@@GuruCubeI think it has to do with them being able to make more money off their content without including timestamps. Time watched is more profitable than numbers of subscribers. And without timestamps people tend to wachthe whole video. Just my 2 cents. Love most of their content regardless✌
I spoke to a Vampire: The Masquerade Dev a couple of years ago and he kind of felt that Activision screwed them on the game. The reason the game was released in such a buggy, clearly unfinished state was that Activision wanted to release it at the same time as Half-Life 2 so they could publicise that it also ran on the Source engine (which was also part of the problem) Then when the game flopped they turned around and said "What did you expect? It released the same day as Half-Life 2".
Also for Vampire: The Masquerades free battle royale flopped because of the insane bugs like your gun not shooting or reloading and they kept it in the game without patches for weeks, killed their entire 30,000 steam players/ 80k+ psn player count. And then they were hiring ambassadors on twitch to showcase the game and got into some racial controversy with the main developer of the Bloodhunt Battle Royale, game is barely holding on today , couldve been the next biggest battle royale
@@nonpondo_ the game had mad potential, had apex type movement but better and more fluid, shooting mechanics were nice when they worked, the graphics were sick too, and the mix of powers with gunplay made it a dope game, i think it definitely had potential to be big just how Naraka is now, but that wave done passed now
Sunset Overdrive looked incredibly unique for it's time IMO. It was 2014, not 2018, and Sunset Overdrive clearly set itself apart stylistically and gameplay-wise. Still one of my favorite games.
@@Kreezyouttahere I'd love it but I can't see Sony using that IP. They can't publish the original without Microsoft's approval, and Microsoft can't make a sequel without Sony's approval because insomniac owns the IP. It's in a very weird limbo, plus you gotta think Insomniac is on to Spider-Man 3, and there second team in on Wolverine.
in a recent interview, the director said the concept in defo in the talking but not official yet, so hope it doesn't get scrapped. also in 2021, sony bought the trademarks for it.@@jddarroch
I really was hoping for a sequel. Well, guess that hope is dead. If Sony isn't doing anything with the IP, they might aswell just sell it to Xbox or something.
Prey is one of my top 5 games of all time. That game is a masterpiece. It does take a little bit to get into it but once the game flips everything upside down on you the game grabs you and pulls you in and doesn’t let go. Great story, great environments, tense gameplay - I’m very surprised Prey didn’t sell more. It’s an amazing game that more people should play and if you haven’t played it yet you’re totally missing out.
Prey, in my opinion, was a love letter to System Shock 2. If you have ever played it and then played Prey you can see a lot of the same beats in environmental storytelling. I loved Prey and the only reason I haven't played it as much as SS2 is because SS2 has been out for 20 more years.
Prey is one of the most over-appreciated games I’ve ever played personally. I think its story is pretty flat, its world is fairly boring, the enemies are unimaginative for the genre, and the combat is stiff.
Enslaved is actually one of my favorite games of all time. The nostalgia I got just watching that 1 minute of gameplay almost made me want to shed a tear.
yeah I count it in as one of my favourite games as well it didn't have anything extraordinary (which is probably the cause for it not being noticed) it was simply well made game with interesting setting and story in games and movies, there are some that make you go WOW and years later you remember that there was something like that but you don't feel like watching/playing it again (you are already accustomed to this WOW effect) and there are some that you really enjoyed but you don't really remember why and nostalgia hits hardest with these ones
I can't express how important "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" is to me. Such incredible environments, great character development, and fantastic sound design. I adore that game so much.
IMHO it also showcases Ninja's skill in developing characters (that they've perfected with Senua). I think a lot of people also missed on Odyssey, because they thought they would be getting another Marcus Fenix, who snuffs testosterone for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While in reality the relation between Monkey and Trip is really quite an interesting one
Which makes you think what kind of games 95% of the gamers play. Repetitive reskin shooters, you make the right one, then you can milk your base forever. Same goes for football games. If there is one small change, they will still gladly buy it. Most people are not able to appreciate unique games. Sad.
Yeah the gaming world is definitely filled with a lot of hidden gems nowadays and sadly good games don't get as much marketing because of lack of resources
True, but also sometimes an ultra-deep, hardcore and old-school game like Baldur's Gate 3 get huge and even take over the mainstream. It's really hard to predict (ie impossible).
Enslaved was such a great game. I don't know why I remember it so clearly. I can imagine the map and a lot of situations like if I was playing it now but it has been over 10 years and I only played it once. Few games have been so memorable to me
i remember it being awkward when parents walked in because the characters were rendered to look like porn stars, and every cut scene was needlessly centred on their bare chests
The Evil Within 2 was definitely not advertised as heavily as the first one was from memory. I'm pretty sure I didn't know about it until it had already been out for a month. Also slight correction. Sunset Overdrive released in 2014, which was a very opportunistic year for that type of game and was heavily used in Xbox's marketing.
Big agree, it's hard to find more games to scratch that parkour and gunning itch that feels satsfying Probably Titanfall, but Sunset Overdrive will forever have a special part in my heart!
Gravity Rush 2 was dope. Loved the flying through the cities. And it was the only time ever I almost got banned from PSN because I uploaded an in-game screenshot via the games feature with upskirt content...😂
@@juliandelapena4293 highly recommend it. Is it not available on steam? If not, probably worth grabbing a second hand Ps4, they are usually super cheap now and that way you dont have to wait
Words cant explain how much nostalgia I felt when blur was the first one. I loved that game so much as a kid and I would always play it with my friends
Split second came out around the same time. Another awesome arcade style racing game. I only had the money for one game and I chose split second. I wish I could have bought both🥲
I was 40 when it came out. It was one of my favorite race games ever. Everyone that I had played it with loved it too. It was always such a shame that they never had a sequel
Prey is easily in my top 5 favorite games of all time, too bad that because it flopped we may never see an actual sequel to the game. I really love Prey, and I hope it gets more love. If you can pick it on a sale, I recommend it, it gets really cheap, is a no brainer.
I used to work in a target electronics dept for years and I can tell you when it comes to the first Mario and rabbids games success came down to the fact that it was often on sale for $15-20 and parents/grandparents not knowing it's not a traditional mario game bought it up for their kids instead of mario odyssey that was always at $60 and never on sale. To them it's a $20 mario game or a $60 mario game, which are you going to get?
Yeah understandable. It’s probably even the biggest reason for its sales but it’s still a good game. Same with its sequel. They’re solid strategy games with interesting hooks that also work as great entries into the infamously complicated genre as it doesn’t overwhelm the player
I totally agree. To add to that it came out when there wasn't a true Mario game for the Switch, and early in the life of the Switch at that; you just didn't have a whole lot of options for games yet.
I'm 56 years old and can honestly say I've been a gamer since I was about 10 with the very first arcade games. I've never stopped playing so I've seen a lot from the first home computers and consoles to VR. Enslaved is one of the most memorable games i have played in my life across all platforms and genres. the evolving story and relationship between monkey and Tripp, is so involving. the voice acting is so on point and the story Arc gripping. I think it was ahead of its time. as a teen I LOVED the crazy Japanese TV show Monkey Magic, so was already versed in the legend of the monkey King. although the show and the game bear little resemblance. a crying shame it didn't get a sequel, would have been an instant buy for me. If there's a game that needs a high quality reboot, it's Enslaved. I think the scene is ripe for it, got to be a sure thing if it's done as thoughtfully and thoroughly as the original was.
For me it is the best game by Ninja Theory by far, so much better than Hellblade. I would exchange Hellblade 2 for a sequel of Enslaved in a heartbeat. It is an awesome game and still looks gorgeus on a Series X, one of the few games I replay over and over along the years
Completely agree. Enslaved still sticks with me as one of the most memorable and genuinely enthralling games I've ever played. I actually genuinely felt emotional growth between Monkey and Tripp.
The modding community has done wonders with Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines, adding missing content and a host of quality of life improvements, among other things, realising a lot of the potential. Also Prey was great, such a shame to hear it flopped, got it on special on Steam a while back and played the heck out of it, fantastic premise and very cerebral to boot!
I always though Prey flopped because the original planned premise for Prey 2 was gonna be an open world space bounty hunter type and instead it came out like it was
When i first played Prey, it dident catch my attention. only played it for a couple of hours. 3-4 years later i decided to give it another try, and boy im glad that i did. it really is an awsome game
I’m really surprised Kingdom’s of Amalur wasn’t on this list. Not only was it an amazing game but the behind the scenes stuff with the studio that made it is so weird.
Enslaved is probably one of my favorite video games ever. I play it every few years and it is so sad that not many people have had the fortune to play it. Definitely, worth your time
Blur was a fantastic game. I worked in retail at the time and if I remember rightly it released certainly in the UK within weeks of another great racing game called Split/Second. This was a similar arcade racer where you could use the environment to give you an advantage. At the end of the day there's only so much money to spend on games so customers ultimately had to choose one or the other.
My friends and I always joke that the Beta was so good that it made none of us want to spend money on the game. 8 of us got on every night for 2-4 weeks and played the open beta for Blur. It had 4 tracks, all the cars, full online match making. By the time it was time to buy it, we were kinda over it. We mention blur still to this day about how fun it used to be..wish we could go back and play it again
Prey is so underappreciated. It has such an interesting story and mechanics especially the ability to explore that empty outer space part. I hope people give it a chance. I'm just so glad this channel mentioned it a few times.
In all fairness the game feels kinda dead and dry. I bought it some time ago and it has been constant cycle of installing and reinstalling as I try to get my money worth only to end up doing something else as I get bored of it. I have played all the other arkane games not counting the last piece of trash and Prey stands out in its lifeless atmosphere.
Enslaved was one of my favorite games when it came out. Such a fun adventure and I really loved the characters and the futuristic take on an age old allegory. Prey is definitely on my list of games to play but I feel for Arkane who begged to name it something else, but I feel like it’s assumed relation to the 2006 game of the same title is why it flopped. Prey (2006) WAS a heavy action FPS and, while they were both sci-fi, functioned nothing like Arkane’s vision for their project. Awesome list as always, love the perspective and context you give for gaming history!
As someone who absolutely loved my time with both The Evil Within and The Evil Within 2, I'll always be saddened by just how little recognition Shinji Mikami got from making such fantastic horror titles! Classic RE4 definitely had a lot of influences for these games (obviously basing on its main creative lead/head alone)... and even the remake of RE4 honestly takes a whole lotta cues from the mechanics in The Evil Within games. And not saying that's a bad thing at all. I just wish more people could have seen the potential of The Evil Within as another survival horror franchise worthy of competing alongside the likes of Resident Evil. Part of me feels like both games came out before this current era where people are just so thirsty for survival horror games that actually have mechanical depth and challenging difficulty.
