Delisted Video Games you Can't Play Anymore
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2023
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Delisted Video Games being a thing is really sad, especially when bigger titles totally disappear from stores making you work hard just to play. But on the PS5, Switch and new Xbox, a game vanishing from digital store shelves is now uncommon. It's bizarre that I can put Minecraft AND Metal Gear Solid 3 HD on this thumbnail, cause it's actually true? btw this is specifically digital stores, don't get mad please.
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Howdy! I decided I was gonna dig super hard into the world of emulation and find myself a way to play a bunch of games that have been taken offline. This video has a lot of stuff that is available physically, but if it was taken off digital store shelves to me, that counts. Please no bully, BUT let me know if there's other games below that you think are worth talking about in the future!
Have a good day now ya hear.
have you ever heard of total war: arena? the failed official total war MOBA game.
yes you read that correctly. the people behind the total warhammer franchise tried to make a moba game.
Hey Austin, can you make a video about MMOs that never made it out of alpha/beta testing? Like Skysaga.
Austin what was that song playing during the ending credits? I swear I've heard it before, but I can't put my finger on it
Hey Austin, just so you know, you can easily get a replacement battery for the PSP. There's some third-party ones that aren't *great*, but they seem to hold a charge for a couple of hours, taking it from 'useless without the AC adapter' to 'somewhat usable'.
Thanks Austin ,really good video, preservation is the future
Nothing is delisted if you have a pirate flag
But that is illegal!! And illegal is bad. My mom says so.
If there's no seeder haha rip 😅
@@vanquish5954 spread your seed, Gamers!
Exactly!
It's morally correct to pirate Nintendo games
It's still insane to me, how bad game preservation is. There should be some sort of law that allows people to emulate and download abandoned games.
Why do you need a law when you cam already do that
@@shib5267 so you can do it legally and not be in fear of getting arrested
@Umair ashraf nobody is getting arrested for downloading old roms lol. It's like jaywalking
@@ObamaTheHedgehog I mean, it'd be much easier if they had like official websites run by actual professionals and not resorts to third party cuz you dont know whats gonna happen when you login plus ,emulation isn't exactly the best right now so I don't like it to use it yet
@@umairashraf5167 If you want to hamstring yourself needlessly, that's your choice.
In my lifetime, it has _always_ been the case that third-party solutions to the problem developers and publishers created out of nothing are superior to solutions put forth by those developers/publishers. This isn't an opinion.
Emulation has been very good for at least 15 years, and in the majority of cases, is near-perfect. Most of the problems that emulation does have are created or made much worse by the creators of whatever platform is trying to be emulated.
This whole comment is so far separated from reality it's shocking.
Hearing about the Minecraft Telltale games is honestly surprising. When I worked at a certain well known red circle store we had physical copies of both of them on clearance for like $3 and couldn't get rid of them
It's funny how much the delisting changed their values. It became pretty popular to seek them out for achievement/trophy hunters since all Telltale games have easy achievements, so the prices on the Complete Adventure editions skyrocketed. The average price for a complete copy on PS4 is nearly $40 now, and X1 is $30.
I have both mc story mode games, it's wierd they were delisted, they were one of the games that shaped my childhood, and while the story was ok and the gameplay was kinda bad, I never thought they would delist it
@@GigabitGigabyteit’s becSue the game company went under and they couldn’t technically sell them anymore
I Still have a copy
It's because supply and demand is a myth now and all that matters is what a couple people think of a products worth. You can use copies of story mode for landfills, and yet the pricing on secondhand sites doesn't reflect that.
the Infinity Blade series are some of my favorite games on mobile ever, and when i found out they were delisted, it really bummed me out cause it was ios only, and i no longer have anything that runs it
I unironically have an old ipad 2 that has all of the infinity blade games on it and has withstood the test of time.
Were they 32 bit? A while ago Appe put their entire system to 64 bit only, so even if they would still be available, they wouldn't ruin on modern devices.
In PC circles it is already known that to be able to fully play old games properly you would need an old system or emulation. And emulation has been widespread for consoles for a while. Turns out the same also counts for mobile gaming. Either get an emulator or get an older rooted/jailbroken device to play the old games.
Wow I didn’t know that. I still have them downloaded on my phone that I’m using right now. I guess those are never leaving
it has a pc port now
I had no idea TellTale's Minecraft Story Mode was de-listed. You would think of all TellTale games, THAT would be the one to stand the test of time
No i wouldn't it was atrocious and after everyone played it, it faded out if existence completely idk where you would ever pull that thought from. I heard absolutely nothing positive about that absolutely cringe overpriced RUclips animation
It was on Netflix for a bit but idk if it's still there
You must’ve forgotten about TWD😂
@@nicholasjones8881 They delisted TWD? Holy shit. Now I know exactly WHY they decided to remaster all the Sam & Max Telltale games.
EDIT: Oh, so they didn't delist TWD. Sorry for my confusion.
@@Devilsblight86 I downloaded twd like a week ago
Given how Metal Gear Solid is one of my favorite series from back in the day, the fact that I have limited access to the HD Collection these days is just about the most heartbreaking thing
For real, if I wanted to play I have to hook up my old PS3. I don't understand why Konami sits on this beloved series.
@@SchmuckAmok Konami literally have a gold mine of IPs, it's too bad that they wanna make their money of mobile and sports games instead
MGS should be on PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5. The first one is a classic and it only got better as new games came out.
The lost planet series, raccoon city, dark void, and the metal gear solid collection can all be played on series x/s. Some of this info isn’t correct.
