Gotham impostors was actually a really cool game I remember playing a long time ago and the grappling hook mechanic and improvised guns were so unique. RIP gotham impostors
Gotham City Impostors is probably the saddest loss of a game i've experienced. Honestly idk if it was that good or if I was just a stupid kid, but man getting on the 360 after school and loading it up was the shit. Was actually a pretty good hero/class based shooter. Maps were great and fun, art style and character design was goated. Perfect era for that game to exist, it would absolutely flop today.
Agents of Mayhem isn't a multiplayer game with 12 players, it's a solo game where you could choose between 12 characters and make a team composition of 3. The gunplay was fun but there wasn't anything really interesting going on in the campaign
Funnily enough it kinda proves the point about how badly marketed Agents of Mayhem was. People **STILL** think it was an Overwatch clone years later, lmfao.
Gotham City Imposters was actually a very fun game. Mechanics were solid, and the different characters made the game play very differently dependent on who you chose.
Man, I miss Defiance, both the show and the game. I enjoyed it because it was one of the precious few MMOs that encouraged co-op and if you wanted it, solo play, over PvP...although it had that, as well. It was nice being able to play the game and get stuff done without always worrying about whoever you run across trying to kill you. That game, while small, actually had one of the best communities for an MMO I had ever experienced.
I greatly enjoyed playing Defiance back in the day and some of the instanced missions were great. One comes to mind that I’d always run when I made a new character was this junkyard style area where you could complete a challenge or so to get a really neat cosmetic armor set.
defiance is underated then they redid the game and rename it to defiance 2050 they should have focus more on updates that redoing the whole game. look at warframe because of the constant updates people still go back to the game after all this years.
I loved defiance back on the 360. I didn't like what they did to the skill tree on the updated version however. But it was brilliant. Still a void that hasn't been replaced, found no game similar on xbox at all :(
I remember grinding for a car because the generic ATV felt slow. I finally got it, it was all I thought it would be after seeing people with one. I finally felt like a cool kid in the game. I loved just running around and exploring the world, fighting creatures on farms and those asteroid raids. The fact there was a TV show made the lore so fleshed out. Defiance will always have a place in my heart.
The way they connected TV SHOW and the game... it was so fucking good. TV SHOW was like some kind of dollar store MASS EFFECT and it was rad af. The game just was even better if you watched the show. It was so meta when you were making missions for main characters of the tv series.... its sad no AAA or famous mmo studio wont do the same. It creates such a good "affection" for the game when you watch the show, you read about the lore and show adn then youre able to be someone in that world and lore
Jump Force doesn't really belong here since it has a physical release on consoles and you can still play online matches, the matchmaking and DLC was removed. They even made the achievements that required the matchmaking servers work once they were turn off. There was more thought put into this shutdown than most other games.
Knockout city was genuinely an amazing game and 100% the paywall is what murdered the player count. The gameplay was so fun and unique compared to anything else I played In a while, I only stopped BECAUSE the player count got low and it got really hard to find a match.
It really was fun, my friends and I played it quite a bit when we got it for free on EGS but even by then it was pretty unsurprising it was going to fail because of that paywall. I'd like to see it rereleased as an F2P where it could have a chance
It was definitely a fun play, I wasn't even aware of it having shut down till me and my friend redownloaded it a few months back, granted it was kinda dumb you could download the whole game after it already shut down lol
Hyperscape had mad potential, but Ubisoft just didn't change what needed to be changed, it was a really fun movement based BR and I think what killed it was how long the fights lasted. For how fast paced the game was the time to kill was abysmal, it took so many bullets to kill which kind of took away from the fast paced aspect.
they made it super easy for people to run away and that made fights last long fortnite was headed down this road until they added no build and that saved them
@@aopiah theres a game that came out recently called The Finals. Its not exactly like hyperscape but it has a similar feel, I encourage you to give it a try and its free.
I really enjoyed Gotham City Imposters. I recently just started using my 360 again and noticed it. Pity the game has been lost to time, I would have jumped back into it. Same with Battleborn, I really enjoyed it.
I fondly remember MAG, which was released on PS3 in January 2010, between the two behemoths that were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. But man, this game was so ahead of its time. It had large battles that really worked (256 players in one game!), interesting game modes, skill trees, 8-people squads, different factions... And many people had mics in this game, that was a real blast. It definitely had network issues (like you could die a whole second behind cover) and balancing issues (SVER faction was clearly overpowered) but the game was maintained and updated. It's also a game that I worked hard to get the platinum trophy on. The game did have some updates but unfortunately the devs (Zipper Interactive) were closed down years later due to the failures of SOCOM 4 and Unit 13, a PS Vita launch game. MAG only lasted 4 years, being closed in 2014, but I still haven't found a true replacement for it. Obviously Battlefield came close, and Planetside 2 had similarities but I'm still remembering MAG as something unique.
I loved that game until my broke teen ass couldn't afford their subscription model for additional profiles and it turned out ending the subscription didn't make me choose which profile to lose but instead forced me to lose the additional profile I created with the subscription. I didn't like my original faction choice so I put all my time and effort into the new profile. So it was pay up or lose all that time and effort. Also, if I recall correctly, you could reset your profile to pick a different faction but it cost like 5$
Barely any for Gotham City Imposters. Like why does he think GameSpy was the culprit? Wallhacks and aimbots ruined the game for many, and GameSpy wasn't even on the 360, it was running under Xbox Live, the PS3 version was the one running under GameSpy
I only played one match of Ghost Recon: Phantoms around mid-2016. I was thinking to myself, "I should play more matches," but I never did. It wasn't until a few years ago when I found out the servers were shut down.
i really miss gotham city impostors. it was one of the few FPS games that ran well enough on my garbage laptop back almost 10 years ago. I spent a lot of time in that game. It should get a reboot/relaunch
I think Gotham City Imposters is still playable in some capacity. Like if you host the servers locally? If anyone wants to play, I have a steam group where we play dead games together occasionally. My groups kinda dead (ironically), so maybe a game like GCI and a local hosting could help bring both things back to life? If anyone wants to join up, let me know.
Is their a way to get it sense now its ben delisted off Steam. Hell idk if you could even still play locally with a pirated version. Wish they came back to it with the boom of battle royals and live service games.
@@muggrootbeer I think something called Steam DB will let you redownload it. I know there are still ways to redownload delisted steam games, so I'd try.
I really loved Battleborn. Admittedly I got into it really late, getting a $5 used copy from GameStop as a Christmas gift in December of 2019, but I still played for several dozen hours. My favorite character was Ghalt, but I played a handful of other characters and played Beatrix a lot after I saved up enough points to unlock her. It's such a shame how mismanaged the IP was. If they'd simply made it playable offline, then there would still be people playing it to this day, including me. I'd probably have had a couple hundred hours in it by now. It was just such a great blend of hero shooter, looter shooter, MOBA, and horde mode and had a lot of potential. It even had splitscreen and fully-functional bots, too. The bots weren't half bad, either. My friends always preferred Overwatch, which I tried a few times and considered being a few times, but I at least got one of my friends to download it and play with me, and we had a pretty good time. Anyway, that's just my two cents.
I really enjoyed battleborn as well. Had a whole group of 6 playing pretty regularly until overwatch dropped. I enjoyed it the time I played it and that group fell apart because of overwatch honestly so there’s something to be said about that.
