0:15 Number 20 Call of Duty 2:07 Number 19 Deus Ex 3:46 Number 18 Dark Souls II 5:22 Number 17 Halo 5 6:51 Number 16 Dead Space 3 8:51 Number 15 Splinter Cell 10:29 Number 14 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe 11:50 Number 13 Dead Rising 4 13:20 Number 12 Castlevania 15:11 Number 11 The Walking Dead 16:06 Number 10 Duke Nukem Forever 17:54 Number 9 Mercenaries 2 19:20 Number 8 Ninja Gaiden 3 20:19 Number 7 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 22:05 Number 6 Lost Planet 3 24:00 Number 5 Devil May Cry 2 25:18 Number 4 F.E.A.R. 3 26:45 Number 3 Star Wars 28:53 Number 2 Spiderman 2 30:18 Number 1 Driver 3
it's definitely the only gaming channel that consistently puts out daily videos that are genuinely interesting, and has a good mix of new and nostalgia
I loved Mercenaries 2! I played it on PS2, and then later on the Xbox 360 and noticed things were different. Turns out Pandemic did the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions, while another studio, Pi Studios, did the PS2 version. I don’t remember the PS2 version having the issues Falcon mentioned.
You cant just have a top worst sequels without at least talking about Dragon Age 2 ... Dragon Age: Origins was by far one of my favorite games of all time and it was so iconic and critically acclaimed in the RPG genre. The sequel was so phenomenally disappointing in so many ways (content, story, gameplay, characters) that I think the DA community would like to believe it was just an expack and we got Inquisition as a sequel.
Sorry, I have to disagree with you on so many levels. While DA2 is definitely the victim of a short development cycle, shown most clearly in the repeated environments and cookie cutter NPCs, parts very good. The time skips and unreliable narrator made the story very interesting on a meta level, many of the sidequests were both good story and had an emotional impact, and as far as characters go, DA2 had some of the best in the series. And it had Varric!
Yep, DA 2 is one of the most disappointed games I've ever played. After origins you have no idea how excited I got when I found out there was a sequel. I'm not gonna lie, Inquisition was kind of a mixed bag for me as well. But at least I found it enjoyable enough to finish it.
The best part of Dead Space 3 was the co-op guy having his own weird hallucinations and seeing things, so only Player 2 could actually see them. That was clever.
And even then, I personally think they could have leaned into that more. Would have been cool if the co-op partner was shooting Necromorphs that weren't there. Also defending Carver when he has one of those "ahh I'm stuck in my own head" episodes as Issac wasn't all that fun.
Although it was barely a dead space game, I still enjoyed it. I liked the story and that you got to explore the origins of the whole shit. But I did play a pirated version many years after the release so the online shop didn’t work. I liked the idea of making your own guns. Maybe they should have called something else but still in the dead space universe, and tell people it’s not really dead space 3, and that will come later. Too bad it killed the franchise. At least for a period. Now that we got that amazing remake, maybe something good will come of it.
@@GeoPePeTto Its funny, and somewhat telling of the quality of a lot of large titles these days, where the games of the past that are generally considered to be 'bad' are still a lot of fun. More fun than so many live service trash that comes out these days.
@@TuffMelon What are talking about? There were bad games then too. People loved to hate games back then too. Some still hate ds3. There’s just more games now. Play the ones you like.
That gameplay and locations are pretty damn amazing. It was just such a short, half hearted game with a hohum story. It was definitely a bad followup to the story in HR
Loved this game. As you’ve mentioned the only thing that sucks about it is that cliffhanger ending. It wouldn’t be bad if we got a continuation a two or three years later… but here we are, with Embracer group ditching the new Deus Ex project.
I didn't like it at first but the 2nd time through made me realize it's actually a better written game, better side quests, and despite fewer areas, they felt better crafted with so many little details to notice. It just didn't have a world ending plot really. It was a lower stakes game.
How are people calling Mankind Divided a short game? I mean, yeah it can be if you rush trough it . But it took me almost 30 hours on first playthrough to finish. Yeah, it ends on a cliffhanger and barely any of the plot points are resolved. However MD is masterclass in game design, world design ,gameplay design, it's pure immersive sim dream. There are so many side quests and activities that impact the world and your place in it in really meaningful ways and leading to very different outcomes for some other main and side quests, and even the ending. You can tackle ANY objective in a plethora of ways, just like Prey. It's sad that we probably won't get another DE any time soon. We need more games like this.
Honestly I thought Mankind Divided was a masterpiece, despite being only half of a game. That's the most depressing part for me, because I was so hyped up for the continuation that never came.
Modern Warfare III was absolutely originally an expansion. Not only could you argue that fact that it is made up mostly of remasters of old MW II maps (how does it make sense for MW II to have a couple MW III maps, but MW III has a majority of the MW II maps? Wtf). But also, more damning is that when the game first came out, some people were having problems on consoles, where it would ask for the disc to MW II in order to play it. That's the smoking gun, as it implies that it's a DLC / expansion that you can't play without first loading into MW II. That was fixed in an update. But yeah... MW III was 100% conceived as an expansion and pivoted at the last minute to a full-on new game release.
Yeah, and it was a bait and switch. I KNOW no official source said 2022 was going to be a 2 year game, but I got the game and played it for that reason. And I quit and will never touch an acti/blizz game ever again. If I have children they will be banned from touching their games. I don't care if it was a rumor, it sold games and they didn't deny it. And the lack of content in 2022 really made you feel like you were going to continue that game for 2 years of content.
The trophy list for Playstation literally has it (or had it) listed as supplementary MWII DLC. There is no platinum for it and it’s grouped under MWII’s trophy list.
@mr.s9783 that one really put a sour taste in my mouth. I really enjoy getting the trophies for the cod games. I didn't even bother with the campaign for this one...
@@mr.s9783 One of the reasons why I'll never play it, but I've seen if you play the PS4 version of it, it'll pop up only as MW3 instead of it being DLC on PS5. Which is good, but ridiculous at the same time.
For some reason I enjoyed grinding the final level for the boxes, and did it a good fifty times or so. I came back years later and did a few more runs just for old times sake, and it made me wish so hard that we had gotten a proper game like that again.
@@BargainBinkey Am I not the only one that used to just run around in Red Faction : Guerilla and just blow things up, reload a save and then go and do it again?
"Mass Effect Andromeda" Gave the dev duties to a completely new team who spent 3 years failing at getting a procedurally generated planet system to work, so they scrapped it and rushed the game out in 12 to 18 months. Used a completely untested mathematics based auto animation system, instead of animated things by hand As well as they farmed out large sections of design duties to multiple different teams from all over the world who created characters and assets in conflicting styles "Dragon Age II" With the success of Dragon Age Origins EA forced Bioware to rush out a game that was barely a Alpha type build as the city and level design was unfinished, There were far too many bugs and the complete change in creature/character/species/art styles was bizarre
Honestly I don't know the promotion around the game at launch. But by the time I played it it was clear you wouldn't be playing as THE William J Blazkowicz. And come on, It's not Wolfenstein if you're not playing as Terror Billy 😄
I haven't played Youngblood, but seeing the reviews of that game made me realize it's not worth buying and playing sequels of all the games that I played even if they're crucial for the story continuation.
Should have put Force Unleashed II at #1. I remember finishing that game when I was in high school and being confused that it was over so quickly. I remember actually thinking I missed something and there was no way a full AAA game could possibly be that short. I beat it in under 2 hours.
I beat the first Star Wars unleashed game when 2 came out. For reasons I don't want to get to details about It took me 5 years to play the sequel. I kinda enjoyed it too I mean yea it was short but hey the combat was an improvement and wasn't as repetitive as everyone said it was imo
And the first was so good comparatively! The 2nd had almost no reason for existing story wise and left a whole bunch of unanswered questions since they cancelled it afterwards
@@gr8gabe314 cinematics, gameplay and graphics. ps2 is worse graphically but I never knew until now that the game was better in on xbox360 and ps2 than on PC. I had always said I love double agent and people just look at me like "Why?". that might explain a lot of things. I'm not buying the damn thing again to see for myself tho lol
My completely unpopular opinions. Dark Souls 2 was the first Souls game i beat, so it got me hooked into Fromsoft games. I replayed the other Souls games after and actually learned to love them and appreciate them for what they were. Same with Dead Space 3. While i usually disagree with accessibility, theres franchises i wouldn't appreciate now without those dark sheep when i was younger. Before I was 20 i honestly was just happy to be playing a video game.
