10 Things Video Games Shouldn't Have Abandoned 

I'll never understand why GTA didn't adopt the trunk mechanic from True Crime streets of NY.

Gta really missed a whole lot of things. Rdro had ways to do that and that's a franchise they neglect

maybe we will have those things in gta VI

​@@articusramos808for how much stuff you can get up to in RDRO, it sucks how they left it and it's playerbase to rot

@@BTBSOUNDS they thought we be like gta online's toxic group of children yet they messed that up when gold was necessary to do things and the regular money was already hard to make. I remember that 1000 dollar mauser. We all do.

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@@gameranxTV i like your old mic, this one makes your voice sound funny.

That was never a thing

10:31 what game is this?

​@@Krotas_DeityofConflictsCrackdown. Not sure which one. It looks like number 1.

Yep. All the fighting game publishers learned how much they could monetize the crap out of those games and dove in headfirst. Hell, publishers dont like having 'unlockable' anything in games anymore.. they'd rather SELL them to you. Publishers have gotten intensely greedy these days.

Players allowed themselves to be ripped off. I was around when dlc first dropped and have never spent a penny on a game other than the initial purchase. If nobody bought into it then they wouldn't do it.

@@lyianx I take it you weren't happy with expansion packs and updated releases, were you?

@@OhSayWhatIsTruth Expansion packs are completely different , I think he’s saying instead of getting all of this for $10. You have to buy everything individually . These companies don’t even make complete games anymore

Tekken, play different ways and get different characters. At least Tekken 2, I can't speak for the rest.

It is a gem of a game!!

Watch dogs also gives me the same feels...cranking up satellite by echodroides while it's raining. Same goes with day n nite by kid cudi.

Loved the karaoke minigame in Sleeping Dogs. Used to pick "I fought the law" by Clash haha

those 2 games are gems. Sleeping Dogs needs a sequel.

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And also more awesome to play.

Shame 90% of people never finished the game cos it was tedious af

@@claudio5432154321not really, the final boss was way too hard, on normal difficulty! U get stuck there

I completed the game but didnt know the airship

No one cares what unlocks after the game is already over lol

I'm only a few years younger myself. Gaming has changed in so many ways, especially with the HD transition.

FF1 was the first game I ever owned. Saw my older brother playing it and had to have it. The stuff that came with games back then was awesome. Now everything is digital and the kids today will never know that kind of gaming.

Only games that even come with a real map is rockstar games it seems it’s sad

​@@RetroPacmanyep. FF XVI was a little too original sadly.

​@@stephen-ngFF 1 REMAKE PROTOTYPE could be cool bro.

What I miss is the "semi open world" sections like what we had in the first two witcher games. Those were interesting to explore, without being filled to the brim with fillers (collectibles, uninteresting challenges, etc.) which fill modern open world games. I have neither the time nor the endurance to spend 200 hours exploring an open world that is too big for its own good.

The thing about BotW and TotK is that they utilize their map of Hyrule so well that it doesn't feel unnecessarily large. But TotK loses this quality with The Depths. They essentially doubled the size of the world for very little reason. The Depths are drab and boring with very few landmarks and it's incredibly difficult to navigate. It's a fantastic game, but there is such a thing as too much content.

@@Amins88 i kinda dissagree with botw. felt empty.

Ratchet and Clank (A Rift apart I think?) seems like it fits what you’re asking for

I found the game to be a horrid nostalgia fest. I've tried it, and it's one of the few games I've regretted paying full price for. Some people may get good mileage out of it, but I remember, and mostly still have, the games it so blatantly draws most of its inspiration from, and I enjoy replaying them more.

​@@Razmoudahyep. 1990s Games still brought me tears of nostalgia.

Agree. Literally airships gonna brought me tons of nostalgia factors.

I kinda want the map-like open worlds back were you have these points of interest that you can "enter" into this big dungeon or large city or stuff like that. Not everything needs to be fully open world, or in many cases a linear corridor disguised as an open world.

"Arc Rise Fantasia" for the Nintendo Wii was the last Japanese RPG with an air ship. if you are going to play the game emulate it with japanese voice acting.

