I thought black myth was basically a boss monster hunter game with a super closed arena like environment based on a trailer and was ready to forget all about it. Bought it day 1 after previewing gameplay while holding my breath and crossing my fingers. I havent even thought about any other game since its release. I skipped work monday just to play it without my kids around 😂 i am 100% sucked into it and the world and story they created. One of thee absolute best games i have ever played and cannot wait for the new content theyre making for it. I’ll preorder any game from game science now. And i havent pre ordered for about 4 years
Black Myth feels like they showed what they could do, got people to invest and more talent to join, and then they finally came out with a good finished game by not rushing it. I heard there were bugs, but I never had any. This was what No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk could have been and eventually did become had they been in development for longer.
Most of Cyberpunk bugs and performance issues were only something you could see on last-gen consoles. On PC I experienced exactly two bugs, one which was fixed in like the first patch (some goofy textures in one location) and the other one was my car randomly clipping through the road as I was riding it, which I was unable to replicated in my ~120 hours of play. Had zero problems with stability or general performance. The polish (no pun intended) on it, yeah, particularly the police AI and spawning was atrocious, but you could go your entire playthrough without ever getting a single wanted star, so it ultimately wasn't even a relevant issue.
@@LecherousLizard I bought cyberpunk in day one on PC. It never faced a bug once in the game, but the game itself was poor. The secondary content aside from the main quest were lame, boring and repetitive, they promoted so high the idea of many different outcomes and freedom of progression but in the end the game has like 4 endings and even less important things to change trough history. I was really disappointed with this game, they promised so much and delievered too few. I hope they'll fix this in cyberpunk 2 and make an actual RPG.
Black myth is the perfect example that it is still VERY possible to create great games with a smaller dev team. It’s just that larger producers are too busy squeezing as much money from their consumers as they can, they became akin to that of scammers.
GS was a small team back then but the trailers shown eventually attracted massive growth and investments for them, look at the end credit, this game is such a collaborative effort that it deserves all the cultural celebration
Small team but with some of the 1% developers in China, if you search up the portfolio of the people in the team you wouldn't be surprise why Black Myth is a success.
What's more amazing is how, despite being a complete game, the devs had to cut out a lot of content from the main game due to budget issues. Which was understandable since they're a pretty new dev team that started making their 1st big game. Originally, it was supposed to have about 13 chapters, but instead, they brought it down to 6.
They built a tech demo and then got a huge amount of funding after from Tencent and the Chinese government which is also why you see a good number of other non-MOBA Chinese games releasing. This was not a small team or an indie production for at least the past 2, 3 years. China has been spending a lot of money on gaming ever since games like Genshin Impact.
Wukong was one of the most surprising games I've played, i never knew anything about it and the little I saw on trailers during some events were pretty phishy, but after it released, a couple of weeks later I read a little bit and saw some videos and it was enough to take the risk and buy it. Such an amazing game
Wukong was truly a unicorn and felt like a fever dream game. Oddly enough, the one thing its trailer did was both seem believable, yet too good to be true at the same time. Like, there are times when you can tell a game looks just way too good and like its simulated gameplay. Just basically a high rendered cutscene made to look like people are playing, but Wukong actually looked legit. And then it was legit. Thinking about Wukong, I hope the people that made Atomic Heart can learn what from what they did with that game, and make their next one better. Because I remember that game seeming too good to be true, and was surprised when it eventually came out, but it just wasnt there fully as a gameplay experience.
Completely agree about Atomic heart. I enjoyed it but it def had its flaws. It seemed like it teetered on the edge of greatness the whole play through and just never went all the way over. If there’s a sequel I do hope they learn from mistakes because the foundation of the game is solid
0:24 Number 10 Black Myth Wukong 2:13 Number 9 Palworld 3:52 Number 8 Kingdom Come Deliverance 5:28 Number 7 Cuphead 6:59 Number 6 Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes 9:01 Number 5 Vampire Survivors 10:41 Number 4 System Shock Remake 12:27 Number 3 Final Fantasy 7 Remake 14:54 Number 2 Omori 16:17 Number 1 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
I fell into the boss rush Wukong category and was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. This game is awesome. I just started NG+ Now where the heck is SILKSONG?!?
Well after watching xqc stream Cuphead on Kick it might aswell been a sham because I barely got to see anything from the game except a grown man screaming 💀
This trope is played out man, it's videos old at this point. It's annoying, sounds like the Ohio thing all over again. Please stfu, it's just a different mic
Honestly, Havent gotten to play Black myth myself (yet) but watching lets plays and friends play the game... The trailers were really underselling Black Myth
People at Game Science were originally working with Tencent. They were the core dev for a Journey to the West related title. Tencent pulled the money on them but people were really in love with that game. So these guys came out and made their own stuff.
Honestly, Wukong and System Shock remake should be number 1 and 2 IMO. The other games were either indie games that LOOKED like an indy game, or made by a massive studio who has done big things before. While FF7 remake seemed unlikely...it's Square Enix, they have done this before. But Wukong looked way too good to be true, the graphics, storyline, artwork, combat, all looked too good to be done by a unknown Chinese developer. Same with SS, while it was done by a decent studio, they haven't made something like that before and both games turned out amazing.
Black Myth Wukong is my favorite game right now I can’t get enough of it. Over halfway through chapter 3 just hit level 60. I have beat the game 3 times now and I am level 200 😂
Black Myth: Wukong GOTY by far. And i dont even play these type of games. Was pretty fun watching a Swedish streamer (Miss Mikkaa) getting flooded by Chinese and Asian viewers the first days thanks to someone uploading her Wukong videos on bilibili and added fansubs..
@thatdudeinmaroon Def give it a shot before #2 releases if you like grounded RPGs. Basically like Oblivion but non fantasy and very lore accurate to the set and setting.
It's the perfect game for people who complain that real life keeps them away from gaming. Only have half an hour a day? That's just about how much a run takes, and if you really have to quit and walk away before finishing it's not like you're losing progress and have to do it all again since the game is all about repeated runs. Nordic Ashes is another game I recommend for the same reasons.
@ramrodbldm9876 Oh wow do you work with Gameranx? Do you work with Falcon? ARE you Falcon? Because those are the only ways you can know how they feel about their viewers. Stop ruining the vibes
@@ThomasVvV A quick internet search will prove him right. Just look for the before and after. Granted that they weren't altered in a full school marm/nun habit/hijab kind of way. Much more subtle. But, the point that an M-rated game had these changes made was the sticking point.
