"If there is anything that pisses me off more than dumb people, it's dumb people congregating and agreeing with each other." - Bro, this line is golden
@Lurker M The bigger picture is there, but the descent into lunacy the left has become over the course of Obama’s and Trump’s presidencies is undeniable. The GOP is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but as far as surface layer American politics are concerned, the left is openly totalitarian/in China’s pocket.
@Lurker M Agreed, they are both complete garbage. The difference being one side knows they are full of shit, and the other side is full of shit but completely oblivious to the fact.
It was a combination of Reddit and Twitter that got ahold of that video. Those two are unbelievably filled to the brim with NPCs. Exactly why I’ve quit both of those platforms.
There's probably a few pockets of decent people still left there who aren't aware of alternative sites to host their communities on, otherwise those platforms along with REE-setEra, Boomerbook & the Tik-Tok are pretty much the internet trash cans.
@@sintheemptyone8108 dude its top comment on thread, cheesy joke under top comment, then someone posting their original or opposing viewpoint and bullied to the ground. Rinse and repeat every popular thread.
The fact that I'm fucking reading books now more often than I'm playing some of my favorite video games should tell you exactly where gaming is at rn. I don't even like books that much if I'm being honest, i just need an escape from this shit because gaming as a whole has just become so incredibly tainted by corporations and politically-driven idiots online that even thinking about playing games hardly ever crosses my mind anymore. It just all stopped being fun at some point.
Dunno what kind of books you read man, but i'm with you. I like what I call...trashy one man army books. Jack Reacher, John Milton, The Gray man (Court Gentry) series, victor the assassin. These are great books for gamers IMO if you're into shooty/operator'y kinda stuff.
If you can dig up his work Rick Shelley does sci-fi military stuff. He's retired military. His structure is nerve wracking. No one is safe. Anyone can get bit in true combat.
My guy we are in a time period that requires us to all speak and be more knowledgeable about who we elect. If you don't like politics its typically cause it flys in contrast with your world views. Get ready its called.... Cognitive dissonance. As you age your subconscious starts taking over, if you don't listen to it you will never find God or happiness.
Same. Really enjoying audiobooks RN. I do about an hour before bed instead of screen time. I enjoy it more than playing a game otherwise. Sci-fi and Fantasy books are giving me the escapism that gaming is not. I want that comfy experience. Finishing the 2nd Witcher book (read the first one way back) and I am almost done with Metro 2033.
It's a rule that every 45 seconds people have to remind you that a response to someone's opinion is merely d response or criticism. You have a right to an opinion. I have a right to acknowledge that I disagree and lost my reasons why.
People can't respect differences and it's just insane. The same people who preach equality/equity and champions LGBTQI+ and is behind all the major race relations movements are hypocrites when it comes to real opinions, and I mean opinions that aren't in any way offensive. We all used to be more open with each other as people on the internet but with how rhetoric has become more worse on the internet now and how people can just rally around and basically exile you off the internet its no wonder everyone is hostile. Many people are going to dive off of social media entirely when the only people on anymore are seething with hostility over everything and anything that differs from their opinions or belief. Not even regular religious people are that devout to where they would do something like that. I used to think the gamer-sphere was never going to be this convoluted but after being a long time gamer since childhood(I thought maybe I was just getting older but...) I began to realize that gaming became garbage. I noticed that the generation I am from and maybe even the last half of the millennials working on games are making games with profit in mind and not for the craft. Idk how many Older millennials are in charge but a change in who's in charge drove that motive up for profit. It used to be an industry that was niche and it turned into a cash grab run by people who incompetently put out rushed/copy pasted projects and give you nothing new. Games used to give you more bang for your buck but now you are lucky to even get a fully complete game that just isn't out to make a seasonal cash grab out on you. It's just straight predatory. And all that does is warps the poor younger gamers who are learning early on how to gamble... it's sick. Consumables and loot crates were created in mind to target a younger more impressionable generation because they knew that that demographic would buy in the most. I think where gaming is now we are running a very slippery slope where if politics became more ingrained and the overall view was that video games were a negative influence than some bit of poor legislation could be passed that actually really makes video gaming either a limited activity or many games are banned/heavily policed against younger kids having access to them. No more parents buying their kids rated M games or anyone or if a kid is discovered playing those games or even game outside of their age bracket than its some kind of punishable offense like paying a large fine as a parent for poor parenting. We could be heading towards a world where you can only play for like 2 hours even as an adult. I could see the many freedoms we take for granted someday being taken away and in place of those freedoms a time sheet of when you can express those freedoms. We should use the time we have to just enjoy and celebrate some of the games we have had before the multiplayer explosion. Many of the single player games that made fun a priority. I feel bad for todays gamers who don't really play a game for the fun of it. People more often just play these games to win or for the k/d even but I rarely if ever see anyone play for the sake of creating fun. Making their time playing fun. If you were to see these so many people playing multiplayer right now with faces that look pissed or angered or vindictive you'd see that so many gamers are venting. Using games to vent can be good to relieve stress but if thats all you use games for then they eventually become a poor coping mechanism. Also factoring in how you feel when you play with friends if maybe you have more of a good time playing with friends than if you solo than maybe its best to step away from those types of games and only play if friends wanna play and invite. Theres a treasure trove of single player games to play and enjoy I think this channel would help so many of those modern day gamers who have gotten into that "gaming just sucks" rut. All this is just big stretched opinions.
The red pill is the realization that men are the oppressed class btw. That is what is meant by the red pill, not characteristics red-pilled men tend to have in common. Those are incidental.
Imagine telling your younger self that instead of unlocking things in game through progression you now have to cough up your own money to get anything other than the default equipment. 10 year old me would hang myself.
Imagine telling your younger self instead of being creative and finding a game exploit like a speed runner to achieve some nigh impossible feat, you would be given a script of unlocks you must follow to be handed a trophy or achievement that everyone else has because google. Completionist is now just a word for coal miner.
Imagine telling your younger self "You will pay 60 bucks for a game and will probably have to wait 2 years for all the patches necessary to make it reasonably enjoyable." Maybe I'm old, but I'm used to buy finished products.
@@JayDee-vq5rf I got one. Imagine telling your younger self that the game you are playing now will be sold again for more money and will be worse than the original run. So just keep the original and keep it moving 🍻
And this is why companies have no reason to produce the best quality games anymore because most gaming consumers have been conditioned in lower their standards into accepting anything these damn companies throw it, regardless whatever they are bad or broken games. Look at the people still defending Cyberpunk. It's only going to get worst from here until gaming eventually crashes and reset itself one day.
sadly this doesnt just apply to video games as products but any product out there. Everything gets more shit in quality and all we see is the consumer addict just bending over. Its like those people complaining about CoD or MW2 getting more shit by each release and than still preordering the next one.
1. Low tier competition / Lobbying which lead to the popularisation of DLCs/microtransactions/skins and overall paying for additional content. Also the fact the video game industry is so loosely regulated, basically allowed the big players in the market to do whatever they want. Today you don't basically own a game on Steam, you purchase a digital license to access it that Steam can theoretically revoke or alter whenever they feel like it. 2. Video games became more mainstream and thus were watered down to cater to normies and since most normies are idiots they are "tricked" into buying the exact same game every 2 years or are milked dry by keeping them hooked to shitty multiplayer games with a thousand microtransactions (I swear to God I have that idiot friend who keeps falling prey to marketing hype every time there's a new AC title or WoW expansion). 3. Feminism and wokeness penetrated video games around 2015, because of course they couldn't leave a predominantly male hobby alone without ruining it, which companies embraced because a) they received funding and b) virtue signalling is far easier than good writing I think these are the big three that killed the industry and I don't expect this to change. Companies now are making way more profit producing shit games, than they ever did producing decent ones.
Your rant(?) has total relevancy and makes complete sense. It reminds me of when we used to play steal the flag back in the 80’s... We (my neighborhood friends) lived next to this huge field that was complete with a swamp, mountains, forest, rivers...the entire enchilada. And we would play STF with actual BB guns, Co2 cartridge bombs, sling shots, traps, everything...and WE WOULD GET HURT. ON PURPOSE. After a couple years more of the neighborhood kids wanted to get involved and play and sure enough some of the girls wanted in on the fun too. And sure as shit, they soon after started employing all these new rules and “safety” standards that eventually even the parents started regulating. After all the new “rules” and “safety” measures, the game sucked balls. And everyone stopped playing eventually...at first the original members said fuck this and then the assholes who implemented all the damn rules wondered why no one was playing any longer. And that was that...it was over. Lost in time, forever. In 2006 I actually made a remake of the map of that field we played in (it was HUGE, probably 10 sq miles) using the Unreal Engine and unironically the same shit happened there online. After 2yrs of playing it and hosting the servers and “normies” ruining the fun, I stopped playing and eventually shut it all down by 2008. That was more complicated (as to why we stopped playing and hosting servers) but essentially it was the same thing. “Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (ironically DIE)” has ruined and will continue to ruin anything you cherish or love. BANK ON IT
Same thing happened to me in the 90s with a BMX jump park. It was a dirt field we (friends and I) turned into huge jumps where we'd crash a lot, get hurt and dust ourselves off and WE LOVED IT. Then more kids started coming in and getting hurt and crying about it to mommy. The parents came in with a cat and leveled it. Shit got boring after that. We built ramps and wrecked on pavement and got hurt way worse but we didn't let normies hit them. Still wasn't the same tho.
Facebook actually took down a rant I wrote about how people are ruining niche properties. Doctor who got driven into the ground. I stopped watching most of my long time TV shows, stopped reading comics, stopped playing DnD and am slowly losing interest in gaming. After this generation and watching franchises I loved be driven into the ground I almost don't want to play video games anymore. And on your mini rant about music, I'm a musician and I play for a living. Everything is most definitely copy and paste just like gaming. Pisses me off that everything is just dying off and becoming another brick in the wall.
To be fair to the whole 'd&d removed racial statistics' thing, it's actually addressing the real problem of how race can sometimes pingeonhole your class choices, especially with the restricted pointboy they decided for the edition. Though, honestly, the problem is actually that the d&d statistics and the way they interact with classes is still built as if assuming a 'rogue-like' nature to a campaign, where you make characters with rolled stats until you get a good one, as the others quickly die, but d&d just hasn't been brutal enough for that for a very long time. Better solutions to the problem would probably involve making every stat matter to the vast majority of characters instead of making most only matter to a few classes, but 5e is a bad system, so they went for the laziest solution that's easiest to plug and play.
Save every phisical copy that you can get, I am now watching old movies, playing old games and reading old books, also playing good old DnD with people that like the old ones. Let these fuckers stay with their shitty modern generic counter part.
the douchebag director of the star trek discovery actually said; "um the goal is not really to promote star trek but to promote these organizations and use it as a platform." literally their aim is to ruin these shows, these hacks who have created and based their careers on supporting fucking politically correct bullshit.
I can't wait to have yet another "cinematic experience" or some gigantic open-world rubbed in our faces again. Because we definitely do not have enough of those on the market [/s]
The guy who made this video complained that doom eternal has too much gameplay ( a pathetic excuse to justify himself sucking at the game), sounds like he would enjoy these types of games.
The numbers of "casual gamers" is ever growing Couple of months ago i was talking to a friend from high school. he wasnt much interested in games when we were in school, but like a year ago he bought a PS4. We were taking about stuff and i mentioned games so he started going on about how "games are so cool nowdays! btw have you played The last of us 2? such a great game, yea the graphics its like a movie, best game ever for me really" There are millions of "gamers" now for whom the golden standard is a recent "big hit" from a discount shelf
@@jamesgratz4771 the casuals buy shitty high graphics game and this tells the execs its okay to continue making these games. in the end we have to vote with our dollars. cyerpunk 2077 sold 13 million copies... you think they care that consumers are angry with how the game came out? no cause the angry ones are their original fanbase the fanbase that actually cares. THey have shifted priorities to the casuals cause they know the money is there.
Gatekeeping is essential to the health of any community and in the case of the gaming community, the floodgates have been opened wide a long time ago. The more people are into a hobby, the worse it is. lmao you actually included the image that was in my mind while I wrote this at 13:47, very nice.
@@h.r.mitteofficial7662don’t attract a mainstream audience. Attract a dedicated audience who like your stuff and will buy your games time and time again. Long term profit over pleasing people at a short term period, should limit the market and prevent people from buying a game just because it appeals to their politics.
@@h.r.mitteofficial7662 it's not about gatekeeping them from purchasing the games, but about gatekeeping them from incessantly demanding that everything is diluted and watered down for their own consumption. granted, the creators of these games are also at fault for even entertaining them in the first place.
This couldn't be more relevant today with DnD and tabletop RPGs. Tabletop RPGs used to be like a very niche type of game for nerds who gathered in their mom's basements and played 16hour sessions. Today everyone and their moms have heard of DnD, it has become woke (because an ultra niche game def needed trans characters and gay couples in it) and it has even caused an entire edition (5e) to cater to wokeness. I was never an original player, in fact I never played DnD until 4 years ago, but I never approached it with the mentality that it had to somehow adapt to me. I was getting into someone else's hobby so I had to adapt to it. Now wokies discovered DnD so, like the entitled snowflakes they are, of course they thought wokeness was fitting in a medieval fantasy setting. Even BG3 had to adhere to woke standards and tropes. Just play a medieval fantasty game like it's supposed to. If you don't feel represented then DON'T PLAY IT.
As a 26 year old who had a brother that was 10 years older then me I feel like I got to witness this decay first hand, from the old rainbow six games, splinter cell chaos theory, mercenaries 1 so many good middleware games
Thank your brother for me as the games you just described were fucking phenomenal. The original Rainbow six games and vegas 2 were the shit, splinter cell was the shit and mercenaries one was fucking awesome. They are all or became SHIT now. Im almost six years older than your brother and his taste was fucking excellent! Glad you were able to at least see what a great game was and now may never be again.
@@astrocyborg again, I DONT PLAY SHOOTERS! COD is the same game every year. You are foolish to keep buying it. The same goes with 2k, Madden, and ever other yearly game. The gaming industry is lazy, and scared to try new ideas. Why do you think there are so many remakes and remasters? They try to bank of nostalgia. And unfortunately it's working. Like the video said the PASSION for gaming is dead. All it is is a quick buck to please people like yourself
In my opinion, there were 4 things that ruined gaming. 1. The internet. Microsoft was probably the first to take advantage of this in a malicious way. Starting all the way back at the launch of the 360, charging players 60$ yearly just to play multiplayer while the original Xbox had it for free. It also allowed developers to continue to work on their games even after they were released (patches). This was supposed to be a good thing but it just turned into a lazy way for companies to release full priced trash so their consumers can beta test their games. We used to pay beta testers, not the other way around. And of course they quickly got rid of couch co-op as they realized Multiplayer could be monetized in ways single player games never could, probably taking notes from older PC MMOs... the difference being you already paid full price for them. It also kills physical media, once the servers go down, all you have is a beta copy on your bluray disc. 2. The rise and influence Android/iOS smartphones. I would say around 2009, video game companies were starting to take notice of how mobile gaming developers were doing things. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans were probably huge influences. EA of course charging the lead into bringing that business model onto video game consoles and PC. Giving birth to FIFA Ultimate Team and delivering the utter failure called Dead Space 3. Also killing the SSX franchise and destroying Dragon Age. Activision Blizzard took it a step further with Overwatch by normalizing the lootboxes which were already common on mobile games. Of course the idiotic games industry rewarded that behavior by proclaiming it as GOTY. 3. The massive influx of non-gamers into the hobby. The 360 for some reason that I'm not aware of (perhaps their marketing?), became a massive hit with normies and redditors. Again, this one on the surface also sounds good, it means we all can share the enjoyment of the hobby right? Nope. They not only helped normalize the shitty practices these companies were doing by constantly shilling and supporting them financially, they also started to demand changes, to the point where every western video game company has to do as Resetera says. One of the things I noticed right away is that they purposefully made characters uglier from that point on. Some other examples include the yearly purchase of sports and generic, watered down AAA games and random dialogue/clothing censorship. The latter got so bad even companies like Sony pretty much cut ties with Japanese developers because the censorship was getting out of hand for them just so they could virtue signal to their consumers in California. 4. Budgets / lack of creativity. As new hardware tech became available, the budgets had to rise and the risks had to decrease to deliver the experiences the new consoles were capable of. The problem was, AA and other mid to low budget companies were slaughtered in the process (exceptions being THQ Nordic and Focus Home Interactive). This centralized a lot gaming on a few companies, the only alternative could only be found on Steam with indie titles which of course don't do enough to satisfy the needs of many players who were looking for alternatives. This created yet another problem because for some reason, companies like Sony decided to treat this medium as a mini Hollywood, throwing all the budget they had on actors, advertising, animations and graphics. Gameplay be damned. You can still see that influence in other games like Red Dead or the new God of War. Fun goes in the trash bag. Repetitive, generic sequels also became a thing, it keeps the budget in place as the normies rush the stores to consume the new product, hell, even increasing the prices to 70$ didn't stop them.
