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КОМЕНТАРІ • 822

  • @bniy
    @bniy Рік тому +419

    The amount of money I don't spend on video games anymore is steadily increasing by the year

    • @JamesSmith-sw3nk
      @JamesSmith-sw3nk Рік тому +23

      I don't buy a pc game until it's at least 6 months old because it will have hopefully been patched by then. "Buggy" games released on day 1 are now the norm.
      Game companies are costing themselves money because games are usually sold for cheaper 6m+ later after release.

    • @michaelwesten4624
      @michaelwesten4624 Рік тому +1

      oh, you don't get money from your parents anymore? get a job kid

    • @Koozwad
      @Koozwad Рік тому +7

      @@JamesSmith-sw3nk That's a great mentality. I do the same.

    • @darthraider450
      @darthraider450 Рік тому +1

      I was building a gaming fund this year, and by mid June I realised that there was so much crud released this year that I barely touched the gaming fund (I only “bought” three games this year aka amassed enough free Amazon gift cards so I mostly got them for free) so I used it elsewhere.

    • @bevik12
      @bevik12 Рік тому +2

      I just bought 2 games now because they are on an amazing sale and great deals and they are out for a while and patched properly. Also they are Complete Editions which means I don't need to wait for anything. Star Wars The Skywalker Saga. Love Star Wars and love LEGOs so plenty of fun awaits. Also grabbed AC Valhalla Complete Edition. I just love ACs and Ubi's open-world. Nothing more to say. Cost me probably 60 euros altogether. I shifted completely to a late buyer especially because I don't have much time to play so totally worth the wait patch and money wise.

  • @mrhenrik7472
    @mrhenrik7472 Рік тому +159

    Whats truly scary is that people seem to get used to this. "oh its ok. They will fix the game with patches in a year or two." Like that makes it ok to sell an unfinished game at full price...

    • @djam7484
      @djam7484 Рік тому +11

      welcome to early acsess...the worst thing in gaming.where devs milk you for a product that half the time dose not even get finished.

    • @hahahahahaha2366
      @hahahahahaha2366 Рік тому

      @@SharpElbows123 for me personally, that 'refresher' has been VR - it's a different enough experience to enjoy as something separate from typical gaming (and helps with exercise too)

    • @LordOfNihil
      @LordOfNihil Рік тому +4

      @@SharpElbows123 frog in a pot effect. much of the shenanigans have been pushed forward so slowly that most people dont notice. more fees and fewer features, and they dont even write their own engines anymore. they dont playtest. there is so much corner cutting, asset reuse, stock assets, and developers seem to be bad at math now.

    • @Matt7R
      @Matt7R Рік тому

      I actually think that's fine, patience prevails. If you wait a year or two, the game will be "fixed" and likely a lot cheaper. Gives people incentive to save money and buy the game at a heavily discounted price down the line, which is funny because you're getting a much better product than the more expensive first release lol

    • @cages45
      @cages45 Рік тому

      Early ass cash access where you get bent over by a pubelisher such as lubeisoft, dry humped (lube cost extra) and a sharp sudden decrease in finances... no forplay either. Dry. Then you say thanks very much, and come out the other end with a repetitive boring drivel of a shit piece of entertainment full of fetch quests and really cool microtransactions (nothing with the word micro in it is ever good) wishing you could take back the whole horrible experience and forget it ever happened. And we get on average 3 of these aaa experience games per year, that's if we're lucky. Best part is the privilege of being able to pre order a digital game that can't physically sell out just to show your everlasting obedience for literally no good reason whatsoever. 😀

  • @carbonstar9091
    @carbonstar9091 Рік тому +438

    I feel blessed not having played any of these games.

    • @yoshimitzu3967
      @yoshimitzu3967 Рік тому +6

      I feel cursed having played 1 of these games. (Nfs uninstall)

    • @B10HAZARD.
      @B10HAZARD. Рік тому

      same here.

    • @FireAnt
      @FireAnt Рік тому

      Same, same.

    • @andegallagher6645
      @andegallagher6645 Рік тому

      I enjoyed sniper elite I played it on series x the a i definitely wasn't as bad when I was playing it and some of the level design was very good, voice acting animation was jank and online was enjoyable enough.

    • @phwepsi9526
      @phwepsi9526 Рік тому

      Sniper elite and evil west are good games dont miss out on them listening to this bum

  • @shivan2418
    @shivan2418 Рік тому +150

    That comparison you did with games 20 years ago was a real eye opener. I knew it was better, but holy shit.
    So many the games from 20 years ago are still being played and modded.
    Most of the games here will be totally forgotten within a year.

    • @michaelbuehler3897
      @michaelbuehler3897 Рік тому +23

      "So many the games from 20 years ago are still being played a modded.
      Most of the games here will be totally forgotten within a year."
      ****ing agreed!

