I thought No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 would be here Edit: Everyone replying to me saying "Both of those games are good" completely missed the point of this video. This isn't a video about BAD games it's one about DISAPPOINTING ones. Both of those games were absolutely horrible on release. Whether it was a completely buggy mess or they over-promised and didn't deliver. It DOES NOT matter if they've redeemed themselves over the years. The games weren't good on release and DID NOT live up to the massive hype they received.
When I heard “20 years ago” I subconsciously figured that we would be going back to the early 90s or so. Imagine my groan of desperation when I was reminded that 20 years ago was actually 2003.
The GTA Definitive Edition Trilogy was soul crushing for me. I'm still blown away by how little respect Rockstar has shown for those games. They wouldn't be where they are without them.
It's not fully rockstar fault, the company that made the game old have expirience in mobile game so they have little respect for it and they have to rush the game
to balance this out I'd love to see a "20 Most Surprisingly Good Games of the last 20 years" Games that either surpassed expectations or that were expected to be awful but actually turned out great much love to the gameranx team
@@TheDamnedCook Yeah, NMS was pretty horrible at launch. Don’t forget the lawsuit over false advertising because of how different the game at launch from what they showed was.
I remember renting Fight Club from my local Blockbuster. I walked home, beat the game and walked back within an hour and a half. So the clerk let me just go choose another game to get my money's worth. Simpler times.
@@Mektek19absolutely, it was a personal list by the narrator, throughout. You can't make a video like this. Maybe extend it to the month of each year?
IMO BF2042 is making a steady redemption arc at the moment, compaired to mw2 and im a fan of both and have been for 15 years but I find myself playing BF more so than Cod at the moment
My heart was broken by Fallout 76. It didn't just divorce me from Fallout. The way it highlighted a lot of the worst things about the industry that are unlikely to change killed something about games for me.
I tried Fallout New Vegas a few years ago, and it was even worse. Both were clunky, and you can't shoot. I played maybe an hour of Vegas. With 76, missions devolve too far into a drain that never ends so you can't finish any of them, and Jesus almighty who thought leveling difficulty was a good idea. There's literally no point to leveling except locking weapons that won't eventually make any difference anyway and I guess to give some perks. MEH. Fuck that. Waste of time.
Definitely feel like Anthem deserves a spot. The impact that game had on me...i had so much buyers remorse from purchasing it and till this day i get anxiety when it comes to getting games just because i don't ever wanna be as disappointed as i was with that.
the thing is anthem had very very good gameplay, and a very solid foundation. where it massively failed, similar to outriders which was the identical class of game, was that no one seemed to know what to do with a roadmap. anthem had so much room to turn into a great game, but everyone in the last decade trying to beat destiny has unfortunately crashed and burned in the live service market. basically every single live service game has failed recently cause no one seems to actually have a plan other than generic vague things that will exist. it is why anthem failed, why avengers failed, diablo 4 isn't doing that great, why the new suicide squad game will probably fail. most normal gamers already have a job and don't want a game to be one as well.
I appreciate you guys going back so far as 2003. It doesn't feel as if it were 20 years ago to me personally, but while the gaming industry may be aging it's still great to have individuals like you, Jake and Falcon, who grew up alongside all that and can speak on it firsthand. Plus, it helps me to not feel old 😅
@@Sajgoniarz I love when devs do this. They should just run the damn release version of things. Had to argue with devs saying "game should not do that", when it took literally starting the game up to see that it does. Hours of arguing then they finally realize. "Oh, non-shipping override that".
That one was a hug dissapointment as a huge SR2 fan i was pumped to see they were bringing it back and i figured they would follow suit since SR2 was prime saints row nah just a average free-roam game that after my save file got deleted on pc where i was about 10 hours in I haven't really made an effort to go back.
The reboot was such a disappointment. Coming from someone who played SR 2 all the way to 4, it just broke my heart with how it ended up. One of my favourite game franchises ever and it was all destroyed just like that. While I do hope someone can bring it back and do it justice, I sometimes think that maybe it shouldn't and just serve as a reminder of what happens when game devs try to milk a popular franchise with no clue on what they're doing and what made it popular in the first place.
My biggest disappointment was easily Mass Effect Andromeda. I'm a massive Mass Effect Trilogy fan. 2 of my cats are called Tali & Zorah 😂 They hyped the game up SO MUCH. It looked amazing in all the stuff we got to see leading up to release then when it finally released... it was brutal. I played it on release day, and holy crap its scarred me for life. I haven't preordered any game since then because im still not over the disappointment, and you see hugely disappointing big triple A games all the time these days.
Tbh, i actually enjoyed Andromeda. yes, i played it after the patches and paid like 10/15 bucks for the game.. but i enjoyed it. More than the third which at the time i didnt like it.
Andromeda was amazing. The gameplay not being restricted to a single class was awesome. The story was pretty good, though admittedly you had to dig into the lore bits to get the full story which it seems like a lot of people didn't do and so they were just left feeling confused or underwhelmed at the villains.
@Ginge Films By miles, me3 was so terrible. I still vividly remember being so disappointed on release day as soon as I gained control of Shepard and that autist sprint animation, and then there's the rest of the game. 🤣 Edit: the only good thing to come out of me3 was multiplayer
Cyberpunk broke my heart. I downloaded the very first trailer for it on my PS3. This was before the PS4 came out. I waited so long and was saddened by the state of the game.
@@FacelessKill3R1 I think most people who are still disappointed by the game is because we can't role-play. You know, D&D or TES kind of role-play. And also how dead the open world is.
I never got me the game for various reasons. One of them being how stupid it is to have a character creator where you can decide the tiniest thing about your appearance, only to play in first person the whole game. That's just so dumb.
Time Stamps: 0:26 Batman Dark Tomorrow 1:47 Fight Club 3:18 Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects 4:34 Sonic the Hedgehog '06 5:44 Hour of Victory 6:40 Too Human 7:26 Tony Hawk Ride 8:08 Kick Ass 8:50 Duke Nukem Forever 9:38 Game of Thrones 10:46 Aliens Colonial Marines 11:41 Rambo: The Video Game 12:28 Alone in the Dark: Illumination 12:59 Mighty No. 9 13:55 Road Rage 14:46 Metal Gear Survive 15:39 Contra Rogue Corps 16:35 Fast & Furious Crossroads 17:41 Battlefield 2042 18:55 Saints Row Reboot Finally, after forgetting to watch this Video I watched it after it got uploaded 2 weeks ago.
@@residentof2547 yeah actually I didn't knew this channel before. After I did the time stamps I thought they don't have more than one million subs. Now I feel like an idiot. 😂 They are really lazy af.
Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects was my brother and I’s favorite game as a kid, we’d play it any chance we could on our PS2. Hearing Spider-Man say “We call that a web slinging ass-kicking” was so badass to us at the time.
Does anyone else remember Brink? I remember in 2011 people were calling it the “TF2 Killer.” I remember playing it and being the most disappointing experience ever had playing a game. A decade later they made it Free to Play and the servers are still dead.
I actually kind of liked Brink. I really liked the setting and the parkour. It had some good ideas but it definitely felt like content was missing. It's the last game I've ever preordered and I wanted to like the game, but it was a mediocre game at best. Also the player base died off very fast and playing with the AI killed it for me.
Whenever I play Fallout: New Vegas, and pick up a Fire Bomb from the Honest Hearts DLC I am reminded about Brink. The image for that weapon the Vault Boy holding it above his head, slightly jumping, with a bandana on like the cover from Brink.
I didn't even know there was a Fight Club game. The idea of it just sounds cool. This list probably took a long time to get together; your research and work is much appreciated.
Neither did i. I've been following games since the 90s and would have noticed. I don't think it ever existed and this is just a case of mandela effect. Same with that batman game, I remember it being cancelled.
There needed to have been more AAA games on this list. A lot of the more recent games one would have been able to figure out it was bad at a quick glance.
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 Yeah I was definitely expecting Cyberpunk considering the hype and the state in which it released. CoD: Ghosts would have made my list, I was on a run of liking every CoD since I got into the series at CoD 3, but Ghosts ended that and instead started the run of me not buying a CoD game until the Modern Warfare reboot (for multiplayer, I did buy WWII but only for the campaign as I was missing WW2 as a shooter setting)
@@IDeltic I played CP2077 and it was a cool game with a lot of glitches. The plot was cool, combat was cool, dialogues was cool. Very buggy but it worked as a game at least.
