A lot of people usually argue back with the notion that "game haven't changed, you have" but a lot of those people don't see how samey games get because most triple A games chase trends or play it safe. Indie games are probably our best bet at finding games that innovate with creativity and actually push the industry forward.
I believe it's definitely *both* for me. AAA games have changed/homogenized a lot, but i'm also not in the same place I was a decade ago. While I still enjoy games, I don't play them for the same reasons.
On some level, I can sorta say the same. I do still avidly play plenty of games, but I've found myself sort of drifting away from them. I tend to play less games nowadays, and generally don't even look at new releases or announcements, 'cause the big new games are often just... not personally interesting enough to justify playing over whatever game or set of games I'm playing at that moment. Doesn't mean they're not potentially good or fun, just that they don't appeal enough compared to something I know I already enjoy. Anyways. I look forward to seeing things as they unfold in the new year. Let's rekindle (badum tshhh) that spark that everyone who has enjoyed games before has once had, and may or may not have lost, shall we?
No complaints here on older games! After all, what has always drawn me to the Kindled steaming was the community behind it rather than the games themselves. Yes, I love Fire Emblem, and it makes me very happy to watch someone who also enjoys it, but that is not what has kept me around. In the past, I tried very hard to enjoy streamers. I would force myself to sit down and watch the hit streamers, and yet, even when they were playing my favorite games, I had to leave within minutes from my immediate boredom. Kindled Knight is the first ever streaming channel that has not done that to me. The community in The Kindled Knights is close-knit and has inside jokes that you either know or quickly are let in on. Immediately when you start watching, you feel accepted whether you're a lurker or talker. You get to talk with the other viewers and even those streaming and actually feel like they're listening and speaking back. In a sense, you are playing the game with them. It's not like watching someone with millions of viewers, who you'd get lucky if they even noticed your message among the other thousands. In the Kindled Knight channel, you feel appreciated. That is what keeps me, not whether the game is from 2025 or 1995.
Modern Triple A gaming Stopped being about passion sadly, very frustrating because fewer and fewer single player experiences are being made and are being replaced with Live service games pumped with cosmetics and micro transactions. its sadgey
I found a solution for myself: I uninstalled most games, keeping only five that seemed interesting, and disconnected from gaming news or discussions (I realized reading about games made them less fun). I decided to approach those five games like it’s 2007, as if I’d just picked random CDs to play for months-no tutorial videos, no achievements hunting, no grinding. I rediscovered the joy of playing for the sake of doing that one thign that made the game appealing to me lookign at the cd cover or seeing the game trailler, without comparing games, caring about popularity, or playing "correctly." no care if the game have a good inventory system , WHO CARES just like u wanted to play a game to shoot some zombies maybe uc an play a game now to climb some rocks or whatever or aimlessly driving in GTA, i forgot that the point of playing games is to fuck around with whatever i wanted and anythgin else is not important to me , if i play some colony sim instead of trying to win or cretic the HUD element , i wil ltry to make up stories and create some lore to that one colonist who decided to biuld his house waaay farther than the rest. and sure, modern games can be hit or miss, but with an endless variety of games out there, complaints like "the new AAA slop is a slop" don’t really hold up. go play deadcell or somethign and try to genuinely play like u are a kid again.
trust me , ocne us top thinking about " trhe devs scripted me to do this exact amount of dmg and the enemies will only atack if i do this and that " and u start to analyse games instead of playign them , u turn into a game dev and critic instead of a player who just playing soemthing the devs cooked for him . and its just what i found to work , letting away from that fixation of how the game should be and what it does wrong , good for making game reviews , bad for enjoying the games.
My answer to that is that playing games less often makes it more fun to play with them. And to test new games or genres. I never expected to like Souls Likes or specific other games, which are more "special" in it's design. I can totally recommend to test things out, which you are not familiar with.
I know how you feel man. But i think i know something that could help... You've probably already heard about it but still i'd really recommend getting a steam deck. Gaming is often exhausting if you do it at you're place of work (you're Computer) and having a handheld that allows you to just chill in bed and play is honestly very refreshing. You already have a switch but as you've already pointed out in the video it's honestly way to underpowered, even for it's own flagship games. Something that the steam deck is also really good at is emulation via services like Emudeck etc. witch is probably something you'd be really fond of since you grew up in the golden era of gaming and experiencing it and a portable and powerful device with a beautiful Oled screen is just something to behold. And as an additional bonus you can buy pretty mutch all of the indi/tripple a games you would have bought on you're switch for half the price if not even cheaper thank's to steams numerous sales. All in all i think the Steam deck could help you fall back in love with gaming just as so many other have thanks to it. 🎮❤
That's a pretty good idea. Separating work and leisure space is pretty important. I seem to have forgotten that. I'll think about getting a Steam Deck when I'm not broke, lmao. Thanks for the advice and thanks for watching!
