Whats rarely mentioned is that GA had combined pve and shooter mechanics almost seamlessly. I have yet to find a tps or fps game that could replicate the experience ga had offered in terms of pve. It was simply glorious and fun, and i really miss it.
If that trailer at the start was meant to convince me to play it, all it would've done would explicitly make me want a game where you can ride a giant toad and catch magic bugs to aid in the war effort.
yeah, i feel like they just hired their custodian to be their entire marketing team. was deff a weird vibe when the game had such cool mechanics at the time that no other game had. instead they bash already popular content(fantasy mmos)
I was an in house QA tester. We all told them the game was not going to do well. They didn't listen even after mountains of pages of reports for class work and projects for extra credit. All of us in house QA testers were from the nearby game dev schools. We were very sad on how they acted. I chose not to go back. No point in wasting my time and of course it failed.
This was SUCH a great game. I had so much fun with it. It's so sad that things died off, but digging in and leveling each class is some of the most fun I've had with any game.
Agency vs Agency combat by far, it was the best and only "endgame" early in development, but after firing good talent and the CEO Todd Erez becoming too full of himself it got ruined.
Todd Harris* I believe he went under some username called Erez in-game is why I got it confused. And yeah, it had real, awesome potential, what with having to produce resources to produce bots, turrets and player-controlled vehicles, it had a bit of an EvE vibe to it but in a much smaller scale.
Man did I played hours upon hours of that pvp. Even the pve was some of the best, specially the mission where you had to hold an area from tons of baddies. Good times.
Iam PHIL0S0PHY for me the 10 player defense raids when they were introduce were amazingly fun and just the overall theme of the game and yeah I would love a sequel.
DUDE.....First your Warhammer video and now Global Agenda...both games I spent a TON of hours on and unfortunately they have both died, and you have made quality videos explaining the history and life of both. INSTANT subscribe!
GA still goes down as my favourite game! The countless hours spent playing with my friends and finally making it to be #2 medic for the final agenda stats with woglesofdeath taking #1 assault was and is still one of my fondest gaming memories, so much nostalgia seeing our names in the back ground clips. Glad I didn’t hold my breath for GA2 but if it’s ever does come it’s sure to be a game I’ll happily buy. Good video thanks for making me remember
Why did Global Agenda fail? Because Hi-Rez jumped on the money train and banked fully on the MOBA crowd. Smart business decision, maybe, but they burned their bridges hard with Global Agenda and Tribes Ascend players. I have not seriously played any Hi-Rez game for more then an hour since they abandoned Global Agenda. I simply do not trust this company to run a game I might actually like, because twice already they've dropped a game liked by many, the moment something more profitable turned up.
The leading theory as to why City of Heroes/Villains was shut down was because it wasn't successful in Korea...despite it being their second highest grossing MMO outside of Korea and NCsoft is notorious for shutting down games that don't succeed in Korea. Look at Aion, it's current EU/NA playerbase is actually below that of what City of Heroes/villains had BUT it has a stupidly large Korean playerbase...thus it stays open.
James Espinosa Well there are people trying to relaunch it under the name Project: Titan IIRC, infact there are two fan projects to make a game like City of Heroes/Villains
Let me know if you need footage. I still have some videos on my computer. I also have a video review of the game and a Let's Play. Feel free to use either.
Actually, that would be incredible. Could you send me an email? My email is on my About page under inquiries. I want to make sure we get it in writing, maybe you can also give me some of your insight on the game (I played it briefly).
I loved GA. Still follow some related subs on reddit, you know. Just in case. Played it last year because I still had the old Hi-Res launcher installed. Did one PvE. Anyway, love your DoaG series. Took me a while to emotionally prepare myself to watch this one because it's related to a game I actually played (and loved). Great coverage.
Oh the memories! It had one of the best engineer specialized class, with turrets and drones. It was a great game, sadly it died off. It sucks that such a good game hit rock bottom.
acheron16 TOTALLY agree. I remember watching the CGI Cutscene and thinking that it was going to be one of the best games ever. It was SO hyped up they even made a tie in novel...it hurts just to see how terribly average that game was haha.
I don't think Hellgate was an MMO, wasn't it? Anyway, I still remember how I felt after buying that hot mess. Marksman was easily the best class, since it played like bad shooter instead of a clunky 3rd-person hack&slash.
Was easier to play as a hack and slash though. The game was built with online play in mind, and if you didn't pay a subscription fee, you could only have three characters in the online component, and many restrictions. Subscribed players also got access to features non-subbed players didn't. It was a hot mess. I had it when it was new, and I was never, EVER able to connect to the servers, from day one until it died and the servers were shut down. Basically you got punished for not paying more money for a game you physically bought a copy of.
Global Agenda - check, abandoned soon after Tribes: Ascend released Tribes: Ascend - check, abandoned soon after Smite released Smite - still alive, but with Paladins out, days are likely numbered if history tells us anything Paladins - the new shiny that will distract HiRez from everything
Not 100% sure. Hi-Rez is starting up Season 4 with a Celtic Pantheon and is making two spin off games for Smite (one a Mobile game and a Hearthstone-like card game). They are probably milking Smite for all its moneys worth before finally jumping ship.
So it may just take them a little longer, but Paladins is also new... GA had support when Tribes was still new and Tribes had support when Smite was new, that support just vanished within a few months.
