MAG was an experience like no other. Having 3 factions and 256 players made it such an insane battle. It’s a privilege to be able to look back at those memories and friends made.
@@TheCyanideSmoker snipers battles made that game. When it was you vs like 1 other dude for a whole game while a battle of 256 players raged on around you! We need a remaster!
I will never forgive Bungie for deleting the base game and first 3 DLCs of Destiny 2 that I spent $200 on. I will never buy anything from them again and will take every opportunity to alert new customers that anything they buy from Bungie may just be deleted on a whim.
Plus they wrongfully banned thousands of players and basically told you “well that sucks but our system says it’s right and we can’t give you any more or reason why”
If it's not for sale anymore, it's free to play if you can find the file somewhere. Honestly delisting and shutting down single player games is just mind boggling and stupid.
imagine getting rid of books and movies after a couple years. We have the tech and the process to save previous works and yet we don’t apply that to videogames
MAG was one of my favorite games growing up… My brother and I literally played this for easily hundreds of hours, and when we heard about the servers shutting down, I still remember we played the whole day right up until they shut down the servers… Such amazing memories.
LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2 have such a special spot in my heart, countless hours I spent as a kid figuring out how to make simple contraptions in the first game, then becoming some crazy hi-tech genius when the systems of the 2nd game came out
@@vaibuscala6441 until they learn at least, there are humans working there and need to feed their family, so piracy until they can get rid of their anti-consumer practice and produce a good needed game
The game that broke my heart was Chromehounds. Customisable tanklike mechs in vs scenarios with overall map control. I was disappointed when those servers were shut down.
I wanted to get into D2 due to the last sales but with every next reading about all scammy, predatory and not consumer friendly shit they do I decided Im not going to give them my money for shit they will delete (vault) next week/month. Games are not jobs when I need to log in on a scheduled time and log off when it's necessary. I should be able to have a complete experience no matter if i am a new player or not.
vog was epic for me as it was my first ever raid i played thru i quit destiny when gary dissapointed and they blew up my gear in the tower killed cayde introduced EVERVERSE, i do miss my guns
@@alus992 I got back into destiny 2 last year. Basically a noob again and the community is not unforgiving for people who don’t know the raid mechanics. Not for me.
Yup i stopped playing when they removed 90% of the content i paid for. If they return those i will play again but if not, i'll never install destiny 2 again.
That lumber mill in Mag was the last choke point on Domination, so many players trying to push into one hallway, you could stand back and huck a grenade in and get like 10 kills per nade because everyone was just so stacked in there. It ended up being a deadlock where you couldn't push in and they couldn't push back because each team was just dumping explosives into that hallway to hold each other back
I bought "The Crew" 3 times over - PS4 physical copy, PS4 digital copy (with expansions) in a sale, and the PC version. I was looking forward to the day when I had a decent PC to play it on. It absolutely sickens me that Ubisoft just took away what I'd paid for, without even having the decency to drop a final patch to let it be played offline. Ubi will never see another cent of my money.
Makes you wonder how that's legal. People genuinely shouldn't support game publishers and developers that pander to investors and bad business practices
MAG was my home for many years. I spent all of my time on Raven. I watched that game grow. I was there from the very beginning. I formed a clan there with a few hundred members. Though most have moved on, I still talk with a few, and I'm even attending the wedding of one of them this year. I met so many amazing people who are great team builders and leaders from that game. Domination may have been the highlight, but inquisition was one of my favorites, as well as acquisition. The game ran well for the hardware it was on, and my PS3 never gave out on me. It was such an amazing experience. And it was so good that it has ruined every single multiplayer experience since then. NOTHING compares to MAG. I've tried everything from PlanetSide to helldiver's. Absolutely nothing can touch MAG. The massive scale, the leadership roles, the huge fights over large swaths of territory. Battlefield hasn't even come close. It was a life changing experience that I'll forever be grateful for.
Do you remember the glitches on suppression (and other modes i think) where you could jump off an object into the enemy spawn? You could just stand behind them as they spawn in and have a whole firing squad killing them from behind
Companies would argue that when you buy a game, you're actually only buying a temporary license to play a digital IP, and that the publishers retain the right to retract that license at any time. I would argue that that isn't the prudence that the gaming industry was built on, and thus isn't the popular understanding of the consumer market, and that, as such; gaming licenses need to be extended ad infinitum, with no right for publishers to retract without significant advanced warning to consumers who purchased the license.
I understand games being a "license" in that you can't redistribute them. I understand games like MAG where they're online only and the servers shutting down rendering them unplayable. I've been PSN banned 5 times (cussing back at people who cuss me out in messages) and when you're PSN banned, you can't do ANYTHING besides play physical media. You can't update games. You can't access non-Sony applications like RUclips or Netflix. You can't go onto the PSN Store to download games that you own but aren't on your console storage. You literally lose everything even without agreeing to terms of service (you never agree to Sony ToS to access third-party applications or to make purchases through the store). That's where my problems are with the nu-definition of licensing. If I ever get permabanned from my Playstation account (that I've had since Feb '08), I've got a plan. >make new account >buy all the games I owned digitally >download them onto my console storage >turn off internet connectivity to my console >call bank and rescind the charges; get my money back >Sony can't revoke my access to these games without my console pinging the internet to update the change Afterwards, we're gonna see how far I can kowabunga this shit if it goes to court.
Thats not entirely accurate, the law is regional, but generally if you buy a physical copy, you own the game, if you buy a digital copy, you have a licence to play which can be withdrawn for any reason. This is one of the reasons companies are trying to get rid of physical media, something im dead set against. It seems every company out there wants to strip everyone of the few rights we have left as consumers.
Honorable mentions: Driver San Francisco: delisted before people even got to know about it Deadpool: similar as DSF. Defiance: A super awesome MMO third person sci-fi looter shooter based on the TV series that shut down in 2021. I miss that game.
What made Marvel Heros shutting down worse is that they had JUST released a xbox/PS version of the game that I believe was cross platform with PC. ALthough id challenge the idea that the game was doing well. The endgame was MOSTLY deadand extremely hard for most of the community. A large amount of players weren't playing to be be meta, they just wanted to use their favorite Heros/Villains and have fun.
MAG and Planetside 1 and 2 are the only games that offered the actual MMOFPS experience. It's surprising that Planetside 2 is still going 10 years+ after its launch, even though its playerbase is ever-shrinking.
For real. That is something that should be illegal. It's a glorified license key that requires a server connection. 0% content on Disc. It's the exact problem I was expecting to start seeing when LIVE Service became a thing in 2006. We knew they would do it. Most games now on average only have 40% or less content on Disc and need a day 1 patch to access all of it.
@@SirMeowthius It is illegal to a degree. Ubisoft removed licenses from people's accounts and no longer allow them to launch the game. That's theft since we paid for the games and did not have to sign any legal documents during purchase.
What makes the Crew case even worse is that its not like all of the other games, where you techically have it but just cant play it because it requires servers that no longer exist. Ubisoft straight up removed Crew from players game lists, at least on Uplay (or whatever its called now). Which is just insane.
@@40sgoingonfit You don't buy software. You lease access to it. Tell us you just click EULAs without reading them without telling us you click EULAs without reading them.
@@AhzpayneGames were never originally software and they never should have evolved into software. There should be zero need for constant software updates, either the product is finished on release, or it's not ready for release.
Oh man MAG was such a good time. I definitely agree with the content lacking and I think that is what ended up killing it but man those big battles were fun. What a good memory
Unreal is totally bollocks. Even the single player games are removed. I don't think that the multiplayer games needed a central server up tu UT2004, so I don't get it either why those had to be removed as well.
One more game worth mentioning is Spec Ops: The Line - a fantastic experience, ahead of its time, that’s been permanently removed from online storefronts due to licensing issues.
