7 Beloved Features Bizarrely Cut From the Sequel 

BOTH sequels, actually.

It won't have weight.

Ummm, spoiler alert?

Oooofff this one hurts

@@Christopher-md7tf the game is so old, you had plenty of time to play it. And even then, the journey is still amazing before the end

same.

Luke better be careful with his Nintendo criticisms

If they do that, they should check out Endless Ocean: Blue World. Relaxing ocean views while listening to Celtic Woman. Also, an early side mission lets you rescue a dog off of a deserted island. Which you can take home. And pet.

I personally like mafia 3s and far cry’s

@@pillcosby3894 mafia 3 another sequel with cut features.

I'd watch that video.

I’ve been digging Death’s Door. Mostly because of the music, obviously. But the cartoonish depiction of several the main characters is also pleasant and amusing.

That sounds like a serious problem....

@@marhawkman303 It didn’t prevent you from completing the level, but you wouldn’t collect all the side characters.

@@Amaranthyne hmmm but you WANT all the side characters!

@@marhawkman303 I certainly did. I also restarted when they died because if you don’t they are gone forever, but not everyone played that way.

It wasn't that big of a deal, you'd always get a little tease of the character before battle started so you could plan who to bring.

And she'd also pay for their treats and give them unlimited free head pats and belly rubs!😊

I mean, wouldn't we all?

it's for the best her great idea was shot down.

Is that not what all of us dog owners are already doing?

My dog would probably use her dog mortgage to commit financial crimes, and I wholly support her in this because she's adorable.

Right? The combat improved but at what cost? 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

at least they recognized the absurdity of it and made fun of it in dialog with Conrad in ME3

@@jamesherb4384 Conrad: I thought guns cooled down. Shepard: They used to. Now we're on thermal clips. Conrad: Well that seems like a step backwards.

@@Skaitania Like all technological leaps backwards, some idiot probably rapid-fired his gun until it exploded. It's usually idiots who move us back by decades at a time.

Seriously, you have guns with unlimited ammo and only have to worry about letting them cool, so all you have to do is teach your soldiers fire discipline. But because the Geth apparently used them in ME1, the whole galaxy is all, "Hey! Let's overcomplicate things for our militaries by reintroducing logistics for small arms across the entire galaxy because they somehow allow guns to shoot slightly faster and leave our soldiers in the lurch if they run of of thermal clips!"

We used to play Deathmatch using Warthogs as weapons, and no attacking anyone who hadn't got into one yet after respawning. Sometimes they'd just keep going up for maybe five seconds before the game remembered to apply gravity at all.

@@Sableagle we played with infinite sticky grenades/rocket launchers and a kill would only count if a warthog hit you or a grenade attached to a warthog killed you. It was a lot of fun.

Sadly, I never played the multiplayer for Halo 1. However, I remember the ragdoll physics of Warthogs being pretty stupid and wild in Halo 3 multiplayer. As a matter of fact, I seem to recall playing a number of custom game modes that were based around that specific feature.

Ha, I always drove into the water to see how far it went. There's probably an invisible wall, but it seems to go for a while.

I miss being able to use spears, it was so fun to wield them in Morrowind.

I missed actual rpg elements as the game feels more like an action adventure game than an RPG

Or a dedicated spell button so you can use 2h weapons.

One thing in Oblivion I missed from Morrowind was more clothing slots! And the same from Saints Row 2 to Saints Row the Third. Why they always trying to take our fashion choices away from us?

I miss climbing walls, breaking down doors, buying property and ships, and a whole lot of other stuff from Daggerfall.

Possibly a way to artificially inflate (conflate?) the threat of Corypheus/broken Fade?

Wait, you're saying there was stuff to do that wasn't collecting elf root?

@@KuueenKumi it’d be a very strange way of doing that considering that healing would be more useful than ever under those conditions. If you wanted to make him seem dangerous then make him go for your healer first or something.

I'm assuming it was a way to increase difficulty. origins combat wasn't all that difficult when you could spam 100 health potions

I could live with never healing again if they just give me back my shapeshifting from the first game. I want to be a spider again!

Yeah Subspace Emissary was a surprisingly-good platformer and a fun way to unlock stuff in Brawl. World of Light was boring as shit.

yeah, it's a pretty clever way of reflecting the plot progression.

To be fair, that's only a problem if you actually make it past the title screen.

Well executed brick joke!