Subnautica is a god damn work of art🔥🔥🔥

I love the progression system of this game as well! there's places you COULD go, but its probably not a good idea.. lol!

That game gave me a fear of the ocean

​@@behzadmirmozaffari2563 it's one of THE BEST immersion games ever made. Anyone I talk to that has never played it, I always tell them, "turn the lights off in the room, headphones on with the sound up, and go explore". So much beauty and so much terror on 4546B

So glad to see Subnautica mentioned! One of my all time favorite games.

Thats 'Pitioss Ruins'. An absolutely torturous dungeon and many players quit trying. And for good reason- it's a major pain in the a$$ and dizzying at times.

@@zappawaits4969 the worst part iirc was the reward wasn't even that impressive. I remember the game switching the camera angle to a 2D thing and this was after HOURS of trying to get thru and that shift was when I said fuck it and never looked back

@@BTBSOUNDS yeah it looked like the game 'Limbo' for an entre area of the game. I love the game so wanted to do everything and did finish it but holy shit it was maybe the worst hours of my gaming life.

@@BTBSOUNDSit isn’t that it wasn’t a good accessory… it was the fact that by this point you already had done everything else and it was pointless lol

@@DOC_951 tbf i don't remember what it was at all or what it did, i just remember looking up what the reward was meant to be and getting mad annoyed

One company had the copyright for them, which prevented most companies from including them, of course the company that had the copyright just sat on it. What the Dragon Ball games had might have been classified as a practice mode or something to even allow that.

​@@Neonsilver13agree. I also miss the 1970 PONG minigame in TD OVERDRIVE.

Of all the things to miss from older games, random encounters is not one of them.

Yeah I games like that along With San Andreas and Bully RDR1and 2, Witcher 3 with Gwent. Mini games really help with vaierty.

I spent so much time in those karaoke stores singing, there’s just something about those songs.

10:31 what game is this?

​@@Krotas_DeityofConflictsCrackdown 3

You get an airship in Forever Skies.

Ff7 had that. You crashed the airplane and it became a boat

Yea but he’s wrong in saying there’s no games that seamlessly let you take off in one… because you can in no man’s sky

Yup. Avatar feels big and empty. Once the brain adjust to different kinds of plants it just doesn't cut it.

👍🏼 thanks

If they aren’t gonna use it then let another developer use it. I’d love to see a team inside Sony get a chance with it.

Apparently it’s going to be used in an upcoming Wonder Woman game so there is a sliver of hope

WB should never have gotten a PATENT for it to begin with. Due to how programming works, if someone is going to take the time/effort to copy you, then let them do it. Imagine if Nintendo had a patent on PLATFORMING MECHANICS. Reverse-engineering a feature like that would NOT be easy, and I would love to see other developers take a crack at it. It’s ironic, since LARGE parts of the parkour in that game were ripped directly off of Assassin’s Creed.

​@@gameranxTVwhat is up with your audio lately? It sounds like you're recording in an empty bathroom sometimes

I have a friend who believed Final Fantasy X was something you had to put up with to get to Blitzball. I don't think he ever actually finished FFX.

Still waiting for a blitzball job or at least gold saucer minigame in FFXIV

Bro Wedge was a savage in blitzball. And i love how the Albhed guys ended up being way better than the Luca Goers idiots haha.

Imagine if that minigame would have evolved into a whole spinoff series: "Blitzball Pro Tournament" or sth. like that :D

I dont know, Elden Ring had some awesome, dungeony sections.

Lol you serious?

Whats ds1?

16:21 I do miss random battles actually. Make them toggable if you want but add them back to dungeons in games. Adds to the difficulty & danger of jumping in a dungeon unprepared. I loved Wild Arms 3 “airship” in that you had to beat it to be able to use it. That and its sandship to traverse the parts of the overworld you couldn’t walk through. Said that part before they show the game for 4 seconds woo!

Pillars of Eternity too. But that one was a crowdfunded Indie-Game that deliberately emulates the style of the old isometric RPGs like Baldur's Gate

Thank you so much 😊

Yeah, that was fun. Infuriating, but fun!

I agree! One of those games for me as a kid, though much simpler than Summoner, was Nox. I loved how every playthrough quite literally had to be handled and planned different from the last.