While I was never a big fan of it, CS:GO was a significant one, because Valve just replaced the game with Counter Strike 2 without asking. The reason this is particularly annoying is that, at the same time as releasing CS2, they dropped Mac support. So not only did they delete a game that was paid for by real money (before it became free to play), they also blocked the people who use Macs from playing the replacement.
Ahhh, Marvel Heroes, I played 200+ hours in it. I was waiting for its release as a huge Marvel Ultimate Alliance fan, and even though I didn't like its first version, they did a 2015 upgrade and I was totally into it.😍
There’s a small group of people working to bring marvel heroes back online, look it up there’s a working frame of the game available as of this year and they’re adding more features trying to restore the game
Infinity Blade… brooo that was my childhood!! I got everything in each game. Going on a flight or long road trip? Take out the phone, plug it into a charger and went ham!! Then stopped playing mobile for years since school got more intense. But as an adult now? I was like “oh yeah! Let’s get my favorite mobile game again!” Only to find out it’s been gone for years!! I’ll never forget absolutely swiping like a mad man on those games XD
Because it's playable, the singleplayer missions at least. Some modders are working on fully restoring it. Many titles on this list are actively being worked on by modders to be playable again, the guy just didn't care to include that info into the vid. For example Marvel Heroes has seen massive progress, you can enter the map roam around but they still have ton of essential features to implement like enemies lol. People are working on a The Crew patch too.
@@VetriVade atleast battleborn had a campaign and a story in one package, overwatch just dropped you into the setting without context. To this day I still have no idea what the story is...
Damn man, seeing PT again is such a throwback. I remember this one woman I was friends with years ago still had it installed on her PS4, and she streamed it for me. That was a hell of a good time.
Honorable mention to No One Lives Forever (and sequel). Technically they can still be played if you can find a disc or find them the not-so-legal-way but they're not up for sale digitally anywhere. And they are damn good games!!
I think it's fine to download the games on an abandonware site as the games are still stuck in legal limbo as to who own the games but since no one is profiting from them anymore, it's not like anyone is stealing from the devs or the publishers. Even PC Gamer linked to the abandonware site in one of their articles on how to get the games a few years ago.
I think literally half the Battlefield games are worth mentioning. There are mods that bring back BF2 and BF2142, but you have to _own_ the game to play those (can't use cracked versions, even though the 2142 mod will crack your legit game to get around the DRM). Classic Battlefield is a completely different genre from the more modern titles, you literally can't get the same experience in any other game. Squad is closer to Battlefield 2 than what Battlefield 3 was.
I didn’t even need to watch to know that thumbnail was M.A.G. 256 players on PS3 and ran like butter. Almost a decade and nobody has come close to the experience I had playing it. SVER for life!
I regret not trying the game out. I remember noticing it, but never tried it. Honestly I think its because I didn't spend a lot of time on the PS3, was MUCH more of a fan of the Xbox 360....
@@RigidRecords69 it was 150 players and the game was PC only in a time when PC gaming was not massively popular yet. at least not compared to console gaming of the time or even PC gaming today.
I know most ppl probably don't care or remember, but Defiance which later became "Defiance 2050" shutdown back in 2021. That was one of my favorite games to play for a good while when it first came out. I even went and bought the hard copy for $60 on the day it came out. And then it later went free to play digital only.
I could've hated the whole video, but the fact that you guys have MAG on this list means I would've still liked and subscribed (if I wasn't already) I miss that game so much. It never gets enough love, glad you guys mentioned it here.
@@sortaseriousgaming4090 Valor main but Raven was my secondary. Pissed me off no one else could pull of what MAG could do. I had hopes for BF 2042 but they crapped the bed with that one
@@acewolfgang276 That they did. All the guys that made BF great left and created Embark. They're the guys behind The Finals and Arc Raiders now. I had hoped BF could pull it off but should've known better. Maybe one day Sony will grow a set and throw a bunch of money at making MAG2. I can only imagine how good it could be now.
imagine it coming back with a free to play model where you could earn player and gun skins but could fast track with irl money.... game devs are missing out
One that was near and dear to my heart was Motor City Online, basically a Need For Speed game by EA that was a MMO of NFS where you started out with an old junker of a 57 Chevy, Ford, or a third option that I cant remeber, but the game had a full auction house, parts catalog, you could race ovals, circuit, street and drag, wether for money against computer opponents or race fellow players for money or pinkslips. My favorite part was the full catalog of parts, just to make some interesting combos and see what worked, want a 32 Ford with an Olds 455 in it? Go for it, a 69 Charger with a 351 Windsor? By all means! They have found a way to play the game offline, but its pretty much just a circuit race with a small handful of cars to choose from.
Well speaking of a need for speed game. Need for Speed world was a pretty awesome game that combined all the maps but they shut it down maybe half a decade after launch, if even
One game series that I wish could be brought back, is the Mercenaries series, and prior to the series ending, a third game was hinted at, taking place in Cuba, but the game was never finished, and the DLCs for Mercs2: WIF isn't playable, and hasn't been since 2008
I can make this worse. You can't be online on Mercenaries 2 or the game crashes trying to connect to the servers. You can still play both games offline just fine, so they don't qualify for the list. (PS2 and 3 experience only)
I’ve got PT, still play it from time to time. I still remember the first time I played it, such a good experience. That part with the eye paintings and red lights took me way too long to figure out lol
Im both shocked and saddened that something like Gothem City Imposters wasn't in the list, was such a fun game that died out so long ago - wasnt the best game, but did a damn good job at keeping everyone entertained.
Because there's too many licences games been delisted sadly cause licences only last a short time. Xbox arcade had things like xmen arcade, Simpsons arcade etc. Same with older licensed like simpsons hit and run, lotr battle of middle earth etc
I'm glad you mentioned darkspore because I bought that game and thought it was so fun at the time and I actually still have the disc in one of my storage boxes in my attic. I was wondering if it would be on this list so nice job!
Doubt it... there are hundreds of thousands of accounts which have P.T. in their library. And that's all you need to install it on any console. I even have it on my PS5 (no, its not playable sadly)
@@XenoEvil66 It was listed as " P.T." on the store, its referenced as P.T. literally everywhere, even when you Google. We all know it was a Silent Hill teaser and knows what P.T. stands for.
Money. You want people to stop playing old games and buy new ones. But you get people like me that lose trust completely and not buy anything from you anymore, but i am in minority, not the target audience so this works with them
@@MrSkullMerchant exactly. I only started buying games in 2015 when i got income for the first time. And never sailed the seas again. Didn't need to. In 2024 its the first time when the greed directly leaves me without products i paid for.... Now i am really careful when i buy something, a lot of thinking needs to be done and check up before i decide. I am also not buying anything after lunch anymore, or i end up with products where Capcom decides to put DRM in after release... for some reason. And i don't want that.... so i wait a while to make sure the corporation doesn't pull stuff like this on me
7:11 SOCOM ending still hurts me to this day. And Sony did it to themselves by allowing the servers to be overrun by cheaters. Such a shame because the games were amazing.
And what did we learn today folks? That a digital-focused, internet required, live-service future of video games is going to create nothing but memories and no games to play.
A big one for me: PlayStation Home. I spent countless hours there and to this day, still one of my favorite gaming experiences. I was always a fan of virtual worlds, but nothing could match PlayStation Home. Me and friends from across the country hanging out in our clubhouse just having a good time because it was near impossible to see each other in real life.
Yeah PlayStation home was worse than these games because you actually had to send money for digital assets that they just stripped from you without regard. PlayStation home seems like there should have been a class action lawsuit.
Ahhh PlayStation home those were the days such a cool idea that just disappeared still remember that men in black area where you had your own mib suit and shades 😎
When I saw the title and the thumb nail for MAG I had to see if it was actually on the list...my father and I spent so much time in MAG. It was pretty ahead of its time with up to 256 players and squad based combat.
dangit, your startin with pt, that has made a tiny hole in my heart and it will never be filled again, grew up with silent hill on ps1 and i was waiting so hard for this.. it hurts every time i see a trailer or video of it still =P
if companies like to remove support for a full price game and people had just bought it, they should give a full refund to them (ie if bought on a launcher owned by said company because they can see when it was bought)
Well... Bad news for you tho: Crew came out in 2014. By 2012 we already lost the not owning anything push back as people rather wanted to play Far Cry 3/Battlefield 3 than boycotting any "game" that was sold under the premise of "We and you both can cancel any service and any access to the product at any time".
