10 Video Games That Got A Second Chance And FAILED

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're taking a look at 10 games that gave their IPs a shot

00:11at redemption, only to crash and burn harder than before.

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00:29Medal of Honor

00:39By 2010, Call of Duty was dominating not just online gaming, but every video game scene.

00:46People just could not get enough of Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2.

00:51EA was already trying to get a slice of the pie with Battlefield, but maybe it could get

00:56away with double dipping through a new Medal of Honor game?

00:59It could be a chance to revive the IP.

01:04Alas, nope.

01:10Medal of Honor wasn't the worst game that launched in 2010, but it was definitely lacking

01:14in quality.

01:15Why settle for a game that ran at a subpar level and wasn't visually impressive when

01:20you could be playing Modern Warfare 2?

01:22Again, it isn't a horrible game, but Medal of Honor needed to match COD before making

01:28a proper comeback.

01:37Disney Infinity 3.0

01:48Skylanders dominated the toys-to-life scene for so long while LEGO Dimensions was shut

01:52down after two years of toys.

01:56Infinity, well, it floundered every step of the way after the first game.

02:01Not only did users have to keep buying new waves of figures and power discs, they were

02:05also expected to pay for each new iteration of the game.

02:09After two years, things were just getting too costly for players, publisher Disney Interactive

02:14Studios and its manufacturing partners.

02:25Despite strong sales, maintaining Disney Infinity with content and server support was

02:30most likely getting too expensive for Disney to keep going, and so the 3.0 version was

02:36the last version.

02:37Now developer Avalanche Software is making bank with one of Disney's competitors through

02:42Hogwarts Legacy.

02:49Evolve.

02:57We could go on about the awful marketing and demand for pre-orders that came before Evolve

03:02even showed gameplay, but the real problem behind Evolve, the thing that really killed

03:07it was its poor balance.

03:09Every game was a sweat fest for both sides.

03:13You either got bullied as the monster, or you got trampled as the hunters.

03:17It just wasn't fun.

03:27There was an attempt to wrangle in more players in 2018 though.

03:31Evolve adopted a free-to-play model, but by this point, it was too little too late.

03:36The transition happened when Fortnite was poppin', and many had already forgotten

03:40about Evolve by the time 2K and developer Turtle Rock Studios announced that the game

03:45was shutting down.

03:56Alone in the Dark.

04:08Alone in the Dark has had several chances to make a comeback.

04:12The new Nightmare was nothing remarkable, nothing offensive, but nothing worth writing

04:16home about.

04:17The 2008 reboot was a disaster in its story, visuals, and gameplay.

04:23Then we had the equally atrocious 2015 game Alone in the Dark Illumination.

04:28And what about this new reboot, the 2024 iteration published by THQ Nordic?

04:33How is this fourth opportunity to make a comeback?

04:36It's nothing special, and it's certainly not too great either.

04:48The controls are a bit wonky, and the story is just not interesting despite the use of

04:53dual protagonists, and frankly, it's pretty damn messy.

04:57I have no idea what was going on in my time with the game.

05:00And wouldn't you know it, the developers shut down merely three months after the game

05:05launched.

05:06Mainly because of poor sales.

05:08Who knows if we'll ever see Alone in the Dark back in the limelight.

05:11We're not holding our breath.

05:12There's something cursed about this franchise, man.

05:26Shenmue III.

05:36One of the biggest complaints Shenmue fans had was that the second game left much of

05:40the story unresolved.

05:42However, because of how expensive it was to produce the games, Sega had no financial incentive

05:48to continue the story.

05:49Fans begged for at least one more game to properly bring Ryo's story to a close.

05:55Yu Suzuki had that chance when Shenmue III's Kickstarter launched in 2015.

06:01Four years later, the game launches, and it does nothing the fans wanted it to.

06:14If anything, Shenmue III created even more loose ends and left those untied.

06:20Even more infuriating was when Suzuki remarked about how he saw Shenmue going on for even

06:27more games.

06:28So after Shenmue II, we waited 14 years for a proper sequel to properly close out the

06:35story, only to get no progression, no ending, not even evolution and some gameplay.

06:42Great.