And yet an ODST can somehow flip a vehicle like only a Spartan should lol

@@MorinehtarTheBlue lol good point. Forgot about that part

It always sucks when a game mechanic that is awesome in the single player part of the game is removed because of pvp. It isn't possible to make a fun single player experience that is balanced for pvp, so why bother? Just have a separate set of mechanics for the pvp and single player, or maybe not turn every single RPG into a multiplayer game for literally zero reason beyond shoehorning in microtransactions.

@@SevCaswell exactly! Keep dual-wielding in solo and just disable it for MP. I'm definitely no game dev. but it would be good.

It was probably for the best they took it out. Dual wielding always felt really tacked on.

Kind of makes sense, still stupid though

Oh that explains so much I just thought I forgot the button

Also instead of getting to fight weird supernatural enemies towards the end, you just get exploding mummies for some reason. They had the perfect opportunity for ghost pirates, and they blew it!

@@23Scadu oh yea! I forgot about that! Apparently they had a new director and he wanted the game to have a more serious vibe but I think they lost a part of what made the Uncharted series so special not involving it

@@Arrow60556 Yeah, a big part of the vibe is supposed to be the pulp fiction setting, just like Indiana Jones, where crazy supernatural stuff is fully welcome. The new director came aboard and changed a part of the foundation of the setting. Most of the time when someone comes aboard a beloved established franchise and thinks he knows better (in games, movies, books, whatever), it's not a good thing.

@@Arrow60556 wait, so ghost pirates are too silly for the treasure hunting game but exploding mummies aren’t?

I think people complained that it was repetitive, but I also enjoyed that methodical approach. The first is still my favorite of the series (of what I've played, which includes nothing newer than Black Flag).

@@23Scadu the first is my favorite too! For me it's mainly the setting though

The wolf link thing in botw is super cool though!!!

Also Twilight Princess had cats. Cats were canonically present within Hyrule in TP, but are suspiciously absent in BotW in spite of the abundant small critters real world cats happily feast upon. Have cats gone extinct in spite of their usefulness in pet control and comforting purrs to soothe the souls of long suffering Hylian civilians? Where are the cats, Nintendo? You can't give me cats and then take them away from me! I need my tiny murder beasts! ...If Tears of the Kingdom doesn't include cats I will be upset. Hyrule needs kitties!

They probably didn't pay their mortgages.

In BotW you can also walk in circles near a dog and the dog will copy you

Plus it was home to the best character in the main Mario series, and Rosalina has remained a character I constantly choose in various titles.

Some of my fondest memories are of Rosalina and the Comet Observatory

I also love how the Observatory theme music gradually gets more elaborate as you progress through the game. It's the same song but at the beginning there's only a few instruments playing it. Then as you unlock more worlds it adds additional ones to the mix until you have a full orchestra playing it.

in universe the cartridges are temporary disposable heat sinks that supposedly improve your rate of fire since you can switch them out instead of waiting for the gun to cool down

@@GiftedContractor True, but the first game has a lot more shots before you had to cool down and it cooled down really quickly. (Again, I get why they'd change it, from a game design perspective, but in universe it's a really hard sell.)

@@benjamingeiger yeah I think in universe it would be still better assuming you were wealthy and brought lots of cartridges with you. Notice that 2 is also the first game where in universe you are completely funding yourself. If instead of scavenging for clips you could just buy an assload and switch them as needed you would be faster. Of course this prioritizes the minor wants of wealthy gun owners over poor gun owners ability to use their weapon at all, but it isnt like thats new in our universe or the mass effect one. Hell this part is entirely speculation but that may have even been pitched as a feature to reduce gang violence in the Citadel.

Like the music mechanics with Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask, I miss dinking around with the instruments and making up ridiculous songs

Like Mega Evolution, in particular! I missed being able to give Link the Linkite Z and evolve him to Mega Link Z. It made the dungeons so much more fun.

@@tatethomas3774 Not the best example since Breath of the Wild was the only recent main series 3D release that didn't have a music minigame.

Mass release pokemon Actually buying Apri balls instead of waiting and spending 400k on each one at an auction

I do miss the full National Pokedex more, but indoors locations is a weird absence.

This made me laugh out loud for some reason

The fact that they made the most in depth character creation of all the pokemon games that allowed for character customization and then preceded to lock you into 4 preset outfits annoys me so much. Like why!?!

