The potential is there. But it gets squandered by the fact that the moment you open the appstores, it's already trying to sell you 100 different versions of Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, and gacha games, devolving it all into "what palette do I want" rather than "which of these are actually good".
Honestly who actually browses those mobile storefronts anyway, or any game storefront? I can't remember the last time I even used Steam to actually discover a game I might want to play. I don't see how it's much different, other than the increased ratio of garbage to not garbage.
"The moment you open the appstores" - that's your mistake right there. Really more than enough gaming websites to find new and interesting mobile games - I only open my app store to click Buy.
@@KillahMate plz, Can you list any website or youtuber that recommends good mobile games? Just in this video I got more decent recommendations than using the Apple AppStore my entire life.
Like honestly. How hard is it for Nintendo to port their SNES games to phones and PCs for that matter?! Obviously it's because of a conflict of interest with their Switch console, but look at the success of Fortnite. The big moneymakers of today are the ones that rush to make their game as available to everyone as quickly as possible. Same reason Among Us is huge.
@@FreshTillDeath56 Why would you want that? We have more than enough shitty ports with horrible UIs and Arial 12 fonts. No thanks, i'll stick to emulators.
I literally just finished God Of War - Chains of Olympus (a game i never got to play on PSP ) on my Xiaomi MI10 using PPSSPP 10 minutes before watching this video.
Disappointed to see nobody mention how influential Minecraft: Pocket Edition was in mobile gaming, especially when Microsoft standardised Minecraft to Bedrock edition using the code-base of Pocket Edition and enabled cross-play between console, mobile and PC, something that was unheard of back then.
I think unofficial ports should also be mentioned has they're as good as official ports in terms optimization and performance but also include stuff like mod support as well. Delta touch is an unofficial port of doom 1, 2 and 3, where you can run mods like brutal doom on it and many more. There's also quad touch which is a quake port and Xash3d which is a half life 1 port as well.
@@epic8923 i strongly agree I feel like unofficial ports like delta quad and most recently raze touch for games like Duke 3d shadow warrior and blood are honestly better ways to play the games that they support more than the official Options Delta is far superior to the official doom 1 and 2 ports plus you can play every single other doom engine fps game including heretic, strife hexen, hacx and even other gz doom standalone games Quad i believe is the only way to play quake 1 2 3 and hexen 2 since those don't even have ports Raze is superior even in its current state to the official Duke and shadow warrior ports the and is the only way to play blood on Android outside of dos box
The fact that we can play PSP games on phone 5-7 years ago has shown how great mobile phone is. You could literally play PS3/Xbox 360 games on phone, considering your device strong enough
@@TheEvilCheesecake I have to agree with your reply because it's the sad reality. Gameloft used to be my childhood (played many pre touchscreen smartphone games made by Gameloft), but now they are a shadow of their former selves and they at least deserve some backlash from the fans for their terrible practice. I enjoyed Asphalt 9 way more than Asphalt 8 even though both games are filled with microtransactions. It's impossible to praise Watch Dogs 1 (for what it is) and not have someone reply to your comment saying that "the game sucks, it's trash". Funny thing is that I liked Watch Dogs 1 and many of my IRL friends liked that game too. All I have to say is that the people who spread hate towards a certain game is the minority in the internet but a vocal majority in the comment section, which means that the small group of people managed to spread their hate towards a certain game with their loudspeakers. Take Crowbcat for example, he even managed to turn hating GTA 5 into a trend, even though GTA 5 is an amazing game.
It’s a shame they ended up so bad, back in the day I played some genuinely good games by them but it seems that in the years since they’ve turned evil…
@@Hesojo I know right? such a shame about the response time of the UI tho, it always feels like you are emulating a mouse through touchscreen or something
I'm hyped you covered this topic! Before the whole pandemic hit, I was actually working on the publisher side of mobile games - specifically, we were working with Japanese, Hong Kong, Chinese, and some European / American indie devs to have their games available worldwide. (Once the virus hit though, the whole chain of development, especially among indies, fell apart so I wound up having to work other jobs in the meantime.) But let me just say, we'd see all sorts of mobile gems and cool upcoming projects! Like we worked with Mihoyo when they were doing Honkai Impact 3rd before Genshin Impact and CyGames during their mobile only, Japan exclusive days. That said though, holy crap did we also see the crippling roadblocks holding back mobile gaming. 1. Both Android and Apple stores severely cripple games being easily available and accessible to all mobile users. Since they focus on all apps, games are gonna get buried under things like Snapchat, as you pointed out. But the storefronts are the wild wests, where any garbage gets on and any new game has to compete with asset flips and companies that can pay to manipulate the store rankings. With Android, you can at least manually download games and install their .apks, but Apple has a strangehold on all outside apps. Without a dedicated and easy to use game store like Steam, downloading / buying games is treated like a red headed step child. We actually ran a game store app, but both Android and Apple refuse to support it because then it would take traffic and profits away from their stores. So even having a third party dedicated game store is a pipe dream as long as the operating system makers have a strangle hold on it. 2. The extreme inconsistancies among phone models and users made troubleshooting games a nightmare. Even when a big name polished mobile game came out, we had to do so much troubleshooting because the games usually wouldn't run on every phone for such varying reasons. And because the userbase isn't as tech savvy as the average pc gamer, it was that much harder to help them get the game running. Like when Pokemon Masters released, there wasn't initially any notes telling us users had to have a 64-bit OS. And most people don't know what specs their phone has. And explaining 32 vs 64 bit processing doesn't solve anything. All people knew was the game wouldn't work and we had to answer all their complaints and we couldn't physically fix the game on our end. 3. This actually leads into the global aspect of phone models. Companies want to reach as many users as possible to make money, usually via the F2P model. But because of the wealth gap between countries, the biggest markets who play mobile games (China, Brazil, Southeast Asian countries) have older phones that can barely run games. So countries with people who can play games, end up playing very shallow mobile games with lots of advertising money or established things like COD Mobile. And then countries with people who can't play all games but use mobile as their primary game platform, can't play all the games because of the accessibility of good hardware. (Indie devs can't obviously afford to test their games on every phone model or older systems and big publishers tend not to invest in anything that would actually tax any system / be a console type game as that limits their market). There's tons of stuff I haven't even mentioned, but you did a fantastic job covering the topic as always!!!
"We actually ran a game store app, but both Android and Apple refuse to support it because then it would take traffic and profits away from their stores" ah yes, monopoly, the inherent human nature multiplier. and to nature there is no such as thing as good or evil.
I would like to say how much I enjoy seeing a little bit more of Raycevick's personality in this video than we normally get. Relax, dude. You seem cool enough to let that through.
@@georgekostaras you can actually pass that I've just got into mobile gaming and honestly you can find a game where you can Ignore all that stuff and just enjoy the gameplay and play i think people too overdramatize how bad it is
@@suryafadillah5263 gambling in video games is a serious problem that’s hurting children and adults. Most of the industry’s worst monetization schemes began in the relatively unregulated world of mobile gaming. I’m not saying there aren’t games on mobile that aren’t an online casino meant to prey on people with addictions but it’s a massive industry wide problem
@@Bassist-Beneath the openmw mobile app (aka OMW or open microwave) has a mod manager which at the very least allows you to set up your load order for esps and esms. Other than that Im just careful with what order I paste in textures/meshes/whatever else that isn't just an esp.
Phone Companies: “Our phones are as powerful as the Xbox 360!!!” “Okay, can you make games like those for your phone?” Phone Companies: “...please play Candy Crush Saga, available now!”
@@aolson1111 Sony, and Microsoft have been developing and publishing games for the last 2 decades, they also make phones. Apple is doing something as well but nobody cares.
@@flamixflame2685 they kinda care with that game version (or was it a subscription) of the app store and getting exclusives... now making games on the otherhand, yeah nahh
I've been playing Castlevania: Symphony of The Night for the first time on my phone with my PS4 controller, and I haven't such a rewarding and fun experience and what feels like forever. If a late 90s PS1 classic on my phone has given me this much joy, then I wonder what other gems I'm missing out on. Make it happen game companies!
That Gameloft rant resonated with my soul on a wavelength I haven't felt since playing a pitifully awful Assassin's Creed clone from them called BackStab. That game was 2 hours long, cost $7, had zombies in it because it was 2011, and its only saving grace is you can't buy it anymore. Thanks for articulating my exact feelings about them from a decade ago.
Bit ironic that Gameloft would make an Assassin's Creed rip off tho considering they did do a pretty good (for old Java phone standards) 2D platformer out of Assassin's Creed 2 onto old phones before that.
I've been saying for years that mobile gaming has so much potential, unfortunately the monopoly that both google and apple have on app stores makes it impossible to achieve this full potential. What we need is a mobile gaming system like steam on desktop, where games can be rated properly, sold and monetized properly and so on...
@@Azure9577What does that fix? They're neat but 1: They don't exist for iOS unless youre jailbroken or have Altstore, 2: We're talking about specific mobile games.
Insane that you made this entire video without mentioning that every final fantasy from 1 to 9 and Tactics:War of the Lions are all available on the platform. Not to mention emulation which in itself is an enormous value add.
