I loved Shadow of Mordor, it really nailed the vibe of Lord of the Rings and Gollum had a fantastic portrayal in it (the combat was also really fun once you got good you could take down an entire army of Orcs and it was so satisfying and felt awesome)
Game was boring as shit and was so brown. I don’t even remember the story. Just the nemesis system. If it wasn’t for that it would be a very forgettable game.
I haven’t experienced too many games like Mordor or Shadow of War. The gameplay and Nemesis is just so damn fun and so are the powers- especially in War. I’ve yet to finish War though, so maybe I’ll do it soon.
The same could also explain Fallout 76. Before Microsoft bought Bethesda, a Venture capitalist firm got the majority of ownership of Zenimax. Fallout 4 was in development, as was Deathloop. FO76 and Redfall were incepted under the leadership of the capitalists.
@@szczurman83 I would have been perfectly fine with that being the legit ending. Truly, that game has been torn to enough shreds by enough people, to the point where everyone knows that everything about it is a mess. So it works on both practical and comedic levels (unlike 85% of similar non-endings that only use the comedic stuff with perhaps a nod to the practical side if they think about it).
You’re right about Redfall, the developers were forced to make the game by Zenimax and really didn’t want to. They hoped Microsoft would cancel it when they bought Bethesda, but they didn’t. That’s why they put barely any effort or care into the game out of spite
We've had bad games at all times, though. Nowadays we're having more bad games, because we have more developers and releases than before. But we're also getting amazing games, especially from indie developers. Also most of the triple AAA developers that we love today were indie developers when we loved them.
I don't know if you've made a video about this, but how about the 10 Best/Worst HUDs/UIs in gaming? A good interface can make or break a player's experience.
I’ve been playing through MGS1, MGS2 and MGS3 on my PS2. I love those games so much. And for their time they were so detailed on so many minor things. You can tell how much the developers cared when making those games. All the little secrets, funny codec/radio calls, creative ways items can be used etc. and best of all through playing all 3 games not ONCE have any of the games crashed. I miss the way games were made back then. They were made with care and people had passion to make them. It wasn’t completely all about just making money on some low effort crap they expect people to spend an arm and a leg for. Maybe that’s my nostalgia talking, and I probably sound like an old fart, but I just don’t feel that games are made with nearly as much care nowadays. Even modern games I do like feel like something is missing. Like a certain charm is gone now. or it crashes constantly at release (or just forever…) and just ruins the immersion and fun and makes it a hassle to play. Sorry for ranting it’s something that’s been on my mind a lot recently as I’ve been playing on my PS2 lately.
Sadly, that's how it is these days. Game productions were probably not expected to compete with other medias, and the employees wanted to do it rather than go work somewhere else that might pay better (despite being able to! Seeing their creative solutions in code is amazing) Today you either have developers under control of publishers, so having passion doesn't amount to much. Or indies that have lack of budget and experience (not to include all of them, and not to say it's only a bad thing)... I wish new games were less about competing with others about new shiny graphics but with similar gameplay to older games, and more innovation and polish. They also abandon concepts that created an IP for the currently popular thing (like AC abandoning their best feature, assasination, for empty RPG elements, and FF abandoning their RPG elements for shiny action combat) The worst thing is, it's all thanks to us consumers. Most people just want their fix, and are willing to pay for that crap (I share the blame for that myself). If only people absolutely stopped touching Blizzard content for a month (or a week) after each scandal, mass refunded a game after a bad release, etc... Maybe they'd learn.
@@VioletElite4 you should play through the originals. They are so amazing and fun (well except for the escort mission for Eva in MSG3. That part made me want to throw my controller 😂). I’m pretty excited for the MSG3 remake. I hope they keep most of the original game intact but just make some improvements to the graphics and ironing out some of the mechanics or camera (and maybe just cut out the whole escort mission lol). Other than that it’s already an amazing game. I’m very close to beating MSG3 and then I’ll be playing MSG4 soon. I’ve just been on an absolute Metal Gear game binge lately and it’s been so much fun now that I’m older and can understand the story a little better vs when I was a kid playing them.
No, that’s not nostalgic rose tinted glasses talking. I remember playing games on my PS2 and very VERY rarely having issues with any games. The only game I ever really had a problem with was some semi truck racing game that just refused to be read. Other than that, it was smooth sailing with no extra bs that was left out for dlc.
Aliens colonial Marines left a scar on my gamer soul that will never heal. I thought the pain might have dulled over the years but redfall tore that scar open again.
I am just cynical and scarred now. I assume all new games are buggy pay walled monetised trash vomited out to be quickly replaced with the Next New Great Thing Next Year. Sometimes, I am pleasantly disappointed.
Ahhh Sonic 06. Such a classic bad game. The glitches, the awkward staring, the mascot movement, the bad snowboard level, the bizarre kiss at the end. I always got a good laugh lol 😂. Wonderful memories
@@Deepbarns I’ve seen it and it looks fantastic. Sega really needs to do the same thing. I will admit, Sonic 06 was fun in some areas but the main issue is that it’s incomplete.
@@gameranxTVt’s over exaggerated sure. But compared to other games released these last 10 years they had no care put into them especially the definitive edition of San Andreas
Stranger of Paradise's Talk Menu is specially intriguing because they were very obviously planning to throw a bunch of NPCs in a 3D environment, like is the standard procedure, they had all the assets, but for some reason they just choose not to do it
The camcorder thing made me think of when I tried to explain to pre-teens how we used to get photos developed. Afterwards they said “I’m sorry you had to go through that” like it was devastating or something lol
Oh that camcorder comment. I'm old enough to remember using the old VHS camcorders, the heavy ones that you needed to use a stand or sit on your shoulder.
The archery animation in D&D actually could've been good and shown just how much power the archer was generating with very little effort if they hadn't had that big scream
To be fair, I have run into chimneys that were bricked closed. I imagine it's cheaper than paying someone to remove the entire stone structure and rebuild that part of your home when you stop needing the fireplace. Really weird part is it looked like that one in the video was coming down into the middle of a garage.
