I gotta say since I found your channel looking for Elden Ring lore and watching you evolve into an essayist on modern entertainment has been amazing to watch. Great job dude 👍
Might not be you're style but look at what wizards of the coast are doing with d&d. Luckily BG3 is dropping soon but wizards are updating their open gaming license which looks like its going to destroy the landscape
I would even go one step further: Remember those times when some players where making their own skins/3D models? I'm thinking of the modding communities of Half Life/Counter Strike 1.6, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 3 Arena. Players sitting for hours and hours learning to model in Milkshape 3D, 3DS Max and Blender and releasing their creations on various modding sites for free.
Facts, everything that gets popular gets ruined. There's a peak where funding and creativity come together perfectly but it's downhill after that. I believe western socoiety in general has peaked already
Yes we can. The simple solution is fucking not buying it. Kids can't buy their own games. Who are the ones mostly doing UA-cam reviews or reviews in general? Older gamers/people. Don't even get me started on the streaming stuff
@@UnifiedEntity Don't trust the 10 to 20 age crowd. Heck I'd go as far as to say don't trust the 20 to 25 age crowd. I'm 36, so I happen to fall under the average gaming age. I know good games. These kids don't.
Yeah Anyway, just ignore most of hypercasual mobile games and look something like Honkai Star Rail and so on because... miHoyo games (even in its mobile ports) having polishness at both graphics and gameplay compare to AAA games: Am I a joke to you? Redfall (as a disappointing aaa game): You win, Honkai Star Rail (miHoyo). You win. You had everything we haven't *Just saying
It won't happen, sadly. Big publishers already secured a huge casual fanbase that won't care about the game being unfinished and full of crap as long as it's shiny.
That and taking beloved franchises from over 15 years ago and ruining them. Just to cater to a modern audience. To people that never liked video games or don’t even respect the franchise/lore enough to even try to play the old games. Which then creates a generation of gamers that are spoiled. I see so many people these days complain so much about how a games not realistic enough, graphical fidelity, or that it’s not rich enough in story. Smh. I never thought I’d sound like a boomer, but kids these days just don’t know good games.
@@Frozengimbap Honestly I wouldn't trust most anybody born after the year 2000. They sure aren't going to tell me what constitutes as a good game, considering that I've been gaming regularly since the early 1990's. I've seen the changes this industry has gone thru over time. The kids who haven't been brainwashed by TikTok or some other horrid social media service are probably more like us, they want good character development, good story and good gameplay. I can play Super Mario 64 as many times as I want and still enjoy it. Kids will automatically cast that off as ancient.
As an oldie in gaming (I mean age not expertise), I hate microtransactions. I replay old games like Mass Effect, Fallout, Oblivion, Morrowind and Skyrim. I love the story arc, the conversations and refuse to buy new games unless someone like you reviews them thoroughly and shows that they are worth my time and money. Thanks for all you do.
Same here. I play video games for the story line and the character development. I have zero interest in CoD, MMOs, loot boxes, or anything with a monthly sub fee.
Another problem they are creativly bankrupt for example Bioshock a franchise has a amazing theme's and clever writting something like game Horizon Zero Dawn lack's and uses MCU style humor to try to justify its bad writting there are no unique ideas . Like i can't even name any villain outside of Micah Bell that left any impression on me in these past 6 year's . They have forgettable storyline's, copy- paste gameplays from previous old gen game's and worst of all Microtransaction's.
Games are a form of art. When developers love what they create, it's the best kind of art. When companies set up dev sweat-shops to produce games for profit, it's like the cheap art that decorates cheap hotels.
@@gamer-px5cu huh? What do you mean? You absolutely need art to play a game, games wouldn't exist without art, music, writing, graphics and world building are all art forms in and of themselves and when combined either make movies or video games or tv shows, all 3 are forms of art coming together to make an even bigger more significant piece of art
@@gamer-px5cu now you're starting to get it, yes everything is art because art is subjective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not art, all forms of entertainment involve alot of different pieces of art coming together to make one big thing and that's why entertainment = art, i can't explain it any further then this so if you don't get it, either you're being ignorant on purpose for the sake of malice or you genuinely can't grasp the concept of what art is and if that's the case then i truly pity you
reason why i prefer single player games.. or at the very least mostly single player.. warrior musou game, dragon's dogma, dragon age, elden ring, assassin's creed, dishonored, resident evil, tekken, soul calibur, street fighter, persona & SMT, and so on.. even if some of their installment were a bit meh.. it's still better than having to play games with micro transaction.. heck that Gotham Knights is still better than those.. especially if the microtransaction affect the actual gameplay, and not just visual
It’s not just modern gaming, it’s western entertainment in general. Everything is politicized, created to fulfill corporate greed or is just the same generic formula. Hopefully things get better
I was just thinking this too. That everything right now it worse than it was 10 year ago. I still find indy games that give me the old school feeling. Games like "Swapper" and "Talos Principal".
Pretty much everything has become purely corporate. There is no art anymore, because being artistic isn't whats best for the bottom line. Maximizing profit margins is all that matters. And that means always following market data and focus groups, instead of letting any of your employees do anything they actually want to. It means manipulating your customers instead of attracting them. And it means never ever taking risks, despite risk being a necessary part of making worthwhile products. Sure, this has been true of the biggest corporations for a long time. But they have become so absurdly huge at this point that they no longer need to pretend they aren't doing it. They are too big to fail, and too big to succeed. The video game industry is the most obvious example of this. Microtransactions are literally anti-game mechanics. Nothing about them is ever fun, and you usually end up having less game after you buy them. They do nothing but make games worse for the players, and only exist for the executives and investors behind the game. They are deliberately sabotaging their own products, and expect us to thank them for it.
I get so frustrated when I meet a new person and find out they play video games... but they only play ONE game. This happened recently with two or three people that I met, one only plays COD and the other only plays Valorant, and the only reason they play is because their friends play it. This is why single player games with stories are a dying breed... people just want to run around the same map in circles and shoot at each other.
I AM getting a lot more fun nowdays from japanese games rather then western,games like Persona 5,the entire Yakuza now Like a Dragon franchise,The Legend of Heroes JRPG series, Atelier,Nier Automata, Resident Evil is Alive and kicking,every Hidetaka Miyazaki games,games like these show me that gaming isnt dead,but western games are a lot more about politics then being fun
@@EndymionTv i agree,Lost Judgment wasnt as good as Like a Dragon,but i still had a lot of fun and made 60 plus hours on It,i AM really excited to play Ishin next month,and i am also waiting for Azure and Trails Into Reverie,The Legend of Heroes are the best books i have played
Lost Judgment was great in my opinion and seemingly the rest of the fanbase's. It took the first game and made it bigger and better. I ended up dropping Like a Dragon after 30 hours due to its tedious elements but plan on restarting it since I did enjoy what I played overall. I also found the side content to be a step down compared to recent entries.
I would go as far as to say its also the same with movies, where Korean films are far more experimental, interesting, than most western stuff that comes out today.
RGG and Falcom are literally my favorite studios! Been a longtime Assasin's Creed fan, but the games were way way waaaay better back in the days compared to now...
no matter how many times it’s said, it always seems to fall on deaf ears japan probably has the highest concentration/most ‘gacha’ things (games, toys, etc) in the world, and yet their art scenes thrive, video games thrive, movies/TV thrive, because sincere/fresh/creative things still have MASSIVE demand i don’t want to suggest that the Western public is dumber, but we certainly do not go about things via the proper channels anymore money talks speak. with. our. wallets.
cultural difference. Art has a conceptual value in Japan as a whole; they've culturally agreed on what that means and why they value it. and the culture as a whole. It's embedded in school systems that still teach art and craft to keep traditions alive, but business is just practical; money is money, so the existence of gatcha does not preclude the existence of art. In America, we removed art from the curriculum since Americans consider it a worthless skill set. and I live in a social On one end of the spectrum is the self-righteous, narracistic hipster who condemns any form of capitalism + art and barks against any form of monetization but throws white paint on the wall for millions of dollars in a museum and talks about there own ego. Evil and the destruction of art are extremes. On the other extreme, art is all ruthless businessmen who only care about money and have zero regard for product quality.
Of course it falls on death ears. This trend isn't going anywhere, it makes a ton of money. For all of the people in here bad mouth and in talking trash you're telling me if you were a business owner or a shareholder you wouldn't be doing anything and everything to maximize profits? Anyone that says otherwise is a LIAR.
People have spoken with their wallets, though. And they said "we want micro-transactions" loud and clear. Otherwise, this crap wouldn't be so profitable.
@@deepblue8143 Wrong. Game companies have done things to Garner good will over profits before. The game featured IN THIS VERY VIDEO, The Witcher 3 did so. And it did so A LOT. It had no right having as much content for the cheap price it asked for. I practically felt like I was ROBBING CD Projekt Red when I bought Hearts of Stone; Blood and Wine, and the free DLCs they sprinkled on top. They absolutely did those moves for good will over profit. Hell they likely left a LOT of money on the table not charging near full price for Blood and Wine as it was SO massive it damn near was another game on it's own. So no kid not every business and business owner will do everything and only to maximize profits at any cost. That's loser black pill thinking and just wrong. Good companies and good businesses and business owners still exist go find and support them.
The last triple A title I bought was Elden Ring and I have no regrets. I don’t mind paid for cosmetics, since I’d rather have that than pay to win, but holy man was it refreshing to just play a game that had everything already in it. In elden ring, if you want an armor or weapon, just go… find it. In the game. For free.
Now I need to go buy Elden Ring. Drat, not in my budget. It's a good thing too, cause I just started studying full-time. In other news, I'v been working my butt off since I finished school, and was finally able to afford studying this year. I'm very proud of myself.
I know people don't want to hear this, but you can always play older games. There is an entire history of games behind us, and I can guarantee you that you haven't played everything. That or just play indie games. I just finished an indie game called Blacktail and it was fantastic.
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 MGS1 may be hard to play now, I tried it and it was hard to get past the very dated controls and PS1 era graphics. MGS2 and particularly MGS3 were and still are awesome. Kojima put a lot of emphasis on movie based cutscenes, so for anyone wishing to dip their toes into the series be prepared for that. I recommend stuff like the Resident Evil 1 remake, and Silent Hill 1 thru 3. All excellent horror games, still playable, still enjoyable to this day.
Yes, please! So many good games, even just from the PSX library: Vagrant Story (being my favorite) Metal Gear Solid 1 Xenogears the Final Fantasy games (all 4 of them) Legacy of Kain and Blood Reaver Silent Hill 1 While maybe not all of these are one's cup of tea most of them are very entertaining and well thought out games.
Then your childhood must be very fixated. Elden ring is a hack and slash slow mo game. Wanna know what else is hack and slash? Almost any action game in that entire genre of hack and slash. Wow a whole game of mashing buttons and listening to dialogue. Amazing. Could it be? Action rpg? Check. Inventory with armor? Check. Plays a combo of moves check. Wow. So amazing.
@@zlonewolfI get the knee-jerk reaction, I understand, but I disagree. From soft Games don’t hold the players hand, either in their stories, or their gameplay. The UI isn’t some dumb Ubisoft crap. They don’t do micro transactions. And their combat is not just hack n slack. Hack n slack combat, you can button mash and it’s mindless. Elden ring? If you button mash or play mindlessly you will get stomped. It’s actually very thoughtful game design where you actually have to give a damn what you are doing.
I've kind of gotten to the point where I need to take long breaks from gaming just because of how rare it is that I even enjoy an experience anymore. Like, I feel like I HAVE to go back to my old favorites just to feel something besides boredom and dread.
@@beamer5374 Plenty of indie games out there that aren't. Roguelites, turn-based, shoot-em-up, RPG, visual novels just to name a few. So many games to choose from.
@@blacklight1104 depend where you look because finding a gem that can be dificult. it's not that easy the only good indie game that i played, i didn't find it! i have heard of it. undertale, pathfinder ect, ect.
@@peterthwhite7207 Subscribe to YT channels like Nookrium or Splattercatgaming. They pretty much act like curators fot the indie scene. You might not like everything they come up with, but every once in a while something pops up that that captures my attention and imagination.
It's the inevitable fate of all forms of entertainment. Radio, television, UA-cam, video games...they all eventually become saturated with commercials and advertisements. I agree with this video; one way to save video games is to stop buying into these tactics and instead support games that deliver great content. To get rid of predatory micro-transactions we have to show the major video game companies that they are no longer profitable to use.
Why i fell out of love with gaming 1) paying more and getting less 2)nothing new innovative/everything feels generic and the same 3) activism and politics in gaming 4) companies not listening to the fans I could expand on these if anyone asks but thats just a quick list that comes to mind.
You might want to look into the indie sphere of games rather than only limit yourself to what the big name publishers are vomiting out. You might not find glitzy and glamorous projects there, but there's a lot of stuff with heart and soul there. To name a couple of games, look at what Terraria, Deep Rock Galactic, Project Zomboid, Black Mesa, Rimworld, Raft and Valheim have to offer. Not sure what your taste in games is, but that's a start. Hope this helps!
Games like Deep Rock Galactic are a gem. They have seasonal events. but you can earn all those rewards outside of the event at any time after it ends. Games like that deserve our attention.
I feel like a dinosaur when i think back at what the gaming scene looked like when i started back in the mid 90s. I've turned my back on modern gaming and reinstated my old gaming systems and over the last years i have gathered a wast library of games, there are so many gems we never got to play back in the day so there is technically no shortage of games, it all relies on your will to dial back time.
same here! Well I go out to 2nd hand shops and pick up old games dirt cheap. Good games too. I don't spend more than £2 on any single game... there are 1000's of old games to enjoy. Just because something is new doesn't mean you have to get it. And just cos something's old doesn't mean you shouldn't use it anymore. I feel sorry for these kids now pressured into spending a ton of money on new consoles just cos its what their friends have
@@botezsimp5808 huge amounts of the games for consoles like NES, SNES, N64, Ps2 and ect come to mind- all really just depending on ones tolerance of older games and access to older consoles
That is true! I recently finished Shadow Man! A game which I never managed to finish as a kid back in the day! Awesome! Next will be the Turok titles. Cant wait for the next nightdive masterpiece remaster!
Honestly, even after all these years, I STILL cannot comprehend why anyone would ever throw away money buying friggin' cosmetics. I distinctly remember that the only time I've done so was in Tomb Raider 2013 multiplayer when I bought pistol suppressor and even THAT was because I thought it will make my pistol shots quiet enough to matter from gameplay perspective (I was absolute rubbish with the only OTHER quiet option, bow and arrows).
What I really don't get is buying skins or cosmetics in first person games. What's the bloody point? Sure, other people see it but that's only part of the equation. If you can't see it as well, wtf?
You mean to tell me that you have one jacket, one hat, several blouses of the same color, a pair of shoes in your wardrobe and you never pay attention to the look and color because you don't buy/wear what you like? If you have chosen something that you like at least once in the store, you should understand. Don't be so conceited.
@@radek4634 Difference is, having clothes matters because if you go outside, people, REAL PEOPLE, are going to see you wearing clothes and it'll probably have an impact (which does matter) in your social life. The fuck is so important about other players judging you via a bunch of shitty-ass, unoriginal set of pixels, when it has no outside effect of the game besides sticking a sing that reads "Sucker" on yourself? People shouldn't waste an actual shirt worth in money for the shittiest, most unoriginal set of pixels around lmao.
As someone who has been actively playing games since the 80's, I can say the number of new games I find myself interested in has decreased DRASTICALLY from generation to generation...
And the game was very good and big. I spend almost 130hrs on my first playthrough and what surprised me the most is it's price was almost half compared to COD games which literally has 8-10 hrs of story mode and same old multiplayer sh**
@@ExtremeMan10 I played it only 2-3 times, but PVP is fun for some people, and it wasn't even main focus of FromSoft I think. I loved the single player aspect of Elden Ring, played with friends too with the help of a mod it was fun.
I'm old enough to remember the good days, when you got a full, complete game, then 6 months to a year later you got an expansion pack, maybe two, and that was it. None of this constant monetization crap.
Corporate got into gaming. People who aren’t even gamers in the first place, who most often HATE games, running the marketing and high up decisions. It’s asinine. It needs to stop. There has to be some kind of way to make it stop.
@@AspieMemoires The answer is both simple and complex: Stop buying. Its easy to do individually...but how do we tell other people to stop buying DLC skins without sounding like judgmental prudes?
@@antiquecardboard We can’t stop just buying games overall because corporates with take that the wrong way and say “Gaming itself isn’t profitable anymore” But getting people to stop buying the micro transactions and dlc’s yeah that might work. But for that we would need to completely shut down phone app stores. It really only got into mainstream gaming because of phone apps like AFK arena or whatever so aggressively monetizing basic shit like “spend five bucks to refill your energy bar when you can just wait idk like ten minutes instead”
@@antiquecardboard I've basically stopped buying games over the last couple years; I bought two last year, and are still playing them, and I didn't pay full price for either (SRW 30 and Cyberpunk 2077). Even before that I wouldn't purchase cosmetic DLCs; there had to at least be some substance there. Now, I just go back to old games and play with mods, or go even further back to the classics.
