Top Ten Fixed Games 

You gotta admire the surprising simplicity behind Yoshi-P's plan. What he did was the equivalent of looking at a building with a shaky foundation, and rather than try and fix the building, he blew it up, foundation and all, and started over again What a wonderful madman

Something I wanna add about the No Man's Sky bit: apparently there was a huge flood in the office that destroyed a lot of their equipment and forced them to basically start from scratch.

I guess these games would be the exception to the iconic Miyamoto quote (that may or not actually be said by him, but I’ll just roll with it anyways) “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”

Fun fact. Stardew Valley violated the Geneva convention. It's hospital was the culprit as there is a rule about the red cross symbol only being allowed on offical red cross buildings. So in the patch notes they mention it. "Fixed a Geneva Convention violation" Back in 2018. Edit:added more info

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines is the example that springs to mind for me. Released on the same day as Half Life 2 due to rushed development and virtually unplayable in 2004, but over a decade of patching, mostly led now by one guy, has saved this game and made it a cult classic!

Ys 8's initial translation was hilarious. Some of the worst lines were: "I-I was actually a medical student.." "A medical student...?" "That's a student who studies medicine." "My name is Allison... Please, just call me Allison." "He looks terrified.." (said while looking at an inanimate object) and of course the Archeozoic Big Hole. But there are countless other errors like Primordials becoming Ancient Species, character names being closer to the romanized word rather than the intended English equivalent like Icarusia instead of Iclucia (there's a song called Iclucian Dance so this mistake is really strange), and just awkward sentences.

I still remember the pre-release hype for Fallout 76 here. I live in West Virginia, and people who knew the game was coming were **so excited!** There were in-game tours planned, play parties, Fallout fan launch parties… The WV Tourism Bureau (or whatever the official name is) was actually planning a special tour route through the state for out-of-state and international players, which would showcase key areas, monuments, landmarks, and cities throughout the Mountain State! Local gamers were so happy to finally get to show off our beautiful state, and honored that Bethesda was recreating it all in a major game like this. So you can imagine the backlash when the game released, and it turned out to be the mother of all Bethesda bug infestations. Fallout has never been that big a deal for me as a gamer, so I just breezed right by it while flipping Bethesda some extra birds. But I do know a few local gamers who STILL haven’t forgiven them for Fallout 76 and their overall attitude about it. Heck, one of my father’s students went out and bought every used copy of Fallout 76 he could find, and used them for target shooting at his family’s farm! The game may be fixed, but I reckon that level of animosity ain’t going nowhere anytime soon.

Games I expect to see on this list, No Man's Sky for how the developer finally giving people what they wanted and also because of the upcoming Nintendo Switch port, Cyberpunk 2077 because they finally fixed the game as well as gained new and returning players thanks to the Edgerunners anime by Studio Trigger, and Final Fantasy 14 for how broken the original game was that they decided to reboot the game world after BLOWING IT UP IN A MASSIVE SPECTACLE, and transformed it into A Realm Reborn Edit: Welp, I was right on those 3 being on the list, surprised that he didn't mention Edgerunners and the game update based around said anime

Fixed matches are real, I paid for a match and I got what I paid for, it came out positive

You can tell this list was made or at least written before September because Cyberpunk's revival was arguably helped by another big thing of note: *Edgerunners* Studio Triggers hit prequel series has made waves online thanks to its depiction of the world of 2077 and the atmosphere of the game being represented so well (along with amazing characters), that it drew people back in who wanted to give the game another shot and experiance the world of Cyberpunk 2077, leading to the game having at one point OVER A MILLION DAILY PLAYERS!

It really amazes me how some poorly terrible games on release can be improved upon years later and end up being the game that was promised. Granted it would of been if they were great on release to begin with but at least give the benefit of the doubt that the developers actually listen to criticism and actually do something. Not every bad game gets that opportunity.

When I heard Ari's mention of an MMO, I *KNEW* that Number 1 was FF14. Like, Yoshi-P pulled one of the BIGGEST chad moves I've ever seen! The comeback was so great that it straight up saved SE from absolute destruction. God bless Yoshi-P Edit: I like the use of Trueblade Seeker's FF14 video

What does EA have against playing by yourself? Simple, single player can't be micro transactioned to death.

