I'm with Bruce on Elden Ring. I've never enjoyed a game so much, yet at the same time, been so over it. When friends ask about it, I say, "I beat it, I loved it, and I NEVER want to touch it again." It makes me physically ill when I think about playing again, but I'd recommend it to everyone and have fond memories, haha!
I wanna say the biggest draw for Pokemon SV was that it was actually different in many capacities to nearly all of its mainline predecessors. It was on a home console than a handheld, it was a third-person adventure game than a top-down one, it offered multiple storylines, co-op multiplayer, extensive character customization, and it was coming off the heels of Arceus which was a fairly good proof of concept that GameFreak was trying new things that weren't gimmick games, remasters, or shoveling Pikachu or Eevee out the door. That's what drove me and many of my friends that hadn't touched Pokemon in several years to give it a shot. Given the game launched in a busted state but when the last Pokemon game I touched was Omega Ruby back in 2014 and for some it was 2006's Diamond/Pearl or even 2004's FireRed/LeafGreen, SV had enough new stuff being offered to warrant trying it out. I'm willing to bet the record-breaking sales numbers wasn't brand loyalty alone, there are other reasons that people who don't play Pokemon games gave this one a shot.
Prices going from 60 to 70 isn’t going to stop me because I’ve already stopped buying games at release. I have such a massive backlog of games I want to play that I don’t really need the new big titles. I’ll just wait for them to go on sale
Yeah, so many older games at a bargain that's just rotting in my backlog. With newer games, unless it is something you are really excited for, it makes sense to wait until dlc and bug fixes.
Cloud gaming has actually done a lot for me. I started off with Stadia and that taught me how to buy games legitimately based on the idea that I could play anywhere. Then I used GeForce Now which taught me to legitimately build my Steam library and now I own a Steam Deck that's able to play all my purchased games. Before that I illegally downloaded every game my hardware was capable of running, expensive software and movies alike. Those services have taught me to buy digital products legitimately in order to use them across several platforms but also to support the software itself. And this all really started with Stadia so credit to them, they even fully refunded ALL software and hardware I purchased from them and even got to keep their Chromecast and controller. No bad experiences
Worst year in gaming...elden ring, need for speed, sonic, gow, cult of lamb, vampires survivors, two point campus, horizon, and the first fun WWE game in a decade. Those alone make it at least a good year but depends on your taste ig
Thank you Bruce and Lawrence for continuing giving us gaming news in your own style and way, been following you guys for years and it's great to continue to be informed of news with you, onward to a hopefully better 2023!
To Lawrence, what sort of lighting system do you use? I’ve noticed that the colors move like they’re mimicking your audio waves and it’s a cool concept to me
The switch runs on an 8 year old ARM CPU with a 256 cuda core GPU. Doesn't even run the new Pokemon game designed for it decently. It doesn't have a chance at running a high end game like COD
My first time coming back to the channel this year, glad to see you guys are doing well. Things are so hectic right now, stay safe yall! Merry Christmas!
13:00 I am part of that group that does say, Yes, that price hike has stopped me from purchasing *New* games. with my country's Dollar being lower from the US', the average price for a game has gone up to about 120 dollars for a new release. At the moment, i am happily content with catching up on a lot of releases i have missed out on previously, like the Bio-shock series, Fallen Order, just to list a few examples.
70€ on games has certainly had an effect on my purchasing habits - I have yet to buy a PS5 game at full price, despite having it since Day1 - and with Playstation plus now having games, I‘m willing to wait until the console exclusives land there or go on sale for 50% or more
I won a Steam Deck at “stoner bingo” one night and I freaking love it. It was free, so I really had NO expectations but was completely blown away by it after several hours of dying in Noita with no issues!!
I still say that the one of the problems that Google had with Stadia was that there was no store that carried it at all. Baffles the mind. Just have a demo unit that showed what it did.
When game ownership is gone, that shall be the day I stop buying consoles and games altogether, and move over to fucking sudoku pocket books and learn the rubiks cube just to spite the industry
On the subject of Scarlet and Violet, AustinJohn Plays put out a video today that talked about how an overclocked Switch could in fact run the game very smoothly, but suspects that the game runs poorly is because the developer underclocked it in order to allow all Switches, including first gen original Switches, to run the game. There are things in the game that suggest the game was designed with a more advanced Switch Pro in mind, but because it’s not ready, the game was underclocked to work on current hardware. This may also explain why Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was pushed back from holiday 2022 to its current release date (to coincide with the release of the Switch Pro) and why Pokémon was moved up to fill the vacant holiday release space. Regardless, what remains true is that, on optimized hardware, the games run well, so not optimizing performance, even with the aforementioned challenges and circumstances, is inexcusable.
The crazy thing is that many of us outside the US wish games were equivalent to $70 in our local prices. I could buy two games on switch for the recently announced local price of FFXVI.
Call back to Charlotte about game prices... I totally agree. My purchases are less frequent because of the price, but I'm willing to pay for that as long as the product is worth it.
Yeah thats right, 2022 was the worst year for gaming. I was stripped of my rights legally to buy games from steam etc just because i located in the county that did something “wrong”.
Lot of horseshit in the business of games. Also some absolutely astounding games. Elden Ring, Vampire Survivors, Citizen Sleeper, Kirby ATFL, GoW Ragnarok, Immortality, Stray, Case of the Golden Idol, Tunic, etc.
