I love how Kim Belair and SBI have literally been caught on Twitter, in person at speaking events, and even on their own website saying EXACTLY what their malicious plans for the gaming industry are. But all of a sudden now that the proverbial kitchen light has been flipped on, all the SBI roaches are scattering to hide while screeching that it's all lies and they're being "harassed." It would be hilarious if it wasn't all so depressing.
imagine the levels of spite and pettiness required to dedicate your entire career to making videogames worse lol this is what happens when privileged people are convinced they're oppressed
The moment I heard that guy from Insomniac say something along the lines of 'People didn't like the MJ missions from the first game so we inserted them into the second game anyway' I knew I wasn't spending any of my money on their slop going forward. The sheer arrogance of these people is mind boggling.
I have the full oppourtunity to play that game due to family for free. Even with the case I free I don't want to. I also have the chance to play GoWR for free, but listening to the accents and dialogue of the Nordic Gods, oof! They sound like cingey current day people. We friends and family share on PS.
@@MrHero17 Well I'm sure you know but The Ghost franchise is going the same way unfortunately so you can cross that off your list....almost like it was by design 🙄
You forgot it's absolutely none of these people's fault except the consumers. For the past DECADE STRAIGHT nobody told you to keep buying more and more of this trash. You voted for all of this with your wallets
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@@Jack-np6db I don't think it is that straightforward. AAA games started this and in the beginning it was cringe but tolerable, so everyone kept buying. It's always a compromise. But they started getting bolder and you know the "toad in hot water" trope. I just hope the current reaction to this insanity keeps the moment.
@@luckyrockmore2796spiderman: by who? Doc Ock? Norman Osborn? The government? Random guy: No... The goddamn people who hate my opinions of my orientation
Factoring mobile games into annual gaming revenue is like adding porn numbers into Hollywood's annual take. People don't play mobile games or watch porn for the same reason they play actual games or watch actual films.
hey! this video was performing well. Don't summon the algo shields to smite me!! They're like Voldemort, speaking their names summons their death eaters.
Larry Fink sold his soul, for money and power. His whole mantra of having to force behavior changes, couldn't be further from the truth, and he knows this. He developed a culture war, so no one pays attention to what Blackrock is actually doing. The sad thing is, both sides are following along with his plan. Larry Fink = Emperor Palatine.
You forgot it's absolutely none of these people's fault except THE CONSUMERS'. For the past DECADE STRAIGHT nobody told you to keep buying more and more of this trash. You voted for all of this with your wallets. Buggy games, micro-transaction games, multiplayer trash, mediocre AAA, Skyrim for the 5th time! Gamers are just the worthless demographic of people with no discipline or self control because they NEED their escapism fix, no matter how trash it is. You created this world. You voted for it with your wallets for over 10 years
Thank goodness someone called out how they misrepresent NY in Spideman. I’m from Harlem myself and playing Miles game just pissed me the hell off, just the most gentrified, milk toast, baby safe version of Harlem I’ve ever seen. No swagger at all, and it’s funny that they had “consultants” and still got it wrong, they had spiderverse 1 as reference and still got it wrong.
@@damiyuhh8208 he has the swagger of a black twelve year old girl from the suburbs. Definitely not the swag from Harlem. Spiderverse 1 struck the right balance for miles.
"Video games are products". And "gamers"/"fans" are customers. Are you listening yet gaming industry???? You are not entitled to their money! You must earn it!
Spider man 2, GoW Ragnorak and Alan Wake were all sneaky Trojans. Many gamers didn’t know what was quite happening yet. They just knew it felt “off” and figured it was just them. In hindsight it makes sense.
this "We tell you what you want" mindset is not just in media. Recently got an ad (which are already annoying on its own) that littereally started with "GET THIS APP!" not "our app can do this" or "if you so and so". Nope it was "GET THIS APP!" like some sort of command. It's like the movie "They live" just that the aliens don't even bother to disguise the "Obey" and "consume" sign.
Why do people have any kind of trust or faith in these companies and their horrible executives, incompetent devs and toxic community managers? They can all take a hike and leave our hobby alone.
TGA is shameful now. I don't even watch it anymore. I just wait for sonebody to make a video about everything that was revealed since that's pretty much all i care about.
i have said and will continue to say, they messed up the moment that the corporations thought it would be best to go online with games. they should have kept making all the games offline and do what they knew the fans liked and would definitely play
I disagree strongly. They need to back to the formula of singleplayer, multiplayer pvp and co op pve. So many games had those 3 modes back in the day. But because everyone became so focused on graphics that they can barely make anything in the game move without it costing a fuck ton of money. Now games can barely offer one of these save for a few outliers
@@simon-peterwilliamson2412 and most games have those and are played by one single person at home. they don't all have people to call friends over to always play games with. if they made more single player games with no damn internet, they would make more money
I’m not exactly sure how I found your channel but I’m glad I did, and I hope you become successful, on this platform or whatever platform or industry you find yourself in. Godspeed, friend.
It's stupid how people list spiderman 2 as a reason to buy a PS5... it's no wonder Sony is white knuckling Stellar Blade like their life depends on it.
The decision to model Peter after Tom Holland was the first step in stupidity for me. No offense to the stand in model, but he looks barely 20. Whereas the original model (when the first game released) looked like a seasoned Spider Man, who’s long established himself as New York’s hero.
apparently it wasnt to model him after Tom Holland. The old model was really hard to animate for them as it didnt match the face of the voice actor and it took way too long to animate for them cuz of that. I just heard that somewhere though not completely sure, you can find the vid on youtube explaining it
So I'm here taking care of the family after a passing... I can't wait to get out of here! There's nothing redeeming about living here anymore. Quality of life is better the further you are from this city.
You can never forget the Consumer. On every list the consumer should reside. You can't deny that we have not pushed hard enough and continued to give these people our money, while this stuff is going on. We are the major factor for change of the lack there of. I think we are on our way now but would have been easier, earlier. Thanks for all the great content, I'm loving it.
I’m holding that for another video some day. Talking about that fact pisses off a LOT of people, as most people can’t handle that fact. For now, I’ll just try to inform folks to stop buying. That’s a start.