Payday 3. Its only redeeming factor is that the gameplay at its core is fairly solid. Literally everything else - the UI, skills, challenges, progression, weapon customization, level design are just so lazy and generic it feels like they were made by AI. It's yet another game that was released 2 years before it was ready.
@jamesconlin5099 payday 3 is so good they have to livestream the game and explain why every bug is actually a feature. Oh and instead of addressing concerns they just added an 8 year old meth cooking mission.
I was about to comment the same thing. The first Army of Two was great, the second one... Just terrible. My other thing is, I remember really enjoying Mercenaries 2 though and thats on the list
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@@MSFTJusticethe second one was good. Third one is what killed the franchise
2:21 It's rather humorous how "Invisible War" was so "invisible" in everyone's memory (forgettable), it's basically "invisible" while "Mankind Divided" divided critics and players upon release. It's like the developer knew this in advance, so tacked on the subtitle just to be ironic and self aware. 🤣🤣
These game developers are becoming lazier and greedier every year. Eventually, we'll all see premium battle passes and cash shops flood new titles with numerous microtransactions.
@@SSGoatanksI know what you mean and agree 100%, but I’m going to be “that guy” and ask you make one correction going forward. It’s all the publisher’s fault, not the developers. EA wanting to put real life ads in their games comes directly from the board members, stock holders and CEO, not the people who bust their asses day in and day out actually making the game. Please don’t blame the devs for things they have no power over. They’re usually huge fans of gaming, which is why they make them in the first place, and know better than anyone what we like and dislike in games.
I have more hours in dark souls 2 than any other dark souls game but I have gone through the dlcs maybe twice. The main game is pretty good, especially in the scholar version, but the dlc enemy variety is straight up exhausting.
The only disappointing thing about Deus ex is that we aren't getting a third game. Mankind Divided was excellent but it was the middle of the trilogy. We need one more to finish it.
@@redfloyd69 I didn't like the games much. Idk, the gameplay and the feel of the controls always felt dated in both games (kinda like that Thief reboot. Eidos Montreal just isn't as talented as other studios imo) and Adam Jensen's monotonous voice got boring fast.
@@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968 Based on some quick Googling (I haven't played them myself) the years the games are set in seem to indicate Human Revolution and Mankind Divided are directly connected, whereas the first two are isolated games. If I had to guess, I'd say OP hasn't heard of the first two, or considered HR and MD reboots, given the release dates and the first two being isolated chronologically. Depending on your perspective, a new game would either be the third (wrapping up the trilogy beginning with Deus Ex: Human Revolution), fifth (of the mainline entries), sixth (if including the mobile game Deus Ex: Fall), or seventh (if including the themed entry in the GO mobile series).
Thanks for constantly creating lengthy content. As a retired veteran with way to much time on my hands and constantly trying to find things to do (Which isn't a bad thing). I know I can count on gameranx come through when I start to feel a little bored. Thanks.
I would argue it was so bad that it is actually what lead them to realizing that franchises should be mostly separate. Outside of guest spots where it makes sense. Like The Joker kills. So putting him in a MK game make sense. Not a fan of MK characters in Injustice though due to no Fatalities.
@@danielthomas7193I think that's a fair point. Having to tone down the game is what made it less compatible. However, Injustice Superman could make a cameo appearance. He'd definitely have a fatality.
@@emwbjr but DC doesn't want Fatalities performed on him. So he could be a Kameo (meaning the tag feature) in MK1 since those characters can perform Fatalities but can't have them done on them.
I played Deus Ex MD for the first time in 2023.... it probably sits in my top 5 games I have ever played. So surprised its on your list. Graphics still amazing, acting/voice was great, the maps were so crazy ( spent hours in the bank, crawling through ducts etc). I'm surprised people didn't think it was way ahead of its time as in 2023 it still held up as good as any game made today. BTW its RDR2 Witcher 3 Then the below in any order: Kingdom Come Deliverance GTA San Andreas Deus Ex MD Name a better list, prove me wrong
RDR2 Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain (it has an higher Metacritic score then Witcher 3 😝) Alien Isolation Uncharted 4 Resident Evil 2 remake Rise of the Tomb Raider Mass Effect 2 Rayman Origins Not the GOATs but worth mentioning Bioshock Infinite LA Noire Mafia 3 COD 4 Modern Warfare Shadow of the Tomb Raider Mass Effect 3 God of War III
@@raidernation2390 Alien isolation is an interesting pick.. never seen that on someones list before. I haven't played so gonna have to trust you on that one. I Def's disagree on metal gear hahaha but I do see why that one can be better in some peoples eyes. Just didn't grasp me as much as witcher in my personal experience. I actually am playing la nior as we speak. Still holds up well. Your list is much more diverse than mine but all the ones I have played, I totally agree are great.
@@chiefimpartial4041 thanks man. Metal Gear Solid V has the best combat I ever played. Too bad the story got toned down because everyone was complaining about MGS4's 2 hour long cutscenes (but I actually enjoyed the lore about the Soviet/Afghan war in MGS5) and Konami cutting Kojima's budget for the game 6 months before release. It would've got more recognition if Kojima's got to finish it and would no doubt would've been everyone's GOTY if it was released in 2016 even without all the cut content. Also forgot to include the first Dark Souls game in the GOAT list. Highly suggest playing or replaying the remastered version. Game aged like fine wine for a retro 2011 game 🍷
This Channel is the best, made by gamers for gamers. Just how the industry should be as well but you just have greedy corporate executives ruining all the fun.
@@lololollololol629honestly, it was very disappointing at the time. The EA CEO also gave pandemic a lot more time on it, I think the next gen jump just took too long for the devs to learn. It was the game that showed me games can come out and be buggy and unfinished. The first is loaded with content and much better progression.
@@gameranxTV You a G Birdman. Youre gettin more righteous with these critiques in a way that shows your skill and knowledge of the industry as a real one all these years we followed ya. Falcone and Baldino? Forgetaboutit, I dip olive bread in small glass of Montepulciano when I see a new video from the La Gamer Famiglia ;)
@@Xlen-omega this is a hard question because both of them are so good but the first 1 has a better story and journey it’s longer but 2 has the better gameplay and it’s just a great continuation and you can play as alucard so i’d say 2 is my personal favorite but i think the first 1 is a little better
I really loved Lords of Shadow too. I mean, yeah, the OG is better... But if you exclude that forced stealth on those giant soldiers (that was indeed lame AF), I really had a great time with it.
Agreed. The first one is a masterpiece for its time. The 2 had its problems with the stealth, but if you remove that, the game is still great. And the soundtrack, ahhhhh that's genius
I feel like the story was better for the first. The environments were better and the ending much better. 2s gameplay was better and to me that was the only improvement. He moved more fluid. I personally did not like it set in modern times. Didn’t feel like castlevania.
@@mikhailkosyan9735 I played the hell out of it too. I had a love/ hate relationship with the game because I knew the game sucked but it was the most fun game I had at that time lol
Deus ex is like MGS5....they are both amazing and fun to play. Just they are not finished or had a proper conclusion to the story. An i dont think there ever will be. Which is a shame.
MGSV got dragged down by how it was marketed and released. Still can’t forget how Ground Zero and Phantom Pain we’re split, and not even finished at the end. To put the nail to the MGS coffin, Konami made Survive...
Phantom Pain lives rent free in my head about how badly it fumbled on the story side. It didn’t even feel like an MGS game in tone and story outside of the character names.
Season 1 and 2 are great, season 4 is alright but nobody likes season 3. Clem feels like a guest in her own game plus nobody gives a damn about the "new" characters. Neither of them are even that likeable or interesting. S2 being on this list is a bit weird but we've all got our opinions.
I will say that I agreed with most of these, but I actually liked Season 2 of the Walking Dead. Wasn't as good as the first season, but really enjoyed watching Clem grow, seeing Kenny try to pick up the pieces, and I thought the ending was pretty wild. Set a great, hopeless tone. Worst part was Arvo and Carver, one was just not written well and the other felt like he was trying too hard to be the villain.
The story of DMC2's troubled production is actually pretty well-documented. For starters, development began WHILE DMC1 was still being marketed for the US release. Second of all, none of 1's original dev team even worked on DMC2 and was made by an enturely different team that basically have no idea what they were doing. Also, said newbie team was given just 1 year of development time And thirdly, the game director credited in DMC2, Hideaki Itsuno, was not even the original director hired. The first (still unknown to this day) director was replaced because they haven't done anything for the game 6 months into development so the CAPCOM higher ups hired Itsuno to salvage the game. And all things considered, he DID manage to turn in a game, with technically only 6 months of development, that surprisingly works and runs well and is actually not buggy. On the plus side, because Itsuno knows he's gonna get blamed for this, he begged the executives to let him make DMC3 with proper time and budget, and the rest of the character-action genre is history.