When I started buying my own games they were $50 each. I could fill up the gas tank in my Plymouth Neon for $20, I went to the $1 theater every weekend with my friends, and I could get a can of Surge for 75 cents. While I hate the price increase to $70, the unfortunate truth is $70 isn't bad in comparison.
While I think I will eventually have to pay the $70 price tag, I am still against doing so for the time being. Haven't bought anything at that price tag yet. Even the $60 price tag gives me hesitation, but I'd pay it for titles I really want, which there was only like 1 or 2 of in the last couple years. Everything else is sale prices only. While unlikely, we'll see if I don't buy them at the $70 price tag in the coming year or two.
GTA VI - I‘m worried… so many things that were satire when GTA V came out, especially the radio commercials, are just normal reality today. So I worry to see a black mirror of the future to come…
I agree. . .The year sucked for gaming: - Elden Ring - God of War Ragnarok - Horizon Forbidden West - OW2 [solid game, horrible monetization] - Total Warhammer III - Plague Tale: Requiem - Sifu - Evil Dead - Xenoblade 3 - Need for Speed Unbound - Marvel's Midnight Suns - MultiVersus - Spider-man on PC - D2: The Witch Queen - Steam Deck - PS5 and PC components availability - Stadia is gone Super L year
Cloud whatever is never gonna take off in the US until we get out of this laughable crapy internet speeds that our ISP monopolies have control over. Especially in the midwest where I live most cities have at most 1 internet company where you have to pay extra to just have decent internet. As for games and all that this year has been kinda crapy to me. But this is kinda a 3 year dry spell for me unfortunately. I know last year I got a few games that were fun like "the room" series, Middle earth: Shadow of war, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Superliminal, house of da vinci 1 and 2, Control, Metro Exodus, and Carrion. Some of those were really fun games like control, shovel knight, the room games, house of da vinci games. But some were either pretty short or just not that much fun and also were already old and got them on sale. This years christmas sale on steam is a bit of a disappointment since I was expecting slightly better discounts vs other times of the year and yet it's the same. I had been waiting for a while for some good discounts maybe. Some games that released that I was looking forward to ended up becoming somewhat a disappointment. Shadow Warrior 3 doesn't look nearly as much fun as the one before it. Evil West looked promising at first only to see it looks like it came out a decade to late. High on life does look fun, but like some have pointed out it seems like some of the jokes go on to long (which even if you turn down the dialog some you can't skip/avoid), as well as no FOV slider is really putting people off on that game. Currently I am just kinda waiting cause doesn't really feel like it is worth full price right now. No More Heroes 3 I had been looking forward to but still don't own a switch so didn't think I would have a chance at it until I saw it is released on PC now. Looks kinda like it will be fun, even watched a bit of Lawrence play it here or there in videos. However, it doesn't seem like it has the same feel as the 2 previous games which I enjoyed. And from some of the criticisms I have heard about it has put me off from getting it yet. Maybe some day. Dying Light 2 had a bunch of promises and way to many people hyping it up like Alanah who was talking about how the game was gonna be revolutionary when it releases etc. Pointing out this and that it was gonna do in gameplay etc. Only for that to be a lie and a let down. I have mostly only hear people talk about how they prefer the first one over it. From what iv seen of gameplay it doesn't interest me as much as dying light 1 did when I played it. I think the other factor these days is the fact so much of the market is being pushed towards MMO games. So many games releasing these days and the past year have mostly been aimed at people playing online matches against others. Those types of games don't interest me. I also don't find much fun in games like dark souls/elden Ring etc. Lies of P does have my curiosity and thus is on my wishlist but I haven't seen much from the game so when it does release I might not be interested in it unfortunately if it's to much like a dark souls game. Then there is the fact of not having the newest consoles is also hurting my gaming. But the newest consoles have put me off from getting them. From the joystick drift the switch controllers are suffering with A LOT, to ifixit doing a tear down of the PS5 controller and basically saying "these will inevitably suffer from joystick drift eventually" for a controller that costs so much money and wont last. I still have my very old, old school game consoles that still work to this day. Granted N64 joystick was crapy out of the gate but you can buy retro controllers that work with it that have a better joystick that wont suffer from that. When I buy a console or something I want something that will last, especially if I have to fork over so much money for it. If they aren't gonna last or they want to push me onto some stupid subscription model to be able to play certain games or consoles I lose all interest in said stuff. Also screw Nintendo they have turned into such an awful company over the years where they care more and more about profits. They used to have it where if your gameboy would break or something you could send it in and they would fix it for you, even long after the fact. Nowadays you get a controller that suffers from joystick drift and have to jump through hoops to get it fixed or replaced. Sometimes getting the same controller back that is still suffering from the problem you sent it in for. And their games staying full price for a decade after they released is also a joke. Last first party nintendo game I got was way back for the Wii and it was Mario Bros Wii which I was excited for since it finally dropped down to like $20-30. After I got it and played it for a half an hour I realized it was just the same old mario brothers levels just with better graphics really. If I wanted that, I could have just played some old mario brothers games. Same with them pushing mario brothers all stars and making it artificially scarce by only releasing it for a short time. Or those mini retro consoles they released for a short time. And not to mention flagging or taking monetization from people making any type of video on Nintendo stuff on youtube a while back. Right now I am wanting some fun new games that interest me but I am having a very hard time finding them since the gaming climate these days is mostly pushed towards subscriptions, or always online junk, mmo type games, or having to buy an expensive console that is still hard to find cause of scalpers. It is depressing, I miss just having a fun game that I can play without having to jump through hoops etc.