You forgot it's absolutely none of these people's fault except THE CONSUMERS'. For the past DECADE STRAIGHT nobody told you to keep buying more and more of this trash. You voted for all of this with your wallets. Buggy games, micro-transaction games, multiplayer trash, mediocre AAA, Skyrim for the 5th time! Gamers are just the worthless demographic of people with no discipline or self control because they NEED their escapism fix, no matter how trash it is. You created this world. You voted for it with your wallets for over 10 years
@@RealLifeFakeWizard "Talking about that fact pisses off a LOT of people, as most people can’t handle that fact" becuz dumb mindless directionless generalizations dont mean much and have not much actual thought put into those types of statements.
To be fair, good writers don’t write for the masses. They are supposed write from inspiration. It just so happens that modern writers (mostly millennial women if I had to guess) suck and the audience they’re appealing to is vanishingly small.
"The best way to get at these companies that hate you is to stop buying from them" "I have purchased multiple versions of Alan Wake 2 including the collector's addition" Nah I'm just playing around, I'm a collector too so I know how it is. We've all got franchises that we give passes from time to time lol. Just keep in mind the more we give them, the more they take. Great videos! [edited for extra thoughts]
@@RealLifeFakeWizardbeing critical is just part of being a fan, apathy kills franchises. Really like your level-headed no-nonsense style of content btw 👍
my thing with race swapping. is that my Mexican homie isnt going to leave and come back tomorrow ,Black with dreadlocks... thats not how people work.. so when you draw a bisexual black man in a superman outfit and call it Clark Kent , of course im going to reject it.. but because clark kent has been a white man since the 1940s im labeled as a racist for thinking otherwise despite being a hispanic man with a black/white wife and 2 mixed children.
22:50 already do that. I'm getting black myth Wukong now that it has a physical version, getting Stellar blade as soon as I'm able and I can't wait for phantom blade 0.
Disposable income? You mean that thing we used to have before the state-run media told us "inflation is good for us"? Yeah, I don't have $70 to spend on a game that hates me, made by people who hate me, I need to pay for groceries to feed my family. Thanks for the offer, though. It's a great time to have a backlog of old movies, games, and TV shows to work through. Save your money, my friends.
I think you forgot one more category of people who are ruining gaming: The consumers. Or rather consOOmers, who keep consuming the product no matter what. As you say at the end, most of these problems afflicting the industry can VERY EASILY be solved by simply not giving our money to the corpos. However, these specific types of consumers are not capable of doing that. They WILL keep giving the corpos their money, they WILL keep buying every annual sports game that comes out, they WILL keep buying microtransactions, and if you try to tell them to stop, they will simply say "Well, what, am I supposed to just NOT buy the game and be sad forever?" Black Myth Wukong's case is especially alarming for me personally, but that's a case way different than what this video is about.
I would also argue that software pirates fall under this category as well. Sure, they don't pay for the content they steal, but they're still consuming it regardless, giving it attention in the process. If your goal as a corporation is to spread DEI and other Leftist ideologies, then it wouldn't matter to you if you lost sales from piracy (Blackrock & Vanguard will pay for the rest), just that your "message" is spread far and wide. Today's pirate could become tomorrow's useful idiot. The only way that you could tell these corpos that what they're doing will ruin them is to not only buy their slop, but to _not pirate them_ as well. It's a terrific insult. "Your game is so bad it's not even worth pirating." Even Louis Rossman himself concludes his video on piracy with a similar statement. If a pirate is reading this: *No, you're not a rebel for pirating woke slop. No, you have no right to complain about shit you didn't pay for. If anything, you're part of the problem.*
@@jmal Pirates don't contribute to the problem, really. The only ones who would spread leftist ideology are the ones who were already on-board with the whole thing, because it's not just something people get infected with like a memetic hazard of some sort. It's something deliberately taught through universities and employment training courses. Likewise, people opposed to radical leftism can use it to explain how the ideologies work and how to challenge them. But I do really agree with one thing here: Not even pirating media is the ultimate insult to it.
@@KuroNoTenno Yes, they do. Like I said, pirating a work gives it attention. If _Spore,_ the most pirated game in history, were to be released in this day and age, complete with DEI, and still maintain that dubious distinction, it would tell developers that it was a success in terms of delivering its DEI messaging. Thus, it would influence them to create _more_ DEI slop, sales be damned (because again, certain organizations are covering for it). You can complain all you want about stuff you get for free like a choosy beggar, but you can't deny that you played a role in worsening the problem through your desire for free stuff.
The "Why do you care" question? Thing is: That works both ways. "Why do you care that we race-swapped a character?" Just respond with: "Why did you care to race-swap the character in the first place?" It's a misdirect question. It's projection. They're trying to confuse you and blame you. Why *not even answering the initial question*.
This is why I love being an engineer in the industry. I work on the tools and underlying tech for the games. It's a majority functional role. I can't make a shader that caters to a focus group or behaves passive aggressively. We make technology that allows the art form to be pushed to its limits. Now... what people DO with that technology... thats a different story.
22:55 I disagree. The entire reason why games like Concord, Dustborn, etc have completely flopped is because people were vocal about their distaste for the direction the industry is currently heading in. The more vocal we are about it, the more these companies are going to realize why their products aren't selling and start making good games again.
Damn dude you are spot on about writers today. I met a writer recently and I was baffled by his arrogance. Utterly convinced he could get a movie deal, and he called my favorite author a sellout 5 minutes after learning he exists… before reading a sentence of his work. Like dude you write blog posts, calm down.
Modern writing is in a strange state where the fiction is too real, and the reality is too fictional. No one who is in their right mind can relate to most of it.
#6 the final boss that influence the other 5. The ones behind everything being crap. The investors like BlackRock, and Vanguard that are the ones pushing ESG on everything.
