Nice to see some grassroots of honesty, integrity and care beginning to sprout here and there, like this video. I remember when my heart broke: it was when bethesda jumped in bed with microsoft and farted out oblivion. More bugs, less detail, no soul. I am so sad-sick of idiocracy. Investors and the boards they control are greedy, miserly cowards with no understanding of art, or love. They would rather invest in morally bankrupt marketing firms to prey on demented hype-addicts than invest in the quality of the product they are selling. Hopefully the last couple decades of ever-increasing antagonism is finally starting to irritate the herd. The strong should shepherd the weak through the valley of darkness, so to speak. So... um... good job pixeldragon, thanks :)
It’s ironic as I felt the same way about Skyrim having come from oblivion being one of my favorite games of all time. I tried to get into morrowind though the dice rolls put me off it. Makes me wonder if people who grew up with early 90s CRPGs felt a similar way about morrowind ;)
Sadly the main story of Mad Max does not make sense, raiding the enemy camps is repeptitive as hell and making sequel, that wouldmost likely be a copy of the whole thing... nah, we are fine with just one.
It has one sequence I can no longer really play though simply because I have lost hearing on one ear. It was pretty funny when I tried. I enter the dark and tried to follow the voice that always came from the left no matter how I turned. I think they put a time limit on it or something because eventually I somehow got through that part even though I had no idea which direction that voice came from. It got pretty frustrated on me at the end though. Fun game. Not a pure movie copy, and the comic doesn't seem to have all that solid backstory so I think they tacked a lot of things together just because they were fun. Also bevare of the quiet, unassuming and seemingly harmless... Luckily she's are on your side, at least this time.
This list exists because people kick and scream about wanting something different/fresh/innovative and then when they're provided a rare gem they kick and scream because it's nothing like the lab grown diamonds they're accustomed to.
That, BUT also an industry where we are often unaware. We live in a world where things are constantly shoved in our faces, and usually that with the best marketing department wins. Some of these games I came to love well after their release, purely because I did not have that awareness when they first came out.
Several of the games were just broken on release. Some released near to a game everyone wanted. Spec Ops had a horrendous marketing, marketing it as a generic 3rd person shooter. Prey was not the Prey people wanted, they wanted the game Prey 2 would have been, but that got cancelled in 2014. Days Gone and Alpha Protocol had too many bugs. Shadow of the Tomb Raider, don´t know why it´s on the list, even in the video it is said, it´s not a masterpiece, even debatable calling it anything more than good. Alien Isolation didn´t flop.
@whatwhatyep sure, Sega wanted to sell more than that, though. It's a flop the same way DMC4 and the DmC reboot were: they did rather well but not the number Capcom demanded from them. A great example is the latest Dragon Age that may not be near the previous but did the same numbers as 1 and 2, yet EA demanded three mil. Others include Days Gone itself and the original Demon's Souls.
they hate it for a good reason, it was made only to showcase the graphic which is amazing and still hold up today, but the story is bland and boring, plus the gameplay is extremely repetitive.
I just got it because the Roman Late Republic/Early Empire is my favorite historical time period. And it looks gorgeous. But the gameplay does really repetitive fast. But I have to say the game IS gorgeous.
Day's Gone ran really poorly upon release and IGN destroyed it in the review, so really hurt the game. Nowadays everything runs bad and still gets great reviews.
Well that should say something right there, also, let's not forget how games coming out over the last 5 years are regularly broken and it's deemed "acceptable" by those same journalists.
I can personally recommend playing Spec Ops :The Line, Mad Max, Days Gone, Kingdoms of Amalur, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. They are all worth the time.
Days Gone is an absolute masterpiece. And I’m really excited you mentioned Mad Max in the same sentence. Because I just bought it during the Steam Black Friday sale. And now I can’t wait to play it. ✌️
@flerbus This was ALL a politicans lie and ruin- chaffee, a REAL SCUMBAG. I know all of the backstory- he leaked the deals being made to Sony and EA to kill it. He can rot in h3ll. I know it ALL.
there was no real fraud, it was just money that ended up being wasted because the money was used to open a game studio and it was nowhere near profitable so it was wasted money from that regard.
@flerbus The State officials that OK'd the loan set up all types of backroom deals they benefited from. Friends of those State officials handled all the legal work, real estate deals, etc for 38 studios, meaning they got a cut of the State loan without any burden of repayment. No charges were brought because it would expose the State officials. They aren't going to investigate themselves. 🤣
I 100% agree about Arkane’s “Prey”! It is SUCH a good game with a great story. Really cool setting & gameplay too, but sadly no one really talks about it.
A huge part of the Prey flop was because Bethesda bought the rights to the 2006 Prey, gave it to Arkane to work on it. The problems I see is, 1. They didnt really say it wasnt a remake. They bought an IP, changed it completely, repackaged it, KEPT THE NAME. I never bought it because I thought it was a remake and not a lot of Bethesda saying its not, from what I remember.