Technological advances that modern gaming nowadays it is astounding that some of the games released today do not have features that were included in games 20 years ago mirrors with shadows.. a typical day night cycle.. basic character interaction moving mouths actual realistic facial details.....
I'm so glad I didn't get Gollum. Four hours after it's release says it all. A 2014 game using Gollum as a side character did far better than a 2023 game using Gollum as a main character!
what is impressive about this list is that we actually got to see games from lesser known devs rather than all 10 being failings from aaa companies considering i was expecting this vid to be full of the aaa failures.
You need to expand your view because AAA games aren't only the dumpster fires. We hear about the AAA ones because they are the most powerful and talked about.
This is not an excuse. What you have to remember is that RedFall was not made by Arcane, but by Arcane Austin, a newer studio owned by them and no where near as experienced. They even said they expected the game to be cancled, but microsoft pushed it through because they needed more exclusives. I unironically enjoyed RedFall just because of how jank it was and had fun killing off clueless vamps.
I’ve not only used a camcorder but I used to have the OG Camera with the VHS tape in it to record and a battery the size of a 12V pack. It had the ability to look thru the optic to review the video. Like Stanger Things season 2 Bob style camcorder for all you youngins.
In terms of animations, the latest Assassin's Creed games along with both open-world Ghost Recon games have some of the worst animations in AAA games I've honestly ever witnessed. From the floaty, ice-skating-like movement in RPG AC games when you're locked onto an enemy... up to the reloads and buggy takedowns from Wildlands and Breakpoint. It's funny, as well, for Ghost Recon cuz the animations from The Division 1 and 2 honestly look way more real and believable than what you end up getting from what's supposed to be a more serious, grounded military shooter. Been playing through The Surge 2 recently, and it makes me wish the RPG AC games actually took weight into consideration for their combat. Oh, and I'm not even talking about how bad the facial animations have become across the years for a lot of modern Ubisoft games.
Hey falcon thanks for making me feel 60. I'm only in my mid 30's and grew up using our VHS camcorder and hi-8 camcorder to film our street hockey games, silly skits, and card games. (swings cane)
Yeah I don't get why they keep pretending like there old, these days you not even middle age until you hit 50. Maybe he had a hard life before having a successful UA-cam channel.
@@southcoastinventors6583 It's a running joke, not sure why people constantly seem to take it so seriously. Plus, I don't know how old you are, obviously, but once you get over 40, you get these jokes a lot more, because you absolutely do feel ancient at times, especially when confronted with some kind of "kids these days" situation.
@@Case_ Never felt that way at all people are free to do what they like, including teenagers. Kids these days are the same as any kid make a lot of mistakes as well as thinking that the content they consume is cutting edge even though most of the time its created by people that are between 28-60.
Okay come on now. Grayhill Incident is the most obvious parody. The guy at that " The aliens are getting in " screams about the aliens needing to " GET AWAY FROM THAT HOLE " - or something close to it. ... They're probing people and animals up the butt. It's very clearly a joke.
The fact that Rockstar is a studio that has made games with some of the most insane level of details ever in gaming history but they are also here on this list of "games that didnt care about details". Recently they have fallen from grace. What they did with Red Dead Online, GTA Definitive edition... and then there's the case of GTA5. Their recent update of GTA online & GTA+ shows how greedy they have become. Not to mention how many times they have remastered GTA5 in past 10 years & sold it at full price. The remasters on console not even on par with the base game that came out on PC, many features are missing on console that was there on PC. Its a literal cashgrab. The success has gone to their head
My new head-canon is that games like Redfall are a sabotage effort by the developers to try to stick it to the corpos. Makes them sting a little bit less.
Gollum was like someone accidentally deleted all the assets and scripting 2 weeks before it was scheduled to be released. Some of the environments looked pretty good, but anything that moved was just... wtf guys. They took YEARS to develop that game. Something happened. There is no way thats the best they could do and no way the final product took years to create. No way the devs said "yep. Thats what we were going for." The previews we got long before release looked so much better. I am convinced someone deleted all the progress or the computer it was on puked and the backups were unrecoverable or something. Its yet another example of another delay being better than releasing a half-assed game. When I managed a kitchen, I always had to assure the wait staff that customers would rather their meal take 5 more minutes than come out wrong. If you send out old fries or an overcooked burger... its gonna be sent back anyways and then there goes your tip. 😂 Gollum was the undercooked piece of chicken that got dropped on the floor and stepped on, and then got sent out anyways 🤣
"they have made a lot of improvements over the last year, and it's definitely in a better place than it was at release." That's literally every game that comes out these days.
I'm not sure if it's a detailed issue, but in Call Of Duty or more specifically warzone 2, if you get hit by a incendiary round and jump in the water, you still take damage like water just doesn't put an end to it or else patched but that's just confusing.
I think you are absolutely right. Arcane made Redfall bad ON PURPOSE, just because they were FORCED to make it. If an artist is good at paintiing flowers, you cant FORCE him to paint a lion, and then expect it to be good, can you? Especially if he HATES painting lions. So that was Arcanes way of saying: Don't EVER force us to make a game we don't WANT to make, because this is what you'll get. Good on them!
Who in their right minds would choose to make a rushed, very bad looking, with outdated as fuck gameplay Gollum game instead of a big openworld game set in Middle-Earth with realistic combat and graphics like Shadow Of Mordor/War? WE NEED A THIRD GAME or some sort of spiritual sequel in the LOTR universe.
I've been playing a lot of Crime Boss. It's not the worst thing I've played but I can say that when it comes to details they really didn't put much effort into it. A lot of the guns have anachronistic attachments, and are covered in in skins that look like they were pulled straight out of a nerf advertisement. If you die during one characters special mission it says he died in 1996. All of the calendars I've seen in the game world say 1993(or maybe 92). With that being said, some of the characters dress like they're in the late 80s/early 90s, while others look more mid to late noughties than 90s. It's all over the place.
DC Universe Online is over eleven years old. And one of the beginner missions is to roam around the city and stop crime if you're a hero. Stop a mugging, a guy stealing a car, etc.. One guy gloats, "This TV is mine now!" Me: "Don't take this guy to prison. Take him to Arkham. Because who in 2023 gloats about stealing a CRT television?"
