NBA2K, the anti-loot box laws in Australia were like dead in the water since 2017 until NBA2K tried to pass of slot machines as being General (E for Everybody). Huge rise in complaints. ACB added Parental Guidance for "gambling references" to the classification tags, then pushed for the law change... but god that agency is slow to do anything right.
China is leaps ahead of that crap. Loot boxes are banned in China. Gambling mechanics (for RL $$) are banned in China. Daily Quests are banned in China. Pretty much anything that gives players incentives to log in and play daily or for extended periods of time are all banned in China. Its one of the few times in recent history that China has done something amazingly good. Which is also why when Net Ease recently put its first loot box into Once Human (Cosmetic Loot Box, go fuck yourself!) I quit playing. They cant do it in China, but the rest of the world that isnt banning Loot Boxes sure as shit got it.
@@Luodai235 That is how companies like EA will describe it, but even TCGs have to follow rules so they don't become gambling. Worse is Loot boxes add a lot of patented slot machine psychological manipulations to exploit customers which lines it more with gambling. Include the fact the increase prices, hidden odds, and other manipulations, or flat out lies... its worse than gambling now. Thing to remember, gambling laws are a consumer protection law to stop people being cheated... loot boxes cheat, the house always wins.
I’m all for this. It isn’t an outright ban like Europe has done but it does at least stop kids from purchasing the games/forces parents to willingly buy the games. Granted they may not know about lootboxes but this is a big step in the right direction. They are essentially gambling. If you have to be 18 to go to casino or play the lottery, then you should be 18 to get lootboxes
It looks similar but Single and Multiplayer games are very different animals. Single player is you playing on a board of another's design, in multiplayer YOU are the Pawn on their board.
fully agree, my siblings have full on stolen money from my mother to fund the roblox machine, and they’re too young to FULLY understand how that’s bad. she didn’t know that was a possibility before it happened lmao at least give parents another way to see what’s up, even if it’s just the m rating
@@swolerabbit On the one hand, I'm all for regulation, but on the other, it's the responsibility of the parent to know what their kids are doing on their devices, especially when they can connect to the internet.
Hard agree. As someone who is generally vehemently against government regulation, I even think it doesn’t go far enough. If not an outright ban, I think it should be locked to an Adults Only rating, I don’t think M goes far enough. Assuming their rating system is equivalent to the MSRB in the US.
That Palworld stuff is Bullsh*t. Nintendo are just looking for excuses at this point. And much love to Skyrim Grandma ❤ May she do what she wants and be happy!
@@ZeroTheHunter uh no it cam about because the used to many of there patients so the pokemon company sued them over it also this is the pokemon company doing it and not Nintendo they don't own the pokemon company
@@jsmith3946 Then why, may I ask, hass the Pokémon franchise not spread to other platforms? They would make BAGS of cash just due to more demand for their games, yet they keep it on Nintendo hardware. Could be a legal obligation but still, I think they're missing out. Palworld came along and due to a ball / whatever Nintendo went mental.
@@jsmith3946 in the official statement by The Pokemon Company they said that they didnt see any wrongdoing by the palworld game, but that they would investigate. So yes, it was the pressure made by diefanboys. If TPC are patent scumming that is different.
LMAO valve is too based. I was watching xqc stream deadlock on Kick and suddenly there was a frog jumping around the whole game, I had no clue what it was about but of course now I understand it was a cheater 😂 Its not the first time valve has done this, in dota2 they gave Christmas gifts to cheaters that got them perm banned when they opened it 😂
@@HockeyMan666I'll never understand this L take. If you're so anti-fun why are you even here? Valve is doing something right and they choose to do it with a bit of creativity, and this is what you choose to criticize? 😂
Star Wars Battlefront is already rated M. Why? Because Australia uses a different rating system, where M is a recommendation for people 15+ and not a restriction, and the rating is more of the equivalent of the ESRB's T rating. So this new rating does not change anything unfortunately. This will change Fifa's rating from G to M though, but I'm not sure if that's gonna change much.
well the good news is that if it's gonna be rated M anyway, they can finally introduce dismemberment by lightsaber into the games again instead of people just falling over.
@@robins1823 I don't think EA cares about Australia's ratings anyways, and they usually aim for a T rating from the ESRB for Star Wars games in particular.
Which at the end of the day is just copying basic human hunting behavior. Nintendo can't copyright human behavior for themselves and I hope they get laughed out of the case.
About a year ago you mentioned how driving simulators were trying to get people to get their CDL... Well I just passed my class B and have a job lined up that is over double what I've made at any job up until this point .. THANK YOU gameranx and falcon for helping me better my life!!!
The Elden Ring thing...WTH is wrong with people? That is the most sad and pathetic thing I think I've heard gaming wise. IS that the only way you find meaning in your life? By ruining other peoples' games? Get some mental health help if that's you. SMH
I missed some of the story do you get better weapons or a chance at a better weapon by doing that? I have Elden Ring since release and still haven't got around to playing it. Do the bosses have loot tables, sorry coming from WOW days.
Its crazy. They dont even see the reaction, they just know they ruined something for someone else and get some kind of enjoyment of that. Online sociopaths.
I’ve never played Palworld, I hope Nintendo loses their lawsuit though. Nintendo needs to be put in their place and fuck off, they are given far too much leeway.
Nintendo has over 1000 patents ranging from IP to game mechanics that they've filed over the past 20 years. If they wanted to enforce all the parents they have, they have half the gaming companies in the world in court for patent infringement in one form or another. Nintendo is just butt hurt that PalWorld is so successful and they aren't getting a cut of it. They refuse to innovate, so when someone comes along and makes a successful game that takes inspiration (and yeah Nintendo probably tried to patent inspiration too) from Pokemon, but does it better, they can't stand for it.