Man i loved Rage 1 and 2. The Atmosphere of the first, with gunplay from the second game would be perfect. I also liked the MP parts of the Original Rage a lot❤❤
The original Rage is one of my favorite games. It's one of the very few fps games that I've done multiple playthroughs of. It's just too short and lackluster on the final stretch; and don't even get me started on how overpowered the pop rockets are, but man do I love using them. Lol
34:00 'Days Gone' is one of my all time favorite games! I don't agree with a single negative comment. "The story sucks." I was moved to tears by the love story between Deacon and Sarah. I also loved the other characters as well and the deeper mystery of NERO. The action is fantastic. Unlike any of the 'Resident Evil' games you can actually run circles around your enemies with just some basic moves. "The missions are too confining." The mission are actually more open than most open world games, for example when on a rescue mission once you clear all hostile the hostage is rescued and automatically teleported to safety so you don't have to drive them back and forth (save a few exceptions).
i heard the person you play as never shuts up, you know his every single thought. that's why i never played, i like my protags silent during game play.
I absolutely love this game it's by far my favourite. Never understood the bad rap it got apart from the glitches when it first came out but so many games are like that anyway
The game is incredible, and as someone else already said, it was run into the ground by garbage politics slinger IGN. I find it funny that everyone, including IGN, has seen financial ruin while Days Gone has seen a resurgence. That includes the awful Least of Us 2. The "remaster" was a total failure and I believe the third game is going to run straight into a brick wall. The series is dead, killed by Cuckman.
Days Gone's biggest issue was the massive amount of game-breaking bugs that took over a year to even acknowledge. It wasn't the game that failed; it was the studio's ego that caused the failure.
I spent so long looking for this kind of game. There just aren't any other open-world RPG zombie games with good graphics, decent story, immersive gameplay and some survival elements. Such a shame it never got a sequel. I have played every zombie game out there looking for something like Days Gone.
Guardians of the galaxy is a game I tell people about every chance I get lol and I ALWAYS make sure to mention how they made a kick ass rock album just for the game
There was a game called Prey before the 2017 game where you play as a Native American who works at a bar and you and your dad and sister get abducted by aliens. It’s a really interesting game with futuristic weapons, killing aliens, and powers inspired by Native American culture.
Days Gone is an amazing game, and the fact that we haven't had a sequel is scandalous-the video game equivalent of not getting a Dredd sequel in the movies
It suffered from being right before highly anticipated horror or horror adjacent games, which were RE Village and TLOU2. That hasn't stopped other PS exclusives before from exploding eventually, but it doesn't help it released with one too many glitches and (on the surface) it was another zombie game to boot, with the biker aesthetic. Mind you, that's something I find awesome, it's not something people fancy that much anymore, sadly. Then came Sony's awful live service chase that won't stop yet, which Bend Studio is involved with.
Enslaved is excellent. Fairly easy Platinum too. Andy Serkis plays Monkey, and Trip is obviously named after Tripitaka - from the Chinese story Journey to the West. It was made into the 70s TV show called Monkey 😀
I was in college and working at the gaming/tv dept of a Best Buy when this Ryse dropped. Of course I grabbed a 50in tv, an Xbox one and Ryse. The graphics and gameplay were insane. Really felt next Gen. Sorry you guys missed out 😂
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is based on the same character Black Myth Wukong's main character is based on, because it's based on that same story, just told in a different style. Hence why he's called Monkey and fights with a staff. Also Monkey is voiced by Andy Serkis, who (among many other acting credits) is the voice of Renoir in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Spec ops: the line was amazing and was intended to raise the PTSD severity, I played my 1st run with intent until that part like you mentioned broke me a tiny bit
14:50 I completely agree. In my opinion, it's one of the best, if not the best, action adventure game out there! The story and characters are captivating and likeable, and the post-apocalyptic world is truly beautifully crafted. I still find it a real shame that this masterpiece of its time didn't receive more attention and that more games haven't taken inspiration from it! Hopefully, a remaster will come out someday, so we can enjoy it again with modern graphics!
If you've never heard of the PS2 title, "Rogue Galaxy", you are in for a real treat. It's an action adventure game with RPG elements, gorgeous hand drawn cell shaded graphics, and an absolutely rivoting storyline. In my 41+ years of gaming, I don't think I've ever played a more precious hidden gem of a game in every sense of the phrase. Prey (2017) was the only one that even comes close in the world of underrated and under-appreciated hidden gem games. Poor marketing strategies, poorly chosen release dates, horrific box art, etc., have ruined the sales potential for a lot of great games and their developers deserve infinitely more praise and recognition. It's kinda sad.
Alpha Protocol was a game I kept an eye on when I first heard about it. It went dark, and I didn't find it until it was in the bargain bin at Game Stop. As a Mass Effect fan, this game is right there. Your "prequel" mission gives you three options for that boss when you confront him. Each one changed how you started in the game later. Best $10 i every spent on a game
@PixelDragonOfficial I have my PS4, but I haven't used it since 2022. I remember waiting for them to release it on either PS Plus or PS Now for years, but they never did.
I consider Prey to be System Shock 3 in a certain way. There is quite a lot of similar mechanics, hacking, reading emails and logs, multiple ways to solve problems and also the atmosphere and gameplay feel alike. There are also some small hidden references, like the Looking Glass server. I love that game, what a masterpiece
People that trashed Mad Max, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Days Gone - shouldn't play videogames or God forbid, rate them and post opinions. EDIT: Ryse: Son of Rome and Spec Ops: The Line also.
I mean...its just an opinion about a video game lol. Days Gone was trash at launch, riddled with so many bugs that it could at times be unplayable. Many people stepped away because of that. Not many people trashed Mad Max, they just didn't buy it.
