7 Great Games You Can’t Buy Anymore, Because Lawyers 

HA! I bought LEGO Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit just in time! I've won something. 😅 right?

Outside Xtra How dare you not mention the terrible 3D Tetris too!

Wow I didn’t even realise that Lego Lord of the rings and the Hobbit weren’t available anymore! Well I’m off to lock them into a safe that you will never find so stop asking...

@@fallenaasimar3878 ... but there *is* a safe 🤔. Unwise of you to share that information WiseGirl, the Great Age of game heists begins here.

jokes on you humble bundle gave me the lego lord of the rings for free on steam baby!

Sush. And lawyers in some countries wonder why people do...because lawyers. -_-

except for PT. damn shame.

Jinzo Okami Luckily some absolute boss remade the entire thing to almost a perfect T.

ICallsEmLikeISeesEm Well, god dammit... The one I was talking about apparently got disabled just two months ago. Sorry dude. This WAS the one, though, and it was totally finished and spot on: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RBRe-U4JUTM.html

I was thinking the same thing. I find it ironic that as much as I despise piracy, it is often the only means of preserving old games, music albums, and movies that are no longer commercially available. For example, we can still play the entire Commodore 64 library of games thanks to pirates.

Good question, and why'd they let Kojima leave when he was the genius behind their bestselling games Proof: MGS 1-4 sold millions of copies. MGR was a joint with PlatinumGames but still sold the same amount of copies, maybe a little less because some gamers don't know good quality. MGSV (when Kojima left Konami) barely broke the average of the previous games in the series Just goes to show that when you take Hideo Kojima's name off the box, you lose like 1/3 of your sales, and I'm lowballing

Konami is worth more than Ubi and Square combined. They just don't give a shit about making games anymore.

vaevictusdeus Casino machines make a lot of 💵

@@mc-ps-playa5569 plus im going to take a stab and say that kojima probably slighted the guys upstairs somehow, and they are vindictive assholes, so they being bastards just took their toys and went home

Man if I can only win the Mega Millions lottery or the billion Lottery go buy all the stocks Konami

I have one actually. Played it when I was like 5 or 6 but I was good as hell at it *that I remember of*

You can get ‘em on Ebay

elamigos

Same

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pHjGswD3kKY.html I still play it and you can play online via game ranger 👍🏻

PC too

Is that really a good thing though?

It's getting a limited physical release by Limited Run Games

Got my physical copy preordered, just waiting for it to ship, also didn't realize deadpool was off the market, glad I kept my 360 copy

@@TheWererapter92 absolutely

I found them on Amazon.

Same

I got Lego hobbit, but haven't played it in years

lmao same

The random guy I have them too on my 360

Thats what i go by too... until they shutdown the online servers too

@proudGDfreak - Yeah, good luck with that. All the console companies are chomping at the bit to go completely digital. :( Besides, what good is physical media when half the damn game is DLC that can only be downloaded, and then you need like 5GB of patches which can only be downloaded?

But then they make sure the next platform won't accept it. And they they cut off all support for it. That's why I won't buy a Playstation console ever again. I have $250 of games that are useless since the PS3 won't read them. Fuck you Sony.

​@White-Van Helsing YARRR!

Always go hard copy friends.

AGREED!

Well, they are available online.... Idk about the legality, but they are there.

But what if they could make money off it somehow layer?! That would be crazy! Because... maybe... money! Maybe...? No. Something absurd and reasonable like that is never going to happen. Because maybe money.

They do... for the most part. There are plenty of ROM sites out there that horde old games. We're currently up to the PS2 era and you can pretty much find any game ever released for any console before that. I'm unsure of the legality, but it's not exactly hard to find, and no one seems to be making a massive effort to stop it. Sure, if you pirate a modern game that's still being sold they'll come after you, but a game that's like 30 years old? I.... doubt it. I think the distinction is made that it's illegal to emulate the console to play these or to modify a console to play them, but downloading the rom itself is not illegal? I'm not sure exactly. It's always much more difficult to find the necessary files to emulate an old system than it is to find the games to play on it.