Marvel's Rise of The Imperfects will always be a classic for me. I would play it for hours with my brother. The story was disappointing and it hurt not being able to get the other console exclusive characters but throwing cars and running up walls and smacking each other around was so much fun and I still play it on occasions. Would actually love a sequel
@@Bloodspilla28 I played tons of 2 player with family. Sometimes I'd even launch 2 player by myself and leave the other controller on the floor so I could see what each character could do. Compared to what we have no, i thought it was pretty damn unique
I loved Rise Of The Imperfects. Just felt like a cool game overall to me. My ONLY complaint is how they did Hulk dirty and basically killed him in the opening cinematic right away, but there was props to making his transformation back to Bruce look insanely painful knowing that the life was drained from him
I had a lot of fun with it. Didn't get especially far with the single-player campaign, but it still let me unlock several characters and it was something to play with family.
Agreed. I audibly said "whaaat??" while smoking on my front porch at 2am when the title card popped on screen. I absolutely loved this game as a kid, and actually even have it on an emulator on pc now. Its definitely not the cleanest combat or controls by todays standards, but for that era it was totally an awesome game.
It was still a good game tho. Sure it was buggy, but thats all. The only real issue was PS4. On steam the game was rated 78% positive with 400,000 reviews. That is good.
@Average flatulence enjoyer my ps3 was bricked by dragons dogma(different matter, but still bought it again on pc>:D), i think they knew by the time it would release theyd be scrutinized for it being last gen(ps4), versus pushing to current gen limits(and saying it cant be played on them now), and readying it for next(nextnext?) gen of ps5 and pc. and who knows if theyll add BD's to game(current and future) as content. multiplayer from cdpr is rumored from what ive been reading, and a mod group are working on it as well.
I just got it (FINALLY got a ps5) out of morbid curiosity, I had to see what ppl were dealing with at launch so I looked it up on YT and it’s almost unbelievable
Fallout 76 and No Mans Sky got better with all the updates through the years, same with cyberpunk. The point is that thats why I think theyre not in the list
Because those game are good now. Idk about avenges though, never heard of it. No man sky was not a bad game at start….. it didn’t have any huge bugs that I could remember. Everything worked on it. It just was advertised very very wrongly.
@@duardo_bru well he did say that this is a video about the most disappointing game and not the worst game of the last 20 years, so even though games like no man sky and cyberpunk has been updated and stuff it was still the most disappointing game of it's year so it should've been on the list
The most recent gaming disappointment I've had would go to The Callisto Protocol. It had such a cool premise. you're stuck on a prison moon where something happens and all the inmates become hideous monsters and you have to fight your way out annddd... the lead developer was the guy behind Dead Space. It was super buggy upon release, had annoying weapon switching animations and limited enemy types and was a very underwhelming experience.
Totally agree. I bought the hard copy on day 1. It crashed three times in the first hour, the auto dodge didn't work, the monsters were boring. They rushed out a patch the same day. I persevered, played to the near end and gave up. Traded it in next day.
i remember not beeing able on my 2nd playthrough to go through the vents anymore bc not an action button showed up like in the previous playthrough which made it unplayble .. easily fast uninstalled
Man that makes me sad to read. Thankfully I didn’t experience any of the bugs with the game and had a real fun time playing through it. It was a great game and I had fun getting the platinum
Eh it was overhyped but wasn’t that bad. I don’t think I’d play it again but it wasn’t awful. However I do agree the state of the game on release was definitely unacceptable.
Around 50% you have to be honest and say Gameranx were the only ones hyped for these games.... Alone in the Dark Illumination, Kick-Ass the game, Tony Hawk Ride..... seriously there are much more worthy contenders out there... I would say 2009/2010 was Final Fantasy 13 (bid disappointment), and recently Final Fantasy Origins (cheap Souls like cash grab), Biomutant was another hyped-up game that when released kinds disappeared, Dynasty Warriors .... I think Gameranx are going to have to do the most disappointing games of EACH GENRE ... otherwise, there are just too many!!! Like FPS, RPGs, Fighting, Sport etc
No I know that watch dogs, ended up being good, but if we're talking about disappointment then it definitely qualifies. Just look at what was advertised vs. What was delivered. The same could be said of No Man's Sky. And please don't come at me with but they fixed it. No, I do not accept that as a norm. Gamers were lied to, flat out. Period.
Marvel Nemesis was me and my friends' favourite fighting game for years. We easily dropped Tekken for it. I don't even remember it's campaign, but it's 1v1 mode was awesome.
I remember being so hyped for Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness in 2003. It looked amazing and they did a great job of marketing it beforehand, the game turned out awful. It was so bad the developers didn't ship review units so they could try to score a few weeks of good sales.
@@pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225 It is the modern equivalent to Daikatana which I heard was overhyped because John Romero was involved and the game was a massive flop
Crazy bugs. I got her boobs stuck on a display case during the museum level. I could still do the level but her lady bits remained anchored to the case wherever I went.
2014 had Sacred 3 released, I was obsessed with Sacred 2 for years, the character customization, the open world, the different races to interact with.. then Sacred 3.. just broke my heart
Honestly one of my biggest personal let downs was Halo 5, seeing the trailers and how it seemed to be about a really cool kinda rogue Spartan hunting down Master Chief just seemed to awesome to me, only to purchase it and go through an awful campaign that felt extremely short and honestly shitty multiplayer was just a massive let down and kinda killed the entire Halo franchise for me
I actually bought Halo 5 on release bc the trailers were so great, thought surely it had to be better than 4... I paid 60$ I believe, turned it back in same day not even finishing the first level. It wasn't Halo anymkre. They only gave me 20$ for it but I didn't care 😭
Have you played infinite? Man, if not… you should. I’m 25 and have literally played halo my whole life, yeah H5 was a miss story wise, but multiplayer to me was great. Infinite has both.
For me it was Spore. I waited on tender hooks for 2 years, looking out for any new videos. For those of you who don't know it was a game where you created a new life form, decided on it's appendages and skeletal structure and then guided it through evolution to a space-faring civilization. And it would be automatically filled with user-generated content. But the finished product was actually less advanced than the demonstration model. I read somewhere that the software was to complex to be pressed on to disks. I got a seriously simplified version of what I was expecting. More like a series of minigames with above average customization then the multi-layered life simulator I thought it was going to be. But the most heart breaking part was when the user-content stopped flowing in and nothing I did would get it going again. And speaking of which, there was no filter of quality for creator content coming in. The new SimCity was a bust too.
Yeah I remember the hype. One of the few games I actually bought on release. Found it very simplified, like a few mini-games stitched together. I’m sure the screen shots were massively different than the released version. Played for a few hours then put it down, never played since.
I remember enjoying Rise of the Imperfects. Inasmuch as one could when your older sister hides the manual so you don't know how to use the super/special moves. I remember Paragon had a special move that drained the enemies health while healing you. I didn't know how to activate it. My sister did. Made for many one-sided fights...
@@alainmilette6460 Oh no worries you're probably right-! I just most likely didn't think of it at the time tbh~ 2005 feels still in the range me and my sister still had limited computer time, so I probably just never considered that looking it up was an option.
@@sshunt2987 Just because some neckbeards were ready to throw away their real life to start living in Night City doesn't mean the game was bad. It was still better than most AAA games. Andromeda wasnt a bad game either, just another cast of people expecting too goddamn much.
@@user-ni7qv1nd8o But the list is specifically not for the worst games, but the most dissappointing games. Sure, CP2077 wasn't as bad as some other games, and it has improved significantly with patches and updates, but it nevertheless was quite the dissapointment for many at launch.
@// the key word is "disappointing". You cannot deny that it was very disappointing. Some people waited 5+ years for an incomplete mess that has hardly picked itself up.
I liked Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects as a kid, and went back and replayed a bit of it here lately. It's not great, but I still have a soft spot for it.
I am the same way. It wasn't the best, but not being constrained to typical 2D (MK) or rotating 3D (Tekken) and actually being able to move freely around a map was what made it enjoyable.
same i actually enjoyed nemesis and i herd plent of people asking for this game to come back idk why that was on this list and not anthem and i played fight club and it seem like a fun game as a kid you get to break people arms on there and they wont be abkle to use said arm
Glad to see Alien Colonial Marines on here. I am still bitter about it to this day. I got the collectors preorder, even got one of the giant gaming door posters from GameStop, only to turn it on an immediately see a massive graphical downgrade from the E3 demo. So sad how 1 single typo in the code ruined the entire AI.