God yes. Struggling to think of another sequel I found as disappointing. Edit: Thought of one. TLOU2. Never looked forward to a game so much to be so utterly crushed at how terrible writing destroyed the whole game. Just the franchise really. I wouldn’t be in any rush to buy any other game in that world.
All true however I still enjoyed it. DLC were good but you can’t ignore the glaring issues from rushed dev timescales. Interesting to imagine how good this could have been. Worst of the series but still a good game.
So true. I was a HUGE fan of DA:O and the Awakening expansion was also awesome (all the DLCs were also great). And then you get that total crap. Uninteresting story (seriously, how can you make a game like DA2 interesting if you close into a city?), forgettable characters, and that's not to mention maps that were reused over and over. Combat was also very fun... The first 2 or 3 times. What a mess.
Watch Dogs: Legion. I was so hyped when I heard they were making a third Watch Dogs, then the first trailer dropped, and I immediately knew it would be trash. I remember the promo character wearing the pig mask was where the straw broke the camels back. I wanted the fun gameplay of 2 with the amazing story of 1.
Ah yes, thank you for making the important distinction about the different versions of Splinter Cell Double Agent. Way too many times I've just seen people/videos call SCDA a disappointment without acknowledging the big differences between the versions and that the 6th gen version is excellent. It was developed by the same team behind Chaos Theory and feels much more like a traditional SC game than anything else that came after it.
Force Unleashed 2 did a trope that always bothers me: “This person died betraying us but if we clone him the clone will be 100% loyal. What? The clone is betraying us too? Who could have foreseen that.?!?”
I loved Castlevania LOS2, the story was nice and the combat felt great, idc what the earlier games were when it came out I had tons of fun, the story of the toy maker that lost his heart still makes me cry to this day. The OSTs in the game were peak!
AC3 is good a game, if you can handle the glitches (Which are nowhere near as bad as later AC games). And I also like Connor as well. Level design is great, and the prison section is one of the most memorable levels in the franchise.
AC 3 was solid after the first like 2-3 hours. If you could make it through that then you'd probably be OK. I loved the combat of that game just got so fatigued with how boring the story and characters were that I never finished.
@@AngelOfDæth_4 The characters were more complex and more in like with AC1 than AC2 where the Templars are just generic and cartoonishly evil, the story was boring compared to AC2 but the conflict between the Assassins and Templars and the complexity of characters like Haytham is lot better than the Ezio Trilogy's black vs white story
Mankind Divided didn't end on a cliffhanger. It told the story it needed to tell for this installment. It likely would have resolved the plot in a third outing, but it's definitely not incomplete. It also has roughly the same runtime as Human Revolution
A remake of Mercinaries 1 would be great, was so good setting off all the special weapons, cluster bombs etc. Was also fun attacking the bases etc. I doubt we will ever get a 3 so a redo of one would be awesome.
Yeah a remake of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction would be so cool. A Third game was in early development by Pandemic Studios back in 2009 until the Studio got shut down and the project got cancelled. The IP is still with EA.
I absolutely loved Castlevania LOS 2. I loved the concept of the Castle being a separate dimension tied to Drac's powers. Yeah, the stealth could've been implemented better, but it was overall a fantastic game with pretty dang good graphics especially for it's time.
Man I loved Force Unleashed so much that I got the metal case for FU2 and I was tragically disappointed. I was gelling with it for the most part (largely due to the combat) eager for more then you reunite with Juno and it just ends. I was so frustrating baffled that I thought clearly my disk was bugged or something. The whole game felt like the first act😪
@@Xlen-omega for real and the actor is just the biggest Star Wars nerd. He works on a few Star Wars projects but no sign of him reprising the character. Almost wanted to believe he’d pop up in Ahsoka but he just did voice work
Personally quite liked DS3, played it through a couple times even, Solo and Co-op I think it being a direct sequel didn't do it any favors. It continued the story of Isaac, but lacked the same atmosphere. Doubt people would've minded as much if it was either a serious/tense game, or they just went nuts on the weapons. They did something in the middle.
Yeah, same here. Especially revisiting the place where it all started. I love when games show some big thing happening in the past, only to let you explore the location after many years and see the aftermath. Maybe they should’ve stated their intentions with the direction of the game from the start, and promise to make a true sequel after it. Hope the remake will revitalize the franchise.
SSX On Tour: Take away the open world mountain of the third game, add skis to a snowboarding game, and give the game a cringy Xtreme vibe spelled the beginning of the end for not just the series but the whole genre.
I actually loved Lords of Shadow 2 and consider it an improvement over the first in almost every way. Yeah the rocket guys were a little weird and it was frustrating to get caught by them (either make it easier to get away or just make it an instant fail, being nigh-forced to watch as you just get hammered by rockets over and over is annoying, to be sure) but they also weren't super common and every time I entered a room and saw them I just switched brain from action combat to puzzle-solving mode and enjoyed it a lot more. Better story, better combat, smoother traversal, larger and more interesting exploration... people hate on LoS 2 for the setting and I think that's just getting too hung up on the superficial.
I have a habit of going through peoples steam profiles and look at what games they play and for how many hours, I’m nosey, sue me. But this one man still haunts me, 1500+ hours into “Duke Nukum forever”. I’ve wondered how people spend so much time in games, but 1500+ hours for that game is cray cray
Yeah was surprised that Season 2 was on here and not the expected “black sheep” of the series, ANF/Season 3. Good reasons for being here of course, in a way the mentioned problems with S2 only got semi-worse with Telltale made Games in general around that time (and by the time TTG realised this & tried to course correct with the 2nd half of Batman:TEW & TWD:TFS, it was too late for that act to save the company).
As someone who went back and played Lost Planet 3 for the first time a couple of years ago, I was impressed by just how well it held up. Definitely the best in the series for me.
@PowderedVoltage Its a tough thing too. You want to placate the fans, the ones who made the brand what it is but as a creative you want to evolve and change the game to stretch your artistic legs and bring in new people. If they didnt create it how could we have become fans. And if we werent fans how could they make more. Fans and developers should give each other more leway to express and evolve and respect why we fell in love. We all get done dirty trying to please all and be pleased
Conviction was a fun game that brought nice innovations into the third-person shooter genre and did a great job portraying an angry Sam who lost everything he had in the previous game. Switching the genre within the same IP is uncommon but it does exist, and it was clear from the beginning that it isn't a game for people who want a traditional Splinter Cell game. It doesn't deserve the hate it got, but also... I want another traditional Splinter Cell game
In regards to Devil May Cry 2, you said you didn't understand what the original devs were thinking. From my understanding it wasn't the original devs and production for DMC2 started before the first game even released. some of the original staff from DMC1 hopped on too late to save it. That's my understanding. If somebody would like to add context/corrections please do share.
@whatdoesthisthingdo I'm still playing through it but really it just makes me want a actual sequel to the first game. With the strider back, the second skill palette back, the actual hybrid classes back, the satisfying end game loop back, and the UR dragon (or a similar boss) back.
Wait so DD2 isn’t great? I thought everybody loved it. From what I watched of it, it looked like DD just improved. It’s one of the games I want to buy as soon as I’m able. This sounds disappointing that I read this but I wondered what happened to people talking about. It was hyped and dropped and nobody ever talks about it anymore
But isn't the main critique of Dead space 3 that it has changed its formula to appeal to a wider audience and the main critique of DD2 that it didn't change much and is basically a DD1.5 ? Sounds like the polar opposite
I might be a bit biased since DS2 was my gateway game to the souls series, but it was my favorite game to play. I still remember the areas and enemies like if I played it yesterday.
The Halo 5 trailers did the most damage. Setting up a cat and mouse thriller with tough choices. None of which were in the game. And you only play Master Chief in 3 missions.
Surprised you put TWD Season 2 on here, yeah it isn't as good as season 1 but it's still widely praised as the best Telltale TWD season after 1, and one of Telltale's best offerings in general.
Yeah I didn't agree with it being on this list either. The fanbase was really divisive based on the number of endings it had and how those were resolved in New Frontier but I never got the sense there was disappointment from players after playing it.
