1. Company forms with hopes and dreams. 2. Company hits it big with a great selling title 3. Company starts hiring people who lean so far left they may as well be lying down on the ground. 4. Same left leaning people scream until they get the game they want. 5. Company heads towards bankruptcy.
And/or: 3. Company goes public/gets bought. 4. Focus shifts from game quality towards quarterly profits and corporate bullshit(which includes ideological hr processes) as this is what shareholders actually care about.
@@JP-ww5vz you forget the part where EA or Activision after buying said company then tries to milk them dry. After which then guts them like a fish & tosses the remains into the mass grave with the rest of the companies they've done that to in the past.
I mean, the honesty is great. When it's actual honesty. His points about FFXIV smack of either "mmos are not his thing" or "no clue what he's talking about"
@@skyesfury8511 It's probably the latter, consider for a second that Razor tends to be against anti-consumer bullshit and then consider how anti-consumer most MMOs are. You not only must buy a subscription, but on top of a constant payment to merely play the game you must also buy expansion passes.
The downside of going completely digital. They can launch a game unfinished and patch at their leisure. Hopefully this business model bites them in the ass, hard.
The other downside is that if their servers go away, you loose your game forever. This happened with the Wii digital games and it will happen again in the future. Sure, you can say that GOG lets you download full installers but its library is not as complete as Steam and no other PC digital stores will let you get one. Uplay, Epic, Steam and Origin games can disappear in the flip of a switch, and there's nothing you can do about it.
@@handsomebrick True, but if there's other games you bought that you didn't download before the server shutdowns there's no way to install them again without modding your system and hoping you can find the install files online.
FF7 is the Metallica black album of the gaming world. While good in its own right it is technically a step down in quality from previous installments and it was the beginning of the end.
Wish game companies would start making FF6 style games again. With no limit on hardware or storage that they had back in the day. And the rapid production cycle they had then. We could get a good FF every year or so. FF6 prelude: The War of the Magi. Would be great!
I was actually impressed with Fallout 76. Ive never seen a single game piss so many people off and have that disastrous of a launch. Quite an accomplishment really.
If there is a lesson to learn from 2010s then it would be "When everyone acts like the cool kid, nobody end up being the cool kid". So many franchises(old and new) and genres were axed during the 2010s simply because they were not trendy enough. The sheer amount of games that aped COD or the MMOs that straight up copied WoW is staggering, even though most of them ended up never returning a profit( remember homefront or Call of Juarez). Everyone wanted the "cool" casual audience so much that even genres that are fundamentally not for casual gamers tried to attract casual, only to alienate old player and attract no one new(Teef being the primary example of this). Everyone wanted to be the cool kid with the biggest audience and most ended up with no audience.
Ive been replaying FF9 recently. I think its a very well told romance story, especially because its a almost childish youthful innocent romance story. Focused on humor and loyalty with virtually no sexual overtones.
@@Zantetsudex Diffrence is Spoony would shit on them just to troll the mega stans. Don't know if Razor does it for the same reason or if he genuinely hates the series.
@@TrueCarthaginian Yeah its kinda weird how he doesn't even point out that FFXIV became pretty damn great, not just playable, sure its not perfect but it is definitely a great game.
as someone else said PSO2 is actually good, but the rest are trash and I blame the current anti-consumer system that most MMOs follow. Keep in mind that not only must you PAY to play the game EVERY MONTH, but to keep up with the game you must also PAY for expansion passes some of which in the case of WoW are required tbh. Currently that system has caused many of the problems we see, the double dipping leads to half-assed expansions that eventually change the base game for the worse. WoW is the natural extreme of that system and it fucking shows.
I would tend to agree to a certain extent. The trouble is we need a *total paradigm shift* in the MMO genre, and nobody is willing to risk a dud on an experiment of that magnitude so they keep copying the "proven" formula even as that formula gradually becomes less popular. FF14 is currently the most popular established use of that formula (unless WoW hasn't managed to degrade as much as I think it has). FF14's main alteration to the formula is the peculiar pseudo-single player campaign it hoists on you. Which is a little odd for an MMO, but manages to keep people who are into Story involved.
@@Archedgar yeah eq was amazing back in the day. I also loved games mmos from the later 2000s vanguard, Conan, and lotro. Those were the last mmos that felt fresh to me. Most after that started pushing microtansactions and lost their sense of mystery. I don't mind paying a sub if the game is good and worth my time.
@@Gruntvc I'm sad we will never get the conclusion to that series. We got blue balled by Gabe who teased it for years only to finally say NO WE'RE NOT MAKING IT STOP FUCKING ASKING. It's become a meme up there with the "duke nukem forever is going to take forever to make"
@Inflammation Gains I bought one of them in the early 2000s. Got bored and quit after an hour. Waste of money. Waste of an hour I could have spent looking for pr9n.
Still maintain that FFTactics is one of the finest SRPG’s of the 90s. But it had no involvement from the usual FF team as it was put together by the holdovers from Quest. I’ll always choose the Matsuno/Sakimoto/Yoshida team over Sakaguchi/Uematsu/Amano team.
TrueCarthaginian FFT and Tactics Ogre are probably my two favorite games of all time. The story, soundtrack and artwork is next level. The gameplay is addicting as well
Can't argue with FF13 being the worst. The havoc it caused for the whole JRPG genre cannot be understated. Like...no joke, the developers of Dragon Quest IX actually said in interviews that Dragon Quest was "more of a Western RPG". The game that LITERALLY DEFINES THE JRPG is calling itself a Western RPG because FF13 was such a damn embarassment. Dragon Quest disowned JRPGs. That's...something I'm never getting over.
@Dragonking1984 Play a real RPG like a western CRPG and you will see what is glaringly deficient in JRPGs. JRPGs should not have RPG in their name due to the lack of role playing in those games. They're linear adventure games with stats and inventories, but I guess that constitutes role playing to the high IQ Japanese.
The Dragon Quest IX developers should apologize for daring to call their game a western RPG. I don't care how bad JRPGs get, Dragon Quest IX, or any of the games in the series, is not comparable to a western RPG. Maybe they and other JRPG developers should play a proper western RPG (like a CRPG) and learn from them. Maybe then they'll quit shitting out the same formulaic trite of turn-based combat, grinding, and shallow stories and characters.
SNES/PS1/PS2 Final Fantasy was fairly heavy on character management and rewarding players for exploring. No, FFXIII was not the logical conclusion of Final Fantasy's direction. FFXIII was everything that a JRPG shouldn't be: a hallway simulator that doesn't give you anything resembling freedom until you're 90% of the way through the incoherent story with extremely unlikable characters and a lifeless setting.
@@auraguard0212 There's a difference between linear progression through the game and the game being a series of hallways where you just run to the next story event. The Deus Ex games are linear. They don't have FFXIII-style level design. Neither does FFX, or IX, or VIII, etc. Those games reward you for exploring the game. As for freedom, I was talking more about character management. In most of the games, while there's definitely a recommended path, there are plenty of opportunities for customization and breaking the normal progression, which is fairly normal in JRPGs. XIII literally plays like a tutorial until you leave the Cocoon right before the last boss.
I know I'm years late responding to this comment, but as much as I enjoy listening to Razorfist, at times, he's up his own rear with dumb takes like "FF has always been bad" and pat himself on the back by saying "F you, I've always been right" without listening to counterpoints like a little child. Anyone with a brain can tell that 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12 have better characters, stories, and overall game design than 13.
I was about to object to Final Fantasy 14 being such a disaster, until you made me remember what a complete disaster it was to begin with, as I only jumped on the ship last year. I mean, a MMO being so utterly trash that the company literally nuked the world into oblivion and rebooted it wholesale definitely deserves a place here, regardless of my feelings on the current product.
Product was nice, seems to be starting to go downhill, sure the writing and presentation and all is getting better, but with the massive gutting and simplification of everything that's not a DPS I see it going the way of WoW in a few years time, perhaps less. This coming from an avid player of the game and healer main (tho having second thoughts a lot with how stupidly unfun they made anything but WHM to play)
I have to agree that FF14's original offering was complete trash, but as someone who picked it up a couple of years ago and played until of 2019, it was fun and worth the play. Still grindy as hell and not perfect, but leagues ahead of where it started.
I'm actually sad to see it make this list. I liked the original FFXIV especially the direction it "could" have gone simply because it wasn't another WoW clone. Now we got the WoW clone with a few knickknacks thrown in to make it feel "unique." Played for one year after the 2.0 release and then left never to return. I'm still depressed about it till this day. =(
I'm going to agree with this statement; I played for about 9 months a few years ago around the heavensward release and it was a perfectly serviceable, if grindy, MMO with acceptable levels of monetization. I really dont think it deserves a spot on this list when stuff like Mass Effect: Andromeda exists in the same universe.