The inbuilt level select in Max Payne Mobile is also one of the reasons I still play it now and then. It really adds to the feeling of just “pick up and play”. Bouncing between any part of the game whenever I wanted was just absolutely brilliant. Especially on bus rides. Thank you for mentioning this port, it’s barely brought up but I think it’s set an example for what mobile ports can and should be. Fantastic video by the way, greatly looking forward to what’s next 👍
One of the most exciting, fun, and thought-provoking videos I've ever seen. My iPod Touch in 2010 was more fun than our Wii, with Tap Tap Revenge, Modern Combat 2, 3, and 4, and GTA Chinatown Wars. While I've become a PC gamer since and love building, I've always felt more comfortable with my phone for games. Notable mentions!: Rebel Inc., The Walking Dead, XCOM, Mudrunners, and Game Dev Tycoon.
@@frds_skce It's illegal if you don't own the hardware and the games, if you don't dump the needed firmware and/or BIOS from the hardware as required and instead use illegally publicly available firmware and BIOS files, and if you don't back up your own ROMs and disc images and just play those.
@@pronounjow distribution is illegal. Usage on other hand...(by the way, I live in country where government institutions use pirated software and 99.99% nobody gives an f)
@@jmgonzales7701 Heard it was cancelled however there's a known prototype. You really think a smartphone stacks up to the wonder of technology that is a PC in handheld form? A device with graphics that put phones to shame and will play an endless amount of games? Something you can use as a desktop by connecting it to a monitor, mouse and keyboard? It won't be long before models that play current gen games are released. The current offerings already can, just not satisfactorily.
An important thing to add to the conversation is the race-to-bottom pricing caused by free to play nonsense. Legit ports of legit games are 1/3 the price as their steam counterparts. The award-winning GRIS is $17 on steam, and only $5 on mobile. There's such a stigma against charging more than 5 bucks on mobile, I think that might discourage a lot of the devs from porting to mobile. Remember when Super Mario Run got crucified for charging $10?
That's because super Mario run was done better by other devs and for free, also $10 for a game like that when there's tons of other games that cost less or even more that have way more content. I'd rather buy max payne or rayman for a few bucks instead of Mario run for $10 you know what mean
It's insane that Fate/Grand Order despite it's problems has provided me with literal hundreds of hours of dialogue or visual novel scenes and RPG gameplay, and is a testament to how beneficial mobile can be for more traditional genres like JRPG's. Now if only Square would make GOOD ports of the Dragon Quest games...
This video unironically change my mind about the subject. I used (like still many people) to make fun of phone users as gamers, now I welcome them in the community.
This video is really important these days. We've come to a point where mobile gaming is more than possible, it just needs a solid playerbase of people seeking the right experiences to really make the platform shine. Great video! The baccano music helps a lot too
I love using my phone as an emulator machine, especially for handheld Also emulating DS games and actually touching the touchscreen instead of using a mouse is neato
Man, this video made me realize how much I missed your work. I recently started watching Jacob Geller and he made a video called How to Write About Videos Games. It’s a love letter to his favorite articles that are about people’s experiences with different games. As some one who’s life would be nothing without music and writing (when the two combine, oh mama, I’m wet), that video really blew the cap for video essays for me. Because of that video, it’s hard for me to see video essays the same way ever again. This video made me realized why when ever you upload a video, I get excited and clear some time of my day that very day it’s uploaded to watch the video. The way you write so passionately mixed with the way your vocalizing. When you start talking more aggressively and the words you use start to take a change, I feel my emotions shift. Then you bring it down again and ground it, and I’m back to a calmer state of mind. Your humor is something that I enjoy as well. I will admit, I do not play video games nearly as much as I used to. Since I’ve graduated high school in 2018-19 and start a mentorship in music production, my love for music simply became an obsession and slowly pushed other interest aside. I’m not using the bullshit excuse of “oh, I don’t have time now”. I do have the time, I simply lost interest and have changed. From the occasional story driven game or open word game, I don’t play many games anymore. Though I wish to change that in the future. But it’s channels like these that make me want to play games again because of how these videos are written, where people speak so passionately that keep enjoying video games without actively playing them. It’s like how I can ramble on about the newest Tame Impala album, 1990s electronic music, 1960s psychedelic music, some random internet album I found on Bandcamp, literally anything electronic music, anything relating to music history, some minimalist classical piece, some face-fucked metal band named Infant Annihilator, and so on and so on (I’m starting to ramble even though I’m just writing a list) until one A.M in the morning just like you, Jacob Geller, Nakeyjakey, and a bunch of channels I watch and discover that write the beautiful created scripts that come from place of love and care for the thing they’re obsessed with: video games. That was a lot of writing to say, Raycevick is pretty pog UwU XD Rawr!
I looked at the title and thought "eh not too interested" but since its you I watched and I'm glad I did. Excellent video as always! Keep up the great work
GameSir's newer phone controllers are killer. the G8 Galileo is essentially identical to an Xbox controller that snaps around your phone and supports keymapping for any games that don't natively support controllers. I got one for my partner and she's obsessed, apart from the fact that it's kinda big for her hands... she has a Galaxy S23, so in addition to mobile games she can emulate anything up to and including the Wii (and Switch, but we don't play it). the only restriction is that a few platforms (PS3, PS2, Xbox, XB360) don't have emulators in active development, though there are a couple PS2 ones out there.
@@yaosio that's gacha games in general, genshin is one of the fairer ones though, compared to the money people sink on the fate series game and their ilk I've only spent ~£40 on it over the last year and I have all but 2 of the characters. If genshin wasn't so fair with the free to play economy I'd have dropped it like I dropped just about every EA title in recent memory.
@@malikkelly yeah, I wish I knew that was the case before sinking £40 and about 100 hours into the ps4 version, now I feel bound to the console. At least I dodge the spooky PC anticheat tho
geforce now has been a godsend for me for the last 6 months. i'm playing aaa games on my shitty 11 year old pc and having the best times of my gamer life of about 20 years. Finished Witcher 3 a month ago. I missed so much. It's totally worth it.
I really think you should have also mentioned the thing that turns a phone into a real console to the next level ... EMULATORS ! For real , from the PS1 to the PSP every nintendo console from the Gameboy to the 3DS and from the NES to the Wii ... emulators for ALL these and many more are FREE to download directly from the Play Store The gaming potential from Emulation alone on android is INSANE
@@oo--7714 true , but thats only because mobile games have surpassed old console games in graphics that doesnt make old console games any less worth playing though, and i think that mobile emulation with a ds4 controller and a phone clip is the perfect way to enjoy such games
Genshin and Honkai have been filling my wants for character action/adventure games with big stories to dig into. Jedi Academy on android while not an official port has full mod support and playing a botmatch with custom maps/models is fun in short bursts.
@@sirbungle793 Since it's sadly not on Funimation or Crunchy Roll, You'd have have shell out for physical copies... Unless you don't mind ads and popups on sketchy sites, then search "Gogoanime Baccano" and you'll find it.
@@ProducoesBatata -captain disillusion -nerd city -averagepixel -nakeyjakey -nerdsync -internet historian -ahoy -studson studio -houstonproductions1 -raycevick (of course) -sabrina and friends -jabrils -nathan zed -kaptainkristian -uricksaladbar -gmtk -eliquorice -new frame plus -artorr -nick robinson -for every kind of geek -dj peach cobbler I'll try to keep adding to this list as time goes on
Here is a list i made a while back. There are some gems in the premium section of the appstore. Some are ports of older consoles or PC games and some were made for mobile first. This is not a comprehensive list but you are bound to find atleast a few that interest you especially if there are some retro or indie games that you never got around to playing. *Made for mobile first:* 80 Days Antihero Badland Battleheart Legacy Card Thief Dandara (Originally made for mobile but was released on PC first) Evoland Florence Framed Hidden Folks Lara Croft GO (From GO series) Love You to Bits Monument Valley N.O.V.A. 3 Old Man's Journey Prune Reigns:Her Majesty (From Reigns series) Sorcery series The Room series Wayward Souls *One Time ingame Payment:* God of Light Grimvalor (Like Dark Souls) Night of the Full Moon (like Slay the Spire) Oceanhorn (Like Zelda) Space Marshals The Bonfire *PC or older console games:* Ace Attorney Trilogy Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Banner Saga series Battle Chasers: Night War Beholder Bomb Chicken Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Cat Quest Company of Heroes Crashlands Cultist Simulator DOOM Danganronpa Darkest Dungeon Dead Cells Detention Disgaea 1 Donut County Don't Starve Door Kickers Downwell FEZ FTL: Faster Than Light Forager Forgotton Anne GRIS Game Dev Tycoon Ghosts'n Goblins Goat Simulator Gorogoa Grand Theft Auto franchise (Up to GTA: San Andreas) Her Story Hotel Dash Hotline Miami Icewind Dale Life is Strange Limbo Max Payne 1 & 2 Metal Slug series Minecraft Mini Metro Monster Hunter Stories Oddworld series Oxenfree Planescape: Torment Professor Layton ROME: Total War RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic Sayonara Wild Hearts Slay the Spire Star Wars:Knights of the old republic Stardew Valley Super Meat Boy Terraria Teslagrad The Bard's Tale The First Tree The Talos Principle The Walking Dead The Witness The Wolf Among Us This War of Mine This is the Police Titan Quest To The Moon Tropico Typoman Valiant Hearts Valkyrie Profile Warhammer Quest 2 Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap XCOM: Enemy Within Ys Chronicles *IOS only:* Bastion Bleak Sword Crypt of the Necromancer Gone Home Hyper Light Drifter Infinity Blade 1 to 3 (Delisted) Inmost Invisible Inc Journey Moonlighter South of the circle SteamWorld Heist The Pathless Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Transistor What the Golf? *Square Enix games:* Chaos Rings 1 to 3 Chrono Trigger Dragon Quest 1 to 8 Final Fantasy 1 to 9 Secrets of Mana & Adventures of Mana The World Ends with You and more.