I’ll never understand the “negative” reviews. The first one had some of the scariest moments in a game I remember ever and the second one just like gameranx said is just a huge improvement besides more scary like they’re both amazing!
The Evil Within 1 and 2 are in my opinion some of the best survival horror games ever made,..The first one especially,. Easily on my top ten game list.Trily insane how they were somewhat overlooked when they are as good if not better then the resident evil games
I think its because re7 and tew2 both came out in the same year which people got captivated alot by compared to tew2 since re7 took a new turn by not just returning the series bwck to its horror roots but changing the formula for a new by bringing into first person whereas tew2 just solely improves on just the general mechanics of the first game to make it match the time aesthetics. Overall, both games were and still are amazing standards in the horror genre and i do agree with the fact that tew2 is a brilliant sequel despite under selling, i do wish it was more well known and i also wish tango games comes together with an idea for a 3rd game.
Two of the best and two of my favorite survival horror games. I truly don't understand how they didn't sell more. The way the second one evolved the mechanics and made it slightly open world but still scary is such an achievement. The match mechanic on whether to burn enemies or not was such an awesome and tense loop! The story and bosses were also so memorable! I can't praise them enough.
Blur was a great game. A lot of my friends played it back in the day. If microsoft gets Activision, I hope they think of bringing it back. Had potential
I think its just too niche. I love racing games but the idea of a real car mario kart never appealed to me. I think that happened with alot of people with that game
@anubisfox5765 na I do get that. I love Mario Kart. Blur had it similarities and the same type of game play, but the speed of blur felt very intense. so the moment to moment game play felt different.
Gravity Rush 2 was such a big upgrade from the first installment it blew me away! The setting, all of the explorable areas and collectibles you could find by shifting gravity accompanied by the beautiful soundtrack and amazing cell shaded graphics all made for a very nostalgic feeling game but one that stood out on its own as a force to be reckoned with… or so I thought :( Really hope by some divine powers we’ll get a sequel someday.
I remember I got Gravity Rush 1 when it was a free game back when Vita was pretty young. There wasn't anything specifically stand out on Vita yet and I wasn't in the mood to play the playstation games I already owned from PS3. So I decided to go "Why not? Its not costing me money," and I remember getting so engrossed in it and was upset that it was over so quickly because I wanted MOAR. I was stunned that it was getting a sequel though I admit I haven't gotten around to playing it just yet despite it sitting in my library forever but it is a heartbreak it didn't sell well.
Gravity Rush 2 was amazing. Overall, its an open world game that stands on its own and there really is no other game to compare it to. The gravity power is unique. The world setting was unique(at the time). The story was unique(at the time too) and the soundtrack was awesome. And the combat was great even to today's standards. I just think that releasing it on playstation and locking it to the console was the only reason why it didn't do well. They didn't promote it much and when they did, it was mostly about the ability to use the Vita and playstation's motion controls which was not actually needed to play and it was much easier without it. So they screwed the game over by focusing on self-promoting Playstation features instead of the game itself.
@@JupiterxBlues Thanks this sounds awesome abd I'm super excited to check it out! Yeah I'm pretty heavy into gaming news and I'm kind of stunned such a gorgeous looking game with such a novel concept slipped under my radar. I love weird games , Visually it looks great, I love novel control schemes for all intents and purposes a game like this is made for someone like me but I had no clue it was out there. Definitely sounds like a botched marketing job and unfortunate because it looks super captivating.
@@mariopot789 well the interesting thing is that the control scheme isnt that novel. It just works and the movement in the game is great! Other games you can easily get stuck on a pebble on the ground or some slightly uneven floor stopping you instantly on your tracks and breaks your immersion but in GR you rarely get that. The movement is pretty clean and "fluid". At first, the gravity power controls throws you off but you get used to it quickly and pretty soon your soaring across the world and finding hidden side story missions.
It took me awhile to get to it, but I literally just finished playing Prey last night, and couldn't believe how good it was and that I waited so long to play it. I was shocked to see it here on this list.
Blur was such an incredible game. It had some balancing issues but the gameplay and visuals were phenomenal. There's never been anything quite like it. I still dip back into it every now and then. I wish it had gotten a sequel.
There are so many good games on this list: Sunset Overdrive, Blur, Gravity Rush and Enslaved were so great! Maybe Kameo and Titanfall 2 would fit this list as well, but I'm not sure how they sold exactly...
I finished Enslaved: Odyssey to the west in like a day back in high school & totally forgot about how good & unique of a game it was until my brother brought it up again years later. There was definitely potential to build on its story.
I played Gravity Rush 2 early this year and still one of the most memorable game I've played, the world is unlike I've experienced, and the thrill of manipulating gravity is captured so well by the developers, such a shame that the game hasnt got the attention it deserves, gotta be in my top ten favorite game of all time.
I have the platinum trophy in both games. I liked the first game more than the second one, but they both are definetly among my favourite games, such a shame that they don't get the recognision they deserve and that we almost certainly will not get a third game
@@giftbox-e Yes its a mix or marketing and other reasons in my opinion, the game is never on sale unlike other Playstation exclusive, u either have to pay full price or subscribe to PS plus which I did, and u have to scroll way down the list to see the game. The other thing is, the art style isnt as flashy as other contemporary games, its not too anime and not too western either, this is personally my thought when I first boot up the game, I thought the characters dont look as good. But that was my mistake, because this distinct artstyle really gives the worldbuilding a fresh perspective, I got so immersed in it and all the characters end up really likable especially the main heroine.
In regards to Pillars of Eternity 2, I think the market was just oversaturated with crpg's by the time it came out.There were just too many options all at once. I know when it was announced I was playing Divinity, had pathfinder on my wishlist, and had the first PoE still to play. And I feel proud that I am one of the 72,000 people who bought Bloodlines when it released. I remember getting out of Santa Monica and just arriving at the Sabbat ambush downtown where Nines saves you when I read Troika had gone bankrupt. I was quite confused, as the game had just come out, lol.
Gravity Rush 2 was so good! I loved that game. "Flying" by falling everywhere, and the different areas all looked great. It was a really game to explore for the hidden goodies in. I also have to back up the System Shock 2 shout out. A friend of mine turned me onto that game back in the 90s, and man, was it ever excellent. I'm really hoping it get a proper remake/remaster treatment.
Prey was SO good. The Mooncrash DLC was just as good as the campaign. It was more like a separate game entirely. They used the same general mechanics, but turned it into a roguelite.
The only reason why i havent played prey more than couple of hours, is the lack of guns and that the ones in the game feel terrible to use. Like where's the assault rifle and smg? The whole simulation aspect of the story feels like a cop out too which i really dont like.
Prey was a really weak game that never deserved more attention. It was overrated by its handful of fans and properly rate by the rest of the gaming community. It was never a great game or a decent immersive sim.
Prey started off as a 10/10 game, it was EXCELLENT in those first few hours. Later it was still very good, but the last 30%/40% were really, really bad. So overall it's an OK game.
Just wish they were able ton polish it a bit more and all of the power upgrades had meaning. It was a challenging tense game though. Kinda like a mix between deadspace and bioshock. Very awesome.
I think one of the main reasons Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines failed upon initial release is that it was horribly broken and buggy. The opening cinematic showing your 'turning' was out of sync and missing several key animations/effects, and there were game breaking bugs that would corrupt save files, result in endless dialogue loops, etc. It got reasonably good reviews but the average player experience was extremely frustrating. It became a cult hit because underneath all of that was a very good story, excellent voice acting, and interesting game mechanics, and the community worked to patch that game for literally ten years. These days by some magic you can buy a patched version that has the unofficial community patch in it, and isn't really what the game looked like at launch (but it's what Troika wanted it to look like). They usually have it on sale for very cheap, highly recommend it to those who've never played it.
Sunset’s issues might have also been heightened by the poor launch of the XboxOne. Prey has a big backstory behind the game. The original Prey was a fairly early 360 game that was a bit of a cult classic. A sequel was announced and as more information came out it was highly ambitious. It was supposed to come out 3-4 years (maybe even more) before the second Prey finally released but the ambitiousness of the project kept causing problems and delays. They eventually scrapped the game and said they weren’t going to make another. Then almost out of nowhere, probably because of Dishonored success, the IP was handed to Arkane and they fairly quickly released the newest Prey. Which, while great, is pretty different from the original and VERY different from the planned sequel. All of that probably contributed to the lower sales.
I've heard a pretty different story around the development of Prey 2 (I'd suggest watching Civvie11's video about it) there was a lot of backstabbing that went on with that whole situation. Also I'd say Sunset Overdrive's biggest failing is taking a beloved studio that only released on PlayStation for most of their existence and having them make an Xbox exclusive in a time where people were superrrrrrrrr pissed at Xbox for wanting always on DRM physical copy games that are tied to the system they're first played on (so no game sharing or resale) and were pushing really hard for Xbox to be a normie device with lots of casual games and a focus on TV shows and their insistence on making the Connect a required attachment that you have to buy and always have hooked up. People seem to forget what a hot mess Xbox was during the Xbox 1s launch but it was far more than just the lack of exclusives.
Guys don't play hellblaue worst game ever and money trap I've never played a worse game than that SH ittt phone games are better even mafia city is better Bru trust me💀💀💀
10:21 I bought Sunset Overdrive from a local used game shop for $2. Holy hell it is really fun! I love how the world feels and how characters interact with each other. And the amount of fourth-wall breaking is immense. This game needed more love
@@DolphinOfFirethat’s what I did too and after I beat it I gave my little brother the Xbox and the game and he still has never played it just bought Madden instead
Sunset overdrive: Such a gem. i bought the console with the game included. I remember the other option was Fifa or something shitty but boy, am I glad I did. enjoyed it so much.
I did too great game. I loved Vampire and Dark Messiah as well. I have given most of the games in the list a chance and they never really grabbed me I was just trying to get back into Pillars though.
I think Number 9, The Evil Within 2 kind of shows the difficulty with determining actual sales figures when companies have very little incentive to disclose specific digital sales. EW2 looks tot have sold about 1.5M copies on Steam alone, it also sold 43K copies on PS4 in Japan in a few days, being the 3rd best selling game, so it did okay. A comparison is Evil Within 1 was released in 2014 and only 2% of it's sales were digital. The difference between 2014 and 2017 when it comes to digital sales might as well be 100 years.
I enjoyed the Evil Within but the reality is they are not the best. Very Twin Peaks surreal which makes it difficult to explain or understand the story, lots of jumping between timelines and twisted imagined worlds it's hard to know what is going on, confusing even when playing. The game also starts incredibly difficult and forces you into stealthy careful play, which only alleviates after many upgrades and new weapons to your character throughout the game. Finally it's just very brutal and gross out in it's horror, most people prefer a bit more sanitised or action hero feeling. Horror games just don't sell well, Resident Evil is an anomaly.
