The skull and bones failure isn't surprising, Ubisoft told gamers to get used to not owning games, and it seems gamers are very comfortable with the idea of not owning Ubisoft games.

Here’s what gets me about suicide squad, the gaming community made it clear:”if this is rocksteady Batman, don’t make it live services, we won’t buy it.” They double down and It cost em 😂😂

I still find it funny that WB saw what happened to Marvel's Avengers and escalated their commitment to live service multiple times during development.

It's honestly baffling that companies keep leaning on the Live Service trend, i hate it, there are some games that do it well, Helldivers 2 and Beat Saber but i don't want it in my games

Happy Father’s Day to the Father’s out there!

I honestly don't know why Ubisoft didn't cancel Skull and Bones, It would have been more beneficial to remake AC Blackflag

It’s kinda baffling to see companies struggle to understand what gamers want. You would think with social media platforms and the ability to host polls online, companies would know what their target audience would want more now than ever before. But they seem to make the worst decisions to push players away.

0:02 Dang it, I wanted to watch the rest of the video, but I actually had heard that before.

R.I.P Arkham Batman 2009 - 2024

Not enough people talk about how Kingdom of Amular almost bankrupt an entire state

I thought I was gonna see ANTHEM on this list.

"Don't turn Scooby-Doo into a live service game" lmao 😆

Final Fantasy Spirits Within actually saw this one in the theaters...but the most memorable thing was what I heard a few rows behind me was a kid saying 'Chocobo, I wanna see a chocobo.'

$300m in 2005 is an absolutely insane amount of money to loose.

2024 don't pre order your games

I’ve never even heard of the U-Draw Tablet… WTF 😂

This is the first time I recall ever seeing anything about the uDraw.

EA as a company should have made this list

Spirits Within was wonderful, but people wanted the ensemble adventure, not the main character focus narrative. I love it. It’s no sillier than any actual Final Fantasy game, and the world design alone is enough to justify watching it. Of course, the CGI that was so remarkable then probably has aged a lot, but when it was new it was something people hadn’t seen before. They just didn’t want to.

Good Morning and Happy Father's Day

The fact they ended Marvel Heroes Omega for THAT Avengers game makes it sooo much worse.

Live service games are the biggest and most expensive failures of all time. They're becoming increasingly unpopular. This can be said with Loot Boxes as well.

That fact that shenmue 3 actually came out is fucking insane

Every single time I watch Immortals of Aveum gameplay I get a headache. Those flashes and color blur look truly horrendous.

There were some uncanny valley moments in The Spirits Within. That animation was top tier. Sadly, I think the story made a lot of people check out.

Suicide Squad took the title of Worst Game Ever Made away from ET. Thats quite an impressive feat

So, when I saw the thumbnail with Superman, I was really sad because I thought there was a Superman game I had missed and I'd have supported it anyways. No, it was Suicide Squad, I had just completely forgotten it was a thing.

I would actually like to see Scooby-Doo as a live service game, just because the episode per week format with a seasonal overall arch would only really work in that fashion.

Just a reminder that there are a whole lot of good games that are also commercial failures. *Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective* has failed twice in 2010 and 2023 (Steam and modern consoles release). So do not assume that good games will always succeed, cos it's just not true.

Happy Father's day guys

Fun Fact: Players are unable to swim in Skull and Bones.

I love the euphemisms around Marvel Avenger and Skull and Bones. "it did not find an audience" and whatever. These games were absolute garbage and it was insulting to sell them that's all there is to it

I love when you tease us with an actual Superman game like that.

I had so much fun with Immortals of Aveum. The story was interesting at the very least, but the characters felt rather...marvel-esque

Gotta remember, when they restart the game several times over, that all gets rolled into the budget of whatever ends up released.

Always love gameranx :) thank u!

That Number 7 has a very distinct air of LJN Video Art about it.

The Udraw tablet failed, so the Wii U could crash and burn.

