I actually used ChatGPT to get 10 games from this idea. Here is the list that the AI gave: No Man's Sky, Star Citizen, Hades, Kena: Bridge of Sprits, Among Us, The Binding of Isaac, Undertale, Cuphead, Stardew Valley, and Rust.
That's a really good idea, highlight the few but good kickstarter games that where actually real and even really good and fun games (Project Wingman for example)
Maybe I'm just still bitter, but I feel like anthem should be on here. They "completed" and released the game, knowing it was a buggy, unfixable mess... some of the devs supposedly told their bosses the game was impossible to fix before the game sold
Anthem after its first year really wasn’t bad, and I really did enjoy it. As far as I know it wasn’t the devs fault because they were forced to release an unfinished game.
CEO: Does the game run? Devs: Uhh well, we've got a huge list of all the stuff that's buggy and broken and-- CEO: No, I mean... does the game *start up*? Devs: ...yeah? CEO: Ship it.
10>The Day Before 9>Abandoned 8>Figurality 7>Curiosity:Whats inside the cube 6>Vage strike 5>Raw 4>Shroud of the Avatar 3>Titanreach 2>Climber/Abstractism 1>Project Pheonix
They need to atleast provide a title card at the start of a new game. I understand not giving it away. But man sometimes it's tough to figure out what game they're even discussing. Gameranx give us title cards for games. Plzz
You don't play every mobile games, so don't talk about it, if you played some there is few actual good game that is in the mobile market, it's not like everything is bad there is some good game
A point to remember when talking about Steam Refunds, the 2 hour/2 week limit is only for automatic refunds. You can still reach out to Steam and they can make refunds on a case by case basis. So if you were to buy a Helldivers 2 shovelware clone and not boot it up for a couple of weeks, you could still get the refund, it just might take a few more steps and some intervention from Steam Support. It's not an end all, be all, just the automatic process vs manual intervention.
Don't forget H1Z1 that was a Survival game and a Battle Royal type game. Then they split the game into two free to play games that were broken. Everyone that payed during early access lost out on a great survival game and never got a refund from Sony. And eventually the Battle Royal part of the game got shut down for online gambling IRS issues.
but sadly it wasn't 😢 we only got a weird stable build. plus @Gameranks are kinda pushing fake news, team of 20 devs/artist. plus the publisher was extremely dodgy......
A lot of games are developed like that, also that's most likely not true and they never really had a game made until they slapped one together just before release I'm pretty sure
Yeah, I'm most disappointed in this game. I was so hyped for it. Last year I was really looking forward to Red Fall and The Day Before, and I got screwed twice.
Hottake: any game riddled with microtransactions are scams. Argument to back this claim: They put the code for items in the game, but convince you they're "upgrades" and charge you even more money after you spent 60-70 bucks on their game in the first place.
@jamstheshapeshifter most consumer friendly and having microtransactions directly opposes eachother. Warfare can be good despite the microtransactions, and the micro transactions can be otherwise menial or pointless, but a game cannot both have microtransactions and also be the most consumer friendly game.
@rabidwolf252 Bingo. A "consumer-friendly" game is one that is a complete game on release, with free unlockable items, and when dlc drops, it's free without ANY additional microtransaction/purchase necessary: AKA, all video games released on consoles and PC prior to the microtransaction era of gaming lol.
@@gameranxTV Chronicles of Elyria is a big one for this. They were going for the JRPG MMO style (archeage, guild wars, etc) with a player-driven political and economic engine. Several years of development, a shitload of money, and nothing.
I remember going into a Gamestop before the first Fable released, and the clerk was going on about how it would be such a realistic rpg to where you could catch cold if you slept outside. The hype was wild. Granted I AM one of those people who does love the whole series, but yeah what we got was not what was hyped up.
Lol had one gamestop employee ranting on about these new game that's coming out, but bro let me just buy those runescape card for membership, yeah I build a pc just for runescape and VR, nothing else, paid the 50 and left
How is Star Citizen not number one? 12 years of dev time, 700 million squeezed from supporters, refusal to grant refunds, complaints filed with LA district attorney, Better Business Bureau, and Federal Trade Commission.
People make excuses for it because there *A* version of it that's technically playable. So they can forever move the goalposts because people are in essence paying for the developer to commit to "stretch goals". The more stretch goals they add in the interim, the LESS fiduciary incentive they have to release an actual finished product.
