10 Video Game Ideas That SUCKED 

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is one of my favourite childhood PS2 games. We had tons of fun with my friend with the VS mode (Daily Bugle rooftop arena could be entirely destroyed). The game also has great music.

I actually enjoyed marvels imperfects a lot as a kid but I was also like 8

I rarely disagree with you guys, but Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects was such a fun and challenging game. When you play through the game, you get introductions and stories for all the Imperfects and most, if not all, of them are interesting and well thought-out. A decent fighting game with some creative mechanics (Brigade getting stunned by his multiple personalities if you drain his energy) and intriguing, gritty story.

That dwarf concept is not as crazy considering alice madness exist and was kind of successful. Specially with some obsidian top tier writing. Im actually sad it doesn't exist.

I actually think the idea of a dark snow white/seven dwarves based on Grimm's brothers (not Disney) as a mix of, say, a plagues tale, and the guardians of the galaxy game, would be sick.

Rise of the Imperfects was an awesome game. I was sad it didn't get a sequel.

That Dwarves game actually sounds like a great concept, though i think the execution would have to be done perfectly. It would really have to show that it is a true break from the Disney version. Like make it a Souls-like or some other grimdark type game. Also, the whole Dopey thing could make sense story wise, you could even have some sympathy type cutscene with like a “hodor”/“hold the door” connotation.

I liked the horror aspect of Doom 3. I played it again recently and......it is a slog through obsolete mechanics. I kinda hope to see a more modern take on that idea. Edit: the original stories like Cinderella and others are pretty dark themselves. Snow White is no exception. 2nd Edit: the Metroid Federation Force picture gave me horrible flashbacks to Gundam SD. I screamed, tossed my phone across the room, and cried into my pillow.

I Loved Marvel Nemesis. Your criticisms are completely valid, but I always wanted a sequel with less clunky controls, more characters and a better story. My brother and I played this game whenever we got the chance, I honestly loved it

Gotham City Imposters was decent though. It's taking strays for no reason. The movement in that game felt very clean and well put together, especially for 2012. The gun play was pretty okay for the era, nothing top of it's class but it was still fun. Plus it's not like WB scrapped all the beloved Batman games for it. Gotham City Imposters came out in 2012, while Batman: Arkham Origins came out a year later, with development starting shortly after Batman: Arkham City in 2011. Gotham City Imposters was an idea that did not suck and I'm sad that it got referenced to in this video. Even if it didn't directly make the list.

rise of the imperfects was a childhood classic for me, one of my favorites

As others have said, I loved Marvel Nemesis as a kid. I had it on Gamecube, and a couple years ago I picked it up on PS2. It's certainly a weird one, but it holds a special place in my young gamer memories.

All of the live service games lol

Warms my heart to see everybody acknowledge how much a slap marvel nemesis was

I actually would've been really excited about Dwarves. That sounds like a really good idea to me. A twist on Snow White similar to American McGee's Alice

I actually really liked Shadow run and remember being incredibly excited when the game was released. I wished they had indeed made it its own IP so it could stand by itself because it was an interesting take on the FPS genre

Rise of the imperfects was actually really great game.all the characters were really enjoyable to play

Marvel Nemesis was one of my favorite games as a kid , I have countless memories of doing explosive barrel only fights with my cousin! Or being the “heavy” character and ragdolling other small characters! It was a blast

11:40 the general concept was kinda re-taken and made into needy girl overdose, it's pixel/anime themed instead, and seems to be quite popular among streamers to play

As a big fan of the P&P Shadowrun i was very angry when that shooter game came out, but i was also very happy when the videogame franchise was rebootet in a very very good fashion as "Shadowrun returns" and oh boy this game is great and also the follow ups were very decent - there are several mods for this and dragonborne i guess it was called out there still available today :-) go get it

Marvel Nemesis was kind of a good idea that was poorly executed. There is nothing wrong about putting in new characters the issue is that they did too many new characters. I do honestly think it would have worked if it was more like a 75%-25% split of known Marvel characters and new characters respectively. The idea of a new group popping up and causing troubles is a good idea and literally standard in comics but again the issue is they had too many new characters. I think there was a total of 20 characters: 10 Marvel and 10 new. I did like most of the new characters so if they did it like 14-6 for 20 characters it would have been better received.