Bro you should read my shi 😹😹😹 i swear you copied off me but just made yours sound more technical...😹😹😹 anyways I agree bro. Couldn’t have put it better.
God of War is actually pretty good but yeah, the insane obsession with "muh realism" and "cinematic experience" led to too much focus and investment in graphics, acting, mo-capping, whatever, to the point the gameplay suffered a lot (just look at the absurd recycling of enemies, small and kinda forgettable boss list, heck, we fight Baldur 3 fridging times!!). Reason why I prefer the older titles way more since their gameplay and bosses are top-notch
Man that list of greatest games gave me chills... Also i'm glad you mentioned yakuza games as well, everybody is jumping on the bandwagon with last game and they refuse to play the older ones or they call them shit, the fanbase has become full of redditors and persona 5 fans, pretty annoying kind of people
That sounds like what happened to the RE franchise specially with the "remakes"; they claim that the savior and game changer is RE7 and RE8. Funny enough RE4 was thought be the savior of RE.
These people are the main reason why gatekeeping has become a more popular target and for good reason. Some of us are so tired of ever piece of entertainment being diluted to meet the standards of the simplest people.
Kinda afraid to ask but is that really something some people say nowadays? I saw redit and resetera threads were people proudly proclaimed that they share their girlfriends and people got banned and softbanned for saying that they aren't into this kind of thing. So it is seriously hard to tell.
Just for fun here's a list of some games released while I was in middle school: San Andreas Halo 2 MGS3 Half life 2 Fable Metroid Prime 2 Kotor 2 DMC3 Jak 3 Ratchet and Clank 3 Dragon Quest 8 Jade Empire God of War Psychonauts Resident Evil 4 Shadow of the Colossus Oblivion Twilight Princess Bully Final Fantasy 12 Bioshock Cod4 Halo 3 Mass Effect Portal Super Mario Galaxy Team Fortress 2 Kingdom Hearts 2 God of War 2 No more Heroes My childhood was pretty fucking sick lol.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed Kingdom Hearts 2 despite never really liking Disney even before it became the franchise destroying monopolistic juggernaut it is now It was one of the most fun gaming experiences I ever had.
I know this video is old, but I still enjoyed it thank you for saying what most of us real gamers are actually thinking. I've been gaming since Nintendo, but I didn't become a hardcore gamer until Nintendo 64 onward. You are telling the unapologetic truth. The early 2010s is when gaming began to die. Everything becomes watered down and safe when it becomes popular. I truly miss the days of gaming being a niche thing. The PS4 generation of gaming is exactly why I'm going to PC, I need variety not politically correct commercial bullshit.
That music analogy was gold. Todays music does suck, I try to express to my friends, today's music just dont have that sound. It doesnt hit the same as the stuff back then. Even the music before my time. I can still listen to Bowie, Ojays, Marvin ect. Give me todays equivalent of greats back then. They cant. Just like games and everything else, most people just say move on from the past and settle for the shit they are offered. You really nailed the point with that wiki list. Most consumers that were born after a certain time will NEVER understand how impactful those games were. We have this medium today because of those games back then. Sad people dont realize that. 🍻
@@busterdouglas593 you probably did, I'm into a lot of different things. It's always cool to chop it up with people whether we agree or not. It's just conversation 🍻
@@davidd4696 I agree, the indies always have a few bands that keep it going, but it's the sifting through the dirt to find those gems. Not for nothing, I miss the days of MySpace. When people would post music with no name or artist labels, it promoted interaction with listener, poster, and artist all in one. When MySpace went down, imagine all the music that was lost never to be heard again. It's sad.
@@Solodolo84 Yes that's the bad thing about indie music, you have to put in work to find out what you like. Once you find that artist you like it's worth it though..
I used to have the same opinion on indie games as you, until I started playing some and I have to say, those guys put more effort into their games than AAA studios do.
I haven't played many but Indie for me is a mixed bag of good and trash from what I have seen and played. I really enjoyed though A Robot Named Fight, Moonlighter and Slay the Spire.
I agree about the graphics thing. "OH MAN THESE GRAPHICS ARE INSANE" but guess what, every game now has insane graphics tbh. It ain't new. It's a necessity. Also, what I said doesn't mean that I hate insane graphics. You kidding?? I LOVE THE GRAPHICS but graphics arent the only selling point of a game.
I grew up on Runescape and I literally cannot understand why people care so much about graphics, especially in fast paced games you'll be ignoring it all and focusing on the actual game.
@@Kurai_69420 people care about graphics so much is mostly for immersion reasons. Causals are usually just people who have alot going in in there lives and they want to temporarily escape they're reality for a bit. You probably don't understand because... you play Runescape. You don't play that for immersion
Graphics exclusively is NOT what makes a good video game at all, The ingredients That is needed to make a good video game is Good to Great Quality, Good to Great Imagination and Actual Fun and NOT just solely good graphics, I am 35 years old by the way, American Aborigine male.
I’d rather have good game physics than constant upgrading of graphics. Graphics already look good enough, why don’t games start focusing on the more influential thing in a game, the physics.
I mean i can live without gaming. I just like gaming i was 3-4 when i started gaming, on mums laptop... Now being 19 i still remember that first game 4x4 cabelas advanture that my dad and i played
Games have helped me out through so much. So many games have helped me grow, The world ends with you showed me that life matters and is precious, and that you need to cherish your friends. Fate/Extra helped me realize just how transient existence and life can be and sometimes even if you try to do your best you might end up doing bad things, even so you need to keep trying to do whats right and survive and keep surviving no matter what. 7th dragon gave me hope. Even if its hopeless. You need to do what you can and have hope, never give up.
I could live without modern gaming since it feels like it's only Nintendo and indies that can make new games that interest me. I have enough of a backlog to last me a good couple of decades anyway.
I got to be honest that last statement you made about Nerds being outcasts for playing video games brought a tear to my eyes, when I was younger I was the textbook definition of a Loser, I loved video games because I could play these badass characters in a new world that was unavailable to me outside of school or home (I was sheltered because I had ADHD) so many hidden gems that I could barely play because I was poor, but each time I replayed I was always surprised by what I missed games helped me appreciate them as an Art and a blessing. . . And then came Middle/Highschool where the Hype was Call of Duty all over the place, every new game talked about was that Game with different names, I didn't take interest because I couldn't afford it but also because I saw it was the Same Freaking Game, now games are just Fortnite, Call of Duty, and various online rip-offs that cost money each month. Sad to say but Gaming is Done, (except for THQNordic bringing back the classics) I still play games just the Old ones because I was Missing out like damn. Keep up the good work Synthetic Man, and thank you again for that Spongebob game review I requested I'll try to get a Patreon to support you. 👍🙂
We called these "middleware" games to B-games - AA-games. I really want them to come back. There are many "hidden gems" on systems like PS2 and even PS3. I openly admit that modern indie-games don't do it for me. AAA is clearly in the shitter. I mainly play older games now and discover new amazing content all the time. Too bad we can't have nice things with new technologies. The term "middleware" actually means for example Havoc physics. The software that game developers implement so they don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to use a wheel in their game.
This could be due to two things. One, as the industry gets bigger, games have become more expensive which results in less risk-taking. Risk only happens if the losses aren't as big, but games today cost as much to make as movies. Ubisoft, Activision, EA, Rockstar, Capcom all know their games are too big to fail so they avoid taking any risk for fear of losing. This is very similar to what the movie industry is going through today. As movies become bigger and bigger and only superhero comic book movies seem to be making money, why bother for studios to take any risk knowing that if anything other than a superhero movie is made it will bomb. Also, there are no more mid-range budget movies, that were so often made whose budget ranged from $10 to $30 million. Today for a movie to be a success it needs to make $500 million to $1 billion and then there are the indie movies which are the opposite. We don't really have options but rather two ghettos to choose from. Second, the previous generation had the fortune of having both the Xbox360 and the PS3 competing and producing a bunch of quality games. This was not the case for the Xbox1 which was not even present for this generation. In a sense having a healthy competition is good for consumers and the industry.
Games become more expensive because these companies employee 1000+ people to work on the game. Why do they need 1000+ people, communication becomes broken at that point. Every good game that ever existed with a memorable point had under 50 people working on it. Clear direct communication and usually a smaller group means a passionate group since its not like EA where people do a "game development" uni course than just look for the big companies for full time work. Gaming is an art you need to create on your own passion, not on the back of corporate employment. Another issue companies need to continually impress shareholders, every year MUST look like growth. If you have an audience of consumers @6million people in a franchise and it never grows because the type of game is too specific then the only way to increase your profit is to make cuts in development whether it is time or quality (usually work together anyway). So you get these recycled games that are just a skin change every year with maybe 1 or 2 slight changes. Games are made to impress share holders not gamers, and for some reason people still keep buying the trash. If everyone just said fuck it i won't buy a new title for 1 year, you can only hope the biggest companies will collapse, forcing developers to become their own publishers. Cutting the cancerous corporate management payroll. Remember over 1/2 of the game sales profit go to people who never even touched it. If the "CEO" isn't also designing the game. They are to big and wasting money.
@@AnOldUA-camAccount Yes! You're absolutely right. These things are at the root of all the issues AAA gaming is facing today. Investors/shareholders, bad management/software engineering and, to a point, the consumers. 1. Investors/shareholders obviously want to make as much money as possible so they simply try to mitigate the risk of losses as much as possible. 2. Management often think they can "make a baby in a month with 9 women", in other words, they think more people working on the game equals shorter development time and a better quality game, which is just not the case. Plus, a bigger dev team might make the project look a lot better to shareholders. This makes them over-promise and under-deliver. Cyberpunk is a great example of how this can go very wrong. 3. The average consumer just sees a trailer for a game that looks cool, and so they'll buy it. They simply don't to follow every piece of gaming news and just want to play some cool games without thinking about it to much. The average person is just shockingly stupid, or rather, simply don't give these things much thought. Marketing teams make sure to sucker these people in year after year. Oh, and a special mention to the folks on Reddit who'll tie their identity to a game or company to the point that if you have anything negative to say about said game or company, it will feel like a personal insult to them, and so they'll defend a game like Cyberpunk no matter how fucked up the game turns out to be. Free marketing! So yes, literally the only way all of this will ever truly change is when people start to vote with their wallets, thus making this system collapse, but the pessimist in me feels like we're a loooooong way away from that point still.
@@tomtomtom6970 big companies only want to sell their brand as much as they can to those willing to buy. And when “intruders” are making the biggest stink on the internet the companies will selectively listen to them over real fans because they scream the loudest and so will tailor their products to appease them. But then no one is happy and thus the blame game starts.
Unfortunately Synthetic Man this is something we cannot change. The hive-mind of snowflake "gamers" are too stupid and casual to stop playing movie-cinematic games that make them feel accomplished.
@@finnmunro5741 Yup u can play whatever games u want to play doesn't mean we can't call u out for enabling these corrupt AAA companies by buying their microtransactions and having a shitty taste in games.
@@shaggythunderburg8184 lul. Only government/culturely mandated games then. Looking forward to when we start canceling people for liking games that you don't like/consider to be "shitty taste". You wanna go after microtransactions? Go after microtransactions. You wanna go after dumb generic ubishit open world games? Go after ubishit games. But don't do this SJW cancel culture bullshit where we just deem people who like games we don't like as having "shitty taste". It's like the word "boomer" or "incel". Just a way to dissmiss someone without needing to engage with them. The worse part about all this is that people are lieing to themselves.
@@weirdo3116 Never said I wanted to cancel anyone. Just want to argue a point that they are conformers to the corrupt AAA companies and are just a hive-mind that buy trendy movie-cinematic games. Not going to harrass them on social media for it lol I don't even have social media.
@@shaggythunderburg8184 or they just genuinely like those games/movies... Like I'm sorry but this is just SJW cancel/shaming talk but with out the bite. Again you wanna go after microtransactions and corrupt AAA companies then do that. But stop acting like everyone who buys these games are just a morally bankrupt give mind. It's dumb level 1 SJW shit.
This is from my perspective (as a developer). Games are expensive to make even back in time. Even though in NES days or even Atari days games were simple, they were still not something anyone could pull off due to their complexities on interfacing with hardware. Although nowadays development tools and hardware improved a lot (eliminated a lot of quirky stuff and became more generalized), the fundamental complexity of software engineering never change (you can make NES game using modern tooling faster, of course, but it’s not what we want today). These engineering aspects include how to test your game and make sure every major part is covered (find bugs), or how to plan the development work and estimate the time (release on time). These are common issues on software project management (hard to get right), which can be migrated / delayed, but not eliminated. Games are more interactive and advanced, so requirements on these are even higher. On the other hand, nowadays game development is more on artworks instead of programming side. Unfortunately this cannot be made to work faster (you cannot fully automate the drawing or modeling process), so you have to add people. But communication cost gets higher for more people (asking 2 people do a job is different from asking 50). Also different from normal software, it’s also not possible to be fully automated on testing the games. They are too dynamic (you don’t know how to simulate a human player to play them in different ways - that’s literally AI). You can only test some basic part of them using automated tests, then you still need human beings to play test it. So many problems with 3A are rooted by these - and social stuff on top of them. From this standpoint, we need a productivity / tech breakthrough on these games to be more realistic and wealthy on contents. However it is not easy, so we literally are trying to make time for it. (And, Indie games are basically a compromise on this - I believe everyone want to make a 3A masterpiece, but they cannot, so fall back to indie and do something creative - with cooperation with your imagination)
For issues with “Gamers”, I don’t blame them. IMHO this was from a very plain wish - you participate, you have fun, you feel meaningful / good. It’s entertainment. But the problem is that we push this “make everyone feel they are meaningful” idea a little too far, and technologies simply could not catch up with it (you are literally trying to make a virtual world to “cheat” people and make them feel they did something. This is a type of “simulation”. It’s hard). Hence the crunching, false advertising, and microtransactions (especially in Western you sell games with a price cap on standard editions, making it worse) Bottom line, this is a hard problem. I don’t blame gamers because this is literally how human society runs (20/80 + chaos rule). Its hard to change that.
It's depressing how fewer and fewer people may begin to even care about the production side of things like you've described. It's greatly appreciated personally, giving the time to comment such information about it. It just feels like companies are trying to please too wide a spectrum of people these days.
What games have you worked on and what consoles do you have experience with? Also don’t you think billion dollar corporations like Nintendo who literally made a statement saying they made so much money they are trying to figure out ways to spend it could cover the costs for bigger teams and better world development?
@synthetic man the DEGREDATION OF A FANBASE/HOBBY layout was the best representation I’ve seen that’s show exactly how people who grow up loving things like anime,games etc feel about how the community treat’s these things now days thank you
I'm getting older and more disappointed with younger generations for falling prey to the trickery of the mainstream. I try to understand that they've got different circumstances to contend with. I grew up before everyone had 24/7 internet access, smartphones and social media. I witnessed the rise of the casual game market, the greedy monitization schemes, the social engeneering, the echo chambers, the political influences etc after I could think for myself. I took a break from gaming all together during my twenties. I got interested in gaming again and bought a PS4 about 3 years ago to play Bloodborne and the all Resident Evil titles. Now I'm catching up on great games I missed and learning what has happened to the industry and it is pretty gross. I've since collected a good backlog of quality games to keep me happy for years. Even filtering out the garbage, there are just too many games now days. I'm not interested in the latest titles, I am looking forward to trying Elden Ring though. Hope it turns out well. Looks promising, and I've never been disapointed with From Software or Capcom.