I'll agree. It's VERY hard for an MMO to keep my interest these days as I hate most Tab Targeting games, but FF14 was the exception. 90% of this was because of FATES. Those are brilliant and I love them and they are the best idea in MMORPG history. But FF14 1.0 is indeed a legendary failure. Not every day you see a complany release an MMO then immidiately drop the monthly fee, apologize, and fire almost all the staff because it was that much of a clusterfuck.
@@Gael32 Original had lots of potential to be better mmo, however it was in development hell because of shitty game engine from FF13 (another reason why that game deserved to be a turdiest game of the decade)
That’s the POINT. That’s how it SHOULD have been on LAUNCH! “We’ll patch it later” has become the new excuse de jure of the industry to shit out rushed, unfinished products.
Battleborn and Lawbreakers are good games, they were not given a chance. As someone that played both, they are actually quite good but people were more concerned with overhyped mediocrity then actual good games.
In its current state, I think Battlefront 2 is arguably the best thing to come out of the Disney side of Star Wars (at least the sequel era). That's not saying much, of course, but I've had a lot of fun with it.
@@ohnoitschris 2k not doing their job as a publisher is also a factor, I learned more about Battleborn from Gearbox and Battleborn's dedicated channel and twitter page then from 2k. Which is why I hope Gearbox publishing snags the rights to Battleborn and relaunches them.
I just want to say Chris Avellone is severely overrated. I can't stand his contrived writing. I like KOTOR a lot, but Chris writing in the 2nd one is unbearable to me.
I remember trying the demo to Thief and stopping after 15 minutes. How you manage to make a game feel worse and less smooth than a game from 1997 is beyond me. And I only discovered the Thief series in the 2010's, so it was still new to me when I played the originals.
I loathe the fact that people still compare The FF14 of 2.0 and beyond, with the FF14 of 1.0 when the two games are just that. Two completely separate games. FF14 2.0 (or just ARR) was a complete re-build of the game, using a completely different engine with different progression systems, mechanics, story, and even a completely reworked map. Saying that 1.0 was "patched" into being good would be like saying the Original Doom was patched into Doom (2016).
@Timothy Dexter honestly? XIV tends to avoid most of the exaggerated bullshit FF is known for. that's really what I love about it, lord knows I hadn't enjoyed anything from the franchise since IX. You get a bit of the theatrics but it's toned down by a lot comparatively and for the most part it's this mismatched low-tech environment on our side and the imperial side is near future high-tech. if I had to knock it for something, it'd be presentation. The way the engine is for things can't really show off high-end action scenes very well, everything's kinda slow or conveyed through dialogue so it sometimes doesn't have the punch that a singleplayer experience would. And I guess that the tone can lean towards optimism a bit heavy at times.
@Timothy Dexter Have you played FF14 at any point within the last 3 years? It plays nothing like 1.0 did and with the exception of slog between ARR and HW the game is actually incredibly interesting and smooth to play.
The original release of FF14 was absolute garbage. Saying that the massive overhaul is trash is disingenuous especially the latest expansion is one of the best FF titles of all time. FF14 is the best mmo on the market right now. Not that is a very high bar to clear.
@Timothy Dexter Good in who's opinion, random nobodies on youtube. Have you not realized that all opinions are piles of shit including yours razors and mine.
Dragon Quest XI ... Which only diehard Dragon Quest fans would be interested in and is basically in a different world from Squeenix (Plz Nintendo just get it away from Squeenix for the love of God) Ummm Collection of Mana ... Which are a bunch of 20 year old games
I mean they didn't really patch xiv to be good they shut the entire game down and made a sequel out of the cadaver of the old one to it called "a realm reborn", then they made a 10/10 expansion called Heavensward.
Been playing FF XIV since ARR! I just can’t agree with a single thing he said! The games awesome! I can’t wait to get to the conclusion of Shadowbringers!
@@dumpsterfyre278 Likewise. It makes me think we have irreconcilable taste in video games. 1.0 was clearly shit-tier because they were still thinking like they were making FF XI but the tech had changed. XIV 2.0 was vastly superior. If you still find it shit-tier you probably just don't like the entire genre of MMO. And if you don't like the genre itself, reviewing literally anything in the genre will be disingenuous. Seriously, reviewing an MMO when you're an MMO hater is like someone who hates sci-fi reviewing DS9.
I showed my friend who doesn't read comics the trailer last night. his mind broke for few seconds and recovered soon after and then he had me watch the rest of the rest of the trailer with him and tear it apart. Good times.
Thief 4 hurt like fire to me. Like Razor I adored the originals and believe them to be some of the best games I've ever played in my 40+ years of life. What Eidos Montreal did to that series was a war crime.
My favorite part of FFXIV was naming my character Goddam Nappa. Every time I would get a character reading my name I would read it out to my friends. Like, “Goddam! You killed that monster!”
For all of its problems, it made a profit. In the end we only have ourselves to blame. Stop preordering games until realistic reviews come out. Yes, you might miss out on a special character skin that does nothing but announce you paid $120 for a $60 game that realistically should be $20. I defended 76 in the beginning. "It's just a Betta" "Of course it's buggy, it's Bethesda" "It's only one patch away from being good" "Wait for the DLC" I was guilty of all of them. And I didn't even pay for the game. I used a friend's second character he created as a mule because storage was such a pain in the ass. Until a couple big companies lose a fortune after trying to push out an crap game, they won't learn. Remember. Do...Not...Pre... Order!
@Timothy Dexter Who are you talking to? The game was still made under the umbrella of Bethesda Game Studios, and it's still probably in everyone's best interests for Bethesda to sell the IP. You're spitting venom at no-one for no reason.
The better thing would be for Zenimax to back off from BGS and let them get back to making games without having profit as their only goal. Bethesda was really great pre-Skyrim.
4:40-4:49 Honestly, I wanted Fallout Co-Op. Because when I was playing Fallout 4, the thing I was thinking was "Man, companions can suck sometimes. Wish I had a friend who could help me take down baddies simultaneously better than they can".
ive played enough CoOp games and shit, Singleplayer Fallout is dead at the moment. Bethesda refuses to learn and they have enough morons still playing 76 that nothing will change.
"Well, fucker" turned into "Well Fucker" (complete with visual) is every bit as enjoyable as I would have thought, if I actually initially thought of that. Perfection achieved out of the most innocent word play. Keeping it classy! :)
I’d be willing to watch a video describing the merits of different paint brands if Raz0r was in it with his glorious snark and unmatched creative insults.
My top 20 turds of the 2010's: Anthem Final Fantasy XIII Paper Mario: Sticker Star Twisted Metal (2012)/Twisted Nu-Metal Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite Fallout 76 YiiK TINO (Thief in Name Only) Life is Strange Overwatch Aliens: Colonial Marines Metal Gear Survive Revolution 60 Depression Quest Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) Dragon Age: Inquistion The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z Wolfenstein: Young Blood Mass Effect Andromeda
My top turds of the 2010’s is: Final Fantasy XII Street Fighter V Valkyrie Revolution Sonic the hedgehog 4 Ratchet & Clank reboot Resident Evil 6 The 2010’s had great games like Zelda Breath of wild, Smash Ultimate ,and Sonic Maina but most of the games I played sucked. The 2000’s was a far better decade of gaming.
It all comes back to Final Fantasy XIII. You can trace almost every failure in the video game industry to the design philosophy Square- Enix set in stone for everything dragging down modern games. Overlong cutscenes. Lack of Player choice in favor of flashy graphics. Barebones combat that requires little to no input. It's all here. Right now, we're stuck in an overcorrection where everything has to be open world, cooperative, and strewn with meaningless cosmetic choices. These things have to be balanced if the industry hopes to recapture the glory of the 2000s.
I disagree. Most popular games are battle royals and mobas. So how does any of this stuff equal up to the gaming industry verses what most people are playing.
X. The philosophy comes from FFX. Not XIII. XIII is what happens when you take everyone wrong with X to the extreme. That's where both you and Razor are just wrong, if not misguided on.
@@raven80wolfx2The worst parts of Final Fantasy XIII like its push to be cinematic and style over substance gameplay is what's crippling developers like Bioware, Bethesda, and nearly every Sony exclusive. People are already getting sick of Fortnite, which means battle royale has at least one more year before the next trend.
@@elusiveeye1424 I would agree to disagree again. Sony games have been quality games cut scenes to gameplay. Some might be buggy like days gone, but still fun. No microtransactions and I can't say the same about Microsoft games. Final fantasy 13 is trash, but my point is more people are playing games focused on gameplay over cut scenes not just fortnite even rocket league has more players.
