Massive thank you to everyone for checking out the video. I went back and forward on making it - whether it was "too negative" or not - but VERY reassuring to know it's not just me noticing these things, and wanting to talk about them. Cheers! - Scott
never have doubts Scott, pretty much the entire gaming community is lamenting the lack of inspiration, remakes after remakes. Glitch and bug ridden games upon release. Franchises that are turning stale. Potentially good games ruined by microtransactions fuelled by a younger generation or by a couple dozen of "whales" that bring more revenue than 1000s of gamers would ever bring..
I agree with the majority of what you say all I can disagree with is I had a day 1 xbox one until recently and the load times drive me insane. I only have a little te to play. When 15 to 20% is loading then I am better of just watching tv or a movie or whatever. I was playing warframe with a friend and he had an issue with his Xbox one and had to reset it then reload the game. It almost took him 5 minutes to get back into my party and game. The SSD is incredible. That alone is worth the money for a new console
This is why gate keeping is a good thing. Too many casual normies starting to get into gaming and are a very loud bunch. Companies are starting to pander to people who spend more time being offended by games then actually playing them, these losers are ruining it for everyone. But money talks so eventually these companies will realise the stupidity of their decisions.
I adopted a mindset of delaying my gaming brain by a year. If a game comes out in 2022, I wait until 2023. I get it at its cheapest and usually complete. I have been doing this with every game I buy for the last 5 years and I have saved so much money while enjoying the games much more.
The only game I can remember actually buying at launch recently was Kena, for my girls. I'm so backlogged in all the freebies from PS+ I want to play it just doesn't make sense to buy Eldon Ring or anything else...
Honestly the best appraoch. I wait 3 month after release to catch reviews so I can get a full in-depth review. Elden Ring made waves, I've enjoyed the Souls games, so I got it new. But it's a rare case any more. I played Halo Infiinite on Game Pass, refuse to buy it, barely played the poor multiplayer. Honestly, you still get a great gaming experience on nintendo as far as enjoyment goes.
I wish developers would realize that forced DRM and Internet connectivity for games is a step backward. Look at the debacles GT7 and SimCity have endured; what's the point of paying a full $70 for the game if there is no guarantee you can play it at your leisure, especially if this ridiculous requirement is in place for SINGLE-PLAYER modes? In my opinion, at that point, you can't help but wonder if spending time with the game is either fun or just another full time job. This is not why people play games.
I buy physical games and regularly don’t play them for a while. Having just moved to a place where I don’t have internet yet, I now understand how frustrating these restrictions are. I can install a game but can’t play it because it requires a patch, or even the second half of the game needing to download because it isn’t even on the fucking disc. I have an entire library of games and movies on my hard drives that I don’t have access to because the console can’t verify the digital licenses. Absolute garbage.
100% agree. What really grinds my gears is having to sign up to some service when you want to play a single player game. I don't want a Bethesda/EA/UbiSoft/Blizzard/2k/etc. account, I just want to play my game that I purchased with my own hard earned cash. Why do I have to sign up for these accounts when I play single player games? EA is one of the worst offenders of this practice, where with some games you can't even get past the start screen until you agree to sign up for an EA account, or they hold certain content hostage and only allow access to it once you sign up for an account. This is bloody ridiculous!
@@cobalt-snake6125 Exactly this. And the fact you have to agree to an absurd EULA just to play the damn game as well. Gone are the days of simply popping in the disc / cartridge and hitting start. However, I've found a work-around that has worked for some games that "require" an account: Go to settings and turn off the internet. It should then take you straight to the start screen without registering.
When I think about the games I played the last few years, I must say, that I almost always enjoyed indie titles alot more than big IPs. So I rather pay 30€ for an indie title, that is really inspiring with fresh new ideas than wasting 60€+ on a broken AAA title without any innovations.
So much money is pumped into making AAA titles that the devs don’t want to innovate-they’d rather make something with a history of selling. Indie games are less risk, and as a result, can be more interesting.
The other thing is that I think the indie game video industry is booming, I actually much prefer paying for indie games now than I do AAA games because it seems there is more originality, more quality gameplay and just overall a lot more care put into it .
I tend to stick to games made before 2010 as they give the best value and experience. Feels like games were made for fun rather then rip off the player.
This is truth. Peak gaming era right here. I’ve worked on collecting a bunch of these games over the last couple of years. So much good content from the PS3/360 era and early PS4 era
@yello you gotta be a kid if you believe such agressive monetization is normal. Not everyone wants to spend $1200 on a PS5. The problem is that they're shitting out garbage online only games and ignorant people like you are feeding them money and saying it's ok to rip us off
@yello only cuz you youngins couldn't see a good game it it slapped you in the face. bright and shiny colors, emotes, skins, loot boxes, and rewards for minor tasks is enough to placate you. Anything to make you pay more for what should be already available. only someone eating rubber cement would say other wise. to which I suggest you stop bad for your pallet😆 Sorry I had to it was to good to pass up. tho seriously it's hard to take the game industry serious anymore it's become who can make the most broken game or be the most controversial company anymore. and at least back then if it was a broken game it was only $20 not $60 and maybe DLC's. had a bud buy fallout 76 pre order for $200 game sucked at launch, the store currency thing was dumb, his helmet had to be recalled for mold issues they were having, the canvas bag was basically a fancy garbage bag. at least back then the game worked or it didn't and you owned it not some digital copy in "the cloud". he might be biased but there is some truth in there as well.