@@IISuzakuII I have no idea, but given that all their peak traffic was the first two weeks it was released, it looks like most were full retail price, but it's not the point. When the first game was released only 2% of the sales were digital (which is incredibly low even for 2014), when the second was released in 2017, 79% of games sold were digital across the entire industry, so not having sale figures that include digital is just speculation. For example, if 75% of the sales were digital (not a crazy number), those 211K copies sold its first week becomes 844K which matches the original. I'm not arguing that the game was a financial success, just that we don't know how poorly it sold. Given we haven't seen a third game, it fair to surmise that it didn't make much (if any) profit.
Prey is one of my favorite games in the last 10 years. If you like BioShock and Dishonored, it is a must play. It is a combo of those two games in my opinion. Awesome story and setting.
@@noelkelleher9727I’m interested to know too why you didn’t click with it. I found Prey to have some of the greatest level design, World design and atmosphere of any game.
ENSLAVED: Odyssey to The West is legitimately an epic action play former. Awesome art-style, characters and story. I’m shocked to this day that it underperformed.
Gravity Rush was an absolutely beautiful and fun game. so sad that it didn't sell well. Trying to convince friends to try it is harder than pulling teeth.
@@itsdemetri4282 don't think that was problem, since the remaster didn't get much attention either. It's just not a game with an easy to understand concept, and there's nothing else like it to compare to.
Definitely for me the best game that flopped was Lemnis Gate. No game has ever bent my mind more. A turn based, time travel, first person shooter, strategy game, it’s impossible to even describe to people how it works but it is an absolute beauty of a game. I just remember after playing it I would be stuck thinking in the games logic and I wouldn’t think of time as linear in my normal life. I think it’s a game that really helps expand the way you strategize about things in real life. I wish it had gotten enough attention and had a better matchmaking system to make sure you had comparative skill levels in a match but alas it just never was able to get a big enough population for the game to actually stick. It’s just sad that I will probably never have that experience again
I just finished Prey last week. I can't express how amazing this game is. One of the most underrated games of history. I urge everyone who has the chance to play to give it a shot. Such a captivating story, ingenious gameplay, a very deep lore, an amazing setting. and i could go on. Please play this game. Pd: and also is has an amazing, and very unique DLC in Mooncrash
Yes, Prey is a phenomenal game. I wish that it had an even harder setting, though, because even by the end I was a powerhouse. Glad to see it get acknowledged on the list because it's one that nobody plays.
I started playing it but I didn't like the complicated building of things so I stopped playing after 2 hours or so. I still want to try and play it again though
I think you'll find the first Mario + Rabbids sold so well because there were such limited games released on the switch at that time. Now theres just so many amazing titles, it's a tough market
I think Pillars of Eternity 2 and Evil Within 2 were victims of the backlog issue. People had the first game in the franchise and planned to buy the 2nd game after playing the first ones a lot and hopefully completing them. But they didnt get around to playing their predecessor much as there were a lot of good games coming out around that time and purchasing the the 2nd games got postponed until they were kind of forgotten about, or snapped up years later on a 70 percent off sale and joined a growing backlog library.
I loved pillars 2. Over all the pacing and story of poe1 was better. But the gameplay and multi classing of two was perfect. Sad that the next game in the universe is going the Skyrim route.
@@connorkenney6938we don't know what direction it's going. You can make great CRPGs with the first/third person approach, see Morrowind and New Vegas.
Part of the reason why Prey (2017) flopped was that people expected it to be a reboot\ sequel\ remake of Prey (2006), which was a completely different game, so when word got out that Prey was not Prey, a lot of people got disappointed and ignored it.
A lot of people were mad that prey rebooted the original IP of prey when the sequel was set up for the original prey and Bethesda straight up cancelled it for petty reasons
after i wasnt pleased with the release of starfield. i looked into prey. at the time of release i didnt have a gaming rig, now i do. and its too the point i cant run "modern" games. so, its time to start hitting that back catalog.
@@dbspaceoditty Hell there's still big releases from the notable 2017 year I never got around to finishing. So there's no rush to be cutting edge for the newest games I'm not appealed to either when there's so much great backlog content.
Troika is such an underrated dev. They like the king of multiple ending, multiple choices, or multiple gameplay if you ever play their games, you can also tell that they put a lot of effort because voice acting on each of their titles is crazy good
Enslaved was a fantastic game! I never understood how it flopped like that. Especially since there was so much good coverage of it and in later years a game always described as a hidden gem.
You sometimes get games like that. Star Control 2 was not a success on release but was a slow-burn throughout the 1990s (even as PCs got gud). Then it got released for, um, free. And now every gen-xer has played the thing by now.
Yeah but like always, the company only cared about how much profit they made, not the impact the game actually had. They could have had one of the greatest series of all time in my opinion. To this day I look back on the story, the characters, and even the gameplay and I actually miss it.@@succatash
First half good. Ending good. The middle is terrible, Piggsy is a terrible character, a hideous pervert we're supposed to like "because he kinda looks and behave like a typical loved character" but the guy's character design is very bad and his behaviour is cringe as hell, he's almost an hentai character who suddenly drops into the game - also, since he appears, the game environments becomes made of junk and grey / ugly green areas mostly...the charm is mostly gone for a good half of the game. I thought previous Heavenly Sword and later DmC were not perfect but much, much, much more solid than Odyssey to the West, which was half likeable, half "meh / cringe / ugly / boring / souless".
@@spaldini Even a colourful zombie shooter would be great, its one of those games where even the free roam, you could go all out with the shooting w/ unique guns and movement mechanics while Free Bird is playing in the background
Great stuff as always. I loved System Shock 2 but, like Prey and others, I just don't have the time anymore to really bury myself into a long deep game. I think that may be why the games that are easier to jump in quickly are doing better. I could be wrong. I'm dumb.
Evil Within 2's first perhaps 1/3 of the game is some of the best horror I've played in a very long time. The open world town area where, exploring it and actually being scared for your life due to strong monsters and jump scares. The game sadly gets far more narrow, but its far superior to the first game and argually one of the best horror games over the past 10 years.
Gravity Rush 2 was pretty good. I loved flying to other islands. I think it was just a bit too open, lacking a little direction and a slightly limited scope story - but really cool to play for a while. The perfect game for a demo, to let people taste it’s coolness.
I freaking love Enslaved, such a gem. Glad it made the cut, and I hope it inspires people to play it. But you should consider adding Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, which is another diamond in the rough. Beyond being a great game (which was critically reviewed very highly), it also only sold 600K units, which was largely the doing of EA because they did nothing to market it. Last, the Oddworld Inhabitants (studio) closed shortly after, which is pretty easy to pin on EA as well.
I really enjoyed both of the Evil Within games and like that they made the sequel different from the first with the mini-open world elements. Outside of that, Enslaved and Heavenly Sword are two games that were criminally overlooked and deserved a sequel. Also, and I think I'm alone in this, but WET merits a mention too.
I wish Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope sold better because it is a worthy follow up to the first game. Ubisoft and Nintendo have proven that they are great creative partners and I’d love to see another project from them again in the future.
All 3 Dishonoured are some of my most played single player game of all time and I consider them (especially the 1st and 2nd) to be masterpieces. I played Prey, had some fun early, until it started fueling my nightmares and couldn't play anymore. Surprised it didn't sell much with how the quality of the game was actually pretty good.
When talking about Deadfire vs. Kingmaker/Original Sin 2, the biggest issue to me was that Deadfire was real-time on launch while the other two were either turn-based or had that as an option. They eventually implemented it, but it was worse than Kingmakers dual mode system. As you had to choose Turn-based or real-time at the beginning of Deadfire (locking it in) rather than switching between the two on the fly like Kingmaker.
I LOVE the evil within 2! Exploring the small town was so fun. I go through it every now and then and just love exploring. Also, enslaved is an all time favorite of mine. The voice acting is top notch. Zooming in when monkey crashes through the last enemy is still so cool.
I was gonna say, I feel like that had to be a big reason it didn't do well. It's 100% my kind of game but I wasn't aware of it until well after its release when a coworker of mine gave me his copy after he was finished. And this was back when I paid way more attention to gaming news and upcoming releases, actively seeking out the information because I had more time for gaming.
I still playthrough Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines every couple of years. It's an amazing game with a lot of jank like you said, but that jank is defiantly apart of the charm of the game. Speaking of things you've said, now that you mentioned Bloodlines I'm going to have to reinstall it again.
Happy to see Pillars of Eternity 2 on the list. It really is one of my favorite games. I didn't get into Pathfinder, but Pillars 1 and Deadfire totally grabbed my attention for a few hundred hours over several runs.
SAME i couldnt get through pathfinder, i just kind of stopped caring about the characters and the combat was difficult for me to track everything going on at once deadfire i've finished i think 3 times and i still go back to play every once in a while
Interesting thing about the developers, they Pillars 2 was put on that one crowd funding site that you could also buy shares in games rather then just give them money. Since Pillar 2 never made a profit people who owned shares lost money but the developers decided to give shareholders a cut of the DLC money even though they were only obligated to give a portion of the base game sales.
i actually find it abhorrent that pillars 2 lost money, it was so well done, if someone handcuffed me to a table and said "play any crpg other than baldur's gate 3" i'd pick pillars 2 hands down honestly its the only other crpg other than bg3 that has full voiceovers (cant count disco elysium because its not a traditional crpg but damn is that a good game too) that i know of@@zer0_cool
The Pillars of Eternity series is one of my favorites! Those were my first isometric RPGs and I still love them. Looking forward to seeing what they do with Avowed!
As someone who ranks both Pillars of Eternity games amongst their favorites, I can see how Pillars 2 didnt do so well, being that it isn't as easy to jump into narratively due to it being a direct sequel to a game that had very dense lore to begin with. Crpgs can be the sort of genre that a lot of people pick up out of interest, but sees a lot of retired playthroughs and I think that rings very true for that series.
The biggest example is final fantasy 9. That was a failure that only sold half the copies of FF7/8 and the reason for it was because it launched so late in the PS-1's lifecycle that it was directly competing with the play-station 2 and final fantasy 10. I only played 9 by dumb luck because i spent all my money on my ps2 and could only afford ps1 games in the bargain bin of my store. Spending 10$ on a new stilled sealed case of ff9 was literally the best 10$ I have ever spent in my entire life. Its the best final fantasy game in the entire series. Perfect storytelling, character development, art style and music. Its what final fantasy was originally supposed to be according to the creators and if you only play one Sqaresoft game that's the one you play.
Blur and Split second were some of the most unique and creative racing games ever made. Its a damn shame that titles like those won't ever be made, because of the evolving market.
