Tbh I’ve always felt the same but it’s a nostalgia thing for the older people I believe as they don’t like the more interaction based style of conviction and more of the og games yet with metal gear people liked the transition

Yeah they just couldn't figure out how to make it an open world grindathon like division, far cry, ghost recon, assassins creed, immortals, watchdogs etc. The real loss is rainbow six, they made a good multiplayer than a baaad one and forgot that the single player was popular too.

Blacklist multiplayer is hella underrated and needs to be its own game

yeah blacklist wasnt bad

Blacklist IS still great, maybe is is not Chaos Theory, but it is extremely capable stealth/action game.

Ya that game still holds up today. This whole video is weird

Yea, that's why I clicked, hahahaha. Biggest criticisms were it feeling too short (IMO) and that last boss fight. Other than that, Blacklist was awesome. Even without my man, Ironside.

Blacklist was amazing. I can't remember the story at all but there is an emotional moment where you have unlimited "power" and it was such a powerful moment.

@@soldaatjhu this is a powerful comment

It's just correcting a bad video with bad info, not defending Like MGSurvive was killed by konami and Kojima being fired, not a bad game Man had one job to do for this video and failed

Same with the last airbender movie loooool

That happened with Drake of the 99 Dragons as well. It was planned to be a huge multimedia franchise with games, movies and an animated show.

@@happycat4838that had potential if the game wasn’t poo im not even kidding

@@sergiofernandez7318I honestly wish they had continued it, granted I was 12 when I saw that shit

Whats hilarious is when people pretend that Saint's Row reboot was so "different" from the other games, when it was EXACTLY the same as the other 4 games in the series before it. It didn't sell because most people moved past that tired old stale gameplay and tired mechanics that were already pretty dated by the time Saints Row 3 came out, but Volition didn't feel any sort of need to update anything.

Nah, the deal with Embracer group is what killed Volition. Even if that game had been liked, they'd still be dead.

@@lutherheggs451 Holy shit. I found it. I found the worst post on youtube. Holy shit. It's so bad...

@@lutherheggs451Exactly the same is a reach.

Saints row 3 and 4 were average and began the decline

Yeah too bad the same thing didn’t happen to call of duty…they create one every year and it just gets worse especially the monetization practices!

Honestly, ending the series with that boss fight and an *exclusive* Megadeth song would've been the perfect outcome, GH deserved to go out with a bang. But we know what happened, Guitar Hero Live is a thing and we all suffered for it lmao

@@fansee1368 I think that GHLive's problems were the GHTV and the meh setlist, but the gameplay was fun actually

Most guitar hero sequels should have just been DLC. They tried to pull an EA sports where the only that changes each game is the song roster

No, they wanted to move away from the traditional guitar hero, they wanted to become more real guiarlike, so they went from their 1 row with 5 keys to a 2 row with 3 keys on each, which was a huge fail, it did not hit the guitarlike feeling at all, so they gave up, pretty much.. They wanted to become more Rocksmith kind of game, even though, Rocksmith was not even released back then. This channel have no idea what the hell he is talking about, so many errors.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam pays a homage to it with its army men game mode I believe.

@@WhatSaab I don't think it's specifically a reference to the same game series, but rather the toy line as a whole, unless there are any of the characters that were in the franchise proper.

​@@WhatSaabSarge's Heroes 10/10 😭

@@infernaldaedra It's a classic.

Sarges Heros is GOATED. Me and my childhood friend would sit there and PVP for hours and hours lmao

I was really disappointed in Conviction because a lot of features and mechanics from the older games had been removed or drastically neutered. So I was relieved to find out that Blacklist brought those back to a degree, while also keeping the polished, slick controls of Conviction.

Conviction wasn't a stealth game, but it wasn't trying to be. Blacklist fumbled the ball by going for the worst of both worlds. People are so quick to forgive Ubisoft like its an abusive boyfriend and they have stockholm syndrome. Same thing happened with Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Possibly one of the worst AAA games EVER, and yet Ghost Recon fans came back to them once they tacked on a superficial "immersive mode" update. Blacklist pays lipservice to the old games in the laziest way possible OOH I GOT +50 GHOST POINTS FOR SHOOTING THE GUY WITH THE DART GUN INSTEAD OF THE GUN GUN OH WOW I GOT +100 EXPLORATION POINTS FOR GOING THROUGH A VENT FINALLY A RETURN TO FORM. It's at its core Conviction, but with worse everything.

