The worst part is they made a pretty fun to play game (heavy emphasis on the pretty fun) they just made a shitty saints row game because it's just the later crazy games without the crazy stuff that made those fun and bearable with the wild nonsensical story
This is an unpopular opinion but my favorite saints row game is the original, but my second favorite saints row game is the the reboot. Everyone loves Saints Row 2 but I felt the story as a sequel could've been a bit better and the graphics could've definitely been better. It's still fun though. Getting back to Saints Row 2022, I feel it doesnt deserve the hate it gets, as my only gripe with it is the story was way too tame and there wasnt enough buildup for certain things. Other than that I enjoyed it. All they have to do in a sequel is make the tone a bit more darker.
Yeah, the lesson *should be* "a game that aims to please everyone will please no one," but they'll look at this and think "nobody wants unique open world shooters that push boundaries and aren't afraid to let you run naked through the streets wielding a giant purple phallus."
@Blake Harper it got hate because saints row 2022 was about teens trying to pay of their college loans etc. Etc. Saints row 2 was still grounded and had the same formula as the first. You start out with nothing and work your way to the top just to be betrayed nearly killed and the saints wiped out so in 2 you basically start all over again and build the saints back up in your own right. Everything after 2 was just childish humor. 2 has pimp canes 3 has giant purple dildo bats the humor is vastly different and 1-2 are different devs than the ones that made 3+. I like to say the new devs went full tarded when thinking how to make 3 different from 2.
To recover from the depression that this episode caused, i feel we need a 10 games that brought franchises back from the dead. 😂 Would be a welcome change of pace!
Fun fact about MoH Warfight… love it or hate it. A lot of those missions are based on true ops and are extremely close to actual events that happened because some spec ops guys were leaking classified information to help make the games story/missions.
And they brought in actual operators to consult on it. But I think what I liked the most about it was that I finally got to play as a Canadian soldier in a video game. Finally got to represent my country. Canada doesnt get enough attention in videogames. Especially ww2 games.
Driver : Parallel Lines was an INCREDIBLE entry to the series. Totally cool to transition from the 70’s to the 2000’s, the driving was good and had a bit of customisation.
Driver: Parallel Lines was the first videogame I ever played, at 6 years old. Somehow my dad played through the entire game and decided it was fine to let me play, but I'm sure glad he did. I've played it through more times than I can count. I got Driv3r probably a few years later and while it was a pretty good game, it didn't really carry the legacy of Parallel Lines, my favorite thing about it was the character looked like my neighbor Craig lmao
Gameranx is my favorite channel for when I’m cooking dinner and decompressing from the work day. Always chill vibes and great content, and usually a nice dose of nostalgia for games I hadn’t thought of in awhile. Seriously, thanks guys.
I have to disagree about fear 3 and dead rising 4 , both of those games I enjoyed. Fear 3 is like dead space 3 to me, more action and less scary, but still a solid game and definitely was worth playing if you were a F.E.A.R fan like me. Dead rising 4 was nowhere near as good as dead rising 3, but I liked dr 4 for its christmas setting.
Apart from the technical issues, SimCity (2013) was bashed for the ridiculously tiny city size, it was more like Simtown. The developers said that they were going to increase the tile size later through a patch, but the truth was the engine simply wasn't capable of simulating bigger cities.
Yeah there was lots to like about it but the tile sizes and complete ability to build other high way access points really ruined it. I remeber watching a truck try to deliver computer processors and getting stuck in traffic for three days.
It is sad how most franchise deaths occurred due to higher-ups 'smelling the money' or going with whatever trend they thought was hip instead of staying loyal to the franchise and it's fans. The people most disconnected from the gaming world get to decide how the game has to be made...
That's literally been the industry from the start. The only exceptions are when programmers and people who love games start a company and for the first game or two they make great stuff and then business types seep in and it becomes just another company. The only exception to this rule is Remedy and IO, Bethesda WOULD count but creating that LLC after the issues they had with shipping Daggerfall kinda screwed them over
It's not so much the executives but the behavioral patterns of people in general. Companies start out small and thus have to actually think about what their customers want and how to give it to them. Once they become big enough though, they realize they can just sell of their brand name alone and so start half assing everything. Give people a way to make the big bucks with a fraction of the time and effort and they'll choose to do that every time.
I remember an EA executive stating that a typical PC could not possibly process the amount of data that SimCity was using and required an online connection to properly simulate the city. That infuriated me, especially since they later allowed offline play and the city runs fine on a local computer. 😂
Before Medal of Honor 2010 there was Medal of Honor: Airborne and I think it was pretty good, very creative approach to the gameplay. Every mission you jump out of a plane and get to choose where to land. On a roof here, on a tower there, near by supplies or right behind enemies if you brave enough - the freedom of choice was great. Sadly the game was quite short and definitely felt like a sort of experiment. But I think they should've used all these ideas to continue the series this way.
That game was good but controls killed it - they lazily blended all consoles so because of the Wii you have weird stop and shoot, lean and peak which even on the wii itself was a little off Will never be like the days running PS2 shooter titles hell emulate then on PC lol
Considering that Driver lost the previous genre to GTA, I was hoping they continue making more Driver San Francisco. It was fun, engaging, unique and with a really nice story. I hope they make a newer version of that game.
I remember being so excited for SimCity 2013 and buying it on Origin and then being very disappointed by the fact that your cities were incredibly small. You couldn't even buy extra plots of land to expand (at least at launch) so you hit capacity really quickly.
Same with Sims 4 (2014), shittier with each update 😢 they even made it free now. (spitting on those who bought it). Sims 3 (2009) looks better due to 4 getting worse constantly
Maxis remastered Sid Meier's Railroads for mobile and it is really good and only thing missing is mods I want my own maps but on PC emulator just drag and drop the map and it works
I'm glad to hear you've mentioned Driver: San Francisco and praised it. I freakin' loved it, this is one of my all-time favorite games ever. What a masterpiece! Such a bummer that it failed in terms of sales.
I remember one of the coolest things about Driver 2 being you could raise and lower the bridge in the city. Also finding secret vehicles out in the open world was great.
Driver 2 was the first open world game I'd ever played. It was essentially everything you could want. GTA ended up really nailing it later on. I forgot all about Driver 2 lol, thank you
i quite liked the competition of Allied Assault vs CoD and then came Battlefield 1942, from what i recall, wasnt that multiplayer only? Then after that, MoH took a nosedive starting with Rising Sun. CoD was a bit steady with 2 and, well i know nothing about 3. (there were 2 versions of CoD 1 and 2, pc and console) CoD got better/more praise with 4 and thats when people stopped caring for MoH. Airborne came out the same year but wasnt universally loved like CoD4.
How about a list of games in a series that felt like the franchise was killed, but came back harder than ever? Mafia 3 followed by Mafia Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness followed by the reboots etc.
Well, I don’t think medal of honor 2010 or Warfighter were generic games. For that matter, I think the aspect that hooked most people was the realistic story and the way the campaign progress (I was very young and didn’t play too much multiplayer). If I remember correctly, the campaign was written with the help of actual Navy SEALs. I don’t quite remember if they were still in service or not, but some of the missions were based off true events like the helicopter crash in a snowy mountain
Yeah... This guy isn't a firearms fan or someone who respects and or studies military matters. Certainly doesn't know anyone who served in the GWOT. Warfighter is legit. It was showcasing the human cost of war. I still break out the PS3 and play it sometimes.
The best bit about Simcity 2013 and it's always online, was that the always online was literally a few lines of code that asked the server if it was still there. Delete something like 4 lines of code and the game worked just fine without an internet connection.
It's funny how they talked up how it was so epic it couldn't run on puny home computers. And then they got proven wrong, it worked fine without the server.
@@dakat5131 Funny thing is even EA realised this and eventually made the game playable offline. But, sadly, at that time, it was too little to late and Cities: Skylines was already out and definitely better and more popular than SimCity. Which is shame. Once the game was offline, it was pretty well playable Sim Building game. But Cities did everything better to the point that even EA realised it's futile to fight with them and Cities even were available through Origin store for some time. It's no longer available through EA store anymore, but it was still fun seeing it there 😁
@@petrnovak7235 They didn't realise it as there was nothing to realise in the first place. They had been lying about the reason why the game required an intrnet connection, were caught lying and removed the restriction as some form of damage control.
The only good addition (if I remember correctly) was being able to build a region with other people. My friends and I played that way for a bit, but it wasn’t enough to sustain us in that game. Cool mechanic though.
I remember the mess that was the release, because their servers absolutely could not handle the traffic and it would take forever just to contact the server so you could play *single player* and it was a mess. I also remember the maps being much smaller then expected. When the game actually worked it wasn't that terrible but a lot of the cooperative projects on the map just never worked and stuff and...yeah
It's really sad how Dead Rising lost its way. It's the series that could've benefitted the most from hearing "less is more". You can't just make the player more powerful and powerful, with incredible suits and overpowered weapons without the game losing some identity.
@@mijo91 Hey, I get that. The game doesn't look unappealing if you see a little of it, and if you have no prior experience with the better games in the series. But if you've already played the better games, it's really hard to move on to DR4 after them.
Personally having played all of them, it’s my favorite game of the entire widespread zombie apocalypse genre hands down. I enjoyed it more than any of the other DR entries, either Dead Island, Dying Light, etc. To me the overpowered nature of it and the goofy weapons are fun. Love the Frank West character. Love the setting/environment. Even the music is enjoyable. Just a fun game. I’ve probably re-played it once a year since it came out. Even playing the new Dead Island game earlier this year, all I could think about were aspects missing from it that DR4 had that would have made it more enjoyable.