One I stupidly fell for was Takedown: Red Sabre. The guy was a developer for original Rainbow Six PC games and promised too much and I paid my $14 and all I got was a decent map but enemy AI that had good awareness and shooting and shooting was just first two shots dead on, everything after that is +/-100 up and down recoil. He also gave you 10 free copies of the game to share and dipped. So now me and my buddies just passing it around like it’s a STD.
You know it's bad when the company announces that they have "A programmer." Like, one guy to create an entire game, in less than 20 years (presumably).
Hey falcon. This is off topic but I remember watching this channel when you had about 250k subs. I love this channel and I'm not really into list channels but you make it so engaging. You're informative yet easy to follow. Viva La Falcon!
Dang, I backed Project Phoenix back in the day and remember all of their backer updates. Those became more hilarious with each update where they constantly fired and hired staff. At one point I believe there was no one working there anymore. In one of the latest updates they did tell they'd release another game to fund this one, which was obviously the nail in the coffin.
if memory serves, that was because they were hit with allegations that the funding for project phoenix was used for Tiny Metal, where someone who claims was part of the staff for that game used the proj. Phoenix money money for development. As for the lead for the project, he is now the producer for that new Gundam show on netflix
@@marioncharleston initial reviews were bound to be positive because it is in early access + nostalgia of KSP + A LOT OF CONTENT was promised. It's unofficially abandoned now. Check out KSP subreddit and you'll know how bad it is.
The likes on this video prove we want a video on jake and falcon's. 1.Favorite childhood gaming memory. 2.Their favorite game. 3.Their least favorite game. 4.The game they're most excited for. 5. The game they always go back to to play for fun. If each answer the 5 questions thats a list of 10.
Shatterline needs to be added to this list. Was in early access for 2 years selling season passes and cosmetics, then all of a sudden announced that they were removing it from steam to be added to Epic games and partnering with Faraway to introduce NFTs to the game. Then it was revealed that it was always a part of the plan to introduce NFTs to the game and the devs were using all the players in discord to beta test the game for free, and banning anyone from the discord who spoke negatively about NFTs, including staff and mods. Nothing will be carried over to Epic on the full launch of the game so any existing players will start from scratch.
This. People need to know about that, if they get through with that and get a somewhat good playerbase in the future we all know that other companies will just follow at least the removing it & re-selling it part. Worst part is that I expected Nintendo to be the first to pull something along those lines given that everything for (and including the firmware itself) the Switch is licensed on a revocable basis by just telling people to buy a new console & the games again, I'm almost willing to bet that they're watching how this case plays out really close.
Wtf, i was thinking about returning to the game since the core gameplay is pretty fun although some things make it frustrating. Yea I'm not returning ever again.
It's incredible seeing TitanReach get mentioned in this as I actually do some 3d modeling of weapons for this game. I was stunned when the entire team just kinda dropped off the face of the map one day and didn't pay me for the last batch of models I made. This explains a lot.
Anyone remember “journey of the light” ? Was supposedly an extra hard puzzle game, so hard that nobody ever got to level 2. Because levels 2-8 didn’t exist. The games sole purpose was to keep you busy for enough time, until it was no longer refundable.
Eyyy lets goo Jawn! Yes i love his vids!! But eyy great video topic Falcon! Loooved this, cause I remember so many of these games just being a mega bust as well lol 😅
Maybe I'm just being too nice here but I'm leaning towards "The Day Before" as being a case where the devs were just way too ambitious and simply weren't able to create what they had hoped to create. Sure they should have simply been honest about their shortcomings but that's easy to say in hindsight. On the other side of the coin to me is Star Citizen. It's the only time I've ever gone the kickstarter route and thank goodness I went for the minimum. It's vapourware and they have no excuses left. From the outside at least, it seems like they've spent 90% of their MASSIVE amounts of money on trying to get more money by promising yet another in the VERY long list of new and "exciting" ships .... for an extra fee. It would be lovely if they stopped trying to get more money by making more vanity ships and actually worked on finishing that hot mess.
