for free with time invested, but due to the skill system and required amount of play, and required amount of accounts to farm, process materials, research bps, craft ships, and pilot them and fund those accounts through ingame currency would be astounding. IIRC when titans came out, it took over a year before the first one was made.
I was running a corporation in EVE when the battle happened, I was "lucky" and loaded in with the initial jump group in my Revelation Dreadnought, but after a couple hours I had to jump out barely escaping with 15% hull remaining. I went to repair it in the station I jumped to, but after cleaning the coffee off my monitors and re-checking the cost again, I just left it. It's still only has 15% hull remaining today, and I don't have any plans to pay for the repair bill. It does get noobs excited and they'll try to attack it, but short of a Titan or several dreads, it's armor tank won't be dented.
My knowledge is outdated but I believe dreadnoughts are sort of the biggest ships that can dock in a station (maybe carriers too), so so long as nobody tries to take the station itself he should be pretty safe. Of course the poor dready is just ever stuck there. Reminds me of the people that got stuck in the station my alliance took and couldn't leave, so they'd just hang there with their clones.
On Planetside 1, we would regularly see continent-spanning battles with hundreds and hundreds of players, practically on a weekly basis. Fights in such conflicts ranged from tiny guerrilla ops, to giant tank battles. Fond memories.
I remember i was playing Battlefield 2042 Breakthrough and my team was defending. At one point everyone was up on these hills and mountains just firing down at the enemy. There were lines of tanks, battalions of troops and dozens of planes and helicopters in the sky. It was by far my favourite online gaming moment ever and will stick with me forever.
Another good one is middle earth shadow of war. Them seiges and defenses are MASSIVE sometimes. And sometimes it does get to the point where the game breaks
I was thinking the same thing. Not to downplay the battle in Dragon Age but that only 1 continent joining to fight a common enemy. Mass Effect 3 had 1 galaxy fighting a common enemy
My brother played this game called Viking Battle for Asgard, and I remember at certain points in the story there would be huge battles with hundreds of troops. Never played it, but entertaining to watch for sure
On 360 and PC, from the same studio as the total war franchise. The big battle sequences were pretty good although you could get through them pretty quickly with the dragon nuking respawn points instead of fighting your way in to capture them
Times of battles and game 10- 0:16 total warhammer 9- 1:40 kingdom hearts 3 8- 2:51 serious Sam 7- 4:00 Yakuza 5 6- 5:18 heavenly sword 5- 6:18 dynasty worrior 9 4- 7:58 world conflict 3- 8:56 eve online 2- 11:57 dragon age origins 1- 13:18 planetside 2 Have a nice day 😃
Cool list. Some of my favorites were the battles in the Kingdom Under Fire games, the Drakengard games(well maybe not 3 so much), Spartan Total Warrior, and the Shenmue 70 man battle. Currently I'm having fun with the Mount and Blade games. May not be as big as some of the battles on the list, but still super fun moments.
I have played this MMO in my country where guild wars schedule is 3x a Week. Where 900 players, atleast 14 guilds (50 members each) go to a capture the flag siege battle alike. It is fun and enjoyable. Good memories.
It's not. Because you don't. All ships in game are built in game. Paid for with an in-game currency called ISK. The reason people keep saying you pay real money for the ships is that there is an item called PLEX that can be bought for real world money. This can be used to sub accounts, buy skins or account services, and can be sold to players in game for in game currency. You can figure out a supposed real world cost for the ships by using the PLEX to in-game currency conversion. But no one actually buys ships with real money. I wish people would actually do research instead parroting the same nonsense over and over. And that is posted toward the channel. Not you, the person I'm replying to.
For some people, spending 9k is the same as us buying a burger. Can you imagine people in disadvantaged countries that earn less than a dollar a day thinking about spending $10 on a big-mac combo?
@@lilsleepy1469 For sure, there are some people buying them that shouldn't and they end up in all sorts of financial strife. They're akin to gambling addicts and people with substance dependency issues. This doesn't change the premise of my comment though; there are also people out there to whom 9k literally means nothing to them. For perspective, what you spend on a single fast food meal is what some people on this planet earn in a month, but you don't think twice about buying that meal deal, right?
The final battle in Heavenly sword is one of my fondest memories in gaming, and I've never played anything that came close to the way that battle felt. I don't understand why they talked down on it so much in this video, because that game was way ahead of it's time even to this day. I would love to go back and replay it again
was part of the record holder moment. its truly insane how big battles get in this game but that particular day was just anarchy. normally its just 3 or 4 big skermishes and a few small ones but that day was just an entire frontline over the entire continent between all factions. it was just insane and being part of that is one of my fondest game memories.