@@HonkeyKong54you cannot buy mgs games on Xbox. Not the older ones. Peace Walker is the oldest one. Can’t get mgs2 or 3 or 1.
Battleborn absolutely ripped my heart out and stamped on it until there was nothing left when it was taken from us. I was playing it right up until it’s final days. I’ve still got my copy and will forever keep it as a reminder of joyous days. Honestly Battleborn was my game of choice after playing Borderlands for years it was everything i wanted in a game,I’m still broken inside to this day
This is why I will always choose physical copies over digital.
Imagine a burglar stealing a prized possession, then on the way out says "I will sue you if you try to steal this back." That's what owning a delisted game feels like.
I think there is a misconception here. A delisted game is still playable if you bought it before the delisting.
The problem here is the full digital store servers shutdown like the Wii/Wii U/3DS which doesn't allow you to redownload games so if you ever uninstall them or the storage drive fails, your legit versions are gone forever.
I have games that have been delisted for years on Steam that are still in my library and can still be installed on my PC just fine.
Currently, the danger is the Xbox 360, PS Vita and PS3, people should not be buying digital on these systems right now.
Imagine someone abandons their dog, you find and raise it, and they claim you stole it.
@@Manic_Panic kinda true but the servers also get shut down wich makes some games unplayable
The problem with PS3 is that they can only run through some form of emulation on PS4 and 5, because the architecture is so GATdayum funky for the PS3.
So it HAS to be played digitally. And I do appreciate the games I'm getting to play now on PS5, because I didn't own a PS3. But I can only play what Sony feels it is worth my time to play, not what I feel is worth my time.
Off topic cuz these are ps1 games, but with PSNow, I have been playing Syphon Filter 1, 2, and 3. I was much more into those than Metal Gear in my early teens, as I just wanted more shooty shooty bang bang at that age, with minor dips into espionage and stealth, rather than the inverse. So that has been a fun nostalgia trip lol
With the 3DS/WiiU Eshop being closed recently, this video couldn’t be anymore topical, as there’s now tons of digital-only games exclusive to those storefronts that you can no longer obtain if you haven’t already. At least without sailing the seven seas.🏴☠️
It’s a good thing Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game is no longer part of this due to getting a recent rerelease for the movie’s 10th anniversary, and I even copped the physical version just in case it ends up ever getting pulled again.
I agree it opens up a discussion. I mean, once there is no longer a way to pay the devs and publishers for their game via the shop, what else are you supposed to do but sail the high seas?
Once Nintendo and them aren't making any money off the sale, to me it's functionally the same whether you buy a cartridge of pokemon for over $100, or just ☠️ it.
I only care about being able pay the people who matter, not scalpers on ebay--I feel no shame downloading any 3DS titles that aren't available elsewhere now.
@@Fanboy-hf1iu Sure, if you're working on the assumption that the current videogame audience is the only one that will ever exist and they all have perfect knowledge of the 3DS and WiiU digital libraries to make perfectly-informed choices about what games to pass up forever. Unfortunately, new people enter the hobby very day and it's extremely common for people to have blind spots about titles they might have enjoyed but missed out on.
People are still rediscovering retro stuff to this day. Old games continue to have an audience. Doom got one of the best custom maps in its entire 30 year history earlier this month. The potential audience for these games didn't die off on March 27th.
@3090 Fanboy this reply is so simple and poorly though out, that it isn't worth a long response. The short answer is: no, of course not. How can you tell me what games I'll want to play a year or two or three from now?
@@Fanboy-hf1iu No. Especially not with Nintendo's "quality assurance" pricing
i got the original version
Speaking of mobile games, Dragalia Lost. An incredible first-party Nintendo gacha, they gave you loads of free stuff, there were a bunch of crossover events, but the game was barely advertised. I had several years of great casual play with it, not spending any money, until it finally shut down. Good times
The not spending money part, that’d be why it was shut down. As is the issue with all the best free mobile games…
I mourn the loss of Dragalia Lost constantly. It was unreasonably good
@@moxieman2452look for the fan patcher and fan server, it's playable on fan run servers
They delisted dragalia!! I loved that game it was so fun and the anime art style was gorgeous, banger sound track too
Honorable mention to Driver: San Francisco. Can't be bought in the Ubisoft stores anymore... I think it might have been because of car licensing, which, yeah, bs but I could see happening.
The gimmick was that you could possess random drivers any time you wanted. The mechanic was so cool, being able to just fly away from your car and seamlessly take control of another car to crash into a target using the oncoming traffic was so satisfying.
Last I checked there was a whole community still keeping multiplayer alive somehow, I think through mods. Not sure if they still are anymore, but still, goes to show people loved the game.
One thing I'd like to add on the whole Minecraft Story mode thing, is that I do remember there being a bit of a hubbub about how a bunch of Minecraft RUclipsrs were brought in for one of the episodes to do a whodunnit murder mystery type thing, and I have to wonder if that's what's keeping Microsoft from reupping it. Not necessarily a matter of can't, but not wanting to deal with the hassle of renegotiating deals and licenses for all those youtubers who may themselves just not want to license their likenesses out to something they may see as not representative of their content anymore.
I never heard anything about “hubbub” with the RUclipsrs 🤔
I've read that the creators of Minecraft wouldn't renew the license, even though many players were asking for the games back.