I mean, most of those houses just had a dining room, a bed room, and no bathroom anyways.

That was the only game that felt like you weren't the only assassin out there

The sequel to Warcraft 3? You mean World of Warcraft? There's no Warcraft 4 that I've heard of.

​@@barrettdecutler8979you identified the joke

I tried fable 3, about 15 minutes after the tutorial I was done. Fable 1 was great, tongue-in-cheek humor, good gameplay, armor that had a point, etc. Fable 2 got more serious and less fun, lost armor. Generally leaser than the first. Fable 3 was just… bad.

That was kind of the idea. Each game is getting further from the height of the heroes guild. But yeah mechanically it wasn't great.

Fable really should have stayed a standalone.

But in fable 3 the gloves made that you could combine 2 spells

TMs were still unbreakable in Gen8. It was TRs that were breakable. Gen9 did make TMs themselves breakable again, but it also introduced a crafting system so you could just make them again, which is a nice middle-ground.

@@MirbyStudios Yeah, I remember. But you have to a lot of grinding on rare pokemon in order to get the good TMs and there was no middle ground for the Diamond and Pearl remakes. Honestly, it was just better to have them be unbreakable. I don't know why they stopped.

It's probably related to wanting to have them be rewards for exploration, but having the world be big enough that they can't count on players discovering everything like they could in previous games. Having TMs be single-use lets them place them multiple times and have finding duplicates still be somewhat rewarded.

@@jothki Except you never use any of them because they're breakable, so now you just have 2-3 copies of that thing you don't wanna use because it's limited instead of finding ONE, having it forever, and being very happy you found something worthwhile and cool.

At least the disposition minigame from Oblivion didn’t come back.

I'm assuming you meant Levitate, Mark, and Recall weren't in Oblivion?

@@theisaacpigg27_32 yes

Like levitation spells not being in Skyrim where they would actually be useful.

BOTW had dungeons which were the great beasts.

Respectfully disagree. Been playing since the first Zelda was released, and I prefer the shrine approach, since the player can choose to do them or ignore them, and can more or less do them in any order. It puts the emphasis on exploring as you will, rather than having to do the dungeons in a certain order. Edit: and as Zexin mentioned above, the Divine Beasts are like the old-school dungeons, sort of.

@@celestialstar6450 Dungeons would be a fun thing to find in all that exploration.

How about the fact that it'd be incredibly hard to figure out just what would happen if two people with time powers started affecting the exact same events in different ways? Hell, even two people weaving and rethreading time would cause some sort of temporal malfunction that could lead to utter destruction...

It also added the "screaming K-Cultists who don't understand that Kojima did it to Hayter first" mechanic to the comment section of any video that even uses the letters M, G, or S.

@@nicholasfarrell5981 I have no clue what you people are talking about. ... Okay, I think I'm getting it. I don't follow company politics, I'll just excuse myself.

@@Darcnhife not so much company politics as fans of a human being having insane double standards and being awful people to white-knight for that human.

They kept us waiting, huh?

Especially when with each passing game our video game technology advances so greatly. If The Elder Scrolls 6 doesn't bring back all the magic we lost and heavily add to it it'll be proof that Bethesda just stopped caring.

Majula might be (or, let's face it, is) the absolute best of From Software's hubs. That moment when we first glimpsed it as a light at the end of the tunnel, and _that_ music started blasting; it's already got such a strong sense of warmth from the get-go, but its eventual tangible growth is what makes it truly feel like home. And, also, the music. It absolutely deserves to be mentioned twice. Hope you'll stick around long enough to see it for yourself!

@@bobbyfernando Oh, I've made it to Majula at least, lol. When I got there I'd started carefully exploring since I didn't know at the time it was safe (except for those little rats or whatever in that 1 corner). I stopped when the music started without even bothering to see if I was safe. I didn't expect it at all. Once I realized it was my safe hub area I took my time talking to NPCs, finding stuff, and etc. It having a death counter also amuses me. I'll probably try not to check it much since I don't always want to know how much I've died.

@@SolaScientia This is an area a bit into the game, gameplay spoilers? (It's for Earthen Peak) When you get there, you'll eventually enter a windmill. At some point, you can go to the spot where the blades are spinning, to the metal pole holding it up. When you get there, *set that pole on fire* Trust me, it'll make the next boss so much less infuriating.