Marvel Nemesis was one of my brother and I's favorites growing up. Disappointing maybe, but it had some of the funnest fighting game mechanics out there for the time.
I had forgotten the game, but seeing the clips I remembered that I used to play it a lot and rather enjoyed playing and messing around with my brothers.
For me I was honestly heart struck when I heard the Cancelation of the Silent Hill game. Otherwise known as the P.T. demo awhile back. For a demo that showed sooo much promise and atmosphere just for it to be cancelled. We really just got blue balled
@@harrissongeorgiou2955Oh definitely on that list for me as well! It had unique elements that are still extremely hard for today's games to replicate. Not to mention the horror itself when the demo glitches out to trick you
For people who just want the list, here it is: 20. Batman: Dark Tomorrow 19. Fight Club 18. Marvel Nemesis: Rise Of The Imperfects 17. Sonic The Hedgehog ‘06 16. Hour Of Victory 15. Too Human 14. Tony Hawk: Ride 13. Kick-Ass: The Game 12. Duke Nukem Forever 11. Game Of Thrones 10. Aliens: Colonial Marines 9. Rambo: The Video Game 8. Alone In The Dark: Illumination 7. Mighty No. 9 6. Road Rage 5. Metal Gear Survive 4. Contra: Rogue Corps 3. Fast & Furious: Crossroads 2. Battlefield 2042 1. Saints Row: The Third
My personal opinion is that Marvel Nemesis was an amazing game, especially for those that played it on psp. Not many fighting games made each character feel so different from one another.
Had it on PS2 and my cousin had it on gamecube and we played it all the time. It was definitely more of a split screen pvp game and was a blast if you had a group of people to play with. I don’t think I ever even played the single player if there was one haha my brother unlocked all the characters and we just did vs
I had it on ps2 and at the time I was fairly young so I was probably in love with any game but I found myself playing it all the time so it’s super surprising to hear it was disappointing in that period of time
@@christians2898 I thought for SURE cyberpunk would have been on here, I mean the game was still good but the amount of negative press and overhype It got felt like it should be on here
@@garou9335 the reason cyberpunk and no mans sky arent on here is because both games are no longer disappointing, both have been continually supported by the devs to the point of them becoming actually good games.
Nice video :) The video game I was personally most disappointed in was the remake of "Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story", which ultimately led to Alphadream going bankrupt... RIP Alphadream :/ But the remake really just felt too easy... By the way, about this game... Gameranx, you're still doing your "ten weirdest gaming things of the month" series, right? Would it count as weird if someone took the story mode of this game, so "Bowser Jr.'s Journey" and completely voiceacted it through, from the beginning to the end, every single character, all by one person? :)
@@jessragan6714 Well... kinda :) I'm already done with the first two sections of the game, and I've uploaded all the cutscenes of the first area with voiceacting on my channel :) It's in German though... But I'm planning to see this project through all the way to the end :)
I actually love Marvel nemesis and I played probably once every two years it is one of the most nostalgic pieces in my collection though I do agree it could’ve been better
@@millasboo Everybody who I have ever talked to is play this game has said the same thing really don’t know why we never got the sequel that was teased
@@jadedheartsz at least Gotham Knights functioned and at the very least had an actual gameplay loop. Maybe not a very good one but it still had it unlike the cobbled up mess that is the Saints Row Reboot.
@@ProtoBrown Nah the game was actually glitch and it took away a bunch of stuff the Arkham games had and it was way too grindy and the open-world barely gave you anything to do aside from the same tired copy-paste side-quests over and over again, at least SR's open-world had actual variety and things to do, Knights was way more of a cobbled mess then SR, especially considering all the stupid armor-gear nonsense that was obviously supposed to have MTXs put in.
Am I the only guy who was like FINALLY when the Arkham Games came out??? I mean honestly, how fucking incompetent did soooo many devs have to be to fuck up BATMAN sooo many times? It was insane how bad his prior games were back then!
100% anthem. Although I was extremely happy with the gameplay, it felt incomplete and a real shame that it was abandoned. I hope one day someone picks up the foundation of it and soars it into one of the greats
I agree the game felt almost like a beta, where the base game and mechanics felt pretty fleshed out, but the actual gameplay loop and story were just kind of lacking.
Yup. To me that’s the most disappointing game of all time. I remember the excitement of putting on the suit for the first time and jumping out into the world and flying and just being awestruck by the world and the mechanics… then after 5 minutes you realize there’s nothing to do lol
I ❤️ the fact that when you showed us Fred Durst's playable character in The Fight Club game you had him fighting Jared Leto's character Angel Face. Limp Bizkit versus 30 Seconds to Mars!
Cyberpunk was the game that made me never preorder again. I had been so interested in the world from the original trailer I'd check like every year for info. I got it on PS4 assuming it would work since they put it out. Right at the start I'm glitched into the floor of the car for the whole cutscene only to get 20fps after. I played it last year on pc it was pretty good but damn did that feel bad
For me Cyberpunk was the 2nd game I pre-ordered after Sekiro and probably last (besides From Software). And for me it wasn't even the glitches, but all that false advertising and missing features. Still even now, after all these updates, the game is not what they promised and never will. It's like trying to fix a house, while the whole foundation is shaky.
Nothing will ever beat Dynasty Warriors 9 in terms of disappointment for me. Enormous fan of the series and DW9 was the biggest kick in the crotch we could have ever asked for. Hoping they get the series back on track and don't double down on whatever the hell that game was
I remember being really excited about Black & White, but it really wasn't that good and the spell system was very frustrating as you had to use the mouse cursor to cast them.
The past 5 or so years have had such massive disappointing games cyberpunk, anthem, no man's sky, GTA collection, lotr gollum, fallout 76, battlefront 2, Resident evil 3, Diablo 4, back 4 blood
I think about Marvel Nemsis all the time, and hope we'll someday get a sequel. I'd take some web slingin' ass kickin' anyday over some the mid superhero games we've been getting lately. SE's Avengers and Gotham Knights I'm looking at you.
I'm kind of surprised that No Man's Sky was not on here. Granted, it vindicated itself somewhat. I find it difficult to find a release that was harder on the community than that was; however.
I think that you already solved why it isnt here, still with updates to this day.... But being honest, the latest one (update) broke the game for me, harder than when I first played it (when it launched), but thats just a personal opinion
@@duardo_bru No he didn't. The video is the top 20 most disappointing, based on their year of release and has nothing to do with them improving later, it's based on how they were when they launched. He stated that BF2042 has improved since it was released but was still a major disappointment when it released in the video
Loved the video. Can you do another like this with 1 game a year for 20 games that completely came out of nowere an became massive with little or no hype.
Anyone else remember being SUPER hyped for "Brink", my friend's and i all prepaid for a copy, I think half of us traded it back in to gamestop within 2 weeks.
Weird that Anthem, any of the Star Wars games, or even cyberpunk at one point isn’t on here. Just weird that you named a lot of games most have never heard of lol.
Game of Thrones is actually a hidden gem. It has arguably the best plot in the history of gaming (Martin wrote the script and appears in the game) , acting is good and the gameplay is flawed but satisfying. It is the most underrated game of the '10s
@@gonzalvarodri i am serious. the highest metacritic pro score it has is from myself from 2012 when i was still a PC games journalist for a print magazine. The game has the best plot I have ever seen. Deus Ex games come close but that's about it.
@@gonzalvarodri yeah and their story is convoluted for no particular reason so I do not rate them all that high plot-wise. Have you played the GoT game?
I loved marvel rise of the imperfects as a kid... the gameplay and all that, so much fun and different. For wolverine you would hold like L2 to fight with his claws and then release to put them away. I would love for them to expand on that and make a modern take on it.
You're trippen Rise of the Imperfects was still a really fun game. Thoroughly enjoyed it as a young teenager. Glad to see a lot of people feel the same way.