Even though Gameranx is a great channel but it felt like they didn't played season 3 it was a bad game in the series (yeah ik Michonne is worst) but season 2 was a good game you can see how Clem is trying to be like Lee you know trying to help everyone also Kenny is trying to take care of Clem like his own daughter it looks like people are obsessed with Lee (which isn't bad thing) I was surprised when season 2 came here it wasn't disappointing in any sense
The only reason I remember it exists is it's the game that taught me to pay attention to downloads. Played it twice, ignored it for a month, then it tried sneaking in an "update" bigger than the base game that hit my data cap before even finishing. At that point, I had it uninstalled.
@@torgranael dude that sucks and I wish they would have kept the flood in 4 so maybe in 5 it could have lead up too flooded prometheans. But I played 5 for like 20 minutes got bored and play halo 3 instead. At least 4 was kinda cool tho.
I didn't play much of Halo 5. Basically left it on the family Xbox's hard drive untouched after playing it once or twice. We couldn't figure out why our internet had tanked for over a week until we discovered it was trying to do a 90GB update (larger than most full size games at the time). We had a monthly data limit on the whole house (for reasons I cannot remember), and this game had blown out the reserves with no announcement or confirmation. We uninstalled it, and paid closer attention to game updates from then on.
FEAR wasn't a technical powerhouse at the time? Dude, magazines were praising this game for how good it looked before Crysis came out. This game was a test to see if you had a good PC back in the day.
@@Jackfromshack It's all a matter of perspective, among other things. I enjoyed the game immensely. After my first playthrough, I used all of the cheats and played through several times on the easiest mode just so I could enjoy the story itself. Every time I played, I found new things that just made the story more complete and enjoyable. I even found out a few things that I hadn't seen before by watching other people's playthroughs.
I agree with the "Double Agent". I played Splinter Cell chronologically and when I played that, I genuinely thought "How is this the next one to Chaos Theory?" Heck, even Pandora Tomorrow is better than that one. They were on a good pace from the very first game to Chaos Theory then effed it up hard on Double Agent. They recovered from the Blacklist but that goof is still very remarkable to me. lol
Ah Spiderman 3. Even as a kid, i noticed, that game had virtually no shadows. But i really loved that game as a kid. I had drowned several hours into that game. There were so many side missions that it felt like the game just wasnt going to end. I used to play the game and have Hybrid Theory as background music.
About Dark Souls 2 I heard that Miyazaki the director of Dark Souls 1 let his fellow From Software Devs decide how to make the Dark Souls 2. As for why he decided to do that I am not sure? Maybe it was because we wanted to see what Dark souls will be like without or something. I am sure there is more clear and reliable information on the internet if you look for it.
I just love that Falcon is not doing a formal video. This is him basically venting to us and Im in for it
YES ABSOLUTELY MORE OF THIS.
I'm all for a considered squawk man
2018 Falcon used to rage in his vids. I welcome that rage back.
A 32 minute video narrated by Falcon with "DISAPPOINTING" in the title? This is gonna be good. I had to pause to grab my popcorn.
I love when falcon vents because he doesn’t just rip on every game that exists like Jake does
0:15 Number 20 Call of Duty
2:07 Number 19 Deus Ex
3:46 Number 18 Dark Souls II
5:22 Number 17 Halo 5
6:51 Number 16 Dead Space 3
8:51 Number 15 Splinter Cell
10:29 Number 14 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
11:50 Number 13 Dead Rising 4
13:20 Number 12 Castlevania
15:11 Number 11 The Walking Dead
16:06 Number 10 Duke Nukem Forever
17:54 Number 9 Mercenaries 2
19:20 Number 8 Ninja Gaiden 3
20:19 Number 7 Sonic the Hedgehog 4
22:05 Number 6 Lost Planet 3
24:00 Number 5 Devil May Cry 2
25:18 Number 4 F.E.A.R. 3
26:45 Number 3 Star Wars
28:53 Number 2 Spiderman 2
30:18 Number 1 Driver 3
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Spider-Man 3*
Splinter cell what?
Ty
This is the only channel that gets us gamers
Same
True my friend ❤
thats why they will never run out of top 10 lists 🔥
it's definitely the only gaming channel that consistently puts out daily videos that are genuinely interesting, and has a good mix of new and nostalgia
Second Wind and MinnMax are pretty good too.
Mercenaries 2....still one of if not my favorite game of all time. I wish we could have gotten a 3rd with more polish
I loved Mercenaries 2! I played it on PS2, and then later on the Xbox 360 and noticed things were different. Turns out Pandemic did the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions, while another studio, Pi Studios, did the PS2 version. I don’t remember the PS2 version having the issues Falcon mentioned.
You cant just have a top worst sequels without at least talking about Dragon Age 2 ...
Dragon Age: Origins was by far one of my favorite games of all time and it was so iconic and critically acclaimed in the RPG genre. The sequel was so phenomenally disappointing in so many ways (content, story, gameplay, characters) that I think the DA community would like to believe it was just an expack and we got Inquisition as a sequel.
Sorry, I have to disagree with you on so many levels. While DA2 is definitely the victim of a short development cycle, shown most clearly in the repeated environments and cookie cutter NPCs, parts very good. The time skips and unreliable narrator made the story very interesting on a meta level, many of the sidequests were both good story and had an emotional impact, and as far as characters go, DA2 had some of the best in the series. And it had Varric!
Yep, DA 2 is one of the most disappointed games I've ever played. After origins you have no idea how excited I got when I found out there was a sequel.
I'm not gonna lie, Inquisition was kind of a mixed bag for me as well. But at least I found it enjoyable enough to finish it.
The best part of Dead Space 3 was the co-op guy having his own weird hallucinations and seeing things, so only Player 2 could actually see them. That was clever.
And even then, I personally think they could have leaned into that more. Would have been cool if the co-op partner was shooting Necromorphs that weren't there. Also defending Carver when he has one of those "ahh I'm stuck in my own head" episodes as Issac wasn't all that fun.
Although it was barely a dead space game, I still enjoyed it. I liked the story and that you got to explore the origins of the whole shit. But I did play a pirated version many years after the release so the online shop didn’t work. I liked the idea of making your own guns. Maybe they should have called something else but still in the dead space universe, and tell people it’s not really dead space 3, and that will come later. Too bad it killed the franchise. At least for a period. Now that we got that amazing remake, maybe something good will come of it.
@@GeoPePeTto Its funny, and somewhat telling of the quality of a lot of large titles these days, where the games of the past that are generally considered to be 'bad' are still a lot of fun. More fun than so many live service trash that comes out these days.
@@TuffMelon What are talking about? There were bad games then too. People loved to hate games back then too. Some still hate ds3. There’s just more games now. Play the ones you like.
Reminds me of Splintercell Conviction. The single player campaign was whatever but the Co op campaign was far more interesting.
Lords of Shadows 2 feels like Dracula got isekai’d into Warhammer 40k
LOL
Only disappointing thing about Mankind Divided is the ending. The game itself is stellar. One of the best games I've ever played.
That gameplay and locations are pretty damn amazing. It was just such a short, half hearted game with a hohum story. It was definitely a bad followup to the story in HR
@@AngelOfDæth_4I loved both.
Loved this game. As you’ve mentioned the only thing that sucks about it is that cliffhanger ending. It wouldn’t be bad if we got a continuation a two or three years later… but here we are, with Embracer group ditching the new Deus Ex project.
I didn't like it at first but the 2nd time through made me realize it's actually a better written game, better side quests, and despite fewer areas, they felt better crafted with so many little details to notice. It just didn't have a world ending plot really. It was a lower stakes game.
And it's placed under mw3, imagine that 🤢
How are people calling Mankind Divided a short game? I mean, yeah it can be if you rush trough it . But it took me almost 30 hours on first playthrough to finish. Yeah, it ends on a cliffhanger and barely any of the plot points are resolved. However MD is masterclass in game design, world design ,gameplay design, it's pure immersive sim dream. There are so many side quests and activities that impact the world and your place in it in really meaningful ways and leading to very different outcomes for some other main and side quests, and even the ending. You can tackle ANY objective in a plethora of ways, just like Prey. It's sad that we probably won't get another DE any time soon. We need more games like this.
Honestly I thought Mankind Divided was a masterpiece, despite being only half of a game. That's the most depressing part for me, because I was so hyped up for the continuation that never came.
It can't be a masterpiece if it have microtransactions.