I personally loved Medal of Honor Warfighter, the game mechanics blew my mind when I was a kid. I think if they brought it back in a modern setting again it would be better than the last three CODs. Especially campaign wise
Driver San Francisco is phenomenal. I have played it like four times and never got bored. It was so fun to play and had good story too. Wish they can continue from that.
The Saints Row hurt me the most. I remember being very excited for its release then when I saw the previews thought it was totally off course. Then I got called a boomer and was told the game wasn't being made for old people like me lol. I would be happy if they remastered the second while keeping the game intact.
I'm like you and want a remaster of the first two. The previews of the new one were really irritating and felt soft. All of the original grittiness was gone.
@@robertmccray6596 I just completed the silly story and yes, you're right on this. There so many moments where I thought, "the Boss of Saints Row 2 would not do THAT they would just fucking see red". The new Boss just bends over and acts like a bitch most times, has very few hard qualities about them. The property ventures and city takeover gameplay are fun, but that's not saying much.
@@Celestialnighthawk for me,I gave up a long time but I wanted to give the reboot a chance for the gameplay since Volition were screaming about it in their trailer,but at the end we got sponge-bullet enemies, cars that randomly jump for no reason, getting locked on special melee move, losing all of your weapons,some enemies just won't die and lastly the render distance makes me feel like I'm playing Minecraft on low settings
@@Celestialnighthawk for me,I gave up a long time but I wanted to give the reboot a chance for the gameplay since Volition were screaming about it in their trailer,but at the end we got sponge-bullet enemies, cars that randomly jump for no reason, getting locked on special melee move, losing all of your weapons,some enemies just won't die and lastly the render distance makes me feel like I'm playing Minecraft on low settings
Driver: Parallel Lines is also an amazing game. Very much like GTA, but it takes place in two time periods. The 70's and the 00's. It is very, very good, and if you enjoy going back to play ps2 from time to time I strongly recommend it.
I loved parallel lines, completed it a few times, I do miss a more simple game that doesn’t overwhelm you with mechanics that don’t make any sense, or bombard you with micro transactions 😢😢😢😢
Driver San Francisco was really cool BUUT when I was younger and playing driver after a long time, Driver Parrallel Lines was crazy. The ability to switch back and forth between timelines was insane in my head then. They did it so well and honestly I cannot remember another game that did something like that. It would really be cool if GTA could implement something like that. Even if just on single player mode.
I'm shocked they left out the fun story of Driv3r story. They knew it was buggy and bribed critics for good scores. That's Atari for ya. Gta ripped off driver and got away with it.
@@clarafedde8674 Yeah, most of the driv3r's mission are unique, though some of them are kinda boring. It's unfortunate that my game always forcesclosed after the first mission in Instanbul.
I’d like to nominate Splinter Cell: Double Agent for this list. Coming off the heels of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (which imo is arguably the greatest stealth/espionage game of all time), Double Agent decided to go for large action set pieces, more daytime gameplay, quick time events, and shootouts, over the well paced Mission Impossible style gameplay from previous releases. The series has never recovered from this switch in tone, and it just breaks my heart. Chaos Theory still holds up to this day as one of the best stealth games ever released.
One I am super sad about is Jak and Daxter. That was one of my favorites growing up. Jak X was the wrong way to go, but I would love a reboot of this franchise.
Medal of Honor frontlines and Rising sun were amazing for a kid growing up in the 2000’s. I have so many memories of playing localized multiplayer on rising sun.
I’ve had an issue with Volition Software ever since a zombie game they were working on for the Xbox 360 was never released. You were in charge of the zombies and you could control what they did while they were out in an area. They could search, gather, hunt or feast upon things. They’d power up at some point, too, and some of the footage shown when you “let them loose” on an area looked truly terrifying!
The F.E.A.R. 1 multiplayer is one of my favorite games of all time. The level design blew me away back then. The quality of the office buildings, and the taped drywall rooms and construction areas, was really awesome. The servers are no longer online, so that is now gone, like everything else from my childhood...
It’s actually incredible how badly DR4 dropped the ball. DR3 was very different from the first few games but still had that series charm. DR4 flushed that charm down the crapper.
Yeah facts, i was made hype when i heard about another dead rising game and them i saw what became of it and didn't even bother. I never thought there would become a day where I didn't get a dead rising game but they managed to make that happen somehow.
@@VENENOSEASON - Bruh what? DR4 was piss easy, part of the Dead Rising charm is the controller breaking difficulty. I want that difficulty to come back.
it is crazy to me how "real" the medal of honor mission at Normandy looked. I have very vivid memories of how great it looked and conversations I had about how it looked real. Recently I saw game play footage and it does not look at real as I remember it lol
Do you remember last level of Pacific Assault? To me it's the most epic moment in video games, long battle that starts with you slowly flanking the machinegunners and ends with insane explosions, tanks, and millions of enemies that know no fear, only hatred
Going back and playing some older games makes me realize how much I relied on my imagination and being engrossed in the game to make it seem more epic than it was
Huge nostalgia for MoH. I've recently burnt a huge part of my day playing around with the editor in ArmA3 with the latest WWII DLC trying to make a MoH style solo mission, with infiltrating an area, blowing up ammo storages and stuff
Red Faction: Armageddon not only killed off the franchise, but was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for THQ as they descended into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It's a shame THQ Nordic, the now-owners of the rights to RF, have no plans to make another.
True, thats another really good example for a list like this. They had such an amazing winning concept with Guerrilla , all they had to do was basically the same thing again with a new environment, story and some new toys with updated graphics...... instead they made Armageddon. Imo the latter wasnt terrible by any means, but the change from massive open world to completely linear kinda lost the magic for me.
Red Faction 1 was groundbreaking with it's Earth destruction and being able to dig secret tunnels and find secret weapons behind false walls. RF2 was ok, and Red Faction Guirrilaa was great in other aspects, Armegdeon was it's own Armageddon.
I just wanna say OG Saints Row was revolutionary. So many famous actors in the credentials, bonkers yet compelling story, a huge amount of activities and impressive ragdoll physics, not to mention the amount of customization abilities that you'd have to spend real money in GTA online for. Also the multi-player was underrated
I just want to say that have no idea where you get it was so revolutionary. Did you miss GTA:SA? Did you just throw around the term revolutionary? Oh don't get me wrong I really enjoyed Saints Row. I liked the first three games. Never really got in to 4.
@@thegoldfly1 GTA SA wasn't as revolutionary as you think it is, GTA 3 was a lot more revolutionary than GTA SA, as that's the game that pretty much changed the gaming space.
Good game but not revolutionary by any means. GTA San Andreas was revolutionary, every game wanted to become open world and a few GTA clones came piggybacking off the success of San Andreas, saints row was one of those clones.
@@thegoldfly1 San Andreas was garbage lol The reason you kids jerk it off so much is because of your age, you were kids and therefore it felt amazing to you The story was forgettable, the mechanics were extremely clunky, the anti-american satire fell extremely flat, and the world was empty as hell. They built a map and then put barely anything in it Meanwhile Saints Row built a map and everything had a purpose, the writing was top notch, and yes the character customization system was revolutionary, the depth you didn't get in other games at all, and what you fail to realize is that no game prior or since really save for SR2 has ever been able to implement a layering system like that for clothing that I know of.
Sigh. I still remember getting Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and SOCOM 2 for Christmas one year. Gah. You guys brought back some memories I haven’t thought of in two decades. I remember devouring the SOCOM manual about snipers and playing online :)
I liked recommendation on ‘Driver San fransisco’ in the end, I remember really enjoying it when it came out. The concept was very unique and different, and more people should definitely check it out
@@robertsears8323 I honestly loved the 2 Medal of Honor game, I didn't realise it was disliked so much. I thought the story was really good. and there was a solid online community for a while before the next battlefield was released
Same. I started playing medal of honor on ps1 too and got into the series pretty quickly. Driver was ahead of its time. I also played alone in the dark and tenchu a lot and those games fell off because they tried to change too much at once with every console.
Medal of Honour: Rising Sun was an absolute banger back in the day. Playing co-op with my brother made it even better, especially when they’d be out of ammo and you’d just watch them getting chased by that samurai guy with the sword lol. The memories 😫
@@thestupidpenguin That's not true, Rising Sun ends with you sinking an enemy battleship and goes to credits. There's some dialogue about losing our Japanese mate (Tanaka?) while you're flying over the explosion. It's a pretty memorable ending for an early WW2 game tbh. I'm certain you can find a RUclips video of the finale
@@chrisrowe8746 I respect your opinion. I think most ppl think FFNY was the most fun because it built on and expanded on everything that Vendetta did well. Then added a lot more like weapons, fighting styles, 4 players, and 82 unique blazing moves. Icon got rid of everything that made the first two fun which is why it ruined the series.
Def Jam FFNY was actually the only fighting game that I preferred over the likes of WWE SVR, the story was alright, but the gameplay was so great and the moves were so hard hitting, Icon destroyed what FFNY built on Vendetta, could’ve been the best fighting game ever but the execs didn’t care about it
If they gave Castlevania the Metroid Prime treatment I think there could be incredible things there. It has just always felt like a world that I need to explore in that fashion. Super Metroid is to Metroid Prime as SoTN is to the game they should gimme right now, I'd buy it.
So far, the closest thing we have to a (arguably) good 3D reimagining for Castlevania is an Open/Z Doom .WAD (I think -- plz feel free to correct or clarify this comment if I'm wrong, never got around to trying to download it yet).
Driv3r was my only alternative to GTA since i was too young at the time to play Vice City without my parents being upset. It was wonky and weird, but i will always remember driving the boats around.