Bethesda really did Prey Dirty. Both the original and the one by Arcane. The original Prey was released in 2006, was a big success commercially, rave reviews, fans were clamouring for a sequel. Bethesda bought the rights to the IP and just kinda sat on it. When Arcane came along with a great looking game in development Bethesda said, "You have to use the name "Prey"." When this new Prey was announced and had nothing to do with the original, it immediately made a lot of gamers furious.
So my theory on Mario Rabbids is back when the first one came out there were like 3 decent switch games BotW Rabbids and Bomberman. People were looking for a game to pick up for the new console and they bought it because it was the first Mario game on the console. The second game which i own and agree is a very good game came out in a time where a lot of other good titles also came out and had been out.
True, but I still agree with gameranx's take on it. I played it, I liked the gameplay (the humor and storytelling not so much), but I didn't need a sequel. Or clearly not this soon.
Sunset overdrive is seriously such a good game. It's the one on this list that I really wish there was a sequel for. They could have made it even more wild with a second one.
Split/Second is my favorite racing game. It only sold 86k in the 1st 12 days according to google. On ur 1st playthrough of the campaign, every race is an intense and epic experience. The Map Change Events were the most genious idea i have have ever seen in a racing game! One second ur in a normal race, and the next u have building collapsing around u. The adrenalline u get from barely out running the map change is unparraleled to any other racing game. And then for the rest of the the laps, u have to take the new path as the old one is destroyed. When u move to Online play, and learn the maps there is no better feeling than a perfectly timed bomb drop or map change that wipes out half the opponents while u take the lead. Or make a crane lift a path someone is heading down, causing them to fall into the water as u make a sharp turn and take the other path. Or in the same path, have the crane lift the path AS u get to the platform, prevent the opponent riding ur tail to fall as u make it safely to the other side. The control u had over the map in this game was crazy! and this was back in 2010. Imagine what could be done with the current development technology! I just think the game released ahead of its time. ppl were more into slow RPGs back then. Now-a-days with everyone looking for the next dopamine hit, a Remake or sequal would probably sell extrememly well. But it was made by a Disney developer, so I doubt we will ever see a Remake or sequal with Disney only caring about established IPs.
I really enjoyed Sunset Overdrive. It came free with my X1. They had a lot of little hidden puzzles that lead you to an actual real life game, but I missed it due to it being shit down by the time I played. Seemed like a fun idea reminiscent of some GTA easter eggs where some numbers or websites in-game were real
I'll die on the hill that Prey is an absolute masterpiece. I'll never forget my first playthrough. Still 1000% holds up today if anyone hasnt experienced it and it's even free on gamepass.
Loved Prey, it is so weird that some of the best games just do do well. Majority of the games I play when I tell my friends about them, they never heard of. Prey, Pathologic 2 and Dragons Dogma are mong some of my favourite games of the 2000s+
I didn't know that Sunset Overdrive sold that few overall, I loved the gameplay and the humor and was really bummed xbox chose not to do anything more with it. Thanks again for the vid guys, great commentary as usual Falcon. ✌️
Sadly, seems like Playstation doesn't want anything to do with it either. Personally I wish they would do another one instead of just making superhero games.
Well tbf the reason why we didn't get any Sunset Overdrive sequel is because Sony acquired Insomniac. Though they did publish the game, Microsoft never owned the rights to the Sunset Overdrive IP, Insomniac owned it themselves. Prior to being acquired by Sony, Insomniac did say that they wanted to make a Sunset Overdrive sequel after doing Spiderman, but the acquisition basically killed any chance of that happening. If Sunset Overdrive ever does come back, it's because Sony would have to greenlit since they own the IP now.
So weird seeing System Shock 2 and bloodlines on this list. They both had instrumental mechanics that pushed forward shooting rpgs to what we have today. System shock man. My childhood was trying to get a navy man to the end with hacking and door slicing. Bloodlines introduced multiple ways to finish quests whether through dialogue or skills or just murder hobos until your attacked by slayers These games literally redefined a whole genre from doom, quake, duke nukem and brought us into stealth based shooter rpgs.
10. “Blur” 0:24
9. “Evil Within 2” 1:46
8. “Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle” 3:29
7. “Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire” 5:55
6. “Enslaved: Odyssey to the West” 7:16
5. “Gravity Rush 2” 8:47
4. “Sunset Overdrive” 10:15
3. “Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines” 12:24
2. “The Wonderful 101” 13:47
1. “Prey” 16:00
Bonus:
“Earthbound” 18:09
“Conker’s Bad Fur Day” 18:38
“System Shock 2” 19:10
This deserves a pin and it’s pretty much a guarantee that it won’t. Gods work
Gameranx: "Hey! HEEYYYYYY!!!"
Thanks. I wish Gameranx would do this themselves. It's just lazy. Or stupid. Either way, it sucks. Thanks for doing it on their behalf!
We need more of this on this guys channel.
@@GuruCubeI think it has to do with them being able to make more money off their content without including timestamps. Time watched is more profitable than numbers of subscribers. And without timestamps people tend to wachthe whole video. Just my 2 cents. Love most of their content regardless✌
A 10 bad games that still sold would be funny. Top notch content as usual Gameranx.
So all 10 games would be Madden, lol
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But they have to have a rule of only one sports game and only one Call of Duty, otherwise they'd make up the whole list.
I like this idea.
Elden Ring
I spoke to a Vampire: The Masquerade Dev a couple of years ago and he kind of felt that Activision screwed them on the game. The reason the game was released in such a buggy, clearly unfinished state was that Activision wanted to release it at the same time as Half-Life 2 so they could publicise that it also ran on the Source engine (which was also part of the problem)
Then when the game flopped they turned around and said "What did you expect? It released the same day as Half-Life 2".
Also for Vampire: The Masquerades free battle royale flopped because of the insane bugs like your gun not shooting or reloading and they kept it in the game without patches for weeks, killed their entire 30,000 steam players/ 80k+ psn player count. And then they were hiring ambassadors on twitch to showcase the game and got into some racial controversy with the main developer of the Bloodhunt Battle Royale, game is barely holding on today , couldve been the next biggest battle royale
@@sosuslaysthere's no shot in hell it would have been the next biggest battle Royale, mass multiplayer games is not a good last ditch investment
@@nonpondo_ the game had mad potential, had apex type movement but better and more fluid, shooting mechanics were nice when they worked, the graphics were sick too, and the mix of powers with gunplay made it a dope game, i think it definitely had potential to be big just how Naraka is now, but that wave done passed now
And then everyone clapped
One of the best games I've ever played.
Sunset Overdrive looked incredibly unique for it's time IMO. It was 2014, not 2018, and Sunset Overdrive clearly set itself apart stylistically and gameplay-wise. Still one of my favorite games.
This. Hes commentary didn't make any sense 😂
apperantyl a sequel may be in works. im hyped ngl
@@Kreezyouttahere I'd love it but I can't see Sony using that IP. They can't publish the original without Microsoft's approval, and Microsoft can't make a sequel without Sony's approval because insomniac owns the IP. It's in a very weird limbo, plus you gotta think Insomniac is on to Spider-Man 3, and there second team in on Wolverine.
in a recent interview, the director said the concept in defo in the talking but not official yet, so hope it doesn't get scrapped. also in 2021, sony bought the trademarks for it.@@jddarroch
I really was hoping for a sequel. Well, guess that hope is dead. If Sony isn't doing anything with the IP, they might aswell just sell it to Xbox or something.
Prey is one of my top 5 games of all time. That game is a masterpiece. It does take a little bit to get into it but once the game flips everything upside down on you the game grabs you and pulls you in and doesn’t let go. Great story, great environments, tense gameplay - I’m very surprised Prey didn’t sell more. It’s an amazing game that more people should play and if you haven’t played it yet you’re totally missing out.
Prey, in my opinion, was a love letter to System Shock 2. If you have ever played it and then played Prey you can see a lot of the same beats in environmental storytelling. I loved Prey and the only reason I haven't played it as much as SS2 is because SS2 has been out for 20 more years.
Definitely a one off unique title
I loved it
The beginning is excellent
Same. It's one of VERY few games I go back and replay every few years.
Prey is one of the most over-appreciated games I’ve ever played personally. I think its story is pretty flat, its world is fairly boring, the enemies are unimaginative for the genre, and the combat is stiff.
Preach brother
Enslaved is actually one of my favorite games of all time. The nostalgia I got just watching that 1 minute of gameplay almost made me want to shed a tear.
Pp
I've never even heard of it but seeing that small bit in this video has me interested.
yeah I count it in as one of my favourite games as well
it didn't have anything extraordinary (which is probably the cause for it not being noticed)
it was simply well made game with interesting setting and story
in games and movies, there are some that make you go WOW and years later you remember that there was something like that but you don't feel like watching/playing it again (you are already accustomed to this WOW effect) and there are some that you really enjoyed but you don't really remember why and nostalgia hits hardest with these ones
It was the best love of that game and that’s why I didn’t mind the devil may cry reboot I enjoyed that as well
Always love randomly seeing you in comments
I can't express how important "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" is to me. Such incredible environments, great character development, and fantastic sound design. I adore that game so much.
i love it so much. always wished they gave it another chance
I'm right with you
IMHO it also showcases Ninja's skill in developing characters (that they've perfected with Senua). I think a lot of people also missed on Odyssey, because they thought they would be getting another Marcus Fenix, who snuffs testosterone for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While in reality the relation between Monkey and Trip is really quite an interesting one
@@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulmlike brother and sister
Stayyyy underdog
Dishonored 2 is INSANE with how much detail is in the world and how polished it is. Prey too.
I didn’t even realize Prey 2017 flopped. Sad to hear, such a phenomenal game.
I certainly didn't think it was a failure.
I knew it failed , so few people know about it.
Which makes you think what kind of games 95% of the gamers play.
Repetitive reskin shooters, you make the right one, then you can milk your base forever.
Same goes for football games. If there is one small change, they will still gladly buy it.
Most people are not able to appreciate unique games.
Sad.
no no, it was trash
It's one of my all time favourite games. I loved all the exploration, overall mood and the looting/recycling mechanic really worked for me.
Yeah the gaming world is definitely filled with a lot of hidden gems nowadays and sadly good games don't get as much marketing because of lack of resources
We’re still not taking video games seriously as an art form.
Even with marketing and resources some games just really suck 😅
Meanwhile the biggest companies will put out a half baked turd and everyone still buys it so they still succeed
its more of gamers fault rather than marketing, time and time again people just buy the same old shit
True, but also sometimes an ultra-deep, hardcore and old-school game like Baldur's Gate 3 get huge and even take over the mainstream. It's really hard to predict (ie impossible).