Honestly, I'm surprised Nickelodeon All Star Brawl wasn't at least an honorable mention. Because much like the OTHER games on this list, it was overhyped beyond all reason ("smash killer" ring any bells?) and released as a VERY lackluster smash clone that everyone wrote off. But the devs didn't give up. They kept trying to make improvements and listened to the fans. But I think the moment it was clear it was truly on path to be fixed was when Jenny's reveal trailer dropped, as not only did they get the MOST requested character in, she also came with the one thing pretty much everyone was demanding: VOICE ACTING.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is what someone would say here, but not in this case.

This feels like a video in response to the Cyberpunk anime making Cyberpunk come back.

The part with NISA and it's Falcom localizations hits harder after the official english release of Trails from Zero just as early as this Tuesday. And don't get me started in the ZeroField spreadsheets...

You know Cyberpunk 2077 could probably be on this list. Especially since Edgerunners helped get players to return to the game and they're loving it now!

Not gonna lie "Archeozoic Big Hole" gave me a really good laugh.

I wanted to hear Josh talk about No Man's Sky's redemption for a LONG time, and I'm glad I was here to hear it!

One game that could be on the list is Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia. It went from a glitch-filled mess on release to a functional and slightly glitchy game after patches.

Seeing as you mentioned Ys VIII as a fixed game when the only change was the localisation I want to bring up a similar situation with a South Korean Indie game Lobotomy Corporation in which the original English translation was quite bad seeing as the developers had to learn and write it themselves after the company they got to translate the game originally scammed them and ran off leading to a broken and inconsistent English translation that sometimes even gave flat out wrong information however with Project Moon's second game Library of Ruina they got a proper localization company who also went back and translated Lobotomy Corporation correctly and updated the game so now the story makes sense and the terminology is consisted and correct across the board.

Ys deserves more recognition. VIII is one of the best action RPGs I have ever played, and its 9th installment was more of the same greatness.

I can think of a couple others that I've heard were "fixed". Mass Effect Andromeda was supposedly patched up, and FNAF Security Breach has a MASSIVE patch not that long ago. However, I've only heard Andromeda is better, and Security Breach, while much more playable, is still not exactly polished. Surprised it wasn't an honorable mention though.

*Fixed game’s appears No man’s sky:”Somebody call my name”

Street Fighter V comes to mind. I recall people not being too enthused with the art design, gameplay, and character roster. But through patches and DLC smoothing out the rough edges, it actually became a smooth-running fighting game that people really warmed up to (though it was probably the Beta version people weren't pleased with). I think that deserves an honorable mention.

15:10 , "Goodnight, everybody!" 20:35 , "Woo! Looking cool, Joker!" Oh... looks like we need a screaming Vegeta to break through the video unavailable screen again.

I'll never forget "Paper Mario: The Origami King" had a good launch but.... it had a few bugs. Example: If you were to get all your stamps in the springs near the end of the game and gave it to the Toad that was waiting at the entrance to the rainbow spring then leave after going in it'll essentially softlock you by making your card disappear and the Toad would ask for it again and since you gave it to him already you couldn't get another.

I love watching these videos and hearing him say "You all know the story of (insert game here)" because I'm like "Actually I don't. Teach me of wise one!" and then he goes onto briefly and humorously explain. For the few games I do know it makes them funny, and for the majority I don't, I get to learn something and even try out a few new games that sound interesting. Thanks Josh Scorcher!

Predictions: - No Man's Sky - Final Fantasy 14 - Cyberpunk 2077 - Mass Effect 3

Lacrimosa of Dana got me into the series after a friend recommended it. I had no idea that it released in such a state.

I’m surprised Kirby Star Allies didn’t make the list given how much of a Kirby fan he is

Looking forward to seeing No Man's Sky on the list, I think that game had one of the biggest comebacks of any game to exist

Oh my God, Josh, I frickin' LOVE YOU for using this scene at 17:27...😂🤣

We gotta give honorable mention to kingdom hearts final mix 1.5 HD ultimate grand collector edition with funky mode and a coke on the side

For the Star Wars Battlefront: you were the CHOSEN ONE! You were menat to destroy the loot boxes, nit join them!

Nods to both Buzz Lightyear of Star Command AND Victor Tanzig’s “Stories of Sodor?” Josh just keeps showing how cultured of a man he is!