For me, f122 was supposed to be such a big step for the f1 game franchise and I was really looking forward to it. The games had been improving every year and then it came out and it was garbage. It felt really bad to drive and the ai were just way to quick in a straight line but in a corner they were extremely slow so you’d get like 2 seconds in a corner than lose 5 on a straight. It was really disappointing as it has to have been my least favourite f1 game I’ve played even though every game before that I loved more and more. They really missed the mark on it and really stripped away what I was starting to love about the franchise. I was really hyped about it just to really not like the game.
The fact that Anthem didn't make this list is insane to me
It was so bad they probably couldn't remember it
The game had literally only a life time of 1 week
100% agree
I thought No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 would be here
Edit: Everyone replying to me saying "Both of those games are good" completely missed the point of this video. This isn't a video about BAD games it's one about DISAPPOINTING ones. Both of those games were absolutely horrible on release. Whether it was a completely buggy mess or they over-promised and didn't deliver. It DOES NOT matter if they've redeemed themselves over the years. The games weren't good on release and DID NOT live up to the massive hype they received.
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When I heard “20 years ago” I subconsciously figured that we would be going back to the early 90s or so. Imagine my groan of desperation when I was reminded that 20 years ago was actually 2003.
It was a little jarring for me too. Getting old is a bag of dicks.
Hard relate.
Aww I wonder if 5th Element will be on here
*Let's go allll the way back 20 years ago to 2003*
Hrmmm...
Born in 95.. so yeah, I know
Ouch... right in my youth.
The GTA Definitive Edition Trilogy was soul crushing for me. I'm still blown away by how little respect Rockstar has shown for those games. They wouldn't be where they are without them.
And the worst part: it's like the Special Edition Star Wars. That's the ONLY edition they want you to have going forward.
It's not fully rockstar fault, the company that made the game old have expirience in mobile game so they have little respect for it and they have to rush the game
@@seanrafabagass Rockstar fully at fault for hiring them
@@seanrafabagass Not really a point in playing the originals when the remasters exist now
@Damar Fadlan Yeah what happened to games, ay? 10+ years ago was like a golden age
I feel like I've paid pretty close attention over the last 20 years, and more than half of these are games I would not have had any expectations for.
It was a bad list.
to balance this out I'd love to see a "20 Most Surprisingly Good Games of the last 20 years" Games that either surpassed expectations or that were expected to be awful but actually turned out great
much love to the gameranx team
Titanfall 2!
Don’t forget Days Gone!
Don't forget No Man's Sky
@@TheDamnedCook that's the opposite lol, it was expected to be great but was awful, but then it became great
@@TheDamnedCook Yeah, NMS was pretty horrible at launch. Don’t forget the lawsuit over false advertising because of how different the game at launch from what they showed was.
0:25 - Batman Dark Tomorrow (2003)
1:45 - Fight Club (2004)
3:18 - Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (2005)
4:33 - Sonic 06 (2006)
5:44 - Hour of Victory (2007)
6:39 - Too Human (2008)
7:25 - Tony Hawk Ride (2009)
8:08 - Kick Ass: The Game (2010)
8:49 - Duke Nukem Forever (2011)
9:39 - Game of Thrones (2012)
10:45 - Alien: Colonial Marines (2013)
11:40 - Rambo: The Video Game (2014)
12:28 - Alone in the Dark: illumination (2015)
12:59 - Mighty Number 9 (2016)
13:56 - Road Rage (2017)
14:45 - Metal Gear Survive (2018)
15:39 - Contra: Rogue Corps (2019)
16:34 - Fast & Furious: Crossroads (2020)
17:41 - Battlefield 2042 (2021)
18:55 - Saints Row (2022)
Thank you, man.
Thanks. Saves me from watching this pointless video.
You're the man now dawg
Thank you kindly.
@@lindah6954 I mean... you can still watch it
I remember renting Fight Club from my local Blockbuster. I walked home, beat the game and walked back within an hour and a half. So the clerk let me just go choose another game to get my money's worth. Simpler times.
Well if it isn't some clue of the game's quality. Even sellers don't want their money for the crap.
@@majipan2719 Or Chris has elite e-sports worthy skills for Smash bros or something to beat the game that fast lol
I miss going to blockbuster on a Friday night to rent a game for the weekend for my N64 then my PS1
@@ROT4RYfc3sI hear that.
I remember buying Metal Gear Solid 2 from Blockbuster for 15 bucks. Took it home and never returned it lol
I love how much trust gameranx have had in films based games over the years
He may be the only one. These games didn’t break anyone’s hearts. Most people weren’t looking for any of these games. Maybe 3 at max.
@@Mektek19absolutely, it was a personal list by the narrator, throughout. You can't make a video like this. Maybe extend it to the month of each year?
Marvel Nemesis is one of the formative games of my childhood. Absolutely unforgettable
Bro, that game wasn't popular, but it was fun af facts
It was mad fun
Agreed
Played it for so many hours but I forgot what it was called until this video 😓
Man I had played him a lot too, when I was young. Not disapointed at all
Battlefield 2042 is an all time embarrassment for EA
Nah Anthem is the worse for EA
The new cod isn't too far down after Anthem and BF
IMO BF2042 is making a steady redemption arc at the moment, compaired to mw2 and im a fan of both and have been for 15 years but I find myself playing BF more so than Cod at the moment
EA is a embarrassment to the gameing community
68 on Metacritic. There are much more worse games than better ones
My heart was broken by Fallout 76. It didn't just divorce me from Fallout. The way it highlighted a lot of the worst things about the industry that are unlikely to change killed something about games for me.
I feel you
Underrated comment
I tried Fallout New Vegas a few years ago, and it was even worse. Both were clunky, and you can't shoot. I played maybe an hour of Vegas. With 76, missions devolve too far into a drain that never ends so you can't finish any of them, and Jesus almighty who thought leveling difficulty was a good idea. There's literally no point to leveling except locking weapons that won't eventually make any difference anyway and I guess to give some perks. MEH. Fuck that. Waste of time.
I still remember when I was ready to hear "FALLOUT 5" but heard Fallout 76 and online only, was so disappointed
@@KiraOniiChan this hurt me
Definitely feel like Anthem deserves a spot. The impact that game had on me...i had so much buyers remorse from purchasing it and till this day i get anxiety when it comes to getting games just because i don't ever wanna be as disappointed as i was with that.
the thing is anthem had very very good gameplay, and a very solid foundation. where it massively failed, similar to outriders which was the identical class of game, was that no one seemed to know what to do with a roadmap. anthem had so much room to turn into a great game, but everyone in the last decade trying to beat destiny has unfortunately crashed and burned in the live service market. basically every single live service game has failed recently cause no one seems to actually have a plan other than generic vague things that will exist. it is why anthem failed, why avengers failed, diablo 4 isn't doing that great, why the new suicide squad game will probably fail. most normal gamers already have a job and don't want a game to be one as well.
I appreciate you guys going back so far as 2003. It doesn't feel as if it were 20 years ago to me personally, but while the gaming industry may be aging it's still great to have individuals like you, Jake and Falcon, who grew up alongside all that and can speak on it firsthand. Plus, it helps me to not feel old 😅
Lmao I know how you feel. I like watching the old g4 shows with Tommy ouiyamico, the tech back then was exciting
We're not old we just have a lot of XP
@@HardwiredMike 😄🤣
Bro I was born in 2003. I'm 20 years old. I've got one foot in the grave bro. Mid life crisis
IKR, the scariest part of the whole video was "lets go waaay back 20 years to 2003" wait that was how long ago?
The funniest thing about Aliens: Colonial Marines is that one wrong character in the code was the reason the Xenomorph's AI was so bad.
Yes and some random guy found the fix that Sega could not find...
@@HL3AlcAida finding stuff like that is a needle in a haystack sometimes. but it's sad they didn't find anything and left it doa.
@@HL3AlcAida because it was in the released config files. Devs use different version... without the bug :D
@@Sajgoniarz I love when devs do this. They should just run the damn release version of things. Had to argue with devs saying "game should not do that", when it took literally starting the game up to see that it does.
Hours of arguing then they finally realize. "Oh, non-shipping override that".
Apparently Colonial Marines is actually fun with some mods to correct those easy to fix bug (pc only)
The Saints Row reboot was a stab in the heart for me. Over the years I've played through SR2 at least 20 times.
Same with SR2, haven't played the reboot yet
That one was a hug dissapointment as a huge SR2 fan i was pumped to see they were bringing it back and i figured they would follow suit since SR2 was prime saints row nah just a average free-roam game that after my save file got deleted on pc where i was about 10 hours in I haven't really made an effort to go back.