Tbf, your “maybe I shouldn’t cut Alan Wake out of more than 50% […] of the Alan Wake sequel” is giving me cold-sweat flashbacks to Metal Gear Solid 2. So even though it’s been done before, it’s never *not* been controversial. The challenge most writers face is in making these types of story decisions narratively meaningful and satisfying. At the same time, even though Kojima’s surprise decision to swap out his lead worked not only as a plot device but was important on a number of different (meta) narrative levels, there’s still a part of me who wishes to have played through the whole campaign as Snake. So even though I don’t resent the decision, it’s still had a lot of work to do to earn my respect-something that a lot today’s stories aren’t getting anywhere close to achieving. Almost like these decisions are being made simply to spite the player and invalidate what they might want to play.
"Journalists are sale people who don't tell you they work at sales" facts I also find it funny IGN gave prey 2017 and Alien Isolation comically low rating even though both are great games.
Hey RLFW, could you please put the audio for your videos out as a podcast? I love to listen while doing other things and podcasts play in the background as opposed to the UA-cam app. Pretty please?
Publishers took gamers out of the equation and are now confused why no one likes what they're selling. It's like going to a restaurant where none or the cooks can smell or taste. Sure they got the recipe but they have no stake in the flavor.
20:54 this! This right here was the Gut Punch for me! Cause it honestly Sucks how Two of my Favorite Franchise titles are basically Halfway-Dead, or on Life support! 😢 CAPCOM’s “Vampire/Darkstalkers” to me is a franchise that feels just like a Zombie Shuffling about. A Landmark Franchise that Not Only Evolved the 2D-Fighting Game experience, but did it with a Very Expressive, Dark, yet comically endearing Cast of Characters that are All Based On Monsters was a Fantastic Idea brought to Life. Too Bad the Series Only Saw 3 games (Two of Which are Canon to the Series itself), plenty of Remastered/Re-released Games! BUT NO OFFICIAL Sequel has Ever Been Seen! We’ve had Manga, Comics, Crossovers, MERCHANDISING UP THE ASS, With Morrigan’s Fine Ass Being Everywhere else Besides her Intended Franchise! I Mean! I Have so Many Ideas I can Sell to Capcom on how to Bring this Fighting Game Franchise Back! But Capcom isn’t Ran by people anymore, it’s ran by Corporate SNOBS! Ad Definitely in Japan, these Asshole CEOs have no Real desire to Bring this Series back from the Hellish drought they put it in! At Least Games like SoulCalibur got a Seventh entry is a damn Miracle! Darkstalker didn’t even GET THAT! It Languished in Limbo Since 1998! And it Kills Me Every DAY that this Series Died so Early! And It Hurts that The Majority Of Fan-favorites are Reduced TO DLC in “Street Fighter”!
I agree with the video I also think we need more games that focus on good characters and good story like stellar blade black myth wukong and rise of the Ronin
Just a reminder that the FTC changed the rules regarding paid promotions largely due to a group of gamers who came together to fight this sort of thing because they were sick of seeing this crap happen where companies paid off so called journalists to give good reviews and screw over consumers.
I think this discussion hit the nail on the head of " just close your wallet till these companies shape up " I know I'm closing up and even sailing the seas when it comes to Nintendo... because I'm not a fan of these fringe rapid fire lawsuits and life wrecking they've been doing to people.
Despite all of Nintendo's flaws, none of them are a hatred of the customers. They might be greedy and a bit too reliant on being independent, but I genuinely believe that they've done more good than harm to games. Look at what they've done with Bayonetta after being abandoned by Sega. Or what they did with Monolithsoft, which created Xenoblade Chronicles and managed to turn the franchise into a potential console seller, not to mention all help they gave with the development of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. They know damn well that they don't bite the hands that feed them.
appeal to triviality is a logical fallacy, call it out and simply dissmiss any further arguments made by whoever used said fallacy on the grounds that if they don't care their oppinions does not matter
For me personally it's just frustrating because I just want a fun game with good characters and an interesting story but that is insanely rare with games that are coming out now currently
Just play the old games, the games you have, until the Modern Audience stuff stops coming. Get a DOSBox and ply the depths of the classics, often available free as abandonware.
theres a laughable amount of good games today, no matter how many doomer delusions you guys tell yourselves. elden ring and balders gate for example, not to mention the insane amount of good indie games. maybe stop playing AAA games from companies like sony and ubi? lol.
Ask yourself this: If Wokeness, Politics and DEI are suddenly taken out and not the priority and passionate devs are put back in. Will it make gaming a better place?
“Sit back and watch them burn” 🔥 amen, I like your thumbnail picture your expression just has this look saying holy shit this is fucked up and I’m all for it lol
Let me get my lawn chair my popcorn my candy and soda and my 3D glasses because I'm about to watch the video game will burn because I know they still haven't learned.
My gaming console is a PS3, the game on PC that I've put the most hours in for the past few months is Morrowind, all of my movies are on DVD or Blu-ray and almost all of them are at least 5 years old, I haven't been to a theater since before Covid and I only buy my music on CDs, I have no gaming subscriptions and the only subscriptions I pay for are Google (because my family couldn't bear to part with UA-cam TV and UA-cam Music) and Amazon (because free 2-day shipping)
I really like that quite some UA-camrs like yourself constantly tell people to vote with their wallet and each vote matters. Reminds me of the 90's. And also it's a great feeling to wake up and know exactly who the "enemy" is. Really gives life perspective 😊✌
The biggest problem is virtue signaling... These are most pampered, privileged people on earth and they hate themselves for it... More than that they hate you... They have no shame
If all this is the case, what do other people who lent their talents to the games think of them, like voice actors? Does Yuri Lowenthal feel ashamed of voicing Peter the way he did in the sequel game? Was Tara Strong disgusted of how Harley said the things and executing Batman in that Suicide Squad mess? If they did, they would voice their feelings on those matters without fear like certain old actors. By now, they haven't, which speaks a lot on where they stand.
I haven't bought a game that been made in the past 5 years. All of my recent game purchases have been older games, I'm currently working on PS2. I do have a modern gaming PC, but ive mainly used it for older games. If you ask me peak gaming was back in the PS3 /Xbox 360 era.