Enslaved was such a great game. I don't know why I remember it so clearly. I can imagine the map and a lot of situations like if I was playing it now but it has been over 10 years and I only played it once. Few games have been so memorable to me
replayed it recently and it still holds up pretty well, would recommend a try :)
I can still vividly remember the guard being killed by the crown burning through his head, and just gliding on water with the digital nimbus cloud
@@SirStrugglesAlotthat water chapter on the bridge was so beautiful and one of the most fun
i remember it being awkward when parents walked in because the characters were rendered to look like porn stars, and every cut scene was needlessly centred on their bare chests
The Evil Within 2 was definitely not advertised as heavily as the first one was from memory. I'm pretty sure I didn't know about it until it had already been out for a month. Also slight correction. Sunset Overdrive released in 2014, which was a very opportunistic year for that type of game and was heavily used in Xbox's marketing.
Sunset Overdrive is literally my top fav game ever. This game is amazing in every aspect. Pure fun, in terms of gameplay and music it totally slaps
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If Sunset Overdrive had come out during the game pass era. It would've been Xbox's new hit IP.
Big agree, it's hard to find more games to scratch that parkour and gunning itch that feels satsfying
Probably Titanfall, but Sunset Overdrive will forever have a special part in my heart!
@@route77productions Agree, if Sunset Overdrive came out today it would have done better.
yeah it's a pity that i literally can't get past the title screen on pc bcs of some bug
Gravity Rush was one of my all-time favourite games series. Such a beautiful and artistic game with wonderful storytelling and world building.
Gravity Rush 2 was dope. Loved the flying through the cities. And it was the only time ever I almost got banned from PSN because I uploaded an in-game screenshot via the games feature with upskirt content...😂
Can you play it without the move controller?
@@juliandelapena4293 it was never a move controller game. It dualshock 4
@@invaderIRK1 oh cool, I’m hoping I can play it on Pc one day.
@@juliandelapena4293 highly recommend it. Is it not available on steam? If not, probably worth grabbing a second hand Ps4, they are usually super cheap now and that way you dont have to wait
Words cant explain how much nostalgia I felt when blur was the first one. I loved that game so much as a kid and I would always play it with my friends
Split second came out around the same time. Another awesome arcade style racing game. I only had the money for one game and I chose split second. I wish I could have bought both🥲
me too bro
saame, so muce fun, even though i sucked lmao
I was 40 when it came out. It was one of my favorite race games ever. Everyone that I had played it with loved it too. It was always such a shame that they never had a sequel
Same! Me and my best friend Played hours...
Prey is easily in my top 5 favorite games of all time, too bad that because it flopped we may never see an actual sequel to the game. I really love Prey, and I hope it gets more love. If you can pick it on a sale, I recommend it, it gets really cheap, is a no brainer.
This was awesome
Prey is a masterpiece title and I will never forget the atmosphere and sense of being alone. I wish I could re experience it for the first time.
This. Easily in the Top 3 most underappreciated games ever. And now Arkane fell apart due to Redfall and we'll never have Prey 2.
I never could get into this game. For some reason it bored me and I never revisited it.
Bought it many years ago I started it but haven’t finished it yet I’ll go back to it
I used to work in a target electronics dept for years and I can tell you when it comes to the first Mario and rabbids games success came down to the fact that it was often on sale for $15-20 and parents/grandparents not knowing it's not a traditional mario game bought it up for their kids instead of mario odyssey that was always at $60 and never on sale. To them it's a $20 mario game or a $60 mario game, which are you going to get?
I was going to say I spent $7.99 on the thing.
Yeah understandable. It’s probably even the biggest reason for its sales but it’s still a good game. Same with its sequel. They’re solid strategy games with interesting hooks that also work as great entries into the infamously complicated genre as it doesn’t overwhelm the player
I totally agree. To add to that it came out when there wasn't a true Mario game for the Switch, and early in the life of the Switch at that; you just didn't have a whole lot of options for games yet.
60 when your kid tells you you bought the shitty one
@@OhNoTheFaceit’s not bad lol it’s a good game it’s just not a platformer
I'm 56 years old and can honestly say I've been a gamer since I was about 10 with the very first arcade games. I've never stopped playing so I've seen a lot from the first home computers and consoles to VR.
Enslaved is one of the most memorable games i have played in my life across all platforms and genres. the evolving story and relationship between monkey and Tripp, is so involving. the voice acting is so on point and the story Arc gripping. I think it was ahead of its time. as a teen I LOVED the crazy Japanese TV show Monkey Magic, so was already versed in the legend of the monkey King. although the show and the game bear little resemblance.
a crying shame it didn't get a sequel, would have been an instant buy for me. If there's a game that needs a high quality reboot, it's Enslaved. I think the scene is ripe for it, got to be a sure thing if it's done as thoughtfully and thoroughly as the original was.
For me it is the best game by Ninja Theory by far, so much better than Hellblade. I would exchange Hellblade 2 for a sequel of Enslaved in a heartbeat.
It is an awesome game and still looks gorgeus on a Series X, one of the few games I replay over and over along the years
@@vsanz4758hellblade is more of an experience. It was awesome. But I agree I would rather an enslaved 2
@@buddah1978egypt yeah, Hellblade is amazing!! I played it in VR and the simulation of mental illness is incredibly spooky. Superb game
@@vsanz4758 i am overdue for a replay. I completed it when it came out as I just couldn't stop playing it, I had to let the story unfold.
Completely agree. Enslaved still sticks with me as one of the most memorable and genuinely enthralling games I've ever played. I actually genuinely felt emotional growth between Monkey and Tripp.
The modding community has done wonders with Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines, adding missing content and a host of quality of life improvements, among other things, realising a lot of the potential. Also Prey was great, such a shame to hear it flopped, got it on special on Steam a while back and played the heck out of it, fantastic premise and very cerebral to boot!
Whoaaa modded sounds cool af. Wish I had a time machine.
One of my favorite games vanilla even
The 3d movement out in space and zero g sequences really took the fun out of it for me. Mostly loved it though.
I always though Prey flopped because the original planned premise for Prey 2 was gonna be an open world space bounty hunter type and instead it came out like it was
When i first played Prey, it dident catch my attention. only played it for a couple of hours. 3-4 years later i decided to give it another try, and boy im glad that i did. it really is an awsome game
I own it but I haven't gotten around to play it yet
I’m really surprised Kingdom’s of Amalur wasn’t on this list. Not only was it an amazing game but the behind the scenes stuff with the studio that made it is so weird.
Agree
Enslaved is probably one of my favorite video games ever. I play it every few years and it is so sad that not many people have had the fortune to play it. Definitely, worth your time
Blur was a fantastic game. I worked in retail at the time and if I remember rightly it released certainly in the UK within weeks of another great racing game called Split/Second. This was a similar arcade racer where you could use the environment to give you an advantage. At the end of the day there's only so much money to spend on games so customers ultimately had to choose one or the other.
Split/Second Velocity was also a really fun arcade racer. It also didn't perform well enough for a sequel, which is a shame for both games really
I agree blur was brilliant !
My friends and I always joke that the Beta was so good that it made none of us want to spend money on the game. 8 of us got on every night for 2-4 weeks and played the open beta for Blur. It had 4 tracks, all the cars, full online match making. By the time it was time to buy it, we were kinda over it. We mention blur still to this day about how fun it used to be..wish we could go back and play it again
Split/Second was so good
@@ianbonaparte5683 well you still can on lan
Prey is so underappreciated. It has such an interesting story and mechanics especially the ability to explore that empty outer space part. I hope people give it a chance. I'm just so glad this channel mentioned it a few times.
Agreed. I recently played it for the first time and it’s now my favorite immersive sim and in my top 10 games of all-time.
In all fairness the game feels kinda dead and dry. I bought it some time ago and it has been constant cycle of installing and reinstalling as I try to get my money worth only to end up doing something else as I get bored of it.
I have played all the other arkane games not counting the last piece of trash and Prey stands out in its lifeless atmosphere.
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It’s an ok enough game. My big issue is how Bethesda came around to getting the ip is quite frankly disgusting
One of my favorite games.
Enslaved was one of my favorite games when it came out. Such a fun adventure and I really loved the characters and the futuristic take on an age old allegory. Prey is definitely on my list of games to play but I feel for Arkane who begged to name it something else, but I feel like it’s assumed relation to the 2006 game of the same title is why it flopped. Prey (2006) WAS a heavy action FPS and, while they were both sci-fi, functioned nothing like Arkane’s vision for their project.
Awesome list as always, love the perspective and context you give for gaming history!
For me it will always be Sleeping Dogs. Might have done better than most games on the list but underrated and deserves a sequel
True.
I loved Enslaved, loved the world, characters and the story. I've played it a few times and always wanted a sequel, gutted it was cancelled
Totally agree. Was a great game.
Also agree, I love that game.
I played it on the 360 with my Uncle back in the day. Man I rly loved playing that but forgot about it till now. sad it got gutted
Ah I see some fellow men of culture, enslaved is a great game, glad I have a copy cause now I'm gonna do another playthrough
I've replayed very few games over and this was one of them. It was just so satisfying.
As someone who absolutely loved my time with both The Evil Within and The Evil Within 2, I'll always be saddened by just how little recognition Shinji Mikami got from making such fantastic horror titles! Classic RE4 definitely had a lot of influences for these games (obviously basing on its main creative lead/head alone)... and even the remake of RE4 honestly takes a whole lotta cues from the mechanics in The Evil Within games. And not saying that's a bad thing at all. I just wish more people could have seen the potential of The Evil Within as another survival horror franchise worthy of competing alongside the likes of Resident Evil. Part of me feels like both games came out before this current era where people are just so thirsty for survival horror games that actually have mechanical depth and challenging difficulty.
Didn't play Evil Within 2 but personally don't feel Evil Within 1 stood up well compared to Mikami's earlier works.
I’ll never understand the “negative” reviews. The first one had some of the scariest moments in a game I remember ever and the second one just like gameranx said is just a huge improvement besides more scary like they’re both amazing!
The Evil Within 1 and 2 are in my opinion some of the best survival horror games ever made,..The first one especially,. Easily on my top ten game list.Trily insane how they were somewhat overlooked when they are as good if not better then the resident evil games
I think its because re7 and tew2 both came out in the same year which people got captivated alot by compared to tew2 since re7 took a new turn by not just returning the series bwck to its horror roots but changing the formula for a new by bringing into first person whereas tew2 just solely improves on just the general mechanics of the first game to make it match the time aesthetics.
Overall, both games were and still are amazing standards in the horror genre and i do agree with the fact that tew2 is a brilliant sequel despite under selling, i do wish it was more well known and i also wish tango games comes together with an idea for a 3rd game.
Two of the best and two of my favorite survival horror games. I truly don't understand how they didn't sell more. The way the second one evolved the mechanics and made it slightly open world but still scary is such an achievement. The match mechanic on whether to burn enemies or not was such an awesome and tense loop! The story and bosses were also so memorable! I can't praise them enough.