06:43I'll save it for later.

06:45Saints Row.

06:46Okay, so we got the name, we got the home base, we got the logo.

06:51So that means next step is to find people that can shoot guns?

06:54No.

06:55Though it didn't spend as long of a time being dormant as Shenmue did, Saints Row's

07:00return was just as upsetting.

07:02Some fans wanted the same crazy superpower nonsense we got in Saints Row IV, while others

07:07wanted the gritty GTA clones we got in the first two games.

07:11Neither fanbase was satisfied with the 2022 reboot.

07:23Saints Row had the humor of a tween boy discovering profanity for the first time, the writing

07:28of a lackluster Netflix comedy, and the gameplay of your average effortless open world game.

07:33There isn't much else here outside of the admittedly flexible character creator.

07:46Battleborn.

07:47Oh, poor Battleborn never stood a chance when it was launching so close to Blizzard's

07:59Overwatch despite being a MOBA with a PvE campaign.

08:04And it was a story campaign too, Blizzard.

08:07Sadly, so many wrongfully dismissed the game as a clone of Overwatch.

08:12Players and player count were so low that Gearbox wound up making a drastic shift to

08:16a free-to-play model despite once saying the move wasn't even being considered.

08:25Sadly, there was no saving the game.

08:30Battleborn would be removed from sale in November 2019, with its servers closing in January

08:352021.

08:36There is a community effort to get the game's PvE campaign available as an offline mode,

08:42but its functionality is super limited.

08:52Guitar Hero.

09:01Guitar Hero was once a thriving franchise, but quickly wore out its audience when Activision

09:06head developer Neversoft start belting out games every few months.

09:10The late 2000's were loaded with Guitar Hero handheld games, spinoffs focusing on

09:15specific bands, and more.

09:18Folks got fatigued, and so they stopped buying, and so Guitar Hero went away.

09:23Activision did try reviving the IP in 2015 with a new game and a new guitar controller,

09:29but audiences just weren't biting.

09:32Not when the game and controller were more expensive, and the controls were more complicated.

09:44Executives at both Xbox and Activision have expressed interest in giving the IP a third

09:49shot, but if the 2015 reboot couldn't find an audience, who would buy this one?

09:54It doesn't help that Fortnite now has its own Guitar Hero game mode, and it's surprisingly

09:59pretty solid.

10:05Overwatch 2.

10:08Oh, what do you know, Overwatch suffered a painful death too?

10:16Yeah, and it was by its own developer.

10:19In 2020, Blizzard dropped the last playable character, and announced that they were done

10:25updating the game with new characters and maps.

10:28Late when live service games were finding new audiences.

10:32Support ceased as the team aimed to finish development on Overwatch 2, but man, what

10:36a massive mistake that turned out to be.

10:39Activision Blizzard forced players to transition over to the sequel by shutting down every

10:43piece, every aspect of the original game.

10:55With nowhere else to go, fans had no choice but to see what all the hullabaloo was in

11:01Overwatch 2, only to find that the only new things here were a more boring UI, and maps

11:08that took place at different times of the day.

11:11Ooh, a shifted light source, how wonderful.

11:15Sure, thousands are still playing the game today, but we all know that more fans were

11:20burned enough to outright leave, yours truly being one of them.

11:32Marvel's Avengers.

11:42Through a few expansions, several updates, and even the removal of microtransactions,

11:47Marvel's Avengers had so many opportunities to make things right with players, and yet

11:52it didn't.

11:53Because it couldn't.

11:54With a lackluster story, boring gameplay, overly simplistic combat, and an annoying

11:59focus on gear and power levels, Avengers turned out to be a complete waste of everybody's

12:07time.

12:15Upon suffering a $60 million loss, Square Enix had no choice but to sell off developer

12:21Crystal Dynamics over to Embracer Group and go through a major corporate restructure to

12:26save itself.

12:27Marvel's Avengers received its final update in March 2023, before its servers were unplugged

12:34in September 2023.

12:42Which video game do you think failed at reviving itself?

12:45Did it make our list?

12:47Let us know down in the comments, and be sure to subscribe to Mojo Plays for more great

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