I remember being so wowed by the first Infinity Blade. I know its basically just a series of quick-time events but still the jump in tech from other mobile games and even DS and PSP games from just a few years earlier was incredible, and this wasn't even on dedicated gaming hardware.
I was selling phones for a few years over that time period. The comparison to just a few months before Infinity Blade is insane. It'd be like going from the SNES straight to the PSP.
There has never been a mobile game like infinity blade before or since. It was like, the only actual videogame present on mobile. I miss it so much. The art style, the combat, the story, the voice acting, was all perfect. It’s tragic how underrated it is. Everyone has heard of angry birds but so few know about infinity blade it seems.
I didn't know the crew was shut down, that's really sad. I know it was kinda primitive compared to the two games that came after but I really enjoyed it. My friends and I spent an entire summer jumping between it and a couple other games.
MaG Raven player here. MaG got me over PlanetSide 1 to PlanetSide 2. MAG was an Icarus and tried to fly to high but failed to deliver. But it was still fun for what it was. The first few years were rough large due to faction imbalance of the maps. This cost the game lots of players as their faction lacked defensible maps. But the leadership is where the game shined, setting other players objective was game changing for its time.
I miss playing Defiance 2013 I played it quite a bit liked it but I hated how they removed a lot of content with the remastered version and gave you a chance to get some of the items from the original
Damn. I didn’t know the crew was taken down. I played the hell out of the crew 1 (played the wild run edition) and I’m sad to know it’s gone. One of my favorite arcade racing games.
LittleBigPlanet was my childhood, and hearing that it shut down absolutely crushed me. I had so many levels that I remembered playing so many times. Even now I still have ideas for levels I could create, but I know I’m the only one who would be able to play them now.
PT is too important of a demo for it to be lost forever, its popularity created an entirely new horror sub-genre. Eventually someone will figure out either how to easily emulate it on PS4 or it’ll end up becoming a lockable bonus level in a future game.
Battleborn has some kind of offline mod that was released so you can play the campaign and solo play. So there's that on PC if you have the hankering for a playthrough
It’s crazy. Honestly All these games that have to be connected to internet. Sometimes it’s not a huge deal with multiplayer titles ig. But single player option games should not be like this.
@gameranx correction. You cannot play the original story of FFXIV, which was FFXIV 1.0. You would need to download and run the server emulator to do that. 1.0 is not online or accessible through any official capacity.
Dust 514 Set in the same universe Eve Online, this game kicked ass. One of the best online shooters ever. You could call in actual orbital strikes from actual satellites being controlled by actual Eve Online players. The interaction with Eve players was extremely limited, but it was mind blowing that such a thing was even possible. Good tight mechanics. Lots of fun game modes. It was an all around great game. (The monetization scheme was kinda whack, but not too egregious.) And now it's completely unplayable. There was supposed to be a successor that was being worked on for a long time, but it's been radio silent for many years now.
Mag was insane, I remember people getting together to do clan battles. That wasn’t even a feature but people found a way. So much fun especially escalation.
I would love to see the release of the destiny 1 and 2 campaigns as a birderlands style p2p co op game. Would be nice to be able to keep playing after the servers inevitably go down or more content gets vaulted
Don't forget about all the great games we can't play now due to soundtrack rights expiring and the games being to old to justify renewing them RIP Alpha Protocol - a classic from the 360 era
The loss of UT2004 still stings so much. It got pulled from GOG like 2 months ago I think. It's by far the best Unreal Tournament game and Epic completely abandoned the series for Fortnite.
Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa, both NC Soft published MMOs from the 00s that were trying something different. Auto Assault was a vehicular combat MMO with some really interesting mechanics and Tabula Rasa was a third person shooter MMO. I played the betas for both and had so much fun, especially with Auto Assault. Unfortunately being a kid I couldn't afford the game and the monthly fee, and the games both shut down within a couple years. There's been some work on a private server for Tabula Rasa but it's still not functional, and Auto Assault is a lost cause because none of the server files were stored locally. Sucks.
To fair that's not their fault, licensing is a major problem. Imagine pay ten of millions for a game that released over 15 years ago that doesn't sell anymore. Your just losing money at that point
@@sircartier2723 Licensing should be a non-issue, if the game in question isn't sold any more. If it's a multiplayer game with no single-player component, then sure, no one expects the official servers to be online forever. But for single-player games, there's no excuse to why they shouldn't be playable for anyone who's ever bought a copy.
9:00 Oh my god, I used to have that armor as a mod on Skyrim on Xbox. I remember it being called the "Shadow Knight Armor" on the Mods library and it just disappeared from my favorites one day after I reinstalled Skyrim.
This is why i value physical games of course without the servers ties, we have ownership without being worried it'll be taken away from us, and honestly yes there should be a place you can buy either where everyone can be satisfied on their preferred media type.
The problem with physical games these days is they're really dependent on server ties too. Sure you can play it, but it'll be the day 0 unpatched super buggy version. 😕
@@OneColdMonkey there’s a website online where you can check if a game is playable in disc. If you rely on this and only buy those ones, you actually only pay for games that deserve it
A note about the Destiny 2 og campaign from someone who just started playing destiny recently: that game, at least for me, is confusing as all hell to get into now. You start it up and sure theres the tutorial, but then after that it just throws like 8 storylines at you and you just have to guess which one to start with or do what I did and look up the best way to go about it chronologically. Its actually possibly the most disorganized game I've ever played in its current state.
@@barbusbogdan7 yea about that, it took me less than a minute to find that game on the high seas. unfortunately can't tell where as yt will just delete my comment. ill try to write it in segments
Idk if it made the list, but The Culling. It was very early in the battle royale genre back in like 2017, and it focused on mainly melee based combat over guns. It was super fun! I really miss playing it, it’ll likely never come back though considering they tried to copy PUBG in the “sequel.”
It was a gem of a game, but the developers kept changing things for the worse until they lost the majority of their player base. Company litterally shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly and not listening to the players.
If only Gearbox's boss was not such a moron and used his brain to market this game as something else than OW1 competitor. Ffs it was more of a MOBA style fos than battle arena hero shooter. He had to be arrogant and sabotage his own game and release it on the OW1 window...
The gameplay and characters were excellent. The campaign and multi-player maps were half-baked at best. It would have wildly benefitted from a longer development cycle.
@@alus992 They said it was a MOBA style game from the beginning. Game Informer did a massive cover story on it when it was first announced. I don't like Randy, but it really wasn't his fault if people didn't understand it wasn't an arena hero shooter.
Game preservation is so sadly overlooked, the US government literally has copies of movies it keeps so that we quote on quote never lose them, even in the event of war, why don't they start preserving our games too. I remember seeing MAG in Game Informer and being totally floored, I didn't think anything like that could exist at the time, and it made me want a PS3 instead of my 360, not many games could do that to the fanboy in me back in the day.
Theres the odd few games aswel like avatar frontiers of pandora for example that need an internet connection to install off the disc.. beware of these games as they too will be useless in the future when servers are gone
Mine is Delta Force: BHD. Already almost impossible getting a physical copy but ever since the new DF game was announced they took BHD off all online stores and steam
@@fallu2nah not really. It's called "Delta Force: Hawk Ops" and its gonna be made by tencent/timi (the same people that made COD mobile). Its supposed to be a f2p hero shooter thats not very true to the series as i see it, but they are remastering the campaign from the original and giving it its proper due which should be nice.
MAG was an experience like no other. Having 3 factions and 256 players made it such an insane battle. It’s a privilege to be able to look back at those memories and friends made.