-Don't make a batman live service. -Gotham knights, existing

That Final Fantasy film’s DVD bits gave me life back in the day. The bloopers and the Thriller parody was everything! 🔥

I have a feeling this list is going to continue to grow rapidly. There’s numerous reasons why, some of the big ones are: 1) Trying to appeal to too wide of an audience. Resulting in no one having any real interest. 2) Over-produced: trend/popularity chasing. Stomping out creativity and originality. 3) Choosing realistic, top of the line graphics, over something well designed and stylized. 4) Prioritizing greed over the delivered product and ruining the experience. 5) Catering only to a hardcore audience, and alienating the casual audience. Just about every game should have accessibility options, even multiplayer experiences. Competitive games can make a casual, non-competitive, build that dials back the intensity. 6) Poor marketing. 7) Releasing incomplete, broken buggy games. 8) Relying too heavily on immersion and manipulating the audience and forgetting that this is a game. You know, digital entertainment. 9) Refusing to innovate. Try something new. Develop new gameplay mechanics/loops. Attempt a new genre, or sub-genre. Kind of a catch all that doesn’t cover #2. 10) Continue allowing higher ups, and upper management too much creative control. Everything prior is more or less the fault of these guys. Well Gameranx, here’s a video for you if you’re ever looking for content ideas. Lol

I'm surprised the game "Sticky Balls" didn't take off on the Gizmondo.

Great video! Quick question tho: u said 'if ur as old as me' when u were talking about UDraw from THQ. I dont in fact remember it 😂 But how old are u Falcon? I'm guessing around my age, 36? 😅

Hey great job, this was actually a really good and informative video. 🤘

btw happy father's day wish I could experience mine with my dad

Suprised ET didn't make the list.

Wow seeing that Gizmondo brought back so many memories! I remember all the crazy ads with so many celebrities!

There's a brutal irony to FF: Spirits Within. Sakaguchi is the main man that made Squaresoft so legendary, especially because of his baby, FF. But he made that huge gamble w/ Spirits Within which bombed. This practically bankrupted Squaresoft and forced them to merge w/ Enix. And it ultimately led to the 'firing' of Sakaguchi. Since then, FF and Square have never been the same. FF now plays nothing like the first 10 beloved entries and has lost much of its luster. The man that created Final Fantasy, in many ways, killed it.

Surprised you didn't bring up that the main character of final fantasy spirit within was expected to be the first in a series of virtual actors

Odd one out, I like Final Fantasy The Spirits Within.

Thnx for teaching us how to count with those time stamps

I'm beginning to think the favorite word used in this video is "massive" lol 😂 GREAT VIDEO THOUGH!!

Jake, I’m right there with you with regards to FF: The Spirits Within. I owned a DVD copy that’s probably still sitting around somewhere. I would dust it off and watch it again, but I have nothing to play it given we live in an adorably all-digital disc-less time.

Immortals of aveum was such a awesome game . 😔

As for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, I was in Hawaii when this thing was being put together and put out. One of my Japanese besties was working at Square at that time, and they had offices in Hawaii. The Square Hawaii team apparently had a big hand in this production. I remember him whipping out merch when we'd meet people, talking about the realistic depiction of eyes and what-not from the characters of the film. After its failure at the box-office, Square Hawaii pretty much ceased to exist. Was really sad about that, because I was able to rub elbows with the lead of Square Hawaii on several nights out on the town. After Square quit Hawaii I lost a lot of drinking buddies when they went back to Japan. Sad times.

I got Immortals of Aveum when it was a PS freebie, and it was fantastic. If it had released now rather than when it did, it would have been a smash hit.

Players: "We're tired of sequels and remakes? Why can't they make new, original IPs?" Developers: "Here's Immortals of Aveum!" Players: "We don't have time for that. We have Call of Duty 21, Battlefield 0 and Assassin's Creed 13 to buy."

Where the hell did 200 million dollars actually GO for that Avengers game?? 200 million was enough to make Elden Ring ffs.

I actually remember seeing 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' a long time ago on Crackle, I think, and I honestly thought it was pretty interesting.

Wow I didn't know that about immortals of aveum. That really sucks to hear because I just sat down and ran through that game and had an absolute blast.

The secret to making a small fortune in video game development? Start with a _LARGE_ fortune.

Ironically, Scooby Doo, if you think about it, would make a GREAT live service game, if it was built like a Narritive Noir Dramady. Think like L.A. Noir meets Dead by Daylight with new eps and mysteries always dropping weekly/monthly

I loved the mention of the Spirits Within, brought a genuine smile to my face :)

When I think about financial game failures the first one that comes to mind is Kingdoms of Amalur not mentioned in the video.

Versus XIII comes to mind but it never came out.

I thoroughly enjoyed Too Human. Now I wanna play it again!

Too Human was a awesome game! A friend and I put a ton of hours into getting all the achievements

Wonder why he's talking about expensive failures on Father's Day 😅

I would rank as #1 Star Citizen!