Modern Warfare III was absolutely originally an expansion. Not only could you argue that fact that it is made up mostly of remasters of old MW II maps (how does it make sense for MW II to have a couple MW III maps, but MW III has a majority of the MW II maps? Wtf). But also, more damning is that when the game first came out, some people were having problems on consoles, where it would ask for the disc to MW II in order to play it. That's the smoking gun, as it implies that it's a DLC / expansion that you can't play without first loading into MW II.
That was fixed in an update. But yeah... MW III was 100% conceived as an expansion and pivoted at the last minute to a full-on new game release.
Yeah, and it was a bait and switch. I KNOW no official source said 2022 was going to be a 2 year game, but I got the game and played it for that reason. And I quit and will never touch an acti/blizz game ever again. If I have children they will be banned from touching their games. I don't care if it was a rumor, it sold games and they didn't deny it. And the lack of content in 2022 really made you feel like you were going to continue that game for 2 years of content.
The trophy list for Playstation literally has it (or had it) listed as supplementary MWII DLC. There is no platinum for it and it’s grouped under MWII’s trophy list.
@mr.s9783 that one really put a sour taste in my mouth. I really enjoy getting the trophies for the cod games. I didn't even bother with the campaign for this one...
I don't understand why mw2 and mw3 couldn't be separate apps and frankly I'm absolutely heart broken my childhood game is completely ruined by greed
@@mr.s9783 One of the reasons why I'll never play it, but I've seen if you play the PS4 version of it, it'll pop up only as MW3 instead of it being DLC on PS5. Which is good, but ridiculous at the same time.
I've still not forgiven them for killing the Lost Planet franchise like that. 2 was such an amazing experience.
Such a beautiful game
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For some reason I enjoyed grinding the final level for the boxes, and did it a good fifty times or so. I came back years later and did a few more runs just for old times sake, and it made me wish so hard that we had gotten a proper game like that again.
I perfer 3 to 1 or 2 its the only one i could finish
Lost planet was goooood
Red Faction: Armageddon was a big letdown after the excellence that was Guerrilla
Damn. Good call. Played it once and never again.
Guerilla is my white dragon. I played it so much and the only thing that scratched that itch has been Elden Ring
@@BargainBinkey Am I not the only one that used to just run around in Red Faction : Guerilla and just blow things up, reload a save and then go and do it again?
@SkiBumMSP I did pretty much that but only used my hammer
Guerrilla is showing its age like Vice City.
"Mass Effect Andromeda"
Gave the dev duties to a completely new team who spent 3 years failing at getting a procedurally generated planet system to work, so they scrapped it and rushed the game out in 12 to 18 months. Used a completely untested mathematics based auto animation system, instead of animated things by hand As well as they farmed out large sections of design duties to multiple different teams from all over the world who created characters and assets in conflicting styles
"Dragon Age II"
With the success of Dragon Age Origins EA forced Bioware to rush out a game that was barely a Alpha type build as the city and level design was unfinished, There were far too many bugs and the complete change in creature/character/species/art styles was bizarre
Dark souls 2 I do believe was intended to be a open world game which is why it has such a strange level structure
Wolfenstein Youngblood should be here, not only it didn't stick the landing, it didn't even fly in the same plane of reality as previous entries
Honestly I don't know the promotion around the game at launch. But by the time I played it it was clear you wouldn't be playing as THE William J Blazkowicz. And come on, It's not Wolfenstein if you're not playing as Terror Billy 😄
I agree bruh Youngblood was garbage. Idk why I stuck with the game and 100%ed it.
I haven't played Youngblood, but seeing the reviews of that game made me realize it's not worth buying and playing sequels of all the games that I played even if they're crucial for the story continuation.
God Youngblood was bad 👎 such a departure from everything that made Wolfenstein playable. I couldn't agree more really should be on this list.
My favorite wolfenstein is still return to castle wolfenstein on original xbox
30 mins Gameranx video, it's christmas.
I AM FUCKING ELATED SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE ITS FALCON
holy shit i just realized that, THATS GODS BLESSING XD
Pfingsten equal christmas. do not know how pfingsten is called in english.
Should have put Force Unleashed II at #1. I remember finishing that game when I was in high school and being confused that it was over so quickly. I remember actually thinking I missed something and there was no way a full AAA game could possibly be that short. I beat it in under 2 hours.
The one game I still remember saying once it was over "THAT'S IT?" I was honestly stunned by how short it actually was.
Yep, 1st playthrough, $60, less than two hours. I was shocked
I beat the first Star Wars unleashed game when 2 came out. For reasons I don't want to get to details about It took me 5 years to play the sequel. I kinda enjoyed it too I mean yea it was short but hey the combat was an improvement and wasn't as repetitive as everyone said it was imo
And the first was so good comparatively! The 2nd had almost no reason for existing story wise and left a whole bunch of unanswered questions since they cancelled it afterwards
I loved Double Agent on the PS2, it's baffling that they did something completely different for next gent platforms.
So I'm trying to remember because the footage shown looks like what i played on my 360, how were the two versions different?
@@gr8gabe314 cinematics, gameplay and graphics. ps2 is worse graphically but I never knew until now that the game was better in on xbox360 and ps2 than on PC. I had always said I love double agent and people just look at me like "Why?". that might explain a lot of things. I'm not buying the damn thing again to see for myself tho lol
@@fatimapalacios2292I played the X360 version of the game and still didn’t care much for it. Never played the prev gen version tho.
6th gen era was wild. There there cross gen titles with PS1 and 360/PS3 titled got new games on PS2
My completely unpopular opinions. Dark Souls 2 was the first Souls game i beat, so it got me hooked into Fromsoft games. I replayed the other Souls games after and actually learned to love them and appreciate them for what they were. Same with Dead Space 3. While i usually disagree with accessibility, theres franchises i wouldn't appreciate now without those dark sheep when i was younger. Before I was 20 i honestly was just happy to be playing a video game.
Payday 3. Its only redeeming factor is that the gameplay at its core is fairly solid. Literally everything else - the UI, skills, challenges, progression, weapon customization, level design are just so lazy and generic it feels like they were made by AI. It's yet another game that was released 2 years before it was ready.
Gameplay isn't even THAT solid. Go play crimeboss if you want more natural gunplay. 1600 hours in payday2. 16 in payday 3
Crimeboss!!!? Pahahahaha
@jamesconlin5099 payday 3 is worse in quite literally every way.
@@samw2670 just bought it for $12. It's everything payday 3 said it would be
@jamesconlin5099 payday 3 is so good they have to livestream the game and explain why every bug is actually a feature. Oh and instead of addressing concerns they just added an 8 year old meth cooking mission.
Really NO mention of 'Army of Two'? Anyone remember this game? It was super fun! (from what I remember).. and then Devil's Cartel came out lol.
God those games were fun
I was about to comment the same thing. The first Army of Two was great, the second one... Just terrible. My other thing is, I remember really enjoying Mercenaries 2 though and thats on the list
@@MSFTJusticethe second one was good. Third one is what killed the franchise
You jerked the words right out of my mouth
First Army of Two was 1 of the biggest letdowns ever. Me and my complete noob of a gf beat the game in 4 hours without even trying.
2:21 It's rather humorous how "Invisible War" was so "invisible" in everyone's memory (forgettable), it's basically "invisible" while "Mankind Divided" divided critics and players upon release. It's like the developer knew this in advance, so tacked on the subtitle just to be ironic and self aware. 🤣🤣
These game developers are becoming lazier and greedier every year. Eventually, we'll all see premium battle passes and cash shops flood new titles with numerous microtransactions.
@@SSGoatanksI know what you mean and agree 100%, but I’m going to be “that guy” and ask you make one correction going forward. It’s all the publisher’s fault, not the developers. EA wanting to put real life ads in their games comes directly from the board members, stock holders and CEO, not the people who bust their asses day in and day out actually making the game. Please don’t blame the devs for things they have no power over. They’re usually huge fans of gaming, which is why they make them in the first place, and know better than anyone what we like and dislike in games.
I have more hours in dark souls 2 than any other dark souls game but I have gone through the dlcs maybe twice. The main game is pretty good, especially in the scholar version, but the dlc enemy variety is straight up exhausting.
Everything you said about DS2 was spot on. I just kept saying "yup", "yep yep yep", "you right"
The only disappointing thing about Deus ex is that we aren't getting a third game. Mankind Divided was excellent but it was the middle of the trilogy. We need one more to finish it.