I still got my copy of it on disk :(
Snipers.
@@TheCyanideSmoker snipers battles made that game. When it was you vs like 1 other dude for a whole game while a battle of 256 players raged on around you! We need a remaster!
@@OrionTheAussie me too 😢
MAG was severely underrated and it deserves a reboot.
0:12 Silent Hill P.T.
02:11 Destiny 2 Campaign
03:30 Rumbleverse
04:40 Overwatch 1
06:20 MAG
07:35 Marvel Heroes
08:55 Infinity Blade
10:53 Little Big Planet
12:00 Darkspore
13:18 The Crew
You are welcome.
Thank you
The real hero
PT was the illest 🏆
For what ?
Thank you. These guys are lazy af.
You can't play again, unless you have the strength and the courage to sail the wild seas.
I WANT TO LIVE
ARRR MATEY!
Piracy = Game Preservation
the wild seas with full of monster that gonna eats you if you take from wrong area
it's morally right
I will never forgive Bungie for deleting the base game and first 3 DLCs of Destiny 2 that I spent $200 on. I will never buy anything from them again and will take every opportunity to alert new customers that anything they buy from Bungie may just be deleted on a whim.
That is the reason why I stopped playing Destiny 2. They took our money and ran
Plus they wrongfully banned thousands of players and basically told you “well that sucks but our system says it’s right and we can’t give you any more or reason why”
Should start a class action lawsuit
@@notacat7127 Lol I'm not spending thousands in legal fees for the possibility of winning back $200
And then people say that modern day bungie could save Halo...
If it's not for sale anymore, it's free to play if you can find the file somewhere. Honestly delisting and shutting down single player games is just mind boggling and stupid.
I agree.
Not The Crew lol. It was basically an MMO that you paid $60 for and Ubisoft just shut down all the servers.
" just mind boggling and stupid."
Welcome to modern gaming.
I feel like are stealing from us when they do that to single player games
imagine getting rid of books and movies after a couple years. We have the tech and the process to save previous works and yet we don’t apply that to videogames
MAG was one of my favorite games growing up… My brother and I literally played this for easily hundreds of hours, and when we heard about the servers shutting down, I still remember we played the whole day right up until they shut down the servers… Such amazing memories.
LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2 have such a special spot in my heart, countless hours I spent as a kid figuring out how to make simple contraptions in the first game, then becoming some crazy hi-tech genius when the systems of the 2nd game came out
Fun fact, PS3 emulation supports online multiplayer, and LittleBigPlanet works
You can play others levels, play with friends online and more
0:12 P.T.
2:08 Destiny
3:29 Rumbleverse
4:40 Overwatch
6:17 MAG
7:33 Marvel Heroes
8:53 Infinity Blade
10:50 Little Big Planet
12:00 Darkspore
13:16 The Crew
10. P.T
9. Destiny 2 (Campaign)
8. Rumblevese
7. Overwatch
6. MAG
5. Marvel Heroes
4. Infinity Blade
3. Little Big Planet
2. Dark Spore
1. The Crew
I was really expecting The Cycle : Frontier to be in that list.
No Driver: San Francisco?! Heresy!!
Thanks.
You are a "GO" right now but to ad "AT" and be a "GOAT" you shouldve included timestamps too.
Driveclub was missing as well
The "nice" thing of the Crew for me is: I avoid to buy ANY ubisoft game in the future, because....will they shut it down?
@hypercynic why buy their games then? JS
Always make sure that you own a physical copy that can be played offline. They can delist a game, but they can’t delist your disc.
Amen.
gaming 101 - never give money to usbisoft, they deserve piracy
@@vaibuscala6441 until they learn at least, there are humans working there and need to feed their family, so piracy until they can get rid of their anti-consumer practice and produce a good needed game
Silent Hills will always be that giant “what could have been” game that will haunt me forever
In a way, it's a game that truly had an effect on you lol. Forever 2 spoopy 4 me.
Same my friend, same...
Yeah and it’s crazy to think it was a decade ago…
What haunts me is that I had a PT PS4
Somewhere in a another universe
The game that broke my heart was Chromehounds. Customisable tanklike mechs in vs scenarios with overall map control. I was disappointed when those servers were shut down.
SAL KAR FOR LIFE!!!!!!
As a Destiny 2 player, I can’t agree more about the removal of campaigns from Destiny. It’s just such a devastating loss
It's a bigger loss wasting your time playing destiny 2.
I wanted to get into D2 due to the last sales but with every next reading about all scammy, predatory and not consumer friendly shit they do I decided Im not going to give them my money for shit they will delete (vault) next week/month.
Games are not jobs when I need to log in on a scheduled time and log off when it's necessary. I should be able to have a complete experience no matter if i am a new player or not.
vog was epic for me as it was my first ever raid i played thru i quit destiny when gary dissapointed and they blew up my gear in the tower killed cayde introduced EVERVERSE, i do miss my guns
@@alus992 I got back into destiny 2 last year. Basically a noob again and the community is not unforgiving for people who don’t know the raid mechanics. Not for me.
Yup i stopped playing when they removed 90% of the content i paid for. If they return those i will play again but if not, i'll never install destiny 2 again.
That lumber mill in Mag was the last choke point on Domination, so many players trying to push into one hallway, you could stand back and huck a grenade in and get like 10 kills per nade because everyone was just so stacked in there. It ended up being a deadlock where you couldn't push in and they couldn't push back because each team was just dumping explosives into that hallway to hold each other back
Holy shit I remember that. I’d sit on top of the lodge with an LMG and just mow down until getting inevitably sniped
Poison grenades all day.
MAG was so underrated
Man that sounds fun! 🤣😂
Sounds like Redacted map in Battlefield 2042 with 128 players.
I bought "The Crew" 3 times over - PS4 physical copy, PS4 digital copy (with expansions) in a sale, and the PC version. I was looking forward to the day when I had a decent PC to play it on. It absolutely sickens me that Ubisoft just took away what I'd paid for, without even having the decency to drop a final patch to let it be played offline. Ubi will never see another cent of my money.
Makes you wonder how that's legal. People genuinely shouldn't support game publishers and developers that pander to investors and bad business practices
@@dundercontrol In other words, stop playing games. Games as a service will be the new business model.
@@jbrou123 or just pirate them
@@McGeezle unfortunately you can't pirate games that have an always online component like most games that have a "games as a service" element to it.
@@mandarinduck of course but I was replying to the guy saying "stop playing games"
index WITH timestamps
10. P.T 00:11
9. Destiny 2 (Campaign) 02:08
8. Rumbleverse 03:30
7. Overwatch 04:40
6. MAG 06:18
5. Marvel Heroes 07:34
4. Infinity Blade 08:54
3. Little Big Planet 10:49
2. Dark Spore 11:59
1. The Crew 13:14
MAG was my home for many years. I spent all of my time on Raven. I watched that game grow. I was there from the very beginning. I formed a clan there with a few hundred members. Though most have moved on, I still talk with a few, and I'm even attending the wedding of one of them this year. I met so many amazing people who are great team builders and leaders from that game.
Domination may have been the highlight, but inquisition was one of my favorites, as well as acquisition. The game ran well for the hardware it was on, and my PS3 never gave out on me. It was such an amazing experience. And it was so good that it has ruined every single multiplayer experience since then. NOTHING compares to MAG. I've tried everything from PlanetSide to helldiver's. Absolutely nothing can touch MAG. The massive scale, the leadership roles, the huge fights over large swaths of territory. Battlefield hasn't even come close. It was a life changing experience that I'll forever be grateful for.
Fellow Raven here!
@@justinsgarage1125 If you remember the likes of the dark flock and dark firebird, then you're definitely an OG Raven.
@@LrulestheworldM8 me and the homies pre ordered and dropped in on day one. Absolute chaos!
Man me and my friends loved this game! We played it so much
Do you remember the glitches on suppression (and other modes i think) where you could jump off an object into the enemy spawn?