I've read in an article a few days ago that Nintendo (after the release of Palworld) even added some of the stuff to older patents they had and they're now trying to use those patents against Palworld. Don't know if that's really true, but if it is... damn that's low...
It probably wouldn't work in the US but Japan's pattent system is a bit weird so Nintendo has a chance over there. It's rather telling though that they went down the patent rout and not copyright.
The elden ring thing is exactly why I hate multiplayer games or games that let other people jump in uninvited. Can’t trust anyone anymore. Why should I have my game ruined because those idiots are allowed to do that?
I wouldn't lump multiplayer games into that as some do it well, for example Borderlands 3. You have the option to make the same loot drop for each member. However as I type this never thought about or looked into whether the other player could just leave and go fight a boss without you. Hmmm. I wonder.
What Nintendo's intention with the Palworld litigation is to stifle competition. For years Nintendo has been the sole owner of an IP that sells immensely regardless of quality (particularly in recent memory). It's the strength of the Pokemon IP and the idea that another Pokemon-like title being available on other platforms is something Nintendo is not willing to cope with.
As an Aussie, thanks for the shoutout Falcon! Fun fact, parliament have just bilaterally banned minors from social media. Nebulous and ill thought out, yes! Necessary... maybe.
Also the fact that gameranx released this video using footage from a completely different game definitely needs to be in the “Weird gaming stories of October 2024” video 😂
Re Pokemon Go So there's precursor game to Pokemon Go called Ingress. Ingress was about an alien invasion, and the players chose to be on two different teams, some supporting the aliens and some opposed to the aliens, and you battled over local landmarks. What's a local landmark? Well, the players got to submit their own choices to the game, but usually they'd be local parks with local statues, local graveyards and/or gravesites of note, police stations, fire stations, courthouses, town halls, churches, and military bases. And depending on what the place was, you could have more than one landmark (such as having multiple historical grave markers in a graveyard) really close together. When Pokemon Go was created, Niantic, the designer/publisher, just used the architecture generated by Ingress to decide where to place Pokemon and Pokemon gyms. I mean, no one had complained before, why start now? Except the Pokemon Go players were larger in number, younger in age, and less discreet than the original Ingress players. Which is why you had police stations and fire stations writing in to Niantic, begging to be taken out of the game. And why kids were constantly being sent to graveyards for Pokemon. Anyway, my point is, that 1) the base is probably a Poke Stop because it was in Ingress. And 2) Depending on the local landmarks and what Ingress-playing servicemen thought was important, there could be a BUNCH of poke stops really close together at what they thought were significant landmarks. So it's probably not an evil plot. Though it certainly not a bad idea.
Players who deliberately ruin multiplayer games for others is the main reason I don’t play multiplayer. Trying to get through the RDR2 tutorial to play with a pal during lockdown, I got paired with some rando during a mandatory tutorial mission, and it was a real pain in the ass. Clearly I don’t have the temperament for those kinds of shenanigans.
The Gameranx content overall is some of my favorite on UA-cam but the weird gaming stories are extra awesome. Would be cool if we could get more of falcon with these more often
"The protagonist looking weird" is not the reason why outlaws was bad. The game isnt fun, it forces you into the stereotypical good protagonist storyline(boring af), combat sucked, dialogue was AI levels of bad, and the perfromance was shif becausr they forced RT on at all quality levels, the game design was the issue. Nearly every level of the game had terrible issues that shouldve kept it in the oven to bake longer.
The Boisterous Falcon Laugh is wonderful and I hope we hear it more in the future ❤ Great video, I love story roundup. They're a great way to start the month
Mr. Falcon you've become my 90's morning cartoons before work and I love it. With your narrations I feel a kinship both with loving, loathing, and well sometimes just being an old man about video games and complain where it's needed. Keep on keeping on!
These are my favorite videos you guys do, and I've been watching from the start like ten years ago or so. 2012 actually, I googled when you guys started (god Jake's LinkedIn picture....) and I've been here since within a few years of that date, maybe 2015 or so? And this is easily the most entertaining sort of "mini show" Ive ever seen you guys do.
Can players optionally choose to be a useless frog in Deadlock for the lulz? Because that sounds like more fun to people who want a challenge like, "How long can you survive as a frog?" Could even be a set of Steam achievements for it too.
I've heard Pokemon Go specifically mentioned by other countries in the past. For pretty much the same reason, but with or without actually calling it an actual military intelligence gather op (I'm not sure I have heard other govt. officials say that, just random analysists). The video part here is a bit too much, but if you think about location data and whatnot. There are _some_ aspects of the game that when combined with what a phone does all the time, presents _some_ level of security risk.
There was actually a fitness app called Strava that ended up giving away the location and layout of overseas military bases, because it used the GPS tracking and combined that with a heatmap, so when the data was public, you had these bases glowing against a black background, and when you zoomed in, you could basically get a street map of a base that would have been previously unknown.
Honestly with the loot boxes, I believe they should throw on an "adults only" label on them. Maybe that will stop the damn trend of companies adding the crap for a quick buck. I'm sure the way they're doing it will help, some, but not enough.
That's a parent problem, not a rating problem. It's no different than movies. Most stores, digital and physical alike, won't sell them to kids, which generally means parents are fully involved in the decision to let their kids play/watch those titles. But those ratings still matter for the parents that want to stay age appropriate for their kids.
@@mrwpg Except they aren't, because some parents still want to tailor the content their children are consuming. Could stand to revisit first grade reading comprehension yourself, apparently, because that's the second time I'm saying it.