Seriously one of the coolest gaming moments I've ever had, and I thought it was amazing you could control arrows and cannons by moving the controller. I don't understand why they talked down on it so much in this video
Planetside 2 is such a fun game to play, the only fps game i've ever played with constant massive wars between players from 3 different factions and tons of ways of playing each class, it's so good
Squads and all that, it's amazing when you go up the ranks in an outfit (or guild/clan whatever) and actually get to lead some squads You feel like you're playing a strategy game but then you realize your army is other players. There is no other game like planetside
@@derf5045 Played it years ago, most of what I can remember is that it absolutely tanks your framerate. Also quite unfortunate that the player count on Steam tanked just as much
@@TH_Zireael2077 the game is heavy on cpu yes, it isnt that bad tho. But the population is fine, yes there is much less servers than there were back then but they still reach high peaks and on peak times you usually have 3 continents open
About time Eve got some love here. I've seen some of your mission lists and was shocked some of the impossible missions of eve have never even been mentioned. Great job as always, keep it real.
EvE is definitely the most insane. You're talking about 7500~ ACTIVE, individual players. Seriously, a 128 player map is considered HUGE, let alone 7500. Note: it took 21 hours for it to be over because the game was under time dilation. Basically, there were so much players involved, and so much computing power required that the game had to be slowed down. It's like if you have a 1000+ part ship in KSP, you have to use the cheat engine's speed hack to lower the game speed so it would at least be playable. This way, Instead of getting 1 frame per second, you would get 15 frames per second, but the game time is 15 times slower or something like that.
They introduced lag to fight lag... I fought in one of the outlier skirmishes with that fight, part of a reinforcing fleet that was trying to jump in. I don't know what the 2100+ players in system was like, but the 600 player fight I was in was pretty smooth, with minimal tidi, and it was a total blast. Managed to get my Pheonix dreadnought out with something like 5% hull. Was a major OOF to pay to fix it.
I’m surprised the bloodbath in eve didn’t take number 1. Numerically it had the most people, not npc’s but people in a fight that went on for a real day. And the number of ships he says were lost doesn’t even touch what actually was lost. He mentioned all the capital class ship losses, but not the sub capital losses which were way higher in number and you must have a player in them for them to be present in the fight
The main reason EVE didn't take number 1 I think, is because we know for a fact that you can also have thousands of players fighting in PlanetSide 2, but we don't have an accurate number. There could easily have been battles with 10k+ players, if we're going off of that fact.
@@Asbjorn268 lordy this is an old one, you have a point but we know for a fact how many players were active at the time and who all was partricipating in the fight. im not saying that the PS2 fight wasnt massive, but it without a rough estimate its hard to say who had more.
i think that the battle of B-R5RB should definitely take number 1 on this list. that amount of chaos and destruction is absolutely insane when you consider how much was financially at stake. imagine you're just chilling at work and hop online when you get home to see an absolute shit storm going down lmao
I love Planetside 2!!! In terms of realism for team work, using the geography of the map, diversity of troops and roles for each class, armour and aircraft that work together for attacking and defending bases in its scale is unmatched. You really do feel part of a large army trying to take the continent. I can say that I would not be surprised at all if battles routinely move into the thousands of players, with the addition of Player-made bases and the Bastion Skycarriers the shear scale and scope of the battles daily are immense.
@@soggy5854 from what i remember since they are putting out more updates (for the NS faction specifically) there is a new influx of players within the past few weeks. NS have their own fighters and tanks now
not gonna lie its one game i dont uninstall cause i visit it often. Still waiting for anothet dev to pull this off that gives the same feeling as Planetside 2 and yet im still waiting lol
I hope they do this video again. I feel that Foxhole deserves mention as it's whole selling point is 1,200 vs 1,200 24/7 wars where everything is built by players. I can think of at least a few major battles that could represent the game that would fit this video.
Definitely nowhere near the scale of the battles in this video, but one of my best memories from an online game actually came from ESO. Me and a full party of friends came across, and participated in of course, a massive battle that was taking place at an outpost. It was such an inconsequential battle for the PvP campaign, but there were easily 200+ players there and the battle lasted hours, and it was a blast. Players from all alliances just duking it out over something so small. And while defending it, just seeing people get oil dumped on them, and rocks from trebuchet's flying over, and then fighting inside the building itself after the battering ram knocked down the door, and then rinsing and repeating because we kept repairing the door. Loads of fun. Sad thing is, I literally never even saw a battle to that scale at a proper Fort, and though I really don't play ESO much anymore, still haven't to this day.
This gave me memories of the biggest battle I’ve ever played, ‘twas in AoE II, on a map created by me and my friends. This game has no paste feature so i had to click for every unit appearing on the giant map, from top to bottom filled with soldiers.Took more than 8 hours to put all of them there, one by one! 😅
you could copy and paste terrain, which would include any units standing on the terrain. The only drawback is it would recreate whatever the units are standing on. Also you could use triggers to make an endless (or not endless) swarm of soldiers spawn out of nowhere.