Couldn't disagree more with your assessment of cod mobile, it's controller implementation may not be fantastic but if you're used to playing on a touch screen it plays great. I've had more fun playing cod mobile than modern warfare or cold war
Raycevick, Firstly, I just want to thank you for taking the time and learning how much potential there really is in mobile gaming, and then sharing it with the Internet. I've been playing mobile games as my primary gaming experience for basically half my life now, and I've always been shut down by others who just dismiss mobile gaming as nothing more than Angry Birds and Candy Crush. Asphalt has been my main focus for the past 2 years now, and I've even seen an eSports community grow and I've had the chance to compete in tournaments! The recent explosion of Fortnite and other titles like you mentioned are finally doing the concept of gaming on your phone justice, but like you said, there is still SO MUCH more room! For 400$, a person can buy an iPhone that can do literally anything. Cloud streaming, any mobile game out right now, AND it has enough power to emulate wii games at full speed! Decades of games just fit in my pocket now, and it's truly mesmerizing' If more work is done in the emulation space, I can see PS2 and other consoles being playable on phones in the near future. One thing that people forget about mobile gaming though, is that the potential for these devices to perform at a high graphical fidelity has been around for almost a decade now! I remember back in 2011, EA ported the entire first Dead Space game to iOS! During those early years was also Rockstar's release dates for GTA 3 and Vice City on mobile. These console ports are not recent, they ran on devices almost as old as people playing Fortnite today, and people sometimes forget that. I remember instead of an Xbox 360, I played on an iPod touch 5 gen, and I would show people Modern Combat 4 in 2012 and they were confused. They genuinely thought I was lying to them, or playing a video on my phone instead of running a real game. How could the same device that played Flappy Bird also play a true tripleA FPS game? Speaking of Modern Combat, I want to also talk about Gameloft. Your "fuck Gameloft" was amazing. BUT. .. the Gameloft story is not as simple as people think. Yes, their games are not original in overall design. Modern Combat=COD. NOVA=Halo. Gangstar=GTA. It's painfully obvious. What people forget is the fact that these games, that I would say delivered 90% of the console experience, FIT IN MY POCKET IN 2012! There was NO other company providing that quality of game for mobile except for maybe EA and Ubisoft with some of their releases. I really encourage anyone to go back and play NOVA 3, which I consider to be the greatest mobile FPS of all time. Besides the individual games, for me and a lot of other people at the time, Gameloft provided all of those experiences that people had with console games but with our phones/iPods. People have fond memories of Halo multiplayer, I have fond memories of NOVA multiplayer. I remember spending HOURS playing instagib with random people, it was amazing. Asphalt also provided my racing fix, along with other legendary mobile racing games like Riptide. Why wait to get home to play NFS when i could get my adrenaline rush in the car or during lunch break? I remember the day the Asphalt 8 teaser trailer dropped, and I CRIED. There's no way the game could look THAT good... holy crap it looks that good... on my freaking iPOD! And im doing barrel rolls in a Bugatti! 2010-2013 was considered the Golden Age for Gameloft Games. Yes, I know how gameloft games are nowadays. BUT, in 2012, you could buy a gameloft game for 7 dollars and you didn't need to worry about ads or microtransactions, and you got essentially a console triple-A game in your pocket. However, they DID NOT sell out to Vivendi, which turned the company into the husk of its former self you see today. Vivendi FORCEFULLY bought out majority shares of Gameloft. In fact, Gameloft fought against it, but were unsuccessful. You can still tell there are people who care at Gameloft, and that part is obvious with how good Asphalt 9 is, even if the improvements aren't too drastic over Asphalt 8 which came out in 2013. So, to wrap things up. Mobile gaming, as a result of the incredible power of mobile devices, has the potential to become the greatest form of gaming ever created. The misconceptions and low standards of people helped to turn it into what you see today. Yes, your phone can be a console. It was the console/PC for MANY people, and still is today. I have more fond memories playing Gameloft games than I do playing Battlefield, or Need For Speed. That's not to say everyone should give up their PCs and Xboxes, what I am saying is that those experiences thought to be exclusive to those devices can be translated with near-perfect accuracy onto something that you carry everyday in your pocket. Was NFS Hot Pursuit better on mobile than on PC? No way! But that was in 2010! If NFS Hot Pursuit can run on a nintendo switch, that means in can run on a majority of mobile devices today, so why is EA not jumping on that? I wish I knew... At least i can play Speed Racer: The Videogame for the Wii on my new iPhone. Which when i was a kid, I never could have imagined was possible. To everyone saying mobile gaming is not true gaming, not only are you lying to other people and missing out on great experiences, you are lying to yourself. Play GRID: Autosport, or GTA San Andreas on your phone. You'll be very surprised.
It's sad to see what Gameloft has devolved into recently. Their NOVA and Modern Combat series had heart in it. They were fun to play and delivered actually high effort content on mobile. I recently downloaded the latest Modern Combat game to relieve my memories, and holy shit did it make me sad. The game is an unbalanced pay to win piece of shit. Even though I was quite good at aiming I was constantly getting killed by players who had ridiculously op guns that you had no way of getting without spending hundreds of hours or buying it from their store.
I play Morrowind and OpenXcom on my phone. Xcom especially works incredibly well on touch screen, which should probably apply to all turn based games. MOBAs are not for everyone, but Wild Rift was a big surprise for me as well, very comfortable controls.
I didn't know that there are a lot of FULL and IMPROVED port of classic games and indies games available in my pockets! We really need a platform app like steam but in the phone so that we can discover new games like this. If Raycevick didn't make a video about the state of gaming mobile, i wouldn't know these game exist at all.
I hope there'll be more people like you, Mr. Raycevick. I dream that in the future mobile gaming will unite people: from weebs like me playing gacha games to old-school gamers playing legendary classics. We just have to hope that the big companies will see the potential that the smartphones possess.
@@RusticRonnie i dont think so. Mobile Gaming is absolutely gigantic in the Asian Market, and its constantly getting bigger in other regions, and you can get somewhat real (sometimes fully) console experiences on there. Streaming might get big, but probably in the far future, because Stadia failed hard now, and i dont see a company logically trying to make streaming games big again. There are quite a quite a few problems with streaming, the input delay, phones getting fried or the games just not cutting it.
I myself have a Note 9 and use it for emulation all the time, since the S Pen gives me a very good DS like experience. But there's something about having a dedicated device for gaming that can fit in your pocket that just feels more special. Not to mention, I highly prefer the control scheme of both my PSP Go and Vita, with the former being smaller than my phone anyway. I tried the whole controller clip-on thing, but it was annoying having to use the touchscreen on menus and stuff, plus the controller itself has to go in a bag - not something I'm always willing to carry with me everywhere I go. I even have a Switch, but I don't take it out of the dock too often because of that. I think I'm still looking for the perfect device for me, but for now, I think I'm leaving mobile gaming alone. I've always been one for portable gaming, but when it comes to mobile phones, there's still something missing.
No doubt there I've got more than 10 retro systems emulated on my android device and I'm living the dream although at this point I've gone the extra mile to get an android handheld just to cut out the conroller as a separate thing I need to carry. The Gpd xd plus.
To be fair Gameloft had some great mobile games back in the days. Does anyone remember Rainbow Six Shadow Vanguard or Splinter Cell Conviction on iOS? Those were great mobile experiences and I am very sad that they are not available anymore and no studio utilises today‘s mobile hardware to develop games like that again in better graphical fidelity.
They're also one of the few publishers who published decent J2ME games for non-smartphone devices. As someone from a third world country those games were one of the first gaming experiences which exposed me to the wider world of games, and I wouldn't be such a fan of gaming if this wasn't the case.
Two Words: Assoluto Racing. Highly recommend you try it out on mobile. It's a genuinely amazing racing sim and has verrry Gran Turismo mechanics and vibes.