You could just stand behind them as they spawn in and have a whole firing squad killing them from behind
Companies would argue that when you buy a game, you're actually only buying a temporary license to play a digital IP, and that the publishers retain the right to retract that license at any time.
I would argue that that isn't the prudence that the gaming industry was built on, and thus isn't the popular understanding of the consumer market, and that, as such; gaming licenses need to be extended ad infinitum, with no right for publishers to retract without significant advanced warning to consumers who purchased the license.
I saw a scary story the other day, that Microsoft are trying to buy Valve for £14 billion.
I understand games being a "license" in that you can't redistribute them. I understand games like MAG where they're online only and the servers shutting down rendering them unplayable.
I've been PSN banned 5 times (cussing back at people who cuss me out in messages) and when you're PSN banned, you can't do ANYTHING besides play physical media. You can't update games. You can't access non-Sony applications like RUclips or Netflix. You can't go onto the PSN Store to download games that you own but aren't on your console storage. You literally lose everything even without agreeing to terms of service (you never agree to Sony ToS to access third-party applications or to make purchases through the store). That's where my problems are with the nu-definition of licensing.
If I ever get permabanned from my Playstation account (that I've had since Feb '08), I've got a plan.
>make new account
>buy all the games I owned digitally
>download them onto my console storage
>turn off internet connectivity to my console
>call bank and rescind the charges; get my money back
>Sony can't revoke my access to these games without my console pinging the internet to update the change
Afterwards, we're gonna see how far I can kowabunga this shit if it goes to court.
It such a weird notion and they are lucky those memetards dont get it in the public circle. It like a infected wound you never look at
...ok, who made you the legal expert
Thats not entirely accurate, the law is regional, but generally if you buy a physical copy, you own the game, if you buy a digital copy, you have a licence to play which can be withdrawn for any reason. This is one of the reasons companies are trying to get rid of physical media, something im dead set against. It seems every company out there wants to strip everyone of the few rights we have left as consumers.
Honorable mentions:
Driver San Francisco: delisted before people even got to know about it
Deadpool: similar as DSF.
Defiance: A super awesome MMO third person sci-fi looter shooter based on the TV series that shut down in 2021. I miss that game.
Driver San Francisco Was A Blast Game I played multiple times beat multiple times had fun with on muiplayer with my cousins and sisters great times!!!
especially bummer when Defiance final 3rd season was the best yet
But you can still buy Deadpool 2nd hand these are shut down servers or just can't play
@vladberez
Even after Defiance 2050, Trion didn't havetucked. Money to continue supporting it, which sucked.
the original Prey game :(
What made Marvel Heros shutting down worse is that they had JUST released a xbox/PS version of the game that I believe was cross platform with PC. ALthough id challenge the idea that the game was doing well. The endgame was MOSTLY deadand extremely hard for most of the community. A large amount of players weren't playing to be be meta, they just wanted to use their favorite Heros/Villains and have fun.
The game has been brought back through emulation now. Multiple servers have been created to allow people to play together too. It’s GREAT!
@@Akihito007 Where????
MAG and Planetside 1 and 2 are the only games that offered the actual MMOFPS experience. It's surprising that Planetside 2 is still going 10 years+ after its launch, even though its playerbase is ever-shrinking.
I miss peak PlanetSide 2 so much 🙁 such an amazing experience.
@@heidisparklebottom Peak Planetside 2 was insane. Shame they never optimized it or fixed the UI.
The feeling of being in huge fights in PlanetSide 2 is still unique, I dont think other game ever replicate that yet
I too am surprised that PS2 is still going and getting updates, but I’m definitely not complaining lol
The fact the disc doesn’t do anything for the crew is INSANE
For real. That is something that should be illegal. It's a glorified license key that requires a server connection. 0% content on Disc. It's the exact problem I was expecting to start seeing when LIVE Service became a thing in 2006. We knew they would do it. Most games now on average only have 40% or less content on Disc and need a day 1 patch to access all of it.
At least you can use it as a coaster for your drink
Not sure if you can still do it, but in past World of Warcraft was on discs also.
EA has been killing online games since motor City online in 2001
@@SirMeowthius It is illegal to a degree. Ubisoft removed licenses from people's accounts and no longer allow them to launch the game. That's theft since we paid for the games and did not have to sign any legal documents during purchase.
Gotham City Imposters!!!
I will always remember that one,It was my first multiplayer shooter game, a lot of great memories with that one!
Holy crap, I completely forgot about that.. definitely spent a lot of time in there. More than I'll admit. Such a good time it was, loved being Fatman
Most fun I’ve ever had playing an online shooter.
Great game.
It was a sh*t game with confusing mechanics.
I had mentioned this the other day
Infinity Blade… I’ve been looking forever for this game. 6 years later and I’ve finally been answered. Thank you!
What makes the Crew case even worse is that its not like all of the other games, where you techically have it but just cant play it because it requires servers that no longer exist. Ubisoft straight up removed Crew from players game lists, at least on Uplay (or whatever its called now). Which is just insane.
Wild that you can buy something and just have it taken away.
@@40sgoingonfit You don't buy software. You lease access to it. Tell us you just click EULAs without reading them without telling us you click EULAs without reading them.
@@AhzpayneGames were never originally software and they never should have evolved into software. There should be zero need for constant software updates, either the product is finished on release, or it's not ready for release.
@@Ahzpayne im sure you read every word of every eula you have to agree to.
@@F9109-r1e video games always were softwares and they can't be anything else, you must not understand the word correctly ?
Thank you for the shoutout to Ross's Stop Killing Games Campaing :)
The Crew is definitely the one that hurts the most.
Oh man MAG was such a good time. I definitely agree with the content lacking and I think that is what ended up killing it but man those big battles were fun. What a good memory
Black & White - an excellent god game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts around 2001. Now lost forever. 😢
I've wanted a remake of Black and White forever. It also feels like the perfect game to be made for VR
@@logan_sunday Yesss! You are so right. Crowdfund it. I’ll invest!
I own that one! I loved it back then! Unfortunately I haven't been able to get it to run on newer PCs.
Ugh I looked on steam not long ago not realizing it was abandonware 😭😭
How is it lost if it doesn't require online connection? It's there in.. some places, waiting to be downloaded.
I’m still mad Unreal Tournament 4 was killed…
me too man.. lost to fortnite
Unreal is totally bollocks. Even the single player games are removed. I don't think that the multiplayer games needed a central server up tu UT2004, so I don't get it either why those had to be removed as well.
@@RelakS__Open Tournament is coming.
I refuse to give Fortnite a shred of my time because of this. Epic completely destroyed the very game their entire engine was literally named after.
One more game worth mentioning is Spec Ops: The Line - a fantastic experience, ahead of its time, that’s been permanently removed from online storefronts due to licensing issues.
Na that's single player so you can just pirate it
just get the disc or pirate
Can still play cus bought the digital version so its tied to my profile and can re download it from the xbox store if I want to play it again
Crybaby meth game.
LOL cool means I can't play it
While I was never a big fan of it, CS:GO was a significant one, because Valve just replaced the game with Counter Strike 2 without asking. The reason this is particularly annoying is that, at the same time as releasing CS2, they dropped Mac support. So not only did they delete a game that was paid for by real money (before it became free to play), they also blocked the people who use Macs from playing the replacement.
Ahhh, Marvel Heroes, I played 200+ hours in it. I was waiting for its release as a huge Marvel Ultimate Alliance fan, and even though I didn't like its first version, they did a 2015 upgrade and I was totally into it.😍
There’s a small group of people working to bring marvel heroes back online, look it up there’s a working frame of the game available as of this year and they’re adding more features trying to restore the game
Had a Raid-Ready Colossus. I was allowed to grind my fave Mutant.
Grinded for 'Kingpin's Suit' for some hours!
@@TheCyanideSmoker I played solo, but enjoyed the game.