I'm interested to hear gameranx thoughts on the upcoming "Subliminal" game. It's advertised to be a procedural horror Backrooms escape game and looks very exciting with hyperrealistic visuals and plenty of nostalgic environments, however the game has suffered multiple delays and proceeds to post the same clips with a new one once in a blue moon, leading people to think they're simply Blender renders. I need Jake and Falcon's opinions!
I was impressed with how good Project Wingman turned out to be. That was one of those rare kickstarters that actually succeeded. And that game was mostly made by like 3 people.
Fireb0rn did a video on the Helldivers 2 doppelganger fiasco. Apparently a lot of games were attempting to do this and, IIRC, it goes a bit deeper than just "oohoo, you bought the wrong game by mistake. Don't hit the refund button." There's a lot of shady things happening in Steam's shovelware community.
The Day Before had my interest when it was in development, but I also wanted to wait when the hype wasn't center-stage, but the game itself. Phew! Falcon, I would love to hear your list of 10 unpopular games that you find fun. Those are the best to find some hidden gems that were originally lambasted by critics/fans.
When a game is so ambitious that its promises start to feel like science fiction, sometimes it's easier to believe in the dream rather than the reality. In a world where studios fight for every penny from players, it's astonishing to see projects like Star Citizen continue to raise millions despite their perpetual 'development.' This is more than just a game-it's a pure cult. But how much longer before fans start asking uncomfortable questions?
Speaking of The Day Before. Once Human is pretty much what The Day Before wanted to be (minus extraction shooter), but Once Humans Seasonal System with Resets is plainly ruining it.
We're Just 2 Guyz and we're having a good time......having a good time...... Thank you for reminding me this exists somewhere on a Lonely Island Falcon 😂 Love what you and the rest of Gameranx do 💖
number one is star citizen. they somehow made only an alpha after 13 years and millions of dollars but people will still argue “WeLl ItS a ReAlLy CoOl GaMe ThAt GeTs UpDaTeS oNcE a YeAr”
"The Day Before" capitalized on the zombie survival mmo craze that started with the Arma 2 DayZ mod over 10 years ago. That mod influenced an entire generation of gamers and games between 2013 - 2019. Most of those games being early access scams. H1Z1, Rust, Miscreated, Scum, Nether, PUBG (PUBG would then go on to create battle royale mode which inspired Fortnite and created a billion dollar game) and several smaller games that copied the same format to earn money without publishing a finished game. These games used to dominate Twitch and RUclips gaming. None of them however ever left early access except for Rust and PUBG which evolved into their own type of games. Since then DayZ launched it's own standalone game but still failed to meet expectations. Even the AA and AAA companies that were influenced by the 3rd person survival mmo hype like The Division failed to live up to expectations and I doubt any game ever will. The moment I saw The Day Before I knew it was the latest in a long line of disappointments and scams.
What about the matrix game? It looked so amazing, I couldn’t wait to play it, and then it just went away like a puff of smoke 🤷♂️ thank you Falcon….we luv u!
Oh man I i remember being really excited for Project Phoenix when I first found it. It sounded interesting with all the big names behind it and it looked to have combat that reminded me of Growlanser. But then it imploded spectacularly.
For the number 8, maybe they hoped that the players would like their game enough that they won't care it wasn't actually Helldivers. Soulja Boy used this technique to get Superman into a hit song. He uploaded it to MP3 downlaod sites under the name ofa hit song at the time. People would download it thinking it was, say a 50 Cent song, play it, realise it wasn't actually a 50 Cent song, but would keep playing it because they enjoyed the song enough to look past the fact they were originally duped.
You could technically add Rise of Man to that list. It's still up on the Steam store and conning people into buying it but you essentially can't get much further than the opening area and there has been no developer communication since 2017. Reporting/flagging it on Steam seems to get no attention and buyers simply lose their money. Lots of reviews stating the same and Steam still keeps it in the store.
The MW3 reboot was a $70 MW2 DLC. They just released what was originally marketed for MW2. Arguably Activision’s biggest cash grab and isn’t talked ab enough
Please cover what ever happened to the FIREFLY ONLINE game. once on steam in beta for a startup, it just closed one day with NO expliation to this day as to what happened ages later. Thanks for the content
I love Falcon's legal disclaimer in the beginning. He's making sure to avoid a fight with the Legal Eagle. This is a joke based on both being birds of prey on RUclips 😂
Here's an idea for another video: 10 Games Everyone Thought were Scams but Turned out to be GREAT!
