Jagex's Failed FPS Game - Ace Of Spades 

bold of you to assume i can run openspades on my laptop

This game was actually fun to play with my friend back in the day. Still have it in my steam library 23 hours played.

I remember watching Carflow playing Ace of Spades as a kid.

I remember playing this in Beta before it was released by Jagex, Good times back then! Thanks for the nostalgia

*Fortnite:* I made a FPS and Building game into one cohesive experience! *Ace Of Spades:* AMATEUR!

Amazing video! This brings back so many memories of when I played the original and Jagex's Ace of Spades. I've played the original game 4/5 days after the 0.1 update came out during 2011 (I was ten years old then lol), and I haven't stop playing the game since then. Even when the Jagex version had it's flaws, it still loved playing it. I'm currently making a indie game inspired by the original and the Jagex version called "Trench PUNK". If you want to keep up on any updates on the game, all of my social media are the same as my RU-vid username.

When Jagex re-released it initially, it was really fun. The zombie survival mode was a blast with some friends and I have fond memories of playing it. I even bought the Valentine's DLC, the VIP mode was kinda neat. But gradually they nerfed and buffed random things to the point that nothing was really fun anymore? All of their balancing decisions felt really poorly thought out, at least to me. As if 11-year old me would know anything about game balance. I believe the "Battle Builder" update was the final nail in the coffin for even the people who liked the new version - the game was just so far gone from what it was initially. I wonder what this game would look like today if they listened to the community and Aksoy more? How many of these things were his ideas?

Does it feel gross to anyone else that Jagex wasn't looking to develop a new game, but 'looking to expand'? Like, does it not strike anyone else as weird that when companies get big they just start buying other people's good ideas instead of making new ones of their own?

The frustrating part about this game is the fact that Jagex only brought Ben on board so they could see if people had interest in a game like Ace Of Spades so they could then release BlockN'Load. The technical issues they were talking about were that they needed more server towers to run BlockN'Load's servers, so they figured they'd kill their guinea pig game. Why? Without the Ace Of Spades name, Jagex could make more money if BlockN'Load given they didn't have to give any money to Ben's team if it did well. New game with only Jagex, so the cash would only be flowing to them. News flash, it didn't do well. Their obnoxious plan to use someone else's game to see if people would play a game like it failed miserably. Jagex is not a very good company. Free players of OSRS used to have access to a larger portion of the world, but then the mobile version dropped, and for the very first time, I came into contact with the paywall fence. Now free to play players can only play in the area with cows, copper, tin, and wood. BlockN'Load was so aggressively monetized that only whales could afford the game.

amazing video, miss the original version a lot. went on openspades but the biggest server only had 5 people, still fun but can't replicate the chaos of a full server, remember playing it from day to night then day again when I was like 10 lol

I don't usually comment on videos but this was maybe the first multiplayer game I've ever played and it's my childhood, played it from the beginnings and made friends I still talk to today. Great video and have a nice day man :)

I dont appreciate how reductively you talk about this game. The original was (is) great but the steam version was also great, just different. Rocket jumping or blowing people up as commando was great, so was flying around with the jetpack and so was digging tunnels or killing players with the miners drill. Flattening entire maps using the new weapons and tools battle builder added was also fun i've yet to replicate anywhere else. Battle builder was not the same as classic AoS but it was an absolute blast.

The story of Ace of Spades is a lesson on why chasing trends just because they're popular can be the death of a game. Early days Ace of Spades carved out a niche for itself as a game about trench warfare. It was a relatively slow paced game for a shooter, but the fun of it came from slowly building up or chipping a way at defensive lines, the best map in the game was literally just a giant block with a canyon running through the middle and 2 forts on opposite ends of that canyon. Jagex's version threw away all that in favor of a worse version of TF2 with a destructible environments gimmick that added very little to game.

Nice Video! I used to play the og Ace of Spades with my friends like crazy back in the day. Hundreds of hours just playing and building. I remember on the release day of the Steam Version, they deleted the Servers Tab of the Website, which used to be pretty much the only way to access servers and therefore made it impossible to play the original Version until the playerbase made a new one weeks later (Buildandshoot). Although the steam Version wasn't bad bad, I still never enjoyed it. It just wasn't what it used to be. OpenSpades is basically Buildandshoot with OpenGL graphics. It even uses the same Servers, so you can crossplay between both Versions. Unfortunately both Versions really don't have that many players anymore. Most Servers are just empty, but that's somewhat to be expected of a 10+ years old game. In case anyone reading this wants to give it a shot, I recommend the 'Arms of Solitaire' Mod for AoS on Roblox. It's rather close to the original feeling, but it has a lot more active players.