Maybe, but there's a famous idiom, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." When the forums were still up for Global Agenda, the devs posted promises to continue support and then they totally abandoned their promise. The support for Tribes lasted longer into their new game's life than support for GA, but was still cut. While I can see scenarios where Smite retains support, I've seen HiRez chase the flavor of the month enough to lose faith in their willingness to support their titles after the craze wears off. Smite might be their exception due to it's popularity in eSports, but if Paladins doesn't become an eSports darling, mark my words - they'll drop it as soon as the next craze starts. I have no complaints about their games - I loved GA, I loved Tribes: Ascend (even if it was a dumbing down of the franchise, though less than Tribe 3), and I even enjoyed the bit of Smite that I played when it was still in beta. HiRez makes very fun games, it's how they handle their games when they start getting less attention that has put me off. I'll also be completely honest - Paladins pissed me off since HiRez kept sending out surveys to former GA players to find out what they wanted for Global Agenda 2 and they all but publicly announced that they were going to make GA2, then they came out and stated they were cancelling it to work on Paladins. The "Outpost" map for Paladins is a remake of a GA map, likely assets that they were originally developing for GA2 that were then reskinned to make a "me-too" character-based shooter rather than the class-based hybrid shooter that GA2 would have been.
FUCK ME i remember that game .... even played competitve back in the days. i sometimes miss my longbow assault, was always fun artillery striking the crap out of cap zones :) p.s. i'll never forgive CzekMix for double nuking our dropship EVERY single time we fought them in AvA-.-
I really like that someone is going over these old games. One of my biggest passions used to be DAOC, and having someone go over the company's other failure (Warhammer) was pretty thrilling. I've played all of these games, so hearing someone go over (an overview, mind you) of these games is pretty cool. Keep up the good work man :)
I played this game with my friend even with all the crashing i had it was one of the best mmorpg's i've ever played both pvp and pve were amazing it was lacking in the open world section but it was so much fun ! It's so sad hi-rez left it die.
This video made me sad.... GA was one of my all time favorite games. I've been looking for the next big MMO shooter ever since, The Division came close, but still haven't found a game to get that passionate about. Funny though I barely remember the sub fiasco. Love your Death of a game series, it's nostalgic for games I used to play and just gives a nice understanding of games I regret never trying and not being able to now. (Tabula Rasa being the main one there)
NEWS FLASH GUYS: Global Agenda is BACK! servers have been online since a week ago, not sure if u can get the client from steam though. I am playing it right now!
Loved this game a lot, played as a medic and I remember being able to still lead charged on cap points because there was a lot of self-healing options that meant I could assault a point and hold it while allies pushed up, can't think of another game I've played as a healing class where I felt so badass.
Good stuff. Yet another nostalgic run past an old favorite game. I think this game still has the most play hours on my steam somehow...glad to see I wasn't the only one! I was addicted to the pvp. It was great, and not even AvA. Pick up matches were all I needed.
I never understood how the game failed until now. I had played this game around 2012-2014 maybe, and it was my first MMO game. I remember feeling so overwhelmed at the size of the map (it was my first mmo ever, can you blame me?) and feeling frustrated I couldn't keep up with the more experienced players who already had multiple level 30+ characters. Global Agenda had sci-fi elements but the agency angle gave it a sort of mercenary/james bond approach to my eyes-and I've yet to have seen it replicated with success except maybe in Warframe (Although that game took inspiration from elsewhere, not GA). I remember booting up the game on a whim in like, 2015 and 2016 and I literally found nobody in the game, it was incredibly eerie as I was putting up chats everywhere trying to find somebody to play with. Like a ghost town. RIP Global Agenda, if only you had been given more love and had a team that didn't make dumb business decisions like Hi-Rez. Maybe someday you will come back and deliver in full.
Colm Murphy Hi Rez updated Tribes a while back in an attempt to revive it actually. I went back and it had full servers. I don't know how it is now then.
Hi-rez have a really, really bad habit of abandoning games the moment they release a new one. Global Agenda was ditched when Tribes came out, Tribes was ditched when Smite came out and now Paladins is out a lot of the Smite community are getting worried.
I doubt HiRez will get rid of their golden goose so soon. They also just anounced the release of a new pantheon (the Celtic one) so I'm not personally worried.
A bit off topic for the video subject itself, but I really enjoy going back and watching your older videos. Gives me the confidence to start my videos again. Reminds me everyone started somewhere and no one knows how they’ll progress.
This game is accidentally back!! Turns out the devs were trying out something in the test server and players found a way in lmao. Due to that, they brought the servers back up!! Old saves and all. This is the kind of experiences I love in mmos.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss Hi-Rez’s Stewart Chisam confirmed that Hi-Rez had got the servers back up and online, though it was apparently intended for an internal crew. According to his twitter on January this year: “We duct-taped together a Global Agenda server on a potato server (no small feat) for a small test and somehow people found it” Chisam logged into the server and told the group of 100-odd players that they weren’t supposed to have found it but that the studio would keep the servers up as long as it could. One year later, it's still up and going with occasional maintenances and community events :) I'd link you the sources (but RUclips) though it's fairly easy to find information! They have an active discord server, and if you download the game through Steam it'll work like a charm. There's also this article from 'massivelyop' talking about it more in depth.
I remember being in one of those mega alliance on my server. We won of the smaller mega and did not win. There was 2 mega alliance on my server that almost aways one. So they had a ton of special elite mechs and toys to spawn on any map they needed to push for victory. Yeah the rewarding more power toys to use in next season did break the AvA. I hope they do a AG2 and do it right this time.
this game reminds me of another sci-fi game that is completely dead. Dust 514. A First person shooter MMO with very little connectivity to eve online. Man i loved that game so much. Hey nerdSlayer, can you give Dust 514 a look? theres tons of gameplay footage of it on the you tubes.
Story of Firefall would make a good video. A really good shooter MMO killed by the dev management (technically it's still functioning ,but practically it's dead). The shady scandals and mind boggling decisions would make an interesting material.
