10 Most CONTROVERSIAL Game Launches of All Time 

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Truth can be funny sometimes

@@Ori_Kohav smelly you mean

Always the goat

Disney is why EA is allowed to make star wars games in the first place.

​@Ross so they're both the worst to happen to star wars then

Considering that Disney went and ruined 3 Star Wars movies and several characters from the original trilogy and sequel trilogy in the span of less than 10 years, that's way worse than anything EA did. They published 2 Battlefront games with the second one being much better in every way even with it's rough launch, they also published one of the best single player games of 2019 so I'm not gonna complain.

Andor rules

No Disney is still the worst thing, I’d rather deal with eas bullshit than deal with Disney’s

this guy knows

Truth be told cause Electronic arts is the only on the big 3 that tries to innovate core gameplay mechanics. While calls another far cry 3 game far cry 6 and Activision puts on the treadmill for 6 studios to release call of duty annually for 23 years

That's exactly what I was thinking

I believe they have done that.

SWBF2 and No Mans Sky are amazing now, definitely were redeemed well

@@Frost4Real cyberpunk too

@@samuelkalen2971 not to the same standard tho

@@Frost4Real no mans sky had way more years to make a come back. Cyberpunk will most likely do the same

Honestly, this channel is amazing and quickly became a favourite of mine.

Yes!

still not a good game tho

@@idarpus1850 Of course it is, it is great. Extremely big with so much content, literally the best sandbox space game and incredible in many ways. Cope harder

@@Guzioo only good thing is that its big with cool planets. Nothing else is actually good in the game

@@idarpus1850 Okay, go play Elite: Dangerous then

If you liked the first one just buy it.

Corperations. Their games are made not of passion but of fiscally and quarterly financial increases. Damn Microsoft owns bethesda now, i wouldn't expect them to ever make a game again, let alone a decent one.

@@Stinkyremy the fall from grace is so disappointing. Morrowind and Fallout 3 we're my first forays into RPGs, was playing Ubisoft games ways before Assassin's Creed was even thought of, EA made the first ever video game that I ever played in NFS 3 on PS1! And let me not forget that even to this day The Witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time. But they all eventually gave into greed.

​@@Stinkyremy or they'll have access to more funds and tech so the games will be even better. MS has already said they are hands off with Bethesda when it comes to making the games.

​@@Joreel I'm not sure that's a good thing considering how much Bethesda sucks, but Microsoft isn't any better given how they handled Halo: Infinite, so I don't honestly have a clue which is better or worse.

I wouldn’t throw Bethesda in with this group. Yes, Fallout 76 was obviously terrible. But that’s one bad release in YEARS of great ones.

Blizzard must do a lot of good work to crawl out from the pit of shame that it has dig to itself in plus some no-bull-s-PR. Nowadays Blizzard is like EA, they do not give a dime about players.

"Do you people not have phones?"

@Spootington yeah, man, that was such an absurd that became laughable 🤦🏽‍♂️😂😂!!!

I don‘t think, they forgot about it. The‘re probably planing a 2h-Special for this absolutely worst crime in gaming history. I still play the original version and don‘t think, we‘ll be ever able to experience a bug-free Reforged 😢

This, I have preordered one game since and thankfully it was a great one, but i no longer pre buy games due to CDPR and Bethesda shitting the bed their last 2 releases

Totally agree, I used to preorder every game that I wanted, after cyberpunk ( even reviews were good ), now I wait at least 1 month and watch different reviews and wait for patches.

I promished myself that as well, then I pre-ordered Dead Space remake lol. I think there will still be certain games that you just want regardless of how they look, but that said I am definitely more selective and critical now.

I wait 6-8 months before I buy most of my games so I don't need to worry about launch issues and I can get them for 50%-70% off. With 800+ games just in my Steam library I really don't need to buy them at launch.

@SlaveLaboringKid sure but when you’re bored with disposable income it’s easy to not care.

I thought that was supposed to be great?

@@_Wakaz_ not at launch it wasn’t…trust me it was horrific

@@_Wakaz_ Launch for that game was a nightmare though lmao

MCC really has improved a lot throughout these years, should have been at least an honourable mention

@@zalbert19 Not even just the initial launch, but then also the PC releases. Remember when shooting the ground in Halo 2 mp would hit a random player on the map or how Warthogs just started driving on their own sometimes?