@Manannan anam If combat was all that needed, XIII wouldn't be a bad game, or even a bad FF. Even without full player input, its still solid. Fast-paced, requires a little thought, and has some level of customization. But no, almost all the complaints Razor lampoons XIII for can be attributed to X's design decisions. The hallways, the plots, the character and world building, the shilling, ALL of that can be said that in regards to X. IT'S the game that doomed Squeenix, not XIII. It makes his decision to put it at #1 all the more infuriating and confusing. BTW: pretending that every JRPG has little player choice is incredibly shortsighted. Dragon Quest had things like class changing, weapon forging, full party customization, the likes since VI. SaGa is a series that prefers not to even have a main plot just to let the player explore the world at their leisure. The other remake coming out in April, Trials of Mana, is a game so big, so open, so player driven, the final boss is decided at who you choose at the first menu of the game, the original game couldn't even be translated until last year! And look! All Squeenix products! And you can look beyond them to see what other JRPG devs are doing. And hell, older Final Fantasy did not all had the same problems. FFI is a goddamn D&D clone, spell slots included! (P.S., the OG release date of XIII was 2009)
@@iamthelaw82 You're right about it getting too much heat for the animations, but that was far from my only problem with the game. I hated the story, and writing too. Some of the character were good, but it was overshadowed by the overall plot. Combat was ok, but not why i fell in love with the series to begin with.
I feel like the assumption that Final Fantasy games have to be trash is misguided. 10 and 12 both have interesting innovations (even X-2 has some neat features) and I maintain that there is some parallel universe out there where they didn't combine the worst aspects of these things to create the abomination that is 13. For instance: The sphere grid/license board provides a way to customize your characters and tune their growth; let's turn it into a meaningless graphic that you have to check back on every hour. Creating battle programs in 12 is an interesting exercise in strategy and planning, and reduces the amount of menuing you have to do to create more visually interesting fights; let's devolve it into a glorified quicktime event requiring minimal thinking. Changing classes on the fly to adapt to enemies requires selecting and setting up dress grids and optimizing for bonuses, classes have interesting and varied powers; now you just make three teams (weaken you, hurt you, heal me) from the classes hurt stuff, hurt stuff with magic, defend, and heal. All this to say, don't hate the game because it's shit. Don't hate the game because you feel this is the natural terminus of JRPGs. Hate this fucking trash fire because 13 had two DECADES of potential to build on, but still failed on every front.
The first and only Final Fantasy game I ever tried was 13. A coworker sold me on the hype a day before it came out. I remember the exact moment when I realized I made a mistake buying that game. It was around the very beginning, when the guy in a trenchcoat said "Well, I am the hero after all." After the weekend, my coworker told me I had to play the game for at least 20 hours to get a real feel for it, so I never played it again. That game absolutely deserves the top spot for worst game of the decade.
Final Fantasy is one of those things that there simply wasn't much of. The JRPG as a whole was just never really translated and imported until more recently. The dreamcast had a few interesting examples and so did early 360 titles - but as a whole the JRPG was much more limited in the western market. But therein lay the distinction between JRPGs and western RPGs - JRPGs evolved from the graphic novel as a way of playing part of the action/story. Sunrider, Fate stay night... The JRPG is not role play the same way that Pathfinder is. Within that format, there is a limited room to allow for player choice and that results in the story being told the way it is written. I consider 6 to be the magnum opus of Final Fantasy - had they continued developing the games in that direction, they may have broken through. 8 was an attempt at incorporating new gameplay elements, but it ultimately just collapsed back into itself to try and provide familiarity. 7... Was one of the big marketing pushes on Playstation. It had a very emotional story, but I argue overall a worse game than 4. 9 was basically a back to basics, writing something more similar to 4. It wasn't the most innovative or breaking ground in terms of story - but it was better than 7, 8, and 10. 10 was just one of those that was made popular because of marketing and beach scenes as far as I can tell. It was all more or less downhill from there. Although even as far back as 8, I can recall marketing for final fantasy titles relying on the graphics and pre-rendered cutscenes. So it was destined downhill from that point on. Amusingly, the hentai games seem to have developed more by way of branching plot line and gameplay. Allow a weeb to choose his waifu and he'll want the story to change to reflect it. Give his waifu a random trait and he'll want a mechanic to feature it. I wonder if that's what the taoists meant by all things in existence coming through the divine feminine ... Yin and yang thing going on there.
I have to confess that I know next to d**k about video games (other than the few I enjoy playing), but I keep coming back to watch your treatises (rants) about them because -- quite frankly -- your commentary and editing is sublimely entertaining!
These are my picks Fallout 76 The Outer Worlds The last of us part 2 Mass Effect Andromeda Halo 5 There were a lot of others I could have chosen but I have hope they'll fix them
This was clearly a list of the five terrible games that haven't been purged from your memory. I would now like to remind you that Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Ride to Hell: Retribution, and Duke Nukem Forever were all released this past decade.
What really is mind boggling how these companies double down. No matter whether Sqeenix, Bethesda or Bioware. The should have just stopped and moved on. Focus their ressources on new products. No they double down and sink more millions to fix unfixable problems.
When did Square Enix double down? FFXIV is a shining example of a company releasing a terrible product and then fixing it and making amends to their customers. I am not really sure what more they could have done to make the situation any better. Square should be commend for what they did, so we can show developers that if the treat us right and listen to our feedback we will reward them, not forever castigate them and make any amount of work never worth their while.
This Guy You Don't Know this. A similar situation occurred with ESO being utter shit on launch and ZOS went back and fixed it the hell up to release it again near the console launch and since then the game has gotten pretty damn good. Great story content, great pvp mode, can’t speak for the PvE crowd much though.
@@thisguyyoudontknow4653 Final Fantasy 13 sequels. And 14 is still shit and overpriced because fixing that mess bled them of money. 15 is at best average and they made a fishing vr for it. A fishing vr was a violent demand of the fanbase of course. Ff Type 0 is a shit game. Piss poor quality.
@@veeedeee68 I plan on it. I got KOTOR like a year ago free from XBox games with gold. I was so bored with other games and not wanting to drop more money on a new game to finally twist my arm into playing it because I can't normally stand turn based combat
Gotta hand it to razor, I’m an active XIV player (started at re-release). What he said about it (especially the original game) is spot on. 2.0 - 2.5 patches were generic as balls, but with 3.0 (Heavensward expansion) on I actually enjoyed the story. The gameplay does tend to follow WoW’s simple as shit mechanics that irritate me, but the story and the great community keep me coming back for more. I acknowledge the games got problems (they are legion in scope) and enjoy it anyway. Call it a guilty pleasure. Love the honesty and no BS reviews Herr Fist!
Andromeda isn't that bad. Its just wildly not up to par for the Mass Effect franchise. There's a good game in there though if you can get past the abysmally presented opening hours. I don't blame people for not liking it. 76 is... a different kind of beast. Its very good at what it is, but most people didn't want that. Doesn't necessarily make it bad, and most of its horribadness came from Bethesda in real life, not in the game. But again, don't blame people who were upset by it, its incredibly, shockingly niche.
Honestly, it's sad, while Andromeda was not up to par with the first games, and lacked in many spots, it far surpassed 70% of the games we've gotten in the last decade, like fuck, I'm surprised it was a full playable game.
@@planaraspect9461 played andromeda to completion. There is not a good game buried there, hell I reached a point where it was barely a game at all since my ship hub map kept disappearing causing me to fall into forever void. And the story ends with the most wet fart ending of the entire fucking series. They get a Dyson sphere and all of andromeda's problems basically vanish and there's no problems.
@Matthew Chenault Add on the fact that no one involved knew how to make an actual mmo which they openly admitted at one point. Its honestly surprising how many people didn't expect it to be garbage
You massively underestimated how many bad triple A games came out in the last 10 years, I mean the man could only list his five most loathed, and the pure shit half of the industry has pulled makes Andromeda look like the golden turd, the pile of shit that's the least wet.
I don't get why Final Fantasy 14 is on this list lol. Razor said the team responsible for re-launching the game was mostly focused on making it look better but they actually downgraded the graphics. One of the reasons 1.0 failed was because they developed it with more focus on graphics than gameplay. The most infamous example of this was the fact that a small flowerpot had just as many polygons as a PC model. If you played 1.0 and A Realm Reborn (the re-release) you'd know they didn't play anything alike, the combat system was completely overhauled. The only real problem with it now is the game's macros being infamously slow. As far as story goes, most fans of the game regard Shadowbringers (the latest expansion) to have the best story yet.
Honestly, how were you able to get this down to just top 5? Theres been so many abominations and outright failures the lowest i could pull it down to would be top 20. Also imho, i'd have to argue that "The Order 1886" is the worst game of the decade simply cause of how shitty the gameplay is, how short it is, and well as in most instances how boring it is. When you fail to get a good story in a setting involving SteamPunk Authurian Knights vs f'in Werewolves that is when you hang up your artistic coat and go to work at SubWay.
Good lord I completely forgot about that shit. A game that made everyone interested from seeing its first trailer only to bore us all to tears every time we came to know more about it. Absolutely disgusting waste of resources. Much like Killzone’s terribad story kept that series from ever truly shining (the less than stellar gunplay and mediocre multiplayer notwithstanding)
theres so many shit games my only complaint here is i think he overloaded on one franchise when you could literally stare per franchise and find somekind of massive fuck up.i mean, this is the decade EA fucked up so hard with star wars governments started legislating against lootboxes...