@@ThomasVvV It's not a lie. Day 1 patch censored some outfits and even before the day 1 patch the game came pre-emptively censored, since you can see item icons/drop pop-ups that look very different from what you actually get. The fact the censorship isn't "big" doesn't change squat. The game was advertised as having ZERO censorship, but it was censored at least two times before anybody even got a chance to play it.
I was overjoyed when I first heard about a game about the monkey king. But just like everyone, I too, thought it was too good to be true. so I took the news with a bit of salt. Never have I ever been so happy to be proven wrong. Black Myth: Wukong has now become on of my most favourite games. The way it continues wukong's story was absolutely amazing. Hats off to the developers. Real Chads right there.
Kingdoms of Amular still deserves spiritual successor at least. R.A. Salvatore is an amazing writer and world builder in his own right. Would love to see him utilized in gaming more.
Hi Falcon & Gameranx. Great video. Can you do one that lists successful games made by micro-developer teams, like 1 person. Space Bourne, Braid, Minecraft (originally), Stardew, Undertale. Those people are legends.
1 thing I've always heard about China: They underpromise and overdeliver And I've always found it to be true. They get everything done earlier than promised and under budget. Workaholics, the lot of them.
Baldur's Gate 3 should be on this list TBH. A lot of people seem to forget how buggy & unpolished the demo/beta in 2022 was. The dice were would roll under 10 about 80% of rolls, even with weighted dice on, tone of dialogue & extures were missing. Maps, models, cutscenes unfinished for a sample form an early part of the game. Everybody I saw play it said "THIS is supposed to be done by Q3 2023? It's gonna be a trainwreck!" I was so surprised when people were actually enjoying the final game!
Larian was hardly unknown before the release of bg3. Maybe it was true for ds:o but most of us after playing ds we had plenty of faith in larian to deliver a good product.
China and Japan gonna take over gaming back. But it all depends on the Japanese whether they will succumb to literal mad men/women (wokist) pressure or stood by their own values. Otherwise….. bye2 gaming industry 😢
I knew System Shock Redux was going to get finished and be at least pretty good because Nightdive never stopped communicating with backers. The real KS scams (and I've fallen for a couple) are the ones that send out updates less and less frequently and eventually stop communicating altogether. In this case, they always kept us in the loop, so I never lost faith.
The difference of Days Gone and Black Myth Wulong is that the latter’s first trailer was full of animation while the first’s trailer had a limited amount; it just contained beautiful static assets, something which is a given when using modern engines like Unreal Engine 5. Animations are maybe the most expensive part of video game development.
Fact WUkong is it's own legendary game out of nowhere was pretty insane, the thing sold like 10 million on the 1st day or something, and it deserved to.o.
Sold 10 mil in three days, over 18 mil in two weeks, consistently had over 1 mil concurrent players at peak daily since it launched for the past 20 days, well deserved but still insanely exceeded all expectation I would say, considering it's not some big old well-known titles like GTA, RDR and Witcher.
@@cheungchingtong sorry but.. the story of sun wukong is known by FAR more people then the story of GTA, RDR or The Witcher xD even if you take the fan bases from ALL beloved games all over the world... you probably still end up with more people who know sun wukong then you have on the other side xD
@@jockwithajoystickI don't think it should discount the game but something like 80% of the player base at peak concurrent was from China. Again doesn't mean the game is bad, it's definitely good.
@@jockwithajoystick jep, over 80% from china. and yes, it is a good game.. but as so many things from china its not new.. its nioh + sekiro + nier:automata in a pre-existing "universe". i defenetly enjoyd to 100% it on steam but.. in my opinion its a bit overhyped just because it is a normal game with no micro transaction BS or politics forced into our faces xD If it was not for Sun Wukong it would have been a pretty ordinary game (that i would probably still have preorderd and binged down!) 😅
@@Elwaves2925 I heard there was one pizza, but the guy was walking by when he filmed the video. So, it was only because they caught him immediately after the words left his lips.
What I really appreciate about Gameranx is they don’t swear in every sentence and are really mature in all there videos thanks Gameranx for these wonderful years and beyond.
Great list! I was a kickstarter backer for Eiyuden Chronicle. Hundred Heroes and I have to say: while it has some rough edges and things that could and should be better, it is pretty much what I hoped for overall and I am so happy I supported the game from the very beginning.
I've been enjoying the game myself (I never played its ancestral games), but there's almost too much to do in the game. In the kinda guy who loves to play a game blind on the first run through, but this game is just so full of things to do that I'm honestly thinking of looking up guides for some of the side stuff, like the Beigoma (and I've also heard rumors of a racing mini game?). I had to put it down for the past two months just to decompress, lmao
@@SuperiorPosterior Absolutely fair! I honestly believe the Beigoma game is not handled very well. For one it is introduced very early but can only really be tackled later on unless you are dedicated to it and it is a strange mix of button mashing and luck as well. Plus it is one side activitiy you to progress pretty far if you want the best ending. Most people disliked it, I think, I personally think it was simply too much but a funny distraction overall. In general, I think the mini games are fun, unless you aim to get the achievement/trophy because then it becomes a time consuming task. Like, the racing game is fun. You breed egg monsters for races and they have stats and obstacles they are better and worse at, so you have to choose the right monster, which has a maximum amount of races. That is where breeding comes into play. If you do it for fun, it is actually pretty decent, but if you aim to finish it, it takes time. I think I had a bit over 300 races in the end becasue the last few races need to have monsters bred in a specific way. or the card game. Kinda simple, but very fun! but winning against every single character in your party is too much. By the way, if you liked the game itself, the story and characters, I highly recommend takinmg a look at Suikoden 2. It is my favorite game ever. Nowadays it is not that expensive anymore thanks to a rerelease and in about half a year it will finally get a remaster, which might be worth waiting for, especially since it will be 1 and 2 in a package.
Vampire survivor is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had in 40 years of gaming. The combination of the value for the price and how addictive it is is mind blowing 🤯 I hope they keep releasing add ons I am dying to support them more. I bought it on the Xbox switch and PS5 lol
Vampire Survivors is what happens when someone knows every single dirty trick casinos and gacha games use to get you hooked, uses them all without a shred of hesitation, and then just stops taking your money because he doesn't really *need* infinity dollars.