Same. The game is a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none, but if you enjoy living out a Star Wars fantasy there is a lot of enjoyment to be had.
@@notmephisto1375 yeah, and not being a jedi and seeing more of the gang side of things was cool. The stealth got annoying at times, but I would play a DLC for the game.
I agree with the thoughts expressed here about Palworld, Nintendo is just being entitled little baby kids ... and yeah there is a few games that has that same game mechanics. Besides that Palworld just seemed like it was for older pokemon player who was just bored of the Nintendo one. (I'd rather play Palworld now) Some people i know even went back to pokemon after playing palworld because the wanted to remember the kid times play said game in fact the ones i know didnt even own any of the pokemon games on switch, last ones they had bought was on the ds.
1:16 "EYEterations". I'm not mocking in any way. I have a deep love of different and specific local inflections of words . I found that one delightful. ❤
As a purely console gamer for all my life i do not understand the whole epic vs steam thing. Why does it matter? If you have a gaming pc, can you not install both apps or log into both web pages or whatever they are? It’s not like you need to buy a second pc if something is on epic, is it? I just wouldn’t care if i was a pc guy?
Your exactly right, and I don't understand it either. Other than marketing, because Steam is bigger, and MAYBE some people go straight to Steam for new releases while ignoring Epic which doesn't make sense to me but that's all I can think of. You can have both, heck you can have Epic, Steam, and GOG (although with GOG you can direct download since they are all DRM free, but they DO have a launcher IF you want to use it)
@@DarkForce2024 marketing is why epic spends on free games and exclusives. i prefer steam because its much more polished. if something is on another storefront many times i have to launch it through steam anyway cuz i'll want to use steaminput.
Damn. I sincerely hope the likeness of said protagonist in Star Wars Outlaws isn't modeled after an actual actor because the "weird/ugly" complaints might find yet another person deeply depressed by a related role. That's messed up.
Most of the time though when you look at the images of the person and the character side by side, the actual person tends to be far more attractive. That's where the accusations of western gaming studios purposely "uglifying" their characters comes from. The argument that "real women" aren't that attractive really falls apart when the real women are far more attractive than what you put out time after time.
Na dude, it was the hair. The lady is pretty but with that hair she looks gross and we have to stare at her for 100 hours. It was literally the reason I didn't buy it right away and happened to avoid a repetitive, forced-goodguy narrative that's still glitchy
The worst part is the actual actress they *ahem* modeled her after is attractive, developers really uglied up the model in the game. Those developers need to redo the model.
Star Wars Outlaws not selling well because of the weird-looking protagonist is well, weird. I mean, Luke Skywalker just looked like some random goober from the 70s.
Not that you are but are they saying male gamers like attractive male characters when we play games? No matter how you spin it, it's a weird topic to bring up.
Ubisoft putting assassin's creed shadows on steam just reeks of desperation they know its gonna fail and are trying anything they can in hopes it doesn't completely flop
@@trevorstampfly5910 Ubisoft usually does its homework on these things. If you don't believe me, look up the history of Yasuke for yourself. I watch NHK World Japan, so I already know it's true as they did a short documentary about him.
Ya I'm sure Ubisoft wouldn't have reversed their course. The backlash to Assassin's Creed Shadows and the poor reception to Star Wars Outlaws has made them afraid. They are very, very , afraid now of actually failing as a company.
After the Palworld nonsense, I'm never buying anything from Nintendo again. They're just trying to stifle indie devs so they can keep their monopoly on bad Pokemon games that they will never inovate on or improve. Sick of them.
Pokemon don't spawn inside of military bases, lived next to an AFB , they have gyms inside of base but Pokemon never spawn inside of it or 100 feet from the entrance.
I don't particularly like the tone of the video with Ubisoft, "LOOK WHO'S COME CRAWLING BACK!". I have a gaming PC and most of my PC games are on Steam, which is true for the vast majority of people. It's almost monopolistic, shall we say. Anything which offers a little competition to the big monster in the room isn't a bad thing, in my eyes. Particularly since Gabe isn't exactly getting younger. Who knows what will happen when he steps down. Still, great vid, as usual :)
Nintendo is running out of fans to bully, now they are going after indie devs. Why do people still hold them in such high regard when they are worse than most triple-A publishers?
The part with the microtransactions. Yeah giving ratings on video games are basicly useless these days. Parents give their 5 year old kids games like Cyberpunk and GTA. Because the parent mindset is Video game=for kids. No one enforces the ratings. If people actuly played attention to it, a lot, and I mean A LOT of the problems we have in gaming wouldn't be a thing. Or at the very least it wouldn't be no where near as bad as it is now
I think a lot of publishers with their own stores still haven't figured out that Steam is not just an online game store but is actually its own social media platform that also sells games. That's why it continues to be so popular.
Nintendo needs to let independent game studios thrive, not throttle them to nothing while nintendo puts out 7 mediocre games and 1 good game every 6 years.
That's why scummy companies like Nintendo do this. Instead of making a good product you just make it the only product. Really hate the people in charge of Nintendo.
Frogging and Sheeping were done on MUDs back in the 90s :) Usually the frogs and sheep would also be teleported to the central hub area where people gathered so people could mock them.
Franchises Nintendo's copied from: Sonic Ecco the Dolphin Spyro the Dragon Crash Bandicoot Pitfall Pretty much all pre-Mario Bros Atari and Commodore platformers
Huge W for Australia! F*ck lootboxes, f*ck nba2k and fut packs, f*ck any mts in video gaming. This should be standart worldwide.
NBA2K, the anti-loot box laws in Australia were like dead in the water since 2017 until NBA2K tried to pass of slot machines as being General (E for Everybody).