If you're going to give healers versatility, then you need to give ALL classes that, you can't give one class the ability to do many things very good, then other classes are forced into one role. And the biggest misstake was to give healers the abiltiy to kill any other class 1v1 at any range. Healers are... healers and support with buffs. If you want to dps, you roll a dps. I don't roll a dps and then cry about not being able to heal do i ?.
I remember finding this game late night one day around 2011. Played it all night and most of the next day loving it, then never touched it again. Was the quickest I've ever gone from loving an MMO to not caring anymore.
Hey nerdSlayer, Are you going to do a video for Auto Assault? Still one of, if not, my favourite MMO that was ever released, but it had such a short lifespan I think many people have forgotten about it. Would love to see your take on the game.
Holy shit man how do you even remember that game? That was so long ago and so short lived. I remember it, but I found it boring as all hell personally. Then again I never liked vehicle combat, so I'm biased. I still remember me, my brother, my friend and my dad being SUPER hyped for it. Then quitting within about a week or two.
I'm a huge fan of vehicle combat so it was a bit different for me, heh. The big thing for me was customisation of the vehicles. I ended up maining the Mutant Champion, had the tank chassis and it was pimped up with spine and bone spike kits. Looked so boss.
Let me clear things up a bit. Global Agenda died the moment that its Agency vs. Agency mode was denied esports potential and largely ignored by the esports community. The company founder and co-owner, Erez, began making games with the specific goal of creating an esport. When Global Agenda failed to hit the mark, he ditched the project in favor of Tribes: Ascend. When that failed to catch the attention he wanted it was left in the dark same as GA. Then SMITE happened. SMITE's esport success is the only reason for its survival. Now that Erez has his golden goose, you'll see spin-off titles crop up around SMITE. As for Paladins: this is another attempt by Erez to use pieces from SMITE to create a successful esports shooter--a shooter esport being his original dream/goal. Once Paladins dies (or becomes forgotten altogether) you'll see yet another attempt by Erez to create another esport shooter.
oh, I was big into this game when it came out to the point I did some special testing for hi-rez, till they killed the game and did not listen to us testers... Heh, I beta tested the dome map in the recursive colony. Edit: I do remember AvA being extremely rough, as the once leader of Vortex, it made the game quite stressful... I eventually did join the best alliance towards the end (I was on the C team lol...) I have fond memories of the game and friendships to this day from the game. Great video overall, agree with basically all points in the video.
I loved global agenda played it way after they closed but left the servers up until last year when those finally shut down. It was so weird the only people who were on it just sat around the dome dancing and talking for hours up hours. Kinda spooky
I did some digging in my Steam account a few weeks ago and successfully loaded the live client. The servers are still running and all of my characters were still around but, unsurprisingly, I was the only player. I'd played from early pre-alpha to just after launch and watching its evolution from a textureless landscape to live gave no hints as to the game's eventual direction; thanks for the rundown on how GA got to where it is today.
Just, I don't understand it... If you have a game based almost entirely on Player vs. Player, or if PvP is a primary draw for a portion of the audience, just put a Ranked system in there. Most players won't really care, but some people will throw themselves at the chance to be the undisputed best, and even without any other reward will keep those players active.
i played this game last year btw lol. the severs are not always up and it can take 20 minutes of failed logins before you finally get in but when the servers are up theres normally enough players to play some of the pve content like ultramax(4 players vs ai)
Im loving these videos, thank you. I recommend doing one on firefall, I loved that game and was shocked when the website went down and never came back up. If you do make a video on it dont forget to mention the absurd bus they had at e3. Edit: Just checked and the website is back up, it was down for a while though.
It's rather simple. Game was dead right after it went for release. I was a backer back in closed beta, and Firefall was just a great game back then. It all went south when they decieded to make a generic MMO FPS out of it.
Love love loved this game, but it was really brought down by lack of content and the abandoned development. Hi Rez has a string of abandoning games. If you dig a little bit into Paladins, you can find out it was originally going to be another Global Agenda game. There is even remakes of a map or two from GA in Paladins. Suggestion for a game(s) is Monday Night Combat/Super Monday Night Combat
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This game was a wild card, but I was so amazingly awesome and different. It offered us variety when all we had was WoW and so many other WoW clones. This game is still showing after you do a search in Steams library. As soon as you click on it you are taken back to the home screen. The game is truly dead and it's so sad I really love this game. It had that feel of dare I say it Star Wars, in A New Hope it introduced us to a new world and so did Global Agenda.
I remember randomly finding this game on steam....and fell in love with it. Sure, it wasn't perfect but if it came back with some love - it would be even better today. MedicLyfe!
I'm curious... Would you be interested in having a look at City of Heroes? That used to be a pretty cool little game with a small but dedicated player base and a wealth of new ideas for an MMO. It lasted 8 years and went through a lot of interesting developments.
Alright, small correction: Paladins was in development prior to Overwatch. Are they chasing trends? Maybe. But they certainly did not copy Blizzard's already very unoriginal idea.
Of course all they do is chase trends. Their latest game, Realm Royale is a rip off of Fortnite. I prefer HiRez's gameplay though. Overwatch & Fortnite are both extremely shallow when compared to HiRez's already shallow gameplay. Paladins has the load out mechanic which helps keep the game fresh unlike Overwatch where most characters only have 1 optimal way to play.
I was going to ask if you were planning on doing City of Heroes, but it seems like everybody is on top of it. City of Heroes was something else. Champions online didn't quite grip me like CoH did. I never could figure out why.
Global Agenda took a hit when Tribes Ascension came out, and then took another hit when Planetside 2 came out. 2012 was not a good year for GA, but i had some great times on it. Tribes Ascension had the fancy graphics and a solid pedigree for lovers of jetpack combat. Planetside 2 actually delivered on the MMO aspects, and also would have drawn away players. I know this for a fact as back in the home base dome in Global Agenda we would talk about the upcoming Planetside 2 in global chat. And everyone was pretty stoked for it, and most global agenda fans were fans of planetside 1.
