10 Video Game Companies That LOST Their Way
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Discover which revered game companies have lost their mojo in this countdown. From Square Enix's mismanagement to Bungie's layoffs and the decline of iconic franchises at Konami, we explore how ten industry giants have strayed from their former glory. Join us as we delve into the recent troubles of Crystal Dynamics with "Avengers", GameFreak's struggles with "Pokemon", BioWare losing its magic touch, and more. Don't forget to share your thoughts on who needs a gaming glow-up in the comments and subscribe for daily content!
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Which video game company do you think has god off course?
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Gamefreak lost their way with Scarlet and Violet, but not with the upcoming Pokemon Legends ZA and Square Enix haven't lost their way because Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is easily one of the BIGGEST Game of the Year 2024! ❤🔥
Konami needs to redeem themselves for firing kojima and for making bad decisions.
Garbage channel
Ubisoft is getting as bad as EA these days
EA,SNK,Capcom & Square Enix have been dropping the ball lately
2 sins that gamers will never forgive corporations
1) Konami removing Hideo Kojima's name from MGS V The Phantom Pain.
2) Xbox closing down Tango Gameworks even though Hi Fi Rush won lots of awards.
Yeah but Hi-Fi Rush failed to sell well. I'm glad it got recognition but it also needed to return a profit which it did not.
One game out of four does not save a company
Microsoft killed Rare
@@AlejandroGonzalez-tn8hi Rare is Not Dead
Did you buy Hi-Fi Rush?
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League definitely lost their way with rocksteady
Rocksteady gave us a lot of good games, Unfortunately when they went live service. That’s when they went to HELL!
@@megalon73Plus going with Sweet Baby Inc destroyed them as well.
@@knowledgeseeker4614 I don't think I heard of them, But, It could be the last time!
I feel like Warner Bros. had more of a say when it comes to that SS game.
@@RoyalHustler09 SS?
I honestly thought the Tomb Raider Trilogy from Crystal Dynamics was actually good. Hell I own all three Tomb Raider games. The blame of their downturn goes to Square Enix for selling them off to pursue NFTs and Embracer Group for being on a buying spree and not having enough money to cover their purchases.
Crystall Dynamics/Eidos made always great games.
I agree on the Tomb Raider trilogy. Before I played The Last of Us back in 2013, I figured Tomb Raider would be game-of-the-year.
I don’t have a clue where they were going with this either. All 3 solid games and I have never heard of the “negative sexiness” thing they claimed
They’re the only tomb raider games I’ve ever played and I still replay them
As a fan of the Japanese side of Square Enix I wanted nothing more than for them to sell off their western IPs for years, in fact for a time I called their western IPs “Eidos Trash”
Then I found out Embracer cancelled a new Deus Ex title, AKA one of the few Eidos franchises I liked (I’m also into Hitman now, I wasn’t that harsh to them, mainly since Square dropped IO and the Hitman IP)
Now I actually WISH they didn’t sell them off
Rockstar (when it comes to the online department) has gone full greed and BS.
Luckily their singleplayer stuff are still EXTREMELY good.
Honestly, we’re lucky we even got RDR2 and that’s largely because Dan Houser literally told TakeTwo to eff off and let his team work. One of the reasons why he left in the first place
How many consoles can you play the same game on?
never forgive how they treated arkham batman
Rocksteady should close forever.
I was expecting Rockstar Games, Take 2, and EA to be on here.
I was expecting Censorstation
Rockstar would of if we didn’t get the GTA 6 trailer last year
EA must first have had a way in order to lose their way.
@@DevinPosey20 Nah, they’re more than worthy to be on the list as far as I’m concerned. Honestly, the only we got the gta 6 was because everyone was sick of their sh*t and constantly having gta 5 being shoved down their throat.
We’re lucky we even got RDR2
Me too
The closure of Tango Gameworks hits me hard on a deeper level. As a die hard Resident Evil fan, I loved The Evil Within games and was hoping to get my hands on the sequel (The Evil Within 3) after like 8 years since the last game, but now, I don't think the franchise will ever continue on.