    • @KnightofAges
      @KnightofAges Рік тому

      20 years ago, games were made by gamers for gamers. Today, they are made by devs who don't care to please greedy corporate suits who think twitter and reddit are their audience.

    • @Charok1
      @Charok1 Рік тому +2

      BUT 2023 could have 8 games with full release that may be really good, and some great, so I hope it is the best year in a decade!

    • @commissarkordoshky219
      @commissarkordoshky219 Рік тому +8

      Neverwinter Nights 1. A game maker toolkit that came with a admitedly meidocre campaign is still being player 20 years later.

    • @KapnRich
      @KapnRich Рік тому +11

      Most of these will be forgotten within a few months, let alone a year.

  • @zackmikula3150
    @zackmikula3150 Рік тому +388

    It has been truly a special year for bad games.

    • @cetus835
      @cetus835 Рік тому +17

      Every successive year asks the previous year to hold it's beer

    • @MichaelJ44
      @MichaelJ44 Рік тому +2

      @@cetus835
      I disagree. 2020 wasn’t an awful year for games compared to 2019. Microsoft flight simulator. Ghosts of Tsushima. Crusader Kings 3 is a cracker of a game. Cyberpunk hmm … I mean… Fall Guys was a funny game also. At least in 2020 we were getting 3 or 4 really really good games.. this year, Elden Ring and that’s it.
      2018 was a lot better than 2017 also. (For AAA titles), now EA have nothing to do with FIFA anymore and hopefully the Saints Row title can lay down in peace. It’s a matter of time the Battlefield franchise is retired.

    • @Johny40Se7en
      @Johny40Se7en Рік тому +1

      Yeah but just think, there is a sliver lining. if absolute dog sh*t like Saints Row wouldn't have come out, and Mack wouldn't have reviewed it like he does. 11:47 That character, it's kinda like if the BFG - no not the Doom gun 😝- got infested with woke bollocks and then went viral on tik tok 🤭😅😆🤣

    • @jakegraham7265
      @jakegraham7265 Рік тому +1

      Emphasis on the word "special"

    • @genetenz
      @genetenz Рік тому +1

      Special ed

  • @GamingGrenade1
    @GamingGrenade1 Рік тому +327

    As an aspiring game developer these games are a masterclass in what not to do

    • @londonspade5896
      @londonspade5896 Рік тому +24

      Why anyone would include X-ray vision knowing this channel will roast them remains a mystery to me

    • @Rocksaplenty
      @Rocksaplenty Рік тому +10

      @@londonspade5896 publishers.

    • @yewtewbstew547
      @yewtewbstew547 Рік тому +23

      ​@@Rocksaplenty It's also just a huge development crutch. Before X-ray vision was a thing in every game, (good) developers would take the time to fully develop and test direction-accurate stereo sound. So if you stood facing a closed door and heard loud footsteps coming from your 2 O'clock and getting louder, you could correctly predict that there is a guard in the next room walking towards the door from your right.
      Most modern developers don't take the time to do that. In modern games that same guard could either be walking towards the door, or he could be three floors below you and walking in the other direction. You don't know where he is, because the audio design is complete shit. But you need to know, otherwise the game is unplayable. Easy solution? X-ray vision.

    • @Ermac_______________________69
      @Ermac_______________________69 Рік тому

      @@londonspade5896 you really think major gaming companies care about that lol

    • @ipat-bogor
      @ipat-bogor Рік тому +13

      Wait till you get into the AAA game industry, you'll leave your idealism behind because you wouldn't be able to fight corporate decisions that are based on market data analysis, and if you're a programmer like me, you wouldn't be able to fight game designers who are making bad design decisions based on the same market data or political considerations, you wouldn't be able to change how the stake holders, who don't even like games to begin with, only review the game mostly from its visual fidelity and pushes a bunch things that don't really matter to a higher priority than it should be, you would be forced to release crappy unfinished game because you can't miss releasing it at that particular date for various reasons that you can't really argue (mostly about money). A big percentage of AAA developers that I know are idealist at heart, they know how to make the game they're working on better for gamers, but they just couldn't.

  • @highnoon2535
    @highnoon2535 Рік тому +100

    Its not just the games industry that's disapointting, somethings gone wrong with this world.

    • @rvh1999
      @rvh1999 Рік тому +21

      Agreed 100%

    • @whocares8269
      @whocares8269 Рік тому +5

      But the world was always wrong kinda
      Depends on our focus now

    • @12Daniel34
      @12Daniel34 Рік тому

      @@SharpElbows123 *C A P I T O L I S M*

    • @droe2570
      @droe2570 Рік тому +6

      @@SharpElbows123 OK Marx.