The reboot was such a disappointment. Coming from someone who played SR 2 all the way to 4, it just broke my heart with how it ended up. One of my favourite game franchises ever and it was all destroyed just like that. While I do hope someone can bring it back and do it justice, I sometimes think that maybe it shouldn't and just serve as a reminder of what happens when game devs try to milk a popular franchise with no clue on what they're doing and what made it popular in the first place.
I'm replaying sr3 atm but sr1 was defo the one tho it was the only other game I played consistently with San andreas
I’ve only played SR2
My biggest disappointment was easily Mass Effect Andromeda. I'm a massive Mass Effect Trilogy fan. 2 of my cats are called Tali & Zorah 😂 They hyped the game up SO MUCH. It looked amazing in all the stuff we got to see leading up to release then when it finally released... it was brutal. I played it on release day, and holy crap its scarred me for life. I haven't preordered any game since then because im still not over the disappointment, and you see hugely disappointing big triple A games all the time these days.
Was it the animations for you? I could overlook those but I know a lot of people can't, and I actually liked the setting.
@@Mr-Rinn it's also the writing, the acting, the art design/colors, and the gameplay. But yeah the animation was pretty bad.
Tbh, i actually enjoyed Andromeda. yes, i played it after the patches and paid like 10/15 bucks for the game.. but i enjoyed it. More than the third which at the time i didnt like it.
@@Mentulator332same, I quite liked it.
I also liked ME3
Andromeda ruled. Had a rough release for sure but the game is still one I go back to every once in a while.
There definitely needs to be a part 2 to this video.
As a huge franchise fan, I remember being really let down by Mass Effect Andromeda
Andromeda was amazing. The gameplay not being restricted to a single class was awesome. The story was pretty good, though admittedly you had to dig into the lore bits to get the full story which it seems like a lot of people didn't do and so they were just left feeling confused or underwhelmed at the villains.
@@Galiant2010 it was a good game just wasn't Mass Effect 1, 2, or 3 good
@@gin.gefilms me3? Lmao 🤣
@@rochahouse4883 are you saying Andromeda is better than 3?
@Ginge Films By miles, me3 was so terrible. I still vividly remember being so disappointed on release day as soon as I gained control of Shepard and that autist sprint animation, and then there's the rest of the game. 🤣
Edit: the only good thing to come out of me3 was multiplayer
Cyberpunk broke my heart. I downloaded the very first trailer for it on my PS3. This was before the PS4 came out. I waited so long and was saddened by the state of the game.
you should hop in again, its a great game now. most people still have the first initial impression that was launch but they fixed most of the issues
Yup I got it for my PS5 and it’s amazing now, would def give it a go
@@FacelessKill3R1 I think most people who are still disappointed by the game is because we can't role-play. You know, D&D or TES kind of role-play. And also how dead the open world is.
I never got me the game for various reasons. One of them being how stupid it is to have a character creator where you can decide the tiniest thing about your appearance, only to play in first person the whole game. That's just so dumb.
@@terang5189 exactly. it was never the bugs for me, the game is a bad RPG and a worse action game
I remember being so excited for Order 1886 leading up to it and being so overwhelmingly let down
Yeah that was another who’s trailers looked very cool
Time Stamps:
0:26 Batman Dark Tomorrow
1:47 Fight Club
3:18 Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects
4:34 Sonic the Hedgehog '06
5:44 Hour of Victory
6:40 Too Human
7:26 Tony Hawk Ride
8:08 Kick Ass
8:50 Duke Nukem Forever
9:38 Game of Thrones
10:46 Aliens Colonial Marines
11:41 Rambo: The Video Game
12:28 Alone in the Dark: Illumination
12:59 Mighty No. 9
13:55 Road Rage
14:46 Metal Gear Survive
15:39 Contra Rogue Corps
16:35 Fast & Furious Crossroads
17:41 Battlefield 2042
18:55 Saints Row Reboot
Finally, after forgetting to watch this Video I watched it after it got uploaded 2 weeks ago.
Thanks for the timestamps
@@botetta no problem. Actually thought it would be unnecessary but maybe some just want to se the ranking. 🤷🏽♂️
GAMERANX ARE LAZY TO PUT CHAPTERS IN THEIR VIDEOS ... That's why I unsubscribed. It's so long to sit through a 20 min video.
@@residentof2547 yeah actually I didn't knew this channel before. After I did the time stamps I thought they don't have more than one million subs. Now I feel like an idiot. 😂 They are really lazy af.
The fact that cyberpunk isnt on this list is insane
Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects was my brother and I’s favorite game as a kid, we’d play it any chance we could on our PS2. Hearing Spider-Man say “We call that a web slinging ass-kicking” was so badass to us at the time.
I loved that game to!
Yeah idk like I have never really heard anyone disliking that game I probably would’ve found another game
Same! So good
It was fire that was an L take
its all about mind over matter, i dont mind and you dont matter.
You should do a list of games that failed at launch, but ended up making changes and being really good games. No man’s sky is a perfect example
There's a video abt tht in this channel already, where No Man's Sky was ranked as first.
"10 games tht failed nd became grt again."
Yeah, it's awesome that a AAA priced game became actually playable after 3 years. Very good job!!!
@@ColdFear6666 While I agree it's really bad what they did, it wasn't really AAA at the time, just an indie.
Assassins creed unity
@@thesituation5315 it's still not an AAA game, it never was. It was "AAA priced".
Does anyone else remember Brink? I remember in 2011 people were calling it the “TF2 Killer.” I remember playing it and being the most disappointing experience ever had playing a game. A decade later they made it Free to Play and the servers are still dead.
I actually kind of liked Brink. I really liked the setting and the parkour. It had some good ideas but it definitely felt like content was missing. It's the last game I've ever preordered and I wanted to like the game, but it was a mediocre game at best. Also the player base died off very fast and playing with the AI killed it for me.
Was wondering where that game was on this list
lol put this in the comments. I waited for a midnight release for this and it was disappointing to see
Whenever I play Fallout: New Vegas, and pick up a Fire Bomb from the Honest Hearts DLC I am reminded about Brink. The image for that weapon the Vault Boy holding it above his head, slightly jumping, with a bandana on like the cover from Brink.
I played Brink for a while and really liked and premise and art style. Sad this world died after the first game. :c
I didn't even know there was a Fight Club game. The idea of it just sounds cool. This list probably took a long time to get together; your research and work is much appreciated.
I heard about on Waz and Larry's Top 10 many years ago.
Neither did i. I've been following games since the 90s and would have noticed. I don't think it ever existed and this is just a case of mandela effect.
Same with that batman game, I remember it being cancelled.
The only reason I'd be interested in this game is being able to beat Fred's ass repeatedly.
@@dread1262 I looked it up, it's currently for sale on Amazon... kinda thinking about buying it. I have a PS2 lol.
@@LucieOne I'm curious too. It's something that definitely would have been in my collection
There needed to have been more AAA games on this list. A lot of the more recent games one would have been able to figure out it was bad at a quick glance.
I'm going to jump the gun and say a CoD in recent years or fallout 47 or Cyberpunk
Edit: huh I was wrong I see your point
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 ANTHEM!
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 Yeah I was definitely expecting Cyberpunk considering the hype and the state in which it released.
CoD: Ghosts would have made my list, I was on a run of liking every CoD since I got into the series at CoD 3, but Ghosts ended that and instead started the run of me not buying a CoD game until the Modern Warfare reboot (for multiplayer, I did buy WWII but only for the campaign as I was missing WW2 as a shooter setting)
FO76 which definitely isn't AAA.
@@IDeltic I played CP2077 and it was a cool game with a lot of glitches. The plot was cool, combat was cool, dialogues was cool. Very buggy but it worked as a game at least.
