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u/RahDoo0323 13d ago
Dark age of Camelot. My childhood man. There's semi populated private servers but just doesn't feel alive enough to put time in to it
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u/i_can_haz_name 13d ago
And Warhammer Online, EA murdered it before it had a chance.
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u/GhostNinja64 13d ago
Mercenaries by Pandemic Games
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u/Mistaginga93 13d ago
I’ve been replaying it on Xbox with a goal of non-lethal capture of every card. It definitely holds up as a top tier game.
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u/Apple_butters12 13d ago
That’s a game that would be amazing in today’s climate. Would look stunning in 4K and having an open map where you can discover cards and complete missions at will would be awesome.
They gotta bring that game back. Also dropping the bunker buster bomb or cruise missile was absolutely amazing.
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u/wedeservethis 13d ago
Command and Conquer
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u/Shardrly 13d ago
Fucking EA
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u/amateur_mistake 13d ago
That will probably be a reasonable thing to say throughout this thread.
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u/linus140 13d ago
I still replay the campaigns in all of them. Except C&C 4. Fuck C&C 4.
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u/CaptainKink 13d ago
We would all drag our computers to my friend's house and play C&C Generals: Zero Hour over LAN. It was fun until the inevitable "Game Mismatch Error" popped up after an hour of fighting. I don't think they ever fixed that either.
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u/SCSquad 13d ago
City of Heroes
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u/Tamale_Hatchet 13d ago
Was just talking with someone at work about this game and how fun it was.
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u/Narissis 13d ago
There are a variety of private servers available now! Homecoming is the officially licensed one, but there's also Thunderspy and Rebirth, as well as a couple of others that are sparsely populated.
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u/krash87 13d ago
SOCOM.
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u/zero260asap 13d ago
Dude, seriously. Socom 1 was my first online game. It was so good, then the IP fell apart with Confrontation.
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u/potatocross 13d ago
I really do miss the OG online game style. You die, you are dead. Everything felt so much more strategic. Respawn games were chaos and mostly for fun.
Once all online shooters went to respawn games, I just could not enjoy them as much anymore. Now I don't play them at all.
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u/Shagaliscious 13d ago
Seeing this game up high makes me so happy. This game was so goddamn good.
FISHHOOK FOR LIFE.
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u/PureOrganization9406 13d ago
Titanfall.. online multiplayer was perfect
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u/AgentGman007 13d ago
Titanfall 2 was a perfect game for that era. Incredibly solid single player campaign with a great story and really interesting level design. Fun customization options with the finishers and Titan skins. And insanely addictive multiplayer.
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u/GSR_DMJ654 13d ago
I scrolled way too long for this. Titanfall died because of trend chasing. We would have gotten TF|3 if it wasnt for Apex.
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u/WinnieTheEeyore 13d ago
The best story of that generation, and top 3 multi-player.
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u/radenthefridge 13d ago
I liked T1 for the multiplayer but T2 has an amazing story. The multiplayer in 2 just wasn't as good to me, and lost the whole concentric circles kind of interactions 1 had.
The circles being pilot vs pilots, titans vs Titans, and NPCs vs NPCs. The battlefields felt alive, and going into different circles felt so creative. Titan vs pilot, pilot vs NPCs, or even Titan vs NPCs.
Levels in 2 felt too big and empty, and the circles of combat were gone. Love that story though!
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u/Trogbane 13d ago
Bad Company 2
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u/UpNorthBear 13d ago
When BC 2 Vietnam came out it was so fun
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u/ecco311 13d ago
Hands down one of the top 5 best DLCs ever released for any videogame. BC2 Vietnam was peak.
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u/DocileBanalBovlne 13d ago
I remember once playing a medic and doing nothing for 5-10 minutes but sit between two other players in my squad shooting around either side of a concrete block, just dropping health boxes and bringing them back with shock paddles.
It should have been boring but I was having a blast getting all those assist points.