Prey is honest one of my all time favorite games, I recommend it to anyone who I think might me interested bc it deserves the love.
Blur was a great game. A lot of my friends played it back in the day. If microsoft gets Activision, I hope they think of bringing it back. Had potential
I think its just too niche. I love racing games but the idea of a real car mario kart never appealed to me. I think that happened with alot of people with that game
The demo was multiplayer I remember destroying people. I played it nonstop.
@anubisfox5765 na I do get that. I love Mario Kart. Blur had it similarities and the same type of game play, but the speed of blur felt very intense. so the moment to moment game play felt different.
I still remember the commercial. They shit on Mario Kart
I still play it from time to time
Gravity Rush 2 was such a big upgrade from the first installment it blew me away! The setting, all of the explorable areas and collectibles you could find by shifting gravity accompanied by the beautiful soundtrack and amazing cell shaded graphics all made for a very nostalgic feeling game but one that stood out on its own as a force to be reckoned with… or so I thought :(
Really hope by some divine powers we’ll get a sequel someday.
I remember I got Gravity Rush 1 when it was a free game back when Vita was pretty young. There wasn't anything specifically stand out on Vita yet and I wasn't in the mood to play the playstation games I already owned from PS3. So I decided to go "Why not? Its not costing me money," and I remember getting so engrossed in it and was upset that it was over so quickly because I wanted MOAR. I was stunned that it was getting a sequel though I admit I haven't gotten around to playing it just yet despite it sitting in my library forever but it is a heartbreak it didn't sell well.
I didn't even know the game existed until this video but i'll be grabbing it this weekend
Gravity Rush 2 was amazing. Overall, its an open world game that stands on its own and there really is no other game to compare it to. The gravity power is unique. The world setting was unique(at the time). The story was unique(at the time too) and the soundtrack was awesome. And the combat was great even to today's standards.
I just think that releasing it on playstation and locking it to the console was the only reason why it didn't do well. They didn't promote it much and when they did, it was mostly about the ability to use the Vita and playstation's motion controls which was not actually needed to play and it was much easier without it. So they screwed the game over by focusing on self-promoting Playstation features instead of the game itself.
@@JupiterxBlues Thanks this sounds awesome abd I'm super excited to check it out! Yeah I'm pretty heavy into gaming news and I'm kind of stunned such a gorgeous looking game with such a novel concept slipped under my radar. I love weird games , Visually it looks great, I love novel control schemes for all intents and purposes a game like this is made for someone like me but I had no clue it was out there. Definitely sounds like a botched marketing job and unfortunate because it looks super captivating.
@@mariopot789 well the interesting thing is that the control scheme isnt that novel. It just works and the movement in the game is great! Other games you can easily get stuck on a pebble on the ground or some slightly uneven floor stopping you instantly on your tracks and breaks your immersion but in GR you rarely get that. The movement is pretty clean and "fluid". At first, the gravity power controls throws you off but you get used to it quickly and pretty soon your soaring across the world and finding hidden side story missions.
It took me awhile to get to it, but I literally just finished playing Prey last night, and couldn't believe how good it was and that I waited so long to play it. I was shocked to see it here on this list.
My dude Evil Within 2 was terrifying with the hauntings. Much scarier than the first one.
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Blur was such an incredible game. It had some balancing issues but the gameplay and visuals were phenomenal. There's never been anything quite like it. I still dip back into it every now and then. I wish it had gotten a sequel.
There are so many good games on this list: Sunset Overdrive, Blur, Gravity Rush and Enslaved were so great! Maybe Kameo and Titanfall 2 would fit this list as well, but I'm not sure how they sold exactly...
Enslaved is SO underrated in my opinion. That’s always my go to when someone wants an older game that they may have never heard of.
I absolutely loved Sunset Overdrive. Probably one of my all-time favourites. So unique, so fast-paced, colourful and fun
It would be interesting to see a deep dive into Immersive Sims. The good, the bad, and the disconnect between reviewers and sales
I finished Enslaved: Odyssey to the west in like a day back in high school & totally forgot about how good & unique of a game it was until my brother brought it up again years later. There was definitely potential to build on its story.
I played Gravity Rush 2 early this year and still one of the most memorable game I've played, the world is unlike I've experienced, and the thrill of manipulating gravity is captured so well by the developers, such a shame that the game hasnt got the attention it deserves, gotta be in my top ten favorite game of all time.
I have the platinum trophy in both games. I liked the first game more than the second one, but they both are definetly among my favourite games, such a shame that they don't get the recognision they deserve and that we almost certainly will not get a third game
Yes, Gravity Rush was so good, I remembered it playing on PS Vita, but I didnt even know the existance of the 2nd one... Marketing I guess
@@giftbox-e Yes its a mix or marketing and other reasons in my opinion, the game is never on sale unlike other Playstation exclusive, u either have to pay full price or subscribe to PS plus which I did, and u have to scroll way down the list to see the game.
The other thing is, the art style isnt as flashy as other contemporary games, its not too anime and not too western either, this is personally my thought when I first boot up the game, I thought the characters dont look as good. But that was my mistake, because this distinct artstyle really gives the worldbuilding a fresh perspective, I got so immersed in it and all the characters end up really likable especially the main heroine.
I had never even heard of it, think I picked it up on sale or something, but super glad I did. Really fun game
Phenomenal gem of a game
In regards to Pillars of Eternity 2, I think the market was just oversaturated with crpg's by the time it came out.There were just too many options all at once. I know when it was announced I was playing Divinity, had pathfinder on my wishlist, and had the first PoE still to play.
And I feel proud that I am one of the 72,000 people who bought Bloodlines when it released. I remember getting out of Santa Monica and just arriving at the Sabbat ambush downtown where Nines saves you when I read Troika had gone bankrupt. I was quite confused, as the game had just come out, lol.
Gravity Rush 2 was so good! I loved that game. "Flying" by falling everywhere, and the different areas all looked great. It was a really game to explore for the hidden goodies in. I also have to back up the System Shock 2 shout out. A friend of mine turned me onto that game back in the 90s, and man, was it ever excellent. I'm really hoping it get a proper remake/remaster treatment.
Prey was SO good. The Mooncrash DLC was just as good as the campaign. It was more like a separate game entirely. They used the same general mechanics, but turned it into a roguelite.
A roguelite you say? I never got it because something felt dead about the main game to me... but I do love me a roguelite lol
Yup. Look it up. It was fantastic
Prey was outstanding
The only reason why i havent played prey more than couple of hours, is the lack of guns and that the ones in the game feel terrible to use. Like where's the assault rifle and smg? The whole simulation aspect of the story feels like a cop out too which i really dont like.
@insector2093 Why would a bunch of scientists on a space station have military-grade weaponry?
Prey is seriously one of the best games ever, imagine how different Arkane's trajectory would have been if Prey had been a huge hit
Prey is really one of the best games I ever played.
Prey was a really weak game that never deserved more attention. It was overrated by its handful of fans and properly rate by the rest of the gaming community. It was never a great game or a decent immersive sim.
Prey was Arkanes masterpiece.
Prey started off as a 10/10 game, it was EXCELLENT in those first few hours. Later it was still very good, but the last 30%/40% were really, really bad. So overall it's an OK game.
Just wish they were able ton polish it a bit more and all of the power upgrades had meaning. It was a challenging tense game though. Kinda like a mix between deadspace and bioshock. Very awesome.
I think one of the main reasons Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines failed upon initial release is that it was horribly broken and buggy. The opening cinematic showing your 'turning' was out of sync and missing several key animations/effects, and there were game breaking bugs that would corrupt save files, result in endless dialogue loops, etc. It got reasonably good reviews but the average player experience was extremely frustrating.
It became a cult hit because underneath all of that was a very good story, excellent voice acting, and interesting game mechanics, and the community worked to patch that game for literally ten years. These days by some magic you can buy a patched version that has the unofficial community patch in it, and isn't really what the game looked like at launch (but it's what Troika wanted it to look like). They usually have it on sale for very cheap, highly recommend it to those who've never played it.
Sunset’s issues might have also been heightened by the poor launch of the XboxOne. Prey has a big backstory behind the game. The original Prey was a fairly early 360 game that was a bit of a cult classic. A sequel was announced and as more information came out it was highly ambitious. It was supposed to come out 3-4 years (maybe even more) before the second Prey finally released but the ambitiousness of the project kept causing problems and delays. They eventually scrapped the game and said they weren’t going to make another. Then almost out of nowhere, probably because of Dishonored success, the IP was handed to Arkane and they fairly quickly released the newest Prey. Which, while great, is pretty different from the original and VERY different from the planned sequel. All of that probably contributed to the lower sales.
I've heard a pretty different story around the development of Prey 2 (I'd suggest watching Civvie11's video about it) there was a lot of backstabbing that went on with that whole situation.
Also I'd say Sunset Overdrive's biggest failing is taking a beloved studio that only released on PlayStation for most of their existence and having them make an Xbox exclusive in a time where people were superrrrrrrrr pissed at Xbox for wanting always on DRM physical copy games that are tied to the system they're first played on (so no game sharing or resale) and were pushing really hard for Xbox to be a normie device with lots of casual games and a focus on TV shows and their insistence on making the Connect a required attachment that you have to buy and always have hooked up.
People seem to forget what a hot mess Xbox was during the Xbox 1s launch but it was far more than just the lack of exclusives.
Guys don't play hellblaue worst game ever and money trap I've never played a worse game than that SH ittt phone games are better even mafia city is better Bru trust me💀💀💀
10:21 I bought Sunset Overdrive from a local used game shop for $2. Holy hell it is really fun! I love how the world feels and how characters interact with each other. And the amount of fourth-wall breaking is immense. This game needed more love
I bought and refunded sunset overdrive at 50% off and found it mind-numbingly boring to play. Just so extremely boring.
@@Djeveldyrker Same. Sunset Overdrive is a master class in bad writing and hopelessly uninspired gameplay.
I bought an Xbox on sale on black Friday just to play sunset over drive and forza. Ended up play sunset overdrive more than forza unil I beat it 😂
@@DolphinOfFirethat’s what I did too and after I beat it I gave my little brother the Xbox and the game and he still has never played it just bought Madden instead
@@housetraitor4806 😂😂😂
Playing Prey right now and absolutely loving it. I have no idea how it slipped under my radar. Some of the best level design ive ever played
Sunset overdrive: Such a gem. i bought the console with the game included. I remember the other option was Fifa or something shitty but boy, am I glad I did. enjoyed it so much.
Absolutely LOVED Enslaved! I think the Horizon series may've taken a bit of inspiration from that game.