I know this list was made before it came out, but I feel like Sonic Frontiers Final Horizon should get an honorable mention, because the updates literally elvated it from good, to one of the 3d Sonic games ever, at least for me. The original Frontiers definitely wasn't broken, or even bad. But it definitely had a couple of glaring issues, such as it being too easy, a lack of momentum, and a pretty weak ending, etc. But when the released the second and third updates, they changed everything. You can spindash, you can keep your momentum, more playable characters that we haven't seen since 06 17 years ago. And the big thing was the new ending. It solved literally every problem with the original. It gave an epic final boss, a new super form, and gave us an actual satisfying climactic finish. It wasn't maybe fixed as well as the ones on this list, but it definitely deserves to be recognized. Especially since all of it was done for FREE.

Taking a random guess but FF14 is probably gonna be high up there because hoooo boy 1.0 was a nightmare and was so bad it had to actually be burned to the ground both irl and in lore to make way for the much better 2.0 and onwards. Edit: SOMEONE PICK UP THAT PHONE CAUSE I CALLED IT

How about a Top Ten Most Annoying Bosses (or Josh Lest Favorite Bosses)? Like Demyx, Flame Hyenard, and so on. Pretty Please?

Okay this is going to bug me: During the Y's segment, who is that doing the "it's no good" whenever the Mouse Hunt movie scene plays? The voice sounds familiar but can't picture who it is.

It is a shame that 15 never got all of its dlc content when the project was cancelled it probably would have been an honorable mention on this list if it did. Let’s hope 16 doesn’t go through the same fate.

"So this is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper." THAT is a really big understatement. Also, not a whimper, but more a, BOOP BOOP.

Btw, just recently for Cyberpunk 2077, the sales for the game sky rocketed thanks to the Edgerunners anime and a new patch was added on the same day when the anime was released.

With Battlefront 2, I thought he’d bring out how even CONGRESS started paying attention.

Hey, does anyone know the song that plays in the number transitions? If you do, can you please tell me? Thank you very much. Also, this is a great list. I really liked it.

The Ys entry was hilarious, especially the Jelly Donuts reference. I think it would've been golden if they actually did that.

What’s that clip at 1:14 with the green fox and the bandaid saying “All Fixed” ?

‘Hey, hey, hey!! Who put that in there?!’ Lol, that one got me

No lie, Silent Hill Downpour is the only game in the franchise that really got under my skin. I'd only played 2 and 3 at the time, and I loved them both and got into their stories and chills, but then Downpour kinda broke me with its story. The sadder it got, the scarier it became for me, it was weird. Definitely my favorite in the franchise.

Honorable Mentions: *Destiny -It took a couple expansions to make the game feel more full of content. *Street Fighter 5 -This was already covered in Top 10 Capcom Fails, so I'll give you the abridged verison. Too little single player content, the roster was way too small, there wasn't even an arcade mode or a story mode until the updates came rolling in.

I too cracked up at the "Big Hole" one. It should be used as an inside joke in future episodes, wouldn't you say?

Internet historian has a wonderful video on no mans sky that really puts things into perspective

Unbelieveable. I shift off the video for a split second and return to Henry, Percy, and James and I'm like, oh shoot wrong tab! Must be a Thomas video I was watching. Actually no you just oddly showed Henry. That's just comedic. I LOVE that show. XD

soooo uhhhh, what happened to Josh's Laughing fit during the Ys segment? did he the music he was laughing over get a copyright claim?

Jelly Donuts in Y's would be MORE hilarious than most of the translations you showed including Archeozoic Big Hole XD

Predictions: No Man's Sky Cyberpunk 2077 Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn Battlefield 4 Edit: 3 outta 4!

