10 Obvious Video Game Home Runs That Somehow FAILED 

*I love how the universe constantly reminds me I spent 80$ on Anthem*

Battlefront Classic Collection could've been an easy win, but Aspyr screwed up, if they delayed the game, people would understand, the only people that would get upset are those that screech at a squirrel or animal out their window, Aspyr is also no longer in charge of the Kotor remake, it's a different studio. Anyway Aspyr messed up, all they had to do was delay the game, but they decided to sell nostalgia instead and break the games worse than they were at launch, even the updates just break the game.

11:07 correction, CP 2077's crash has nothing to do with expectations, in a sense it did delivery on what was expecting which is a compelling sotry rpg fallout style, but it was buggy to the point of unplayability, which could have been fixed if they gave the devs time to do so, even if CDPR are not known for making flawless games, people forget even the Witcher has a lot of bugs to this day

GTA definitive edition was a grandslam and they fubar'd that.

Unfortunately the lack of X-Men in Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite was all on Disney's Licensing Board. Due to bad blood between Fox and Disney prior to the later buying the former, the mandate from Disney was to allow no licensing of X-Men or Fantastic Four characters. This was the reason why Venom, Ghost Rider and Nova were in the game despite not appearing in the MCU.

Brink was, and still is, great fun to play. Thankfully the developers had the foresight to include AI bots so it's still fully playable offline. More games should do this.....

I got the Battlefront collection for the single player stuff only, and i got to say i love it! Although they dosnt give the option to invert the Y axis for thw first 2 weeks which sucked. Other than that im pretty happy with my purchase to be honest.

Me: wow, Jules makes awesome points Jules: the American Revolution was a bad AC setting Me: sweetie! Get my flintlock!

I'm shocked more don't know about Star Wars Republic Commandos. Such an amazing game.

Aspyr are no longer making Knights of the Old republic, Saber Interactive are making it.

Great timing considering we are watching a surprise homerun be shot down by Sony in Helldivers 2

Next vid: 10 Obvious Video Game Failures That Somehow Succeeded Also, you can blame Disney for the failure of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite. It was either their way or the highway. Capcom had no choice but to do it Disney's way and Disney tossed the entire crossover franchise in the trash when they learned doing it their way wasn't profitable.

I had a friend who ended up passing away before cyberpunk came out. She had been hoping and hoping it would finally get made, would talk about remembering when it was first announced. Worked in a game store that I think even had some poster or cards made up at one point for a promised release date that never came? She passed away right before 2020, literally mid December of 2019. She never got to play it. Even had she lived long enough to see the release, she would have had to have endured that erap launch and indeed, how many other people didn't live to see things improve? I guess it was good she didn't see how terrible it was then but still. Fixing things later isn't always going to work and especially when they had been at it for as long as they were.

Did not BRINK also change the style and theme of the game losing a big chunk of the base.

If it’s any consolation, some of these games, AC3, Cyberpunk, Titanfall 2, did either much needed improvements and/or people just learned to appreciate them over time.

I think Forza Motorsport deserves a slot on the list. 6 months since launch, player count nearly non-existent, day one bugs being ignored by developers, updates that break the game, cars and tracks that are launched broken, singleplayer is devoid of content, Criticism being actively scrubbed from the official forums, and to top it all off, Turn10 blaming the community for the state of the game.

Final Fantasy games character's likeness kinda been explained in FinalFantasy 14 :P.... "The Sundering" they called it one person soul been split apart into 14 soul parts (14 worlds).

Anthem will always hurt the most for me. That game was so thematically up my alley I could use a gross metaphor to describe it. Such a shame they blew it. I still think EA should revisit the IP in the vein of Helldivers 2. Just imagine that short of gameplay in that style of game: Large open maps, respawning waves of whatever's, a community based narrative, and the Javelins. Shame imagining is all I get to do 😞

If we ever get a remake of AC2+Brotherhood, I would love it if Rodrigo Borgia would get a new character model and voice actor…. Both in the form of Jeremy Irons. This legend will always be Rodrigo Borgia to me.

As a big Star Wars Battlefront fan it hurts me to see Battlefront on this list but it belongs on this list 😥

10:40 at least anthem only took itself out, but also PS4’s with it

What's sad is that Anthem is the best Iron Man game out there....