@Sammo212if a game launched poorly, people turning away from it is justifiable. HOWEVER, if they patch it properly and its running smoothly and people still refuse to give it another go they're just NPCs who ran on mass opinion and shouldn't talk about games. (Because their opinion is not even based in full experience)
@holysinner96 there are a massive amount of games to play. Sometimes if a game doesnt give a first impression theyve lost someone forever; its not like its a 2 hour commitment. Calm down, bro; its just entertainment. Not to mention the lead dev of the game was a toxic ass
Shadow of the Tomb raider was a good game, but it felt like character assassination. Not just because the end of the world thing, Lara was bitching the entire time, showed some weird ass morals randomly, and was stil the cold blooded murderer from the previous game. I can't put my finger in it, but something felt off the entire time. It tried to be serious, but is hard to take it so with the dumb ass support characters, it tried to have urgency, but encouraged you to waste your time finding useless random crap all over the place, and Lara flat out destroyed a lot of ancient artifacts for no reason while supposedly caring for it. I liked the game, it was gorgeous and the tombs were expectacular and unique, not to mention that the graphics were excellent. But it was the less memorable of the three games, the writing felt tired and running out of ideas to explore. I wouldn't count it as a commercial flop (it wasn't), is just that ran out of gas and put the franchise on hold until enough time passes so they can do a reset.
Spec ops the line is one of those games that make you feel you're doing something right, but knowing something is really off. It is a great psychological game that shows how ptsd can affect soldiers
I remember buying Enslaved, Odyssey to the west, not thinking too much about it with my expectations. Found myself playing it / completing it in two days. Criminally underrated game. Brilliant story. I would buy this if a remaster / re-release happened.
I bought it recently on Steam because it's a reworking of the story "Journey to the West" of which I've been a fan of since the '70s. Sure, I guess the stone monkey, AKA the monkey King is no longer stone and didn't make himself immortal by stealing and eating the immortality fruit from the Jade Emperor's garden in Heaven, but it's a post apocalyptic sci-fi version not a mythology based story.
Great list. I played the majority of these at launch (I remember telling friends how good Beyond Good and Evil was and no one cared), and the only one that did not grab me right away was Days Gone. It took almost a year of playing sporadically before it finally clicked for me. I'm so glad because it's an incredible game.
Spec Ops is what resonated me the most. I thought it was just another 3rd person shooter, and then it be action psychological horror about modern warfare.
I thought the same of days gone, slow at the beginning but when I forced myself to sit down and play the longer I played the more fun I had, upgrading my bike is what kept me playing, i wanted to see how fast I could get it and how I could customize it. Love those aspects in games
Grim Fandango actually came out at a time where point and click adventures were starting to drop in popularity. The whole genre is filled with interesting concepts, one of my favorites being Monkey Island. The creative mind behind it, Tim Schafer, founded Double Fine Studios which came out with some awesome hits like Psychonauts!
The selling point of Alpha Protocol was that you could play like Borne, Bond, or Bauer or a combination. Loved it at release and still play it on RPCS3
The issue with Prey is that it's not the Prey we wanted, when it was supposed to be a sequel to the first Prey game and they showed gameplay and everything, everyone was hyped for it and then it was scrapped and what we got was this game which was completely different to the first Prey...if it had a different name I think it would have performed a lot better
How days gone hasnt had a sequel is crazy! Second i see the secret added ending still got me googling if we will carry that story on with a sefond game
Days gone looks great. When that game came out however many years ago now. That year there were soooo many great games that came out. It was a great year for a new video games and this one was my favorite one I couldn't wait for it but it was only on PlayStation and I only have Xbox and I didn't want to buy a PlayStation just for one game but man I really wanted this game I still do I might buy a PlayStation just to play this
Bro I got my steam deck 2 years ago and the first game I purchased was Ryse son of Rome I played the heck of that game non stop... The game is so underrated
grim fandango was a reboot of a game released almost 30 years ago so it only appealed to people of that generation, the same generating that played "beneath a steel sky, day of the tenenticle, sam and max, flashback".
Out of these I've played Guardians of the Galaxy, really funny and pretty game. Grim Fandango, and though it was a long time ago I thought I had a good memory of it but a lot of the clips in the video feels totally new to me. Mirrors Edge was a game I loved to try to play, but never got through simply because I couldn't get the moves to work. I don't think I got a third of the way through that game. Lovely game though. Okami I never played, though I remember when it got released and I loved the graphics and idea. But I can't remember if it was only a console game or why I didn't get it. The only console I ever had was the original Atari VCS. So not really a Console gamer after the the very early 80's. I did try the Mad Max game, but I hated it as it got so repetitive. Dang I had forgotten about that! I wonder where I have that license? I can't remember even what store I bought it from. Shadow of the Tomb Raider was a game I forced me through. I didn't like all the fighting. For me there was to much fighting in that version of Tomb Raider. Thing is I like the first version where fighting was something you really didn't do, and if it had to be done then you found some way to shoot everything nasty from a distance so they never really was a danger.
Shadow of the tomb raider is awesome. Love that i got it at a pawn store of all places. I think i might pick up Guardians, maybe mad max & a couple others that are mentioned here. Glad i clicked on this video. 😊
Ryse: Son of Rome was the first game I played on the Xbox One and I remember being mindblown by the graphics. They’re still pretty impressive but it’s always funny looking back at previous generations and what blew me away. Like when I played the Kong movie tie in video game on Xbox 360 and was blown away.
Great list. I submit TRON 2.0 for consideration. Unique shooter gameplay. Bang on old school TRON aesthetic with its own flare that took us deeper into the world. 90 degree turns on first person light cycles!!!! Yeah.