Marvel's Rise of The Imperfects will always be a classic for me. I would play it for hours with my brother. The story was disappointing and it hurt not being able to get the other console exclusive characters but throwing cars and running up walls and smacking each other around was so much fun and I still play it on occasions. Would actually love a sequel
Definitely!!!! I love that game, yes from a older mind standpoint it’s rough lmao but at childhood 🐐
I remember playing hours of that game when I was a kid wondering when it was gonna start being fun 😂
I had such a blast with Marvel nemesis as a kid. Really distinct memories of it. Kinda shocked it made this list
Same
Same
The 2 player aspect was amazing and playing as light/dark characters was the best and they had so good maps for 1v1
@@Bloodspilla28 I played tons of 2 player with family. Sometimes I'd even launch 2 player by myself and leave the other controller on the floor so I could see what each character could do. Compared to what we have no, i thought it was pretty damn unique
I use to no life that game on psp
I loved Rise Of The Imperfects. Just felt like a cool game overall to me. My ONLY complaint is how they did Hulk dirty and basically killed him in the opening cinematic right away, but there was props to making his transformation back to Bruce look insanely painful knowing that the life was drained from him
The zoom in on Bruce’s hand was really messed up
I had a lot of fun with it. Didn't get especially far with the single-player campaign, but it still let me unlock several characters and it was something to play with family.
Marvel RotI was a different breed.
My man
Agreed. I audibly said "whaaat??" while smoking on my front porch at 2am when the title card popped on screen. I absolutely loved this game as a kid, and actually even have it on an emulator on pc now. Its definitely not the cleanest combat or controls by todays standards, but for that era it was totally an awesome game.
Cyberpunk was a huge one for me. Thankfully it's awesome now, but on release it was heartbreaking.
It was still a good game tho. Sure it was buggy, but thats all. The only real issue was PS4. On steam the game was rated 78% positive with 400,000 reviews. That is good.
It is now rated 79% with over 500000 reviews.
Absolutely. Release on ps4 was the most disappointed I’ve ever been in gaming
@Average flatulence enjoyer my ps3 was bricked by dragons dogma(different matter, but still bought it again on pc>:D), i think they knew by the time it would release theyd be scrutinized for it being last gen(ps4), versus pushing to current gen limits(and saying it cant be played on them now), and readying it for next(nextnext?) gen of ps5 and pc. and who knows if theyll add BD's to game(current and future) as content. multiplayer from cdpr is rumored from what ive been reading, and a mod group are working on it as well.
I just got it (FINALLY got a ps5) out of morbid curiosity, I had to see what ppl were dealing with at launch so I looked it up on YT and it’s almost unbelievable
Can't believe you didn't go with Fallout 76, No Man's Sky, Anthem and that last Avengers game.
Fallout 76 and No Mans Sky got better with all the updates through the years, same with cyberpunk. The point is that thats why I think theyre not in the list
Yeah I fully expected Anthem to be on the list. I was so excited for that game and it was absolutely horrible.
Yeah I could see avengers game or anthem, especially since avengers game is now giving all dlc away for free before it shuts down
Because those game are good now. Idk about avenges though, never heard of it. No man sky was not a bad game at start….. it didn’t have any huge bugs that I could remember. Everything worked on it. It just was advertised very very wrongly.
@@duardo_bru well he did say that this is a video about the most disappointing game and not the worst game of the last 20 years, so even though games like no man sky and cyberpunk has been updated and stuff it was still the most disappointing game of it's year so it should've been on the list
The most recent gaming disappointment I've had would go to The Callisto Protocol.
It had such a cool premise. you're stuck on a prison moon where something happens and all the inmates become hideous monsters and you have to fight your way out annddd... the lead developer was the guy behind Dead Space.
It was super buggy upon release, had annoying weapon switching animations and limited enemy types and was a very underwhelming experience.
Totally agree. I bought the hard copy on day 1. It crashed three times in the first hour, the auto dodge didn't work, the monsters were boring. They rushed out a patch the same day. I persevered, played to the near end and gave up. Traded it in next day.
i remember not beeing able on my 2nd playthrough to go through the vents anymore bc not an action button showed up like in the previous playthrough which made it unplayble .. easily fast uninstalled
Man that makes me sad to read.
Thankfully I didn’t experience any of the bugs with the game and had a real fun time playing through it.
It was a great game and I had fun getting the platinum
Callisto is game of the year compared to forspoken haha
Eh it was overhyped but wasn’t that bad. I don’t think I’d play it again but it wasn’t awful. However I do agree the state of the game on release was definitely unacceptable.
You guys could do a part 2 to this. Antem, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk, Battlefront, Watchdogs and that's just a few of the top of my head.
Oh yeah, Watchdogs. Damn
Watchdogs 1 is a pretty good game tbh, it’s the sequels that really fkd up
I agree with you, but watchdogs was not terrible in my opinion kinda gave me few good minutes tbh
Around 50% you have to be honest and say Gameranx were the only ones hyped for these games.... Alone in the Dark Illumination, Kick-Ass the game, Tony Hawk Ride..... seriously there are much more worthy contenders out there... I would say 2009/2010 was Final Fantasy 13 (bid disappointment), and recently Final Fantasy Origins (cheap Souls like cash grab), Biomutant was another hyped-up game that when released kinds disappeared, Dynasty Warriors .... I think Gameranx are going to have to do the most disappointing games of EACH GENRE ... otherwise, there are just too many!!! Like FPS, RPGs, Fighting, Sport etc
No I know that watch dogs, ended up being good, but if we're talking about disappointment then it definitely qualifies. Just look at what was advertised vs. What was delivered. The same could be said of No Man's Sky. And please don't come at me with but they fixed it. No, I do not accept that as a norm. Gamers were lied to, flat out. Period.
Marvel Nemesis was me and my friends' favourite fighting game for years. We easily dropped Tekken for it. I don't even remember it's campaign, but it's 1v1 mode was awesome.
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Me and my brothers favorite fighting game for sure. Spent hours facing each other! Had whole tournaments with friends 😂
Still play it every now and then with friends, it's an incredible 1v1 experience
Bro fr that shit is one of my favorite games of all time
I remember being so hyped for Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness in 2003. It looked amazing and they did a great job of marketing it beforehand, the game turned out awful. It was so bad the developers didn't ship review units so they could try to score a few weeks of good sales.
Not to mention it caused Core Design to close their doors and then Crystal Dynamics had to reboot the whole franchise
Cyberpunk 2077 should be on number 1.
@@pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225 It is the modern equivalent to Daikatana which I heard was overhyped because John Romero was involved and the game was a massive flop
Crazy bugs. I got her boobs stuck on a display case during the museum level. I could still do the level but her lady bits remained anchored to the case wherever I went.
Zsasz should get more recognition, he's genuinely a scary villain with those markings on him.
2014 had Sacred 3 released, I was obsessed with Sacred 2 for years, the character customization, the open world, the different races to interact with.. then Sacred 3.. just broke my heart
What I really love about your videos is that you go straight to the subject. No 3 minute bullshit or begging for subscribers.
Honestly one of my biggest personal let downs was Halo 5, seeing the trailers and how it seemed to be about a really cool kinda rogue Spartan hunting down Master Chief just seemed to awesome to me, only to purchase it and go through an awful campaign that felt extremely short and honestly shitty multiplayer was just a massive let down and kinda killed the entire Halo franchise for me
I LOVED Halo 5 mulriplayer, but the story was a hodge-podge mess
Xbox in a nutshell
facts gang
I actually bought Halo 5 on release bc the trailers were so great, thought surely it had to be better than 4... I paid 60$ I believe, turned it back in same day not even finishing the first level. It wasn't Halo anymkre. They only gave me 20$ for it but I didn't care 😭
Have you played infinite? Man, if not… you should. I’m 25 and have literally played halo my whole life, yeah H5 was a miss story wise, but multiplayer to me was great. Infinite has both.
For me it was Spore. I waited on tender hooks for 2 years, looking out for any new videos.
For those of you who don't know it was a game where you created a new life form, decided on it's appendages and skeletal structure and then guided it through evolution to a space-faring civilization. And it would be automatically filled with user-generated content.
But the finished product was actually less advanced than the demonstration model. I read somewhere that the software was to complex to be pressed on to disks. I got a seriously simplified version of what I was expecting. More like a series of minigames with above average customization then the multi-layered life simulator I thought it was going to be. But the most heart breaking part was when the user-content stopped flowing in and nothing I did would get it going again. And speaking of which, there was no filter of quality for creator content coming in.
The new SimCity was a bust too.
I was too young to remember any advertisement for Spore but when I first played it as a kid I loved it! It was so exciting
@@fabe61 Wow, you know how to make a man feel old. When I was a kid, they hadn't released the Sims.
Spore was a dud for sure, had massive hype around it too
@@empire0 Remember when they launched the adventure DLC and the props appeared as the alien buildings?