God of War Ragnorak, Dead Space Remake, and eventually Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, plus various indie titles remind me that gaming isn't a lost art nor a lost hobby. I stopped playing online games like Magic the Gathering Arena and Dead by Daylight due to being insane time sinks with little payoff or satisfaction. Enough is enough.
God of war ragnarok is awful and a movie game. Remakes are a waste of time, I rather play the original like it was meant to be. New zelda is awful as well, not even a real zelda game.
@@Syphonpsx" god of war has cutscenes and a story i hate it 🤬". " Dead space got remade with better and smoother controls and graphics how dare they🤬". Haven't played Zelda can't make an opinion on it
This past decade of games has been pretty spotty. While there have been a few diamonds in the rough (e.g., DOOM 2016, BOTW, RDR2, Elden Ring), I have had immensely more fun playing indie games like Stardew Valley, Hades, and Celeste. I was definitely spoiled growing up when there were dozens of great games every single year, when games felt more innovative, developers were far more passionate, and companies weren't as greedy. Roughly, the pinnacle of gaming falls somewhere within the 90's / 2000's range, and its been downhill across several variables for many years now. Frankly, it feels like this is the case for most industries (film, music, etc.), and its a damn shame. Edit: not to mention politics/ideology ruining basically everything ever.
Yeah it's all going to sh#t. I have tried out more older games in the past 10 years than I have bought brand new games. Passionate developers like indies or smaller scale projects not spearheaded by corpos are the future of this hobby. That is, if the corpos don't get to them first.
Well, I'm just glad that I can't afford to upgrade from Xbox 360/PS3. The most recent games I have played are Gears of War 3 and Bioshock Infinite (and they were really, really good!). Sounds like I have missed very little from the last 10 years. I will keep on picking up 360/PS3 games dirt cheap (50p/£1 each)... I don't think that generation will ever grow old for me.
I remember the days when you bought a game, you got the whole game. Hell, I recall when you had them on hard-disks. And if you got the expansions, you either got an even better version of the game, or a whole new game altogether with new experiences. I know games were always for turning a profit, but at least a while back people would try to make something entertaining and interesting.
@Tangent Whisper there are still some like those that do get released and some sadly get sidestepped(Neo TWEWY is one ) thanks to other overhyped uncomplete mess that get released.
Man... there was a day where you just buy the game, it was complete, no need to update it, it ran at 60 frames...but well I guess you werent around do its totally not your fault
@@janohermano3942 well you can still buy old games. I do, all the time. Every week I go out and pick up old games for PENNIES. Good ones too not just Madden/FIFA! I only buy physical and stopped caring about new consoles after the 360...
@@bretton_woods pretty much, i think you can still play shadowrun for the x360, 3 years ago there was always a least one game session online you can join
My personal example is I have grinded in GTA Online, two characters with a good chunk of pricey goods (being guns, vehicles, some businesses and a few upgrades, properties and clothing). Now I think one question about it: should I have done that only to have left next to no willpower to play more of it?
If this were my problems, I'd start being keen picking my games. which im glad I hadn't since the past decades. Figures, I haven't play live service titles.
That's where Battlepasses come to steal your money you buy that pass grind daily/weekly to get those cosmetics it feel like a choir and a job instead of doing fun things.
i think we should just let these big companies run themselves into the ground so that the smaller indie devs that actually care about their games can start getting more widespread recognition.
Well that's what's happening in the movie business. It's leftists wokists causing all this. They are happy to nickel & dime a 7yr old and push "the message" anywhere they can. The content leftists make is absolute tripe
That would take people actually looking at a game and being like no...on a big scale even me typing this i feel like im wasting my life doing so. Feels like telling the sun okie don't come up tomorrow..
I don't know why they are not dying, they have complete control of AAA gaming and the film industry. The passionate artists/devs/directors got pushed out.
It depends on where you look, modern games have been thriving in the indie space; With how accessible it is for devs to just put out games they want. Last year alone you had masterpieces like Neon White, Sifu, Tunic or Vampire Survivor. Games like Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Enter the Gungeon, Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire and the list goes on, are indie games; A lot of them pretty inovative as well.
True! Not to mention other genres that are making a sort of comeback through indie devs, like the revival of the cRPG, a slew of new takes on the RTS genre, etc. There's tons of good stuff out there. Only you won't see those titles featured in commercials during half time on Monday Night Football or the Champions League, so you have to find other sources of information to get in the loop.
@@oilslick7010 Yep, this too; One of the biggest problems in indie games is looking through all the clones and trash to actually find good games. If you look at the appstore, you see tons of Vampire Survivor rip offs; Hades had a shitty mobile clone based on Norse Gods. I don't like the thought of "Oh modern games suck ass; Games in X year was better", when we mostly just remember the good games way back when; There were a lot of shit games before as well. Off the top of my head, the golden age of games also had a surge of shitty movie or show tie in games.
@@boxtupos7718 it wasn't as insidious back then. It was only shitty games. Now it is shitty games plus manipulative systems like microtransactions and with the age of internet a lot of toxic people (fans, devs, and journalists alike). It becomes more of a headache. It feels like you have find your own little corner nowadays to avoid the drama and just enjoy discussion of games.
Yeah, agreed. Two of my favorite games from recent years, Raft and KingdomComeDeliverance, were made by indie studios Both are definitely worth playing. The first is a survival sandbox game where scour the oceans for resources, build your raft and slowly discover what happened to the rest of the Earth, while the latter is a medieval RPG story from the perspective of an average Czech peasant. Felt like fresh wind to the tired superhero plots of most games.
The problems you describe are almost exclusive to AAA western games. Most Japanese and indie developers do not implement these anti-consumer practices, which is why I've only been buying their games for the past 5+ years. These large companies are going to continue using predatory business tactics for as long as they are effective
Unfortunately Japanese publishers are following suit. They're always about 5 years behind the western industry. Capcom, Square Enix, Konami and more are already no better than EA or Activision.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Not to mention Japanese publishers often make more money from their predatory mobile games than from "premium" AAA titles. Especially since the decline of Playstation in Japan.
Games industry, as any other industry, is a business. It exists to make profit, and it always has been this way, even since the good'ol arcades until today. My problem with modern gaming is the insatiable and dishonest greed (specially when they launch unplayable garbage) from triple-A studios, publishers, executives and investors. It's like "they win the jackpot every month, but still, they rob every quarter out of a homeless".
My refuge are the good old JRPGS, I'm 21 but I was raised together with the PS2 era, nowdays I love to explore all japanese games from any era or system, I miss the old gaming culture where you shared with your friends excitement for buying a game on a real store not a digital version, while digital being comfortable it takes a lot of the magic out of buying a new game, even worse if the thing is plagued with micro transactions, all they care is graphics and cheap easy money, at least there is hope in japanese developers even thoug they have their own problems, I just wish people were more concious about how the industry was, and of course consuming amazing content like yours, please keep making this awesome videos that points out problems that must be fixed, thank you.
My niche is 4x/strategy/turn based games. Infinite replayability, control over your playtime(especially turn based) and a spectrum between quick fun(rts/moba) and insane debt(Stellaris,Hearts of Iron,Dominions). And ofcoursw mods on pc! I love oldskool rpgs and jrpgs as well. Find your niche brothers!
I remember when I was a child that my folks would be worried because of long term negative effects of gaming. In reality I feel my ability to problem solve, focus and critical thinking has vastly improved than if I was not a gamer (I notice this when I hang out with non gamers). I bring that up because I'll be starting a family within a couple years and the way my folks worried is how I'll worry for my kids. Every game now a days is exactly how you described it: grindy, mindless, and just a means of generating profit. But the biggest issue I have is the idea of throwing money at a company to get "cool" gear as opposed to working hard for it. Hopefully my kids will enjoy the story driven games, lessons they can learn and engage in a world where they learn about choices and consequences.
Control your wallet and make certain the propaganda is not against your values. It’s also important for children to have physical interactions and be outdoors.
Make sure they grow on games like The Witcher 3 and not games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Genshin Impact. Let them grow on the master pieces so their taste is refined by the time they reach maturity and buy their own games.
It's now become an age in video gaming that indie developers will take the charge in creating the highest quality in this genre of entertainment. Much like the one you mentioned, Chained Echoes, I would also recommend Freedom Planet 2 (which came out last year as well) It's a 2d-sonic-like game that, in my opinion, is a much better 2d sonic game than most of the 3d ones that had come out recently. There is a demo that exists for it so definitely give it a shot.
Yeah, agreed. Two of my favorite games from recent years, Raft and KingdomComeDeliverance, were made by indie studios Both are definitely worth playing. The first is a survival sandbox game where scour the oceans for resources, build your raft and slowly discover what happened to the rest of the Earth, while the latter is a medieval RPG story from the perspective of an average Czech peasant. Felt like fresh wind to the tired superhero plots of most games.
Potionomics, Potion Permit, Neon White, Kaichu, I Was a Teenage Exconologist, & Hush Hush were all 2022 GotY contenderes that I played. And I still have games on my backlog from that year and I have friends who won't stop praising other indies that came out in 2022. This idea that gaming is dying and everything is crap is insane if you take 1 look outside of the AAA online multiplayer scene. And if we want to talk Sonic style games Spark the Electric Jester is being called the peak of Sonic Adventure style gameplay.
Modern gaming seems like an endless tech demo for selling 4K TVs. A dazzling display of HD graphics coupled with the most coherent story they could slap together on a Monday morning
Greed, too much Political correctness, same formulas, buggy messes, no risk taking, toxic trends, no passion, must I list more on my take on the problems of modern gaming
The saddest part is that most people are oblivious to the schemes because the industry has tried to grind down the walking wallets to normalize it to such a degree that younger people think it's normal, hell there are even OG's that numb to it. It has always been painfully obvious to me. Only way it ends is if they do not make money.
Thank God for Japan, other foreign developers and some Western developers with integrity. We still got Capcom, The Game Kitchen, Team Ninja, FromSoftware, Monolith, MDHR, Insomniac, ID software, Respawn, Media Molecule, Rocksteady etc. Some are still able to break the mold off the disheveled heap of trash we call the gaming industry and break their way in. I'm still holding out hope that cdpr redeem themselves with new Witcher media and allocate their resources towards new IPs with more confidence henceforth.
I agree with this but Respawn is actually woke af it just hasn't started affecting their games yet luckily. For reference, the majority of legends in apex legends are LGBTQ.
@@ronron6493 Japan is the original Gachapon land sure, but it's more like the South Korean/Western Companies that had stolen that real life gambling machine into games. Since Japan has alot of Gachapon machines, it makes sense too for Japan, so they did it for their Mobile game titles. But at least Highly renowned studios in Japan still know that great Single Player games are still better.
It was a struggle between money and art, money won. Exacerbated by video game becoming mainstream. In the end, It's less that "video game became boring" and more "our favorite developer became greedy and full of themselves". There are still many indie title out there.
@@notproductiveproductions3504 I can agree with that people say its just AAA chasing trends but most of the indie market is doing the exact same thing except of course within their budget so soulslike mechanics and procdural generation that increases playtime with basically no effort is a top mechanic in a lot of them even if it makes the game worse. They can't replicate the open world trend or the realistic graphics trend because those are resource intensive so they do pixel art and metroidvania galore. Than you got all the "boomer shooters" trying to copy doom and shadow warrior all the time when. Thats just how the industry is one person makes some money and everybody else try to jump in AAA and indie alike.
@@adeleinetheartist8267 In certain ways, yes. As someone who got into videogames around the Genesis and N64 era, I can appreciate playing older games, but there's a lot of issues that modern day games have ironed out. Being able to save at all is a basic one (for games prior to OG Zelda,) awkward/slippery controls are another (the infamous tank controls.) Not all games in the modern day are bad, and if you want a great game that feels like games of older gen consoles, the indie genre is an amazing place to start. Celeste, Cultic, Ultrakill, Hollow Knight, Enter the Gungeon, Hades, Shovel Knight, Neon White, Stardew Valley, and Hotline Miami. I could go on and on for hours with how many amazing indie games have released since "the fall of modern gaming," but you get the point.
@@KratostheThird I'm actually playing Blasphemous for the first time, so I didn't have enough of an opinion on it to say, but from what I've played, it's pretty dang good. 😅 Edit; I haven't played the other two games
This is why I look at my backlog and decide that is the better choice. I have years worth of games to play and even more time, if I want to replay them. Every so often, something good will come out and I may pick that up, but I am in no hurry. It feels like I should start weaning off games and actually use my time for something else, like learning a language, learning instruments, painting my 40K models for once, etc.
Me too. My backlog is huge and I realized a while back I don't need to spend more money on new releases. I haven't bought a game day one in ages. Lots of good games but just not enough time to get through them.
The problem with games nowadays is the fact that they took challenges away such as completing a game on the hardest difficulty or solving a riddle/puzzle and at the end you'd be rewarded for it, it was unique to you and was a statement/trophy proving you did something others had trouble doing and was respected for, not just that but you felt accomplished for doing it. Nowadays people and devs have gotten lazy and made it where you can just buy it now so overall gaming lacks challenge, purpose and goals to encourage you to play more and motivate others as a result.
I absolutely agree with you micro transaction has gotten out of control & should be stopped. Too many games company's rather take people's money by transaction than give players what they need like good DLC'S
This is why Ive started to dive a lot more into Indie Games. Honestly, my two most favorite games, Terraria and Hollow Knight kind of show how much the Indie scene is picking up the pieces from Triple A games to make something amazing. No paid for DLC. You pay for the game and you get a finished product. Developers even continue to release more content for the games regardless if it is profitable or not because gaming is seen as an art and nothing less. Looking forward to see Hollow Knight: Silksong release since Team Cherry has put a lot of time into it. Also looking forward to seeing what ReLogic does with their games, as well as future releases.
Yeah, agreed. Two of my favorite games from recent years, Raft and KingdomComeDeliverance, were made by indie studios Both are definitely worth playing. The first is a survival sandbox game where scour the oceans for resources, build your raft and slowly discover what happened to the rest of the Earth, while the latter is a medieval RPG story from the perspective of an average Czech peasant. Felt like fresh wind to the tired superhero plots of most games.
Some others to consider - Kenshi, Starsector, Rimworld, Subnautica (Below Zero is meh story-wise though), Stardew Valley, Starcom: Nexus, The Riftbreaker, Legend of Grimrock 1 and 2.
Whilst I fully agree with EVERYTHING you highlighted in this video, and I know you talked about about Elden Ring and just how great of a game that was... we did also get Ghost of Tsushima in the last couple years which I think everyone tends to forget how much of a banger that video game was.
Ghost of Tsushima is technically an inferior game to Horizon Zero Dawn for example. But the feeling I get when I play GoT is only comparable to when I played Uncharted 2 for the first time and the recent GOW games. It's a basic game but basic in the best way. When I want to just chill nowadays, I hop on GoT
Most of the games these days play themselves with an illusion of u having control...Today I completed [Prototype] and I walked out with satisfaction of another level cause the level of freedom in completing missions it offers is too surreal...I mean I intentionally didn't use my powers in a few missions and was able to complete them only via disguise as military which is never told to me or instructed by the game...I don't even have to do the side activities to upgrade completely if I simply keep having fun and reek havoc in the open world, I got enough XP to upgrade my abilities....The game simply says "here's the game, be creative and go crazy".. That's something modern games don't tell U, instead these games are only interested in telling their story the way they intended it by forcing U "play" as they want!
Laziness. Cutting corners. Not being passionate about the project, but the money and clout. Most games now are just low quality. You can feel the laziness in the game designs itself. Like Gotham Knights. They put repetitive gameplay in place of actual gameplay. They chose the easy option to “Copy paste” things throughout the entire time. Then focusing on the micros transactions on top of it as you mentioned.
@@EndymionTv Corporate greed in general, or just human greed. It’s disheartening. Also the heavier focus on monetizing to kids, because they can easily trick them or entice them into the micro transactions.