I'm happy that some game developers actually care about their games and fix them when they are not working. Take some notes, console versions of Cyberpunk. >:( 10: Okay, if Rare is going to play around with old IPs, I don't actually have a strong connection to Banjo-Kazooie. I would want to see Kameo or Viva Pinata. (Sea of Thieves) 9: Konami is just the worst. I kinda wonder what could've happened if P.T. had actually managed to be made into Silent Hills and become more than just a playable teaser that Konami decided should be wiped off the map. I KNOW that people would have liked it, because to this day, it's considered one of the most terrifying experiences in gaming. And what is the point of a game making company again? To provide games people will like to get money.(Silent Hill Downpour) 8: Of ALL people, why did it have to be EA who bought Pop Cap? Pop Cap has made some of my favorite games, and EA has massacred their main success and left the others to rot. I mean, PvZ Garden Warfare 1 & 2 were great, but PvZ2 is practically pay to win most of the time, and PvZ Battle for Neighborville ruined the version of PvZ EA actually did well with. Sorry that this has nothing to do with Star Wars, I just needed to rant. (Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)) 7: So, is this a bad time to try to get into the fandom? Because I want to try the old games, but I'm not sure where to start. (Assassin's Creed Unity) 6: ...That is a very unfortunate translation error. (Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana) 5: Fallout 76 had a COVID phase. Limited human interaction. (Fallout 76) 4: Ah, the beginning of the end. (Diablo III) 3: So wait, did they fix it on XBOX 1? If so, then I know my dad is gonna be happy about that. (Cyberpunk 2077) 2: I am extremely surprised that this game is not Number 1, which intrigues me as to what is. (No Man's Sky) Honorable Mentions: Nothing really to say, just wanted to joke about how they didn't mention FNAF Security Breach. 1: As a guy who isn't a Final Fantasy fan for the most part, I am ashamed to say I didn't see this coming. Still, makes sense. (Final Fantasy XIV)

On the Ys game, I believe Matt McMuscles did a what happened on it that goes into more detail. Worth a watch/listen. It was a rollercoaster.

Enel (the Xenoblade speed runner) did a whole video on NIS America translations. Granted, it was for the Trails series, but it still applies

7:40 HA! Freedert's "I enjoy Creampuffs" scream being used haven't heard that in a long time also fun fact about NIS they handled the localization for one of the ONLY english adaptions to my favorite game series Sakura Wars and BOY, HOWDIE while they did a fairly decent job they messed up with translation and interpretations of some of the characters

I have a suggestion, Top Ten Earth Bosses, Titan from Final Fantasy, Sandman from Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, Earthrock Trilobyte, and so on. Pretty please?

What's the name of the music on the countdowns

I'm expecting to see Overwatch 2's day one server issues in his 2022 fails list.

While it actually had nothing to do with the fixing of the game itself, the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners helped fix a lot of people's hype for the game, increasing sales tremendously as people went back into the world to experience it and have their vengeance.

Christ. Josh's FFXIV video is 7 years old. I remember watching that in my High school's cafeteria

What a coincidence that I was listening to this video in the background whilst playing FF14

I love Trublade Seeker's video summarizing the 1.0 of 14 XD

My guesses are Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn and No Man's Sky.

Tye second the silent hill data delete image came up my video started buffering and I thought it was a part of the bit lol.

A Chikn Nuggit clip? You can stop now, Josh, you’ve already given me enough reasons to love you.

Lol it's funny you mentioned that CD hadn't mentioned what they were going to do next with Cyberpunk, only for them today (October 4) to announce that they were planning on a sequel. It's like they heard you talking Josh.

Ys 8, i cannot stress how good the game is, and I play the Switch port, and they even make all the NPCs likable and useful. The game not only remains one of the best games of all time, but also has one of the best heroines in gaming. I highly recommend people look at it, it is a very gorgeous game as well.

Where the heck did that "All fixed" clip come from?

Happy to see Final Fantasy XIV on the list and number one at that. Yoshi P and SquareEnix took a huge gamble that paid off and writing the switch into the lore was a master stroke. And while many MMOs claimed to be a WoW killed (*cough* Rift *cough*) it turned out that Blizzard was their own worse enemy and FFXIV just gave people an alternative to WoW.

It's a little late to be posting this, so you may not see this, but I thought of an interesting top 10 list for you. You recently did the Top 10 Dragons in Gaming, so how about we go with their eternal rivals; the knights? Meta Knight and Shovel Knight are both candidates that immediately come to mind, though considering that I don't play a lot of games involving medieval worlds, I am sure that there are plenty of knights that I'm not thinking of.

Where is the “thats not good” at 14:39 from?

21:53 To be fair, Call of Duty WW2 had the same problem at launch with Headquarters because a bunch of people wanted to get in Multiplayer.

Downpour is also was missing alot of content (Including a Boss.). I would be quite interested to see a completely finished Downpour.

