You have to remember for saint's row,they were trying to get away from the "GTA clone" image that they unexpectedly gained when it was first released. For Ninja Gaiden and Dead Rising,they just had trouble with the new ideas and directions they tried
Remember, for every game that didn't get any continuation but you wish had one, there's an extremely big chance that, had that continuation happened, it would end up in this list.
Dude you're so correct you don't realize just how right you are. You just retorted every single "I wish this got a sequel" bot comment ever. Good stories know when to end and stay ended
Notice how so many franchises seemed to peaked around the mid 2000's. I think it's because gaming was a growing industry but not quite as large as it is now. It was more about building and growing franchises than appeasing shareholders. I consider myself lucky that I was a teenager at that time and got to experience that era at that age.
I think it's because gaming was for enthusiasts until 2010 or so, then it became mainstream and casual. Games used to be hard and interesting, now they're mostly bland and easy. At least the ones from major developers. Lucky for us we have a huge indie game market these days, thanks to holy Gaben.
guess what became popular around that time... social media. gaming was a relatively niche market that didn't have a huge following aside from actual gamers. then social media became a thing and all the casuals were introduced to gaming. it went from niche to mainstream in a few years. the thing with niche markets is that quality is paramount. selling bad quallity to a small audience has huge reprecusions. selling bad quality to a massive audience not as much. I think that is why gaming sucks these days.
Maybe you and Jake are just similar in age and are both the same level of jaded? Honestly even the "bad games" that release these days are more fun than the games of our youth, nostalgia is just a powerful thing
@@contramundi1 except 2o23 was probably the best year of gaming the industry has every had. Hogwarts legacy, Jedi survivor, tears of the kingdom, starfield, resident evil 4, Alan Wake 2, balfurs gate 3, spiderman 2, etc and I know I'm forgetting several great games from last year. The people that complain about the state of the gaming industry today vs 30 years ago is just an anhedonic curmudgeon wearing rose covered glasses and disillusioning themselves with the nostalgia. video games were not a niche market in the 90s and 00s, there's a reason the PS2 is still the best selling console of all time even though it was the PS3 generation that was introduced with social media. It only seemed niche to you at the time because you were a child. Gaming doesn't suck today, your ability to enjoy things in life does though
Man, most of that list had me going "Oh yeah I remember this!....oh...yeah....that happened..." I remember going to a launch event for Perfect Dark Zero, even as a pre-teen, I knew that something was wrong with it. Was blown away by the 360s graphics, but I just knew Perfect Dark was a stinker.
In a world where a franchise like Dark Souls has taken off and become so beloved, I'm genuinely surprised that Ninja Gaiden hasn't re-emerged. The controls for that game felt a little clunky and the enemies and level design were incredibly unforgiving, but much like dark souls, once you kind of figured things out and stuff clicked into place you were like "Actually, this has to be one of the best action games I've ever played."
Literally. My cousin was stuck on this horse rider boss, I def can’t remember who they were, but I remember beating the boss after just a few tries. One of the funnest fucking games.
Because the creator was out and the team left were the ones that made Ninja Gaiden 3 and that was trash. Since then they made Nioh and that is way more successful than Ninja Gaiden ever was. Now they are making Rise of the Ronin. So Ninja Gaiden is probably a low priority for them.
Since you mentioned FromSoft games, Sekiro is probably better than any Ninja Gaiden resurrection would ever be. Though I'm not sure FromSoft will ever make it a series, so maybe it would have been nice...