Buying unfinished products is becoming a common trend, then hiding behind “Updating “ is becoming increasingly difficult for me to understand. So wait, I’m not only buying the game, but also paying for the updates as well which will come after you have collected everyone’s money , so with that logic, our names should be put on the production credits. The game isn’t complete and we just helped to complete it.
A current game to keep your eye on is The Killing Antidote. It was published already as a free playable playtest on steam and it has very fun gameplay and good graphics. It's going into early access next month with a larger update.
If you played Rebirth now we have a stunning revelation that the guy talking in the first trailer was actually Gi Natak speaking about our characters journey, same VA on trailer is the same Gi’s VA
@@TheGabrielSevero123 David Lodge is the voice in the 2015 reveal trailer, who does sound similar to Bruce Thomas who plays Gi Nattak, but no relation or significance.
Thing is there was no real reason for people to think games like Black Myth, Palworld and cup head etc were scams except for peoples preconceptions or personal agenda.
Black myth wukong is GOTY no arguments, it not only deliverd but delivered hard. The bosses, the cinematic and anime style of telling stories, skill system and tree, graphics and last but not least badass mc( kinda i mean we are basically wukong) top tier. MASTERPIECE
It would be the game of the year if it was a popularity contest. Since it’s not it’s going to Rebirth or Astro Bot which have much higher critical acclaim. Probably Astro Bot, it has 40+ 10/10s from critics, perfect score. Wukong on the other hand only has 5 10/10s.
@liquidsword601i mean black myth wukong got the criteria for GOTY -bosses design top notch -Graphics top notch -Sound and environment also top -sales are also good 18 millions in 2 weeks _ combats feels smooth ( could be a lil polished SURE) -story is great( journey to the west) -user experience is great ( for me at least) i can see contenders like ff7 rebirth, helldivers 2, if dlc counts shadow of the erd tree and some are coming but i stand with Black myth wukong.
Its a great game, but am I the only one who thinks that pretty much every mechanic in the game is straight out of other games. (God of war, souls series etc) I feel like goty should be innovative and fresh, but wukong isn't none of that.
I dropped playing Vampire Survivors because it's too uncomfortable. I got so used to watching ads and scams while playing that when I finally downloaded Vampire Survivors I realized how much time I really spend on games and decided to quit.
The whole 38 Studios thing is such a shame. I was lucky enough to be at the midnight release for KoA. The whole dev team was there, and they were all so stoked to see their game released, and they all seemed really passionate about the project. Curt Schilling and RA Salvatore were even there signing autographs.
I only clicked on this video to say: The thumbnail guy is the most consistent person in New York. Always produces the goofiest thumbnails, the man never misses. Hats off to you, thumbnail guy.
Supposedly the lawsuit is over the mechanic of throwing an object at a creature in order to capture it, a patent which they applied for after Palworld came out. It has nothing to do with character assets.
How does everyone keep up with games? Aside from my decades long backlog, I’m backlogged in the past few weeks alone with Black Myth, Visions of Mana, and now Astro Butt.
Stop buying them. There is no other way. You know when you move your hand and you're just about to click "buy"? Yeah don't do that part. Watching gaming videos makes you want to buy and play more too. I had to get that under control.
Trick is to buy one at a time play it to completion and then pick the next one you feel you need to play. Give up the fear of missing out if the game isn't good enough to still be on the market when you finally get around to it then it most likely wasn't that good at this point.
I stopped buying games after I bought persona 345 and the yakuza collection that'll probably keep my busy for a fat minute despite me wanting to play wukong since it got announced
@@Jjonnnnnn Last one I bought was palworld but that's because PS+ added a bunch of classic ps2 games I wanted to replay such as all three time splitters games.
Wukong made me really worry. And i am glad it was awesome The game features -no repetitive bosses -poetry to describe characters (when was the last time u saw poetry as character description) - complete game . No dlc or micro transactions - back tracking and upgrades - beautiful art design - ability to turn into enemies (even get their attacks) - scale of enemies increase with progress - chapter endings have moral tales in unique animation styles - beautiful music - multiple endings - 40 hours of gameplay -new game plus with all your upgrades attached .
this is to be expected of games. you idiots that have been wasting money on the garbage games releasing are the fools thinking a game not being terrible is something to praise. it's sad
BMW and SM2 did something alright, but something completley different. They prooved very hard what BG3 hat hypothesized: The problem is not the available technology, the problem is money hungry cash grabbers in so called tripple-A gaming companies just "doing the bare minimum" while simultaniously blaming gamers who demand better.
I'm always SO happy when I see Amalur mentioned in a positive way. I found it randomly by looking for "Games like Fable and Skyrim" and that's literally feels. Fable and Skyrim had a baby and it has everything I love and makes up for it's flaws. This was BEFORE the remaster so was extremely happy when that happened and had followed it closely. Now I can only dream of a sequel and that it's just as good or even better.
People got to stop calling black myth a boss rush, it's not. You're not required to fight half the bosses and can go exploring. Also, by definition, a boss rush would be a boss fight right after another. Only chapter one feels that way since it has the smallest map and even then it's your choice to fight every boss.
Do you write your scripts with the music in mind or do you just have really great editors? I really enjoyed the music shift when you said the word SCAMS at the beginning of the video at 0:06
Black Myth dev were "right people at wrong place and wrong time", they worked for Tencent, but Tencent been Tencent, killed their project and pulled the fund, so they left and found GS.
@@arshia5802probably that H5N1 avian flu. I think their editors might use different software or have different settings from each other. While never poor quality, Gameranx audio does fluctuate from video to video
Who would have thought, China of all made a legit, meanwhile AAA developers like Ubisoft putting out terrible quality games after terrible quality games.
I LOVE Kingdoms of Amalur; I still replay it. The only thing that disappointed me about it was that the remaster (which I bought, and was a good remaster in and of itself) didn't follow through with the new DLC we were supposed to see. The base remaster was great though, still worth getting.
0:24 10 Black Myth Wukong 2:13 9 Pal World 3:52 8 Kindom Come Deliverance 5:28 7 Cuphead 6:59 6 Aiyuden Chronicle 100 Heroes 9:01 5 Vampire Survivors 10:41 4 System Shock Remake 12:27 3 Final Fantasy 7 Remake 14:54 2 Omori 16:17 1 Kingdom of Amalur Your refusal to include game names in timestamps isn't just inconvenient-it's a disservice to your audience. Prioritizing clicks over clarity shows greed, and that kind of selfishness won't go unnoticed. Remember, karma has a way of catching up!