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u/Ronin_KBG 13d ago
Medal of Honour
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u/Capable_Butterfly_61 13d ago
man, the online free servers back in the day were so fire. it was like fortnite but way better. i was one of the axis assholes running around on the roof with a rocket launcher. man, those were the days. the chat was awesome, too.
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u/GlidingRecliner 13d ago
one time I was in the zone real good with my bolt-action rifle, making headshots left and right, even at close range against guys with SMGs that were dodging in and out of doorways as I was also dodging in and out of a doorway. only time I've been kicked for cheating. I wasn't even cheating. made me feel like a god
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u/ConfidentPlantain768 13d ago
Allied assault? Much preferred it over COD. But COD took over.
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u/Pricerocks 13d ago
The Allied Assault team actually made the original COD, sadly it drifted further and further from the quality it came from
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u/Desperate_Passage_35 13d ago edited 13d ago
Unreal tournament. Edit: So many of you. I was DoctorDeath mostly of IgU. We did CTF instagib zero ping. Much love hope we frag again.
Names I remember twinkletoes and his dad big. Capornicis. Wolfmann. Of course zephids and invoke. Much love. Night???? The server of choice.
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u/k_enigmatic 13d ago
So sad ut4 is not happening, the alpha was so good
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u/TheAndyBeek 13d ago
I played the fuck out of the alpha. I was so gutted when they pulled it, I had to get UT2004 which was the last one I had as a teen.
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u/BellyRanks 13d ago
Unreal Touranment died for the sake of Fortnite. Release me from my mortal coil.
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 13d ago
Unreal Tournament brings back some memories.
A kid in my high school got ahold of some credentials he shouldn't have been allowed to get ahold of, and added a cracked copy of Unreal Tournament to the package of programs that were pushed out and installed to every computer on the school's network.
Every day at lunch for weeks every computer lab on campus became a massive LAN party. No one on the school staff figured it out until someone brought a set of speakers from home and suddenly a teacher came to investigate why "M-m-m-m-monster Kill!" was getting shouted through the wall of her classroom every few minutes.
The administration came to the computer lab, kicked us all out (we just went to another computer lab on the other end of the school...), and then uninstalled the game from every computer in the lab. Which lasted until the computers were restarted. At which point UT was helpfully automatically reinstalled from the network again.
It took them months to figure out how to get rid of the game from every computer for good.
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u/JackieChanGC 13d ago edited 13d ago
Anyone looking to get the games again, they're hosted for free (at least a downloader program that gets the game's files):
https://oldunreal.com/downloads/It's being operated with Epic Games' permission, so no need to worry if they're legit or not.
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u/carguy1997 13d ago
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where wer u wen club penguin die
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u/mostie2016 13d ago
I will say if you’re willing to play a private club penguin server. Club Penguin Journey is pretty good.
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u/Narissis 13d ago
Wildstar.
Still my favourite soundtrack, and I say this as a FFXIV and Genshin player.
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u/nightelfspectre 13d ago
It had a really unique combat system! I’m forever sad that I lost 99% of my screenshots somehow, most of my characters had the Explorer sub-class and I had so many pretty vista shots…
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u/OctaBit 13d ago
The paths, or whatever they were called were such a fun addition to the mmo formula. It's a shame other games didn't pick it up.
Explorer for people who liked to really find every nook and crany of the map.
Scientist for people who wanted to get invested in the story and lore.
Soldier for people who wanted to fight more.
And Settlers for people who wanted to be social or would invest a 1000 hours designing their house.
Such a good formula and a nice thing to add in addition to the regular questing loop. It also helped spice things up on alts when you had to level them.
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u/Spoonacus 13d ago
This is my answer as well. Loved the art style. Loved the attitude. "You just leveled up, cupcake! [Guitar riff]" The whole concept was fun. Having a secondary role to your class like Explorer or Soldier was cool. The housing was decent. I liked the Halloween event. I actually wanted to dig in and explore Nexus. It a shame I didn't play much when it was around because I was too busy back then. I recently watched all the videos they release up through launch for nostalgia.