I liked doom 3. I thought it was a solid game. The original flashlight issue did suck, but other than that yeah. It was an enjoyable time.

The funny thing is that Gamer Girl's concept was made into a game! The intent/tone was made more personal and realistic (despite being anime style pixel art). You play as Girl's Boyfriend and Mod, It's called Needy Streamer Overload.

You leave Rise of the Imperfects alone.... I loved that game. 😂

Shadow run really was one of my fave “B tier” 360 games. It was never going to challenge COD, halo or gears, but it’s a worthy contender for best of the rest.

Shadowrun was by far my favorite online game in the 360 era. Put TONS of hours into that game and wish they would come out with a remake…with a different IP of course 😊

Marvel Nemesis was actually an incredibly fun game to play. Miss that from my childhood

Shadowrun was actually amazing, and I miss it to this day and hope for a reboot. The maps were incredible and all the different variations and variables of player and team builds made for wildly dynamic battles. Every shooter has guns, but now you have races, classes, magic, and tech. Some of the most fun I've ever had in a multiplayer FPS, like Counter Strike on ecstasy and mushrooms.

I personally and the people I played Shadowrun on the 360 with had a blast with the game. It was a different take but the mechanics were unique when you have to not just watch your back or your front but enemies could phase through surfaces. The weapon mechanics were great and the trophies were hilarious. It was a good time.

I loved that 2007 Shadowrun lol it was pretty much the counter strike we didn't have on consoles. But looking at it now it's hard not to see that it kinda influenced hero shooters later on.

Shadowrun wasn't bad, but as you said, you could have put it out in under a different name. I liked the shooter with magic. It was a good idea, decently put together. It was however a games for windows live, and it really suffered from that aspect on PC. Marvel Nemesis was actually pretty funny to play as a fighter in multiplayer, but the single player/story aspect was straight garbage.

Thanks, Falcon. I'd managed to forget that Metroid Federation Force had ever been a thing. Sure, I think the basic idea of trying to expand on the Metroid universe sounds interesting, but the execution of it in that game was so bad that I'd been glad to forget it ever happened. Now I get to try to forget about it again, which tends to be a slow process for me.

Honestly, a Duke Nukem hunting game sounds like it could be kinda fun as long as they kept the series' humor.

I want to play Escape From Diab now. It sounds so insane 😂

Absolutely love you guys! This is my first comment! (I think) Sincerely, Jake and Falcon your reviews and pure insight are something I look forward to as a gamer, fan and sometimes loner lol Anywho, I rushed to the comment section to share my absolute love for Marvel Nemesis! THIS game was my brother and I’s go-to game. Wish the console version capitalized on the alternate costumes like the Nintendo DS and PSP versions. Always respect your opinion team! Just had to show Marvel Nemesis some love.

I didn't play federation force, but I did play a halo game where I was neither Master Chief nor any other spartan, and I honestly loved it. I wish there were more games where you play as a ordinary soldier in the shadow of some super being. It was pretty well done. I'm guessing Federation Force was not pretty well done.

I was unfamiliar with Shadowrun IP so I actually really liked the FPS when it came out. Felt pretty different at the time and made the squad-based tactics fun with fantasy RPG elements. So not a TERRIBLE idea, imo.

Rise of the Imperfects was fun! You can throw cars in it!

Aw this gets crapped on too much. Kinect Star Wars is SO much fun (dumb fun), but fun none the less! The rancor destruction mode...the pod racing mode...even the main storyline was fun to play through. It responded surprisingly well as a kinect title, looked solid graphically, and even let you switch lightsaber vs force hands for a southpaw like myself. I didn't find the dance mode cringy but rather intentionally hilarious. It wasn't meant to be taken so seriously. Just a silly kinect game. Manage expectations and its a great time with the kiddos.

I actually really enjoyed the Shadowrun FPS. That was my first Shadowrun game and I liked it enough to want to play the others.