They only had twenty yrs of development cut them a break

@@hootzulovins4088 they only worked on the game for like 5 years I believe, but yes they created a trailer before they even started coding lol

Bit strange too as witcher 3 had a lot of optional outcomes for most quests. though the main story choices are limited.

I’m not planning on buying the story expansion. They still haven’t finished the original game.

@@Stinkyremy cyberpunk does too but they don’t have a lot of story options like you’d think based on the prelaunch stuff.

I think people also forgot just how many broken games came out then and there were no patches or fixes unless they released a better version or “edition” that you probably had to buy again.

@@zachr369 oh man yeah. Long long time ago. That’s why a lot of these really old games had great glitches, because they never got patched out.

The past 5 years would be the 2010-20s not the 2000s though.

@@ochayethenoo yes. I’m comparing games released recently to what people consider the golden era of gaming. Reading helps.

The industry ebs and flows with the years, but there's amazing games at all times, every year if you're looking. The sorry state of companies like EA and Ubisoft is one thing, but thankfully their collapse has coincided with a real golden age - the rise of dozens of excellent "indie" developers. There's never been a better time for gaming in many ways imo, we just have to look a bit harder sometimes, and less at familiar old franchises. Seeing Battlefield faceplant so hard was tough for me, but I had the good sense not to buy it, there are other worthy games out there old and new.

QA Game tester here! I'm sure it's different for every company, but for the one I work for, they want as much bug reported as possible. They believe "more bugs = more bugs fixed = better". That said, I don't think it's the dev's fault. They are clearly doing their best. It's the higher up that knows nothing about games that are the main issue.

It’s always the higher-ups…

here's what happens: a game is horrible and it's no longer worth investing resources into it as it's not going to be profitable so they cut any mechanic that is still in the oven, run the press releases to convince casuals to buy it (In Hogwarts Legacy's case, they brought up some old JK Rowling tweets and manufactured a boycott that never existed. Point in case: sold nearly as well as CDPR that was hyped through the roof but had a press embargo), release it broken enough to not burn the company down, crossing their fingers that CrowBCat doesn't care enough to remind you of all the promises they made, then do bug fixes enough to "restore the company's reputation", then abandon it. After the 6 months patch, CDPR showed their resources graph: only 10% of the company was still on Cyberpunk, rest had already moved on even though it took nearly 2 years to finish fully fixing it. You're being played by studios and channels like this that are either ignorant or duplicitous.

@@AshtonSnapp They wanted to hire more testers to have more bugs reported, but they didn't hire more dev to actually fix those bugs. The database of bugs was already saturated with thousands of not fixed bug. What did they think was gonna happen?

I talked to someone claiming they were a tester. I don't know the validity of these claims so take it with a grain of salt. The conversation boiled down to the testers reported the bugs and no one cared and did nothing.

Bro same. When it dropped and I started playing on my Ps4 pro , it was the first time I got depressed beacuse of the frickin game.... Also it's beacuse I'm polish, and was rooting for CD Project Red as they are the biggest polish game dev studio. Witcher 3 was their golden ticket, and the CEO seemed to be really down to earth fellow gamer type of guy. They did the console players dirty as hell and the game itself wasn't near the ambitions the devs were aiming for. It was big corpo level of scumminess , we as gamers hate.

It’s a great game that just dropped really buggy, it’s so much better now though. One of the best plots in a game.

The issue isn't even their fault. They said they needed another year and people raged so they released it remember

I'm probably gonna watch all of the Batman scenes on RU-vid because Kevin Conroy is my childhood hero, but completely pass on the game

Yeah 100% agree. I think its going to be a copy paste of gotham knights

I don’t think Suicide Squad fully fits the list if Avengers didn’t. Suicide Squad is more of a “Games that destroyed expectations pre-release”

@@Nedlyy gotham knights had crap story but good gameplay, suicide squad will have good story with crap gameplay

Why? They can just release the same video a few months later including Suicide Squad and mix up the ranking a bit, then there are still stupid fucker who line up to watch it.

They really took their lumps and stuck it out and fixed everything that was broken or wrong and added so much new content. They are a good example of what a company needs to do if they want to regain the trust of the gaming community.

Battlefield 4 was what broke me. Having played the 2011 Homefront I was hyped for Homefront Revolution but was quickly disapointed. Maybe not triple A but Generation Zero also increased my caution. I no longer buy at launch and wait for reviews by honest non-corpo(ign being corpo) reviewers like Angry, Joe Skill-Up, and ACG to name a few.