The way I, a regular mobile gamer, sees it, there's very little competition to make mobile games better. I play cod mobile regularly and after pubg got banned in India it's the only fps game that's good. Been waiting for competition that will ruffle the developers for so long. There's A LOT of money to be made here yet neither are there any alternative platforms other than playstore nor variety in AAA titles. Been waiting apex legends mobile port for an year now Don't get me wrong there's really good games on mobile without being ported like Clash Royale, Brawl Stars etc that is made to be played in bite sized chunks But games that is required to be played for hours, that cinematic or story driven games are so rare
no one wants to develop on mobile because of the big companies like ketchapp they steal peoples games change their graphics and rerelease them and because they are big or has contacts with google play idk their games are always at the front page while indies cant even be seen when you type their names
I'm 6 mins into the video and low and behold you shock me with information that you've covered within seconds which is impeccable on your part via subscribed automatically!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was gonna say, im surprised he didn't mention that. I have every Nintendo emulator up to citra on my phone, and citra actually runs BETTER on my phone than on my laptop 🤷♂️
@@arthurdurham emulation's totally legal tho. It's how you get the games that's unnecessarily murky. If you already have a copy of whatever game you're playing and personally dump it though, it's still 100% legal. Pretty much every game I emulate I've personally ripped/dumped myself. Protips for this: -For PS1/PS2, have a PC/laptop with a disc drive (CD/DVD), and the software called ImgBurn. This software allows you to rather easily rip either platform's games for use with emulators. -For PS3, get a compatible external bluray drive, and use 13xforever's One-click PS3 Disc Dumper, or use custom firmware on a PS3 and some homebrew software. -For Wii/GameCube/GBA/DS/3DS games, look into homebrew for the Wii and 3DS, and get a GameBoy Advance GameCube link cable. Make sure your Wii is one of the backwards compatible models (i.e. has GameCube controller ports on the top), and that's where the GBA GameCube link cable comes into play. It takes awhile, but you can dump your GBA carts using some Wii homebrew software via the ol' link cable this way. For Wii/GameCube & DS/3DS games, simply use the relevant homebrew software on the Wii and 3DS to dump the disc/cartridge contents to external hard drive or sd card respectively, and you're gold.
Already lots of comments saying "No" seconds after video release. It baffles me why people click on a video they won't even give the time of day to watch to then just show how closed their mind is on the comments section.
You’ve said it. I also don’t understand why ppl can’t spend half a second to click like. You are being entertained by the hard work of channels like this, for free (essentially), the least you can do is support these creators by clicking a button.
Well, they’re not wrong. For every good game on mobile, there’s a ton of bad ones as well. And the App Store highlights those bad games first, that people literally didn’t even knew there are good games on mobile. Can’t blame people on that.
@@NeroVingian40 look buddy, I'm not blaming anyone here, what they think of 'mobile gaming' is of no consequence to me. What I am saying is, why click on something they are clearly not interested in and leaving a comment that doesn't add to the discussion. Like I said, I'm just baffled, not pointing fingers and blaming people for their opinion.
For playing Doom on Android, I recommend Delta Touch. It's a collection of Doom 1-3 source ports and it supports mods. Game files need to be added separately, so custom maps work there.
The potential is there.
But it gets squandered by the fact that the moment you open the appstores, it's already trying to sell you 100 different versions of Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, and gacha games, devolving it all into "what palette do I want" rather than "which of these are actually good".
And that's exactly why I don't bother.
Honestly who actually browses those mobile storefronts anyway, or any game storefront? I can't remember the last time I even used Steam to actually discover a game I might want to play. I don't see how it's much different, other than the increased ratio of garbage to not garbage.
Yeah that's the problem. Bad quality control.
"The moment you open the appstores" - that's your mistake right there. Really more than enough gaming websites to find new and interesting mobile games - I only open my app store to click Buy.
@@KillahMate plz, Can you list any website or youtuber that recommends good mobile games? Just in this video I got more decent recommendations than using the Apple AppStore my entire life.
My first reaction to the title: "No. Never."
Me after realizing how many console emulators I have and use on my phone: "Hold on, he's got a point"
Like honestly. How hard is it for Nintendo to port their SNES games to phones and PCs for that matter?! Obviously it's because of a conflict of interest with their Switch console, but look at the success of Fortnite. The big moneymakers of today are the ones that rush to make their game as available to everyone as quickly as possible. Same reason Among Us is huge.
@@FreshTillDeath56 Why would you want that? We have more than enough shitty ports with horrible UIs and Arial 12 fonts. No thanks, i'll stick to emulators.
I literally just finished God Of War - Chains of Olympus (a game i never got to play on PSP ) on my Xiaomi MI10 using PPSSPP 10 minutes before watching this video.
@@ziggbg i finished metal gear solid peace walker on phone, and finished persona3 3 time
Damn, nothing can beat a DefJam NY on a way home from work. XD
Hondacevick is a next level pun
I did chuckle at that.
@SplinterCellRocks It's his name in the CoD mobile segments
It took me until the end of the video to realize what it meant lmao
Disappointed to see nobody mention how influential Minecraft: Pocket Edition was in mobile gaming, especially when Microsoft standardised Minecraft to Bedrock edition using the code-base of Pocket Edition and enabled cross-play between console, mobile and PC, something that was unheard of back then.
Minecraft is one of the best phone games
EXACTLY THANK YOU
One of the first things I played with a pad on phone. I was surprised to see it perfectly mapped like on desktop or on xbox. Genuinely impressed.
@@nexenojustice552 It was one of the only games I played
The fact that you didn't even need to cover emulation on phones, shows the potential of these "gaming devices"
Once you get into emulation it opens the doors wide open
I think unofficial ports should also be mentioned has they're as good as official ports in terms optimization and performance but also include stuff like mod support as well. Delta touch is an unofficial port of doom 1, 2 and 3, where you can run mods like brutal doom on it and many more. There's also quad touch which is a quake port and Xash3d which is a half life 1 port as well.
@@epic8923 i strongly agree I feel like unofficial ports like delta quad and most recently raze touch for games like Duke 3d shadow warrior and blood are honestly better ways to play the games that they support more than the official
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Delta is far superior to the official doom 1 and 2 ports plus you can play every single other doom engine fps game including heretic, strife hexen, hacx and even other gz doom standalone games
Quad i believe is the only way to play quake 1 2 3 and hexen 2 since those don't even have ports
Raze is superior even in its current state to the official Duke and shadow warrior ports the and is the only way to play blood on Android outside of dos box
@@epic8923 Setting an emulator to run fallout 2 on a phone is a pain in the ass but so much worth it, turn based games are perfect for phones.
The fact that we can play PSP games on phone 5-7 years ago has shown how great mobile phone is.
You could literally play PS3/Xbox 360 games on phone, considering your device strong enough
Your rant about Gameloft is THE best part of this video.
It's true that nothing sells like hate these days.
@@TheEvilCheesecake I have to agree with your reply because it's the sad reality.
Gameloft used to be my childhood (played many pre touchscreen smartphone games made by Gameloft), but now they are a shadow of their former selves and they at least deserve some backlash from the fans for their terrible practice.
I enjoyed Asphalt 9 way more than Asphalt 8 even though both games are filled with microtransactions.
It's impossible to praise Watch Dogs 1 (for what it is) and not have someone reply to your comment saying that "the game sucks, it's trash". Funny thing is that I liked Watch Dogs 1 and many of my IRL friends liked that game too.
All I have to say is that the people who spread hate towards a certain game is the minority in the internet but a vocal majority in the comment section, which means that the small group of people managed to spread their hate towards a certain game with their loudspeakers. Take Crowbcat for example, he even managed to turn hating GTA 5 into a trend, even though GTA 5 is an amazing game.
They managed to ruin Asphalt 8 for me with the overzealous ads and monetization. Never looked back
@@nedinnis6752 yeah and they removed free rewards for multiplayer win streaks too 😡 I assume asphalt 9 doesnt have them either...
@@nedinnis6752 The way they ruin the game made me quit the game
The fact that the aspect ratio is different in this video to look better on a phone is attention to detail
it looks sooo good. and the black bars aren't an issue on a larger screen, i hope he continues to do this :3
THE NOTCH IS IN THE WAY
And just like mobile gaming it failed because the hole for the camera on my phone covers up part of the video.
I personally hope he keeps it this way
@@tommygolding6435 just get a phone with a hole punch instead
Getting a CoD Mobile ad during the video makes it ironically funny
Upgrade to premium or adblock.
Codm is fun and ok but with microtransations pop-ups l. Damn.
@@aryabratsahoo7474 It’s literally just for skins and the game only gives you a “pop up” when you just lunch it.
@@Soraviel dont encourage people to pay youtube
@@aryabratsahoo7474 just Ignore and close its not that hard
thank you for dunking on Gameloft, I needed to hear that
Us needed that
As someone wrongfully banned by them, screw those guys with a cactus.
It’s a shame they ended up so bad, back in the day I played some genuinely good games by them but it seems that in the years since they’ve turned evil…
Gameloft are good gs though they are saints compared to most Mobil game companies especially the Japanese , Chinese and Korean gatcha companies
@@shioyoutube9041 yea they new parent company vivendi really squeeze them out
"Even Nintendo's ahead of you on this [branching their IP out to other platforms"
That's... that's saying something, holy shit
It’s amazing how we’ve gone from Paper Toss and Angry Birds in 2007 to playing literal AAA games in more than a decade
I still remember the time I played clash of clans.
It's hardly a AAA experience when most games are completely riddled with microtranactions
@@ryshed4365 It comes from the fact that it's f2p on play store.
@@ryshed4365 tbh if anything, that makes it more of a triple A experience these days
@@ryshed4365 have you played a AAA game on a pc/console? They're all riddled with micro-transactions.
Crossy Road and Game Dev Story are all I need
Game Dev Story by Kairosoft Inc. you say?
@@jdg1251 such a good game!
Literally the only game I needed on mobile for 5 years was Game Dev Story
Kairosoft are gods, so many years of fun in their games
@@Hesojo I know right? such a shame about the response time of the UI tho, it always feels like you are emulating a mouse through touchscreen or something
BLOWOFF VALVE ALL THE TIME
OOOOOOOO IM SO STRAIGHT
@@travishardaway6348 FIBER! FIBER!