    • @antiquecardboard
      @antiquecardboard Рік тому +10

      @@SharpElbows123 More like the loss of God -- the source of true art, goodness and beauty. As soon as man starts to rely on himself things go to shit. It's happened many times in the history of the world. And its happening again. Its is an awesome and terrible sight to behold. I wish I didn't have to live through it. But there is hope. Hang on to what is True, and He will keep your head above the waves.

  • @stevedaveybaby
    @stevedaveybaby Рік тому +40

    A well deserved win for Saints Row. Volition are done.

    • @piotr78
      @piotr78 Рік тому +2

      Spoilers :o

    • @yewtewbstew547
      @yewtewbstew547 Рік тому +11

      Someone needs to drive a stake through that and set it on fire. The last half decent game Volition made was probably Red Faction Guerrilla, and they've gone through at least two acquisitions since then. Usually whenever I look at a developers Wikipedia page and the article starts off with "was" I feel a pang of sadness, but when Volition's reads in past tense it will be a relief.

    • @disliked1390
      @disliked1390 Рік тому +3

      they went woke.. they went broke

  • @mikerochburns4104
    @mikerochburns4104 Рік тому +75

    The money I saved this year just watching this one channel, thanks Mack.

    • @mylesdyble8686
      @mylesdyble8686 Рік тому +4

      That's why I sub to his Patreon. Mack gets a cut of all the money he saves me lol

  • @JamesSmith-sw3nk
    @JamesSmith-sw3nk Рік тому +17

    A lot of people thought Cyberpunk 2077 was the worst game of the year when it was released because it was so broken, now it's mostly been fixed. AAA games being released half done didn't use to be a thing.

    • @ThatZenoGuy
      @ThatZenoGuy Рік тому +3

      How has cyberpunk been fixed lmao? Nothing was fixed.

    • @roqsteady5290
      @roqsteady5290 Рік тому

      It has always been a thing.

    • @Eldenbruh
      @Eldenbruh Рік тому

      Its still a piece of shit

    • @JamesSmith-sw3nk
      @JamesSmith-sw3nk Рік тому +1

      @@roqsteady5290 Not really. The most successful console of all time, the PS2, released games when they were finished because patches were not feasible. It's a choice by game companies.

    • @roqsteady5290
      @roqsteady5290 Рік тому

      @@JamesSmith-sw3nk Not saying that all games were released unfinished, just that it has always been significant. It is perhaps more forgiveable if a game is shooting for the moon.

  • @BenO_26
    @BenO_26 Рік тому +23

    The only positive about all these bad games is that it allows Mack to create pure comedy gold such as this. Laughing from start to finish watching this video, thanks for this Mack and all the work you've done over the years talking the truth!

  • @Pedone_Rosso
    @Pedone_Rosso Рік тому +50

    The shit-meter bar has been set really high this year,
    but I'm pretty sure the AAA industry will be able to surprise us with even worse garbage in 2023.
    Thanks for your videos!

  • @garygohmusic
    @garygohmusic Рік тому +10

    I tried many "Overwhelmingly Positive" games on Steam this year and was overwhelmed by how unpositive they were. People really have no standards these days.

    • @titolovely8237
      @titolovely8237 Рік тому +1

      dude u said it. i cant even count how many games ive played int he last 3 years that ppl said were really good and i got about 4 hours in and couldnt stomach another second.

    • @emulation2369
      @emulation2369 Рік тому +3

      I prefer games with "Mixed" ratings, bc you can find real gems there.

    • @garygohmusic
      @garygohmusic Рік тому +1

      @@titolovely8237 Maybe we should start a small Discord community to share this info around so we avoid the bad titles and only share the good ones. What are the top 3 games you played this year? For me it's Elden Ring, Eleven Table Tennis on Quest 2 (VR) and maybe Teamfight Tactics (the free League of Legends autobattler)

    • @garygohmusic
      @garygohmusic Рік тому +1

      @@emulation2369 What are some good ones that you tried this year? I really enjoyed Elden Ring, Eleven Table Tennis (Quest 2 VR) and Teamfight Tactics (League of Legends multiplayer autobattler)

    • @emulation2369
      @emulation2369 Рік тому +1

      @@garygohmusic Zero Hour, Ready or not, Source of Madness, Cryostasis (finally bought the key for this hidden gem), Terminator Annihilation Lane dlc, Tormented Souls, Midnight Fight Express and CULTIC

  • @Arcadelife1
    @Arcadelife1 Рік тому +13

    “If you pay fifty pound for some shite, it’s a lot worse than paying a fiver.” 10/10 truth right there 👊🙂

  • @apk4381
    @apk4381 Рік тому +19

    Anyone remember Mac's video a year or so ago saying that he was optimistic about the gaming industry / upcoming releases?
    Good to see that delusion has worn off and he's came back to reality.