Oh and I'll add that I like the recent trend of remakes and remasters of older games. Not all of course, but its nice to see games like Baulder's Gate Dark Aliance, Doom64, Turok, Quake etc get modern ports after all these years.
Over The Years Video Gaming in General has decreased in Quality rather than increase. Video Gaming in General NEEDS to come back to being on an elevated plateau and elevated ground instead of being deep down in the sewer dumps. 4 Qualities That Video Gaming in General should REALLY be about are Fun Factor, Compelling Factor, Captivating Factor and Fantastic Quality and Absolutely nothing less Than Those 4 Qualities put together, Period Dot Dash. I am 36 years old by the way, Black American male.
There's nothing like opening PCSX2, listening to that legendary PS2 boot up sequence, seeing the crunch of my favorite childhood games in 1440p with a CRT filter applied... and not caring because they were great games.
I should've realized it years earlier, but there's a reason why the PS2''s record still hasn't been broken yet: that was the generation when gaming peaked.
I always said that the ps2 was my favorite console of all time followed by the ps1 I forgot why because it's been so long since my ps2 died and buying a new wouldn't change anything because most of my ps2 games are dead too But i watch videos about the games i used to play and i remember what made me so passionate about gaming I forgot that feeling
@@givemorexp good GOD… what a stupid comment. Customer : “yes I need a DVD player” Best Buy employee : “ok well you could get this $30 DVD player” Customer : “Ok sounds g-“ BB Employee : “ORRR… we have this video game console called PS2 that costs $250 and plays dvds” Customer : “But I don’t play video games” BB Employee : “But it plays DVD’s… I thought you wanted a DVD player?” Customer : *stares confusedly*
@@Augusto_PinochetDVD players were expensive back then, like a few hundred dollars so it was actually a really good deal - DVD players were new at the time and I promise you they didn't cost $30 or I would have bought one (I was in high school at the time)
Poverty breeds good taste, since I was poor growing up and couldn't ask mom and dad for the next new game, I had to look up ways to get old games cheap and emulation, and emulation was the real gateway to good games, emulation is the best thing since sliced bread
me too bro miss old times! when i play on laptop with limited internet and limited game choice heroes of might and magic 3 stronghold crusader, minecraft 1.6.2, murder shadow (browser game),raze 2 raze 3, plazma burst 2, kogama, darkorbit, need for speed most wanted 2005,gta san andreas with mods. now many of older games you can't play with mods because they crashing example: gta san andreas with cleo mods crashing on my modern pc.. and also i get depression and now i have medicates.. and my minds is only with dark thoughts
"Consoomer's" Are the new type of enemy for the industry. We have to stop buying Season pass and dlcs to stop this cycle of garbage. I miss when we buy the full game without have to download a patch to correct bugs and glitchs and 30% of your SSD taken because you must instal to not have issues with frame rate or loadings.
Games today are mostly "early access" without being transparent. Persona 5 is the only game I can really think of that I played and it was the complete game on launch (Don't bring up Royal, we all know Atlus loves to milk us with a new version of every game)
@@MILDMONSTER1234 lul there have been plenty of good DLCs before Ancient God's. This is what i mean by the concept of DLCs being fine, the abuse of them isn't.
@@Cyberweasel89 Telling someone they're redpilled basically is like saying they've become englightened on a certain subject, or learned the truth behind it, which in this case would mean you've learned the truth that modern games and shit. Depending on who you ask, being redpilled either means you're a really cool person, or a very very mean person that won't let others have fun.
25:30 that theory works for Hip-Hop/Rap, underground is way better as of currently, but I don't think the other genres have such a large underground scene
I stand with you 100% on this hill. There's no reason for companies to change their trajectory when the consumer keeps buying their products and their profits keep going up! Of course, those who don't give a shit about this wonderful and immersive hobby and only play the same exact competitive shooter or mobile gacha game won't hear this. They will keep playing it because it's their and their buddies' new addiction. They will buy battle passes and the new SUPER battle passes because they must spare no expense when it comes to being the best or showing off their new skins and guns. They will continue to feed the machine. That's why it's important for those of us who want change to become conscious consumers and spend our money wisely. We must practice restraint and be mindful of things like FOMO and hype. We must quite literally vote with our dollar.
Most of what the casuals and consoomers are doing to destroy gaming have nothing to do with subjectivity. Bad games coming out is only possible if people are supporting it through various provable means. Fact: games are currently made ready for purchase before they are finished. Fact: it is now the norm to be unable to own completed versions of games on physical copies while this was not the case in the Golden Age. Fact: most mainstream games are charging full price for partial games via cutting parts out for DLC and things like amiibos. Fact: microtransactions exist and are the new workhorses of the industry by way of numbers. Fact: Steam Greenlight was a thing. Fact: publishers are buying development studios and franchises just to disband and discontinue them. Fact: paying money for these things teaches the sellers that they will be rewarded for doing it and encourages them to push boundaries.
I feel like greenlight kind of got fucked by that shitty card system. But guess which one valve removed, the one that makes them money every time people buy games for a cent to sell the cards to make a profit and bubble trash up to the surface, or the one got the blame of the former?
@@captainmega6310 *"I actually don't know about that second "fact"..."* For PC, physical copies haven't been sold for over a decade. The next best thing is the DRM-free GOG store.
@@captainmega6310 It's still the case nowadays on console as well, though. He's referring to the fact that you may be able to _purchase_ an actual physical copy for console, but as he said, you can not own a _completed version_ of the game. That physical copy will be either a buggy mess** or an unfinished buggy mess, and that doesn't even include the fact that it more than likely is missing the rest of the game that was cut out for "DLC". ** _Just in case_ there is anyone who is tempted to claim that "Games have always had bugs!", I want to proactively condemn this Straw Man. Yes -- for the most part games have always had bugs. But a game having undetected bugs that were only discovered by gamers _after_ release is an _entirely different_ situation than a game having _serious and obvious_ bugs that the developers were fully aware of before release -- and usually a heaping stinkpile of them at that. Devs used to pay gamers to beta test games; now gamers with no patience or self-respect pay devs top dollar to _alpha_ test their games-in-development.
You brought up a lot of good points. As a dude who grew up enjoying comic books, heavy metal, video games, and trashy B-movies, I really hate normies infiltrating my favorite things. Sometimes I think I'm going crazy when I say that none of it is as good now, so it's good to hear others express similar opinions. The only thing you said in this video that I disagree with is 1993-2011 being the golden age. I would actually go as far back as 1990. Still, good video!
From looking at the games coming out over the past decade(s) you can see what year the industry started turning around. Back in 2012 When Mass effect 3 came out it was considered the first packaged game to offer a form of loot box at its launch and it was the first game to have an ending changed by adding a dlc to fix it.. not to mention the game also got pushed to reach more mainstream (IGN character reporter ingame, appeal to homosexuality, etc). Despite that the game had really great moments and great gameplay (especially in multiplayer). 2012 was the year with mixed quality of game, and bigger issues in the gaming industry started coming (and film). When we get to 2013 games like "gone home" became a thing, which was leading up to the gamergate controversy and politics in games. From that point and today it has become a routine for gaming companies to appeal to these crazy sjw. Basically a lot of game companies have sold their soul to cooperations and we get games pushed in different direction either by money or agenda. just look at Diablo immortal which was made on the mobil/tablet so it could appeal to the chinese market. You could say World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria was the early adoption to reach the chinese player base by making an expansion based on their culture because of a reference point to a Pandaren Brewmaster in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne expansion. You also start to notice there aren't many new IP that have come out and become a classic icon in modern gamings, If we look at mass effect which was released back in 2007 it was something we had not seen before in a Sci-fi game, because of the setting/concept and how well it was implimented. It could have been the next "Starwars" or "Star trek" but because of what happened with ME3 and andromeda it never reached its full potential.
Holy fucking hell dude you just hit it spot the fuck on with regards to ME3. I remember it like yesterday. Couldnt believe they had day one dlc in the form of "from ashes" 2012 was indeed the starting point of all this bullshit. I remember the ending was so shit I couldnt believe it and they actually did patch in a new (still shit) ending after all the promises of "wildly different" endings when they all were copy paste with different fucking colors. I HATE online but the online COOP of ME3 was very addicting but they also introduced the fucking microtransaction crates to unlock shit because they knew the grind and knew they could entice the average gamer to pay to get shit quicker. Fuck man Im so glad to see someone else call this shit out with dates perfectly. At the same time blockbuster was still around and I rented a sports game (silly me right. Wanting to try a game before purchase) and it would charge you $10 to play the full experience on top of renting it(online etc) and I took it back and tried to explain to the fucking dipshit employee "what the fuck is this shit" just for them to look at me like Im the retard.
@@FatherSaunders Yeah, atleast the microtransaction wasn't as aggressive as it is today (more align with overwatch loot box grind), but you can see how the slippery slope have led to where we are today.
I don't know why but the ending totally made sense for me. People cannot get over the fact that before gaming was mainstream. It was just a bunch of people who liked a hobby (who were actual players) and it's become less about the game itself.
Ubisoft: Making same games, dead Activision-Blizzard: Same Bethesda: Making a no man's sky clone with Fallout 4 shooting Arkane: Redfall, dead EA: Making Star Wars games, woke dead space remake, and sports games. Ironically the most healthy company currently Naughty Dog: Terminally woke, would NEVER buy ANY of their games Nintendo: Makes same games over and over, dead. Only popular because it isn't woke content. Could go on forever. Basically all the major game makers are dead and churning out garbage. They make either reboots/sequels forever or it's wokeness in everything.
Nintendo makes original games all the time - some stick, some don't. Pikmin stuck in the Gamecube gen. Splatoon stuck from the Wii U. Arms hasn't really stuck in the Switch gen. It's up to gamers to actually buy the new things that certain companies try to make...
@@erikmclennan3934 Nintendo makes like 1 original game for every 30 sequels. It's even worse than western devs. Like I said, the only reason they win is by default for not being woke.
@@SomeCanine You're painting with an extremely generic brush here. Was Nintendo dead 20 years ago? The same was technically true then but I don't think anyone would claim that mid-GameCube Nintendo was dead. Is Mario 64 shitty just because it was the newest in an already long series of games? I think people often care more about making bold sounding claims than being deeply accurate.
@@erikmclennan3934 That's not "all the time" fanboy. Pikmin didn't "stick" it wasn't popular and it's amazing it stuck around to eventually become more successful. Splatoon was the first original smash hit that they made in years at the time, two generations apart from Pikmin. Arms was a, heh, swing and a miss. That's not "all the time" and no it's not up to gamers to buy mediocre product.
Semantics, but they're not exhausted, as that implies they worked really hard and need a break, when the reality is that the creative people were pushed out of their own space to make room for uncreative people to f*ck around all day and waste money.
These so called gamers nowadays are a thing cus they play easy movie cinematics but when you call them out for it they swarm you like a hive-mind and bitch about how "it's just my opinion bro"
Also, forget the fact that they automatically assume difficult games as Dark Souls level of difficulty. I bet money that they never played a single Armored Core games where you actually have to do the math to make sure the build your mech suit can get you through the mission. Not only that you have to make separate other builds to engage other quests with. One you may need I high mobility unit or a literal tank. And don't get me started on the White Glint fight, People thought Ornstein and Smough were hard, try aiming at a mecha that is zooming across the screen, firing a salvo of missiles at you, only for the boss to one-shot you with a swift melee attack because somehow you were too close and it was right behind you the whole time.
@@ervinpucchi6951 Remember the crash bandicoot is the dark souls of platformer article? Crash has been there all along and was not easier back then Almost every game used to be on that level of difficulty dark souls just has a retro difficuty Also i hate how if you criticise dark souls people assume you don't like hard games but that's another debate It's like they haven't played any other difficult game before
When you talked about normies move in to a hobby sphere and then ruin it is so true. It's happening with anime too. Especially more recently. Watch they're gonna try to cancel most popular animes soon
I’m so glad i found your channel. I’m an old school gamer that has seen the deterioration of my favorite hobby and you are the first person to nail the criticisms so perfectly. Regardless of whether you grow to superstardom or not i hope you find solace in the fact that your opinions are valued and logical and i greatly appreciate you sharing them.
29:55 Man, seeing Rome: Total War on that list hurts. Such an incredibly innovative strategy game that deserves all of the praise, both retrospectively and objectively. The Total War franchise is so boring now. Core gameplay is super streamlined and dumbed down, while every faction has a myriad of subsystems that has you number-crunch and micromanage for +1 xp or 3% extra commerce income. Yay.
My man mentioned Valkyria Chronicles! You've got great taste in games sir. Valkyria Chronicles and MGS4 were the first two games I picked when I got my PS3 back in 09. I fell in love with the aesthetic the first time I saw a trailer for it.
@@Gruntvc @Genome Soldat Havent bought one since 2017 lol, they've no joke just slapped a different name or number on games and rereleased them. Other than R6 and maybe immortal feynx rising(which is basically a clone of BOTW) All their other franchises have been for the most part the same game with new minor mechanics and updates.
@@Ghost-ql3hl Their last good game was AC Syndicate, it seems to be actually pretty decent based on what ACG has said about. Although I haven’t played it yet
I had my disagreements on somethings you said. But, i mainly found myself agreeing with you on 95% of the things you said in both videos. ;) Highly enjoy these, keep making these! I like to listen to these while I play around on my PC.
Developers really be making games with no political themes to then shove their beliefs into down the line. Either you make a game with political themes from the start or you avoid it entirely. None of this, "Soldier 76 is gay" or "Bloodhound is asexual" 4 months after release garbage.
Borderlands 3 has a lot of improvements from 2. The story in 2 was only good because Handsome Jack hard carried it with mostly improv from dameon clarke
SJW's, Anti-SJW's, it doesn't matter. The Anti-SJW Crowd who I'm a part of gets offended over superman turning Bi-Sexual and The SJW Crowd get offended over a certain jokes. They both are constantly looking for reasons to be offended.
How is having a problem with a 100-year-old established symbol of American values being fundamentally changed to align with Ministry of Propaganda guidelines "looking for reasons to be offended"? If that's not a legitimate reason to be righteously indignant, then what is? It seems to me like you're doing the whole diplomatic "Two to Tango" thing which is, in my humble opinion, extremely misguided.
@@etabiansosin If you can be specific about what you disagree with or don't understand, I'll try to elaborate. P.S. I was referring to Superman. I just realized that that might not have been clear.
communists attempting to take away cultural icons and reformat them to remove their identity is something to be offended by .these are not equal topics inclusivity is not a noble cause because exclusion is how identity has meaning
I guess that's why I never minded the massive decline in quality of movies and network TV in the 2000s, because gaming was so good, it made up for it. Supposedly cable TV was good, but I never bothered. Now in the 2020s, it's not the golden age of anything except maybe brutal criticism and trolling.
Doesn't mean there aren't exceptions. Skyrim is the only game I really like out of those. And it's not just about the quality of the games but the greed and lies of the industry.