I'd rather have a new tenchu game than a new ninja Gaiden. As other have said there's much better successors to ninja Gaiden. Tenchu hasn't really had any kind of successor.
tbh I don't feel sorry for Volition at all. When the announced the new Saints Row nearly all of their fan base literally said "Oh wait, this looks like its gonna suck". Then they went on a years long campaign of fighting and making fun of their fans on Twitter and other socials, so they kinda got what they deserved. Also Medal of Honor Rising Sun was phenomenal. The Pearl Harbor intro still lives in my head to this day and im nearly 30
Agreed. It's not like Volition put that game out without knowing what people were saying about it. It got badmouthed from the very start and they persisted in "no, you are all wrong, this will be awesome, shut up" then were surprised when everyone who said they thought it would suck said it sucked. Different from even something like Aliens: Colonial Marines or even The Last of Us 2, which faced backlash for the opposite reason (devs outright lied in trailers to make the game look better or different to what it was), so players were taken by surprise when they got something they didn't like. Nobody was surprised the Saints Row remake sucked, except Volition.
@@Banjo-Oz EXACTLY. I just really don't understand what the hell they were thinking when the entire fan base literally explained what they loved about the older games. They had the perfect formula in their hands, and the fans telling them that, and they just spit in our faces. Well, look what happened Volition!
I remember getting stuck on Kameo and then I played perfect dark zero and there’s an ad for Kameo on the game and it showed me the exact scene I was stuck on so I was able to go back onto Kameo to carry on the game. Bear in mind I was about 7 at the time so my recollection of the whole thing may be wonky
I think fifa starting to include a story is quite a good next step. Yeah the story isn't great, but I'm happy they're trying it and the manager mode keeps improving
I don't play sports games and I'm not a FIFA person, but that's a good pick. That series has evolved so poorly that even I know about it, and like I just said, I'm not a sports gamer and I'm not a FIFA person, but the series has gone so downhill that even gamers like me know to steer their sporty friends away from it.
I'm surprised Command & Conquer wasn't on this list. My favorite campaign was Red Alert 2, and favorite Skirmish mode was Generals Zero Hour. After C&C 3: Tiberium Wars, it went downhill fast. RA3 was too kitchy, and C&C4 was not only a departure from the C&C framework gameplay wise, the story ended with such a dud. I was a huge fan on MOH back in the day and replayed Allied Assault and Pacific Assault so many times.
C&C serie actually had a decent run in RTS until C&C 3 showed up. It's a franchise that started in '95. C&C 3 wasn't their first failure in the franchise tho: Renegade comes to mind.
@@NexuJin Wouldn't really count Renegade though. First off it is actually kinda fun and it is a spinoff not part of the mainline games. But damn i miss good C&C, i played the shit out of Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge back in the day. And let's not talk about the mobile one...
The sequel to MoH Allied Assault was Call of Duty. Seriously, the team that made Allied Assault started Infinity Ward and made Call of Duty. They even ran on the same engine. Also yeah, Red Alert 2 was my favorite. Also where I started getting into game modding. My game had nuclear cows.
Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge are absolutely goated games and I've never found anything that scratches that itch since. If anyone's got suggestions I'm down, just don't tell me age of empires 😂 that's so whack
The saints row reboot could have actually been so good but no they went and fucked that up too. And their interaction with fans who criticised the game was appalling "haters gonna hate" yeah? Well now look at you. Your whole studio got shut down, congrats 👏🏻
If you follow the development of fear 2 and 3 it will make some more sense. The companies that made the original fear split and both had the rights to the title and they both started working in fear 2 simultaneously. The fear 2 we know came out first and then the other company completely bought the rights and made their fear 2 into "f3ar". Fear 3 is a reworked game forced to be a sequel to 2 instead of 1.
we're in an era of remakes so fuck it, I'd love to see a Deadrising 1 remake, I was too scared as a kid to leave the first couple sections of the mall and reset after every 72 hours just killing shit so fun
That I'd love to see It's to the point I'd try editing and make a remake from scratch since the guy who did the hit and run remake did that I'd just wouldn't be able to release it
A dead rising remake is my dream, it doesn't need one but with the revivals and remakes Capcom has done for its other franchises over the last 5-ish years, it'd be extremely interesting to see how they tackle this one.