@yello 40 years and you have yet to understand everyone is a free individual with their own likes and interests. Both the shills(that's you) and the nostalgia crowds are allowed to exist. old games had their problems, but for some reason people still go back to them I can't say "some newer games will get that same treatment for "some reason" Your just being belligerent for no reason other than your right everyone else wrong. Oh and I do play the newer games finished Elden ring, hollow knight, playing no mans sky right now and valheim but I aslo know where my love for games started not just threw them away and forgot about them. I'm just saying your comment is as asinine as the comment your having as tissy about. your what they call a hypocrite.😆
Good video. These are the kinds of topics and discussions the gaming industry needs to need to be having now. Publishers, developers, the media, and gamers themselves. Have to throw one in though. For every game with a yearly release, I also have to point out games with decade or more release cycle. How long between GTA 5 and 6? Fallout 4 and 5? Skyrim and Elder Scrolls 6?
They take that long only because expectations are high. Those IP are the cashcows of their respective developers. If a bad TES or Fallout game dropped then so would Bethesdas credibility along with their investors bottom lines. Have to keep in mind that this is a business and unfortunately most of the money men dont game at all or even understand the industry. They just get an investor document and make arbitrary decisions based entirely on maximizing returns.
@@john-doemcalias4759 oh, I understand why. I'm just pointing out a contrast to the yearly release cycle. Bigger games require more time, yes, and also higher expectations. But there a lot of games out there and in the future that are seeing 10 year developments. For better or for worse. I guess celebrate the good games that can get a quality product out in a reasonable few years.
Not exactly 90s but I remember Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Dranor's bug where it wipes system files if you uninstall it. The real dread and relief I felt as I learned about the bug several months after on some obscure forums and luckily I didn't experience it after uninstalling the game.
@@BrokenNoah yeah that May be true but i basically mean that it wouldnt be possible to release unfinished games like nowadays back then or nobody would play your game.. The game industry is just lazy nowadays like "just throw the game on the market we can add stuff later" or get missing content via dlc so they extra Charge you for things that already should have been in the game
@@fgc_roofer_07 No, I get what you are saying, however, the 90s and even most of 00s aren't without faults either. I lived through all of that and while some industry problems are new to this generation, there is always the scummy part. Unoriginality is always there in the industry as it always had a "me too" (I don't mean in the current context) problem. Trend-chasing instead of trend-making. When fighting games was the hottest thing, a lot of the devs and publishers tried half-hearted, shoddy attempts. When MMOs were getting beigger, everyone saw dollar signs and a lot of those projects crashed and burned at the gate. When FPS and open world games became trendy, everyone made their attempt at gray and brown shooters. MOBAs had that short window of this as well. Don't even get me started at all the one-year developed movie or TV show tie-in games that plagued the mid/late 90s to the end of 00s that ends up in the bargain bin as fast as they were released. As far as unfinished games back then, Lands of Lore 3 was a technical mess, even Fallout 2 had it's fair share of game-ending bugs like NPCs not getting out of your way, blocking an exit or an entrance so you better be save-scumming. Things like that just as an example. You can get stuck in a wall in Chrono Trigger if I'm remembering correctly as well. If anything this generation, or even the last few, did get right is making patching games way easier as internet has become ubiquitous. Of course it's a double-edged sword as it has also became a crutch as we are seeing now with day-1 patches and the way some devs and publisher kinda settled into the mindset that they can fix their game later. I guess my point is, corporations aren't your friend today nor were they back then. It's just that the money involved right now and mainstream coverage is a lot greater that a lot of the shady things they are doing now are more apparent (and some like Blizzard's Diablo Immortal or Ubisoft trying to chase the NFT money have dropped any pretenses what they truly are)
The problem is that these days publishers demand games to come out within a few years when in reality a GOOD game takes time and careful planning. Too many games these days are realised as half of a game then updated over time and then given a list of DLCs to make the game more enjoyable and in many cases, more playable. CyberPunk 2077 was in development for a long time but CD Projeckt Red made too many promises and didn't even pay attention to previous generations. The game also was eventually put on a deadline which made them completely ignore all the problems the game had. And once again it was realised as barely a game and then updated over time. What needs to happen is for developers and publishers to be more patient and take more time to further develop, test, and polish their games. And don't give me that "But fans will be demanding the game sooner" crap. Because they don't REALLY have to answer to the fans. Especially when the game the developed properly and had more time to do so on released and it's a true game worth its price tag.
7. got to do the next best thing. 6. newer tech. is costly than old tech. 5. there's not much to do, since recent games play similar to previous game. 2. the reason for a sequel is to continue what the previous left. 1. people just want to play the game, even if they brought the wrong one for them.
I’ve been seeking out and playing old games with great stories I never had a chance to either because I couldn’t afford it or I was too young to enjoy it. This is what modern gaming has done to me.
Hands down my biggest gripe is that I'm still playing upgraded ps4 games on my ps5, and will continue to for a while. People spend a lot of time money and effort just to get one, we should be able to enjoy it to its fullest potential this deep into its life cycle.
I'm prepared to stick with Nintendo or just give up gaming entirely. I have no interest in an creatively bankrupt industry that only creates multiplayer/GAAS/microtransaction nonsense.
Only seen the first point so far but glad to see Capcom aren’t in that list, they have been one of the most consistently good developers the last few years with Resi 8 and the remakes and the monster hunter franchises both being real while only having a few stubbles but nothing like the rest of the industry.
After CP2077, I turned off my Ps4 and never looked back. That was my last pre-order. Mid 2021, I went Indie, a scene that very much reminds me of the 90's to 2010's. The majority (not all) mainstream games just feel morally and creatively bankrupt.
Money is the problem here, mostly. Big companies don't care about quality, just money. I'm so pissed that many of them (EA mostly) have bought out smaller companies just to shut them down. Without those smaller companies that actually care about the player, I don't think the game industry will get better. AAA developers are too stuck up in their old money grabbing ways to change their behavior.