@@RealLifeFakeWizard for sure 👍. Glad I found your channel. It’s nice hearing a well-spoken, intelligent bro… fake wizard to listen to 😄. I appreciate you covering the issues & giving your genuine opinions without fake rage-bait “grifting” or shill-vibes… just honesty. It’s refreshing.
The face model for MJ (Stephanie Tyler Jones) got in an accident and had 17 surgeries to fix her jaw. That's why she looks different. There's nothing "woke" about her SM2 appearance, nor is it a 'self-insert' like most people like to loosely claim. The dev in question (Ash Poprik) accused of being a self-insert was an intern writer that had no influence on modeling.
I preordered spider man 2 because of how much i loved the first one, and I always felt it was a little too over hated. It definitely was a step down, and the homecoming proposal mission was god awful, along with the mj missions, the deaf girl missions, etc. But I always felt it was just okay. But you brought up some really good points, and I gotta agree Spider Man 2 was good in some areas, but overall was a massive let down.
Nothing is more insufferable than these pieces of shit asking "Why do you care?". As though the onus is on YOU to justify why they shouldn't change everything.
Voting with money is the best thing anyone can do. It's genuine, it's fair, and it hits the industry in the face with a brick wall and gives them a nice uncomfy sweat every single night.
New creators on the rise that mimic or have the passion of the Old Original iP we grew up on making something new with fan style content..while the people that have control of the favorable original old iP ruin the content with their own ideas of the original favorite iP s ..instead of Fan service content 😮$$ & Lure $$ Blueprint $$
If I may, can we all agree that the old suits also ruin gaming? They think they know what we want, but they really don't and just want more of that green in their pockets, while we keep getting low effort shit churned at us.
This is what these guys making this type of videos doesn't understand, they think that the underpaid, purple-haired biden voter non-binary character modeler working on their favorite video-game, is the reason why there is this push to inclusivity and "woke" shit on everything, when in reality the ppl forcing this are the suits that couldn't give 2 fucks about minorities but make devs pander to this topic because it makes money. I guarantee that if they were actually getting broke by being woke, there wouldn't be the amount of "woke" media we get nowdays, specially on video-games.
I love how Kim Belair and SBI have literally been caught on Twitter, in person at speaking events, and even on their own website saying EXACTLY what their malicious plans for the gaming industry are. But all of a sudden now that the proverbial kitchen light has been flipped on, all the SBI roaches are scattering to hide while screeching that it's all lies and they're being "harassed."
It would be hilarious if it wasn't all so depressing.
“Oh what the heck! I’ll laugh anyway! Ahahahahahaha!!!!!…”
imagine the levels of spite and pettiness required to dedicate your entire career to making videogames worse lol
this is what happens when privileged people are convinced they're oppressed
@@B1RDSEYE best response ever
The roach and kitchen light example almost killed me lol.
They got caught....their faces are everywhere so good luck to them going out in public
The moment I heard that guy from Insomniac say something along the lines of 'People didn't like the MJ missions from the first game so we inserted them into the second game anyway' I knew I wasn't spending any of my money on their slop going forward.
The sheer arrogance of these people is mind boggling.
I have the full oppourtunity to play that game due to family for free. Even with the case I free I don't want to. I also have the chance to play GoWR for free, but listening to the accents and dialogue of the Nordic Gods, oof! They sound like cingey current day people. We friends and family share on PS.
I wish I had known that sooner!
Why can’t people make more games like Ghost of Tashima or RD2 😭😭🙏
@@MrHero17 Well I'm sure you know but The Ghost franchise is going the same way unfortunately so you can cross that off your list....almost like it was by design 🙄
I remember that, they gave us more MJ missions than Venom missions
You forgot the sixth type of people. The investors. Larry Fink and the likes. Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street. ESG risk scores.
Bruh this video was getting good views! You’re summoning the algo defense squad to suppress the video by posting that! Lol 😂
@@RealLifeFakeWizard sorry, I was spreading it to my friends and I just thought this would be a very important information to include.
Oh you’re 100% on the money. I was joking 😂
You forgot it's absolutely none of these people's fault except the consumers. For the past DECADE STRAIGHT nobody told you to keep buying more and more of this trash. You voted for all of this with your wallets
@@Jack-np6db I don't think it is that straightforward. AAA games started this and in the beginning it was cringe but tolerable, so everyone kept buying. It's always a compromise. But they started getting bolder and you know the "toad in hot water" trope.
I just hope the current reaction to this insanity keeps the moment.
Spider-Man 2 in a nutshell: "Thanks for saving me, Spider-Man. By the way, I'm a homosexual."
What are u talking about they are just being the sweetest baby
........and oppressed!
he should get a new suit and put that one in the trash after helping that gay devil worshiper gay people r devil worshiper being gay is really bad
@@luckyrockmore2796spiderman: by who? Doc Ock? Norman Osborn? The government?
Random guy: No... The goddamn people who hate my opinions of my orientation
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Factoring mobile games into annual gaming revenue is like adding porn numbers into Hollywood's annual take. People don't play mobile games or watch porn for the same reason they play actual games or watch actual films.
You got a damn good point.
That's actually such a great point! 😉👌
Your arse
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why cant they factor that in? i thought the statement is clear and concise... any revenue is revenue no matter the source..
I don't know if that arguments holds water. Mobile video games are in fact actual video games, regardless of the reputation they have.
My top ones: Blackrock, Blackstone, Vanguard, WEF, and the people that buy the slop.
hey! this video was performing well. Don't summon the algo shields to smite me!! They're like Voldemort, speaking their names summons their death eaters.
Don't forget the United States government, the Canadian government, and the European Union, also contributed money into this BS, as well.
Larry Fink sold his soul, for money and power. His whole mantra of having to force behavior changes, couldn't be further from the truth, and he knows this. He developed a culture war, so no one pays attention to what Blackrock is actually doing. The sad thing is, both sides are following along with his plan. Larry Fink = Emperor Palatine.