Epic Typhlosion a point? No, hes got a loaded gun waiting for that franchise. And ill join him. GT sport was a pile of shit from release day. Hardly anyone bought it, and those that did sold it a week later. It took everything we loved about the franchise, and threw it out the window for DRM. Then, after all the back lash, they come back withe single player content, and new cars that patched in every few weeks. FUCK. THAT. They have been screwing fans since GT5. That game lasted just 4 years before they forced everyone to 'upgrade' to a 'new' game, and shut down the servers. It was but a farce. The 'new game' was identical to the old one, with some new cars, a few new tracks, a new tire model, and GT vision. GT5 could have patched these features in with ease. But that wasnt enough for yamauchi. Gotta get that sweet revenue, only to shut the GT6 servers off JUST 3 YEARS into the games life cycle, shutting the ps3 down for good. This series can eat a dick. I called it quits after gt6, and im never going back. Hundreds of other racing games out there that are superior to gt sport.
@@LrulestheworldM8 Absolutely agreed. Haven't played GT since GT4, and thought Sport would have been an excellent opportunity to get back into the series. BOY OH BOY, was I disgusted with I was met with. I don't care how much free shit GT Sport squirts out now, it is still at its core a messy trend chaser, and not at all what I remember from the series. I might actually pick up Forza Horizon instead, looks to be much better.
@@LrulestheworldM8 I didn't mind all those issues since it was half finished. But my biggest turd point to this game is simply if you want to save your game you have to be always online. Are you fudging kidding me. And recent updates lacks new contents. From 10-11 every month to 3 cars in 2 month span? Heck no. But I still play it no matter what.
i was eating some soup while watching this video when you sead that they were going from 1 winged angel to 1 armed bandit... i allmost choked trying not to laugh, so ya... thanks for that :))
Choosing just five was probably the hardest part.
Andromeda got a [dis]honourable mention at the start.
Speaking of: Dishonored 2 could easily have been here.
I'd like to have seen ten. Then again, at that rate, the video would've been over a half hour long.
Actually it’s the waiting thats the hardest part.
should have been per franchise
1. Company forms with hopes and dreams.
2. Company hits it big with a great selling title
3. Company starts hiring people who lean so far left they may as well be lying down on the ground.
4. Same left leaning people scream until they get the game they want.
5. Company heads towards bankruptcy.
You forgot the part where either EA or Activision buys the company. It should be in between step 2 and 3
Step 2.5. EA/Activision/Ubisoft buys company and shills for lefties and bad corporate policies that ruin the product and cause it to degrade
And/or:
3. Company goes public/gets bought.
4. Focus shifts from game quality towards quarterly profits and corporate bullshit(which includes ideological hr processes) as this is what shareholders actually care about.
@@JP-ww5vz you forget the part where EA or Activision after buying said company then tries to milk them dry. After which then guts them like a fish & tosses the remains into the mass grave with the rest of the companies they've done that to in the past.
@@Dragonking1984 Those would be steps 3.5 and 6, respectively
There's just something refreshing about Razor's brutal honesty and unrelenting confidence.
"coprolite cupcake"
This niqqa ｓｐｉｔｔｉｎ
Unrelenting confidence is only great if it comes with honesty.
I mean, the honesty is great. When it's actual honesty. His points about FFXIV smack of either "mmos are not his thing" or "no clue what he's talking about"
@@skyesfury8511 my money is on the latter.
@@skyesfury8511 It's probably the latter, consider for a second that Razor tends to be against anti-consumer bullshit and then consider how anti-consumer most MMOs are. You not only must buy a subscription, but on top of a constant payment to merely play the game you must also buy expansion passes.
The downside of going completely digital. They can launch a game unfinished and patch at their leisure. Hopefully this business model bites them in the ass, hard.
The other downside is that if their servers go away, you loose your game forever. This happened with the Wii digital games and it will happen again in the future. Sure, you can say that GOG lets you download full installers but its library is not as complete as Steam and no other PC digital stores will let you get one. Uplay, Epic, Steam and Origin games can disappear in the flip of a switch, and there's nothing you can do about it.
@@MrDevious88 I think if the game is already on your Wii, it doesn't go away.
@@MrDevious88 I have borderlands 1 can't play the game because they shut the authorization server down. :/
@@handsomebrick True, but if there's other games you bought that you didn't download before the server shutdowns there's no way to install them again without modding your system and hoping you can find the install files online.
@@ChickenPermissionOG That sucks. What system did you have it on?
FF7 is the Metallica black album of the gaming world. While good in its own right it is technically a step down in quality from previous installments and it was the beginning of the end.
Ridiculously accurate
Still prefer FF6 to it to this day.
I think FFX was great but that might just be nostalgia. Though I'd also say FFX-2 was horrific.
You know it's sad but true.
Wish game companies would start making FF6 style games again.
With no limit on hardware or storage that they had back in the day. And the rapid production cycle they had then. We could get a good FF every year or so.
FF6 prelude: The War of the Magi.
Would be great!
I was actually impressed with Fallout 76. Ive never seen a single game piss so many people off and have that disastrous of a launch. Quite an accomplishment really.
Ya had us in the first half not gonna lie.
And then Fallout the Frontier happened.
Sadly Bethesda still made money on it from what I've seen.
@@linhero797 trend sucking idiots will buy anyting if it has big shiny name
@@Akabans999 Exactly. Fuck those people.
I’m not even a gamer. These videos are just too damn funny to miss.
Ah, Teef...the game that brought me to you. One of my best Facebook friends came about due to our collective hate of that "game" lol
God that game still pisses me off. If given the chance I would like to choke every person involved in the development of that shit show.
After hearing Razor's love of the original Thief, I bought Teef thinking it was a remaster of the original....God how wrong I was.
If there is a lesson to learn from 2010s then it would be "When everyone acts like the cool kid, nobody end up being the cool kid". So many franchises(old and new) and genres were axed during the 2010s simply because they were not trendy enough. The sheer amount of games that aped COD or the MMOs that straight up copied WoW is staggering, even though most of them ended up never returning a profit( remember homefront or Call of Juarez). Everyone wanted the "cool" casual audience so much that even genres that are fundamentally not for casual gamers tried to attract casual, only to alienate old player and attract no one new(Teef being the primary example of this).
Everyone wanted to be the cool kid with the biggest audience and most ended up with no audience.
What an awful fucking decade
Ive been replaying FF9 recently. I think its a very well told romance story, especially because its a almost childish youthful innocent romance story. Focused on humor and loyalty with virtually no sexual overtones.
Razör doesn't play Final Fantasy games. He just enjoys shitting on the series because "weeb."
FF9 rules, best one in the series imho
@@TrueCarthaginian There's a reason he's often referred to as Metal Spoony.
@@Zantetsudex Diffrence is Spoony would shit on them just to troll the mega stans. Don't know if Razor does it for the same reason or if he genuinely hates the series.
@@TrueCarthaginian Yeah its kinda weird how he doesn't even point out that FFXIV became pretty damn great, not just playable, sure its not perfect but it is definitely a great game.
Eidos be like:
"TEIF."
Yeah buddy there is an H in their.
You mean Tifa is in the game? Oh man, that instantly makes it better oh wait. :(
@@TheMaestroMizerous I sure wish Alex in Mankind Evolved looked like Tifa.
T44F
But it’s spelled “thief”. Why? Just why?
Terran, you are an editing god.
Not as great as E;R
Deserves more likes. Did a great job on this.
one of my favorite things about watching old vids is comparing how much Terran has improved
That into is THE SHIT!!!🤘👍
in order to fix the current state of MMOs, we must first admit the current batch of MMOs is straight trash.
PSO2 is damn great imo, and considering it took us till 2020 to get it over here, it had better be.
I think Warframe is the only "MMO" I've fully enjoyed, but I've got a soft spot for emulators since their free of P2W gimmicks, thank you Galaxies.
as someone else said PSO2 is actually good, but the rest are trash and I blame the current anti-consumer system that most MMOs follow. Keep in mind that not only must you PAY to play the game EVERY MONTH, but to keep up with the game you must also PAY for expansion passes some of which in the case of WoW are required tbh. Currently that system has caused many of the problems we see, the double dipping leads to half-assed expansions that eventually change the base game for the worse. WoW is the natural extreme of that system and it fucking shows.
I would tend to agree to a certain extent.
The trouble is we need a *total paradigm shift* in the MMO genre, and nobody is willing to risk a dud on an experiment of that magnitude so they keep copying the "proven" formula even as that formula gradually becomes less popular.
FF14 is currently the most popular established use of that formula (unless WoW hasn't managed to degrade as much as I think it has).
FF14's main alteration to the formula is the peculiar pseudo-single player campaign it hoists on you. Which is a little odd for an MMO, but manages to keep people who are into Story involved.
@@Archedgar yeah eq was amazing back in the day. I also loved games mmos from the later 2000s vanguard, Conan, and lotro. Those were the last mmos that felt fresh to me. Most after that started pushing microtansactions and lost their sense of mystery. I don't mind paying a sub if the game is good and worth my time.