I'd love to see one of those about Tabula Rasa, that MMOFPS thing that died incredibly fast. Would most likely be a shorter video, but I'd still like it.
to our knowledge no, but it was in development BEFORE Overwatch was even announced so you can't really say Hi-Rez was following the Overwatch craze either Paladins originally was going to be Global Agenda 2 as well
You are just objectively incorrect. Overwatch is Project Titan, as confirmed by Blizzard. Project Titan has been a known thing since 2007. These 2 facts completely undermine your narrative. Also, come on man, Hirez has literally is never innovative. They have had to pull skins from Smite because of copyright issues from companies they have copied 2 times just off of my head.
Paladins was a completely different type of game (much more MOBA esque, like BattleBorn) until about a month after Overwatch launched... Then it suspiciously got higher movement speeds, smaller maps, and a focus on more arena shooter-like combat. Then they did Paladins BR... that just proved to me that they were all about dat low hanging fruit
Can't emphasize this enough. People always point out that Paladins was in development before Overwatch's announcement, but never mention that it was almost a completely different game until Overwatch.
I loved this game. It's what ultimately got me playing Planetside 2. The dye's in this game were some of the best. The raids were fun as hell too. This game will be missed...
New sub here. Very interesting series you have here, man! Hope you'll pump out more content for this. It's been quite good! Hoping to: a) see more videos on other dead games b) maybe a separate series on canceled games(mainly non-MMO games)? Keep up the good work!
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It's immensely ironic that this same company later went on to make a game with elves... :P
Flying Pilgrim oh haha, true
Flying Pilgrim They really should have considered CYBER ELVES.
Elementroar and it should have had poof balls
their arrogance should have been a red flag from the beginning
Whats rarely mentioned is that GA had combined pve and shooter mechanics almost seamlessly. I have yet to find a tps or fps game that could replicate the experience ga had offered in terms of pve.
It was simply glorious and fun, and i really miss it.
If that trailer at the start was meant to convince me to play it, all it would've done would explicitly make me want a game where you can ride a giant toad and catch magic bugs to aid in the war effort.
yeah, i feel like they just hired their custodian to be their entire marketing team. was deff a weird vibe when the game had such cool mechanics at the time that no other game had. instead they bash already popular content(fantasy mmos)
This looks like an awesome game, I wonder why is failed?
Created by: Hi-Rez
Oh, now I see...
I was an in house QA tester. We all told them the game was not going to do well. They didn't listen even after mountains of pages of reports for class work and projects for extra credit. All of us in house QA testers were from the nearby game dev schools. We were very sad on how they acted. I chose not to go back. No point in wasting my time and of course it failed.
Seriously. As soon as I saw Hi-Rez I understood.
doesn't help one of their ads was insulting world of warcraft.
@@John_Conner222What kind of suggestions did you give them?
This was SUCH a great game. I had so much fun with it.
It's so sad that things died off, but digging in and leveling each class is some of the most fun I've had with any game.
Played this game almost 4000 hours.
Fortune What was your favorite part of it?
Agency vs Agency combat by far, it was the best and only "endgame" early in development, but after firing good talent and the CEO Todd Erez becoming too full of himself it got ruined.
Fortune it seems like it could have been great
Todd Harris* I believe he went under some username called Erez in-game is why I got it confused.
And yeah, it had real, awesome potential, what with having to produce resources to produce bots, turrets and player-controlled vehicles, it had a bit of an EvE vibe to it but in a much smaller scale.
what agency were you in? i was in protocol.
Man did I played hours upon hours of that pvp. Even the pve was some of the best, specially the mission where you had to hold an area from tons of baddies. Good times.
raul1794 What do you think was the best aspect of it, and would you like a sequel for the game?
Iam PHIL0S0PHY for me the 10 player defense raids when they were introduce were amazingly fun and just the overall theme of the game and yeah I would love a sequel.
raul1794 It deems like people really liked it, and it seemed to have a lot of potential, I wish the developer handled it correctly
Yeah it reminds me of apb when it first came out. The horrible business module killed that game too.
Oooo...you have me another idea for a video?
Miss this game to death
DUDE.....First your Warhammer video and now Global Agenda...both games I spent a TON of hours on and unfortunately they have both died, and you have made quality videos explaining the history and life of both. INSTANT subscribe!
For those that are not aware, this game is back alive. Download on Steam.
GA still goes down as my favourite game! The countless hours spent playing with my friends and finally making it to be #2 medic for the final agenda stats with woglesofdeath taking #1 assault was and is still one of my fondest gaming memories, so much nostalgia seeing our names in the back ground clips. Glad I didn’t hold my breath for GA2 but if it’s ever does come it’s sure to be a game I’ll happily buy. Good video thanks for making me remember
Why did Global Agenda fail? Because Hi-Rez jumped on the money train and banked fully on the MOBA crowd. Smart business decision, maybe, but they burned their bridges hard with Global Agenda and Tribes Ascend players. I have not seriously played any Hi-Rez game for more then an hour since they abandoned Global Agenda. I simply do not trust this company to run a game I might actually like, because twice already they've dropped a game liked by many, the moment something more profitable turned up.
Artorius Never touched one of their games after Tribes. I cant trust them just like EA.
true
I played tribes ascend and dropped anything made by Hi-Rez after they killed it.
Any plans to do City of Heroes/Villains eventually? Pretty tragic and mysterious death for a game in my opinion.