Yeah I remember the hype. One of the few games I actually bought on release. Found it very simplified, like a few mini-games stitched together. I’m sure the screen shots were massively different than the released version.
Played for a few hours then put it down, never played since.
I remember enjoying Rise of the Imperfects. Inasmuch as one could when your older sister hides the manual so you don't know how to use the super/special moves. I remember Paragon had a special move that drained the enemies health while healing you. I didn't know how to activate it. My sister did. Made for many one-sided fights...
2005 feels like a time you couldve googled it! Not to reactivate childhood trauma or anything but.... 😂
@@alainmilette6460 Oh no worries you're probably right-! I just most likely didn't think of it at the time tbh~ 2005 feels still in the range me and my sister still had limited computer time, so I probably just never considered that looking it up was an option.
I was too, until I had to beat my favorite heroes as a some lame ass unknow man in story.
Gameranx is a legend for consistently produce and upload some of the most best gaming contents on UA-cam. Mad respect for you folks.🤙🏼💯📈
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Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, Cyberpunk 2077 and Super Mario Strikers Battle League also deserve to be mentioned
This comment need to be pinned 📌
cyberpunk easily shouldve made the list
@@sshunt2987 Just because some neckbeards were ready to throw away their real life to start living in Night City doesn't mean the game was bad. It was still better than most AAA games. Andromeda wasnt a bad game either, just another cast of people expecting too goddamn much.
@@user-ni7qv1nd8o But the list is specifically not for the worst games, but the most dissappointing games. Sure, CP2077 wasn't as bad as some other games, and it has improved significantly with patches and updates, but it nevertheless was quite the dissapointment for many at launch.
@// the key word is "disappointing". You cannot deny that it was very disappointing. Some people waited 5+ years for an incomplete mess that has hardly picked itself up.
My dad and I loved Marvel Nemesis, played it all the time. We still talk about it sometimes, so definitely not a disappointing game to me lol.
I legit said “whoa whoa whoa” out loud cause I was just playing that earlier😂 & I was shocked
Nemesis was great for its time, it doesnt deserve this slander.
@@diggityd4n16 exactly!
I actually really enjoyed Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects as a kid. For the time, it was a good 3D "superhero" fighting game with a dark tone.
Yeah I think it’s inclusion is more in the realm of his personal disappointment bc it’s definitely up there for marvel games
yeah that game was awesome
I liked Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects as a kid, and went back and replayed a bit of it here lately. It's not great, but I still have a soft spot for it.
I am the same way. It wasn't the best, but not being constrained to typical 2D (MK) or rotating 3D (Tekken) and actually being able to move freely around a map was what made it enjoyable.
I loved it I was so scared of it as a kid
Felt so edgy as a kid seeing Spider-Man fatalitie another hero.
i was looking for this comment cause i loved it when it came out lol hearing spider-man catch phrase always stuck with me 😂
same i actually enjoyed nemesis and i herd plent of people asking for this game to come back idk why that was on this list and not anthem and i played fight club and it seem like a fun game as a kid you get to break people arms on there and they wont be abkle to use said arm
Glad to see Alien Colonial Marines on here. I am still bitter about it to this day. I got the collectors preorder, even got one of the giant gaming door posters from GameStop, only to turn it on an immediately see a massive graphical downgrade from the E3 demo. So sad how 1 single typo in the code ruined the entire AI.
Tell me about it, I was hoped for ACM, but after the graphical stuff, and the whole "teather" issue, yeah disappointed was i
Recently replayed it with some mods and it's pretty great now
Tony Hawk goes to the coffee shop by my house every week. Should I let him know his game is on this list? 😂
Marvel Nemesis was one of my brother and I's favorites growing up. Disappointing maybe, but it had some of the funnest fighting game mechanics out there for the time.
I had forgotten the game, but seeing the clips I remembered that I used to play it a lot and rather enjoyed playing and messing around with my brothers.
I was never disappointed.. I still have that game lol
I still have that game. I grew up playing games alone most of the time and still loved that game. I played it many times, something I don't often do.
Honorable mention for Twisted Metal (2012)... the original series from the 90s was tops. We waited so long for the reboot.
Oh man TM was so fun to play -Simple but fun game TM2 yea never got into it
I can still here that ice cream 🍦 clown
For me I was honestly heart struck when I heard the Cancelation of the Silent Hill game. Otherwise known as the P.T. demo awhile back. For a demo that showed sooo much promise and atmosphere just for it to be cancelled. We really just got blue balled
@scavar I said turn around
Till this day i deem it to be in the top 5 greatest horror games of all time despite it being a demo lmao
@@harrissongeorgiou2955Oh definitely on that list for me as well! It had unique elements that are still extremely hard for today's games to replicate. Not to mention the horror itself when the demo glitches out to trick you
Out of all the disappointing games released in the last 20 years, the Saints Row reboot is the only one that made me want to slit my throat.
It's a shame we didn't get the planned follow up Tony Hawk's Park. The game would have come with a to scale, plastic wireless skate park.
For aliens marines they found a typo in the script that fixed a lot of the NPC problems
A list of the biggest profile games that never got released would be a cool list to see!
#1 HalfLife 3 #2 Left 4 Dead 3 #3 Portal 3...
There is no pattern here, just coincidence ;)
For people who just want the list, here it is:
20. Batman: Dark Tomorrow
19. Fight Club
18. Marvel Nemesis: Rise Of The Imperfects
17. Sonic The Hedgehog ‘06
16. Hour Of Victory
15. Too Human
14. Tony Hawk: Ride
13. Kick-Ass: The Game
12. Duke Nukem Forever
11. Game Of Thrones
10. Aliens: Colonial Marines
9. Rambo: The Video Game
8. Alone In The Dark: Illumination
7. Mighty No. 9
6. Road Rage
5. Metal Gear Survive
4. Contra: Rogue Corps
3. Fast & Furious: Crossroads
2. Battlefield 2042
1. Saints Row: The Third
My personal opinion is that Marvel Nemesis was an amazing game, especially for those that played it on psp. Not many fighting games made each character feel so different from one another.
Had it on GameCube mannn me & my bro went crazy back in the day 🤣🔥🔥Spidey Johnny Ohm & Wolverine was my mains
Had it on PS2 and my cousin had it on gamecube and we played it all the time. It was definitely more of a split screen pvp game and was a blast if you had a group of people to play with. I don’t think I ever even played the single player if there was one haha my brother unlocked all the characters and we just did vs
@@tyronebiggumsakaduke4587 fuck yeah, I love that game
I had it on ps2 and at the time I was fairly young so I was probably in love with any game but I found myself playing it all the time so it’s super surprising to hear it was disappointing in that period of time
No mans sky broke my heart when it originally released
Yeah, not sure how it wasn’t on this list tbh
@@christians2898 I thought for SURE cyberpunk would have been on here, I mean the game was still good but the amount of negative press and overhype It got felt like it should be on here
@@garou9335 the reason cyberpunk and no mans sky arent on here is because both games are no longer disappointing, both have been continually supported by the devs to the point of them becoming actually good games.
No Man’s Sky has improved significantly but to call its launch a disappointment would be quite an understatement.
Whenever I see the Rambo game I just think of Angry Joe screaming “HE’S A MAN NOT A GOD!” 😂
Wow I completely forgot about Marvel Nemesis. I barely remember anything about the game, but I remembered loving it as a kid lol
Your memory being shot already? ..not good.
@@blokin5039 he played it when he was a kid, you good?
Wait, did I just see Batman Returns on the screen when you were talking about misses? That game was freaking great in its day.
Watching those Batman dark tomorrow clips makes me feel blessed to have experienced the Arkham games growing up 😂
3:30 dude you crazy that game was nuts
Nice video :) The video game I was personally most disappointed in was the remake of "Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story", which ultimately led to Alphadream going bankrupt... RIP Alphadream :/ But the remake really just felt too easy...
By the way, about this game... Gameranx, you're still doing your "ten weirdest gaming things of the month" series, right? Would it count as weird if someone took the story mode of this game, so "Bowser Jr.'s Journey" and completely voiceacted it through, from the beginning to the end, every single character, all by one person? :)
Why? Did you have plans?