Out of the games on the list, Marvel Heroes is the only one that I, personally, will miss.
Infinity Blade… brooo that was my childhood!! I got everything in each game. Going on a flight or long road trip? Take out the phone, plug it into a charger and went ham!! Then stopped playing mobile for years since school got more intense. But as an adult now? I was like “oh yeah! Let’s get my favorite mobile game again!” Only to find out it’s been gone for years!! I’ll never forget absolutely swiping like a mad man on those games XD
Epic games suck. they delisted that series and unreal series
I just found my old iPad touch and it's still have Infinity blade downloaded , I was super excited
@@leothelion2001 that was so amazing. The only problem was how fast it drained your battery.
@@leothelion2001 lucky bastard!!! Go ham for us that can’t relive it!
there is a guy who made a pc port of at least the first game. Id look it up but it is installed on my pc and isn't going anywhere
How is Battleborn not on this list? It was amazing, and I miss it so much.
I came to the comments for this. Such a fun game and got overshadowed by Overwatch with the similar release window. Wasted potential!
Multiplayer was buggy from my experience.
Because it's playable, the singleplayer missions at least. Some modders are working on fully restoring it. Many titles on this list are actively being worked on by modders to be playable again, the guy just didn't care to include that info into the vid. For example Marvel Heroes has seen massive progress, you can enter the map roam around but they still have ton of essential features to implement like enemies lol. People are working on a The Crew patch too.
Imo battleborn was great. It felt significantly more balanced than overwatch 1 despite its moba mechanics making balance more difficult for the devs
@@VetriVade atleast battleborn had a campaign and a story in one package, overwatch just dropped you into the setting without context. To this day I still have no idea what the story is...
Damn man, seeing PT again is such a throwback. I remember this one woman I was friends with years ago still had it installed on her PS4, and she streamed it for me. That was a hell of a good time.
Honorable mention to No One Lives Forever (and sequel). Technically they can still be played if you can find a disc or find them the not-so-legal-way but they're not up for sale digitally anywhere. And they are damn good games!!
I think it's fine to download the games on an abandonware site as the games are still stuck in legal limbo as to who own the games but since no one is profiting from them anymore, it's not like anyone is stealing from the devs or the publishers. Even PC Gamer linked to the abandonware site in one of their articles on how to get the games a few years ago.
I think literally half the Battlefield games are worth mentioning.
There are mods that bring back BF2 and BF2142, but you have to _own_ the game to play those (can't use cracked versions, even though the 2142 mod will crack your legit game to get around the DRM).
Classic Battlefield is a completely different genre from the more modern titles, you literally can't get the same experience in any other game.
Squad is closer to Battlefield 2 than what Battlefield 3 was.
What mods? I own an original copy of BF2, it was one of the first shooters I played. I'd love to play multiplayer again.
I started gaming just a bit too late, I had battlefield play for free, and the bad company games. I even bought some guns in playforfree...
Battlefield 2 online on the PS2 back in the day was peak
@@AG3n3ricHuman BF2Hub and "BF2142 Reclamation"
Bad company was a classic 😭
I didn’t even need to watch to know that thumbnail was M.A.G. 256 players on PS3 and ran like butter. Almost a decade and nobody has come close to the experience I had playing it. SVER for life!
Hell ya, SVER!
It did not run like butter. Nostalgia glasses are strong.
I regret not trying the game out. I remember noticing it, but never tried it. Honestly I think its because I didn't spend a lot of time on the PS3, was MUCH more of a fan of the Xbox 360....
There was a game by Novalogic called Joint Operations which had 250 man battle servers back in 2007, yet no one mentions it or any Novalogic games.
@@RigidRecords69 it was 150 players and the game was PC only in a time when PC gaming was not massively popular yet. at least not compared to console gaming of the time or even PC gaming today.
I miss Marvel Heroes the most on this list, me and my friends loved it.
Thanks gameranx guys for keeping attention on the stopkillinggames initiative.
... And, as usual, also
thanks for your videos!
You mean that idiot fomo thing. Pro tip what he doing is high Jacking. Work other people are already doing
The whole 3DS, Wii U, and Wii online stores. Thanks again, Nintendo
Xbox 360 store is going off line this year, i’m pretty sure
@@pandorin2348yeah next month I think
still ways to play all those tho
It's not lost forever if you know how to mod your console....
Hshop…iykyk
I still have the original box, disk and even the store receipt for The Crew from when I bought my copy.
That'll make it easy to return
@@AtomSquirrel Not if the store is gone too. 😭
@@JezzLundkvist imagine. Can't play the game, not even if it's single player, then they go and yoink the store so you can't return it
I would look at the bright side one day you will have a rare piece of gaming history to sell at a inflated price to a desperate game collector
@@JezzLundkvistI got an xbox360 from Gamecrazy, with extended warrenty. They went away and then I got the red ring.
I know most ppl probably don't care or remember, but Defiance which later became "Defiance 2050" shutdown back in 2021. That was one of my favorite games to play for a good while when it first came out. I even went and bought the hard copy for $60 on the day it came out. And then it later went free to play digital only.
I could've hated the whole video, but the fact that you guys have MAG on this list means I would've still liked and subscribed (if I wasn't already) I miss that game so much. It never gets enough love, glad you guys mentioned it here.
What faction were you in? Always nice to see another MAGA player
@@acewolfgang276 MAGA player 😂 I was a part of Raven. I had a secondary Valor account but I was always a Raven main
@@sortaseriousgaming4090 Valor main but Raven was my secondary. Pissed me off no one else could pull of what MAG could do. I had hopes for BF 2042 but they crapped the bed with that one
@@acewolfgang276 That they did. All the guys that made BF great left and created Embark. They're the guys behind The Finals and Arc Raiders now. I had hoped BF could pull it off but should've known better. Maybe one day Sony will grow a set and throw a bunch of money at making MAG2. I can only imagine how good it could be now.
Some of my best memories are from playing MAG, such an underrated gem.
Trrrruuuueeee.
imagine it coming back with a free to play model where you could earn player and gun skins but could fast track with irl money.... game devs are missing out
This video is the first time I’ve ever heard of mag🤣🤣
One that was near and dear to my heart was Motor City Online, basically a Need For Speed game by EA that was a MMO of NFS where you started out with an old junker of a 57 Chevy, Ford, or a third option that I cant remeber, but the game had a full auction house, parts catalog, you could race ovals, circuit, street and drag, wether for money against computer opponents or race fellow players for money or pinkslips. My favorite part was the full catalog of parts, just to make some interesting combos and see what worked, want a 32 Ford with an Olds 455 in it? Go for it, a 69 Charger with a 351 Windsor? By all means!
They have found a way to play the game offline, but its pretty much just a circuit race with a small handful of cars to choose from.
Well speaking of a need for speed game. Need for Speed world was a pretty awesome game that combined all the maps but they shut it down maybe half a decade after launch, if even
One game series that I wish could be brought back, is the Mercenaries series, and prior to the series ending, a third game was hinted at, taking place in Cuba, but the game was never finished, and the DLCs for Mercs2: WIF isn't playable, and hasn't been since 2008
I can make this worse. You can't be online on Mercenaries 2 or the game crashes trying to connect to the servers. You can still play both games offline just fine, so they don't qualify for the list. (PS2 and 3 experience only)
@@the_matad0r342 I have Mercs2:WIF for PS2&XB360
I think about it once or twice a year at least.
@@loukapanourgias1169if you pickup a steam deck both are playable on the go. The PC version of M2 and emulated M1
I’ve got PT, still play it from time to time. I still remember the first time I played it, such a good experience. That part with the eye paintings and red lights took me way too long to figure out lol
You mean Silent Hills, P.T. stands for "playable teaser", that wasn't the name of the game. 🤦🏻
@@XenoEvil66 I’m aware of what it was supposed to be, it’s still listed as P.T. though.
Same!!