Good review, there is only one important aspect missing....gamers increasingly seek value for money (particularly game lenght), in great part as a result of the months it took them to finish the witcher 3 and dlcs...this is really bad for the business models of certain game developers (e.g. ea sports and fifa franchise) who want you free and willing to buy a new game every 6 to 12 months - why would you want to buy a new fifa whem every minute you play is dedicated to a game the size of ac valhalla or the witcher 3? Hence their response = microtransactions and an increasing investment in open world games..its ironic and sad that the obvious last example of a great rpg was also the one that caused the current state of affairs
Game length isn't always great. Games like the new Assasin's Creed games are really... I REALLY enjoyed AC Origins, it was beautiful, had a pretty good story, and I was able to play through most of the story in a couple of weeks (in the evenings only) and then I tried Oddessy. Not bad, but it went way too long. I didn't finish it, already uninstalled it. Not a bad game, but it was too much of a grind to get anywhere, and the quick travel sucked. I get why the devs changed the quick travel so much, but it ends up being so troublesome when you only want to play for 30 min and then jump into bed. Point being, AC is LOOOOONG and I just wasn't up for a game that would take me probably a year to finish. I went back to the Tomb Raider games after that, tons of fun
@@funkrobot9762 no no no it had bugs yea every game has bugs but no game has cyberpunk levels of bugs you do realize that cyberpunk didn't even run on the old Gen consoles and even on the newer gen it still had performance issues CD just lied to their fans about that and many other things
Honestly all these videos recently about "oh video games are dying/stagnating/whatever" are just evidence to me of one of the absolute most insidious things that big publishers have done. It's not microtransactions, it's not live services. It's the fact that they get so many gamers to think that they, the AAA groups, are the ONLY game in town. I mean, I sit here, observing all this and watching videos like this one, and I'm constantly baffled. For me, excellent games are the NORM... not the exception. As far as I'm concerned, gaming is absolutely thriving. But, that's because I stopped buying AAA games many years ago. I found Isaac and Spelunky, dove into the world of indies, and never looked back. It's been one amazing game after another, over and over and over again. Some are more well known, such as Enter the Gungeon. Others are far more niche. But there's SO MUCH GOOD out there, and more constantly coming out. And yeah, there's some bad eggs in there, devs that try to take advantage of this side of the industry, but I find that most indie fans are a lot less willing to just eat garbage, so to speak, and will tend to completely flip the heck out if a given developer does something nasty. Whereas most AAA fans will just eat it all up and then ask for more, while complaining about it at the same time. It's not JUST that though. One thing that really, really bugs me is that the AAA guys made ENTIRE GENRES seemingly disappear. Note the word "seemingly" though. It seems to many like it's all FPS games or things with grindy levelling systems like Gotham or... er... more FPS games, but... yeah. "Seems". In reality all the missing genres have been there all along, some absolutely thriving (roguelikes in particular), and innovation everywhere. But you have to, you know, actually BROWSE a bit to find these, whereas the AAA guys come screaming at you and shove their stupid nonsense up your nose without you doing anything at all. Not to mention that most of these games cost waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy less, but give more value. Seeing someone get like 8 hours of buggy, predatory gameplay out of a $60 game that has a lot of MTX in it saddens me, when I'm over here paying like, $8 for something that'll give me 50 hours of non-glitchy gameplay without any of that MTX garbage. Seriously, the whole "gaming is dying" is just an illusion. An illusion that is VERY easy to break through, by just... you know... exploring a bit. The trouble is getting people to actually try that. Though I do notice that more and more ARE doing it as time goes on, which isnt too surprising, considering just how far the AAA side has fallen now.
Which is why I ignore most of these people. They complain gaming is in a horrible state, but they don't even bother searching for good games. They just lazily accept any AAA trash that's thrown onto them through marketing. I could stay here recommending great games all day long. I got almost 130 games in my Steam library and most of them were cheap as fuck and are amazingly great. And man, that's because I don't have the money, most of these games are either F2P, really cheap, got for free, or people gave me as gifts. If I had the spare money, I'd have so many more, because there's really a shitton of amazing games out there. So... no, I'm not about to buy this apocalyptic talk of "gaming is dying" either. I don't even buy this talk that lootboxes and bla bla bla is a problem at all. "Oh my god, this game is bad because lootboxes!" don't play it, you don't have to. "But people are normalizing it so every game is now shit because of it", that's false, as already pointed. If people want to be dumb and spend a shitton of money of colored pixels, let them! It's their money, it's their skins, it's their gambling addiction. There are way many more games out there you can play that aren't like that, you aren't entitled to get the game you want the way you want. People should learn to buy the food they like and let other people buy the food they like. Not all food needs to suit to your tastes. Ok, sorry, I got a little carried away xD
@@SirZelean @Zeke Lionhart I can understand the bit about lootboxes and such. Watching these companies prey on people who either cannot resist (addiction issues) or who outright cant see the problem (neurodiverse, or children) is getting real old, real fast. Not to mention people having to watch beloved IPs become corrupted, shambling husks that barely resemble what they once were. Heck, the new "Diablo" is JUST psychological tricks... there's absolutely nothing else to it. That series is likely very, very dead now. There's no way in heck D4... if it ever comes out... will step away from that. And THAT irritates people. Cant blame them. Yeah, as you said, they can avoid buying into it, but they cant avoid the fact that their favorite game series was drenched in slime... sticky slime that will never come off. Aside from that junk though... yeah, it's frustrating to watch people just ignore good games out there. Like, I was watching a video recently that was a retrospective on Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, which is a game that was well known for having incredible writing/story/voice acting, and there's a ton of people in the comments lamenting how "there hasnt been anything like that in so many years, and there probably wont be again because publishers think it's too risky". And I'm sitting here thinking "there's plenty of great stories in games these days! Just get up and go look for things and get out of your comfort zone for once!" but good luck getting THAT through to them. And if they were to just explore Steam and then wait for a Steam sale, they could have a game that's usually like $20 for about $1 instead, since Valve loves doing that. So many good reasons to go check this stuff out, but they just wont do it. And that's not even getting into things like Itch io (where most things have a "pay what you want to support the devs if you'd like") or Humble Bundle. It's easier than ever to get new games, but so many wont even try (or arent even aware). Also good freaking grief UA-cam, cant I even post one comment without a glitch festival happening? aaaaaaaaaagh
@@SirZelean holy shit , i 100% agree with you, i don't know why a lot of people keep saying "gaming is dying", there are horrible games and great games , but let's just focus on the bad games and say that gaming is dying
@@Amalga_Heart oh wow, you comment IS glitched, I can just see it as long as I click the notification. Once I open all comments under your original one, this one is just gone! UA-cam being youtube again. I mean, I do understand that it can be infuriating if your favorite franchise is "ruined" by modern AAA practices. If that happened to Diablo 15 years ago, I would be flipping mad. But now I'm all for individual freedom and individual responsibility. It's okay you are mad, but it's not okay to go screeching around and so governmental force to stop companies from doing their games. There ARE people out there who like those types of games, as much as the community wants to victimize them all. Even though are are people out there who are addicted and need help, not everyone belongs to the same basket. And even in favor of those addicted, I don't think banishing these types of games from the planet is a good idea. That's not how addiction works. You don't protect someone who's addicted by removing the source of their addiction. They are dependant, they won't stop being dependant if you do that, they will just move to the next best thing. This practice is not sustainable. They way I believe is right is actually helping these people. Showing them they need help, showing them the way to find help, helping them become stronger and able to avoid being addicted in the first place. This way literally everyone wins, except it's harder than to just scream on the internet about how you think lootboxes are bad and companies are evil (I'm not implying you do that xD). And I don't even think being mad about a franchise is justified. As I said, if I was younger I would be, I understand how it is. But now I see this as just... Pixels in a screen. Sure, I agree about how much of an art games are, how COMPLETELY AMAZING of an experience they are - I wouldn't pursue a game design career if I didn't understand that. But still, being mad about it? There are so many important things to worry about out there, what's the point of being mad about a bunch of pixels on a screen, a bunch of pixels you won't even see anyways because the company screwed up on their making? Diablo Immortal won't change Diablo 1, 2 or 3. If you don't play it, it's like if it never existed. You don't have to waste your precious time thinking about this kind of stuff, you know what I mean? And also, Legacy of Kain is... Chef's kiss! 🤌
I only paid for DLC once, it happened to be for Mass Effect 3. After that I stepped away from gaming for the most part. Still play occasionally but only after a titles been out for a while and thoroughly vetted.
Almost 8 years later, and Witcher 3 still shows how to do a game (not only an interactive moneymaker platform) properly. Even despite CP2077, I'm still proud of you, CDPR!
I’m not going to shill for cdpr. They messed up. They lied. They deserve the hate. Cyberpunk is an okay game and I’m glad they are spending the time to fix it, give out some free dlc, and make a worthwhile expansion. I applaud them for trying to recover their reputation even though they never will
Making games open world kills the fun in many ways. It becomes an RPG, and the fun in the game becomes spaced. You're left with walking around most of the time. I love linear games.
That's an amazing video mate. As a middle aged gamer (36 years old) I grew up playing games without any monetisation method mainly because internet wasn't such a big thing back then. Whatever becomes an industry is getting saturated by money. That's the sad truth. Companies sees you as a customer and not as a fan (even if they refer to you as such). It's really sad, that's why i got the decision not to buy a AAA game in full price any more (apart from some exceptions).
It's the same thing with movies and music. These industries just invest money in to what they want you to want not what WE want. Creativity is gone in place of statistic driven, non risk taking safe bets and rehashed sequels.
Remember in old games.. if you stopped playing for a while. When you got back to the game you didn't know what to do because you forgot.. games didn't hold your hand back then.. now you can stop playing for a year come back and the game will have endless markers of where to go and what to do. Back then you had to pay attention to the story and what NPCs told you so you can progress in the story..
To me, the main problem for Cosmetics aside from the absurd money involved- is because the game will either eventually shut down its service if you just want to look good online- or if it’s a yearly game, all the money spent looking good won’t matter in a year since you’ll have new stuff to buy.
I used to love playing video games a lot in the past but these days I barley play anymore. Whether it’s due to me having hobbies I like or they’re not fun anymore I can’t really say but I have noticed a shift in how my attention towards them is nowadays Edit: That’s also why I like games like the elder scrolls series and cyberpunk is a new one for me but it’s still a bit fun lol
If you have a pc, get steam then buy indie games. There are tons of amazing and cheap open world indie games. Games like subnautica, raft, planet crafter and many many more.
I used to game a lot. My gameplay has shrunk down to one, maybe two games a year if lucky. I won't play live services or games with microtransactions. I'm all about the RPG single-player experience which limits my options overall. I will buy a good DLC/expansion if it's worth it and brings something to the game. The Witcher 3 expansions were worth my hard-earned duckies!
I totally understand you & that’s a good way to play. It’s why I won’t play Final Fantasy XIV cause it’s too time consuming. I can’t juggle Destiny 2 & other games already lol I’m good
@@FewNewReasonss All TW3 DLCs were free. I'm talking about the expansions Blood and Wine, and Hearts of Stone. Those were practically a game all on their own. :)
@@micheleosullivan4430 You should give Cyberpunk 2077 a try. It got a bad rep for being an actual RPG and not a psychopath sandbox like the GTA, but as a RPG fan you should probably enjoy it.
Yes! You are correct! The Witcher 3 does it right! I have faith in CD Project Red that 4 will be as good if not better- if that's possible! Despite its rough launch, Cyberpunk 2077 was almost equally as intricate.
I don't usually play most modern AAA games, but my issues whenever I do dabble in them is the forced linear walking sections. Like the games force you to do what it tells you because of story, and you aren't allowed to wander off and explore until the forced walking section is over. It really becomes apparent when replaying it and it's not fun.
It’s not my favorite game, but that is one thing I really enjoyed about Elden ring. The freedom to explore, the sandbox to create your own adventure. I have some hope for Starfield since Bethesda does expansive world-building and sandboxes well.
@@sckshakex4308 they double as hidden loading screens and ways to inject exposition because storytelling in AAA games have become lazy and people shell out 70 dollars for good graphics and low effort stories.
I dont think gaming is dying, its never going to die because its the biggest form of entertainment. My favorite games of all time are AAA. Red Dead 2, Witcher 3, and Skyrim.
Ugh, this topic has been talked to death. We get it, microtransactions bad. But although it may play a part in why games aren't fun anymore, it's not the main reason. Firstly, before I give me reason for why I think modern games suck, I'd like to quickly address that the microtransaction issue is something that primarily plagues live service games. Most AAA single player games do not have microtransactions. The problem with modern gaming is that AAA developers are too focused on trying to bring you an "experience". They have these beautiful graphics, enriching stories, cinematic combat and gameplay. In other words, they're trying too hard to be movies. Games aren't supposed to be movies. They're supposed to be fun and exciting with deep gameplay mechanics. AAA games no longer strive to be fun. They strive to be accessible and to appeal to the widest possible market. People hate me when I say this, but for lack of a better word "normies". That's who game companies are trying to appeal to. They can't be too complex, they have to have a million different accessibility options to make the game easier, that makes easy mode look like dark souls. And they have to make everything super politically correct and woke so they get high critic scores. But most importantly, it has to be familiar to the audience they're marketing to. If it's too outside the norm, then they won't like it.
Games became too forumalic all the seem to care about it generating passive money, and extend play time. I dont think microtransaction and grinding are killing games. But they are making them less enjoyable. The issue is the lack of variety, deep mechnics, and engaging story. If the game is missing 2 of these things and are filled with microtrans actions and grind. It will lose favor. Microtrans action and grind arent the issue they just make the expreince worse on games that are already not that good.
I recently quit Asphalt 9 after 3 years. In the past, it was the one live service game I decided to go for since I like racing games and being a mobile game, it runs even better on the Windows port which is surprisngly active with multiplayer action as good if not better than even the newest Need for Speed or Forza. I paid for the season passes for a couple years and spent hours grinding "to get my money's worth". Slowly, but surely, the monetization started to become more aggressive, players paying more and getting less with every update. It opened my eyes to just how these business decisions slowly turn the screws on their customers to monitor their change in profits that much more closely and wonder just how it affects other games I simply don't put my time or money into. I only buy games as is usually. DLC is tricky because it can be a complete turnoff for a game, or be good enough that you buy a whole console (Kazuya main in Tekken since 2006, bought a Switch when they put him in Smash in 2021 and legit 90% of my total Switch usage is just for that). TL;DR This'll only get worse for some games depending on the developer and publisher team. If everyone in the world stopped pre-ordering, that'd be good first step
Accessibility does not equal making a game easier. Making a game easier can be one way of making it more accessible but there are other things that dont make a game easier but more accessible. Like street fighters audio desgin making it possible for blind players to play the game or color blind modes in alot of games.
IDK bro... Kojima gave us all something entirely different with Death Stranding, and I f*cking loved it, but people sh*t all over it anyway. 🤷🏻♀️🙄 So how badly DO people really want to experience something outside "the norm"?? I wish people were more open minded, but at the end of the day, it always ends up being broken, buggy or unfinished looter shooters that make the most money or garner the most pre-orders, therefore, most studios just continue making more of the same 'ol, same 'ol.
2010? The years when everyone was making war shooters and MMOs and there were almost no indie games because Valve, Sony and Microsoft wouldn't allow self-publishing without the support of a "major" publisher? I don't think so.
Same thing with the games themselves. Gotham Knights’ reveal trailer showed everything the game had to offer, and I didn’t buy it because I’d been disappointed with that trailer and all of the ones after it. Nothing was hidden from players in the trailers, and they certainly weren’t lied to about the game, and yet they bought it anyway and acted surprised that it was bland and soulless…
@@Leo3474A_A that's not the definition of predatory man... predatory also means using deceptive practices to deceive consumers or distract them from what they're actually doing... video game monetization is clearly predatory because it preys on stupid people or younger, more ignorant gamers
Modern games are just too busy. Too much going on. Not focused. Unfortunately when a developer makes a simple focused game reviewers and players call it shallow. There is a very big difference between "Shallow" and "Focused". Younger gamers don't seem to understand this I noticed as someone who has gamed since the early 90's. Some examples of top tier focused games that got panned for being "shallow" or "empty": Onrush Rage 2 Starlink
It's not a recent thing, Batman has been a no kill and no guns superhero for well over 50 years. People keep bringing up the early comics but that's so very very early in his history as to be irrelevant.
The saddest part is that microtransactions on cosmetics isn’t the worst, because at least they don’t hurt the balance or the game play. The worst kind of monetization are the ones that have viable strategies or contents behind paywalls, or heck, just give unfair advantages to the players who whale out.
Been gaming for 40 years. The sad reality is that this is actually the best time ever to be a gamer. The problem is that: one, people forget that making video games is a business; two, that is a mass form of entertainment so the expectation that every game will be personalized to your preferences is unreasonable and unfair; three, there is a generational cynicism that pervades so much these days. For example. I don’t like The Witcher 3… and that’s okay. I find that people love its storytelling so much that they overlook is clunky game play and not-very-intuitive controls. But people are different. Some people will overlook average gameplay for a good story, others will overlook an average story for a game that feels good to play. Not every game is made for everybody. Live service games aren’t some monetization scam. They are made for players (like me) who want to enjoy an MMO like game without having to play it like a second job. OTOH, players who aren’t interested in having a LTR with a game, aren’t going to enjoy it. Just because I don’t like a game doesn’t make it a bad game. Just a bad game for ME.