The leading theory as to why City of Heroes/Villains was shut down was because it wasn't successful in Korea...despite it being their second highest grossing MMO outside of Korea and NCsoft is notorious for shutting down games that don't succeed in Korea.
Look at Aion, it's current EU/NA playerbase is actually below that of what City of Heroes/villains had BUT it has a stupidly large Korean playerbase...thus it stays open.
James Espinosa
Well there are people trying to relaunch it under the name Project: Titan IIRC, infact there are two fan projects to make a game like City of Heroes/Villains
I will definitely do it at some point.
Let me know if you need footage. I still have some videos on my computer. I also have a video review of the game and a Let's Play. Feel free to use either.
Actually, that would be incredible. Could you send me an email? My email is on my About page under inquiries. I want to make sure we get it in writing, maybe you can also give me some of your insight on the game (I played it briefly).
Holy shit this game was AWESOME!!!!!!
Can't believe I'm just now discovering these videos. Absolutely addicted. Great content!
When will a game this good be made again???? this game was SO GOOD someone please make it again.
@FeelsGoodMan a wild vvas appears
It's 2021. I really wish we had a Global Agenda 2. I loved the classes and how they felt, but the game lacked a lot of solid well thought out content.
Still can't believe Hi-Rez was given the Tribes license for free for being big fans...
if only a company that actualy loved the starsiege/tribes universe had the IP to work with... a new Starsiege/remake... would be amazing...
I loved GA. Still follow some related subs on reddit, you know. Just in case. Played it last year because I still had the old Hi-Res launcher installed. Did one PvE.
Anyway, love your DoaG series. Took me a while to emotionally prepare myself to watch this one because it's related to a game I actually played (and loved). Great coverage.
Oh the memories! It had one of the best engineer specialized class, with turrets and drones. It was a great game, sadly it died off. It sucks that such a good game hit rock bottom.
Bro I fucking love your channel. It's so rare for me to find another channel full of 10-30 min vids that I can binge. Subbed
Sorta reminds me of what warhammer 40k eternal crusade was supposed to be
Exactly. It didn't bode well for Eternal Crusade when it couldnt even match Global Agenda. A game of early 2010.
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Skryre Prototype Vanu use magic, everyone knows that.
According to the lore, TR Scientists went rogue when they discovered the ancient alien spandex, so skin tight that it made them fabulous.
We need to get this man more subs. Your videos are great! I love the lore aspect of them and you give a concise, informative narrative.
Have you done one on Hellgate London yet? If not, that might be a good one! Great work on this video!
Wakasaurus Rex He hasn't done it yet, no
acheron16 TOTALLY agree. I remember watching the CGI Cutscene and thinking that it was going to be one of the best games ever. It was SO hyped up they even made a tie in novel...it hurts just to see how terribly average that game was haha.
The cutscenes were the best I've ever seen....they shouldve spent less time on cutscenes and more time on the game
I don't think Hellgate was an MMO, wasn't it? Anyway, I still remember how I felt after buying that hot mess. Marksman was easily the best class, since it played like bad shooter instead of a clunky 3rd-person hack&slash.
Was easier to play as a hack and slash though. The game was built with online play in mind, and if you didn't pay a subscription fee, you could only have three characters in the online component, and many restrictions. Subscribed players also got access to features non-subbed players didn't. It was a hot mess. I had it when it was new, and I was never, EVER able to connect to the servers, from day one until it died and the servers were shut down. Basically you got punished for not paying more money for a game you physically bought a copy of.
I hear hi Rez abandons a lot of its games
Global Agenda - check, abandoned soon after Tribes: Ascend released
Tribes: Ascend - check, abandoned soon after Smite released
Smite - still alive, but with Paladins out, days are likely numbered if history tells us anything
Paladins - the new shiny that will distract HiRez from everything
Not 100% sure. Hi-Rez is starting up Season 4 with a Celtic Pantheon and is making two spin off games for Smite (one a Mobile game and a Hearthstone-like card game).
They are probably milking Smite for all its moneys worth before finally jumping ship.
So it may just take them a little longer, but Paladins is also new... GA had support when Tribes was still new and Tribes had support when Smite was new, that support just vanished within a few months.
But it's been seven months, and the Smite World Championship just happened. I don't think they'll abandon Smite for a few years.
Maybe, but there's a famous idiom, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
When the forums were still up for Global Agenda, the devs posted promises to continue support and then they totally abandoned their promise. The support for Tribes lasted longer into their new game's life than support for GA, but was still cut. While I can see scenarios where Smite retains support, I've seen HiRez chase the flavor of the month enough to lose faith in their willingness to support their titles after the craze wears off. Smite might be their exception due to it's popularity in eSports, but if Paladins doesn't become an eSports darling, mark my words - they'll drop it as soon as the next craze starts.
I have no complaints about their games - I loved GA, I loved Tribes: Ascend (even if it was a dumbing down of the franchise, though less than Tribe 3), and I even enjoyed the bit of Smite that I played when it was still in beta. HiRez makes very fun games, it's how they handle their games when they start getting less attention that has put me off. I'll also be completely honest - Paladins pissed me off since HiRez kept sending out surveys to former GA players to find out what they wanted for Global Agenda 2 and they all but publicly announced that they were going to make GA2, then they came out and stated they were cancelling it to work on Paladins. The "Outpost" map for Paladins is a remake of a GA map, likely assets that they were originally developing for GA2 that were then reskinned to make a "me-too" character-based shooter rather than the class-based hybrid shooter that GA2 would have been.
FUCK ME i remember that game .... even played competitve back in the days.
i sometimes miss my longbow assault, was always fun artillery striking the crap out of cap zones :)
p.s. i'll never forgive CzekMix for double nuking our dropship EVERY single time we fought them in AvA-.-
I really like that someone is going over these old games. One of my biggest passions used to be DAOC, and having someone go over the company's other failure (Warhammer) was pretty thrilling. I've played all of these games, so hearing someone go over (an overview, mind you) of these games is pretty cool.