It seems like the thing that kills most games is trying to appeal to as broad of a player base as possible. Making a popular game more accessible to casual players gives more people a chance to play, but too often sacrifices the things that made the game stand out in the beginning.
@@tomjones2056 Oblivion was a far, far bigger atrocity to those of us who came to the series with Morrowind (and was Bethesda's most reviled game when released, as much has FO76 is right now - that it isn't hated now is because for many kids it was the very first Bethesda game and it isn't bad if you were a new player). Other than the skill system, Skyrim was a return to form in ways TES fans wanted it to be. And few TES fans who do think it's not a true TES game see Oblivion as the one who started it all.
I remember the first Driver game where you had to pass the driving test to even start playing the game. I could never beat it and always had to have my brother do it.
Yeo the campaign was realistic. Probably the best campaign in a miltary game ive played. Cant rememeber exactly but im pretty sure there was one mission where your going down a mountain and you gotta break into these little shacks to get warm by the fire. Maybe that was bad company but still amazing.
Warfighter had some cool multiplayer touches, like the partner mechanic that had more weight and usage beyond Battlefield's squads - where your squad is pretty much just spawn beacons. Feel like it previewed the late 2010's fall of team-based modes and rise of solos and duos gamemodes.
Honorable Mention: Every recent Call Of Duty game...kids today will never know the feeling of playing split screen COD4 with friends or hearing people go at it in a Xbox Live lobby.
They even ruined the series after that with the Sigma editions, they actually made the originals worse. The best way to currently play them is on the series x, the original 360 games now run at a flawless 60fs at 4K.
The Ninja Gaiden games hurt the most of all the games on this list. I loved this series and I'm still hoping they remake them so a new generation can appreciate them too.
man i remember seeing trailers for "tiberium wars" basically an rts like it is but with real time 1st person combat. and i thought that was neat. no one else seemed to think so lmao.
Command & Conquer 4 killed the entire franchise. Story was crap, gameplay mechanics were originally made for another moba game. If EA made C&C 4 like C&C 3 with better stuff, The franchise would be still around this day. Time to time I still play C&C 3 again
Honestly loved driver 3 a lot. I played that game quite a bit, loved the driving in it and honestly the amount of openness and variety of cars and hidden vehicles. The whole shooting aspect was a bit off, but besides that loved the game. Would consistently just drive around doing police chases, and spent a hell of a lot of time messing around with the draw bridge haha
Glad I’m not the only one who liked driver 3 haha. Parallel lines and 76 were great too at the time. I went and played parallel lines recently, and i understand why people hated on it, but I still beat it haha.
In defense of FEAR 3, it was made by a completely different studio. I've only played that one (I'll play the first two, I promise!) and I had a lot of fun, it's one of most adrenalinic FPS I've played on console. Probably not a good FEAR as you say, but not even a bad game
agree, not my favorite, but i still loved it, my fav is driv3r, san francisco and driv2r, driver 2 just makes laugh my ass off when i was a little kid back days, the police ai was crazy!!!
RIP FEAR. Still some of my favorite horror games, I like to play through them around Halloween every year on steam. Still wish they'd reboot the series, but I doubt that'll ever happen.
I remember playing the demo for Driver San Francisco and being blown away back in the day. Sadly I didn't use to buy many games back then, so I couldn't get the full version, but I would love to play that game nowadays.
You missed Tenchu. Still some of my favorite games of all time since PS1, but the later entries destroyed our dreams of getting a new one. Which is why we got Sekiro when they were initially making Tenchu and then decided to change their minds on the story
After Armored Core 6's success. Maybe FromSoft will think of going back to the IP in an attempt to revitalize it. Yeah Sekiro was probably based on it but it wasn't really a stealth game.
The crazy thing is DRIV3R looked amazing in all the preview materials, so when the reviews finally came out my friends and I couldn't believe how bad it was getting trashed. Once I finally got to play it I shut that off after a few hours.
I'm still of the belief that all 3 Dead Rising games were amazing in their own way. Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3 might not have been as peak and unique, with depicting the dark humor, Dawn of the Dead, and Japanese American game design style, as the 1st was, but they all bring different strengths and styles to the table and were exceptionally well done and earned their spot in the series. Dead Rising 4 was one of the most soulless and empty games I've ever played. I rather watch paint drying.
I like all of the Dead Rising games. Even DR4 is fun to play and explore the map, as well as the combat mechanics. A nod to DR3 as well, I enjoyed the story in that one as well as the gameplay and soundtrack, and the vehicle creation. Underrated gem IMO.
As someone who’s beaten dead rising like 4 or 5 times And DR 2 two or three times technically 4 if you count the Frank version of the game I hated dead rising 4 it had no physcopaths and just not fun Frank’s voice actor was replaced… exo suits were mid Dead rising 3 was a good one time experience not a bad game but not great either which was a bit dissapoitning because it’s the main reason I bought Xbox one believe it or not
@@Kylewraps I bought XB1 because of that game too. Thankfully I did enjoy it but yeah I had trouble going back to it for a replay. Most gravitate towards 1 and 2 as the better games, can't argue that. I didnt' care for the timed missions in 1 though
Man I was a kid when driv3r was out and I played it quite a bit just because of the race track everything else was garbage. I remember the vehicle physics being some of the best I had felt at that point.
Same here I really did enjoy it a lot as a child, but coming back to it recently I just can’t pick it up again for some reason. I can play the original gta ps2 trilogy all day but not driver 3 or parallel lines
I would really like a FEAR remake or remaster, I personally enjoyed the games back then and I still replay them from time to time when I want to get that nostalgic feeling.
Something that doesn't get said enough is that some IPs are only good for a game or two, and making endless sequels and remakes will end up making the industry a creative wasteland. So maybe it's not such a bad thing that these series die off sometimes.
I concur. Driver San Francisco is one of the best and most unique games I've played in my 47 years on this rock. There's nothing quite like it and if you have the means, you should absolutely play it.
couldn't find it anywhere, oh my god, had to pirate it in the end. couldnt find it on steam, uplay, not even third party sites like g2a, cdkeys and such. why would they delist such good game
@@devil_killa I wager it was the cars and music, it was all licensed and I doubt the renewals were cheap. So it gets pulled. I'd prefer if they could just replace the cars with made up brands and relist it. Had a lot of fun with it back on console, would like to go back through it tbh.
It's true that they could have done more with F.E.A.R. 3, because I absolutely fell in love with that game franchise, especially when I played the first F.E.A.R., I didn't know what to expect, but once I started, I was hooked for all the paranormal jump scare moments that completely knocked me off my game, I found that I couldn't play it at night, that's how good it was, the second was just as good, it picked up the story where it left off with a new team of soldiers and the story's overall continuity.
I wouldn't say that, according to meracritic all the Lost planets have widely been recieved the same. Usually there are 5-6 positive reviews, 20 to 30 mixed and 0-1 negative. The 1 negative is on LP3 though. I will always remember LP2 more than LP1 and 3 because that is the one I have sunk the most time in. The Red Eye fight on the train is just _chefs kiss_ perfect.
I'm not sure where it happened but whatever happened to the Final Fantasy games? We've got the online one and....... just crickets for them making regular games in the series like we used to get every couple of years.
I've heard medal of honor warfighter was a great game. Very realistic and even got some controversy for real special forces consultation leading to security violations Edit: lots of varying opinions in the comments here. I'm going to get and play the game somehow and let y'all know which side I agree with
I don't know what the hell Jake was going on about in this video, as he was very wrong. There was nothing wrong with MoH 2010. It was an amazing game, and was received well. As for Warfighter, yes it is very realistic, and is also a really good game, one that I poured hundreds if not thousands of hours into. The issue with it was that the campaign which had really interesting mechanics was very short, and the multiplayer was very buggy and glitchy, and EA never bothered to fix any of them. That's what brought the game down. Content wise nothing was wrong with it. If they'd made the campaign a bit longer, and fixed those multiplayer issues, MoH would still be going.
I'm not sure if you've done it yet but you guys should make a video about games that ALMOST killed franchises but then the next entry brought it back to life. Games like Metroid Other M or DMC come to mind.
Honorable mention to Project Cars 3. Went in a completely different direction to the first couple of games in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience. Turns out it attracted almost nobody new and they ended up just losing the entire fanbase from the first two games, myself included.
They all did my boy Medal of Honor bad.. literally the best FPS of it's time. Remember playing it as a Teen and damn it had some moments. THE FEELS!! 💖🔥
The Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 game hit hard. I love the first Lords of Shadow, it’s a top 5 game of all time for me. LoS 2 isn’t really a bad game, but it wasn’t up to the standards set by LoS 1. I believe Castlevania can have 2D and 3D entries and I just hope we see more of the franchise going forward
They won't be the same unfortunately, Koji Igarashi worked on the Castlevania series for 20+ years, oversaw, produced and directed most of the handheld ones and all the Metroidvanias from Symphony of the Night onwards. He left Konami when they took him off the Castlevania series, they decided to turn Castlevania into gacha and pachinko machines in Japan and stuck him into social gaming so he quit which is how Bloodstained came to be. I'm really not confident that Konami would be able to bring the 2D style games back to the standard Koji made them in, there's a reason Konami have stuck to remasters of the older games and the handheld games rather than giving is anything new.
Dynasty Warrior 9 may be added to this list in the future. Hope to see Koei being able to fix it in the next installment of the series, heard the empire version of it come out just fine. Otherwise it should be added to the list as an honorary mention
Samurai Warriors5 was released just 2 years ago with high reviews. So, hopefully Dynasty Warriors 10 isn't too long a wait. But, they do need to scrap what they did in 9. Go back to what they do best, and make it better.