Shadowrun 360 was one of the funnest games ive ever played. The movement options, the abilities, the way each race had a completly different playstyle. Truly an original experience

Hey now Falcon, Gotham City Imposters was fantastic. It was like a loveletter to silver age silliness with some really cool stuff you couldn't use in other more grounded shooters. One of my favorites was rolling around with rollerskates with a katana in hand.

1) Shadowrun is more than a SNES/Genesis RPG. There were Shadowrun fans looking forward to the 2007 game, and a new IP would have lacked even that hook to draw attention. 2) While it was originally viewed negatively, time did cause some (idealists?) to wonder if the original direction for Doom 4 would have worked. And it did progress the Doom storyline. 3) Snow White has received plenty of dark retellings in various forms, of quite varying degrees of quality. People had been hoping for a new American McGee's Alice for decades. Pinocchio has just had a well-received "dark" Dark Souls-style game. 4) Not a defense, but the thought process behind Marvel Nemesis was probably pretty basic. While EA could only license regular Marvel characters, EA owned the new "Marvel" characters created for the game. They most likely felt making Marvel games was easy money, and they'd end up with both their own "Marvel" characters and the beginnings of a new big franchise.

Shadowrun on the 360 was one of my favorite games. I thought it was great. I wish they would make a new one.

nothing better than listening to Falcon's voice

Dwarves sounds like it could be badass if it was based off the original Grimm’s brothers tale. Disney watered it down and made the Dwarves useless elderly toddlers.

While I'll agree that Kinect Star Wars was bad, Kinect had the better dancing game with Dance Central, compared to Just Dance. I got a nearly perfect score in JD by treating the stick thing like a shake weight, while DC forces you to actually dance to get any kind of score.

Shadowrun was actually fun but looking at how different it is from all of the other games makes sense with how people felt about it

Marvel Nemesis should NOT be in this list, it's absolutely 🔥 My favorite fighting game to date, loved the aesthetic and path they took concerning the voice acting. An absolute banger

Disney bought Lucas' Star Wars. A money-making machine, including instructions all presented on a silver platter just waiting to be put to film and print more money. Disney threw that money-making machine out the window, burned the instructions and sold us the silver platter. It has not quite worked out for them so far.

2007 Shadowrun was awesome. Yes, maybe they shouldn't have called it Shadowrun, but the gameplay was sick. Very well made multi-player fps if you ask me. And yes, I have played all the actual Shadowrun games. I am not bothered by it.

7:19 absolutely would have spent an entire game with Anthony Daniels voicing C3PO, maybe with R2D2 to bounce off of - as a kid who loved the special editions and then saw Episode 1 - around 1998 makes sense. But games began "maturing" rapidly around that time, and I can see why a game like that was no longer in vogue

The Duke Nukem one could maybe be a good idea if it wasn't strictly a hunting game and was actually a narrative based game where Duke was abducted, escaped, and is being hunted, while also incorporating some hunting/survival elements briefly before you get access to better weapons, and has to fight his way through various environments on an alien planet, going from barren wastelands and jungles to alien cities and spaceships. I think I just want them to make a new Duke Nukem game that doesn't suck...

I think Dwarves could have worked especially if they were going back the Grimm's version of story. Also as avid reader along with gamer gritty fairytale retellings is a giant genre with a lot of great stories.

I second EVERYTHING you said about IPs. I am always skeptical of someone saying they're going to take the IP "in a new direction". Because, unless it's a mascot like Sonic or Pikachu, it begs the question: Why not just make it an original IP? And I suspect the answer, 99% of the time, is "Because we have no faith in this product and don't expect you to buy it otherwise." It doesn't necessarily mean the game will be bad (for example: Resident Evil 7), but it does betray, to me, a severe lack of faith, either in their product or in their audience. Who they should know by now are skeptical either way and will wait to hear the verdict from the RU-vid gamers regardless of whether it's an existing IP or a new one.

Glad Id software finally came to their senses in the right time and we got like the single best FPS ever made in the form of DOOM ETERNAL.

I loved Shadowrun from 2007. Played so many matches against the bots, such a blast to try the different characters powers.