Yo

Aha! This guy gets it

Yahar.

And this is why physical media will never die.

N(YES)O

Basically

i have a copy for the 360 still lol

Dr. Butterscotch PhD they are literally still selling it

Same Deadpool was one of the first two games I got for Xbox one

I'm thinking of suing.

hehehe...

I kept on seeing the clips and I felt personally attacked You guys are sadists

Maybe they couldn't get permission to include the "line cleared" sound effect in this video.

I’m so mad. Why? WHY?

and I just could got one of two (the Hobbit), now this pains me to not be avaible the day Lego Lotr was free that day...

@@caspramio when?

Yeah, I was one of those who managed to get a copy on Humble bundle, and I thought that was really nice of whomever that made it possible.

I have a physical of at least one game

I was able to get both. I thought it was just a promotion. Didn’t realize that they were going to get pulled.

They mean "morally legal" ways to obtain them.

@@Hellwyck I mean in P.T's case it was a free demo and it wasn"t removed because kojima didn't want people to play it anymore so imo it's morally legal to download it if you ever just want to experience it for yourself.

Hellwyck I would argue that downloading rooms of any of these would be morally legal. Simply because: I would pay for these if I could, but if Omanis will be stupid, fuck ‘em

@@Hellwyck According to my morals, piracy is a human right..

@@Hellwyck what's immoral in acquiring something that doesn't exist anymore, isn't maintained by the original developer, and would bring no money to the original developer in any way?

Yeah, you can find it on Steam. Both Lego Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

Ditto! I have it on PS3 with Ramona Flowers

Pff! I got it at gamexchange about a month ago, along with lego batsman one and two, and also brink.

The worst part is that even if you own the physical copies of the games, eventually the services that send out the updates will go down, meaning we'll be left with the versions of games that developers thought "eh, we'll just patch it on day one" about. As much as I like the fact that we can get games digitally or have post launch additions to games, I miss the days when you could buy a copy of a game and expect it to work in full. Now it's so hit and miss because so many developers assume everyone can readily download 20gb day one bug fixes.......

@@Gamer3427 True

@White-Van Helsing That doesn't mean all the games will be. As oer the topic of the video, licensing is the biggest issue here.

Communism made digital by Capitalist... Ironic...

@@IsAcRafT This is just capitalism. Communism means availability.

Yeah, they have dropped more licences than the Dallas Cowboys have dropped balls....Another franchise they lost was "TRANSFORMERS! More than Meet's the eye!" Sorry...*clutches physical copy of Transformers: Devastation because as Emgo316 would put it....PRECIOUS!"

At least it’s not as bad as saying “EA is a good game company”

@@tghilkrad8012 I know that's an example, but that physically hurt

@@tghilkrad8012 I just threw up in my mouth a little. lol

I think that got reinstated as I got it free from epic games launcher. Driver San Francisco is another driving game hard to find. Which is sad since it's fantastic.

Or just guestures and Lego clinking sounds No voice at all

If you look back to before Lego Star Wars The Video Game they had voice acting.

It was funnier too. Cause they had to use gestures to tell you what was previously told with talking. Also the Lego Starwars games just had more hidden secrets

Indeed. Lego games just weren't 'right' with voice acting

K5 Minerva "

Now I have to check if mine are still around >

Yeah same here. I need a new computer to play my Lego lotr game so I had a moment of panic

That's why I always buy a physical copy. If the lawyers want to take my game from me, they'll have to come pry it from my cold, dead hands!

Well i sadly have to stick to the a little crappier nintendo DS (the normal one) version

I have a physical copy, but I didn't know that you couldn't get the game anymore.

“Something past generations insisted was portable” It had problems with the screen, but it was more portable than the switch (even the mini)

I take some consolation in that Kojima got to work with del Toro and Norman again in death stranding, without Konami's interference. I know it's not Silent Hills but it's still got that Kojima shine/genius/madness stamped all over it. Can't wait for its release.

There are a few theories floating about that Kojima saw the writing on the wall and knew the end was near by the time his team started working on P.T. - the references to "Dad" playing the same kind of games etc. are all thinly veiled insults against Konami for being a terrible and boring employer that suddenly decided to make some really messed up decisions.

