Top 10 Video Game Things That DIED In 2018
2018 was a great year for gaming but it also saw some casualties hi folks its Falcon and today we will talking about Top 10 video game things that died in 2018.
10-Miitomo
Number 10 is miitomo remember miitomo the first Nintendo app it was kind of a game that was kind of a social network it was really oriented around logging in every single day to get some coins I thought it was kind of cool in some respects but in others I really thought it was a big waste of time and I think that those are ultimately the things it's sort of won out because they didn't really develop a lot further beyond the initial premise and that's my overall issue with it I would guess that it's probably a similar issue to what a lot of other people have had with it honestly did you play Fire Emblem heroes on smartphone it's actually good I would much rather see the effort put in those directions and I think that's kind of why they're shutting down miitomo so well some people might miss it I probably won't.
9-Final Fantasy
Number 9 is pretty much the rest of Final Fantasy 15s remaining DLC now this is unfortunate because the reason it happened is the director of Final Fantasy 15 Tetsuya Nomura left Square Enix which is unfortunate and it also exposes some of the bigger problems of releasing a game not as a finished work but rather as a pseudo platform for more content if you think about that it actually makes games feel very weird in games going back as far as like fallout 3 where the real ending was paid DLC imagine if between the game and that ending the director quit or retired or something the vision for the game would be severely compromised with Final Fantasy 15 it was to the point where they thought canceling a bunch of DLC they would have made a bot load of money off of whether it was good or not so it's potentially a pretty severe problem and I think this is something we should be thinking about more that maybe we wouldn't have spent any attention on if this hadn't happened.
8-boss key
Number 8 is boss key Studios Cliff Bleszinski x' project they built lawbreakers which was an online game a shooter along lines of overwatch and they spent a lot of money on it it basically made it impossible for the studio to go anywhere specifically because of this and as a creative side project that came up with the battle royale game radical Heights which I'll take them at their word about it being a creative side project but to me it does seem like it could just as easily be kind of a last-ditch effort at scoring a hit which they kind of put out in zero hour and Wow it was it wasn't good enough it was fairly buggy and although it looked cool and had a definite identity it wasn't enough.
7-Emuparadise
Nintendo decided hey ROM sites that's going to be no more websites that archive and store roms or basically what you need to download to play old games on emulators has gotten quite sue-happy shutting down these ROM sites entirely now for the purposes of archival of games this is very bad most of the games on these sites are not available in any other form there are certainly the big hits that show up on various Nintendo services although let's just say the current crop on the switch online service is so limited and frankly in my opinion not that great at all but it's not just what games can I play today it's how do we have these games 50 years in the future do they just cease to exist and that's a question that we're having to think about a lot more now in 2018 thanks Nintendo.
6-Paragon
Old paragon got shut down because you know fortnight is much bigger than Paragon, Paragon Epic Games MOBA didn't meet growth expectations and it was actually a while back they shifted their resources towards working on fortnight actually happening somewhere in 2017 but early this year they shut it down and moved all of the employees working on it to fortnight because that's how business works.
5-runescape
Very similar to number six runescape classic which was at the time of its closure not even actually really supported at all by employees of the company that owned and maintained runescape which has like a bunch of different versions of runescape going so it's not like runescape is actually gone just that particular iteration runescape classic is if you want that kind of runescape you can go into old school runescape which is apparently almost the same I don't know it's been a very long time since I've been particularly into that but they've found a lot of success with the mobile port of old school runescape which is very interesting still runescape classic after 17 years of operation being shut down is a bit of a landmark and it does bring up some memories.
4-Evolve stage 2
Number four is evolved the servers for evolved the four on one asymmetrical monster hunting extravaganza that I think everybody knew within a short time of its existence was probably goimg to shut down in fact it's possible that it lasted a little bit longer than some of us expected due to the stage two sort of quote-unquote reboot that didn't fix enough of the problems you'll still be able to play the game peer-to-peer but I mean that means that you need to know several people who want to play the game which it's evolved it was a really cool idea but it really didn't pan out so I don't think anybody's surprised I do think that it kind of sucks that it didn't turn out to be as cool as it sounded but that's what happened.
3-Wildstar
Number three is wildstar an MMORPG that a lot of people actually liked quite a bit no it's not necessarily because there weren't enough people playing the game but the business model perhaps just wasn't enough to sustain cuz this was a game that people did actually like and did have a pretty big community built around it but ncsoft to people who owned carbide studios the developers of wildstar eventually had to lay off a bunch of employees and when you lay off employees from an mm oh and online content platform it's not a good sign it sucks has it really aren't a lot of sci-fi MMOs and it was a pretty well liked game like I said.
2-Club Penguin
Number two is Club Penguin yes we know that Club Penguin shut down in 2017 but Disney attempted to revive Club Penguin on mobile as Club Penguin Island they also had a cheaper subscription price on the mobile platform and it didn't work out unfortunately Disney has closed Club Penguin Island closing the entirety of Club Penguin for good there are private servers it's still possible to play the game but it's not official this was the last bastion of the official Club Penguin.
1-telltale games
And finally number one is, of course, telltale games this one hit a lot of people hard because it's happened for a lot of reasons some of them being slow declines in sales that maybe could have been sustained with better management part of it is that management's interactions with the employees which were reportedly less than good and they turned over the development to the third season to a different developer and apparently have filed know that they're not going to exist anymore that's pretty much it for a while they maintained they weren't going to shut down but I think everybody kind of saw through that which means we're never going to see the stranger things cam which kind of sucks cuz I think stranger things was a really good choice for that kind of game and the wolf among us season two isn't going to happen on top of that it really sucks for all of the people who were very invested in trying to bring the company back to its former greatness a lot of developers that work there were really dead set on that and unfortunately those people ended up without jobs which sucks and a few bonus dead things for you prima games the video games strategy guide maker announced that they'll be closing their doors and obviously that means the end of a pretty long tradition in video games the prima games strategy guide next is the steam machine which was very quietly killed off valve and did relationships with hardware partners I mean you could still, in theory, build a steam machine but it's kind of like a project that's a bit over hey valve makes some games please YouTube gaming ended as a standalone thing it is now fully integrated into YouTube finally steam link died off at least the hardware steam link was a means to play steam games on your TV it was pretty cool I mean you'll still be able to use steam in-home streaming and I'm pretty sure you'll be able to use the hardware itself still but what was actually a pretty innovative way of PC gaming on the TV it's dead now kind of a depressing video actually Some of these things were quite good some of them weren't of course but it's really up to you which is which.
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