Rise of the imperfects was great fighting game.

Alternatives for number 9 since they pretty much did the same thing: Nosgoth: lets take this storydriven single player franchise where fans are chomping at the bits to get a continuation of the story and turn it into a multiplayer arena fighting game that adds very little to the Legacy of Kain lore. That can only succeed. Syndicate 2012: lets take this franchise known for dark cyberpunk strategy games and turn it into a shooter. Then act surprised when the fans of the original games aren't interested in it, while newer fans are uninterested because the franchise is so old that people below 20 probably never had heard of it. Also while we are at it release it not long after Deus Ex Human Revolution, another shooter in a cyberpunk setting, the continues an older franchise, but unlike Syndicate it stuck to the original genre so the old fans would be interested in it.

Everytime Doomy was mentioned, it sounded like he was singing the Doom song from Invader Zimm. So now I have that stuck in my head.

I actually liked Marvel Imperfects. It was a fun game

Hold on man marvel nemesis was my favorite game back in the day 😭

They had to shorten the name from "Escape from Diabetes" so the developers wouldn't get (rightly so) harassed.

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects was an awesome game! Literally played that game for hours! Story and VS mode. Friends all loved it too. Zoids Battle Legends I think might been a “worse” or Less popular game

I actually liked Marvel Nenesis so much.

That Shadowrun is really cool and I still believe it'd make a good game in 2023.

Dark Snow White could have been cool, and Gamer Girl sounds actually kind of neat.

Out of all the games listed, "Call Of Doomy" caught me off guard the most. 😂

I don’t know how y’all are able to create so much good content, but thank you!

Rise of the Imperfects was actually a very solid fighting game. The combat was very intuitive and fast. It wasn't limited to a canon storyline because the imperfects were original characters. Also I don't think anyone cared about avengers back then plus I think the game featured Characters that were owned by Fox or Sony at the time.

So, a handful of these are "give anything some critical thought", but most of them are "don't abandon/spit on the IP" which is very interesting.

This reminds me of a theory I have about movies. Ripoffs are judged by how original they are and adaptions are judged by how accurate they are. Therefore, if you change the title and the character names, a good adaption = a bad ripoff and vice versa. Shrek never for 1 second pretends to be accurate to Mother Goose or Babes in Toyland, so Shrek is fine. Chicken Little is a sequel/satire of the original story with elements of War of the Worlds, but they used the actual title of the American translation of the book, so it sucks. If Back to the Future called itself “H.G. Well’s The Time Machine” people would be wondering where the hell the morlocks are. If the Guy Pierce version of The Time Machine called itself and the Morlocks something else , it would have been OK, Even the 4th wall break where the hologram sang a song from another version of The Time Machine might have worked better. Konami figured this out, which is why when an earlier version of Resident evil 5 ended up being too different from Resident Evil, they just pellet swapped Leon and called it Devil May Cry.

So Dwarfs was trying to be like American Mcgee's Alice, a darker telling of a classic... Id play it!!

Federation Force was actually a fun game; it suffered from the fact that the Metroid Fans were game starved at the time as well as so many reviews that were based on the fact that Samus wasnt a playable character. Getting your friends to play it with you was super fun honestly. It just sucks that it harshly judged during an unfortunate time. If it had come out after dread it would've probably gotten some of the praise it deserves.

About Kinect Star Wars: Pitch Meeting: Developer: "Okay, so we have the Star Wars Licence!" Producer: "Yeah, awesome, you got any ideas what to do with it?" Developer: "Aye, we create a movement based game..." Producer: (Oh! I bet he's going for epic Lightsaber duels! Awesome idea!) Developer: ".....and we use the newly developed Kinect technology for it..." Producer: (YES! I KNEW IT! LIGHTSABER DUELS! CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY THIS GAME MYSELF!) Developer: "....and make it a DANCE BATTLE!" Producer: "HELL YEA..........wait, WHAT??!!!! (I hate my job....)