@@SWProductions100 Yeah, I'm aware of that trick since it's shown up on a list vid before and burning it drains the poison from the boss area.

Majula is by far the best hub area in any of the Souls games. Dark Souls 2 in general is the most underrated Souls game. It's not perfect but if you embrace the changes and stick with it for awhile it's an amazing game.

This one bugged me a bunch. Getting rid of her ability to whistle (outside of calling a mount) really nerfed the potency of a stealth playthrough and left me inevitably forced to play melee rather than as a stealth archer.

@@triviamasquer I still managed to be a stealth archer, but I definitely had to be careful about where I threw rocks (because I could end up alerting multiple enemies at once), and more than once I'd have to run and hide in a different patch of grass to throw people off of my trail so I could resume stealth. But still, I miss the lure call.

​@@WigglesMother yeah rocks don't equal the whistle they are a blunt tool comparatively

Given I've only scratched the surface of the Outside series, I'm pretty sure she's well aware, as she's played it up a few times to adorable results.

Bungie couldn't balance duel wielding for some reason and 343 was too lazy and uncreative to bring it back. Really sucks since Duel Wielding random weapons was like part of Halo's identity for me, it makes no sense that Master Chief just suddenly forgot he could shoot two guns at the same time.

For the people who did both I will point out that it just begs the question. Which isn't what you want in a consistent world.

Poogie was essential for farming the rarer materials. The rng would bless you in your favor when farming Rath jewels sometimes. Occasionally.

Do you know how happy I was to find that Poogie stopped existing?

@@picardsolo2471 No I do not. I do not know you.

@@maxeon0937 I was so happy

@@picardsolo2471 Good for you I guess.

And dex-nav! I loved dex-nav. It was like a little bitesized pokedex for each area, so fun to fill out. ...Also the on/off toggle for exp share. Just...why, Gamefreak? Why???

@@zombles Fanmade Pokémon games are your friends. Trust them. Love them. Revel in their majesty and glory.

the good story one was pretty early on right? after gen 2 it just became a repeat of team of weirdos doing something stupid.

Dedicated fossil pokemon. I know that what they did in SWSH was historically accurate, but it was so bizarre. Give us the other half’s so we can properly revive these frankenmon

@@liamnehren1054 Play Gen 5.

Probably because the combat did change a lot between games.

Dragon Age 2 did have combat pause. You hit space and the game would pause and allow you to chose stuff for characters to do. It wasn't on console but it wasn't in the first one either

@@jgg75 They didn't actually remove that though. The criticisms for two included extremely few levels and them removing player races and backrounds. The story and characters are well regarded by Dragon Age fans and several characters were in Inquisition. 2s story was also a pretty significant part of Inquisition. They removed a lot of stuff in two but not that stuff. Also you clearly haven't played many games if you think 2 is that bad.

@@ArkaneStephanie Dragon Age 2's worst mistake was coming after Origins pretty much. It wasn't a bad game but it couldn't fill the shoes left by its predecessor. It's one of the biggest examples of the Oblivion effect out there (from Oblivion being a disappointing game despite being objectively good because it came after a true masterpiece)

Underwater was just Hoenn though. And it doesn’t really make sense in any region other than Hoenn so far. Not enough water to make such a feature worth while. Also it did make somewhat of a comeback in Gen V.

@@adoramay9410 "Not enough water"

And in the game?

@@phuzz00 In the 3rd game, each weapon takes up both arms and legs. You can still swap between two weapons, but due to lacking separate slots for arms and legs, it changed both to whatever weapon you had in your arms. I suspect it was removed to have room for summoning Demons and several other features around them.

@@phuzz00 My local Council keeps rejecting my costume for the local fair so I only have this outlet

That was sweet

LOL I was expecting that to happen.

& poketubers have actually done that

In the case of legendaries, I'd say that's probably a good thing. Doesn't feel legendary when you're constantly tripping over them.

There's around one thousand, not thousands, and they did this to themselves sticking with the "gotta catch 'em all!" thing. They could absolutely just do games without all the Pokemon in them but they'd have to plan out which generations to put in which games so they didn't piss off any fans and they're not willing to do that much work. They'd rather just add or leave out whichever Pokemon they feel like, pissing off everyone, rather than put in the time to plan out the next few games pokedexes.

@@1Thunderfire They're legendary for their power, not their rarity. In the Pokemon world depicted everywhere except the games legendaries have the capacity to breed just like any other Pokemon and there can be multiple iterations of them. The games have always reduced them to a single Pokemon to make them more special and so you don't just get a team of Mewtwos immediately.