I will not buy £70 games. There will be maybe one or two games a year that I might consider it for. But I will be trying my hardest to not give in. I have such a back log anyway that I can basically live in the sales at this point, so that’s what I’ll do. Basically, them upping the cost means they will get considerably less money from me as I will be waiting for discounts. So it will have the opposite effect that they want. I’d urge all gamers to take the same approach and they will lose money, not make it. While we still get to play the games we love for like half the price or more. Why give all that money to Microsoft when you can wait 3-6 months and effectively keep half the money for yourself? At a certain point it becomes an issue of self respect.
Over the last few years I’ve gotten in the habit of waiting for game sales anyway so the 70$ tag hasn’t changed my buying decisions. I only just now bought FF7 intergrade this week because it dropped to 40$ on the winter Steam sale. My backlog’s way too stuffed to grab everything on day one.
I got a Steam Deck about a month ago! I’ve always enjoyed playing games, but the accessibility was tough since I work a ton. Having a mobile, handheld, powerful gaming device I can throw nearly anything at is absolutely welcome. However, battery life and resolution are my biggest gripes. I do understand that the device is SMALL so, asking for consistent 1080p and great battery life is asking a lot. 🤷🏻
If single player, AAA games WITHOUT microtransactions cost me $70 than I can justify that as an inflation adjustment. When games that nickel and dime you after the fact is when I have huge problems with the price increase.
70$ games I don't buy them at release anymore. I just wait a couple of months till they get a discount.... Unless it's Nintendo. Their games are forever full price. Seriously.... Mario Odyssey still at full price and not a single Nintendo game went on sale this holiday season.
The step from 60-70 turned me into a guy who waits for sales. It's too close to 100 to feel good. A game needs to be pretty amazing for me to bother paying 70. Just not that many amazing games.
The indies were off the chain this year. It’s time to admit that AAA is total crap, in general, with occasional gems, while the underground thrives… showing us the future of the medium when the giants crash in a few years.
Games being $90 this generation in Canada has stopped me from buying games since I've bought my PS5. I've only bought 3 at full price, otherwise it's been a backlog/PS+ monthly game machine.
Any plans for ya'll to produce in a single studio/location ever again? I get current is an easy set-up, just think there was better energy in the original RT show. Regardless, love the content. Happy New Year
Bruce I love the don't buy it if it broken mentality and they won't make it, but with pokemon people want them to make pokemon games just want them to be good. So how do you solve that issue? Only thing I can think of is longer time between pokemon games to give them more development time.
It's a funny notion to me that because Elden Ring came out this year it couldn't be a bad year for gaming. Newsflash: not everyone liked Elden Ring. I didn't touch the game, it's not my type of game and I knew that before it came out because I tried out Dark Souls and Elden Ring is more of the same. And that counts for a lot of people. So you get a survivorship bias where only the people who like these games play them and they are the ones commenting on it and the whole portion of the gaming sphere that doesn't care one iota about Elden Ring is simply quiet and thus not counted. If there are just two games that come out that are both a very specific and similar type of game for a very specific and similar part of the gaming audience that are considered great (Elden Ring and GoW: Ragnarok), it's a bad year for games.
Lol, if I won the lottery and in the same year the climate breaks down and goes crazy messing everything up. It would still be a bad year. Lottery win ain’t changing that fact, much like a few good games don’t change the overarching direction we’re travelling.
We really only had elden ring and god of war and that's it gaming hype is dying out and people are searching crazy for that one game that's worth buying
If cyberpunk was lifted by positive review from the show. I am curious on how the negative review of the Witcher Shows affect the future of the Witcher Franchise game. This will be an interesting story. And would CDPR distance themselves from the witcher shows?
Nintendo made what was to me a rare apology for Pokemon S&V. I just don't think the first update that came with the apology did anything to my game lol I was so excited for the game, but ngl, It felt like a step back from Pokemon Arceus, or at least to me it does. My scarlett download is now collecting digital dust in my switch since playing it feels like a drag to me. I don't think games this year were that good. Not even Elder Ring, which bored me to death. I spent more time creating my character than playing the game... I've never played Dark Souls or Sekiro however, meaning that I am brand new to these type of games, so maybe that's why. So no more $64.94 dollar big tittle games? I think some are worth the money such as Rockstar titles, but the $10 difference will definitely make think twice about purchasing new games. Btw, is VR still a thing? Were there any new games released for VR or are people still playing beatsaber? I need to take out my Quest 2 and check out what's new. I rarely make long🐴 comments, but y'all's channel really got me going lol Love this channel!
2022 was the year the introduced me to the steam deck so for that I’m very grateful. It’s been my go to for indies and emulated titles (FINALLY played chrono trigger!). Also, Signalis. Everyone needs to play Signalis! So good
Putting CoD on Switch is one of the most laughable things said this year. The moment MS said that just makes me think the MS intends to make CoD exclusive just because it's so laughable to put CoD on Switch. You might as well put Cyberpunk on Switch. Also the price hike to $70 isn't a surprise. If you went shopping lately, everything has gone up in price. Some things went up by 30%+ over the past year so complaining about the prices increasing to $70 is basically complaining when games increased from $50 to $60, seems really bad st first but then becomes to norm and no one will really care after a couple years. Inflation is inevitable.