About Redfall... It was absolutely mind-boggling when it was revealed that the internal dev team actually begged the corporate higher-ups to cancel the game. The devs knew the game was broken, far from what can be called a finished product, but they had corporate pressure and immovable deadlines to deal with. So the devs preferred the game be cancelled outright, rather than forever be associated with a broken turd of a game. The higher ups didn't give two sh!ts and pushed the product out anyway.
@@mgiebus1869 i had san Andreas as a digital download for years. I beat it with my ex girlfriend a few years back but when the trilogy came out they took away my ability too download it making you buy the new version
Falcon your RedFall theory is right on point. Its what I was thinking back when the game released. As a developer why would you put your best work into some exploitative POS you don't even want to make?
Sonic 06 A master class of getting hyped for something then finally getting a present for your Birthday and opening it to see. Finally playing it and. . . Well you know the rest.
Thanks for making me feel old. I used to have a handheld camera that used the little tapes and came with a big vhs type tape holder. You watched them in vhs.
I actually feel bad for the Studio that made Gollum. It's a german Team from Hamburg and in germany there aren't many studios anyway but now they have to shut down, while in the past they where actually making good games like Deponia.
Arrow girl in dnd is reaching back to grab a new arrow from the quiver thats why her hand goes back like I think. Although it does look weird that the string over the bow is so short. It should be extending towards the full top and bottom of the bow where it's recurved. The amount that it's being pulled back makes it look like a kid's toy.
Take note developers. You don't need the best looking graphics of all time, just be consistent, look nice enough, and most importantly fun. Best game I've played this year, the original Resident Evil 4.
"You don't typically spellcheck an INI file" As a software developer, there is nothing I love more than the cspell tool. Not only is it spell check - it would have caught that capital "A" mistake too. A little automated quality assurance goes a long way!
I hate lack of detail, but I also have to ask myself why they thought there was high demand for a game where you play as Gollum, of all Lord of the Rings characters.
Redfall suffered from mismanagement. They forced a studio who does singleplayer immersive sims and said here make a multiplayer live service game. Then when they were asked ok what do we put it in they said "We're not sure we need to run some focus groups." Most games in development hell suffer from higher ups making demands that don't make sense and rewriting everything up until the last minute. Like Anthem and them taking out and putting back in flight over and over. Some concepts you have to build around.
Be aware that a ton of houses have fake chimneys like that, especially with gas/electric fireplaces being more and more common Also, that archer animation wasn't "throwing her hand back" from how strong it is. She was reaching back for an arrow from the quiver.
I've not seen much of the Saints Row reboot, so when you showed the clip of the motorcycle running into the back of a truck and it made a bonk sound, i said "is that seriously it!?" out loud to myself
I'm going to have to disagree a bit with Strangers of Paradise. If you keep talking to the NPCs through the game, you learn about how saving the crystals is actually making life harder for people rather than just being a good thing. Such as saving fixing the Earth Crystal actually added too many nutrients and such ended up killing the plants or how fire became a lot hotter than they were used to which made forging and cooking much harder because they weren't used to the heat.
Redfall's atrocious water graphics - especially on the boat at at start - still give me nightmares. Sadly, I almost bought Crime Boss just for laughs, knowing it'd be bad, but thankfully, I came to my senses and saved some coin. Also, my hand's raised here as I remember the humble camcorder. (I was born right before the advent of Intellevision, digging Pitfall and BurgerTime, whilst my dad got hooked on Snafu, staying up late to play as Mom got mad.)
I might be the only one but I think Vice City is still my favorite GTA game the feel the voice acting the story everything and the sound track was really good
I always consider the Grayhill Incident to be a highly exaggerated satirical spoof of people in the 80's and 90's during the height of the conspiracy theorist, X-Files generation, up to, and including, the cheesy alien grays. The B/W TVs actually play into the satire, giving you the feeling of a world with the original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits and such being on the TVs in B/W, so that's what the TVs are like, here, to add immersion to the satire. But, that's just my view, and opinion, of the game.
Man, this actually makes the game so much worse if it's true. I thought it was just a simple bad game made by one person in their spare time that kinda got a bit viral, but if all the weirdness and jank was actually intentionally supposed to be all that because that somehow equals "satire" and "humor"...ugh...
Transcript from a Crime Boss: Rockay City development brainstorming call... D1: This will be fun, but some might find its game play a tad derivative. D2: Maybe we could provide options for different problem solving approaches. Some player will prefer to go in guns-blazing, but we could also offer a stealthier approach. Players could sneak around and eliminate threats by hitting the self-destruct butt... D1: Sounds intriguing, but I think you cut out there. D2: Nope.
As bad as Aliens Colonial Marines could be, I had a blast playing through it on PC in co-op on Ultimate Badass difficulty with the TemplarGFX Overhaul mod installed. That mod actually makes the game playable and enjoyable ie what it should've been at launch.
They ran out of time. Not only was the team split in half during development, but the game was mandated to release in 2006 for Sonic's Anniversary. This game is literally running on an older build, because the current build they had, was more buggy, and they didn't have time to patch it. So they had to use the older build. That's why 06's demo runs better, cause the demo was a piece cut off from the current build, that had to be ditched.
I try to give a little benefit of the doubt to developers, because they're saddled with extemely high expectations from everyone, their bosses and gamers alike. Not saying that everything needs to be excused, but when corners are cut, I want to find out the reason on what went wrong.
#7 reminded me of when a friend told me about what LARPing was like in the early 1990s when he went to his first larp. Like, in many modern larps you might get a character that's a dozen page long mini novel. Intricate story lines, personal connections, motivations, fears, desires etc. So my guy's first larp in the early 90's had two big factions who were in two different camps in the forest, connected by a road. This guy and his friend's characters were two guards, and the only thing they were supposed to do is stand on the road between the camps and ask for a coin as toll from anyone passing by. They did get written characters, but both were only a single sentence with only one word of difference: "You are loyal to emperor Augustus." "You are fairly loyal to emperor Augustus." And that's it. 😂 I laughed my ass off when he told me this story. 🤣🤣
The making of Gollum videos are pretty hilarious. “We try to make some big level, and you know, like little level too.” Lol we use buzzword like small space, not small space.