NOT A NEON IT SAYS SRT 4 ON THE TITLE
PSHHHHH
No mufflers no MUFFLERS just RESONATORS AND A TURBO
I wasn't prepared for that sudden and violent Gameloft rant... but despite being so taken aback, I adored every second of it.
That "geshin doubles your phone as a stove" sold me a subscription, just happened i was subscribed already :p
At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch 30 minutes about mobile games... but I have to say... this was an awesome video. Great job Raycevick.
I'm hyped you covered this topic! Before the whole pandemic hit, I was actually working on the publisher side of mobile games - specifically, we were working with Japanese, Hong Kong, Chinese, and some European / American indie devs to have their games available worldwide. (Once the virus hit though, the whole chain of development, especially among indies, fell apart so I wound up having to work other jobs in the meantime.)
But let me just say, we'd see all sorts of mobile gems and cool upcoming projects! Like we worked with Mihoyo when they were doing Honkai Impact 3rd before Genshin Impact and CyGames during their mobile only, Japan exclusive days.
That said though, holy crap did we also see the crippling roadblocks holding back mobile gaming.
1. Both Android and Apple stores severely cripple games being easily available and accessible to all mobile users. Since they focus on all apps, games are gonna get buried under things like Snapchat, as you pointed out. But the storefronts are the wild wests, where any garbage gets on and any new game has to compete with asset flips and companies that can pay to manipulate the store rankings.
With Android, you can at least manually download games and install their .apks, but Apple has a strangehold on all outside apps.
Without a dedicated and easy to use game store like Steam, downloading / buying games is treated like a red headed step child.
We actually ran a game store app, but both Android and Apple refuse to support it because then it would take traffic and profits away from their stores. So even having a third party dedicated game store is a pipe dream as long as the operating system makers have a strangle hold on it.
2. The extreme inconsistancies among phone models and users made troubleshooting games a nightmare. Even when a big name polished mobile game came out, we had to do so much troubleshooting because the games usually wouldn't run on every phone for such varying reasons. And because the userbase isn't as tech savvy as the average pc gamer, it was that much harder to help them get the game running.
Like when Pokemon Masters released, there wasn't initially any notes telling us users had to have a 64-bit OS. And most people don't know what specs their phone has. And explaining 32 vs 64 bit processing doesn't solve anything. All people knew was the game wouldn't work and we had to answer all their complaints and we couldn't physically fix the game on our end.
3. This actually leads into the global aspect of phone models. Companies want to reach as many users as possible to make money, usually via the F2P model. But because of the wealth gap between countries, the biggest markets who play mobile games (China, Brazil, Southeast Asian countries) have older phones that can barely run games. So countries with people who can play games, end up playing very shallow mobile games with lots of advertising money or established things like COD Mobile. And then countries with people who can't play all games but use mobile as their primary game platform, can't play all the games because of the accessibility of good hardware. (Indie devs can't obviously afford to test their games on every phone model or older systems and big publishers tend not to invest in anything that would actually tax any system / be a console type game as that limits their market).
There's tons of stuff I haven't even mentioned, but you did a fantastic job covering the topic as always!!!
Cool insights, thanks for sharing!
Introduce minimum system requirements for mobile games
@@MegaDRKSTR that's what they are doing?? I have seen the description enough to know that you need at least 2 gb of ram to play COD mobile.
But yeah usually the culprit is google and apple holding back the potential for either money, security, or incompatibility.
"We actually ran a game store app, but both Android and Apple refuse to support it because then it would take traffic and profits away from their stores" ah yes, monopoly, the inherent human nature multiplier. and to nature there is no such as thing as good or evil.
That Gameloft rant was just . . . *mwah*, pure bliss, 10/10 would listen to Ray tear open Gameloft's asshole again~
sad thing that 15 years ago they made best mobile games...
@@olotocolo They used to rule the world, now they're bootleg EA
Don't mind me I'm just leaving a 12:56 time mark...
But then he endorsed Asphalt 9, I didn't get that, a game that literally plays itself if you don't change the default controls.
@@olotocolo I loved playing Nova 2 back in secondary school, blatant Halo ripoff but it was a load of fun.
I would like to say how much I enjoy seeing a little bit more of Raycevick's personality in this video than we normally get. Relax, dude. You seem cool enough to let that through.
I know this is a video game video, but your taste in graphic novels is just too good to go without notice
A 2:1 Raycevick video, I was surprised to see this video actually fit fullscreen on my phone!
Was the choice to make this video 2:1 caused by filming footage on your phone or a whim to try out the aspect ratio?
Recording phone footage, the blackbars was gonna be doubly awkward for Mobile viewers had I kept it 16:9.
Woah. Weird
@@Raycevick especially for the one plus 7 pro
It is not full screen on my Samsung Galaxy A71
I don't have a problem with 'gaming' on phones, I have a problem with 'games' on phones
Tbf its easy to sift through the bad stuff and find some good stuff
Not to mention the loot boxes and predatory monetization
@@georgekostaras you can actually pass that I've just got into mobile gaming and honestly you can find a game where you can Ignore all that stuff and just enjoy the gameplay and play i think people too overdramatize how bad it is
@@suryafadillah5263 gambling in video games is a serious problem that’s hurting children and adults. Most of the industry’s worst monetization schemes began in the relatively unregulated world of mobile gaming. I’m not saying there aren’t games on mobile that aren’t an online casino meant to prey on people with addictions but it’s a massive industry wide problem
@@georgekostaras well if you find any you can report the app
All I'm saying is I can play heavily modded morrowind with a ps4 controller on my phone. That's pretty fucking amazing
How can you use mods, does your phone have to be able to use a file manager?
@@Bassist-Beneath the openmw mobile app (aka OMW or open microwave) has a mod manager which at the very least allows you to set up your load order for esps and esms. Other than that Im just careful with what order I paste in textures/meshes/whatever else that isn't just an esp.
@@Bassist-Beneath and also yeah I use cx file explorer to have an easier time with moving stuff around
Phone Companies: “Our phones are as powerful as the Xbox 360!!!”
“Okay, can you make games like those for your phone?”
Phone Companies: “...please play Candy Crush Saga, available now!”
Phone companies don't make games.
@@aolson1111 Thoey could publish them.
@@aolson1111 It's a joke, obviously.
But accurate.
@@aolson1111 Sony, and Microsoft have been developing and publishing games for the last 2 decades, they also make phones.
Apple is doing something as well but nobody cares.
@@flamixflame2685 they kinda care with that game version (or was it a subscription) of the app store and getting exclusives... now making games on the otherhand, yeah nahh
I've been playing Castlevania: Symphony of The Night for the first time on my phone with my PS4 controller, and I haven't such a rewarding and fun experience and what feels like forever. If a late 90s PS1 classic on my phone has given me this much joy, then I wonder what other gems I'm missing out on. Make it happen game companies!
Obviously yes! Look at Raid: Shadow Legends! It has graphics that rival next generation consoles and has a fascinating lore! 😂
Dear God.
I seriously sprayed the water I was drinking after reading that. LOL
Yes@!
@@PlebNC Well, your rule is wrong because Mortal Kombat 11 has an auto-play feature. Time for a new rule.
Sick
i entered this video with a bit of skepticisim but i left it amazed. incredible video.
That Gameloft rant resonated with my soul on a wavelength I haven't felt since playing a pitifully awful Assassin's Creed clone from them called BackStab.
That game was 2 hours long, cost $7, had zombies in it because it was 2011, and its only saving grace is you can't buy it anymore.
Thanks for articulating my exact feelings about them from a decade ago.
Bit ironic that Gameloft would make an Assassin's Creed rip off tho considering they did do a pretty good (for old Java phone standards) 2D platformer out of Assassin's Creed 2 onto old phones before that.
@@V-Jes also they're literally a subsidiary of Ubisoft
@@ketrub Not since 2016. They are part of Vivendi now.
@@Tetsuito they were when they made the AC rip off
Yeah Gamelofts Library is very mixed. And the delisting of many old games by Apple has gotten rid of most of the good ones.
I've been saying for years that mobile gaming has so much potential, unfortunately the monopoly that both google and apple have on app stores makes it impossible to achieve this full potential. What we need is a mobile gaming system like steam on desktop, where games can be rated properly, sold and monetized properly and so on...
Use emulators
@@Azure9577What does that fix? They're neat but 1: They don't exist for iOS unless youre jailbroken or have Altstore, 2: We're talking about specific mobile games.
@@awii.neocities my comment was more or less a recommendation,
There aren't many good mobile games, but the few that there are, are pretty great
Insane that you made this entire video without mentioning that every final fantasy from 1 to 9 and Tactics:War of the Lions are all available on the platform. Not to mention emulation which in itself is an enormous value add.
I appreciate the aspect ratio of this video as I watch it on my phone
As a pc user
:(
The inbuilt level select in Max Payne Mobile is also one of the reasons I still play it now and then. It really adds to the feeling of just “pick up and play”. Bouncing between any part of the game whenever I wanted was just absolutely brilliant. Especially on bus rides.
Thank you for mentioning this port, it’s barely brought up but I think it’s set an example for what mobile ports can and should be.
Fantastic video by the way, greatly looking forward to what’s next 👍
Hahaha. Your rant about Gameloft was marvelous, love it!