Rest in peace Tango and The Evil Within. You died a hero and will not be forgotten.
Rockstar Games. Putting GTA V on 3 generations of consoles in a row, milking Online for over a decade, outsourcing the GTA Trilogy to a studio who had no clue what they were doing, and abandoning Red Dead Online
Dishonorable Mentions: Electronic Arts, Bandai Namco, 2K, Rockstar Studios, Bethesda, Ubisoft & Gearbox
“Leadership” at Konami needs to be fired. When all they’re doing is remaking and remastering games and making medical tech (like WTF????), somebody or bodies need to fucking go
These Gaming Companies Lost Their Way faster than most TV Networks looking at you Comedy Central and Freeform your corporate masters aren't the only ones at blame here
Scarlet and Violet may be buggy as hell, but they weren't bad games. Good story, refreshing gameplay, and solid DLC made these some of the best games in the series.
It's like Watchmojo never plays the games they like to criticize so much.
Game Freak needs to actually take their time and not rush games out the door. Even fan made Pokemon games are better
Yeah, I'll agree. The feeling of an entirely open map (outside a few zones), the depth of optional interactions with the school, and _that ending_ were pretty darn good, but ... the lack of technical polish just cannot be denied. Feels like all the polish went to Legends Arceus before it.
Some of my favorite tiny details:
- Groups of Litleo always spawn with one Pyroar, and groups of Pyroar are always several females with one male.
- During stormy weather, lightweight Pokemon (Hoppips, etc) will actually blow away in the wind.
- Zorua and Ditto always appear disguised as other Pokemon.
@@Stratelier I'm not denying the technical state of the game. That was/is easily the worst part of the game.
But if Crash Bandicoot fans can like Twinsanity despite all its glaring technical flaws, then I can enjoy Scarlet and Violet as a Pokemon fan despite all of its technical flaws.
I’d like to argue that sword and shield plus scarlet and violet were not terrible games.
Microsoft closing tangogameworks was just the final straw for me in my opinion.
Cry
@@blade5883 why should I cry, its more anger and rage because Tango game works made a great game like Hi-fi rush and shouldn't have been closed down.
Delusional @@blade5883
@@blade5883 is it OK to laugh?
@@blade5883 why should I cry it’s more anger and rage 😤
I'm a huge MK fan. I pre ordered the deluxe edition of 1 and took off days to play it. I really can't express how disappointed I am in it. And I know its WBs fault. Not Netherrealms
Man what??? Rise of the tomb raider one of my favorite PS4 games
That game was awesome
Ubisoft deserves to be on this list since they started to create AAAA games
Props to Mojo for calling these out, especially shady LRG
Honestly most of these did this to themselves regardless of whether they are owned by corprations or not like Bioware for example. If everything had played out exactly the same with all of their games successful or failure would the company have survived without EA bailng them out financially?
As far GameFreak goes. I think Dexit was going to happen any as they were already testing a dex cut as early as Gen 5 with the first Black and White game being new only Pokemon during the main story. So it wasn't surprising that Gen 8 did a dex cut.
Graphics were another complaint cropping around Black and White with a small vocal minority saying that GameFreak needed to take Pokémon into the 3D age to compete with Xbox and Playstation and they did with and X/Y, Sun and Moon, and the Ultra Sun and Moon and people still complain.
Now I guess the complaint is Pokemon isn't violent enough.
Activision fell off hard we haven't had a Spyro or crash and no news for a skylanders trilogy game bundle
We’ve had enough _Skylanders_ for one lifetime. Maybe adapt a few films. Though we could use one more _Spyro_ game.
A lot of these hurt to see
Especially Konami. They had so many amazing franchises, and they made some of the best licensed games too. What the HELL happened?