2022 at least for me didn't really have a lot to offer, but what it did have to offer despite how little it was... was all amazing. Elden Ring, God of War and Horizon all amazing and they all lasted for quite a while. All in all one thing will never change, Fuck blizzard and may GTA 6 finally release one day.
2022 was not only the worst year in gaming. Not to mention inflation and major gas prices. But nice to see part of the original cast post a video during the Holidays.
boo hoo on the $70 price tag of games in the US, prices in Canada are worse and even with the conversion rate our cost of living is about the same if not worse. I haven't paid $80-$100 for a game since the Nintendo 64 days in the 90's. :(
I mean the pokemon games sell well regardless, but also these games (content wise) are very high quality compared to the past several generations. Its pretty well agreed upon with people who have actually plaued the games that the Story is actually enjoyable, character designs are interesting, the pokemon themselves are very well favored by many people, and the open world design actually works great for the gameplay loop. You say here that fans of the games will buy them (almost) no matter what, and that's true... but they are actually enjoying playing this game, quite thoroughly from the general consensus. So yeah they are selling well because the people who actually like the games are actually having a lot of fun with them
I definetly wont be impulse buying brand new games anymore if they all shift to $70 I genuinely wasn't ever planning to play elden ring, and I played Ds2/Ds3/Sekiro. I just didnt plan to buy it, but on release i saw it on the front page of steam and i couldnt pass it up. For $70 I probably would have just stuck to watching content creators play it.
i feel like $70 is where i'm pretty much waiting on a sale for anything that i'm not highly anticipating. i wonder if they used $65 as a stopgap on their way to 70 if it would even seem like a problem to me, even in my brain now i'm kinda waving off $5 as opposed to double that. either way, see ya on the Wario64 posts ✌
I get the statement of "If you don't like the game don't buy it and they won't make it" but that's a very... Vegetarian method lol. One person not buying meat isn't going to change a thing. Cows still gonna die. I.e. A game is still going to get made even if you don't buy it. Takes millions of people not buying a game for it to have any big impact. I think you should just not buy a game for the sake of not enjoying it. Issue there is that games LOOK interesting and fun but in playing them, they can be a let down. Sure "Wait for reviews" but man, that's a hit or miss method as well. I've enjoyed plenty of games who have bad reviews. Most of the time its from a bad launch but the game gets damn near perfect after 2-4 weeks of patches. BF2042 is the most recent example. Game had me hyped up and I was super excited only to be let down in a HUGE way. I hated that god forsaken game at launch. Felt like the worst launch in BF herstory and I've been there for every launch since BC2. Fast forward to 2022 and I actually do enjoy playing it.
I agree that you can just go play something else. It's not infuriating as much as it is disappointment. With Diablo Immortal, I wanted it to be everything they said because I had LOVED the franchise up to that point. So it really sucked seeing something I loved and was excited for to be ruined all for a quick cash grab.
Bruce really isn't someone who enjoys playing challenging games. He can be competative and i mean very competative. Just look at his time in funhaus where they play against other players and he can get really pissed off.
Haven’t watched the video yet but I hope this title is clickbait cause gaming has absolutely NOT sucked. I can’t think of a time gaming has actually ever sucked. Are we really that spoiled?
1812 was way worse, no big releases from nintendo smh
Canadians burned down the White House too. Rough year all around.
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@@quatreraberbawinner2628 Calm up.
I thought throwing rocks at pigs was a pretty good game that year.
I can't believe they didn't even mention that in this video, unsubscribed.
Inside Games has been my only source of gaming news for 2022. Here's hoping the coverage continues in earnest for next year!
I'm with Bruce on Elden Ring. I've never enjoyed a game so much, yet at the same time, been so over it.
When friends ask about it, I say, "I beat it, I loved it, and I NEVER want to touch it again." It makes me physically ill when I think about playing again, but I'd recommend it to everyone and have fond memories, haha!
Hey, I just wanted to say I appreciate you all very much. Thank you for doing such a great job! Love you all!
I wanna say the biggest draw for Pokemon SV was that it was actually different in many capacities to nearly all of its mainline predecessors. It was on a home console than a handheld, it was a third-person adventure game than a top-down one, it offered multiple storylines, co-op multiplayer, extensive character customization, and it was coming off the heels of Arceus which was a fairly good proof of concept that GameFreak was trying new things that weren't gimmick games, remasters, or shoveling Pikachu or Eevee out the door. That's what drove me and many of my friends that hadn't touched Pokemon in several years to give it a shot.
Given the game launched in a busted state but when the last Pokemon game I touched was Omega Ruby back in 2014 and for some it was 2006's Diamond/Pearl or even 2004's FireRed/LeafGreen, SV had enough new stuff being offered to warrant trying it out.
I'm willing to bet the record-breaking sales numbers wasn't brand loyalty alone, there are other reasons that people who don't play Pokemon games gave this one a shot.
The worst part about the new Pokémon game is that it’s really good it just performs terribly
Prices going from 60 to 70 isn’t going to stop me because I’ve already stopped buying games at release. I have such a massive backlog of games I want to play that I don’t really need the new big titles. I’ll just wait for them to go on sale
Half of those games releasing for $70 will be half finished messes too.
Yeah, so many older games at a bargain that's just rotting in my backlog. With newer games, unless it is something you are really excited for, it makes sense to wait until dlc and bug fixes.