@@twerkintwinkie786 It's cool that you had a group. I wish I could've experienced Battleborn in its prime. One would think the two games would've been able to coexist, had they not marketed Battleborn as a straight-up hero shooter. I guess it's harder to juggle multiple multiplayer games at once as an average gamer, though
@@SaltDoesArt I guess a lot of people weren't satisfied by the story. I mean, the moment-to-moment gameplay doesn't match the plot very well, sure, but fighting through waves of enemies and doing the boss fights was great. I remember there was little spin-off missions you had to pay for. I was thinking about getting them, but never get around to them. New characters were more interesting to me at the time
Defiance was a game that was fun when I was younger. But when I got a job I wanted to get back into the game to buy cosmetics I wanted... Then I found out it shut down. In the middle of downloading it, saw it had really low stars, and I went to check.. Game shut down literally a few weeks before I started to download it.. The game had so much potential. The show too..i hope we see something like it again, there's so little mmo's with guns.
Major nostalgia trip. Getting gold katana in Gotham imposters was probably my proudest gaming moment. 3 sword kills in a few seconds is hard in a game like this. The trailer for this game was insane. And the classes were wild. Middleweight cloak ninja, rollerblades shotgun girl and grappling hook skinny sniper were goated classes if yk, yk. Gonna miss you bud. F
I SWEAR TO GOD one of the creators of CROSSFIRE X was on my Fireteam during a session of Halo: Infinite because this one teammate was LAYING IT ON THICK with how great the game was he even tried poaching another teammate of ours to quit the MATCH WE WERE STILL IN and start playing Crossfire X, I was generally PISSED I told the other player "ERRR, I wouldn't cause I've heard NOTHING but terrible things about that game".
Thanks for mentioning Dragalia Lost. I was a day 1 player and played until the end of service. Very early in the games release, the playerbase was hopeful for a Switch port because the iconic Switch finger snap was in the game from the get-go. Although that didn't happen, I feel the game was filled with excitement throughout its lifetime. Unfortunately, this gem in my eye has sunset because the service ended. I am still watching the communities I was in for any news of a continuation of any sort, but I don't have much optimism at the moment. I take the game shutting down as a lesson that Live Service Always Online games are not the proper future of games. If a game comes out with either of these "features", I already know they are a ticking time bombs. They will evaporate into nothing but memories. It sucks when you want to share these moments with new people, or even just to relive them, but cannot even play a watered down version. The app is now just a welcome screen with its music that says thanks for playing.
As a tales of and digimon fan I am all too aware that mobile live service games wont last forever. just imagine if some day in the future genshin impact were to die, the uproar would be wild with how much some people spend on that game or many like it.
According to Steam I have over 300 hours on Battleborn. Most of that was in matches, but I burned through a bunch of the single player / coop missions as well. Great game, poorly marketed, and Blizzard certainly didn't help when people mistakenly thought it was identical to Overwatch. Could have been managed better after launch, but my guess is Gearbox saw less players than they imagined and cut the budget for additional content and maintenance in response.
Something I feel is very relevant to Gundam Evolution's situation is that its availability was EXTREMELY limited to only a few countries, it was straight up completly unavailable here in latinoamerica which I don't doubt contributed to the extremely tiny playerbase. It later became available worldwide but that wasn't long before its shutdown was announced
Actually, some of these games can be played again, because it got revived by the community, not only the community removed/adjusted the pricing for the item shops, but they also made it accessible for new players to jump in , games like: Battlefield Heroes revival, & Play4Free revival. NFS World Revival (Soapbox Raceworld), Hawken Revival (Hawken Refugees) Blacklight Retribution Revival BattleForge Revival (Skylords Reborn) Age Of Empires Online Revival (AOE Project Celeste) And a whole lot more.
Just FYI it wasn't Gamespy that killed Gotham City impostors, it was the fact that aimbots and wallhacks were quickly found that the devs simply couldn't fix without pouring a ton of money into the game. You would spawn in and be instakilled from across the map by a wallhacking aimbot so the only ones left after a few months were a handful of cheaters trying to outdo each other's bots.
@@bobbyhillthuglife But COD makes money off a market, GCI was before markets so the only source of income they had was people buying skins and nobody is buying skins when their game time is measured in seconds.
@@krazykuz13cmc But it was only available on last gen when next gen consoles had just come out so again, they would have had to pour a ton of money into a game that wasn't making a dime.
Doritos Crash Course took over my entire school for a solid 3-4 months. everyone was OBSESSED trying to have the highest scores in the school. i remember the course Japan 3 was an absolute BATTLEGROUND
its not here but Ghost in the shell first assult online was one of my favorite free to play live service games that was killed alittle over a year after coming out. It had really detailed weapon customization but for some reason they decided to change the class system to be more restrictive, locking gun to certain characters. it played like call of duty but a hero shooter. even more like a hero shooter after the killing update
I still make sure to play Doritos Crash Course any time I set up my 360. Such a fan game, back in the days of party chat it was hella fun to play that when waiting for people to either get on or come back from being AFK or just time out between changing games. Iconic game.
Destiny 2 definitely fits on the list imo. To think the original campaign is just non existent now is pretty saddening... also I loved Defiance, played at launch. Underrated for sure
Red War was such a good New Light experience though. I think they should rework the "Timeline" missions from Forsaken, Beyond Light, and Witch Queen into the game's introduction tutorial quest, and maybe add one for Red War. I love how the intros are narrated. It'd be perfect for new players. I imagine a majority of current players have either been playing since release, or Shadowkeep. Sucks how hard the game is to get into now.
Yeah, bungie removing the campaign and older dlc as well as exotics it made me quit the game. I quit in the middle of the moon dlc. Don't know if I'll ever play it again.
So in short, micro-transactions and lack of single-player modes killed games. There's a reason old games like Doom and Quake maintain their success. Having the ability to have private servers makes a huge difference with gaming too.
I remember a time where ai played this game that played like day of defeat, even used the source engine, but that don’t matter. The game had two people on it. Me, and someone who had been playing the game for years at this point. He had about 4000 hours on it, and he just played it all day when he finished work. It was rather odd, but later, more people joined the server. They all knew each other, so clearly it was a small community of people who refused to let the game die. It was so weird, but it shows that if you have good community support for a game, it will most likely never die. Its rather odd thinking about it now.
I miss Battleborn, it was such a fun game. Wildstar too; though, Wildstar's downfall was due to mismanagement. The biggest nail in the coffin was right before F2P, they offered free server transfers to players could play in large groups. Many PvP players migrated to PvE servers with the understanding they could migrate back after the F2P drop. They couldn't and ultimately dropped the game. Considering how well GW2 was doing with a B2P model, Wildstar should have released with the same model, and I felt that was the biggest factor to why the game failed. Players would not have left in droves if they didn't have to pay a sub each month.
Same goes for Resistance, Killzone, Starhawk/Warhawk, etc... So many great multiplayers gone forever. There are work arounds for some games, but there's just no playerbase. It'll never be the same lol
I really am sad to see Gundam Evolution go. But I think not having crossplay was a major downside, especially in western regions where the franchise isn't as popular. But I can see why it was condemn for the MTX, especially with how pricey they were. But as I always say to people, I enjoyed it cause of the freedom from roles it came with. Most other games like this had some form of dedicated roles. This game was mainly, you picked someone and you just played and had fun. Sure, there were some units that were better at other roles than some. But the fact that you didn't need someone to be a support or someone to be tank, that is what really mattered to me. Just being able to play a hero shooter with no role restrictions, and just have fun.
@@Tacdelio Try Gundam Battle Operation 2. The suits in that game are more akin to what a mobile suit would actually feel like. Slow torso turning, so you need to pre-aim. Bashing other suits knocks them over. Suits being made specifically for space or ground combat. And a bunch of other stuff. That game is pretty good with how it portrays actual mobile suit combat.
The grind was the worst part, it was basically Pay 2 win with how powerful most of the locked suits were, And you could only get free credits through the battle pass, when the beta let you earn them through playing the game. And if you grinded the pass you got enough credits to buy a whopping ONE new suit, with some to spare. This means that people who paid got access to the strongest suits and free 2 play players were stuck with the free suits which werent bad at all, but compared to the locked ones weren't as strong. (the melee suits were nightmares to fight, the nu gundam/ genji clone especially, with two of them being locked)
i pre ordered Defiance for that orange Dodge Charger pre order bonus. then i found out that they made a black one with 10 more speed that anyone could unlock and that was a slap in the face.
