Shenmue walked so Like a Dragon could run.

“EA Sports: They’re all the same!” LOL 🤣🤣🤣 Great line! 🤘🤘

Also Guardians of the Galaxy Valkyria Chronicles Spec ops the line Enslaved Prey 2017

It’s bittersweet, knowing that “Immortals” was the reason EA canned American McGee from being allowed to make “ALICE: ASYLUM.” Feels bad, man.

sunset overdrive is an underrated gem

Beyond Good and Evil is one of my favorite games of all time. Still salty it's taken this long to get a sequel even started, and rather terrified of what the sequel will actually be IF it ever comes out.

Conker deserves a comeback. Bad Fur Day was ahead of its time.

I wanted to like Gravity Rush, being one of those 12 people that bought a Vita, but I was constantly disoriented in it. That doesn't make for a great gameplay experience.

"That's not flying, t-thats falling with style" is Woody's line. Buzz simply quotes him when they are gliding together at the end of the film

Marvel vs. capcom INFINITE was NEVER critically aclaimed in the first place. That game was released, people got it, played it and then folks decided to stop buying it because they realised that the game VERY disapointing in how awful it was IN comparison to the previous especially with the lacks of MVC3 and 2. The game literally had an AWFUL story, 2v2 instead of 3v3 matches, Lesser roster of characters, bad art style, and cringe indusing voice over. The gameplay was decent and that was just about it other than that its wasnt a bad game just A dissapointing title thats all.

“EA Sports, they’re all the same!” And so a legendary tagline was born! 💕

Conker was one of the best games I’ve ever played.

gravity rush was definitely, in my opinion, the best game for the vita.

Sunset overdrive is a gem and deserves a reboot. The game had the best marketing with it constantly making fun of Call of Duty and other FPS games. The gameplay was crazy fun with awesome parkour mechanics and the story was such a great 4th wall breaking story that even Deadpool would approve of. I still miss playing it especially with the cliff hanger ending of the game. Oh and the soundtrack was killer.

Actually, the net code issues in MvC Infinite were almost non-existent. It was basically the presentation, character selection (no X-Men in the game) and the Infinity Gems tacked on that caused the game to fail. Also, the beta for DragonBall FighterZ was released at the same time, which gave players hope for a better tag fighter in the future.

I've never heard of "immortals" until about 2 minutes ago.

I had fun with Elite Beat Agents. Wish I still had my DS.

You forgot Okami and Skies of Arcadia. I had a friend to thank for showing me Okami back in the day. I heard Clover Studios went under because of it's failure. I also picked up the HD version on Switch. That game never looked better. I think it's missing the original PS2 credits theme. I guess I'll mute my TV and play the credits music in the background. I also tipped my toes into Skies of Arcadia (Game Cube version) on my modded Wii. This is definitely a game I would have enjoyed back in the day. It had a similar feel to Tales of Symphonia which I have played back then. I hope Skies of Arcadia gets remastered someday. I keep hearing rumors that it will.

It's Criminal that Sony shut off Japan Studio and locked Gravity Rush on PSP and PS4/Vita. It's such an awesome and wholesome franchise!

Split Second is one of my faves!

I was one of the 12 with a Vita, lol Seriously that was a great handheld.

I feel personally attacked on this one. Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of my favorite N64 games, Sunset Overdrive one of my favorite XBOne games, and Gravity Rush (yes, I am one of the 12) one of my favorite Vita games with GR2 being even better somehow.

Got immodtals aveum from PS Plus.. runs terrible.. Devs promised for a patch on April 2nd.. still not released, nothing.. deleted the game. Glad I didnt spent money on that

Quantum Break, absolutely beautiful, interesting story and a very cool take on the time travel trope. Awesome to see remedy taking on hard sci-fi as opposed to their usual occult mystery. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Shame we’ll never see another.

I still can't believe "Sunset Overdrive" failed! I loved, LOVED that game!!!

I've played some Sunset Overdrive and it pretty much reminds me of Fortnite, Jet Set Radio Future, and Rachet & Clank.

I still play Split Second..

What is this new trend of finishing the video without a conclusion. They just stop dead in the water....?

You showed exactly why I never finished Gravity Rush 2. That damn missile mission.

FYI, there's a really good Sunset Overdrive PC version now on Steam. Got released with basically zero fan-fare, but aside from the multiplayer being missing, its a great time.

"EA Sports, they're all the same," DYING, hahahaha!!!

Huh. I actually got Elite Beat Agents. I never finished it, though that's not unusual for me, but I thought it was fun enough.