Woah woah woah, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects was THE fighting game of my childhood, other than MK Armageddon. It was a fun time, and even fun to play now. I wish the imperfects would be canonized in the comics

To be fair to Dwarves, American McGee's Alice worked

I stop once you said Shadowrun.. I left a comment a awhile back about how it's one of the best shooters that was ahead of its time. If they would drip this now with updates or free to play it would do really well. Classic gem right there

6:51 well, disneys Snowwhite isn´t the original. "Schneewittchen" doesn´t need many changes for a sad story

Oh Escape From Diab…. So. I have some fun and additional information about that game. When I first heard of it, I was a Masters Student at Michigan State University. I was a major in Communication, but my research interests were in video games and communication. So I took a an elective class in the telecommunication department about Serious Games. One of the fundamental and pervasive questions throughout that course was “do educational games need to be fun?” The prevailing answer in the academic fields was a resounding “No.” so keep in mind, Escape From Diab was never intended to be fun. Though I feel Falcon makes an excellent and extremely salient point about how it depicts obese people and the characters. You see… this game was developed by an academic couple at Baylor College. 3 people from my cohort (grad students who start the same year) ended up in Texas. Myself and one other friend ended up in the Ph.D program at UT Austin (I quit and transferred to another school in California after a year.) and one of my close friends ended up moving to Houston for a job working for the couple developing Escape From Diab. The wife was nice most of the time, but the husband especially was a hard core bastard of an ass hole. He contributed to my friends continuous mental decline. After a year she snapped and moved back home. But I know that for anyone hired to work on that project, it was not a pleasant time. In fact, I remember her telling me the couple, husband especially were not open to any criticism of their ideas and implementation. I should mention my friend specialized in Early Childhood Development and Communication. So they hired her so they could ignore her. The couple developing it just really used it to get constant grant money when Serious Games was an emerging research area. It was a cash cow for grants. It was only tweaked in small amounts for hypothesis testing, but it rarely yielded meaningful changes in behavior of children. It would yield some short term mental changes that were promising but they quickly diminished. Demonstrable behavior changes were all but nonexistent if I recall correctly from what I read on the project a decade ago. But I think Falcon points an a major issue that probably was brought up but the couple leading development outright dismissed. *edit* written on an ipad, so forgive a few grammatical mistakes that will be an ass to fix right now.

I just knew that "people" didn't like Doom 3 😮😮😮 For me was the closest to what I would want to see as expansion of Doom Universe

"People didn't like Doom 3 when it came out" Doom 3 on metacritic: 87 User score 77 Hmm... Guess people did like it and I was one of them

It's so weird to me hearing that people didn't like Doom 3. It was my first FPS game, my first horror as well. I got the collectors edition in the metal case when I was around 6 years old and it was one of 7 games my dad got for me. All the games and the Xbox were all bought at a garage sale, we didn't have much money but my dad wanted us to experience gaming like he did with his atari and Sega when he was a kid. Doom 3 was my absolute favorite and the collectors edition came with all the DLC and the original Ultimate Doom and Doom 2. Countless hours were spent playing that game with my dad and my brother when we visit him on the weekends and to this day I still love that game. The only criticism of the game I understand is the Flashlight thing, but all together I love every part of the game and actually wish we could get another Doom in that same more gritty style. I also enjoyed quake 4 for the reason being it was similar in style and on the same engine as Doom 3.

Shadowrun was just fine. Lots of people played it and it had decent reviews. Not the disaster you make it out to be. Also the idea of classes in a shooter was still fresh back then and shadow run did it just as good as anyone else at the time.

Only game here that I've played was Shadowrun. As a kid that had never even heard of Shadowrun before, it looked like a fun game. I really liked the look of the game, and while what I could find made it obvious that it had a focus on the multiplayer, I thought "surely it's not JUST multiplayer...there's gotta be at least a small campaign mode or something." Sadly, no. Even so, I really enjoyed the feel of the game and while I didn't really end up playing it much, it is likely a significant stepping stone toward my love for games like Overwatch, Apex Legends, and Warframe. Still haven't had the chance to try out the ttrpg for it though, despite my love for tabletop games.