I actually used ChatGPT to get 10 games from this idea. Here is the list that the AI gave: No Man's Sky, Star Citizen, Hades, Kena: Bridge of Sprits, Among Us, The Binding of Isaac, Undertale, Cuphead, Stardew Valley, and Rust.
That's a really good idea, highlight the few but good kickstarter games that where actually real and even really good and fun games (Project Wingman for example)
@@redrevyolGood proof that ChatGPT has no idea what it's talking about
Omori would make that list.
@@WeekndWarriorrr I loved that one, such a unique game.
#1: Star Citizen
Nope
No😂
@@jimboyjoe645yea
@@jimboyjoe645yes 😂
@@jimboyjoe645 search your feelings, you know it to be true.
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Maybe I'm just still bitter, but I feel like anthem should be on here. They "completed" and released the game, knowing it was a buggy, unfixable mess... some of the devs supposedly told their bosses the game was impossible to fix before the game sold
I was a pre-alpha playtester for Anthem and oh boy, the forums were a mess.
Starfield should be on here
Anthem after its first year really wasn’t bad, and I really did enjoy it. As far as I know it wasn’t the devs fault because they were forced to release an unfinished game.
CEO: Does the game run?
Devs: Uhh well, we've got a huge list of all the stuff that's buggy and broken and--
CEO: No, I mean... does the game *start up*?
Devs: ...yeah?
CEO: Ship it.
I’m a victim. I preordered it. And I couldn’t get my money back :(
10>The Day Before
9>Abandoned
8>Figurality
7>Curiosity:Whats inside the cube
6>Vage strike
5>Raw
4>Shroud of the Avatar
3>Titanreach
2>Climber/Abstractism
1>Project Pheonix
Thank you
timestamps guys are great lol
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10 second of reading and 20 minutes of yapping, why has gameranx turned to absolute garbage?
They need to atleast provide a title card at the start of a new game. I understand not giving it away. But man sometimes it's tough to figure out what game they're even discussing.
Gameranx give us title cards for games. Plzz
Thank you for getting over with "The Day Before" at the start itself, LoL! Looking forward to the rest of the list.
I still remember vividly falcon completely calling out what was gonna happen with the day before.
Games that are scams?
How about EVERY mobile game released these days?
Calling them games is very generous.
You don't play every mobile games, so don't talk about it, if you played some there is few actual good game that is in the mobile market, it's not like everything is bad there is some good game
@mdhasiburrahman8806 lmfao mobile games are not games
@mdhasiburrahman8806 it is the free to play mobile games. They are very toxic. Give me one game that isn't toxic and try to milk you
@@mdhasiburrahman8806 I dont play mobile games because I'm not poor
A point to remember when talking about Steam Refunds, the 2 hour/2 week limit is only for automatic refunds. You can still reach out to Steam and they can make refunds on a case by case basis. So if you were to buy a Helldivers 2 shovelware clone and not boot it up for a couple of weeks, you could still get the refund, it just might take a few more steps and some intervention from Steam Support. It's not an end all, be all, just the automatic process vs manual intervention.
Don't forget H1Z1 that was a Survival game and a Battle Royal type game. Then they split the game into two free to play games that were broken. Everyone that payed during early access lost out on a great survival game and never got a refund from Sony. And eventually the Battle Royal part of the game got shut down for online gambling IRS issues.
Looks like "The Day before" will always be the poster boy of scams in gaming industry .
but sadly it wasn't 😢 we only got a weird stable build. plus @Gameranks are kinda pushing fake news, team of 20 devs/artist. plus the publisher was extremely dodgy......
@@melvinkizungu3997 stable build? did you play the game? there was nothing stable about that
@@melvinkizungu3997 lolol good one
@@melvinkizungu3997Found the devs alt account
Yeah
Don't forget Madden and FIFA.
EAFC 24 especially
Especially FIFA 25 at a price of $99😂
Add NBA 2K to that list, they might be the worst
Add Forza and 2k
@@epafroditfraggs6667 Yeah, now it called EAFC25
Glad this topic was brought up, thanks Falcon.
Glad you liked it!
@@gameranxTV isn't this like the 10th video about games that scammed.
@@nnamdiokechukwu9778 it's not the same games, man! Watch the video!