Split Second was great. Made me think of Midnight Club or Need for Speed mixed with Battlefields Level-utions with how some of the traps you could trigger changed the track for the rest of the race

Not having GOTG, Spec Ops and Titanfall 2 feels criminal :(

I'm not sure if Immortals of Aveum can be considered "critically-acclaimed", most reviewers called it a meh-game. Same for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

I got Immortals of Aveum, the fancy $80 version, for $10 the other day, but haven't started it yet.

Sunset Overdrive was a great game. Even though it eventually got a PC release, it didn't have the mp and if I remember correctly nvidia driver updates have broken certain graphic effects for some people and the port suffers from save corruption issues.

Yes, i was one of the 12 people that bought a Vita. I also bought both Gravity Rush games, so don't blame me. I tried, lol.

I absolutely adore Sunset Overdrive. I'm playing the PC version

Gravity Rush.. loved it. Split Second.. man, it just came out at the wrong time. I think it came out as the ps4 was really rocking. I still got it, but I had no friends willing to go back to the older console. Evil Within 2 was/is a great RE styled game.

Sunset is a great fun game

LOVED Sunset Overdrive!

It sucks like hell when a game you like fails.

As someone playing Immortals of Aveum...it's okay at best. Still a shame to see what happened to the studio, but the writing, combat system, and a lot of it is clunky as I'll get. Only two things really help that game stand out. The visuals are freaking pretty! Like, everything is just a joy to look at and explore, and no detail goes to waste with this setting on that level, and it makes moving between the various areas just a joy, as you can never forget which level is which, and even puzzle areas will be remembered for later when you get more gear just for how unique each one looks, even if the puzzles are only so-so. And then there's Jak. Not the one with the orange weasel, the Jak of this game is actually one of the most personable, likable main leads I have seen in a good long while. He's just charming enough that nothing he does comes off as fake, so that he can waft between being a likable roguish type, and an in over his head newbie with whatever the scene needs, and the VA does it so well that it all works. The other characters are mostly memorable, but also have some really wonky writing moments, including some modern slang and terms that just shouldn't be in this setting(explained in universe post game interestingly enough, but far too late to do any good for the tonal whiplash it causes), but Jak himself is a real stand out.

The second entry hurts because I played this months ago this is an incredible game 😞 2:52

Immortals of Aveum is quite rough. One of the few games I’ve quit halfway through in recent memory.

Conker totally had his own title beforehand! Conker's Pocket Tales for GBC, I didn't play much, and it wasn't amazing, but I'll never forget running around with his signature frying pan lol! 😂 Bad Fur Day was such a staple of my pre-teen gaming years; amazing game, and surprisingly difficult! SO happy I was able to beat it again a couple years ago on the Xbox arcade, cuz I lost my n64 copy...😢 It's a shame, cuz that cart is NOT a cheap find these days!😡

"Were you one of the 12 people who bought a Vita?" Yes. It's like the Dreamcast of Handhelds. Definitely slept on but deserved so much better. It was also crazy expensive with 2 touch screens and 2 cameras. Why? I get that Tearaway used them all but I think debbie-downer like me should have overseen the project with a "no one cares about this" and cut out the 2nd touchscreen and both cameras to keep costs down. Also, I would have given the system an L2 and R2 button because PS1 games on PSP were awkward without them and a touch screen isn't a compelling alternative. But, at this point, I'm just creating a Switch about half a decade prior to that system releasing (which is now doing gangbusters, so at least my idea proved successful).

I'm playing aveum now. You can see they cared but I'm just not sure what they cared about

4:00 Devs and publishers seem to not even know where the lines between the Mainstream and Niche are "Hmm... why did my Massocore Souls-like Grimdark Bullet-hell My Little Pony game not outsell CoD and Fortnite? I even released it the same day as the Next Big Patch for Minecraft, and the same week that the New Spider-Man came out!" "I guess it's because the Market is oversaturated with games that include horses... we better cancel those Red Dead Redemption 3 and Ghost Of Tsushima 2 projects"

Conker got an Xbox remake. I mean, there was 100% a demo for it on one of the Xbox magazine demo-discs.

Sunset overdrive was amazing. I need to go back to this title

Psy Ops: Mindgate will always be fondly remembered.

As one of the 12 people who bought a vita, and the 6 who didn't own a PS4, gravity rush 2 being solely on PS4 was miss.

Absolutely brilliant list! Sad to see a lot of these but it’s very true. Especially Immortals. Another game that seemingly was sent out to die :/

Gravity Rush is such good games. Makes me sad we never got a third :( Yes it is very niche, but I got introduced to the game via PS Plus and was sold on the unique style and bought the sequal plus DLC.