@@KindledKnight Glad I could help a brother out 🤙. If you're tight on money then you might wanna get a refurbished model, they're officially available from valve and still provide you with a warranty. They are sold out pretty often though so you might also wanna look at 3rd party places like gamestop... Hope it helps 👍
I love this video, it's EXACTLY how I've been feeling too, that feeling of "this again?" that just kills any interest to keep going..I really hope more and more people feel like this so that maybe the industry can change.
There are so many points I agree with you here. The lack of innovation especially and games becoming more "safe" and samey. It's because games overwhelmingly are investment opportunities for corpo shareholders. The focus is on making money, not creating innovative pieces of art. I find myself struggling to play a lot of games for a protracted period, most AAA releases just don't interest me in the slightest. I grew up playing space sims and RTS games, both genres that have kind of died from how they were back then. People see them as too niche or overly complex when done well, so you get really generic stuff outside of a few good franchises run by smaller studios. Indie is where the innovation is now, very few larger studios are given the creative freedom to really do something new and interesting. But then even the indie scene is struggling, as investors pull out following the COVID boom and leave a lot of new studios on the rocks with no funding to continue their work. A couple of upcoming studios headed by former Mass Effect devs recently closed because both of their investors withdrew funding. Some insane talent there, just lost and unlikely to come back now. The entire AAA industry runs on chasing the current trend, only for those trend chasing games to fail spectacularly on launch because they took too long to develop and there's a "new" trend which already replaced it. Looking at you there Concord... the issue being the corporations don't pay the price for this. The debt is paid in shuttered studios, job losses and most importantly a huge drain of talented industry veterans which makes training the next generation of developers even harder.
Very well said. There's a lot in there I didn't know because I don't even follow that news anymore. But that makes a lot of sense. Something truly has to change if the game industry wants to recover, or it'll go the way of cable TV.
Games of different genres to peep out if you havent already. I tried to avoid the really popular stuff like celeste or hollow knight. into the breach, inscryption, slay the spire, drool of the killer, floppy knights, outer wilds, norco, tactical breach wizards, disco elysium, leap year, fighting games like street fighter 6, gunpoint, Myst, prey: mooncrash, infinifactory, stephen sausage roll, videoball, super karoshi, brutal orchestra, chronotron, night int he woods, psychonauts 1, muck, Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, downwell, aviary attorney, super magbot, dont shit your pants, donkey kong jungle beat, pause ahead, katana zero,backpack hero, gravity circuit, ufo 50, portal reloaded, Telltale sam and max games, summon knight swordcraft story
Oooh! Awesome, I can already see a few based on name alone that I want to check out. Thanks a lot, stay tuned for some of these in the future. (Sounds weird to say, car salesman vibes, for real.)
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” General Shepard still spitting facts ✊😔 but yeah I’m down to clown with the certified hood classics that make you happy!! :D
I feel the same, and yeah, I know I changed, I just don't have the patience to play hard or grindy games anymore, in that 10 hour JRPG grind I could watch a entire 24 episode anime or a entire season of your average show on streaming. I still enjoy playing of course, but I stick to casual stuff these days, years old games that I can get for cheap and be done with it in a weekend, back in the 2010s I'd buy top of the line hardware and play the most demanding games at max settings, I can't justify this anymore. Besides my tastes changing, the industry only got worse as well, so honestly even if I liked playing as much as I did back then, I'd very disappointed.
It's definitely not 100% the Industry's fault that I feel the way I do. I can take responsibility for my lack of patience and declining interest in seeing the same plots and gameplay segments. But they still make it hard for me to justify $70 for a new game, when I have an old game that's $Free.99 that has proven itself to me already.
If there is nothing to look forward to it's a matter of time you're burned out. For me games start to feel like chores so I started to really lessen the amount of gaming I do starting today. I already hardly buy games anymore.
Life is pretty short. I think it's important to do things you WANT to. There IS value in the hobby, for so many it's vital escapism. So I hope you find a balance there that really works for you.
I thought it was a compliment! It's SUPPOSED to trick you into thinking it's a generic shooter. I figured it was old enough at this point everyone would get the joke. I put a lot of footage for games I actually enjoyed in this. I like them, but a lot are still guilty of what has caused my tired boredom. Thanks for watching though!
if all you play is Sony first party Naughty Dog movie style games & Ubisoft open-world AAA slop, you WILL get bored with modern gaming. between AA, indies & mods, you will NEVER run out of fresh experiences to play.