These two comments are giving me mixed messages.
@@Raycevick lol
@@Raycevick duality of man
@@Raycevick which one is true, mr raycevick?
I don’t know why, but this video made realize why I love video games again.
One of the most exciting, fun, and thought-provoking videos I've ever seen.
My iPod Touch in 2010 was more fun than our Wii, with Tap Tap Revenge, Modern Combat 2, 3, and 4, and GTA Chinatown Wars. While I've become a PC gamer since and love building, I've always felt more comfortable with my phone for games.
Notable mentions!: Rebel Inc., The Walking Dead, XCOM, Mudrunners, and Game Dev Tycoon.
I grew up with modern combat four, nova three, Gangstar Las Vegas, and even some of Glu’s games.
Hot damn, Reycevick mentioning a game I worked on.
what was the game you worked on?
@@SamualN Roblox Master race: ultra hd edition
which one?
@@Sixtixx as i said. The ultra hd edition
Awesome to see you be a fan of his videos!
No mention of emulation? That's one of the best ways to play "real" games on a phone
I was disappointed as well
I guess because it's not official
Well, can't really mention it cuz it's illegal
@@frds_skce It's illegal if you don't own the hardware and the games, if you don't dump the needed firmware and/or BIOS from the hardware as required and instead use illegally publicly available firmware and BIOS files, and if you don't back up your own ROMs and disc images and just play those.
@@pronounjow distribution is illegal. Usage on other hand...(by the way, I live in country where government institutions use pirated software and 99.99% nobody gives an f)
V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Daredevil? Raycevick is a man of culture I see.
Your enthusiasm is contagious, fella, i'm happy for you!
This needs an sequel showcasing emulation on phones. It's awesome to relive my childhood memories on an handheld device!
I hope to god mobile gaming becomes what the vita scene felt like a few years ago.
I wouldn't hold your breath.
nah, I hope those people move on to handheld PCs instead
@@protocetid or maybe a new Xperia play will suffice
@@jmgonzales7701 Heard it was cancelled however there's a known prototype. You really think a smartphone stacks up to the wonder of technology that is a PC in handheld form? A device with graphics that put phones to shame and will play an endless amount of games? Something you can use as a desktop by connecting it to a monitor, mouse and keyboard? It won't be long before models that play current gen games are released. The current offerings already can, just not satisfactorily.
Imagine not using the Dodge Avenger video as the source of a best no context RCR clip.
An important thing to add to the conversation is the race-to-bottom pricing caused by free to play nonsense. Legit ports of legit games are 1/3 the price as their steam counterparts.
The award-winning GRIS is $17 on steam, and only $5 on mobile.
There's such a stigma against charging more than 5 bucks on mobile, I think that might discourage a lot of the devs from porting to mobile.
Remember when Super Mario Run got crucified for charging $10?
That's because super Mario run was done better by other devs and for free, also $10 for a game like that when there's tons of other games that cost less or even more that have way more content. I'd rather buy max payne or rayman for a few bucks instead of Mario run for $10 you know what mean
I got run a while ago, and Iove it!
21:20 You didn’t have to call out all of the fatherless people out there Ray
It's insane that Fate/Grand Order despite it's problems has provided me with literal hundreds of hours of dialogue or visual novel scenes and RPG gameplay, and is a testament to how beneficial mobile can be for more traditional genres like JRPG's.
Now if only Square would make GOOD ports of the Dragon Quest games...
Also there's Honkai Impact with storywriting that dwarfs the vast majority of AAA games with superinflated budgets and huge staffs.
* ETA Prime wants to know your location *
The moment I saw Final Fantasy Tactics being sold on the App Store I knew phones had at least something going on for them.
I first beat that game on my iPhone
And arguably the best version, that or the PSP WotL version. Though emulation is the best imo for that sweet 2x speed 😎
Never though I´d find Final Fantasy Tactics on the Play Store but there it is... Glad it won´t fade away once the PSP store shuts down.
@@DJWolfHouse Well I prefer psone with mods installed.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear you use some of the Baccano! OST in the video :3
Is it worth a watch? I tried watching Durarara but it was just too ridiculous too quickly.
@@SkinnyBlackout I highly recommend it! It's still over the top in terms of ridiculousness, but definitely more down to Earth than Durarara
@@docdingusmd1272 Thank you, I'll put it on the to do list.
This video unironically change my mind about the subject. I used (like still many people) to make fun of phone users as gamers, now I welcome them in the community.
This video is really important these days. We've come to a point where mobile gaming is more than possible, it just needs a solid playerbase of people seeking the right experiences to really make the platform shine. Great video!
The baccano music helps a lot too
Nothing says aging early millennial like that intro lol
I love using my phone as an emulator machine, especially for handheld
Also emulating DS games and actually touching the touchscreen instead of using a mouse is neato
@László Buzas i use a modded 3ds i got for 10 dollars i prefer physical controls to touchscreen
Man, this video made me realize how much I missed your work. I recently started watching Jacob Geller and he made a video called How to Write About Videos Games. It’s a love letter to his favorite articles that are about people’s experiences with different games. As some one who’s life would be nothing without music and writing (when the two combine, oh mama, I’m wet), that video really blew the cap for video essays for me. Because of that video, it’s hard for me to see video essays the same way ever again. This video made me realized why when ever you upload a video, I get excited and clear some time of my day that very day it’s uploaded to watch the video. The way you write so passionately mixed with the way your vocalizing. When you start talking more aggressively and the words you use start to take a change, I feel my emotions shift. Then you bring it down again and ground it, and I’m back to a calmer state of mind. Your humor is something that I enjoy as well. I will admit, I do not play video games nearly as much as I used to. Since I’ve graduated high school in 2018-19 and start a mentorship in music production, my love for music simply became an obsession and slowly pushed other interest aside. I’m not using the bullshit excuse of “oh, I don’t have time now”. I do have the time, I simply lost interest and have changed. From the occasional story driven game or open word game, I don’t play many games anymore. Though I wish to change that in the future. But it’s channels like these that make me want to play games again because of how these videos are written, where people speak so passionately that keep enjoying video games without actively playing them. It’s like how I can ramble on about the newest Tame Impala album, 1990s electronic music, 1960s psychedelic music, some random internet album I found on Bandcamp, literally anything electronic music, anything relating to music history, some minimalist classical piece, some face-fucked metal band named Infant Annihilator, and so on and so on (I’m starting to ramble even though I’m just writing a list) until one A.M in the morning just like you, Jacob Geller, Nakeyjakey, and a bunch of channels I watch and discover that write the beautiful created scripts that come from place of love and care for the thing they’re obsessed with: video games.
That was a lot of writing to say, Raycevick is pretty pog UwU XD Rawr!
It was a lot of writing, but it's greatly appreciated, thank you!
(in Ray's Voice:) ok but seriously, how did we get from a serious appreciation letter composed on youtube to ending with "uwu rawr xd"
I looked at the title and thought "eh not too interested" but since its you I watched and I'm glad I did. Excellent video as always! Keep up the great work
GameSir's newer phone controllers are killer. the G8 Galileo is essentially identical to an Xbox controller that snaps around your phone and supports keymapping for any games that don't natively support controllers. I got one for my partner and she's obsessed, apart from the fact that it's kinda big for her hands... she has a Galaxy S23, so in addition to mobile games she can emulate anything up to and including the Wii (and Switch, but we don't play it). the only restriction is that a few platforms (PS3, PS2, Xbox, XB360) don't have emulators in active development, though there are a couple PS2 ones out there.
Didn't expect to see Sebastien Grainger shopping for vinyl records in a Raycevick video.
One thing to note with Genshin is that you can't go from ps4/5 to phone and take your account with you due to Sony being Sony.
Also Genshin Impact is just a casino masquerading as a game.
You can from PC to mobile though, which is awesome
@@yaosio that's gacha games for you
@@yaosio that's gacha games in general, genshin is one of the fairer ones though, compared to the money people sink on the fate series game and their ilk I've only spent ~£40 on it over the last year and I have all but 2 of the characters. If genshin wasn't so fair with the free to play economy I'd have dropped it like I dropped just about every EA title in recent memory.
@@malikkelly yeah, I wish I knew that was the case before sinking £40 and about 100 hours into the ps4 version, now I feel bound to the console. At least I dodge the spooky PC anticheat tho
The cloud has so much potential it's kinda scary for the industry
The way AAA gaming is going, an alternative for independent studios to release is fantastic.
Exhibit A: Sony is planning a remake of The Last of Us for ps 5. Just like in film, the industry appears to be stuck.
@@Psilocybin77 especially since successful indie games(which are usually much higher quality) are pretty easy to run
@@Psilocybin77 they should do a live action remake of the mario movie
geforce now has been a godsend for me for the last 6 months. i'm playing aaa games on my shitty 11 year old pc and having the best times of my gamer life of about 20 years. Finished Witcher 3 a month ago. I missed so much. It's totally worth it.
I really think you should have also mentioned the thing that turns a phone into a real console to the next level ... EMULATORS !
For real , from the PS1 to the PSP every nintendo console from the Gameboy to the 3DS and from the NES to the Wii ... emulators for ALL these and many more are FREE to download directly from the Play Store
The gaming potential from Emulation alone on android is INSANE
Emulation is terrible, those games look and play worse than mobile games
@@oo--7714 true , but thats only because mobile games have surpassed old console games in graphics
that doesnt make old console games any less worth playing though, and i think that mobile emulation with a ds4 controller and a phone clip is the perfect way to enjoy such games
loving the aspect ratio of this video!