@@dskdev Yeah, they screwed up with Blacklist, and they have completely destroyed the Ghost Recon IP as far as I'm concerned. But I'm also a fan of Ghost Recon 2 and GRAW 1&2. Now it's just a generic open world shooter. Idk.

@@dskdev Geez, that sounds reductive as hell. Just because it had an XP & upgrade system, it was garbage? You could be reductive like this with Chaos Theory as well. "OH WOW! YOU COMPLETED ALL THE TASKS AND GOT ALL THE ZEROES! ZERO DETECTIONS! ZERO ALARMS! ZERO BODIES! BRAVO, 100%!" The XP system in Blacklist was actually really neat because it incentivised level replay with the usage of different tools and methods. Slipping past the enemies without disturbing them, stealthily eliminating them, Conviction-style, or facing enemies in open combat while still using the environmental traversal to your advantage. The game also had the best side content in the series, bar none. Grim's missions that focused on pure stealth, Kobin's panther missions with unaware enemies, Charlie's panther missions with enemies searching for you and Briggs' co-op missions.

@ciseClimberIt was pretty much the only game with side content. The other being conviction which did it much better with deniable ops. The side missions only stand out because (aside from Brigg's campaign, which I've only seen on KZfaq never played) they stick to what they are. Horde defense? Why the hell not. At least you know what you're signing up for. Meanwhile the campaign will just throw you into a random predator drone section multiple times, forced drone sections, running away from the drone, the train section etc. My problem with Blacklist is it's not a return to form, it is literally JUST conviction but with almost everything tweaked to be a little worse from a conviction perspective. Conviction for example had for what it's worth a pretty intuitive light/dark system that is utilized well in most levels, which blacklist fucks up by setting most levels in broad daylight, having you nathan drake your way around everywhere. That, reduced mark and execute, things like bog standard ubisoft game "heavies" really serve to slow down the hunter gameplay of conviction without getting rid of its reliance on it. I'm not saying the XP system is bad. I'm saying it's tacked on, it was in Conviction too, but at least they didn't have the balls (yet) to sell gun packs (just package new guns into DLC urgh). And even though ghost-ing is technically possible, with the conviction control scheme and detection mechanics it's just a frustrating rng mess (though I will say chaos theory levels are pretty linear) and makes zero sense story wise. For the most part in the old games, you were gathering intelligence and guards were obstacles which could be killed or avoided, while actively preventing terrorist threats. I'm not saying the XP system is bad. I'm saying it's tacked on, it was in Conviction too, but at least they didn't have the balls (yet) to sell gun packs (just package new guns into DLC urgh).

Yeah I'm surprised it never got much advertisement considering Sly 3 did. The only reason I found out about it was through a gaming magazine in my art class in 2013 that covered Castlevania and Sly Cooper and I was like"wait they made it?" And some people in my class were fans of that series and even they didn't know about it.

I have each of Sucker Punch's original Sly Cooper games on PS2, so I just play through those and imagine the series as a perfect trilogy.

Thieves in Time didn’t killed the franchise, i remember i also was critical of it when it came out but then during lockdown i gave it a try again and honestly it’s a perfectly enjoyable game but it pales in comparison to the trilogy, it scared everyone to make a new sly game because they know it’s not going to be an easy task to uphold the trilogy’s standards. Also Sanzaru’s port to PS3 was the laziest stuff i’ve ever seen and i played both the EU and US version and OMG the US version is even worse somehow. P.s. Something that bothered me a lot in Sly 4 was the minimap

Jak and Dazter was killed off after the Original 3 by the racing game then buried by the flying one, and then there was the Dexter game on PsP somewhere in there.

Not having Michael Ironside voicing Sam was a major oof though. Granted, he said he didn't wanna do it anymore, so it's not Ubisoft's fault, but it still sucks.

Getting out of prison without gear is a bitch.

Its not a good splinter cell, but its a fine stealth action game

​@@richardsinclair7661Just to add extra context, he didn't want to do it because of health related issues.

Well said, Blacklist was awesome!

holy shit mate thank you - easily my favourite single-player games as a kid and one of the few titles that would earn an instant preorder for me is a current generation Splinter Cell. also they should make some comic books

He's been reappearing in various Ubi games aswell. Ghost Recon Wildlands had like 3 missions with him but Ghost Recon Breakpoint had a whole DLC story line including him. And he's also an operator in R6 Siege with a whole season dedicated to him. It's not like the Splinter Cell games ofcourse but it's good to have him back in a few games.

