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Not all licensed games are created equal, some of them are accurate to their source material, others barely resemble them.

These video game villains should've lived to slay another day.

The games without which these ACTUALLY BETTER games wouldn't have been possible.

Spanning unnecessary Alchemy in Baldur's Gate 3 to Assassin's Creed Valhalla's useless social stealth, these are more pointless game mechanics nobody used.

No matter how closely you watch the games industry, there's always something that suddenly blows up and makes you ask "wait, what is this and why does everyone love it?!".

These games love kicking you while you're down.

These characters got assassinated with extreme, infuriating prejudice.

All it takes is one simple choice to doom a franchise. So many classic video games are dead and buried because their publishers made the wrong one, from Ghost Recon to Star Fox.

These games crawled from the depths of development hell and astounded us all.