I have to agree. Anymore, i just rotate through the same "tried and true" games that i've enjoyed, as i've been let down by the super great and new games. It's very sad, because i feel like games are becoming boring to me, and that it's my fault i can't enjoy them anymore. I was concerned that, as a gamer, i was broken and idk... that was weird to me. Hope to find some choice games from your upcoming year of uploads! and as for the last question; if i could impart a game on to anyone it would be Phantasy Star 4, which is available on the Switch Genesis emulator. It was one of my first RPGs, and heavily built my love for the genre. I think total run time is usually ~30 hours. shorter if you're not trying to 100% ofc.
You are 30... Congrats, you are like me and us form a part of the final batch of Millenials! Historicaly speaking; 30 is the age when everybody lost interest in video games, mostly due to attrition, and its natural and normal but we as Millenials grow up with video games being normalize on zeitgeist, making us the first generation that feel sorry about leaving the hobby the same way Gen X did but silently without remorse. The reason goes in hand with the fact that unlike cinema or music, even sports; video games relay to heavy on active atention and constant effort refinement on dexterity skill. None of the previous mentioned ask that to the fans unleast they want to be a part of the production machine, be a good director, actor, composer or football player, but video games do have sweet in bouth producers and clients. The reason 30 is the age of the death kiss for so many throw generations is because this is the age where people is start to get tired of so mutch energy waste and have a harder time on getting energy to motivate themselfs to push them harder. 30 is the age where people´s mentality is more into setting down, and be done with nothing more but a peacefull life, even more considering the implications on the ones who are here with children. Stavility over exitment is what thrives in 30s and beyond. So yeah, dont feel sorry or pathetic with your self cuz this is the natural conclution that has always been there and the reason why video-games can only be made targetting at young people with lots of free time and the energy to push themselfs to high limits even if it is for something that wont give them money back but a digital achievement. The only difference is that now this is happening with the generation who make video games mainstream and now they feel they are moving on from the sotial enviroment they build, only to realise now that unlike music, cinema and sports, they did not expect that they will just grow out of it, the same way the previous generations did, but without the weight of feeling they are losing something big that they manage to standardize. But now Im gonna make you smile, just do this: Grab physical copies of your TOP favorite games, put them together next to each other and then listen to "Amber Pacific - Always You". Trust me, that will make you feel resolved.
@ video was great! I think you nailed it. I keep chasing new releases and don’t enjoy any of them. Going back to old games for a bit. Space Marine 2 was the moment for me.
6:24 "quit teabagging me bro, what are you doing?" "no I'm chest... I'm doing chest compressions, CAUSE YOU'RE DYING JAY... you're dying, you... you're so dead...JAY.... OH MY GOD WE'RE DYINGGG, NOOO!!!!"
AAA are going through an identity crisis. Even half baked indie and AA releases try to blend shooting, crafting, ranks, and microtransactions into a big open world boring sandbox that it starts to feel like the same game with a different coat of paint. You get the occasional gem like Astro Bot. I didn't bother with FF7 Rebirth because I played the original, and didn't care for Remake's forced minigames (some more grueling than others), shallow gameplay and over reliance on cutscenes. FFXIV's story blows anything FF7 out of the water, and I've played DawnTrail. I wish XVI would have had more time to cook. Great spectacle and more grounded FF game, just felt it needed more time in the oven but that's just me.
I think you're absolutely right. Especially about FFXVI, it has a good look and I could never say the music wasn't epic. But it somehow wanted to be both the 16th (or like 30th, depending) installment in an RPG Franchise and something that could also appeal to the masses. Unfortunately, since it was likely so expensive to make, it really HAD to appeal to a wider audience. With some more time I'm sure it could've hit the sweet spot, for sure. I also played the first remake and didn't pick up rebirth. Haven't continued FFXIV since base Endwalker, lots of time investment for that one.
I've gone through gaming lulls in the past. Taking a break has done a lot to help. I've gone through stretches nearly four years doing almost no gaming. For me, I needed to find fulfillment outside of gaming. I went back to school, got a better job, focused on family, etc. Strangely enough it was my kids that helped to push me back into gaming at some point. I definitely agree that there's a homogenization of gaming going around but there are thousands of options. It could be worthwhile to get outta your comfort zone. Cheers!