I miss the days when Valve cared about Team Fortress 2...
I miss the days when Valve was Valve. And that they used to care about Half Life.
Much like Activision got sucked into the all-consuming black hole of WoW, Valve was sucked into Steam.
Hush now, Valve focuses on the next level of hardware and software. Once those finish up, then the new games come out
I miss when tf2 was a good game
@@Gruntvc I'm sad we will never get the conclusion to that series. We got blue balled by Gabe who teased it for years only to finally say NO WE'RE NOT MAKING IT STOP FUCKING ASKING. It's become a meme up there with the "duke nukem forever is going to take forever to make"
I didn't spend money on a single one of these turds. Guess I'm smarter than I look.
Wouldn't you sort of _have_ to be?
In my defense I pirated Thief and FFXIII.
@Inflammation Gains You haven't missed a thing. That franchise peaked years ago
@Inflammation Gains I bought one of them in the early 2000s. Got bored and quit after an hour. Waste of money. Waste of an hour I could have spent looking for pr9n.
I think forming your own opinions would be smarter than letting loud internet man do it for you.
I love how Razor starts out calm and then gets angrier and angrier as the video goes on. 🤣
Ramp up
Still maintain that FFTactics is one of the finest SRPG’s of the 90s. But it had no involvement from the usual FF team as it was put together by the holdovers from Quest.
I’ll always choose the Matsuno/Sakimoto/Yoshida team over Sakaguchi/Uematsu/Amano team.
Tactics is one of the best games ever made.
TrueCarthaginian FFT and Tactics Ogre are probably my two favorite games of all time. The story, soundtrack and artwork is next level. The gameplay is addicting as well
Sucks that team has been relegated to giving support to other mediocre projects. They’ve made some of the best games in the company’s history.
Here here!!
I would love a sequel with the exact same combat system. Give me job classes and at least that amount of custom ability with my units.
Can't argue with FF13 being the worst. The havoc it caused for the whole JRPG genre cannot be understated. Like...no joke, the developers of Dragon Quest IX actually said in interviews that Dragon Quest was "more of a Western RPG". The game that LITERALLY DEFINES THE JRPG is calling itself a Western RPG because FF13 was such a damn embarassment. Dragon Quest disowned JRPGs. That's...something I'm never getting over.
I never understood the whole "western rpg" vs "JRPG" to me they're all just RPG'S
@@Dragonking1984 and to those who play table top, These games are not RPG's :)
simply because there are barely any Role-Playing in them :P
@Dragonking1984 Play a real RPG like a western CRPG and you will see what is glaringly deficient in JRPGs. JRPGs should not have RPG in their name due to the lack of role playing in those games. They're linear adventure games with stats and inventories, but I guess that constitutes role playing to the high IQ Japanese.
The Dragon Quest IX developers should apologize for daring to call their game a western RPG. I don't care how bad JRPGs get, Dragon Quest IX, or any of the games in the series, is not comparable to a western RPG. Maybe they and other JRPG developers should play a proper western RPG (like a CRPG) and learn from them. Maybe then they'll quit shitting out the same formulaic trite of turn-based combat, grinding, and shallow stories and characters.
OUCH
We're going to need Blizzaga, Raise3, and Yu Yevon to create a new body for The company and a new face for the franchise!!!!
BURNINATED!!!
SNES/PS1/PS2 Final Fantasy was fairly heavy on character management and rewarding players for exploring. No, FFXIII was not the logical conclusion of Final Fantasy's direction. FFXIII was everything that a JRPG shouldn't be: a hallway simulator that doesn't give you anything resembling freedom until you're 90% of the way through the incoherent story with extremely unlikable characters and a lifeless setting.
The JRPG NECESSITATES linearity. They can make sidequests available early, yes, but you won't have the levels needed to handle them.
@@auraguard0212 There's a difference between linear progression through the game and the game being a series of hallways where you just run to the next story event. The Deus Ex games are linear. They don't have FFXIII-style level design. Neither does FFX, or IX, or VIII, etc. Those games reward you for exploring the game.
As for freedom, I was talking more about character management. In most of the games, while there's definitely a recommended path, there are plenty of opportunities for customization and breaking the normal progression, which is fairly normal in JRPGs. XIII literally plays like a tutorial until you leave the Cocoon right before the last boss.
I know I'm years late responding to this comment, but as much as I enjoy listening to Razorfist, at times, he's up his own rear with dumb takes like "FF has always been bad" and pat himself on the back by saying "F you, I've always been right" without listening to counterpoints like a little child. Anyone with a brain can tell that 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12 have better characters, stories, and overall game design than 13.
I was about to object to Final Fantasy 14 being such a disaster, until you made me remember what a complete disaster it was to begin with, as I only jumped on the ship last year.
I mean, a MMO being so utterly trash that the company literally nuked the world into oblivion and rebooted it wholesale definitely deserves a place here, regardless of my feelings on the current product.
Agreed. "Can we please burn this game?"
SE: bring in Yoshida
YoshiP: yes?
SE: can you fix what we have here?
YoshiP: NO
SE: but..
YoshiP: BURN IT THE FUCK DOWN NOW
Product was nice, seems to be starting to go downhill, sure the writing and presentation and all is getting better, but with the massive gutting and simplification of everything that's not a DPS I see it going the way of WoW in a few years time, perhaps less.
This coming from an avid player of the game and healer main (tho having second thoughts a lot with how stupidly unfun they made anything but WHM to play)
@@PROH777 Yeah, even the dps in some cases seem overly streamlined compared to previous iterations.
@Trash Person Same
I love how fucking brutally honest Razorfist is.
"The 76? Refers to the number of remaining players." That many? I thought for sure it'd be lower.
people go there for the morbid curiosity anymore.
It's amazing how much they're putting into a game people still aren't playing.
It's actually well over 50 million
@Zach cash you log in because it's an amazing game
Never preorder, never buy day 1, and never purchase microtransactions.
unless its cyberpunk 2077
Amen
@@Blackhawk211 oof
@@thechosenundead2718 its a masterpiece
It is not a masterpiece lmao
Haven't watched the whole video yet but I'm guessing our Perfect games aren't on this list.
4:12 💩
🎶Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...🎶
Where’s Fallout 5?????
@Jay Bee I hope so.
Like why no Skyrim?
I have to agree that FF14's original offering was complete trash, but as someone who picked it up a couple of years ago and played until of 2019, it was fun and worth the play. Still grindy as hell and not perfect, but leagues ahead of where it started.
I'm actually sad to see it make this list. I liked the original FFXIV especially the direction it "could" have gone simply because it wasn't another WoW clone.
Now we got the WoW clone with a few knickknacks thrown in to make it feel "unique." Played for one year after the 2.0 release and then left never to return. I'm still depressed about it till this day. =(
I'm going to agree with this statement; I played for about 9 months a few years ago around the heavensward release and it was a perfectly serviceable, if grindy, MMO with acceptable levels of monetization. I really dont think it deserves a spot on this list when stuff like Mass Effect: Andromeda exists in the same universe.
I'll agree. It's VERY hard for an MMO to keep my interest these days as I hate most Tab Targeting games, but FF14 was the exception. 90% of this was because of FATES. Those are brilliant and I love them and they are the best idea in MMORPG history.
But FF14 1.0 is indeed a legendary failure. Not every day you see a complany release an MMO then immidiately drop the monthly fee, apologize, and fire almost all the staff because it was that much of a clusterfuck.
@@Gael32 Original had lots of potential to be better mmo, however it was in development hell because of shitty game engine from FF13 (another reason why that game deserved to be a turdiest game of the decade)
That’s the POINT. That’s how it SHOULD have been on LAUNCH! “We’ll patch it later” has become the new excuse de jure of the industry to shit out rushed, unfinished products.
Honorable mentions: Battlefront 2, Battlefield 5, Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Culling 2, Battleborn, Lawbreakers, Crackdown 3, Nintendo Switch launch
Battleborn and Lawbreakers are good games, they were not given a chance. As someone that played both, they are actually quite good but people were more concerned with overhyped mediocrity then actual good games.
In its current state, I think Battlefront 2 is arguably the best thing to come out of the Disney side of Star Wars (at least the sequel era).
That's not saying much, of course, but I've had a lot of fun with it.
I'd add Gone Home, Sunset, Life is Strange, and anything by David Cage. Though if people don't count them as games, I wouldn't blame them.
Battleborn would probably have done just fine if it were released a couple of years later. It got wildly overshadowed, and that's what killed it.
@@ohnoitschris 2k not doing their job as a publisher is also a factor, I learned more about Battleborn from Gearbox and Battleborn's dedicated channel and twitter page then from 2k.
Which is why I hope Gearbox publishing snags the rights to Battleborn and relaunches them.
Imagine showing footage of KotOR II - a game developed EXCLUSIVELY by Obsidian - when listing BioWare's greatest hits.