You forgot it's absolutely none of these people's fault except THE CONSUMERS'. For the past DECADE STRAIGHT nobody told you to keep buying more and more of this trash. You voted for all of this with your wallets. Buggy games, micro-transaction games, multiplayer trash, mediocre AAA, Skyrim for the 5th time! Gamers are just the worthless demographic of people with no discipline or self control because they NEED their escapism fix, no matter how trash it is. You created this world. You voted for it with your wallets for over 10 years
Eat ze bugs you peasants don't ask question just consume.
Thank goodness someone called out how they misrepresent NY in Spideman. I’m from Harlem myself and playing Miles game just pissed me the hell off, just the most gentrified, milk toast, baby safe version of Harlem I’ve ever seen. No swagger at all, and it’s funny that they had “consultants” and still got it wrong, they had spiderverse 1 as reference and still got it wrong.
No swagger? What about his exaggerated swagger of a black teen?
@@damiyuhh8208 he has the swagger of a black twelve year old girl from the suburbs. Definitely not the swag from Harlem. Spiderverse 1 struck the right balance for miles.
"Video games are products". And "gamers"/"fans" are customers. Are you listening yet gaming industry???? You are not entitled to their money! You must earn it!
Spider man 2, GoW Ragnorak and Alan Wake were all sneaky Trojans.
Many gamers didn’t know what was quite happening yet. They just knew it felt “off” and figured it was just them.
In hindsight it makes sense.
Never got into GOW, what did they sneak in? Just asking cos my wife wants to play it
@@Copium5000 Racially and ethnically diverse Norwegian gods IIRC.
@@planescaped oh really? I’ve only seen some clips with Thor and Odin. That’s fuckin stupid
Alan wake 2 sneak an comment about "WhItE pEOplE arE BaD" comment from saga
The giantess should've been a red head, but made her negroid
this "We tell you what you want" mindset is not just in media. Recently got an ad (which are already annoying on its own) that littereally started with "GET THIS APP!" not "our app can do this" or "if you so and so". Nope it was "GET THIS APP!" like some sort of command.
It's like the movie "They live" just that the aliens don't even bother to disguise the "Obey" and "consume" sign.
Why do people have any kind of trust or faith in these companies and their horrible executives, incompetent devs and toxic community managers? They can all take a hike and leave our hobby alone.
I hate Geoff so much not a lot of people realize what he's been doing.
TGA is shameful now. I don't even watch it anymore. I just wait for sonebody to make a video about everything that was revealed since that's pretty much all i care about.
EXACTLY
i have said and will continue to say, they messed up the moment that the corporations thought it would be best to go online with games. they should have kept making all the games offline and do what they knew the fans liked and would definitely play
I think online games have a place, it’s just exploded to the point an “offline” game as an idea is laughed out of a professional studio
Yes, not every game needs to be online, but some games would only work online.
I disagree strongly. They need to back to the formula of singleplayer, multiplayer pvp and co op pve. So many games had those 3 modes back in the day. But because everyone became so focused on graphics that they can barely make anything in the game move without it costing a fuck ton of money. Now games can barely offer one of these save for a few outliers
@@simon-peterwilliamson2412 and most games have those and are played by one single person at home. they don't all have people to call friends over to always play games with. if they made more single player games with no damn internet, they would make more money
I’m not exactly sure how I found your channel but I’m glad I did, and I hope you become successful, on this platform or whatever platform or industry you find yourself in. Godspeed, friend.
Thank you! One video at a time!
It's stupid how people list spiderman 2 as a reason to buy a PS5... it's no wonder Sony is white knuckling Stellar Blade like their life depends on it.
The only way I'd play Spiderman 2 is if it was free, and even then, I would have to think about it.
Your time is more valuable than to give it to the devs who made Spider-Man 2.
I don't care if it was free. I still wouldn't go near that game.
The fact you even have to think about a game like Spider-man 2 even when made *"free"* is saying something.
Agreed
You're missing out, game was wild fun
The decision to model Peter after Tom Holland was the first step in stupidity for me. No offense to the stand in model, but he looks barely 20. Whereas the original model (when the first game released) looked like a seasoned Spider Man, who’s long established himself as New York’s hero.
He's not modeled after Tom Holland you nonce
He was modeled after ben Jordan…
apparently it wasnt to model him after Tom Holland. The old model was really hard to animate for them as it didnt match the face of the voice actor and it took way too long to animate for them cuz of that. I just heard that somewhere though not completely sure, you can find the vid on youtube explaining it
Don't mind me, just playing Donkey Kong Country 2 and watching the world burn.
Fallout 3 + New Vegas mod here.
DKC2 is so awesome. Good for you bro!
Personally I do Gears 3 PC modding, so much fun.
Axiom verge
Working on Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain for the PS1 on my old PS3.
Thank you for your continued videos addressing what everyone is afraid to talk about, you're one of the real ones bro, keep it up
Bro, I am NOT a fan of NY. Laws, politics, prices... dude, there's no benefit of a city
So I'm here taking care of the family after a passing... I can't wait to get out of here! There's nothing redeeming about living here anymore. Quality of life is better the further you are from this city.
Didnt the mayor just get arrested or some shit? Eric Adams yeh?
I believe he was hit with corruption charges, but not arrested yet.
You can never forget the Consumer. On every list the consumer should reside. You can't deny that we have not pushed hard enough and continued to give these people our money, while this stuff is going on. We are the major factor for change of the lack there of. I think we are on our way now but would have been easier, earlier. Thanks for all the great content, I'm loving it.
I’m holding that for another video some day. Talking about that fact pisses off a LOT of people, as most people can’t handle that fact. For now, I’ll just try to inform folks to stop buying. That’s a start.
You forgot it's absolutely none of these people's fault except THE CONSUMERS'. For the past DECADE STRAIGHT nobody told you to keep buying more and more of this trash. You voted for all of this with your wallets. Buggy games, micro-transaction games, multiplayer trash, mediocre AAA, Skyrim for the 5th time! Gamers are just the worthless demographic of people with no discipline or self control because they NEED their escapism fix, no matter how trash it is. You created this world. You voted for it with your wallets for over 10 years
@@RealLifeFakeWizard "Talking about that fact pisses off a LOT of people, as most people can’t handle that fact" becuz dumb mindless directionless generalizations dont mean much and have not much actual thought put into those types of statements.