I definitely agree on the arcane. One cause dishonored is hands down over the best games I've played in this last decade. That's now 11 years old blows my mind. That's how old it is already, and every place you visit. In the original, dishonor has so much detail has objects. Furniture reasons to stop and look just to admire it. And then of course, it helps that the esthetic, the graphics, and the art style they went for has aged very beautifully in the last 11 years like a fine wine like. The game and game play even though some people consider the fps aspects. A little outdated still feel smooth and good like it did when I played it in 2012 on computer and I played it on my phone on a cloud service on Xbox. And oh my goodness, it didn't matter if I got on my Xbox or my phone. The game was awesome and epic and beautiful. And I beat it recently like 3 times just to see different outcomes. To use different powers and even go a whole game without killing people. Which I got that achievement. dishnored is the standard of single player games should all adhere to if theyre gonna be short winded with replay ability.
Notice how none of these are games made by Nintendo. Also, the only time Nintendo didn't bother with ALL the details was back in Super smash Bros Melee, which is explained by the game being rushed, announced before it was even in development. Because it was rushed, certain details in the mechanics went overlooked, which is why wavedashing exists in it. Sakurai has since worked diligently to make sure that NEVER repeats, as these wave dash-like techs get patched out the moment they get discovered online. So every time someone with a streaming channel, or a youtube channel brings up "advanced tech for movement in Smash! Newly discovered!" Nintendo sees those videos and rumors, tests out the speculated "advanced tech", and says "Nope! that's exploiting a glitch! Gotta patch that out!", and they fix it. Smash Melee is the ONLY game in the Smash Bros franchise to be rushed and plagued with bugs!
Although yes the story, writing, and dialogue in stranger of paradise are brutal most of the time, I thoroughly disagree that the gameplay systems are half-assed. Similar to alot of team ninja games, they specifically make it so in depth gameplay features are less required for main story for casual players, while incredibly important for post-game for hardcore players. Things like job affinities, equipment and weapon stats that people rarely delve into during the main game are crucial to survive in ng+ or postgame. For example the Sage job if you reached 400% job affinity it passively allowed your potions to also restore Mp and Break and also allow your block to compteley negate all magic damage. Each job had their own playstyle, and since you can have high affinity in any job even if it's not the one you're using, you can make endless over the top and insane builds. It does bog you down with lots of gear, but you are generually supposed to turn on auto recylce so it instantly breaks it down bad stuff for you to give you upgrade materials
I loved Shadow of Mordor, it really nailed the vibe of Lord of the Rings and Gollum had a fantastic portrayal in it (the combat was also really fun once you got good you could take down an entire army of Orcs and it was so satisfying and felt awesome)
Game was boring as shit and was so brown. I don’t even remember the story. Just the nemesis system. If it wasn’t for that it would be a very forgettable game.
It's all fun and games until they make Shelob a sexy goth chick...
@@BarkerVancity fun for me
@@BarkerVancityEveryone has their own opinion, but it was hella fun to me.
I haven’t experienced too many games like Mordor or Shadow of War. The gameplay and Nemesis is just so damn fun and so are the powers- especially in War. I’ve yet to finish War though, so maybe I’ll do it soon.
Redfall theory sounds accurate. Supposedly Arkane hated the game, didn't want to make it, and like 60% of the studio jumped ship because of it.
agreed.
The same could also explain Fallout 76. Before Microsoft bought Bethesda, a Venture capitalist firm got the majority of ownership of Zenimax. Fallout 4 was in development, as was Deathloop.
FO76 and Redfall were incepted under the leadership of the capitalists.
@@uncleshorts7948then why the hell release it lol
@@alihorda Because it did cost money to make? Even a bit of revenue is better than nothing, even if it kills a profitable studio.
@@alfredkugler3043 a bit of revenue from those 100$ bundles, i guess?
I'll never forget how bizarre Sonic 06 was to experience blind. I went through every emotion.
I loved it and still do
Its even weirder if you can see
how did you play the game
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I'm a huge Sonic/Sega fanboy but when i start falling through floors it's time to call it a day. Same with the Shadow the Hedgehog game.
I laughed out too hard when you said number 1 and jokingly ended the video. Gold.
So did I that was great
Dude, I was dying because I thought it was legit.
@@szczurman83 I would have been perfectly fine with that being the legit ending. Truly, that game has been torn to enough shreds by enough people, to the point where everyone knows that everything about it is a mess. So it works on both practical and comedic levels (unlike 85% of similar non-endings that only use the comedic stuff with perhaps a nod to the practical side if they think about it).
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You’re right about Redfall, the developers were forced to make the game by Zenimax and really didn’t want to. They hoped Microsoft would cancel it when they bought Bethesda, but they didn’t. That’s why they put barely any effort or care into the game out of spite
Over 70 developers who worked on Prey left the studio.
@@iamskyfall 70%
Source: trust me bro
He was all of the developers@@coldnightmare199
This could be a 4 part series with modern games
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This could be a WEEKLY series!
Facts could go all year tbh
needs its own channel
We've had bad games at all times, though. Nowadays we're having more bad games, because we have more developers and releases than before. But we're also getting amazing games, especially from indie developers. Also most of the triple AAA developers that we love today were indie developers when we loved them.
I don't know if you've made a video about this, but how about the 10 Best/Worst HUDs/UIs in gaming? A good interface can make or break a player's experience.
I would love to listen to Falcon rant about how the crosshair looks like a fruit loop
I second this
Gollum: *inside an ultra-safe save room where no being could harm him ever*
Game: GAME OVER. YOU DIED.