I always find it weird when people list Bioware games and omit Baldur's Freakin' Gate
kotor 1 kicked ass too
I just want to say Chris Avellone is severely overrated. I can't stand his contrived writing. I like KOTOR a lot, but Chris writing in the 2nd one is unbearable to me.
@@AsianTheDomination It was a good game. Replaying it just this last winter made me realize it was better as a teenager.
Love the use of the Mega Man X3 stage select screen interface, and a random Overdrive Ostrich from X2.
I remember trying the demo to Thief and stopping after 15 minutes. How you manage to make a game feel worse and less smooth than a game from 1997 is beyond me. And I only discovered the Thief series in the 2010's, so it was still new to me when I played the originals.
This video needs a label: "Warning: Contains triggering comments, profanity, and the soon to be outlawed substance known as humor".
Did you not know what fucking channel you were fucking watching? ;)
I loathe the fact that people still compare The FF14 of 2.0 and beyond, with the FF14 of 1.0 when the two games are just that. Two completely separate games. FF14 2.0 (or just ARR) was a complete re-build of the game, using a completely different engine with different progression systems, mechanics, story, and even a completely reworked map. Saying that 1.0 was "patched" into being good would be like saying the Original Doom was patched into Doom (2016).
@Timothy Dexter Your arguments won me over.
@Timothy Dexter honestly? XIV tends to avoid most of the exaggerated bullshit FF is known for. that's really what I love about it, lord knows I hadn't enjoyed anything from the franchise since IX. You get a bit of the theatrics but it's toned down by a lot comparatively and for the most part it's this mismatched low-tech environment on our side and the imperial side is near future high-tech.
if I had to knock it for something, it'd be presentation. The way the engine is for things can't really show off high-end action scenes very well, everything's kinda slow or conveyed through dialogue so it sometimes doesn't have the punch that a singleplayer experience would. And I guess that the tone can lean towards optimism a bit heavy at times.
@Timothy Dexter Have you played FF14 at any point within the last 3 years? It plays nothing like 1.0 did and with the exception of slog between ARR and HW the game is actually incredibly interesting and smooth to play.
Lmao just like a gaslit housewife telling herself her shit husband will change one day. Gamer bitches.
The original release of FF14 was absolute garbage. Saying that the massive overhaul is trash is disingenuous especially the latest expansion is one of the best FF titles of all time. FF14 is the best mmo on the market right now. Not that is a very high bar to clear.
@Timothy Dexter but it's the top of the shit pile
@Timothy Dexter Good in who's opinion, random nobodies on youtube. Have you not realized that all opinions are piles of shit including yours razors and mine.
@Timothy Dexter LMAO 👌💯💯👍👍😉😉😉🍔
TERA Online says hi.
Ppl that don't play MMOs shitting on MMOs. Ofc they are ignorant about it. FFXIV was great after Reborn, and still is a great success today
Last time I was this early people were still defending Sqeenix games.
I'll defend current day FF14, but SE itself is going down the shitter.
Weak.
Listening to a Blood Stain Child album is a better game than most of the shit Squenix churns out riding on their name alone lately
Dragon Quest XI
...
Which only diehard Dragon Quest fans would be interested in and is basically in a different world from Squeenix (Plz Nintendo just get it away from Squeenix for the love of God)
Ummm
Collection of Mana
...
Which are a bunch of 20 year old games
Well it's come full circle now
A bit of my childhood died when I first played FF13.
I began to realize, on that day, that there was evil in this world.
That was 13 y/o me playing skyrim
@@LoudSmellingBoof
Skyrim is a masterpiece
2nd best Rpg this decade after the Witcher 3
@@Blackhawk211 X'DDDDDDDDDDDD
@@Blackhawk211 Most grossly overrated game of all time is Skyrim.
@@Blackhawk211 You're not actually serious are you?
Bethesda released FallOut76 for the sole purpose of keeping FallOut4 off this list.
Timothy Dexter fallout 4 fanboy detected
Eks calybur Fallout 4 has aged well(thanks to mods not Bethesda)
@Matthew Chenault Fallout 4 was a great apocalyptic shooter.
It was a shit fallout game.
Fallout 4 was just a bland rehash of Fallout 3 (Far Harbor DLC was almost a remake of Point Lookout).
I mean they didn't really patch xiv to be good they shut the entire game down and made a sequel out of the cadaver of the old one to it called "a realm reborn", then they made a 10/10 expansion called Heavensward.
Been playing FF XIV since ARR! I just can’t agree with a single thing he said! The games awesome! I can’t wait to get to the conclusion of Shadowbringers!
@@dumpsterfyre278 Likewise. It makes me think we have irreconcilable taste in video games. 1.0 was clearly shit-tier because they were still thinking like they were making FF XI but the tech had changed.
XIV 2.0 was vastly superior. If you still find it shit-tier you probably just don't like the entire genre of MMO. And if you don't like the genre itself, reviewing literally anything in the genre will be disingenuous.
Seriously, reviewing an MMO when you're an MMO hater is like someone who hates sci-fi reviewing DS9.
@Denizen of The Depths Wow your comment was so dumb it made my headspin. I think I need to sit down.
@@starshade7826 He said it was passable at best, and a lot of sci-fi enjoyers dislike DS9.
Dear Razorfist, please cover Marvel’s New Warriors Reveal trailer... I know you will
G.F.S.
I showed my friend who doesn't read comics the trailer last night. his mind broke for few seconds and recovered soon after and then he had me watch the rest of the rest of the trailer with him and tear it apart. Good times.
I hope it kills Marvel. At this point, the big comic companies need to be put down like Old Yeller.
@@Gonboo They're gonna an hero themselves
The amount of time drilled into making this video... thank you sir thank you..
"More patches than an AIDS quilt."
I'm Dead!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can we all take time to appreciate that Razorfist depicted Lemmy Kilmister as God?
Calling it already:
Teef will be number 1.
*Edit: Number 3. Close enough.
GreyWolfLeaderTW wrong
*laughs in Trump*
Okay, Frankly...
*W r o n g*
Ironically, the series fell so far that it couldn't make Razor care that much about it.
Thief 4 hurt like fire to me. Like Razor I adored the originals and believe them to be some of the best games I've ever played in my 40+ years of life. What Eidos Montreal did to that series was a war crime.
You are master teef.
Great Loudness track on the lead-in...loved those Mike Vescera-albums! Nice pick.
Remembering what playing 13 was like gives me these weird aneurysms.
It still fills me with an unbridled rage to this date.
Ithe only ff game ive played is final fantasy xiii
My favorite part of FFXIV was naming my character Goddam Nappa.
Every time I would get a character reading my name I would read it out to my friends.
Like, “Goddam! You killed that monster!”
Name exploits are my second style of natural humor
First being speaking non-native languages, accent optioal
Glad to see him end it off with FF XIII. I asked myself the same question and FF XIII was right there at #1.
7/10: Not enough Kojima curbing
Great job as always razor
A game related video?? HELL YESS. This is what got me into Raz0rfist
I'm getting some weird early 2010s nostalgia vibes with the editing style and format of this video.
ikillyou4food Allowed to Swear?
The last video I kept getting errors and deleted posts.
I thought Razor doing it was a bit far fetched.
Yeah this video was clearly done in the old school style.
I like that style.
fuck everything after 2012
Omg this reminds me of the old style of razor videos! Also from the early 2010’s...
EQ just turned 21 and I'm still playing it. Got my money's worth 😁
I hope Fallout 76 did poorly enough to make Bethesda consider selling the franchise to someone, hopefully, more capable.
you know that didn't happen. shame though it is...
For all of its problems, it made a profit. In the end we only have ourselves to blame. Stop preordering games until realistic reviews come out. Yes, you might miss out on a special character skin that does nothing but announce you paid $120 for a $60 game that realistically should be $20.
I defended 76 in the beginning. "It's just a Betta" "Of course it's buggy, it's Bethesda" "It's only one patch away from being good" "Wait for the DLC" I was guilty of all of them. And I didn't even pay for the game. I used a friend's second character he created as a mule because storage was such a pain in the ass.
Until a couple big companies lose a fortune after trying to push out an crap game, they won't learn.
Remember. Do...Not...Pre... Order!
The chances of that are non-existent I would say
@Timothy Dexter Who are you talking to? The game was still made under the umbrella of Bethesda Game Studios, and it's still probably in everyone's best interests for Bethesda to sell the IP. You're spitting venom at no-one for no reason.
The better thing would be for Zenimax to back off from BGS and let them get back to making games without having profit as their only goal. Bethesda was really great pre-Skyrim.
One of my fav channels on youtube for years now. Still check out your witcher 2 review every now and than
4:40-4:49 Honestly, I wanted Fallout Co-Op. Because when I was playing Fallout 4, the thing I was thinking was "Man, companions can suck sometimes. Wish I had a friend who could help me take down baddies simultaneously better than they can".
ive played enough CoOp games and shit, Singleplayer Fallout is dead at the moment. Bethesda refuses to learn and they have enough morons still playing 76 that nothing will change.