Keep up the good work man :)
I played this game with my friend even with all the crashing i had it was one of the best mmorpg's i've ever played both pvp and pve were amazing it was lacking in the open world section but it was so much fun ! It's so sad hi-rez left it die.
This video made me sad.... GA was one of my all time favorite games. I've been looking for the next big MMO shooter ever since, The Division came close, but still haven't found a game to get that passionate about. Funny though I barely remember the sub fiasco.
Love your Death of a game series, it's nostalgic for games I used to play and just gives a nice understanding of games I regret never trying and not being able to now. (Tabula Rasa being the main one there)
NEWS FLASH GUYS: Global Agenda is BACK! servers have been online since a week ago, not sure if u can get the client from steam though. I am playing it right now!
Hi dude, keep doing this series, i totally enjoy it!
Loved this game a lot, played as a medic and I remember being able to still lead charged on cap points because there was a lot of self-healing options that meant I could assault a point and hold it while allies pushed up, can't think of another game I've played as a healing class where I felt so badass.
Shadowbane, freerealms, or matrix online. This series is awesome because of the amount of depth you go into. Keep it up!
oww.. i remmember my Poison Medic :( miss that game
Good stuff. Yet another nostalgic run past an old favorite game. I think this game still has the most play hours on my steam somehow...glad to see I wasn't the only one! I was addicted to the pvp. It was great, and not even AvA. Pick up matches were all I needed.
This game is back online and you can play it again. a discord is alive and there is a small player base let it grow again
I never understood how the game failed until now. I had played this game around 2012-2014 maybe, and it was my first MMO game. I remember feeling so overwhelmed at the size of the map (it was my first mmo ever, can you blame me?) and feeling frustrated I couldn't keep up with the more experienced players who already had multiple level 30+ characters. Global Agenda had sci-fi elements but the agency angle gave it a sort of mercenary/james bond approach to my eyes-and I've yet to have seen it replicated with success except maybe in Warframe (Although that game took inspiration from elsewhere, not GA). I remember booting up the game on a whim in like, 2015 and 2016 and I literally found nobody in the game, it was incredibly eerie as I was putting up chats everywhere trying to find somebody to play with. Like a ghost town.
RIP Global Agenda, if only you had been given more love and had a team that didn't make dumb business decisions like Hi-Rez. Maybe someday you will come back and deliver in full.
Thanks for the video. Love this game.
this channel deserves so much more attention your content is awesome!
Thanks for this video man.
Speaking of Hi-Rez... Ever think about doing a video like this for Tribes: Ascend?
Colm Murphy That would be cool
Yeah that would be great, also fuck HiRez
Colm Murphy Hi Rez updated Tribes a while back in an attempt to revive it actually. I went back and it had full servers. I don't know how it is now then.
Hi-rez have a really, really bad habit of abandoning games the moment they release a new one. Global Agenda was ditched when Tribes came out, Tribes was ditched when Smite came out and now Paladins is out a lot of the Smite community are getting worried.
I doubt HiRez will get rid of their golden goose so soon. They also just anounced the release of a new pantheon (the Celtic one) so I'm not personally worried.
A bit off topic for the video subject itself, but I really enjoy going back and watching your older videos. Gives me the confidence to start my videos again. Reminds me everyone started somewhere and no one knows how they’ll progress.
Keep at it bro
This game is accidentally back!! Turns out the devs were trying out something in the test server and players found a way in lmao. Due to that, they brought the servers back up!! Old saves and all.
This is the kind of experiences I love in mmos.
Can you expound?
@@nerdSlayerstudioss Hi-Rez’s Stewart Chisam confirmed that Hi-Rez had got the servers back up and online, though it was apparently intended for an internal crew.
According to his twitter on January this year: “We duct-taped together a Global Agenda server on a potato server (no small feat) for a small test and somehow people found it”
Chisam logged into the server and told the group of 100-odd players that they weren’t supposed to have found it but that the studio would keep the servers up as long as it could. One year later, it's still up and going with occasional maintenances and community events :)
I'd link you the sources (but RUclips) though it's fairly easy to find information! They have an active discord server, and if you download the game through Steam it'll work like a charm.
There's also this article from 'massivelyop' talking about it more in depth.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss For further context, the servers had been shut down in 2018 and only reopened this year due to this whole situation.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss check your filtered messages tldr; do your research its still up and running with an existing community playing regularly
Keep these up. These videos are very insightful.
I remember being in one of those mega alliance on my server. We won of the smaller mega and did not win. There was 2 mega alliance on my server that almost aways one. So they had a ton of special elite mechs and toys to spawn on any map they needed to push for victory. Yeah the rewarding more power toys to use in next season did break the AvA. I hope they do a AG2 and do it right this time.
If they do it at all :(
yes. Hehe rewatching your videos. I do enjoy your videos. :)
I really really like this series, keep up the good work!
this game reminds me of another sci-fi game that is completely dead. Dust 514. A First person shooter MMO with very little connectivity to eve online. Man i loved that game so much.
Hey nerdSlayer, can you give Dust 514 a look? theres tons of gameplay footage of it on the you tubes.
Funnily enough, this game is still alive somehow. They brought the servers back in 2022, now it's like a hundo lost souls on during primetime.
Ahhh I remember GA, one of the best pvp experiences I've ever had until my agency fell apart.