Currently at the end of the game, on PlayStation, myself. Too bad they broke the platinum with a pointless online requirement. PC mods fix it and it's still fun, if you don't really care about trophies/achievements, but I probably would grind out all the challenges, if that 1 trophy was attainable. I'm doing everything else except for the complete challenge list and I've gone out of my way for some of those challenges, which wasn't always fun, so I guess I should just ignore it. The last few ground combat challenges do make the combat a lot more frustrating than it is, if you're not trying to complete the challenges. I've lost count of how many times I've pulled off a 24 hit combo, at this point.
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Nice to see some grassroots of honesty, integrity and care beginning to sprout here and there, like this video.
I remember when my heart broke: it was when bethesda jumped in bed with microsoft and farted out oblivion. More bugs, less detail, no soul.
I am so sad-sick of idiocracy. Investors and the boards they control are greedy, miserly cowards with no understanding of art, or love. They would rather invest in morally bankrupt marketing firms to prey on demented hype-addicts than invest in the quality of the product they are selling.
Hopefully the last couple decades of ever-increasing antagonism is finally starting to irritate the herd.
The strong should shepherd the weak through the valley of darkness, so to speak.
So... um... good job pixeldragon, thanks :)
Really appreciate the kind words and the thoughtful comment man
@PixelDragonOfficial🙂 High praise for a salty old gamer with an axe to grind.
@PixelDragonOfficialthese games are not considered a masterpiece. Hence your 58k something subscribers. Honesty goes a long way.
It’s ironic as I felt the same way about Skyrim having come from oblivion being one of my favorite games of all time. I tried to get into morrowind though the dice rolls put me off it. Makes me wonder if people who grew up with early 90s CRPGs felt a similar way about morrowind ;)
@PixelDragonOfficiali wish they could make Remasterd of ryse son of rome for PS4 and ps5 version
Some of these games were victims of game review culture at the time.
Are those reviews as dumb as arc raiders ign review? 😂 straight comedy lol
@jamescraig5096yes
@jamescraig5096 Yep, and by the same channel too.
Mad Max most definitely is all time, underrated and we need a sequel
The vehicle combat was utterly incredible
It's as boring as ac valhalla
Sadly the main story of Mad Max does not make sense, raiding the enemy camps is repeptitive as hell and making sequel, that wouldmost likely be a copy of the whole thing... nah, we are fine with just one.
It was a horrible repetetive boring grindathon. It flopped for a reason.
Guardians of the Galaxy shocked me how fun it was .
And I got it for $8 from PS Stores .
Am replaying Prey again and it’s great. It’s beautiful and the game mechanics are seamless. It plays better on console than most of the new titles.
It also had a banger of a soundtrack
I got it for free from Epic Games
they had it for free on the Playstation Subscription. It's sitting in my catalog and now I'm gonna give it a chance.
It has one sequence I can no longer really play though simply because I have lost hearing on one ear. It was pretty funny when I tried. I enter the dark and tried to follow the voice that always came from the left no matter how I turned. I think they put a time limit on it or something because eventually I somehow got through that part even though I had no idea which direction that voice came from. It got pretty frustrated on me at the end though. Fun game. Not a pure movie copy, and the comic doesn't seem to have all that solid backstory so I think they tacked a lot of things together just because they were fun. Also bevare of the quiet, unassuming and seemingly harmless... Luckily she's are on your side, at least this time.
Spec Ops: The Line is a masterpeice. What a story
Twist at the end was something else , still I'm waiting for a sequel for this
Absolutely. That game was amazing
Game was so good
Remaster please 🤞🏻
Do you feel like a hero yet?
Alpha Protocol is seriously underrated. Loved that game.
This list exists because people kick and scream about wanting something different/fresh/innovative and then when they're provided a rare gem they kick and scream because it's nothing like the lab grown diamonds they're accustomed to.
That, BUT also an industry where we are often unaware. We live in a world where things are constantly shoved in our faces, and usually that with the best marketing department wins. Some of these games I came to love well after their release, purely because I did not have that awareness when they first came out.
@deeyabloalpha protocol is the one game I wish they would remake. It goes highly underappreciated.
Several of the games were just broken on release. Some released near to a game everyone wanted.
Spec Ops had a horrendous marketing, marketing it as a generic 3rd person shooter.
Prey was not the Prey people wanted, they wanted the game Prey 2 would have been, but that got cancelled in 2014.
Days Gone and Alpha Protocol had too many bugs.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider, don´t know why it´s on the list, even in the video it is said, it´s not a masterpiece, even debatable calling it anything more than good.
Alien Isolation didn´t flop.
Yep, Aliens isolation did a couple of million copies
@whatwhatyep sure, Sega wanted to sell more than that, though.
It's a flop the same way DMC4 and the DmC reboot were: they did rather well but not the number Capcom demanded from them.
A great example is the latest Dragon Age that may not be near the previous but did the same numbers as 1 and 2, yet EA demanded three mil. Others include Days Gone itself and the original Demon's Souls.
i played Ryse: Son of Rome about a month ago and I can't believe people really hated this game, it was way ahead of its time.
I forgot all about it. I might have to pick it up for PC. $10 on steam.
they hate it for a good reason, it was made only to showcase the graphic which is amazing and still hold up today, but the story is bland and boring, plus the gameplay is extremely repetitive.