@@pasta-and-heroin If your also a fan of Tom Clancy’s The Division games. Ubisoft has also had some tie-in novels written. That take place after the main story of Division 2.

want too know wha happin from halo to .... halo ...... Buy the book's hurrr hurrr

Ubisoft is literally remaking the first game

Nothing can kill fifa for some reason. Can’t break the concept of “kick ball”, it’s not like there’s a soccer 2 in real life

We are getting Metal Gear Delta, so you can take Survive off the list.

Thank you

They should remaster all the games onto 1 disc,I'd definitely buy it.

They should remaster

​@@garypasquill2355i would too. A REMAKE though, especially if they rerecord Blacklist.

But that's not Splinter Cell. Sam Fisher is not a badass super agent. He's a washed up navy seal with bad knees. Ubisoft basically made a completely different stealth game and attached the Splinter Cell name just to sell it. Tom Clancy would be sick if he could see what Ubi has done to Splinter, Rainbow, and Ghost games.

ong the song choices were spectacular and it was fun as heck

The game that really killed the series was guitar hero live because it was a live service game

Yeah same. So many fucking good songs on warriors of rock

Im saying bro I always thought that was the best game out of them all. Gh live is what shit the bed imo

For me it goes gh6 rb2 gh3. The song selection of gh6 is really good especially when you think of how milked the series already was at that point

Yeah I'd argue GH WoR is overall the best GH game, many people love GH3 and say that it is the best but I personally disagree. The game engine in WoR is just a lot better and the fact that you can't hold down notes well in advance to hit hammer ons/pull offs is an improvement imo.

I agree. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is my favorite Guitar Hero game to this day and it's sad it didn't get enough attention since the series was being milked to death. A great Guitar Hero game that fell under the radar.

It was basically the perfect combination of GH5 and World Tour. The amount of content, challenges, and features for all the different modes in that game was just staggering, and it was all executed with such polish.

he didn't say the game was bad, he said the sales were bad. which they were.

Ever heard of eBay?

Exactly. I think the band-centric entries, and Smash Hits, were completely unnecessary cash-grabs, and the guest act songs from the former could easily been compiled and used in a brand-new official entry or two. They absolutely oversaturated the franchise, but it's Activision, so I'm really not surprised.

They will eventually. I hope they reboot Ghost Recon. I love the Old School games. Mostly GR2 and GRAW 1&2. Really not into the new, generic, open world shooter GRs.

At this point, we will get a starfox 99 lmao.

Star Fox 64 is one of my fav games of all time time

First game is getting a remake

@@thegamingcook785 Unless they did the Ubisoft thing and quietly cancelled it by now.

The Ghost Recons; Wildlands and Breakpoint, have a lot of the Echelon in it. You can 100% treat those game like open world Splinter Cell. I've been playing Breakpoint lately to scratch my Splinter Cell itch. An itch that only appeared after I saw Sam in Siege

​@@tenwholebeesUbisoft A.I is kind of ass though, I'm not saying it was great before the last splinter cell but it hasn't gotten any better.

@@tenwholebees thank you for the suggestions bro

As a guy who maintains his electric scooters, this sounds like a voltage issue. Which is pethetic when you're dealing with AA batteries

The checkpoint system imo let it down, it felt more like a rogue lite in how punishing it was forcing you to restart the whole mission

@@chillhour6155just don't die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why say was it still is?

@@yes2462 i say was cause i cant play it anymore. sadly my x360 guitars are dead and dont work anymore. i could always get another, but im fine. i hear clone hero on pc is fun, i gotta try that sometime

​@@hokage1997Go to RetroCultMods and grab his soderless kit, you can breathe new life into your guitars that way

Now that Microsoft has acquired Activision Blizzard King, I hope they bring it back true to form with 5 frets and a good setlist. I hope they also get an peripheral maker like Hyperkin to work on as well. If they consider a Live service, I hope it's done right. My idea for a Live service would be have a subscription to access all DLC from the get-go, and also have DLC purchasable in packs for those without a subscription. This is similar to how Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival on Switch does it with it's Taiko Music Pass

@@jasonmartinez5116 that sounds like it would be a fun thing. i wouldnt mind spending say $50 for a year pass. if song packs came out weekly then it would def pay itself off

I was so sure we'd get Chibi Robo in Smash 😢

Fans were turned off by the fact that Sam Fisher wasn't played by Michael Ironside, which is pretty understandable. I'd be mad if someone else voiced Master Chief too, especially if he doesn't sound like Master Chief.