Just because someone stumbles and loses their way it doesn't mean that they are lost forever. " Charles Xavier "
6:44 excuse me what!! A whole year. Oh hell no I don't mind waiting a month or two maybe 3 but a year. They need to get their shit together
Would it not be easier for everyone to just, oh, I don't know, stop playing games all together? I mean, all WatchMojo does is talk negativity.
Konami's Power Pros is still getting positive reception for the most part.
Im sorry, what do you mean the BAD Tomb Raider games? That trilogy is EXCELLENT
Where exactly did I say "CD's Tomb Raider games were bad"?
Once you play the original Tomb Raider trilogy,
You will get to tell and even feel the difference between the original and reboot versions.
And I always loved the original Tomb Raider more than the reboot.
@@jeuryrabassa4724agreed and I think their comment mainly stems from the fact that Crystal Dynamics is a super petty company and have a tendency to act all high and mighty which is why most of the Tomb Raider fan base can’t stand them. A great example was when Tomb Raider Anniversary was first dropping and Core Design (the original creators of Tomb Raider) made their own pitch of the game and Crystal Dynamics heard of this and made their own pitch behind Core’s back and one of the employees posted on a now deleted blog thread basically saying that all of the people at Core were idiots for thinking that their pitch even had a shot of even being picked up.
I think the rebooted tomb raider games were pretty awesome, the 2nd being the best of the 3 I could never get into the original titles
Thankfully, things can still turn around for these companies, I mean their's still time for them to do so.
XPlease don't give us hope it's over they all had to many chances 🙄😒
Rocksteady isn’t recovering.
If this was made in 2016 Nintendo would be here but they made a huge come back with the last 7 years
They sure did. With games like:
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Pokemon Sword and Shield
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Metroid Dread
Pikmin 4
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Princess Peach: Showtime!
The Paper Mario TTYD remake
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
I didn't understand the Crystal Dynamix criticism at all.
I really think that squares biggest issue is that their expectations for their games tends to be unrealistic at times and even games like the final fantasy remake and final fantasy rebirth which sold tremendously they decided was not enough money for them and I truly believe the biggest problem is that they're trying too hard to make money instead of spending money to make good games and worse just doing like too many of these studios and booting smaller studios rather than allowing them the chance to make them a profit because them booting crystal dynamics was still to me a very big mistake
I 100% agree with Crystal Dynamics as they’ve always acted like they were high and mighty and they have a track record of trying to sabotage anyone else who tries to handle the Tomb Raider IP cuz they did it when Core Design (the original makers of the series) made their own pitch for Tomb Raider Anniversary and they heard about this and immediately got to work on making their own pitch and one of the workers on Anniversary basically called Core idiots for even making the pitch in the first place. More recently they did it with Aspyr for the Remaster collection when they put that warning message in. They are also known to be difficult to work with as well cuz they have also made people from The Initiative (the company they’re working with on the Perfect Dark Reboot) leave the company as well due to how domineering their presence is on the project with them wanting to control every little thing.
Square Enix are JRPG masters. I will not tolerate this slander against them!
And you can't really blame them for that.
Cause making actual good and great JRPG games,
Square Enix always delivers.
For better or worse.
JRPGs are shovelware garbage for thirsty anime fanboys and virgins
Although Metal Gear isn't really my cup if tea, what they did to Kljima was the nail in the coffin for their company.
Its a shame watching two companies who hold some of the video game IP that I've held most dear for decades (Konami & Square) provide almost nothing of quality for the fans of those IP. At least Capcom has gotten its act together in recent years, the companies should look towards them as an example of how to get back on the right track. It didn't happen overnight, it started with Resident Evil 7 and they've continued to earn back my trust one game and one decision at a time ever since.
I still can’t , even for today , forgive either activision , and/or gazillion entertainment/disney for what they did to both marvel ultimate alliance 1 , and 2 , and marvel heroes omega
The thing I hate about game companies these days. When it comes to fighting games I care more about the graphics then the actual gameplay and game modes.