@nnamdiokechukwu9778 doesn't matter if it's the 20th, it's gonna be a successful video "unlike" anything you could do in your worthless life
@@nnamdiokechukwu9778 clown
Good you gave Jauwn the shoutout. He really deserves it
I love Jauwn’s content
The worst part about The Day Before is the supposedly were working on it for years and went through multiple builds of the game.
A lot of games are developed like that, also that's most likely not true and they never really had a game made until they slapped one together just before release I'm pretty sure
worst part - they are russians
Yeah, I'm most disappointed in this game. I was so hyped for it. Last year I was really looking forward to Red Fall and The Day Before, and I got screwed twice.
They built this in a cave with a box of scraps
Topic suggestion: Top 10 rated E games that truly were for everyone! Love me some Crash Bandicoot!!
Hakita spotted
'WE'RE JUST TWO GUYS AND WE'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME. HAVING A GOOD TIME. HAVING A GOOD TIME." Insane reference. I love it.
Yea. I loved the lonely island reference. Thank you Jake for making my day.
Who invited Steve?
For some reason, I thought he was referencing Queen with the "having a good time, having a good time" bit.
@@KitsuneYojimbo Wait it's not?
So glad other people got it 😂 I love the lonely island
Jauwn and KivaTV both getting named in one video :o great channels!
Let's not forget Aliens Colonial Marines. Thanks Randy.
What about that ant simulator game where the devs admitted they blew the funding on gambling and strppers? 😮
Should we do a part 2 for this video? Thanks for watching!
LMFAO did they really make that statement? Did they finish it with golden question "What you gonna do about it?"?
@@buak809 If I recall correctly one dev who actually cared about the project broke the news that the others had done that.
@@gameranxTVyes ya'll really should
Hottake: any game riddled with microtransactions are scams.
Argument to back this claim: They put the code for items in the game, but convince you they're "upgrades" and charge you even more money after you spent 60-70 bucks on their game in the first place.
micro transactions should be a free to play game thing only.
Counterpoint
Warframe has plenty of them, and is the most consumer friendly game I've ever played
@jamstheshapeshifter most consumer friendly and having microtransactions directly opposes eachother. Warfare can be good despite the microtransactions, and the micro transactions can be otherwise menial or pointless, but a game cannot both have microtransactions and also be the most consumer friendly game.
@rabidwolf252 nah just check up on warframes history
100% consumer freindly
@rabidwolf252 Bingo. A "consumer-friendly" game is one that is a complete game on release, with free unlockable items, and when dlc drops, it's free without ANY additional microtransaction/purchase necessary: AKA, all video games released on consoles and PC prior to the microtransaction era of gaming lol.
Chronicles of Ellyria and Cryptozoo should both be on this list.
Thanks for the suggestions :)
@@gameranxTV Chronicles of Elyria is a big one for this. They were going for the JRPG MMO style (archeage, guild wars, etc) with a player-driven political and economic engine. Several years of development, a shitload of money, and nothing.
I remember going into a Gamestop before the first Fable released, and the clerk was going on about how it would be such a realistic rpg to where you could catch cold if you slept outside. The hype was wild. Granted I AM one of those people who does love the whole series, but yeah what we got was not what was hyped up.
GameStop employees can hype up a pet rock 😂😂😂
Molyneaux sure did like hyping up his games well beyond what any developer could do
@@ChristophBrinkmannYou mean lying about his games
Lol had one gamestop employee ranting on about these new game that's coming out, but bro let me just buy those runescape card for membership, yeah I build a pc just for runescape and VR, nothing else, paid the 50 and left
How is Star Citizen not number one? 12 years of dev time, 700 million squeezed from supporters, refusal to grant refunds, complaints filed with LA district attorney, Better Business Bureau, and Federal Trade Commission.
It's a hot potato. Once the class action lawsuit drops it will be easier to chime in.
Because it’s still actively being developed and updated. It has come a LONG way in the 12 years
People make excuses for it because there *A* version of it that's technically playable. So they can forever move the goalposts because people are in essence paying for the developer to commit to "stretch goals". The more stretch goals they add in the interim, the LESS fiduciary incentive they have to release an actual finished product.
@@gingerbreadmanx3 And still years if not decades away from being released.
Dayz says hold my beer
A falcon video to start my day? Thank you very much!