I had a good time playing homefront rev on pc.

Fallout 76 was my breaking point. It's the only reason I won't pre-order another game ever again. For me it was just Fallout 4 painted up with multi-player. A lot of us didn't even want multi-player and the devs didn't know how to implement it properly. I'm sure it's better now but I gave up on it and will never go back.

Give it time I'm sure they will add it

@@skipdoggs Bro its been over year since it launched and weve only gotten 4 new maps lmao 😂 they aint doing shit

@@huarenxivonne9662 so your not playing good we don't need anymore haters

@@skipdoggs Haters? More like people who wont stand for a billion dollar corporation pushing a barely half baked game for full price. In supporting the game you are advocating for these big corporations pushing out these shitty ass games that are way to overpriced and way to underdeveloped.

Yep

It's a pretty good game now. They fixed most of the issues people complained about.

@@Joreel my biggest problem was with how dull and lifeless the crew were, the best part of mass effect for me was the bond between the crew it really felt like you and the gang, which i never got from the andromada

Andromeda still sucks imo. It never got much better. No love or detail in it. And the characters are still annoying.

The game did NOT get better. I can confirm from my own mistake.

Dude it looked so cool when they announced it. I remember the trailers. Never played it, and never heard anything about it - watching this video I was like “wow I forgot all about that game” lol

Yeah, paying customers have become the new beta testers. It's ridiculous.

One of the most recent games I preordered was hogwarts legacy I absolutely love exploring the massive detailed world

I may sound weird, but I was happy getting Cyberpunk 2077. All hope The Witcher 3 gave was overwhelming.

I couldn’t stand the bad news this game was getting. I felt bad playing it. Everyone was bashing it and it deserve it. So I put it down until the next gen patch. Then I finally played it and loved every second of it

@@joegardner851 The 5 hour trial was only half finished when I decided to buy it. The 50% discount was juat a good bonus for over a year waiting. No regrets, I love the city and it's soundtrack!

Yeah controversial would be the two more recent games (Pig thigh B & Nuclear Organs)

Yeah after showing it in the intro I thought they were going to mention stuff like Atomic Heart and this big conspiracy atm that ppl think its funding Putins war 😂 or the Hogwarts Legacy stuff

@@Frost4Real I mean it kind of is. Pro war (ish), paying taxes in russia. Not like donating a shit ton of cash to putin or whatever but still

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I did too. I just wish they had actually finished it and the Quarian Ark cliffhanger at the end instead of just dumping it for Anthem.

What they did with Fo76 is smart, because they did exactly what zenimax did with ESO. So for a bit of back story ESO (elder scrolls online) launched with a subscription, which if you know MMOs it is the perfect model simply as it dissuaded botting, hacking etc. The game was marketed as "no pay gates ever, that is why we are going with a subscription model" Shortly after that lootboxes became common, ESO dropped the sub, let the cancer in, added lootbox gambling and did paid cosmetics etc and major and minor DLCs, which they had eventually ramped up to 3 a year. Or you can sub and get all DLC for free except the new years chapter (larger DLC) Anyway here is the caveat, ESO plus, the sub has 1 thing that any serious ESO player "needs" to have a good time. A crafting bag where you can infinitely hold crafting materials. Seeing you get so much materials and always need materials, without this crafting bag you will be havomg to be doing inventory management every 10 mins, horde materials for gear and to sell etc. the crafting bag is locked to the subscription, no way to buy it without the sub. So with FO76 they basically did the same but doubled down where you can barely store any crafting materials unless you have fallout firsts version of teh crafting bag where you can store infinite amount, so without it if you needed to craft stuff you would have to go out and grind to find stuff. It is sneaky, they dont even let you hold much money in FO76 either so you cannot just buy your way out of this issue with in game money.