Still think fallout is highly anticipated. But Bethesda certainly has to pull their finger out and deliver something big next as in starfield has to get them back on track.
I'm there with Jake - I thought Dead Rising 4 was alright. I had fun with it. I found DR 3 to be much less interesting but maybe I didn't spend enough time with it.
My main problem with Fear, was the 2nd one. The story was awesome. I still think about the ending today. But the game was so formulaic. Shooting section then supernatural section. Back and forth. Over and over and never the two shall meet.
@@Tomnickles Just keep in mind that they exist in their own little alternate reality of sorts. Extraction Point is a direct sequel to F.E.A.R. and Perseus Mandate has a different main character, iirc.
What you don't like Overwatch. You don't like heroes in first-person shooters that's supposed to be a military game. Don't be sad that's just how it happens sometimes.
it was a huge step in the wrong direction, I think the next BF game is going to be make or break for the franchise forever, BF7 will be their last chance IMO
If they can't make another bf4 type game, they are completely screwed, EA clearly only cares about their yearly sports games, and they don't even take care of them!
I liked those Medal of Honour games. Dusty, Mother, Preacher, Rabbit. They have aged and feel a bit rough to play now, but played the campaigns a few times. Similalry for the orignal F.E.A.R. and DLCs. played them lots, but old stiff feeling games now.
If you played Gat out of hell the series has gone just as they've planed. Gat out of hell gave them a story point where rebooting the game will continue to be a viable option they already did it once with agents of mayhem that was technically a Saints row game.
They tried Rebooting it with the the new game they tried an alternate universe with Agents of Mayhem its time to go with what should have been the obvious choice: Continue the series and have the Saints in Space
@@kaelhyun2401 That probably won't happen, sadly. Most of the staff who worked on the original Saints Row games no longer work for Volition so the charm wouldn't be there.
Could have gone a lot of different ways especially with them gaining control of time travel and other stuff, but they decided to reboot for whatever reason
@@kaelhyun2401 They do have another option. They can reboot it from where 2 ended but take an alternate path to 3. If I remember correctly, at the end of 2's final DLC we were supposed to go after Dex, but that never happened now did it? He was just forgotten about. I'll say this much though, if there's to be another SR then I hope we have someone buy it from Volition, someone who knows what made the games good.
Saints Row: The Third was one of my favourite games of all time (god I laughed so hard and spent untold hours just cruising the city listening to the music) and it caught me completely offguard, I never expected it to be such fun. Sad when the franchise nosedived.
The thing that really hurts about Saint's Row 2022 is the execs will take the wrong lesson from it and just assume nobody wants anymore Saint's row.
The worst part is they made a pretty fun to play game (heavy emphasis on the pretty fun) they just made a shitty saints row game because it's just the later crazy games without the crazy stuff that made those fun and bearable with the wild nonsensical story
This is an unpopular opinion but my favorite saints row game is the original, but my second favorite saints row game is the the reboot. Everyone loves Saints Row 2 but I felt the story as a sequel could've been a bit better and the graphics could've definitely been better. It's still fun though. Getting back to Saints Row 2022, I feel it doesnt deserve the hate it gets, as my only gripe with it is the story was way too tame and there wasnt enough buildup for certain things. Other than that I enjoyed it. All they have to do in a sequel is make the tone a bit more darker.
Saints 4 ruined the games for me. It was such a poorly executed game. Same with gat out of hell which also sucked.
Yeah, the lesson *should be* "a game that aims to please everyone will please no one," but they'll look at this and think "nobody wants unique open world shooters that push boundaries and aren't afraid to let you run naked through the streets wielding a giant purple phallus."
@Blake Harper it got hate because saints row 2022 was about teens trying to pay of their college loans etc. Etc. Saints row 2 was still grounded and had the same formula as the first. You start out with nothing and work your way to the top just to be betrayed nearly killed and the saints wiped out so in 2 you basically start all over again and build the saints back up in your own right. Everything after 2 was just childish humor. 2 has pimp canes 3 has giant purple dildo bats the humor is vastly different and 1-2 are different devs than the ones that made 3+. I like to say the new devs went full tarded when thinking how to make 3 different from 2.
To recover from the depression that this episode caused, i feel we need a 10 games that brought franchises back from the dead. 😂 Would be a welcome change of pace!
Doom (2016)
I agree ! 👍
@@TheKindredblades yep. Add also KOF XIII.
Resi VII!
@@CallMeCharley absolutly
Fun fact about MoH Warfight… love it or hate it. A lot of those missions are based on true ops and are extremely close to actual events that happened because some spec ops guys were leaking classified information to help make the games story/missions.
Dude i had so much fun in the moh warfighter multiplayer
I came here to say it and u beat me to it
I missed out on that game. Moh 2010 was a banger
And they brought in actual operators to consult on it. But I think what I liked the most about it was that I finally got to play as a Canadian soldier in a video game. Finally got to represent my country. Canada doesnt get enough attention in videogames. Especially ww2 games.
@@matthewreid4173 I think Squad includes Canada.
Driver : Parallel Lines was an INCREDIBLE entry to the series. Totally cool to transition from the 70’s to the 2000’s, the driving was good and had a bit of customisation.
Yep, its wrong to say that driver died in Driver 3, i have played Parallel Lines and Driver 3 a lot, and i think it was both great games.
I was thinking the same thing i loved that game
parallel lines was an awesome game, doesn’t get the love it deserves. the soundtrack was really something
Never played the earlier ones, but driver: San Francisco will forever hold a special place in my heart.
Driver: Parallel Lines was the first videogame I ever played, at 6 years old. Somehow my dad played through the entire game and decided it was fine to let me play, but I'm sure glad he did. I've played it through more times than I can count. I got Driv3r probably a few years later and while it was a pretty good game, it didn't really carry the legacy of Parallel Lines, my favorite thing about it was the character looked like my neighbor Craig lmao
It’s not even surprising EA are involved with like half of these😂
EXACTLY what I was thinking.
I think the biggest surprise is that it's ONLY half!
And yet people are still buying, preordering and shoving money at them for mtx lol
What happened with Dead Space is one of their biggest crimes
@@joelhodoborgas blame the sports game, specifically Fifa, its like weed for majority of football/soccer addicts
Gameranx is my favorite channel for when I’m cooking dinner and decompressing from the work day. Always chill vibes and great content, and usually a nice dose of nostalgia for games I hadn’t thought of in awhile. Seriously, thanks guys.
spot on, i feel exactly the same
What did you cook recently watching this video? I need ideas for my hangover food. Haha
@@thefallofKAE89 Gameranx for me a little better than IGN.
@@purwantiallan5089 IGN rates a game 2/10 because it was "too hard"
Seriously, they’re getting me through the days
0:16 - Medal of Honor: Warfighter
2:34 - Ninja Gaiden 3
4:28 - Command & Conquer 4
5:39 - Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
7:01 - Dead Rising 4
8:52 - Fear 3
10:24 - Sim City (2013)
12:36 - Saints Row (2022)
14:26 - Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite
15:44 - Driv3r
Thank you! Their listing number 1, number 2, etc is useless.
I have to disagree about fear 3 and dead rising 4 , both of those games I enjoyed. Fear 3 is like dead space 3 to me, more action and less scary, but still a solid game and definitely was worth playing if you were a F.E.A.R fan like me. Dead rising 4 was nowhere near as good as dead rising 3, but I liked dr 4 for its christmas setting.
You did Driv3r, but not F3ar? o.O
@@danielmoung9098 dead rising 4 and cry of fear 3 tried to do something new and it fell flat on it's face.
@@Benjaxiso what about it?
You're exactly right - I distinctly remember Sim City feeling like a turning point where gaming was becoming something more sinister.
Apart from the technical issues, SimCity (2013) was bashed for the ridiculously tiny city size, it was more like Simtown. The developers said that they were going to increase the tile size later through a patch, but the truth was the engine simply wasn't capable of simulating bigger cities.
Yeah there was lots to like about it but the tile sizes and complete ability to build other high way access points really ruined it. I remeber watching a truck try to deliver computer processors and getting stuck in traffic for three days.
*Streets Of SimCity*
@@Rohit.Gaikwad Streets of Rage in Simcity?
@@purwantiallan5089 street of SimCity game
They did increase the buildable area... by about 5% if I remember correctly.
It is sad how most franchise deaths occurred due to higher-ups 'smelling the money' or going with whatever trend they thought was hip instead of staying loyal to the franchise and it's fans.
The people most disconnected from the gaming world get to decide how the game has to be made...
That's literally been the industry from the start. The only exceptions are when programmers and people who love games start a company and for the first game or two they make great stuff and then business types seep in and it becomes just another company. The only exception to this rule is Remedy and IO, Bethesda WOULD count but creating that LLC after the issues they had with shipping Daggerfall kinda screwed them over
@@victorkreig6089 yes
It's not so much the executives but the behavioral patterns of people in general. Companies start out small and thus have to actually think about what their customers want and how to give it to them. Once they become big enough though, they realize they can just sell of their brand name alone and so start half assing everything. Give people a way to make the big bucks with a fraction of the time and effort and they'll choose to do that every time.
I suspect that the productive and creative people are in limited supply and that they tend to move on to other, more rewarding projects.
Cocain is hell of a drug
I remember an EA executive stating that a typical PC could not possibly process the amount of data that SimCity was using and required an online connection to properly simulate the city. That infuriated me, especially since they later allowed offline play and the city runs fine on a local computer. 😂
and they only did that because someone else managed to find the offline options in the files, classic EA
@@tetsuomiyaki same goes to Ubisoft. EA also killed out Madden, NHL, FIFA, and even UFC. To focus solely for the Ultimate Team.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he was lying out of his unwiped ass...