While Death Stranding may not be Silent Hills, it's still going to be great. No Konami interference is bound to help!

Boooh!

I would've said there were *mellon*s of them, but whatever works.

@@nyperold7530 make sure to like and Shire the video!

@@SymbioteMullet Shire? that made no sense. back to the video mines of Moria with you!

I knew I wouldn't be the only...one.

Also Harvey Birdman.

My Grandpa is a defense lawyer. He's cool, right?

Dr Comicman That depends. Does he shout OBJECTION! Every single day?

Don't forget about the 1000's of dumb things companies try to pull off every year that lawyers stop!

My dad is a protector lawyer

Yes it is , that's why we fight to buy this kind of games 😊

Agreed. Just a question, do you think monopoly would have lasted as long as it has if it were only ever avaliable digitally?

Don't worry, all these games are still available in digital form one way or another.

@@okami-shaman9548 Likely no, Monopoly would have died a long time ago.

Holy crap me to.

It’s not actually

They have so many copies in gamestop. Not that special

@@satantoast8599 yeah I remember I went to GameStop not too long ago

I already got Deadpool but it gets boring after I played it 300 times

That's why I like Steam. If it's taken off their store, but you own it, you have it forever.

@@alexanderf.6396 That's not true, if the purplishers of the games wanted, they could pull a PT. Hell if steam for some reason closed down completely. You wouldn't be able to play any of your games, because you don't own the games. just a licence to play them, it's the same no matter where you it digitally.

Remember that physical media can very well crumble into dust over time as well. Or simply get scratched rendering it useless, can’t re-download that if the digital version is still around by that time either.

But they even said if u purchase it u could redownload

True, but physical copies under normal circumstances aren’t going to crumble to dust that quickly. I mean I still have Atari stuff that works fine so that should say something😘 Also, believe it or not Disc Dr works pretty well. Lol If anything, you just need something to last long enough that the companies no longer care about emulators/ripped game copies. You can technically DL a lot of SNES games now, but they (so far) haven’t made much effort to shut that down. If just say if there are games you really favor, find a way to keep or safely store a copy yourself. Can’t trust the pettiness of these companies nowadays😓

Yup

Glad I never got rid of my Nintendo games lol

@@johnnihil1689 yeah, never get rid of collectible iconic stuff like games, pokemon or magic cards, blistered figurines (old star wars toys, for example), they are a keeper and never loose value and can gain plenty!

Watching this list made me glad for the physical purchases of some licensed games I own.

This ^

To add to that, the public domain is all but destroyed because of copyright law ammendments made in the 1980s.

Gaming is nothing like the real world. For one, it’s way more important

@@KeybladeMasterAndy Pubic domain got delayed 20 years in 1998 because the sonny bono act also. and we finally got stuff added at the start of this year.

@@KeybladeMasterAndy yep it was done so disny didn't what to lose micky mouse. Let them try again they get a huge uprore for itm

@@mysteryman1036 I Assume Your Either A Kid, Weeb, Or Just Anti-Social-

I would say mine is safe, but one of my copies is scratched. The other one is safely hidden away.

muahaha i still have a physical copy of lego lotr, and a digital copy of lego hobbit

@@obito101man5 I have physical copies of both. 🙄

Not for long

Keep it secret; keep it safe.

it be back!

@@PO1PLE its back

*some paper boi expired lawyers : *autistic screaming

The boi’s always win.

Wolf Warrior yuh i got it from there too but i think i only got the hobbit

Lol I bought both of them

God BFME 1&2 and the Expansions were so fucking good

ajbolt it really was best, strategy game ever made hopefully we get to see a third one in the near future

@@ragequittingmike7709 have you heard of bfme reforged?

ben squires NOOO BUT I HAVE NOW AND I LOVE YOU I’ll definitely check that out and play the living shit out of it

I loved those games.

You're actually wrong about that. (It's spelled #FucKonami)

Paul Silagi Okay then, thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, damn lawyers! (Sorry, Phoenix.)