Absolutely top notch video. Can't believe I missed out on your channel for so long. I say the same things. Gaming is a stagnant hobby but it's not because of the seepage of woke culture. That's only a symptom. Everybody wanted to keep making more and more and more expensive and hi-quality games that they removed imagination and curiosity from the mix. The '90s were the best time in gaming, up to around 2006 or whenever the 7th generation of consoles were taking off (PS3/360). It was an age of curiosity and innovation, stemming from a lot of the timeless classics like Ultima being games developed in garages by ultra-nerds who wanted to take their tabletop experiences to a new medium. I've always believed the audience was the problem. The frustrating part is that the audience is also the solution, and by now there's been too much muddying of the waters and people won't speak concrete language and agree to hard definitions of the problems we're all facing. They'll also never commit to a boycott. Remember when Left 4 Dead 2 was lambasted and people said they'd never play it? Everyone in the groups dedicated to said boycott were playing it anyway. Ever since the East Asian gaming modus operandi took hold in the west -- that is, freemium games, with microtransactions and psychological exploitation -- I think that's when gaming started to well and truly decay. Gaming developers and publishers engaged in a self-destructive binge of monetization that's largely drained the soul out of the hobby. Indie developers are NOT innocent, either. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Many indie devs have caused way, WAY MORE damage to this hobby/industry than the AAA names. People like Phil Fish, for example, who pioneered suicide baiting and fake death threats for attention and inadvertently helped bring to light the incestuous relationships between morally and ethically bankrupt "games journalists" colluding in secret that speaks volumes to us about their own irredeemable failings, professionally and personally, which inexorably led to their excoriation by GamerGate. I owned every PSX and PS2 game, and had a vast library of PS3, Xbox Original, and Gamecube titles back in the day, and the spirit that motivated people back then just isn't present anymore. I've ultimately reduced my gaming time to almost nil, only buying one or two games a year now, and only because they're sequels to things I liked previously. The only game I'm going to buy next year, that I can see so far, is Dying Light 2, and after the whole kerfluffle about Chris Avellone being cancel culture'd during its development, I'm strongly suspecting that it's going to be a mess.
*"...the whole kerfluffle about Chris Avellone being cancel culture'd during its development..."* You've got to be kidding me. So he didn't write the game? For one, I -- not being a fool -- _never_ expect _anything_ from a AAA game anymore. And I honestly believe that's all that is required: not being a fool. But beside my general expectation of mediocrity (at best) from Dying Light 2, I had already become convinced the gameplay was going to be very flawed, based upon information from the developer. Without going into detail, I am certain that they seriously messed up the parkour mechanics in the name of making the animations _look_ more realistic from a second/third-person perspective. I.e. during coop/MP. Exactly the opposite of what the focus should be, which is making it _feel_ good from the first-person perspective.
I've been saying for years now I love video games but I hate gamers. Not everyone who plays video games is a gamer in my book. People who play what they want, don't follow what's happening in gaming, don't care about the behind the scenes stuff, who never watched a video on twitch, or livestreamed a game, never uttered the words "git gud" and could give two shits about trends or being a "real gamer" are not gamers. Those who do engage in all that stuff are. I completely agree with you about games in between AAA games and Indie. I distinctly remember going into a retro video game store about 5 or 6 years ago now and looking at their PS3 games for sale. For $15 I picked up the following because I'd never heard of them, they looked different, and what the back of the case said about them piqued my interest: 3D Dot Game Heroes, Puppeteer, and Folklore. The guy behind the counter looked at them and in a snobbish, dismissive tone looked me right in the eye and said "Really? Of all the games we have for sale you're buying those three?" Those 3 are some of the best games I've ever played and have more heart and charm than any indie or AAA title game in the last 5 years. It's like when someone asks me what some of my favorite gaming series are and I say Bomberman and Bubble Bobble because I like puzzle games with some action thrown in. Thankfully I don't listen or care what others think because, and I don't care if I sound like a dick, I don't respect their opinion and can't take it seriously. They're the ones who have made the hobby the poor shadow of what it used to be.
I did notice all my favorite games are kind of old... Spyro, Fable, Saints Row The Third Mass Effect, Kingdom of Amalur. Also on Steam the most popular games are almost all PvP shooters.
I despise Nintendo. They are SO far removed from their fanbase it's ridiculous. Also, I think Breathe of the Wild is the most overrated game of the modern gaming era.
Yeah this video almost makes me want to cry. I was also bullied for playing games,even by my own family members. But i loved them so much i persevered. You're right around 2012 is when gaming went to shit. It pains me i literally have no interest anymore,and i've been playing since around 1987. Fucking lefties have to ruin everything. Also Darksiders! One of my favourite ever games. Thanks man.
you made this 3 years ago damn you on point this video so underrated everything you mentioned i have also debate with gamers and non gamers...the sim & survival genre is killing the fun factor in modern games because they trending so game companies love what trending
No cap bro i have watched tons of youtube game reviews from retro to new, and you are without a doubt the best reviewer ive seen. I am so tired of boomer news style, super overly scripted game reviews that are still afraid to step on anyones toes for fear of backlash on their channel. You are always spitting straight facts that the majority of people are afraid to hear or even say. Its also nice hearing some love for the ps3, it was my first non nintendo console growing up and i only got that instead of the xbox cuz the online component was free and my parents werent willing to pay a monthly fee, even tho all my friends had xbox. I cant even imagine what kind of games id be into today if it werent for the ps3, my taste is so varied that i play almost every genre these days
That video is actually how I found you, and honestly I was in the same headspace generally then and now. I feel like games have become more dumbed down, with the likes of lighter mechanics that lack depth, graphics being a strong focal point for games now a days, and my own specific gripe of open worlds over taking most new big name IPs . Obviously these only scratch the surface of my problems with games now a days. Personally I've taken a huge liking to indie games more than older games, but I totally understood the sentiment you made in your previous video about older games filling something that indie just can't do. Also just to clarify I'm into RPGs and mostly turn based ones, I'd like to get a scope for what you like in game in regards to genre and what not Synthetic. Sorry if this was a bit rambly or non-sensical, just kinda writing down my thoughts on things. Keep up the good work Synthetic.
My friend, I’ve never heard anyone summarise all of the things that I think are wrong with the gaming industry that are as aligned with the way I think as well as you just have. I agree with you on essentially everything you’ve just said and I’m glad to see people being vocal about this in the way you’ve just been. I hope as many people see this as possible because as you put it, one of the reasons people are so easily satisfied with mediocrity is that they’re new to gaming and have no reference to the way games used to be before they became mainstream. Maybe this’ll change some people’s minds and open a lot of eyes. Subscribed
if any game industry insiders or up-and-coming devs are watching this they would do well to pay attention and take notes. you speak for the people. thank you for so succinctly saying what I've been feeling in the back of my amygdala for years
I played back in the day, like Bioshock, Uncharted, VTMB, SWTOR, Infamous, Jedi Acadamy, Spore, Supreme Commander. BF3, the last game I played regularly, that franchise was ruined though. Game making has just become a Hollywood clone in which it's more about making money than it is about making a good game, and the people who make games just don't have their soul anymore.
A large part of the problem in the industry is (or,, was, I should say) the death of the mid-tier market. In the 90s and 2000s, there were a lot of games that were never on a budget to be considered AAA, but not low budget enough to be indie or shovelware. There were so many games that came out under the radar, it's unbelievable. Almost monthly, there were two or three new games that never got fanfare, and merely spawned on GameStop shelves. We don't have that anymore. It's either a AAA budget game or indie.
Your talk about smaller studios and hidden gems made me feel bad about the darksiders franchise, I only got introduced to it last year and I was like "wow, how come no one adopted this type of games since then?"
I saw your Cyberpunk video so I subscribed and watched a few more. One recommended by youtube was also that one. Guessing a lot of people did the same so that is why influx of comments. Anyway, everything is hyperproduction now with only money in mind. Games, Music, Movies, everything. Oscars 1994 had Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Lion King. All watched even now and hailed as some of the best ever. This year had what? Parasite and Joker? Does anybody even remembers those now? Everything became so casual that quality and even originality(every other movie now is either sequel or remake) has been thrown out of window. And yes, part of that problem are normies that keep pumping money into mediocrity and even pure shit. Why should Star Wars movies ever change when they still earned billion dollars? Why shouldnt Disney push Captain Marvel when that movie made money because lots of people cried how they cant watch "Endgame" if they dont watch that movie first even though they are not connected with anything but just post-credit scene that tells you nothing? Same with gaming. With all crying about Cyberpunk, that game sold 13 million copies. With all bad narrative of TLOU2, that game sold 4 million in first week (or overall, cant remember) because Playstation fanboys drool over exclusives and would suck Sony dick for them no matter the quality. Why should we get better product when companies can get away with anything they serve us. Madden is the same every year to the point they just change skins. They even leave some banners of the past so in "Madden 2021" there is a banner for "Madden 2020". That is embarassing. And normies still buy that because "Hey, I wanna play newest one with updated rosters and everything". Today, Troika would still be alive. because I have no doubt that normies would suck overhyped Masquarade like there is no tomorrow. And I like that game but the state they made her and launch was asinine. I couldnt play it in late 2000s without a patch and even then it was broken so you can imagine what released product looked like. Gaming oficially became too big to even be punished for its mistakes. Because no matter what companies do there are people who buy it.
Nerds are the only people who appreciate old games, Nerds are the people who Mod old games .If your person like me who mods games then you have a good taste in gaming. Game devs have become so lazy and they insult our intelligence when they produce trash and think real gamers can't tell the difference lol.Great video man I really agree with your video, gaming needs to get it's act together.
gaming need good gameplay first and after that plot i dont like playing games like wooden gameplay with good graphics its weird bro its will be better bad graphics with good gameplay because give you something yeah dopamine that i need it for my depression eh.
Same feeling here, getting bored of all the games that comes out. It’s the same game over and over and just like you, I can’t find something that can fill the void.
I found your video because precisely yesterday I was talking with my brother about this topic which everything started because of the Capcom Fighting Collection. We both been playing our whole life, the Atari 2600 was our first console. Playing Darkstalkers, Pocket Fighter, they arent the best games ever, but were really fun games, with memorable characters design and music, and I was like dang what is going on today with Capcom and all the others. Playing those old games you could feel the passion of the developers trying their best to make their games the best they can. By the middle of the last generation of Xbox one and PS4 it started to feel different, franchise over exploted yearly, pay for dlc day one on 60.00 games, no more memorable characters, all AAA games have to be a mega production that should feel like a movie, censorship, characters needs to focus on representation (the most absurd thing ever). And now we are on the the new generation which has gone even worse, microtransaction for fatalities and characters colors on fighting games, characters that doesn't inspire at all, games way expensensive, way to many predatory practice and wokeness everywhere since companies care more on the casuals and ESG than the fan base that truly supported them during the years. There are some exceptions like Nintendo games( sometimes they bend to wokeness and over charge for a game), and indie games, but like you said it isnt right that we need to look away of what we were used to years ago, just because some idiots invaded our hobbies. Is on us to fix this mess by not supporting their crap anymore. Great video.
I have never owned a Playstation beyond the third one and I won't lie, the console holds up surprisingly well, had a lot of memories with it, absolutely loved it.
"If there is anything that pisses me off more than dumb people, it's dumb people congregating and agreeing with each other." - Bro, this line is golden
Which is why the concept of the Democrat party pisses me off so much.
@Lurker M The bigger picture is there, but the descent into lunacy the left has become over the course of Obama’s and Trump’s presidencies is undeniable. The GOP is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but as far as surface layer American politics are concerned, the left is openly totalitarian/in China’s pocket.
The Republican Party
@Lurker M Agreed, they are both complete garbage. The difference being one side knows they are full of shit, and the other side is full of shit but completely oblivious to the fact.
Worse, dumb people congregating and agreeing and then agreeing on violence.
if you buy games that are bad, then they will continue making bad games.
Correct. I do not get why people dont understand this simple fact.
Very simple logic and it applies to all forms of entertainment.
Watch far cry 6 be the same exact thing as 5 but with like one new thing and a better Ui lol
@@AnthonyArribas don't know how they can beat the gorgeous wilderness of Far Cry 5
Far cry , fallout , call of duty , halo , everything EA. Just a few for example
It was a combination of Reddit and Twitter that got ahold of that video. Those two are unbelievably filled to the brim with NPCs. Exactly why I’ve quit both of those platforms.
There's probably a few pockets of decent people still left there who aren't aware of alternative sites to host their communities on, otherwise those platforms along with REE-setEra, Boomerbook & the Tik-Tok are pretty much the internet trash cans.
@@sintheemptyone8108 dude its top comment on thread, cheesy joke under top comment, then someone posting their original or opposing viewpoint and bullied to the ground. Rinse and repeat every popular thread.
@@yamitristan3349 you didn't disprove his point
@@captainmega6310 tagged the wrong person but I wasnt trying to Ben Shapiro im agreeing with them
The fact that I'm fucking reading books now more often than I'm playing some of my favorite video games should tell you exactly where gaming is at rn. I don't even like books that much if I'm being honest, i just need an escape from this shit because gaming as a whole has just become so incredibly tainted by corporations and politically-driven idiots online that even thinking about playing games hardly ever crosses my mind anymore.
It just all stopped being fun at some point.
Dunno what kind of books you read man, but i'm with you. I like what I call...trashy one man army books. Jack Reacher, John Milton, The Gray man (Court Gentry) series, victor the assassin. These are great books for gamers IMO if you're into shooty/operator'y kinda stuff.
If you can dig up his work Rick Shelley does sci-fi military stuff. He's retired military. His structure is nerve wracking. No one is safe. Anyone can get bit in true combat.
My guy we are in a time period that requires us to all speak and be more knowledgeable about who we elect. If you don't like politics its typically cause it flys in contrast with your world views. Get ready its called.... Cognitive dissonance. As you age your subconscious starts taking over, if you don't listen to it you will never find God or happiness.
I’m pretty late to this, but have you tried branching out to other genres of games? For me the yakuza series is holding it down pretty good
Same. Really enjoying audiobooks RN. I do about an hour before bed instead of screen time. I enjoy it more than playing a game otherwise. Sci-fi and Fantasy books are giving me the escapism that gaming is not. I want that comfy experience. Finishing the 2nd Witcher book (read the first one way back) and I am almost done with Metro 2033.
"never underestimate the power of stupid people in big groups"
Eh don't worry. That's why they always face the wall ;)
Its a rule now every 45 seconds you gotta remind the audience its your opinion otherwise they start foaming at the mouth
It's a rule that every 45 seconds people have to remind you that a response to someone's opinion is merely d response or criticism.
You have a right to an opinion. I have a right to acknowledge that I disagree and lost my reasons why.
I really hate that
@@farhan007 Unless your just insulting people. I made a reddit post saying Ghost of Tsushima is overrated and they damn tried to flog me.
Complain about other people's opinions about your opinion because it's just your opinion and therefore nobody should tell you you are dumb
People can't respect differences and it's just insane. The same people who preach equality/equity and champions LGBTQI+ and is behind all the major race relations movements are hypocrites when it comes to real opinions, and I mean opinions that aren't in any way offensive. We all used to be more open with each other as people on the internet but with how rhetoric has become more worse on the internet now and how people can just rally around and basically exile you off the internet its no wonder everyone is hostile. Many people are going to dive off of social media entirely when the only people on anymore are seething with hostility over everything and anything that differs from their opinions or belief. Not even regular religious people are that devout to where they would do something like that.
I used to think the gamer-sphere was never going to be this convoluted but after being a long time gamer since childhood(I thought maybe I was just getting older but...) I began to realize that gaming became garbage. I noticed that the generation I am from and maybe even the last half of the millennials working on games are making games with profit in mind and not for the craft. Idk how many Older millennials are in charge but a change in who's in charge drove that motive up for profit. It used to be an industry that was niche and it turned into a cash grab run by people who incompetently put out rushed/copy pasted projects and give you nothing new. Games used to give you more bang for your buck but now you are lucky to even get a fully complete game that just isn't out to make a seasonal cash grab out on you. It's just straight predatory. And all that does is warps the poor younger gamers who are learning early on how to gamble... it's sick. Consumables and loot crates were created in mind to target a younger more impressionable generation because they knew that that demographic would buy in the most.
I think where gaming is now we are running a very slippery slope where if politics became more ingrained and the overall view was that video games were a negative influence than some bit of poor legislation could be passed that actually really makes video gaming either a limited activity or many games are banned/heavily policed against younger kids having access to them. No more parents buying their kids rated M games or anyone or if a kid is discovered playing those games or even game outside of their age bracket than its some kind of punishable offense like paying a large fine as a parent for poor parenting. We could be heading towards a world where you can only play for like 2 hours even as an adult. I could see the many freedoms we take for granted someday being taken away and in place of those freedoms a time sheet of when you can express those freedoms.