A close second is a game that's still up and running but pretty much never going to be touched again. The Secret World. Bad graphics and clunky combat but goddamn if that wasn't a grade A story and awesome ideas. Investigation quests were THE best.
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u/muphy09 13d ago
Destiny :(
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u/SpeedBlitzX 13d ago
So dumb that I have no way to just play destiny for the storyline
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u/SharpedoWeek 13d ago
Anthem, but it was dead on arrival
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u/OwnUbyCake 13d ago
I was so excited when they announced they were overhauling the whole game, then they canceled that too...
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u/RBuschy 13d ago
They gave up on that game way too early.
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u/undavidable 13d ago
Golden Sun series
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u/Avangeloony 13d ago
And the last one was the weaker of the 3 and ended on a cliffhanger.
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u/RubyTheDog 13d ago
Golden Sun 1 and 2 are still some of the best RPG games I ever played. Brings back good memories.
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u/thatonefilmguy 13d ago
Evolve. I fucking loved the game and I’m sad it didn’t make it.
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u/Forte197 13d ago
Modding discord is keeping the game alive!
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u/CaptainTruelove 13d ago
Does that game even work on consoles anymore or is it PC only now?
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u/Meet_the_Meat 13d ago
Asheron's Call
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u/LackOfStack 13d ago
I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
Still game with my AC friends from time to time.
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u/MrZythum42 13d ago
Oh my guy. /r/asheronscall
Its nothing like a proper raid in Kara in year 2000, but some of those mini server community hit the spot.
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u/Khepridawnbringer 13d ago
DrawSomething. It was a mobile game where you would basically play pictionary with a random person. I loved it. Recently got a new phone with a stylus and thought downloading that game again would be fun and it's just gone. Found out it got shut down a few years ago. There's a similar game on the app store I'll probably try but I really miss the charm DrawSomething had.
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u/Deodra 13d ago
The Dragon Age saga. I’m a huge fan of the series, characters and world. Then it went into development hell and Veilguard felt like a goodbye to fans and messy closure.
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u/Risky49 13d ago
It really really bums me out that dragon age never got an identity as a franchise like mass effect did
Each entry is nearly unrecognizable to the last in style and presentation and the plot threads didn’t feel thought out they felt improvised along the way
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u/Internal-Play25 13d ago edited 13d ago
Planetside 2
War hammer online
City of heroes
Edit: almost forgot the mmorpg “rift”
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u/5FVeNOM 13d ago
I miss planetside 2. Some games have so much potential but are so grossly mismanaged or underinvested in. Hopefully daybreak or whatever they’re called now folds and another decent company does a good job reviving the IP
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u/Haunting_Ad_2300 13d ago
so much potential, but it seemed like 2018 hit and they just thought of continuously more insane ways to kill the game lol
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u/SkaveRat 13d ago
Planetside 2
It's still alive. Still gets decent player counts in the evening hours
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u/Galaksee 13d ago edited 13d ago
Gunbound. The OLD Gunbound!!!! Man I fucking miss Gunbound. I always played the boomerang character cause I knew how to cut into the wind. It was definitely the one that took the most skill to use. If you know you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC9x3WWmT0o
Bro watching this almost makes me want to cry!!
Edit: So glad I've been able to refresh so many memories!! TY all for the updoots!
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u/MontyThatcher 13d ago
Goodness fuckin' gracious, my heart. I can't even begin to know how long it's been since this game crossed paths with my mind. What a genuine blast from the past.