I did too great game. I loved Vampire and Dark Messiah as well. I have given most of the games in the list a chance and they never really grabbed me I was just trying to get back into Pillars though.
Actually Horizon was postponed because Guerilla was worried that it was too similar a premise. Thank God, cuz PS3 wouldn't have done Horizon justice.
I think Number 9, The Evil Within 2 kind of shows the difficulty with determining actual sales figures when companies have very little incentive to disclose specific digital sales. EW2 looks tot have sold about 1.5M copies on Steam alone, it also sold 43K copies on PS4 in Japan in a few days, being the 3rd best selling game, so it did okay. A comparison is Evil Within 1 was released in 2014 and only 2% of it's sales were digital. The difference between 2014 and 2017 when it comes to digital sales might as well be 100 years.
I enjoyed the Evil Within but the reality is they are not the best. Very Twin Peaks surreal which makes it difficult to explain or understand the story, lots of jumping between timelines and twisted imagined worlds it's hard to know what is going on, confusing even when playing. The game also starts incredibly difficult and forces you into stealthy careful play, which only alleviates after many upgrades and new weapons to your character throughout the game. Finally it's just very brutal and gross out in it's horror, most people prefer a bit more sanitised or action hero feeling. Horror games just don't sell well, Resident Evil is an anomaly.
1.5 mil at what price?
@@IISuzakuII I have no idea, but given that all their peak traffic was the first two weeks it was released, it looks like most were full retail price, but it's not the point.
When the first game was released only 2% of the sales were digital (which is incredibly low even for 2014), when the second was released in 2017, 79% of games sold were digital across the entire industry, so not having sale figures that include digital is just speculation. For example, if 75% of the sales were digital (not a crazy number), those 211K copies sold its first week becomes 844K which matches the original.
I'm not arguing that the game was a financial success, just that we don't know how poorly it sold. Given we haven't seen a third game, it fair to surmise that it didn't make much (if any) profit.
Blur was genuinely a great racing game, loved playing online. Shame we never got a sequel. 😢 Enslaved was a fantastic game too.
Shame it took Bizarre Creations to the grave. I'd love a modern MSR/PGR.
Came here to say exactly this. I miss blur so much
Blur was my most played online game for that time. It was like a less cartoony Mario Kart. I adored it!
Bigger shame is that you can't buy it anywhere, it's delisted or how to say it.
@@enemy1191 i gave my BF my PS3 and somehow my copy was missing and i had to hunt one down off individual sellers on amazon & Ebay
Today I learned... Conkers Bad Fur Day flopped... I know that I'm just one person, but everyone that I knew was playing it when it came out.
Prey is one of my favorite games in the last 10 years. If you like BioShock and Dishonored, it is a must play. It is a combo of those two games in my opinion. Awesome story and setting.
I did like bioshock & dishonoured, but I hated prey.
@@noelkelleher9727 Which parts didn't you like, out of curiousity?
@@noelkelleher9727I’m interested to know too why you didn’t click with it. I found Prey to have some of the greatest level design, World design and atmosphere of any game.
@@twentyarms it's easier to say which parts I did like, none
ENSLAVED: Odyssey to The West is legitimately an epic action play former. Awesome art-style, characters and story. I’m shocked to this day that it underperformed.
Gravity Rush was an absolutely beautiful and fun game. so sad that it didn't sell well. Trying to convince friends to try it is harder than pulling teeth.
Part of the problem is that it was only on ps vita when it should have been on ps3 since it was created before the ps4 launched.
@@itsdemetri4282 don't think that was problem, since the remaster didn't get much attention either. It's just not a game with an easy to understand concept, and there's nothing else like it to compare to.
So relatable
Definitely for me the best game that flopped was Lemnis Gate. No game has ever bent my mind more. A turn based, time travel, first person shooter, strategy game, it’s impossible to even describe to people how it works but it is an absolute beauty of a game. I just remember after playing it I would be stuck thinking in the games logic and I wouldn’t think of time as linear in my normal life. I think it’s a game that really helps expand the way you strategize about things in real life. I wish it had gotten enough attention and had a better matchmaking system to make sure you had comparative skill levels in a match but alas it just never was able to get a big enough population for the game to actually stick. It’s just sad that I will probably never have that experience again
You made me want to get this game from the description alone
I just finished Prey last week. I can't express how amazing this game is. One of the most underrated games of history. I urge everyone who has the chance to play to give it a shot. Such a captivating story, ingenious gameplay, a very deep lore, an amazing setting. and i could go on. Please play this game.
Pd: and also is has an amazing, and very unique DLC in Mooncrash
FUCKING AGREE
GO CHECK IT OUT PEOPLE
OPEN WORLD well….open space shuttle? Idk still it’s NUTS
Yes, Prey is a phenomenal game. I wish that it had an even harder setting, though, because even by the end I was a powerhouse. Glad to see it get acknowledged on the list because it's one that nobody plays.
I started playing it but I didn't like the complicated building of things so I stopped playing after 2 hours or so. I still want to try and play it again though
I think you'll find the first Mario + Rabbids sold so well because there were such limited games released on the switch at that time.
Now theres just so many amazing titles, it's a tough market
100% true, I sold my copy of Mario Rabbids cause it's just not, idk, fun to me?
@@nonpondo_ Your just not into tactics games.
I think Pillars of Eternity 2 and Evil Within 2 were victims of the backlog issue. People had the first game in the franchise and planned to buy the 2nd game after playing the first ones a lot and hopefully completing them. But they didnt get around to playing their predecessor much as there were a lot of good games coming out around that time and purchasing the the 2nd games got postponed until they were kind of forgotten about, or snapped up years later on a 70 percent off sale and joined a growing backlog library.
This. Along with so many other series
I loved pillars 2. Over all the pacing and story of poe1 was better. But the gameplay and multi classing of two was perfect. Sad that the next game in the universe is going the Skyrim route.
@@connorkenney6938we don't know what direction it's going. You can make great CRPGs with the first/third person approach, see Morrowind and New Vegas.
@@connorkenney6938 What do you mean by that?
@@ROCKYPLAYA pillars 3 is 3d. but it looks more like Skyrim than a pillars game.
Part of the reason why Prey (2017) flopped was that people expected it to be a reboot\ sequel\ remake of Prey (2006), which was a completely different game, so when word got out that Prey was not Prey, a lot of people got disappointed and ignored it.
Prey is a masterpiece, just finished it lately and I am still shocked how I missed it at its time of release
A lot of people were mad that prey rebooted the original IP of prey when the sequel was set up for the original prey and Bethesda straight up cancelled it for petty reasons
Prey is a fantastic game. Prey, Bioshock, and Dishonored are among the games I feel compelled to revisit at least once a year.
Prey is one of my favourite games ever. I got it free with a Dishonoured package and had no idea what to expect.
after i wasnt pleased with the release of starfield. i looked into prey.
at the time of release i didnt have a gaming rig, now i do. and its too the point i cant run "modern" games. so, its time to start hitting that back catalog.
If you liked those, have you played Deathloop? It's pretty amazing.
@@dbspaceoditty Hell there's still big releases from the notable 2017 year I never got around to finishing. So there's no rush to be cutting edge for the newest games I'm not appealed to either when there's so much great backlog content.
I love the worlds those games created. Rapture, Dunwall, and Talos I are such atmospheric, fully-realized environments!
Troika is such an underrated dev. They like the king of multiple ending, multiple choices, or multiple gameplay if you ever play their games, you can also tell that they put a lot of effort because voice acting on each of their titles is crazy good
I bought a physical copy of Prey for 8 bucks, but haven't gotten around to playing it. I'll keep that in mind when I finally get around to it.
Enslaved is one of my all time favorite games. Wish we got more like it.. or a remaster
I absolutely loved Enslaved. Was such a great experience...
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Enslaved was a fantastic game! I never understood how it flopped like that. Especially since there was so much good coverage of it and in later years a game always described as a hidden gem.
It was released right when Gamefly had just become enormous. So most of us played it via rental and they were too stupid to realize that.
@SkrubzDaLo exactly it was so short it was an easy weekend rental game.
You sometimes get games like that. Star Control 2 was not a success on release but was a slow-burn throughout the 1990s (even as PCs got gud). Then it got released for, um, free. And now every gen-xer has played the thing by now.
Yeah but like always, the company only cared about how much profit they made, not the impact the game actually had. They could have had one of the greatest series of all time in my opinion. To this day I look back on the story, the characters, and even the gameplay and I actually miss it.@@succatash
First half good. Ending good. The middle is terrible, Piggsy is a terrible character, a hideous pervert we're supposed to like "because he kinda looks and behave like a typical loved character" but the guy's character design is very bad and his behaviour is cringe as hell, he's almost an hentai character who suddenly drops into the game - also, since he appears, the game environments becomes made of junk and grey / ugly green areas mostly...the charm is mostly gone for a good half of the game. I thought previous Heavenly Sword and later DmC were not perfect but much, much, much more solid than Odyssey to the West, which was half likeable, half "meh / cringe / ugly / boring / souless".
SUNSET OVERDRIVE WAS A GAME THAT I LOVED AND FORGOT ALL ABOUT UNTIL NOW, THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THIS GAME AHHHHH 😊
Enslaved and Sunset Overdrive are both stellar games. I cannot understand why they didn't sell more.
Never played it because I thought it was going to be a colourful zombie shooter
@@spaldini Even a colourful zombie shooter would be great, its one of those games where even the free roam, you could go all out with the shooting w/ unique guns and movement mechanics while Free Bird is playing in the background
Sunset Overdrive was exclusive to Xbox which meant I couldn't get it when it released.
just not advertised well enough. i remember getting overdrive , talking about it to friends and they never even herd about it.
Enslaved was one of my favourite games as a teen, still gutted that we never got to see a sequel as the ending really left you wanting more.
Great stuff as always. I loved System Shock 2 but, like Prey and others, I just don't have the time anymore to really bury myself into a long deep game. I think that may be why the games that are easier to jump in quickly are doing better. I could be wrong. I'm dumb.
Evil Within 2's first perhaps 1/3 of the game is some of the best horror I've played in a very long time. The open world town area where, exploring it and actually being scared for your life due to strong monsters and jump scares. The game sadly gets far more narrow, but its far superior to the first game and argually one of the best horror games over the past 10 years.
It is a great game, but Evil Within 1 is better. Better plot, scares, bosses, and upgrades. Both are great.
Evil Within series doesnt get enough credit as a survival horror game. I agree Evil Within 2 was a better version.
Gravity Rush 2 was pretty good. I loved flying to other islands. I think it was just a bit too open, lacking a little direction and a slightly limited scope story - but really cool to play for a while. The perfect game for a demo, to let people taste it’s coolness.
It was undeniably fun fs, honestly wished more people played what I consider to be one of the most unique mechanics in gaming
as you said, fun for few hours. did platinum triphy in GR2 and most time it was boring or soo annoying. overall overated game imho.