We should use the time we have to just enjoy and celebrate some of the games we have had before the multiplayer explosion. Many of the single player games that made fun a priority. I feel bad for todays gamers who don't really play a game for the fun of it. People more often just play these games to win or for the k/d even but I rarely if ever see anyone play for the sake of creating fun. Making their time playing fun. If you were to see these so many people playing multiplayer right now with faces that look pissed or angered or vindictive you'd see that so many gamers are venting. Using games to vent can be good to relieve stress but if thats all you use games for then they eventually become a poor coping mechanism. Also factoring in how you feel when you play with friends if maybe you have more of a good time playing with friends than if you solo than maybe its best to step away from those types of games and only play if friends wanna play and invite. Theres a treasure trove of single player games to play and enjoy I think this channel would help so many of those modern day gamers who have gotten into that "gaming just sucks" rut. All this is just big stretched opinions.
Redditor: Says “Red-pilled man child”
Redditor: *proceeds to wine over someone’s opinion*
@@kyoukoisbestgirl6370 lol
@@kyoukoisbestgirl6370 lul
The red pill is the realization that men are the oppressed class btw. That is what is meant by the red pill, not characteristics red-pilled men tend to have in common. Those are incidental.
@@jiggerypokery3761 they're probably opressed but not for the reasons I usually see brought up
The fact that you can't see the extremely obvious sarcasm when that guy called himself a redditor...
Imagine telling your younger self that instead of unlocking things in game through progression you now have to cough up your own money to get anything other than the default equipment. 10 year old me would hang myself.
Imagine telling your younger self instead of being creative and finding a game exploit like a speed runner to achieve some nigh impossible feat, you would be given a script of unlocks you must follow to be handed a trophy or achievement that everyone else has because google. Completionist is now just a word for coal miner.
Imagine telling your younger self "You will pay 60 bucks for a game and will probably have to wait 2 years for all the patches necessary to make it reasonably enjoyable." Maybe I'm old, but I'm used to buy finished products.
@@U47VII Yeah exactly, I’m a fan of AC games, and I liked Valhalla alright, but it is buggy as hell and sometimes the QUEST MARKERS DON’T EVEN WORK.
@@JayDee-vq5rf I got one. Imagine telling your younger self that the game you are playing now will be sold again for more money and will be worse than the original run. So just keep the original and keep it moving 🍻
If I knew what AAA gaming would turn into I probably would have stopped playing them as a kid.
And this is why companies have no reason to produce the best quality games anymore because most gaming consumers have been conditioned in lower their standards into accepting anything these damn companies throw it, regardless whatever they are bad or broken games. Look at the people still defending Cyberpunk. It's only going to get worst from here until gaming eventually crashes and reset itself one day.
sadly this doesnt just apply to video games as products but any product out there. Everything gets more shit in quality and all we see is the consumer addict just bending over. Its like those people complaining about CoD or MW2 getting more shit by each release and than still preordering the next one.
1. Low tier competition / Lobbying which lead to the popularisation of DLCs/microtransactions/skins and overall paying for additional content. Also the fact the video game industry is so loosely regulated, basically allowed the big players in the market to do whatever they want. Today you don't basically own a game on Steam, you purchase a digital license to access it that Steam can theoretically revoke or alter whenever they feel like it.
2. Video games became more mainstream and thus were watered down to cater to normies and since most normies are idiots they are "tricked" into buying the exact same game every 2 years or are milked dry by keeping them hooked to shitty multiplayer games with a thousand microtransactions (I swear to God I have that idiot friend who keeps falling prey to marketing hype every time there's a new AC title or WoW expansion).
3. Feminism and wokeness penetrated video games around 2015, because of course they couldn't leave a predominantly male hobby alone without ruining it, which companies embraced because a) they received funding and b) virtue signalling is far easier than good writing
I think these are the big three that killed the industry and I don't expect this to change. Companies now are making way more profit producing shit games, than they ever did producing decent ones.
Cyberpunk is good asf now tho
@@rushpatriot2866 hell yeah it is
@@rushpatriot2866I don't think you realize that this video is about you...
Your rant(?) has total relevancy and makes complete sense. It reminds me of when we used to play steal the flag back in the 80’s...
We (my neighborhood friends) lived next to this huge field that was complete with a swamp, mountains, forest, rivers...the entire enchilada. And we would play STF with actual BB guns, Co2 cartridge bombs, sling shots, traps, everything...and WE WOULD GET HURT. ON PURPOSE. After a couple years more of the neighborhood kids wanted to get involved and play and sure enough some of the girls wanted in on the fun too. And sure as shit, they soon after started employing all these new rules and “safety” standards that eventually even the parents started regulating. After all the new “rules” and “safety” measures, the game sucked balls. And everyone stopped playing eventually...at first the original members said fuck this and then the assholes who implemented all the damn rules wondered why no one was playing any longer. And that was that...it was over. Lost in time, forever. In 2006 I actually made a remake of the map of that field we played in (it was HUGE, probably 10 sq miles) using the Unreal Engine and unironically the same shit happened there online. After 2yrs of playing it and hosting the servers and “normies” ruining the fun, I stopped playing and eventually shut it all down by 2008. That was more complicated (as to why we stopped playing and hosting servers) but essentially it was the same thing. “Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (ironically DIE)” has ruined and will continue to ruin anything you cherish or love. BANK ON IT
Agreed. I fucking hate this too. It's like having an F1 racer learning to fly a plane, will he like it? No. But he has to.
Same thing happened to me in the 90s with a BMX jump park. It was a dirt field we (friends and I) turned into huge jumps where we'd crash a lot, get hurt and dust ourselves off and WE LOVED IT. Then more kids started coming in and getting hurt and crying about it to mommy. The parents came in with a cat and leveled it. Shit got boring after that. We built ramps and wrecked on pavement and got hurt way worse but we didn't let normies hit them. Still wasn't the same tho.
Great stories, men! We live terrible times indeed...
Facebook actually took down a rant I wrote about how people are ruining niche properties. Doctor who got driven into the ground. I stopped watching most of my long time TV shows, stopped reading comics, stopped playing DnD and am slowly losing interest in gaming. After this generation and watching franchises I loved be driven into the ground I almost don't want to play video games anymore.
And on your mini rant about music, I'm a musician and I play for a living. Everything is most definitely copy and paste just like gaming. Pisses me off that everything is just dying off and becoming another brick in the wall.
To be fair to the whole 'd&d removed racial statistics' thing, it's actually addressing the real problem of how race can sometimes pingeonhole your class choices, especially with the restricted pointboy they decided for the edition. Though, honestly, the problem is actually that the d&d statistics and the way they interact with classes is still built as if assuming a 'rogue-like' nature to a campaign, where you make characters with rolled stats until you get a good one, as the others quickly die, but d&d just hasn't been brutal enough for that for a very long time. Better solutions to the problem would probably involve making every stat matter to the vast majority of characters instead of making most only matter to a few classes, but 5e is a bad system, so they went for the laziest solution that's easiest to plug and play.
Save every phisical copy that you can get, I am now watching old movies, playing old games and reading old books, also playing good old DnD with people that like the old ones. Let these fuckers stay with their shitty modern generic counter part.
How do you think I feel about Battlefield? The exact same.
the douchebag director of the star trek discovery actually said; "um the goal is not really to promote star trek but to promote these organizations and use it as a platform." literally their aim is to ruin these shows, these hacks who have created and based their careers on supporting fucking politically correct bullshit.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn don't you mean politically?
I can't wait to have yet another "cinematic experience" or some gigantic open-world rubbed in our faces again. Because we definitely do not have enough of those on the market [/s]
You’ll love Far Cry 6. Every review has gone on and on about how good the acting and writing is so obviously it must be a ton of fun to *play*
Literally all western games are now shit
The guy who made this video complained that doom eternal has too much gameplay ( a pathetic excuse to justify himself sucking at the game), sounds like he would enjoy these types of games.
@Hokuto no ken7 Completely subjective opinion.
The only open world games i ever enjoyed was red dead 2
The numbers of "casual gamers" is ever growing
Couple of months ago i was talking to a friend from high school. he wasnt much interested in games when we were in school, but like a year ago he bought a PS4. We were taking about stuff and i mentioned games so he started going on about how "games are so cool nowdays! btw have you played The last of us 2? such a great game, yea the graphics its like a movie, best game ever for me really"
There are millions of "gamers" now for whom the golden standard is a recent "big hit" from a discount shelf
And so what? They enjoyed the game, is that such a bad thing ? The casual market keeps money flowing which is what makes the industry exist lol.
@@jamesgratz4771 thats not OP point, its the fact that the casual market is the basis of mediocre games
@@wuyev i think that’s more the execs than anything else
@@jamesgratz4771 the casuals buy shitty high graphics game and this tells the execs its okay to continue making these games. in the end we have to vote with our dollars.
cyerpunk 2077 sold 13 million copies... you think they care that consumers are angry with how the game came out? no cause the angry ones are their original fanbase the fanbase that actually cares. THey have shifted priorities to the casuals cause they know the money is there.
@@wuyev cyberpunk was botched in many ways lol
Gatekeeping is essential to the health of any community and in the case of the gaming community, the floodgates have been opened wide a long time ago. The more people are into a hobby, the worse it is.
lmao you actually included the image that was in my mind while I wrote this at 13:47, very nice.
How do you gatekeep people from purchasing products that are publicly marketed/sold?
To start, by not catering to the lowest common denominator as a developer, and by not going publicly traded as a company. @@h.r.mitteofficial7662
@@h.r.mitteofficial7662don’t attract a mainstream audience. Attract a dedicated audience who like your stuff and will buy your games time and time again. Long term profit over pleasing people at a short term period, should limit the market and prevent people from buying a game just because it appeals to their politics.
@@h.r.mitteofficial7662 it's not about gatekeeping them from purchasing the games, but about gatekeeping them from incessantly demanding that everything is diluted and watered down for their own consumption. granted, the creators of these games are also at fault for even entertaining them in the first place.
This couldn't be more relevant today with DnD and tabletop RPGs. Tabletop RPGs used to be like a very niche type of game for nerds who gathered in their mom's basements and played 16hour sessions. Today everyone and their moms have heard of DnD, it has become woke (because an ultra niche game def needed trans characters and gay couples in it) and it has even caused an entire edition (5e) to cater to wokeness.
I was never an original player, in fact I never played DnD until 4 years ago, but I never approached it with the mentality that it had to somehow adapt to me. I was getting into someone else's hobby so I had to adapt to it. Now wokies discovered DnD so, like the entitled snowflakes they are, of course they thought wokeness was fitting in a medieval fantasy setting. Even BG3 had to adhere to woke standards and tropes.
Just play a medieval fantasty game like it's supposed to. If you don't feel represented then DON'T PLAY IT.
As a 26 year old who had a brother that was 10 years older then me I feel like I got to witness this decay first hand, from the old rainbow six games, splinter cell chaos theory, mercenaries 1 so many good middleware games
Thank your brother for me as the games you just described were fucking phenomenal. The original Rainbow six games and vegas 2 were the shit, splinter cell was the shit and mercenaries one was fucking awesome. They are all or became SHIT now. Im almost six years older than your brother and his taste was fucking excellent! Glad you were able to at least see what a great game was and now may never be again.
Mercs 1 was amazing, I used to play it on Xbox all the time and managed to capture the Ace of Spades - it was SUCH a good feeling lol
26 is my favorite number
People are not talking about the decline in gaming enough. Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels gaming sucks now
Same here
you should try playing something other than shooters then
@@astrocyborg that's funny, cause I DONT! Why? Cause gaming sucks.
@@Etch_N_Sketch i'm sure it does if you only play online shooters there's so much more that gaming offers than that
@@astrocyborg again, I DONT PLAY SHOOTERS! COD is the same game every year. You are foolish to keep buying it. The same goes with 2k, Madden, and ever other yearly game. The gaming industry is lazy, and scared to try new ideas. Why do you think there are so many remakes and remasters? They try to bank of nostalgia. And unfortunately it's working. Like the video said the PASSION for gaming is dead. All it is is a quick buck to please people like yourself
In my opinion, there were 4 things that ruined gaming.
1. The internet. Microsoft was probably the first to take advantage of this in a malicious way. Starting all the way back at the launch of the 360, charging players 60$ yearly just to play multiplayer while the original Xbox had it for free.
It also allowed developers to continue to work on their games even after they were released (patches). This was supposed to be a good thing but it just turned into a lazy way for companies to release full priced trash so their consumers can beta test their games. We used to pay beta testers, not the other way around. And of course they quickly got rid of couch co-op as they realized Multiplayer could be monetized in ways single player games never could, probably taking notes from older PC MMOs... the difference being you already paid full price for them. It also kills physical media, once the servers go down, all you have is a beta copy on your bluray disc.
2. The rise and influence Android/iOS smartphones. I would say around 2009, video game companies were starting to take notice of how mobile gaming developers were doing things. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans were probably huge influences. EA of course charging the lead into bringing that business model onto video game consoles and PC. Giving birth to FIFA Ultimate Team and delivering the utter failure called Dead Space 3. Also killing the SSX franchise and destroying Dragon Age. Activision Blizzard took it a step further with Overwatch by normalizing the lootboxes which were already common on mobile games. Of course the idiotic games industry rewarded that behavior by proclaiming it as GOTY.
3. The massive influx of non-gamers into the hobby. The 360 for some reason that I'm not aware of (perhaps their marketing?), became a massive hit with normies and redditors. Again, this one on the surface also sounds good, it means we all can share the enjoyment of the hobby right? Nope. They not only helped normalize the shitty practices these companies were doing by constantly shilling and supporting them financially, they also started to demand changes, to the point where every western video game company has to do as Resetera says. One of the things I noticed right away is that they purposefully made characters uglier from that point on. Some other examples include the yearly purchase of sports and generic, watered down AAA games and random dialogue/clothing censorship. The latter got so bad even companies like Sony pretty much cut ties with Japanese developers because the censorship was getting out of hand for them just so they could virtue signal to their consumers in California.
4. Budgets / lack of creativity. As new hardware tech became available, the budgets had to rise and the risks had to decrease to deliver the experiences the new consoles were capable of. The problem was, AA and other mid to low budget companies were slaughtered in the process (exceptions being THQ Nordic and Focus Home Interactive). This centralized a lot gaming on a few companies, the only alternative could only be found on Steam with indie titles which of course don't do enough to satisfy the needs of many players who were looking for alternatives. This created yet another problem because for some reason, companies like Sony decided to treat this medium as a mini Hollywood, throwing all the budget they had on actors, advertising, animations and graphics. Gameplay be damned. You can still see that influence in other games like Red Dead or the new God of War. Fun goes in the trash bag. Repetitive, generic sequels also became a thing, it keeps the budget in place as the normies rush the stores to consume the new product, hell, even increasing the prices to 70$ didn't stop them.
You hit the nail on the head.
Bro you should read my shi 😹😹😹 i swear you copied off me but just made yours sound more technical...😹😹😹 anyways I agree bro. Couldn’t have put it better.
This is completely spot on.
Also respect for the Lain avatar, Serial Experiments is one of the best series I ever saw with the best intro song.
Perfect!
God of War is actually pretty good but yeah, the insane obsession with "muh realism" and "cinematic experience" led to too much focus and investment in graphics, acting, mo-capping, whatever, to the point the gameplay suffered a lot (just look at the absurd recycling of enemies, small and kinda forgettable boss list, heck, we fight Baldur 3 fridging times!!). Reason why I prefer the older titles way more since their gameplay and bosses are top-notch
Man that list of greatest games gave me chills... Also i'm glad you mentioned yakuza games as well, everybody is jumping on the bandwagon with last game and they refuse to play the older ones or they call them shit, the fanbase has become full of redditors and persona 5 fans, pretty annoying kind of people
I played older games that I always wanted to play like The TALOS Principle.
Dude what's wrong with persona 5 fans? Xd
That sounds like what happened to the RE franchise specially with the "remakes"; they claim that the savior and game changer is RE7 and RE8. Funny enough RE4 was thought be the savior of RE.