Here's a thing Metroid Dread did so well that other games should learn from. I click the icon... and it's title screen immediately and you can just play. No minutes of splash screens and cutscenes. Just like the days of old where you put the game in and when you hit power it just played. Go back to that experience. I didn't know how much I missed it until Metroid Dread reminded me.
Presentation is huge. Metroid Dread actually has great a great presentation and it definitely did have cutscenes when I started playing the demo. There is nothing wrong with cutscenes when done well and are engaging instead of wasting time. A good splash screen can make you hyped for a game like in Dragon's Dogma or Deus Ex Human Revolution. There have been numerous games that put you right into the gameplay. If all you are doing is playing the most mainstream AAA annual titles, I can see how this would feel new. Even similar games like Ori do the same as Metroid in it puts you right into the game. If you like Metroid Dread and haven't played either Ori, you are in for a treat.
I really thought that Metroid Dread was a great example of how to modernize an old school genre with all the new tech and design advancements invented over the years. The controls were the most refined of any Metroid game to date and it was joy to just move around the world. I really like how they integrated the cutscenes into the game. Just enough exposition to get the point across and you were back to playing.
Scott's articles are always on point, while I may not agree on all of his takes on some games, his critiques of the industry as a whole are always a must-watch. The last entry was the most important IMO, the consumerist culture and cycles of Preorder-Buy-Buy DLC-Buy remaster are getting tiresome and basically just capitalize on the "Fear of missing out". Sadly, money talks and we need to show gaming companies that we want a change.
Absolutely agree with the lack of interesting games. 2022 seems a dud for players like me who aren't interested in the likes of Elden Ring or Horizon forbidden West. The last game that looked interesting enough for me to buy was Death Stranding in 2019. I've tried other games that friends have bought and nothing has held my interest for any length of time 😐
Don't forget Kirby and the Forgotten Land (the best therapy for Elden Ring's difficulty), or Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (a franchise known for visually appealing and believable open worlds for over a decade before Elden Ring made waves; seriously, it's the open world of Final Fantasy XV done right), for Nintendo properties. Also, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, the Sonic fangaming community (Omens being a perfect representation of everything good and bad about the Dark Age, and Triple Trouble being remade into a superior Sonic 3.5) and the 6.X patches for Final Fantasy XIV are still going strong. Ultrakill too, natch.
I think that their biggest issue is that they're worried about all the wrong things and that's because they're trying to appease shareholders instead of consumers. Yeah, shareholders love hearing about all of these features, how big the map is, how good the graphics are, the frames per second, blah, blah, blah. What does the average consumer care about? I'm not talking about the hardcore gamers that are investing 30+ hours a week on "Elden Ring". I'm talking about people like myself, a mid 30's guy playing "It Takes Two" with a daughter or "Little Nightmares". Well, what do the average consumers care about? Is it fun? Can I play couch co-op or competitive? If not, is it interesting for others to watch (like "Little Nightmares")? If the answers to those questions are "No" or "What do you mean by 'fun'?" We are out. Edit: Hell, that's why Nintendo has lasted while other companies have come and gone. Their games may not have the most features, best graphics, etc but they are fun and amusing. Take WWE2K22 and Red Dead Redemption for example. Yeah, WWE has got MyRise, a career mode, MyGM, MyFaction, blah, blah, blah. All of that is mostly ignored so my family and I can smack each other's wrestlers with steel chairs and kendo sticks (or as my older daughter calls them "light sabers"). "Red Dead Redemption"? Yeah, I finished the story but I bought it because my wife was interested in it after seeing the trailer. She didn't care about anything else in it but riding horses around and taking care of them (I'd go to the bathroom and come back to find that my horse had been cleaned, well fed, and had gotten plenty of pats).
Damn dude. I walked in expecting just another list but this was more like a thesis and REALLY well written. I'm entirely blown away. . That said.. everything you listed in 100% ON POINT. One thing that is also at play (possibly to a shrinking degree) is the fact DRM is out the window for most publishers and we can see games hit the storefronts in the state ypu cited only to be shut down 6 months or a year later, completely wiping any purchses in game or pre order goodies from you wallet. THAT risk is discouraging. Add to this the fact games are not really "yours" upon purchase with big publisahers disenchanting long time older gamers and it cuts into sales overall. . There's a reason I 'Watch' new games but 'Play' my back catalogue more these days.
Add to this the fact games are not really yours BS the gaming media is trying to convince the world of to have the benefits of both goods and services products without the responsibilities of either, aka "games as a service" or as I like to call it FRAUD, there's literally no reason to buy new AAA games ever as the gaming industry will decide when you are done with that game not you. A product is either a good or a service, not both. A good is sold one time and is then the property of the purchaser. A service is something that has a monthly subscription fee attached to it that the consumer pays for access. Failure to pay means they can legally cut off the service. In NO WAY can they sell you a good (full blown purchase of the game itself at 60 bucks or your regional equivalent) and then say, at any time down the line, "Yeah, that good you purchased from us was never yours and you can't use it now because we decided you can't." That's like selling someone a bicycle and then two years down the line coming to their house and removing the gears system that makes a bicycle work and telling them "Yeah you never owned it despite paying full price for it." Now this is not to say that games you only can access from services like XBOX Game Pass cannot cut out your access. They can, if you stop paying for the service they're on and that's the ONLY way you have access to the game. But again, that's also assuming that the game will keep functioning during the entire life of it's presence on or as a part of the service. Mark my words, the next step is killing these games years down the line.