Jason Schreier confirmed that Titanfall’s 2 release date wasn’t EA’s fault, but Respawn’s. Those knowing the story of Respawn know that some of the key figures had been fired from Activision and formed their own studio. Respawn asked for the specific date because they wanted Titanfall 2 to compete head on with that year’s CoD. The game had gone gold before that and marketing deals were set in place. That’s when tragedy struck: Battlefield was simply not ready and had to be delayed and the latest possible date ended up being next to CoD & Titanfall 2. Due to the marketing deals, Titanfall 2 no longer could change its release date… and the rest is history. I hate EA as much as anyone (specially for cancelling Anthem), but I’m also not in favor on devs making bad decisions using publishers with bad reputations as an easy scapegoat, best example being Bungie with Destiny, for which after the split with Activision, Jason Schreier also said that most of the bad decisions made for Destiny were made by Bungie, not Activision.

I actually found AC Brotherhood uncomfortable, and I completely avoided Revelation. So I ended up coming into AC3 with fresh eyes (aside from a clear bias toward learning about the American Revolution). Anyone who had watched Johnny Tremain and Little Big Man would have understood why a story about the American Revolution visa-vis Native Americans would never have a "lady's man" like Ezio, and simply played AC3 for what it was!

THANK YOU JULES!

Jewls is the only RU-vidrr who actually called out Disney for the MCU move they did with the franchise. I salute u sir

I uh...cant help but notice a crazy amount of EA/Bioware titles on this list.... absolutely warranted mind you but says something about EA/Bioware

Fyi, Aspyr are no longer in charge of the Kotor remake. It was taken away from them by Embracer and given to Saber Interactive. Embracer have since sold Saber (I think to Saber themselves), including the IPs Saber had control of. The Kotor remake is still alive, but it will probably be a long time before it launches.

After the first season of Diablo 4 and i found out i had to rebuild my character after every season i was infuriated i had to put in another 100 hours every 3 months made me take the game out and never touched it again

I played Titanfall 2 for the first time earlier this year. Fantastic game.

It's A Me, Ezio!😏

Damn Jules, that AC3 take was bad. That’s my favorite in the series and that’s with me admitting how good it’s predecessors were.

I wish people would give battlefront classic collection a chance again. The updates have really helped it and it's actually fun to play now, but almost no one is online.

CDPR rectifying Cyberpunk 2077 is the ultimate show of respect to the people that were let down. Didn't buy the game until 2022 (1.6) & it's the best game I've played since Fallout New Vegas (oh how Bethesda f**ked that series up, even the "next gen update for FO4 is a broken, unimpressive waste of hard drive space).

God I loved Sim City on SNES

Titanfal 2, man its wild, i bought my copy of that from a Dollarama, for 2$.

Tales of Symphonia "Remastered" is arguably worse than the Battlefront Classic Collection for me. Symphonia R cost more, adds absolutely no QoL features, & locked at 30 fps, unlike the OG version of 60. For all the latter's faults, it at least attempts to entice players to buy it. Whereas the formers was a COMPLETE cashgrab!

Maybe it's because I'm a pessimist, but I didn't see any of these as home runs. Heck I thought Battlefront classic and Capcom v Marvel were DOA. Half of these were obvious cash grabs, the other were incomplete games with no real support behind them.

Titanfall 2 is a case of "vote with your wallet" in the worst possible way. People flocked to the tried and true game that they were already familiar with, since they get them every single year, and even if it failed we would have gotten another one, over the new and unique one. Then wonder why devs are so hesistant to be experimental and publishers rarely take risks.

I would put KOTOR 2 on this list. More cut content than a hair salon.

The only issue with Cyberpunk was that it was forced onto the old consoles.

I thought for sure Kingdom Hearts would be the next Dynasty Warriors type game. It worked incredibly well for Fire Emblem.

I figured that Fallout 76 would have gotten a nod on this list

We couldn't even play in Philadelphia in AC3. Also Diablo making it impossible to get a horse to ride until your character is like level 50 is a hack/middle finger to the players especially considering how long it takes to level up. Also also Diablo 4, Mass Effect Andromeda, Cyberpunk 2077 and Anthem were All incredible ideas that barely make up for the initial releases and lack of content updates to justify their lacking quality.

Simcity 2013 is the reason I never preorder a game now

RIP Titanfall, my favorite FPS of all time.

Warcraft 3 reforged could earn a spot on this list. It could have easily been a slam dunk, had blizzard devoted the resources to fulfill its promises.

Splash damage made brink not human head studios

I have to admit that I've found a new appreciation for Final Fantasy XIII and that it really is much better than I remembered. After Final Fantasy XVI came out and...was what it was, I started wondering if I'd been too harsh on FFXIII, and going back and playing it now, I found myself enjoying the game and the cast a lot.