You know what Gothan City Inposters really needed? Multiplayer Bots like in the Call of Duty series, with a seperate leveling up system for when you're playing against bots. It would have been played more by everyone who owned the game, but so far no one has done that well other than Call of Duty.
Bro Ghost Recon Phantoms awoken something in me. Also surprised to not see Loadout on here. One of my favorite ftp games that genuinely didnt feel pay to win
Agents of Mayhem wasn't multiplayer actually. It just a single player game that people thought was co op because of the hero characters, when in fact the gameplay was just switching between a squad of 3 of them that you pick out.
Hyperscape has a pretty high skill ceiling, but then aim assist and balancing of certain weapons completely killed the game. Once the meta was found out, it went downhill very quickly. I truly miss that game
The way to play Verdansk is through the cracked offline build, it only works via LAN, but you can use softwares like Radmin VPN to connect people over internet onto your LAN server. Only catch is the 500m collision issue that's now in limbo if someone out there can figure out to fix.
fuck man battleborns shut down made me so sad, my friend and I used to play splitscreen, and we had great memories of us staying up late, him playing as toby, the fucking penguin in a mech. damn I miss it so much
Knockout City is still available to play. It has no official servers, but they patched in community hosted servers. So I'm not sure it belongs here. You can seemingly still download it too.
The game I miss the most that almost no one remembers or even talks about is Gigantic. That game was honestly amazing and it did not deserve to die. To this day it still has a dedicated fan base that plays a private version of the game.
20:12 Saints Row 2022 was not a remake of the original, it's a reboot. Remember playing NFS World a lot back in the day, had so much potential but EA's heavy focus on adding cars into the game and not enough game modes or brand new areas got "De-prioritized".
Game I am both sad and happy you didn't mention. Dirty Bomb. Really cool game, great gameplay, Movement tech, and overall mechanics. Very objective based character PvP shooter. Interesting card system that changed your weapon and efficacy of your abilities. Cards also being tradable over steam at first, and while some could be bought they weren't ever really THE BEST, some where but not all. All went downhill when they added 2 mercs eventually that were a defensive powerhouse. A sheild merc and a very Huge range trophy system merc. Pair them with the turret guy and tou have a fortress. Game officially shutdown long ago, however there are still some private servers that linger here and there. Thankfully they have a server browser.
Slight correction about Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World and Fifa World: The ANNOUNCEMENT of servers shutting down came in April 2015. The actual shut down of these games servers was on July 14th, 2015.
That defiance game jus unlocked the most random memory of playing it for a few hours on the ps3 after downloading it for free and then deleting it right after
The one game I always think of when thinking about shutdown live service games is that one ghost in the shell fps. It was a little generic but holy shit it was so much fun, I hope that some day it gets brought back by fans or something
Oh yeah, Ghost in the Shell: First Assault. I didn't play it but watching videos about it kinda seems like a cool game based on the anime. The graphics and gun looks good. Not surprising it gone offline not long after. Anime IP tie in games don't really last long.
there are a couple different fan projects making it playable again. i know one of them actually has it up and running, while the other still hasnt made it off the ground last i checked
Some more games I would've added to this list would be Drawn To Death, Lawbreakers and Backlight Retribution. Those were really decent games that also got shutdown pretty quickly.
People tend to forget the og live service games in 2007-2012 era, I’m talking combat arms, alliance of valiant arms, crossfire, soldier front2 , battery arctic wind, sudden attack, blackshot, operation 7, war rock, maple story Those were peak Korean live service game era.
Destiny 2 hurt the most. Pre-ordered the game (still have the case and cayde-6 figure), made sure to get all dlcs until forsaken then boom. All that money and all that story just gone. The BASE CAMPAIGN especially hurt most it’s what started Destiny 2 now new players won’t know what happened. Such a waste of money.
Yeah. I tried the game out a few months ago, but had no idea what was going on or what to do. There is zero new player experience in desinty. It’s made for hardcore players and that’s it, it seems. Oh well. Doubt I’m missing much
I used to play on PS4 back when it came out, I remember I had finished basically all there was to do at launch but I stopped playing before any of the DLCs came out. I recently wanted to go back to the game on PC only to realize none of that content is accessible anymore, so I just ended up not playing cause I felt overwhelmed by how lost in the story I felt
@@Verminion777 Same. I honestly feel like if they actually let people play the part dlcs and the base campaign anytime there would be more at least more casual players.
@@Neocrossfire yeah, I know I would actually play Destiny 2 if that was the case lmao, especially now that they're doing collabs that I find cool and whatnot
The problem with defiance is that it wasn't available on next gen Then they made a new next gen called 2050 But then the 2050 variant was not as good The open world events spawned less frequent and with less variety, the guns you got were less in variety It takes longer to grind to get new stuff instead of the same stuff They took away an entire island And it takes much longer to go to the lower half of the map where you're at a level where you won't just get destroyed So you're experiencing the same weapons enemies missions and map for longer, too long
They also changed the level up system to the god awful power level system. Instead of getting xp you were forced to equip crappy items that had a higher power level to your awesome item, but if you didn’t equip that crappy item you would just be stuck at a lower power level until you equipped the higher power level item and then even crappier higher power level items would drop. It basically made it so you could not make a build until you reached max power level which forced players all doing terrible in the dungeons because players are using weapons that don’t support their class or build because it was the only higher power level weapon that dropped.
I remember playing this games when i was extremely young like black light, gotham city, etc all seemed like amazing games to experience back in the day..
Gotham City imposters was one if the best FPS games ever (my opinion). Really wish they would remaster it for the new consoles. I kiss the game so much.
Anyone remember Spartacus Legends? You would train your gladiators and fight. I remember you would have to wait real time for training and many other stuff. I can't remember much about the game but it's still installed on my 360.
@@SamboTron3000I remember that one I was interested in it after the tutorial but I guess school became a priority and next thing I knew it shut down same with ascend : hand of Kan
Gothem City Imposters was so good. I played the game so much and loved every second. Durritos Crash Course was such a good game too. Idk if this is in here cause im not gonna watch the whole video and idek if its a "live service" game but Happy Wars was also really good.
The only one to really get it right was Fortnite due to it being more fair that’s why even tho it’s no longer in its prime it still has a very big player base
@@ojdidit9144 i never played fortnite but it seemed to bring a lot of fun for younger people. And hopefully it opened to door to get them interested in other games!
they keep getting made by companies wanting a solid cow to milk like how call of duty can put out crap every two years and make bank. They all just want easy unlimited money to fund "passion projects" that just get shut down because they didn't make enough money in the first year and that's also their reasoning they'll use for why those "passion projects" don't get content added to them that makes people want to buy the game. Live service is the way to go to actually make any money these days with corporates having final call on everything. Every studio needs one to prove their worth to companies and be allowed funding for actual fun games
@@goodguyguan3412 You don't need millions of $ to make a good game. A prime example of this is Lethal Company. Game made by one guy with whatever he could scrounge up an boom, over a million copies sold now.
Why does no one ever mention that Battleborn had a campaign? There was a story campaign to that game. Nothing big, but still. And you can't play it anymore because you had to be online, even if you played by yourself...