I love watching movies or games that have two massive armies lined up on their respective sides, a horn blows and thousands of soldiers run at each other and inevitably collide. I can’t wait to see a AAA game on the new systems do this. I remember back in the PS2 days, Spartan Total Warrior succeeded in blowing my mind.
You mean like in Pirate of the Caribbean 3 when the two armada's showed up and you're thinking to yourself, "Man, shit is about to get real!" Only to have your expectations crushed when only 3 of the literal hundreds of ships that showed up, actually went into battle.
Realmente sorprendido de que no mencionaras las batallas de Fortaleza en la sombra de la guerra. Especialmente viendo cómo en los niveles más altos realmente necesitas planificar a quién traes en tus ataques dependiendo de las fortalezas y debilidades.
I think an honorable mention could be the first battle/ tutorial in Ryse: Son of Rome. There’s hordes of mauraders in the background as well as some siege towers I think, not only that but you do go against a few groups of 3-5 enemies when learning the game.
Mass Effect 3 would be a good contender seeing how the entire game is one big war against the reapers with almost every species in the galaxy fighting.
I loved Witcher 3 battle of Kaer Morhen too, that was my favorite one since the end battle unfolds on your choices and how you help people. That was good.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great moment of the game, but in terms of scale compared to some things on this list? I'd say there were like 50 enemies, compared to 1000+ on the list.
Kameo: Elements of Power was the first game to ever blow me away with battle size. Something about the war going on in the open world area between worlds felt really big at the time.
Yes! I was looking for this comment. In 2005, it was amazing. I played a lot of Dynasty Warriors on PS2.. thousands of hours. But when I saw Kameo on Xbox 360, it was just mind blowing.
A couple other games that I played when I was a kid that had some pretty big battles despite being PS2/3 era games: Spartan Total War & Viking: Battle for Asgard. Loved those games. With all of the games that are getting remasters, I'd love to see those brought back.
I've never been in a game with battles as big as Eve online but I did use to play Battlestar Galactica online(BSGO). We use to have fleet battles and it use to get crazy on the servers. I played as a Cylon on the Scorpia server and when we had fleet battles some players would bring out the Basestar(Cylon) or Pegasus(Human) ships depending on which side would be goin out to take down the other side outpost. I was in a few battles that were so big it cause the fram rate to drop to the point the game was crashing. It use to be a fun game. I miss that game.
Ninety nine knights was always on my mind as a kid for amazing cinematic cut scenes and intense large scale battles, I hate to see that it’s fallen out of the limelight
You have the battle of Garred Mach in Fire Emblem Three Houses, which feels big because of the whole build up leading to that moment and holds up as one of the best strategic battles from recently released games. Personally from a single player point of view a special mention has to go to Medal of Honour Frontline’s first mission, absolute masterpiece when it was released and felt like a huge battle as you storm the beach.
Anyone remember MAG on PS3? It was 256 player rounds where you would absolutely dominate if everyone payed attention and cooperated. I miss those days of cooperation and no screamers...
Demon Chaos on PS2 had quite impressive battles as well. Up to ~65000 units on field and most could be visible. Unit amount was limited by VU1 vector units 16KB of memory. It was used for all math needed for unit placement, movement etc.
Personally I think World War Z is a good contender for a big battle. I mean how often can u say u shit yourself seeing 1k zombies come sprinting at you.
@@deaimad7957 Plus you gotta take them seriously. If you want to take them out, you don’t really have much of a choice. You gotta use the environment to your advantage (some hordes are in areas with at least 1 narrow path), you’re going to be using a lot of throwables, explosives, and bullets, and you gotta run and gun. Again, you don’t have a choice but to do that if you want to take them out. There’s one horde you’re definitely going to want to take out because it’s near one of the Checkpoints (this is something I found out the hard way. Very early into the campaign. I eventually took it out, but still. I wasn’t expecting a horde to be there). Like I was so unprepared for it that I had an easier time taking out the horde that’s at the college you eventually go to. But the one at the sawmill? I don’t know if I do or don’t ever want to go through that again. And I was at least somewhat prepared for it. The problem wasn’t my skill, it was not having enough resources to make the maximum amount of every single explosive and throwable you can carry. I was especially conservative with rags because you need them for at least 3 or 4 items that you can craft.
Dude…DW4 was PEAK Dynasty Warriors. You unlocked the final forms of their weapons to their “legendary” name and appearance by actually forcing events to “accurately” play out their version on the actual field. It was nuts, but INSANELY gratifying. The character and their weapon specific battles had to be fought for this or…the list goes on. Point is, you were rewarded for going the extra effort. ❤️🔥
So I play quite a few games with my sons and my oldest has a tendency to run ahead...a lot! I've grown used to it and even thrived on exploring to find sweet loot (which I share because that's the kind of dad I am) but it bit him on the caboose when we played Serious Sam 3. He went ahead and moments later came running back, yelling for help, with a massive hoard of horned critters on his tail. The last I saw of his toon was him being engulfed in a tsunami of baddies as I hopped on a ledge out of harms way (laughing hysterically). Lesson learned? We shall see. Got a whole lifetime of games ahead of us lol Thanks for the great vids Falcon!