@@NottherealLucifer Bingo. I always see people defend Nintendo (lol) saying there's way too many Pokemon... sure, but it isn't as though they're developing for the game boy advance. The Switch could probably handle it. Performance wise, maybe not, but that's a different story

1,008 Pokemon now so yeah that would be a lot to add. I loved the legendaries and mythicals in diamond, pearl, and platinum

Small Soapstone has around a 5 minute duration, is consumable, and loses variable duration per enemy you kill. At some points in the game killing 5 enemies sends you back. DS2 was awful.

@@chrismanuel9768 the fact that you think it was "consumable" tells me you've never actually used it. The Small Soapstone was amazing and the rest of the games are lesser for only rewarding summoning for bosses.

Same

legion is the third one. watch dogs 2 was the one that had dogs.

Would be a top 7 of their top 7s. The number 10 really isn't part of their format despite still being a listicle.

@@MorinehtarTheBlue I know but a top 7 of 7 top 7s sounded weird

@@stevenbieler So does listicle but I said it because that's what it's called. What you wrote is a non-sequitur which just looks nonsensical.

That plus spells have locked damage in Skyrim unlike every other weapon in the game if there were a mastery level blue fireball that did loads of damage or something it might not be as irritating but being locked to AOE or dont go passed level 18 is really friggin irritating plus after a certain point you NEEDED enchanted gear so that you could cast the spells because they were so mana intensive oh magic in Skyrim still pisses me off

Pre-Sequel was handed off to a side team for development. It was an okay game but any reduced functionality that made the game lesser was a consequence of that. I will point out that it also negates the story conceit in 2 of Jack being an overarching villain for the series. They were trying to make him more sympathetic but it takes place between 1 and 2. And 2 was trying to say (with some strained credibility) that Jack was the mastermind since the first game.

@@MorinehtarTheBlue I mean, I like TPS. I think it's fun.

Did... did you just bring up the obscure 25 or so year old game for the Sega Saturn? I didn't know Brass was beloved, but I do appreciate having sound magic in my RPGs. Alright... I guess I'll have a look at what Beyond Oasis is. I couldn't beat Legend of Oasis. I didn't realise there was a battery inside of the Sega Saturn that can be used if you removed the black ribbon underneath it. So my progress would be loss when I turned off my Saturn. Luckily my 3rd party memory cartridge lasted long enough that I was able to beat Blazing Heroes. If I knew my memory cartridge would stop working, maybe I would have used some of that time to finish Legend of Oasis. Tut, tut.

@@Darcnhife Well at the very least you can use a cheat code to play Legend of Oasis in 2 player mode or unrelated use "JOINTVENTURE" cheat code in Diddy Kong Racing for 2-Player Story Mode.

there is, or certainly was, a video on youtube of some dude-bros from Texas firing modern guns at a full size replica of Cloud's Buster sword from FFVII. I don't have a link to it tho, but I remember the guys not being able to lift it individually.

@@SevCaswell Probably Demolition Ranch, right?

@@Sableagle I think so

I think a lot of people have low standards for a brand as big as Pokémon if they "knew" it "had to go". They definitely have the resources to keep it going indefinitely.

@Twilight Vulpine Honestly, a strong disagree. Imagine playing a 60h game when there are over 9000 available Pokémon (we will be there one day). You'd never see the same Pokémon twice, which makes the idea of them being in an ecology impossible. Just look at Sword and Shield that had to load up the Wild Area with just so many old Pokémon that a catch them all as you go completely stops the game for dozens of hours, or you skip that aspect and wait until the game is over before cleaning up loose ends. And SwSh is one version I did like, because it was so easy to do themed teams for the whole game. I, of course, prefer the integration of old and new from XY, but having ~5 unique Pokémon per area means we would need ~200 routes instead of our ~15. Having thousands of Pokémon, I feel like if you want them all playable, you'd have to select "packs" of 2-300 for your playthrough, unlocking the rest post game to have any coherence to game play. Or, stop making Pokémon games and do it purely rogue-like, where any given run you'd only see on order of dozens.

Hee, hee... usually when I says precious, I sort of imagine it at the level of being cradled and spoken to lovingly. Good for you... but... maybe a part of what makes it so precious, is that you only had the one.