Genshin and Honkai have been filling my wants for character action/adventure games with big stories to dig into. Jedi Academy on android while not an official port has full mod support and playing a botmatch with custom maps/models is fun in short bursts.
You forget to mention Brutal Doom or Quake Touch
Wake up babe, Raycevick just uploaded a new video
Thanks hun
@@dango2917 welcome boo
Gotta put a comma before "babe".
@@dango2917
Gotta put a comma before "hun".
@@GeorgeEndress
Gotta put a comma before "boo".
THAT BACCONO OST AT 2:29, such good taste
You know where I can watch baccano?
@@sirbungle793 Since it's sadly not on Funimation or Crunchy Roll, You'd have have shell out for physical copies... Unless you don't mind ads and popups on sketchy sites, then search "Gogoanime Baccano" and you'll find it.
@@sirbungle793Don't bother with streaming, you probably got 4 different versions on nyaa.si
Why is UA-cam hiding you from me?
I'm too edgy.
Raycevick is the only few successful UA-camrs that do "Quality over quantity."
I could name a few.
Just like white light
@@metallicfingers please do. I know a few but I'd like to know more.
@@ProducoesBatata
-captain disillusion
-nerd city
-averagepixel
-nakeyjakey
-nerdsync
-internet historian
-ahoy
-studson studio
-houstonproductions1
-raycevick (of course)
-sabrina and friends
-jabrils
-nathan zed
-kaptainkristian
-uricksaladbar
-gmtk
-eliquorice
-new frame plus
-artorr
-nick robinson
-for every kind of geek
-dj peach cobbler
I'll try to keep adding to this list as time goes on
@@metallicfingers I miss jakey.
Here is a list i made a while back. There are some gems in the premium section of the appstore. Some are ports of older consoles or PC games and some were made for mobile first.
This is not a comprehensive list but you are bound to find atleast a few that interest you especially if there are some retro or indie games that you never got around to playing.
*Made for mobile first:*
80 Days
Antihero
Badland
Battleheart Legacy
Card Thief
Dandara (Originally made for mobile but was released on PC first)
Evoland
Florence
Framed
Hidden Folks
Lara Croft GO (From GO series)
Love You to Bits
Monument Valley
N.O.V.A. 3
Old Man's Journey
Prune
Reigns:Her Majesty (From Reigns series)
Sorcery series
The Room series
Wayward Souls
*One Time ingame Payment:*
God of Light
Grimvalor (Like Dark Souls)
Night of the Full Moon (like Slay the Spire)
Oceanhorn (Like Zelda)
Space Marshals
The Bonfire
*PC or older console games:*
Ace Attorney Trilogy
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Banner Saga series
Battle Chasers: Night War
Beholder
Bomb Chicken
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Cat Quest
Company of Heroes
Crashlands
Cultist Simulator
DOOM
Danganronpa
Darkest Dungeon
Dead Cells
Detention
Disgaea 1
Donut County
Don't Starve
Door Kickers
Downwell
FEZ
FTL: Faster Than Light
Forager
Forgotton Anne
GRIS
Game Dev Tycoon
Ghosts'n Goblins
Goat Simulator
Gorogoa
Grand Theft Auto franchise (Up to GTA: San Andreas)
Her Story
Hotel Dash
Hotline Miami
Icewind Dale
Life is Strange
Limbo
Max Payne 1 & 2
Metal Slug series
Minecraft
Mini Metro
Monster Hunter Stories
Oddworld series
Oxenfree
Planescape: Torment
Professor Layton
ROME: Total War
RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Slay the Spire
Star Wars:Knights of the old republic
Stardew Valley
Super Meat Boy
Terraria
Teslagrad
The Bard's Tale
The First Tree
The Talos Principle
The Walking Dead
The Witness
The Wolf Among Us
This War of Mine
This is the Police
Titan Quest
To The Moon
Tropico
Typoman
Valiant Hearts
Valkyrie Profile
Warhammer Quest 2
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
XCOM: Enemy Within
Ys Chronicles
*IOS only:*
Bastion
Bleak Sword
Crypt of the Necromancer
Gone Home
Hyper Light Drifter
Infinity Blade 1 to 3 (Delisted)
Inmost
Invisible Inc
Journey
Moonlighter
South of the circle
SteamWorld Heist
The Pathless
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Transistor
What the Golf?
*Square Enix games:*
Chaos Rings 1 to 3
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest 1 to 8
Final Fantasy 1 to 9
Secrets of Mana & Adventures of Mana
The World Ends with You
and more.
Max Payne 2 never comes to mobile
Add to One Time ingame Payment: Republique
PC or older console games: Bully, fahrenheit indigo prophecy
Holy Shit I loved NOVA 3 back in the day :D
Fez is also iOS only
Huh, seems to have all the the titles I think of.
Mission Impossible on the PS1 "Hi, my name's Greg, and I'm looking for my dog" "HMMMM DOG!?" is pretty burned into my memories.
I have that game on n64 :P
You didn't mention emulation. You can have a whole library of great classics on your phone, and it's pretty easy because retroarch exists
I played Pokémon FireRed on my mobile. If it were not for mobile devices, I would have never played it on my PC
You can even run switch games soon
Couldn't disagree more with your assessment of cod mobile, it's controller implementation may not be fantastic but if you're used to playing on a touch screen it plays great. I've had more fun playing cod mobile than modern warfare or cold war
Your phone is much more powerful than the switch. Great video.
Raycevick,
Firstly, I just want to thank you for taking the time and learning how much potential there really is in mobile gaming, and then sharing it with the Internet. I've been playing mobile games as my primary gaming experience for basically half my life now, and I've always been shut down by others who just dismiss mobile gaming as nothing more than Angry Birds and Candy Crush. Asphalt has been my main focus for the past 2 years now, and I've even seen an eSports community grow and I've had the chance to compete in tournaments! The recent explosion of Fortnite and other titles like you mentioned are finally doing the concept of gaming on your phone justice, but like you said, there is still SO MUCH more room! For 400$, a person can buy an iPhone that can do literally anything. Cloud streaming, any mobile game out right now, AND it has enough power to emulate wii games at full speed! Decades of games just fit in my pocket now, and it's truly mesmerizing' If more work is done in the emulation space, I can see PS2 and other consoles being playable on phones in the near future. One thing that people forget about mobile gaming though, is that the potential for these devices to perform at a high graphical fidelity has been around for almost a decade now! I remember back in 2011, EA ported the entire first Dead Space game to iOS! During those early years was also Rockstar's release dates for GTA 3 and Vice City on mobile. These console ports are not recent, they ran on devices almost as old as people playing Fortnite today, and people sometimes forget that. I remember instead of an Xbox 360, I played on an iPod touch 5 gen, and I would show people Modern Combat 4 in 2012 and they were confused. They genuinely thought I was lying to them, or playing a video on my phone instead of running a real game. How could the same device that played Flappy Bird also play a true tripleA FPS game?
Speaking of Modern Combat, I want to also talk about Gameloft. Your "fuck Gameloft" was amazing. BUT. .. the Gameloft story is not as simple as people think. Yes, their games are not original in overall design. Modern Combat=COD. NOVA=Halo. Gangstar=GTA. It's painfully obvious. What people forget is the fact that these games, that I would say delivered 90% of the console experience, FIT IN MY POCKET IN 2012! There was NO other company providing that quality of game for mobile except for maybe EA and Ubisoft with some of their releases. I really encourage anyone to go back and play NOVA 3, which I consider to be the greatest mobile FPS of all time. Besides the individual games, for me and a lot of other people at the time, Gameloft provided all of those experiences that people had with console games but with our phones/iPods. People have fond memories of Halo multiplayer, I have fond memories of NOVA multiplayer. I remember spending HOURS playing instagib with random people, it was amazing. Asphalt also provided my racing fix, along with other legendary mobile racing games like Riptide. Why wait to get home to play NFS when i could get my adrenaline rush in the car or during lunch break? I remember the day the Asphalt 8 teaser trailer dropped, and I CRIED. There's no way the game could look THAT good... holy crap it looks that good... on my freaking iPOD! And im doing barrel rolls in a Bugatti! 2010-2013 was considered the Golden Age for Gameloft Games. Yes, I know how gameloft games are nowadays. BUT, in 2012, you could buy a gameloft game for 7 dollars and you didn't need to worry about ads or microtransactions, and you got essentially a console triple-A game in your pocket. However, they DID NOT sell out to Vivendi, which turned the company into the husk of its former self you see today. Vivendi FORCEFULLY bought out majority shares of Gameloft. In fact, Gameloft fought against it, but were unsuccessful. You can still tell there are people who care at Gameloft, and that part is obvious with how good Asphalt 9 is, even if the improvements aren't too drastic over Asphalt 8 which came out in 2013.