I played in 2011 and 2012. I have some of the fondest memories playing this on my laptop at my grandmas house

Jagex's Ace of Spades did to Ace of Spades what Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012) did to the NFS franchise. Different studio made knock-off with same branding but totally different vibes, and completely ruined the reputation of the brand in the process

I remember seeing a RU-vidr play this when I was a kid, man I wanted to play it so badly

My RU-vid channel name has inspiration from that game name back in 2012, man this gives me so much memories might try to play it again on those projects!

That was a cool random video. Love it

Hundreds of hours in the game. I was there for the ups and downs. It was my childhood and I admit I spent way too much time on it. Very sad, rip.

i havent forgotten this game i wish i could have played it

I run the RF Tactical server, which has a few mods to make it just a bit more realistic like a milsim. I wish more people would play stuff like Ace Of Spades/BetterSpades/OpenSpades rather than microtransaction infested crap like Fortnite. AOS can actually run on a netbook with a single core 1.6GHz Intel Atom N450, which is part of why I chose to run an AOS server. I wanted something that literally anyone could play, no powerful hardware or money spent on the game itself required.

tbh the class system changed the game entirely, but it was a good change that brought more fun and creativity to the game

My child hood game...

I used to play this game all the time, i still have it installed on my steam account

I'm one of those unwashed weirdos that actually really liked the class based system. if they had open-sourced it, I'd still be running my own private server to this day. It was by far the most fun my friends and I had in a multiplayer game.

Are you also poor in Ace of Spades or is it just in OSRS? Jokes aside, great video brother! Very informative... never knew they even did this lol

build and shoot and openspades both connect to the same servers

I was first exposed to ace of spades by playing the original game, before buying the jagex version for $15. By then I had finally afforded a computer that could "run" the game at the time. Wasn't long before the game would begin to die.. A sad tale of a game, but I'm glad I was there to experience it as my first steam purchase, because my only experience outside of gaming before it was Minecraft. It taught me at a young age to curb my expectations towards games, large companies, and educating myself on purchases in general. I still boot up Build and Shoot every now and then and top frag on aloha pk, and it's a blast every time.

there is also betterspades which is more true to the classic but the graphics are very slightly enhanced

Interesting piece!

The vanilla version was perfect. I can't believe how they ruined it.

miss this game

omg i fucked loved ace of spades when it first came out. I completely forgot that it was killed after being bought out. I had no idea there were fan projects though so thanks for the info

Man i played the shit out of this game as a kid

there's also arms of solitaire on Roblox which is fairly large

I really want to know what Ben Aksoy is up to now

It was an awesome game, miss it

My favorite class was rocketeer

not offline there are server up and running only 10 players average.

SOPA de lens !

Played it until it was bought. Then never returned because it became just mainstream and expensive

So how to play this game now? 6:32 Nice. thanks.

one of the best games

There are voxels inside my skin

God i was so sweaty at this game

Almost 100 hours put into the game... why cant they just roll back to a working version :'(

I like jagex ace of spades more... but couldn't play it before i got my own credit card and pc

big sad

Jagex evil yes :I

By the way, russians stole it xD It has a clone that's still alive today on Steam, I believe, and a few years into that clone's existence they released the Clone 2, which was an even worse P2W garbage. The thing is, that game had unlockable weapons, armour, utilities etc. and you could only get 1 coin per day, while most stuff was 30-75 coins, right? Or you could buy coins with real money. They added armour just so one shot weapons would become weaker...And when owners of said one shot weapons didn't appreciate it, devs added armour that guarantees blocking 2 shots lol Clone 2 pretty much left you without any stable way to get coins for free, added more stuff and you had to also buy attachments and some stuff was only obtainable from cases, making it all even less bearable than the first game Not saying the name of the game simply because screw those guys

nothing will top 0.75

The original was the best

Fortnight

2nd : )