  • @stevegee8010
    @stevegee8010 Рік тому +6

    And the AAA publishers are putting the price of games up at least another $10 in 2023. Time to just say NO.

  • @MasticinaAkicta
    @MasticinaAkicta Рік тому +85

    2022 was a rough year. In so many ways

  • @CreepyMF
    @CreepyMF Рік тому +7

    The only winners this year where the people who didnt buy any of these games, to those people i salute you o7

  • @Crosmando
    @Crosmando Рік тому +12

    Worth A Buy is the only gaming channel that embodies how I feel about gaming these days. Everyone else is just trying too hard to be positive and giving chances to games that don't deserve it.

  • @Der_Jonge
    @Der_Jonge Рік тому +8

    Everytime I see a positive review from a UA-camr or a magazine, I check your review before buying. Thank you for your honest reviews. Have a happy new year, man!
    "XRay Vision, XRay Vision, X, X, X!!!" 😂

  • @asddw4998
    @asddw4998 Рік тому +13

    "It is the worst year for gaming"
    When you think it's impossible for things to get any worse, yet they still do.

    • @EmergencyChannel
      @EmergencyChannel Рік тому +1

      I thought he was exaggerating, then I realize the last games I actually enjoyed playing (Elden Ring) came out in March. This year has been bad, after getting last year Resident Evil 8, Inscryption, Hades, Psychonauts 2, etc. Even the games I was looking forward to like Darktide ended up being a big disappointment.

    • @tkh846
      @tkh846 Рік тому +1

      worst year so far*

    • @asddw4998
      @asddw4998 Рік тому +1

      @@EmergencyChannel I used this year to catch up on a few games and check out some indie ones that seem promising like Ready or Not, but God fucking damn this year was somehow worse than 2020, at least that year gave us TLOU2 memes.

    • @ignacioledesma3382
      @ignacioledesma3382 Рік тому

      For me personally it wasn't a bad year. We got awesome games like Sifu, Stray, Elden Ring, GoW Ragnarok, Vampire Survivors, Metal Hellsinger, A Plage Tale: Requiem, Bayonetta 3 and a couple more. Of course we had shit games like the ones Mack mentioned but saying it's the worst year of gaming it's exaggerating a lot (2020 was awful and 2021 was mid)

  • @01Khalifa10
    @01Khalifa10 Рік тому +14

    I rarely comment on your videos sir but I once again would like to thank you for all the money you've saved me for yet another year. Thank you for your honest and objective reviews and I hope 2023 will have better games and more of your reviews!

  • @KenLeonhardt
    @KenLeonhardt Рік тому +15

    We do not deserve you Mack. Haven't laughed this hard in a while

  • @MrNedred1
    @MrNedred1 Рік тому +14

    Honestly this cracked me up, seeing every review video from this. He’s correct on every point 😂😂 mutual feelings

  • @RumPirate
    @RumPirate Рік тому +3

    I don't even like the graphics of these games, apart from the horror ones too much bloom and there's this weird excessive blockiness to it as if everything is made of colourful plasticine, it's just ugly. Noticed kids cartoons look like this too these days. Red Alert 2 and Half Life 2 look much better and organic with more detail imo.

  • @stevequincy388
    @stevequincy388 Рік тому +3

    2022, what a glorious time in AAA gaming! /s No wonder I’m still playing older games from the early-mid 2000s. I can’t think of one AAA game I was excited to play this year.

  • @e.9328
    @e.9328 Рік тому +4

    Where would we be without this channel? So refreshing to have at least someone standing up against the modern gaming industry. Always makes me laugh!

  • @tr1ckydr1v3r
    @tr1ckydr1v3r Рік тому +4

    Saints Row was more that just an appalling game: It was the last insult to fans of the series.
    IMO, 3 and 4 were already a bad path for the series to take, after 2 was so good. This reboot was just the moldy cherry on top of a shit sundae, but what made it so much worse was the attitude of the devs, who took a decent series and ruined it, then told us to piss off for disliking it.
    In a decade where GTA has been almost completely absent, we needed a game like Saints Row 2 to come along. Instead we got just another on the pile of ruined franchises.

    • @yewtewbstew547
      @yewtewbstew547 Рік тому +2

      Yeah that's the funniest part, with GTA out of the picture (indefinitely I suspect) Volition basically had an open goal in front of them.

  • @Trenchfood
    @Trenchfood Рік тому +31

    Indie games have been saving gaming for years now.

  • @LDacic
    @LDacic Рік тому +5

    Ghost needing toilet paper to pass onto the afterlife was quite funny tbh.