Only 10 ? More like 10 per year
More like 10 per quarter 😂
More like 10 per developer, no wait there’s probably more.
The Day Before is so recent but was truly hilarious 😂
One I stupidly fell for was Takedown: Red Sabre. The guy was a developer for original Rainbow Six PC games and promised too much and I paid my $14 and all I got was a decent map but enemy AI that had good awareness and shooting and shooting was just first two shots dead on, everything after that is +/-100 up and down recoil. He also gave you 10 free copies of the game to share and dipped. So now me and my buddies just passing it around like it’s a STD.
You know it's bad when the company announces that they have "A programmer." Like, one guy to create an entire game, in less than 20 years (presumably).
It's not impossible, there are many good games done by a single person. Right now I'm following the development of Road to Vostock for example
"Hello, welcome to the party"
"Hi, I've never met you before."
"I know."
Just 2 guys and we're having a good time
love the reference
i was looking for this comment before I made it myself. We know what Steve can go do with his snake
P.T. lasted 10-15 minutes yet scared me more than anything else. Bite sized masterpiece
Thank you for making entertaining content. I don't know much about Gameranx, but it seems like it's truly made by gamers, for gamers.
Glad you enjoy it!
Hey falcon. This is off topic but I remember watching this channel when you had about 250k subs. I love this channel and I'm not really into list channels but you make it so engaging. You're informative yet easy to follow. Viva La Falcon!
03:28 Random Schwarzenegger
0:13 - Immensely debatable statement.
Same first thought
True that
Dang, I backed Project Phoenix back in the day and remember all of their backer updates. Those became more hilarious with each update where they constantly fired and hired staff. At one point I believe there was no one working there anymore. In one of the latest updates they did tell they'd release another game to fund this one, which was obviously the nail in the coffin.
if memory serves, that was because they were hit with allegations that the funding for project phoenix was used for Tiny Metal, where someone who claims was part of the staff for that game used the proj. Phoenix money money for development. As for the lead for the project, he is now the producer for that new Gundam show on netflix
Good Morning everyone!
Good night in the Southern hemisphere (Australia)
Good afternoon in western europe
Good morning in the east 🫡
Good evening!😊
Morning!
I was missing Escape from Tarkov from the list! :D Nice vid btw! ^^
Kerbal Space Program 2 was not mentioned! Damn.
Well maybe in the next part
That’s why Juno came in a saves the day
Iv bought that but havent played it yet!thought it had good reviews though?
@@marioncharleston initial reviews were bound to be positive because it is in early access + nostalgia of KSP + A LOT OF CONTENT was promised. It's unofficially abandoned now. Check out KSP subreddit and you'll know how bad it is.
Jauwn is a great channel, definitely worth checking out!
The likes on this video prove we want a video on jake and falcon's. 1.Favorite childhood gaming memory. 2.Their favorite game. 3.Their least favorite game. 4.The game they're most excited for. 5. The game they always go back to to play for fun. If each answer the 5 questions thats a list of 10.
Jakes says a lot of this stuff on his solo channel. Also on fps
@@IAMthatIAM992 thanks I'll look into it. Just thought it would be fun for a colab video on the topic.
This video shows two things: 1) Be cautious of any game developer over promising. 2)Crypto currency should stay far away from video games.
Shatterline needs to be added to this list. Was in early access for 2 years selling season passes and cosmetics, then all of a sudden announced that they were removing it from steam to be added to Epic games and partnering with Faraway to introduce NFTs to the game. Then it was revealed that it was always a part of the plan to introduce NFTs to the game and the devs were using all the players in discord to beta test the game for free, and banning anyone from the discord who spoke negatively about NFTs, including staff and mods. Nothing will be carried over to Epic on the full launch of the game so any existing players will start from scratch.
This.
People need to know about that, if they get through with that and get a somewhat good playerbase in the future we all know that other companies will just follow at least the removing it & re-selling it part.
Worst part is that I expected Nintendo to be the first to pull something along those lines given that everything for (and including the firmware itself) the Switch is licensed on a revocable basis by just telling people to buy a new console & the games again, I'm almost willing to bet that they're watching how this case plays out really close.
Wtf, i was thinking about returning to the game since the core gameplay is pretty fun although some things make it frustrating. Yea I'm not returning ever again.