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@@gameranxTVNice to see a 7M+ channel replying comments 👊
I’ve been playing through MGS1, MGS2 and MGS3 on my PS2. I love those games so much. And for their time they were so detailed on so many minor things. You can tell how much the developers cared when making those games. All the little secrets, funny codec/radio calls, creative ways items can be used etc. and best of all through playing all 3 games not ONCE have any of the games crashed. I miss the way games were made back then. They were made with care and people had passion to make them. It wasn’t completely all about just making money on some low effort crap they expect people to spend an arm and a leg for. Maybe that’s my nostalgia talking, and I probably sound like an old fart, but I just don’t feel that games are made with nearly as much care nowadays. Even modern games I do like feel like something is missing. Like a certain charm is gone now. or it crashes constantly at release (or just forever…) and just ruins the immersion and fun and makes it a hassle to play. Sorry for ranting it’s something that’s been on my mind a lot recently as I’ve been playing on my PS2 lately.
Sadly, that's how it is these days.
Game productions were probably not expected to compete with other medias, and the employees wanted to do it rather than go work somewhere else that might pay better (despite being able to! Seeing their creative solutions in code is amazing)
Today you either have developers under control of publishers, so having passion doesn't amount to much.
Or indies that have lack of budget and experience (not to include all of them, and not to say it's only a bad thing)...
I wish new games were less about competing with others about new shiny graphics but with similar gameplay to older games, and more innovation and polish.
They also abandon concepts that created an IP for the currently popular thing (like AC abandoning their best feature, assasination, for empty RPG elements, and FF abandoning their RPG elements for shiny action combat)
The worst thing is, it's all thanks to us consumers. Most people just want their fix, and are willing to pay for that crap (I share the blame for that myself).
If only people absolutely stopped touching Blizzard content for a month (or a week) after each scandal, mass refunded a game after a bad release, etc... Maybe they'd learn.
I've never played the old Mgs games and I'm so excited that they are getting remastered and added to Steam
@@VioletElite4 you should play through the originals. They are so amazing and fun (well except for the escort mission for Eva in MSG3. That part made me want to throw my controller 😂).
I’m pretty excited for the MSG3 remake. I hope they keep most of the original game intact but just make some improvements to the graphics and ironing out some of the mechanics or camera (and maybe just cut out the whole escort mission lol). Other than that it’s already an amazing game. I’m very close to beating MSG3 and then I’ll be playing MSG4 soon. I’ve just been on an absolute Metal Gear game binge lately and it’s been so much fun now that I’m older and can understand the story a little better vs when I was a kid playing them.
No, that’s not nostalgic rose tinted glasses talking. I remember playing games on my PS2 and very VERY rarely having issues with any games. The only game I ever really had a problem with was some semi truck racing game that just refused to be read. Other than that, it was smooth sailing with no extra bs that was left out for dlc.
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Aliens colonial Marines left a scar on my gamer soul that will never heal. I thought the pain might have dulled over the years but redfall tore that scar open again.
I remember being so excited after their gameplay reveal trailer…I feel your pain.
I am just cynical and scarred now. I assume all new games are buggy pay walled monetised trash vomited out to be quickly replaced with the Next New Great Thing Next Year. Sometimes, I am pleasantly disappointed.
Spider-Man going splat in the Spider Man 3 game along with the woman saying "we're going to die" still cracks me up even yet .
Ahhh Sonic 06. Such a classic bad game. The glitches, the awkward staring, the mascot movement, the bad snowboard level, the bizarre kiss at the end. I always got a good laugh lol 😂. Wonderful memories
Have you played Sonic P-06, it’s fan remastered!!!🔥🔥🔥
@@Deepbarns I’ve seen it and it looks fantastic. Sega really needs to do the same thing. I will admit, Sonic 06 was fun in some areas but the main issue is that it’s incomplete.
There’s a couple points during Gollum, where they used animations similar to like an old MS-DOS game. It’s kind of shocking 😂
These games were made with literally no care
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@@gameranxTVt’s over exaggerated sure. But compared to other games released these last 10 years they had no care put into them especially the definitive edition of San Andreas
No care ever
They did care though….. about money
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Stranger of Paradise's Talk Menu is specially intriguing because they were very obviously planning to throw a bunch of NPCs in a 3D environment, like is the standard procedure, they had all the assets, but for some reason they just choose not to do it
The camcorder thing made me think of when I tried to explain to pre-teens how we used to get photos developed. Afterwards they said “I’m sorry you had to go through that” like it was devastating or something lol
Oh that camcorder comment. I'm old enough to remember using the old VHS camcorders, the heavy ones that you needed to use a stand or sit on your shoulder.
The ending killed me. You really could have done that and we'd have all been like "Ok, understandable. Thanks for the video."
That would’ve been a hilarious ending! Great content as usual y’all. Appreciate it for sure!
this was a great watch as always, thank you for your hard work!
My pleasure!
As opposed to the work of the game developers here HEYOOOOOOOOOOO
The archery animation in D&D actually could've been good and shown just how much power the archer was generating with very little effort if they hadn't had that big scream
These lists are always spot on...thanks Falcon
Very welcome
To be fair, I have run into chimneys that were bricked closed. I imagine it's cheaper than paying someone to remove the entire stone structure and rebuild that part of your home when you stop needing the fireplace. Really weird part is it looked like that one in the video was coming down into the middle of a garage.
Technological advances that modern gaming nowadays it is astounding that some of the games released today do not have features that were included in games 20 years ago mirrors with shadows.. a typical day night cycle.. basic character interaction moving mouths actual realistic facial details.....
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@@gameranxTV ???
@@abyss9316 I think that means "I can relate".
I'm so glad I didn't get Gollum. Four hours after it's release says it all. A 2014 game using Gollum as a side character did far better than a 2023 game using Gollum as a main character!
what is impressive about this list is that we actually got to see games from lesser known devs rather than all 10 being failings from aaa companies considering i was expecting this vid to be full of the aaa failures.
You need to expand your view because AAA games aren't only the dumpster fires. We hear about the AAA ones because they are the most powerful and talked about.
This is not an excuse. What you have to remember is that RedFall was not made by Arcane, but by Arcane Austin, a newer studio owned by them and no where near as experienced. They even said they expected the game to be cancled, but microsoft pushed it through because they needed more exclusives.
I unironically enjoyed RedFall just because of how jank it was and had fun killing off clueless vamps.
I can’t believe Gollum was even a concept. Feel bad for the devs that wasted their time.
It could of been good if they made it right. Though a stealth game with Gollum isn't exactly something people were clammering for to begin with.