That's crazy cus I remember simcity on super Nintendo lol
Such a load of PR bullshit.
Before Medal of Honor 2010 there was Medal of Honor: Airborne and I think it was pretty good, very creative approach to the gameplay. Every mission you jump out of a plane and get to choose where to land. On a roof here, on a tower there, near by supplies or right behind enemies if you brave enough - the freedom of choice was great. Sadly the game was quite short and definitely felt like a sort of experiment. But I think they should've used all these ideas to continue the series this way.
Medal of Honor Airborne still an underrated game tho.
GameCube best game medal of honor
That game was good but controls killed it - they lazily blended all consoles so because of the Wii you have weird stop and shoot, lean and peak which even on the wii itself was a little off
Will never be like the days running PS2 shooter titles hell emulate then on PC lol
I liked that game too. It was something new.
medal of honor airborne was so damn good I'd play it again if i could
Considering that Driver lost the previous genre to GTA, I was hoping they continue making more Driver San Francisco. It was fun, engaging, unique and with a really nice story. I hope they make a newer version of that game.
That's where the True Crime series comes in
I loved every gta game. The most recent one sucked and unfortunately it was their most successful so well never get a real gta game again
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Driver Parallel lines was a good game.
Not even Driver would want to drive in SF these days
I remember being so excited for SimCity 2013 and buying it on Origin and then being very disappointed by the fact that your cities were incredibly small. You couldn't even buy extra plots of land to expand (at least at launch) so you hit capacity really quickly.
Same with Sims 4 (2014), shittier with each update 😢 they even made it free now. (spitting on those who bought it).
Sims 3 (2009) looks better due to 4 getting worse constantly
Maxis remastered Sid Meier's Railroads for mobile and it is really good and only thing missing is mods I want my own maps but on PC emulator just drag and drop the map and it works
I'm glad to hear you've mentioned Driver: San Francisco and praised it. I freakin' loved it, this is one of my all-time favorite games ever. What a masterpiece! Such a bummer that it failed in terms of sales.
If Ubisoft ever brings it back on stores, I will be one of the day 1 buyers and recommend the game to all my friends!
Ah man. That game brings back memories. One of the few car centric games I played.
Cant believe Parallel Lines didn't get a mention. That game was great
It really is a masterpiece!
One thing I will always remember is that one really trippy mission playing that for the first time was awesome!
I remember one of the coolest things about Driver 2 being you could raise and lower the bridge in the city. Also finding secret vehicles out in the open world was great.
Driv3r had a few cool things in it as well, but it was always very problematic to get running.
Driver 2 was the first open world game I'd ever played. It was essentially everything you could want. GTA ended up really nailing it later on. I forgot all about Driver 2 lol, thank you
For a period of time, Call of Duty was the underdog trying to compete with the massive Medal of Honor franchise. Crazy to remember
Yeah. The turn really tabled on that one, holy shit.
and now its so big that it's just become a military recruiting psyop tool
In an alternative universe, we're playing Medal of Honor: Modern Warfare III
i quite liked the competition of Allied Assault vs CoD and then came Battlefield 1942, from what i recall, wasnt that multiplayer only?
Then after that, MoH took a nosedive starting with Rising Sun. CoD was a bit steady with 2 and, well i know nothing about 3. (there were 2 versions of CoD 1 and 2, pc and console) CoD got better/more praise with 4 and thats when people stopped caring for MoH. Airborne came out the same year but wasnt universally loved like CoD4.
Man, I remember that. I remember Call of Duty 1 releasing, and being like DAMN this is fun for a knock off lol
How about a list of games in a series that felt like the franchise was killed, but came back harder than ever?
Mafia 3 followed by Mafia Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness followed by the reboots etc.
Those games you mentioned literally reborn cause the franchise died
RE6
i fkin hate mafia 3s direction. it should’ve been direct sequel to mafia 2
We don't talk about Angel of Darkness. I hated that game.
@@the_savatarthat's the point.
Well, I don’t think medal of honor 2010 or Warfighter were generic games. For that matter, I think the aspect that hooked most people was the realistic story and the way the campaign progress (I was very young and didn’t play too much multiplayer). If I remember correctly, the campaign was written with the help of actual Navy SEALs. I don’t quite remember if they were still in service or not, but some of the missions were based off true events like the helicopter crash in a snowy mountain
Yeah... This guy isn't a firearms fan or someone who respects and or studies military matters. Certainly doesn't know anyone who served in the GWOT. Warfighter is legit. It was showcasing the human cost of war. I still break out the PS3 and play it sometimes.
@@beenschmokinI was in the Army and know multiple people who are GWOT vets and I also own multiple guns. I think the game is hot ass.
Very emotional, based on real life operations
The best bit about Simcity 2013 and it's always online, was that the always online was literally a few lines of code that asked the server if it was still there. Delete something like 4 lines of code and the game worked just fine without an internet connection.
It's funny how they talked up how it was so epic it couldn't run on puny home computers. And then they got proven wrong, it worked fine without the server.
@@dakat5131 Funny thing is even EA realised this and eventually made the game playable offline. But, sadly, at that time, it was too little to late and Cities: Skylines was already out and definitely better and more popular than SimCity. Which is shame. Once the game was offline, it was pretty well playable Sim Building game. But Cities did everything better to the point that even EA realised it's futile to fight with them and Cities even were available through Origin store for some time. It's no longer available through EA store anymore, but it was still fun seeing it there 😁
@@petrnovak7235 They didn't realise it as there was nothing to realise in the first place. They had been lying about the reason why the game required an intrnet connection, were caught lying and removed the restriction as some form of damage control.
The only good addition (if I remember correctly) was being able to build a region with other people. My friends and I played that way for a bit, but it wasn’t enough to sustain us in that game. Cool mechanic though.
I remember the mess that was the release, because their servers absolutely could not handle the traffic and it would take forever just to contact the server so you could play *single player* and it was a mess. I also remember the maps being much smaller then expected. When the game actually worked it wasn't that terrible but a lot of the cooperative projects on the map just never worked and stuff and...yeah
It's really sad how Dead Rising lost its way. It's the series that could've benefitted the most from hearing "less is more". You can't just make the player more powerful and powerful, with incredible suits and overpowered weapons without the game losing some identity.
I'm not gonna lie dead rising 4 is the game that got me into the whole series lol
@@mijo91 Hey, I get that. The game doesn't look unappealing if you see a little of it, and if you have no prior experience with the better games in the series. But if you've already played the better games, it's really hard to move on to DR4 after them.
@Marcus Mührmann-Lund no dude your not wrong I enjoy the first 3 amd spin offs better trust me
I agree it needed more of a difficulty balance
Personally having played all of them, it’s my favorite game of the entire widespread zombie apocalypse genre hands down. I enjoyed it more than any of the other DR entries, either Dead Island, Dying Light, etc. To me the overpowered nature of it and the goofy weapons are fun. Love the Frank West character. Love the setting/environment. Even the music is enjoyable. Just a fun game. I’ve probably re-played it once a year since it came out. Even playing the new Dead Island game earlier this year, all I could think about were aspects missing from it that DR4 had that would have made it more enjoyable.
Thank you for giving Driver: San Francisco a shout out! The Shift mechanic was so much fun to mess around with.
Also has a "Second Person" level too
I personally loved Medal of Honor Warfighter, the game mechanics blew my mind when I was a kid. I think if they brought it back in a modern setting again it would be better than the last three CODs. Especially campaign wise
Your comment is even more relevant now MW3 is out 😂
Driver San Francisco is phenomenal. I have played it like four times and never got bored. It was so fun to play and had good story too. Wish they can continue from that.
The Saints Row hurt me the most. I remember being very excited for its release then when I saw the previews thought it was totally off course. Then I got called a boomer and was told the game wasn't being made for old people like me lol. I would be happy if they remastered the second while keeping the game intact.
I'm like you and want a remaster of the first two. The previews of the new one were really irritating and felt soft. All of the original grittiness was gone.
@@robertmccray6596 I just completed the silly story and yes, you're right on this. There so many moments where I thought, "the Boss of Saints Row 2 would not do THAT they would just fucking see red". The new Boss just bends over and acts like a bitch most times, has very few hard qualities about them. The property ventures and city takeover gameplay are fun, but that's not saying much.
Saints row was good all you nostalgia fanboys ruined it
@@Celestialnighthawk for me,I gave up a long time but I wanted to give the reboot a chance for the gameplay since Volition were screaming about it in their trailer,but at the end we got sponge-bullet enemies, cars that randomly jump for no reason, getting locked on special melee move, losing all of your weapons,some enemies just won't die and lastly the render distance makes me feel like I'm playing Minecraft on low settings
@@Celestialnighthawk for me,I gave up a long time but I wanted to give the reboot a chance for the gameplay since Volition were screaming about it in their trailer,but at the end we got sponge-bullet enemies, cars that randomly jump for no reason, getting locked on special melee move, losing all of your weapons,some enemies just won't die and lastly the render distance makes me feel like I'm playing Minecraft on low settings
Driver: Parallel Lines is also an amazing game. Very much like GTA, but it takes place in two time periods. The 70's and the 00's. It is very, very good, and if you enjoy going back to play ps2 from time to time I strongly recommend it.