I would love a Dead Rising remake because i have tried giving the game a go multiple times since it released over the years and every time I stop playing about an hour in and don't return. I absolutely despise the gameplay loop and the actual gameplay itself too, way too floaty
I agree and same here, i beat it eventually as a young teen but i was intimidated way back then to play it due to the timer, small windows to save everyone and difficulty, for my age at the time. But I feel if they added coop, for you and a buddy to roll through the campaign together, would be a fun option too as I know they didnt do coop until like 2 or 3
Related to number 10 where where I miss Dishonored so much that I might even try Deathloop to see how it is but ik it won't be completely the same it's just I really love going back to Dishonored especially Dishonored 2
Pro Evo. As a follow up to various ISS series and subseries; it really went after FIFA and was regularly getting better critical response. Something changed after they switched from numbered entries to years. When they did the whole backing away from games thing, they still put Pro Evo titles out since it was almost guaranteed yearly income, but the actual games were bare minimum efforts, until the series died and they replaced it with the free-to-play eFootball
I didn't mind Dead Rising 3 having its own identity while also trying to be in the same universe as the rest of the franchise. Dead Rising 4 was the real betrayal for retconning the entire franchise.
11:25 frontline was amazing. The D-Day landing and the build up to it was great. Riding the boat during the credits was filled with suspense and then the ramp drops!
NBA 2K. Ever since they added VC as a myCareer microtransaction, everything went super grindy. They also don't improve graphically on the PC. They put good gameplay features on hold so that they can add something 'new' to the next year release.
I honestly feel that this is true for most big franchises. There are so many games I can instantly think of without having watched the video: Halo, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Diablo 4, Gears of War. All the latest games pale compared to earlier entries.
Look, i never played any of those games you mention with the exception of Diablo 4, and i have played Diablo 3 and let me tell you something, its an unpopular opinion but i think Diablo 4 is so much better. I bought it in new years, and i can't stop playing. It's honestly so good, that i honestly don't understand why people hate it so much. It's one of the best video games i have ever played. Cut scene wise it's the best game i have ever played. Now i haven't ranked it yet on my all time list of favourite games, but from the top of my head is for sure gonna fall down between 2nd best and 5th best.
@@ShaneDanger42069 I'd day that's very debatable. I found the open world in Halo Infinite to be fairly boring. From what I've read they improved multiplayer a lot, by that point I already lost interest. Diablo 4 has an incredible art style, a great soundtrack and the combat mechanics are fun, but the character builds are lackluster compared to D2 where you could do some really whacky things with the correct gear. I haven't played D4 since season 1. Maybe now it has more depth.
Def Jam unfortunately with “Icon.” I still pray for a remake of Vendetta and FFNY with online and cross play. Maybe even a new entry with the old formula
I loved _Fight For NY_ as a kid. Christopher Judge (Teal'c, Kratos) as D-Mob and Snoop Dogg as Crow were iconic, and the story was actually really good for a relatively simple fighting game. Unfortunately, boy is it clunky to play compared to modern standards.
@@TheRawrnstuff to me it’s not really clunky but buttons can be mapped a little better when playing on an emulator. That AKI engine was something special
Crackdown is the one for me on this list. Had so much fun playing with friends, and then they got too ambitious. Development took too long, and even Terry Cruz couldn't save Crackdown 3.
Crackdown 3 did get too ambitious then decided to go back to the basics last minute i still enjoyed it a lot because it was still crackdown a simple open world game to turn your brain off and play
fun sad fact, the studio that made saints row VOLITION was closed at the end of last year or this one, the big ones decided to close the studio cause it wasn't making money and wasn't going to
Which is a shame they really could have made another red faction guerrilla styled game but I guess I'll just live on ignoring the existance of the final game 😅
@@hamilton2861 honestly the last game is pretty fun to play with friends but that's it, i'm flad they gave it for free en epic but yeah after agents of mayhem the studio was just on a timer, it was jus a matter of time
It wasn't the biggest series but at least in the hood where i grew up the Def jam games were the shit, tight fighting, cool rappers, nice customization, the first game, vendetta, was absolute fuego, def jam ffny expanded its catalog of playable characters and added some better graphics and a few new mechanics and then def Jam icon came out, scrapped the whole blazing moves system that made the game so unique and cool in my opinion and they gutted it and made a basic ass fighting game with the ability to, and i shit you not, " dj scratch the air and influence the environment " the series died the day icon got released
What about the demo for that one silent hill game where you just kept going through the same room over and over again but each time it just basically got more creepy and threw new things at you? I think it was PT?