Charlotte is looking beautiful and vibrant today 💖
Cloud gaming has actually done a lot for me. I started off with Stadia and that taught me how to buy games legitimately based on the idea that I could play anywhere. Then I used GeForce Now which taught me to legitimately build my Steam library and now I own a Steam Deck that's able to play all my purchased games.
Before that I illegally downloaded every game my hardware was capable of running, expensive software and movies alike. Those services have taught me to buy digital products legitimately in order to use them across several platforms but also to support the software itself.
And this all really started with Stadia so credit to them, they even fully refunded ALL software and hardware I purchased from them and even got to keep their Chromecast and controller. No bad experiences
Worst year in gaming...elden ring, need for speed, sonic, gow, cult of lamb, vampires survivors, two point campus, horizon, and the first fun WWE game in a decade. Those alone make it at least a good year but depends on your taste ig
25 or 30 hours into Elden ring? Try over 300 hours, i loved that game so much!
Thank you Bruce and Lawrence for continuing giving us gaming news in your own style and way, been following you guys for years and it's great to continue to be informed of news with you, onward to a hopefully better 2023!
To Lawrence, what sort of lighting system do you use? I’ve noticed that the colors move like they’re mimicking your audio waves and it’s a cool concept to me
The switch runs on an 8 year old ARM CPU with a 256 cuda core GPU. Doesn't even run the new Pokemon game designed for it decently. It doesn't have a chance at running a high end game like COD
Good to see you guys still doing your thing. Brings me back to the old days. Never stop! Merry Christmas and a happy new year all!
My first time coming back to the channel this year, glad to see you guys are doing well. Things are so hectic right now, stay safe yall! Merry Christmas!
My favorite memory of elden ring is realizing I’m the true villain seeing as how almost everyone I interact with is doomed to die shortly thereafter
"Video games are optional, we don't have to play them. If a [game] makes you upset, just don't play it" --Bruce Greene, 2022
13:00 I am part of that group that does say, Yes, that price hike has stopped me from purchasing *New* games.
with my country's Dollar being lower from the US', the average price for a game has gone up to about 120 dollars for a new release. At the moment, i am happily content with catching up on a lot of releases i have missed out on previously, like the Bio-shock series, Fallen Order, just to list a few examples.
What happened with that guy who had like thousands of hours on Stadia Rdr2 and was asking for a progress transfer
70€ on games has certainly had an effect on my purchasing habits - I have yet to buy a PS5 game at full price, despite having it since Day1 - and with Playstation plus now having games, I‘m willing to wait until the console exclusives land there or go on sale for 50% or more
Y'all are great, and it was really nice seeing so many new faces on the show over the last year or so. Looking forward to more great coverage in 2023!
I won a Steam Deck at “stoner bingo” one night and I freaking love it.
It was free, so I really had NO expectations but was completely blown away by it after several hours of dying in Noita with no issues!!
As a parent I can tell you, I told my child Pokémon was glitchy and they still wanted for Christmas.
I still say that the one of the problems that Google had with Stadia was that there was no store that carried it at all. Baffles the mind. Just have a demo unit that showed what it did.
In 10 years streaming games with be the only way you're legally allowed to play. Mark my dystopian words.
When game ownership is gone, that shall be the day I stop buying consoles and games altogether, and move over to fucking sudoku pocket books and learn the rubiks cube just to spite the industry
On the subject of Scarlet and Violet, AustinJohn Plays put out a video today that talked about how an overclocked Switch could in fact run the game very smoothly, but suspects that the game runs poorly is because the developer underclocked it in order to allow all Switches, including first gen original Switches, to run the game. There are things in the game that suggest the game was designed with a more advanced Switch Pro in mind, but because it’s not ready, the game was underclocked to work on current hardware. This may also explain why Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was pushed back from holiday 2022 to its current release date (to coincide with the release of the Switch Pro) and why Pokémon was moved up to fill the vacant holiday release space.
Regardless, what remains true is that, on optimized hardware, the games run well, so not optimizing performance, even with the aforementioned challenges and circumstances, is inexcusable.
The crazy thing is that many of us outside the US wish games were equivalent to $70 in our local prices. I could buy two games on switch for the recently announced local price of FFXVI.
I try to not remember the bad stuff. 2022 had Elden Ring, so it was great for me!
Elden snore
Call back to Charlotte about game prices... I totally agree. My purchases are less frequent because of the price, but I'm willing to pay for that as long as the product is worth it.
Ive been watching for two years and Ill watch for many more. I wish you all at inside games all the success in the world.
Yeah thats right, 2022 was the worst year for gaming. I was stripped of my rights legally to buy games from steam etc just because i located in the county that did something “wrong”.
Lot of horseshit in the business of games. Also some absolutely astounding games. Elden Ring, Vampire Survivors, Citizen Sleeper, Kirby ATFL, GoW Ragnarok, Immortality, Stray, Case of the Golden Idol, Tunic, etc.
When I started buying my own games they were $50 each. I could fill up the gas tank in my Plymouth Neon for $20, I went to the $1 theater every weekend with my friends, and I could get a can of Surge for 75 cents. While I hate the price increase to $70, the unfortunate truth is $70 isn't bad in comparison.
Charlotte has always been a great host with a great funny one, good hire!
While I think I will eventually have to pay the $70 price tag, I am still against doing so for the time being. Haven't bought anything at that price tag yet. Even the $60 price tag gives me hesitation, but I'd pay it for titles I really want, which there was only like 1 or 2 of in the last couple years. Everything else is sale prices only. While unlikely, we'll see if I don't buy them at the $70 price tag in the coming year or two.