  • @danielhowell2967
    @danielhowell2967 Рік тому +4

    All my life I’ve been a console gamer and kind of switched to PC after buying a steam deck. So happy to have chosen this year to switch across as there’s a plethora of good games from the past to pick up instead of holding out, hoping something decent will turn up. £40 or £50 for saints row or half life for under £1? Even if it is pretty ancient, there’s only one winner there!

  • @kazukihiratani
    @kazukihiratani Рік тому +9

    You should definitely put those musical jams on Spotify or Bandcamp or something, absolute classics!

  • @jack.jpg247
    @jack.jpg247 Рік тому +2

    scorn just shouldn't have been advertised as a survival horror at all. it's a heavy puzzle horror game about exploring the environment, and occasionally having to pull the trigger at something (depending how quickly you solve puzzles and move forward). rated as a traditional survival horror? yeah pretty bad. but as an explorative love-letter to H.R. Giger it's pretty fantastic, granted that aesthetic is enough to keep you entertained over the slow pace and backtracking or retrying.

  • @voterfraud4creepyjoe60
    @voterfraud4creepyjoe60 Рік тому +3

    Last of us 2 is also hot garbage, but yea I agree that Saints row game looks like a game from 2011 but without any of the humor or character of any of the previous games. Even Saints Row 4 was better because while that was an overpriced expansion, but even that was actually funny…. So bad it probably caused the studio to close down and be gutted, EA style

  • @dovahkiin-t1o
    @dovahkiin-t1o Рік тому +3

    Your colorful commentary makes me laugh so hard and cheers me up when I'm having a bad day. Thanks for the finny videos mate.🤣🤣

  • @GruffGames
    @GruffGames Рік тому +3

    Easily Saints Row because many of us actually wanted a good saints game.

  • @papascrumpeeh
    @papascrumpeeh Рік тому +3

    But man this year was truly a disappointment with 2 major clusterfuks for me being shadow circus warrior and soy rows

  • @LDacic
    @LDacic Рік тому +5

    Congrats to Saint's Row for making it to this year's #1!

  • @vallejomach6721
    @vallejomach6721 Рік тому +2

    Vampire Survivors
    Immortality
    Tunic
    Plague tale Requiem
    Nobody Saves The World
    Pokemon Arceus (Stripped down Pokémon without the tedious BS...bit rough, but decent)
    TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
    Bayonetta 3
    God of War: Ragnarock
    Sifu
    Rollerdrome
    Destiny 2: Witch Queen (Banger expansion...best since Forsaken...but not ideal jump-in for new players. An actual story...from Bungie!)
    Grounded
    Slime Rancher 2
    Pentiment
    Stray
    Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
    Dorfromantik
    Rogue Legacy 2
    Neon White
    Xenoblade Chronicles 3
    Cult of the Lamb
    These were all decent+

  • @saturn580
    @saturn580 Рік тому +1

    Couldn't agree more, Mack. Saints Row distilled everything wrong with entertainment in 2022. An unnecessary cash-grab reboot of a beloved franchise, universally praised by the shill media, and made for the mythical "modern audience" by clueless developers who have shown nothing but contempt for their real fans.

  • @littlelionmanOO
    @littlelionmanOO Рік тому +3

    Great video Mack! I understand that it takes more time and skill to make a game nowadays, but holy f*ck... the state of AAA games is a disaster!

  • @Ryan-lx6oh
    @Ryan-lx6oh Рік тому +4

    2022 was a shit year all over, but I do look forward to Macks end of year round up video's! Keep going mate! Love ya work!

    • @rvh1999
      @rvh1999 Рік тому +1

      Same here. Absolute SHIT year, personally can't wait till it's over

    • @Ryan-lx6oh
      @Ryan-lx6oh Рік тому +1

      @@rvh1999 Yeah mate It was a shit year for me as well! Think it was a shit year for a lot of people! Out with the old & in with the new, can't wait for this year to finish!

    • @rvh1999
      @rvh1999 Рік тому +1

      @@Ryan-lx6oh Well then, looks like it's just keep going strong brother! Best of luck to ya

  • @rayderrich
    @rayderrich Рік тому +1

    No real pricks were hurt in the making of this video...
    So much fun listening to your commentaries, thanks man!

  • @GhostOfSnuffles
    @GhostOfSnuffles Рік тому +2

    Mack "It's the worst year for gaming"
    Me "The worst year so far!"

  • @kellyfloyd169
    @kellyfloyd169 Рік тому +33

    Hey man just wanted to drop a comment whether you see it or not and say that you have done a great job over the years making these videos and producing content the way you have. Cheers too next year and I hope it treats gaming so much better!