Huge rise in complaints. ACB added Parental Guidance for "gambling references" to the classification tags, then pushed for the law change... but god that agency is slow to do anything right.
China is leaps ahead of that crap. Loot boxes are banned in China. Gambling mechanics (for RL $$) are banned in China. Daily Quests are banned in China. Pretty much anything that gives players incentives to log in and play daily or for extended periods of time are all banned in China.
Its one of the few times in recent history that China has done something amazingly good. Which is also why when Net Ease recently put its first loot box into Once Human (Cosmetic Loot Box, go fuck yourself!) I quit playing. They cant do it in China, but the rest of the world that isnt banning Loot Boxes sure as shit got it.
The first thing when I saw the lootbox mechanic back in the day it reminded of me buying YoGiOh cards. Is it not the same thing?
@@Luodai235 That is how companies like EA will describe it, but even TCGs have to follow rules so they don't become gambling.
Worse is Loot boxes add a lot of patented slot machine psychological manipulations to exploit customers which lines it more with gambling.
Include the fact the increase prices, hidden odds, and other manipulations, or flat out lies... its worse than gambling now.
Thing to remember, gambling laws are a consumer protection law to stop people being cheated... loot boxes cheat, the house always wins.
@@Luodai235 Its exactly the same. Card packs are loot boxes
Good for you Australia! Enjoyed that one, fuck loot boxes
I agree ☝️
Totally agreed.
Now their biggest threats are "only" calf sized spiders 😁
Agreed!
Its not going to stop anything.
Just look at how many kids play GTA.
I’m all for this. It isn’t an outright ban like Europe has done but it does at least stop kids from purchasing the games/forces parents to willingly buy the games. Granted they may not know about lootboxes but this is a big step in the right direction. They are essentially gambling. If you have to be 18 to go to casino or play the lottery, then you should be 18 to get lootboxes
"That's a little bit of a overstep.." not at all. Fuck em, you want to run a casino? Then follow casino laws
It looks similar but Single and Multiplayer games are very different animals. Single player is you playing on a board of another's design, in multiplayer YOU are the Pawn on their board.
fully agree, my siblings have full on stolen money from my mother to fund the roblox machine, and they’re too young to FULLY understand how that’s bad.
she didn’t know that was a possibility before it happened lmao
at least give parents another way to see what’s up, even if it’s just the m rating
@@swolerabbit On the one hand, I'm all for regulation, but on the other, it's the responsibility of the parent to know what their kids are doing on their devices, especially when they can connect to the internet.
Ah yes, the good old “it’s not my fault I’m stupid, the government should stop me from having to take accountability!” Argument.
Hard agree. As someone who is generally vehemently against government regulation, I even think it doesn’t go far enough. If not an outright ban, I think it should be locked to an Adults Only rating, I don’t think M goes far enough.
Assuming their rating system is equivalent to the MSRB in the US.
I agree with Australia I've been saying the same thing.
That Palworld stuff is Bullsh*t. Nintendo are just looking for excuses at this point. And much love to Skyrim Grandma ❤ May she do what she wants and be happy!
The palworld lawsuit happened because stupid pokemon diefanboys wanted them to fill the lawsuit. They hated that game was doing well.
@@ZeroTheHunter uh no it cam about because the used to many of there patients so the pokemon company sued them over it also this is the pokemon company doing it and not Nintendo they don't own the pokemon company
@@jsmith3946you mean the patents they just made this year 🫠
@@jsmith3946 Then why, may I ask, hass the Pokémon franchise not spread to other platforms? They would make BAGS of cash just due to more demand for their games, yet they keep it on Nintendo hardware. Could be a legal obligation but still, I think they're missing out. Palworld came along and due to a ball / whatever Nintendo went mental.
@@jsmith3946 in the official statement by The Pokemon Company they said that they didnt see any wrongdoing by the palworld game, but that they would investigate. So yes, it was the pressure made by diefanboys. If TPC are patent scumming that is different.
LMAO valve is too based. I was watching xqc stream deadlock on Kick and suddenly there was a frog jumping around the whole game, I had no clue what it was about but of course now I understand it was a cheater 😂 Its not the first time valve has done this, in dota2 they gave Christmas gifts to cheaters that got them perm banned when they opened it 😂
They should just do their job and ban them not troll around like this, people wont take them serious as a company if they keep this up
@@HockeyMan666 stfu hackers deserve this troll even worse than this
@@HockeyMan666I'll never understand this L take. If you're so anti-fun why are you even here?
Valve is doing something right and they choose to do it with a bit of creativity, and this is what you choose to criticize? 😂
@@HockeyMan666 Valve is one of, if not the most beloved company in the gaming industry get out of here with that
why would u watch xqc? he is boring AF and a adhd crazy man
I'm 100% behind any game with real world currency in-game purchases being age restricted to at least 18 or 21.
With that rule though, Roblox and Fortnite would be taken away from all the children 😂
@@codypratt3590 I know, heavens forbid that children might have to actually go outside **gasp** to play with other children.
Glad to hear that more steps are being taken to ensure that the next generation of gamers don't develop crippling gambling addictions
RuneScape gave me a crippling gambling addiction...
Using clips of "Deadlock" for the news about valve's deadlock is insane trolling.
straight up mistake I bet
Editor screwed up
Can't be
I was thinking that it was a mistake, lol. Either way I thought it was funny
I don't get it...
All countries should intoduce legeclation to make games with loot boxes 18+
Absolutely agreed. Heck I'd say most forms of micro transactions should make the game 18 plus.
Dumbfux should just stop purchasing stupid ass loot boxes all together. Only stupid idiots and children buy loot boxes
That doesn't matter at all. The ratings are useless.