Now i feel bad for enjoying games this video shit on :(. I guess gaming is enjoyed for different reasons, i feel like we have gotten some great story games over the last two generations. Which is something i value dearly. To cast that aside as being boring or being a movie is a bit narrow minded imo. Video mentions there being less radical differences and game design quirks between games but this just a logical result of some things being perfected. Some old games had locked cameras for example, we're thankfully never going back to that. Like it or not games like call of duty have perfected FPS games. Note what i mean by perfected is that it is what the vast majority of the industry has accepted and regarded as the best way to something, to each their own. Disregarding Astro Bot as game of the year because it's a "Sony ad" and the most popular on a list when it's arguably the first full fleged game of the franchise while elden ring and FF7R had years of legacy was hopefuly a tasteless joke
I don't think I shit on any games in the video, except maybe Far Cry: New Dawn. Most of these are clips of me playing, and I rather enjoyed things like Red Dead, the first Jedi game, RE4 Remake was my game of it's year. But all of these can be good AND still be guilty of following the current trends. I only mentioned one story in the whole video and explicitly liked it, despite me not enjoying the game that came with it. So I'm not sure where I'm dismissing gaming stories. Diversity and experimentation is what makes things interesting. We can agree that certain design choices are better. But I'm arguing that they're getting TOO comfortable there's SO many people who would argue you're incorrect about Call of Duty perfecting FPS games. Like the people who like earlier games in the series and not the most current one. FPS is also a wide genre, it's gameplay wouldn't work for Overwatch, for example. I've never even played or seen Astrobot, but the point wasn't the games themselves. The point was that we somehow reached a point that a video game tech demo's sequel and a years-old games DLC were even nominated for Game of the Year. Astro Bot is allowed to be a good game and an Ad, it's not mutually exclusive. I don't know if you didn't finish the video, or if you're being defensive about things that you like. But I think this is a good explanation of my thought process. Thanks for watching.
@KindledKnight I will say i was half responding to the video and half to the comments. Also this my first time watching you, the video's critique of AAA gaming while showing lots of footage of RDR2 made me think you may have seen it as ideal example as to what you dislike about AAA gaming. Glad to hear you liked it though. As for your points i get most of what you're saying i just wanted to add some nuance that like we got here for a reason. I guess you could make similar arguments to what you're saying for smartphones for example. You'd be like remember when the phones all used to differ from each other? And i'm like we don't need a home button anymore actually because we've moved beyond that. Hope that kinda clarifies my perspective. That being said i enjoyed the video, i look forward to watching more. Play Astro bot
@@Dooty294 Well, this IS basically my first video that's not just twitch clips. So I will gladly take the criticism. Honestly, this video was mostly for my little discord community to explain why I'm gonna be playing older games this year, and it got promoted outta nowhere. Exciting and scary, lol. I hope you'll keep giving me criticism on the upcoming gameplay videos! And I'll check out Astro Bot when I'm not broke. Heh.
@@KindledKnight For a first video this absolutely amazing btw. Only thing i would like to see is 1080p. I used to not be able to see the difference with 720 but now i spot it instantly lmao.
No one will admit this online due to echo chambers centered around gaming as an adult, but if you are at a certain age and still play video games to the degree that you did as a kid, there is a sort of look you get by people. I’m not saying the expectation of growing out of video games and being a “real adult” is justified, but there is a discussion of stunted growth when people don’t develop other hobbies and interests as they grow older. People are malleable, people change. If you still have the same enthusiasm for games as you did as a kid, you essentially didn’t grow up from your child like perspective. I still love games but at 25 im definitely cutting back more and more to the point where I’m trading my PC to go back to consoles so that I have less options to play games. I’m sorry, it maybe cool to others online being 40 and owning a game backlog of several hundred games and emotional investment for the gaming industry but I don’t want to be that even at my age, I want more for myself even if minuscule like reading 1 book a year. Ive realized I don’t care about the industry, the status quo, the controversies or hype in the gaming industry. If there is a good game I’ll play it, if not I won’t. I really need to start doing more for myself and seek new interests
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. That's how I feel about gaming right now.
A lot of people usually argue back with the notion that "game haven't changed, you have" but a lot of those people don't see how samey games get because most triple A games chase trends or play it safe. Indie games are probably our best bet at finding games that innovate with creativity and actually push the industry forward.
Indie games will single-handedly save us all, trust.
I believe it's definitely *both* for me. AAA games have changed/homogenized a lot, but i'm also not in the same place I was a decade ago. While I still enjoy games, I don't play them for the same reasons.
Playing only AAA games must be so miserable 🙁
@@Talking_Ed The only time I legitimately considered leaving the hobby. It was never ending questioning why I even play games.
@@KindledKnight I can understand that, I have some friends that only play AAA and they sound pretty miserable when they speak about the hobby!
On some level, I can sorta say the same. I do still avidly play plenty of games, but I've found myself sort of drifting away from them. I tend to play less games nowadays, and generally don't even look at new releases or announcements, 'cause the big new games are often just... not personally interesting enough to justify playing over whatever game or set of games I'm playing at that moment. Doesn't mean they're not potentially good or fun, just that they don't appeal enough compared to something I know I already enjoy.