  • @AtomicDudMan
    @AtomicDudMan Рік тому +3

    Wow evil west was bad? I saw it as pretty average. Old game design was the biggest downside but besides that it was really enjoyable with the boss fights and gear upgrades and hidden chests per level. Hell I couldn’t even find another copy in a 50 mile radius because it was sold out in my area at local brick and mortar stores to gift a friend.

  • @gavinmills2806
    @gavinmills2806 Рік тому +1

    The Ghost Wire Tokyo segment at 7:00 is easily the best thing I have ever watched. Superb analysis!!

  • @mattmattmatt131313
    @mattmattmatt131313 Рік тому +1

    There should be a war tribunal or something for what happened to the Rainbow Six series. From one of the greatest tactical shooters to Extraction in the span of 20 years. RIP

  • @TranquillityOfficial
    @TranquillityOfficial Рік тому +6

    Love it. It had to be Saints Row!!! Haha Thanks for the laughs this year Mack!

  • @bingbashbosh1
    @bingbashbosh1 Рік тому +2

    I wait all year for this Mack, you’ve got no idea

  • @ThePezzy12345
    @ThePezzy12345 Рік тому +4

    Came for singing, and didn't leave disappointed. Thanks, Mack!

  • @OneRedKraken
    @OneRedKraken Рік тому +1

    They called he ghost who needs toilet paper. Man who needs paper. Feels like that was a placeholder during the quest creation and they didnt even bother to change it.

  • @user-c4b9b
    @user-c4b9b Рік тому +2

    SHAME
    Mack have a wonderful New Year, thank you for all the laughs and good infos!

  • @martod
    @martod Рік тому +4

    Actually I do have a time machine. It’s called a Steam Deck, and ever since I put emulators on it I haven’t touched any steam games and have just been playing my favorite games from yesteryear.

    • @MaximusOwen1
      @MaximusOwen1 Рік тому

      Same here, as well as getting around to some of the games I bought years ago and never played, like Transistor and Outer Wilds. I think the only new ‘AAA’ game I got this year was Elden Ring.

    • @yewtewbstew547
      @yewtewbstew547 Рік тому

      Duckstation and PCSX2 are the GOATs, can't beat them. I started gaming on a desktop PC recently for the first time since the 90's and something I'm really liking there is that a lot of older games either just run well at higher resolutions "out of the box", have fan mods/patches to make them work, or in the best case scenarios; have full blown source code based ports that completely modernize them. I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein via the ioRtCW source port at 1440p 144fps and it's fucking amazing. Open Morrowind is good as well.
      I'm happy to buy AAA games when they're actually good, like everyone else I did get around to buying Elden Ring in September. Fantastic game. Bought Devil May Cry 5 on sale then too since I missed out on that in 2019, also excellent. But AAA is rarely ever that good now.

  • @danielschmidt7153
    @danielschmidt7153 Рік тому +24

    We are blessed to have you as a reviewer of this tripe, God bless Mack

    • @freefalling2earth
      @freefalling2earth Рік тому

      It’s not just money, but time. A lot of these are free on game pass but still I wouldn’t touch them.

  • @butcherjsy8
    @butcherjsy8 Рік тому +2

    Regarding Scorn, they must've patched in more checkpoints or something, because I really enjoyed my time with it tbh.

  • @xeviphract5894
    @xeviphract5894 Рік тому +3

    Saints Row was aiming to tank. Tossing a coin on each decision might have made a better game. Either way, tossers were in charge.

  • @blondedenton7243
    @blondedenton7243 Рік тому +2

    I honestly had no expectations or interest for saints row 5 but holy shit, by the looks of it, they couldn’t have made a more embarrassingly broken and by the numbers open-world sandbox game if they tried.

  • @miller42
    @miller42 Рік тому +2

    What a year...
    Congrats to Volition, they went out of their way to completely destroy their franchise. Now they're part of Gearbox. Oh, it's not going to end well...

  • @coolersmoke
    @coolersmoke Рік тому +1

    YESSSS!!!! I *_knew_* it would be Saints Row. I said as much on the day of release in a comment on a different vid. I put something like "Wait till Mac gets a hold of Saints Row 4. He's not going to be a happy bunny." or something like that.
    Well-deserved to be the worst "game" of 2020. Love ya Mack o7

  • @cages45
    @cages45 Рік тому +1

    Get a high class escort to alleviate the disappointment. No quality gaming memories available, so may as well get something to think back on., top tip..for a REAL ign 10/10 experience, get 2 at the same time for the cost of the 5 good games you won't get this year. Best use of the ds5 controller by far... for budget gamers, old decrepit Meg is available on request for small quantities of scrap metal, discarded aluminium cans etc and empty toothpaste containers = 1 rim job. It's not half life 3 or prey 2, but it's something you will never forget (unfortunately). Happy 2023 fellow gaming companions.