Human Revolution Directors cut needs to be put for sell on Xbox.
Sounds like the franchise didn't sell, they were gonna make a big universe out of it at one point
Don't you mean 4th game?
@@redfloyd69 I didn't like the games much. Idk, the gameplay and the feel of the controls always felt dated in both games (kinda like that Thief reboot. Eidos Montreal just isn't as talented as other studios imo) and Adam Jensen's monotonous voice got boring fast.
@@cmdr.jabozerstorer3968 Based on some quick Googling (I haven't played them myself) the years the games are set in seem to indicate Human Revolution and Mankind Divided are directly connected, whereas the first two are isolated games. If I had to guess, I'd say OP hasn't heard of the first two, or considered HR and MD reboots, given the release dates and the first two being isolated chronologically.
Depending on your perspective, a new game would either be the third (wrapping up the trilogy beginning with Deus Ex: Human Revolution), fifth (of the mainline entries), sixth (if including the mobile game Deus Ex: Fall), or seventh (if including the themed entry in the GO mobile series).
Thanks for constantly creating lengthy content. As a retired veteran with way to much time on my hands and constantly trying to find things to do (Which isn't a bad thing). I know I can count on gameranx come through when I start to feel a little bored. Thanks.
MKvsDC was awesome, thank you. It ultimately led to Injustice.
I would argue it was so bad that it is actually what lead them to realizing that franchises should be mostly separate. Outside of guest spots where it makes sense. Like The Joker kills. So putting him in a MK game make sense. Not a fan of MK characters in Injustice though due to no Fatalities.
@@danielthomas7193I think that's a fair point. Having to tone down the game is what made it less compatible. However, Injustice Superman could make a cameo appearance. He'd definitely have a fatality.
@@emwbjr but DC doesn't want Fatalities performed on him. So he could be a Kameo (meaning the tag feature) in MK1 since those characters can perform Fatalities but can't have them done on them.
@@danielthomas7193 87% rating, you have an unpopular opinion.
Itagaki leaving Team Ninja is what killed Ninja Gaiden 3. He was loony for sure, but he was the reason Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 were as good as they were.
I played Deus Ex MD for the first time in 2023.... it probably sits in my top 5 games I have ever played. So surprised its on your list. Graphics still amazing, acting/voice was great, the maps were so crazy ( spent hours in the bank, crawling through ducts etc). I'm surprised people didn't think it was way ahead of its time as in 2023 it still held up as good as any game made today.
BTW its
RDR2
Witcher 3
Then the below in any order:
Kingdom Come Deliverance
GTA San Andreas
Deus Ex MD
Name a better list, prove me wrong
How do you prove someone's favorite games wrong? Are you slow?
RDR2
Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain (it has an higher Metacritic score then Witcher 3 😝)
Alien Isolation
Uncharted 4
Resident Evil 2 remake
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Mass Effect 2
Rayman Origins
Not the GOATs but worth mentioning
Bioshock Infinite
LA Noire
Mafia 3
COD 4 Modern Warfare
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Mass Effect 3
God of War III
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Alien isolation is an interesting pick.. never seen that on someones list before. I haven't played so gonna have to trust you on that one.
I Def's disagree on metal gear hahaha but I do see why that one can be better in some peoples eyes. Just didn't grasp me as much as witcher in my personal experience.
I actually am playing la nior as we speak. Still holds up well.
Your list is much more diverse than mine but all the ones I have played, I totally agree are great.
@@chiefimpartial4041 thanks man. Metal Gear Solid V has the best combat I ever played. Too bad the story got toned down because everyone was complaining about MGS4's 2 hour long cutscenes (but I actually enjoyed the lore about the Soviet/Afghan war in MGS5) and Konami cutting Kojima's budget for the game 6 months before release. It would've got more recognition if Kojima's got to finish it and would no doubt would've been everyone's GOTY if it was released in 2016 even without all the cut content. Also forgot to include the first Dark Souls game in the GOAT list. Highly suggest playing or replaying the remastered version. Game aged like fine wine for a retro 2011 game 🍷
This Channel is the best, made by gamers for gamers. Just how the industry should be as well but you just have greedy corporate executives ruining all the fun.
Damn it’s crazy to think Mercs 2 was bad. I remember playing it as a kid and loving it. Would love a 3rd installment
Same mercenaries 2 was great, but he meant in comparison to the first, which I never played lol..
@@lololollololol629 same never had the pleasure. But the missing things he mentions would have made mercs2 even more of a legend
@lololollololol629 its back compat and on Xbox if you do want to goes for like 5 dollars 😂 now at least in my country
@@amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510 I don't have xbox, but I might be able to emulate it..
@@lololollololol629honestly, it was very disappointing at the time. The EA CEO also gave pandemic a lot more time on it, I think the next gen jump just took too long for the devs to learn. It was the game that showed me games can come out and be buggy and unfinished.
The first is loaded with content and much better progression.
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@@gameranxTV You a G Birdman. Youre gettin more righteous with these critiques in a way that shows your skill and knowledge of the industry as a real one all these years we followed ya. Falcone and Baldino? Forgetaboutit, I dip olive bread in small glass of Montepulciano when I see a new video from the La Gamer Famiglia ;)
It's falcunt overacting with his abrasive grampa voice
Glad you covered Fear 3. Loved the first two games, and have replayed so many times, but 3 just was dead and empty inside.
Love these longer videos!! This channel is the goat video game channel
lords of shadow 1 and 2 were great i will forever replay those games
Which one do you like better?
@@Xlen-omega this is a hard question because both of them are so good but the first 1 has a better story and journey it’s longer but 2 has the better gameplay and it’s just a great continuation and you can play as alucard so i’d say 2 is my personal favorite but i think the first 1 is a little better
I really loved Lords of Shadow too. I mean, yeah, the OG is better... But if you exclude that forced stealth on those giant soldiers (that was indeed lame AF), I really had a great time with it.
Agreed. The first one is a masterpiece for its time. The 2 had its problems with the stealth, but if you remove that, the game is still great. And the soundtrack, ahhhhh that's genius
I feel like the story was better for the first. The environments were better and the ending much better. 2s gameplay was better and to me that was the only improvement. He moved more fluid. I personally did not like it set in modern times. Didn’t feel like castlevania.
Falcon back at it with "Driv 3 R" 😂
Gets me every time.
I was a kid and maybe didn't know better but I played a ton of Driv 3 R, absolutely loved that game. Always get a little sad Falcon loves to hate it.
@@mikhailkosyan9735 I played the hell out of it too. I had a love/ hate relationship with the game because I knew the game sucked but it was the most fun game I had at that time lol
Well, it IS the name of the game as written :P
@@Justforvisit I find it funny because I anyways read it that way too 🤣
Deus ex is like MGS5....they are both amazing and fun to play. Just they are not finished or had a proper conclusion to the story. An i dont think there ever will be. Which is a shame.
MGSV is the pinnacle of MGS gameplay and it has good characters. Too bad the story was not up to par.
MGSV got dragged down by how it was marketed and released.
Still can’t forget how Ground Zero and Phantom Pain we’re split, and not even finished at the end.
To put the nail to the MGS coffin, Konami made Survive...
Phantom Pain lives rent free in my head about how badly it fumbled on the story side. It didn’t even feel like an MGS game in tone and story outside of the character names.
Telltale season 2?? Season 3 u mean
Yeah 2 was my favourite
Yeah season 3 is the black sheep. Not season 2.
Agreed, season 2 was the best season after the first by far
Season 1 and 2 are great, season 4 is alright but nobody likes season 3. Clem feels like a guest in her own game plus nobody gives a damn about the "new" characters. Neither of them are even that likeable or interesting. S2 being on this list is a bit weird but we've all got our opinions.
Lol, what happened to the audio in DMC2? And, btw, I remember AI in FEAR was some next level intelligence.
I will say that I agreed with most of these, but I actually liked Season 2 of the Walking Dead. Wasn't as good as the first season, but really enjoyed watching Clem grow, seeing Kenny try to pick up the pieces, and I thought the ending was pretty wild. Set a great, hopeless tone. Worst part was Arvo and Carver, one was just not written well and the other felt like he was trying too hard to be the villain.
The story of DMC2's troubled production is actually pretty well-documented.
For starters, development began WHILE DMC1 was still being marketed for the US release.