I got into Dying Light after I could play that one live service DL game, so I've been really interested in playing it, and it's unfortunate that I just can't
One game that I never see talked about is free realms. I remember playing that game everyday on my parent’s computer growing up. I’ve never met and else who played or even heard of it. I know it was on ps3 also. Definitely gotta include it in the next video like this. Would love to hear you guys talk about what happened to that game. I had lifetime membership and all the special items from the chests you could get. I just wonder what happened I was young so I moved on and by the time I went back to it it was offline forever. They have a remake of some volunteers going on but it’s honestly lost all the hype from being in production for so long. Great video though! Been watching the channel like crazy the past few days y’all are amazing
I miss Battleborn! I personally liked it more than overwatch :( I used to play so much on Xbox i still have clips playing with my friend and we did sooo good! Orendi was my main and i destroyed with her, i hated that later on kinda b4 the game shut down they randomly changed her dash-burst like move and it'd leave flames in whatever direction you went, anyhoo i still re-watch my many old clips, I even played the beta for Battleborn, I MISS THAT GAME :(( it was extremely fun and the characters were so dang cool! Agree doritos crash course was amazing and the 2nd one was lame with paywalls pretty much ppl would just go back to the first dorito CC game lol Gotham City Imposters was absolutely a blast i still miss it too It was so silly and chaotic Thanks for the awesome video and talking about these old live service games it was nice seeing them being talked about 🎉
Well I didn't know if I was gonna stick around for the whole video, but you bring up Gotham City Impostors 10 seconds into the video and now i'm hooked.
Another live service game that got its servers shut down was Starhawk. It was my first shooter game back in the day and it got shut down a few years ago
Dust 514 and Dead Star are two games I think about constantly. Unfortunately I think a lot of live service games suffer from having very grindy mechanics due to being F2P, meaning the new player experience suffers greatly, even if the endgame content is amazing Exoprimal just released and I'm already seeing it have a similar fate. The endgame bosses are so fun but being a high level and still getting into the more basic early story matches with and against level 1 players is very sad
I miss the hell out of Dust 514 , if it was out now it would definitely be a favorite of many if given the chance to fix what was wrong with it which wasn't that much to address. Lag was the only issue I had but other than that , it would clearly be my main game today. Dam CCP.
I mean the game was released on the PS3, a console notoriously hard to develop for, at the end of that console's lifespan So while the rest of the gaming audience had moved on to PS4, the only people still playing on a PS3 were kids who didn't have any money to spend on a F2P game anyways, and probably wouldn't play for very long anyways Meaning that you had matches where a small group of high level players were pubstomping brand new militia gear kids
Their new FPS game, project Vanguard, won't be a Dust 2.0 They realized they can't compete in the CoD/Battlefield/Apex space, so instead they went with a smaller scale tactical PvEvP extraction shooter model. It's disappointing, but if the gameplay loop, risk/reward factors, and build compositions are still in-tact, they could redeem themselves
Gotham City Impostors is actually still available to play on Xbox 360, the shutdown only affected the PS3 version; albeit the game is basically dead. But yeah, it's sad to see it die regardless. I hella enjoyed it - probably my 2nd favorite MP game on 360 next to Halo: Reach.
Battleborn was actually super fun, I spent so many hours during the beta/prerelease and postrelease, but not too long after Overwatch's release, no one was online anymore. I think you can still play the PVE mode (a mode that Overwatch STILL doesn't have) but it's not as great anymore now that you're matching with yourself in a 4-player mode. I keep wanting to go back, but I know there's no one online anymore.
Can you actually? I swear I tried to a while back and it didn’t even let me log in to play the PvE, but honestly I could be wrong about that. I would love if I can because it’s nostalgic to me 🙏
Gundam Evolution is so good it's a shame they're ending it I don't play it anymore since I know it's ending and that's definitely one of the things I hated from it if someone left the whole match ended or it would not replace the person that left which made the other team get a huge advantage
How is Gran Turismo Sport not on this list? They just announced its end of service date a few days ago. ...Or is it perhaps that the game will remain playable despite being unable to save or use custom liveries, buy cars, or even use the Mileage Shop?
Gotham impostors was actually a really cool game I remember playing a long time ago and the grappling hook mechanic and improvised guns were so unique. RIP gotham impostors
You can still play it if you own it on Steam
Edit: we coordinate to play on a GCI Steam group chat
Man I loved that game on 360
@@AdrianCuyubambaDiazThe last time I played it the connection was terrible and I could only find one match with 3 people
That game was fucking good
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Gotham City Impostors is probably the saddest loss of a game i've experienced.
Honestly idk if it was that good or if I was just a stupid kid, but man getting on the 360 after school and loading it up was the shit.
Was actually a pretty good hero/class based shooter. Maps were great and fun, art style and character design was goated.
Perfect era for that game to exist, it would absolutely flop today.
it was decent until they ruined it
Gotham City Impostors and Monday Night Combat
Gotham city impostors was so fun in 2017-18
@@Dextoe being free helped a lot, was just fun to have a quality shooter that felt different from something like cod during its golden age.
I think some fans will revive it on pc hopefully
Agents of Mayhem isn't a multiplayer game with 12 players, it's a solo game where you could choose between 12 characters and make a team composition of 3. The gunplay was fun but there wasn't anything really interesting going on in the campaign
Yeah I'm confused where he got his information. That's some serious false information.
@@SourRobo8364AI prompt generator?
Funnily enough it kinda proves the point about how badly marketed Agents of Mayhem was.
People **STILL** think it was an Overwatch clone years later, lmfao.
I remember really enjoying it. It had some really fun unique characters.
Imposter SUS
blacklight retribution is a notable mention one of the first ftp fps games back in the day before free games were popular
yeah
Bro I played so much
MY FAVORITE MP GAME EVER!
I think aside from Halo and MW2, I was really invested into blacklight back then even though my pc was so trash
The game is still available on PS4.
Gotham City Imposters was actually a very fun game. Mechanics were solid, and the different characters made the game play very differently dependent on who you chose.
Man, I miss Defiance, both the show and the game. I enjoyed it because it was one of the precious few MMOs that encouraged co-op and if you wanted it, solo play, over PvP...although it had that, as well. It was nice being able to play the game and get stuff done without always worrying about whoever you run across trying to kill you. That game, while small, actually had one of the best communities for an MMO I had ever experienced.
I greatly enjoyed playing Defiance back in the day and some of the instanced missions were great. One comes to mind that I’d always run when I made a new character was this junkyard style area where you could complete a challenge or so to get a really neat cosmetic armor set.
defiance is underated then they redid the game and rename it to defiance 2050 they should have focus more on updates that redoing the whole game. look at warframe because of the constant updates people still go back to the game after all this years.
I loved defiance back on the 360. I didn't like what they did to the skill tree on the updated version however.
But it was brilliant. Still a void that hasn't been replaced, found no game similar on xbox at all :(
I remember grinding for a car because the generic ATV felt slow. I finally got it, it was all I thought it would be after seeing people with one. I finally felt like a cool kid in the game. I loved just running around and exploring the world, fighting creatures on farms and those asteroid raids. The fact there was a TV show made the lore so fleshed out. Defiance will always have a place in my heart.
The way they connected TV SHOW and the game... it was so fucking good. TV SHOW was like some kind of dollar store MASS EFFECT and it was rad af. The game just was even better if you watched the show. It was so meta when you were making missions for main characters of the tv series.... its sad no AAA or famous mmo studio wont do the same. It creates such a good "affection" for the game when you watch the show, you read about the lore and show adn then youre able to be someone in that world and lore
Jump Force doesn't really belong here since it has a physical release on consoles and you can still play online matches, the matchmaking and DLC was removed. They even made the achievements that required the matchmaking servers work once they were turn off. There was more thought put into this shutdown than most other games.
Agents of Mayhem doesn't belong either, it's literally a single player only game with no service elements lol
jump force was such a bad fighter. still angry I paid for that one lol
jump force should pay you if you buy the physical
They just ain't wanna pay to renew the licenses
Knockout city was genuinely an amazing game and 100% the paywall is what murdered the player count. The gameplay was so fun and unique compared to anything else I played In a while, I only stopped BECAUSE the player count got low and it got really hard to find a match.