Mortal kombat should be on this list. Mk9 and x seemed like they were going in a great direction and than 11 and mk1 are such a step back. Only looks worse because sf6 and t8 are both really well done
You could see it starting back in Injustice 2, but NetherRealm is clearly now all about a stupid amount of ingame grinding for stuff, while pushing overpriced shop content and DLC.
Mortal kombat hasn't been good in a long time, they were doing great in ps2 days but then they turned around and went the other direction and made them button mashing and basic, yeah the graphics got better but the game play got worse
I love MK1 🧡💙🩶 The visuals are amazingly gorgeous and the gameplay is user friendly. MKX had it best but I believe 1 is just as great! Don’t mind the grinding either! My only ick is the servers for the PC port 😔
I remember one of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun producer’s describing a trip to location as ‘pure hell’. The irony of people having to spend far longer there whilst fighting and dying was totally lost on him.
Gears of War. It kind of lost its horror aspect that the first game had, but can't deny the graphics and gameplay got better with each iteration and I personally enjoyed the stories more as they went on.
As a huge Need for Speed fan as a kid, it’s a shame how far that franchise has fallen. The trifecta that was Underground 1, Underground 2 and Most Wanted 05 was the absolute peak of not just Need for Speed, but arcade racing games as a whole during its run, regardless of whether you were a PS2 or Xbox kid. Carbon was okay, but the lack of car variety made it suffer a little bit, Shift was a wrong turn for the franchise but was good enough, the only thing that saved Undercover is the fact that it was one of the first arcade racing games to have both the Koenigsegg CCX and the Bugatti Veyron, which any car enthusiast knows that those two companies were at war in the 2000’s for both the top speed record and space in our hearts, and then it just went downhill from there. EA honestly should’ve did what Rockstar Games did with Midnight Club did and left on a high note after Carbon
@@valsokbs everyone shit all over it when it released. The entire community is already trashing black ops 6 and even though that's the biggest section of cry babies in the community they're still tearing into it.
Dead Rising did brought back Frank in Dead Rising 2 Off the Record which had Frank the main character en added a sandbox mode which did help me learn about the game as I know I didn't know wha I was doin and learned that stuff respawn if exit and renter a level
For me, for the Saints Row games it was the fourth one, I'd get quite far but it doesn't matter how many times I start over, I end up losing complete interest in the game, I think it was because there were way too many side missions, with some getting really hard and the red door story mission being glitched so I could never get all the achievements. The insane amount blue lights you had to go to and the false sense of security it gave you that the game might be broken in this area too so you always feel it might end up being impossible to get them all.
If you go into it with the attitude that it was supposed to be a saints row 3 dlc and not a sequel it’s pretty fun. Or at least I thinks that it was supposed to be a dlc. And I played some of the mission but the open world and the powers are really fun to dick around with.
I remember getting FEAR on pc for my dad when I got it early at EBGames for some reason. I had it the week-end before launch. My dad played it over and over and I would often sit down next to him as played or restarted another run. He would smoke cigarettes and drink coffee with his teenager sitting next to him. It was the hobby we shared. Im 37 and dad passed away from cancer in nov. 2022 at 67years young. He loved FPS, especially great ones like FEAR and Half life.
Sorry to hear about your dad my dad loved fps too and gta and such my dad passed away from cancer too in September 2023 I am 30 almost 31 he passed away at 54 he was a awesome player he loved video games in gernal my dad and I played switch even when was bed ritten do to kemo treatments and such
@@charoleawood Me as well. I'm not sure where this recent 2014 Thief hate is coming from. I've seen a lot of videos and threads pop up about how it was so awful recently. And I don't really get it?