Very well thought out response. To me the greatest issue like you surmised is lack of nuance. There is deeper than shows and most people just hate to catch it. You said you don't like The Witcher 3? Well, I love it. But when it comes to criticism, it is not suddenly God. I personally don't think it's got clunky combat but I haven't grown playing the games you have with the focus you have, you know? So that's my point, really. You are right and people lacking other perspectives in this matter are not doing themselves a favor.
@@chillaxboi2109 Exactly. Taste in games is like taste in food. It’s personal, and very subjective. What one person may love, another can’t stand…and that’s okay….
The Witcher 3 is the first game I've ever seen to have such a variety of enemies with different attack styles along with many different friends and foes that makes each one unique to the experience, in addition to a great story and made it all fit into huge game. I doubt we'll see another.
One of the things I found disappointing about the witcher 3 is the lack of variety and depth in the enemy attacks, Its not an insanely unique series of attacks or mechanics that you have to deal with in the witcher 3
Sure the attack styles are different with varied enemies, but really it's just button mashing to take em down with Geralt. I like Witcher 3. It's one of only two games I've completed and then immediately started another playthrough (the other being RDR2). Witcher 3 is great because of the storytelling and sheer massive size of the game world and things to do (Gwent is super fun). For combat though...I've never seen a better, more fun system than Sekiro. That game's combat is ADDICTIVE.
My favorite part about society is the 20 and 30 somethings who are just growing up and becoming cynical are searching for some kind of deeper meaning for the fact that they are becoming desensitized to the things that used to bring them joy.
Exactly “they just don’t make games like this anymore” is just patently untrue. There are many problems with modern gaming, and many that he brought up I agree with, but there were many problems with past gaming. There are so many meaningful experiences available, some of the best ever made. They need to learn to be critical without discounting the good and to have balanced takes that aren’t driven by nostalgia and a loss of childlike wonder. They also need to learn to have fun.
@@PeteyPirahna77 You can have the opinion that they suck, but that’s not an objective reality. Many people love much of the new games, and many new games are accepted as genuinely some of the best games that have ever been made. Once again, I respect that you dislike them, but we’re not talking in purely objective terms. Opinions differ, and things like age and nostalgia can absolutely affect those things
While I agree that the whole "Games aren't fun anymore" is just not true, alot of them definitly are. You can't denie that (mainly AAA) monetization is getting out of hand. But back to topic, yes games are still fun, not perse the same, but fun.
I find myself playing less games nowadays. Just can't get into them anymore and besides I feel better going outside or doing something more meaningful with my time. Everything has changed sadly
As someone who couldn't really play all the great games when they were released i plan to slowly play all of them now in 2023 and There being more than 300 of those Gold games ( yea Most of the Great series like ff,kh,xc,bg1,2 etc i mean i cant even name all of em) by the time i catch up with these Hopefully the modern gaming state will turn back to what it used to be as i definitely am enjoying the old games more than the newer ones
@@therealjaystone2344 I never said jrpg are free from this shit, just look at Tales Of Arise the way they put the ingame shop in the game was disgusting. But I don't think this will ever reach the point that the AAA industry has reached. The same with the woke shit more and more games put in their narrative and characters the only japanese publisher I can think of who would do stuff like this would be Square Enix.
Before i even watch the video im just going to assume its because decades ago developers poured their heart and soul into making an amazing game that no one had ever seen before. now its mainly just how quickly can they get out a game and make the most amount of money they can off it without having to go through the necessary development process required to make the game truly fantastic.
The last game I bought was POE 2: Deadfire (2018). The game before that, was Dragon Age Origins (2008). The last 15 years I only bought 2 games. I mainly played Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2nd campaign is right around the corner. Also there is yet to come a single shooter that would give me more joy than F.E.A.R. (2005).
I honestly just think in some cases we just got old and don't favor how things are now. I just go by the adage of researching a game before playing it. Never play a game without research, you'll only hurt yourself if you go in blind.
That's exactly what is, imo. It's not that gaming suddenly became trash, it's the many gamers are older, with less time and are much more discriminating with what kind of gaming experience they want. There were definitely alot of great games back in the day, but also a ton of garbage, it's just the we either remember that garbage with nostalgia or just remember the games that were actually great. There's plenty of games out there, enough for any taste but you need to research and look for them, the AAA space is gonna chase the money first and foremost cuz many of them cost a hundred million or more in production and marketing and they need to get that ROI, it's just business sense, like it or not.
@@gman7497 This is completely fair. I would recommend looking into different review channels and wait for them to give a review on the game. You can decide to buy it or not after that. I have met a lot of older gamers that tend to remember that gaming was a lot better back in the day than it actually was. I'm an MMO play and there are a ton of people I've spoken too that believe that mechanics like XP debt were good just because other systems at the time were good. It kind of makes you wonder how good we actually remember things.
@@cynthiahembree3957 yup I remember the ps1/ps2/n64 days and yeah there were some great games but alot of trash, and the indie space was nonexistent at that time so we had to accept paying full price for everything.
This is how I left SWTOR. Once Disney bought Lucasfilm the Cartel Market became a vending machine for everything I had to farm and fight for. They even sold mimic PvP armor I had to WIN tournaments to get. It was madness.
Oh that happened? Yeah I left TOR when Disney got involved with Star Wars. I lost my passion for the franchise. Now I basically like KOTOR and that's it. I don't even know if I like the prequels or the original films anymore.
@@TheMahayanist Sometimes we don't quit things, rather they quit us. Disney took something we all had a version of in our minds. Then they f'd with all of it. No Mara Jade. No Vong. Just "Legends", a dumpster and a match..... I understand.
Imo there are still some modern games that do feel fun but unfortunately their becoming fewer and fewer with Every new year unfortunately. For me personally I enjoyed play god of war, Elden ring, gang beast, party animals, forbidden west, plagues tale, and couple of others mostly Nintendo. Overall I don’t think their dying out but there just areant a lot of em left unfortunately. Especially when it comes to multiplayer
@@EndymionTv very true. Honestly what’s even more sad is that games with micro transactions become more of a grind and feel less fun. Usually you’ll see that in games like gears 5, halo infinite, multiverses etc
Sekiro is awesome too, some people hate it because it's not like the souls games,has no build variety. You can make a game replayable without putting RPG in it. The game is absolutely challenging and bosses will punish you if you are spamming L1 or R1. The only way to beat them is to git gud and I love it. Reminds me of megaman games.
For Pokémon, if you had multiple save slots, it would be way too easy to farm rare Pokémon. I feel like the save slot just makes you more invested in the story you start
Yes, and the whole point of the main-line Pokemon games are to trade with friends, breaking the boundary between "single player" and multiplayer. They created special cords for it and everything, and even games like Pokemon Stadium come up with new tech to enhance that unique element even further. The idea of multiple saves defeats all of that. One save only, thank you.
You have a save per user profile. You can easily have multiple saves of the same game on the same console. As a competitive player that is often a necessity.
"In the story" if you are looking at Pokemon for the story you are a sad sad person. In a sub-genre that has SMT, Persona, Yokai Watch, Digimon Survive, & Digimon Cyber Sleuth you go with a non-mystery dungeon Pokemon game? This is without expanding out even wider to other JRPG's that are renowned for their story specifically.
Very simple reason. Modern AAA games are spending more money on marketing & paid reviews than the actual development of the game. And even in the development they focus on all the wrong things like they spend millions of dollars just on things like graphics rather than focusing on making the gameplay fun & having a unique concept to sell the game. They are inflating their budget & cuz of that they can't take risks cuz if the game flops it would be a huge loss. Like the entire studio can shut down in some cases due to it. So they copy tried & tested formula, make generic games, don't take risks & put microtransactions so that even if the game flops they can breakeven. Gaming is dead. It's not about fun & creativity anymore. Its not about providing value anymore. Everyone's just making the same shit & consumers keep buying the same shit over & over again.
@@ni9274 Yeah like these people really can't stop talking about the same few companies all the time like gaming is bigger than ever theres tons of devs making games now if they don't like whats coming out with AAA game comapnies there is plenty of other games to play. THey just don't want to play because they actually like the realistic graphics and features from AAA games and of course the clicks they get for doomsaying gaming.
Disco elysium, divinity orginal sin 2, and pathfinder all are exceptional games. Not all of modern games are infested with greedy business practices. But for sure they're are games that came out past the witcher 3 that are fantastic.
One thing I've noticed with a lot of games in recent memory is that a game can literally be unplayable or be in a "currently being repaired" state but the cosmetic marketplace/store is always operational. What the fuck happened
Really enjoying your content, I appreciate how you break down this problem with modern gaming. No doubt the popularity in the microtransaction framework has gained momentum. Mobile "games" have provided corporations with enough data to confirm it's easy money when compared to designing a good product. I draw a parallel with Atari and friend's blunders by flooding the market in the early 80's. Eventually, consumers push back. We may be at, or have already surpassed the peak of current business model success. Maybe we need another crash, maybe I have such a large backlog of good games that it doesn't even matter anyway lol.
A lot of games seem like they have stuff tacked on to appease management. Things like open world, RPG elements, cosmetics, loot boxes, multiplayer, etc. (All of those are fine if well done.)
I don't feel that. I guess I just play to little - I finish maybe 10-12 games a year and I still have a long list of older games I want to play, so I'm almost never disappointed with the games I chose. This year I'm excited about maybe 4-5 upcoming games and I suspect they're going to be good. The rest will be older gems.
I bought my mom Ratchet and Clank; Rift Apart to play while she recovered from major dental surgery and I don’t think I’ve seen her have that much fun playing a video game in like 10-15 years. Game is solid, I don’t recall her having to buy any micro-transactions. Can’t wait to play it myself.
@@Mr_Messi hell yea i have i love that game but idk i am a but biased to Spiderman. I grew up playing both games tho. I guess i pick spider man cause id hop on and just swing endlessly lol
Thanks for watching, let me know what you think & if you'll excuse me I'm going to go play more Witcher.
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I gotta say since I found your channel looking for Elden Ring lore and watching you evolve into an essayist on modern entertainment has been amazing to watch. Great job dude 👍
Same
Hey Endy if you haven't already give Kingdom Come Deliverance a go would love to hear your opinion on it
@@raizan1 I played that years ago & beat it. I spent around 80 hours on it very fun game if a little obtuse
Might not be you're style but look at what wizards of the coast are doing with d&d. Luckily BG3 is dropping soon but wizards are updating their open gaming license which looks like its going to destroy the landscape
*Remember when having a cool skin meant you were really good at the game and that you didn’t spend a dime for it* . Man those were good times for me.
I would even go one step further: Remember those times when some players where making their own skins/3D models? I'm thinking of the modding communities of Half Life/Counter Strike 1.6, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 3 Arena. Players sitting for hours and hours learning to model in Milkshape 3D, 3DS Max and Blender and releasing their creations on various modding sites for free.
@@widar28 still doing that with smash mods
@@widar28 there's still mods for games
Sekiro
No, I actually don't. When was that ever the case?
Remember when you were young and there were some kids who sucked at every game they played? They grew up and now control the gaming industry.
2nd player won
Facts, everything that gets popular gets ruined. There's a peak where funding and creativity come together perfectly but it's downhill after that. I believe western socoiety in general has peaked already
Either that, or they write about video games
They are on balancing team in competitive games, making chains of bad changes
@@caspar_gomez I miss the days of John Carmack and John Romero when they made Doom 1 & Doom 2.
We can't change it anymore. The majority of gamers are young kids who consider all of this completely normal.
Unfortunately yes
And almost all digital, which by 15 years from now they’ll find out they won’t play their games they paid for it gen coming back to.
Yes we can. The simple solution is fucking not buying it. Kids can't buy their own games. Who are the ones mostly doing UA-cam reviews or reviews in general? Older gamers/people. Don't even get me started on the streaming stuff
Exactly battle passes and loot boxes skins etc are all in pretty much every game. Even single player games for some ducking reason
@@UnifiedEntity Don't trust the 10 to 20 age crowd. Heck I'd go as far as to say don't trust the 20 to 25 age crowd.
I'm 36, so I happen to fall under the average gaming age. I know good games. These kids don't.
You know there's a problem when a store menu is more polished than the gameplay loop.
I seen this with mobile as well
Yeah
Anyway, just ignore most of hypercasual mobile games and look something like Honkai Star Rail and so on because...
miHoyo games (even in its mobile ports) having polishness at both graphics and gameplay compare to AAA games: Am I a joke to you?
Redfall (as a disappointing aaa game): You win, Honkai Star Rail (miHoyo). You win. You had everything we haven't
*Just saying
@@Lonelyboy0-u5n So many bullshott pics on gaming pages on the mobile appstore.They should get done for false advertising...
@@alyasVictorio not only that but also Warzone mobile, Punishing gray raven and CarX
Add Diablo 4 to the list there
Personally i would appreciate it if video games shined on their own without that pointless movie glamour
Yes that too
It won't happen, sadly. Big publishers already secured a huge casual fanbase that won't care about the game being unfinished and full of crap as long as it's shiny.
That and taking beloved franchises from over 15 years ago and ruining them. Just to cater to a modern audience.
To people that never liked video games or don’t even respect the franchise/lore enough to even try to play the old games. Which then creates a generation of gamers that are spoiled. I see so many people these days complain so much about how a games not realistic enough, graphical fidelity, or that it’s not rich enough in story. Smh. I never thought I’d sound like a boomer, but kids these days just don’t know good games.
@@jaasonjones4419 elden ring
@@Frozengimbap Honestly I wouldn't trust most anybody born after the year 2000. They sure aren't going to tell me what constitutes as a good game, considering that I've been gaming regularly since the early 1990's. I've seen the changes this industry has gone thru over time.
The kids who haven't been brainwashed by TikTok or some other horrid social media service are probably more like us, they want good character development, good story and good gameplay.
I can play Super Mario 64 as many times as I want and still enjoy it. Kids will automatically cast that off as ancient.
As an oldie in gaming (I mean age not expertise), I hate microtransactions. I replay old games like Mass Effect, Fallout, Oblivion, Morrowind and Skyrim. I love the story arc, the conversations and refuse to buy new games unless someone like you reviews them thoroughly and shows that they are worth my time and money. Thanks for all you do.
Companies released games complete without dlc
Mass Effect trilogy is still a banger.
@@SpectreStatus One of my most favourite games. I've just gifted the legendary edition to my grandson and he's loving it.
Do you know Kingdome come deliverence?
Same here. I play video games for the story line and the character development. I have zero interest in CoD, MMOs, loot boxes, or anything with a monthly sub fee.
In a Nutshell, Greed and Politics ruined gaming and entertainment.
Egoism... the end of humanity.
Another problem they are creativly bankrupt for example Bioshock a franchise has a amazing theme's and clever writting something like game Horizon Zero Dawn lack's and uses MCU style humor to try to justify its bad writting there are no unique ideas . Like i can't even name any villain outside of Micah Bell that left any impression on me in these past 6 year's . They have forgettable storyline's, copy- paste gameplays from previous old gen game's and worst of all Microtransaction's.
*Shitty Business Practice’s*
Stupid consumers haven’t exactly helped either
Racists destroyed good games
Games are a form of art. When developers love what they create, it's the best kind of art. When companies set up dev sweat-shops to produce games for profit, it's like the cheap art that decorates cheap hotels.
Some videogames are art, some videogames are entertainment.
You don't need art in order to play a game.
@@gamer-px5cu huh? What do you mean? You absolutely need art to play a game, games wouldn't exist without art, music, writing, graphics and world building are all art forms in and of themselves and when combined either make movies or video games or tv shows, all 3 are forms of art coming together to make an even bigger more significant piece of art
@@fluffyfoxfae Again, some games are just entertainment.
Putting music or graphic doesn't equal art, by that logic everything is art no matter what.
@@gamer-px5cu now you're starting to get it, yes everything is art because art is subjective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not art, all forms of entertainment involve alot of different pieces of art coming together to make one big thing and that's why entertainment = art, i can't explain it any further then this so if you don't get it, either you're being ignorant on purpose for the sake of malice or you genuinely can't grasp the concept of what art is and if that's the case then i truly pity you
reason why i prefer single player games.. or at the very least mostly single player..
warrior musou game, dragon's dogma, dragon age, elden ring, assassin's creed, dishonored, resident evil, tekken, soul calibur, street fighter, persona & SMT, and so on..
even if some of their installment were a bit meh.. it's still better than having to play games with micro transaction..
heck that Gotham Knights is still better than those.. especially if the microtransaction affect the actual gameplay, and not just visual
It’s not just modern gaming, it’s western entertainment in general. Everything is politicized, created to fulfill corporate greed or is just the same generic formula. Hopefully things get better
I was just thinking this too. That everything right now it worse than it was 10 year ago. I still find indy games that give me the old school feeling. Games like "Swapper" and "Talos Principal".
Same, I've completely checked out at this point and just consoom old media or indie stuff.