I hate how much this makes sense, I was a broke teen when all the telltale games were coming out and when I finally got a job I was super hype to start buying all he telltale games hen I find out they're all gone:(
@@DaWhimsicalOne At least most of their games are available to purchase. From my memory, its just the MineCraft Story Mode seasons 1 and 2, Sam and Max: The Devils Playhouse, and Guardians of the Galaxy that are not around anymore.
Update:
Other games also gone include:
Game of Thrones, Jurassic Park, Law & Order: Legacies, Back to the Future, Poker Night at the Inventory 1 and 2, the Bone games (I think), and all of its CSI games.
@@TheLarkaanimation yes, but as someone who played MC story mode and loved it I'm upset I'll never get to play season 2:(
Batman was good tho👌
Alpha Protocol - a game where choice trully matter and even bad choices lead to pretty cool, funny and memeable moments.
I couldn't get past the first hacking minigame 😢😂
@@Muffinpurplegurk They are a pain. I'd love for a remaster that changes things up but we're not going to get that, sadly.
@@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968 True. This game is the only game where you can basically role play as mega douchey Super Villain from James Bond which commits war crimes.
Glad I got that game during a Steam sale years ago. Still wonder why it got delisted though. Maybe Sega didn't want to bother paying some of the profits to Obsidian anymore? Or maybe Sega's hoping to sell the IP to Microsoft? Microsoft managed to surprisingly save Too Human from delisting when they made a deal with Epic Games for it to just be freeware from now on (I don't think Too Human can legally be sold anymore after the lawsuit where Silicon Knights was discovered to have still used Unreal Engine code in the game, despite claiming they weren't going to use the engine anymore), so maybe something can be worked out with Sega for Alpha Protocol too (Microsoft also made a remaster of Phantom Dust available for free after a planned full remake got cancelled).
@@BloodRedFox2008 with the success of the outer worlds I'm thinking Microsoft wants their own "fallout" IP that can only exist on game pass. While true they own fallout now making it a game pass exclusive after all these years would piss off too many fans
An uncommon case is the very first version of FFXIV, which at launch was terrible. It pushed SquareEnix to apologize and develop a full new version. That old version (what was up for 2 years) turned into a SE laboratory were they tested crazy ideas and created unique and elaborated stories. It was taken down when the new version arrived and it cannot be played anymore.
Hit me in nostalgia. My first MMO I took seriously (wow no count) and I actually liked it.
man, the fact that this happens at all is just so...depressing.
The Project X Zone Games were delisted back in 2017 from the 3DS eShop. Physics copies still exist, but they’re usually expensive as hell.
not surprising
I managed to grab both games used from Gamestop back when they were still extremely cheap.
It's pretty wild how many of my DS/3DS games have become very expensive since I bought them.
I was shocked when I found Project X Zone 2 at GameStop for $15. I bought that immediately.
I had never heard of it until a friend of mine bought a copy of the sequel for me. It's so niche but it's a great game, so it sucks it just died out (in the West at least)
Imagine my surprise when I looked up how much physical copies of Rhythm Thief and the Emperor's Treasure cost only days before the eShop closed. Luckily I have a digital copy of it now so yay
I like how piracy is easily the answer to most of these
These are the situations where piracy is ethical
I've got the entirety of minecraft story mode with all dlc on my computer and I am working on getting it to run it independently from steam because it deserves to sail the seven seas
@@idiotically-everything It’s always ethical
Or you can simply buy keys.
@@idiotically-everything its always ethical because there is nothing actually lost. its just a copy of the arrangement of 1s and 0s that some people put together. no physical or even digital product is taken. and those who do sail the seven seas, often do so due to DRM, financial problems, or in this case de-listed games. there are people who acquire software on the seas who later purchase it because it is a good product.
For Alpha Protocol if I recall the reason for it's delisting was a licensing expiration over the usage of a song that is present in the game.
Specifically at the end of the Russian campaign(Excluding the secret mission) there is a boss fight with a Russian mob boss who has duel wielded golden uzi's and duel knives. Said bosses mansion is 80's themed and he is very into 80's American culture. During the boss fight the song "Turn Up The Radio" plays. When the game was made they licensed the song for I think 15 ish years?
I actually have both Minecraft story mode 1 and 2 as discs and after a while I almost got rid of them until I realized they were no longer buyable so I’m so glad I didn’t get rid of them then or I’d be really sad because those games were great. Sucks they were delisted 😢
Please tell me you can download episodes if you have the disc(season pass disc)
@@L.l4zuliyeah you can. I recently bought season 2 at a game store and the episodes can still be downloaded.
@@L.l4zuli i did that as of like 6 months ago, so hopefully you still can
I had copies for the Ps4 and Xbox until I sold both for like 3$ not realizing they didn't make them anymore
@@shm-62u30 Luckily it's not too badly expensive to rebuy when compared to other delisted titles
I went through a phase where I was buying a lot of games digitally. But with a lot being delisted and me realising a bunch I could get physically cheaper I went back to physical collecting.
I've managed to get Splatterhouse, Lollipop Chainsaw, Shadows Of The Damned, Goldeneye Reloaded, Blood Stone, 007 Legends, Asura's Wrath, Metal Gear Solid Collection, Wolfenstein 2009. I'm doing alright
I missed the time when you could get Splatterhouse cheap. Now, I'm hoping it gets remastered. I don't think it is even backwards compatibility on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X like 50 Cent Blood On The Sand is.
with Steam just announcing Windows 7/8.1 will stop working, one could wonder when Wins 10 will be the next as well. I am worried with my digital games.