@@paulw858 Purists wanted to hate it from the start --- when it was shown off the dev said "We're doing our own Thief" and that sealed it. No such hate was given to id for so drastically changing the Doom formula with 2016 and Eternal --- that it wasn't grandpa's Doom was a selling point there!
@@charoleawood dude? The 2016 was a return to the original formula BECAUSE everyone hated Doom 3, you need to do ur research cause Doom 2016 and Eternal ARE your grandpa's Doom lol like wut
@@user-qd1yd9sf6j Yup, I surely remember having to execute enemies in order to get the ammo and health that spewed forth --- oh, wait, that never happened in Doom before. Enemies being able to leap all around the stage and follow the player anywhere? Nope! That wasn't there either. As for Doom 3, I stand by what it did, I think it's superb. Whether or not the changes to the Doom formula made by 2016 and Eternal were good isn't my issue, it's the double standard where Thief was unfairly criticized when it didn't really make such drastic changes as new Doom did.
I don't understand why people hated Deadrising 4... it felt like such a return to form in my opinion. It kept the good ideas from DR2 and DR3 and put it back into the feel of DR1. It was a fun, well crafted culmination of the series that I found myself playing through multiple times. Oh well. I'll be okay if it's the last one I get to play.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 on PS2 was my jam back in the day. Keeping the tricks linked with manuals was so immersive. Great memories with lots of non blinking and sweaty palms lol
Both were for the PS1. And manuals were only introduced in the second game ;-) But yes, I loved them too. Two years ago I got the platinum for the 1+2 remake (and it was MUCH harder than expected XD)
Silent Hill: Homecoming was the first real "Horror" game I played, I was probably 10 or so when I played it. At the time it was beyond scary, and really stood out to me as weird and fun since I had no precedence for what makes a good Silent Hill game. I'll never go back to it again though to preserve those positive nostalgic vibes it gives me when it is brought up! Years later when I played Downpour, and with more horror under my belt, I definitely felt where people's disappointment came from. Ignorance truly is bliss sometimes! Great episode Jake n crew!
It's possible you will still enjoy it, though. I definitely did, and I know what makes a good Silent Hill game. It wasn't a great Silent Hill game, but I still found a good amount of enjoyment in it, nonetheless.
Homecoming was great. I will never understand the hate. Downpour was ok. The way everyone feels about Homecoming is how I feel about The Room. It had bad enemy design. The gorillas were just plain stupid. Ghosts were really bad. And just repetitive and tedious . How lazy was that to make you play the levels over with Walter chasing you. I couldn’t finish it. Nothing but fond memories go 5 though. Loved Scarlett. Definitely favorite SH boss fight
I’m the exact same way with ninja gaiden. I was around 10 and I only played ninja gaiden 3. I loved it, and it was different than most other things I had played at the time. If I went back and played the first 2 and then 3 I’d probably wind up hating 3, so I just wont do that lol.
They're probably just some personal opinions, but... -Dead Rising 4 didn't feel like a "back to origin" at all. It completely watered down the psychos which were considered a major attraction point of past games. -Tony Hawk suffered from Activision having coughed up a TON of cash to purchase the licence for 15(to check) years because they thought they had something intemporal on their hands. Except interest in the genre died off but they still had to get some payback on the licence, so they invested in development as little as they could to get some sales from possible die-hard fans. -Medal of Honor is one of the numerous game that was caught in the "modern military shooter" trend started by Call of Duty where everyone tried to copy that. It's just a bad case of some suits thinking that any CoD clone would sell just as well.
A personal one for me which almost made me cry.. Sacred. The second game was so insanely addictive, huge, fun, customizable, you could easily spent hundreds of hours in it.. and then Sacred 3 came out and.. it wasn't Sacred
Playing through Sacred 2 for my first time right now and yeah like what the hell happened with 3? It was so bad that I never even bothered to check out the other games till recently. Glad I am because Sacred 2 is amazing
Dead Rising 2 had a really silly feature were you needed to jank the R3 or L3 left & right whenever you got bitten by q zombie. Didn't make the game bad but it got old quickly.