Pretty much everything has become purely corporate. There is no art anymore, because being artistic isn't whats best for the bottom line. Maximizing profit margins is all that matters. And that means always following market data and focus groups, instead of letting any of your employees do anything they actually want to. It means manipulating your customers instead of attracting them. And it means never ever taking risks, despite risk being a necessary part of making worthwhile products.
Sure, this has been true of the biggest corporations for a long time. But they have become so absurdly huge at this point that they no longer need to pretend they aren't doing it. They are too big to fail, and too big to succeed.
The video game industry is the most obvious example of this. Microtransactions are literally anti-game mechanics. Nothing about them is ever fun, and you usually end up having less game after you buy them. They do nothing but make games worse for the players, and only exist for the executives and investors behind the game.
They are deliberately sabotaging their own products, and expect us to thank them for it.
Gaming used to not be mainstream though which left it unscathed somewhat. Unfortunately it is no longer that way.
I get so frustrated when I meet a new person and find out they play video games... but they only play ONE game. This happened recently with two or three people that I met, one only plays COD and the other only plays Valorant, and the only reason they play is because their friends play it.
This is why single player games with stories are a dying breed... people just want to run around the same map in circles and shoot at each other.
I AM getting a lot more fun nowdays from japanese games rather then western,games like Persona 5,the entire Yakuza now Like a Dragon franchise,The Legend of Heroes JRPG series, Atelier,Nier Automata, Resident Evil is Alive and kicking,every Hidetaka Miyazaki games,games like these show me that gaming isnt dead,but western games are a lot more about politics then being fun
Lost Judgment was disappointing IMO. I’m still waiting for my copy of Azure to arrive
@@EndymionTv i agree,Lost Judgment wasnt as good as Like a Dragon,but i still had a lot of fun and made 60 plus hours on It,i AM really excited to play Ishin next month,and i am also waiting for Azure and Trails Into Reverie,The Legend of Heroes are the best books i have played
Lost Judgment was great in my opinion and seemingly the rest of the fanbase's.
It took the first game and made it bigger and better. I ended up dropping Like a Dragon after 30 hours due to its tedious elements but plan on restarting it since I did enjoy what I played overall. I also found the side content to be a step down compared to recent entries.
I would go as far as to say its also the same with movies, where Korean films are far more experimental, interesting, than most western stuff that comes out today.
RGG and Falcom are literally my favorite studios! Been a longtime Assasin's Creed fan, but the games were way way waaaay better back in the days compared to now...
no matter how many times it’s said, it always seems to fall on deaf ears
japan probably has the highest concentration/most ‘gacha’ things (games, toys, etc) in the world, and yet their art scenes thrive, video games thrive, movies/TV thrive, because sincere/fresh/creative things still have MASSIVE demand
i don’t want to suggest that the Western public is dumber, but we certainly do not go about things via the proper channels anymore
money talks
speak. with. our. wallets.
cultural difference. Art has a conceptual value in Japan as a whole; they've culturally agreed on what that means and why they value it. and the culture as a whole. It's embedded in school systems that still teach art and craft to keep traditions alive, but business is just practical; money is money, so the existence of gatcha does not preclude the existence of art. In America, we removed art from the curriculum since Americans consider it a worthless skill set. and I live in a social On one end of the spectrum is the self-righteous, narracistic hipster who condemns any form of capitalism + art and barks against any form of monetization but throws white paint on the wall for millions of dollars in a museum and talks about there own ego. Evil and the destruction of art are extremes. On the other extreme, art is all ruthless businessmen who only care about money and have zero regard for product quality.
Of course it falls on death ears. This trend isn't going anywhere, it makes a ton of money. For all of the people in here bad mouth and in talking trash you're telling me if you were a business owner or a shareholder you wouldn't be doing anything and everything to maximize profits? Anyone that says otherwise is a LIAR.
People have spoken with their wallets, though. And they said "we want micro-transactions" loud and clear.
Otherwise, this crap wouldn't be so profitable.
@@deepblue8143 Wrong. Game companies have done things to Garner good will over profits before. The game featured IN THIS VERY VIDEO, The Witcher 3 did so. And it did so A LOT. It had no right having as much content for the cheap price it asked for. I practically felt like I was ROBBING CD Projekt Red when I bought Hearts of Stone; Blood and Wine, and the free DLCs they sprinkled on top.
They absolutely did those moves for good will over profit. Hell they likely left a LOT of money on the table not charging near full price for Blood and Wine as it was SO massive it damn near was another game on it's own.
So no kid not every business and business owner will do everything and only to maximize profits at any cost.
That's loser black pill thinking and just wrong. Good companies and good businesses and business owners still exist go find and support them.
@johnyhyun007 that was one part of gamings downfall. But to be honest it also ruined real life in many ways not just gaming
The last triple A title I bought was Elden Ring and I have no regrets. I don’t mind paid for cosmetics, since I’d rather have that than pay to win, but holy man was it refreshing to just play a game that had everything already in it. In elden ring, if you want an armor or weapon, just go… find it. In the game. For free.
Now I need to go buy Elden Ring. Drat, not in my budget. It's a good thing too, cause I just started studying full-time. In other news, I'v been working my butt off since I finished school, and was finally able to afford studying this year. I'm very proud of myself.
@@wilhelminasmal5051 Congratulations! In other news, Elden Ring just announced DLC so maybe you can wait and get a bundle deal?
@@MorklebBlack Thanks, but for now it's a better idea not to have any temptations at all XD I'm a pretty dedicated gamer so I'll wait until Christmas
@@samuelfoster8615 That's really not my favourite thing about it, but it was a nice bonus.
@@samuelfoster8615 Sounds like someone who failed to git gud.
I know people don't want to hear this, but you can always play older games. There is an entire history of games behind us, and I can guarantee you that you haven't played everything. That or just play indie games. I just finished an indie game called Blacktail and it was fantastic.
Literally just play the whole Metal Gear series, every Tom Clancy game, every GOTY
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 MGS1 may be hard to play now, I tried it and it was hard to get past the very dated controls and PS1 era graphics. MGS2 and particularly MGS3 were and still are awesome.
Kojima put a lot of emphasis on movie based cutscenes, so for anyone wishing to dip their toes into the series be prepared for that.
I recommend stuff like the Resident Evil 1 remake, and Silent Hill 1 thru 3. All excellent horror games, still playable, still enjoyable to this day.
@@KratostheThird i loved the cutscenes in metal gear
Yes, please! So many good games, even just from the PSX library:
Vagrant Story (being my favorite)
Metal Gear Solid 1
Xenogears
the Final Fantasy games (all 4 of them)
Legacy of Kain and Blood Reaver
Silent Hill 1
While maybe not all of these are one's cup of tea most of them are very entertaining and well thought out games.
Also, try Terraria.
Honestly, Elden Ring was the best thing to happen to Gaming in ages. No bullshit, just a fantastic game out of nowhere
Then your childhood must be very fixated. Elden ring is a hack and slash slow mo game. Wanna know what else is hack and slash? Almost any action game in that entire genre of hack and slash. Wow a whole game of mashing buttons and listening to dialogue. Amazing. Could it be? Action rpg? Check. Inventory with armor? Check. Plays a combo of moves check. Wow. So amazing.
@@zlonewolf Yeah I agree
@@zlonewolf it isn't a hack and slash.
You clearly don't know what Hack and slash is
@@zlonewolf lmao elden ring hack n slash game ? Really ?
@@zlonewolfI get the knee-jerk reaction, I understand, but I disagree. From soft Games don’t hold the players hand, either in their stories, or their gameplay. The UI isn’t some dumb Ubisoft crap. They don’t do micro transactions. And their combat is not just hack n slack. Hack n slack combat, you can button mash and it’s mindless. Elden ring? If you button mash or play mindlessly you will get stomped. It’s actually very thoughtful game design where you actually have to give a damn what you are doing.
I've kind of gotten to the point where I need to take long breaks from gaming just because of how rare it is that I even enjoy an experience anymore. Like, I feel like I HAVE to go back to my old favorites just to feel something besides boredom and dread.
In indie games we trust... for now at least. There are some real gems out there unmarred, or at least yet to be corrupted, by corporate greed.
@@blacklight1104 the thing about most indie games in my experience is that they’re platformers. Those kinda games just get old to me
@@beamer5374 Plenty of indie games out there that aren't. Roguelites, turn-based, shoot-em-up, RPG, visual novels just to name a few. So many games to choose from.
@@blacklight1104 depend where you look because finding a gem that can be dificult. it's not that easy the only good indie game that i played, i didn't find it! i have heard of it.
undertale, pathfinder ect, ect.
@@peterthwhite7207 Subscribe to YT channels like Nookrium or Splattercatgaming. They pretty much act like curators fot the indie scene. You might not like everything they come up with, but every once in a while something pops up that that captures my attention and imagination.
It's the inevitable fate of all forms of entertainment. Radio, television, UA-cam, video games...they all eventually become saturated with commercials and advertisements. I agree with this video; one way to save video games is to stop buying into these tactics and instead support games that deliver great content. To get rid of predatory micro-transactions we have to show the major video game companies that they are no longer profitable to use.
UA-cam was great in 2006 - 2012.
Why i fell out of love with gaming
1) paying more and getting less
2)nothing new innovative/everything feels generic and the same
3) activism and politics in gaming
4) companies not listening to the fans
I could expand on these if anyone asks but thats just a quick list that comes to mind.
Play Chained Echoes!
@@EndymionTv ill check it out. Keep up the great work dude!
You might want to look into the indie sphere of games rather than only limit yourself to what the big name publishers are vomiting out. You might not find glitzy and glamorous projects there, but there's a lot of stuff with heart and soul there. To name a couple of games, look at what Terraria, Deep Rock Galactic, Project Zomboid, Black Mesa, Rimworld, Raft and Valheim have to offer. Not sure what your taste in games is, but that's a start. Hope this helps!
@@EndymionTv wtf Deck13 made a jrpg that's cool
@@CptMarkka you might want to look into AA sphere of titles 👍
Games like Deep Rock Galactic are a gem. They have seasonal events. but you can earn all those rewards outside of the event at any time after it ends. Games like that deserve our attention.
Your the man deep rock galactic is fantastic
ROCK AND STONE
Rock and stone for ever
Rock and stone brother
FOR KARL!!!
I feel like a dinosaur when i think back at what the gaming scene looked like when i started back in the mid 90s. I've turned my back on modern gaming and reinstated my old gaming systems and over the last years i have gathered a wast library of games, there are so many gems we never got to play back in the day so there is technically no shortage of games, it all relies on your will to dial back time.
same here! Well I go out to 2nd hand shops and pick up old games dirt cheap. Good games too. I don't spend more than £2 on any single game... there are 1000's of old games to enjoy. Just because something is new doesn't mean you have to get it. And just cos something's old doesn't mean you shouldn't use it anymore. I feel sorry for these kids now pressured into spending a ton of money on new consoles just cos its what their friends have
Got any you can name?
@@botezsimp5808 huge amounts of the games for consoles like NES, SNES, N64, Ps2 and ect come to mind- all really just depending on ones tolerance of older games and access to older consoles
That is true!
I recently finished Shadow Man!
A game which I never managed to finish as a kid back in the day!
Awesome!
Next will be the Turok titles.
Cant wait for the next nightdive masterpiece remaster!
There were a lot of shitty games back then too.
Honestly, even after all these years, I STILL cannot comprehend why anyone would ever throw away money buying friggin' cosmetics. I distinctly remember that the only time I've done so was in Tomb Raider 2013 multiplayer when I bought pistol suppressor and even THAT was because I thought it will make my pistol shots quiet enough to matter from gameplay perspective (I was absolute rubbish with the only OTHER quiet option, bow and arrows).
I haven't bought anything extra for any game I've played. I also stick to my backlog spanning from PS2 to PS4.
What I really don't get is buying skins or cosmetics in first person games. What's the bloody point?
Sure, other people see it but that's only part of the equation. If you can't see it as well, wtf?
You mean to tell me that you have one jacket, one hat, several blouses of the same color, a pair of shoes in your wardrobe and you never pay attention to the look and color because you don't buy/wear what you like? If you have chosen something that you like at least once in the store, you should understand. Don't be so conceited.
@@radek4634 Difference is, having clothes matters because if you go outside, people, REAL PEOPLE, are going to see you wearing clothes and it'll probably have an impact (which does matter) in your social life. The fuck is so important about other players judging you via a bunch of shitty-ass, unoriginal set of pixels, when it has no outside effect of the game besides sticking a sing that reads "Sucker" on yourself?
People shouldn't waste an actual shirt worth in money for the shittiest, most unoriginal set of pixels around lmao.
@@radek4634chump
As someone who has been actively playing games since the 80's, I can say the number of new games I find myself interested in has decreased DRASTICALLY from generation to generation...
You gotta go away from the mainstream. If you like si-fi look up starsector, amazing game.
I’m also Gen X, but I have the opposite problem. I keep buying shit and hoping that it lives up to its billing.
Spoiler: very few do
Right there with you its sad to see so many lazy remakes instead of new ideas
@@Hoik_it starsector is god tier
@@editorrbr2107 Gen X >> Millennials >> Zoomers
I was positively shocked and happy with the success of Elden Ring. Let's be optimistic.
And the game was very good and big. I spend almost 130hrs on my first playthrough and what surprised me the most is it's price was almost half compared to COD games which literally has 8-10 hrs of story mode and same old multiplayer sh**
Pessimism is more fun
For pve? yes, for pvp? not really.
@@mattjindrak ??
@@ExtremeMan10 I played it only 2-3 times, but PVP is fun for some people, and it wasn't even main focus of FromSoft I think. I loved the single player aspect of Elden Ring, played with friends too with the help of a mod it was fun.
I'm old enough to remember the good days, when you got a full, complete game, then 6 months to a year later you got an expansion pack, maybe two, and that was it. None of this constant monetization crap.
Corporate got into gaming.
People who aren’t even gamers in the first place, who most often HATE games, running the marketing and high up decisions.
It’s asinine. It needs to stop. There has to be some kind of way to make it stop.
@@AspieMemoires The answer is both simple and complex: Stop buying. Its easy to do individually...but how do we tell other people to stop buying DLC skins without sounding like judgmental prudes?
@@antiquecardboard We can’t stop just buying games overall because corporates with take that the wrong way and say “Gaming itself isn’t profitable anymore”
But getting people to stop buying the micro transactions and dlc’s yeah that might work.
But for that we would need to completely shut down phone app stores. It really only got into mainstream gaming because of phone apps like AFK arena or whatever so aggressively monetizing basic shit like “spend five bucks to refill your energy bar when you can just wait idk like ten minutes instead”
@@antiquecardboard I've basically stopped buying games over the last couple years; I bought two last year, and are still playing them, and I didn't pay full price for either (SRW 30 and Cyberpunk 2077). Even before that I wouldn't purchase cosmetic DLCs; there had to at least be some substance there. Now, I just go back to old games and play with mods, or go even further back to the classics.
A lot games were good enough to replay a couple times too.
God of War Ragnorak, Dead Space Remake, and eventually Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, plus various indie titles remind me that gaming isn't a lost art nor a lost hobby.
I stopped playing online games like Magic the Gathering Arena and Dead by Daylight due to being insane time sinks with little payoff or satisfaction. Enough is enough.
God of war ragnarok is awful and a movie game. Remakes are a waste of time, I rather play the original like it was meant to be. New zelda is awful as well, not even a real zelda game.
@@Syphonpsx" god of war has cutscenes and a story i hate it 🤬".
" Dead space got remade with better and smoother controls and graphics how dare they🤬".
Haven't played Zelda can't make an opinion on it
This past decade of games has been pretty spotty. While there have been a few diamonds in the rough (e.g., DOOM 2016, BOTW, RDR2, Elden Ring), I have had immensely more fun playing indie games like Stardew Valley, Hades, and Celeste. I was definitely spoiled growing up when there were dozens of great games every single year, when games felt more innovative, developers were far more passionate, and companies weren't as greedy. Roughly, the pinnacle of gaming falls somewhere within the 90's / 2000's range, and its been downhill across several variables for many years now. Frankly, it feels like this is the case for most industries (film, music, etc.), and its a damn shame.
Edit: not to mention politics/ideology ruining basically everything ever.
ahh I've spent so much time in stardew valley 😌
Yeah it's all going to sh#t. I have tried out more older games in the past 10 years than I have bought brand new games. Passionate developers like indies or smaller scale projects not spearheaded by corpos are the future of this hobby. That is, if the corpos don't get to them first.
Well, I'm just glad that I can't afford to upgrade from Xbox 360/PS3. The most recent games I have played are Gears of War 3 and Bioshock Infinite (and they were really, really good!). Sounds like I have missed very little from the last 10 years. I will keep on picking up 360/PS3 games dirt cheap (50p/£1 each)... I don't think that generation will ever grow old for me.