@@morgantaylor84 The longer people subscribe to game pass (or similar) and build up a library through it the more invested they are in staying with said platform and continuing to pay for the service... It's likely how thing'll continue until it destroys physical game sales entirely and if anything you can pay for earlier access to UPCOMING games pass games at their "launch" lol... uuugh
yea it is true that nowadays the games focus on giving you aditional content that costs money, take assassin's creed for example, the best armor with the greatest effects you have to buy for around 20 bucks per armor set and they also want you to buy dlcs for 20 bucks or more. and only when you have all dlcs then the game feels like a finished product
I was thinking about something. And keep in mind I'm speaking in PlayStation for generations, because that's the system I've always worked with... Do you realize, that GTA has not put out a game for the PS4 generation. GTA III, vice City, and San Andreas we're all released on the PlayStation 2. Grand theft Auto four and five were both designed for PlayStation 3... And yes they did make a ridiculous amount of money for all of us that upgraded... But everybody who played the game, expected vice City to come out before PlayStation 5. This is the first time we have not had a single player outing from GTA introduced exclusively for a generation. Considering that GTA is rockstar's flagship series, and that quite frankly the PlayStation 4 is more powerful than anyone gives it credit for, this could have been something that could have completely turned around the whole trilogy release. I have the trilogy, I play the trilogy on PS4 and I really don't have a problem with it, especially since they've been updating it. I mention all that basically just to say this. GTA 6 has got to be a home run, and with the news coming from leakers and Rockstar itself... I am not too hopeful. Essentially, what they've been messing up on, is bad... The trilogy, rdr2 online, but third time pays for all. If 6 underperforms, has a lackluster single player, and online doesn't pull its weight... I believe that the fan base will leave. And I don't want them to do that, I want Rockstar games to justify my 20-year obsession with them. I seriously hope they can.
Anyone pre ordering or buying day one is just being silly. You'll get an unfinished over monetized mess. Wait 6-12 months to avoid post review period MTX inclusion AND for all of the inevitable patches and hot fixes. Sucks to say any of that but thats just the reality we live in.
It is undoubtedly a very depressing situation. Looking at all the new games that are being released I ask myself who is this for? Because certainly not for me. For many reasons that I don't even want to write about right now. So I just keep going back to older and retro games only to remind myself how it used to be.
After the Xbox 360 and PS3. I felt the consoles, even on online games, have become very anti social. I made way more friends in the 360 days than now. The other thing that killed FPS games for me, is the lag compensation.
Triple A companies are so greedy that I'd rather throw my money on indie game devs. Indie games are innovative, supportive of their games, and creative. They will release a game that is complete (maybe a few collision bug, not that big), won't charge you $50 for a bad game, and will personally interact with their community.
For every indie game that innovates, there are hundreds that copy and fail. I don't understand why people think all AAA games are the same and indies can do no wrong. The indies that do well are usually closer to AA level (Sifu, Journey, Stray, It Takes Two, Kena, Ori, Hades, Divinity Original Sin 2, etc.). What we usually get are really janky copycats and games with very poor mechanics and poor production values. We have gotten some creative AAA titles. I am currently playing Death Stranding on GamePass and it is definitely different from most AAA games. Nintendo games are very indie-like in nature. We had games like Dreams, The Last Guardian, Returnal, Half Life Alyx, etc. Most of PlayStation and Nintendo first party exclusives lack excessive bugs and are usually very complete upon release. What would you say about the recent Xenoblade Chronicles 3? Do you even play single player games to be making these kinds of claims?
Some of my biggest pet peeves are console executives on all sides and the attempt to get rid of physical games/dlc and switch to digital. I want to be able to have the game as long as the disc lasts and not have to worry about getting on my system and having the game I bought be removed from the digital store for a variety of reasons. I also don’t like the crap Sony’s trying to pull with the ps5 and trying to move on from the ps4 so quickly There’s still potential with it and not everyone can afford a new console.
The whole getting rid of Physical games for Digital games that would be something Atlus or Koei Tecmo needs to remember since I’ve wanted Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Fatal Frame 5 on Ps4 and Switch physical copies but their digital only which sucked for me
I am all about offline single player games. It's bad enough when Netflix & the like don't work due to internet issues, I can't imagine the stress of wanting to play a game but being blocked by internet issues. I'm mad about the raised price of the PS5, but considering my backlog of PS4 games & the unlikeliness I will ever get my hands on PS5 any time soon, whatever I guess I get it much later down the line but it'll suck if any game I look forward to is a PS5 exclusive.
Gaming right now feels like it exists in a state of duality: the facade largely represented by the points brought up in this video and then the side usually not in the limelight. The major AAA releases all seem mired by one controversy or another but there's such a wealth of options that you could go the next decade without playing a single Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls, Assassin's Creed, et. al. and still accumulate a backlog big enough to take years to tackle. As someone who grew up playing NES/SNES titles the indie scene as a whole is something I never could have fathomed, but even the AA titles from publishers like S-E and Sega breathe so much life into what has since become a long stagnant industry. Whether another "crash" is on the horizon remains to be seen but I think even if it happens it won't be as devastating as the 1983 one simply because many avenues exist not just for content but distribution.
Remakes / remasters, sequels, lack of innovation or originality, tedious and frustrating online multiplayer, lack of single player games, dlc, loot boxes, games as a service… I genuinely could go on. It’s a low point in gaming, make no mistake!
Micro transactions and heavy monetisation is what's killing the industry. Yeah it's making evil bastards like EA money. But it's killing the trust of actual gamers that dont mindlessly throw their whole life savings at the yearly fifa game like the zombie fanboys are doing. Seems the majority of the gaming industry cares less about making good games and more about doing the bare minimum and assaulting you with predatory micro transactions
My money buys less of everything because of inflation and I have a backlog of around 30 games on PS4 that I haven't had the chance to play yet because of various reasons. I just can't afford to spend money on gaming right now.