Really hopeful for a reboot of the Dead Rising franchise. The original game is what made me buy a Xbox 360. Hope JezCorden is correct and Capcom is reviving the franchise.
If you ever revisit this topic: Breath of Fire. 1 though 4 were great, kept on theme while exploring new ideas and other kinds of systems to use. Then you got to 5: Dragon Quarter. Complete shift in from fantasy to post apocalyptic, limited magic, turning into a dragon actually starts a game over timer making you have to restart the game multiple times to get more time as a dragon. Then there's the old RE style of saving, just this time with a payphone and coins. Ugh. Ruined the series. There was a 6, but it was a Japan only MMO kind of deal. I wish they would remake the old games with today's graphics.
And the box art for 5 Dragon Quarter was complete ass. I remember as a kid passing over it multiple times at my local Blockbuster. Compare that box art to BoF 1 and 2. It's such a fall from grace that it's hilarious.
Wasn't "P.T" supposed to be a Silent Hill game? I'm surprised that wasn't even mentioned. The cancellation of that game straight up killed the franchise.
It makes me sad to see how dirty they did MoH. I remember playing Rising sun, European assault, and Frontline everyday before and after school. Such a great franchise. Its such a shame they couldn’t do it justice with the reboots
I agree with nearly all your points. My only disagreement is your take on Dead Rising. DR1 was groundbreaking, amazingly fun, and frustratingly hard all at the same time. Finding stuff around the mall and discovering how each handles in combat rewarded exploration. Having to keep up on a strict mission schedule was cool but felt overwhelming when coupled with all the side encounters and constant radio calls but honestly the whole time management thing was part of the charm of that entry. The main story being serious with survivor encounters being a grab bag of silly or brutal psycho made meeting them interesting and scary at the same time. Now if you ask me, DR2 did a lot of things right. It introduced the idea of combining weapons to make really cool and fun McGuiver style weapons which was a huge staple in zombie movies that no one realized was lacking in the formula until they had it. Transitioning the time management to focus on zombrex as well as being late helped mantain a sense of urgency while cutting down on the number of encounters to feel more manageable. The story was cool, focusing on a more personal story while also showing off what our society would be like once we became accustomed to the idea that zombies are just apart of everyday life now. DR2 introduced a lot of cool ideas and still maintained this identity of being stuck in a hopeless world, surrounded by tragedy and struggling strangers, where your only means of survival was dependent on your creativity. For me DR3 is where the framchise peaked. It made for an excellent launch title, showing off all sorts of cool ideas like the best smartglass integration of xbox games and vehicle combos. The graphics were amazing without bogging down the system and they introduced so many new weapon combinations with the ability to build them on the fly. The characters were a great balance of memorable, satire, and weird. The story was fun and well paced, had fun beats and was actually engaging. The leveling system was awesome because it actually was given depth beyond level milestone perks. It was just bursting with originality and good ideas. DR4 is where it kind of just gave up. There wasn't really anything new going on at all. No new ideas outside of a limited time exosuit that felt more uninspired than intended. Like they were trying to recapture the first game without understanding what made the series fun in the first place. It straight up has the same feeling as the saints row reboot.
Regarding Fear 3 you said big publishers were making weird, out-of-touch, moves. Sounds like the entire 2020's so far. You might consider adding Far Cry to this list in another video.
I actually enjoyed those Medal of Honor games just as much as any other modern military shooter of the time, Battlefield and CoD included. While I rarely play online, the offline stories were decent and actually easier to follow than some of the others. The shooting gameplay feels pretty much the same in all of those games. So yeah, the stories stood out to me at the time.