Surprise, surprise EA are on the majority of the entries

AC3 was awesome. That's probably my favorite time period as portrayed in AC thus far

Jules is still in whatculture? Great!!!!! 😊

Infinite's problem wasn't that it wasn't a MCU cash grab that would of been fine.... If they owned it rather they tried to make the game out to not be a cash grab by having these characters but trying to distance itself away from both the MCU and MvC3 was really a stupid idea, the devs of the game should of bit the bullet and either committed to fully embracing it's MCU ties, which sure still would of sucked but at least it'd be honest with itself, or put in some of the damned X-Men, honestly even moon knight would of been a happy middle ground.

I'm still depressed about the classic collection

Amazing video.

Tbf to CD Project Red at least they fixed their game and when I went back to play for a great game. Yeah the launch was unacceptable but EA don’t bother. At least they sorted it.

Shout outs to the following games: Dead or Alive 6 just needed to follow up on the slam dunk that was DOA5 but mixed marketing, poor release with bugs and missing features, barely any detectable graphical jump but actively lacking modes and features DOA5 had, heavy grind for costumes, also same aggressive monetization for costumes leading to asking for money to change hair colors on the PS4 version killed the franchise. Also stopped selling Mai in DOA5 to force people to buy and play her in DOA6 because that brilliant move didn't backfire and kill both games. Thanks Team Ninja! GTA Trilogy: Internet: Just release good functioning ports for a fair price and make sure we still have access to the original. Rockstar: No, and we're delisting the original and striking mods and we didn't quality check the new version so enjoy weird looking rain, odd looking body proportions and AI misspelling things. Internet: You had one job! Rockstar: Yeah, money. Helldivers 2: (didn't fail but the login issue didn't help them ) Internet: In the race to Game of the Year, Helldivers 2 is in the lead and it's not even a competition. There's nothing that could stop them, they're just a behemoth. ::Sony shoots Arrowhead in the leg midrace:: Sony! Why did you do that?! They were on your side?! Sony: huh? ::Sony shoots ShiftUp and Stellar Blade with a T-Shirt Canon:: (Censorship thing didn't kill the game but adding an unnecessary controversy didn't help either. However, there's no confirmation the changes were from Sony, it does feel like an arbitrary thing Sony would ask for.) Internet: Sony! Stop shooting developers that support your platform! Sony: Sorry with Xbox being all friendly I don't know who to antagonize anymore... Shenmue 3: Play like Shenmue 2 or Shenmue 1 and finish Ryo's Story and give closure regarding Lan Di. Yu Suzuki: Let's play worse than any previous Shenmue game, constantly make Ryo lose, lose to Lan Di again and force another sequel despite the fact getting funding for this was a miracle and clearly not guaranteed or entitled to me. Fans: So I guess I'll go play Yakuza now... Tekken 8: Launched to critical acclaim and good reviews but suddenly decided to be Activision Blizzard and add microtransactions and a battle pass w/o telling players and the content they added was so sub par alongside patches that had bugs and lacked any vetting led to a Mostly Negative reviews on Steam. Harada: Don't ask me for $*** Fans on Steam: Don't ask me for money or positive reviews until you fix your ish. Secret of Mana and Midevil modernized their looks but didn't modernize their gameplay and were thus met with middling reception from what I recall. Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and The Last of Us Part PC Port were released and would've gotten world wide acclaim if they didn't run like a 200 year old terminal patient in a 50 mile marathon. That's all my brain can spit out.

Don't forget the Cyberpunk anime

This video going up the day(s) of the helldiver debacle would be funny if it weren’t so sad

Anthem also provided an extra black-eye to BioWare because they pulled workforce from Mass-Effect Andromeda to make the project hurting most successful franchises to the point that planned DLC was canceled the BioWare Montreal branch was merged forcibly merged by EA with Motive Studios.

I would've bet money that Marvel's Avengers would've been on this list...... ......... Aaaaaaaand now I'm out $20.........

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I really liked AC 3 and Connor. In mechanical terms, they took everything that made AC2 great and improved it and I did not agree with the criticisms heaped on Connor. I found him an intense and driven character. Something that resonates with me.

The Fantasy is never really “Final,” is it?

Aspyr is not in charge of kotor remake. Saber interactive is

What the hell is dia blow? Lol

Anthem still angers me. Mass Effect: Andromeda got sacrificed for THAT?!?