Wukong was a huge leap for China because before Wukong released i really though all the currently announced games from China were scams. Wukong, Where Winds Meet, Phantom Blade Zero, Wuchang... so many of them yet not a single one came to release...
1 thing I'll say: I don't care anymore if a team is made out of "industry veterans", whether they've worked together before. I don't care what games they've worked on. It's meaningless. They could be talented as fuck, but without someone with an actual vision and someone managing the team, let alone the company ... that just means nothing.
I've had that belief for years I start to roll my eyes when I hear "so and so is starting a new company and is compromised of vet devs of x games" like that's cool and all but that doesn't mean much if you still come out of the gate broken
@@antoniojosetorrente559To be fair, they were forced to rush development due to publisher pressure. I think there was a great game there that simply didn’t have the time or money to properly iterate the design into something less awkward and unfun.
I'm genuinely surprised Left 4 Dead 2 didn't appear on here. The game got a trailer just 8 months after the first game released with the full game releasing just 4 more months after that, releasing exactly a year after Left 4 Dead 1. Everyone though it was a cash grab, but even though the game was developed within a literal year it turned out even better than the previous title and improved it in many ways.
Thanks to Asian devs bringing back my favorite genre (single player action adventure). There’s Stellar Blade, Black Myth, and Phantom Blade Zero is also looking dope.
Especially the part where Stellar Blade was marketed as "zero censorship" and the game ended up getting censored at least once before it was even released and then once more with the Day 1 patch.
To be fair while the Final Fantasy VII game is real, IT IS NOT a remake of the game but like an alternative timeline thing. It is like if you are playing Chrono Trigger and a third of the game in it turns into Chrono Cross.
I thought black myth was basically a boss monster hunter game with a super closed arena like environment based on a trailer and was ready to forget all about it. Bought it day 1 after previewing gameplay while holding my breath and crossing my fingers. I havent even thought about any other game since its release. I skipped work monday just to play it without my kids around 😂 i am 100% sucked into it and the world and story they created. One of thee absolute best games i have ever played and cannot wait for the new content theyre making for it. I’ll preorder any game from game science now. And i havent pre ordered for about 4 years
Black Myth feels like they showed what they could do, got people to invest and more talent to join, and then they finally came out with a good finished game by not rushing it. I heard there were bugs, but I never had any. This was what No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk could have been and eventually did become had they been in development for longer.
Most of Cyberpunk bugs and performance issues were only something you could see on last-gen consoles. On PC I experienced exactly two bugs, one which was fixed in like the first patch (some goofy textures in one location) and the other one was my car randomly clipping through the road as I was riding it, which I was unable to replicated in my ~120 hours of play. Had zero problems with stability or general performance.
The polish (no pun intended) on it, yeah, particularly the police AI and spawning was atrocious, but you could go your entire playthrough without ever getting a single wanted star, so it ultimately wasn't even a relevant issue.
I have finished black myth wukong and never had any bug so far
Making it in China was probably easier. And they are now working on an expansion, and I can not wait!!!
@@Tamikawashere The devs literally live in China, where else would they even be making a game?
@@LecherousLizard I bought cyberpunk in day one on PC. It never faced a bug once in the game, but the game itself was poor. The secondary content aside from the main quest were lame, boring and repetitive, they promoted so high the idea of many different outcomes and freedom of progression but in the end the game has like 4 endings and even less important things to change trough history. I was really disappointed with this game, they promised so much and delievered too few. I hope they'll fix this in cyberpunk 2 and make an actual RPG.
Black myth is the perfect example that it is still VERY possible to create great games with a smaller dev team. It’s just that larger producers are too busy squeezing as much money from their consumers as they can, they became akin to that of scammers.
GS was a small team back then but the trailers shown eventually attracted massive growth and investments for them, look at the end credit, this game is such a collaborative effort that it deserves all the cultural celebration
Small team but with some of the 1% developers in China, if you search up the portfolio of the people in the team you wouldn't be surprise why Black Myth is a success.
What's more amazing is how, despite being a complete game, the devs had to cut out a lot of content from the main game due to budget issues. Which was understandable since they're a pretty new dev team that started making their 1st big game. Originally, it was supposed to have about 13 chapters, but instead, they brought it down to 6.
They built a tech demo and then got a huge amount of funding after from Tencent and the Chinese government which is also why you see a good number of other non-MOBA Chinese games releasing. This was not a small team or an indie production for at least the past 2, 3 years. China has been spending a lot of money on gaming ever since games like Genshin Impact.
Wukong was one of the most surprising games I've played, i never knew anything about it and the little I saw on trailers during some events were pretty phishy, but after it released, a couple of weeks later I read a little bit and saw some videos and it was enough to take the risk and buy it. Such an amazing game
Wukong was truly a unicorn and felt like a fever dream game. Oddly enough, the one thing its trailer did was both seem believable, yet too good to be true at the same time. Like, there are times when you can tell a game looks just way too good and like its simulated gameplay. Just basically a high rendered cutscene made to look like people are playing, but Wukong actually looked legit. And then it was legit.
Thinking about Wukong, I hope the people that made Atomic Heart can learn what from what they did with that game, and make their next one better. Because I remember that game seeming too good to be true, and was surprised when it eventually came out, but it just wasnt there fully as a gameplay experience.
Completely agree about Atomic heart. I enjoyed it but it def had its flaws. It seemed like it teetered on the edge of greatness the whole play through and just never went all the way over. If there’s a sequel I do hope they learn from mistakes because the foundation of the game is solid
actually many people knew it was real when they saw the trailer because you can actually see lag which would not exist in prerendered content.
0:24 Number 10 Black Myth Wukong
2:13 Number 9 Palworld
3:52 Number 8 Kingdom Come Deliverance
5:28 Number 7 Cuphead
6:59 Number 6 Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
9:01 Number 5 Vampire Survivors
10:41 Number 4 System Shock Remake
12:27 Number 3 Final Fantasy 7 Remake
14:54 Number 2 Omori
16:17 Number 1 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Thank you 👍
Honestly you should get part of the revenue for this video 👍
It's "Eiyuden Chronicles"!! 🤬
Thank you. I just couldn't understand Falcon's accent for No.7 Kept typing Cut pad, Cut head, Cup hat. lol
Po World?