Second of all, none of 1's original dev team even worked on DMC2 and was made by an enturely different team that basically have no idea what they were doing. Also, said newbie team was given just 1 year of development time
And thirdly, the game director credited in DMC2, Hideaki Itsuno, was not even the original director hired. The first (still unknown to this day) director was replaced because they haven't done anything for the game 6 months into development so the CAPCOM higher ups hired Itsuno to salvage the game. And all things considered, he DID manage to turn in a game, with technically only 6 months of development, that surprisingly works and runs well and is actually not buggy.
On the plus side, because Itsuno knows he's gonna get blamed for this, he begged the executives to let him make DMC3 with proper time and budget, and the rest of the character-action genre is history.
Def Jam Icon was such a bummer
Facts
Top 5 for sure. Remove all the elements that make it fun for a sequel. Thank goodness there were still demos around when that was released.
Maybe I'm a masochist or maybe I was hit on the head with a somewhat large brick, but I love Dark Souls 2 more than 3 :)
Wonder women getting stomped on like that, was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen lmao, thank you so much for posting that bit
Dragon Age 2 should've been on this list. It had a really solid story and some interesting ideas but fell victim to the rushed out developement time.
God yes. Struggling to think of another sequel I found as disappointing.
Edit: Thought of one. TLOU2. Never looked forward to a game so much to be so utterly crushed at how terrible writing destroyed the whole game. Just the franchise really. I wouldn’t be in any rush to buy any other game in that world.
All true however I still enjoyed it. DLC were good but you can’t ignore the glaring issues from rushed dev timescales.
Interesting to imagine how good this could have been. Worst of the series but still a good game.
I didn't think it was nearly as bad as people made it out to be but it was a let down for sure.
So true. I was a HUGE fan of DA:O and the Awakening expansion was also awesome (all the DLCs were also great).
And then you get that total crap. Uninteresting story (seriously, how can you make a game like DA2 interesting if you close into a city?), forgettable characters, and that's not to mention maps that were reused over and over. Combat was also very fun... The first 2 or 3 times. What a mess.
Dragon Age 2 is a masterpiece.
Duke Nukem Forever cured me of my impulse to pre-order games.
Lmfaoooooooo I love how this was said
Funny how Gearbox has that tendency; Aliens: CM did it much for me.
Watch Dogs: Legion. I was so hyped when I heard they were making a third Watch Dogs, then the first trailer dropped, and I immediately knew it would be trash. I remember the promo character wearing the pig mask was where the straw broke the camels back. I wanted the fun gameplay of 2 with the amazing story of 1.
The first game was so bad that I stopped buying Ubisoft games.
The 2 was already pretty bad
As if watch dogs 1 & 2 weren't mediocre slop in the first place
The 3 comments above are trash
@@BuryTheLight-tds hehehe
Ah yes, thank you for making the important distinction about the different versions of Splinter Cell Double Agent. Way too many times I've just seen people/videos call SCDA a disappointment without acknowledging the big differences between the versions and that the 6th gen version is excellent. It was developed by the same team behind Chaos Theory and feels much more like a traditional SC game than anything else that came after it.
Force Unleashed 2 did a trope that always bothers me: “This person died betraying us but if we clone him the clone will be 100% loyal. What? The clone is betraying us too? Who could have foreseen that.?!?”
I like the longer format. Keep it up if you can!
I loved Castlevania LOS2, the story was nice and the combat felt great, idc what the earlier games were when it came out I had tons of fun, the story of the toy maker that lost his heart still makes me cry to this day. The OSTs in the game were peak!
Did you play part 1? It was epic as hell! LOS2 was ok but no LOS1.
I felt that LOS2 story didn't go anywhere. I really didn't like it. LOS1 was incredible tho
@@AqvinateYeah I loved part one it was epic. Part 2 has a lot of problems I still platinum it but I didn't like it as much.
@@Aqvinate Agree to disagree
The story was weird, but the mood and the music was awesome, one of the best soundtrack in gaming imo
I'm so glad Assassin's Creed 3 isn't on the list. It's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.
Also, great video btw 👍.
AC3 is good a game, if you can handle the glitches (Which are nowhere near as bad as later AC games). And I also like Connor as well. Level design is great, and the prison section is one of the most memorable levels in the franchise.
AC 3 was solid after the first like 2-3 hours. If you could make it through that then you'd probably be OK. I loved the combat of that game just got so fatigued with how boring the story and characters were that I never finished.
@@AngelOfDæth_4 The characters were more complex and more in like with AC1 than AC2 where the Templars are just generic and cartoonishly evil, the story was boring compared to AC2 but the conflict between the Assassins and Templars and the complexity of characters like Haytham is lot better than the Ezio Trilogy's black vs white story
@@BuryTheLight-tds fair enough. Maybe I need to play it again with a fresh lense
Mankind Divided didn't end on a cliffhanger. It told the story it needed to tell for this installment. It likely would have resolved the plot in a third outing, but it's definitely not incomplete. It also has roughly the same runtime as Human Revolution
In retrospect, I'd bet a list of '20 sequels that nailed it' would definitely be easier to compile.
Lord of Shadows 2 is what made me a fan even though I enjoyed the first game.
I actually enjoyed MK vs DC. Played it with my team mates in college and enjoyed it for what it was
Me too!
A remake of Mercinaries 1 would be great, was so good setting off all the special weapons, cluster bombs etc. Was also fun attacking the bases etc. I doubt we will ever get a 3 so a redo of one would be awesome.
Yeah a remake of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction would be so cool. A Third game was in early development by Pandemic Studios back in 2009 until the Studio got shut down and the project got cancelled. The IP is still with EA.
They shouldn't have cut off Mankind Divided budget in half.
I absolutely loved Castlevania LOS 2. I loved the concept of the Castle being a separate dimension tied to Drac's powers. Yeah, the stealth could've been implemented better, but it was overall a fantastic game with pretty dang good graphics especially for it's time.
Man I loved Force Unleashed so much that I got the metal case for FU2 and I was tragically disappointed. I was gelling with it for the most part (largely due to the combat) eager for more then you reunite with Juno and it just ends. I was so frustrating baffled that I thought clearly my disk was bugged or something. The whole game felt like the first act😪
Yeah what cuts deeper is the FU3 was supposed to be a multiplayer game.
@@Xlen-omega Starkiller slaughtered so Cal could run🥹
@@MrHouse1657 lol yeah but I like Galen Marek better. Cal is awesome though, can't wait for the third game.
@@Xlen-omega for real and the actor is just the biggest Star Wars nerd. He works on a few Star Wars projects but no sign of him reprising the character. Almost wanted to believe he’d pop up in Ahsoka but he just did voice work
@@MrHouse1657 I got to meet him last year. It was awesome, he's a really cool guy.
I honestly loved Dead Space 3. Sure it was no 2, but heck it was an awesome ride.
Personally quite liked DS3, played it through a couple times even, Solo and Co-op
I think it being a direct sequel didn't do it any favors.
It continued the story of Isaac, but lacked the same atmosphere.
Doubt people would've minded as much if it was either a serious/tense game, or they just went nuts on the weapons. They did something in the middle.
Regenerators were sometimes something else especially on hardcore
Yeah, same here. Especially revisiting the place where it all started. I love when games show some big thing happening in the past, only to let you explore the location after many years and see the aftermath. Maybe they should’ve stated their intentions with the direction of the game from the start, and promise to make a true sequel after it. Hope the remake will revitalize the franchise.
SSX On Tour: Take away the open world mountain of the third game, add skis to a snowboarding game, and give the game a cringy Xtreme vibe spelled the beginning of the end for not just the series but the whole genre.
I actually loved Lords of Shadow 2 and consider it an improvement over the first in almost every way. Yeah the rocket guys were a little weird and it was frustrating to get caught by them (either make it easier to get away or just make it an instant fail, being nigh-forced to watch as you just get hammered by rockets over and over is annoying, to be sure) but they also weren't super common and every time I entered a room and saw them I just switched brain from action combat to puzzle-solving mode and enjoyed it a lot more. Better story, better combat, smoother traversal, larger and more interesting exploration... people hate on LoS 2 for the setting and I think that's just getting too hung up on the superficial.
I have a habit of going through peoples steam profiles and look at what games they play and for how many hours, I’m nosey, sue me. But this one man still haunts me, 1500+ hours into “Duke Nukum forever”. I’ve wondered how people spend so much time in games, but 1500+ hours for that game is cray cray
I almost said Blasphemy when you put Walking Dead 2 at number 11 but you gave solid reasoning so ill give you that
The video was out 8 minutes back???? How did you get to 15 minute mark of the video within 8 minutes???