Xbox 1X with an SSD is tough to tell the difference between it and the series x. I think I was lucky in snagging one before they stopped manufacturing. I will probably skip this generation of consoles in lieu of upgrading my PC
It's about time someone talked about this the gaming industry has fallen off a cliff the new gen consoles are a barren wasteland of games no quality no consistency I bought a ps5 last year it sat dormant for months the only hope I have for it is god of war spiderman and jedi fallen order 2 but what after that? Is there any game on the horizon that's worth getting after these 3 come and go right now I'm playing old ps4/3 games on subscription and that says it all the only thing the new gens are good for is replaying games you've already played on previous consoles or fuckin remakes fucking joke👎
To be fair game pass an PlayStation+ only show the popular games and nothing else so if you wanted to play a game that's is not available for buying on the store or it's been pulled off the store do to license agreement you need to find a physical copy in order to play the game
I'm optimistic about Raven Software. Phil Spencer expressed interest in reviving Hexen, so it's likely that he'll free Raven from the CoD mines once the acquisition goes through. And a month ago I was watching Civvie 11's review of Singularity, and Mike Gummelt had left a comment about his experience working on the game. I replied and we shared a couple comments back and forth, and he told me that about half of the old guard is still at Raven. So if they are freed, we can probably expect some good things.
My advice, don’t buy day one. Don’t preorder. Just wait till a game comes out and be really sure you want to play a game before you drop money on it. Also don’t buy into the hype and don’t engage in micro-transactions. Doing all of this will definitely make a difference if we all do it.
In waiting another year or two for better/more games to release for the PS5, too many remakes or releases. Until then I think I'm finally going to get into PC gaming lol
I can't finish a game to it's entirety. Last game I did that with is the Yakuza series...a series that has been around forever. Yakuza 7 was great. but that's been so long. Ideas aren't original anymore.
Modern video games should try be more like interactive movies. But, they shouldn't forget there still video games. Because no matter , how pretty your cut Scene is. A gamer won't care. If you don't have good play.
Exactly. If the controller makes it from the player's hands to the table. For longer then two to three minutes. You no longer have a game. You have a movie.
It's really sad to see video games declining, because it's my personal favorite medium not just for storytelling, but because it's really the most entertaining for me. I love to play video games when i have free time, when i'm bored. Modern AAA games are hit or miss. Some are hit like Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War 4, Spider-Man PS4 and Resident Evil 2 Remake. But unfortunately, most are miss like Fallout 76, Battlefield 2042, Marvel's Avengers, Anthem and Metal Gear Survive. I think the best way to play good modern games is to look for Indie Games. Or replay the old games from past generations. Hopefully the video game industry will get better in the future.
Something else that for me at least is why I am hesitant to buy new games: MMORPGs. If I buy a new game and play that, it is time I am not keeping up with my favorite MMORPG of which I have multiple characters on. I don't know how much my situation is the same for others, maybe it is only a small % but it prolly isn't helping the industry as a whole.
I am seriously considering quitting new games and just going retro. My favourite companies have disappeared or let me down to the point I ignore them, Bethesda is currently on thin ice and Starfield is the make or break game for me if its bad then I will quit Bethesda. Volition has been crossed off my list due to the joke that is the Saints Row reboot" Honestly the only way I think things will get better is if idiots who buy the latest years joke of sports Fifa and such stop and the morons who dump money on loot boxes and other in game store junk stop buying that garage. I honestly have no clue way people buy thing from in game stores and believe they must not be real gamers or kids. It's the unfortunate truth that some people have funded companies greed and all of us have to pay the price for other people stupidity.
I honestly just don't buy video games very much at all anymore. I've been like that for some time now honestly, but yes sometimes I will buy a game. Kirby and the forgotten land is the first game I bought day one in a long time. Although yes I bought Mario Strikers battle League day one but other than that there wasn't a single game I bought day one for years. When I finally got Super Mario Odyssey I actually bought it last year on a cyber monday deal on the Nintendo eShop and the price was reduced to $42 instead of $60. Although surprisingly I haven't played Super Mario Odyssey yet but I absolutely intend to. I was thinking of live streaming it but honestly I think I just prolonged it not even because of that but because of other games I've been playing but I know that's Super Mario Odyssey is an amazing game so I definitely should play it and no I don't need the live stream it because countless people have already done that so who would watch mine?
I agree with all the points but you missed out on Re-Makes.. Stop wasting resources and money on remakes! go use it on something original or not a sequel!
I see games that catch my eye, but then I think I'll wait for it to be out for a little bit before I buy it so they can work the bugs out. Since so many games are still coming out feeling like they aren't finished.
Well my fellow late 80s early 90s kids, guess we indeed lived the BEST years when it came to gaming an now all we have is our memories to tell our grandkids when they ask us how we played back when we were kids... 😔
Screw game pass, screw the Sony subscription crap. Bring back video game rentals. I go to the store, I rent the game, I find out I like it, I then go buy the game. It was perfect and work brilliantly for years and then movies had to go and screw it all up
Me: the triple A market seldom makes games for my favorite action sub genre Other people: try indie games Me: do they have character action Other people: …
The theory I've adopted that matches most of the complaints is "the casual player reigns supreme". Todd and everyone in this chatroom are all hardcore gamers who love video games either as art, sport etc. Ever since mobile gaming has proven that you can make hundreds of millions of dollars with little to no effort, gaming companies have shifted over to them. That is how Diablo: Immortal can have a 1star rating but have made millions of dollars. The hardcore gamer is now a 'niche' market and we are not considered the dominant money maker. It makes sense from a business perspective; why would a company spend five years and tens of millions of dollars trying to make a AAA game that could potentially fail when you can release a free to play game that costs nothing to make but will rake in millions. When you start looking at the gaming industry this way and start understanding that as a hardcore gaming you are the minority, the decisions of the gaming industry start making sense.