I'm a bit sad the Invasion for Auman from Zone of Enders 2 isn't in here as it deserves to be. You have full access to Jehuty's Zero Shift and can warp all over the battle field while trying to protect the LEV units.
@@DanDeNinja44 I rewatched a clip and that’s true. I played ZoE2 so many times that I always new game plused and used the form that unlocks right after.
The Battle at M2-XFE had already happened when this video was made, and it was bigger than B-R5RB. Something like THREE TIMES as many titans would die at M2-XFE as at B-R5RB. A second battle happened at M2-XFE few days later, but it got so big that the server crashed.
Everyone always went on and on about B-R5RB... and then the insanity that was M2-XFE happened. That was simply astounding. And the aftermath that just continued to escalate things.. trapping the enemy fleet in system, etc Just to watch it all happen.
One game I'd love people to know more about, is Conquerors blade. It is VERY similar to mountain blade, but online. You are a commander which commands a set of troups ranging from just 8 troops(Berserkers) to large amounts of units like village watchman of 32 units. In a big 15v15 player battles for regular sieges. It's set in a medieval setting and there is an open world aspect where you can capture, attack and defend fiefs for your house/Alliance. A house can be up to 100 people and an alliance has up to 300 people from 3 seperate houses. I've seen battles in earlier seasons of roughly 1200 people fighting it out over multiple fiefs(Cities/Gates/Capitals/Villages/Forts) and really doesn't have the same kind of branding alot of these other games have, I'd highly recommend it!
As an Taiwanese I must say. Most of my classmates and boys at my age, in junior high school learn more history from Dynasty game than in school. Not everyone read the romance, or read through all of it. But everyone know who did what thanks to these games.
Witcher 3 battle of kaer morhen for me is number 1 I know there were bigger battles But this feels the best build up in a fight and all the shiiiit going on.
You can tell they enjoyed the game when not only was that not the biggest battle you fight in the game, but calling World IN Conflict, World OF Conflict (it's "in" btw). (7:58)
I've always thought it would be awesome if one day in the future technology is capable of recreating something like the d day landings to scale with tens of thousands of players.
I love battles in video games that where not every enemy is against you but it's a free for all because it sucks when it's a 100v1 but instead more like a cowboy bar fight where it just goes wild
Anybody who knows where The Citadel is in Planetside 2, specifically the map I'm referencing, knows that this particular map is always the most hotly contested, as the center territory of this map is only accessible via air drops and landing craft. It sits on a plateau and is virtually impossible to access on foot or by land vehicle, so it always has fighter aircraft cruising over it at max altitude and SPAA and MANPADs patrolling around it. One particular month some years back, I was involved in a battle there that saw hundreds of fighter aircraft from the TR (Red) and NC (Blue) factions duking it out while landing aircraft and aerial gunships dropped thousands of infantry onto the plateau. This particular battle saw a massive player rotation, one that I'm fairly certain no one had realized the scale of at the time, and it raged for several days with no clear idea of who would win that battle. At several points during this battle, it would spill over into the neighboring territories as each side would attempt to push the other's anti-air assets off the borders of the plateau. I was personally involved in the largest tank engagement at this battle, with something like 300 tanks per side fighting for the North side of the plateau. I'd say this particular engagement saw around 1200-1500 players per side.
As i started playing in late 2020 i have absolutely no idea what you're talking about I thought alerts were always a thing, one thing that rings a bell is "The Crown" but other than that... Bruh
Glad planetside was here, and top 1 even, such an amaizing game, nothing like it, you really feel like you are in a battle, no game has come closer to that feel.
@@FuraFaolox wait that doesnt sounds right, last news i got you didnt even got construction let alone the bastion, i might be wrong, or you might be messing with me
The largest battle i had in mount and blade 2 was a battle in wich both army's had almost every soldier of their empire/kingdom in it. I led an army of 2.8K strong against a slightly bigger force of 3K. It was for real the most deciesive battle i ever had, the army that would come on top could just easely go to any town and castle and take it because the enemy had nothing left to defend it with. Of course at the end around 13 lords and ladys had perished in the fighting wich is a pretty big deal.
Yeah. And after all those hours they officially pronounce you a coward because you execute three captive lords who stabbed you in the back and brought this war into your house. Omg, my ass still burns.
whoa, this video was awesome, I'm so glad to see serious sam in this list and know that it still gets some love! Oddly enough, I grew up with it, my dad and I used to play together all the time and I remember that battle vividly :')