This is the wackiest spelling of legislation that I've ever seen
Call of duty and gta is 18+ and its filled with kids 😂
Love Grandma Shirley! Her gaming vids were always so comforting to watch and play in the background while I'm at work. She is the sweetest old lady,
Ea crying because now star wars and fifa are mature in australia rn
Honestly hope this becomes a global change.
Star Wars Battlefront is already rated M. Why? Because Australia uses a different rating system, where M is a recommendation for people 15+ and not a restriction, and the rating is more of the equivalent of the ESRB's T rating. So this new rating does not change anything unfortunately. This will change Fifa's rating from G to M though, but I'm not sure if that's gonna change much.
well the good news is that if it's gonna be rated M anyway, they can finally introduce dismemberment by lightsaber into the games again instead of people just falling over.
@@robins1823 you know they'd never put that effort in.
@@robins1823 I don't think EA cares about Australia's ratings anyways, and they usually aim for a T rating from the ESRB for Star Wars games in particular.
Ghost busters should sue Pokémon then… they originally created the “catching monsters in a device” 🤣
Which at the end of the day is just copying basic human hunting behavior. Nintendo can't copyright human behavior for themselves and I hope they get laughed out of the case.
But did they patent it?!
I don't think Nintendo did either 😅@@GeneralRenz
@masterace9543 well seeing as they are suing for patent infringement says otherwise.
@@xeedflarian9748 Digital Patents should be Outlawed, No if, ands, or buts, EVER.
About a year ago you mentioned how driving simulators were trying to get people to get their CDL... Well I just passed my class B and have a job lined up that is over double what I've made at any job up until this point .. THANK YOU gameranx and falcon for helping me better my life!!!
The Elden Ring thing...WTH is wrong with people? That is the most sad and pathetic thing I think I've heard gaming wise. IS that the only way you find meaning in your life? By ruining other peoples' games? Get some mental health help if that's you. SMH
Seriously how damn bored and miserable can they be? They could spend that time enjoying their own games
I missed some of the story do you get better weapons or a chance at a better weapon by doing that? I have Elden Ring since release and still haven't got around to playing it. Do the bosses have loot tables, sorry coming from WOW days.
And these same people would lose their absolute minds if the games got shut down from lack of players.
Its crazy. They dont even see the reaction, they just know they ruined something for someone else and get some kind of enjoyment of that. Online sociopaths.
That little bit about how they are doing it to discourage new players, it's very twisted self defeating logic.
I’ve never played Palworld, I hope Nintendo loses their lawsuit though. Nintendo needs to be put in their place and fuck off, they are given far too much leeway.
Exactly, I played Palworld, but never bought it, definitely will now after everything settles and I hear nintendo won't get a cut of it.
@drekscado5201 you are interacting with a bot.
@@Mud9How do we know you aren't a bot 🤔
@@Mud9 How do you know they're a bot? It's just someone without a profile pic giving their opinion.....
because the same word for word comment is being used over and over again on this video.
Nintendo has over 1000 patents ranging from IP to game mechanics that they've filed over the past 20 years. If they wanted to enforce all the parents they have, they have half the gaming companies in the world in court for patent infringement in one form or another. Nintendo is just butt hurt that PalWorld is so successful and they aren't getting a cut of it. They refuse to innovate, so when someone comes along and makes a successful game that takes inspiration (and yeah Nintendo probably tried to patent inspiration too) from Pokemon, but does it better, they can't stand for it.
@@Joreel exactly. Instead of being better. They just try to sue away the competition.
LMAO, not patent inspiration.
Well said. Palworld was refreshing.
I've read in an article a few days ago that Nintendo (after the release of Palworld) even added some of the stuff to older patents they had and they're now trying to use those patents against Palworld.
Don't know if that's really true, but if it is... damn that's low...
@@StormTehSinner yeah it is true... They started rewriting their patents when PalWorld was first announced.
Nintendon't need to squash a smaller dev to "protect" their IP. Just make a BETTER version of their mainline Pokémon game.
Nintendo is just another evil corporate entity.
"No, same game different color comin' right up!"
-Nintendo
@@tanklike4413to be fair PalWorld was a blatant rip off.
My absolute favorite series. I love to put all episodes in a Playlist and laugh away. Thanks Falcon and crew.
Glad you enjoy it!
Same here... such a great idea
Surely changing a patent post release of a game should render it invalid, surely changing a patent to match the competitions system is an IP theft.
Unfortunately the legal system is broken like that.
@@matthewcharles9813 broken or rigged?
@@mrwpg yes
Problem is that Japanese laws are different, so it's probably legal over there to pull crap like this.
It probably wouldn't work in the US but Japan's pattent system is a bit weird so Nintendo has a chance over there. It's rather telling though that they went down the patent rout and not copyright.
The elden ring thing is exactly why I hate multiplayer games or games that let other people jump in uninvited. Can’t trust anyone anymore. Why should I have my game ruined because those idiots are allowed to do that?
I wouldn't lump multiplayer games into that as some do it well, for example Borderlands 3. You have the option to make the same loot drop for each member. However as I type this never thought about or looked into whether the other player could just leave and go fight a boss without you. Hmmm. I wonder.
7:47 so we are just going to skip over the fact that there is a final fantasy Frasier game?
I literally am going to go check it out after the video. I need to see it.
@Tagishlicht if i had a pc i would check it out myself
Lol right most exciting news of the whole vid lol
What Nintendo's intention with the Palworld litigation is to stifle competition. For years Nintendo has been the sole owner of an IP that sells immensely regardless of quality (particularly in recent memory). It's the strength of the Pokemon IP and the idea that another Pokemon-like title being available on other platforms is something Nintendo is not willing to cope with.