I was so into Shenmue. I remember being upset when the sequel wasn't on Playstation. I always wanted to know what happened next

Yes Si, I was "one of the 12 people who bought a Vita". Still play it now

MVCI wasn't critically acclaimed especially compared to the previous entries

Omg core memory unlocked: I LOVED DIZZY!!

A few things have changed in business in general that is causing much of this dev-hell strife and WILL kill the games industry eventually (though it'll come back later, by design), chief among them were a series of court cases in the last decade and a half that solidified in legal precedent (stronger than law in the US) that: 1) the Shareholders' Interests and Profits are the "Chief Fiduciary Responsibility" of ALL U.S. publicly traded companies, NOT the company itself. So, as long as Shareholders (and execs) come out ahead, it doesn't matter if the whole company goes under in the process AND 2) ALL U.S. Publicly Traded Companies are now REQUIRED to take ALL business actions that will benefit the Shareholder's (and execs) via Maximum Profit Margins (max profit, min cost: and talent and labor are costs) which MUST be *larger* year over year (and even month over month!). That means that if Live Service Mobile (LSM) games that target mtx "Whale spenders" MIGHT make more money than a given Fully Fledged Sequel or worse, Unproven New IP game, then they can be sued by the shareholders for NOT making the suggested LSM game, EVEN IF this hypothetical 'real' game IS, objectively AND financially, SUCCESSFUL! Only if it exceeds Projected Growth Profit Margins can they dodge the suit, and that just doesn't happen b/c the normal buyers are all tapped out... so if a shareholder on the board tells the board of directors of a company "X-thing will make more money than Y-thing your employee's want to make" and they don't do X-thing, they can be sued by that shareholder unless the resulting game exceeds fiduciary expectations, and the courts have already sided with the shareholders in this case, so they WILL lose (unless the shareholder told a game dev to stop making games and start mining gold in the Yukon, or some such nonsense) Since making huge profit is NOT enough to be considered a "success" by this Growth Metric (every game MUST make SIGNIFICANTLY MORE than EVERY prior game, to keep up) The result is a Boom-Bust economy, which the U.S., a Global Economic Driving Force, now favors over a stable economic structure. The only good news is that, once the company is driven into the ground by lawsuits from shareholders and shuts down, it cuts the Talent loose. So your favorite Dev troop may NOT be gone, just renamed after the Shareholders Vampired the Name you'd Loved to death, like all those great companies destroyed by EA that're now making great (probably indy) games under a different moniker. EAT THE RICH and Vote Blue to Save Gaming!

Shenmue is such an incredible series!

Immortals is actually alright, I had fun with it and enjoyed the story. It’s a shame that it took ps+ to be what made me realise how good it is though. The problem with making a game the exact same as every other shooter with gimmicks game, you have to do something really special if you want it to stand out and be worth it. For me personally, I’d love a game similar to Fallout x Disco Elysium.

Immortals of Aveum is a fantastic $12.99 game, that’s the sale price I paid

The problem with Shenmue 2 not selling is that it was only released in selected territories originally.

I've been a fan of marvel vs Capcom since the 1st one in Arcades. 2 was amazing and 3 was a blast. The issue I had of infinite, is it was an over all downgrade from MVC 3. There were less characters, your team size was reduced by 1, the characters that were in the game were 90% of the characters from MVC3 that even their moves and buttons were the exact same. They had less Ultimates (most characters got 3 in mvc3 but changed to 1 or 2 in infinite). The only thing infinite did better than the previous titles, is having a fully cut scene story mode.

There was no reason to have an Xbox One when Sunset Overdrive came out. It is the reason I finally bought one (it is the only console since I graduated high school that I didn't buy day 1) because of my experience with Insomniac in the past. PlayStation exclusives basically sold me the Xbox One.

Got Immortals of Aveum for free on ps+ this month.. it's not a game I would have bought myself but it's still enjoyable.. Though I haven't really played it for that long

Glad Split Second got recognition. Glad it’s on ps plus for the time being and a game I play regularly. It still stings like the end of Burnout. No One Lives forever needs that recognition as well. Completely different game. Same story.

They missed Kingdoms of amalaur reckoning

So my bf and I are 2 of the 12 vita owners mentioned in the video, and we still use them all the time!

Sunset overdrive is SO underrated!!!

Immortals is such a great game. It deserved so much better.

Doom and Wolfenstein prove FPS single player games are still a thing.