I loved parallel lines, completed it a few times, I do miss a more simple game that doesn’t overwhelm you with mechanics that don’t make any sense, or bombard you with micro transactions 😢😢😢😢
Driver San Francisco was really cool BUUT when I was younger and playing driver after a long time, Driver Parrallel Lines was crazy. The ability to switch back and forth between timelines was insane in my head then. They did it so well and honestly I cannot remember another game that did something like that. It would really be cool if GTA could implement something like that. Even if just on single player mode.
I'm shocked they left out the fun story of Driv3r story. They knew it was buggy and bribed critics for good scores. That's Atari for ya. Gta ripped off driver and got away with it.
@@clarafedde8674 Yeah, most of the driv3r's mission are unique, though some of them are kinda boring. It's unfortunate that my game always forcesclosed after the first mission in Instanbul.
Played the hell out of that game. Its was cool coming out of prison and seeing new cars and guns
I’d like to nominate Splinter Cell: Double Agent for this list. Coming off the heels of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (which imo is arguably the greatest stealth/espionage game of all time), Double Agent decided to go for large action set pieces, more daytime gameplay, quick time events, and shootouts, over the well paced Mission Impossible style gameplay from previous releases. The series has never recovered from this switch in tone, and it just breaks my heart. Chaos Theory still holds up to this day as one of the best stealth games ever released.
Double Agent was okay Chaos theory was good and honestly blacklist was pretty good too. I don’t think the franchise is dead.
One I am super sad about is Jak and Daxter. That was one of my favorites growing up. Jak X was the wrong way to go, but I would love a reboot of this franchise.
Same here those games were great. I heard the story for jak 4 was so different it eventually turned into the last of us
@@bayarea4153 Geez really? I want more info on that, just cause it's so bonkers and hard to believe
@@iguana51 i think they're being sarcastic lol
@@aussieknuckles the truth is though that the whole tone and gameplay in jak changed and it was not wonderful.
@@housemouseshorts yeah I prefer Jak 2 & Daxter on the PSP.
Medal of Honor frontlines and Rising sun were amazing for a kid growing up in the 2000’s. I have so many memories of playing localized multiplayer on rising sun.
I’ve had an issue with Volition Software ever since a zombie game they were working on for the Xbox 360 was never released. You were in charge of the zombies and you could control what they did while they were out in an area. They could search, gather, hunt or feast upon things. They’d power up at some point, too, and some of the footage shown when you “let them loose” on an area looked truly terrifying!
Sounds like a darker Stubbs the Zombie. Fun game, over the top, but sadly, a one and done.
I'm thinking it was a publisher decision and not Volition
Sounds stupid. Good thing it never got released.
Yeah I remember seeing that back in the day. Was it called “Possession” or something?
The F.E.A.R. 1 multiplayer is one of my favorite games of all time. The level design blew me away back then. The quality of the office buildings, and the taped drywall rooms and construction areas, was really awesome. The servers are no longer online, so that is now gone, like everything else from my childhood...
I only played Fear 2 sadly. But seems games are just getting so much weaker from back then🤣
Thats the game i forced myself to learn keyboard mouse to play specifically
It’s actually incredible how badly DR4 dropped the ball.
DR3 was very different from the first few games but still had that series charm. DR4 flushed that charm down the crapper.
Yeah facts, i was made hype when i heard about another dead rising game and them i saw what became of it and didn't even bother. I never thought there would become a day where I didn't get a dead rising game but they managed to make that happen somehow.
My disappointment was immeasurable when me and my friend found out it didn't even have story Co op. That's like one of the best aspects of the game!
Skill issue.
@@VENENOSEASON - Bruh what? DR4 was piss easy, part of the Dead Rising charm is the controller breaking difficulty. I want that difficulty to come back.
If they didn’t want their series to die they wouldn’t have made the third dead rising a console exclusive
Duke Nukem Forever is going the be in this Video.
It wasn't
It should be
But it’s still in the intro of this Video
Eroooou
It could've been a bonus
it is crazy to me how "real" the medal of honor mission at Normandy looked. I have very vivid memories of how great it looked and conversations I had about how it looked real. Recently I saw game play footage and it does not look at real as I remember it lol
Do you remember last level of Pacific Assault? To me it's the most epic moment in video games, long battle that starts with you slowly flanking the machinegunners and ends with insane explosions, tanks, and millions of enemies that know no fear, only hatred
@@Piece-Of-TimeYes! Definitely an epic level, so much constant yet continually building tension.
Right. Still a great mission
Going back and playing some older games makes me realize how much I relied on my imagination and being engrossed in the game to make it seem more epic than it was
@@pedroalejandro1122 fuckin hard same
Huge nostalgia for MoH. I've recently burnt a huge part of my day playing around with the editor in ArmA3 with the latest WWII DLC trying to make a MoH style solo mission, with infiltrating an area, blowing up ammo storages and stuff
Red Faction: Armageddon not only killed off the franchise, but was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for THQ as they descended into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It's a shame THQ Nordic, the now-owners of the rights to RF, have no plans to make another.
True, thats another really good example for a list like this. They had such an amazing winning concept with Guerrilla , all they had to do was basically the same thing again with a new environment, story and some new toys with updated graphics...... instead they made Armageddon. Imo the latter wasnt terrible by any means, but the change from massive open world to completely linear kinda lost the magic for me.
@@adammidderigh4150 To be fair...going back to Red Faction Guerrilla is Painful, even the Remarstered Edition. It hasn't aged well at all.
Agree
Red Faction 1 was groundbreaking with it's Earth destruction and being able to dig secret tunnels and find secret weapons behind false walls. RF2 was ok, and Red Faction Guirrilaa was great in other aspects, Armegdeon was it's own Armageddon.
I went to school with the guy who was the model for the main character.
I just wanna say OG Saints Row was revolutionary. So many famous actors in the credentials, bonkers yet compelling story, a huge amount of activities and impressive ragdoll physics, not to mention the amount of customization abilities that you'd have to spend real money in GTA online for. Also the multi-player was underrated
I just want to say that have no idea where you get it was so revolutionary. Did you miss GTA:SA? Did you just throw around the term revolutionary? Oh don't get me wrong I really enjoyed Saints Row. I liked the first three games. Never really got in to 4.
@@thegoldfly1 GTA SA wasn't as revolutionary as you think it is, GTA 3 was a lot more revolutionary than GTA SA, as that's the game that pretty much changed the gaming space.
Good game but not revolutionary by any means. GTA San Andreas was revolutionary, every game wanted to become open world and a few GTA clones came piggybacking off the success of San Andreas, saints row was one of those clones.
@@buddygettingnutty8351 Largely agree about GTA3, but since they were bringing up the actors and the activities I was pointing out SA.
@@thegoldfly1 San Andreas was garbage lol
The reason you kids jerk it off so much is because of your age, you were kids and therefore it felt amazing to you
The story was forgettable, the mechanics were extremely clunky, the anti-american satire fell extremely flat, and the world was empty as hell. They built a map and then put barely anything in it
Meanwhile Saints Row built a map and everything had a purpose, the writing was top notch, and yes the character customization system was revolutionary, the depth you didn't get in other games at all, and what you fail to realize is that no game prior or since really save for SR2 has ever been able to implement a layering system like that for clothing that I know of.
Sigh. I still remember getting Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and SOCOM 2 for Christmas one year. Gah. You guys brought back some memories I haven’t thought of in two decades. I remember devouring the SOCOM manual about snipers and playing online :)
SOCOM 2 still good.
@@purwantiallan5089 Socom 2 best socom online game imo
I never understood how Socom died but COD is still going strong. I’d take Socom 2 over anything from the COD franchise.
Saints Rowboot killed the whole company lmao
I liked recommendation on ‘Driver San fransisco’ in the end, I remember really enjoying it when it came out. The concept was very unique and different, and more people should definitely check it out
Its hard to buy the game now
Loved the driver series since a kid.
@@Blueflag04 Oh, didn't know that. A real shame 'cause it's a really good game
@@Blueflag04 earlier this year I got it as birthday present. We had to order the 360 disc from the UK to play on my series X.
Medal Of Honor was a major bummer for me. I played from the beginning on PS1. Driver too. Last game was sick. Awesome (sad) list big haired boss Jake!
@@robertsears8323 I honestly loved the 2 Medal of Honor game, I didn't realise it was disliked so much. I thought the story was really good. and there was a solid online community for a while before the next battlefield was released
Same. I started playing medal of honor on ps1 too and got into the series pretty quickly. Driver was ahead of its time. I also played alone in the dark and tenchu a lot and those games fell off because they tried to change too much at once with every console.
Medal of Honour: Rising Sun was an absolute banger back in the day. Playing co-op with my brother made it even better, especially when they’d be out of ammo and you’d just watch them getting chased by that samurai guy with the sword lol. The memories 😫
Yeah, but the game was unfinished, when you get to the end it said the ending was coming soon. 😂
@@thestupidpenguin lol oh damn
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That's not true, Rising Sun ends with you sinking an enemy battleship and goes to credits. There's some dialogue about losing our Japanese mate (Tanaka?) while you're flying over the explosion. It's a pretty memorable ending for an early WW2 game tbh.
I'm certain you can find a RUclips video of the finale
Airborne I thought was a really fun one. The way you respawned was creative.
Saints row was the first one I played and I actually loved it, I tried to convince all my friends to get it but they were all fans of the previous one
The slow motion camera in Driv3r was by far one of my favorite game play camera options that I haven't seen in another game since. I miss that game.
I mean.. driver parallel lines had it too, it was called the thrill cam
Definitely need a part 2 Jake. I’m shocked you didn’t put Def Jam Icon on the list.