@@Gruntvc 50 Cent Blood On The Sand is another one I've got physically as well
@@QF_Dan72 Yup what happens to your Steam games once the OS is no longer supported. I'm assuming they're just locked to your account and you'll need suitable hardware/software to access it
Shadows of the damned is so damned underrated
I'm so glad someone else remembers Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles My Life as a King and my Life as a Dark Lord. They were some of my favorite titles on the Wii. I'm begging for a remaster/remake/port or sequel to modern consoles.
A big problem I encountered with emulating MLAAK recently is that if you have all the DLC when starting a new game, it's horribly unbalanced because it doesn't expect the player to have bought all of it before playing.
You have massively accelerated rates of building and currency gain, but your villager adventurers do not gain xp any faster and with such a high amount of buildings right away, your villagers spend all fucking day shopping before they leave at night only to immediately run back home because IT TAKES TIME for them to reach their destination and it's now too late.
TL;DR: do not have the gameplay content DLC until after you've "completed" the game or you softlock yourself
I'm so glad i'm not the only one who remembers these games. I especially miss MLaaK and have yet to find another game like that.
@@ImGonnaFudgeThatFish Oh yeah, that's one of the things I distinctly remember having issues with. Villagers spend almost all day shopping and then no time adventuring. If I were to make a sequel/remake I'd have some way you could implement "Max time in town" or maybe schedule/paths they could take. Having more ways to affect your villagers choices would have been nice. As much as I love the DLC adding more to the game, I don't think the game was balanced/designed around the content leading to this issue.
Dude it took me forever to refind MLaaK after forgetting what it was called, so glad to see other people recognizing it!
"It's not piracy if you can't even buy the product. Then it's preservation."
Change my mind.
Dude I never thought of that. But it's so true.
its not piracy, because the devs wouldnt get any money from it, so who cares, and i aint gonna give money for digital codes
That's not how copyrights work. They go into the public domain after like 80 years but obviously I don't feel the least bit bad about downloading a ROM for a game I can't get legally
@@lemnlime66 honestly, copyright laws suck, I mean, in 80 years in the future will someone give a dang about the classic super mario bros? Yes, some? alot, definely. But 80 YEARS in the future? Well...in scale of time like this alot of people will don't give a dang.
Honestly, it's kinda depressing to know that Minecraft Story Mode has been delisted. I used to love that game as a kid, and I played through both seasons in their entirety.
This entire video could be used as a solid argument as to why video game emulation as a form of preservation is so important. Keep in mind that, eventually, a lot of these consoles and games will just stop working due to age. It's inevitable. Cartridges refuse to work no matter how much you blow into it. CDs that have been played/read so many times that they become unreadable. Or even the consoles themselves, like the Gamecube that eventually stops reading discs. Add that with how unreasonable prices are getting and eventually, emulation will be your only option for revisiting these old classics.
Absolutely. Emulation is how videogames are preserved. The sense of permanence to having a physical copy, and the original hardware, is illusory. Backwards compatibility on consoles is in a sorry state for even the systems which are supported, and the vast majority are not. And a tangled web of licensing issues will keep many all-time classics, still among the best in their respective genres, from ever being possible to re-release and re-monetize.
I'll support any attempt by publishers to officially bring classic games to PC. And have repurchased many older titles on the likes of GOG and Steam. I'm team "Pay For Things," not team "Everything Should Be Free." But my advice to anyone else equally committed to doing things the right way, when publishers show an interest, and even to anyone out there who is ambivalent towards emulation and likes their physical media, is the same:
Look into data storage solutions, a topic that won't fit here. And go take advantage of the fact that backups of classic games for virtually all old systems can be sourced, for now, from some trustworthy sites like a certain archive of the internet. BEFORE that gets pushed completely underground by litigation and legislation. At which point, sourcing these preserved games becomes a more dicey proposition (or even one behind paywalls that could be funding far more illicit activities).
And get started NOW. Not next week.
Granted, blowing has actually been shown to be blowing dust off at best, putting corrosion onto contacts (from spit) at worst.
But yes, being able to back up your own copies is important, if you want to stay 100% legal. Like you said, bit rot, corrosion, demagnetism, failing optics.
I also miss SEGA Heroes, I remember when the shutdown was imminent they basically cracked up all the numbers on the drops so you could unlock all the stuff you wanted before the game dies forever, which I thought was pretty cool
spoken like a true sonic speed battle fan
I’m glad you mentioned Ultimate Alliance, Amy of Two, and the Activision/Marvel games
The fact that games like the God Of War PSP games, the Overlord series, LOTR Conquest, Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate, Sonic Unleashed, and Call of Juarez all got pulled from PS+ or digital stores at some point absolutely annoys me
Duuuuude and the fact I have call of Juarez and metal gear solid 4 and I can’t play it like how Xbox users can makes me mad as hell. Why isn’t it possible for ps players to play old games that we already have? Unless we go to an third party source to emulate the game we already have or people just straight rip it. This shit is getting wild man
I met most of my friends on Playstation HOME after a family member died - it was a bright spot in a very dark time in my life, and the friends I met there helped me get through a lot of it. A lot of my happiest memories are on Playstation HOME.
That brief mention of HarmoKnight instantly had me thinking "what's that" and now I'm going to download by totally legitimate means so thank you Austin
I love playing Wii games on my Nintendo Wii that I bought from Nintendo because they totally still sell those. Piracy is wrong.