"Well, fucker" turned into "Well Fucker" (complete with visual) is every bit as enjoyable as I would have thought, if I actually initially thought of that. Perfection achieved out of the most innocent word play. Keeping it classy! :)
The editing on this is fantastic.
I’d be willing to watch a video describing the merits of different paint brands if Raz0r was in it with his glorious snark and unmatched creative insults.
My top 20 turds of the 2010's:
Anthem
Final Fantasy XIII
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Twisted Metal (2012)/Twisted Nu-Metal
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite
Fallout 76
YiiK
TINO (Thief in Name Only)
Life is Strange
Overwatch
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Metal Gear Survive
Revolution 60
Depression Quest
Star Wars: Battlefront (2015)
Dragon Age: Inquistion
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Wolfenstein: Young Blood
Mass Effect Andromeda
Wait what!?
My top turds of the 2010’s is:
Final Fantasy XII
Street Fighter V
Valkyrie Revolution
Sonic the hedgehog 4
Ratchet & Clank reboot
Resident Evil 6
The 2010’s had great games like Zelda Breath of wild, Smash Ultimate ,and Sonic Maina but most of the games I played sucked. The 2000’s was a far better decade of gaming.
Like still no TES V?
I miss these video game vids. Never change, Razor!
You could lie and tell people Bioware went defunct years ago, and many would probably believe it. The studio doesn't feel like it exists.
It all comes back to Final Fantasy XIII. You can trace almost every failure in the video game industry to the design philosophy Square- Enix set in stone for everything dragging down modern games.
Overlong cutscenes.
Lack of Player choice in favor of flashy graphics.
Barebones combat that requires little to no input.
It's all here.
Right now, we're stuck in an overcorrection where everything has to be open world, cooperative, and strewn with meaningless cosmetic choices. These things have to be balanced if the industry hopes to recapture the glory of the 2000s.
I disagree. Most popular games are battle royals and mobas. So how does any of this stuff equal up to the gaming industry verses what most people are playing.
X.
The philosophy comes from FFX.
Not XIII.
XIII is what happens when you take everyone wrong with X to the extreme.
That's where both you and Razor are just wrong, if not misguided on.
@@raven80wolfx2The worst parts of Final Fantasy XIII like its push to be cinematic and style over substance gameplay is what's crippling developers like Bioware, Bethesda, and nearly every Sony exclusive. People are already getting sick of Fortnite, which means battle royale has at least one more year before the next trend.
@@elusiveeye1424 I would agree to disagree again. Sony games have been quality games cut scenes to gameplay. Some might be buggy like days gone, but still fun. No microtransactions and I can't say the same about Microsoft games. Final fantasy 13 is trash, but my point is more people are playing games focused on gameplay over cut scenes not just fortnite even rocket league has more players.
@Manannan anam If combat was all that needed, XIII wouldn't be a bad game, or even a bad FF. Even without full player input, its still solid. Fast-paced, requires a little thought, and has some level of customization.
But no, almost all the complaints Razor lampoons XIII for can be attributed to X's design decisions. The hallways, the plots, the character and world building, the shilling, ALL of that can be said that in regards to X. IT'S the game that doomed Squeenix, not XIII. It makes his decision to put it at #1 all the more infuriating and confusing.
BTW: pretending that every JRPG has little player choice is incredibly shortsighted. Dragon Quest had things like class changing, weapon forging, full party customization, the likes since VI. SaGa is a series that prefers not to even have a main plot just to let the player explore the world at their leisure. The other remake coming out in April, Trials of Mana, is a game so big, so open, so player driven, the final boss is decided at who you choose at the first menu of the game, the original game couldn't even be translated until last year!
And look! All Squeenix products! And you can look beyond them to see what other JRPG devs are doing. And hell, older Final Fantasy did not all had the same problems. FFI is a goddamn D&D clone, spell slots included!
(P.S., the OG release date of XIII was 2009)
It's truly sad when the moment Thief was brought up, I didn't even remember that there was a "4th" Thief game.
I'd count that as a blessing, really
Thief 2014, a game so terrible, that I honestly forgot it even was a thing
Man i love your Cobraesque intro/outro with the red filter and black silhouettes!
its funny because even to this day when ppl ask me about FF14 vs WoW, i'm like they both suck, its just that FF14 currently "sucks less"
WoW mostly thrived because there was nothing better.
So far I've been unable to find an MMO that kept my interest very long. Doesn't help when most wanted a monthly subscription.
Clockworklemon subscriptions are a good thing for mmos, they help gatekeep the kiddies and bots off the game.
Mass Effect Andromeda gets my vote.
If I had to pick that or FFXIII to play forever, I wouldn't be choosing Andromeda that's for damn sure
@@iamthelaw82 You're right about it getting too much heat for the animations, but that was far from my only problem with the game. I hated the story, and writing too. Some of the character were good, but it was overshadowed by the overall plot. Combat was ok, but not why i fell in love with the series to begin with.
I feel like the assumption that Final Fantasy games have to be trash is misguided. 10 and 12 both have interesting innovations (even X-2 has some neat features) and I maintain that there is some parallel universe out there where they didn't combine the worst aspects of these things to create the abomination that is 13. For instance: The sphere grid/license board provides a way to customize your characters and tune their growth; let's turn it into a meaningless graphic that you have to check back on every hour. Creating battle programs in 12 is an interesting exercise in strategy and planning, and reduces the amount of menuing you have to do to create more visually interesting fights; let's devolve it into a glorified quicktime event requiring minimal thinking. Changing classes on the fly to adapt to enemies requires selecting and setting up dress grids and optimizing for bonuses, classes have interesting and varied powers; now you just make three teams (weaken you, hurt you, heal me) from the classes hurt stuff, hurt stuff with magic, defend, and heal.
All this to say, don't hate the game because it's shit. Don't hate the game because you feel this is the natural terminus of JRPGs. Hate this fucking trash fire because 13 had two DECADES of potential to build on, but still failed on every front.
Final Fantasy was a Hail Mary Gamble basically
WHY DO THY KEEP GAMBLING TOO HARD NOW????
The first and only Final Fantasy game I ever tried was 13. A coworker sold me on the hype a day before it came out. I remember the exact moment when I realized I made a mistake buying that game. It was around the very beginning, when the guy in a trenchcoat said "Well, I am the hero after all."
After the weekend, my coworker told me I had to play the game for at least 20 hours to get a real feel for it, so I never played it again. That game absolutely deserves the top spot for worst game of the decade.
Final Fantasy is one of those things that there simply wasn't much of. The JRPG as a whole was just never really translated and imported until more recently. The dreamcast had a few interesting examples and so did early 360 titles - but as a whole the JRPG was much more limited in the western market.
But therein lay the distinction between JRPGs and western RPGs - JRPGs evolved from the graphic novel as a way of playing part of the action/story. Sunrider, Fate stay night... The JRPG is not role play the same way that Pathfinder is.
Within that format, there is a limited room to allow for player choice and that results in the story being told the way it is written.
I consider 6 to be the magnum opus of Final Fantasy - had they continued developing the games in that direction, they may have broken through.
8 was an attempt at incorporating new gameplay elements, but it ultimately just collapsed back into itself to try and provide familiarity.
7... Was one of the big marketing pushes on Playstation. It had a very emotional story, but I argue overall a worse game than 4.
9 was basically a back to basics, writing something more similar to 4. It wasn't the most innovative or breaking ground in terms of story - but it was better than 7, 8, and 10. 10 was just one of those that was made popular because of marketing and beach scenes as far as I can tell. It was all more or less downhill from there. Although even as far back as 8, I can recall marketing for final fantasy titles relying on the graphics and pre-rendered cutscenes. So it was destined downhill from that point on.
Amusingly, the hentai games seem to have developed more by way of branching plot line and gameplay. Allow a weeb to choose his waifu and he'll want the story to change to reflect it. Give his waifu a random trait and he'll want a mechanic to feature it.
I wonder if that's what the taoists meant by all things in existence coming through the divine feminine ... Yin and yang thing going on there.
wow, great production on this video, mega man select is awesome!
Well, Bannerlord is out soon lads, so I pray that it won't have to be on a similar list like this in the future.
I have to confess that I know next to d**k about video games (other than the few I enjoy playing), but I keep coming back to watch your treatises (rants) about them because -- quite frankly -- your commentary and editing is sublimely entertaining!
Thought Death Stranding would be in the list, but i guess calling that a turd would be a compliment.
This list is for video games not interactive movies.
These are my picks
Fallout 76
The Outer Worlds
The last of us part 2
Mass Effect Andromeda
Halo 5
There were a lot of others I could have chosen but I have hope they'll fix them
How did you condense this to just 5?
This needed to be said for a LONG time. Thank you.
FFXIII was released December 17, 2009. It didn't come out in the 2010's, thus making it ineligible for this list.