It really was fun, my friends and I played it quite a bit when we got it for free on EGS but even by then it was pretty unsurprising it was going to fail because of that paywall. I'd like to see it rereleased as an F2P where it could have a chance
It was definitely a fun play, I wasn't even aware of it having shut down till me and my friend redownloaded it a few months back, granted it was kinda dumb you could download the whole game after it already shut down lol
Gotham city imposters was one of my favorite multiplayers of all time I stay asking for that game to comeback
Ghost recon phantoms
It wont. Cause WB doesn’t care
Hyperscape had mad potential, but Ubisoft just didn't change what needed to be changed, it was a really fun movement based BR and I think what killed it was how long the fights lasted. For how fast paced the game was the time to kill was abysmal, it took so many bullets to kill which kind of took away from the fast paced aspect.
they made it super easy for people to run away and that made fights last long fortnite was headed down this road until they added no build and that saved them
définitely, ive never felt more absorbed by a game than with hyperscape, really was cool with friends thats sad it got deleted
@@aopiah theres a game that came out recently called The Finals. Its not exactly like hyperscape but it has a similar feel, I encourage you to give it a try and its free.
BRO WHAT I LITTERALLY JUST FINISHED INSTALLING IT AND U SEND ME THIS AHDAEHZU U HACKED ME OR WHAT
@@PrimeMrCosmic
IT WAS A UBISOFT GAME?!?!?
I really enjoyed Gotham City Imposters. I recently just started using my 360 again and noticed it. Pity the game has been lost to time, I would have jumped back into it. Same with Battleborn, I really enjoyed it.
Good for you
Need it again 😭
you can still play it on PC, although it is hard to get a match going
I fondly remember MAG, which was released on PS3 in January 2010, between the two behemoths that were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. But man, this game was so ahead of its time. It had large battles that really worked (256 players in one game!), interesting game modes, skill trees, 8-people squads, different factions... And many people had mics in this game, that was a real blast. It definitely had network issues (like you could die a whole second behind cover) and balancing issues (SVER faction was clearly overpowered) but the game was maintained and updated. It's also a game that I worked hard to get the platinum trophy on.
The game did have some updates but unfortunately the devs (Zipper Interactive) were closed down years later due to the failures of SOCOM 4 and Unit 13, a PS Vita launch game. MAG only lasted 4 years, being closed in 2014, but I still haven't found a true replacement for it. Obviously Battlefield came close, and Planetside 2 had similarities but I'm still remembering MAG as something unique.
I love MAG so much. Bought a ps3 just to play that game back in the day.
I loved that game until my broke teen ass couldn't afford their subscription model for additional profiles and it turned out ending the subscription didn't make me choose which profile to lose but instead forced me to lose the additional profile I created with the subscription. I didn't like my original faction choice so I put all my time and effort into the new profile. So it was pay up or lose all that time and effort. Also, if I recall correctly, you could reset your profile to pick a different faction but it cost like 5$
Mag was the best FPS imo
@@Dokokoko01 I would give anything to play mag again.
This guy didn’t do a lick of research for Agents of Mayhem
Barely any for Gotham City Imposters.
Like why does he think GameSpy was the culprit? Wallhacks and aimbots ruined the game for many, and GameSpy wasn't even on the 360, it was running under Xbox Live, the PS3 version was the one running under GameSpy
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I only played one match of Ghost Recon: Phantoms around mid-2016. I was thinking to myself, "I should play more matches," but I never did. It wasn't until a few years ago when I found out the servers were shut down.
The failure that is the current state of Warzone is soul crushing
i really miss gotham city impostors. it was one of the few FPS games that ran well enough on my garbage laptop back almost 10 years ago. I spent a lot of time in that game. It should get a reboot/relaunch
I think Gotham City Imposters is still playable in some capacity. Like if you host the servers locally? If anyone wants to play, I have a steam group where we play dead games together occasionally. My groups kinda dead (ironically), so maybe a game like GCI and a local hosting could help bring both things back to life? If anyone wants to join up, let me know.
That sounds very cool. I’d be interested in something like that. What other dead games do you guys mess around with?
Brink is another dead shooter
Is their a way to get it sense now its ben delisted off Steam. Hell idk if you could even still play locally with a pirated version. Wish they came back to it with the boom of battle royals and live service games.
@@muggrootbeer I think something called Steam DB will let you redownload it. I know there are still ways to redownload delisted steam games, so I'd try.
@@luckyducky7819 When trying to download it it says "no license" so ig that wont work, rip looked fun to play even in local games.
I really loved Battleborn. Admittedly I got into it really late, getting a $5 used copy from GameStop as a Christmas gift in December of 2019, but I still played for several dozen hours. My favorite character was Ghalt, but I played a handful of other characters and played Beatrix a lot after I saved up enough points to unlock her. It's such a shame how mismanaged the IP was. If they'd simply made it playable offline, then there would still be people playing it to this day, including me. I'd probably have had a couple hundred hours in it by now. It was just such a great blend of hero shooter, looter shooter, MOBA, and horde mode and had a lot of potential. It even had splitscreen and fully-functional bots, too. The bots weren't half bad, either. My friends always preferred Overwatch, which I tried a few times and considered being a few times, but I at least got one of my friends to download it and play with me, and we had a pretty good time. Anyway, that's just my two cents.
I really enjoyed battleborn as well. Had a whole group of 6 playing pretty regularly until overwatch dropped. I enjoyed it the time I played it and that group fell apart because of overwatch honestly so there’s something to be said about that.
@@twerkintwinkie786 It's cool that you had a group. I wish I could've experienced Battleborn in its prime. One would think the two games would've been able to coexist, had they not marketed Battleborn as a straight-up hero shooter. I guess it's harder to juggle multiple multiplayer games at once as an average gamer, though
Battleborn had some really neat characters, like Benedict and Pendles. I wish they would bring it back as a primarily PvE thing.
battleborn was incredible tbh. much more fun than overwatch and paladins
@@SaltDoesArt I guess a lot of people weren't satisfied by the story. I mean, the moment-to-moment gameplay doesn't match the plot very well, sure, but fighting through waves of enemies and doing the boss fights was great. I remember there was little spin-off missions you had to pay for. I was thinking about getting them, but never get around to them. New characters were more interesting to me at the time
Defiance was a game that was fun when I was younger.
But when I got a job I wanted to get back into the game to buy cosmetics I wanted... Then I found out it shut down. In the middle of downloading it, saw it had really low stars, and I went to check.. Game shut down literally a few weeks before I started to download it.. The game had so much potential. The show too..i hope we see something like it again, there's so little mmo's with guns.
Me too, I tried going back after I got older to buy the dlc and stuff, and saw it was shut down
Major nostalgia trip.
Getting gold katana in Gotham imposters was probably my proudest gaming moment. 3 sword kills in a few seconds is hard in a game like this.
The trailer for this game was insane. And the classes were wild. Middleweight cloak ninja, rollerblades shotgun girl and grappling hook skinny sniper were goated classes if yk, yk.
Gonna miss you bud.
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I freaking loved Gotham City Imposters, I tried playing it on Steam at some point this year and it wasn't really going all that well
I miss Firefall, I remember REALLY enjoying before my PC died, and during the time before I got a new one it was shut down
I SWEAR TO GOD one of the creators of CROSSFIRE X was on my Fireteam during a session of Halo: Infinite because this one teammate was LAYING IT ON THICK with how great the game was he even tried poaching another teammate of ours to quit the MATCH WE WERE STILL IN and start playing Crossfire X, I was generally PISSED I told the other player "ERRR, I wouldn't cause I've heard NOTHING but terrible things about that game".
lmao
Maybe it was someone who like the game lol .. thinking way too hard
Thanks for mentioning Dragalia Lost. I was a day 1 player and played until the end of service.