It’s a rhythm game made by Game Freak, AKA the same people behind Pokémon. It’s very simple and can feel a bit wonky, but is still a super fun and enjoyable rhythm game. With my favorite levels being the extra ones with Pokémon music.
I played it last year, craziest thing is seeing all those expressive 60 FPS animations, just imagine a sidescroller hi-fi rush, fun enough game
Delisting videogames is such a shame, I agree this day and age digital releases have a place, but gosh darn I do love a physical copy videogame lol. Great video I enjoyed it, informative and entertaining! cheers.
I loved Minecraft story mode season 1 and 2. They were such good story games real shame they got delisted I had to play it by finding a (expensive) disc copy :(
Why even bother with minecraft story edition? Isn't that some kid's game?
@@RainyWolf7 Well you see, some people like to play video games
@@beenguy5887 I see, but I don't see why someone would blow their money off on a expensive copy of a kid's game. I could see the same thing happening with the walking dead, or any other telltale game. I'm just trying to say that minecraft story mode just isn't worth the hassle. I'm just saying that it's dumb to pay a lot of money on a disc game, that requires a giant sum of cash just to be able to play the game past the first episode.
@@RainyWolf7 Well we all have that one (or few) games that really resonates with us, the asking price to play these games again might not seem worth it to most, but for some it is simply an inconvenience. When there is no other way to play that game, what can we do except to pay the steep price? (bar not playing, obviously :p)
@@RainyWolf7 Just because a game isn't M-rated or appealing to you doesn't mean it's not worth playing to many people. "Kid's game"... There have been countless amazing experiences not designed specifically for vulgarity or mature themes (and heck, I've seen things that _were_ aimed specifically at children get pretty mature).
Minecraft story mode happened so fast man. I remember one day, I was playing through it on my Apple TV (yes, it was available on there) and the next day without warning, all the chapters which I played through were gone.
Turns out the only convenient way for me to play afterwards, was not Netflix, which limited choices and exploration, but a physical copy for Nintendo switch. Thankfully, I ordered the day it was pulled, so I was able to get a used version that had all the chapters pre downloaded on it for only 40 bucks, but the price has shot up since then.
Wait, not only did they remove it and made it unable to be purchased, they also removed the already owned and installed instances?
That wolfenstien game was so good I'm glad you spoke about it I remember playing the hospital level as a kid it was fucking scary
Oh hey Austin I've got some good news about Kane and Lynch! Both the original and sequel are still available to purchase on GOG, and on that storefront there's no DRM whatsoever to boot. That duology of games is a big guilty pleasure of mine. The first one mainly due to the fact IO reused some elements from Freedom Fighters, a game from 2003 I consider an underrated gem, so K&L1 is the closest thing to a Freedom Fighters 2 at least in terms of basic gameplay. And for K&L2 I genuinely love how despite the gameplay not being anything special the presentation is something I actually very much adore. The fact the whole game is made to look like you're watching a video shot on a handheld camera that was probably uploaded to somewhere like Liveleak just adds to the game's downright "filth factor" in a way I really admire and wish I could see more of.
I found a physical copy of Alpha Protocol for PC at a flea market once and snatched it up to add to my collection. Didn't know it was a delisted gem until now. Really fun to play if you can get past the rather janky controls.
Of all the online games to die, I didn't expect Wizardry Online to get the support needed to rise from the grave. I've been loosely following a group of people on Discord who have managed to set up a semi-functional private server after the game officially died. They've been doing amazing work, and the dedication to the game is wonderful to see. I hope some of these games wind up getting the same treatment, especially Wildstar private server attempts.
Those first few months of Tribes: Ascend were truly magical.
Also, TF2 is on life support if anything, but its hanging in there for now.
TF2 is getting a major update for the first time in years this year, so I can imagine it will rise up from the ashes again, at least for a time.
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Tf2 is not getting delisted lmao. Yall are too dramatic
@@CourierSiix literally no one suggested that
The lack of MGS games in digital stores is ridiculous and Konami needs to bring them back right now.
Oh don't worry they said they're coming back soon(tm)
What do you mean that was like 7 months ago?
I think they're working on remakes
i gave up waiting at this point
Bro the fact that mgs1 ist even playable on modem consoles is a damned shame
Nah the lack of Silent Hill is even worse. FucKonami indeed
My favorite bit in Sega Heroes was that Tom from Shenmue had a skill where he gave everyone hot dogs, but if you had Sonic in your party, Tom would give him a chili dog.
Also a delisted game I often think about is Snowpack Park, the penguin simulator from the makers of Chibi-Robo and Captain Rainbow.
I remember saving up for MGS HD when I was younger. It got delisted before I completely saved up. I had to play MGS2 on my ps2 and CRT and MGS3 on my 3ds. Worst part is, my psp got stolen way before I even saved up.
The completionist made a great video showcasing how he managed to purchase and store everything single wii u and 3ds game on the eshop preservation
I once bought a weird motion controller for the PC mainly because it came with a physical copy of Virtua Tennis 2009 and I knew that whole series had disappeared from Steam. Of course the thing came with incomplete drivers that took me ages to locate online because the download page no longer existed, so for a while I had a controller that only worked with the one game it had come with, such an odd gaming experience.
This definitely needs a sequel in a couple years. Or the way things are moving a couple months lol
I spent literal hundreds to near over a thousand a month before Sega Heroes closed. Im so sad it couldnt stay up. Literally home to some of my favorite ips ever
Alpha Protocol probably got de-listed because it had licensed music and they didn't want to renew it just to keep selling it (it got delisted like 10 years after being released so that seems to follow a normal license thing)
alpha protocol should have been delisted before it released.
worst videogame i ever wasted money on
Turn up the radio killed Alpha Protocol 😭 .