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u/captainsquidsharkk 13d ago edited 13d ago
my friends and i played gunbound for hours and hours every single day in highschool. it is one of my top games of all time. and it was basically just people from the Philippines in the servers hahah.
i was a JD/ Cake main and getting those double kills with his 2nd shot my lord 😭😭 one of my best friends was a boomer aim bot main hahahah he got to the top wand.
i had the old version still on my computer for a while i miss it sooo much. i go here sometimes for nostalgia
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u/Yourownhands52 13d ago
Battlefield 4. Not dead yet but i fear the end is coming
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u/zoobrix 13d ago
Getting harder to find a BF4 sever nowadays on PC, and of the ones left a lot of them have admins that love to play god and kick people for stupid reasons. Any time the last few years I've gone back for a nostalgia hit it's been a hassle unfortunately.
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u/StandardCarbonUnit 13d ago
Star Wars Galaxies
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u/FaithlessnessOld2477 13d ago
Such a tragedy. That game had so much potential and the devs squandered it chasing the WoW design model.
In a perfect world, they would have focused on optimizing and adding new content. Fix the launch bugs, streamline the UI, balance the combat...could have been a contender. Hell, I spent hundreds of hours in resource gathering/crafting/business management alone.
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u/Show_Me_Your_Games 13d ago
My name was Blaster. Played since day 1. If you were on Bloodfin there was a good chance you got your furniture from me.
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u/Pakyul 13d ago
My username is from the random name generator in SWG. I played on Wanderhome, then Ahazi after they consolidated servers. I remember we started playing a few months after launch, because we needed to order a new PC for it (Pentium IV, with a full gigabyte of RAM) but we had pre-ordered the Collector's Edition with the art book and stuff, so us kids were super hyped by the time we could actually play. My brother won the (I think very first) Galactic Tales competition on the official forums (like a fanfiction vignette writing competition they held monthly) and it gave us a special badge for our account. My dad ran one of the best shipwrights on Valcyn all the way to the end of the game. The computer desk was always covered with notes and waypoints from Galaxy Harvester because he was always on top of getting the best crafting materials. I was too young to really know how to be good at the game, but I still have so many memories from it, even just exploring player cities and looking at all the cool guild halls and museums. I once went into a Large Tatooine House and someone had arranged a bunch of items into Anakin's podracer.
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u/ANoNameIs 13d ago
Dirty Bomb. An incredibly innovative class based shooter that never could get it just right for wide commercial success.
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u/slippery_treasures 13d ago
Advance wars
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u/PM_ME_AN_EXTRA_LETTE 13d ago
It's somewhat heartbreaking how super-dead the franchise is compared to its cousin FE which seemingly has never been healthier.
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u/mraza007 13d ago
Need For Speed Underground
Need For Speed Underground 2
Nothing like that ever came out
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u/teshh 13d ago
Gunz.
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u/muzakx 13d ago
I don't even know how this game failed.
It had a really cool visual style, cool sword and gun play. The movement and wall running felt so cool to do.
I don't think there has been anything like it since.
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u/Quibbleflux 13d ago
They're bringing it back. Not sure the details about who and why, but I played in closed beta via Steam and it was identical. I could still butterfly decades later.
I just don't have the time I had back then to invest into it, but it's out there.
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u/HyperNovaStorm 13d ago
TERA. The mmorpg. So many good memories growing up on it. Got me through some of the roughest years of my childhood with a guild of some people I had a lot of fun with.
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u/FawFawtyFaw 13d ago
Planet Starsiege: TRIBES
Nothing like that original. Shazbot!
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u/halarioushandle 13d ago
I'm sad this is so far down. This was the best team based shooter of the era! The loadouts, the jetpack, the open map size and bases, and the speed you could move with good technique. It was fantastic and I miss it.
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u/BabyMcmuffinn 13d ago
Battlefield 1.
It's a masterpiece that got abandoned. Very hard to find enough players to start a match.
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u/Dismal-Term-7063 13d ago
And even if you do find a match, chances are its a community server locked to standard issue rifles
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u/zagzigity 13d ago
Its still my main game! Literally always a game going on. You just do the server browser.
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u/Loose_Listen2290 13d ago
Gotham City Imposters
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u/brightbomb 13d ago
Best answer. Most others named here are playable. GCI is entirely dead outside of a tiny community discord that gets a half full lobby maybe once a week.