It could have been cool if they made it more like Theif or something.
@twistedinnocence8617 they didn't even let you eat babies out of their cribs or anything Book Gollum was famous for.
Well the devs are fired, studio closed. I expect the suits who decided to make that game with insufficient/wrong means are doing fine.
@@tubensalat1453 sad but true
HR interviewer: What games have you previously worked on?
Game developer looking for job: 3D modeler on GTA Definition Edition
HR Interviewer: NEXT!
Here’s an idea for a top 10 list: Games that the Devs didn’t want to make but were forced to make because their parent company said so.
Hmmm, Babylon's Fall.
I know Platinum is independent, but either way... WHY??
I’ve not only used a camcorder but I used to have the OG Camera with the VHS tape in it to record and a battery the size of a 12V pack. It had the ability to look thru the optic to review the video. Like Stanger Things season 2 Bob style camcorder for all you youngins.
17:46 laughed way harder than i should have
In terms of animations, the latest Assassin's Creed games along with both open-world Ghost Recon games have some of the worst animations in AAA games I've honestly ever witnessed. From the floaty, ice-skating-like movement in RPG AC games when you're locked onto an enemy... up to the reloads and buggy takedowns from Wildlands and Breakpoint. It's funny, as well, for Ghost Recon cuz the animations from The Division 1 and 2 honestly look way more real and believable than what you end up getting from what's supposed to be a more serious, grounded military shooter. Been playing through The Surge 2 recently, and it makes me wish the RPG AC games actually took weight into consideration for their combat. Oh, and I'm not even talking about how bad the facial animations have become across the years for a lot of modern Ubisoft games.
Hey falcon thanks for making me feel 60. I'm only in my mid 30's and grew up using our VHS camcorder and hi-8 camcorder to film our street hockey games, silly skits, and card games. (swings cane)
Yeah I don't get why they keep pretending like there old, these days you not even middle age until you hit 50. Maybe he had a hard life before having a successful UA-cam channel.
@@southcoastinventors6583 It's a running joke, not sure why people constantly seem to take it so seriously. Plus, I don't know how old you are, obviously, but once you get over 40, you get these jokes a lot more, because you absolutely do feel ancient at times, especially when confronted with some kind of "kids these days" situation.
@@Case_ Never felt that way at all people are free to do what they like, including teenagers. Kids these days are the same as any kid make a lot of mistakes as well as thinking that the content they consume is cutting edge even though most of the time its created by people that are between 28-60.
12:49 you are not a bird... I will forever be convinced that you are a semi-sentient AI.
Just do ANYTHING to prove me wrong, Falcon.
Okay come on now. Grayhill Incident is the most obvious parody. The guy at that " The aliens are getting in " screams about the aliens needing to " GET AWAY FROM THAT HOLE " - or something close to it. ... They're probing people and animals up the butt. It's very clearly a joke.
5:23 the shockwave always hits first in an explosion, this is just good physics.
They somehow made an unlikeable lotr character even less likeable! 😂
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Using a drop down menu to initiate conversations brought me back to 1987 for a moment. Then I saw how obtuse it was and PRESTO, I was back in 2023.
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The fact that Rockstar is a studio that has made games with some of the most insane level of details ever in gaming history but they are also here on this list of "games that didnt care about details".
Recently they have fallen from grace. What they did with Red Dead Online, GTA Definitive edition... and then there's the case of GTA5. Their recent update of GTA online & GTA+ shows how greedy they have become. Not to mention how many times they have remastered GTA5 in past 10 years & sold it at full price. The remasters on console not even on par with the base game that came out on PC, many features are missing on console that was there on PC. Its a literal cashgrab. The success has gone to their head
My new head-canon is that games like Redfall are a sabotage effort by the developers to try to stick it to the corpos. Makes them sting a little bit less.
Your headcanon is unironically canon.
Gollum was like someone accidentally deleted all the assets and scripting 2 weeks before it was scheduled to be released.
Some of the environments looked pretty good, but anything that moved was just... wtf guys.
They took YEARS to develop that game.
Something happened. There is no way thats the best they could do and no way the final product took years to create. No way the devs said "yep. Thats what we were going for."
The previews we got long before release looked so much better.
I am convinced someone deleted all the progress or the computer it was on puked and the backups were unrecoverable or something.
Its yet another example of another delay being better than releasing a half-assed game. When I managed a kitchen, I always had to assure the wait staff that customers would rather their meal take 5 more minutes than come out wrong.
If you send out old fries or an overcooked burger... its gonna be sent back anyways and then there goes your tip. 😂
Gollum was the undercooked piece of chicken that got dropped on the floor and stepped on, and then got sent out anyways 🤣
As always nice work and thank you for all you do
Very welcome
"they have made a lot of improvements over the last year, and it's definitely in a better place than it was at release."
That's literally every game that comes out these days.
I'm not sure if it's a detailed issue, but in Call Of Duty or more specifically warzone 2, if you get hit by a incendiary round and jump in the water, you still take damage like water just doesn't put an end to it or else patched but that's just confusing.
I'm sure that some incendiary materials can burn underwater. Don't know if they're used in real-life incendiary ammo though.
Water can actually make some chemical fires worse.
@@radagast7200 true but if you don't have the necessary hardware to deal with a chemical fire you'll probably try water if it makes it worse or not
The AI of the KSEC guards in _Mirror's Edge: Catalyst._ They attack where you _used_ to be and slip off the edges of buildings.
I think you are absolutely right. Arcane made Redfall bad ON PURPOSE, just because they were FORCED to make it. If an artist is good at paintiing flowers, you cant FORCE him to paint a lion, and then expect it to be good, can you? Especially if he HATES painting lions. So that was Arcanes way of saying: Don't EVER force us to make a game we don't WANT to make, because this is what you'll get. Good on them!
Who in their right minds would choose to make a rushed, very bad looking, with outdated as fuck gameplay Gollum game instead of a big openworld game set in Middle-Earth with realistic combat and graphics like Shadow Of Mordor/War? WE NEED A THIRD GAME or some sort of spiritual sequel in the LOTR universe.