The videogame industry seems to be unique in that large portions of the people who work in it don't have direct experience with the product they are trying to produce and market. I used to work in adult language education in a tech hub in South Korea and we were situated close to a number of large game companies and many of the employees would use the academy I worked at to study English. All the students I had that were on the development side were avid gamers who regularly engaged in the hobby but nearly everyone I met on the business side -- marketing, finance etc. -- did not play games, even mobile games, regularly or even at all. I remember talking to a woman who had worked in Video Game marketing for several years who told me she just wasn't interested in games outside of her job and one guy who managed the finance team for a major publisher who thought games were a waste of time. It was really surprising and I can only imagine it's like this in other countries as well. In contrast, most people consume movies, books and music fairly regularly so even if you're not deeply invested in those things, if you're working in those industries in some capacity you at least have some idea of what the end product is going look like and who's likely to enjoy it, but with games there seems to be this strange disconnect.

Sucide Squad Kills the Justice League was set to fail as soon as the concert and title of game were related to the public. Once I heard about the first of multiple rewrites and big issues the game had, I figured okay well maybe they saw the poor fan reception at the idea of this game even existing and would make something completely different. And we’ll nope they made it worse with the live service element. Really I’d say when Sweet Baby got involved was when it was REALLY going down hill, but that’s another conversation lol

that new DOOM though

At this Point i need a Gameranx Intro Music Playlist My Favorit was when The Mixed Halo Theme when spiderman miss the Qiuktime

I actually really liked "Too Human". The combat was really fun if you took the time to learn it and how to do the slide attack from one enemy to another. And how to throw enemies up into the air and juggle them.

Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda should be 1 & 2 on every failure list.

Gamerranx is better when focusing on successes and not failures

The pat about the Ferrari crash is awesome.

My dad was an initial investor in Gizmondo. We went to trade shows where they hired street artists to graffiti and build this really cool display for the product. We even had a working unit that I was able to play with and everything. It was super cool at the time and the features and specs were amazing. I am sad of everything that happened with it because of how awesome it was.

thank god it’s jake narrating, literally the only way i can watch a video nowadays 🤷‍♂️

The real reason Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League failed is they hired Sweet Baby Inc to make it more to their agenda of being so heavy in ESG and DEI.

Definitely think Anthem belongs on this list. Reportedly hundreds of millions in budget vs. a hundred million in sales, development abandoned after a short time.

I saw FF: the spirits within on opening night. I was extremely disappointed it had nothing to do with actual final fantasy.

Fur baby dads check in here 👇

everyday i wakeup praying for the downfall of SBI DEI & ESG

Scooby Doo live service sounds my jam. But I'd be happy with adventure games like the Monkey Island series instead. AA and smaller thing, you know? Like the old Genesis/Mega Drive games.

Final Fantasy had a bit of competition on opening weekend. The first film of a little franchise called “The Fast and the Furious” had its debut.

While not a expensive game to make by any standard, I think "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" from 1982 should probably be on some "we didn't include them, but... " mini list at the end of the video, like you guys often do. That game almost tanked a whole section of the early industry. I still wonder how much investor stock was ruined by one title.

9:02 To me, this was doomed from the start, as the symbol for Square Pictures was a rectangle instead of a square

Glorious days of budget heists are here and it's brilliant

The amount of negative videos about games that Gameranx produces is unrivaled.

The biggest hit to Too Human was the fact you could only do 2 person co-op online and no local co-op.

Advent Rising was a big moment for me. I loved it and thought, at the time, it was a unique original idea. I looked forward to the sequels that never came.

One for us older gamers, i.e. 1970s-80s children - E.T. on the Atari 2600. It (along with other mitigating factors) bankrupted an entire company (Atari). A very sad story, if you want to look it up. They even made a film about it - "Atari: Game Over". If you haven't seen it, it's def worth checking it out.

I was a closed beta tester for APB. All of us beta testers provided so much feedback, but none of it was listened to.

Last couple of years have been fighting for that spot for sure

Gameranx should ALWAYS be trending in Gaming on KZfaq

6:38 i didn't knew LifeWeaver had a singleplayer campain, that's dope

the gizmondo looks like an adult version of the leap pad

Really surprised to see the Spirits Within on this list. One of my prized possessions. Loved it when it came out and still love it. Rewatched it about a year ago.

Imagine having so much money that you lose hundreds of millions of dollars on one type of game, shrug it off and think, 😃"let's do it again!" Fuccin A!