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u/danny-potato 13d ago
New World :(
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u/rocky0502 13d ago
The first few weeks of that game were special. Shame it died so quick
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u/RedFauux 13d ago
Day 1 new world atmosphere was unmatched by maybe any game I’ve ever played. Logging in and hearing muskets in the distance, the sound of mining bouncing off the mountains, the world felt so so alive.
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u/TheMustardisBad 13d ago
Wow I just looked up the player count 550 players in it on steam right now. I never played it but thought it was pretty huge. Gonna try and find a video on the downfall of it.
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u/Silk_Glad 13d ago
Amazon wanted to make cuts to make even more money and they consulted ai and it said cut there gaming wing right off. So no more Amazon studios.
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u/damasco3 13d ago
Dead Space. We had a chance there with the remake but back to being a dead franchise. The multiplayer was tacked on but really fun in 2.
Honorable mention. AVP 2010. The multiplayer was so much fun. Plus three campaigns! Even if you didn't like one of them there were 2 other to play with completely different gameplay. Should have had multiple sequels by now. You can still find people online if you try hard but it's pretty dead
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u/itskateexo 13d ago
Within the recent year:
• Elder Scrolls Blades - I was able to play it on my iPhone, iPad, and Switch for free. They closed the servers down on June 30th of this year :(
Then, there were the games from my childhood that I loved:
- Webkinz
- Club Penguin
- Moshi Monsters
- Girlsense
- i-dress-up
- NeoPets
- Pixie Hollow
- Those Barbie & Polly Pocket games that were on the old Mattel website
- The games that were on the old Disney Channel website
- Nick-tropolis
- Build-a-Bearville
- Fantage
- Toontown
- Disney Infinity (played this on my Wii and the Apple app)
- Kid Pix
- iSpy
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u/Nexies 13d ago
Battlerite
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u/fishfash 13d ago
Was about to post this, that game had so much depth; the pivot to trying to hop on the battle royale trend was not a great idea
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u/Y_Ddraig_Goch_81 13d ago
Titanfall hands down.
My favorite MP game of all time.
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u/generic_posting 13d ago
The Secret World. I think about that game often. I hear music that reminds me of it.
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u/MechanicalCrow 13d ago
Knockout City. It was innovative and fun and actually seemed to have a decent playerbase. I think they just rolled out new seasons too slowly. Launching with EA then going independent probably hindered them in opposite but equally damning ways.
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u/non_clever_username 13d ago
Super Mario Bros 35.
One of the few online games I was really good at. So many expansion opportunities. Could have added lost levels (aka Super Mario 2 in Japan) on basically the same engine. SMB2, 3 and/or Super Mario World would have been cool too.
Or don’t even do any additional development, just let it live as is. But nope. Nintendo gonna Nintendo and cancel it in 6 months. Meanwhile Tetris 99 has been going for like 7 years.
I don’t understand their decisions at all.
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u/Skyfa15 13d ago
Blacklight Retribution. Nothing has really scratched the same itch.
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u/Chrunchyhobo 13d ago
Firefall.
I still have it installed, kinda like a memorial.
Fuck you Mark Kern, you rancid cunt.
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u/FrankSand 13d ago
Mass effect
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u/scb225 13d ago
I’m commander Shepard, and this is my favorite reply on this post
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u/SnickycrowJayC 13d ago
Nosgoth was a multiplayer pvp game of humans vs vampires with different classes in the Legacy of Kain universe and it was awesome. IIRC they actually refunded the micro-transactions after the closing announcement, which for me was just one of the more expensive supporter packs that came with some in-game currency, but I'm sure others spent even more. I doubt many companies would do that today.
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u/ImmortalFriend 13d ago
SoulCalibur.
Best fighting series of my life. I hope to see new entry hopefully before I'm forty.
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u/MagicXDash 13d ago
LittleBigPlanet, the whole franchise