Dragon Quest 11 is a good game.
I remember the days when you bought a game, you got the whole game. Hell, I recall when you had them on hard-disks.
And if you got the expansions, you either got an even better version of the game, or a whole new game altogether with new experiences.
I know games were always for turning a profit, but at least a while back people would try to make something entertaining and interesting.
@Tangent Whisper there are still some like those that do get released and some sadly get sidestepped(Neo TWEWY is one ) thanks to other overhyped uncomplete mess that get released.
Man... there was a day where you just buy the game, it was complete, no need to update it, it ran at 60 frames...but well I guess you werent around do its totally not your fault
@@janohermano3942 well you can still buy old games. I do, all the time. Every week I go out and pick up old games for PENNIES. Good ones too not just Madden/FIFA! I only buy physical and stopped caring about new consoles after the 360...
@@bretton_woods pretty much, i think you can still play shadowrun for the x360, 3 years ago there was always a least one game session online you can join
🎯GTA 5 prime example..You had a full experience from Disc🎯
Playing games nowadays feels like a job than actual fun. Then after paying a grip for a game, they wanna try and squeeze more money from you.
My personal example is I have grinded in GTA Online, two characters with a good chunk of pricey goods (being guns, vehicles, some businesses and a few upgrades, properties and clothing). Now I think one question about it: should I have done that only to have left next to no willpower to play more of it?
If this were my problems, I'd start being keen picking my games. which im glad I hadn't since the past decades. Figures, I haven't play live service titles.
That's where Battlepasses come to steal your money you buy that pass grind daily/weekly to get those cosmetics it feel like a choir and a job instead of doing fun things.
No, you’re just old.
Maybe stop only playing game from AAA publisher.
@@carloseduardoleodorodemori3224 Go play a real rpg
i think we should just let these big companies run themselves into the ground so that the smaller indie devs that actually care about their games can start getting more widespread recognition.
Well that's what's happening in the movie business. It's leftists wokists causing all this. They are happy to nickel & dime a 7yr old and push "the message" anywhere they can. The content leftists make is absolute tripe
That would take people actually looking at a game and being like no...on a big scale even me typing this i feel like im wasting my life doing so. Feels like telling the sun okie don't come up tomorrow..
Another reason I buy games like ultrakill lol
I don't know why they are not dying, they have complete control of AAA gaming and the film industry. The passionate artists/devs/directors got pushed out.
Indies? No thanks. We don't need more walking sims and Soulsvania clones, either
It depends on where you look, modern games have been thriving in the indie space; With how accessible it is for devs to just put out games they want.
Last year alone you had masterpieces like Neon White, Sifu, Tunic or Vampire Survivor.
Games like Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Enter the Gungeon, Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire and the list goes on, are indie games; A lot of them pretty inovative as well.
True! Not to mention other genres that are making a sort of comeback through indie devs, like the revival of the cRPG, a slew of new takes on the RTS genre, etc. There's tons of good stuff out there. Only you won't see those titles featured in commercials during half time on Monday Night Football or the Champions League, so you have to find other sources of information to get in the loop.
@@oilslick7010 Yep, this too; One of the biggest problems in indie games is looking through all the clones and trash to actually find good games.
If you look at the appstore, you see tons of Vampire Survivor rip offs; Hades had a shitty mobile clone based on Norse Gods.
I don't like the thought of "Oh modern games suck ass; Games in X year was better", when we mostly just remember the good games way back when; There were a lot of shit games before as well. Off the top of my head, the golden age of games also had a surge of shitty movie or show tie in games.
Hollow Knight my favourite game I played in 2022.
@@boxtupos7718 it wasn't as insidious back then. It was only shitty games. Now it is shitty games plus manipulative systems like microtransactions and with the age of internet a lot of toxic people (fans, devs, and journalists alike). It becomes more of a headache. It feels like you have find your own little corner nowadays to avoid the drama and just enjoy discussion of games.
Yeah, agreed. Two of my favorite games from recent years, Raft and KingdomComeDeliverance, were made by indie studios
Both are definitely worth playing. The first is a survival sandbox game where scour the oceans for resources, build your raft and slowly discover what happened to the rest of the Earth, while the latter is a medieval RPG story from the perspective of an average Czech peasant. Felt like fresh wind to the tired superhero plots of most games.
The problems you describe are almost exclusive to AAA western games. Most Japanese and indie developers do not implement these anti-consumer practices, which is why I've only been buying their games for the past 5+ years. These large companies are going to continue using predatory business tactics for as long as they are effective
Is their a website that shows every indie game that came out on every platform
It's like we're back at the ps2 era and it's great.
Unfortunately Japanese publishers are following suit. They're always about 5 years behind the western industry. Capcom, Square Enix, Konami and more are already no better than EA or Activision.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Not to mention Japanese publishers often make more money from their predatory mobile games than from "premium" AAA titles. Especially since the decline of Playstation in Japan.
And you still afford to ignore AA studious......
"Why not fun no more?"
It's been turned into a monetized lootbox snatch trap
Games industry, as any other industry, is a business. It exists to make profit, and it always has been this way, even since the good'ol arcades until today. My problem with modern gaming is the insatiable and dishonest greed (specially when they launch unplayable garbage) from triple-A studios, publishers, executives and investors. It's like "they win the jackpot every month, but still, they rob every quarter out of a homeless".
My refuge are the good old JRPGS, I'm 21 but I was raised together with the PS2 era, nowdays I love to explore all japanese games from any era or system, I miss the old gaming culture where you shared with your friends excitement for buying a game on a real store not a digital version, while digital being comfortable it takes a lot of the magic out of buying a new game, even worse if the thing is plagued with micro transactions, all they care is graphics and cheap easy money, at least there is hope in japanese developers even thoug they have their own problems, I just wish people were more concious about how the industry was, and of course consuming amazing content like yours, please keep making this awesome videos that points out problems that must be fixed, thank you.
Man wish jrpgs were as far as comprehensive as crpgs w/ their dynamic writing.
I buy most of my games on disc. It gives it more value, I remember reading the booklet and looking at the box in bed when I was a kid.
PS2 had so many great JRPGs. If you haven't played it yet. Try Shadow Hearts: Covenant. One of my favorite games for PS2.
Don't play final fantasy mmos. If you value your free time
My niche is 4x/strategy/turn based games. Infinite replayability, control over your playtime(especially turn based) and a spectrum between quick fun(rts/moba) and insane debt(Stellaris,Hearts of Iron,Dominions). And ofcoursw mods on pc! I love oldskool rpgs and jrpgs as well. Find your niche brothers!
I remember when I was a child that my folks would be worried because of long term negative effects of gaming. In reality I feel my ability to problem solve, focus and critical thinking has vastly improved than if I was not a gamer (I notice this when I hang out with non gamers). I bring that up because I'll be starting a family within a couple years and the way my folks worried is how I'll worry for my kids. Every game now a days is exactly how you described it: grindy, mindless, and just a means of generating profit. But the biggest issue I have is the idea of throwing money at a company to get "cool" gear as opposed to working hard for it. Hopefully my kids will enjoy the story driven games, lessons they can learn and engage in a world where they learn about choices and consequences.
Not to mention the fact that our "folks" just sit there and watch TV with mindless commercials all day
Control your wallet and make certain the propaganda is not against your values. It’s also important for children to have physical interactions and be outdoors.
Make sure they grow on games like The Witcher 3 and not games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Genshin Impact.
Let them grow on the master pieces so their taste is refined by the time they reach maturity and buy their own games.
@@thedoomslayer5863 lol again started fucked hate of Fortnite and genshin everyone can play what they like and choose
People that "throw money at it" bring in too much cash to ignore.
It's now become an age in video gaming that indie developers will take the charge in creating the highest quality in this genre of entertainment. Much like the one you mentioned, Chained Echoes, I would also recommend Freedom Planet 2 (which came out last year as well) It's a 2d-sonic-like game that, in my opinion, is a much better 2d sonic game than most of the 3d ones that had come out recently. There is a demo that exists for it so definitely give it a shot.
Yeah, agreed. Two of my favorite games from recent years, Raft and KingdomComeDeliverance, were made by indie studios
Both are definitely worth playing. The first is a survival sandbox game where scour the oceans for resources, build your raft and slowly discover what happened to the rest of the Earth, while the latter is a medieval RPG story from the perspective of an average Czech peasant. Felt like fresh wind to the tired superhero plots of most games.
Signalis. Check it out
Sa2 is better
celeste, ori and shovel knight. these are the best of the best platformers.
Potionomics, Potion Permit, Neon White, Kaichu, I Was a Teenage Exconologist, & Hush Hush were all 2022 GotY contenderes that I played. And I still have games on my backlog from that year and I have friends who won't stop praising other indies that came out in 2022. This idea that gaming is dying and everything is crap is insane if you take 1 look outside of the AAA online multiplayer scene.
And if we want to talk Sonic style games Spark the Electric Jester is being called the peak of Sonic Adventure style gameplay.
Modern gaming seems like an endless tech demo for selling 4K TVs. A dazzling display of HD graphics coupled with the most coherent story they could slap together on a Monday morning
And gpus
Greed, too much Political correctness, same formulas, buggy messes, no risk taking, toxic trends, no passion, must I list more on my take on the problems of modern gaming
I should do a political correctness video
@@EndymionTvplease do! The woke meter has broken 😠
@@EndymionTv Definitely. It ruins the escapism of games.
Same thing plaguing the movie industry. Hell, you could argue it's plaguing all forms of arts in varying degrees really.
The saddest part is that most people are oblivious to the schemes because the industry has tried to grind down the walking wallets to normalize it to such a degree that younger people think it's normal, hell there are even OG's that numb to it. It has always been painfully obvious to me. Only way it ends is if they do not make money.
You get what you tolerate and gamers are apparently sadists.
COD fans
Thank God for Japan, other foreign developers and some Western developers with integrity. We still got Capcom, The Game Kitchen, Team Ninja, FromSoftware, Monolith, MDHR, Insomniac, ID software, Respawn, Media Molecule, Rocksteady etc. Some are still able to break the mold off the disheveled heap of trash we call the gaming industry and break their way in. I'm still holding out hope that cdpr redeem themselves with new Witcher media and allocate their resources towards new IPs with more confidence henceforth.
Don't forget RGG
This comment has to be satire right?
Japan? The land of microtransaction or could be worst, gaccha.
I agree with this but Respawn is actually woke af it just hasn't started affecting their games yet luckily. For reference, the majority of legends in apex legends are LGBTQ.
@@ronron6493 Japan is the original Gachapon land sure, but it's more like the South Korean/Western Companies that had stolen that real life gambling machine into games. Since Japan has alot of Gachapon machines, it makes sense too for Japan, so they did it for their Mobile game titles. But at least Highly renowned studios in Japan still know that great Single Player games are still better.
Game production is not about art and passion anymore. It's about business and money
It was a struggle between money and art, money won.
Exacerbated by video game becoming mainstream.
In the end, It's less that "video game became boring" and more "our favorite developer became greedy and full of themselves".
There are still many indie title out there.
It’s why I diversify what I play so much. To keep myself sane
@@zz-if1ic Not with all the censorship going on these days I wish tiddies won instead.
Nah, even up-and-coming developers don’t care about gameplay depth (why else do we see soulsborne in every place it doesn’t belong)
@@notproductiveproductions3504 I can agree with that people say its just AAA chasing trends but most of the indie market is doing the exact same thing except of course within their budget so soulslike mechanics and procdural generation that increases playtime with basically no effort is a top mechanic in a lot of them even if it makes the game worse.
They can't replicate the open world trend or the realistic graphics trend because those are resource intensive so they do pixel art and metroidvania galore. Than you got all the "boomer shooters" trying to copy doom and shadow warrior all the time when. Thats just how the industry is one person makes some money and everybody else try to jump in AAA and indie alike.
Watching this makes me value my collection of old video games more than ever.
You should value them. Old videogames are better than newer videogames.
@@adeleinetheartist8267 In certain ways, yes. As someone who got into videogames around the Genesis and N64 era, I can appreciate playing older games, but there's a lot of issues that modern day games have ironed out. Being able to save at all is a basic one (for games prior to OG Zelda,) awkward/slippery controls are another (the infamous tank controls.) Not all games in the modern day are bad, and if you want a great game that feels like games of older gen consoles, the indie genre is an amazing place to start.
Celeste, Cultic, Ultrakill, Hollow Knight, Enter the Gungeon, Hades, Shovel Knight, Neon White, Stardew Valley, and Hotline Miami. I could go on and on for hours with how many amazing indie games have released since "the fall of modern gaming," but you get the point.
@@Rahnonymous Axiom Verge 1. Blasphemous. Cuphead, how anyone can leave that game out is beyond me.
@@KratostheThird I'm actually playing Blasphemous for the first time, so I didn't have enough of an opinion on it to say, but from what I've played, it's pretty dang good. 😅
Edit; I haven't played the other two games
@@Rahnonymous Shovel Knight is the only one I agree with. Everything else i either don't like or haven't played
This is why I look at my backlog and decide that is the better choice. I have years worth of games to play and even more time, if I want to replay them. Every so often, something good will come out and I may pick that up, but I am in no hurry. It feels like I should start weaning off games and actually use my time for something else, like learning a language, learning instruments, painting my 40K models for once, etc.
Me too. My backlog is huge and I realized a while back I don't need to spend more money on new releases. I haven't bought a game day one in ages. Lots of good games but just not enough time to get through them.
The problem with games nowadays is the fact that they took challenges away such as completing a game on the hardest difficulty or solving a riddle/puzzle and at the end you'd be rewarded for it, it was unique to you and was a statement/trophy proving you did something others had trouble doing and was respected for, not just that but you felt accomplished for doing it. Nowadays people and devs have gotten lazy and made it where you can just buy it now so overall gaming lacks challenge, purpose and goals to encourage you to play more and motivate others as a result.
Try indie! "The Talos Principle, e.g. Most of the innovating stuff nowadays comes from smaller developers
I absolutely agree with you micro transaction has gotten out of control & should be stopped. Too many games company's rather take people's money by transaction than give players what they need like good DLC'S
No.
Games should come out complete.
Not full of bugs needing downloaded patches and selling DLCs afterwards.
@@guilhermecaiado5384 I believe Steven meant expansions when he mentioned dlc
Something you left out is that whenever a busted game launches, if it has a store the store always works and has no issues.
Ha true
This is why Ive started to dive a lot more into Indie Games.
Honestly, my two most favorite games, Terraria and Hollow Knight kind of show how much the Indie scene is picking up the pieces from Triple A games to make something amazing. No paid for DLC. You pay for the game and you get a finished product. Developers even continue to release more content for the games regardless if it is profitable or not because gaming is seen as an art and nothing less.
Looking forward to see Hollow Knight: Silksong release since Team Cherry has put a lot of time into it. Also looking forward to seeing what ReLogic does with their games, as well as future releases.
Check out Death’s Door if you haven’t already it’s a great indie game
Yeah, agreed. Two of my favorite games from recent years, Raft and KingdomComeDeliverance, were made by indie studios
Both are definitely worth playing. The first is a survival sandbox game where scour the oceans for resources, build your raft and slowly discover what happened to the rest of the Earth, while the latter is a medieval RPG story from the perspective of an average Czech peasant. Felt like fresh wind to the tired superhero plots of most games.
i reccomend ori celeste and shovel knight. the ori games are closest to HK,
I personally recommend playing Hades, it isn't the best but it's no ordinary piece of steak...just in a league of its own.
Some others to consider - Kenshi, Starsector, Rimworld, Subnautica (Below Zero is meh story-wise though), Stardew Valley, Starcom: Nexus, The Riftbreaker, Legend of Grimrock 1 and 2.
Whilst I fully agree with EVERYTHING you highlighted in this video, and I know you talked about about Elden Ring and just how great of a game that was... we did also get Ghost of Tsushima in the last couple years which I think everyone tends to forget how much of a banger that video game was.
Elden ring and GoT are the only good games that I would buy again since black ops 3. Feels like those are the only real gaming devs left
Ghost of Tsushima is technically an inferior game to Horizon Zero Dawn for example. But the feeling I get when I play GoT is only comparable to when I played Uncharted 2 for the first time and the recent GOW games. It's a basic game but basic in the best way. When I want to just chill nowadays, I hop on GoT
Most of the games these days play themselves with an illusion of u having control...Today I completed [Prototype] and I walked out with satisfaction of another level cause the level of freedom in completing missions it offers is too surreal...I mean I intentionally didn't use my powers in a few missions and was able to complete them only via disguise as military which is never told to me or instructed by the game...I don't even have to do the side activities to upgrade completely if I simply keep having fun and reek havoc in the open world, I got enough XP to upgrade my abilities....The game simply says "here's the game, be creative and go crazy".. That's something modern games don't tell U, instead these games are only interested in telling their story the way they intended it by forcing U "play" as they want!