Very early in the games release, the playerbase was hopeful for a Switch port because the iconic Switch finger snap was in the game from the get-go. Although that didn't happen, I feel the game was filled with excitement throughout its lifetime. Unfortunately, this gem in my eye has sunset because the service ended. I am still watching the communities I was in for any news of a continuation of any sort, but I don't have much optimism at the moment.
I take the game shutting down as a lesson that Live Service Always Online games are not the proper future of games. If a game comes out with either of these "features", I already know they are a ticking time bombs. They will evaporate into nothing but memories. It sucks when you want to share these moments with new people, or even just to relive them, but cannot even play a watered down version. The app is now just a welcome screen with its music that says thanks for playing.
As a tales of and digimon fan I am all too aware that mobile live service games wont last forever. just imagine if some day in the future genshin impact were to die, the uproar would be wild with how much some people spend on that game or many like it.
According to Steam I have over 300 hours on Battleborn. Most of that was in matches, but I burned through a bunch of the single player / coop missions as well. Great game, poorly marketed, and Blizzard certainly didn't help when people mistakenly thought it was identical to Overwatch. Could have been managed better after launch, but my guess is Gearbox saw less players than they imagined and cut the budget for additional content and maintenance in response.
Something I feel is very relevant to Gundam Evolution's situation is that its availability was EXTREMELY limited to only a few countries, it was straight up completly unavailable here in latinoamerica which I don't doubt contributed to the extremely tiny playerbase. It later became available worldwide but that wasn't long before its shutdown was announced
I got into it when I moved to Germany and when I checked for something about it online I saw it was gon die and I was devastated
Actually, some of these games can be played again, because it got revived by the community, not only the community removed/adjusted the pricing for the item shops, but they also made it accessible for new players to jump in , games like:
Battlefield Heroes revival, & Play4Free revival.
NFS World Revival (Soapbox Raceworld),
Hawken Revival (Hawken Refugees)
Blacklight Retribution Revival
BattleForge Revival (Skylords Reborn)
Age Of Empires Online Revival (AOE Project Celeste)
And a whole lot more.
Where is play4free revived? Last time it was tried ea canned it, i think.
Phantasy Star Universe is a dead live service and it was very popular. i wish more people would talk about it
Just FYI it wasn't Gamespy that killed Gotham City impostors, it was the fact that aimbots and wallhacks were quickly found that the devs simply couldn't fix without pouring a ton of money into the game. You would spawn in and be instakilled from across the map by a wallhacking aimbot so the only ones left after a few months were a handful of cheaters trying to outdo each other's bots.
But that is how COD works and they make tons of money
I played on console and never once was killed by someone i thought was cheating. Thats why i like console.
@@bobbyhillthuglife But COD makes money off a market, GCI was before markets so the only source of income they had was people buying skins and nobody is buying skins when their game time is measured in seconds.
@@krazykuz13cmc But it was only available on last gen when next gen consoles had just come out so again, they would have had to pour a ton of money into a game that wasn't making a dime.
GameSpy only affected the PS3 version anyway.
Doritos Crash Course took over my entire school for a solid 3-4 months. everyone was OBSESSED trying to have the highest scores in the school. i remember the course Japan 3 was an absolute BATTLEGROUND
its not here but Ghost in the shell first assult online was one of my favorite free to play live service games that was killed alittle over a year after coming out.
It had really detailed weapon customization but for some reason they decided to change the class system to be more restrictive, locking gun to certain characters.
it played like call of duty but a hero shooter. even more like a hero shooter after the killing update
It was genuinely really good, and they killed it which was a shame
It was one of the game where the skill celling between good and smart players wasn’t all that big. The major could fk up teams if you were smart.
Theres a project to revive it
@@TorchicNidoran1994nice
that shit went so hard. fuck nexon
I still make sure to play Doritos Crash Course any time I set up my 360. Such a fan game, back in the days of party chat it was hella fun to play that when waiting for people to either get on or come back from being AFK or just time out between changing games. Iconic game.
Destiny 2 definitely fits on the list imo. To think the original campaign is just non existent now is pretty saddening... also I loved Defiance, played at launch. Underrated for sure
Defiance, Wildstar, Battleborn.... those games were just in the wrong time but the right place. So many fans want those game back.....
Red War was such a good New Light experience though. I think they should rework the "Timeline" missions from Forsaken, Beyond Light, and Witch Queen into the game's introduction tutorial quest, and maybe add one for Red War. I love how the intros are narrated. It'd be perfect for new players. I imagine a majority of current players have either been playing since release, or Shadowkeep. Sucks how hard the game is to get into now.
@@kayiskoi they only care about their new ip
At least we're lucky enough the original campaign was absolute fucking dogshit, makes it less tragic
Yeah, bungie removing the campaign and older dlc as well as exotics it made me quit the game. I quit in the middle of the moon dlc. Don't know if I'll ever play it again.
i love how you included the clip of firefall, the game was my jam for what it was worth
So in short, micro-transactions and lack of single-player modes killed games. There's a reason old games like Doom and Quake maintain their success. Having the ability to have private servers makes a huge difference with gaming too.
I remember a time where ai played this game that played like day of defeat, even used the source engine, but that don’t matter. The game had two people on it. Me, and someone who had been playing the game for years at this point. He had about 4000 hours on it, and he just played it all day when he finished work. It was rather odd, but later, more people joined the server. They all knew each other, so clearly it was a small community of people who refused to let the game die. It was so weird, but it shows that if you have good community support for a game, it will most likely never die. Its rather odd thinking about it now.
Ohhh! I worked on Gotham City Impostors! That game was such an underrated gem. I had lots of fun when it was in my labs. I miss it.
I miss Battleborn, it was such a fun game.
Wildstar too; though, Wildstar's downfall was due to mismanagement. The biggest nail in the coffin was right before F2P, they offered free server transfers to players could play in large groups. Many PvP players migrated to PvE servers with the understanding they could migrate back after the F2P drop. They couldn't and ultimately dropped the game. Considering how well GW2 was doing with a B2P model, Wildstar should have released with the same model, and I felt that was the biggest factor to why the game failed. Players would not have left in droves if they didn't have to pay a sub each month.
Opening with Gotham City imposters is an insane guilt trip. I miss that game lol
Bioshock 2's multiplayer deserves an honorable mention here even though it's not a "live service" game. That was amazing and is lost forever.
Same goes for Resistance, Killzone, Starhawk/Warhawk, etc... So many great multiplayers gone forever. There are work arounds for some games, but there's just no playerbase. It'll never be the same lol
0:16 why the heck are there so many game studios named Monolith? I can think of at least three now counting this one.
I really am sad to see Gundam Evolution go. But I think not having crossplay was a major downside, especially in western regions where the franchise isn't as popular. But I can see why it was condemn for the MTX, especially with how pricey they were. But as I always say to people, I enjoyed it cause of the freedom from roles it came with. Most other games like this had some form of dedicated roles. This game was mainly, you picked someone and you just played and had fun. Sure, there were some units that were better at other roles than some. But the fact that you didn't need someone to be a support or someone to be tank, that is what really mattered to me. Just being able to play a hero shooter with no role restrictions, and just have fun.
I had fun with it, Gundam deserves better
meh seems too japanese. i like my mechs slow and tanky like mechwarrior, not speed freak daemon x machina or armored core.
@@Tacdelio Try Gundam Battle Operation 2. The suits in that game are more akin to what a mobile suit would actually feel like. Slow torso turning, so you need to pre-aim. Bashing other suits knocks them over. Suits being made specifically for space or ground combat. And a bunch of other stuff. That game is pretty good with how it portrays actual mobile suit combat.