I think dead space 3 was good enough game also.

Mass Effect 3 is my favorite game of all time.

@@medoagamer9497 Yeah, me too. It may not have been perfect or as notable as the first two Dead Space games, but you could make your own necromorph killing tools. That shit was a clever gameplay feature. Who doesn't want to have two plasma cutters embedded in one gun? I sure do.

@@colbylawson5331They just made the bad choice of making micro transactions when so many people were against it at the time

@@elijahvelasco8963 Yeah.

The last time they did a reboot it was decent

Turok was neat until it turned into sci Fi lame

They honestly should've made it about a new agent and have fisher in it as a mentor figure kind of a passing the torch kind of thing.

@@classicslayer456that woulda been worse on my opinion but they coulda moved over to Charlie I think his name was. Splinter cell is one of those games that I’m kinda happy Ubisoft stopped making especially with what they have nowadays. All things must come to an end at some point 🤷‍♂️

There are still some bad things about it like the dumb upgrade system and the mark and execute which they kept from Conviction.

@@cookieface80 mark and execute was fun. How tf is it bad? The upgrade system I agree tho

@@travm5540 Mark and execute in a stealth game.

Timesplitters was amazing. Making your own levels was so fun😢 i miss it

Timesplitters future perfect is easily one of my favorite FPS games of all time, I spent a ton of time just playing bots and stuff. The customization, level creation, even the single player was thoroughly enjoyable and I almost never care for FPS game campaigns. There was talk of a Timesplitters 4 coming out but doesnt look like itll happen sadly.

They're making a new one for a couple of years haha

A game unrelated to TimeSplitters killed it (Haze) and it’s sad because TS is one of my favorite series

Siberia level in the second game is pure nostalgia

Yeah OG MW3 isn't bad and neither is Mass Effect 3. I liked both of them.

dead space 3 is mid on every aspect. Cliché story, poor gameplay, bad horror elements, poorly integrated coop and microtransactions. halo 4 have a dogwatter gameplay and story and fable 3 was a straight up downgrade from the second game in terms of content and even the first one on some points. But the rest of these games are really good especially blacklist and MW3

Compared to their predecessors, but on their own. Dead space 3 is not scary horror, but it does work as a cosmic horror action shooter. Yes, multiplayer ruins the vibe, but the dialogue isn't bad and has good ideas. but above all, it has a decent theoughline, believable twists, and good worldbuilding. I have LASo master and smooth operator, trust me, the multiplayer is ass but it's still on the high end of shooters, and is far better than any "halo killer" And fable 3 is a decent little romp that shouldn't be tied to the fable ip. However it does have some good ideas like Reaver, the country management that requires foresight and planning to get the best outcomes, and the Elise/Elliot plot even if it's in a game that feels like a 360 launch title.

@@worsethanyouthink I agree with most of your points I just have a minor nitpick about dead space 3 as I wouldn't call it cosmic horror like you said, it's more some sci-fi action with some horror-ish elements. Cosmic horror is a completely different genre that taps into insanity, creatures beyond comprehension, how fragile even the most stable minds are when exposed to thing beyond the world of logic they lived in and how insignificant the human race is

i hate to break it to you, but yes most of those are indeed bad games.

Plus they were such short games you could easily play through it in 2 hours so multiple playthroughs were expected. Any Starfox fan had already played them to death and wanted something new.

@@cattysplat I'm glad someone else is saying that. In the last days of Miiverse, I saw a lot of people saying, "They need to port Star Fox Zero to Switch, all it needs it traditional controls and it would be great!" I can't believe anyone believed that. That game was embarrassingly short, made worse by the fact that it felt like several different games mashed together, so even if you enjoyed a certain mode of the game, you got maybe an hour worth of that, and then the rest of the game was trash (like the gyrocopter and tank). Although just for the record, I actually kind of liked the weird hybrid controls for the Arwing free range mode. It was a nightmare for the on-rails parts.