Agree and said it somewhere up above.
As an Aussie, thanks for the shoutout Falcon!
Fun fact, parliament have just bilaterally banned minors from social media.
Nebulous and ill thought out, yes! Necessary... maybe.
I do hope that Skyrim Gma lives long enought to see ES 6. It'd be wholesome to see her interact with her NPC self
It's sadly a bit difficult to be optimistic about this ...
(Not because of her, but because we won't probably get ESO 6 till another decade or so...)
Oh falcon, your pronunciation of iteration was quite funny 1:18
Good ole Eyeteration
LMAO you noticed that two, luckily I had CC on for some reason. I had to look at what word he was saying. I was like did I hear that correctly.
Yeah, that was painful.
I honestly think he miss pronounces word intentionally so people will comment about it to boost engagement
Also the fact that gameranx released this video using footage from a completely different game definitely needs to be in the “Weird gaming stories of October 2024” video 😂
Re Pokemon Go
So there's precursor game to Pokemon Go called Ingress.
Ingress was about an alien invasion, and the players chose to be on two different teams, some supporting the aliens and some opposed to the aliens, and you battled over local landmarks.
What's a local landmark? Well, the players got to submit their own choices to the game, but usually they'd be local parks with local statues, local graveyards and/or gravesites of note, police stations, fire stations, courthouses, town halls, churches, and military bases. And depending on what the place was, you could have more than one landmark (such as having multiple historical grave markers in a graveyard) really close together.
When Pokemon Go was created, Niantic, the designer/publisher, just used the architecture generated by Ingress to decide where to place Pokemon and Pokemon gyms. I mean, no one had complained before, why start now?
Except the Pokemon Go players were larger in number, younger in age, and less discreet than the original Ingress players. Which is why you had police stations and fire stations writing in to Niantic, begging to be taken out of the game. And why kids were constantly being sent to graveyards for Pokemon.
Anyway, my point is, that 1) the base is probably a Poke Stop because it was in Ingress. And 2) Depending on the local landmarks and what Ingress-playing servicemen thought was important, there could be a BUNCH of poke stops really close together at what they thought were significant landmarks.
So it's probably not an evil plot. Though it certainly not a bad idea.
Players who deliberately ruin multiplayer games for others is the main reason I don’t play multiplayer. Trying to get through the RDR2 tutorial to play with a pal during lockdown, I got paired with some rando during a mandatory tutorial mission, and it was a real pain in the ass. Clearly I don’t have the temperament for those kinds of shenanigans.
The Gameranx content overall is some of my favorite on UA-cam but the weird gaming stories are extra awesome. Would be cool if we could get more of falcon with these more often
Hey the footage you used for the Deadlock story was mostly just Valorant gameplay with one of their characters *named* Deadlock
It's a joke
@@DavidAlexanderHill Thought it might be, but wasn't 100% sure
@@ThatBascoKid you're still not sure be honest
@@jaefrmbk2k Are any of us in this day and age 🥲
That's because Falcon is an annoying voiced fake ass gamer
As usual, op video Falcon 🥳🥳 also omg people jumping off the cliff in Concord to get platinum is mad hilarious 😂
Hello, Falcon!!
Hey
@@gameranxTV Hey
Calm down
@@onlyjoinedtotroll Hello!!
@@WhispersOfaSilhouette Hi!!
At 8:57 you said the phrase "far fetched" while covering a Pokémon game, without showing Farfetch'd? Crazy.
"The protagonist looking weird" is not the reason why outlaws was bad. The game isnt fun, it forces you into the stereotypical good protagonist storyline(boring af), combat sucked, dialogue was AI levels of bad, and the perfromance was shif becausr they forced RT on at all quality levels, the game design was the issue. Nearly every level of the game had terrible issues that shouldve kept it in the oven to bake longer.
figured it was how they wanted you to play, for a game called Outlaws you would think robbers, Killers, and other baddies
“Stereotypical good protagonist”? Were we playing the same game where I spent the majority of the game stealing from people?
The Boisterous Falcon Laugh is wonderful and I hope we hear it more in the future ❤
Great video, I love story roundup. They're a great way to start the month
LOL thanks for watching! :D
Falcon says Farfetch'd, but it's obviously a Pidgeot on screen. Sir, are you even a real bird?
I noticed these. It's not negative; just funny. Keep up the good work!
Iteration: It-er-a-tion
Portmanteau: Port-man-toe
Shirley played Skyrim for so long that even her got sick of it before es6 was properly announced
Mr. Falcon you've become my 90's morning cartoons before work and I love it. With your narrations I feel a kinship both with loving, loathing, and well sometimes just being an old man about video games and complain where it's needed. Keep on keeping on!
Glad you enjoy it!
11:32 Valve should use this opportunity to demand Ubisoft strip Ubisoft Connect from all their games sold on Steam.
Ubisoft will just delist games with uplay
My favorite Gameranx video series! 😅❤
Hey we’re glad you’re enjoying them!
probably didn't cost much to refund both of the people who bought concord
Love these. Hey Falcon!
Hey
Supporting Ubisoft is crazy.
I like Ubisoft games quite a bit. Everyone has their own personal tastes.
@@notmephisto1375 Yeah same. I enjoy quite a few of their games. The discourse about Ubisoft becomes a bit grating tbh.
@@LexiconPrime7 Their CEO allows women to be sexually harassed in their offices.
I think the issue is there's great developers there. It's just the people running it are some of the most horrible people in the industry.
@@notmephisto1375 get comfortable with your games getting taken away then.
I watch these when I eat always entertains me and keeps me up to date on stuff going on in the gaming world nowadays
The Elden Ring story just shows what I have always said. PVP is a dumpster fire and forced PVP is dumpster fire the size of a city.