Anyways. I look forward to seeing things as they unfold in the new year. Let's rekindle (badum tshhh) that spark that everyone who has enjoyed games before has once had, and may or may not have lost, shall we?
Onward and Upward.
No complaints here on older games! After all, what has always drawn me to the Kindled steaming was the community behind it rather than the games themselves. Yes, I love Fire Emblem, and it makes me very happy to watch someone who also enjoys it, but that is not what has kept me around.
In the past, I tried very hard to enjoy streamers. I would force myself to sit down and watch the hit streamers, and yet, even when they were playing my favorite games, I had to leave within minutes from my immediate boredom. Kindled Knight is the first ever streaming channel that has not done that to me.
The community in The Kindled Knights is close-knit and has inside jokes that you either know or quickly are let in on. Immediately when you start watching, you feel accepted whether you're a lurker or talker. You get to talk with the other viewers and even those streaming and actually feel like they're listening and speaking back. In a sense, you are playing the game with them. It's not like watching someone with millions of viewers, who you'd get lucky if they even noticed your message among the other thousands. In the Kindled Knight channel, you feel appreciated. That is what keeps me, not whether the game is from 2025 or 1995.
This is very sweet. Glad to have you, TabbyTaco.
Modern Triple A gaming Stopped being about passion sadly, very frustrating because fewer and fewer single player experiences are being made and are being replaced with Live service games pumped with cosmetics and micro transactions. its sadgey
I can only agree. Luckily, they can't take what we already have.
It’s cause you haven’t tried generic gacha with jiggly catgirls with guns 3
You're so right. But I choose to be wrong.
@@KindledKnightto be fair, zenless zone zero is amazing if you love action rpgs
@@xavierreallyplaysgames If I can fit it in, I'll give it a look.
I found a solution for myself: I uninstalled most games, keeping only five that seemed interesting, and disconnected from gaming news or discussions (I realized reading about games made them less fun). I decided to approach those five games like it’s 2007, as if I’d just picked random CDs to play for months-no tutorial videos, no achievements hunting, no grinding. I rediscovered the joy of playing for the sake of doing that one thign that made the game appealing to me lookign at the cd cover or seeing the game trailler, without comparing games, caring about popularity, or playing "correctly." no care if the game have a good inventory system , WHO CARES just like u wanted to play a game to shoot some zombies maybe uc an play a game now to climb some rocks or whatever or aimlessly driving in GTA, i forgot that the point of playing games is to fuck around with whatever i wanted and anythgin else is not important to me , if i play some colony sim instead of trying to win or cretic the HUD element , i wil ltry to make up stories and create some lore to that one colonist who decided to biuld his house waaay farther than the rest.
and sure, modern games can be hit or miss, but with an endless variety of games out there, complaints like "the new AAA slop is a slop" don’t really hold up. go play deadcell or somethign and try to genuinely play like u are a kid again.
trust me , ocne us top thinking about " trhe devs scripted me to do this exact amount of dmg and the enemies will only atack if i do this and that " and u start to analyse games instead of playign them , u turn into a game dev and critic instead of a player who just playing soemthing the devs cooked for him . and its just what i found to work , letting away from that fixation of how the game should be and what it does wrong , good for making game reviews , bad for enjoying the games.
My answer to that is that playing games less often makes it more fun to play with them. And to test new games or genres. I never expected to like Souls Likes or specific other games, which are more "special" in it's design. I can totally recommend to test things out, which you are not familiar with.
That's almost the whole reason I made the video! Yes, please. Give me some of your recommendations and I'll get to them as soon as it's feasible.
I know how you feel man. But i think i know something that could help...
You've probably already heard about it but still i'd really recommend getting a steam deck.
Gaming is often exhausting if you do it at you're place of work (you're Computer) and having a handheld that allows you to just chill in bed and play is honestly very refreshing.
You already have a switch but as you've already pointed out in the video it's honestly way to underpowered, even for it's own flagship games.
Something that the steam deck is also really good at is emulation via services like Emudeck etc. witch is probably something you'd be really fond of since you grew up in the golden era of gaming and experiencing it and a portable and powerful device with a beautiful Oled screen is just something to behold.
And as an additional bonus you can buy pretty mutch all of the indi/tripple a games you would have bought on you're switch for half the price if not even cheaper thank's to steams numerous sales.
All in all i think the Steam deck could help you fall back in love with gaming just as so many other have thanks to it. 🎮❤
That's a pretty good idea. Separating work and leisure space is pretty important. I seem to have forgotten that. I'll think about getting a Steam Deck when I'm not broke, lmao. Thanks for the advice and thanks for watching!