Mold in their lunchlys is too real😂😂
I figured that would be timely and funny xD
You are the real life real wizard, well done sir. You aren't "getting cancelled" for this video, you are earning our respect for a job well done.
To be fair, good writers don’t write for the masses. They are supposed write from inspiration. It just so happens that modern writers (mostly millennial women if I had to guess) suck and the audience they’re appealing to is vanishingly small.
*millennial “non binary“ women
"The best way to get at these companies that hate you is to stop buying from them"
"I have purchased multiple versions of Alan Wake 2 including the collector's addition"
Nah I'm just playing around, I'm a collector too so I know how it is. We've all got franchises that we give passes from time to time lol. Just keep in mind the more we give them, the more they take. Great videos!
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I like Remedy. I loved Alan Wake 1 and 2, but I’ll also criticize the shit out of it.
I absolutely don’t buy Ubisoft or BioWare anymore tho
@@RealLifeFakeWizardbeing critical is just part of being a fan, apathy kills franchises. Really like your level-headed no-nonsense style of content btw 👍
@@RealLifeFakeWizard you couldve just pirated alan wake 2.
my thing with race swapping.
is that my Mexican homie isnt going to leave and come back tomorrow ,Black with dreadlocks... thats not how people work.. so when you draw a bisexual black man in a superman outfit and call it Clark Kent , of course im going to reject it.. but because clark kent has been a white man since the 1940s im labeled as a racist for thinking otherwise despite being a hispanic man with a black/white wife and 2 mixed children.
22:50 already do that. I'm getting black myth Wukong now that it has a physical version, getting Stellar blade as soon as I'm able and I can't wait for phantom blade 0.
Any update on the physical version of black myth wukong releases ? Thanks
You're gonna take off, Wiz.
Maybe. Idk. We'll see!
Thank you!
@@RealLifeFakeWizardfly you fools😢
Disposable income? You mean that thing we used to have before the state-run media told us "inflation is good for us"? Yeah, I don't have $70 to spend on a game that hates me, made by people who hate me, I need to pay for groceries to feed my family. Thanks for the offer, though.
It's a great time to have a backlog of old movies, games, and TV shows to work through. Save your money, my friends.
I think you forgot one more category of people who are ruining gaming: The consumers. Or rather consOOmers, who keep consuming the product no matter what. As you say at the end, most of these problems afflicting the industry can VERY EASILY be solved by simply not giving our money to the corpos. However, these specific types of consumers are not capable of doing that. They WILL keep giving the corpos their money, they WILL keep buying every annual sports game that comes out, they WILL keep buying microtransactions, and if you try to tell them to stop, they will simply say "Well, what, am I supposed to just NOT buy the game and be sad forever?"
Black Myth Wukong's case is especially alarming for me personally, but that's a case way different than what this video is about.
Oh I didn’t forget it. That’s a whole separate video someday.
I would also argue that software pirates fall under this category as well. Sure, they don't pay for the content they steal, but they're still consuming it regardless, giving it attention in the process. If your goal as a corporation is to spread DEI and other Leftist ideologies, then it wouldn't matter to you if you lost sales from piracy (Blackrock & Vanguard will pay for the rest), just that your "message" is spread far and wide. Today's pirate could become tomorrow's useful idiot.
The only way that you could tell these corpos that what they're doing will ruin them is to not only buy their slop, but to _not pirate them_ as well. It's a terrific insult. "Your game is so bad it's not even worth pirating." Even Louis Rossman himself concludes his video on piracy with a similar statement.
If a pirate is reading this: *No, you're not a rebel for pirating woke slop. No, you have no right to complain about shit you didn't pay for. If anything, you're part of the problem.*
@@RealLifeFakeWizard Well then, I will be looking forward to that.
@@jmal Pirates don't contribute to the problem, really. The only ones who would spread leftist ideology are the ones who were already on-board with the whole thing, because it's not just something people get infected with like a memetic hazard of some sort. It's something deliberately taught through universities and employment training courses. Likewise, people opposed to radical leftism can use it to explain how the ideologies work and how to challenge them.
But I do really agree with one thing here: Not even pirating media is the ultimate insult to it.
@@KuroNoTenno Yes, they do. Like I said, pirating a work gives it attention.
If _Spore,_ the most pirated game in history, were to be released in this day and age, complete with DEI, and still maintain that dubious distinction, it would tell developers that it was a success in terms of delivering its DEI messaging. Thus, it would influence them to create _more_ DEI slop, sales be damned (because again, certain organizations are covering for it).
You can complain all you want about stuff you get for free like a choosy beggar, but you can't deny that you played a role in worsening the problem through your desire for free stuff.
When I heard a mod was removed “replacing the rainbow flag with an American flag “ I knew what time it was .
Excellent video Wiz. Love all your content. Keep it coming my friend.
The "Why do you care" question?
Thing is: That works both ways.
"Why do you care that we race-swapped a character?"
Just respond with: "Why did you care to race-swap the character in the first place?"
It's a misdirect question. It's projection. They're trying to confuse you and blame you. Why *not even answering the initial question*.
This is why I love being an engineer in the industry. I work on the tools and underlying tech for the games.
It's a majority functional role. I can't make a shader that caters to a focus group or behaves passive aggressively.
We make technology that allows the art form to be pushed to its limits. Now... what people DO with that technology... thats a different story.
Based wizard. Glad to of found this channel
22:55 I disagree. The entire reason why games like Concord, Dustborn, etc have completely flopped is because people were vocal about their distaste for the direction the industry is currently heading in. The more vocal we are about it, the more these companies are going to realize why their products aren't selling and start making good games again.
Damn dude you are spot on about writers today. I met a writer recently and I was baffled by his arrogance. Utterly convinced he could get a movie deal, and he called my favorite author a sellout 5 minutes after learning he exists… before reading a sentence of his work. Like dude you write blog posts, calm down.
This channel needs 100k subs TODAY. Great content.