GTA VI - I‘m worried… so many things that were satire when GTA V came out, especially the radio commercials, are just normal reality today. So I worry to see a black mirror of the future to come…
Sony is really the last thing that should be complaining about how walling off the gaming industry isn't fair
I agree. . .The year sucked for gaming:
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Horizon Forbidden West
- OW2 [solid game, horrible monetization]
- Total Warhammer III
- Plague Tale: Requiem
- Sifu
- Evil Dead
- Xenoblade 3
- Need for Speed Unbound
- Marvel's Midnight Suns
- MultiVersus
- Spider-man on PC
- D2: The Witch Queen
- Steam Deck
- PS5 and PC components availability
- Stadia is gone
Super L year
I think you guys are the only reason why I know some games come out during the year.
Cloud whatever is never gonna take off in the US until we get out of this laughable crapy internet speeds that our ISP monopolies have control over. Especially in the midwest where I live most cities have at most 1 internet company where you have to pay extra to just have decent internet.
As for games and all that this year has been kinda crapy to me. But this is kinda a 3 year dry spell for me unfortunately. I know last year I got a few games that were fun like "the room" series, Middle earth: Shadow of war, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Superliminal, house of da vinci 1 and 2, Control, Metro Exodus, and Carrion. Some of those were really fun games like control, shovel knight, the room games, house of da vinci games. But some were either pretty short or just not that much fun and also were already old and got them on sale.
This years christmas sale on steam is a bit of a disappointment since I was expecting slightly better discounts vs other times of the year and yet it's the same. I had been waiting for a while for some good discounts maybe. Some games that released that I was looking forward to ended up becoming somewhat a disappointment.
Shadow Warrior 3 doesn't look nearly as much fun as the one before it. Evil West looked promising at first only to see it looks like it came out a decade to late. High on life does look fun, but like some have pointed out it seems like some of the jokes go on to long (which even if you turn down the dialog some you can't skip/avoid), as well as no FOV slider is really putting people off on that game. Currently I am just kinda waiting cause doesn't really feel like it is worth full price right now.
No More Heroes 3 I had been looking forward to but still don't own a switch so didn't think I would have a chance at it until I saw it is released on PC now. Looks kinda like it will be fun, even watched a bit of Lawrence play it here or there in videos. However, it doesn't seem like it has the same feel as the 2 previous games which I enjoyed. And from some of the criticisms I have heard about it has put me off from getting it yet. Maybe some day.
Dying Light 2 had a bunch of promises and way to many people hyping it up like Alanah who was talking about how the game was gonna be revolutionary when it releases etc. Pointing out this and that it was gonna do in gameplay etc. Only for that to be a lie and a let down. I have mostly only hear people talk about how they prefer the first one over it. From what iv seen of gameplay it doesn't interest me as much as dying light 1 did when I played it.
I think the other factor these days is the fact so much of the market is being pushed towards MMO games. So many games releasing these days and the past year have mostly been aimed at people playing online matches against others. Those types of games don't interest me. I also don't find much fun in games like dark souls/elden Ring etc. Lies of P does have my curiosity and thus is on my wishlist but I haven't seen much from the game so when it does release I might not be interested in it unfortunately if it's to much like a dark souls game.
Then there is the fact of not having the newest consoles is also hurting my gaming. But the newest consoles have put me off from getting them. From the joystick drift the switch controllers are suffering with A LOT, to ifixit doing a tear down of the PS5 controller and basically saying "these will inevitably suffer from joystick drift eventually" for a controller that costs so much money and wont last. I still have my very old, old school game consoles that still work to this day. Granted N64 joystick was crapy out of the gate but you can buy retro controllers that work with it that have a better joystick that wont suffer from that.
When I buy a console or something I want something that will last, especially if I have to fork over so much money for it. If they aren't gonna last or they want to push me onto some stupid subscription model to be able to play certain games or consoles I lose all interest in said stuff.
Also screw Nintendo they have turned into such an awful company over the years where they care more and more about profits. They used to have it where if your gameboy would break or something you could send it in and they would fix it for you, even long after the fact. Nowadays you get a controller that suffers from joystick drift and have to jump through hoops to get it fixed or replaced. Sometimes getting the same controller back that is still suffering from the problem you sent it in for. And their games staying full price for a decade after they released is also a joke. Last first party nintendo game I got was way back for the Wii and it was Mario Bros Wii which I was excited for since it finally dropped down to like $20-30. After I got it and played it for a half an hour I realized it was just the same old mario brothers levels just with better graphics really. If I wanted that, I could have just played some old mario brothers games.
Same with them pushing mario brothers all stars and making it artificially scarce by only releasing it for a short time. Or those mini retro consoles they released for a short time. And not to mention flagging or taking monetization from people making any type of video on Nintendo stuff on youtube a while back.
Right now I am wanting some fun new games that interest me but I am having a very hard time finding them since the gaming climate these days is mostly pushed towards subscriptions, or always online junk, mmo type games, or having to buy an expensive console that is still hard to find cause of scalpers. It is depressing, I miss just having a fun game that I can play without having to jump through hoops etc.
I will not buy £70 games. There will be maybe one or two games a year that I might consider it for. But I will be trying my hardest to not give in. I have such a back log anyway that I can basically live in the sales at this point, so that’s what I’ll do.