Fallout First was $100, like WHAT!? I was one of the few the only played the free version of the game JUST to see and experience the bugs and glitched and laugh at it and make my own fun. I did have fun and also there WERE times the game literally fucked me because of the stuff around it. Spawning enemies on top of you, levels ahead because your friend is also a free version player, but they are a grinder, unlike you (me). Emptying whole mags into radroaches and they just soak it up, wasting ammo (well pipe weapons but you get the point). I'm not exactly a fan of the VATS but it's alright for a new take on the idea. F the NV one jeeze louise. The DLC was pretty fun, it added a bow and arrow, like hell yes hunter/killer mode activated. THAT'S All I did was play with the bow and arrow, I got to pretty high level, like 30-40's range and then I just straight up quit, I got bored and tired of the survival aspects like the eating and drinking and I had ALL of the perk cards and stackable ones that reduced them, as much as possible. I did my research into that, so I never had to deal with it, that was the idea at least. Well, it ended up becoming too much a problem to deal with all the time so I quit playing, I can't remember if I deleted my character or not, but still, I don't think I'm ever coming back to that game ever again. I've had my fun and experienced the game for what it has to offer and then some, and it was still quite not enough Fallout for me. Thanks anyways Todd, I guess you did try, that's what counts, it was just not good enough for your Fallout "Masterpiece" game. What a load of schlock AND the economy is terrible in game, AS IS the player vendors are a gouging business. They are supposed to be there the mitigate the loss of caps at robot highwaymen, Todd put into the game. F that noise I'd rather do make stims or find them, that's easier because there is scrounger perks and crap like that and then the reduction of weight of certain items and what not. I played it on and off for like two years and when it got to the "game board" thing, I knew that was the end of the line for me on continuing and further in the future. Bessy is best Moo-bot.

@@Stinkyremyyeah, I tried to get into it several months ago. It’s impossible to play without the subscription. The small inventory makes it an inventory management game more than anything else.

@@BlackMoonHowls @BDuff Games The game now is pretty solid. The problem is that people just want to take and keep everything piece of junk and weapon. What you have to do is, You have to sell or only collect stuff you need and then not collect stuff you won’t need. It’s a hard concept to rap your head around as a fallout player if you don’t already have an idea of what you are doing. The current state of fallout 76 is pretty good. The events ingame offers enough of the rarer resources so that you don’t really have to go out of your way to “grind” resources that much. The hardest part to the grind is getting the perfect set of legendary effects on all weapons and gear. The player has to accept that it’s likely not 100% possible. And I think ppl have trouble distinguishing what their greedy mind wants and then what is feasible to work towards. Ever seen one of those people that measures their food and tracks how much protein and carbs they take in with a weight scale? Well, this is kinda how you have to play without a subscription. It’s kinda similar to No Man Sky in that you make your own resource limits. You’d have to manage how much of a particular resource you need (in NMS you wouldn’t want to fill up on too much of a resource you don’t need because it would take a inventory slot you can’t afford to spare). (But resources are definitely not used and consumed in the way NMS does). And then a subscription is being able to eat anything you want as much as you want… lol.

@@BlackMoonHowls and it wasn’t 100$ for full ownership. It was 100$ *per year*

Yep

MMOs are, and we have to be honest about this, somewhat a niche in the gaming world. Most gamers will be found in the FPS or eSports sector. So you have to work with a small part of the gamer base, most of which have already found their "forever" MMO, and convince them to play your MMO over the others, and invest time and money ( base price + potential subscription). It needs to keep you engaged with the world or aspects of the world. The best way to do that, would be to innovate and offer something unique, which is very risky, and difficult to accomplish. If they were to do the same thing the existing MMOs are doing, why should you choose their game over the established ones? Combined with the costs of maintaining an on-going MMO, it's easy to separate passion projects and projects that aim to make a quick buck. New World tried to innovate, when they initially wanted to release it as full PvP MMO (which is somewhat of a niche within the niche). But after the first play testing and feedback, they added the PvE contents, which had to be implemented on short notice. And you see that when you play it. Copy/paste enemies, boring quests, bare-bone story etc. Final Fantasy XIV on the other hand is often called a single-player MMO, which focuses more on the story of the world, most of which can be experienced while playing alone. It takes a more relaxed approach, and that's something that affects the community as well. Most of the players are chilling or relaxing when playing it. Sure, there are some that take a more hardcore approach to things, but Square is quite strict with managing the community. And players that show toxic behaviour can be banned quite quickly.

I don't know if you're talking about ffxiv 1.0, but that game was actually dogshit. That team launched a proof of concept with pretty flowerpots, and thought they could patch in the rest of the game later. I still gave them my money, and actually play it until it closed down. YoshiP saved that game, and every future final fantasy online game.