I'm still on the PS3 and Switch :/
Wish I stopped gaming at the 360. Would’ve left on a real high note
@@amarcellus1714WTH are u talking about
@@MichaelBurkhalter glad i stayed since games like elden ring and many other masterpieces exist. silly mindless doomer idiocy doesnt interest me.
You are a legend among gamers, stay with the PS3, and dont sell it for more modern consoles. Seriously, keep it.
@@flamingmanureughh where's your sense of humor?
Lost interest in the spider man game after they changed his face, bring back the older looking Peter
Where’s the channel engagement this man has great takes
Did they replace the marketers with activists too?
As a professional who has been working in the industry as a Marketing Director for ~10 years... no, they've replaced them with absolute morons.
Lmao... Thanks for the insight
Modern writing is in a strange state where the fiction is too real, and the reality is too fictional. No one who is in their right mind can relate to most of it.
Great video Wizard, your videos are always a good way to start the day! ❣
Edit: Don't just cancel Disney Plus, cancel ALL of it, Netflix included lol
Thanks, Shaun!
Love the content! It's so refreshing to hear an informed but reasonable take on what's going on.
#6 the final boss that influence the other 5. The ones behind everything being crap. The investors like BlackRock, and Vanguard that are the ones pushing ESG on everything.
This video is absolute GOLD, thank you i hooe this actually hope this blows up...i miss when game were just fun ❤
If someone tries to cancel you I'll defend you not only are you entertaining but you also inform us of what's happening
Another great video Wiz, keep it up!
Tbf, your “maybe I shouldn’t cut Alan Wake out of more than 50% […] of the Alan Wake sequel” is giving me cold-sweat flashbacks to Metal Gear Solid 2. So even though it’s been done before, it’s never *not* been controversial. The challenge most writers face is in making these types of story decisions narratively meaningful and satisfying. At the same time, even though Kojima’s surprise decision to swap out his lead worked not only as a plot device but was important on a number of different (meta) narrative levels, there’s still a part of me who wishes to have played through the whole campaign as Snake. So even though I don’t resent the decision, it’s still had a lot of work to do to earn my respect-something that a lot today’s stories aren’t getting anywhere close to achieving. Almost like these decisions are being made simply to spite the player and invalidate what they might want to play.
I need to call...Klaus Schwab.
My ESG Score goes down...
dammit
As a writer myself, I agree with your opinion on the state of writing for products today.
"Journalists are sale people who don't tell you they work at sales" facts
I also find it funny IGN gave prey 2017 and Alien Isolation comically low rating even though both are great games.
Hey RLFW, could you please put the audio for your videos out as a podcast? I love to listen while doing other things and podcasts play in the background as opposed to the UA-cam app. Pretty please?
Very needed video thanks
Great video man 🤘🤘
Loved Spider man 1 Hated the 2nd one. Won't be buying a 3rd if its released.
Publishers took gamers out of the equation and are now confused why no one likes what they're selling. It's like going to a restaurant where none or the cooks can smell or taste. Sure they got the recipe but they have no stake in the flavor.
Great video wizard. Keep on wizarding.
That's crazy they should at least make DLC tying up some of the loose ends
20:54 this! This right here was the Gut Punch for me!
Cause it honestly Sucks how Two of my Favorite Franchise titles are basically Halfway-Dead, or on Life support! 😢
CAPCOM’s “Vampire/Darkstalkers” to me is a franchise that feels just like a Zombie Shuffling about. A Landmark Franchise that Not Only Evolved the 2D-Fighting Game experience, but did it with a Very Expressive, Dark, yet comically endearing Cast of Characters that are All Based On Monsters was a Fantastic Idea brought to Life.
Too Bad the Series Only Saw 3 games (Two of Which are Canon to the Series itself), plenty of Remastered/Re-released Games! BUT NO OFFICIAL Sequel has Ever Been Seen!
We’ve had Manga, Comics, Crossovers, MERCHANDISING UP THE ASS, With Morrigan’s Fine Ass Being Everywhere else Besides her Intended Franchise!
I Mean! I Have so Many Ideas I can Sell to Capcom on how to Bring this Fighting Game Franchise Back! But Capcom isn’t Ran by people anymore, it’s ran by Corporate SNOBS! Ad Definitely in Japan, these Asshole CEOs have no Real desire to Bring this Series back from the Hellish drought they put it in!
At Least Games like SoulCalibur got a Seventh entry is a damn Miracle!
Darkstalker didn’t even GET THAT! It Languished in Limbo Since 1998! And it Kills Me Every DAY that this Series Died so Early! And It Hurts that The Majority Of Fan-favorites are Reduced TO DLC in “Street Fighter”!
I’ve been saying since release Spider-Man 2 is a huge step down from its predecessor . Still to this day the game has so many glitches and issues
Your videos are really good man
Thank you 🙏
I agree with the video I also think we need more games that focus on good characters and good story like stellar blade black myth wukong and rise of the Ronin
If number 4 about geoff. Something tells me.its KH related. Well see :).
What's KH
@@XxfieryfirexXKingdom Hearts
Just a reminder that the FTC changed the rules regarding paid promotions largely due to a group of gamers who came together to fight this sort of thing because they were sick of seeing this crap happen where companies paid off so called journalists to give good reviews and screw over consumers.
I think this discussion hit the nail on the head of " just close your wallet till these companies shape up "
I know I'm closing up and even sailing the seas when it comes to Nintendo... because I'm not a fan of these fringe rapid fire lawsuits and life wrecking they've been doing to people.
New Yorker who is not pretending like everythiong is awesome in NY just because they pay absurdly high rent is as rare as game without activism.
Wow, you are brilliant dude. This video is great. Perfectly explained. I feel like i learned a lot, and i laughed a lot 🔥
Thank you bro 💪
The newest god of war game was ruined too imo.
Great video!
superb commentary and analysis.
Nah he cooked in 4k. Liked and subscribed.