Basically, them upping the cost means they will get considerably less money from me as I will be waiting for discounts. So it will have the opposite effect that they want. I’d urge all gamers to take the same approach and they will lose money, not make it. While we still get to play the games we love for like half the price or more. Why give all that money to Microsoft when you can wait 3-6 months and effectively keep half the money for yourself? At a certain point it becomes an issue of self respect.
Over the last few years I’ve gotten in the habit of waiting for game sales anyway so the 70$ tag hasn’t changed my buying decisions. I only just now bought FF7 intergrade this week because it dropped to 40$ on the winter Steam sale.
My backlog’s way too stuffed to grab everything on day one.
2022 best year in gaming because you guys are back together and apart of our lives ❤️
I got a Steam Deck about a month ago! I’ve always enjoyed playing games, but the accessibility was tough since I work a ton. Having a mobile, handheld, powerful gaming device I can throw nearly anything at is absolutely welcome. However, battery life and resolution are my biggest gripes. I do understand that the device is SMALL so, asking for consistent 1080p and great battery life is asking a lot. 🤷🏻
If single player, AAA games WITHOUT microtransactions cost me $70 than I can justify that as an inflation adjustment. When games that nickel and dime you after the fact is when I have huge problems with the price increase.
Happy Holidays guys and gals
You know what, Google, how about providing an unlimited internet service at a decent price before thinking cloud gaming could be a viable alternative.
70$ games
I don't buy them at release anymore. I just wait a couple of months till they get a discount....
Unless it's Nintendo. Their games are forever full price. Seriously.... Mario Odyssey still at full price and not a single Nintendo game went on sale this holiday season.
Happy Charlotte and Brian are apart of the group
I'll say it forever, even on my death bed with my dying breath "Cyberpunk 2077 was good at launch" (on PC only)
It really was an awkward year but I'm so grateful for Elden Ring ^^
Enjoy your dead open world
You guys are the best. Keep it up! Love to watch you guys deliver the best gaming news on the internet.
The step from 60-70 turned me into a guy who waits for sales. It's too close to 100 to feel good.
A game needs to be pretty amazing for me to bother paying 70. Just not that many amazing games.
$70 games and they still will release an incomplete project
The indies were off the chain this year. It’s time to admit that AAA is total crap, in general, with occasional gems, while the underground thrives… showing us the future of the medium when the giants crash in a few years.
2021 was the worse year
Games being $90 this generation in Canada has stopped me from buying games since I've bought my PS5. I've only bought 3 at full price, otherwise it's been a backlog/PS+ monthly game machine.
Any plans for ya'll to produce in a single studio/location ever again? I get current is an easy set-up, just think there was better energy in the original RT show. Regardless, love the content. Happy New Year
Def missed you guys making content like this, Charlotte is my new fave....sorry Lawrence. Your funhaus "prime" is over =p
18:30 Literally just said that the atomic bomb was a "great work" . . destroyed millions of lives for years to come but yes great shit man.
Bruce I love the don't buy it if it broken mentality and they won't make it, but with pokemon people want them to make pokemon games just want them to be good. So how do you solve that issue? Only thing I can think of is longer time between pokemon games to give them more development time.
Woah! I just found this channel and I was both informed and entertained great coverage guys
I just wait for games to go on sale before buying them. And it’s predominantly digital unless the physical copy is too good a deal to pass up.
I actually use my Steam Deck as my main computer these days. Have actually streamed from it, and video edited with it.
It's a funny notion to me that because Elden Ring came out this year it couldn't be a bad year for gaming. Newsflash: not everyone liked Elden Ring. I didn't touch the game, it's not my type of game and I knew that before it came out because I tried out Dark Souls and Elden Ring is more of the same. And that counts for a lot of people. So you get a survivorship bias where only the people who like these games play them and they are the ones commenting on it and the whole portion of the gaming sphere that doesn't care one iota about Elden Ring is simply quiet and thus not counted.
If there are just two games that come out that are both a very specific and similar type of game for a very specific and similar part of the gaming audience that are considered great (Elden Ring and GoW: Ragnarok), it's a bad year for games.
Lol, if I won the lottery and in the same year the climate breaks down and goes crazy messing everything up. It would still be a bad year. Lottery win ain’t changing that fact, much like a few good games don’t change the overarching direction we’re travelling.
I agree 👍🏼 the past three or four years have been grievously horrible years in gaming across all platforms
We really only had elden ring and god of war and that's it gaming hype is dying out and people are searching crazy for that one game that's worth buying
Only Inside Games are brave enough to dig deep into the Insides of Games to find the MacGuffins.
If cyberpunk was lifted by positive review from the show. I am curious on how the negative review of the Witcher Shows affect the future of the Witcher Franchise game. This will be an interesting story. And would CDPR distance themselves from the witcher shows?
Nintendo made what was to me a rare apology for Pokemon S&V. I just don't think the first update that came with the apology did anything to my game lol
I was so excited for the game, but ngl, It felt like a step back from Pokemon Arceus, or at least to me it does. My scarlett download is now collecting digital dust in my switch since playing it feels like a drag to me.
I don't think games this year were that good. Not even Elder Ring, which bored me to death. I spent more time creating my character than playing the game... I've never played Dark Souls or Sekiro however, meaning that I am brand new to these type of games, so maybe that's why.
So no more $64.94 dollar big tittle games? I think some are worth the money such as Rockstar titles, but the $10 difference will definitely make think twice about purchasing new games.