I just got it because the Roman Late Republic/Early Empire is my favorite historical time period. And it looks gorgeous. But the gameplay does really repetitive fast. But I have to say the game IS gorgeous.
It was so ridiculously inaccurate and wouldn't have been hard to check these things im no historian but I even knew they were wrong
one of my favourite games on the Xbx 1
Day's Gone ran really poorly upon release and IGN destroyed it in the review, so really hurt the game. Nowadays everything runs bad and still gets great reviews.
I wish we had the same energy, Just too many unoptimized games these days, most recent borderlands 4
it run pretty good now tbh, not a single problem
Well that should say something right there, also, let's not forget how games coming out over the last 5 years are regularly broken and it's deemed "acceptable" by those same journalists.
It ran pretty decently on PS4 Pro
Their review was about his name more so than the optimization.
I can personally recommend playing Spec Ops :The Line, Mad Max, Days Gone, Kingdoms of Amalur, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. They are all worth the time.
Mad Max and Days Gone are absolutely awesome.
And Spec Ops: the Line is a straight up masterpiece.
Days Gone is an absolute masterpiece. And I’m really excited you mentioned Mad Max in the same sentence. Because I just bought it during the Steam Black Friday sale. And now I can’t wait to play it. ✌️
I played Spec Ops: The Line and I couldn't agree more. It was truly underrated.
Kingdoms of Amalur being made by baseball star Curt Schilling and defrauding the state of Rhode Island is crazy
there were no fraud charges
why the state of RI decided to give a upstart video game company that much money is the real question
@flerbus This was ALL a politicans lie and ruin- chaffee, a REAL SCUMBAG. I know all of the backstory- he leaked the deals being made to Sony and EA to kill it. He can rot in h3ll. I know it ALL.
there was no real fraud, it was just money that ended up being wasted because the money was used to open a game studio and it was nowhere near profitable so it was wasted money from that regard.
@flerbus The State officials that OK'd the loan set up all types of backroom deals they benefited from. Friends of those State officials handled all the legal work, real estate deals, etc for 38 studios, meaning they got a cut of the State loan without any burden of repayment. No charges were brought because it would expose the State officials. They aren't going to investigate themselves. 🤣
@Cakebattered seems like a typical state run project to me...(from mass)
3:33 kinda dark!? Kinda!?
I 100% agree about Arkane’s “Prey”! It is SUCH a good game with a great story. Really cool setting & gameplay too, but sadly no one really talks about it.
I read it was a horror game so I avoided it. Not a fan of jump scares.
Even less talk about the Prey from the 360/PS3 era
A huge part of the Prey flop was because Bethesda bought the rights to the 2006 Prey, gave it to Arkane to work on it.
The problems I see is, 1. They didnt really say it wasnt a remake. They bought an IP, changed it completely, repackaged it, KEPT THE NAME. I never bought it because I thought it was a remake and not a lot of Bethesda saying its not, from what I remember.
Prey has a pretty robust subreddit if you're into that kind of thing. I never heard it didn't sell well.
@backpackingtony1779 It's not really a horror game, but more of an "immersive sim".
Man i loved Rage 1 and 2. The Atmosphere of the first, with gunplay from the second game would be perfect. I also liked the MP parts of the Original Rage a lot❤❤
The original Rage is one of my favorite games. It's one of the very few fps games that I've done multiple playthroughs of. It's just too short and lackluster on the final stretch; and don't even get me started on how overpowered the pop rockets are, but man do I love using them. Lol
34:00 'Days Gone' is one of my all time favorite games! I don't agree with a single negative comment. "The story sucks." I was moved to tears by the love story between Deacon and Sarah. I also loved the other characters as well and the deeper mystery of NERO. The action is fantastic. Unlike any of the 'Resident Evil' games you can actually run circles around your enemies with just some basic moves. "The missions are too confining." The mission are actually more open than most open world games, for example when on a rescue mission once you clear all hostile the hostage is rescued and automatically teleported to safety so you don't have to drive them back and forth (save a few exceptions).
i heard the person you play as never shuts up, you know his every single thought. that's why i never played, i like my protags silent during game play.
I absolutely love this game it's by far my favourite. Never understood the bad rap it got apart from the glitches when it first came out but so many games are like that anyway
this game was drowned by politics lets face it we know why now but the damage was done and ign was the main culprit
@Deathwish777he does talk to himself a lot to be fair😂 decent game though
The game is incredible, and as someone else already said, it was run into the ground by garbage politics slinger IGN. I find it funny that everyone, including IGN, has seen financial ruin while Days Gone has seen a resurgence. That includes the awful Least of Us 2. The "remaster" was a total failure and I believe the third game is going to run straight into a brick wall. The series is dead, killed by Cuckman.
Ryse, Mad Max, and Guardians I've played through multiple times wish I could play them for the first time again
you had me at max max, and you are missing a sleeping dogs.
Sleeping dogs was a masterpiece at it's time. So fun!
Was sleeping dogs a flop?
Came here for this comment
@maximos905it wasnt
sleeping dogs sold 1.5 million copies in the first two months you cant say its a flop just cause your friends never played it
I will never stop being salty that Days Gone never had a sequel.
Days Gone's biggest issue was the massive amount of game-breaking bugs that took over a year to even acknowledge.
It wasn't the game that failed; it was the studio's ego that caused the failure.
Days gone is trash. There are too many zombie games that did everything better.
I spent so long looking for this kind of game. There just aren't any other open-world RPG zombie games with good graphics, decent story, immersive gameplay and some survival elements. Such a shame it never got a sequel. I have played every zombie game out there looking for something like Days Gone.