@@KindledKnight Glad I could help a brother out 🤙. If you're tight on money then you might wanna get a refurbished model, they're officially available from valve and still provide you with a warranty.
They are sold out pretty often though so you might also wanna look at 3rd party places like gamestop...
Hope it helps 👍
I love this video, it's EXACTLY how I've been feeling too, that feeling of "this again?" that just kills any interest to keep going..I really hope more and more people feel like this so that maybe the industry can change.
There are so many points I agree with you here. The lack of innovation especially and games becoming more "safe" and samey. It's because games overwhelmingly are investment opportunities for corpo shareholders. The focus is on making money, not creating innovative pieces of art.
I find myself struggling to play a lot of games for a protracted period, most AAA releases just don't interest me in the slightest. I grew up playing space sims and RTS games, both genres that have kind of died from how they were back then. People see them as too niche or overly complex when done well, so you get really generic stuff outside of a few good franchises run by smaller studios. Indie is where the innovation is now, very few larger studios are given the creative freedom to really do something new and interesting. But then even the indie scene is struggling, as investors pull out following the COVID boom and leave a lot of new studios on the rocks with no funding to continue their work. A couple of upcoming studios headed by former Mass Effect devs recently closed because both of their investors withdrew funding. Some insane talent there, just lost and unlikely to come back now.
The entire AAA industry runs on chasing the current trend, only for those trend chasing games to fail spectacularly on launch because they took too long to develop and there's a "new" trend which already replaced it. Looking at you there Concord... the issue being the corporations don't pay the price for this. The debt is paid in shuttered studios, job losses and most importantly a huge drain of talented industry veterans which makes training the next generation of developers even harder.
Very well said. There's a lot in there I didn't know because I don't even follow that news anymore. But that makes a lot of sense. Something truly has to change if the game industry wants to recover, or it'll go the way of cable TV.
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Triple A games want to be Minecraft so bad
Lol. Still haven't played much minecraft, as long as I'm going back to the past, it might be time.
Games of different genres to peep out if you havent already. I tried to avoid the really popular stuff like celeste or hollow knight.
into the breach, inscryption, slay the spire, drool of the killer, floppy knights, outer wilds, norco, tactical breach wizards, disco elysium, leap year, fighting games like street fighter 6, gunpoint, Myst, prey: mooncrash, infinifactory, stephen sausage roll, videoball, super karoshi, brutal orchestra, chronotron, night int he woods, psychonauts 1, muck, Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, downwell, aviary attorney, super magbot, dont shit your pants, donkey kong jungle beat, pause ahead, katana zero,backpack hero, gravity circuit, ufo 50, portal reloaded, Telltale sam and max games, summon knight swordcraft story
Oooh! Awesome, I can already see a few based on name alone that I want to check out. Thanks a lot, stay tuned for some of these in the future. (Sounds weird to say, car salesman vibes, for real.)
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” General Shepard still spitting facts ✊😔 but yeah I’m down to clown with the certified hood classics that make you happy!! :D
We're so back
YEAH BABEE
I feel the same, and yeah, I know I changed, I just don't have the patience to play hard or grindy games anymore, in that 10 hour JRPG grind I could watch a entire 24 episode anime or a entire season of your average show on streaming.
I still enjoy playing of course, but I stick to casual stuff these days, years old games that I can get for cheap and be done with it in a weekend, back in the 2010s I'd buy top of the line hardware and play the most demanding games at max settings, I can't justify this anymore.
Besides my tastes changing, the industry only got worse as well, so honestly even if I liked playing as much as I did back then, I'd very disappointed.
It's definitely not 100% the Industry's fault that I feel the way I do. I can take responsibility for my lack of patience and declining interest in seeing the same plots and gameplay segments. But they still make it hard for me to justify $70 for a new game, when I have an old game that's $Free.99 that has proven itself to me already.
If there is nothing to look forward to it's a matter of time you're burned out. For me games start to feel like chores so I started to really lessen the amount of gaming I do starting today. I already hardly buy games anymore.
Life is pretty short. I think it's important to do things you WANT to. There IS value in the hobby, for so many it's vital escapism. So I hope you find a balance there that really works for you.
I will not let slide Spec Ops: The Line being used as B-roll for a generic 3rd person shooter 😭
I thought it was a compliment! It's SUPPOSED to trick you into thinking it's a generic shooter. I figured it was old enough at this point everyone would get the joke.
I put a lot of footage for games I actually enjoyed in this. I like them, but a lot are still guilty of what has caused my tired boredom.