@@raeeskhan924 Probably skimmed like I did
Coincidentally, blasphemy 2 was kind of disappointing.
Yeah I agree with his reasoning. Definitely a big departure from season 1, but still not bad. I did not care for the final season tbh
Yeah was surprised that Season 2 was on here and not the expected “black sheep” of the series, ANF/Season 3.
Good reasons for being here of course, in a way the mentioned problems with S2 only got semi-worse with Telltale made Games in general around that time (and by the time TTG realised this & tried to course correct with the 2nd half of Batman:TEW & TWD:TFS, it was too late for that act to save the company).
I started at DS 2 and I loved it still nostalgic af
Same
Man, the Mercenaries games were great. 2 was definitely a step back, but still fun as hell.
As someone who went back and played Lost Planet 3 for the first time a couple of years ago, I was impressed by just how well it held up. Definitely the best in the series for me.
Funny how Mercury Steam has been the only studio making non indie Metroidvenia games in the last 15 years.
Did I just watch a 32 minute gameranx video. Love this 👍🏾
I thoroughly enjoyed SC Double Agent and I had previously played all the entires before it, I loved the concept of making choices on who u side with
Conviction doesnt deserve what it got. Its the Max Payne 3 of Splinter Cell. Its more aggressive to match the characters mental statez
@PowderedVoltage Its a tough thing too. You want to placate the fans, the ones who made the brand what it is but as a creative you want to evolve and change the game to stretch your artistic legs and bring in new people. If they didnt create it how could we have become fans. And if we werent fans how could they make more. Fans and developers should give each other more leway to express and evolve and respect why we fell in love. We all get done dirty trying to please all and be pleased
Conviction was a fun game that brought nice innovations into the third-person shooter genre and did a great job portraying an angry Sam who lost everything he had in the previous game. Switching the genre within the same IP is uncommon but it does exist, and it was clear from the beginning that it isn't a game for people who want a traditional Splinter Cell game. It doesn't deserve the hate it got, but also... I want another traditional Splinter Cell game
In regards to Devil May Cry 2, you said you didn't understand what the original devs were thinking. From my understanding it wasn't the original devs and production for DMC2 started before the first game even released. some of the original staff from DMC1 hopped on too late to save it. That's my understanding. If somebody would like to add context/corrections please do share.
I didn’t even know there was a Dead Rising 4
I actually like lords of shadows 2 🤷🤷
and i liked saints row 4 as controversial as an opinion that might be.
It's probably the most disappointing sequel i've ever played after the outstanding LoS. But, to each his own.
I liked it too. Though he meant by comparison to the 1st game.
The same point you made about Dead Space 3 is how i feel about Dragon's Dogma 2.
I couldn’t even finish DD2. It was frustrating and boring for me.
@whatdoesthisthingdo I'm still playing through it but really it just makes me want a actual sequel to the first game. With the strider back, the second skill palette back, the actual hybrid classes back, the satisfying end game loop back, and the UR dragon (or a similar boss) back.
Wait so DD2 isn’t great? I thought everybody loved it. From what I watched of it, it looked like DD just improved. It’s one of the games I want to buy as soon as I’m able. This sounds disappointing that I read this but I wondered what happened to people talking about. It was hyped and dropped and nobody ever talks about it anymore
@Chris-yv2iv I would say wait on a sale if you want the game, the game might be even better by then.
But isn't the main critique of Dead space 3 that it has changed its formula to appeal to a wider audience and the main critique of DD2 that it didn't change much and is basically a DD1.5 ? Sounds like the polar opposite
The saddest one was Kerbal Space Program 2
It went downhill when KSP itself had the devs install some kind of spyware called Red Shell into the game YEARS after its release.
I might be a bit biased since DS2 was my gateway game to the souls series, but it was my favorite game to play. I still remember the areas and enemies like if I played it yesterday.
The Halo 5 trailers did the most damage. Setting up a cat and mouse thriller with tough choices. None of which were in the game. And you only play Master Chief in 3 missions.
Surprised you put TWD Season 2 on here, yeah it isn't as good as season 1 but it's still widely praised as the best Telltale TWD season after 1, and one of Telltale's best offerings in general.
Yeah I didn't agree with it being on this list either. The fanbase was really divisive based on the number of endings it had and how those were resolved in New Frontier but I never got the sense there was disappointment from players after playing it.
it surprised me too
I'm surpised, I personally thought that season 2 was the best out of the series.
TWD is a Scorching hot take 😂, respect for standing on business tho, just a crazy take 😂😂
Even though Gameranx is a great channel but it felt like they didn't played season 3 it was a bad game in the series (yeah ik Michonne is worst) but season 2 was a good game you can see how Clem is trying to be like Lee you know trying to help everyone also Kenny is trying to take care of Clem like his own daughter it looks like people are obsessed with Lee (which isn't bad thing) I was surprised when season 2 came here it wasn't disappointing in any sense
Gameranx might just give us lists of games...
But damn they do it good...
Who else forgot halo 5 even existed
The only reason I remember it exists is it's the game that taught me to pay attention to downloads. Played it twice, ignored it for a month, then it tried sneaking in an "update" bigger than the base game that hit my data cap before even finishing. At that point, I had it uninstalled.
@@torgranael dude that sucks and I wish they would have kept the flood in 4 so maybe in 5 it could have lead up too flooded prometheans. But I played 5 for like 20 minutes got bored and play halo 3 instead. At least 4 was kinda cool tho.
Don't lie to yourself. That was an EXCELLENT Will Arnett impression. 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿
I didn't play much of Halo 5. Basically left it on the family Xbox's hard drive untouched after playing it once or twice. We couldn't figure out why our internet had tanked for over a week until we discovered it was trying to do a 90GB update (larger than most full size games at the time). We had a monthly data limit on the whole house (for reasons I cannot remember), and this game had blown out the reserves with no announcement or confirmation. We uninstalled it, and paid closer attention to game updates from then on.
FEAR wasn't a technical powerhouse at the time? Dude, magazines were praising this game for how good it looked before Crysis came out. This game was a test to see if you had a good PC back in the day.
It's nice to see that Gameranx knows that The Last of Us 2 does not belong on these types of lists.
Yes. This list about disappointing games, not straight up bad
@@Jackfromshack It's all a matter of perspective, among other things. I enjoyed the game immensely. After my first playthrough, I used all of the cheats and played through several times on the easiest mode just so I could enjoy the story itself. Every time I played, I found new things that just made the story more complete and enjoyable. I even found out a few things that I hadn't seen before by watching other people's playthroughs.
@@Joe_Okey glad for you. Sad, that less people nowadays have any standards
I feel like Gameranx talks about the same 25 games over and over
I agree with the "Double Agent". I played Splinter Cell chronologically and when I played that, I genuinely thought "How is this the next one to Chaos Theory?"
Heck, even Pandora Tomorrow is better than that one. They were on a good pace from the very first game to Chaos Theory then effed it up hard on Double Agent. They recovered from the Blacklist but that goof is still very remarkable to me. lol
Ah Spiderman 3. Even as a kid, i noticed, that game had virtually no shadows. But i really loved that game as a kid. I had drowned several hours into that game. There were so many side missions that it felt like the game just wasnt going to end. I used to play the game and have Hybrid Theory as background music.
I really like these longer videos and lists. Great to listen to and watch
DS2 was a masterclass imo. Ive played them all, NG+ DS3 4 times, and I would still place DS2 above all. My reasoning: Majula theme.
At least Spiderman 3 was quite fun
Not if you are an achievement hunter. God Damn trick races........
15:35 what? The second season is my favorite. I think it’s the best season. But I do agree that they all rely on Clem way too much 😅
I am genuinely amazed that you didn't mention F.E.A.R. 2 once when talking about F.E.A.R.'s sequel.
See also: Parasite Eve: 3rd Birthday
ngl twd season 2 is my fav game of the series
fr it probably had more memorable parts over the original
Yeah, New Frontier should have been on the list instead
Nah they killed my boy Luke right after his Birthday
Ahhh yes. 32 minutes of gameranx fueled dopamine.
About Dark Souls 2 I heard that Miyazaki the director of Dark Souls 1 let his fellow From Software Devs decide how to make the Dark Souls 2.
As for why he decided to do that I am not sure? Maybe it was because we wanted to see what Dark souls will be like without or something. I am sure there is more clear and reliable information on the internet if you look for it.
When your mom has the GTA franchise on lockdown and Driv3r is your GTA 😭