I'd love to see more of the WIIU/3DS games that we lost.
That would be every digital Gameboy and Gameboy Color game that no one can play anymore without monthly subscriptions from Nintendo Online.
So many games unfortunately got lost that aren’t on Switch. Pushmo, Dillon’s Rolling Western, Harmoknight, Sakura Samurai, Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure, Attack of the Friday Monsters…and that’s just barely scratching the surface.
@@amirgarcia547 i see you know your 3ds games
One interesting delist is skylar & plux that if i recall correctly was delisted by the publisher and the developer didn't know it was gonna happen beforehand.
Another one that i own is powerpuff girls defenders of townsville which was a pretty fun simple metroidvania styled game that sadly got pulled.
Honestly im so happy that the creators of Scott pilgrim the videogame actually relisted it in a complete version so people can finally play It
It still saddens me that all the Transformers games had to have this fate too, the Cybertron duology and Devastation were great games.
There was a mobile Transformers game, 'Battle Tactics' that was the same. It's was an RNG 4 person battle game where you get a randomised number between 5 numbers for each character and whoever gets the most damage points between the two groups gets first turn.
Hardcore played it through college during my breaks as well but then the servers went down and it was taken off the app store so there's no chance of playing it through any other means.
wasn't the cybertron "duology" a trilogy? War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and Spark of Hope?
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We don't talk about the 3rd one.
@@strongwiled1529The Cybertron games was its own seperate canon, the third game was a rushed, cashgrab game made solely to tie-in to the Michael Bay films, despite the canons contradicting each other.
@@marca.3111 yeah. I only played "the ear for cybertron" and I loved that game.
as someone whos worked in Mobile and Social gaming for the last decade, everything Ive ever worked on can no longer be played. So thats always fun...
Your video was a fucking trip down gen 7 memory lane for me. I miss me my MAG, Gothom City Imposters, and what was until now the forgotten memory of 007 Legends. Serious kudos I can't imagine the work that went into the research of this video.
this was the greatest trip down memory lane, can't believe how I still have some rare things on my phone from the older days, though I have lost Minecraft Earth to time, I still got Story Mode 1 and 2 on console with ALL the dlcs, so that is a relic!
It's nice that you included the mobile section as well. While yes some mobile games deserved to wither, there are some with bigger fanbases that love game either because it was good, or even if it was bad they had fond memories with it. I know a really big one that I'm sad to have seen go was Dragalia Lost. Thankfully they were able to properly wrap up the story, but I genuinely loved that game, its characters, and the world. Another one I was sad to see go as well as my friend was Digimon Re:Arise, it just up and died. Mobile may be a micros transaction hellscape and a large portion of shovelware, but there are gems out there and with how some developers have been treating the platform I could consider it a valid platform to talk about.
The best thing for pay-to-win games, is to let them die so that they eventually may be pirated and enjoyed like normal video games.
Nintendo really needs to do more with the Dragalia Lost IP....ffs it didn't even get so much as a single spirit in Smash Ultimate, with the ONLY reference to their mobile titles being a song from Fire Emblem Heroes. But sadly it's Nintendo....much as I love them, they never seem to love most of their IPs as much as we do ( Dragalia, F-Zero, Wave Race, 1080, Chibi-Robo, Custom Robo, Eternal Darkness, Endless Ocean, Geist....too damn many to list )
I was hoping someone mentioned dragalia lost
missed evil factory- such a gem in the mobile games market especially at that time :(
Wolfenstein '09 was a great game. I had many good hours playing it on the ps3. I would have totally bought it again on steam back then if I knew that was an option.
Hearing flappy bird being rare is weird because I still have it
When I switched from my previous phones,I chose to bring over the majority of my previous data/apps,file,etc
I only play it when I'm bored and sometimes miss the jump or "ta-ding" noise when you pass tubes
I would love to see a part 2 to this, bringing a spotlight to these is an important part of preserving them.
Some context to RE5 and SFxT because it helps things make more sense.
RE5 wag ported over to steam works very soon after GFWL was shut down and was already playable for the last few years. There was never an issue. The most recent patch simply removed the feature to import your save file from GFWL. In SFxT case, it was only recently delisted for a GFWL issue that capcom states on the steam page they are working on correcting and delisted it until the game is playable again.
I remember trying to buy Wolfenstein '09 as my local Blockbuster when it was closing down. Because I wasn't 18+ yet I had to run back to get one of my parents to buy it for me and they where cool with it.. but it had sold by the time I got back under an hour later.
Still hurts!
Not a perfect game, but not a bad one either. Worth playing at least once
I had a collection of 100 plus games for my Xbox 360 and had wolfenstein 2009 in it and sold it all in 2013 to get the Xbox one when it was coming out. Biggest mistake ever lol that game is beyond rare
@@okilladmityouarerightbut4827 the old games don't get worse, they stay how they are and especially SP is still playable long after.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I got rid of my 360 because I thought the Xbox one would be able to put any 360 disc and play it instantly. I’ve been thinking about buying a 360 cuz they are super cheap and start building a collection again
My favorite delisted game is a mobile game called Land Slider by Prettygreat, which was a small game company made by halfbrick devs. They also made slide the shakes, crash club, steppy pants, and Pac-Man 256
Man, that Warhammer MMO was so cool. I love how there were constant skirmishes going on between the factions for control of parts of the map. It really made it feel like there was a war going on.
i think there's a project out there keeping it alive recently
@@ADNXD12 yeah Return to Reckoning is the private server, its pretty good still.