All the reasons why Mass Effect is one of a kind. The true GOAT.

Yeah, definitely. You could import your characters from Baldurs Gate 1 into BG2, mainly because the level cap for 1 was the starting level for 2. That made sense from a Dungeons and Dragons sense, but most games start with an underpowered character so the player can build their way up with no prior knowledge of the property needed. In Tears of the Kingdom, you get full hearts and cool weapons in the prologue (and actually more games should have more interactive cinematics) but you lose them and start at the beginning very quickly. ME Legendary Edition is awesome in having the whole thing as a package. It works better that way IMO. However, it sucks a bit for people who haven't played the first game. The Wii U version of Mass Effect 3 had a slideshow with the main decisions you took in the first two games as choose your own adventure prompts, but since it was the first game I picked up in the series I had no idea what was going on and just picked at random. The other issue which kinda bears this out from a publisher's perspective is that even book trilogies see a drop off of readership between books. People buy and read book 1 and generally it's a standalone because the publisher hedges their bets -- they don't want to be locked into investing in a full series if book 1 flops. The number of people who read book 1 but not book 2 or 3 is larger than that of people who read the whole series. When video games these days cost millions of dollars to put out (people SAY they're ok with less effort put into visuals and sounds but truthfully they'd complain if people didn't spend the money on those things) you don't want those millions to be spent on two or three games that will not make back that investment because they require you to play something else beforehand. So they make games in a way that you don't have to have played the previous ones beforehand. Mass Effect is a great series, don't get me wrong. However I saw why more games don't do this -- because if a new release forces you to have to play through a previous one first or even refresh your memory on it, you're going to struggle to get new players to buy in to the series and risk people playing the first game and then looking for another game (because personally I like a variety of games rather than to play through a whole series all at once just so I don't lose the plot) and never getting to game 2. Publishers and devs have access to numbers and research into consumer behaviour that we don't, so that's probably why you just don't see games where the subsequent ones build off each other to the extent Mass Effect did. It was a good experiment, and maybe hardcore fans appreciate it, but people with less time to play through a whole series straight find it easier to get into a game if we don't have to have played the previous two, so that's why you don't see it so often. (And before you start whining about corporate greed...who do you think bankrolls the games you play and their development, and with development becoming increasingly expensive and time consuming, they have to try and get an income stream going from both hardcore fans and casual players. We casuals probably make up the majority of the gaming public and our cash helps you get the big budget games you want.)

linear story-telling with smaller maps are frowned upon today, but I appreciate games that have a specific story to tell with a specific direction!

Agreed. Aside from how the magic worked in that game, I really enjoyed how that game blended old school and new school RPG tropes.

Yes! The .hack series was simulating an MMORPG setting where you weren't necessarily playing as the character, you were playing as a character who was playing a character. The simulated OS was perfectly integrated into the games setting. Also, Doki Doki Literature Club uses your real-world operating system to progress its plot and understanding what it is doing is essential in completing the game. Which is also why DDLC Plus fails in trying to simulate this with a fake OS and contradicts the entire point of that game.

have you played the most recent ratchet n clank?

10:31 what game is this?

Medium did a spirit world/living world split.

@@vault29a I haven't, but from what I've seen of Rift Apart the new dimensions are pretty much new maps, not the same map in a different dimesion. But maybe I'm mistaken?

It was really great in "Mask of the Betrayer", even though it was not a particularly big part of the game.

Yes!!!

Immortals fenyx rising too 👊

If it wasn't for my brothers strategy guide, I never would've gotten Anima

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Repayable? Don't give EA any ideas.

@@WallyST675 it meant Replayable

Absolutely. I've spent hundreds of hours running around huge maps and having a great time doing so.

I love exploring big open world maps 👊

I cry everyday there is no golden sun sequel news

Imo it was too much. Trigger had a good party size with fleshed out threads. Cross was more like suikoden but without the permanent building or structural upgrades. There were just too many "fun" or nonsense characters that padded out the games artificial length. It could have done with an editor to trim it down and focus on the core characters better.

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I loved exploring origins and odysseys maps taking in the sights, theym just beautiful.