Black Myth Wukong is SO GOOD. It really has no right to be as awesome as it is.
I fell into the boss rush Wukong category and was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. This game is awesome. I just started
NG+
Now where the heck is SILKSONG?!?
Well after watching xqc stream Cuphead on Kick it might aswell been a sham because I barely got to see anything from the game except a grown man screaming 💀
xqc only knows how to play overwatch lol
I saw that too, was painful
why would u watch the ADHD ridden crazy guy? no offense? xD
LMAO thats low key funny
😂😂
Why i feel falcon.. doesnt sound like falcon..
@@SS_TeluguGamingTV he's travelling stop over analysing
sound so serious for falcon
A.I
This trope is played out man, it's videos old at this point. It's annoying, sounds like the Ohio thing all over again. Please stfu, it's just a different mic
I was thinking the same thing
Wokung is an absolute masterpiece.
Dude black myth wukong is so good, I was upset when I did everything because i didn't want it to end
Honestly, Havent gotten to play Black myth myself (yet) but watching lets plays and friends play the game...
The trailers were really underselling Black Myth
People at Game Science were originally working with Tencent. They were the core dev for a Journey to the West related title. Tencent pulled the money on them but people were really in love with that game. So these guys came out and made their own stuff.
Honestly, Wukong and System Shock remake should be number 1 and 2 IMO. The other games were either indie games that LOOKED like an indy game, or made by a massive studio who has done big things before. While FF7 remake seemed unlikely...it's Square Enix, they have done this before. But Wukong looked way too good to be true, the graphics, storyline, artwork, combat, all looked too good to be done by a unknown Chinese developer. Same with SS, while it was done by a decent studio, they haven't made something like that before and both games turned out amazing.
Black Myth Wukong is my favorite game right now I can’t get enough of it. Over halfway through chapter 3 just hit level 60. I have beat the game 3 times now and I am level 200 😂
They will add a dlc in early 2025
I can’t wait for that
@@LollipopLop I suggest you read the original story of Black Myth: Journey to the West. There are 81 bosses in it. How many of them have you met now?
@@祖宗-e5o i have met all of them I have beaten roughly 90 of them
Every once in a while, Falcon doesn't sound quite right. He doesn't sound "off" just different.
Because people vary day to day. I’ve noticed it too. Sometimes he just doesn’t sound passionate, and that’s okay
He is now AI 🤖
Just sounds like a different mic set up, and possibly has a cold
That was the first thing I thought when the video started. I thought it was someone else entirely, though.
@unrealskunkworks same figured they was tryna have some rando pretend to be falcon lmao 😅
Black Myth: Wukong GOTY by far. And i dont even play these type of games. Was pretty fun watching a Swedish streamer (Miss Mikkaa) getting flooded by Chinese and Asian viewers the first days thanks to someone uploading her Wukong videos on bilibili and added fansubs..
I bought 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance' recently on Steam because it was on sale for dirt cheap. I'm about an hour in now and I love it.
@thatdudeinmaroon Def give it a shot before #2 releases if you like grounded RPGs. Basically like Oblivion but non fantasy and very lore accurate to the set and setting.
Bought it on console [PS5, though it's a PS4 game]... don't recommend it, fps is God awful.
It's a magnificent game. One of the top 5 I've ever played. Its not one you rush through as I spent 300 hours on a single play through and loved it.
@@Beer_Wolf "Bought it on console" Ahh, see there's your problem.
@mrchi3f1179 not necessarily. Plenty of FPS games with perfectly fine 60fps or so... this game however was running at an abysmal 24fps.
Vampire Survivors was such a fun game. Definitely recommend if anyone is looking for a good, chill time
Just bought it on sale from PlayStation store, now I'm completely hooked 😅
It's the perfect game for people who complain that real life keeps them away from gaming. Only have half an hour a day? That's just about how much a run takes, and if you really have to quit and walk away before finishing it's not like you're losing progress and have to do it all again since the game is all about repeated runs. Nordic Ashes is another game I recommend for the same reasons.
This was a fun video and BMW is epic. You guys should do a video on 10 games we thought were gonna be awesome but turned out to be scams.
Black Myth and Space Marine 2 felt too good to be true, and they actually turned out outstanding... And like always, Love you Falcon and Gameranx..
They don't love you that's forsure. They love your views and that's where it stops.
@ramrodbldm9876 Oh wow do you work with Gameranx? Do you work with Falcon? ARE you Falcon? Because those are the only ways you can know how they feel about their viewers. Stop ruining the vibes
@@tvanbus1759 They're a sad individual so ofc he has to bring others down.
@@ramrodbldm9876uh what?
Negative reviews on Steam paint Space Marine 2 to be a shambles at the moment. Hopefully they'll get it working for all the people who bought it.
Black Myth Wukong a promise delivered that's why it sells and peoples loving it.
Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong really lived up the hype and proved us all wrong
Until the dev for stellar blade caved in and nerfed most of the outfits.
@@NBAduxhow much pixelated nudity do you need
Go touch grass or actual boobs
@@NBAdux Thats such a lie lol. Go play the game you clearly havent
@@ThomasVvV A quick internet search will prove him right. Just look for the before and after. Granted that they weren't altered in a full school marm/nun habit/hijab
kind of way. Much more subtle. But, the point that an M-rated game had these changes made was the sticking point.
@@ThomasVvV It's not a lie. Day 1 patch censored some outfits and even before the day 1 patch the game came pre-emptively censored, since you can see item icons/drop pop-ups that look very different from what you actually get.
The fact the censorship isn't "big" doesn't change squat. The game was advertised as having ZERO censorship, but it was censored at least two times before anybody even got a chance to play it.
I was overjoyed when I first heard about a game about the monkey king. But just like everyone, I too, thought it was too good to be true. so I took the news with a bit of salt. Never have I ever been so happy to be proven wrong. Black Myth: Wukong has now become on of my most favourite games. The way it continues wukong's story was absolutely amazing. Hats off to the developers. Real Chads right there.
Kingdoms of Amular still deserves spiritual successor at least. R.A. Salvatore is an amazing writer and world builder in his own right. Would love to see him utilized in gaming more.