  • @charmingpeasant9834
    @charmingpeasant9834 Рік тому +1

    Dishonorable mentions to God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West.
    It's a tragedy that such painfully generic and safe games get heralded as achievements.

  • @MFKraven
    @MFKraven Рік тому +1

    I'm not gonna lie those little songs Mac does absolutely slap harder than my step-dad. He sounds like Group X with a Scottish twist 😂😂

  • @frisby7143
    @frisby7143 Рік тому +3

    Indie games saved this year with the AAA exceptions of god of war ragnarok and elden ring

  • @konradcurzethereturnedandv2845
    @konradcurzethereturnedandv2845 Рік тому +11

    After Shadow Warrior 2, I was really excited for 3 - loved the weapon variety and the slightly random levels. They took all the good stuff away :(

    • @legitbeans9078
      @legitbeans9078 Рік тому

      SW2 was amazing. All we needed was more missions quests and maps for that game 🥺

    • @Scroolewse
      @Scroolewse 4 місяці тому

      I was disappointed by 2, fucking loved 3 though. Glad they ditched the looter shooter shit

  • @coldcrush5921
    @coldcrush5921 Рік тому +3

    As soon as I saw that custom character I knew which one it'd be lol.

  • @Deadsmegma
    @Deadsmegma Рік тому +4

    Actually really like Callisto, it's hilarious, but it's good, watered down Dead Space, get on hard sale

  • @burningmetalirl
    @burningmetalirl Рік тому +3

    Running around with a pogo stick hitting penises...
    I had to pause the video due to laughing.
    Never change Mack! Best game reviewer on the Internet.

  • @tubey84
    @tubey84 Рік тому +3

    Need For Speed is a tragedy. Whoever thought the series needed going in the direction it has needs to be arrested.

    • @shay4261
      @shay4261 Рік тому

      i havent played the new one but it looks identical to heat which i thought was good but i wouldve liked some difference

  • @ericanker9049
    @ericanker9049 Рік тому

    Looking forward to these videos every year. Laugh my intestines sore every time. Please, never stop....

  • @NegativeROG
    @NegativeROG Рік тому +1

    Mack, I have 2 questions for you:
    1- Since you started gaming, what was the BEST year for games?
    2- If you get to play for pleasure, if you have spare time, what games do you come back to over and over?
    Thanks. Your opinion has been invaluable over the years.
    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

    • @unstableordinance
      @unstableordinance Рік тому

      He answers question 2 somewhat in "The take over of Activision Blizzard" video, number 1 he mentions in one of his streams, early 2000's, 2004 iirc when WOW, half life and other games were released

    • @Scroolewse
      @Scroolewse 4 місяці тому

      2007. Orange Box. nuff said

  • @storm2156
    @storm2156 Рік тому +2

    Great list, definitely been a bad year for most AAA titles. I will say though I did enjoy watching a let's play of Scorn, although I didn't purchase it for myself. The game was so close to being a masterpiece, just the gameplay fell a little flat. I sincerely hope the art team in that moves on to bigger and better things, if nothing else they delivered.

  • @OneRedKraken
    @OneRedKraken Рік тому +2

    Need for speed unbound is absolutely ridiculous. I watched some gameplay footage of online races. And the cuts that you can take in the game are insane. You are better off going in a straight line to the next objective than you are following the race line. It is literally a shell of a racing game at this point.

  • @shaun7389
    @shaun7389 Рік тому +1

    Me and my friends moved to PC gaming from console gaming just so we can pirate games and not pay anymore. The crack version is usually available a few days after release anyway.
    Yes, it's pirating, but we don't exactly lose sleep over it. I'm not paying ever again

  • @Jackfromshack
    @Jackfromshack Рік тому +1

    Although I do not agree with Shadow Warrior 3 and Evil West (I love FWH games) being bad games compared to what we have in 2022, but when I start comparing with games 10 years ago, I involuntarily agree with your remarks. The acceptable level in the industry (including gamers too) has degraded very much.

  • @nelic851
    @nelic851 Рік тому

    @8.11 I actually needed some bog roll myself when I heard this! Absolutely classic Mac - please don't ever change

  • @WalesGaming86
    @WalesGaming86 Рік тому +2

    Scorn was incredible, not every game needs to be a 1990s platformer to satisfy your criteria. The art alone was worth playing it for.

  • @seriouslywhatever1031
    @seriouslywhatever1031 Рік тому +2

    I'd love to see a best glitches of the year video 😂
    The bog roll quest was probably stolen from Conkers Bad Fur Day on N64, iirc

  • @donnikubbitz2146
    @donnikubbitz2146 Рік тому +1

    Mack. MACK! MAAAAAAAACK! I hope your new year is the best yet, and only get better through time!!