Yea i mean starfox has been in a decline since 64. I kinda liked command, but that's not really a starfox game. At least nintendo never outright kills a franchise. It will probably be back within 10 years or so. I mean metroid didn't get any games for 16 years. Last game before dread was prime 3 on the wii.

@@Kiritomens I don't know why Nintendo doesn't see value in having a space shooter. Sure, Star Fox is never going to move the numbers that Mario or Zelda does. But if they made proper Star Fox games with a reasonable budget, they'd have a following. But instead, they use the franchise as a dumping ground for games they don't know what to do with. I actually loved Star Fox Guard on Wii U, but gameplay-wise, it was not a Star Fox game. I also thought Assault was decent (although the controls were so-so). But again, that game had you playing as a foot soldier who occasionally drives tanks. So... Not exactly a space shooter.

@@ressljs yeah I mean Nintendo really doesn't have any shooter type genre. Closest is star fox, and Metroid. They where also there games pushed to a more teen and adult audiences. So they didn't get much love. They mostly focus on there child audience, since both adults, and children will buy them. But with how much more Nintendo is aware of the social space, and there huge adult audience promoting titles like Metroid. It got back on track. Can't really see that happening for starfox. It has been used as a tech demo since the first release on SNES. Nintendo, just can't seem to give it that identity that it needs.

Not only that, but the sheer amount of content it had in terms of instrument challenges, different gameplay modes, individual character powers, and amazing production value was the absolute best in the franchise in my opinion.

@@christopherregan1654 yeah, it was legit the best game imo. I count myself lucky for the dlc I had bought and wish I'd gotten a lot more since you can't buy it anymore. I'd put 100s of hrs into this game.

I played it way back when and it was really, really fun. pretty much exactly as you described (except you're originally limited mostly to the first floor of the house before expanding upstairs, the back yard and basement.) you did chores and things to get goodboy points from a mini flying robo companion. OH and it had a bunch of cute as heck costumes that changed or added mechanics (along with actual items for ChibiRobo) it was an easy 7/10 imo. that said, I was exactly 1 of 2 kids (the other being my best friend at the time) who'd even heard of it. even as an adult now it's pretty obscure. edit: if you have a PC I highly, highly recommend emulating it and experience it yourself if "smol bot big house" adventure trying to help a dysfunctional family sounds interesting. it's a game I'd be comfy vouching for.

I don't think they have a great grasp on how this industry works.

The cover of that game views as "banjo is a deadbeat dad who just came back with the milk after 10 years and Kazooie has been tricking on the streets to pay the bills"

The only think that hurt Blacklist was that Michael Ironside didn't return.

Exactly .. Back then fans were more vocal and when moves like this happened boycotts were in larger scales, not like now how most are just indifferent to it now@@MrArby80

Gay 🏳️‍🌈

rock band* it’s Harmonix that made the mode with funding from Epic, who makes Fortnite

It's also telling when most fans think the best game in the franchise is the ps vita entry

@@MrTable678 Cause you got to side with hell helghast. They tried so hard to make them pure evil but failed

The first 2 games were literally part of the brown and grey brigade that was the popular "aesthetic" of that time. There was nothing amazing about the aesthetic of the other games. The only people who ever pretended that Killzone was supposed to be some Halo killer were imbeciles in the games media and fanboys. It was never whispered even once from anyone actually involved in the game.

@@lutherheggs451 nah, the first and second game( while the color pallet was terrible) were pretty damn good at appearances. It’s when the started branching into giant mecha and other things of a similar nature that it started to get really bad. It no longer felt grounded or like a possible future. It was a very low fi setting with a story based in generational trama. Halo killer it wasn’t but I genuinely loved the story and world.

GH Live was actually a very good concept especially GHTV mode, it was just botched badly. Thankfully the fan made mod GHTV Reloaded brought back GHTV's servers but only on Wii U and RPCS3

Jaws was janky but really fun. I'd love a test drive eve of destruction remake. Wreckfest is similar but I loved the single player in that game. The difficulty just needs to be adjusted a bit even on the hardest difficulty it's still easy as piss

😅 OMG Same thing happened to me verbatim

@dylanium5755: Enter the Dragonfly was rushed, and it showed - could have been a great game in the same vain as the originals but the new developers Check Six and Equinoxe didn't get a chance and it was a buggy mess and Moneybags only showed up once. Cloud 9 and the Luau Islands levels were my favourite though.

Me too. I did hear about a conversion mod for another game to make it a Star Fox game, more or less.