You're smokin that joker pack if you think ac3 was bad. The parkour? It was far superior to anything having to do with ezio

Contrary to popular belief, AC III was not a mere home run, but an out of the park 1,000,000-run grand slam.

I thought splash damage made brink ?

Brink was not developed by humanhead studios

happy Simcity was so bad, Cities Skyline took over

AC was better with all the counters imo.

So essentially, EA ruins video games. I thoroughly enjoyed both Titanfall games and hoped for a third installment but it looks like I’ll be stuck playing apex instead.

Die Hablo Foe 😂

3:37 Why is AC2 held in such regard. Etzio was a BAD character. I don’t get it.

Can we nominate Bayonetta 3 as an honorable mention? It still genuinely amazes me how badly they screwed that up. Almost a full decade of hype and buildup and it somehow became the worst (and worst-selling) game in the series.

The SONY Resistance series??

Really No Street Fighter x Tekken come on man I remember that game being the most hyped up fighting game of all time and they crap it up hard 😂

I still enjoy Brink

Hoping for Titanfall 3 🤞

Dude we can still play brink!? Bad @$$ lol, how much is a copy?

I think that A.C. 3 is a way better game than A.C. 2. I lost interest in 2 but I beat 3.

Dee-ah-blow, not Die-ah-blow.

I thought Anthem was supposed to surpass the clearly better Warframe.

Had to go through here cause I love the delusional comments from the ff13 defenders. You do know you can like a franchise and still understand that maybe not all the games will be good right?¿? ff13 was straight trash. The story if you can call it that was nonsensical and that's being nice about it boy was the story absolutely stupid and soooooo borriiinnnggg. All and I do mean all the characters were boring or annoying. This game was dumbed down for casuals which is a bad move regardless, look rpgs have their fans no need to please everyone because all that will happen in the end is you will please no one. Gameplay oh f me the gameplay was the most boring in the entire series, no point to grinding, leveling up, certain builds none of it mattered at all. Takes 30 to 50 hours to get to the point you can actually start playing the game and by this point I put the controler down and walked away cause it wasn't worth playing. I've played some bad games before and still managed to get to the end credits, this game wasn't worth my time or anyone else's time. Just get a time machine take every copy and replace the books those guys burned in 1940's Germany 😂.

*fanmade content without their permission was only said by the creator of said fanmade content, the only source is the modder themselves going "trust me bro" I have not seen anyone without an unbiased opinion actually look into it.

Anthem isn't BioWare's first live service, the Old Republic was pretty damn big.

I'm not even sure you can class Final Fantasy 13 as a true RPG. They had limits for how far you could upgrade the characters making grinding completely pointless while also giving the first 10-15 hours a huge difficulty curve that just simply wasn't needed. Like as if they wanted 13 to be the Dark Souls of the franchise but even in DS you can grind to level up as far as you want. And honestly I think the only character from 13 I actually like and can get behind was Sazh but then for 13-2 he barely even appeared and any further spinoff sequels he was cut out entirely! Meanwhile we got stuck with Hope who was a miserable whiny little bitch 🙄 idk what the hell Square Enix were thinking with FF13 but it says a lot when they're still failing now and losing millions upon millions per year.

Hard disagree on AC III and FF XIII.

I like how Jules manages to not name the only 2 characters in FF13 who were actually worth getting to know (Fang and Sazh)

So The Video Game Equivalent Of Kangaroo Jack the film was a minor box office success for Warner Bros. Regardless of being critically maligned but the Direct To Video sequel Kangaroo Jack G'Day USA was much worse than the Live Action original movie TBH and that franchise was put down faster than Crocodile Dundee

AHem ... If anyone still think that Cyberpunk 2077 is bad in 2024, you should probably test it, this game is an absolute masterpiece, the kind you don't want to finish . Believe me .

wtf is a Dai-a-Blo

Stop using shmup to refer to fps's it refers to side scrolling space shooters like gradius or twin bee

Namestake? Really?

AC1 is great. Most people - including me - didn't see how much was included in that game. The combat alone has so much more to it than we realised back then and is my favourite in the series now that I've learned. Watch the video on it by DaBeanieBoi if you want to know

FF 13 is the only one I like

... AC3 is good, Cyberpunk2077 was even in troubled state good, now it's awesome (shouldn't had been released so bugged, but now great) why is this on still on such lists instead of something like helldivers2 with it's forced ps-account nonsense?

The sad

I have to admit that Connor is my favorite assassin’s creed character.