@@cesarmigueldasilvacaraccio2297 they're pedophiles
@@berserkboi1217 pretty big generalization there bud
These people are the main reason why gatekeeping has become a more popular target and for good reason. Some of us are so tired of ever piece of entertainment being diluted to meet the standards of the simplest people.
Maaaaan I’ve only just found your channel the other day but god damn! I’ve been binge watching. Great shit!
Keep being real man. It's so hard to find that around nowadays. Thanks for having a backbone and standing by your values. Massive respect to you dude!
These legit sound like the same people who would unironically post "I'm proud of not being able to please my wife"
My wife's boyfriend said please delete this comment
(This is a statement is supposed to be funny)
@@topnotchcupoftea Lol, same. My bull just bought me a nintendo switch, we're the real winners here.
Kinda afraid to ask but is that really something some people say nowadays? I saw redit and resetera threads were people proudly proclaimed that they share their girlfriends and people got banned and softbanned for saying that they aren't into this kind of thing. So it is seriously hard to tell.
@@brotbrotsen1100 You'd be surprised theirs humans out here that will fall in love and take care of kids and wives that's not theirs this is nothing
@@YBNKASHWAYS I mean, that is also an adequate description of adoption
Just for fun here's a list of some games released while I was in middle school:
San Andreas
Halo 2
MGS3
Half life 2
Fable
Metroid Prime 2
Kotor 2
DMC3
Jak 3
Ratchet and Clank 3
Dragon Quest 8
Jade Empire
God of War
Psychonauts
Resident Evil 4
Shadow of the Colossus
Oblivion
Twilight Princess
Bully
Final Fantasy 12
Bioshock
Cod4
Halo 3
Mass Effect
Portal
Super Mario Galaxy
Team Fortress 2
Kingdom Hearts 2
God of War 2
No more Heroes
My childhood was pretty fucking sick lol.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed Kingdom Hearts 2 despite never really liking Disney even before it became the franchise destroying monopolistic juggernaut it is now
It was one of the most fun gaming experiences I ever had.
Good games that came out in the past years.
#1 portal 2
#2 Half life alyx
#3 Doom(2016) and doom eternal
#4 Super smash bro’s
#5 Mario odessy
Uhhh…
@@imthepictureofhealth9043 Do you mean, games that YOU liked? Because I can think of dozens of great recent games
My childhood it's simple playing an angry bird and NFS but guess what they are better without micro - transaction
@@imthepictureofhealth9043 ghostrunner is short but its the most fun ive had in a long time
I know this video is old, but I still enjoyed it thank you for saying what most of us real gamers are actually thinking. I've been gaming since Nintendo, but I didn't become a hardcore gamer until Nintendo 64 onward. You are telling the unapologetic truth. The early 2010s is when gaming began to die. Everything becomes watered down and safe when it becomes popular. I truly miss the days of gaming being a niche thing. The PS4 generation of gaming is exactly why I'm going to PC, I need variety not politically correct commercial bullshit.
That music analogy was gold. Todays music does suck, I try to express to my friends, today's music just dont have that sound. It doesnt hit the same as the stuff back then. Even the music before my time. I can still listen to Bowie, Ojays, Marvin ect. Give me todays equivalent of greats back then. They cant. Just like games and everything else, most people just say move on from the past and settle for the shit they are offered. You really nailed the point with that wiki list. Most consumers that were born after a certain time will NEVER understand how impactful those games were. We have this medium today because of those games back then. Sad people dont realize that. 🍻
I just saw you in another comment section, I think it was prog rock related but I can't put my finger on it.
indie scene
@@busterdouglas593 you probably did, I'm into a lot of different things. It's always cool to chop it up with people whether we agree or not. It's just conversation 🍻
@@davidd4696 I agree, the indies always have a few bands that keep it going, but it's the sifting through the dirt to find those gems. Not for nothing, I miss the days of MySpace. When people would post music with no name or artist labels, it promoted interaction with listener, poster, and artist all in one. When MySpace went down, imagine all the music that was lost never to be heard again. It's sad.
@@Solodolo84 Yes that's the bad thing about indie music, you have to put in work to find out what you like. Once you find that artist you like it's worth it though..
I used to have the same opinion on indie games as you, until I started playing some and I have to say, those guys put more effort into their games than AAA studios do.
I've play some good ones too but there are a lot more bad ones the good ones.
True
I haven't played many but Indie for me is a mixed bag of good and trash from what I have seen and played.
I really enjoyed though A Robot Named Fight, Moonlighter and Slay the Spire.
Play Hollow knight and Kingdom come deliverance
Most of them tend to either be sjw trash or mediocre. The good ones are total gems though.
I agree about the graphics thing.
"OH MAN THESE GRAPHICS ARE INSANE"
but guess what, every game now has insane graphics tbh.
It ain't new. It's a necessity.
Also, what I said doesn't mean that I hate insane graphics. You kidding??
I LOVE THE GRAPHICS but graphics arent the only selling point of a game.
I grew up on Runescape and I literally cannot understand why people care so much about graphics, especially in fast paced games you'll be ignoring it all and focusing on the actual game.
@@Kurai_69420 people care about graphics so much is mostly for immersion reasons. Causals are usually just people who have alot going in in there lives and they want to temporarily escape they're reality for a bit. You probably don't understand because... you play Runescape. You don't play that for immersion
Graphics exclusively is NOT what makes a good video game at all, The ingredients That is needed to make a good video game is Good to Great Quality, Good to Great Imagination and Actual Fun and NOT just solely good graphics, I am 35 years old by the way, American Aborigine male.
I’d rather have good game physics than constant upgrading of graphics. Graphics already look good enough, why don’t games start focusing on the more influential thing in a game, the physics.
Faith The Unholy Trinity has the graphics of an Atari and it helps making it a better game
I could not live without games. I could survive, but living would be too much
Surviving ain't living after all
Same here. I've gaming since i was 5, and i am 27 now. After 20+ years of gaming, i can't see myself living without it anymore.
I mean i can live without gaming. I just like gaming i was 3-4 when i started gaming, on mums laptop... Now being 19 i still remember that first game 4x4 cabelas advanture that my dad and i played
Games have helped me out through so much. So many games have helped me grow, The world ends with you showed me that life matters and is precious, and that you need to cherish your friends. Fate/Extra helped me realize just how transient existence and life can be and sometimes even if you try to do your best you might end up doing bad things, even so you need to keep trying to do whats right and survive and keep surviving no matter what. 7th dragon gave me hope. Even if its hopeless. You need to do what you can and have hope, never give up.
I could live without modern gaming since it feels like it's only Nintendo and indies that can make new games that interest me. I have enough of a backlog to last me a good couple of decades anyway.
I got to be honest that last statement you made about Nerds being outcasts for playing video games brought a tear to my eyes, when I was younger I was the textbook definition of a Loser, I loved video games because I could play these badass characters in a new world that was unavailable to me outside of school or home (I was sheltered because I had ADHD) so many hidden gems that I could barely play because I was poor, but each time I replayed I was always surprised by what I missed games helped me appreciate them as an Art and a blessing. . . And then came Middle/Highschool where the Hype was Call of Duty all over the place, every new game talked about was that Game with different names, I didn't take interest because I couldn't afford it but also because I saw it was the Same Freaking Game, now games are just Fortnite, Call of Duty, and various online rip-offs that cost money each month. Sad to say but Gaming is Done, (except for THQNordic bringing back the classics) I still play games just the Old ones because I was Missing out like damn. Keep up the good work Synthetic Man, and thank you again for that Spongebob game review I requested I'll try to get a Patreon to support you. 👍🙂
We called these "middleware" games to B-games - AA-games. I really want them to come back. There are many "hidden gems" on systems like PS2 and even PS3. I openly admit that modern indie-games don't do it for me. AAA is clearly in the shitter. I mainly play older games now and discover new amazing content all the time. Too bad we can't have nice things with new technologies. The term "middleware" actually means for example Havoc physics. The software that game developers implement so they don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to use a wheel in their game.
This could be due to two things. One, as the industry gets bigger, games have become more expensive which results in less risk-taking. Risk only happens if the losses aren't as big, but games today cost as much to make as movies. Ubisoft, Activision, EA, Rockstar, Capcom all know their games are too big to fail so they avoid taking any risk for fear of losing.
This is very similar to what the movie industry is going through today. As movies become bigger and bigger and only superhero comic book movies seem to be making money, why bother for studios to take any risk knowing that if anything other than a superhero movie is made it will bomb. Also, there are no more mid-range budget movies, that were so often made whose budget ranged from $10 to $30 million. Today for a movie to be a success it needs to make $500 million to $1 billion and then there are the indie movies which are the opposite. We don't really have options but rather two ghettos to choose from.
Second, the previous generation had the fortune of having both the Xbox360 and the PS3 competing and producing a bunch of quality games. This was not the case for the Xbox1 which was not even present for this generation. In a sense having a healthy competition is good for consumers and the industry.
The problem withe AAA game developers is they aren't happy making lots and lots of money. . . They need to make ALL of the money 💰.
Games become more expensive because these companies employee 1000+ people to work on the game.
Why do they need 1000+ people, communication becomes broken at that point.
Every good game that ever existed with a memorable point had under 50 people working on it. Clear direct communication and usually a smaller group means a passionate group since its not like EA where people do a "game development" uni course than just look for the big companies for full time work.
Gaming is an art you need to create on your own passion, not on the back of corporate employment.
Another issue companies need to continually impress shareholders, every year MUST look like growth.
If you have an audience of consumers @6million people in a franchise and it never grows because the type of game is too specific then the only way to increase your profit is to make cuts in development whether it is time or quality (usually work together anyway). So you get these recycled games that are just a skin change every year with maybe 1 or 2 slight changes.
Games are made to impress share holders not gamers, and for some reason people still keep buying the trash. If everyone just said fuck it i won't buy a new title for 1 year, you can only hope the biggest companies will collapse, forcing developers to become their own publishers. Cutting the cancerous corporate management payroll.
Remember over 1/2 of the game sales profit go to people who never even touched it. If the "CEO" isn't also designing the game. They are to big and wasting money.
@@AnOldUA-camAccount Yes! You're absolutely right. These things are at the root of all the issues AAA gaming is facing today. Investors/shareholders, bad management/software engineering and, to a point, the consumers.
1. Investors/shareholders obviously want to make as much money as possible so they simply try to mitigate the risk of losses as much as possible.
2. Management often think they can "make a baby in a month with 9 women", in other words, they think more people working on the game equals shorter development time and a better quality game, which is just not the case. Plus, a bigger dev team might make the project look a lot better to shareholders. This makes them over-promise and under-deliver. Cyberpunk is a great example of how this can go very wrong.
3. The average consumer just sees a trailer for a game that looks cool, and so they'll buy it. They simply don't to follow every piece of gaming news and just want to play some cool games without thinking about it to much. The average person is just shockingly stupid, or rather, simply don't give these things much thought. Marketing teams make sure to sucker these people in year after year. Oh, and a special mention to the folks on Reddit who'll tie their identity to a game or company to the point that if you have anything negative to say about said game or company, it will feel like a personal insult to them, and so they'll defend a game like Cyberpunk no matter how fucked up the game turns out to be. Free marketing!
So yes, literally the only way all of this will ever truly change is when people start to vote with their wallets, thus making this system collapse, but the pessimist in me feels like we're a loooooong way away from that point still.
True but he wants you to believe its the evil SJWs that are infiltrating. Lmao
@@tomtomtom6970 big companies only want to sell their brand as much as they can to those willing to buy. And when “intruders” are making the biggest stink on the internet the companies will selectively listen to them over real fans because they scream the loudest and so will tailor their products to appease them. But then no one is happy and thus the blame game starts.
Unfortunately Synthetic Man this is something we cannot change.
The hive-mind of snowflake "gamers" are too stupid and casual to stop playing movie-cinematic games that make them feel accomplished.
people are gonna play what games they wanna u can say leftists are being snowflakes and ruining games but you are just wrong
@@finnmunro5741 Yup u can play whatever games u want to play doesn't mean we can't call u out for enabling these corrupt AAA companies by buying their microtransactions and having a shitty taste in games.
@@shaggythunderburg8184 lul. Only government/culturely mandated games then.
Looking forward to when we start canceling people for liking games that you don't like/consider to be "shitty taste".
You wanna go after microtransactions? Go after microtransactions. You wanna go after dumb generic ubishit open world games? Go after ubishit games. But don't do this SJW cancel culture bullshit where we just deem people who like games we don't like as having "shitty taste".
It's like the word "boomer" or "incel". Just a way to dissmiss someone without needing to engage with them.
The worse part about all this is that people are lieing to themselves.
@@weirdo3116 Never said I wanted to cancel anyone.
Just want to argue a point that they are conformers to the corrupt AAA companies and are just a hive-mind that buy trendy movie-cinematic games.
Not going to harrass them on social media for it lol I don't even have social media.
@@shaggythunderburg8184 or they just genuinely like those games/movies... Like I'm sorry but this is just SJW cancel/shaming talk but with out the bite.
Again you wanna go after microtransactions and corrupt AAA companies then do that. But stop acting like everyone who buys these games are just a morally bankrupt give mind. It's dumb level 1 SJW shit.
This is from my perspective (as a developer).
Games are expensive to make even back in time. Even though in NES days or even Atari days games were simple, they were still not something anyone could pull off due to their complexities on interfacing with hardware.
Although nowadays development tools and hardware improved a lot (eliminated a lot of quirky stuff and became more generalized), the fundamental complexity of software engineering never change (you can make NES game using modern tooling faster, of course, but it’s not what we want today). These engineering aspects include how to test your game and make sure every major part is covered (find bugs), or how to plan the development work and estimate the time (release on time). These are common issues on software project management (hard to get right), which can be migrated / delayed, but not eliminated. Games are more interactive and advanced, so requirements on these are even higher.
On the other hand, nowadays game development is more on artworks instead of programming side. Unfortunately this cannot be made to work faster (you cannot fully automate the drawing or modeling process), so you have to add people. But communication cost gets higher for more people (asking 2 people do a job is different from asking 50).
Also different from normal software, it’s also not possible to be fully automated on testing the games. They are too dynamic (you don’t know how to simulate a human player to play them in different ways - that’s literally AI). You can only test some basic part of them using automated tests, then you still need human beings to play test it.
So many problems with 3A are rooted by these - and social stuff on top of them. From this standpoint, we need a productivity / tech breakthrough on these games to be more realistic and wealthy on contents. However it is not easy, so we literally are trying to make time for it.
(And, Indie games are basically a compromise on this - I believe everyone want to make a 3A masterpiece, but they cannot, so fall back to indie and do something creative - with cooperation with your imagination)
For issues with “Gamers”, I don’t blame them.
IMHO this was from a very plain wish - you participate, you have fun, you feel meaningful / good. It’s entertainment.
But the problem is that we push this “make everyone feel they are meaningful” idea a little too far, and technologies simply could not catch up with it (you are literally trying to make a virtual world to “cheat” people and make them feel they did something. This is a type of “simulation”. It’s hard). Hence the crunching, false advertising, and microtransactions (especially in Western you sell games with a price cap on standard editions, making it worse)
Bottom line, this is a hard problem. I don’t blame gamers because this is literally how human society runs (20/80 + chaos rule). Its hard to change that.
It's depressing how fewer and fewer people may begin to even care about the production side of things like you've described. It's greatly appreciated personally, giving the time to comment such information about it. It just feels like companies are trying to please too wide a spectrum of people these days.
What games have you worked on and what consoles do you have experience with? Also don’t you think billion dollar corporations like Nintendo who literally made a statement saying they made so much money they are trying to figure out ways to spend it could cover the costs for bigger teams and better world development?
you clearly don't understand what this man is trying to say.