Bandai Namco is getting notorious for its low quality anime games and poor management of the Digimon franchise.
correction: AT&T sold WB to Discovery in 2022.
and who owns it now
And both WB and Discovery merged.
In all fairness limited run did call themselves limited run.
Question: Are you trying to tell me that Laura Croft wasn't sexualized before the reboot game? Do you not remember the og game's "big" selling point?
Actually enjoyed playing the last three Tomb Raider games. Because I always come up with inventive ways to finish off the enemies. Plus also they made her more of a badass
Relic Entertainment started a plunge from Dawn of War 3.
Correct,Not even Company of Heroes 3 was that well recieved
If there's ever a Part 2..... Be sure to include Capcom, SNK, Bandai-Namco & especially.... "Neitherrealm Studios"!
what the hell are you talking about Capcom has been doing nothing but putting out amazing games hell there Dead rising remake looks awesome
Stay off the crack, dude
@@Spawnwick_Boseman82820 who me or the other person
@@jsmith3946 the other dude, you said nothing wrong.
Why SNK?
Am i missing something with the Crystal Dyanmics' Tomb Raider? I thought they were well liked? Or is it just cool to hate on it all of a sudden? I thought they were great.
I also think this dude is very PS bias. After the showcase, many xbox people were back on the saddle. PS isn't guilt free either, they made some abysmal decisions of late too...
I actually enjoyed Gotham Knights quite a bit and it along Batman arkham origins was developed by WB Montreal
Current Bungie is not the same Bungie that made Halos 1-Reach
I hope rocksteady will make a new batman for single player use and find a way to apologize for how they killed batman.
In case you haven’t heard. Suicide Squad bring the Justice League back including Arkham Batman. Starting off with the Flash in season 2. Not only that Rocksteady already pitching a new single player game hoping to bring Rocksteady back to its roots after what Sefton Hill Did.
@@jsalazar1497It hasn’t happened. Otherwise, we’d have seen it already. And the game killed the studio.
You could replace Crystal Dynamics with Bandai Namco in this list. Oh sure Limited Run and Game Freak[which should really be Pokémon Company themselves] have done terrible things but Bandai Namco takes the crap due to adding microtransactions to Tekken 8 post launch, ignoring and disrespecting legacy IPs like Digmon[except for producing only a few cards and figures], Soul Calibur, Ridge Racer, etc, and terrible Anime Arena Fighters among other issues.
“But Elden Ring and Dark Souls”
Those were developed by FromSoftware who are a good studio and actually deserve their flowers.
Bioware might be at the TOP of the list if the new Dragon Age flops
We're back to the dark ages
Yes DC Warner Bros games defienitily Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League lost their ways to get a chance to be a good game because they're a bad games, but only just because I LOVE DC more than MArvel because there's my favourite character Harley Quinn our Bloody Klown Queen in both of those games i'm interested of Gotham Knights one of the worst game of 2022 and even Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League one of the worst game of this year 2024, but I want those games as a BIG DC fan more than even Marvel I like both of corse, but DC will always be my favourite because I like Batman, Robin, Batgirl, King Shark, Joker, and Harley Quinn DC's characters are more better and about of Hi-Fi Rush what is my Personal favourite GOTY 2023 because it have amazing looking 2D Animation art style, awesome music gameplay with rythm, cool name, great character designs, Bethesda is one of my favourite video game company and Hi-Fi rush is futursitic beautiful colorful looking world what's more diffrent than any games today without too realism graphics/art style those are my reasons why Hi-Fi Rush is my Game of the Year 2023 what I have on PC, would LOVE to play it on PS5 too and can't wait it's coming for Nintendo Switch! Hi-Fi Rush: Everyday is a Chai Day! Let's ROCK! 🌄🌃🏟🤖🐈⬛🧑🎤🎸🎶🔥⭐
Warner Bros in general just ruins everything.
@@AJ-xc4qe not in my books, but I allow everyone's opinions :)
I like the three Tomb Raider from crysyal dynamics
The Tomb Raider Trilogy is goated i often find them being constantly on these types of list which is complete bs.