A huge glut of software on the market with no quality control? Publishers that care only about the bottom dollar and not about consumers needs or wants? Toxic work culture that only produces broken games? You know, if I wasn't paying attention, I could swear that the year is 1983 all over again and there might be some sort of Crash coming........
I think the issue in gaming right now is most of these gaming studios are publicly traded, Meaning they are subject to fines if they don't produce profit art should not be rushed.
One thing you forgot about although I know you guys don't really talk about it, but... Pretty much everything available on any console other then Nintendo are available on PC. and Most games are either a little cheaper or moddable on PC making them more enjoyable or being fixed faster by the fanbase rather then having to wait for a developer patch.
Atp I wish I had used my money on one of those neopixel lightsabers I see on tic tok rather than the ps5. Outside of elden ring not much has grabbed me
There are things om excited for soulstice scorn and metal rising all look good nothing really comes out in August anyway we ll just have to keep our eyes open and see what else is coming
"Play too much of a game and it loses it's allure" *looks nervously at my 600 hours on Dark Souls 3, 800 hours at Bloodborne, and 400 hours on Sekiro, and 340 hours on No Man's Sky* Ummm....yeah
For me games start to going down for a long time, cus for some weird reason developers are caring less and less about story and only focus on gameplay or in engines, i understand that 90% of people prefer gameplay over story, but for me its the other way so im being really disappointed for a long time with the new games
Thank you for emphasizing on NEW... Personally I stop caring about an IP when it has more than 3 sequels before I get to try it out... That just shows its a cheap cashgrab
Surely that would depend on how frequently they were released - Skyrim is the fifth Elder Scrolls game, for example, but the first five games were released across 17 years (according to Wikipedia, and ignoring ESO for now), and it will be at least 28 years from 1 to 6, even if 6 were to randomly drop this year...
Being a seasoned gamer, there just isn't anything to excite me anymore. Everything is just a clone of everything else. I still remember the impact that Half Life 2 had at E3, we need another innovation like that...something to raise eyebrows. I have gotten every PS console up through PS4, but the lack of availability and now the fact that they increased the price means that I will not be buying that iteration of the system. I used to be motivated to upgrade my PC because of that "next cool game that I will need a graphics update for", but I can't name one title that would even make me care to do that. As it is, I am basically using Gamepass to play games and save a ton of money. I already have a huge backlog of steam, humble bundle, free games from the Epic gamestore, etc...to play. Not like i'm starving for games. Also, there are just so many things to choose from now, which you would think would be a good thing, but deciding what to play out of all of the things available is in of itself a huge mess that is just a natural progression. Honestly, when we started calling games by genre's (Metroidvania, Souls-like, Rogue-like, bullethell, etc) that kind of killed innovation because developers are just setting out to make games in those fashions. How can you innovate through that?
I would try VR if you're able. Despite the Quest 2's graphics being basic, some experiences have created that same childhood spark. Even something as simple as SuperHot VR feels fresh. The physics and level of interactivity in something like Blade and Sorcery is nuts. You could probably play Half Life Alyx with your PC.
I was trying to watch this video on my Chromecast and it won't play it, it says it's inappropriate? and I don't have any restrictions on either, I don't get it
Everybody rips on Sony for not getting on the "game pass" bandwagon soon enough (even though they did [long before Microsoft], just very poorly executed) but, as an owner of both Sony's and Microsoft's systems, I can say that Sony have always had better deals on their storefront. In Australia, Sony is the new Steam. Sony has a sale every month and many of the most recent and/or most popular games are on sale very often, sometimes up to 70% off. Even with having Game Pass Ultimate, the discounts available on the Microsoft storefront have been minimal in quality, quantity and consistency. From what I have heard from friends of mine that have a Switch, Nintendo are also a bit slim on the discount front. P.S. Steam don't do epic sales like they used to in Australia also.
The problem with gaming is three fold. 1. Too much "future monetization" including DLC (that's sometimes on disc from launch), loot boxes, "micro" transactions and requiring paying for online multiplayer. 2. Companies releasing broken games and making gamers their unpaid beta testers. But the biggest problem with this is... 3. Idiot consumers supporting both of the above things. Stop buying broken crap and allowing yourself to be nickel and dimed and those practices will change.
I totally agree with you. Especially point 2. When I was a child, if a game company launched an incomplete or buggy game people wouldn't buy from that company in the future because they couldn't be trusted. Now, that's what the majority of games are. I tend to wait a few months or years and I know that I'm going to get all of the content at least (I just got 5 games on PS+ all from 2011-2013.) But gamers nowadays are kind of silly. They'll regularly just pay the full price for half a game then pay the full price again in a few weeks for the "DLC" which should have been part of the original release. Look at the Arkham series or Spiderman. Both ended up with DLC that cost more than the original games and they were only a few extra missions. Another thing to add though. The developers don't care what players want or think. They just see the money rolling in from their overhyped titles and forget that a real person paid for it. It's no longer about creating good, original content. It's a race to see who can make the most money by building on an already successful title. Like Assassin's Creed which is currently on it's 13th game in the series. 13 games and most are practically identical in terms of gameplay with a couple branching out into pirates and ignoring the assassin side of the story. I used to pre-order games that I expected would be worth playing. Now I just wait until the bug fixes are released or the DLC comes with the full game.
My dream is gta 6 is a woke watered down shitty game full of griefers and no good way of making money then I can laugh at all the idiots who bought it while I sit back and enjoy the circus below knowing I'm not buying it. I'm sure it will break all the sale records but that don't mean it will be good fingers crossed
@@stevenlynch33 Well, It has been said that the single player story will be short. Focusing on the online aspect (have to wait and see if that's true.) But we can almost guarantee that the first set of online players will be kids who steal their parent's credit cards to buy their way to the top and only want to ruin the game for everyone else... much like GTA5 quickly became. You know the ones... shouldn't be playing the game because of the rating but Rockstar don't care because they're getting all the stolen money.