Prototype came out in 2009, well before this modern gaming rot took place.
@@KratostheThird Prototype was fucking goat I wish there was a 3rd one
Laziness. Cutting corners. Not being passionate about the project, but the money and clout.
Most games now are just low quality. You can feel the laziness in the game designs itself. Like Gotham Knights. They put repetitive gameplay in place of actual gameplay. They chose the easy option to “Copy paste” things throughout the entire time.
Then focusing on the micros transactions on top of it as you mentioned.
Micro transactions ruin a lot of things yes
@@EndymionTv Corporate greed in general, or just human greed. It’s disheartening.
Also the heavier focus on monetizing to kids, because they can easily trick them or entice them into the micro transactions.
Arkham knight was a masterpiece. Do u mean gotham knights?
@@l.a.wrecords6537 Yes thank you, I completely got the words mixed.
I grew up with games like Suikoden 2 and Chrono Cross and I still play them today for the amazing story and plot twists those games has.
Gensou Suikoden II is one of my favourite games.
I grew up with fight games like The warriors, Bully, Dbz Budaki
@@mmi4745 Ah the good ole days of playing the Budokai series. Great times!
Good review, there is only one important aspect missing....gamers increasingly seek value for money (particularly game lenght), in great part as a result of the months it took them to finish the witcher 3 and dlcs...this is really bad for the business models of certain game developers (e.g. ea sports and fifa franchise) who want you free and willing to buy a new game every 6 to 12 months - why would you want to buy a new fifa whem every minute you play is dedicated to a game the size of ac valhalla or the witcher 3?
Hence their response = microtransactions and an increasing investment in open world games..its ironic and sad that the obvious last example of a great rpg was also the one that caused the current state of affairs
Game length isn't always great. Games like the new Assasin's Creed games are really... I REALLY enjoyed AC Origins, it was beautiful, had a pretty good story, and I was able to play through most of the story in a couple of weeks (in the evenings only) and then I tried Oddessy. Not bad, but it went way too long. I didn't finish it, already uninstalled it. Not a bad game, but it was too much of a grind to get anywhere, and the quick travel sucked. I get why the devs changed the quick travel so much, but it ends up being so troublesome when you only want to play for 30 min and then jump into bed. Point being, AC is LOOOOONG and I just wasn't up for a game that would take me probably a year to finish. I went back to the Tomb Raider games after that, tons of fun
If only cyberpunk was built with the same level of love and care that the Witcher 3 got. Modern gaming discussion would be changed a lot.
Yeah unfortunately
Witcher 3 was a buggy, glitchy mess when it first came out.
@@funkrobot9762 Not at the level of Cyberpunk
@@funkrobot9762 no no no it had bugs yea every game has bugs but no game has cyberpunk levels of bugs you do realize that cyberpunk didn't even run on the old Gen consoles and even on the newer gen it still had performance issues CD just lied to their fans about that and many other things
It is. If you played it within the past six months you’d realize that
that moment when my grandpa unlocked an epic and legendary gun from the lootbox before fighting the Germans is a core memory he still remembers.
Honestly all these videos recently about "oh video games are dying/stagnating/whatever" are just evidence to me of one of the absolute most insidious things that big publishers have done. It's not microtransactions, it's not live services. It's the fact that they get so many gamers to think that they, the AAA groups, are the ONLY game in town. I mean, I sit here, observing all this and watching videos like this one, and I'm constantly baffled. For me, excellent games are the NORM... not the exception. As far as I'm concerned, gaming is absolutely thriving. But, that's because I stopped buying AAA games many years ago. I found Isaac and Spelunky, dove into the world of indies, and never looked back. It's been one amazing game after another, over and over and over again. Some are more well known, such as Enter the Gungeon. Others are far more niche. But there's SO MUCH GOOD out there, and more constantly coming out. And yeah, there's some bad eggs in there, devs that try to take advantage of this side of the industry, but I find that most indie fans are a lot less willing to just eat garbage, so to speak, and will tend to completely flip the heck out if a given developer does something nasty. Whereas most AAA fans will just eat it all up and then ask for more, while complaining about it at the same time.
It's not JUST that though. One thing that really, really bugs me is that the AAA guys made ENTIRE GENRES seemingly disappear. Note the word "seemingly" though. It seems to many like it's all FPS games or things with grindy levelling systems like Gotham or... er... more FPS games, but... yeah. "Seems". In reality all the missing genres have been there all along, some absolutely thriving (roguelikes in particular), and innovation everywhere. But you have to, you know, actually BROWSE a bit to find these, whereas the AAA guys come screaming at you and shove their stupid nonsense up your nose without you doing anything at all.
Not to mention that most of these games cost waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy less, but give more value. Seeing someone get like 8 hours of buggy, predatory gameplay out of a $60 game that has a lot of MTX in it saddens me, when I'm over here paying like, $8 for something that'll give me 50 hours of non-glitchy gameplay without any of that MTX garbage.
Seriously, the whole "gaming is dying" is just an illusion. An illusion that is VERY easy to break through, by just... you know... exploring a bit. The trouble is getting people to actually try that. Though I do notice that more and more ARE doing it as time goes on, which isnt too surprising, considering just how far the AAA side has fallen now.
Facts it’s easy to break through if you’re creative and have enough funding
Which is why I ignore most of these people. They complain gaming is in a horrible state, but they don't even bother searching for good games. They just lazily accept any AAA trash that's thrown onto them through marketing. I could stay here recommending great games all day long. I got almost 130 games in my Steam library and most of them were cheap as fuck and are amazingly great. And man, that's because I don't have the money, most of these games are either F2P, really cheap, got for free, or people gave me as gifts. If I had the spare money, I'd have so many more, because there's really a shitton of amazing games out there.
So... no, I'm not about to buy this apocalyptic talk of "gaming is dying" either. I don't even buy this talk that lootboxes and bla bla bla is a problem at all. "Oh my god, this game is bad because lootboxes!" don't play it, you don't have to. "But people are normalizing it so every game is now shit because of it", that's false, as already pointed. If people want to be dumb and spend a shitton of money of colored pixels, let them! It's their money, it's their skins, it's their gambling addiction. There are way many more games out there you can play that aren't like that, you aren't entitled to get the game you want the way you want. People should learn to buy the food they like and let other people buy the food they like. Not all food needs to suit to your tastes.
Ok, sorry, I got a little carried away xD
@@SirZelean @Zeke Lionhart I can understand the bit about lootboxes and such. Watching these companies prey on people who either cannot resist (addiction issues) or who outright cant see the problem (neurodiverse, or children) is getting real old, real fast. Not to mention people having to watch beloved IPs become corrupted, shambling husks that barely resemble what they once were. Heck, the new "Diablo" is JUST psychological tricks... there's absolutely nothing else to it. That series is likely very, very dead now. There's no way in heck D4... if it ever comes out... will step away from that. And THAT irritates people. Cant blame them. Yeah, as you said, they can avoid buying into it, but they cant avoid the fact that their favorite game series was drenched in slime... sticky slime that will never come off.
Aside from that junk though... yeah, it's frustrating to watch people just ignore good games out there. Like, I was watching a video recently that was a retrospective on Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, which is a game that was well known for having incredible writing/story/voice acting, and there's a ton of people in the comments lamenting how "there hasnt been anything like that in so many years, and there probably wont be again because publishers think it's too risky". And I'm sitting here thinking "there's plenty of great stories in games these days! Just get up and go look for things and get out of your comfort zone for once!" but good luck getting THAT through to them. And if they were to just explore Steam and then wait for a Steam sale, they could have a game that's usually like $20 for about $1 instead, since Valve loves doing that. So many good reasons to go check this stuff out, but they just wont do it.
And that's not even getting into things like Itch io (where most things have a "pay what you want to support the devs if you'd like") or Humble Bundle. It's easier than ever to get new games, but so many wont even try (or arent even aware).
Also good freaking grief UA-cam, cant I even post one comment without a glitch festival happening? aaaaaaaaaagh
@@SirZelean holy shit , i 100% agree with you, i don't know why a lot of people keep saying "gaming is dying", there are horrible games and great games , but let's just focus on the bad games and say that gaming is dying
@@Amalga_Heart oh wow, you comment IS glitched, I can just see it as long as I click the notification. Once I open all comments under your original one, this one is just gone! UA-cam being youtube again.
I mean, I do understand that it can be infuriating if your favorite franchise is "ruined" by modern AAA practices. If that happened to Diablo 15 years ago, I would be flipping mad. But now I'm all for individual freedom and individual responsibility. It's okay you are mad, but it's not okay to go screeching around and so governmental force to stop companies from doing their games. There ARE people out there who like those types of games, as much as the community wants to victimize them all.
Even though are are people out there who are addicted and need help, not everyone belongs to the same basket. And even in favor of those addicted, I don't think banishing these types of games from the planet is a good idea. That's not how addiction works. You don't protect someone who's addicted by removing the source of their addiction. They are dependant, they won't stop being dependant if you do that, they will just move to the next best thing. This practice is not sustainable. They way I believe is right is actually helping these people. Showing them they need help, showing them the way to find help, helping them become stronger and able to avoid being addicted in the first place. This way literally everyone wins, except it's harder than to just scream on the internet about how you think lootboxes are bad and companies are evil (I'm not implying you do that xD).
And I don't even think being mad about a franchise is justified. As I said, if I was younger I would be, I understand how it is. But now I see this as just... Pixels in a screen. Sure, I agree about how much of an art games are, how COMPLETELY AMAZING of an experience they are - I wouldn't pursue a game design career if I didn't understand that. But still, being mad about it? There are so many important things to worry about out there, what's the point of being mad about a bunch of pixels on a screen, a bunch of pixels you won't even see anyways because the company screwed up on their making? Diablo Immortal won't change Diablo 1, 2 or 3. If you don't play it, it's like if it never existed. You don't have to waste your precious time thinking about this kind of stuff, you know what I mean?
And also, Legacy of Kain is... Chef's kiss! 🤌
I only paid for DLC once, it happened to be for Mass Effect 3. After that I stepped away from gaming for the most part. Still play occasionally but only after a titles been out for a while and thoroughly vetted.
Almost 8 years later, and Witcher 3 still shows how to do a game (not only an interactive moneymaker platform) properly.
Even despite CP2077, I'm still proud of you, CDPR!
They are fixing cp2077, so I still love them
Yuck. I would take No Man's Sky than either of two games.
@@ZeroOne130 To each their own, I guess.😉
I never finished TW3, I have more than 400hrs in CP2077. CP2077 is way better than TW3.
I’m not going to shill for cdpr. They messed up. They lied. They deserve the hate. Cyberpunk is an okay game and I’m glad they are spending the time to fix it, give out some free dlc, and make a worthwhile expansion. I applaud them for trying to recover their reputation even though they never will
Making games open world kills the fun in many ways. It becomes an RPG, and the fun in the game becomes spaced. You're left with walking around most of the time. I love linear games.
That's an amazing video mate. As a middle aged gamer (36 years old) I grew up playing games without any monetisation method mainly because internet wasn't such a big thing back then. Whatever becomes an industry is getting saturated by money. That's the sad truth. Companies sees you as a customer and not as a fan (even if they refer to you as such). It's really sad, that's why i got the decision not to buy a AAA game in full price any more (apart from some exceptions).
@@miraak8523 Thank you.
@Miraak Ok Boomer.
It's the same thing with movies and music. These industries just invest money in to what they want you to want not what WE want. Creativity is gone in place of statistic driven, non risk taking safe bets and rehashed sequels.
Exactly
Remember in old games.. if you stopped playing for a while. When you got back to the game you didn't know what to do because you forgot.. games didn't hold your hand back then.. now you can stop playing for a year come back and the game will have endless markers of where to go and what to do. Back then you had to pay attention to the story and what NPCs told you so you can progress in the story..
To me, the main problem for Cosmetics aside from the absurd money involved- is because the game will either eventually shut down its service if you just want to look good online- or if it’s a yearly game, all the money spent looking good won’t matter in a year since you’ll have new stuff to buy.
The 90's and early 2000's were the height of video games for me!
Yeah then Candy Crush happened
@@princessapplestrach6327 it was call of duty and EA sports that messed the whole thing up mate. That and leftist wokists
Aren't everything? Music? Films?
I used to love playing video games a lot in the past but these days I barley play anymore. Whether it’s due to me having hobbies I like or they’re not fun anymore I can’t really say but I have noticed a shift in how my attention towards them is nowadays
Edit: That’s also why I like games like the elder scrolls series and cyberpunk is a new one for me but it’s still a bit fun lol
If you have a pc, get steam then buy indie games. There are tons of amazing and cheap open world indie games. Games like subnautica, raft, planet crafter and many many more.
Gaming is one of the many hobbies I have. Don’t speak of gaming as a waste of time.
@@Filthy_Larry he’s not saying it’s a waste of time he is saying he doesn’t find it fun for himself there is a big difference
@@iloveaciddrinking ok
@@Filthy_Larry stop being so sensitive
I used to game a lot. My gameplay has shrunk down to one, maybe two games a year if lucky. I won't play live services or games with microtransactions. I'm all about the RPG single-player experience which limits my options overall. I will buy a good DLC/expansion if it's worth it and brings something to the game. The Witcher 3 expansions were worth my hard-earned duckies!
I totally understand you & that’s a good way to play. It’s why I won’t play Final Fantasy XIV cause it’s too time consuming. I can’t juggle Destiny 2 & other games already lol I’m good
What Witcher 3 dlc was paid?
It was all free here.
@@FewNewReasonss
All TW3 DLCs were free. I'm talking about the expansions Blood and Wine, and Hearts of Stone. Those were practically a game all on their own. :)
@@micheleosullivan4430 You should give Cyberpunk 2077 a try. It got a bad rep for being an actual RPG and not a psychopath sandbox like the GTA, but as a RPG fan you should probably enjoy it.
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I wish I could! I was so bummed when they made it First Person. It gives me migraines and makes me feel ill. :(
Yes! You are correct! The Witcher 3 does it right! I have faith in CD Project Red that 4 will be as good if not better- if that's possible! Despite its rough launch, Cyberpunk 2077 was almost equally as intricate.
I really want Cyberpunk 2077. I've never lost faith, and in recent times the game is apparently very good, but the launch screwed it over
I don't usually play most modern AAA games, but my issues whenever I do dabble in them is the forced linear walking sections. Like the games force you to do what it tells you because of story, and you aren't allowed to wander off and explore until the forced walking section is over. It really becomes apparent when replaying it and it's not fun.
Yeah, what is with AAA game and walking through tight spaces after every encounter, the formula is just too predictable, they all seem the same.
It’s not my favorite game, but that is one thing I really enjoyed about Elden ring. The freedom to explore, the sandbox to create your own adventure.
I have some hope for Starfield since Bethesda does expansive world-building and sandboxes well.
@@sckshakex4308 they double as hidden loading screens and ways to inject exposition because storytelling in AAA games have become lazy and people shell out 70 dollars for good graphics and low effort stories.
That's fine If it's that type of game and meant to be as such but yeah nowadays they all do it. It's not just cinematic CoD esque games anymore
God of War Ragnarok and Callisto protocol... my god, just let me fucking run around or have it be an actual cutscene
I dont think gaming is dying, its never going to die because its the biggest form of entertainment. My favorite games of all time are AAA. Red Dead 2, Witcher 3, and Skyrim.
Good choices.
Ugh, this topic has been talked to death. We get it, microtransactions bad. But although it may play a part in why games aren't fun anymore, it's not the main reason. Firstly, before I give me reason for why I think modern games suck, I'd like to quickly address that the microtransaction issue is something that primarily plagues live service games. Most AAA single player games do not have microtransactions. The problem with modern gaming is that AAA developers are too focused on trying to bring you an "experience". They have these beautiful graphics, enriching stories, cinematic combat and gameplay. In other words, they're trying too hard to be movies. Games aren't supposed to be movies. They're supposed to be fun and exciting with deep gameplay mechanics. AAA games no longer strive to be fun. They strive to be accessible and to appeal to the widest possible market. People hate me when I say this, but for lack of a better word "normies". That's who game companies are trying to appeal to. They can't be too complex, they have to have a million different accessibility options to make the game easier, that makes easy mode look like dark souls. And they have to make everything super politically correct and woke so they get high critic scores. But most importantly, it has to be familiar to the audience they're marketing to. If it's too outside the norm, then they won't like it.
I was kinda expecting to hear something new and insightful. This has been a talking point since the PS3/360 era
Games became too forumalic all the seem to care about it generating passive money, and extend play time. I dont think microtransaction and grinding are killing games. But they are making them less enjoyable.
The issue is the lack of variety, deep mechnics, and engaging story. If the game is missing 2 of these things and are filled with microtrans actions and grind. It will lose favor.
Microtrans action and grind arent the issue they just make the expreince worse on games that are already not that good.