Blur was the pinnacle of Split Screen Racing...It was the game i played with my friends and it never got old. RIP Blur❤
I freaking love Enslaved, such a gem. Glad it made the cut, and I hope it inspires people to play it.
But you should consider adding Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, which is another diamond in the rough. Beyond being a great game (which was critically reviewed very highly), it also only sold 600K units, which was largely the doing of EA because they did nothing to market it. Last, the Oddworld Inhabitants (studio) closed shortly after, which is pretty easy to pin on EA as well.
I love strangers wrath so much. Good call
I really enjoyed both of the Evil Within games and like that they made the sequel different from the first with the mini-open world elements. Outside of that, Enslaved and Heavenly Sword are two games that were criminally overlooked and deserved a sequel.
Also, and I think I'm alone in this, but WET merits a mention too.
I wish Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope sold better because it is a worthy follow up to the first game. Ubisoft and Nintendo have proven that they are great creative partners and I’d love to see another project from them again in the future.
I think the reason it sold poorly was due to Kingdom Battle seeing large sales soon after release, people were likely holding off for a sale.
Shame about the rabbids thing
The rabbids are offputting. Having said that, i looked at several reviews and kingdom better seems like the better game imo.
@@turbo8628 Nah Sparks of Hope improves on what kingdom does in every way. You can even see that on the reviews.
@@pixelcount350 not every step forward is progress. Games are subjective, so thanks for sharing your OPINION.
All 3 Dishonoured are some of my most played single player game of all time and I consider them (especially the 1st and 2nd) to be masterpieces. I played Prey, had some fun early, until it started fueling my nightmares and couldn't play anymore. Surprised it didn't sell much with how the quality of the game was actually pretty good.
Indeed, the first two Dishonored were great. You are lucky to have been able to play Dishonored 3 before it's released.
They clearly mean DOTO@@k808
in Prey once you break the office glass you instantly know this is gonna be a gem and it was. top 5 best games ever made
Same. I love the Dishonored games too.
@@k808death of the outsider
When talking about Deadfire vs. Kingmaker/Original Sin 2, the biggest issue to me was that Deadfire was real-time on launch while the other two were either turn-based or had that as an option. They eventually implemented it, but it was worse than Kingmakers dual mode system. As you had to choose Turn-based or real-time at the beginning of Deadfire (locking it in) rather than switching between the two on the fly like Kingmaker.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, criminally underated
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a truly amazing game. Also I absolutely loved Blur and it's responsible for one of my most treasured gaming memories.
I LOVE the evil within 2! Exploring the small town was so fun. I go through it every now and then and just love exploring. Also, enslaved is an all time favorite of mine. The voice acting is top notch. Zooming in when monkey crashes through the last enemy is still so cool.
Prey was such a good game. Such an incredible game. Poorly marketed, unfortunately.
I was gonna say, I feel like that had to be a big reason it didn't do well. It's 100% my kind of game but I wasn't aware of it until well after its release when a coworker of mine gave me his copy after he was finished.
And this was back when I paid way more attention to gaming news and upcoming releases, actively seeking out the information because I had more time for gaming.
I still playthrough Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines every couple of years. It's an amazing game with a lot of jank like you said, but that jank is defiantly apart of the charm of the game. Speaking of things you've said, now that you mentioned Bloodlines I'm going to have to reinstall it again.
Happy to see Pillars of Eternity 2 on the list. It really is one of my favorite games. I didn't get into Pathfinder, but Pillars 1 and Deadfire totally grabbed my attention for a few hundred hours over several runs.
Yup, Pillars 2 is an amazing game.
SAME
i couldnt get through pathfinder, i just kind of stopped caring about the characters and the combat was difficult for me to track everything going on at once
deadfire i've finished i think 3 times and i still go back to play every once in a while
Interesting thing about the developers, they Pillars 2 was put on that one crowd funding site that you could also buy shares in games rather then just give them money. Since Pillar 2 never made a profit people who owned shares lost money but the developers decided to give shareholders a cut of the DLC money even though they were only obligated to give a portion of the base game sales.
i actually find it abhorrent that pillars 2 lost money, it was so well done, if someone handcuffed me to a table and said "play any crpg other than baldur's gate 3" i'd pick pillars 2 hands down
honestly its the only other crpg other than bg3 that has full voiceovers (cant count disco elysium because its not a traditional crpg but damn is that a good game too) that i know of@@zer0_cool
The Pillars of Eternity series is one of my favorites! Those were my first isometric RPGs and I still love them. Looking forward to seeing what they do with Avowed!
if you haven't played Tyranny, you might enjoy it! It's got my favorite magic system of any game of its type
Have you tried Planescape Torment?
I loved it too, but the load screens just killed it for me.
As someone who ranks both Pillars of Eternity games amongst their favorites, I can see how Pillars 2 didnt do so well, being that it isn't as easy to jump into narratively due to it being a direct sequel to a game that had very dense lore to begin with. Crpgs can be the sort of genre that a lot of people pick up out of interest, but sees a lot of retired playthroughs and I think that rings very true for that series.
PoE2 is one of the greatest RPG's of the last decade imo. Between the voice acting and music alone, it has some absolutely spine chilling moments.
The biggest example is final fantasy 9. That was a failure that only sold half the copies of FF7/8 and the reason for it was because it launched so late in the PS-1's lifecycle that it was directly competing with the play-station 2 and final fantasy 10. I only played 9 by dumb luck because i spent all my money on my ps2 and could only afford ps1 games in the bargain bin of my store. Spending 10$ on a new stilled sealed case of ff9 was literally the best 10$ I have ever spent in my entire life. Its the best final fantasy game in the entire series. Perfect storytelling, character development, art style and music. Its what final fantasy was originally supposed to be according to the creators and if you only play one Sqaresoft game that's the one you play.
Blur and Split second were some of the most unique and creative racing games ever made. Its a damn shame that titles like those won't ever be made, because of the evolving market.
Prey (2017) is such a good game, so it's just unbearable to realize we'll never see a sequel due to poor sales. It deserves much more!
Bethesda really did Prey Dirty. Both the original and the one by Arcane. The original Prey was released in 2006, was a big success commercially, rave reviews, fans were clamouring for a sequel. Bethesda bought the rights to the IP and just kinda sat on it. When Arcane came along with a great looking game in development Bethesda said, "You have to use the name "Prey"." When this new Prey was announced and had nothing to do with the original, it immediately made a lot of gamers furious.
I never even heard of Prey until years later.
This can't have helped either.
The game should have been freakin' called Neuroshock. @@RaddSpencer
Im so happy I’m not the only one who thought The Evil Within 2 was slept on
Right! I always wanted a follow up after seeing the ending teaser for Evil Within 2
I enjoyed it so much more than the first.
Still waiting for a sequel to The Evil Within.
So my theory on Mario Rabbids is back when the first one came out there were like 3 decent switch games BotW Rabbids and Bomberman. People were looking for a game to pick up for the new console and they bought it because it was the first Mario game on the console. The second game which i own and agree is a very good game came out in a time where a lot of other good titles also came out and had been out.
True, but I still agree with gameranx's take on it. I played it, I liked the gameplay (the humor and storytelling not so much), but I didn't need a sequel. Or clearly not this soon.
Sunset overdrive is seriously such a good game. It's the one on this list that I really wish there was a sequel for. They could have made it even more wild with a second one.
Split/Second is my favorite racing game. It only sold 86k in the 1st 12 days according to google. On ur 1st playthrough of the campaign, every race is an intense and epic experience.
The Map Change Events were the most genious idea i have have ever seen in a racing game! One second ur in a normal race, and the next u have building collapsing around u. The adrenalline u get from barely out running the map change is unparraleled to any other racing game. And then for the rest of the the laps, u have to take the new path as the old one is destroyed. When u move to Online play, and learn the maps there is no better feeling than a perfectly timed bomb drop or map change that wipes out half the opponents while u take the lead. Or make a crane lift a path someone is heading down, causing them to fall into the water as u make a sharp turn and take the other path. Or in the same path, have the crane lift the path AS u get to the platform, prevent the opponent riding ur tail to fall as u make it safely to the other side. The control u had over the map in this game was crazy! and this was back in 2010. Imagine what could be done with the current development technology!
I just think the game released ahead of its time. ppl were more into slow RPGs back then. Now-a-days with everyone looking for the next dopamine hit, a Remake or sequal would probably sell extrememly well. But it was made by a Disney developer, so I doubt we will ever see a Remake or sequal with Disney only caring about established IPs.
I think split second is better than Blur
I really enjoyed Sunset Overdrive. It came free with my X1. They had a lot of little hidden puzzles that lead you to an actual real life game, but I missed it due to it being shit down by the time I played. Seemed like a fun idea reminiscent of some GTA easter eggs where some numbers or websites in-game were real
Dishonored 2 is not just one of my all time favorite games, it is just fun to play and the plot and characters are memorably endearing.
I'll die on the hill that Prey is an absolute masterpiece. I'll never forget my first playthrough. Still 1000% holds up today if anyone hasnt experienced it and it's even free on gamepass.
Loved Prey, it is so weird that some of the best games just do do well. Majority of the games I play when I tell my friends about them, they never heard of. Prey, Pathologic 2 and Dragons Dogma are mong some of my favourite games of the 2000s+
Gamepass isn't free brother
I didn't know that Sunset Overdrive sold that few overall, I loved the gameplay and the humor and was really bummed xbox chose not to do anything more with it. Thanks again for the vid guys, great commentary as usual Falcon. ✌️
Sadly, seems like Playstation doesn't want anything to do with it either.
Personally I wish they would do another one instead of just making superhero games.
Well tbf the reason why we didn't get any Sunset Overdrive sequel is because Sony acquired Insomniac. Though they did publish the game, Microsoft never owned the rights to the Sunset Overdrive IP, Insomniac owned it themselves.
Prior to being acquired by Sony, Insomniac did say that they wanted to make a Sunset Overdrive sequel after doing Spiderman, but the acquisition basically killed any chance of that happening. If Sunset Overdrive ever does come back, it's because Sony would have to greenlit since they own the IP now.
@@jimmythegamer2231remember this news really bummed me out, such a great and unique game...
So weird seeing System Shock 2 and bloodlines on this list.
They both had instrumental mechanics that pushed forward shooting rpgs to what we have today.
System shock man. My childhood was trying to get a navy man to the end with hacking and door slicing. Bloodlines introduced multiple ways to finish quests whether through dialogue or skills or just murder hobos until your attacked by slayers
These games literally redefined a whole genre from doom, quake, duke nukem and brought us into stealth based shooter rpgs.
Enslaved is one of my all time favourite games, it really deserves more love