I wanted a new jet set radio instead of sunset overdrive but oh well

I remember one of the controversies surrounding Gravity Rush 2 was the fact that it wasn't on the Vita at all. I have a Vita and adored the first game, but it was never something I was willing to spend $60, nor was it something I could see myself playing in my living room, on my tv. I'm sure the game is fantastic and screw Sony for how they treated Japan Studio, and the vita itself, but had it released on the vita, I would've bought it on day 1. Also, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite's failure was almost entirely Disney's fault. I'm sure people would've gotten over the shoddy artwork if they'd just put the goddamn x-men in the game, but that was when Disney was desperately trying to phase out the x-men in their vain effort to make fetch happen with the Inhumans.

1:07 "Vampires" Oh please, they are based off the zombies from I Am Legend. Show some respect

Immortals was a decent game had an intriguing story decent lore nothing ground breaking or impressively original but still a solid game to playthrough nothing much to really like make any awards or anything just a solid one playthrough

I own Split/Second for my PS3... And loved it. The others... Never had any interest in them.

Award to dumbest weapon/gauntlet design aveum

Aw man, TITANFALL 3 WHEN

Actually, Woody said it first. Buzz didn't say it 'til the end, afyer he accepted he that he was just a toy and couldn't actually fly.

We are fortunate that Xbox exclusives are released for PC as well.

I am still planning on playing immortals of aveum. Just kinda waiting for it to be twenty bucks.

To a certain point of view, Sunset Overdrive was a rousing success. Its poor sales entirely justified the amount of time and money Sony spent trying to butcher public opinion about the XBone. The poor sales performance effectively locked Insomniac in as an exclusive 3rd party dev moving forward, a major asset for their platform.

Immortals is on PSN free this month

If i recall Split Second came out the same as Blur by Bizarre Creations. Both really fun arcade racers and both Disney and Activision thought it good to release them not during the dry summer where game realease at least used to slow, but instead in May (I think) at the same bloody time as GTA IV!! Who does that🤣 little niche arcade racer near the biggest franchise ever. Wow. Both Black Rock and Bizarre were shuttered because of this. Damn shame as Project Gotham Racing/Metropolis Street Racer on the DC were great games by biz.

Just bought Gravity Rush 2 and intend to play 1 first

Hah. I was one of the 12 that bought a vita. Unfortunately, I hate gyroscopic games. Loving my steam deck since it has amazing games.

Seeing half the list, being some of my favorite games, being called failures makes me a bit sad. Because I liked eba so much I even imported the two ouendan games from Japan, even thou I can't read the language. at least you don't really need that to understand the story.

why is narration sound x2 ?

I love EBA!!

Imo presentation wasn't Infinite's problem, you knew from the get go what kind of cash grabbing slop you were getting your hands on, it made the same mistake I'd say Avengers made it was clearly trying to show off the "in" marvel heroes and villains, at the expense of Capcom's own fighters, the fact they cut out the X-Men, AND any mention of the FF despite somehow referencing the events of MvC3/U is baffling put in the fact that those stones did nothing special to really justify picking anything but either the power or soul stone, and then going back on their previously established three person teams. Then them competing with Dragon Ball Fighterz which was basically a MvC game with dragon ball characters and it's not a surprise no one bought the damn thing.

Gravity Rush was one of those games that was at the top of my favorites for the Vita. Criminally underrated. The sequel was hot garbage.

E...A...Sports...They're All The Same!! LOL, brutal

Marvel vs Capcom Infinite WAS NOT critically acclaimed at all. Funny enough one of the two redeeming qualities of the game was the LACK of network issues. The other one is it was apparently very fun to play but I haven't played it myself so I cannot comment on that. First of all that was a rough patch for Capcom (or at least for their fighting game division) with the terrible launch of SF5 and before that Street Fighter x Tekken being a failure (at least in Capcom's eyes). Then there was the lack of X-Men characters who are iconic to the series as the entire thing started with X-Men vs. Street Fighter. Back then the Marvel Cinematic Universe was thriving and Fox Studios had the movie rights of X-Men so Marvel just didn't let Capcom use X-Men characters and pushed for the characters from the cinematic universe some of which people didn't care about and some even hated (like Captain Marvel) And finally there were the budget issues because Marvel just didn't care about the game and Capcom didn't believe in fighting games anymore I suppose.

Vampires?

Dizzy games were fantastic

Um, Immortals of Avium and Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite were not critically acclaimed.

Okami is another awesome game that no one bought. That resulted in the closure of Clover Studios... that's bad. But resulted in the creation of Platinum Games... that's good. They created Bayonetta... that's good. But they also developed Babylon's Fall... that's bad. So in conclusion, because you didn't buy Okami, we got Babylon's Fall. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.