@@beremordraco I've been playing it's still a ton of fun. @MitchManix did a video on it recently
You can't buy a new battery for your PSP? Picked mine back up last year after a decade and found the battery expanded. I replaced it and it's working fine.
The biggest crime of delisting for me were the War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron games cuz those were my childhood
Yeah same. They were both so amazing, and they got me really into gaming. I could write 1000 page essays for both I loved them so much.
I still have my PS3 copy of Fall Of Cybertron and bought it digitally on PS4 so I can redownload it and play the godlike masterpiece of a story whenever I want, but I need to order a PS3 copy of War For Cybertron since I sold it as a kid.
If I could only remaster/remaks 2 games, they'd be the ones I'd choose.
@@TheFirstCurse1 I came home from college during the summer to see my dad and I was even more pumped because we had a ps3 and both games, but when I asked where they were he said he had gotten rid of them. I was so crushed
I REALLY hope to see a part 2 to this
also worth talking about racing games, probably 2/3 of them are delisted nowadays. Every NFS before 2010's, almost every Codemasters racing game before 2016 or something and even Forza motorsport 7, which is the latest Motorsport entry. That last one is especially wild to me, and I wish publishers were held more accountable for sustaining their games that their devs worked so hard on
It uses real world cars, thus licensed content, in which is also the reason why Driver: San Francisco is gone.
Every gamer wants to drive a Camaro or a Tesla, instead of a generic car. So be it, but with a catch…..
@@lumirairazbyte9697 yeah, it's almost always cars, tracks, or music since they have to license all three usually. It is weird though since some publishers have proven to sustain older titles with likely similar licenses such as Assetto Corsa or WRC 4, while Microsoft can't bother to sustain their only available entry in what used to be a console-selling series that's only around 5 years old at this point. IDK, just kinda sad that so many of my favorite racing game series are destined to be scalped on Ebay
@@lumirairazbyte9697 Same reason Football Manager (and I think Madden?) releases get delisted every year.
@@lumirairazbyte9697 And yet somehow you can buy Nascar, Sports Car GT, Race 07, and F1 games with licensed vehicles from the 90's to early 2000's.
@@aggband5633 Honestly a large part of why PC is super nice. I can play all the DiRT titles, Driver San Francisco, even Forza Horizon 3. Using emulators I can play all sorts of older console only games like Burnout 3, Midnight Club, Enthusia, and GT4.
Blur - This one really would have deserved a mention. Mario Kart with real cars, made by Bizarre Creations (known for Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars) and published by Activision. 81-82 on Metacritic.
i need to try that some day
the memories
Thanks for talking about After Burner Climax. I "downloaded" it for PS3. It's a fun little game that I had never heard of.
Not only did I have no idea that the MGS HD Collection has been delisted for years, but I own it and it runs perfectly on my ancient first generation Xbox One and I replayed it just a couple of years ago..
14:54 DSP is that you?
I burst out laughing 😂
I've been on a PS3 binge the last few months picking up all those exclusives from that gen which never really got ported. Aside from the physical side (where I managed a copy of Yakuza: Dead Souls and a bunch of solid fighting games) dove into the digital titles and that was a pain in the ass to get working, having to delete my card information entirely to even get the PS3 shop to recognize I was using prepaid PSN credit. But finally been able to play Hard Corps: Uprising so in the end totally worth it.
Something that really sucks is that I lost my copy of the complete first season of Minecraft story mode
You managed to help me find a game I've been searching to find the name of for years. I remembered playing some kind of tennis game on the PS2 back in 2008 or so. I finally found it thanks to you talking about Virtua Tennis 3. Because the game was Virtua Tennis 2. I have been searching for YEARS to find the name
A bit unrelated for sure, but I've been binging many of your anime games videos and I'd love for you to make more of these soon, especially for Japan-only ones with various translation patches being shared over the years. One of the most fascinating aspects of this topic is that even the most globally successful anime IPs had several games that weren't released internationally.
The delisting of the ps3 version of UMVC3 I think was what started my push to remain on physical media as long as I can since I prefer to play on my consoles. I have yet to see a good reason to go full digital for this. I still have my ps4 solely for the fact PT is on it. And before anyone tries the "but disc games don't have the whole game on it!", thats a very small selection. I don't connect to the internet when putting my games in and I see how far I can get without the patches and downloads. I can play almost all of them without ever connecting, including large games like God of War Ragnarok. The discs also take way less time to install, only took an hour and a half and for shits and giggles I checked the availible patch download time once I beat it and that 8gb patch would have takes jsut as long as installing the whole damn game.
The problem with your method is that games are not released complete anymore. Some games have bugs that will break the game, or in rare cases YOUR CONSOLE. Many games also release in borderline alpha states and only become the "full game" after numerous patches are added.
You are not being honest about how common this is anymore, my ps4 is a standard model and it could not handle Elden Ring running for more than 15 minutes without crashing, until I got the day 1 patch. then it became only one or 2 crashes a day.
@@Burger_pants Then we must refuse to abide by such foolish practices. If devs want me to play their games, they will put the full games on disc. Otherwise they can lick my balls.
The unfortunate one for me is all the Spider-Man games. I'd love to go back and play Web of Shadows, Friend or Foe, or any of the ones I missed, but I currently don't have an official way to do so.