It also wasn't complete shite. It had a few flaws, it also had some charm.
close enough
No year 0
The 'Well Fucker' Gif was the peak of this video. Nothing else said truly matters except for that finely crafted visual pun.
"Billed as the Destiny killer, it instead killed any chance BioWare had a fucking destiny"
Fucking genius!!!!!!!
How am I just now finding this channel? Absolutely Epic.
This was clearly a list of the five terrible games that haven't been purged from your memory. I would now like to remind you that Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Ride to Hell: Retribution, and Duke Nukem Forever were all released this past decade.
Havent seen a video like this for a while. Awesome work.
That last one...a game so old, Spoony Experiment reviewed it...
a video from razor released on my birthday, now thats what I call pod-racing.
What really is mind boggling how these companies double down. No matter whether Sqeenix, Bethesda or Bioware. The should have just stopped and moved on. Focus their ressources on new products. No they double down and sink more millions to fix unfixable problems.
Even worse is that they don't learn their fucking lesson that they can't get away with greed and making a shit product but they still try anyways.
When did Square Enix double down? FFXIV is a shining example of a company releasing a terrible product and then fixing it and making amends to their customers. I am not really sure what more they could have done to make the situation any better. Square should be commend for what they did, so we can show developers that if the treat us right and listen to our feedback we will reward them, not forever castigate them and make any amount of work never worth their while.
This Guy You Don't Know this. A similar situation occurred with ESO being utter shit on launch and ZOS went back and fixed it the hell up to release it again near the console launch and since then the game has gotten pretty damn good. Great story content, great pvp mode, can’t speak for the PvE crowd much though.
@@thisguyyoudontknow4653 Final Fantasy 13 sequels. And 14 is still shit and overpriced because fixing that mess bled them of money. 15 is at best average and they made a fishing vr for it. A fishing vr was a violent demand of the fanbase of course. Ff Type 0 is a shit game. Piss poor quality.
The Rageaholic's Top 5 Gaming Turds of the DECADE
The Last of Us 2 - "Hold my beer."
I can proudly proclaim that I have not once in my lifespan played a Final Fantasy game
keep it that way.
@@veeedeee68 I plan on it. I got KOTOR like a year ago free from XBox games with gold. I was so bored with other games and not wanting to drop more money on a new game to finally twist my arm into playing it because I can't normally stand turn based combat
Same here. And I doubt the remake of FF7 is gonna make me reconsider.
This is your Best Rant in a Year Razör. Made me forget about Corona for 17 minutes.
"More weebs for the weeb throne!"😂
WEEB'S FOR THE WEEB THRONE
WAIFU'S FOR THE WAIFU GOD
Gotta hand it to razor, I’m an active XIV player (started at re-release). What he said about it (especially the original game) is spot on. 2.0 - 2.5 patches were generic as balls, but with 3.0 (Heavensward expansion) on I actually enjoyed the story. The gameplay does tend to follow WoW’s simple as shit mechanics that irritate me, but the story and the great community keep me coming back for more. I acknowledge the games got problems (they are legion in scope) and enjoy it anyway. Call it a guilty pleasure. Love the honesty and no BS reviews Herr Fist!
>posted 30 seconds ago
goddamn this's fresh
Great job gentlemen. I love these vids, I have to pause and rewatch to catch all the jokes, and that's part of the fun.
Fallout 76, Mass Effect Andromeda, and teef need to get an honorable mention on this list at the very least
Andromeda isn't that bad. Its just wildly not up to par for the Mass Effect franchise. There's a good game in there though if you can get past the abysmally presented opening hours. I don't blame people for not liking it. 76 is... a different kind of beast. Its very good at what it is, but most people didn't want that. Doesn't necessarily make it bad, and most of its horribadness came from Bethesda in real life, not in the game. But again, don't blame people who were upset by it, its incredibly, shockingly niche.
Two for three. But you probably cheated. Stupid future seeing angel...
Honestly, it's sad, while Andromeda was not up to par with the first games, and lacked in many spots, it far surpassed 70% of the games we've gotten in the last decade, like fuck, I'm surprised it was a full playable game.
@@planaraspect9461 played andromeda to completion. There is not a good game buried there, hell I reached a point where it was barely a game at all since my ship hub map kept disappearing causing me to fall into forever void. And the story ends with the most wet fart ending of the entire fucking series. They get a Dyson sphere and all of andromeda's problems basically vanish and there's no problems.
@Matthew Chenault Add on the fact that no one involved knew how to make an actual mmo which they openly admitted at one point. Its honestly surprising how many people didn't expect it to be garbage
Theres one thing I'd dare say anthem did accomplish. It probably spawned the largest "I told you so" moment of all time.
Oh boy, there will be far more to come.
I can't believe that ME Andromeda didn't make this list!
Aika Kronosa It’s worse than a turd
@@OjaroLobo yup, kinda hurts to even remember it exists rn
That and Fallout 76 were the ones I was certain would make the list. At least 76 did
You massively underestimated how many bad triple A games came out in the last 10 years, I mean the man could only list his five most loathed, and the pure shit half of the industry has pulled makes Andromeda look like the golden turd, the pile of shit that's the least wet.
@@ShmuckLord385
FFXIII >>>>> Andromeda
Get real, dude.
No death stranding? Hmmm, looks like razorfist has been kidnapped and replaced with a fake
I don't get why Final Fantasy 14 is on this list lol. Razor said the team responsible for re-launching the game was mostly focused on making it look better but they actually downgraded the graphics. One of the reasons 1.0 failed was because they developed it with more focus on graphics than gameplay. The most infamous example of this was the fact that a small flowerpot had just as many polygons as a PC model. If you played 1.0 and A Realm Reborn (the re-release) you'd know they didn't play anything alike, the combat system was completely overhauled. The only real problem with it now is the game's macros being infamously slow. As far as story goes, most fans of the game regard Shadowbringers (the latest expansion) to have the best story yet.
BRING BACK THE TOP TEN TURDS OF THE YEAR WE NEED IT MORE THAN EVER!
Honestly, how were you able to get this down to just top 5? Theres been so many abominations and outright failures the lowest i could pull it down to would be top 20.
Also imho, i'd have to argue that "The Order 1886" is the worst game of the decade simply cause of how shitty the gameplay is, how short it is, and well as in most instances how boring it is. When you fail to get a good story in a setting involving SteamPunk Authurian Knights vs f'in Werewolves that is when you hang up your artistic coat and go to work at SubWay.
Good lord I completely forgot about that shit. A game that made everyone interested from seeing its first trailer only to bore us all to tears every time we came to know more about it.
Absolutely disgusting waste of resources. Much like Killzone’s terribad story kept that series from ever truly shining (the less than stellar gunplay and mediocre multiplayer notwithstanding)
theres so many shit games my only complaint here is i think he overloaded on one franchise when you could literally stare per franchise and find somekind of massive fuck up.i mean, this is the decade EA fucked up so hard with star wars governments started legislating against lootboxes...
Nice countdown format, you fucking legend.
"Even niche genres like racing or sports would make it on this list..."
**Shows Gran Turismo Sport**
I mean, you've got a point
Epic Typhlosion a point? No, hes got a loaded gun waiting for that franchise. And ill join him. GT sport was a pile of shit from release day. Hardly anyone bought it, and those that did sold it a week later. It took everything we loved about the franchise, and threw it out the window for DRM. Then, after all the back lash, they come back withe single player content, and new cars that patched in every few weeks. FUCK. THAT. They have been screwing fans since GT5. That game lasted just 4 years before they forced everyone to 'upgrade' to a 'new' game, and shut down the servers. It was but a farce. The 'new game' was identical to the old one, with some new cars, a few new tracks, a new tire model, and GT vision. GT5 could have patched these features in with ease. But that wasnt enough for yamauchi. Gotta get that sweet revenue, only to shut the GT6 servers off JUST 3 YEARS into the games life cycle, shutting the ps3 down for good. This series can eat a dick. I called it quits after gt6, and im never going back. Hundreds of other racing games out there that are superior to gt sport.
@@LrulestheworldM8 Absolutely agreed. Haven't played GT since GT4, and thought Sport would have been an excellent opportunity to get back into the series. BOY OH BOY, was I disgusted with I was met with. I don't care how much free shit GT Sport squirts out now, it is still at its core a messy trend chaser, and not at all what I remember from the series. I might actually pick up Forza Horizon instead, looks to be much better.
Gran Turismo 5 was fucking legend though. after that a waste.
@@LrulestheworldM8 I didn't mind all those issues since it was half finished. But my biggest turd point to this game is simply if you want to save your game you have to be always online. Are you fudging kidding me. And recent updates lacks new contents. From 10-11 every month to 3 cars in 2 month span? Heck no. But I still play it no matter what.
It beggars belief as to why GTS has an entire racing tournament surrounding it when there are better and more complete games than that.
i was eating some soup while watching this video when you sead that they were going from 1 winged angel to 1 armed bandit... i allmost choked trying not to laugh, so ya... thanks for that :))