Crazy enough, I absolutely ADORED MoH 2010. I played the shit out of it online. I legit couldn't understand the hate for it and at one point, even thought that it was a troll campaign funded by activision to protect call of duty. It was just so much fun to me. Obviously, I can recognize that I am a very small outlier but damn, I still have incredible fondness for that MoH 2010 multiplayer.
I remember loving everything about the game. From the characters, to the way they dramatized it, The story, especially the controls. Damn did it play well. Some of the missions were legitimately memorable too. Like that Ranger ambush one is still one of my favorite SP shooter missions of all time. I remember being suuuuper disappointed in BF3 because they controls sucked, the story was awful, and it's only claim to fame was the duper HD uniform texture patch you could get...
The long range sniping levels were great. I appreciated it because they actually tried to give a proper nod to the modern military. Warfighter was rushed and were forced to use Frostbite so it turned into too much of a Battlefield clone. Which people just stuck with in the end. The driving level was annoying as hell.
F3AR actually did wrap up the story and ended it. F3AR continues a while after FEAR2. It follows the story from the end of FEAR2. If you know, you know. If you haven’t played the FEAR games go play them you won’t be disappointed. You either love it or hate it there is no grey area.
Sports games are probably too easy of a target. Granted, I haven't played *every* installment, but Madden, MLB The Show, and NASCAR Heat have gotten increasingly disappointing every year.
I had a lot of fun in dead rising 3. I loved the original dead rising too but hated how restrictive it was to complete fully. At least how I remember it. Keen to given Dead Rising 4 a go when it goes on special.
Dead Rising 3 was a great game. I would never call it a downgrade. Dead Rising 4 was absolutely a step back though. I am not sure what they were thinking.
@@stupid0244it felt more polished, but lacked any spirit of what the originals had. If anything, it was actually too easy compared to every other game.
Saints Row definitely peaked with 2. Literally my favorite game if all time. Saints row 3 was good too but it felt more of a monopoly business tycoon rather than a gang game. Saints Row 4 was alright but they pushed it too far. The DLC’s were really good. Gat Out of Hell was extremely forgettable and was just a glorified DLC. I enjoyed Agents of Mayhem a lot. I also enjoyed the new Saints Row a lot but there’s not much to do after the story and the boring map makes you not wanna play it again. Having it take place in the desert was a horrible decision. I still hope to get a Saints Row 1 or 2 remaster. Preferably 1. Something about the current state of Saints Row 2 is perfect. The graphics and all
Halo not being on here actually shocked me. I know it shifted to the modern style of gaming but IMO nothing will ever touch the run of Halo 1-3 and I'll even add Reach in there.
I feel like the Warcraft series should be on this list. That game used to be my childhood. I would fondly remember the days where I would play Wacraft 2 and 3. Heck I would even make my own maps which basically started my love for game development. After the fiasco that is Warcraft Reforged, I feel like that series deserves new and more competent developers that will give it justice.
I don't think that Warcraft has gotten worse yet in the way that they intend though. It seems like the list is about series that got so much worse that they died. Warcraft isn't there yet. It still has a few years before Blizzard ruins it for good.
@@aurious5821right? Like you have 1, 2, and 3, then World. World of Warcraft itself could possibly fit the list under the guise of its expansions depending on who you ask they'd argue that the single game has gotten worse with expansions. But the franchise itself has only gotten better.
I guess this is what it means to be an old grump in 2024. It used to be "Damn kids, get off my lawn." --- Now, it's "Damn kids, show respect to old video games."
What I don’t like about NG post 2000s is how they try give Ryu a new lady over Irene. Though I never played the games, through Nintendo Power magazines and other sources, they were legit pairings, then came other games that tried to give him women other than her. Never liked that decision.
@@killiskey it was fine but best?are we talking cod style fps?because wolfenstein is better in almost every way,also titanfall 2 is superb,the metro games
I think the problem with some franchises is the story is written on an arc and in some cases, it was written as a single game, others maybe 2 or 3. The problem is more, the more games became lucrative, the more the business side creeped into the creative side. So a franchise might have 1 - 3 games in it, but the bean counters are like "MORE!" Kind of like, Supernatural, seasons 1 to 5, good. Everything after that is an abortion.