For anyone reading your comment, you can still easily download the game…takes 1 setting change
Im both shocked and saddened that something like Gothem City Imposters wasn't in the list, was such a fun game that died out so long ago - wasnt the best game, but did a damn good job at keeping everyone entertained.
I loved that game, used to play it a lot on the 360.
Part 2
That was a fun game.
Because there's too many licences games been delisted sadly cause licences only last a short time. Xbox arcade had things like xmen arcade, Simpsons arcade etc. Same with older licensed like simpsons hit and run, lotr battle of middle earth etc
Nice to see that i wasn't the only one that remember that game. It was good for what it was had a ton of fun playing with friends !
MAG was truly special. Put 3000 hours into it. Shoutout to all the Valor clans who rolled with us. VTO, KEQ and VLS. Brothers forever.
I'm glad you mentioned darkspore because I bought that game and thought it was so fun at the time and I actually still have the disc in one of my storage boxes in my attic. I was wondering if it would be on this list so nice job!
Man, I feel so fortunate to have P.T . still installed and playable on my Darth Vader limited edition PS4, definitely has to be worth something
Doubt it... there are hundreds of thousands of accounts which have P.T. in their library. And that's all you need to install it on any console. I even have it on my PS5 (no, its not playable sadly)
People need to stop calling it P.T.... The game is Silent Hills, P.T. literally stands for "Playable teaser" 🤦🏻
@@XenoEvil66 That's literally what its called in the library though.
@@XenoEvil66 It was listed as "
P.T." on the store, its referenced as P.T. literally everywhere, even when you Google. We all know it was a Silent Hill teaser and knows what P.T. stands for.
Why do they make hard copies of games if theym gunna be useless in the future like the crew? Makes zero sense to me
Money.
You want people to stop playing old games and buy new ones.
But you get people like me that lose trust completely and not buy anything from you anymore, but i am in minority, not the target audience so this works with them
@@barbusbogdan7 basicaly scamming people then
@@MrSkullMerchant exactly. I only started buying games in 2015 when i got income for the first time. And never sailed the seas again. Didn't need to. In 2024 its the first time when the greed directly leaves me without products i paid for....
Now i am really careful when i buy something, a lot of thinking needs to be done and check up before i decide.
I am also not buying anything after lunch anymore, or i end up with products where Capcom decides to put DRM in after release... for some reason. And i don't want that.... so i wait a while to make sure the corporation doesn't pull stuff like this on me
@@briondalion ooof no gamestop in uk, buuuut i get tons of ps5/ps4 games deals on Vinted and some at Cex
@@barbusbogdan7 I think Ubishit is going to lose money from them making The Crew unplayable because so many people have turned on them.
7:11
SOCOM ending still hurts me to this day. And Sony did it to themselves by allowing the servers to be overrun by cheaters. Such a shame because the games were amazing.
socum
And what did we learn today folks? That a digital-focused, internet required, live-service future of video games is going to create nothing but memories and no games to play.
A big one for me: PlayStation Home. I spent countless hours there and to this day, still one of my favorite gaming experiences. I was always a fan of virtual worlds, but nothing could match PlayStation Home. Me and friends from across the country hanging out in our clubhouse just having a good time because it was near impossible to see each other in real life.
Nothing beats being a teenager at that time and kicking it with the homies at the in game shopping mall 😢
@@MisterGearsthe bowling alley was a vibe
Yeah PlayStation home was worse than these games because you actually had to send money for digital assets that they just stripped from you without regard. PlayStation home seems like there should have been a class action lawsuit.
Lost my virginity there
Ahhh PlayStation home those were the days such a cool idea that just disappeared still remember that men in black area where you had your own mib suit and shades 😎
When I saw the title and the thumb nail for MAG I had to see if it was actually on the list...my father and I spent so much time in MAG. It was pretty ahead of its time with up to 256 players and squad based combat.
Still ahead of time in 2024.😊
Excellent video, but P.T. is beyond spooky. It is downright terrifying.
dangit, your startin with pt, that has made a tiny hole in my heart and it will never be filled again, grew up with silent hill on ps1 and i was waiting so hard for this.. it hurts every time i see a trailer or video of it still =P
if companies like to remove support for a full price game and people had just bought it, they should give a full refund to them (ie if bought on a launcher owned by said company because they can see when it was bought)
Or just give their players tools so they can revive servers themselves
Well...
Bad news for you tho: Crew came out in 2014.
By 2012 we already lost the not owning anything push back as people rather wanted to play Far Cry 3/Battlefield 3 than boycotting any "game" that was sold under the premise of "We and you both can cancel any service and any access to the product at any time".
@@briondalion You spent $120 on a game?
I remember being so wowed by the first Infinity Blade. I know its basically just a series of quick-time events but still the jump in tech from other mobile games and even DS and PSP games from just a few years earlier was incredible, and this wasn't even on dedicated gaming hardware.
I was selling phones for a few years over that time period.
The comparison to just a few months before Infinity Blade is insane.
It'd be like going from the SNES straight to the PSP.
There has never been a mobile game like infinity blade before or since. It was like, the only actual videogame present on mobile. I miss it so much. The art style, the combat, the story, the voice acting, was all perfect. It’s tragic how underrated it is. Everyone has heard of angry birds but so few know about infinity blade it seems.
I’m one of those lucky few that still has access to PT. I’ll never forget playing it the day it dropped, in my dark bedroom. Scared the hell out of me
Your ps4 could be worth a lot
Yeah I still have the original demo on my PS4 as well.
@@tacoenvy still amazes me how in depth that was for a demo, would definitely say one of the most impressive demos for a game I’ve ever seen
I didn't know the crew was shut down, that's really sad. I know it was kinda primitive compared to the two games that came after but I really enjoyed it. My friends and I spent an entire summer jumping between it and a couple other games.
Appreciate the quick nod to Knockout City! I miss that game!
I miss that game too was so fun.
Marvel Heroes Omega was incredible. Think of Marvel Ultimate Alliance but with better graphics and more powers
So happy youve mentioned marvel heroes omega. I miss that game 😭
MaG Raven player here. MaG got me over PlanetSide 1 to PlanetSide 2. MAG was an Icarus and tried to fly to high but failed to deliver. But it was still fun for what it was. The first few years were rough large due to faction imbalance of the maps. This cost the game lots of players as their faction lacked defensible maps. But the leadership is where the game shined, setting other players objective was game changing for its time.
I miss playing Defiance 2013 I played it quite a bit liked it but I hated how they removed a lot of content with the remastered version and gave you a chance to get some of the items from the original
I played Defiance with my ex, it was a pretty fun free to play game.
Little Big Planet was one of my fav games on PS3 and Vita. Hours of endless fun
Damn. I didn’t know the crew was taken down. I played the hell out of the crew 1 (played the wild run edition) and I’m sad to know it’s gone. One of my favorite arcade racing games.
I now have a completely worthless disc lol
LittleBigPlanet was my childhood, and hearing that it shut down absolutely crushed me. I had so many levels that I remembered playing so many times. Even now I still have ideas for levels I could create, but I know I’m the only one who would be able to play them now.
PT is too important of a demo for it to be lost forever, its popularity created an entirely new horror sub-genre. Eventually someone will figure out either how to easily emulate it on PS4 or it’ll end up becoming a lockable bonus level in a future game.
I still have it installed, seeing if it runs. I didn’t know it was like a big thing to still have. EDIT: IT DOES!
@@spacemichael9090 Your Ps3 is valued hundreds of dollars more than normal Ps3's, then.
Gonna add Battleborn and Spellbreak to this list. Two games with MASSIVE potential, that sadly got shut down due to unfortunate circumstances.
Spellbreak was so much fun.
Battleborn has some kind of offline mod that was released so you can play the campaign and solo play. So there's that on PC if you have the hankering for a playthrough
I'm still sad about battle born
It’s crazy. Honestly All these games that have to be connected to internet. Sometimes it’s not a huge deal with multiplayer titles ig. But single player option games should not be like this.