@@Tagiau I'm talking about the state of the game from 2.0 onward. I've never played 1.0 myself, but from what I've heard it was a dumpster fire. Still, they didn't give up, overhaul the system and made it one of the most successful MMOs

Because, 3 years later, channels like this sing the praises of the companies for releasing 2-3 post apocalytic-launch patches that do not and cannot fix the broken core of the game that no patch can fix, and the promises in the trailers and interviews that will never be delivered. Channels like this are either duplicitous or ignorant therefore morally corrupt for betraying their oath as journalists to verify their sources and their information.

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Recency bias is a thing

prev gen hardware is too weak for Cyberpunk

In all fairness, the PC specs as published before the delay already told me to wait at least untill I had a new gen console. The first week convinced me to wait until the game got a new gen release.

Best gaming channel and it’s not even close

Yeah the only one i enjoy watching everyday

I actually really enjoyed Anthem. It's upsetting it failed and died so quickly.

Anthem had a fuck ton of potential that was made by the wrong studio and published by the worst publisher. That game never had a chance.

Well their stock didn’t bounce back, this is why they need a much organized investors like the Social Justice ESG…

Lmao, surely you already knew that the original mortal kombat or the original gta wasn't going to be mentioned 😅

they are singing the praises of Cyberpunk releasing 2-3 post apocalytic-launch patches that do not and cannot fix the broken core of the game that no patch can fix, and the promises in the trailers and interviews that will never be delivered. in this video, they have shown to be morally corrupt in betraying their oath as journalists to verify their sources and their information.

I wasn't caught up in the hype, but i watched gaming historians video and sean definitely hyped up the game! For example: "can you meet other players?" Knowing full well you couldn't: "it's unlikely because the game is that big." The fact that him and his team did amazing job afterwards is obviously something all devs should do, but he wasn't honest prior to release.

Sean did outright lie in interviews though, particularly about multiplayer

​@ssfbob456 wasn't there also that interview where he was pretending to play the game but people noticed what he was doing on the controller didn't match the game screen or have I confused that with something else?

He lied in interviews, there's no excuse for this.

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Tbh, as a huge ME fan, I still don’t understand the disappointment people had with Andromeda. Maybe I was lucky not to encounter any glitches (played it on PC as soon as it released), but setting the technical issues aside, I really enjoyed the story and exploration of an unknown galaxy. What the exact issue for most people there was, I don’t know. The vibe they wanted to set for Andromeda is that the galaxy is much more mundane and much more eventless than Milky Way. And that is fine. I didn’t expect nir want another story about the fate of the galaxy. That would just be the same as the 1st trilogy. The more trivial issues needing to be solved in Andromeda were, in my opinion, a breath of fresh air the franchise needed.

@@Littleview23 Imo, I think most people just hated it because Shepard wasn't there. I have seen so many comments on videos about Andromeda where people are mostly just bitching about Shepard not appearing. They just can't accept the fact that he died at the end of ME3

@@imsharted Because games SHOULD launch in a finished state.

Yeah I’m glad to hear that I might still get the de at some point to experience the game looking the best it can

Thanks for your suggestion

@@gameranxTV I'll be waiting. =)

After 2 years…. If I bought the game day 1 I expected to at least playable not 2 years later…

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I enjoyed it too on PS4, the only issue for me was a somewhat empty world, but the voice acting and mocap and vastness of the world made me enjoy it though i did eventually just skip most sidequests to go straight for a bad ending haha, but i do wanan replay it on PS5

Me too. I just skipped 1 and a half year till they got out of early acces.

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They took their lumps and instead of cashing out, they put their heads down and fixed everything that was wrong with it. Now they're a respected company because they proved they cared about the game and the gaming community.

They genuinely wanted to make a great game and they were not satisfied with what they put out to players. Rather than take the money and run, their busted their asses, fixed every issue, and gave players features they wanted like third person perspectives for example. Despite receiving threats and hateful comments they received while going completely radio silent, they made it a point to correct their mistakes and make the game they always wanted to make. No Man's Sky may not interest me at all, but Hello Games will forever have my respect for promising to right their wrongs and actually following through on it.

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Yea my little bro didnt care for harry potter series or lore until he saw the debates and how amazing the game looked. While he didnt get the references like i did or understand the lore for most things he loved how they tackled the curses and how you choose to either be evil or not using them to be good.

Bro you’re everywhere. I’m convinced that you are me from the future.

i still don't even know what JK said or care to look it up. magic cool tho so woo harry potter 🦧

Boycotting something so far removed from the offending issue is just a bad strategy.

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