Thanks for watching though!
if all you play is Sony first party Naughty Dog movie style games & Ubisoft open-world AAA slop, you WILL get bored with modern gaming. between AA, indies & mods, you will NEVER run out of fresh experiences to play.
I have to agree. Anymore, i just rotate through the same "tried and true" games that i've enjoyed, as i've been let down by the super great and new games. It's very sad, because i feel like games are becoming boring to me, and that it's my fault i can't enjoy them anymore. I was concerned that, as a gamer, i was broken and idk... that was weird to me.
Hope to find some choice games from your upcoming year of uploads!
and as for the last question; if i could impart a game on to anyone it would be Phantasy Star 4, which is available on the Switch Genesis emulator. It was one of my first RPGs, and heavily built my love for the genre. I think total run time is usually ~30 hours. shorter if you're not trying to 100% ofc.
I can at least check it out, even if I can't promise I'll play for 30 hours.
1:12 , Lalafels aren't that tall, are they? xD
No, no. But we try to avoid biblically accurate Lalafell over here. Lol.
Yummy yummy
ate and left no crumbs
You are 30...
Congrats, you are like me and us form a part of the final batch of Millenials!
Historicaly speaking; 30 is the age when everybody lost interest in video games, mostly due to attrition, and its natural and normal but we as Millenials grow up with video games being normalize on zeitgeist, making us the first generation that feel sorry about leaving the hobby the same way Gen X did but silently without remorse.
The reason goes in hand with the fact that unlike cinema or music, even sports; video games relay to heavy on active atention and constant effort refinement on dexterity skill.
None of the previous mentioned ask that to the fans unleast they want to be a part of the production machine, be a good director, actor, composer or football player, but video games do have sweet in bouth producers and clients.
The reason 30 is the age of the death kiss for so many throw generations is because this is the age where people is start to get tired of so mutch energy waste and have a harder time on getting energy to motivate themselfs to push them harder.
30 is the age where people´s mentality is more into setting down, and be done with nothing more but a peacefull life, even more considering the implications on the ones who are here with children.
Stavility over exitment is what thrives in 30s and beyond.
So yeah, dont feel sorry or pathetic with your self cuz this is the natural conclution that has always been there and the reason why video-games can only be made targetting at young people with lots of free time and the energy to push themselfs to high limits even if it is for something that wont give them money back but a digital achievement.
The only difference is that now this is happening with the generation who make video games mainstream and now they feel they are moving on from the sotial enviroment they build, only to realise now that unlike music, cinema and sports, they did not expect that they will just grow out of it, the same way the previous generations did, but without the weight of feeling they are losing something big that they manage to standardize.
But now Im gonna make you smile, just do this: Grab physical copies of your TOP favorite games, put them together next to each other and then listen to "Amber Pacific - Always You".
Trust me, that will make you feel resolved.
Bruh…me too 😢
I'm sorry. ❤ We can rediscover our passions, though.
@ video was great! I think you nailed it. I keep chasing new releases and don’t enjoy any of them. Going back to old games for a bit. Space Marine 2 was the moment for me.
6:24
"quit teabagging me bro, what are you doing?"
"no I'm chest... I'm doing chest compressions, CAUSE YOU'RE DYING JAY... you're dying, you... you're so dead...JAY.... OH MY GOD WE'RE DYINGGG, NOOO!!!!"
In all fairness, he did save my life. But he did make sack-to-face contact. So I'm not sure it was worth it.
Man, I miss God Hand
I never got the chance to play God Hand. I'll have to add it to the list.
AAA are going through an identity crisis. Even half baked indie and AA releases try to blend shooting, crafting, ranks, and microtransactions into a big open world boring sandbox that it starts to feel like the same game with a different coat of paint.
You get the occasional gem like Astro Bot. I didn't bother with FF7 Rebirth because I played the original, and didn't care for Remake's forced minigames (some more grueling than others), shallow gameplay and over reliance on cutscenes. FFXIV's story blows anything FF7 out of the water, and I've played DawnTrail. I wish XVI would have had more time to cook. Great spectacle and more grounded FF game, just felt it needed more time in the oven but that's just me.
I think you're absolutely right. Especially about FFXVI, it has a good look and I could never say the music wasn't epic. But it somehow wanted to be both the 16th (or like 30th, depending) installment in an RPG Franchise and something that could also appeal to the masses. Unfortunately, since it was likely so expensive to make, it really HAD to appeal to a wider audience. With some more time I'm sure it could've hit the sweet spot, for sure.
I also played the first remake and didn't pick up rebirth. Haven't continued FFXIV since base Endwalker, lots of time investment for that one.