Certainly
I miss the first two
Vendetta was just the most fun
@@chrisrowe8746 I respect your opinion. I think most ppl think FFNY was the most fun because it built on and expanded on everything that Vendetta did well. Then added a lot more like weapons, fighting styles, 4 players, and 82 unique blazing moves. Icon got rid of everything that made the first two fun which is why it ruined the series.
Def Jam FFNY was actually the only fighting game that I preferred over the likes of WWE SVR, the story was alright, but the gameplay was so great and the moves were so hard hitting, Icon destroyed what FFNY built on Vendetta, could’ve been the best fighting game ever but the execs didn’t care about it
If they gave Castlevania the Metroid Prime treatment I think there could be incredible things there. It has just always felt like a world that I need to explore in that fashion. Super Metroid is to Metroid Prime as SoTN is to the game they should gimme right now, I'd buy it.
nah I don't think FPS would suit Castlevania
Maybe something more akin to Other M? (Not story-wise of course lol)
So far, the closest thing we have to a (arguably) good 3D reimagining for Castlevania is an Open/Z Doom .WAD (I think -- plz feel free to correct or clarify this comment if I'm wrong, never got around to trying to download it yet).
No, because that would be stupid. Stop being stupid
Batman: Arkham asylum showed us that a 3rd person metroidvania game can work
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No
Music name from 15:51, please.
On break at work and I get a gameranx video to watch while I eat, talk about perfect timing
Driv3r was my only alternative to GTA since i was too young at the time to play Vice City without my parents being upset. It was wonky and weird, but i will always remember driving the boats around.
I remember getting 50 cents ps2 game before getting vice city and SA
I was kinda in the same boat. Driv3r was in my eyes a good game if you can get past the wonky on foot game mechanics.
It seems like the thing that kills most games is trying to appeal to as broad of a player base as possible. Making a popular game more accessible to casual players gives more people a chance to play, but too often sacrifices the things that made the game stand out in the beginning.
Skyrim and GTA did it successfully. Killed the franchise for the hardcore long term fanbase but $$$$ from the casual ceowd
@@tomjones2056 Oblivion was a far, far bigger atrocity to those of us who came to the series with Morrowind (and was Bethesda's most reviled game when released, as much has FO76 is right now - that it isn't hated now is because for many kids it was the very first Bethesda game and it isn't bad if you were a new player). Other than the skill system, Skyrim was a return to form in ways TES fans wanted it to be. And few TES fans who do think it's not a true TES game see Oblivion as the one who started it all.
The saints row Reboot went from killed franchise to killed the entire studio ☠️
I remember the first Driver game where you had to pass the driving test to even start playing the game. I could never beat it and always had to have my brother do it.
2010 Medal of Honor had an amazing campaign. Still one of my favorites to this day.
I actually loved the medal of honour series in 2010. The campaign I loved and the online was really fun.
Yeo the campaign was realistic. Probably the best campaign in a miltary game ive played. Cant rememeber exactly but im pretty sure there was one mission where your going down a mountain and you gotta break into these little shacks to get warm by the fire. Maybe that was bad company but still amazing.
Warfighter had some cool multiplayer touches, like the partner mechanic that had more weight and usage beyond Battlefield's squads - where your squad is pretty much just spawn beacons. Feel like it previewed the late 2010's fall of team-based modes and rise of solos and duos gamemodes.
@@NewDesignVinylGraphics The campaign was losely baised on the battle of Taku Ghar
Medal of honour 2010 is possibly my favourite game ever, campaign was so amazing
@@NewDesignVinylGraphics regenerative health is very realistic.
Honorable Mention: Every recent Call Of Duty game...kids today will never know the feeling of playing split screen COD4 with friends or hearing people go at it in a Xbox Live lobby.
That first FEAR game actually put the fear of everything in me 😂😂 I didn't know what scared meant until then
This list was spot-on! And it really hurts being reminded of Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania, Marvel vs Capcom and Driver 😢
They even ruined the series after that with the Sigma editions, they actually made the originals worse. The best way to currently play them is on the series x, the original 360 games now run at a flawless 60fs at 4K.
What about Halo, that game is garbage now, wish they included it
@@Allthenumberscombinedis895 Halo isn't dead though
I mis MVC sooo much.
The Ninja Gaiden games hurt the most of all the games on this list. I loved this series and I'm still hoping they remake them so a new generation can appreciate them too.
Command & Conquer 3 was building up to a very huge plot point and Command & Conquer 4 came and just ignore all of that
Sounds like the Star Wars sequels took some lessons from the C&C School of Dangling Plot Threads
man i remember seeing trailers for "tiberium wars"
basically an rts like it is but with real time 1st person combat.
and i thought that was neat. no one else seemed to think so lmao.
@@TheInfectiousCadaver wasn't that C&C Renegade? I fuckin loved that game!
Command & Conquer 4 killed the entire franchise. Story was crap, gameplay mechanics were originally made for another moba game. If EA made C&C 4 like C&C 3 with better stuff, The franchise would be still around this day. Time to time I still play C&C 3 again
@@Tadrax I think he's talking about C&C tiberium. It was a "sequel" to wars in a renegade style of play that was cancelled.
Honestly loved driver 3 a lot. I played that game quite a bit, loved the driving in it and honestly the amount of openness and variety of cars and hidden vehicles. The whole shooting aspect was a bit off, but besides that loved the game. Would consistently just drive around doing police chases, and spent a hell of a lot of time messing around with the draw bridge haha
Driver San Francisco is where it died
I would always do police chases on driver 3 and the different maps were cool, was a fun game back then
Glad I’m not the only one who liked driver 3 haha. Parallel lines and 76 were great too at the time. I went and played parallel lines recently, and i understand why people hated on it, but I still beat it haha.
@@SHDrive driver sf is a legitimately great driving game
Driver 3! What a game! Was my favourite in the series and I wish for a remaster so much!
In defense of FEAR 3, it was made by a completely different studio. I've only played that one (I'll play the first two, I promise!) and I had a lot of fun, it's one of most adrenalinic FPS I've played on console. Probably not a good FEAR as you say, but not even a bad game
It makes me sad that whenever someone talks about the driver series, no one brings up Parallel lines. That game was fantastic
No it wasn't
agree, not my favorite, but i still loved it, my fav is driv3r, san francisco and driv2r, driver 2 just makes laugh my ass off when i was a little kid back days, the police ai was crazy!!!
@@adibafiq6945 for me DRIVER 1, 2, and San Francisco. San Francisco even still better than FORZA HORIZON 5.
I dont know why people hate it
RIP FEAR. Still some of my favorite horror games, I like to play through them around Halloween every year on steam. Still wish they'd reboot the series, but I doubt that'll ever happen.
I remember playing the demo for Driver San Francisco and being blown away back in the day. Sadly I didn't use to buy many games back then, so I couldn't get the full version, but I would love to play that game nowadays.
You missed Tenchu. Still some of my favorite games of all time since PS1, but the later entries destroyed our dreams of getting a new one. Which is why we got Sekiro when they were initially making Tenchu and then decided to change their minds on the story
So Sad Rikimaru and Ayane are icon...
I still loved Tenchu Z. One of my most played games on the 360
After Armored Core 6's success. Maybe FromSoft will think of going back to the IP in an attempt to revitalize it. Yeah Sekiro was probably based on it but it wasn't really a stealth game.
That one was fun, my most memorable part in that game was how shit I was at the stealth but for some how breezed through the demon level
I still play Wrath of Heaven and Fatal Shadows religiously on my PS2. Wish the classics were on PS Plus or Gamepass
The crazy thing is DRIV3R looked amazing in all the preview materials, so when the reviews finally came out my friends and I couldn't believe how bad it was getting trashed. Once I finally got to play it I shut that off after a few hours.
These games really have a special place in my heart and it pains me to see them fall apart like this
Dead Space, Mass Effect, Lost Planet, anything EA touches…
I still haven't recovered from Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, I'm surprised that one wasn't on this list.
Glad to see fellow original MOH fans still out there
I'm still of the belief that all 3 Dead Rising games were amazing in their own way. Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3 might not have been as peak and unique, with depicting the dark humor, Dawn of the Dead, and Japanese American game design style, as the 1st was, but they all bring different strengths and styles to the table and were exceptionally well done and earned their spot in the series. Dead Rising 4 was one of the most soulless and empty games I've ever played. I rather watch paint drying.
A few more to the list of games that killed the franchise: Dino Crisis 3, Parasite Eve The Third Birthday, and Darkspore.
Whoa I never heard that there was a 3rd installment to the parasite ever franchise. Wow 😮
PES too
I like all of the Dead Rising games. Even DR4 is fun to play and explore the map, as well as the combat mechanics. A nod to DR3 as well, I enjoyed the story in that one as well as the gameplay and soundtrack, and the vehicle creation. Underrated gem IMO.
As someone who’s beaten dead rising like 4 or 5 times
And DR 2 two or three times technically 4 if you count the Frank version of the game
I hated dead rising 4 it had no physcopaths and just not fun Frank’s voice actor was replaced… exo suits were mid
Dead rising 3 was a good one time experience not a bad game but not great either which was a bit dissapoitning because it’s the main reason I bought Xbox one believe it or not
@@Kylewraps Frank in DR4 was also a big dick, and missed the entire point onto why Frank West was a memorable character.
@@Kylewraps I bought XB1 because of that game too. Thankfully I did enjoy it but yeah I had trouble going back to it for a replay. Most gravitate towards 1 and 2 as the better games, can't argue that. I didnt' care for the timed missions in 1 though
Man I was a kid when driv3r was out and I played it quite a bit just because of the race track everything else was garbage. I remember the vehicle physics being some of the best I had felt at that point.