Every time I come back to your channel I expect to see you well over a million sub. You deserve it!
I’m still mourning Dragalia Lost. Yeah it’s Nintendo’s most obscure mobile game but it was a gacha that was as non-toxic as a gacha could be. I really wish they’d bring it to the switch as-is, but….Nintendo.
I audibly groaned out loud when you said Games for Windows Live
It's left a lasting impression at least
same
The delisted mobile game I miss was Pokémon duel, had a lot of fun with its table top versus style and the aesthetics they had on figures you got were super cool
Alpha Protocol is still one of my favorite games outside of the Mass Effect series. I played exclusively that for like 3 months after launch.
I got one you missed. INFINITE CRISIS! That game was not just cancelled, it was MURDERED. I was a beta tester and I will never trust another online game service again. The game was fun, has a massive fanbase (DC Comics) was a popular genre (MMO), and was honestly just as much fun as LOL or DOTA to me.
Turbine and WB just killed the game 2 months after it was released on steam. Something scummy happened behind closed doors, I know it.
Infinite Crisis was so good! Atomic Green Lantern was too much fun.
I remember once seeing a fully moving cockpit machine of Afterburner (or called R360 but looked like Afterburner). And I mean the whole thing spinned around upside down and all around like the plane would. Years later I went to the amusement park I knew it was in but of course it wasn't there anymore.
I feel like in the future we’ll look back on video game preservation the same way we do early film. My film history class was full of moments like “this was one of the most influential and important films of this era… no one will ever see it. Because it was destroyed.”
Yes, the Metal Gear Collection! For years, I've been dying to get my hands on those games, but since I only have a PS4, apparently I'm SOL. They better re-release them, the future generations must know about them.
MGS1 had a PC port back in the day, but running that on modern systems is a pain. So no matter if you want the console or the PC version, you'll need old hardware or emulation.
But with emulation the entire franchise is available.
Delisted games... I can't believe EA thought they could get away with getting rid of Mirror's Edge. I was about to beat them up >:(
Man, great video but sad topic.
For Lost Planet 1 I was a little confused bc I currently own it on Steam. But I checked and I guess there are 2 versions: a single player release that is still playable, and Colonies Edition, which has multiplayer and was taken down due to GFWL
If a steam game you own gets delisted it will still stay in your library, personally i have 4 games on my steam library that can't be bought anymore but i can play them just fine, with the exception of GITS SAC that had it's servers shut down.
Still got my 360 disc of alpha protocol, used to love it as a kid.
35:40 Zombie Oddjob. Can't imagine a more terrifying prospect
One of the most coveted games on Steam for me is Poker Night at the Inventory 2. It's a game I throw on when I need to relax, unwind, and laugh at witty dialogue. I know that the whole licensing thing contributed to it being delisted, but I do wish that they would work with the other studios (the non-defunct ones anyway) to license their characters again. Or just make a third game with just the Valve characters. That works too.
I was fortunate enough to snag poker night 1, which I'm still glad I have nowadays, even if not too much of a gambler
I was so fortunate to buy a physical copy of Minecraft Story Mode Season 1 for PC. Can't wait to share it with my daughter one day and watch her react to Reuben dying 😢
It's hard to keep track of all the lost mobile games, but one I will always remember was Hellfire: The Summoning. Never played it myself, but my sister was in the like top 10 globally and it wasn't a small game. It shut down like right when I got my first phone, so I never really got to play it myself.
For all of Sony's faults, the fact that they rolled back their decision to shut down the Vita (and PS3, I believe) store really made me happy. I know it'll still happen, probably sooner than later, but it still makes me happy that they listened to users. :')
Was cleaning out my closet last week and found a copy of alpha protocol in no case. Gonna have to plug in my PS3 to see if it still works.
I was only playing Sega Heroes for like 6 months before the shutdown announcement. Never have I been so heartbroken over a mobile game and the rumors as to why are just salt on the wound 😭
It was a week for me, it was also the same week my aunt died and Sega Heroes gave me comfort
Another one i can think off is the 2013 Deadpool game , it was amazing and it got delisted and now you can't play it anymore
I have a ton of delisted games on my Steam library (easily around 200), included Alpha Protocol and Saw. I also have the original GTA's, DiRT 3 and Showdown, GRID 1 and 2, Burnout Paradise, Spintires, Metro 2033, Hitman (2016), Poker Night at the Inventory, the original Dead Island's, the original BloodRayne's, etc. I also have a lot of Shovelware, there's never shortage of shovelware on Steam.
It's a crime that the Konami Rebirth games still haven't been re-released
Those games kinda sucked ngl. You're better off playing the games those trash fire of a game were based off.
5:13 I'm delighted they basically got the coolest 13yr old in the universe to design the box logo for After Burner Climax using the best hand-lettering of all the attempts in their math workbook.
I got a disc copy of Minecraft Story Mode for Xbox One for my 18th birthday. Amazingly enough, it came with the bonus episodes, too.
The moment you mentioned virtua tennis 4 I got some serious vietnam flashbacks
My dad used to shut the power off to get me to leave the xbox alone so he could play it, and he would play for HOURS, I'm talking AT LEAST 3 hours of non-stop gameplay. One time I woke up to get some water at like 4 AM and as soon as I opened my door, at the end of the hallway, I found the living room door open, all the lights on, and him playing the game.
I don't even know what he liked so much about the game, but he was hooked, and it lasted from 2014 to 2019 when our xbox died.