Btw, is VR still a thing? Were there any new games released for VR or are people still playing beatsaber? I need to take out my Quest 2 and check out what's new.
I rarely make long🐴 comments, but y'all's channel really got me going lol
Love this channel!
2022 was the year the introduced me to the steam deck so for that I’m very grateful. It’s been my go to for indies and emulated titles (FINALLY played chrono trigger!).
Also, Signalis.
Everyone needs to play Signalis! So good
When it was announced Charlotte was joining the crew, that’s when I knew my patronage was being used properly.
I loved Stadia....I was the only one among my friends who had it and always praised it.
Putting CoD on Switch is one of the most laughable things said this year. The moment MS said that just makes me think the MS intends to make CoD exclusive just because it's so laughable to put CoD on Switch. You might as well put Cyberpunk on Switch.
Also the price hike to $70 isn't a surprise. If you went shopping lately, everything has gone up in price. Some things went up by 30%+ over the past year so complaining about the prices increasing to $70 is basically complaining when games increased from $50 to $60, seems really bad st first but then becomes to norm and no one will really care after a couple years. Inflation is inevitable.
2022 at least for me didn't really have a lot to offer, but what it did have to offer despite how little it was... was all amazing. Elden Ring, God of War and Horizon all amazing and they all lasted for quite a while. All in all one thing will never change, Fuck blizzard and may GTA 6 finally release one day.
Tactics Ogre Reborn means this was a good year for gaming!
incredible job from everybody on the show. keep it coming pls !
2022 was not only the worst year in gaming. Not to mention inflation and major gas prices. But nice to see part of the original cast post a video during the Holidays.
AAA gaming sucked. Indie gaming on the other hand, had one of it's best years
Today on "What's That Gundam," I see that Charlotte has a GM Guard Custom on top of that stack of Gunpla. Very nice choice.
boo hoo on the $70 price tag of games in the US, prices in Canada are worse and even with the conversion rate our cost of living is about the same if not worse. I haven't paid $80-$100 for a game since the Nintendo 64 days in the 90's. :(
I mean the pokemon games sell well regardless, but also these games (content wise) are very high quality compared to the past several generations. Its pretty well agreed upon with people who have actually plaued the games that the Story is actually enjoyable, character designs are interesting, the pokemon themselves are very well favored by many people, and the open world design actually works great for the gameplay loop.
You say here that fans of the games will buy them (almost) no matter what, and that's true... but they are actually enjoying playing this game, quite thoroughly from the general consensus. So yeah they are selling well because the people who actually like the games are actually having a lot of fun with them
I definetly wont be impulse buying brand new games anymore if they all shift to $70
I genuinely wasn't ever planning to play elden ring, and I played Ds2/Ds3/Sekiro. I just didnt plan to buy it, but on release i saw it on the front page of steam and i couldnt pass it up. For $70 I probably would have just stuck to watching content creators play it.
i feel like $70 is where i'm pretty much waiting on a sale for anything that i'm not highly anticipating. i wonder if they used $65 as a stopgap on their way to 70 if it would even seem like a problem to me, even in my brain now i'm kinda waving off $5 as opposed to double that. either way, see ya on the Wario64 posts ✌
I get the statement of "If you don't like the game don't buy it and they won't make it" but that's a very... Vegetarian method lol. One person not buying meat isn't going to change a thing. Cows still gonna die. I.e. A game is still going to get made even if you don't buy it. Takes millions of people not buying a game for it to have any big impact.
I think you should just not buy a game for the sake of not enjoying it. Issue there is that games LOOK interesting and fun but in playing them, they can be a let down. Sure "Wait for reviews" but man, that's a hit or miss method as well. I've enjoyed plenty of games who have bad reviews. Most of the time its from a bad launch but the game gets damn near perfect after 2-4 weeks of patches.
BF2042 is the most recent example. Game had me hyped up and I was super excited only to be let down in a HUGE way. I hated that god forsaken game at launch. Felt like the worst launch in BF herstory and I've been there for every launch since BC2. Fast forward to 2022 and I actually do enjoy playing it.
Im honestly confused between this and inside gaming channel with Brian Gaar in it
love you guys happy holidays charlotte is a cutie
I agree that you can just go play something else. It's not infuriating as much as it is disappointment. With Diablo Immortal, I wanted it to be everything they said because I had LOVED the franchise up to that point. So it really sucked seeing something I loved and was excited for to be ruined all for a quick cash grab.
Yeeaaah the blinding light of Elden Ring, GOW and the FFXIV patches kinda made the year for me.
Everything else was a big meh
I've never had a PC and I really want a steam deck. Hopefully next year
Please keep doing these never stop!! 🤗
Bruce really isn't someone who enjoys playing challenging games. He can be competative and i mean very competative. Just look at his time in funhaus where they play against other players and he can get really pissed off.
Yup, I just picked up Forbidden West for $40. I haven't yet bought a game for $70 but I'm cheap....
Happy Festivus to everyone reading this!!!
The $70 price tag definitely stopped me from purchasing video games. I just cannot agree with that price. I’ll always wait for a sale instead.
Haven’t watched the video yet but I hope this title is clickbait cause gaming has absolutely NOT sucked. I can’t think of a time gaming has actually ever sucked. Are we really that spoiled?
ive been watching you guys for ages now, all the way back in machinima days. Still here, and still right about cyberpunk 2077! lets go!
Is this the new T.U.G.S. Ricky and Eliot used to do?