Despite all of Nintendo's flaws, none of them are a hatred of the customers. They might be greedy and a bit too reliant on being independent, but I genuinely believe that they've done more good than harm to games. Look at what they've done with Bayonetta after being abandoned by Sega. Or what they did with Monolithsoft, which created Xenoblade Chronicles and managed to turn the franchise into a potential console seller, not to mention all help they gave with the development of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. They know damn well that they don't bite the hands that feed them.
appeal to triviality is a logical fallacy, call it out and simply dissmiss any further arguments made by whoever used said fallacy on the grounds that if they don't care their oppinions does not matter
For me personally it's just frustrating because I just want a fun game with good characters and an interesting story but that is insanely rare with games that are coming out now currently
Good primer video for anyone entering this conversation and is still trying to learn the framework of the industry and what cogs drive which wheels
Just play the old games, the games you have, until the Modern Audience stuff stops coming.
Get a DOSBox and ply the depths of the classics, often available free as abandonware.
That's pretty much what I have been doing for the past 5 years. My gaming PC I built in 2020 has been mainly playing games far older than it.
theres a laughable amount of good games today, no matter how many doomer delusions you guys tell yourselves. elden ring and balders gate for example, not to mention the insane amount of good indie games.
maybe stop playing AAA games from companies like sony and ubi? lol.
Great vid!
Thanks bro 💪
Additionally investment companies and megawhales are two groups of people who have had an disproportionate and negative influence on games.
Hey, I don't want my channel to get nuked from orbit by the algo. I can't get deep into that stuff...
@@RealLifeFakeWizard I am confident you're keen wit and consistent quality content will defeat any digital demon or algo-lich.
Ask yourself this: If Wokeness, Politics and DEI are suddenly taken out and not the priority and passionate devs are put back in.
Will it make gaming a better place?
Maybe. But does parroting rage bait really help?
I hate that act 2 and 3 was so rushed. Im glad i didnt expect dlc after new game plus
The only thing getting cancelled for this video are at least a few more Disney+ Subscriptions
Bro, 1 subscription getting cancelled is like an absolute victory to me. I’ll take it!
“Sit back and watch them burn” 🔥 amen, I like your thumbnail picture your expression just has this look saying holy shit this is fucked up and I’m all for it lol
Let me get my lawn chair my popcorn my candy and soda and my 3D glasses because I'm about to watch the video game will burn because I know they still haven't learned.
My gaming console is a PS3, the game on PC that I've put the most hours in for the past few months is Morrowind, all of my movies are on DVD or Blu-ray and almost all of them are at least 5 years old, I haven't been to a theater since before Covid and I only buy my music on CDs, I have no gaming subscriptions and the only subscriptions I pay for are Google (because my family couldn't bear to part with UA-cam TV and UA-cam Music) and Amazon (because free 2-day shipping)
Wish I could like this video twice. Nothing but facts
Share it if you can! It looks like views are already starting to slow. YT might be kicking me off the homepage lol
Wait, what?! Do you mean that Harlem isn't a happy and fluffy place to live in? 🫵😮🫢🫣
I really like that quite some UA-camrs like yourself constantly tell people to vote with their wallet and each vote matters.
Reminds me of the 90's.
And also it's a great feeling to wake up and know exactly who the "enemy" is. Really gives life perspective 😊✌
I wouldn't even be considered a gamer, but I enjoy watching your thoughtful commentary.
Well, I appreciate you being here!
The biggest problem is virtue signaling... These are most pampered, privileged people on earth and they hate themselves for it... More than that they hate you... They have no shame
If all this is the case, what do other people who lent their talents to the games think of them, like voice actors? Does Yuri Lowenthal feel ashamed of voicing Peter the way he did in the sequel game? Was Tara Strong disgusted of how Harley said the things and executing Batman in that Suicide Squad mess? If they did, they would voice their feelings on those matters without fear like certain old actors. By now, they haven't, which speaks a lot on where they stand.
I haven't bought a game that been made in the past 5 years. All of my recent game purchases have been older games, I'm currently working on PS2. I do have a modern gaming PC, but ive mainly used it for older games. If you ask me peak gaming was back in the PS3 /Xbox 360 era.
Great video.
Thanks, Chris 🙏
@@RealLifeFakeWizard for sure 👍. Glad I found your channel. It’s nice hearing a well-spoken, intelligent bro… fake wizard to listen to 😄. I appreciate you covering the issues & giving your genuine opinions without fake rage-bait “grifting” or shill-vibes… just honesty. It’s refreshing.
The face model for MJ (Stephanie Tyler Jones) got in an accident and had 17 surgeries to fix her jaw. That's why she looks different.
There's nothing "woke" about her SM2 appearance, nor is it a 'self-insert' like most people like to loosely claim.
The dev in question (Ash Poprik) accused of being a self-insert was an intern writer that had no influence on modeling.
I preordered spider man 2 because of how much i loved the first one, and I always felt it was a little too over hated. It definitely was a step down, and the homecoming proposal mission was god awful, along with the mj missions, the deaf girl missions, etc. But I always felt it was just okay. But you brought up some really good points, and I gotta agree Spider Man 2 was good in some areas, but overall was a massive let down.
Nothing is more insufferable than these pieces of shit asking "Why do you care?". As though the onus is on YOU to justify why they shouldn't change everything.
Voting with money is the best thing anyone can do. It's genuine, it's fair, and it hits the industry in the face with a brick wall and gives them a nice uncomfy sweat every single night.
New creators on the rise that mimic or have the passion of the Old Original iP we grew up on making something new with fan style content..while the people that have control of the favorable original old iP ruin the content with their own ideas of the original favorite iP s ..instead of Fan service content 😮$$ & Lure $$ Blueprint $$
You were supposed to be the chosen one, Geoff.
If I may, can we all agree that the old suits also ruin gaming? They think they know what we want, but they really don't and just want more of that green in their pockets, while we keep getting low effort shit churned at us.
This is what these guys making this type of videos doesn't understand, they think that the underpaid, purple-haired biden voter non-binary character modeler working on their favorite video-game, is the reason why there is this push to inclusivity and "woke" shit on everything, when in reality the ppl forcing this are the suits that couldn't give 2 fucks about minorities but make devs pander to this topic because it makes money. I guarantee that if they were actually getting broke by being woke, there wouldn't be the amount of "woke" media we get nowdays, specially on video-games.