So, to wrap things up. Mobile gaming, as a result of the incredible power of mobile devices, has the potential to become the greatest form of gaming ever created. The misconceptions and low standards of people helped to turn it into what you see today. Yes, your phone can be a console. It was the console/PC for MANY people, and still is today. I have more fond memories playing Gameloft games than I do playing Battlefield, or Need For Speed. That's not to say everyone should give up their PCs and Xboxes, what I am saying is that those experiences thought to be exclusive to those devices can be translated with near-perfect accuracy onto something that you carry everyday in your pocket. Was NFS Hot Pursuit better on mobile than on PC? No way! But that was in 2010! If NFS Hot Pursuit can run on a nintendo switch, that means in can run on a majority of mobile devices today, so why is EA not jumping on that? I wish I knew... At least i can play Speed Racer: The Videogame for the Wii on my new iPhone. Which when i was a kid, I never could have imagined was possible.
To everyone saying mobile gaming is not true gaming, not only are you lying to other people and missing out on great experiences, you are lying to yourself. Play GRID: Autosport, or GTA San Andreas on your phone. You'll be very surprised.
ayy its you! love your channel
It's sad to see what Gameloft has devolved into recently. Their NOVA and Modern Combat series had heart in it. They were fun to play and delivered actually high effort content on mobile. I recently downloaded the latest Modern Combat game to relieve my memories, and holy shit did it make me sad. The game is an unbalanced pay to win piece of shit. Even though I was quite good at aiming I was constantly getting killed by players who had ridiculously op guns that you had no way of getting without spending hundreds of hours or buying it from their store.
holy shit my man put some baccano ost in there.
I play Morrowind and OpenXcom on my phone. Xcom especially works incredibly well on touch screen, which should probably apply to all turn based games.
MOBAs are not for everyone, but Wild Rift was a big surprise for me as well, very comfortable controls.
One of my favorite videos on this channel in a while. Brawlstars has had me addicted for a long time.
I didn't know that there are a lot of FULL and IMPROVED port of classic games and indies games available in my pockets!
We really need a platform app like steam but in the phone so that we can discover new games like this. If Raycevick didn't make a video about the state of gaming mobile, i wouldn't know these game exist at all.
Not gonna lie, hearing the Baccano OST in the background put a big stupid smile on my face
I hope there'll be more people like you, Mr. Raycevick. I dream that in the future mobile gaming will unite people: from weebs like me playing gacha games to old-school gamers playing legendary classics. We just have to hope that the big companies will see the potential that the smartphones possess.
Honestly, I think streaming will take over before mobile gaming is a core development platform for game devs.
@@RusticRonnie i dont think so. Mobile Gaming is absolutely gigantic in the Asian Market, and its constantly getting bigger in other regions, and you can get somewhat real (sometimes fully) console experiences on there. Streaming might get big, but probably in the far future, because Stadia failed hard now, and i dont see a company logically trying to make streaming games big again. There are quite a quite a few problems with streaming, the input delay, phones getting fried or the games just not cutting it.
Check out "ETA Prime" he deals with reviewing phones, PCs and Accessories for Emulation and Gaming.
I was not expecting to find RCR here
"Rockstar has been masterful with their ports."
... Boy that didn't age well lol
Oh my God I didn't realize what I was missing with videos that don't use a phone's whole aspect ratio. Nice touch.
I myself have a Note 9 and use it for emulation all the time, since the S Pen gives me a very good DS like experience. But there's something about having a dedicated device for gaming that can fit in your pocket that just feels more special. Not to mention, I highly prefer the control scheme of both my PSP Go and Vita, with the former being smaller than my phone anyway. I tried the whole controller clip-on thing, but it was annoying having to use the touchscreen on menus and stuff, plus the controller itself has to go in a bag - not something I'm always willing to carry with me everywhere I go. I even have a Switch, but I don't take it out of the dock too often because of that. I think I'm still looking for the perfect device for me, but for now, I think I'm leaving mobile gaming alone. I've always been one for portable gaming, but when it comes to mobile phones, there's still something missing.
Yeah, retroarch + bluetooth controller and you have everything that I dreamed as kid.
No doubt there I've got more than 10 retro systems emulated on my android device and I'm living the dream although at this point I've gone the extra mile to get an android handheld just to cut out the conroller as a separate thing I need to carry. The Gpd xd plus.
"It Tickles the same caveman brain's lust for chaos"..... Accurate AF😭😭😭
happy to see the volvo at the end, glad you're okay! built like tanks
Man, this video made me realise how much I missed your work, hope that everything will be smoother from now on!
I'm surprised you didn't delve into rhythm games
His finger would probably snapped
To be fair Gameloft had some great mobile games back in the days. Does anyone remember Rainbow Six Shadow Vanguard or Splinter Cell Conviction on iOS? Those were great mobile experiences and I am very sad that they are not available anymore and no studio utilises today‘s mobile hardware to develop games like that again in better graphical fidelity.
They're also one of the few publishers who published decent J2ME games for non-smartphone devices. As someone from a third world country those games were one of the first gaming experiences which exposed me to the wider world of games, and I wouldn't be such a fan of gaming if this wasn't the case.
I remember playing Ferrari GT Evolution back in the day.
I'm downloading a Gameloft game because of this video. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!
Muhahahaha
Bro really had a no context rcr clip at the end. This channel is godly
12:59
I was waiting for this very moment when you mention Asphalt 9
Two Words: Assoluto Racing. Highly recommend you try it out on mobile. It's a genuinely amazing racing sim and has verrry Gran Turismo mechanics and vibes.
It's very p2w. Those import cars are hard to get
The way I, a regular mobile gamer, sees it, there's very little competition to make mobile games better.
I play cod mobile regularly and after pubg got banned in India it's the only fps game that's good. Been waiting for competition that will ruffle the developers for so long.
There's A LOT of money to be made here yet neither are there any alternative platforms other than playstore nor variety in AAA titles.
Been waiting apex legends mobile port for an year now
Don't get me wrong there's really good games on mobile without being ported like Clash Royale, Brawl Stars etc that is made to be played in bite sized chunks
But games that is required to be played for hours, that cinematic or story driven games are so rare
You never tried indie games on phones?
no one wants to develop on mobile because of the big companies like ketchapp they steal peoples games change their graphics and rerelease them and because they are big or has contacts with google play idk their games are always at the front page while indies cant even be seen when you type their names
@@leonamoonslasher7070 I sure do
Rarely though
Mekorama and magium are my favourites
@@qqq3230 can you give some examples please
ayy Death From Above 1979 LP @ 1:34
Baccano Background Music?!
RAYCEVICK IS A WEEB!
I guess I should just start accepting it at this point.
I'm 6 mins into the video and low and behold you shock me with information that you've covered within seconds which is impeccable on your part via subscribed automatically!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, emulation. If you have a decent enough Android phone there's tons of emulation options. Played Resi 4 gamecube version on my phone recently
I was gonna say, im surprised he didn't mention that. I have every Nintendo emulator up to citra on my phone, and citra actually runs BETTER on my phone than on my laptop 🤷♂️
@@irshkashirkle Probably for legality reasons
@@arthurdurham thats fair
I can play mw3 and sonic colors at 1440p on my oneplus 7t
@@arthurdurham emulation's totally legal tho. It's how you get the games that's unnecessarily murky. If you already have a copy of whatever game you're playing and personally dump it though, it's still 100% legal. Pretty much every game I emulate I've personally ripped/dumped myself.
Protips for this:
-For PS1/PS2, have a PC/laptop with a disc drive (CD/DVD), and the software called ImgBurn. This software allows you to rather easily rip either platform's games for use with emulators.
-For PS3, get a compatible external bluray drive, and use 13xforever's One-click PS3 Disc Dumper, or use custom firmware on a PS3 and some homebrew software.
-For Wii/GameCube/GBA/DS/3DS games, look into homebrew for the Wii and 3DS, and get a GameBoy Advance GameCube link cable. Make sure your Wii is one of the backwards compatible models (i.e. has GameCube controller ports on the top), and that's where the GBA GameCube link cable comes into play. It takes awhile, but you can dump your GBA carts using some Wii homebrew software via the ol' link cable this way.
For Wii/GameCube & DS/3DS games, simply use the relevant homebrew software on the Wii and 3DS to dump the disc/cartridge contents to external hard drive or sd card respectively, and you're gold.
Shoutout old school Gamespot
Also, penultimate means second to last....
Already lots of comments saying "No" seconds after video release.
It baffles me why people click on a video they won't even give the time of day to watch to then just show how closed their mind is on the comments section.
I feel like people skimmed over the “controller support” but part.
But the instant response I do not blame them for.
You’ve said it. I also don’t understand why ppl can’t spend half a second to click like. You are being entertained by the hard work of channels like this, for free (essentially), the least you can do is support these creators by clicking a button.
Well, they’re not wrong. For every good game on mobile, there’s a ton of bad ones as well. And the App Store highlights those bad games first, that people literally didn’t even knew there are good games on mobile. Can’t blame people on that.
@@NeroVingian40 look buddy, I'm not blaming anyone here, what they think of 'mobile gaming' is of no consequence to me. What I am saying is, why click on something they are clearly not interested in and leaving a comment that doesn't add to the discussion. Like I said, I'm just baffled, not pointing fingers and blaming people for their opinion.
@@ettubrute5709 ah, fair enough, sir. Continue on, I guess lol
For playing Doom on Android, I recommend Delta Touch. It's a collection of Doom 1-3 source ports and it supports mods. Game files need to be added separately, so custom maps work there.
this is the best oneplus 7 ad i've ever seen
Haven't swapped so far