It's wild how PvP is forced. Dumbest shit I've heard today. FromSoft f*cked up bad.
08:55 missed the opportunity to show farfetch'd
“Putting rules on the things can mess up the fun.”
Someone sure isn’t good at Yakuza Mahjong
These are my favorite videos you guys do, and I've been watching from the start like ten years ago or so. 2012 actually, I googled when you guys started (god Jake's LinkedIn picture....) and I've been here since within a few years of that date, maybe 2015 or so? And this is easily the most entertaining sort of "mini show" Ive ever seen you guys do.
Can players optionally choose to be a useless frog in Deadlock for the lulz? Because that sounds like more fun to people who want a challenge like, "How long can you survive as a frog?" Could even be a set of Steam achievements for it too.
Falcon, that intro was wild pal. 😅
Ubisoft should make their single player games work without a connection
8:58 prime opportunity missed for showing a Farfetch'd in sync with the dialogue
Did he say Ubisucks @13:53?
Falcon is absolutely pumping out videos
I've heard Pokemon Go specifically mentioned by other countries in the past. For pretty much the same reason, but with or without actually calling it an actual military intelligence gather op (I'm not sure I have heard other govt. officials say that, just random analysists). The video part here is a bit too much, but if you think about location data and whatnot. There are _some_ aspects of the game that when combined with what a phone does all the time, presents _some_ level of security risk.
There was actually a fitness app called Strava that ended up giving away the location and layout of overseas military bases, because it used the GPS tracking and combined that with a heatmap, so when the data was public, you had these bases glowing against a black background, and when you zoomed in, you could basically get a street map of a base that would have been previously unknown.
Honestly with the loot boxes, I believe they should throw on an "adults only" label on them. Maybe that will stop the damn trend of companies adding the crap for a quick buck. I'm sure the way they're doing it will help, some, but not enough.
“No spring falcon” made me laugh more than it should have 😂
I agree, Star Wars Outlaws was pretty good fun.
Glad you enjoyed that one! :)
Glad you enjoyed that one! :)
Amazing video gameranx, fantastic job.
Hey we appreciate you!
10 WEIRD Gaming Stories is what I look for every month on this channel.
Same here
Good old Shirley. Thanks for your videos
age ratings mean nothing since gaming went mainstream, how many ten year olds play GTA...
That's a parent problem, not a rating problem. It's no different than movies. Most stores, digital and physical alike, won't sell them to kids, which generally means parents are fully involved in the decision to let their kids play/watch those titles. But those ratings still matter for the parents that want to stay age appropriate for their kids.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 learn to read, i never said it was a rating problem, i said ratings are pointless...
@@mrwpg Except they aren't, because some parents still want to tailor the content their children are consuming. Could stand to revisit first grade reading comprehension yourself, apparently, because that's the second time I'm saying it.
It's really the parents fault for buying games they're kids shouldn't be playing
@@crimsonknightli1238 maybe so but not what i said, age rating are pointless was what was inferring, see my previous comment.
My favourite series, I always look forward to these vids ❤❤❤
I had a lot of fun with Star Wars Outlaws!
Same. The game is a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none, but if you enjoy living out a Star Wars fantasy there is a lot of enjoyment to be had.
@@notmephisto1375 yeah, and not being a jedi and seeing more of the gang side of things was cool. The stealth got annoying at times, but I would play a DLC for the game.
Anyone who has actually played it has fun with it.
3:36, pure louis ck impression there 😂
Really
I agree with the thoughts expressed here about Palworld, Nintendo is just being entitled little baby kids ... and yeah there is a few games that has that same game mechanics. Besides that Palworld just seemed like it was for older pokemon player who was just bored of the Nintendo one. (I'd rather play Palworld now) Some people i know even went back to pokemon after playing palworld because the wanted to remember the kid times play said game in fact the ones i know didnt even own any of the pokemon games on switch, last ones they had bought was on the ds.
Those videos are a great way to look of the year for sure. Is fun to watch in the end of the year and see what the hell happened.
lol hey we’re glad you enjoy them!
Day number idk of asking Falcon to pronounce “iteration” correctly.
good one, especially with the loot box regulations
Ubisoft: "Hi Steam, I wanna go back"
Steam: "Well, Well, looks who's back crawling like the worm you are"
I mean are they wrong?
"You could not live with your own failure.. "
The Belarussian Pokemon Go theory wasn't too Farfetch'd you say?
This means Fortnite or 2k NBA are now mature in Australia
kids in kindergartens all around australia just dropped to their knees in despair
Lol.
I love the addition to crazy taxi.
You're awesome FALCON!!!!❤🦅🦅
The best!
The Pokemon Go story is definitely ...Farfetch'd lol
Amazing. 😅
Absol-lutely
That's a good one lol
1:16 "EYEterations". I'm not mocking in any way. I have a deep love of different and specific local inflections of words . I found that one delightful. ❤
As a purely console gamer for all my life i do not understand the whole epic vs steam thing. Why does it matter? If you have a gaming pc, can you not install both apps or log into both web pages or whatever they are? It’s not like you need to buy a second pc if something is on epic, is it? I just wouldn’t care if i was a pc guy?
Your exactly right, and I don't understand it either. Other than marketing, because Steam is bigger, and MAYBE some people go straight to Steam for new releases while ignoring Epic which doesn't make sense to me but that's all I can think of. You can have both, heck you can have Epic, Steam, and GOG (although with GOG you can direct download since they are all DRM free, but they DO have a launcher IF you want to use it)
@@DarkForce2024 marketing is why epic spends on free games and exclusives. i prefer steam because its much more polished.
if something is on another storefront many times i have to launch it through steam anyway cuz i'll want to use steaminput.
just coz epic launcher is slow, clunky and horrible to use.