*eats ur video*
You will be boiled.
runs away with a strangely video shaped lump in my throat
I've gone through gaming lulls in the past. Taking a break has done a lot to help. I've gone through stretches nearly four years doing almost no gaming. For me, I needed to find fulfillment outside of gaming. I went back to school, got a better job, focused on family, etc. Strangely enough it was my kids that helped to push me back into gaming at some point. I definitely agree that there's a homogenization of gaming going around but there are thousands of options. It could be worthwhile to get outta your comfort zone. Cheers!
Fall back into them? 🤷
Try Dark Messiah of Might and Magic!
Bet.
Now i feel bad for enjoying games this video shit on :(. I guess gaming is enjoyed for different reasons, i feel like we have gotten some great story games over the last two generations. Which is something i value dearly. To cast that aside as being boring or being a movie is a bit narrow minded imo.
Video mentions there being less radical differences and game design quirks between games but this just a logical result of some things being perfected. Some old games had locked cameras for example, we're thankfully never going back to that. Like it or not games like call of duty have perfected FPS games. Note what i mean by perfected is that it is what the vast majority of the industry has accepted and regarded as the best way to something, to each their own.
Disregarding Astro Bot as game of the year because it's a "Sony ad" and the most popular on a list when it's arguably the first full fleged game of the franchise while elden ring and FF7R had years of legacy was hopefuly a tasteless joke
I don't think I shit on any games in the video, except maybe Far Cry: New Dawn. Most of these are clips of me playing, and I rather enjoyed things like Red Dead, the first Jedi game, RE4 Remake was my game of it's year.
But all of these can be good AND still be guilty of following the current trends. I only mentioned one story in the whole video and explicitly liked it, despite me not enjoying the game that came with it. So I'm not sure where I'm dismissing gaming stories.
Diversity and experimentation is what makes things interesting. We can agree that certain design choices are better. But I'm arguing that they're getting TOO comfortable there's SO many people who would argue you're incorrect about Call of Duty perfecting FPS games. Like the people who like earlier games in the series and not the most current one. FPS is also a wide genre, it's gameplay wouldn't work for Overwatch, for example.
I've never even played or seen Astrobot, but the point wasn't the games themselves. The point was that we somehow reached a point that a video game tech demo's sequel and a years-old games DLC were even nominated for Game of the Year. Astro Bot is allowed to be a good game and an Ad, it's not mutually exclusive.
I don't know if you didn't finish the video, or if you're being defensive about things that you like. But I think this is a good explanation of my thought process. Thanks for watching.
@KindledKnight I will say i was half responding to the video and half to the comments. Also this my first time watching you, the video's critique of AAA gaming while showing lots of footage of RDR2 made me think you may have seen it as ideal example as to what you dislike about AAA gaming. Glad to hear you liked it though.
As for your points i get most of what you're saying i just wanted to add some nuance that like we got here for a reason. I guess you could make similar arguments to what you're saying for smartphones for example. You'd be like remember when the phones all used to differ from each other? And i'm like we don't need a home button anymore actually because we've moved beyond that. Hope that kinda clarifies my perspective.
That being said i enjoyed the video, i look forward to watching more.
Play Astro bot
@@Dooty294 Well, this IS basically my first video that's not just twitch clips. So I will gladly take the criticism. Honestly, this video was mostly for my little discord community to explain why I'm gonna be playing older games this year, and it got promoted outta nowhere. Exciting and scary, lol.
I hope you'll keep giving me criticism on the upcoming gameplay videos!
And I'll check out Astro Bot when I'm not broke. Heh.
@@KindledKnight For a first video this absolutely amazing btw. Only thing i would like to see is 1080p. I used to not be able to see the difference with 720 but now i spot it instantly lmao.
You are depressed or didn't play indie games
Sony ad? U mean tech demo cos astro bot was just a tech demo for the ps5 controller
i mean it can be both
No one will admit this online due to echo chambers centered around gaming as an adult, but if you are at a certain age and still play video games to the degree that you did as a kid, there is a sort of look you get by people. I’m not saying the expectation of growing out of video games and being a “real adult” is justified, but there is a discussion of stunted growth when people don’t develop other hobbies and interests as they grow older. People are malleable, people change. If you still have the same enthusiasm for games as you did as a kid, you essentially didn’t grow up from your child like perspective. I still love games but at 25 im definitely cutting back more and more to the point where I’m trading my PC to go back to consoles so that I have less options to play games. I’m sorry, it maybe cool to others online being 40 and owning a game backlog of several hundred games and emotional investment for the gaming industry but I don’t want to be that even at my age, I want more for myself even if minuscule like reading 1 book a year.
Ive realized I don’t care about the industry, the status quo, the controversies or hype in the gaming industry. If there is a good game I’ll play it, if not I won’t. I really need to start doing more for myself and seek new interests