Rest in Peace the most coolest game of the world....RIP AgendaS , RIP DOME DEFENSE and Sonoran Raid , RIP GLOBAL AGENDA....Its beeing cool
do one on super monday night combat please, i loved that game
25mins of gold. I could listen to these topics and you for hours though :x
Story of Firefall would make a good video. A really good shooter MMO killed by the dev management (technically it's still functioning ,but practically it's dead). The shady scandals and mind boggling decisions would make an interesting material.
firefall was really boring to me i got maybe an hour before getting bored of it
I am addicted to watching these! Subbed and can't wait for new ones!
My problems with the game.
1) Healers did WAY too much dmg.
2) Autorifles could out-dps sniper on long distances due to high accuracy.
Dreez76 My problem: no poofballs
A pure healing build did like no damage. They could hold their own at times.
129das it didnt have elves, it didnt have poof balls, and it didnt outlast warcraft? concidence? i think not!
If you're going to give healers versatility, then you need to give ALL classes that, you can't give one class the ability to do many things very good, then other classes are forced into one role.
And the biggest misstake was to give healers the abiltiy to kill any other class 1v1 at any range. Healers are... healers and support with buffs. If you want to dps, you roll a dps. I don't roll a dps and then cry about not being able to heal do i ?.
@@Dreez76 You sir, got wrecked and I only got to witness it a whole year after it occured lmao.
I remember finding this game late night one day around 2011.
Played it all night and most of the next day loving it, then never touched it again. Was the quickest I've ever gone from loving an MMO to not caring anymore.
Hey nerdSlayer, Are you going to do a video for Auto Assault?
Still one of, if not, my favourite MMO that was ever released, but it had such a short lifespan I think many people have forgotten about it. Would love to see your take on the game.
DJBaggins you should join the discord and tell him to do that game
Might just do that, thanks for the heads up
DJBaggins ;) and join in on the other conversations
Holy shit man how do you even remember that game? That was so long ago and so short lived. I remember it, but I found it boring as all hell personally. Then again I never liked vehicle combat, so I'm biased. I still remember me, my brother, my friend and my dad being SUPER hyped for it. Then quitting within about a week or two.
I'm a huge fan of vehicle combat so it was a bit different for me, heh. The big thing for me was customisation of the vehicles. I ended up maining the Mutant Champion, had the tank chassis and it was pimped up with spine and bone spike kits. Looked so boss.
Really enjoy a semblance of investigation journalism in gaming. Great content
Played this game, miss this game. The PvP was fun while it lasted.
Great video. I remember the commercials being pretty interesting and that they poked fun at standard MMO tropes.
I still get E-Mails from the game that I should come back and play. After 6 years :D
I have found your MMO post mortems to be thoroughly enjoyable with interesting insights.
SERVERS ARE ONLINE
man this is some srrsly high quality content, keep up the good work man :)
It's NOT DEAD right now, never will be
Found this by searching for our old AVA videos. Have some life long friends from this game. Miss it! Great video!
Let me clear things up a bit. Global Agenda died the moment that its Agency vs. Agency mode was denied esports potential and largely ignored by the esports community. The company founder and co-owner, Erez, began making games with the specific goal of creating an esport. When Global Agenda failed to hit the mark, he ditched the project in favor of Tribes: Ascend. When that failed to catch the attention he wanted it was left in the dark same as GA. Then SMITE happened. SMITE's esport success is the only reason for its survival. Now that Erez has his golden goose, you'll see spin-off titles crop up around SMITE.
As for Paladins: this is another attempt by Erez to use pieces from SMITE to create a successful esports shooter--a shooter esport being his original dream/goal. Once Paladins dies (or becomes forgotten altogether) you'll see yet another attempt by Erez to create another esport shooter.
i really love these death of games videos you should keep going! got excited and was actually hoping there were more before i checked lol ^.^
Servers are back up.
Eat the nanites.
*Bancroft Subprime*
oh, I was big into this game when it came out to the point I did some special testing for hi-rez, till they killed the game and did not listen to us testers...
Heh, I beta tested the dome map in the recursive colony.
Edit: I do remember AvA being extremely rough, as the once leader of Vortex, it made the game quite stressful... I eventually did join the best alliance towards the end (I was on the C team lol...) I have fond memories of the game and friendships to this day from the game.
Great video overall, agree with basically all points in the video.
Their biggest and most stupid sin was having voiced ads.
I loved global agenda played it way after they closed but left the servers up until last year when those finally shut down. It was so weird the only people who were on it just sat around the dome dancing and talking for hours up hours. Kinda spooky
Could you do City of Heroes?
I did some digging in my Steam account a few weeks ago and successfully loaded the live client. The servers are still running and all of my characters were still around but, unsurprisingly, I was the only player. I'd played from early pre-alpha to just after launch and watching its evolution from a textureless landscape to live gave no hints as to the game's eventual direction; thanks for the rundown on how GA got to where it is today.
Graphics and gameplay remind me of ME1. This game looks like it had potential.
Robert Frisburough I just noticed that
He was playing it on very low graphics.. The graphics on Global Agenda are still very good for todays standards..
It definitely did, it had a great atmosphere and aesthetics.
It really did have a lot of potential, it was an absolute blast in 2011 before the abandonment at the end of the year.
Thats becasue both were running Unreal for engines.
stumbled across this vid in my recommendations. thnx for reminding me that this game existed. i miss it very much
Just, I don't understand it... If you have a game based almost entirely on Player vs. Player, or if PvP is a primary draw for a portion of the audience, just put a Ranked system in there. Most players won't really care, but some people will throw themselves at the chance to be the undisputed best, and even without any other reward will keep those players active.
i played this game last year btw lol. the severs are not always up and it can take 20 minutes of failed logins before you finally get in but when the servers are up theres normally enough players to play some of the pve content like ultramax(4 players vs ai)
Still waiting for the open zone "Commonwealth City"
Im loving these videos, thank you.