There’s a difference between something that’s old school and something that’s outdated Old school is the Sega Master System: its games have aged quite a bit, but they’re still fun to play! You can ALWAYS go back to them! Outdated is those freemium smartphone games, MOBA titles like Fortnite and those more recent 1st party Nintendo titles that feel more like demos than full games! You will NEVER want to go back to them!
I used to pre-order games to get the “collectible” toy that was sought after. The items got really cheap really fast. Not worth it. They also tell you that there may not be enough copies, that never happened! There was always enough copies!
i've NEVER not been able to walk into Gamestop and buy a game lol, they always have tons on release day. but before games come out they SWEAR you need to preorder or they'll be sold out lol
Any 90s kids around? I remember back then you bought a game from a game store or major chain store and that was it. Some games, such as Final Fantasy came with 3-4 discs. And I remember what you got was a COMPLETE GAME at the start. Granted it took longer to make games back then and even in the 00s. But now, I see what’s going on. I get the add ons and such later on but it’s becoming too much and a lot of greed. A lot of stuff that you pay extra for should have already been in the game from the start. Some new versions of older games are so unplayable, WWE 2K series, i hook up my PS2 and play the smackdown games and SVR games. Also what really did it for me was Forza. Car guys loves car games but with Emotes, or whatever Fortnite BS, needs to stop. It’s a racing game! Christ.
born in '89 here... another factor is that we got to read and maybe see some pictures about an upcoming game in magazines you had to buy. the actual gameplay was a complete mystery unless the magazine had some demo's or maybe a trailer on a CD. nowadays you could have watched 80% of the epic moments of a game online. -"ohw nice, this was from trailer number 38" Games are less of a surprise when they finally come out. Not saying games where better back than, maybe they where, maybe not... but it felt more like you where playing what the devs wanted you to play, some games are a form of art. Now it feels like you're playing what the executives want you to buy and keep spending money on. Also, developers seem to be less and less free to build what they want in the current political enviroment, and are pretty much bullied into political correct game design. I remember E3 was something to look out for because the magazines would show all the games presented there giving me something to read and to look out for. This year E3 took gaming as an excuse to provide us with a shitload of political correctness bullshit, without any really exciting games presented to us at all. Ohw yes, that extra emote for 299,99 so you can show everyone online you are rich enough for that nonsense...
@@uscp2 ‘87 here. And yes I remember the magazines and E3. I even remember the gaming channel back in the early 00s. Now with most new games, those who are lucky to get them early than the release date beat ‘em and post about the experience before I even have a chance to play. Yes I agree with everything you’re saying. Where’s the surprise? Where’s the expectations? Granted I look to see some gameplay and graphics but don’t spoil the entire game. I miss progression too. Back then, NOTHING was handed to you at the start of the game like it is for these new games. That aggravates me. Don’t give me fast cars or endgame weapons at the start. Let me work and grind to get them. Not doing that defends the purpose, IMO.
Remember when we didn't have patches to make a game work.back in the day cyberpunk would have had a 4 score but now its ok to be broken on launch,basing a game on potential or what it could have been smh
@@medicusofthedamned the new madden came out and a few channel I sub to are tired of it being broken and shitty every year and have called it out for years now. Helps me avoid buying such crap. As a result of watching those I got a suggestion of some channel about Madden, I clicked on it. It was the kind of channel the channels calling out madden complain about. This guy was the largest douche I’ve ever seen, opening packs of players and spending over 1k on them. It’s a part of the madden community/sport community I’ve never been interested in and just the 2 mins of that guy’s video made me nearly rip my tv off the wall and toss it in the trash. Just the most, annoyingly vapid content I’ve ever seen. Jesus.
Great vid, points are spot on, only 4 or 5 years ago, feels like I bought every major release at midnight, and after Cyberpunk, Fallout, No Mans Sky, I’m never buying a day one game again. My gaming and spending habits have completely changed. The gaming biz can’t devolve and expect players to keep up the old pace.
Amen, to that. I will never play day 1. To many bugs, the servers lag because so many people log on at the same exact time. Even if I was given the game for free, I would not play in the first 2 weeks. You MUST wait for the first bug patch and for the new smell to wear off before you can truly play a new game. I am super stoked for Diablo 4. Going to wait until they patch and also see how loot boxes bonuses work. Diablo Immortal is super pay to win.
I havent bought a game on release for the past 6 years now. The gaming industry has changed for a while now, and its only getting worse. I buy 3~4 games per year at most and usually heavily discounted. Quality multiplayer games are a rarity nowadays, CoD and Battlefield lost their way. Quality single player games are still a thing but are often filled with bugs on release so i wait it out and buy GoTY editions usually and often second hand (gotta love disc edition systems). I refuse to fuel bad descions made by money hungry devs or publishers.
As an Xbox owner, this rings true but hollow. The amount of games that miss Xbox for physical releases is frustrating. I get jazzed up over Cherobylite getting a next gen version disc, only to find it's PS5 ONLY? Why did I buy this Series X again?
I wait an average of 3 months for new games. I bought Elden Ring near launch only because I had a ton of Microsoft points and it cost me about 20 dollars, but I stopped buying day one years ago. the people who buy day one are guinea pigs to help the developers know what to fix in the first few patches lol
What are you guys gonna do about it tho. Don't just sit there and say the gaming industry is declining, do something about, because then things will start to change. We already have the head of Xbox saying "we don't need to create good games to sell consoles" because we've hardly been doing anything to change stuff.