@@katsuito1083 i get what you're saying, but what OP was saying does seem to be true from many devs
@synthetic man the DEGREDATION OF A FANBASE/HOBBY layout was the best representation I’ve seen that’s show exactly how people who grow up loving things like anime,games etc feel about how the community treat’s these things now days thank you
I'm getting older and more disappointed with younger generations for falling prey to the trickery of the mainstream. I try to understand that they've got different circumstances to contend with. I grew up before everyone had 24/7 internet access, smartphones and social media. I witnessed the rise of the casual game market, the greedy monitization schemes, the social engeneering, the echo chambers, the political influences etc after I could think for myself. I took a break from gaming all together during my twenties. I got interested in gaming again and bought a PS4 about 3 years ago to play Bloodborne and the all Resident Evil titles. Now I'm catching up on great games I missed and learning what has happened to the industry and it is pretty gross. I've since collected a good backlog of quality games to keep me happy for years. Even filtering out the garbage, there are just too many games now days. I'm not interested in the latest titles, I am looking forward to trying Elden Ring though. Hope it turns out well. Looks promising, and I've never been disapointed with From Software or Capcom.
Oh and I'll add that I like the recent trend of remakes and remasters of older games. Not all of course, but its nice to see games like Baulder's Gate Dark Aliance, Doom64, Turok, Quake etc get modern ports after all these years.
All I can say is Welcome to America 2021. It’s all down hill from here.
Weimerica 2021
@Gzus Kreist I'd prefer the German.
@Gzus Kreist no we'll be speaking Mandarin
imagine having hope until this point. we are living in a fucking 1984.
What does this even have to do with gaming
I feel like Every time you get more emotional in a rant video the doom music turns into the combat version, I’m immersed.
I feel you man. I wish games would have the soul of old games with the visual of new games but its unlikely.
When you called them a hivemind, I immediately knew you were talking about leftists.
"Gaming is Dying, and 'GAMERS' are Killing it"
I think you mean gaymers.
Didn’t expect a comment response video. Lemme grab some popcorn.
I miss the old days of gaming😌
Over The Years Video Gaming in General has decreased in Quality rather than increase.
Video Gaming in General NEEDS to come back to being on an elevated plateau and elevated ground instead of being deep down in the sewer dumps.
4 Qualities That Video Gaming in General should REALLY be about are Fun Factor, Compelling Factor, Captivating Factor and Fantastic Quality and Absolutely nothing less Than Those 4 Qualities put together, Period Dot Dash.
I am 36 years old by the way, Black American male.
There's nothing like opening PCSX2, listening to that legendary PS2 boot up sequence, seeing the crunch of my favorite childhood games in 1440p with a CRT filter applied... and not caring because they were great games.
I should've realized it years earlier, but there's a reason why the PS2''s record still hasn't been broken yet: that was the generation when gaming peaked.
I always said that the ps2 was my favorite console of all time followed by the ps1
I forgot why because it's been so long since my ps2 died and buying a new wouldn't change anything because most of my ps2 games are dead too
But i watch videos about the games i used to play and i remember what made me so passionate about gaming
I forgot that feeling
Stop. PS2 sold so well because it was cheapest dvd player on the market + you could play video games on it. It was great era for games nevertheless.
@@givemorexp good GOD… what a stupid comment.
Customer : “yes I need a DVD player”
Best Buy employee : “ok well you could get this $30 DVD player”
Customer : “Ok sounds g-“
BB Employee : “ORRR… we have this video game console called PS2 that costs $250 and plays dvds”
Customer : “But I don’t play video games”
BB Employee : “But it plays DVD’s… I thought you wanted a DVD player?”
Customer : *stares confusedly*
@@Augusto_PinochetDVD players were expensive back then, like a few hundred dollars so it was actually a really good deal - DVD players were new at the time and I promise you they didn't cost $30 or I would have bought one (I was in high school at the time)
Poverty breeds good taste, since I was poor growing up and couldn't ask mom and dad for the next new game, I had to look up ways to get old games cheap and emulation, and emulation was the real gateway to good games, emulation is the best thing since sliced bread
me too bro miss old times! when i play on laptop with limited internet and limited game choice heroes of might and magic 3 stronghold crusader, minecraft 1.6.2, murder shadow (browser game),raze 2 raze 3, plazma burst 2, kogama, darkorbit, need for speed most wanted 2005,gta san andreas with mods. now many of older games you can't play with mods because they crashing example: gta san andreas with cleo mods crashing on my modern pc.. and also i get depression and now i have medicates.. and my minds is only with dark thoughts
"Consoomer's" Are the new type of enemy for the industry.
We have to stop buying Season pass and dlcs to stop this cycle of garbage.
I miss when we buy the full game without have to download a patch to correct bugs and glitchs and 30% of your SSD taken because you must instal to not have issues with frame rate or loadings.
Concept of DLCs are fine. Their abuse is another problem. Same with with updates and patches.
Games are getting super bloated though that's for sure
Games today are mostly "early access" without being transparent. Persona 5 is the only game I can really think of that I played and it was the complete game on launch (Don't bring up Royal, we all know Atlus loves to milk us with a new version of every game)
@@zackindelli6877 And P5 isn't even that good lol
Don't buy dlc but then Doom Ancient God's happened....
@@MILDMONSTER1234 lul there have been plenty of good DLCs before Ancient God's. This is what i mean by the concept of DLCs being fine, the abuse of them isn't.
"red-pilled man child" that just made me chuckle.
Unlike Knuckles, who'd rather flex his muscles
@@Cyberweasel89 Watch the movie again and you might get it.
@@Cyberweasel89 Telling someone they're redpilled basically is like saying they've become englightened on a certain subject, or learned the truth behind it, which in this case would mean you've learned the truth that modern games and shit.
Depending on who you ask, being redpilled either means you're a really cool person, or a very very mean person that won't let others have fun.
@@Cyberweasel89 You're welcome xd
25:30 that theory works for Hip-Hop/Rap, underground is way better as of currently, but I don't think the other genres have such a large underground scene
This is my favorite video game commentary channel since American Krogan
I stand with you 100% on this hill. There's no reason for companies to change their trajectory when the consumer keeps buying their products and their profits keep going up! Of course, those who don't give a shit about this wonderful and immersive hobby and only play the same exact competitive shooter or mobile gacha game won't hear this. They will keep playing it because it's their and their buddies' new addiction. They will buy battle passes and the new SUPER battle passes because they must spare no expense when it comes to being the best or showing off their new skins and guns. They will continue to feed the machine. That's why it's important for those of us who want change to become conscious consumers and spend our money wisely. We must practice restraint and be mindful of things like FOMO and hype. We must quite literally vote with our dollar.
Most of what the casuals and consoomers are doing to destroy gaming have nothing to do with subjectivity. Bad games coming out is only possible if people are supporting it through various provable means.
Fact: games are currently made ready for purchase before they are finished.
Fact: it is now the norm to be unable to own completed versions of games on physical copies while this was not the case in the Golden Age.
Fact: most mainstream games are charging full price for partial games via cutting parts out for DLC and things like amiibos.
Fact: microtransactions exist and are the new workhorses of the industry by way of numbers.
Fact: Steam Greenlight was a thing.
Fact: publishers are buying development studios and franchises just to disband and discontinue them.
Fact: paying money for these things teaches the sellers that they will be rewarded for doing it and encourages them to push boundaries.
I feel like greenlight kind of got fucked by that shitty card system. But guess which one valve removed, the one that makes them money every time people buy games for a cent to sell the cards to make a profit and bubble trash up to the surface, or the one got the blame of the former?
I actually don't know about that second "fact" but the others seem pretty accurate so I'll take your word on it
@@captainmega6310 *"I actually don't know about that second "fact"..."*
For PC, physical copies haven't been sold for over a decade. The next best thing is the DRM-free GOG store.
@@bricaaron3978 "on PC" that's right
@@captainmega6310 It's still the case nowadays on console as well, though. He's referring to the fact that you may be able to _purchase_ an actual physical copy for console, but as he said, you can not own a _completed version_ of the game. That physical copy will be either a buggy mess** or an unfinished buggy mess, and that doesn't even include the fact that it more than likely is missing the rest of the game that was cut out for "DLC".
** _Just in case_ there is anyone who is tempted to claim that "Games have always had bugs!", I want to proactively condemn this Straw Man. Yes -- for the most part games have always had bugs. But a game having undetected bugs that were only discovered by gamers _after_ release is an _entirely different_ situation than a game having _serious and obvious_ bugs that the developers were fully aware of before release -- and usually a heaping stinkpile of them at that.
Devs used to pay gamers to beta test games; now gamers with no patience or self-respect pay devs top dollar to _alpha_ test their games-in-development.
I extremely agree with you, especially on the casual "gamers" flocking game franchises and turning them into yet another simplified experiences
AH YES, MODERN COMICS, THE MEDIA THAT IS WELL ASSOCIATED WITH BEING MAINSTREAM AND ISN'T IN A FINANCIAL PANIC CURRENTLY
You brought up a lot of good points. As a dude who grew up enjoying comic books, heavy metal, video games, and trashy B-movies, I really hate normies infiltrating my favorite things. Sometimes I think I'm going crazy when I say that none of it is as good now, so it's good to hear others express similar opinions. The only thing you said in this video that I disagree with is 1993-2011 being the golden age. I would actually go as far back as 1990. Still, good video!
Dude Crowbcat had you in his new cyberpunk video! I remember watching your video on cyberpunk and how you mentioned him. Thats so cool dude!
Yeah, it was pretty surreal hearing my voice in his video, even if it was just 10 seconds. Definitely the highlight of my day.
@@SyntheticMan at what time was your voice?
From looking at the games coming out over the past decade(s) you can see what year the industry started turning around. Back in 2012 When Mass effect 3 came out it was considered the first packaged game to offer a form of loot box at its launch and it was the first game to have an ending changed by adding a dlc to fix it.. not to mention the game also got pushed to reach more mainstream (IGN character reporter ingame, appeal to homosexuality, etc). Despite that the game had really great moments and great gameplay (especially in multiplayer). 2012 was the year with mixed quality of game, and bigger issues in the gaming industry started coming (and film).
When we get to 2013 games like "gone home" became a thing, which was leading up to the gamergate controversy and politics in games. From that point and today it has become a routine for gaming companies to appeal to these crazy sjw. Basically a lot of game companies have sold their soul to cooperations and we get games pushed in different direction either by money or agenda. just look at Diablo immortal which was made on the mobil/tablet so it could appeal to the chinese market. You could say World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria was the early adoption to reach the chinese player base by making an expansion based on their culture because of a reference point to a Pandaren Brewmaster in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne expansion.
You also start to notice there aren't many new IP that have come out and become a classic icon in modern gamings, If we look at mass effect which was released back in 2007 it was something we had not seen before in a Sci-fi game, because of the setting/concept and how well it was implimented. It could have been the next "Starwars" or "Star trek" but because of what happened with ME3 and andromeda it never reached its full potential.
Holy fucking hell dude you just hit it spot the fuck on with regards to ME3. I remember it like yesterday. Couldnt believe they had day one dlc in the form of "from ashes" 2012 was indeed the starting point of all this bullshit. I remember the ending was so shit I couldnt believe it and they actually did patch in a new (still shit) ending after all the promises of "wildly different" endings when they all were copy paste with different fucking colors. I HATE online but the online COOP of ME3 was very addicting but they also introduced the fucking microtransaction crates to unlock shit because they knew the grind and knew they could entice the average gamer to pay to get shit quicker. Fuck man Im so glad to see someone else call this shit out with dates perfectly. At the same time blockbuster was still around and I rented a sports game (silly me right. Wanting to try a game before purchase) and it would charge you $10 to play the full experience on top of renting it(online etc) and I took it back and tried to explain to the fucking dipshit employee "what the fuck is this shit" just for them to look at me like Im the retard.
@@FatherSaunders Yeah, atleast the microtransaction wasn't as aggressive as it is today (more align with overwatch loot box grind), but you can see how the slippery slope have led to where we are today.
I guess 2012 the movie really did happened, except less of a literal sense, and more metaphorically.
Yep 2012 was the beginning of the end for AAA games, I’ve been thinking this also. The launch of the Wii U was the beginning of the decline.
Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. Keep fighting the good fight
I don't know why but the ending totally made sense for me. People cannot get over the fact that before gaming was mainstream. It was just a bunch of people who liked a hobby (who were actual players) and it's become less about the game itself.
Ubisoft: Making same games, dead
Activision-Blizzard: Same
Bethesda: Making a no man's sky clone with Fallout 4 shooting
Arkane: Redfall, dead
EA: Making Star Wars games, woke dead space remake, and sports games. Ironically the most healthy company currently
Naughty Dog: Terminally woke, would NEVER buy ANY of their games
Nintendo: Makes same games over and over, dead. Only popular because it isn't woke content.
Could go on forever. Basically all the major game makers are dead and churning out garbage. They make either reboots/sequels forever or it's wokeness in everything.
Consoom next product don’t ask questions just consoom
Nintendo makes original games all the time - some stick, some don't. Pikmin stuck in the Gamecube gen. Splatoon stuck from the Wii U. Arms hasn't really stuck in the Switch gen. It's up to gamers to actually buy the new things that certain companies try to make...
@@erikmclennan3934 Nintendo makes like 1 original game for every 30 sequels. It's even worse than western devs. Like I said, the only reason they win is by default for not being woke.
@@SomeCanine You're painting with an extremely generic brush here. Was Nintendo dead 20 years ago? The same was technically true then but I don't think anyone would claim that mid-GameCube Nintendo was dead. Is Mario 64 shitty just because it was the newest in an already long series of games?
I think people often care more about making bold sounding claims than being deeply accurate.
@@erikmclennan3934 That's not "all the time" fanboy. Pikmin didn't "stick" it wasn't popular and it's amazing it stuck around to eventually become more successful. Splatoon was the first original smash hit that they made in years at the time, two generations apart from Pikmin. Arms was a, heh, swing and a miss.
That's not "all the time" and no it's not up to gamers to buy mediocre product.
People can't see the truth that newer games are horrible to much politics put into it etc etc. It's why I enjoy older gamers
The entertainment industry as a whole is suffering from some pretty extreme creative exhaustion.
Zone Operator You Can Say That Again.
Semantics, but they're not exhausted, as that implies they worked really hard and need a break, when the reality is that the creative people were pushed out of their own space to make room for uncreative people to f*ck around all day and waste money.
These so called gamers nowadays are a thing cus they play easy movie cinematics but when you call them out for it they swarm you like a hive-mind and bitch about how "it's just my opinion bro"
Also, forget the fact that they automatically assume difficult games as Dark Souls level of difficulty. I bet money that they never played a single Armored Core games where you actually have to do the math to make sure the build your mech suit can get you through the mission. Not only that you have to make separate other builds to engage other quests with. One you may need I high mobility unit or a literal tank. And don't get me started on the White Glint fight, People thought Ornstein and Smough were hard, try aiming at a mecha that is zooming across the screen, firing a salvo of missiles at you, only for the boss to one-shot you with a swift melee attack because somehow you were too close and it was right behind you the whole time.
@@ervinpucchi6951 Remember the crash bandicoot is the dark souls of platformer article?
Crash has been there all along and was not easier back then
Almost every game used to be on that level of difficulty dark souls just has a retro difficuty
Also i hate how if you criticise dark souls people assume you don't like hard games but that's another debate
It's like they haven't played any other difficult game before
When you talked about normies move in to a hobby sphere and then ruin it is so true. It's happening with anime too. Especially more recently. Watch they're gonna try to cancel most popular animes soon
I’m so happy I discovered your channel. Such a breath of fresh air with an original thought. I can hear you talk all day. Lol
I’m so glad i found your channel. I’m an old school gamer that has seen the deterioration of my favorite hobby and you are the first person to nail the criticisms so perfectly. Regardless of whether you grow to superstardom or not i hope you find solace in the fact that your opinions are valued and logical and i greatly appreciate you sharing them.
29:55 Man, seeing Rome: Total War on that list hurts. Such an incredibly innovative strategy game that deserves all of the praise, both retrospectively and objectively. The Total War franchise is so boring now. Core gameplay is super streamlined and dumbed down, while every faction has a myriad of subsystems that has you number-crunch and micromanage for +1 xp or 3% extra commerce income. Yay.
lul
Remember Rome 2 release I was there
@@henrytownshed5304 so was i lul
@@weirdo3116 it was probably one of the worst releases, for a game in modern history. I think only Fallout 76 tops it
@@henrytownshed5304 I think no man's sky release was pretty bad too.