@@TacdelioGBO2 is way better
The grind was the worst part, it was basically Pay 2 win with how powerful most of the locked suits were, And you could only get free credits through the battle pass, when the beta let you earn them through playing the game. And if you grinded the pass you got enough credits to buy a whopping ONE new suit, with some to spare. This means that people who paid got access to the strongest suits and free 2 play players were stuck with the free suits which werent bad at all, but compared to the locked ones weren't as strong. (the melee suits were nightmares to fight, the nu gundam/ genji clone especially, with two of them being locked)
i pre ordered Defiance for that orange Dodge Charger pre order bonus. then i found out that they made a black one with 10 more speed that anyone could unlock and that was a slap in the face.
You know what Gothan City Inposters really needed? Multiplayer Bots like in the Call of Duty series, with a seperate leveling up system for when you're playing against bots. It would have been played more by everyone who owned the game, but so far no one has done that well other than Call of Duty.
The way you just broke my heart 15 seconds into the video reminding me that i can’t play Gotham Imposters.
Bro Ghost Recon Phantoms awoken something in me. Also surprised to not see Loadout on here. One of my favorite ftp games that genuinely didnt feel pay to win
Agents of Mayhem wasn't multiplayer actually. It just a single player game that people thought was co op because of the hero characters, when in fact the gameplay was just switching between a squad of 3 of them that you pick out.
Hyperscape was probably my favourite br due to how fun the games could get. So sad it was shut down
Hyperscape has a pretty high skill ceiling, but then aim assist and balancing of certain weapons completely killed the game. Once the meta was found out, it went downhill very quickly. I truly miss that game
@@JO-hs1ue Tbh. This game was DoA. Played 30 mins in Beta before uninstall and knowing that game will end quickly coz nobody will play this.
The way to play Verdansk is through the cracked offline build, it only works via LAN, but you can use softwares like Radmin VPN to connect people over internet onto your LAN server. Only catch is the 500m collision issue that's now in limbo if someone out there can figure out to fix.
fuck man battleborns shut down made me so sad, my friend and I used to play splitscreen, and we had great memories of us staying up late, him playing as toby, the fucking penguin in a mech. damn I miss it so much
Gosh, I feel this!
Knockout City is still available to play. It has no official servers, but they patched in community hosted servers. So I'm not sure it belongs here. You can seemingly still download it too.
The game I miss the most that almost no one remembers or even talks about is Gigantic. That game was honestly amazing and it did not deserve to die. To this day it still has a dedicated fan base that plays a private version of the game.
You'll be happy to know it looks like it might be returning. There's going to be a playtest soon
@@2DGirls WHAT?! No way! That game was awesome but I got into it like a week before it got shutdown.
I remember playing warzone so much. Love that game to bits, really made me realise that u dont realise how much u love smth until its gone
20:12 Saints Row 2022 was not a remake of the original, it's a reboot.
Remember playing NFS World a lot back in the day, had so much potential but EA's heavy focus on adding cars into the game and not enough game modes or brand new areas got "De-prioritized".
You can play NFS World again. Look up Soapbox Race World.
Game I am both sad and happy you didn't mention.
Dirty Bomb.
Really cool game, great gameplay, Movement tech, and overall mechanics.
Very objective based character PvP shooter.
Interesting card system that changed your weapon and efficacy of your abilities. Cards also being tradable over steam at first, and while some could be bought they weren't ever really THE BEST, some where but not all.
All went downhill when they added 2 mercs eventually that were a defensive powerhouse. A sheild merc and a very Huge range trophy system merc. Pair them with the turret guy and tou have a fortress.
Game officially shutdown long ago, however there are still some private servers that linger here and there. Thankfully they have a server browser.
I thought Gotham City Impostors was down too but I re-download it recently on Steam to reminisce only to find active servers, I was very surprised
I can't add it to my library
Slight correction about Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World and Fifa World:
The ANNOUNCEMENT of servers shutting down came in April 2015.
The actual shut down of these games servers was on July 14th, 2015.
I think Phantoms would have been pretty popular if it was released today. Especially after the popularity of Wildlands.
They'd be smart to bring it back
@@ZacharysGamingExpOG
It's ubisoft. They won't. We will just have to settle with xdefiant and hope it's good
That defiance game jus unlocked the most random memory of playing it for a few hours on the ps3 after downloading it for free and then deleting it right after
This video unlocked some many hidden memories about games I used to play… 😨🤣
Gotham city imposters looks so cool, I’m kinda sad I never played it 😢
It was sick. It would be perfect for a F2P remaster with micro transactions
Game was so sick
The one game I always think of when thinking about shutdown live service games is that one ghost in the shell fps. It was a little generic but holy shit it was so much fun, I hope that some day it gets brought back by fans or something
Oh yeah, Ghost in the Shell: First Assault.
I didn't play it but watching videos about it kinda seems like a cool game based on the anime. The graphics and gun looks good.
Not surprising it gone offline not long after. Anime IP tie in games don't really last long.
there are a couple different fan projects making it playable again. i know one of them actually has it up and running, while the other still hasnt made it off the ground last i checked
@@candidklutz5056 are there any discord servers for the working one or something?
This video just made me sad. I miss some of these games, but also just feel bad knowing others have that same void of games they truly enjoyed.
Some more games I would've added to this list would be Drawn To Death, Lawbreakers and Backlight Retribution. Those were really decent games that also got shutdown pretty quickly.
I got Lawbreakers on ps4, the beta was so much fun.
Agents of mayhem was a single player game that you might be able to still buy at poundland
The Defiance part is really cool. Maybe we can get something similar in the future.
We should get something similar with RIOT MMO and ARCANE TV SHOW. Thats why they delay the show.
People tend to forget the og live service games in 2007-2012 era, I’m talking combat arms, alliance of valiant arms, crossfire, soldier front2 , battery arctic wind, sudden attack, blackshot, operation 7, war rock, maple story Those were peak Korean live service game era.
Destiny 2 hurt the most. Pre-ordered the game (still have the case and cayde-6 figure), made sure to get all dlcs until forsaken then boom. All that money and all that story just gone. The BASE CAMPAIGN especially hurt most it’s what started Destiny 2 now new players won’t know what happened. Such a waste of money.
Yeah. I tried the game out a few months ago, but had no idea what was going on or what to do. There is zero new player experience in desinty. It’s made for hardcore players and that’s it, it seems. Oh well. Doubt I’m missing much
I used to play on PS4 back when it came out, I remember I had finished basically all there was to do at launch but I stopped playing before any of the DLCs came out. I recently wanted to go back to the game on PC only to realize none of that content is accessible anymore, so I just ended up not playing cause I felt overwhelmed by how lost in the story I felt
@@Verminion777 Same. I honestly feel like if they actually let people play the part dlcs and the base campaign anytime there would be more at least more casual players.
@@Neocrossfire yeah, I know I would actually play Destiny 2 if that was the case lmao, especially now that they're doing collabs that I find cool and whatnot
Man i didnt download Gotham imposters until it was about dead because growing up i didn't have wifi, but the 10 or so matches I played I loved
The problem with defiance is that it wasn't available on next gen
Then they made a new next gen called 2050
But then the 2050 variant was not as good
The open world events spawned less frequent and with less variety, the guns you got were less in variety
It takes longer to grind to get new stuff instead of the same stuff
They took away an entire island
And it takes much longer to go to the lower half of the map where you're at a level where you won't just get destroyed
So you're experiencing the same weapons enemies missions and map for longer, too long
And they changed how the skill tree worked.
They also changed the level up system to the god awful power level system. Instead of getting xp you were forced to equip crappy items that had a higher power level to your awesome item, but if you didn’t equip that crappy item you would just be stuck at a lower power level until you equipped the higher power level item and then even crappier higher power level items would drop. It basically made it so you could not make a build until you reached max power level which forced players all doing terrible in the dungeons because players are using weapons that don’t support their class or build because it was the only higher power level weapon that dropped.