Hi Falcon 🤙
Im really looking forward to the gaming deals list from u guys this year
Hey
Damn. I sincerely hope the likeness of said protagonist in Star Wars Outlaws isn't modeled after an actual actor because the "weird/ugly" complaints might find yet another person deeply depressed by a related role. That's messed up.
Most of the time though when you look at the images of the person and the character side by side, the actual person tends to be far more attractive. That's where the accusations of western gaming studios purposely "uglifying" their characters comes from. The argument that "real women" aren't that attractive really falls apart when the real women are far more attractive than what you put out time after time.
@@dustinyoshimura5612 Wasn't that pretty much what happened with the girl from fable 4?...
Na dude, it was the hair. The lady is pretty but with that hair she looks gross and we have to stare at her for 100 hours. It was literally the reason I didn't buy it right away and happened to avoid a repetitive, forced-goodguy narrative that's still glitchy
The worst part is the actual actress they *ahem* modeled her after is attractive, developers really uglied up the model in the game. Those developers need to redo the model.
I want sexy people in my escapist fantasy not some fugly turd like me i see that enough in my reflection lmao
“Video games cause violence”
“No they don’t, they foster gambling addictions” lol
Star Wars Outlaws not selling well because of the weird-looking protagonist is well, weird. I mean, Luke Skywalker just looked like some random goober from the 70s.
Not that you are but are they saying male gamers like attractive male characters when we play games? No matter how you spin it, it's a weird topic to bring up.
No, it’s just an another mediocre Ubisoft game. Just a rehash of other games.
Aaahhh... Starting the month with my fix of Falcon is like starting the day with a cup of coffee.
Ubisoft putting assassin's creed shadows on steam just reeks of desperation they know its gonna fail and are trying anything they can in hopes it doesn't completely flop
Yasuke being a samurai and a black man is historically accurate though.
Yeah and he also built the country of Japan...
@@doomsdaySephiroth yeah straight from the historian who uses his own book as his source or the random japanese man in a kimono super accutate
@@trevorstampfly5910 Ubisoft usually does its homework on these things. If you don't believe me, look up the history of Yasuke for yourself. I watch NHK World Japan, so I already know it's true as they did a short documentary about him.
Ya I'm sure Ubisoft wouldn't have reversed their course. The backlash to Assassin's Creed Shadows and the poor reception to Star Wars Outlaws has made them afraid. They are very, very , afraid now of actually failing as a company.
2:10 hope Jake got his physical copy of Concord.
After the Palworld nonsense, I'm never buying anything from Nintendo again. They're just trying to stifle indie devs so they can keep their monopoly on bad Pokemon games that they will never inovate on or improve. Sick of them.
Agreed and I don't even like palworld personally. I just hate Nintendo at this point.
thanks Falcon!
weird has become status quo in the gaming industry these days.
Pokemon don't spawn inside of military bases, lived next to an AFB , they have gyms inside of base but Pokemon never spawn inside of it or 100 feet from the entrance.
I don't particularly like the tone of the video with Ubisoft, "LOOK WHO'S COME CRAWLING BACK!". I have a gaming PC and most of my PC games are on Steam, which is true for the vast majority of people. It's almost monopolistic, shall we say. Anything which offers a little competition to the big monster in the room isn't a bad thing, in my eyes. Particularly since Gabe isn't exactly getting younger. Who knows what will happen when he steps down.
Still, great vid, as usual :)
Nintendo is running out of fans to bully, now they are going after indie devs. Why do people still hold them in such high regard when they are worse than most triple-A publishers?
Wow. this is like the Jake's Friday presentation but with Falcon!
Great Job Falcon! Jake should be shaking in his stylish yet affordable shoes!
The part with the microtransactions. Yeah giving ratings on video games are basicly useless these days. Parents give their 5 year old kids games like Cyberpunk and GTA. Because the parent mindset is Video game=for kids. No one enforces the ratings. If people actuly played attention to it, a lot, and I mean A LOT of the problems we have in gaming wouldn't be a thing. Or at the very least it wouldn't be no where near as bad as it is now
Should still push the rating while also working on getting these parents to actually care.
Also helps the ones that actually pay attention.
I think a lot of publishers with their own stores still haven't figured out that Steam is not just an online game store but is actually its own social media platform that also sells games. That's why it continues to be so popular.
beginning of video: "Monopolies are bad"
end of video: "all games should be on Steam, alternative platform bad"
We can put that second sentence firmly in the "Things nobody ever said" bin
If other platforms were good, Valve wouldn't have a monopoly. That's the difference, lol. People use steam because it's better than anything else.
When I hear "you shouldn't have slot machines in video games" I immediately think of the game corner in celadon city
Nintendo needs to let independent game studios thrive, not throttle them to nothing while nintendo puts out 7 mediocre games and 1 good game every 6 years.
That's why scummy companies like Nintendo do this. Instead of making a good product you just make it the only product. Really hate the people in charge of Nintendo.
Frogging and Sheeping were done on MUDs back in the 90s :) Usually the frogs and sheep would also be teleported to the central hub area where people gathered so people could mock them.
Pokemon go was very obviously an intelligence gathering tool.
Knew it from launch.
Ingress was also pretty popular. Same game concept, same developers (Niantic).
I love hearing about Skyrim grandma. Very wholesome
Franchises Nintendo's copied from:
Sonic
Ecco the Dolphin
Spyro the Dragon
Crash Bandicoot
Pitfall
Pretty much all pre-Mario Bros Atari and Commodore platformers