It's incredible seeing TitanReach get mentioned in this as I actually do some 3d modeling of weapons for this game. I was stunned when the entire team just kinda dropped off the face of the map one day and didn't pay me for the last batch of models I made. This explains a lot.
Star Citizen deserves a mention
It was mentioned. In passing.
Another great topic. Hey Falcon!
Hey
Love the Lonely Island reference 😂
Anyone remember “journey of the light” ? Was supposedly an extra hard puzzle game, so hard that nobody ever got to level 2. Because levels 2-8 didn’t exist.
The games sole purpose was to keep you busy for enough time, until it was no longer refundable.
Eyyy lets goo Jawn! Yes i love his vids!!
But eyy great video topic Falcon! Loooved this, cause I remember so many of these games just being a mega bust as well lol 😅
Crane games are the OG scams!!! College was a big second. 😅
Do not do college if you are planning on a creative future period
Anything made by Ubisoft.
Maybe I'm just being too nice here but I'm leaning towards "The Day Before" as being a case where the devs were just way too ambitious and simply weren't able to create what they had hoped to create. Sure they should have simply been honest about their shortcomings but that's easy to say in hindsight.
On the other side of the coin to me is Star Citizen. It's the only time I've ever gone the kickstarter route and thank goodness I went for the minimum. It's vapourware and they have no excuses left. From the outside at least, it seems like they've spent 90% of their MASSIVE amounts of money on trying to get more money by promising yet another in the VERY long list of new and "exciting" ships .... for an extra fee. It would be lovely if they stopped trying to get more money by making more vanity ships and actually worked on finishing that hot mess.
I'm interested to hear gameranx thoughts on the upcoming "Subliminal" game. It's advertised to be a procedural horror Backrooms escape game and looks very exciting with hyperrealistic visuals and plenty of nostalgic environments, however the game has suffered multiple delays and proceeds to post the same clips with a new one once in a blue moon, leading people to think they're simply Blender renders. I need Jake and Falcon's opinions!
Love that you shout out KiraTV, love their content
Top 10 money laundering schemes 😂
I was impressed with how good Project Wingman turned out to be. That was one of those rare kickstarters that actually succeeded. And that game was mostly made by like 3 people.
how is star citizen not on the list
Because law suit...
@@malvoleus what lawsuit
How Star Citizen is missing from this column beats me
Fireb0rn did a video on the Helldivers 2 doppelganger fiasco. Apparently a lot of games were attempting to do this and, IIRC, it goes a bit deeper than just "oohoo, you bought the wrong game by mistake. Don't hit the refund button." There's a lot of shady things happening in Steam's shovelware community.
The Day Before had my interest when it was in development, but I also wanted to wait when the hype wasn't center-stage, but the game itself. Phew!
Falcon, I would love to hear your list of 10 unpopular games that you find fun. Those are the best to find some hidden gems that were originally lambasted by critics/fans.
Come on, where is star citzen?
Always a chance we’ll come back with a part 2! :)
@@gameranxTV you can do this video every 10 years, but SC should be on every single one of them.
Second Life, Star Citizen, and KSP2 shouldve been on this list.
Good suggestions. We might come back with a second part for this video topic.
We don't talk about "Yogventures", right? 😂
One of the first big ones I remember, which seemed to have been swept under the rug.
Thanks a lot falcon for bringing this up, now i know which games i should steer clear of and which ones i need to buy.
When a game is so ambitious that its promises start to feel like science fiction, sometimes it's easier to believe in the dream rather than the reality. In a world where studios fight for every penny from players, it's astonishing to see projects like Star Citizen continue to raise millions despite their perpetual 'development.' This is more than just a game-it's a pure cult. But how much longer before fans start asking uncomfortable questions?
1:49 Queen reference spotted
Actually the lonely island - just 2 guyz, I think
1:49 YO LONELY ISLAND REFERENCED
What? That's Queen.
I can't believe Star Citizen didn't make it on this list
Always potential we come back with a part 2 for this video :)
Great video, Falcon!
I’m surprised skull and bones wasn’t on this list
I’m calling it, a lot of them will be crowdfunded MMOs
Speaking of The Day Before. Once Human is pretty much what The Day Before wanted to be (minus extraction shooter), but Once Humans Seasonal System with Resets is plainly ruining it.