@@jessragan6714 Well... kinda :) I'm already done with the first two sections of the game, and I've uploaded all the cutscenes of the first area with voiceacting on my channel :) It's in German though... But I'm planning to see this project through all the way to the end :)
I actually love Marvel nemesis and I played probably once every two years it is one of the most nostalgic pieces in my collection though I do agree it could’ve been better
Exactly it has charm
@@millasboo Everybody who I have ever talked to is play this game has said the same thing really don’t know why we never got the sequel that was teased
Another list idea, surprising hits of the last 20 years
Thanks for your suggestion
@@gameranxTV ❤️
@@gameranxTV Gotham Knights was WAY more dissapointing then Saints Row reboot.
@@jadedheartsz at least Gotham Knights functioned and at the very least had an actual gameplay loop. Maybe not a very good one but it still had it unlike the cobbled up mess that is the Saints Row Reboot.
@@ProtoBrown Nah the game was actually glitch and it took away a bunch of stuff the Arkham games had and it was way too grindy and the open-world barely gave you anything to do aside from the same tired copy-paste side-quests over and over again, at least SR's open-world had actual variety and things to do, Knights was way more of a cobbled mess then SR, especially considering all the stupid armor-gear nonsense that was obviously supposed to have MTXs put in.
Am I the only guy who was like FINALLY when the Arkham Games came out??? I mean honestly, how fucking incompetent did soooo many devs have to be to fuck up BATMAN sooo many times? It was insane how bad his prior games were back then!
100% anthem. Although I was extremely happy with the gameplay, it felt incomplete and a real shame that it was abandoned. I hope one day someone picks up the foundation of it and soars it into one of the greats
I agree the game felt almost like a beta, where the base game and mechanics felt pretty fleshed out, but the actual gameplay loop and story were just kind of lacking.
Yup. To me that’s the most disappointing game of all time. I remember the excitement of putting on the suit for the first time and jumping out into the world and flying and just being awestruck by the world and the mechanics… then after 5 minutes you realize there’s nothing to do lol
I ❤️ the fact that when you showed us Fred Durst's playable character in The Fight Club game you had him fighting Jared Leto's character Angel Face. Limp Bizkit versus 30 Seconds to Mars!
There were a couple of games there where I literally went "Oh.. yah. I own that game. I forgot" games on this list.
Cyberpunk missing this list is insane
You know what's never a disappointment? New videos from y'all
Cyberpunk was the game that made me never preorder again. I had been so interested in the world from the original trailer I'd check like every year for info. I got it on PS4 assuming it would work since they put it out. Right at the start I'm glitched into the floor of the car for the whole cutscene only to get 20fps after. I played it last year on pc it was pretty good but damn did that feel bad
For me that game was No Man’s Sky.
For me Cyberpunk was the 2nd game I pre-ordered after Sekiro and probably last (besides From Software). And for me it wasn't even the glitches, but all that false advertising and missing features. Still even now, after all these updates, the game is not what they promised and never will. It's like trying to fix a house, while the whole foundation is shaky.
Nothing will ever beat Dynasty Warriors 9 in terms of disappointment for me. Enormous fan of the series and DW9 was the biggest kick in the crotch we could have ever asked for. Hoping they get the series back on track and don't double down on whatever the hell that game was
Maybe that’s the only one I’ve played. Cvs games
Facts
I remember being really excited about Black & White, but it really wasn't that good and the spell system was very frustrating as you had to use the mouse cursor to cast them.
It was a sigh of relief to know that i didnt have to torture myself through playing any of those games. Thanks Gameranx!
Rise of the imperfects was incredible to me as a kid and honestly I would still love to play it today
Spore broke my heart. I was promised everything I wanted, and none of it was delivered.
What is the whole controversy behind that game because I found it fun to be honest
@@Greenboipapi I would also like an explanation
The past 5 or so years have had such massive disappointing games cyberpunk, anthem, no man's sky, GTA collection, lotr gollum, fallout 76, battlefront 2, Resident evil 3, Diablo 4, back 4 blood
I think about Marvel Nemsis all the time, and hope we'll someday get a sequel. I'd take some web slingin' ass kickin' anyday over some the mid superhero games we've been getting lately. SE's Avengers and Gotham Knights I'm looking at you.
you cant really say that with spiderman, probably the best super hero game ever made being a thing
I'm kind of surprised that No Man's Sky was not on here. Granted, it vindicated itself somewhat. I find it difficult to find a release that was harder on the community than that was; however.
I think that you already solved why it isnt here, still with updates to this day.... But being honest, the latest one (update) broke the game for me, harder than when I first played it (when it launched), but thats just a personal opinion
yeah that should've been on the list.
Anthem
@@duardo_bru
No he didn't.
The video is the top 20 most disappointing, based on their year of release and has nothing to do with them improving later, it's based on how they were when they launched.
He stated that BF2042 has improved since it was released but was still a major disappointment when it released in the video
@@duardo_bru What do you not like about the latest update? Just curious.
The most disappointing thing nowadays is that its become easy to predict which games will disappoint before they release.
Or it could be we've learnt from past disappointments. At least it saves you money though.
The Day Before: Hold my beer
"Sh*t happens"
Loved the video. Can you do another like this with 1 game a year for 20 games that completely came out of nowere an became massive with little or no hype.
I’ve never been more disappointed than when Cyberpunk launched.
As someone who didn't play the original Duke Nukem games I have to say I really enjoyed Forever, particularly the humour
Yes!
@@Potato.69420The humor sucks so bad, even for Politically Incorrect standards.
no evolve or back for blood on this list is criminal
Anyone else remember being SUPER hyped for "Brink", my friend's and i all prepaid for a copy, I think half of us traded it back in to gamestop within 2 weeks.
Brink and another disappointing game came out around the same time. Another shooter... rage maybe?
Omg Brink. Game was hyped up to be the pinnacle of FPS before release. So many great ideas and it just flopped
Tempted to buy for 360...glad I did not
Weird that Anthem, any of the Star Wars games, or even cyberpunk at one point isn’t on here. Just weird that you named a lot of games most have never heard of lol.
You didn't like "STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED"? or "Battlefront 2"(2005)?
Cuz they are actually still enjoyable and playable games. Fans just hype it up too much all the time.
Anthem and Callisto Protocol are ones that definitely deserve a spot on here
Game of Thrones is actually a hidden gem. It has arguably the best plot in the history of gaming (Martin wrote the script and appears in the game) , acting is good and the gameplay is flawed but satisfying. It is the most underrated game of the '10s
it so does not have the best plot in the history of gaming, be serious.
@@gonzalvarodri i am serious. the highest metacritic pro score it has is from myself from 2012 when i was still a PC games journalist for a print magazine. The game has the best plot I have ever seen. Deus Ex games come close but that's about it.
@@vasilisxerikos2179 have you ever played a metal gear solid game?
@@gonzalvarodri yeah and their story is convoluted for no particular reason so I do not rate them all that high plot-wise. Have you played the GoT game?
@@vasilisxerikos2179 i wont lie to you, i haven't. im just in denial because i have never heard somebody praising this game in that sense
Cyberpunk deserved an honourable mention here. 😂
No
@@ProtoBrown Yes.
I loved marvel rise of the imperfects as a kid... the gameplay and all that, so much fun and different. For wolverine you would hold like L2 to fight with his claws and then release to put them away. I would love for them to expand on that and make a modern take on it.
Everybody loved it I don’t get why it made this list
You're trippen Rise of the Imperfects was still a really fun game. Thoroughly enjoyed it as a young teenager. Glad to see a lot of people feel the same way.
Excuse me sir, but I think you forgot to put the last 10 years of Madden and EA on here 🧐
Before I watch this, I expect Duke Nukem Forever to be on this list.
For me, f122 was supposed to be such a big step for the f1 game franchise and I was really looking forward to it. The games had been improving every year and then it came out and it was garbage. It felt really bad to drive and the ai were just way to quick in a straight line but in a corner they were extremely slow so you’d get like 2 seconds in a corner than lose 5 on a straight. It was really disappointing as it has to have been my least favourite f1 game I’ve played even though every game before that I loved more and more. They really missed the mark on it and really stripped away what I was starting to love about the franchise. I was really hyped about it just to really not like the game.
They say nothing about drivers changing teams. The dialog is the exact same every season.
you could make part 2 and even 3 of this, there are so many dissapointing games
The fact that they wrote "Saints Row The Third" in the timestamp of the video at 19:00.. 💀