Square Enix should've stuck with just rpgs and left that other shite alone. Can't blame them for those others failing, like Crystal Dynamics. People seem to forget that just because a company owns another, doesn't mean they made those horrible azz games. That's also why SE sold CD due to horrible sales. Best decision ever.
Where's capcom, thq nordic, take 2 interactive, ubisoft, Nintendo, sony interactive studios
One word: inshittification.
Honestly i dont understand hate for gotham knights
Honestly didn't have a problem with SS:KTJL. I thought it was pretty fun to play, but overtime it just got to repetitive and then the DLC dropped and thats when I realized how bad WB/RockSteady had gotten.. Now they're coming out with a NEW Arkham game for VR...like what the fuck is going on over there? Somebody needs to call and check on them!!
That new game isn’t even being made by Rocksteady. Further confirming they can’t do anything right anymore.
@@cameronmcewen9666 that's wild..
The new tomb raider trilogy is fine except maybe Shadow of the Tomb Raider which was made by Edios Montreal
Hey Game Pass has been very useful to me.
I enjoy the Tomb Raider trilogy, but I really hate killing the animals.
it's hunting like in red dead redemption
Some of them weren't that bad just not the best 🎮 good list 👏
Rocksteady💯
Nice to see limited run games and xbox on here
Wheres Bethesda?
The more I see Hi-Fi Rush the more angry I get of what Xbox did to Tango Gameworks
Why is CENSORSTATION not on the list?
because this is Wokemojo and they are all for censorship
Beats me
Because they dodge bullets, especially when there's a lot of things they did but manage to earn the fans trust back since 2013
@@luckystudent00 Exactly, even though they made bad decisions, they're in better hands than the entire Xbox side of Microsoft in that entire decade, even better in its entire existence
Sony always pushed towards innovations in technology while Microsoft just copied what Sony did and fail miserably each time lol
I don’t think pokemon legends could be considered gold I mean sure the gameplay was given a new look but everything was bad. I assumed that the game going for like more into lore or history but didn’t and the name didn’t seem fitting for the game.
At this point, all of them.
Wtf are you talking about with Tomb Raider (2013)? Played them all, nothing gave those vibes. That was such an odd thing to say... those games are awesome. Now the 90s, yeah, that was ew. 😅
I love how they don't mention Bungie just created the best Destiny expansion of all time. Guess that doesn't fit your narrative though huh
Rockstar should definitely be on this list. They completely abandoned their fans and legacy just so that they can milk GTA online. They disgraced the GTA trilogy with the disaster of a "definitive edition". They had so many single player games but clearly shifted away from that business model. It's very obvious that GTA 6 production is so long, because they are designing the world/mechanics in such a way that they can implement an online component that can be milked for another 15 years.
Sony too, because well... arrogant Sony is back.
9:48 the cream of the crap...! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
What? No Bethesda? Fallout 76 launch anyone?
Just letting you know is that some of these companies that led their downfall was not because of their corporate influence or shady monetization but a new threat sweet baby inc
Or it can be both
Very much both. Maybe one more so than the other though..@@brendonlucaschaves2333
Bobby Kotick should be in prison, and David Zaslav should be fired.
Warner bros games is just as bad as Warner bros discovery 💡as they purge through countless animated project such as tax write off and Corporate meddling 🧐 it’s just bad as Velma when it was 💩 crapped out on hbo max
Running out ideas
suggest ani idea or shut up
@@jimbo9208It's the same game list for a few days.
Gotham Knights was a good game too. SSKTJL was trash though
Square Enix is literally a walking corpse,How the hell are these guys still in business when they've releasing nothing but flops for more than 10 years now?I hope they get shut down
I think Game Freak's problem is that they are rushing their games and it shows. Arceus still seems a bit dated though.
4:35 What is wrong with their faces? My face is tired. I don't think Bioware will win another Game of the Year anytime soon if ever.