  • @b-id5wq
    @b-id5wq Рік тому +2

    Mack pretends to not like hand holding but used a guide for elden ring. Never forget

    • @Scroolewse
      @Scroolewse 4 місяці тому

      Using a guide is pretty normal? That's what we used to do...

  • @CaptScapegoat
    @CaptScapegoat Рік тому

    We had a lot of games lately that have been bad because they've just been badly designed and less because they're broken. Not that that is a new concept, but a lot more noticeable this year.

  • @posapie
    @posapie Рік тому +1

    "The biggest tide of runny diarrhea in 2022"
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @ScorpioNick
    @ScorpioNick Рік тому

    7:13 - the funniest part. "Slap your f*cking fess man!"

  • @ShonkV
    @ShonkV Рік тому +2

    Saints row devs did everything possible from their side to get Mac's award 🤣

  • @Chuar1
    @Chuar1 Рік тому +2

    Forget the games. I'm here for the comedy. Dude you are hilarious xD

  • @Atrus999
    @Atrus999 Рік тому +10

    I took this year to check out my backlog and didn't regret it at all. I played Dawn of War 1, Deep Rock Galactic, and Inscryption just to name a few (and obviously Elden Ring) and I had so much fun. They made me remember what games are like when they're fun rather than a chore or a to-do list. I'd highly recommend those games to people looking for something good while the Steam sale is still active and I'm definitely staying away from the big AAA releases for the foreseeable future.

    • @Mzuka-Moto
      @Mzuka-Moto Рік тому +1

      Same I got loads of older games that I still need to 100% or just replay. Don't need new when the old is better calibre

  • @KanoWhite53
    @KanoWhite53 Рік тому +1

    I haven't bought any new release AAA games this year. I was interested in a few but all of them have fallen short of my expectations.

  • @afflictionu8311
    @afflictionu8311 Рік тому

    The Rainbow Six Extraction bit has me in tears. It's almost as good as his no mans lie (Sky) impressions.

  • @niallaptz
    @niallaptz Рік тому

    Thank you Mack for all of the laughs and insight. Happy New Year!

  • @Prod-23
    @Prod-23 Рік тому +1

    Put it this way ... my two xmas games this year were released in 2011 and 2014 ...

  • @elijahmaxwell1059
    @elijahmaxwell1059 Рік тому

    I think this is the first year where I’ve gone back to older games with finally realizing that ‘hype’ is a tool.

  • @raminasadollahzadeh328
    @raminasadollahzadeh328 Рік тому +2

    Time laps
    00:00 Intro
    00:39 Games list
    01:48 Need for speed
    02:38 Callisto protocol
    03:13 evil west
    04:08 scorn
    04:56 autobahn police 3
    05:59 sniper elite 5
    06:59 ghost wire tokyo
    08:51 shadow warrior 3
    09:49 rainbwow 6 extraction
    10:58 saints row
    11:49 conclusions

  • @MichaelJ44
    @MichaelJ44 Рік тому +1

    I don’t think we give the worst games of this year enough credit. To include more abysmal story lines, more boring fetch quests and to claim the game has more “Unique RPG elements and a vibrant open world” than the average game of this year, is incredible. I admire it.. surely they’re doing this on purpose… maybe this is just one huge joke..

  • @hummingbir6
    @hummingbir6 Рік тому +2

    the worse games get, the better Mack's reviews.
    Here is the deal, listen to Mack, Raptor, GamerZakh - and you are basically in good hands.

  • @JohnJohn-pm9wq
    @JohnJohn-pm9wq Рік тому +2

    2022 wasn't the best but was certainly better than 2021

  • @Cenot4ph
    @Cenot4ph Рік тому +1

    I hardly played titles from this year,.perhaps not even 1 come to think of it. One of the worst years in some time

  • @eddebrock
    @eddebrock Рік тому

    That last choice. It's like "Which garbage-can smells the worst?"

  • @agbrenv
    @agbrenv Рік тому +2

    let's be honest here, the following games may have disappointed you, but they are nowhere near worst games since they are decent 7-7,5 games:
    Evil West, Shadow Warrior 3, Ghostwire Tokyo

  • @lizardemperorkorbac4281
    @lizardemperorkorbac4281 Рік тому

    damn man, this video was so funny. Couldn't help but laugh out loud multiple times.
    My favorite line: "The Characters in Saint Row are the kind of people you usually see in youtube videos getting offended by video games."

  • @GreenSlug420
    @GreenSlug420 Рік тому

    I have gone back to playing 10-14 year old games and I am not disappointed.. The Evil Within series and Dead Space. All the AAA games now are big piling bags of garbage..
    I miss the times where games had love put into them and not rushed out with a hundred patches, unfinished and just complete laziness...