Days Gone I like that you can get clotheslined while riding your bike. A real awesome game and the freaker hordes are heart racing fun!
Guardians of the galaxy is a game I tell people about every chance I get lol and I ALWAYS make sure to mention how they made a kick ass rock album just for the game
There was a game called Prey before the 2017 game where you play as a Native American who works at a bar and you and your dad and sister get abducted by aliens. It’s a really interesting game with futuristic weapons, killing aliens, and powers inspired by Native American culture.
Oh I loved that! Prey 2006
Yo one of the best games so sad wen they cancel part 2 even tho is wat set in the future
I knew I wasn’t the only one to remember this game…man that was a brutal alien abduction lol
Need a remaster of the OG PREY
I keep trying to find it but I only ever get results for the other prey
Literally just a list of some of my favorite games. Excellent taste, my friend.
Glad you liked the list mate!
Quality list. It is a crime some of these games are not more popular
Days Gone is an amazing game, and the fact that we haven't had a sequel is scandalous-the video game equivalent of not getting a Dredd sequel in the movies
Dredd was such a terrible movie 😂
I agree about Days Gone but you lost me with Dredd
These guys liked the Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd.
@athenian221Seriously 😂 “I am the law!” Dredd 2012 was awesome.
It suffered from being right before highly anticipated horror or horror adjacent games, which were RE Village and TLOU2. That hasn't stopped other PS exclusives before from exploding eventually, but it doesn't help it released with one too many glitches and (on the surface) it was another zombie game to boot, with the biker aesthetic. Mind you, that's something I find awesome, it's not something people fancy that much anymore, sadly.
Then came Sony's awful live service chase that won't stop yet, which Bend Studio is involved with.
Enslaved is excellent. Fairly easy Platinum too. Andy Serkis plays Monkey, and Trip is obviously named after Tripitaka - from the Chinese story Journey to the West. It was made into the 70s TV show called Monkey 😀
only masterpiece in this bunch :)
Alien Isolation in VR is probably the scariest game I’ve ever played
I was in college and working at the gaming/tv dept of a Best Buy when this Ryse dropped. Of course I grabbed a 50in tv, an Xbox one and Ryse. The graphics and gameplay were insane. Really felt next Gen. Sorry you guys missed out 😂
I played Ryse Son of Rome when it came out and it was so fun. I stayed up all night and beat the game in 12 hours.
Spec ops, The Line one of my fave games ever.
Fubar difficulty was brutal lol
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is based on the same character Black Myth Wukong's main character is based on, because it's based on that same story, just told in a different style. Hence why he's called Monkey and fights with a staff.
Also Monkey is voiced by Andy Serkis, who (among many other acting credits) is the voice of Renoir in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Even funnier when you realize he Motion captured and voiced 2 Monkeys before = King Kong 2005 & Ceaser Planet of the Apes
Be interesting to compare many of these games to what came out in the same release window.
Spec ops: the line was amazing and was intended to raise the PTSD severity, I played my 1st run with intent until that part like you mentioned broke me a tiny bit
I loved the older game named Prey. Don’t know if it’s even available anymore.
I’m on my 7th or 8th replay of Mad Max and it just keeps getting better and better. I’m hooked, just like in the early days.
It just plays so well and is so much fun. Well maybe the airport can be a bit frustrating driving around lol.
Best explosions of all time
The Typhon remind me of the Dregs from Titan AE. Anybody remember that old anime??
Spec Ops The Line, Mad Max - some of my favourites!
Amalur is also really freaking good!
I feel like if we compared all of your videos the overlap would be wild 😂
Thank you for this list. Many of these titles are in deep discounts right now in Steam during the Autumn sale. I picked up 4.
5:15 you didn’t mention that the sand is also a factor in gameplay. Where you can shoot out glass and have an avalanche of sand rush down on enemies.
Oh yeah, my bad dude
I played Kingdoms of Alamur and liked it a lot. Days Gone is pretty good too.
People don't mention enough how accurate Oregon is in Days Gone. That game is full immersion for us over in the PNW.
I live on Vancouver Island and there are scenes in Dayz Gone that look like my backyard lol!
I got Grim Fandango when it first came out in the 90s. Loved it. One of my all time favorites. Days Gone is phenomenal in my opinion. Love that game.
Dude literally every gamer has heard of the white phosphorus in Spec ops
14:50 I completely agree. In my opinion, it's one of the best, if not the best, action adventure game out there! The story and characters are captivating and likeable, and the post-apocalyptic world is truly beautifully crafted. I still find it a real shame that this masterpiece of its time didn't receive more attention and that more games haven't taken inspiration from it! Hopefully, a remaster will come out someday, so we can enjoy it again with modern graphics!
Your description of alien isolation reminds me a bit of Resident Evil 7 in areas
Days Gone best story no cap.
Does it have a cap?
@TucBroderno cap is some kind of newer douchey saying.
cool video, can you also add the release year for each game during the video please
If you've never heard of the PS2 title, "Rogue Galaxy", you are in for a real treat. It's an action adventure game with RPG elements, gorgeous hand drawn cell shaded graphics, and an absolutely rivoting storyline. In my 41+ years of gaming, I don't think I've ever played a more precious hidden gem of a game in every sense of the phrase. Prey (2017) was the only one that even comes close in the world of underrated and under-appreciated hidden gem games. Poor marketing strategies, poorly chosen release dates, horrific box art, etc., have ruined the sales potential for a lot of great games and their developers deserve infinitely more praise and recognition. It's kinda sad.