Same here I really did enjoy it a lot as a child, but coming back to it recently I just can’t pick it up again for some reason. I can play the original gta ps2 trilogy all day but not driver 3 or parallel lines
Fable Legends: it was one of the most expensive cancelled games and took down the great Fable series.
I would really like a FEAR remake or remaster, I personally enjoyed the games back then and I still replay them from time to time when I want to get that nostalgic feeling.
Something that doesn't get said enough is that some IPs are only good for a game or two, and making endless sequels and remakes will end up making the industry a creative wasteland. So maybe it's not such a bad thing that these series die off sometimes.
I concur. Driver San Francisco is one of the best and most unique games I've played in my 47 years on this rock. There's nothing quite like it and if you have the means, you should absolutely play it.
couldn't find it anywhere, oh my god, had to pirate it in the end. couldnt find it on steam, uplay, not even third party sites like g2a, cdkeys and such. why would they delist such good game
@@devil_killa yeah ubisoft took it down a couple of years ago.
@@devil_killa I wager it was the cars and music, it was all licensed and I doubt the renewals were cheap. So it gets pulled. I'd prefer if they could just replace the cars with made up brands and relist it. Had a lot of fun with it back on console, would like to go back through it tbh.
also it has a revolutionary mission where you play as an SECOND PERSON (there is a huge video about it here in youtube i recommend check it out)
@@yuri_cobaia I saw that video! Yeah. Mindblowing game from a story/mission standpoint and really moreish in the playability area.
Dead Rising peaked with 3. That’s what made 4 such a bummer. The biggest issue was it was the buggiest game I’ve ever played.
I think an honorable mention is the Banjo Kazooie franchise! The shift to a driving game was rough!
It's true that they could have done more with F.E.A.R. 3, because I absolutely fell in love with that game franchise, especially when I played the first F.E.A.R., I didn't know what to expect, but once I started, I was hooked for all the paranormal jump scare moments that completely knocked me off my game, I found that I couldn't play it at night, that's how good it was, the second was just as good, it picked up the story where it left off with a new team of soldiers and the story's overall continuity.
I actually liked Fear 3 but it was different from the rest of the series. I kind of felt like it should have been a spin-off or something
@@quatjohn4375 Yeah as a spinoff it probably would have done better. The first 2 Fear games were great.
i would add Lost Planet 3 to this list
LP3 was nothing like LP1 or 2 and i still have hopes that capcom will try to bring it back someday
I wish
The original was incredible back in the day on 360.
I wouldn't say that, according to meracritic all the Lost planets have widely been recieved the same. Usually there are 5-6 positive reviews, 20 to 30 mixed and 0-1 negative. The 1 negative is on LP3 though.
I will always remember LP2 more than LP1 and 3 because that is the one I have sunk the most time in. The Red Eye fight on the train is just _chefs kiss_ perfect.
Big facts💯
Man Lost Planet 1 & 2 we're some of my favorite games back then. I forgot all about em till now.
I'm not sure where it happened but whatever happened to the Final Fantasy games? We've got the online one and....... just crickets for them making regular games in the series like we used to get every couple of years.
I've heard medal of honor warfighter was a great game. Very realistic and even got some controversy for real special forces consultation leading to security violations
Edit: lots of varying opinions in the comments here. I'm going to get and play the game somehow and let y'all know which side I agree with
It was just very generic
Campaign was 6 hours long.
Campaign honestly was good the multiplayer really sucked tho
Medal of honor '10 was reaaaalllly good!
I don't know what the hell Jake was going on about in this video, as he was very wrong. There was nothing wrong with MoH 2010. It was an amazing game, and was received well. As for Warfighter, yes it is very realistic, and is also a really good game, one that I poured hundreds if not thousands of hours into. The issue with it was that the campaign which had really interesting mechanics was very short, and the multiplayer was very buggy and glitchy, and EA never bothered to fix any of them. That's what brought the game down. Content wise nothing was wrong with it. If they'd made the campaign a bit longer, and fixed those multiplayer issues, MoH would still be going.
I'm not sure if you've done it yet but you guys should make a video about games that ALMOST killed franchises but then the next entry brought it back to life. Games like Metroid Other M or DMC come to mind.
Resident Evil 6
Honorable mention to Project Cars 3.
Went in a completely different direction to the first couple of games in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience.
Turns out it attracted almost nobody new and they ended up just losing the entire fanbase from the first two games, myself included.
i still can't believe they killed saints row
They killing everything these days .. the only good sequel i seen in years to any game was spiderman 2
i loved medal of honor warfighter, from campaign to multiplayer ... i miss it
They all did my boy Medal of Honor bad.. literally the best FPS of it's time. Remember playing it as a Teen and damn it had some moments. THE FEELS!! 💖🔥
The Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 game hit hard. I love the first Lords of Shadow, it’s a top 5 game of all time for me. LoS 2 isn’t really a bad game, but it wasn’t up to the standards set by LoS 1. I believe Castlevania can have 2D and 3D entries and I just hope we see more of the franchise going forward
Bloodstained franchise is basicly the new castlevania, it's made by former castlevania devs
They won't be the same unfortunately,
Koji Igarashi worked on the Castlevania series for 20+ years, oversaw, produced and directed most of the handheld ones and all the Metroidvanias from Symphony of the Night onwards.
He left Konami when they took him off the Castlevania series, they decided to turn Castlevania into gacha and pachinko machines in Japan and stuck him into social gaming so he quit which is how Bloodstained came to be.
I'm really not confident that Konami would be able to bring the 2D style games back to the standard Koji made them in, there's a reason Konami have stuck to remasters of the older games and the handheld games rather than giving is anything new.
#3 hits hard now that Volition closed down.
Dynasty Warrior 9 may be added to this list in the future. Hope to see Koei being able to fix it in the next installment of the series, heard the empire version of it come out just fine. Otherwise it should be added to the list as an honorary mention
Samurai Warriors5 was released just 2 years ago with high reviews. So, hopefully Dynasty Warriors 10 isn't too long a wait. But, they do need to scrap what they did in 9. Go back to what they do best, and make it better.
The Nintendo Warriors games are very highly reviewed tho, but I understand what you mean
Probably killed it after 6 in my opinion and empires 9 was kind of the same. It was all a bit of a mess
I think Fallout 76 has earned a spot on this list 😂 but great vid as always
Still think fallout is highly anticipated. But Bethesda certainly has to pull their finger out and deliver something big next as in starfield has to get them back on track.
I wouldn’t say it killed the franchise but I did hurt the reputation of Bethesda
Honestly... I'd say Fallout 4...
FO peaked with NV and FO4 was the first disappointment, 76 was just a kick in the nuts afterward...
Fallout 76 is good now
@@whoamitalkingto9593 as a fallout 76 player it is really not the only reason I play it cuz the community is awesome
I'm there with Jake - I thought Dead Rising 4 was alright. I had fun with it. I found DR 3 to be much less interesting but maybe I didn't spend enough time with it.
Driver parallel lines was absolutely amazing how do you not mention that one 😍
My main problem with Fear, was the 2nd one. The story was awesome. I still think about the ending today. But the game was so formulaic. Shooting section then supernatural section. Back and forth. Over and over and never the two shall meet.
Did you play the other two F.E.A.R. games? Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate? They were actually not so bad.
@@TheRogueX I didn’t. I was too traumatized by the end of 2 lol. I will give them a shot because I really liked the story!
@@Tomnickles Just keep in mind that they exist in their own little alternate reality of sorts. Extraction Point is a direct sequel to F.E.A.R. and Perseus Mandate has a different main character, iirc.
I will never get over Battlefield 2042!
It is good now, but released like trash.
What you don't like Overwatch. You don't like heroes in first-person shooters that's supposed to be a military game. Don't be sad that's just how it happens sometimes.
@@66bloodmoon English My good sir, English.
it was a huge step in the wrong direction, I think the next BF game is going to be make or break for the franchise forever, BF7 will be their last chance IMO
If they can't make another bf4 type game, they are completely screwed, EA clearly only cares about their yearly sports games, and they don't even take care of them!
I liked those Medal of Honour games. Dusty, Mother, Preacher, Rabbit. They have aged and feel a bit rough to play now, but played the campaigns a few times.
Similalry for the orignal F.E.A.R. and DLCs. played them lots, but old stiff feeling games now.
I still play the campaigns!
Those two newer medal of honors were just miserable. I remember feeling so empty playing them 😂
If you played Gat out of hell the series has gone just as they've planed. Gat out of hell gave them a story point where rebooting the game will continue to be a viable option they already did it once with agents of mayhem that was technically a Saints row game.
They tried Rebooting it with the the new game they tried an alternate universe with Agents of Mayhem its time to go with what should have been the obvious choice: Continue the series and have the Saints in Space
@@kaelhyun2401 That probably won't happen, sadly. Most of the staff who worked on the original Saints Row games no longer work for Volition so the charm wouldn't be there.
Could have gone a lot of different ways especially with them gaining control of time travel and other stuff, but they decided to reboot for whatever reason
@KaelHyun2 they already sort of did that though with the Red Faction games since those games are connected to Saints Row.
@@kaelhyun2401 They do have another option. They can reboot it from where 2 ended but take an alternate path to 3. If I remember correctly, at the end of 2's final DLC we were supposed to go after Dex, but that never happened now did it? He was just forgotten about. I'll say this much though, if there's to be another SR then I hope we have someone buy it from Volition, someone who knows what made the games good.
Saints Row: The Third was one of my favourite games of all time (god I laughed so hard and spent untold hours just cruising the city listening to the music) and it caught me completely offguard, I never expected it to be such fun. Sad when the franchise nosedived.
They should have just changed the name, if they had never would have been a problem