I recommend doing one on firefall, I loved that game and was shocked when the website went down and never came back up. If you do make a video on it dont forget to mention the absurd bus they had at e3.
Edit: Just checked and the website is back up, it was down for a while though.
Zakary Davidson that would be interesting
Check this out: steamcharts.com/app/227700#1y
That would be interesting, but the question is: Is Firefall actually dead now, or is simply bad and just going on like that?
I'm asking cause it's been like 2 years since i last played or read anything about Firefall at all.
It's rather simple. Game was dead right after it went for release. I was a backer back in closed beta, and Firefall was just a great game back then. It all went south when they decieded to make a generic MMO FPS out of it.
Ah, I rember having lots of fun in this game...
Love love loved this game, but it was really brought down by lack of content and the abandoned development. Hi Rez has a string of abandoning games.
If you dig a little bit into Paladins, you can find out it was originally going to be another Global Agenda game. There is even remakes of a map or two from GA in Paladins.
Suggestion for a game(s) is Monday Night Combat/Super Monday Night Combat
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This game was a wild card, but I was so amazingly awesome and different. It offered us variety when all we had was WoW and so many other WoW clones. This game is still showing after you do a search in Steams library. As soon as you click on it you are taken back to the home screen. The game is truly dead and it's so sad I really love this game. It had that feel of dare I say it Star Wars, in A New Hope it introduced us to a new world and so did Global Agenda.
the game is back on steam
I remember randomly finding this game on steam....and fell in love with it. Sure, it wasn't perfect but if it came back with some love - it would be even better today. MedicLyfe!
ambition without clear goals best way to describe this game. Also like never updated. Damit Hi Res,
I'm curious... Would you be interested in having a look at City of Heroes? That used to be a pretty cool little game with a small but dedicated player base and a wealth of new ideas for an MMO. It lasted 8 years and went through a lot of interesting developments.
Alright, small correction: Paladins was in development prior to Overwatch. Are they chasing trends? Maybe. But they certainly did not copy Blizzard's already very unoriginal idea.
both games copied team fortress, and smite copied blizzard aswell, just watch the abilities, they are just a copy
Of course all they do is chase trends. Their latest game, Realm Royale is a rip off of Fortnite. I prefer HiRez's gameplay though. Overwatch & Fortnite are both extremely shallow when compared to HiRez's already shallow gameplay. Paladins has the load out mechanic which helps keep the game fresh unlike Overwatch where most characters only have 1 optimal way to play.
@@BoozeAholic you sir, are completely right.
@Robertson Thirdly paladins, ty for the correction
@@1TZAH why they must take from blizzard games their is nothing originallity at all
very underrated series on youtube subbing just for this.
I remember this coming to Steam when it went F2P. Wasn't very impressed with it.
Yeah me neither...felt really, really clunky.
Same here
thats now in steam lol, google how to play now on official servers
to bad or you din't play the Pvp for real ..
how far did you get? when i hit max level PvP was something id spend 12 hours a day doing
I was going to ask if you were planning on doing City of Heroes, but it seems like everybody is on top of it.
City of Heroes was something else. Champions online didn't quite grip me like CoH did. I never could figure out why.
greeat vid, i'd really love to see city of hereoes!
Global Agenda took a hit when Tribes Ascension came out, and then took another hit when Planetside 2 came out. 2012 was not a good year for GA, but i had some great times on it.
Tribes Ascension had the fancy graphics and a solid pedigree for lovers of jetpack combat. Planetside 2 actually delivered on the MMO aspects, and also would have drawn away players. I know this for a fact as back in the home base dome in Global Agenda we would talk about the upcoming Planetside 2 in global chat. And everyone was pretty stoked for it, and most global agenda fans were fans of planetside 1.
I loved that game.
Then it died.
I'd love to see one of those about Tabula Rasa, that MMOFPS thing that died incredibly fast. Would most likely be a shorter video, but I'd still like it.
Wasn't Paladins in development before Overwatch?
You mean Project Titan?
to our knowledge no, but it was in development BEFORE Overwatch was even announced so you can't really say Hi-Rez was following the Overwatch craze either
Paladins originally was going to be Global Agenda 2 as well
You are just objectively incorrect. Overwatch is Project Titan, as confirmed by Blizzard. Project Titan has been a known thing since 2007. These 2 facts completely undermine your narrative.
Also, come on man, Hirez has literally is never innovative. They have had to pull skins from Smite because of copyright issues from companies they have copied 2 times just off of my head.
Paladins was a completely different type of game (much more MOBA esque, like BattleBorn) until about a month after Overwatch launched... Then it suspiciously got higher movement speeds, smaller maps, and a focus on more arena shooter-like combat. Then they did Paladins BR... that just proved to me that they were all about dat low hanging fruit
Can't emphasize this enough. People always point out that Paladins was in development before Overwatch's announcement, but never mention that it was almost a completely different game until Overwatch.
I loved this game. It's what ultimately got me playing Planetside 2. The dye's in this game were some of the best. The raids were fun as hell too. This game will be missed...
you should do a video of Playstation home
Nrvous 76 What? PlayStation home? is that a game?
playstation home was a fun social mmo
New sub here. Very interesting series you have here, man! Hope you'll pump out more content for this. It's been quite good! Hoping to:
a) see more videos on other dead games
b) maybe a separate series on canceled games(mainly non-MMO games)?
Keep up the good work!
DOAG will also feature companies who died, and non-mmos. Just have been focusing on MMOs a lot lately.
once again, a good game destroyed by bad business practices
Thank you for content. mate. Good to look back, the time of youth =) You definitely need to cover the death of Tabula Rasa and Auto Assault.