My man mentioned Valkyria Chronicles! You've got great taste in games sir. Valkyria Chronicles and MGS4 were the first two games I picked when I got my PS3 back in 09. I fell in love with the aesthetic the first time I saw a trailer for it.
UBISOFT the king of mediocrity
Ubisoft is the king of copy past open world time waster games. Didn't buy any in 2020.
@@Gruntvc @Genome Soldat Havent bought one since 2017 lol, they've no joke just slapped a different name or number on games and rereleased them. Other than R6 and maybe immortal feynx rising(which is basically a clone of BOTW) All their other franchises have been for the most part the same game with new minor mechanics and updates.
I mean they released 3 similar mediocre games within a month Last year
They used to be good... a long time ago. But those days have passed and now they make shitty products
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Their last good game was AC Syndicate, it seems to be actually pretty decent based on what ACG has said about.
Although I haven’t played it yet
I had my disagreements on somethings you said. But, i mainly found myself agreeing with you on 95% of the things you said in both videos. ;) Highly enjoy these, keep making these! I like to listen to these while I play around on my PC.
9 months later algorithm led me down here 😆 Keep up the no bs spirit which is Definitely needed now more than ever 👍
You insulted the normies for allowing terrible games to be made and sold, and they couldn’t handle that. Color me shocked
Developers really be making games with no political themes to then shove their beliefs into down the line. Either you make a game with political themes from the start or you avoid it entirely. None of this, "Soldier 76 is gay" or "Bloodhound is asexual" 4 months after release garbage.
Great video I’m really pissed off how Borderlands 3 turned out and Ubisoft pushing out mediocre lazy games every year
Borderlands 3 has a lot of improvements from 2. The story in 2 was only good because Handsome Jack hard carried it with mostly improv from dameon clarke
@@MILDMONSTER1234 and the story in borderlands 3 is complete horse shit
@@MILDMONSTER1234 Story in TPS is way better than both imo
SJW's, Anti-SJW's, it doesn't matter. The Anti-SJW Crowd who I'm a part of gets offended over superman turning Bi-Sexual and The SJW Crowd get offended over a certain jokes. They both are constantly looking for reasons to be offended.
How is having a problem with a 100-year-old established symbol of American values being fundamentally changed to align with Ministry of Propaganda guidelines "looking for reasons to be offended"? If that's not a legitimate reason to be righteously indignant, then what is?
It seems to me like you're doing the whole diplomatic "Two to Tango" thing which is, in my humble opinion, extremely misguided.
@@bricaaron3978 Huh?
@@etabiansosin If you can be specific about what you disagree with or don't understand, I'll try to elaborate.
P.S. I was referring to Superman. I just realized that that might not have been clear.
communists attempting to take away cultural icons and reformat them to remove their identity is something to be offended by .these are not equal topics
inclusivity is not a noble cause because exclusion is how identity has meaning
@@007kingifrit Huh?
I guess that's why I never minded the massive decline in quality of movies and network TV in the 2000s, because gaming was so good, it made up for it. Supposedly cable TV was good, but I never bothered. Now in the 2020s, it's not the golden age of anything except maybe brutal criticism and trolling.
Disco Elysium, Better Call Saul, Baldur's Gate 3, Severance, etc. So much good shit is coming out now.
@@krasmasov6852 I can live without BG3 and Disco Elysium if it means going back to that golden era.
A lot of truth in here man. Great Cyberpunk video by the way. Us longtime gamers have certainly noticed the decline, especially since 2010.
Hello? 2011 u3, dark souls, Batman arkham city, Skyrim
Doesn't mean there aren't exceptions. Skyrim is the only game I really like out of those. And it's not just about the quality of the games but the greed and lies of the industry.
Absolutely top notch video. Can't believe I missed out on your channel for so long.
I say the same things. Gaming is a stagnant hobby but it's not because of the seepage of woke culture. That's only a symptom. Everybody wanted to keep making more and more and more expensive and hi-quality games that they removed imagination and curiosity from the mix. The '90s were the best time in gaming, up to around 2006 or whenever the 7th generation of consoles were taking off (PS3/360). It was an age of curiosity and innovation, stemming from a lot of the timeless classics like Ultima being games developed in garages by ultra-nerds who wanted to take their tabletop experiences to a new medium. I've always believed the audience was the problem. The frustrating part is that the audience is also the solution, and by now there's been too much muddying of the waters and people won't speak concrete language and agree to hard definitions of the problems we're all facing.
They'll also never commit to a boycott. Remember when Left 4 Dead 2 was lambasted and people said they'd never play it? Everyone in the groups dedicated to said boycott were playing it anyway.
Ever since the East Asian gaming modus operandi took hold in the west -- that is, freemium games, with microtransactions and psychological exploitation -- I think that's when gaming started to well and truly decay. Gaming developers and publishers engaged in a self-destructive binge of monetization that's largely drained the soul out of the hobby. Indie developers are NOT innocent, either. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Many indie devs have caused way, WAY MORE damage to this hobby/industry than the AAA names. People like Phil Fish, for example, who pioneered suicide baiting and fake death threats for attention and inadvertently helped bring to light the incestuous relationships between morally and ethically bankrupt "games journalists" colluding in secret that speaks volumes to us about their own irredeemable failings, professionally and personally, which inexorably led to their excoriation by GamerGate.
I owned every PSX and PS2 game, and had a vast library of PS3, Xbox Original, and Gamecube titles back in the day, and the spirit that motivated people back then just isn't present anymore. I've ultimately reduced my gaming time to almost nil, only buying one or two games a year now, and only because they're sequels to things I liked previously. The only game I'm going to buy next year, that I can see so far, is Dying Light 2, and after the whole kerfluffle about Chris Avellone being cancel culture'd during its development, I'm strongly suspecting that it's going to be a mess.
*"...the whole kerfluffle about Chris Avellone being cancel culture'd during its development..."*
You've got to be kidding me. So he didn't write the game? For one, I -- not being a fool -- _never_ expect _anything_ from a AAA game anymore. And I honestly believe that's all that is required: not being a fool. But beside my general expectation of mediocrity (at best) from Dying Light 2, I had already become convinced the gameplay was going to be very flawed, based upon information from the developer.
Without going into detail, I am certain that they seriously messed up the parkour mechanics in the name of making the animations _look_ more realistic from a second/third-person perspective. I.e. during coop/MP. Exactly the opposite of what the focus should be, which is making it _feel_ good from the first-person perspective.
I also got your "gaming is dying" in my recommended, a pity I didn't find you earlier
Keep on the good work, I love your rants!
I've been saying for years now I love video games but I hate gamers. Not everyone who plays video games is a gamer in my book. People who play what they want, don't follow what's happening in gaming, don't care about the behind the scenes stuff, who never watched a video on twitch, or livestreamed a game, never uttered the words "git gud" and could give two shits about trends or being a "real gamer" are not gamers. Those who do engage in all that stuff are.
I completely agree with you about games in between AAA games and Indie. I distinctly remember going into a retro video game store about 5 or 6 years ago now and looking at their PS3 games for sale. For $15 I picked up the following because I'd never heard of them, they looked different, and what the back of the case said about them piqued my interest: 3D Dot Game Heroes, Puppeteer, and Folklore. The guy behind the counter looked at them and in a snobbish, dismissive tone looked me right in the eye and said "Really? Of all the games we have for sale you're buying those three?" Those 3 are some of the best games I've ever played and have more heart and charm than any indie or AAA title game in the last 5 years. It's like when someone asks me what some of my favorite gaming series are and I say Bomberman and Bubble Bobble because I like puzzle games with some action thrown in. Thankfully I don't listen or care what others think because, and I don't care if I sound like a dick, I don't respect their opinion and can't take it seriously. They're the ones who have made the hobby the poor shadow of what it used to be.
I’m so glad I found ur channel bro it’s glad to see there’s still some people out there who don’t gaf
I did notice all my favorite games are kind of old...
Spyro, Fable, Saints Row The Third Mass Effect, Kingdom of Amalur. Also on Steam the most popular games are almost all PvP shooters.
I despise Nintendo. They are SO far removed from their fanbase it's ridiculous. Also, I think Breathe of the Wild is the most overrated game of the modern gaming era.
Yeah this video almost makes me want to cry. I was also bullied for playing games,even by my own family members. But i loved them so much i persevered. You're right around 2012 is when gaming went to shit. It pains me i literally have no interest anymore,and i've been playing since around 1987. Fucking lefties have to ruin everything. Also Darksiders! One of my favourite ever games. Thanks man.
you made this 3 years ago damn you on point this video so underrated everything you mentioned i have also debate with gamers and non gamers...the sim & survival genre is killing the fun factor in modern games because they trending so game companies love what trending
No cap bro i have watched tons of youtube game reviews from retro to new, and you are without a doubt the best reviewer ive seen. I am so tired of boomer news style, super overly scripted game reviews that are still afraid to step on anyones toes for fear of backlash on their channel. You are always spitting straight facts that the majority of people are afraid to hear or even say. Its also nice hearing some love for the ps3, it was my first non nintendo console growing up and i only got that instead of the xbox cuz the online component was free and my parents werent willing to pay a monthly fee, even tho all my friends had xbox. I cant even imagine what kind of games id be into today if it werent for the ps3, my taste is so varied that i play almost every genre these days
you bussin?
@@Th3BigBoyhe said no cap
Now we'll have to wait a few months for the algorithms to bring in the real audience.
That video is actually how I found you, and honestly I was in the same headspace generally then and now. I feel like games have become more dumbed down, with the likes of lighter mechanics that lack depth, graphics being a strong focal point for games now a days, and my own specific gripe of open worlds over taking most new big name IPs . Obviously these only scratch the surface of my problems with games now a days. Personally I've taken a huge liking to indie games more than older games, but I totally understood the sentiment you made in your previous video about older games filling something that indie just can't do. Also just to clarify I'm into RPGs and mostly turn based ones, I'd like to get a scope for what you like in game in regards to genre and what not Synthetic. Sorry if this was a bit rambly or non-sensical, just kinda writing down my thoughts on things. Keep up the good work Synthetic.
My friend, I’ve never heard anyone summarise all of the things that I think are wrong with the gaming industry that are as aligned with the way I think as well as you just have. I agree with you on essentially everything you’ve just said and I’m glad to see people being vocal about this in the way you’ve just been.
I hope as many people see this as possible because as you put it, one of the reasons people are so easily satisfied with mediocrity is that they’re new to gaming and have no reference to the way games used to be before they became mainstream. Maybe this’ll change some people’s minds and open a lot of eyes.
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I like how "Meathook" kicked in when you really started spitting that 🔥🔥🔥. 🤣
if any game industry insiders or up-and-coming devs are watching this they would do well to pay attention and take notes. you speak for the people. thank you for so succinctly saying what I've been feeling in the back of my amygdala for years
"SJW" will never die.
The term SJW and people who use it unironically need to die.
@@MLBlue30 Why?
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@@MLBlue30 seethe
@@MLBlue30 lol
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Playstation Exclusives are sadly all the same nowadays :/
There games like Gravity Rush and Concrete Genie though
@@playjay7553 and Sony is going out of their way to kill gravity rush
Sony has so many exclusives as if its bad if they release some AAA story games. Its not like there arent CoD on playstation anymore for you
I played back in the day, like Bioshock, Uncharted, VTMB, SWTOR, Infamous, Jedi Acadamy, Spore, Supreme Commander. BF3, the last game I played regularly, that franchise was ruined though.
Game making has just become a Hollywood clone in which it's more about making money than it is about making a good game, and the people who make games just don't have their soul anymore.
Oh God spore 🤣 what a disappointment.
A large part of the problem in the industry is (or,, was, I should say) the death of the mid-tier market. In the 90s and 2000s, there were a lot of games that were never on a budget to be considered AAA, but not low budget enough to be indie or shovelware. There were so many games that came out under the radar, it's unbelievable. Almost monthly, there were two or three new games that never got fanfare, and merely spawned on GameStop shelves. We don't have that anymore. It's either a AAA budget game or indie.
Your talk about smaller studios and hidden gems made me feel bad about the darksiders franchise, I only got introduced to it last year and I was like "wow, how come no one adopted this type of games since then?"
I saw your Cyberpunk video so I subscribed and watched a few more. One recommended by youtube was also that one. Guessing a lot of people did the same so that is why influx of comments. Anyway, everything is hyperproduction now with only money in mind. Games, Music, Movies, everything. Oscars 1994 had Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Lion King. All watched even now and hailed as some of the best ever. This year had what? Parasite and Joker? Does anybody even remembers those now? Everything became so casual that quality and even originality(every other movie now is either sequel or remake) has been thrown out of window. And yes, part of that problem are normies that keep pumping money into mediocrity and even pure shit. Why should Star Wars movies ever change when they still earned billion dollars? Why shouldnt Disney push Captain Marvel when that movie made money because lots of people cried how they cant watch "Endgame" if they dont watch that movie first even though they are not connected with anything but just post-credit scene that tells you nothing? Same with gaming. With all crying about Cyberpunk, that game sold 13 million copies. With all bad narrative of TLOU2, that game sold 4 million in first week (or overall, cant remember) because Playstation fanboys drool over exclusives and would suck Sony dick for them no matter the quality. Why should we get better product when companies can get away with anything they serve us. Madden is the same every year to the point they just change skins. They even leave some banners of the past so in "Madden 2021" there is a banner for "Madden 2020". That is embarassing. And normies still buy that because "Hey, I wanna play newest one with updated rosters and everything". Today, Troika would still be alive. because I have no doubt that normies would suck overhyped Masquarade like there is no tomorrow. And I like that game but the state they made her and launch was asinine. I couldnt play it in late 2000s without a patch and even then it was broken so you can imagine what released product looked like. Gaming oficially became too big to even be punished for its mistakes. Because no matter what companies do there are people who buy it.
Nerds are the only people who appreciate old games, Nerds are the people who Mod old games .If your person like me who mods games then you have a good taste in gaming. Game devs have become so lazy and they insult our intelligence when they produce trash and think real gamers can't tell the difference lol.Great video man I really agree with your video, gaming needs to get it's act together.
Gaming needs to get it's act together without a shout of a doubt 💯 💯 💯
gaming need good gameplay first and after that plot i dont like playing games like wooden gameplay with good graphics its weird bro its will be better bad graphics with good gameplay because give you something yeah dopamine that i need it for my depression eh.
Same feeling here, getting bored of all the games that comes out. It’s the same game over and over and just like you, I can’t find something that can fill the void.
I found your video because precisely yesterday I was talking with my brother about this topic which everything started because of the Capcom Fighting Collection. We both been playing our whole life, the Atari 2600 was our first console. Playing Darkstalkers, Pocket Fighter, they arent the best games ever, but were really fun games, with memorable characters design and music, and I was like dang what is going on today with Capcom and all the others. Playing those old games you could feel the passion of the developers trying their best to make their games the best they can. By the middle of the last generation of Xbox one and PS4 it started to feel different, franchise over exploted yearly, pay for dlc day one on 60.00 games, no more memorable characters, all AAA games have to be a mega production that should feel like a movie, censorship, characters needs to focus on representation (the most absurd thing ever). And now we are on the the new generation which has gone even worse, microtransaction for fatalities and characters colors on fighting games, characters that doesn't inspire at all, games way expensensive, way to many predatory practice and wokeness everywhere since companies care more on the casuals and ESG than the fan base that truly supported them during the years. There are some exceptions like Nintendo games( sometimes they bend to wokeness and over charge for a game), and indie games, but like you said it isnt right that we need to look away of what we were used to years ago, just because some idiots invaded our hobbies. Is on us to fix this mess by not supporting their crap anymore. Great video.
I have never owned a Playstation beyond the third one and I won't lie, the console holds up surprisingly well, had a lot of memories with it, absolutely loved it.