If Medal of Honor VR were to be expanded into a full PC/console release, I think it’d genuinely be a hit. Even getting it to PSVR would be awesome, but to see it with the power and fidelity of PS5/XSX/PC capabilities would be a wet dream come true.
I think its worth mentioning the game Skate when talking about tony hawk. It kinda came in doing things differently, and suddenly tony hawj had direct competition
As far as Ninja Gaiden goes, Nioh 2 is kind of a successor to that. Hell, it's got a ninja skill tree, Izuna Drop, and you can even make your character look like Ryu.
Interesting note about Dead Rising 4: Capcom Japan even spoke out against it and apologized to the fans over it. They closed the studio behind it, tried to salvage it, but there just wasn't anything they could do about it. It was made by people who just didn't understand Dead Rising. Dead Rising 1 and 2 were made by Capcom Japan, 3 and 4 were Western Studios. I think 4 specifically was Ontario? 3 probably was too.
Oh boy, so many to mention: call of duty, battlefield, international superstar soccer, contra, wolfestein, batman arkham, the list never ends. I'm actually impressed how Capcom managed to save Resident Evil out of the abyss it had fallen with 5 and 6, but at the same time I utterly hate Capcom for the treatment they gave to other great franchises like Breath of Fire, MegaMan and Viewtiful Joe, those really deserve better.
Capcom is sitting on gold and doing nothing with it. If I was a billionaire I would probably fund a remake of the RE Outbreak series That game came out at the wrong time
@@oldgregg86. I suppose if you count Suicide Squad since it does take place in the Arkhamverse, then yeah that’s a massive step down in quality for sure. I know people were sour on Batman Arkham Knight because of the over reliance on the Batmobile (which is greatly over exaggerated imo) and some elements of the plot like the Arkham Knight’s identity not being completely satisfying, but goddamn if that game wasn’t made with so much heart and passion and otherwise perfects pretty much everything else the Arkham games did up to that point.
The Medal of Honor I thought was incredible when I played it as a child on the PS3. Maybe it’s just the child memory making me think it was an insane game.
People forget Medal of Honor was competing with call of duty for a while. Clearly we know who wins the longevity award, but MoH competed with the big boys at one point. Huge fall off, really disappointing
I think that Perfect Dark Zero had a couple of things going for it to be so disliked. One is that expectations were so high because of the original, but also because as you say it was touted as a next gen experience when in reality it was an original Xbox game that was given higher resolution textures and some lighting effects to be brought to the 360.
mass effect would be a perfect entry to this list considering andromeda basically butchered the reputation that helped the original games established what is regarded to be 1 of the greatest gaming trilogies of all time and while they announced a new game, it's hard to have confidence in the next mass effect game considering just how negative of a reputation bioware has now
Yeah, I thought it'd be in the video. But the problem is, it didn't get worse over time. It was more abrupt. ME1,2,3 all have their fans and are all awesome. And then we got Andromeda... Maybe Dragon Age would fit better for this video. But then again, DA:I wasn't that bad.
One franchise that came to mind were the Spyro games. The first 3 on PS1 were absolutely amazing at the time. Then the PS2 games went very strange by swapping the charge and fire buttons as well as changing the gameplay for the worse
The original PS1 trilogy was developed by Insomniac Games, who later went on to make the Rachet & Clank and Resistance franchises for the PS2 and PS3 area, respectively. That's why that original Spyro trilogy was a masterpiece.
It pained me to hear “Ninja Gaiden started at the top in the early 2000s” when the franchise dates back to the 80s. But hey, who needs facts, right? As for a franchise that got worse, I know most won’t agree, but Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took too hard of a left turn and killed what the franchise was. I respect them for trying a new direction, but for me personally, it’s a mile away from how enjoyable everything preceding it had been