@gameranx correction. You cannot play the original story of FFXIV, which was FFXIV 1.0. You would need to download and run the server emulator to do that. 1.0 is not online or accessible through any official capacity.
Okay jeez sorry I won’t :(
Lol yeah sounds like a threat
Arrest this duck
Gulag for the duck
😂👏
Dust 514
Set in the same universe Eve Online, this game kicked ass. One of the best online shooters ever.
You could call in actual orbital strikes from actual satellites being controlled by actual Eve Online players. The interaction with Eve players was extremely limited, but it was mind blowing that such a thing was even possible.
Good tight mechanics. Lots of fun game modes. It was an all around great game. (The monetization scheme was kinda whack, but not too egregious.)
And now it's completely unplayable. There was supposed to be a successor that was being worked on for a long time, but it's been radio silent for many years now.
So many fond memories buying vehicles just to have my teammates run off with them 😂
I came here to say this too.
Mag was insane, I remember people getting together to do clan battles. That wasn’t even a feature but people found a way. So much fun especially escalation.
I would love to see the release of the destiny 1 and 2 campaigns as a birderlands style p2p co op game. Would be nice to be able to keep playing after the servers inevitably go down or more content gets vaulted
Honorable/Frustrating mention: Unreal Tournament 2017, I will never forgive Epic for as long as I breathe for what they did.
Wildstar is the one that i miss the most. Still one of my favorite MMOs.
gosh I miss Wildstar
Don't forget about all the great games we can't play now due to soundtrack rights expiring and the games being to old to justify renewing them
RIP Alpha Protocol - a classic from the 360 era
Just a heads up, Alpha Protocol was finally relisted on GOG a few months ago.
@@mysterynad oh nice! Is it backwards compatible nowadays? I know Xbox is closing it's 360 store soon but I may still have it on disc somewhere
@@scottycarter5442 on pc through GOG, the console versions idk
The loss of UT2004 still stings so much. It got pulled from GOG like 2 months ago I think. It's by far the best Unreal Tournament game and Epic completely abandoned the series for Fortnite.
Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa, both NC Soft published MMOs from the 00s that were trying something different. Auto Assault was a vehicular combat MMO with some really interesting mechanics and Tabula Rasa was a third person shooter MMO. I played the betas for both and had so much fun, especially with Auto Assault. Unfortunately being a kid I couldn't afford the game and the monthly fee, and the games both shut down within a couple years. There's been some work on a private server for Tabula Rasa but it's still not functional, and Auto Assault is a lost cause because none of the server files were stored locally.
Sucks.
Auto Assault! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a looooong time. Sure would be neat to have a game like it again but I doubt it will ever happen.
I didn’t even know they changed the story in destiny 2. I need to check it out
Killing off old games perfectly aligns with the studios' business model of selling new games.
To fair that's not their fault, licensing is a major problem. Imagine pay ten of millions for a game that released over 15 years ago that doesn't sell anymore. Your just losing money at that point
@@sircartier2723 Licensing should be a non-issue, if the game in question isn't sold any more. If it's a multiplayer game with no single-player component, then sure, no one expects the official servers to be online forever. But for single-player games, there's no excuse to why they shouldn't be playable for anyone who's ever bought a copy.
@MrSociofobs you keep single player games after they're delisted, I still have my 2013 Deadpool and other games on my Xbox account
@@briondalion Oh no what ever will they do
9:00 Oh my god, I used to have that armor as a mod on Skyrim on Xbox. I remember it being called the "Shadow Knight Armor" on the Mods library and it just disappeared from my favorites one day after I reinstalled Skyrim.
Forget these AAA slop fests, we need to bring back Lego Universe
I think somebody brought it back. There's a website anyway.
This is why i value physical games of course without the servers ties, we have ownership without being worried it'll be taken away from us, and honestly yes there should be a place you can buy either where everyone can be satisfied on their preferred media type.
The problem with physical games these days is they're really dependent on server ties too. Sure you can play it, but it'll be the day 0 unpatched super buggy version. 😕
@@OneColdMonkey there’s a website online where you can check if a game is playable in disc. If you rely on this and only buy those ones, you actually only pay for games that deserve it
You don't lose games you own when they get taken off stores
Battle for Middle earth 1 and 2.... I miss those games so so so much
First game where I experienced horses actually trampling infantry, man I loved seeing that.
Abandonware sites! It's how I was able to play them still.
A note about the Destiny 2 og campaign from someone who just started playing destiny recently: that game, at least for me, is confusing as all hell to get into now. You start it up and sure theres the tutorial, but then after that it just throws like 8 storylines at you and you just have to guess which one to start with or do what I did and look up the best way to go about it chronologically. Its actually possibly the most disorganized game I've ever played in its current state.
You can play almost any game that's ever existed, you just gotta put your tricorn on and sail the seas
Facts. And piracy is most definitely worth it when you can get a digital "license" to the game revoked.
@@ak-jxrdy-7 i can't find rise of nations rise of legends anywhere :( not even on the high seas....
@@barbusbogdan7 Rise of Legends - I keep looking for that one to come back in some form. So good.
@@barbusbogdan7 yea about that, it took me less than a minute to find that game on the high seas. unfortunately can't tell where as yt will just delete my comment. ill try to write it in segments
@@barbusbogdan7 oldgamesdownload
Idk if it made the list, but The Culling. It was very early in the battle royale genre back in like 2017, and it focused on mainly melee based combat over guns. It was super fun! I really miss playing it, it’ll likely never come back though considering they tried to copy PUBG in the “sequel.”
F the culling 😂 culling 1 and especially 2 were huge scams
It was a gem of a game, but the developers kept changing things for the worse until they lost the majority of their player base. Company litterally shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly and not listening to the players.
Battleborn, imo was more fun than overwatch but 2k and gearbox didn’t want to foot the bill for servers so we lost a really fun shooter
I miss that game so much
If only Gearbox's boss was not such a moron and used his brain to market this game as something else than OW1 competitor.
Ffs it was more of a MOBA style fos than battle arena hero shooter. He had to be arrogant and sabotage his own game and release it on the OW1 window...
The gameplay and characters were excellent. The campaign and multi-player maps were half-baked at best. It would have wildly benefitted from a longer development cycle.
@@alus992 They said it was a MOBA style game from the beginning. Game Informer did a massive cover story on it when it was first announced. I don't like Randy, but it really wasn't his fault if people didn't understand it wasn't an arena hero shooter.
Its strongest point for me over overwatch was that it had couch co-op. I will never get to take my kids thru the campaign.
Game preservation is so sadly overlooked, the US government literally has copies of movies it keeps so that we quote on quote never lose them, even in the event of war, why don't they start preserving our games too. I remember seeing MAG in Game Informer and being totally floored, I didn't think anything like that could exist at the time, and it made me want a PS3 instead of my 360, not many games could do that to the fanboy in me back in the day.
They probably believe films have a more of a cultural impact
This is the reason I don't buy anything that can't be played offline.
Theres the odd few games aswel like avatar frontiers of pandora for example that need an internet connection to install off the disc.. beware of these games as they too will be useless in the future when servers are gone
@@MrSkullMerchant I know there are some games like that. Which is why I do a well research before buying a game, and it is annoying as hell.
@@MrSkullMerchant sheesh that is indeed scary
@@DaakkuuYRS i made that mistake with said avatar, needless to say i was furious. Now like you i do my research before purchasing my hard copies
This exactly
no 11. Concord
Mine is Delta Force: BHD. Already almost impossible getting a physical copy but ever since the new DF game was announced they took BHD off all online stores and steam
Forgot about that game, they're making a new one?
@@fallu2nah not really. It's called "Delta Force: Hawk Ops" and its gonna be made by tencent/timi (the same people that made COD mobile). Its supposed to be a f2p hero shooter thats not very true to the series as i see it, but they are remastering the campaign from the original and giving it its proper due which should be nice.
I really miss the infinity blade games