That was a great game😭✨
so reportedly the game is back as Kingdoms of Amular: Re-Reckoning
That game is terrible. How many tens of thousands of times are you willing to pull off the same three-hit combo?
@@chaosordeal294elder scrolls games don't even have combos.
@@chaosordeal294 same? THere are more combos dude and powers and weapons and abilities and spells and finished, and ultimate attacks.
Black myth Wukong for the GOTY. That game was too fun man....
Hi Falcon & Gameranx. Great video. Can you do one that lists successful games made by micro-developer teams, like 1 person. Space Bourne, Braid, Minecraft (originally), Stardew, Undertale. Those people are legends.
1 thing I've always heard about China: They underpromise and overdeliver
And I've always found it to be true. They get everything done earlier than promised and under budget. Workaholics, the lot of them.
Baldur's Gate 3 should be on this list TBH. A lot of people seem to forget how buggy & unpolished the demo/beta in 2022 was. The dice were would roll under 10 about 80% of rolls, even with weighted dice on, tone of dialogue & extures were missing. Maps, models, cutscenes unfinished for a sample form an early part of the game.
Everybody I saw play it said "THIS is supposed to be done by Q3 2023? It's gonna be a trainwreck!" I was so surprised when people were actually enjoying the final game!
The other games mentioned here not only had issues, but they also were announced and long time ago and then people thought they would never come out
Larian was hardly unknown before the release of bg3. Maybe it was true for ds:o but most of us after playing ds we had plenty of faith in larian to deliver a good product.
Those Chinese dev with little or even 0 experience made a better 3A than ubisoft / sony
China and Japan gonna take over gaming back. But it all depends on the Japanese whether they will succumb to literal mad men/women (wokist) pressure or stood by their own values. Otherwise….. bye2 gaming industry 😢
I knew System Shock Redux was going to get finished and be at least pretty good because Nightdive never stopped communicating with backers. The real KS scams (and I've fallen for a couple) are the ones that send out updates less and less frequently and eventually stop communicating altogether. In this case, they always kept us in the loop, so I never lost faith.
The difference of Days Gone and Black Myth Wulong is that the latter’s first trailer was full of animation while the first’s trailer had a limited amount; it just contained beautiful static assets, something which is a given when using modern engines like Unreal Engine 5. Animations are maybe the most expensive part of video game development.
Days Gone or The Day Before?
10 times we thought it wasn’t Falcon but it was… Theme for next video.
Fact WUkong is it's own legendary game out of nowhere was pretty insane, the thing sold like 10 million on the 1st day or something, and it deserved to.o.
Sold 10 mil in three days, over 18 mil in two weeks, consistently had over 1 mil concurrent players at peak daily since it launched for the past 20 days, well deserved but still insanely exceeded all expectation I would say, considering it's not some big old well-known titles like GTA, RDR and Witcher.
@@cheungchingtong sorry but.. the story of sun wukong is known by FAR more people then the story of GTA, RDR or The Witcher xD even if you take the fan bases from ALL beloved games all over the world... you probably still end up with more people who know sun wukong then you have on the other side xD
@@SikoMCexactly. I’m sure majority of sales came from china, where Son Wukong originated
@@jockwithajoystickI don't think it should discount the game but something like 80% of the player base at peak concurrent was from China. Again doesn't mean the game is bad, it's definitely good.
@@jockwithajoystick jep, over 80% from china. and yes, it is a good game.. but as so many things from china its not new.. its nioh + sekiro + nier:automata in a pre-existing "universe". i defenetly enjoyd to 100% it on steam but.. in my opinion its a bit overhyped just because it is a normal game with no micro transaction BS or politics forced into our faces xD If it was not for Sun Wukong it would have been a pretty ordinary game (that i would probably still have preorderd and binged down!) 😅
So, can I catch Falcon with a Pokéball? Asking for a friend.....
There's a higher chance of that against catching Jake paying for pizza. Nobody has done the latter yet.
@@Elwaves2925 I heard there was one pizza, but the guy was walking by when he filmed the video. So, it was only because they caught him immediately after the words left his lips.
No people can't go in pokeballs you need a pal shere. They arnt enslaved they are just forced pals
@@stormjones725 I'm gonna catch me a Falcon and probably die in the process
Bold of you to assume you could catch him.
What I really appreciate about Gameranx is they don’t swear in every sentence and are really mature in all there videos
thanks Gameranx for these wonderful years and beyond.
Great list!
I was a kickstarter backer for Eiyuden Chronicle. Hundred Heroes and I have to say: while it has some rough edges and things that could and should be better, it is pretty much what I hoped for overall and I am so happy I supported the game from the very beginning.
Thanks for the tips!
I've been enjoying the game myself (I never played its ancestral games), but there's almost too much to do in the game. In the kinda guy who loves to play a game blind on the first run through, but this game is just so full of things to do that I'm honestly thinking of looking up guides for some of the side stuff, like the Beigoma (and I've also heard rumors of a racing mini game?). I had to put it down for the past two months just to decompress, lmao
@@SuperiorPosterior Absolutely fair! I honestly believe the Beigoma game is not handled very well. For one it is introduced very early but can only really be tackled later on unless you are dedicated to it and it is a strange mix of button mashing and luck as well. Plus it is one side activitiy you to progress pretty far if you want the best ending. Most people disliked it, I think, I personally think it was simply too much but a funny distraction overall.
In general, I think the mini games are fun, unless you aim to get the achievement/trophy because then it becomes a time consuming task.
Like, the racing game is fun. You breed egg monsters for races and they have stats and obstacles they are better and worse at, so you have to choose the right monster, which has a maximum amount of races. That is where breeding comes into play.
If you do it for fun, it is actually pretty decent, but if you aim to finish it, it takes time. I think I had a bit over 300 races in the end becasue the last few races need to have monsters bred in a specific way.
or the card game. Kinda simple, but very fun! but winning against every single character in your party is too much.
By the way, if you liked the game itself, the story and characters, I highly recommend takinmg a look at Suikoden 2. It is my favorite game ever. Nowadays it is not that expensive anymore thanks to a rerelease and in about half a year it will finally get a remaster, which might be worth waiting for, especially since it will be 1 and 2 in a package.