It feels like Benami, which is actually good compared to yours truly, is basically dying because music games (what Benami makes) is dead

You'll hate them more once we go on full streaming lol

Honestly, the fact this is still an issue just presents itself to me as our race never actually growing up past 7 years of age.

So true. Digital games take up space so people delete them out all the time thinking they can just re-download whenever. Once a game is released, it should be a done deal. That’s how it was with physical copies, and it should be exactly the same with digital copies.

There's a finite amount of physical copies ever produced for a game, movie, and music. After the licence expires, you can't produce more copies of it. Digital media is theoretically infinite with the method of distribution, so they must be pulled in order to stop extra copies from being "produced"

Wait until these cocksuckers are reaching into your device and deleting your software after their corporate pissing contest results in you losing your "license" to play it.

@@sethmcclain7213 because if you don't own the right to use a property and you make money off of it That's technically illegal. That's why the older GTA games rereleases have removed songs

Alby King YES!

Legolas is my school nick name.... heheh, I know I’m weird

Alby King *slow clap*

Booooo

what about legless lego legolas?

Wii Nunchucks aren't too expensive. I have a few leftover and I don't have my Wii anymore (gave it to my cousin in Honduras because he didn't have any games to play with)

Still own a physical copy, played it the year before last

futurestoryteller same

Loved that shit

Also have a copy

Oh wow i didn't realize it was gone again, luckily bought it on Steam while it was still on there.

I'm not sure about how rare. I know back in December Humble Bundle was giving copies away for free

@@FluffieXStarshine that was before the licences ran out, I luckily was able to get the free Lord of the rings though 😉

Lol it's at my library for rent

@@dennisjassmann7584 I have the LEGO Hobbit game in my room, got it from Walmart

nah lol I got a 5$ random 5 game key thing from g2a and got both hobbit and lego lord of the rings and the keys still worked 2 bad the games r bad and only entertained me for 2 seconds. infact I gave 1 of them away for free on one of my recent uploads lol

I thought Jane's degree was physics not law...

@@TheOneTrueEfrate Bud Fendsler represents Jane's legal interests. I think I butchered the spelling of Buds surname but SO WHAT IF I CAN'T SPELL ARMAGEDDON, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!

Max Vel0city You’ve saved us all. I think

Is this reference what I think it is?

@@intensellylit4100 no

@@gabriel300010 sure....

The Tetris Effect is real, and it never stops. It's been decades. There is no escaping. In the distance, sirens.

What a dickhead...

I have both lotr and hobbit

I think i have it on ps vita 😂

You can find the game on mobile stores or free online if you search to download..😉

You can also buy them off ebay and amazon used lol

HackermanACK Pretty sure I have it on the Wii. I cannot be stopped. EDIT: I have no clue what I have anymore. Probably the Hobbit? Eh.

Except for PES

Nah there are way too many stories like this in the gaming industry.

@@brianwingel2570 true true but this is the one that makes my blood boil

What is oof?

The initial reception to Silent Hills was so good I'm kind of surprise Konami didn't try to make it anyway even after they got rid of Kojima. It probably would have been crap but that didn't stop them from making Metal Gear Survive...

You might call it an interesting T-Spin?

I have Disk of DP, Disk of LLotR, and both LEGO games on Steam

you can always pirate and if you already own a copy it's legal :)

Giorgi Zeikidze nope, only legal if you’re using a backup of the game you bought, otherwise it’s not legal, so backup your old games folks

@@Forestxavier20 I'd definitely hold onto those disks, physical copies could become collector's items!

Totally in agreement. LotR is the best Lego game yet. Lego The Hobbit was spoiled only by their not including BoFA as part of the game, or even as DLC. They should have waited.

Physical copies are like $20

i ot it to for ps3

Same

my issue is eith the music. Too many silent moments for a deadpool game

@@ShiniRyuga I barely play it so don't don't really know

@@ShiniRyuga I barely play it so don't don't really know

Piracy and emulation

@@WookieWarriorz its not piracy if they don't sell it anywere or you own a copy of the game and want to play different version free

@@WookieWarriorz Piracy doesn't do fucking shit when your game has always-online DRM, which has become the norm in recent years. Also companies have a tendency to take down pirate sites once they get big enough.