Love the FALCON ❤❤❤❤❤

As I've said, I've been in a game before. I haven't been in these particulary, but I can tell you one thing - the games that feel like "bad ideas" are actually focusing on the plot twists. You see, DOOM 3 they are all cool and shooting you. You are being shot. Fail. Start all over again.. But then.. at the very end of the game opponents realise.. that this isn't Call of Duty.. and you didn't even hear them calling you a noob. Shadowrun is just so they want to return to prequal. Cuz it's better. But they don't see what's comming.. I know it takes a long time for the opponents at Marvel Nemesis to realise that they can't be the coolest characters. Don't know the gameplay for Dwarfs, but, either the opponents realise they will get killed by dwarfs OR they realise they are dwarfs. The Star Wars game, if I understand correctly, has a twist that the main character is a robot. AND the gayest character in Star Wars. That gets them. For Metroid Prime, they understand that the main character isn't even the main character the whole game. The plot twist is that they kinda miss the prequal, just like in Shadowrun. Next plot twist is that you want to play GTA after Metroid Prime. And they're police there. In Duke Nukam, plot twist is that they're the pray. And you're a hunter. AND they're endangered species. You just have to end their hope to see their son wedding. The Gamer Girl is what ties the whole thing together. You help the world to see her gameplay. She's the opponents. You control her life. AND she's a girl. As of Escape From Diab.. don't even ask why they're fat. Shenmue were made just for bad reputation. So they don't want to play it. They still eager to know the plot twist, though.. The bonus Star Wars is a KINECT game. When they realise you don't even use a controller, they know it's deep shit when The Force is with you.

using gameranx videos as my background noise while i shower is top tier

I’ll say this about some of these games that never came to light. Execution is everything and just because something doesn’t read well on paper doesn’t mean it doesn’t translate well to another media. Good stuff on paper like books can make bad movies. Point being shutting down a creatives idea is never a good thing Wether the idea lands or not we would never know unless they actually took a shot trying to make it happen in the first place

I actually bought a used copy of rise of the imperfects after a friend talked about how much he and his brother enjoyed it as kids. The campaign is brutal and downright impossible to beat. Never finished it.

4:20 The Rise of the Imperfects cast wasn't even ä bunch of unknowns", they were created SPECIFICALLY for the game. I respect their commitment to the bit in trying to make a good story with OCs. But yeah, they could have 1. Used less of the space on nobodies and add to their team more villains or "turned" heroes 2. Add more characters to the roster. Even if they are not in the story, just have em there for the Versus mode. Maybe a bit more barebones than the actual story characters, but to make proper use of the IP. 3. Pick a more varied roster. Spidey and Venom? Why not use Venom's slot on another fun villain? Elektra and Daredevil? Their stuff was pretty similar (even their missions, and there was another Imperfect female character A LOT like Elektra). One of the Imperfects also had very similar moveset to The Thing. Weird choices that they made... But i still LOVED that game. Actually tried to start it up a couple weeks ago but the disc is just too dirty/damaged. Twas a sad day.

The argument, about a game being fun but shouldnt have had the same ip name, is also VERY true for assassin creed and everything tom clancy

The marvel one kinda makes sense but in a way to gauge if any obscure marvel heroes would do well popularity wise. Also a way to get people to know about the obscure ones which could be fun to some peeps

I really loved the Shadowrun game. Obviously it was not a true Shadowrun game, but the gameplay was really fun. That and Brink were some of my favorite online shooters back in the day.

That Dwarves and Dark Snow White game actually sounds really intriguing to me, and that splash screen...!! wow. But yeah, it would have had to have been done exceptionally well for it to be good. But who knows, we're not likely to find out anytime soon. Still, it sounded cool.

The main thing I remember about Shenmue these days is that it partially gave us the Yakuza games.

Doom 3 was always a very good game and on the whole most people really liked it, it's also aged well

Till my dying breath, I will proclaim that Shadowrun 2007 was fantastic. It might not have been what long time fans wanted, but it was brilliant and got way less than it deserved 😢

Metroid Prime Pinball is one of the greatest pinball games ever made lol

For the gamer girl thing, now we have "Needy Streamer Overload" with more or less the same concept but a very good execution, it got overwhelmingly positive review on steam