Vampire survivor is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had in 40 years of gaming. The combination of the value for the price and how addictive it is is mind blowing 🤯 I hope they keep releasing add ons I am dying to support them more. I bought it on the Xbox switch and PS5 lol
Vampire Survivors is what happens when someone knows every single dirty trick casinos and gacha games use to get you hooked, uses them all without a shred of hesitation, and then just stops taking your money because he doesn't really *need* infinity dollars.
The amount of reviewers claiming BMW is a boss rush was wild. Like wtf? Did you play the game before reviewing it?
Wukong is great... the difficulty spike though
Buying unfinished products is becoming a common trend, then hiding behind “Updating “ is becoming increasingly difficult for me to understand. So wait, I’m not only buying the game, but also paying for the updates as well which will come after you have collected everyone’s money , so with that logic, our names should be put on the production credits. The game isn’t complete and we just helped to complete it.
A current game to keep your eye on is The Killing Antidote. It was published already as a free playable playtest on steam and it has very fun gameplay and good graphics. It's going into early access next month with a larger update.
That FF7R teaser (from 2015 I think) still gives me chills
If you played Rebirth now we have a stunning revelation that the guy talking in the first trailer was actually Gi Natak speaking about our characters journey, same VA on trailer is the same Gi’s VA
@@TheGabrielSevero123 David Lodge is the voice in the 2015 reveal trailer, who does sound similar to Bruce Thomas who plays Gi Nattak, but no relation or significance.
Thing is there was no real reason for people to think games like Black Myth, Palworld and cup head etc were scams except for peoples preconceptions or personal agenda.
Black myth wukong is GOTY no arguments, it not only deliverd but delivered hard. The bosses, the cinematic and anime style of telling stories, skill system and tree, graphics and last but not least badass mc( kinda i mean we are basically wukong) top tier. MASTERPIECE
It would be the game of the year if it was a popularity contest. Since it’s not it’s going to Rebirth or Astro Bot which have much higher critical acclaim. Probably Astro Bot, it has 40+ 10/10s from critics, perfect score. Wukong on the other hand only has 5 10/10s.
@@Mohgensteinwukong broke the record of most player base playing that game in steam and most of them are enjoying it 2.4 million is crazy at a time.
@@MohgensteinDude Astrobot is so amazing!
@liquidsword601i mean black myth wukong got the criteria for GOTY
-bosses design top notch
-Graphics top notch
-Sound and environment also top
-sales are also good 18 millions in 2 weeks
_ combats feels smooth ( could be a lil polished SURE)
-story is great( journey to the west)
-user experience is great ( for me at least)
i can see contenders like ff7 rebirth, helldivers 2, if dlc counts shadow of the erd tree and some are coming but i stand with Black myth wukong.
Its a great game, but am I the only one who thinks that pretty much every mechanic in the game is straight out of other games. (God of war, souls series etc) I feel like goty should be innovative and fresh, but wukong isn't none of that.
I dropped playing Vampire Survivors because it's too uncomfortable. I got so used to watching ads and scams while playing that when I finally downloaded Vampire Survivors I realized how much time I really spend on games and decided to quit.
Falcon was so happy these weren't scams he said, "*stock sound-effect of a falcon*"
Kingdom Come is my favorite game of all time and I'm ready for the sequel this year. These devs really have a passion for the game.
11th February 2025 release date.
Black myth did not disappoint thank God
Go play Nioh. It's basically the same game, but better.
@@LecherousLizard Nah, not even close.
@@LecherousLizardTotally different, bro
Let's hope Star Citizen gets on one of these lists someday
This is not Falcon... Convince me otherwise
I take that back after seeing his tweets
The whole 38 Studios thing is such a shame. I was lucky enough to be at the midnight release for KoA. The whole dev team was there, and they were all so stoked to see their game released, and they all seemed really passionate about the project. Curt Schilling and RA Salvatore were even there signing autographs.
I only clicked on this video to say: The thumbnail guy is the most consistent person in New York. Always produces the goofiest thumbnails, the man never misses.
Hats off to you, thumbnail guy.
"The Pokemon Company investigated and nothing came of it."
Ah, ha ha.
Supposedly the lawsuit is over the mechanic of throwing an object at a creature in order to capture it, a patent which they applied for after Palworld came out. It has nothing to do with character assets.
How does everyone keep up with games? Aside from my decades long backlog, I’m backlogged in the past few weeks alone with Black Myth, Visions of Mana, and now Astro Butt.
Stop buying them. There is no other way. You know when you move your hand and you're just about to click "buy"? Yeah don't do that part.
Watching gaming videos makes you want to buy and play more too. I had to get that under control.
Trick is to buy one at a time play it to completion and then pick the next one you feel you need to play. Give up the fear of missing out if the game isn't good enough to still be on the market when you finally get around to it then it most likely wasn't that good at this point.
I stopped buying games after I bought persona 345 and the yakuza collection that'll probably keep my busy for a fat minute despite me wanting to play wukong since it got announced
@@Jjonnnnnn Last one I bought was palworld but that's because PS+ added a bunch of classic ps2 games I wanted to replay such as all three time splitters games.
Jake busted using an ai filter to fake falcon. Falcon never existed. He was Jake’s version of of 1984 big brother
Soo-e-co-den
Suweekuden it's not, I had to rewind 3 times to understand wtf Falcon was saying.
Wukong made me really worry.
And i am glad it was awesome
The game features
-no repetitive bosses
-poetry to describe characters (when was the last time u saw poetry as character description)
- complete game . No dlc or micro transactions
- back tracking and upgrades
- beautiful art design
- ability to turn into enemies (even get their attacks)
- scale of enemies increase with progress
- chapter endings have moral tales in unique animation styles
- beautiful music
- multiple endings
- 40 hours of gameplay
-new game plus with all your upgrades attached .
there will be 2 dlc, dlc1) 4 chapters and dlc2) 3 chapters
@@我愛地球人 that's a rumour . Let's hope
this is to be expected of games. you idiots that have been wasting money on the garbage games releasing are the fools thinking a game not being terrible is something to praise. it's sad
So it just met basic expectation of games in the old days. Cool.
@@Poppa_Capinyoaz more like made it better . Since old games didn't have half of these
MONKE SEE, MONKE JUMP ON STICK, MONKE ATTAC !!!!
Redditor
😂@@ZyklonBeast12
BMW and SM2 did something alright, but something completley different.
They prooved very hard what BG3 hat hypothesized: The problem is not the available technology, the problem is money hungry cash grabbers in so called tripple-A gaming companies just "doing the bare minimum" while simultaniously blaming gamers who demand better.