Why the hell would you double down on live service if it clearly didn't work? At least I won't be buying games from Warner Bros anytime soon.
I didn't know Limited Run Games qualified for this list. It sucks ordering a game from them and possibly forgetting that you ordered it. Waiting a year for delivery is stupid. Why is it taking so long? I'm not going to buy games from them if they are sticking their thumbs up their asses instead of delivering games in reasonable amount of time.
I don't think Konami is going to recover since they stopped making Castlevania and turned it into a pachinko machine. I noticed one of their pachinko games took a more sexual approach. I'd like to see an actual game made from that. I'm not against a sexualized version of Castlevania. There are hentai games that did that already.
I'm blaming Activision for not giving us a Spyro 4 already. Stop making Call of Duty for one second.
Hi-Fi Rush should not have been closed.
I have to say BioWare doesn't count. As all the soul from the ones who gave us the great titles are LONG gone before their fall from grace.
The people who gave us Knights of the Old Republic left when EA bought them in 2007.
Then the people who worked on Mass Effect up to 3 left by mid 2013.
These days it is just another EA studio that was gutted by their practices.
Blizzard is in a similar position. When they joint with Activision it is like they were poisoned and have never recovered.
I'd also never say Activision was ever a 'good studio' as they've been known to be rather scummy from their earliest years. More or less after Kotick bought them and they entered the 2000s they really lost sight of why they formed as a company, and sort of became the very thing they hated.
Also....Xbox has not changed a bit. They've always been part of Microsoft, and they've been using the same playbook for decades.
I think Halo Infinite is improving slightly. Bit by bit.
Ea isn't on the list
EA is 🤴 when it comes to screwing up and bad business
200 million dollars good lord WB get out of live service while you still can
Gamemill entertainment
I'm surprised that Rare and Naughty Dog are not on this list.
3:44 I DO NOT appreciate the Pokemon slander. All the Pokemon games are excellent and fun to play. Everyone who is complaining about these games are a bunch of haters who want to see the company dissolve.
square enix hasn't really fallen off course more like it hit a pot hole from it's old ceo/needing to focus on other parts of square enix series that aren't final fantasy or kh between releases.
with gamefreak pokemon just needs to to take a huge break between generations as gen 9 should've took a few years instead of constantly putting them out "evolving" the pokemon series to other rpg's structure in presentation.
crystal dynamic lara needs to go back to her older look as they tried way too hard with 2013.
sucks that warner bros. games went down such a bad route for the company in general with the arkham series ending on a bad note and their works just being handled horribly by it's ceo that just needs to be fired already.
xbox tbh always found redundant compared to playstation(even with the stupid moves they've pulled to their classics/dumb worse fans giving reason for the ps5 to be ridiculed for it's games not being worth the price at all.)/nintendo but them screwing over so many series over it just needs to stop being a console focusing on graphics instead.
konami has had the worst fall on this list as it really is with it's franchises dead(poor gradius/parodius/goemon) and parading the already resting in piece body of metal gear after already messing up the series in 5.
Mainstream catching up to reflect culture
Thanks to that sweet sweet baby
It’s time to pull the plug on the Xbox company
No. They should pull the plug on Rocksteady.
Xbox is slowly becoming 3rd party, which is great for the industry.
I still believe xbox can change and become better
GameFreak hasn't lost their way. They are still a good company. And no, Legends Arceus was garbage. Pokemon games are not suppose to be action RPG.
How about naughty dog? They lost their way too because of their crunchy work environment.
You're funny, now you're just talking
Sony. All they ever do put out drip fed state of plays and showcases where they barely tell people what's in pipeline from first party studios.
Naughtydog and sucker punch to me lost their ways
Naughty Dog mostly. Sucker Punch is still solid.
What? Sucker Punch is still prime...
Um, Sucker Punch has actually been doing great so far.
Ghost Of Tsushima was amazing.
You truly are delusional 🤡
Now you're just talking out your butt. Just stop 🤡