@@ajaakola2 it's still legally piracy

@@stakefr0mjatefarmvods534 thats why there are literal teams of people dedicated to cracking games with DRM so people can pirate them.

What is your evidence? Earthbound halloween hack?

@@theduck3961 Well all the witnesses have mysteriously disappeared, all that was left was a note with "The Jane Protocol" written on it.

@@maxvel0city906 OBJECTION!!! *slams desk Then points* how do we know YOU DIDN'T WRITE THAT NOTE?!?!

@@strangerman7726 erm, eh, ah, LOOK A DISTRACTION, runs from courtroom! 😂

Makoto Naegi steps in as backup

I saw it at wallmart an on amazon too. Not exactly hard to find.

I am honestly surprised... that gamestop is still open.

Flame They’re talking about buying these games digitally. You can’t really do much about physical releases unless you do a recall much like Epic did with their physical copies of Fortnite.

@@MxCP11 there's hundreds if not thousands of games you can't buy digitally

But you cannot buy it on Steam :(

It's back now.

@@ashipnerdoffical4260 But not on humble trove.. Gosh, why i deleted my backup copy :(

@@ivanius5255 well, it's back on steam if you ever desire a copy.

To lead us to the hidden box That's actually an xbox

The switch may be wider, but it is flatter. And you can use a controller instead of having them attached to the screen. But yeah, it was a flat joke. That thing is clearly portable lmao

Perhaps the issue with the GameBoy "not being portable" was about accessories? I started with the GameBoy Pocket, not the original, but even with that one odds were high that at the very least you'd probably own some sort of accessory with a light since the system itself didn't have a backlit screen until GameBoy Advance SP. I'm not sure of everything else that was out there but I'm pretty sure that lights are just scratching the surface of what was out there to improve the play experience. I think you could've also had a magnifier lens or stereo speakers or... maybe a tangle of link cables if you and your friends had any games with a multiplayer option. Actually, with or without an accessory shining a light down at the screen, being able to see the screen at all when outside the house could sometimes get to be tricky depending on the conditions outside. Devices with backlit screens can have their issues as well sometimes... but the backlighting cuts down on a lot of it, I think. Oh, wait... what about batteries? I think I've heard that the original GameBoy required 4 AAs and burned them up in something like 2-3 hours? Correct me if I'm wrong. I know that the Pocket used half as many batteries, possibly AAAs, and I think the battery life might have been at least twice that long. Correct me if I'm remembering that wrong. Both of those early models were before it became common for devices to feature rechargeable battery packs, at any rate. In or out of the house, use of the system was constrained by how many spare batteries you had available.

@@MuljoStpho I dunno about that, I seem to remember getting a good deal of play from my original Gameboy. It did take four AA batteries, but I don't remember it only lasting 2 to 3 hours. Plus, you could use a power adapter if you were close to an outlet so you weren't necessarily constrained by how many batteries you had lying around.

An original Game Boy will give you about 10-15 hours on 4 AA batteries. You're probably confusing it with the Sega Game Gear or Atari Lynx which took about 6 AA batteries but gobbled them up in about 3 hours (because of the backlit color screen) and that was also one of the main reasons the Game Boy easily won the handheld war.

I love how my stupid joke about their joke has sparked a serious conversation about Game Boys and the Switch

Yeah it is very upsetting. My brothers and I don't know where the Xbox that has it installed is :/

I was able to redownload Scott Pilgrim on a different console go to download list

Hopefully it was better than the movie because damn that movie was bad

On the ps3 you can check your downloads list on the ps store and get the game back, so not all hope is lost. A year ago I did this and the game was still working.

Yeah, I think they've always mentioned other consoles on this channel

That's one of the things I prefer about this channel to Playstation Access.

Outstanding move

@@LordStankNuts Wait Thats Illegal

Iv still got it on my ps3

In this digital world it's technically impossible to delete a thing of the internet....

it's on torrent

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