Falcon you son of a gun here we go again! My favorite
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#2 was weirdly in depth when it was pretty much just about a TV in an indie game.
I've been playing a lot of Crime Boss. It's not the worst thing I've played but I can say that when it comes to details they really didn't put much effort into it. A lot of the guns have anachronistic attachments, and are covered in in skins that look like they were pulled straight out of a nerf advertisement.
If you die during one characters special mission it says he died in 1996. All of the calendars I've seen in the game world say 1993(or maybe 92). With that being said, some of the characters dress like they're in the late 80s/early 90s, while others look more mid to late noughties than 90s.
It's all over the place.
DC Universe Online is over eleven years old. And one of the beginner missions is to roam around the city and stop crime if you're a hero. Stop a mugging, a guy stealing a car, etc.. One guy gloats, "This TV is mine now!"
Me: "Don't take this guy to prison. Take him to Arkham. Because who in 2023 gloats about stealing a CRT television?"
About Redfall...
It was absolutely mind-boggling when it was revealed that the internal dev team actually begged the corporate higher-ups to cancel the game. The devs knew the game was broken, far from what can be called a finished product, but they had corporate pressure and immovable deadlines to deal with. So the devs preferred the game be cancelled outright, rather than forever be associated with a broken turd of a game. The higher ups didn't give two sh!ts and pushed the product out anyway.
I still think that with the fixed A.I. Aliens would have been amazing on the Wii U with the Game Pad, oh well, we will never know. 😢
I’m old enough to have used a camcorder 📹 in the 90s 👴🏻
Video camera with external VHS recorder and a separate external battery.
It's must cost an absolute fortune for failure. I loved the 90s snes and mega drive days
Can we get a update on the GTA Trilogy? I’m wondering if it’s worth picking up now… 🧂
No of course it's not. Just pay the real ones
@@mgiebus1869unless you can emulate on your computer or have a original physical copy, you cant play the originals anymore
@@mgiebus1869 i had san Andreas as a digital download for years. I beat it with my ex girlfriend a few years back but when the trilogy came out they took away my ability too download it making you buy the new version
Falcon your RedFall theory is right on point. Its what I was thinking back when the game released. As a developer why would you put your best work into some exploitative POS you don't even want to make?
*Can we take a moment to appreciate how much work he puts into these videos for us 😍*
Calm down, buddy
Sonic 06 A master class of getting hyped for something then finally getting a present for your Birthday and opening it to see. Finally playing it and. . . Well you know the rest.
Is this the kind of video you have to make when there is nothing else to talk about?
Thanks for making me feel old. I used to have a handheld camera that used the little tapes and came with a big vhs type tape holder. You watched them in vhs.
I actually feel bad for the Studio that made Gollum. It's a german Team from Hamburg and in germany there aren't many studios anyway but now they have to shut down, while in the past they where actually making good games like Deponia.
They are not shutting down, they will just focus on publishing in the future
@@Seismo2077 yeah but the development is shutting down
Arrow girl in dnd is reaching back to grab a new arrow from the quiver thats why her hand goes back like I think. Although it does look weird that the string over the bow is so short. It should be extending towards the full top and bottom of the bow where it's recurved. The amount that it's being pulled back makes it look like a kid's toy.
Take note developers. You don't need the best looking graphics of all time, just be consistent, look nice enough, and most importantly fun.
Best game I've played this year, the original Resident Evil 4.
"You don't typically spellcheck an INI file" As a software developer, there is nothing I love more than the cspell tool. Not only is it spell check - it would have caught that capital "A" mistake too. A little automated quality assurance goes a long way!
I think Gollum was inspired by Steve Buscemi’s likeness.
The middle Earth games need more love...
And hopefully a multiplayer edition as orcs soon lmao
Man.. the GTA SA rain at launch was such a pain to watch
I hate lack of detail, but I also have to ask myself why they thought there was high demand for a game where you play as Gollum, of all Lord of the Rings characters.
The Saint Row reboot crash had more effect going into an ad than what it looks like.
Redfall suffered from mismanagement. They forced a studio who does singleplayer immersive sims and said here make a multiplayer live service game. Then when they were asked ok what do we put it in they said "We're not sure we need to run some focus groups." Most games in development hell suffer from higher ups making demands that don't make sense and rewriting everything up until the last minute. Like Anthem and them taking out and putting back in flight over and over. Some concepts you have to build around.
Be aware that a ton of houses have fake chimneys like that, especially with gas/electric fireplaces being more and more common
Also, that archer animation wasn't "throwing her hand back" from how strong it is. She was reaching back for an arrow from the quiver.
I've not seen much of the Saints Row reboot, so when you showed the clip of the motorcycle running into the back of a truck and it made a bonk sound, i said "is that seriously it!?" out loud to myself
I'm going to have to disagree a bit with Strangers of Paradise. If you keep talking to the NPCs through the game, you learn about how saving the crystals is actually making life harder for people rather than just being a good thing. Such as saving fixing the Earth Crystal actually added too many nutrients and such ended up killing the plants or how fire became a lot hotter than they were used to which made forging and cooking much harder because they weren't used to the heat.
His main complaint was how it was executed not just what the npcs were saying.
And besides, that "May the Crystals' blessing be with you" line is a reference to how too many NPCs said that same line throughout the original FF.
Redfall's atrocious water graphics - especially on the boat at at start - still give me nightmares. Sadly, I almost bought Crime Boss just for laughs, knowing it'd be bad, but thankfully, I came to my senses and saved some coin. Also, my hand's raised here as I remember the humble camcorder. (I was born right before the advent of Intellevision, digging Pitfall and BurgerTime, whilst my dad got hooked on Snafu, staying up late to play as Mom got mad.)
I might be the only one but I think Vice City is still my favorite GTA game the feel the voice acting the story everything and the sound track was really good
I always consider the Grayhill Incident to be a highly exaggerated satirical spoof of people in the 80's and 90's during the height of the conspiracy theorist, X-Files generation, up to, and including, the cheesy alien grays. The B/W TVs actually play into the satire, giving you the feeling of a world with the original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits and such being on the TVs in B/W, so that's what the TVs are like, here, to add immersion to the satire.