I’m gonna play it 👇👆
I remember playing that parcore game on a demo
I loved Days Gone it was blast to play and I general hate Zombie games.
I remember me and my friend playing Ryse online. And each trying to hit 200+ hit combos against a horde of enemies inside the coliseum
Addictivly fun.
Days gone is a master piece, the story after a while can get abit annoying in my opinion but other than that it deserves more love than it ever got
Alpha Protocol was a game I kept an eye on when I first heard about it. It went dark, and I didn't find it until it was in the bargain bin at Game Stop. As a Mass Effect fan, this game is right there. Your "prequel" mission gives you three options for that boss when you confront him. Each one changed how you started in the game later. Best $10 i every spent on a game
Days gone is one of the best zombie games I've played
I am still interested in trying Ryse Son of Rome and The Order 1886
Both great cinematic games, Ryse son of rome is easily available on Xbox and PC, but sadly order 1886 is only on Playstation
@PixelDragonOfficial I have my PS4, but I haven't used it since 2022. I remember waiting for them to release it on either PS Plus or PS Now for years, but they never did.
Days Gone needs a damn sequel.
word on the streets is, its coming
"Asura's Wrath" and "The Order" are both worth mentioning.
Days gone made me so angry. Loved it so much and the fact that it didn’t sell well and they don’t want to do a sequel annoys me
I consider Prey to be System Shock 3 in a certain way. There is quite a lot of similar mechanics, hacking, reading emails and logs, multiple ways to solve problems and also the atmosphere and gameplay feel alike. There are also some small hidden references, like the Looking Glass server. I love that game, what a masterpiece
That's a really interesting take on Prey and a great comparison to System Shock!
Really great list! Thank you for the introduction to these games
Mirrors edge was all I wanted for Xmas that year. Was a big game on my radar at the time. Loved it
People that trashed Mad Max, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Days Gone - shouldn't play videogames or God forbid, rate them and post opinions.
EDIT: Ryse: Son of Rome and Spec Ops: The Line also.
I mean...its just an opinion about a video game lol. Days Gone was trash at launch, riddled with so many bugs that it could at times be unplayable. Many people stepped away because of that. Not many people trashed Mad Max, they just didn't buy it.
@Sammo212if a game launched poorly, people turning away from it is justifiable. HOWEVER, if they patch it properly and its running smoothly and people still refuse to give it another go they're just NPCs who ran on mass opinion and shouldn't talk about games. (Because their opinion is not even based in full experience)
@holysinner96 there are a massive amount of games to play. Sometimes if a game doesnt give a first impression theyve lost someone forever; its not like its a 2 hour commitment. Calm down, bro; its just entertainment. Not to mention the lead dev of the game was a toxic ass
Shadow of the Tomb raider was a good game, but it felt like character assassination. Not just because the end of the world thing, Lara was bitching the entire time, showed some weird ass morals randomly, and was stil the cold blooded murderer from the previous game.
I can't put my finger in it, but something felt off the entire time. It tried to be serious, but is hard to take it so with the dumb ass support characters, it tried to have urgency, but encouraged you to waste your time finding useless random crap all over the place, and Lara flat out destroyed a lot of ancient artifacts for no reason while supposedly caring for it.
I liked the game, it was gorgeous and the tombs were expectacular and unique, not to mention that the graphics were excellent. But it was the less memorable of the three games, the writing felt tired and running out of ideas to explore. I wouldn't count it as a commercial flop (it wasn't), is just that ran out of gas and put the franchise on hold until enough time passes so they can do a reset.
Spec ops the line is one of those games that make you feel you're doing something right, but knowing something is really off. It is a great psychological game that shows how ptsd can affect soldiers
I remember buying Enslaved, Odyssey to the west, not thinking too much about it with my expectations.
Found myself playing it / completing it in two days. Criminally underrated game. Brilliant story.
I would buy this if a remaster / re-release happened.
Awesome game; I played it late
Awesome soundtrack, great songs, great atmosphere. Game inspired Last of Us in many ways.
I bought it recently on Steam because it's a reworking of the story "Journey to the West" of which I've been a fan of since the '70s. Sure, I guess the stone monkey, AKA the monkey King is no longer stone and didn't make himself immortal by stealing and eating the immortality fruit from the Jade Emperor's garden in Heaven, but it's a post apocalyptic sci-fi version not a mythology based story.
Great list. I played the majority of these at launch (I remember telling friends how good Beyond Good and Evil was and no one cared), and the only one that did not grab me right away was Days Gone. It took almost a year of playing sporadically before it finally clicked for me. I'm so glad because it's an incredible game.
Days Gone is excellent. Boring? Hardly. Exciting Platinum to work towards.
Spec Ops is what resonated me the most. I thought it was just another 3rd person shooter, and then it be action psychological horror about modern warfare.
Enslaved released the same day as some major titles and got over looked. Its one of my favorite games
Enslaved is most definitely a hidden gem. I couldn't stop playing it
I thought the same of days gone, slow at the beginning but when I forced myself to sit down and play the longer I played the more fun I had, upgrading my bike is what kept me playing, i wanted to see how fast I could get it and how I could customize it. Love those aspects in games
Bro, its such a shame about Guardian of the galaxy... it was honestly on the same or even better than games like arkham knigh and Spider-Man ps4
Grim Fandango actually came out at a time where point and click adventures were starting to drop in popularity. The whole genre is filled with interesting concepts, one of my favorites being Monkey Island. The creative mind behind it, Tim Schafer, founded Double Fine Studios which came out with some awesome hits like Psychonauts!