Falcon change his voice in every video.
I'm always SO happy when I see Amalur mentioned in a positive way. I found it randomly by looking for "Games like Fable and Skyrim" and that's literally feels. Fable and Skyrim had a baby and it has everything I love and makes up for it's flaws. This was BEFORE the remaster so was extremely happy when that happened and had followed it closely.
Now I can only dream of a sequel and that it's just as good or even better.
People got to stop calling black myth a boss rush, it's not. You're not required to fight half the bosses and can go exploring. Also, by definition, a boss rush would be a boss fight right after another. Only chapter one feels that way since it has the smallest map and even then it's your choice to fight every boss.
For those who are curious Palworld made A LOT of updates to make the game wayyyyy better. Definitely give it a try.
This is a work. Falcon doesn’t exist.
AI
Do you write your scripts with the music in mind or do you just have really great editors? I really enjoyed the music shift when you said the word SCAMS at the beginning of the video at 0:06
Who's speaking right now? This isn't falcon...
its falcon the mic is different
Wut?
Black Myth dev were "right people at wrong place and wrong time", they worked for Tencent, but Tencent been Tencent, killed their project and pulled the fund, so they left and found GS.
Oh this was a fresh recommendation :D
Amalur is awesome, I'm so happy it got a remaster.
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A shame they didnt include Crimson Desert, a lot of people thought it was too good to be true, but the devs proved everyone wrong at gamescom
Is this really falcon? If it is why doesn't it sound like falcon
AI FALCON
Yeah he doesn't, maybe he's sick?
he sounds like he always does, maybe he was eating a shit sandwich before recording so he sounds a little off
fAIlkon
@@arshia5802probably that H5N1 avian flu.
I think their editors might use different software or have different settings from each other. While never poor quality, Gameranx audio does fluctuate from video to video
And now Palworld is getting sued by Nintendo
BRO WHATS WITH THE THUMBNAIL?
Who would have thought, China of all made a legit, meanwhile AAA developers like Ubisoft putting out terrible quality games after terrible quality games.
Falcons having cold i guess
DokeV.......i hope its on this list in the future
This AI audio! It'snt Falcon. We were scammed.
I LOVE Kingdoms of Amalur; I still replay it. The only thing that disappointed me about it was that the remaster (which I bought, and was a good remaster in and of itself) didn't follow through with the new DLC we were supposed to see. The base remaster was great though, still worth getting.
This is an Ai voice over test 100%
Never had so many ads in one video. Only at 12:23
0:24 10 Black Myth Wukong
2:13 9 Pal World
3:52 8 Kindom Come Deliverance
5:28 7 Cuphead
6:59 6 Aiyuden Chronicle 100 Heroes
9:01 5 Vampire Survivors
10:41 4 System Shock Remake
12:27 3 Final Fantasy 7 Remake
14:54 2 Omori
16:17 1 Kingdom of Amalur
Your refusal to include game names in timestamps isn't just inconvenient-it's a disservice to your audience. Prioritizing clicks over clarity shows greed, and that kind of selfishness won't go unnoticed. Remember, karma has a way of catching up!
Amen, it's disgusting
bruh calm down dude
@@tnt_champ1002 I am pretty sure I'm calm. Why do you say that?
Wukong was a huge leap for China because before Wukong released i really though all the currently announced games from China were scams. Wukong, Where Winds Meet, Phantom Blade Zero, Wuchang... so many of them yet not a single one came to release...
Is Falcon sick lol…
Terminator Resistance is actually one of them, people think it's another on rail shooter, but it turns out to be FPS game with RPG elements.
1 thing I'll say: I don't care anymore if a team is made out of "industry veterans", whether they've worked together before. I don't care what games they've worked on. It's meaningless. They could be talented as fuck, but without someone with an actual vision and someone managing the team, let alone the company ... that just means nothing.
agreed.
Agreed Callisto Protocol says hello.
That is why Hideo Kojima is legendary in this industry
I've had that belief for years I start to roll my eyes when I hear "so and so is starting a new company and is compromised of vet devs of x games" like that's cool and all but that doesn't mean much if you still come out of the gate broken
@@antoniojosetorrente559To be fair, they were forced to rush development due to publisher pressure. I think there was a great game there that simply didn’t have the time or money to properly iterate the design into something less awkward and unfun.
I'm genuinely surprised Left 4 Dead 2 didn't appear on here. The game got a trailer just 8 months after the first game released with the full game releasing just 4 more months after that, releasing exactly a year after Left 4 Dead 1. Everyone though it was a cash grab, but even though the game was developed within a literal year it turned out even better than the previous title and improved it in many ways.
Jake baldino makes me be a better man
How?
Thanks to Asian devs bringing back my favorite genre (single player action adventure). There’s Stellar Blade, Black Myth, and Phantom Blade Zero is also looking dope.
Wukong's pic to the left in the thumbnail is one of the most cursed things I've ever seen. Please change it
Bruh it looks funny 😂
Looks like Rabbi Shmuley 👹
He put list in reverse order
Everything about Black Myth Wukong could be applied to Stellar Blade, too.
Nobody ever thought Stellar Blade wasnt coming out what in the world are you talking about???
almost nothing about BM Wukong pre release talk can be applied to Stellar Blade
Especially the part where Stellar Blade was marketed as "zero censorship" and the game ended up getting censored at least once before it was even released and then once more with the Day 1 patch.
@@LecherousLizard How in the actual freaking world does that apply to Wukong?
@@duncanidaho5834 About the same way as you thinking Black Myth Wukong was something that may have not been released.
Seriously, i thought Black myth wukong is another ads for gambing mahjong game or something like that but turn out it's a real game and it's great
FFVIIR was literally a hit waiting to happen... 🤣
A crash and burn hit, no one wants a trilogy for this bs
@@chillmolder lol 2/3 already out
A hit that apparently nobody played, at least on PC.
3:16 DEFINITELY SOMETHING CAME OF IT 😂
KoA:R deserves a sequel. That game was/is amazing. It has very deep lore and tons of content.
To be fair while the Final Fantasy VII game is real, IT IS NOT a remake of the game but like an alternative timeline thing. It is like if you are playing Chrono Trigger and a third of the game in it turns into Chrono Cross.
Great video! Hope everyone at gameranx has a great weekend.