And also the kernel level chinese anticheat suspiciously detecting things from completely different areas on your computer
What word did you use at 4:21? Is it a made up word?
facetious - it’s usually used synonymous with sarcastic
@@phollie801 Maybe it was a mispronunciation cause he says it like festicious
@@VitmnG agreed, it did sound a bit wonky, I had to replay it to hear it correctly
Facetious
Sounded like he never heard the word before and was reading from a script.
We're Just 2 Guyz and we're having a good time......having a good time......
Thank you for reminding me this exists somewhere on a Lonely Island Falcon 😂
Love what you and the rest of Gameranx do 💖
number one is star citizen. they somehow made only an alpha after 13 years and millions of dollars but people will still argue “WeLl ItS a ReAlLy CoOl GaMe ThAt GeTs UpDaTeS oNcE a YeAr”
Skull & Bones should’ve been on this list
All gacha should be on this list!
... no ?
Star Citizen comes to mind.
Ok we did a part 2 this video was so interesting!!
I like how Helldivers 2 is like the poster child for 'online game that didn't screw over people'
lol thanks for giving the video a watch :)
Shouldnt Star citizen be in the list??🤔
You forgot Cyberpunk 2077 bro
Chronicles of Elyria should’ve been number one. At least Star Citizen has SOME gameplay, but CoE has never had ANY play.
"The Day Before" capitalized on the zombie survival mmo craze that started with the Arma 2 DayZ mod over 10 years ago. That mod influenced an entire generation of gamers and games between 2013 - 2019. Most of those games being early access scams. H1Z1, Rust, Miscreated, Scum, Nether, PUBG (PUBG would then go on to create battle royale mode which inspired Fortnite and created a billion dollar game) and several smaller games that copied the same format to earn money without publishing a finished game. These games used to dominate Twitch and RUclips gaming. None of them however ever left early access except for Rust and PUBG which evolved into their own type of games. Since then DayZ launched it's own standalone game but still failed to meet expectations. Even the AA and AAA companies that were influenced by the 3rd person survival mmo hype like The Division failed to live up to expectations and I doubt any game ever will. The moment I saw The Day Before I knew it was the latest in a long line of disappointments and scams.
Surprised not to see Identity RPG on here
Nice shout-out to Jauwn. He has a great channel and is doing work that no human should be subject to.
I absolutely loved Fable 2. One of my first game obsession in an early childhood
Its so cool seing Jauwm on here, the dude really got a great channel
What about the matrix game? It looked so amazing, I couldn’t wait to play it, and then it just went away like a puff of smoke 🤷♂️ thank you Falcon….we luv u!
The subtle just two guys references are appreciated
Oh man I i remember being really excited for Project Phoenix when I first found it. It sounded interesting with all the big names behind it and it looked to have combat that reminded me of Growlanser. But then it imploded spectacularly.
The Fable and Persona series got me into gaming. ❤
For the number 8, maybe they hoped that the players would like their game enough that they won't care it wasn't actually Helldivers. Soulja Boy used this technique to get Superman into a hit song. He uploaded it to MP3 downlaod sites under the name ofa hit song at the time. People would download it thinking it was, say a 50 Cent song, play it, realise it wasn't actually a 50 Cent song, but would keep playing it because they enjoyed the song enough to look past the fact they were originally duped.
You could technically add Rise of Man to that list. It's still up on the Steam store and conning people into buying it but you essentially can't get much further than the opening area and there has been no developer communication since 2017. Reporting/flagging it on Steam seems to get no attention and buyers simply lose their money. Lots of reviews stating the same and Steam still keeps it in the store.
Falcon my guy you having a good time having a good time right here😂
I was so hyped for "The Day Before." But I accept that disappointment is a part of life.
The MW3 reboot was a $70 MW2 DLC. They just released what was originally marketed for MW2. Arguably Activision’s biggest cash grab and isn’t talked ab enough
Please cover what ever happened to the FIREFLY ONLINE game. once on steam in beta for a startup, it just closed one day with NO expliation to this day as to what happened ages later. Thanks for the content
I love Falcon's legal disclaimer in the beginning. He's making sure to avoid a fight with the Legal Eagle. This is a joke based on both being birds of prey on RUclips 😂
video idea. 10 fan made games that are BETTER then their franchise counterparts