I loved Days Gone. But, im also a biker so it kinda resonated with me. I was sad when he took off his cut.
The selling point of Alpha Protocol was that you could play like Borne, Bond, or Bauer or a combination. Loved it at release and still play it on RPCS3
It's a funny coincidence that I just started playing Days Gone yesterday. Great game.
days gone very cool game..and WILL get your blood pumping
alien iso was truly terrifying
The issue with Prey is that it's not the Prey we wanted, when it was supposed to be a sequel to the first Prey game and they showed gameplay and everything, everyone was hyped for it and then it was scrapped and what we got was this game which was completely different to the first Prey...if it had a different name I think it would have performed a lot better
How days gone hasnt had a sequel is crazy! Second i see the secret added ending still got me googling if we will carry that story on with a sefond game
Im playing prey now... its so fun and dope.
1:50 thats what she said 😅
Damn. I was gonna say this 😂😂😂. Good shit 🫱🏽🫲🏾
Ryse had a epic MP mode too that no one talks about the gladiator mode was amazing, ranking up and fitting your own collection of gladiators epic
Days gone looks great. When that game came out however many years ago now. That year there were soooo many great games that came out. It was a great year for a new video games and this one was my favorite one I couldn't wait for it but it was only on PlayStation and I only have Xbox and I didn't want to buy a PlayStation just for one game but man I really wanted this game I still do I might buy a PlayStation just to play this
Anyone remember Red Faction Guerilla?
Bro I got my steam deck 2 years ago and the first game I purchased was Ryse son of Rome I played the heck of that game non stop... The game is so underrated
grim fandango was a reboot of a game released almost 30 years ago so it only appealed to people of that generation, the same generating that played "beneath a steel sky, day of the tenenticle, sam and max, flashback".
I think a least some of these are results of bigger games coming out around the same time that overshadowed these
Out of these I've played Guardians of the Galaxy, really funny and pretty game.
Grim Fandango, and though it was a long time ago I thought I had a good memory of it but a lot of the clips in the video feels totally new to me.
Mirrors Edge was a game I loved to try to play, but never got through simply because I couldn't get the moves to work. I don't think I got a third of the way through that game. Lovely game though.
Okami I never played, though I remember when it got released and I loved the graphics and idea. But I can't remember if it was only a console game or why I didn't get it. The only console I ever had was the original Atari VCS. So not really a Console gamer after the the very early 80's.
I did try the Mad Max game, but I hated it as it got so repetitive. Dang I had forgotten about that! I wonder where I have that license? I can't remember even what store I bought it from.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was a game I forced me through. I didn't like all the fighting. For me there was to much fighting in that version of Tomb Raider. Thing is I like the first version where fighting was something you really didn't do, and if it had to be done then you found some way to shoot everything nasty from a distance so they never really was a danger.
Shadow of the tomb raider is awesome. Love that i got it at a pawn store of all places. I think i might pick up Guardians, maybe mad max & a couple others that are mentioned here.
Glad i clicked on this video. 😊
Awesome to hear you enjoyed the video and found some cool recommendations!
Ryse: Son of Rome was the first game I played on the Xbox One and I remember being mindblown by the graphics. They’re still pretty impressive but it’s always funny looking back at previous generations and what blew me away. Like when I played the Kong movie tie in video game on Xbox 360 and was blown away.
Also was so glad I bought The Guardians Of The Galaxy game, had so much fun with it.
Spec Ops the Line ... this game was an amazing surprise. Its epic. Getting all the endings also adds to it...
Great list. I submit TRON 2.0 for consideration. Unique shooter gameplay. Bang on old school TRON aesthetic with its own flare that took us deeper into the world. 90 degree turns on first person light cycles!!!! Yeah.
A realy good list! I agree with every Pic👍🏽
Amalur, great game, some of the best storytelling in the fae quests. Maid of Windemere quest line is my favourite.
Rage 2: I was so eager to play this! When I did though I couldn’t even pick up the first weapon.. Am I the only one whose game didn’t work??
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and Alpha protocol I basically knew nothing about, always cool to see really uncommon titles on lists like this.
Rage 2 by same developer as Mad Max, I love both of those games. Two of the few games that I tried to delay the story ending by doing the side stuff
Mad Max is almost always on lists like this, and with good reason.
Remaster please🤞🏻
@paulharvey212 No need. I just finished the game for the first time and it looks, feels, sounds and handles amazing. Played on XsX.
Currently at the end of the game, on PlayStation, myself. Too bad they broke the platinum with a pointless online requirement. PC mods fix it and it's still fun, if you don't really care about trophies/achievements, but I probably would grind out all the challenges, if that 1 trophy was attainable. I'm doing everything else except for the complete challenge list and I've gone out of my way for some of those challenges, which wasn't always fun, so I guess I should just ignore it. The last few ground combat challenges do make the combat a lot more frustrating than it is, if you're not trying to complete the challenges. I've lost count of how many times I've pulled off a 24 hit combo, at this point.
Me and my brother got it on sale (it's always on sale) and played it at the same time on the phone. We had a blast.
Days Gone... What a masterpiece.
Grim Fandango was very popular in Germany!