I can think of one thing that’s absolutely damaged the gaming industry more than anything else: IGNORANT DUMB GREED. My favorite hobby in the world, breaking apart because the leaders of these companies can’t comprehend there destroying themselves. At least there good hope on INDIE GAMES, and Nintendo has kept some of their integrity, FOR NOW…..
Nintendo games are way overpriced by comparison and they also lock awesome old games behind their subscription service....so no...Nintendo has not kept their integrity
@Multi Mario Odyssey and BotW are good games. (Haven't played Odyssey but I'm sure it's good) That being said...they should not cost 40 bucks on a "sale" five years after release.
RU-vid/Twitch streamers People supporting microtransactions Constantly releasing broken/unfinished games Remakes/Remasters Needing to install a game from disc to play it on console Season/Battle passes Infinite sequels instead of new games
@@dysartes paid/sponsored reviews/streams. Or popular stream raves about trash game or trashes an amazing game for whatever reason to both statements and manages to "influence" a portion of the community, then you get other lower channels going along with that person's opinion. Then there's games like Bio mutant, that every channel was raving about when they were being paid to, but when not paid they utterly shat on it.
I think any sane gamer will agree with this video, the current state of the industry is just sad, for the first time in my life I was reconsidering if I still like gaming or not
@yello I'm bitching about the industry as a whole, mostly executives and such, not the quality of the newest games, a ton of new stuff is fun and a breath of fresh air like stray, but those games are the minority, most are repetitive formulas with a ton of microtransactions, but that's just my opinion, yo do you homie.
I know it may not be for everyone. But I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed Elden Ring. It was the first game I bought in a long long time that to me felt original, it felt fresh.. I can’t remember what game I bought before that. But the industry is so stale, for so many reasons it’s actually sad that I have no intentions of buying the next gen consoles because there’s nothing else I would want to play other than Elden ring.
@@trevorphilip9728 agreed, I haven't played Elden Ring yet, but I watched a ton of content about it, you can feel the passion of everyone involved in that game trough the screen, not something you can say about many other releases this year.
I used to be excited for DLC to get an extra bit out of a video game i loved, but now DLC can and literally has been what should have been included in the main game, looking at you Dead Rising 4
As a 49 yr old die hard gamer, ever since the 1st Atari console, I dont ever remember a period like the past couple of years, where damn near every game I have played is a disappointment and doesnt live up to the hype. I thought maybe it was just me, and my expectations were too high, but it seems alot of others feel the same way too. I feel like the video game industry as a whole have lost their souls. It seems now more than ever, it is about money over delivering the best product they can. I really hope some games surprise me in the future and are better than expected.
I'm 38 and I feel what you're saying, I thought I was tripping for a while because my expectations for certain games were so high only to be let down & it's all about greed with these gaming companies
You´re forgetting an important point. IF you could play "the perfect game" , would you buy the next one after it? No. Because you already have the perfect one. Easy enough, yes? I always asked myself when I was 16-20 years old, why nearly each game besides some excepts for its generation misses characters or specific content? The answer is clear: It´s intended! If the industry developes perfect games with EVERYTHING you want, you wouldn´t buy their next products, so they have to find concepts to keep you interested, but also grow your desire for more and better products. And this is what they actually do. And they MUST do it, because they need money ALL the time.
This video made me a bit sad. Made me realise how the industry has changed, and not for the better. I have young children so can’t game like I used to but when I do have time I find myself increasingly drawn back to older games that I’ve played before but adore, the vast majority of new games just don’t appeal to me. As for the new gen consoles…what’s the point, all they seem to be doing is rereleasing older gen games. Yawn
If I had a kid I would outright refuse to buy him/her any ea ubisoft or Activision games some others mainly the studios who are aggressive with mircotransactions I know every game has them but as an example Start up a game and before the home screen a pop up for the store comes up so back away out of that go to multiplayer portion immediately brought to the store and 25 euro gun skins is just insane I hate Activision so so much I love shooters mainly cod but what a terrible year for fans of that genre between cod halo and battlefield its impossible to pick the worst every game is as bad as the other thank god sniper elite came out on gamepass this year only high point
Play indie games when you have the chance. I guarantee behemoth games, running with scissors games and new blood interactive games are much more fun then modern triple a stuff.
All the points are spot on. It's really sad actually. This era is the height of gaming and yet it's the worst generation to date. As we can see from long time gamers prefering to stick with older titles. new games are expensive, the game is broken, aggresive microtransactions, everything is open world with nothing to do, and if they're open world games, mostly they're bloated with a bunch of nonsense amount of collectibles to hit that "100 hour" mark. With all the advancement in gaming technology, their quality somehow became worse. A lot of developers seems to lost their passion for video games and just pumping out games for the sake of sales
I feel like they started the next generation too soon. So these developers are stretched cause they are no longer producing games for 2 systems, they are developing for 4-5 systems. Once a full scale conversion to current generation happens, things will get better
The question remains if that conversion will ever happen. MS seems happy to release all its games on all past and present systems. It’ll likely get better on Sonys side once they get through production hell. But even then those true next gen only Games are still in pre production at best currently
the new machines DEFINITELY should have been delayed until last year at the earliest. when almost every game in a calendar year gets delayed, you know there's a problem lol
Yeah agreed. Like y'all REALLY wanna release a new console.... during a pandemic!? Plus the scalpers didn't help with ppl who ACTUALLY wanted to get new system to play and not try to resale for double the price.
I remember how amazing Need for Speed underground 2 was which seems like a lifetime ago. Back then the PS2 games were amazing and replayability was insane. Nowadays they hide new unlocks under micro transactions and release incomplete games. Greed got to the companies and we the older generation just are tired of our lifelong hobby as we're to tired of being disappointed because we have grown up in the greatest generation of gaming.