I recently quit Asphalt 9 after 3 years. In the past, it was the one live service game I decided to go for since I like racing games and being a mobile game, it runs even better on the Windows port which is surprisngly active with multiplayer action as good if not better than even the newest Need for Speed or Forza. I paid for the season passes for a couple years and spent hours grinding "to get my money's worth". Slowly, but surely, the monetization started to become more aggressive, players paying more and getting less with every update. It opened my eyes to just how these business decisions slowly turn the screws on their customers to monitor their change in profits that much more closely and wonder just how it affects other games I simply don't put my time or money into. I only buy games as is usually. DLC is tricky because it can be a complete turnoff for a game, or be good enough that you buy a whole console (Kazuya main in Tekken since 2006, bought a Switch when they put him in Smash in 2021 and legit 90% of my total Switch usage is just for that).
TL;DR
This'll only get worse for some games depending on the developer and publisher team. If everyone in the world stopped pre-ordering, that'd be good first step
Accessibility does not equal making a game easier. Making a game easier can be one way of making it more accessible but there are other things that dont make a game easier but more accessible. Like street fighters audio desgin making it possible for blind players to play the game or color blind modes in alot of games.
IDK bro... Kojima gave us all something entirely different with Death Stranding, and I f*cking loved it, but people sh*t all over it anyway. 🤷🏻♀️🙄 So how badly DO people really want to experience something outside "the norm"??
I wish people were more open minded, but at the end of the day, it always ends up being broken, buggy or unfinished looter shooters that make the most money or garner the most pre-orders, therefore, most studios just continue making more of the same 'ol, same 'ol.
Best time for gaming imo was early 2010s. Companies were not afraid to innovate. You could just unwind and immerse yourself.
And late 2000s. Basically the 7th gen consoles.
2010? The years when everyone was making war shooters and MMOs and there were almost no indie games because Valve, Sony and Microsoft wouldn't allow self-publishing without the support of a "major" publisher? I don't think so.
The one thing I don't like about going back to those games is the immensely brown and gray look that most games had. Otherwise, they're great.
Depending on your age it probably differs. I’d argue late 90’s early 2000s had some of the most innovation in gaming.
@@theusernameicoodfind yeah late 90s to mid to late. 00s was better.
Although I would say that online console gaming peaked later in early 2010s....
It’s not like monetizations are predatory, but players are willing to spend and become the prey
Same thing with the games themselves. Gotham Knights’ reveal trailer showed everything the game had to offer, and I didn’t buy it because I’d been disappointed with that trailer and all of the ones after it. Nothing was hidden from players in the trailers, and they certainly weren’t lied to about the game, and yet they bought it anyway and acted surprised that it was bland and soulless…
I'd argue ingame public lootbox openings is definitely predatory.
That's like saying that casinos aren't predatory... super disingenuous
@@AndrewAnstrom Yes you are right, casinos are grabing people inside, forcing them to gamble, and you totally can't avoid this
@@Leo3474A_A that's not the definition of predatory man... predatory also means using deceptive practices to deceive consumers or distract them from what they're actually doing... video game monetization is clearly predatory because it preys on stupid people or younger, more ignorant gamers
honestly, the cosmetics thing. I think that is one of the main reasons why wow classic was such an experience for me.
Modern games are just too busy. Too much going on. Not focused. Unfortunately when a developer makes a simple focused game reviewers and players call it shallow. There is a very big difference between "Shallow" and "Focused". Younger gamers don't seem to understand this I noticed as someone who has gamed since the early 90's.
Some examples of top tier focused games that got panned for being "shallow" or "empty":
Onrush
Rage 2
Starlink
Fucking yes. Onrush. It deserved to live on. And I would pay to get permanent servers if I win the lottery.
@@Zynet_Eseled Whats Onrush?
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 a now defunct vehicle team combat game. Was incredible
What?! Rage 2 was an awesome shooter!
@@thegamingprozone1941 Agree. But the the general gaming public accused it of being empty. I love the game myself.
At 10:25 the thing about batman not using guns is a recent thing. In the early comics he would blast criminals with an mg42
It's not a recent thing, Batman has been a no kill and no guns superhero for well over 50 years. People keep bringing up the early comics but that's so very very early in his history as to be irrelevant.
The saddest part is that microtransactions on cosmetics isn’t the worst, because at least they don’t hurt the balance or the game play.
The worst kind of monetization are the ones that have viable strategies or contents behind paywalls, or heck, just give unfair advantages to the players who whale out.
Been gaming for 40 years. The sad reality is that this is actually the best time ever to be a gamer. The problem is that: one, people forget that making video games is a business; two, that is a mass form of entertainment so the expectation that every game will be personalized to your preferences is unreasonable and unfair; three, there is a generational cynicism that pervades so much these days.
For example. I don’t like The Witcher 3… and that’s okay. I find that people love its storytelling so much that they overlook is clunky game play and not-very-intuitive controls. But people are different. Some people will overlook average gameplay for a good story, others will overlook an average story for a game that feels good to play.
Not every game is made for everybody. Live service games aren’t some monetization scam. They are made for players (like me) who want to enjoy an MMO like game without having to play it like a second job. OTOH, players who aren’t interested in having a LTR with a game, aren’t going to enjoy it. Just because I don’t like a game doesn’t make it a bad game. Just a bad game for ME.
Very well thought out response. To me the greatest issue like you surmised is lack of nuance. There is deeper than shows and most people just hate to catch it. You said you don't like The Witcher 3? Well, I love it. But when it comes to criticism, it is not suddenly God. I personally don't think it's got clunky combat but I haven't grown playing the games you have with the focus you have, you know? So that's my point, really. You are right and people lacking other perspectives in this matter are not doing themselves a favor.
@@chillaxboi2109 Exactly. Taste in games is like taste in food. It’s personal, and very subjective. What one person may love, another can’t stand…and that’s okay….
The Witcher 3 is the first game I've ever seen to have such a variety of enemies with different attack styles along with many different friends and foes that makes each one unique to the experience, in addition to a great story and made it all fit into huge game. I doubt we'll see another.
So you only play triple a games I see
You could play older games, they tend to also be good.
@@sinxxu let's not pretend that most indie games aren't absolute trash.
One of the things I found disappointing about the witcher 3 is the lack of variety and depth in the enemy attacks, Its not an insanely unique series of attacks or mechanics that you have to deal with in the witcher 3
Sure the attack styles are different with varied enemies, but really it's just button mashing to take em down with Geralt. I like Witcher 3. It's one of only two games I've completed and then immediately started another playthrough (the other being RDR2). Witcher 3 is great because of the storytelling and sheer massive size of the game world and things to do (Gwent is super fun). For combat though...I've never seen a better, more fun system than Sekiro. That game's combat is ADDICTIVE.
My favorite part about society is the 20 and 30 somethings who are just growing up and becoming cynical are searching for some kind of deeper meaning for the fact that they are becoming desensitized to the things that used to bring them joy.
Exactly “they just don’t make games like this anymore” is just patently untrue. There are many problems with modern gaming, and many that he brought up I agree with, but there were many problems with past gaming. There are so many meaningful experiences available, some of the best ever made. They need to learn to be critical without discounting the good and to have balanced takes that aren’t driven by nostalgia and a loss of childlike wonder.
They also need to learn to have fun.
Fuck off with the "you're just old now" gaslighting bullshit. Modern games just suck. That's all there is to it.
@@PeteyPirahna77 You can have the opinion that they suck, but that’s not an objective reality. Many people love much of the new games, and many new games are accepted as genuinely some of the best games that have ever been made. Once again, I respect that you dislike them, but we’re not talking in purely objective terms. Opinions differ, and things like age and nostalgia can absolutely affect those things
While I agree that the whole "Games aren't fun anymore" is just not true, alot of them definitly are.
You can't denie that (mainly AAA) monetization is getting out of hand.
But back to topic, yes games are still fun, not perse the same, but fun.
Idk man when I play left 4 dead bo1 or 2 and still have the same amount of fun gotta be something different
I find myself playing less games nowadays. Just can't get into them anymore and besides I feel better going outside or doing something more meaningful with my time. Everything has changed sadly
As someone who couldn't really play all the great games when they were released i plan to slowly play all of them now in 2023 and There being more than 300 of those Gold games ( yea Most of the Great series like ff,kh,xc,bg1,2 etc i mean i cant even name all of em) by the time i catch up with these Hopefully the modern gaming state will turn back to what it used to be as i definitely am enjoying the old games more than the newer ones
Thank god I'm playing only jrpg 95% of the time, this genre has some problems as well but it doesn't even come close to the AAA bullshit.
I am excited for Tales of Symphonia Remaster this month
JRPGs are gonna be next in the future. Look at day one DLCs.
@@therealjaystone2344 I never said jrpg are free from this shit, just look at Tales Of Arise the way they put the ingame shop in the game was disgusting. But I don't think this will ever reach the point that the AAA industry has reached. The same with the woke shit more and more games put in their narrative and characters the only japanese publisher I can think of who would do stuff like this would be Square Enix.
good point, upvote, theyre similar to indie and AA titles or eurojanks. but you can give them eexcuse since their studio production value aint AAA
oh in retrospect jrpg's were indie for its scale.
Before i even watch the video im just going to assume its because decades ago developers poured their heart and soul into making an amazing game that no one had ever seen before. now its mainly just how quickly can they get out a game and make the most amount of money they can off it without having to go through the necessary development process required to make the game truly fantastic.
The gates of hell were open in 2006 with that horse armour DLC in Oblivion
The last game I bought was POE 2: Deadfire (2018). The game before that, was Dragon Age Origins (2008). The last 15 years I only bought 2 games. I mainly played Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2nd campaign is right around the corner. Also there is yet to come a single shooter that would give me more joy than F.E.A.R. (2005).
I honestly just think in some cases we just got old and don't favor how things are now. I just go by the adage of researching a game before playing it. Never play a game without research, you'll only hurt yourself if you go in blind.
That's exactly what is, imo. It's not that gaming suddenly became trash, it's the many gamers are older, with less time and are much more discriminating with what kind of gaming experience they want. There were definitely alot of great games back in the day, but also a ton of garbage, it's just the we either remember that garbage with nostalgia or just remember the games that were actually great.
There's plenty of games out there, enough for any taste but you need to research and look for them, the AAA space is gonna chase the money first and foremost cuz many of them cost a hundred million or more in production and marketing and they need to get that ROI, it's just business sense, like it or not.
@@gman7497 This is completely fair. I would recommend looking into different review channels and wait for them to give a review on the game. You can decide to buy it or not after that. I have met a lot of older gamers that tend to remember that gaming was a lot better back in the day than it actually was. I'm an MMO play and there are a ton of people I've spoken too that believe that mechanics like XP debt were good just because other systems at the time were good. It kind of makes you wonder how good we actually remember things.
@@cynthiahembree3957 yup I remember the ps1/ps2/n64 days and yeah there were some great games but alot of trash, and the indie space was nonexistent at that time so we had to accept paying full price for everything.
I'm all for indie developers because the fun comes first with those games!
This is how I left SWTOR. Once Disney bought Lucasfilm the Cartel Market became a vending machine for everything I had to farm and fight for. They even sold mimic PvP armor I had to WIN tournaments to get. It was madness.
Oh that happened? Yeah I left TOR when Disney got involved with Star Wars. I lost my passion for the franchise. Now I basically like KOTOR and that's it. I don't even know if I like the prequels or the original films anymore.
@@TheMahayanist Sometimes we don't quit things, rather they quit us.
Disney took something we all had a version of in our minds. Then they f'd with all of it.
No Mara Jade.
No Vong.
Just "Legends", a dumpster and a match.....
I understand.
I'm pretty proud of having never spent money on cosmetics or microtransactions
Imo there are still some modern games that do feel fun but unfortunately their becoming fewer and fewer with Every new year unfortunately. For me personally I enjoyed play god of war, Elden ring, gang beast, party animals, forbidden west, plagues tale, and couple of others mostly Nintendo. Overall I don’t think their dying out but there just areant a lot of em left unfortunately. Especially when it comes to multiplayer
And most of those games you listed have one thing in common, no micro transactions. Funny isn’t it?
@@EndymionTv very true. Honestly what’s even more sad is that games with micro transactions become more of a grind and feel less fun. Usually you’ll see that in games like gears 5, halo infinite, multiverses etc
Elden Ring was an absolute breath of pure, fresh air for me. Modern gaming industry sucks, mostly, so those rare gems are all the more precious.
@@EndymionTv Because they are single player ... No shit dude lol
Sekiro is awesome too, some people hate it because it's not like the souls games,has no build variety. You can make a game replayable without putting RPG in it. The game is absolutely challenging and bosses will punish you if you are spamming L1 or R1. The only way to beat them is to git gud and I love it. Reminds me of megaman games.
For Pokémon, if you had multiple save slots, it would be way too easy to farm rare Pokémon. I feel like the save slot just makes you more invested in the story you start
Yes, and the whole point of the main-line Pokemon games are to trade with friends, breaking the boundary between "single player" and multiplayer. They created special cords for it and everything, and even games like Pokemon Stadium come up with new tech to enhance that unique element even further. The idea of multiple saves defeats all of that. One save only, thank you.
You have a save per user profile. You can easily have multiple saves of the same game on the same console. As a competitive player that is often a necessity.
"In the story" if you are looking at Pokemon for the story you are a sad sad person.
In a sub-genre that has SMT, Persona, Yokai Watch, Digimon Survive, & Digimon Cyber Sleuth you go with a non-mystery dungeon Pokemon game? This is without expanding out even wider to other JRPG's that are renowned for their story specifically.
Which is the main reason I have decided to blow the dust off older consoles and play the games I grew up with and loving every single minute of it.
Very simple reason. Modern AAA games are spending more money on marketing & paid reviews than the actual development of the game. And even in the development they focus on all the wrong things like they spend millions of dollars just on things like graphics rather than focusing on making the gameplay fun & having a unique concept to sell the game. They are inflating their budget & cuz of that they can't take risks cuz if the game flops it would be a huge loss. Like the entire studio can shut down in some cases due to it. So they copy tried & tested formula, make generic games, don't take risks & put microtransactions so that even if the game flops they can breakeven.
Gaming is dead. It's not about fun & creativity anymore. Its not about providing value anymore. Everyone's just making the same shit & consumers keep buying the same shit over & over again.
Gaming is not dead, you’re just playing the wrong game than treating people of consumer when you are the biggest.
@@ni9274 Yeah like these people really can't stop talking about the same few companies all the time like gaming is bigger than ever theres tons of devs making games now if they don't like whats coming out with AAA game comapnies there is plenty of other games to play. THey just don't want to play because they actually like the realistic graphics and features from AAA games and of course the clicks they get for doomsaying gaming.
Disco elysium, divinity orginal sin 2, and pathfinder all are exceptional games. Not all of modern games are infested with greedy business practices. But for sure they're are games that came out past the witcher 3 that are fantastic.
One thing I've noticed with a lot of games in recent memory is that a game can literally be unplayable or be in a "currently being repaired" state but the cosmetic marketplace/store is always operational. What the fuck happened
Really enjoying your content, I appreciate how you break down this problem with modern gaming. No doubt the popularity in the microtransaction framework has gained momentum. Mobile "games" have provided corporations with enough data to confirm it's easy money when compared to designing a good product. I draw a parallel with Atari and friend's blunders by flooding the market in the early 80's. Eventually, consumers push back. We may be at, or have already surpassed the peak of current business model success. Maybe we need another crash, maybe I have such a large backlog of good games that it doesn't even matter anyway lol.
A lot of games seem like they have stuff tacked on to appease management. Things like open world, RPG elements, cosmetics, loot boxes, multiplayer, etc. (All of those are fine if well done.)
I've been saying that. Look no further than gotham knights a game stuffed with RPG, loot, levels, co-op and cosmetics. People told me to piss off.
I don't feel that. I guess I just play to little - I finish maybe 10-12 games a year and I still have a long list of older games I want to play, so I'm almost never disappointed with the games I chose. This year I'm excited about maybe 4-5 upcoming games and I suspect they're going to be good. The rest will be older gems.
I bought my mom Ratchet and Clank; Rift Apart to play while she recovered from major dental surgery and I don’t think I’ve seen her have that much fun playing a video game in like 10-15 years. Game is solid, I don’t recall her having to buy any micro-transactions. Can’t wait to play it myself.
Last game i genuinely loved was Spiderman for the ps4. Such a good game you can see the passion of the devs work in it. 🤘🏽
When aunt may you know at the end I was devastated 😤😞
Ya played god of war? That's the only good game i have played since covid
@@Mr_Messi hell yea i have i love that game but idk i am a but biased to Spiderman. I grew up playing both games tho. I guess i pick spider man cause id hop on and just swing endlessly lol
Insomniac has a knack for putting out bangers, no matter what year it is.
That boss fight with Doc Ock was so damn good