But, that's just my view, and opinion, of the game.
Man, this actually makes the game so much worse if it's true. I thought it was just a simple bad game made by one person in their spare time that kinda got a bit viral, but if all the weirdness and jank was actually intentionally supposed to be all that because that somehow equals "satire" and "humor"...ugh...
Everyday I watch Gameranx for my nightly dose of bright white screens. Thank you, Gameranx
Transcript from a Crime Boss: Rockay City development brainstorming call...
D1: This will be fun, but some might find its game play a tad derivative.
D2: Maybe we could provide options for different problem solving approaches. Some player will prefer to go in guns-blazing, but we could also offer a stealthier approach. Players could sneak around and eliminate threats by hitting the self-destruct butt...
D1: Sounds intriguing, but I think you cut out there.
D2: Nope.
5:32 Gollum clearly died from video game related conditions
10. GTA San Adreas
9. Redfall
8. LOTR: Gollum
7. NPC Dialogue in Stranger Paradise
6. Crime Boss
5. Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance
4. Saints Row (2022)
3. Sonic 2006
2. The Greyhill Incident
1. Aliens Colonial Marines
As bad as Aliens Colonial Marines could be, I had a blast playing through it on PC in co-op on Ultimate Badass difficulty with the TemplarGFX Overhaul mod installed. That mod actually makes the game playable and enjoyable ie what it should've been at launch.
Damn, this does exist? Someone trying to salvage this?
Is it actually worth it? I would definitely give it a shot.
Hahahahaha Falcon dude... that... when you just went "#1 Aliens Colonial Marines thats it." I burst into such laughter!!
Isn't Crime Boss basically just Payday? Seriously, the loading the van with bags of cash and making people lay down is exactly the same
They ran out of time. Not only was the team split in half during development, but the game was mandated to release in 2006 for Sonic's Anniversary.
This game is literally running on an older build, because the current build they had, was more buggy, and they didn't have time to patch it. So they had to use the older build.
That's why 06's demo runs better, cause the demo was a piece cut off from the current build, that had to be ditched.
I try to give a little benefit of the doubt to developers, because they're saddled with extemely high expectations from everyone, their bosses and gamers alike. Not saying that everything needs to be excused, but when corners are cut, I want to find out the reason on what went wrong.
I really wish we could get a Colonial Marines type game, but have it be good and borrow some alien isolation type horror sections
The UFO scene on that TV for Number 2 was an actual bit of footage. Corridor Crew does a UFO Debunking video and that's one of the clips they look at.
#7 reminded me of when a friend told me about what LARPing was like in the early 1990s when he went to his first larp. Like, in many modern larps you might get a character that's a dozen page long mini novel. Intricate story lines, personal connections, motivations, fears, desires etc.
So my guy's first larp in the early 90's had two big factions who were in two different camps in the forest, connected by a road. This guy and his friend's characters were two guards, and the only thing they were supposed to do is stand on the road between the camps and ask for a coin as toll from anyone passing by. They did get written characters, but both were only a single sentence with only one word of difference:
"You are loyal to emperor Augustus."
"You are fairly loyal to emperor Augustus."
And that's it. 😂 I laughed my ass off when he told me this story. 🤣🤣
"colour tv have been standard for 2 decades" lol that's a classic I forgot how old I am type of moment.
The ppl who green lit Golum had to be trolling lmfao cause aint no way half a team of professional game designers decided to make that shit 😂
Love all the videos from you guys, I can always tell if it's Falcon or Jake narrating the video just from the titles lol
The making of Gollum videos are pretty hilarious. “We try to make some big level, and you know, like little level too.” Lol we use buzzword like small space, not small space.
19:44 Falcon sounds so disgusted that he had to do this list right there.
I definitely agree on the arcane. One cause dishonored is hands down over the best games I've played in this last decade. That's now 11 years old blows my mind. That's how old it is already, and every place you visit. In the original, dishonor has so much detail has objects. Furniture reasons to stop and look just to admire it. And then of course, it helps that the esthetic, the graphics, and the art style they went for has aged very beautifully in the last 11 years like a fine wine like. The game and game play even though some people consider the fps aspects. A little outdated still feel smooth and good like it did when I played it in 2012 on computer and I played it on my phone on a cloud service on Xbox. And oh my goodness, it didn't matter if I got on my Xbox or my phone. The game was awesome and epic and beautiful. And I beat it recently like 3 times just to see different outcomes. To use different powers and even go a whole game without killing people. Which I got that achievement. dishnored is the standard of single player games should all adhere to if theyre gonna be short winded with replay ability.
Notice how none of these are games made by Nintendo.
Also, the only time Nintendo didn't bother with ALL the details was back in Super smash Bros Melee, which is explained by the game being rushed, announced before it was even in development. Because it was rushed, certain details in the mechanics went overlooked, which is why wavedashing exists in it. Sakurai has since worked diligently to make sure that NEVER repeats, as these wave dash-like techs get patched out the moment they get discovered online. So every time someone with a streaming channel, or a youtube channel brings up "advanced tech for movement in Smash! Newly discovered!" Nintendo sees those videos and rumors, tests out the speculated "advanced tech", and says "Nope! that's exploiting a glitch! Gotta patch that out!", and they fix it.
Smash Melee is the ONLY game in the Smash Bros franchise to be rushed and plagued with bugs!
Although yes the story, writing, and dialogue in stranger of paradise are brutal most of the time, I thoroughly disagree that the gameplay systems are half-assed. Similar to alot of team ninja games, they specifically make it so in depth gameplay features are less required for main story for casual players, while incredibly important for post-game for hardcore players. Things like job affinities, equipment and weapon stats that people rarely delve into during the main game are crucial to survive in ng+ or postgame. For example the Sage job if you reached 400% job affinity it passively allowed your potions to also restore Mp and Break and also allow your block to compteley negate all magic damage. Each job had their own playstyle, and since you can have high affinity in any job even if it's not the one you're using, you can make endless over the top and insane builds. It does bog you down with lots of gear, but you are generually supposed to turn on auto recylce so it instantly breaks it down bad stuff for you to give you upgrade materials