Here's an idea for a list, unless it's already been done, top 10 Mystery Games. The criteria being: "How well does the gameplay mesh with the story? Do the gameplay mechanics compliment the story being told or are they aggravatingly distracting?" "How well built up is the mystery itself? Can you notice the subtler details hinting at what was really going on? Were the clues perhaps good enough for you to draw the same conclusions as the cast, or were they all too vague for you to draw the same conclusions?" "How well written are the characters, can you trust everyone or never trust anyone? Was the mastermind someone you suspected from the very beginning or a curve ball that throws everything you thought you knew out the window?" "Was the payoff any good? Did everything wrap up in a nice little bow, or did it intentionally leave things vague for the sake of sequels it may not even get?" "If there were sequels or multimedia peices surrounding it, how well do they compliment the story if at all? Do they add on to it in a way that respects the original and even sheds better light on things that might've intentionally or unintentionally been left vague? Or do they take away from the original story by retconning story elements and/or motives that may have been simple to understand at first only to now make them as confusing as the FNaF Lore/Timeline or throw in some new big bad that claims to be the true mastermind when the original clearly states that was the case, and so forth." Bonus Criteria: "How much fun was the game itself? Despite now knowing everything, can you still go back to these games and still have fun? Do they have a gameplay loop that draws you in, or a post game that offers additional modes or a chance to finish 100%ing it if you were previously locked out of doing so once the climax started?"

I feel like there’s something you’re not telling us about EDF that we should know about..

“Few things are perfect the first” ... given my favourite game of all time is Okami I’ll have to respectfully disagree there! But I’m glad to see who wins your list of fixer-uppers 😄😄😄 Thanks for the new list Josh and go hug your animal friends all 💙🐱💙 (Like #333!)

Surprisingly, I only heard about No Man Sky after the backlash of the release. I guess I was living under a rock during all the hype it gotten.

"Archeozaic Big Hole" ABYSS! How the heck do you miss that painfully easy alliteration option?!

Might wanna fix the number displayed during the Cyberpunk entry because it says 5 when it should be 3

How do you f**k up localization as bad as Ys VIII? Like, it was so embarrassing that Falcom had to step in and tell them to get it right

1:14 Never would have expected a chikn nuggit Clip

Do you think you could do top 10 stressful games

Oh, and Josh: I'm not sure if you're aware, but Cyberpunk had a bit of a player increase recently with the update that coincided with the release of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime. Yes, that anime is real, and was done by TRIGGER. The anime studio behind Kill La Kill and Promare.

Calling it right now, Cyberpunk 2077 is gonna make the Top 5 at least.

Biggest fixed game that came to mind for me was Street Fighter V. At launch it barely had any content, 16 characters, no arcade mode, poor netcode, sub par story mode, etc. Now we have Champion Edition and it’s a much better game overall.

When No Man's Sky was announced, sure I was really interested, but at the same time I had a feeling that it wouldn't be good at first. I guess it's been a pattern with games that would promise the moon but under-deliver. So I felt I would sit that one out, but keep an eye on it. Sure enough I was right, but I didn't hate the game or the people, I kept waiting it out, to see what would happen, and my patience was rewarded. Update after update came out, it wasn't until the Visions update that I finally thought "okay, this game is amazing now, and it's on sale!" Now NMS is, without a doubt, one of my top favorite games. I don't play it much now but I'm always happy knowing I have the game and I can play it anytime. But also because part of me always wants to reset my progress whenever a big update comes out, so I guess I'm kinda waiting until the game is """done""" before I can commit to a complete playthrough.

To those who want to hear more about the destruction of FFXIV 1.0 and the rise of A Realm Reborn, I highly suggest the No Clip documentary about it.

20:52 Major props to whoever decided to use Nutshell by Alice in Chains there!

23:24 with regards to cyberpunk, I am still willing to give CDPR the benefit of the doubt about how it came out. It was basically a case of “we want to delay it a little longer so that it comes out good” vs “fans are upset that the game is not out yet, we need to put it out.”

HA! The Star Command refrence! Always happy when I see that show getting aknowleged

1:40 Why Josh, I didn’t know you played the Kaiserreich mod!

20:24 okay Todd and Bobby I'm familiar with but who are the other 3?

15:01 I just started laughing like Ganondorf from the end of Wind Waker xD

One more thing about Fallout 76 that I’m surprised you didn’t mention. They went back on their promise to not have any gameplay-effecting microtransactions. The worst of it came in Fallout First, which had features that should’ve been in the game at launch, locked behind a subscription paywall.