I remember playing this games when i was extremely young like black light, gotham city, etc all seemed like amazing games to experience back in the day..
Gotham City imposters was one if the best FPS games ever (my opinion). Really wish they would remaster it for the new consoles. I kiss the game so much.
The 360 version of Gotham Imposters is actually still available to buy in the marketplace. And the online still works too.
Anyone remember Spartacus Legends? You would train your gladiators and fight. I remember you would have to wait real time for training and many other stuff. I can't remember much about the game but it's still installed on my 360.
YES. That game was so cool
@@HoboHunterRik aye glad I'm not the only one
@@SamboTron3000I remember that one I was interested in it after the tutorial but I guess school became a priority and next thing I knew it shut down same with ascend : hand of Kan
Gothem City Imposters was so good. I played the game so much and loved every second.
Durritos Crash Course was such a good game too.
Idk if this is in here cause im not gonna watch the whole video and idek if its a "live service" game but Happy Wars was also really good.
I'm surprised not seeing here The Culling 1 and 2. The first one was my favorite game but bad decisions killed the game.
I love how live "service" games are almost universally hated yet they keep getting made 🤔
The only one to really get it right was Fortnite due to it being more fair that’s why even tho it’s no longer in its prime it still has a very big player base
@@ojdidit9144 i never played fortnite but it seemed to bring a lot of fun for younger people. And hopefully it opened to door to get them interested in other games!
they keep getting made by companies wanting a solid cow to milk like how call of duty can put out crap every two years and make bank. They all just want easy unlimited money to fund "passion projects" that just get shut down because they didn't make enough money in the first year and that's also their reasoning they'll use for why those "passion projects" don't get content added to them that makes people want to buy the game. Live service is the way to go to actually make any money these days with corporates having final call on everything. Every studio needs one to prove their worth to companies and be allowed funding for actual fun games
@@goodguyguan3412 You don't need millions of $ to make a good game. A prime example of this is Lethal Company. Game made by one guy with whatever he could scrounge up an boom, over a million copies sold now.
Why does no one ever mention that Battleborn had a campaign? There was a story campaign to that game. Nothing big, but still. And you can't play it anymore because you had to be online, even if you played by yourself...
I was one of the few who only played the campaign, really enjoyed the level and the characters, I miss that game.
i miss rumbleverse so much, it was like the only battle royale ever that i enjoyed playing
I remember Gotham Imposters as a kid but couldn't afford it haha
12:25 the moment you said "upload their own images" I knew this was getting nuked. Whenever those words are said all that can happen is bad things.
I got into Dying Light after I could play that one live service DL game, so I've been really interested in playing it, and it's unfortunate that I just can't
This is why live service games as a model need to be completely done away with
Uhhh, Agents of Mayhem doesn't have a multiplayer mode. Doesn't really fall under live service.
Where did he even get that info? Did he assume that having 12 characters means it has 12 player multiplayer?
One game that I never see talked about is free realms. I remember playing that game everyday on my parent’s computer growing up. I’ve never met and else who played or even heard of it. I know it was on ps3 also. Definitely gotta include it in the next video like this. Would love to hear you guys talk about what happened to that game. I had lifetime membership and all the special items from the chests you could get. I just wonder what happened I was young so I moved on and by the time I went back to it it was offline forever. They have a remake of some volunteers going on but it’s honestly lost all the hype from being in production for so long. Great video though! Been watching the channel like crazy the past few days y’all are amazing
I miss Battleborn! I personally liked it more than overwatch :( I used to play so much on Xbox i still have clips playing with my friend and we did sooo good! Orendi was my main and i destroyed with her, i hated that later on kinda b4 the game shut down they randomly changed her dash-burst like move and it'd leave flames in whatever direction you went, anyhoo i still re-watch my many old clips, I even played the beta for Battleborn, I MISS THAT GAME :(( it was extremely fun and the characters were so dang cool!
Agree doritos crash course was amazing and the 2nd one was lame with paywalls pretty much ppl would just go back to the first dorito CC game lol
Gotham City Imposters was absolutely a blast i still miss it too
It was so silly and chaotic
Thanks for the awesome video and talking about these old live service games it was nice seeing them being talked about 🎉
Well I didn't know if I was gonna stick around for the whole video, but you bring up Gotham City Impostors 10 seconds into the video and now i'm hooked.
i played the crossfire x beta and love it sniping was disgustingly good and loved the pub stomping
hyperscape was actually really good, i miss it
it was received quite positively, it died due to lack of support, so much potential. gone
Im sad to say ive played almost every single one of these games
Impostors was genuinely one of the most fun and surreal experiences; especially as a fps and dc fan
This is why you should never invest time in any live service game. You will forever be yearning to return to it, long after it's gone, if it was good.
Then what about popular games like Dota 2, CS2, Valorant and League of legends?
@@ksya473 I'm pretty sure Dota 2 and CS2 are playable offline via LAN, that's how they do it in major tournaments.
Another live service game that got its servers shut down was Starhawk. It was my first shooter game back in the day and it got shut down a few years ago
Dust 514 and Dead Star are two games I think about constantly. Unfortunately I think a lot of live service games suffer from having very grindy mechanics due to being F2P, meaning the new player experience suffers greatly, even if the endgame content is amazing
Exoprimal just released and I'm already seeing it have a similar fate. The endgame bosses are so fun but being a high level and still getting into the more basic early story matches with and against level 1 players is very sad
I miss the hell out of Dust 514 , if it was out now it would definitely be a favorite of many if given the chance to fix what was wrong with it which wasn't that much to address. Lag was the only issue I had but other than that , it would clearly be my main game today. Dam CCP.
I mean the game was released on the PS3, a console notoriously hard to develop for, at the end of that console's lifespan
So while the rest of the gaming audience had moved on to PS4, the only people still playing on a PS3 were kids who didn't have any money to spend on a F2P game anyways, and probably wouldn't play for very long anyways
Meaning that you had matches where a small group of high level players were pubstomping brand new militia gear kids
Their new FPS game, project Vanguard, won't be a Dust 2.0
They realized they can't compete in the CoD/Battlefield/Apex space, so instead they went with a smaller scale tactical PvEvP extraction shooter model. It's disappointing, but if the gameplay loop, risk/reward factors, and build compositions are still in-tact, they could redeem themselves
Gotham City Impostors is actually still available to play on Xbox 360, the shutdown only affected the PS3 version; albeit the game is basically dead. But yeah, it's sad to see it die regardless. I hella enjoyed it - probably my 2nd favorite MP game on 360 next to Halo: Reach.
Battleborn was actually super fun, I spent so many hours during the beta/prerelease and postrelease, but not too long after Overwatch's release, no one was online anymore. I think you can still play the PVE mode (a mode that Overwatch STILL doesn't have) but it's not as great anymore now that you're matching with yourself in a 4-player mode. I keep wanting to go back, but I know there's no one online anymore.
Can you actually? I swear I tried to a while back and it didn’t even let me log in to play the PvE, but honestly I could be wrong about that. I would love if I can because it’s nostalgic to me 🙏
you cant. you need a connection to the server to even load into the menu. ive tried.
Gotham City imposters was awesome. I miss that
same bro!
Gundam Evolution is so good it's a shame they're ending it I don't play it anymore since I know it's ending and that's definitely one of the things I hated from it if someone left the whole match ended or it would not replace the person that left which made the other team get a huge advantage
bf heroes was fun! i remember playing the beta, and the regular release. it has a really catchy theme song
How is Gran Turismo Sport not on this list? They just announced its end of service date a few days ago.
...Or is it perhaps that the game will remain playable despite being unable to save or use custom liveries, buy cars, or even use the Mileage Shop?
racing games got too niche I guess, they only mentioned nfs world in this video bc it was in a wave of other games going offline.
Gotham city imposters was great, I did prerelease testing on it and everyone in the room was having a good time