@@cameronojokor8433 - And Agent 47…and James Heller from Prototype 2…and Pac-Man…and maybe Max Payne from Max Payne 3 if that counts…and James Earl Cash from Manhunt…and Nathan Hale from Resistance i guess.
For my wife, Spiritfarer was the game that got her into games in general. Prior to that she had literally never played an arcade, PC, console, or handheld game, and her only "gaming" was a little very basic mobile thing. We tried Playstation Plus and I downloaded several games and tried this one out one night and it caught her attention. The next day she learned how to wake up the PS5 and how to start the game and then the learning curve began. She had literally never used a d-pad or analog stick to push any character on any screen, so this took a while. But she's at 60 hours now and has even managed to tackle some of the things she initially had to call me to help her on. It helps that this game has a beautiful art style, nice story, and that you can't really "fail" and you definitely can't "die." Maybe do a vid on games for people who literally have never played any game or have always hated games...
@@ledumpsterfire6474 I tried FF 7 year's ago couldn't get on with it. I did complete Horizon zero dawn but didn't really do upgrading. Tried Assassin's creed origins and chasing the map to find armour and weapons then having to then find other items to up grade them weapons and armour just become a sleep Fest. Even in red dead redemption I didn't collect all the items to craft thing's. I find that a chore in game's as well going all over the map hunting things or collecting items just to craft a weapon upgrade. Or like in Horizon different weapons work differently against what ever you was fighting. I don't mind unlocking better weapons or armour as you play though a game but having to do objectives or go collect say different gems that then have different powers depending on what weapons or item you add it to and then having to update them gems to make them more powerful to only have to charge it all again when you get a better weapons or armour is just boring to me. I know some people enjoy that kinda thing and that's cool but it's not for me.
I can't be the only one who noticed the reflection in the Biffy Clyro poster, and couldn't take my eyes off it afterwards. It was like a "behind the scenes" moment , seeing the side angle, plus the monitor that shows himself what we're seeing.
I grew up during the NES-SNES era, but I never could get into amazing shooters everyone else seemed to love. Not the popular ones like Gradius or lesser known games, maybe I didn't hit up the arcade as much as I could've to discover new ones. For some reason, after all those years, the digital only PixelJunk SideScroller on the PS3 PSN store was the first shooter I not only was able to play and enjoy, but fell in love with it and was the first shooter I beat. It's beautiful with the minimalistic vector style graphics, but more important is the gameplay. It's a bit simpler for beginners but still has challenge for vets, there's no weapons to find, you start out with all 3 you'll ever need. Then you can upgrade the shots you like best, that mechanic really helped me focus on the enemy patterns and gameplay more than trying desperately to collect every icon and not die like in most shooters. It taught me how to play shmups and I will always love the game for that, now I can enjoy games like R-Type, all the Gradius family of games(especially the Parodius games), even oddball games I'd never play like Last Duel or Cloud Master, I'm glad I can enjoy these now. And there is a sequel, I think it's called PixelJunk Shooter 1, all I know is the one I'm talking about is called PixelJunk Sidescroller. Bad name, great game.
On a different note, that entry about Skyrim? I don’t know what I found more amazing; that a game of such scale could be a good first RPG or The Skyrim Granny. Excellent twist!
Video games that makes you say “Just one more turn”. I associate that with turn based strategy mostly like Civ, but I have that feeling also in things like Hades where I say “Just one more run”.
For good introductions to racing games, I'd also recommend the Forza Horizon series. You CAN play them at a simulation-quality level, but you can also play them as a relaxed level as well! Lots of ridiculous setpieces (like racing down a volcano, or trying to outpace a plane) complement the more serious races, it's an excellent mix of activities.
IMO, Subnautica is a great starter game for the Survival genre. Unless you have acute thessalophobia, the starter area is one of the most chill and relaxing zones in video games.
If we could cite old/retro games, for a fighting game I would have said Def Jam Fight For New York. It's also fairly streamlined, doesn't require combos to be remembered and perfected, no need to analyze the frames and already mentioned metadata, and it's fairly easy to understand (only 5 fighting styles, where you can combine 3 at most (martial arts, kickboxing, and street fighting FTW) and you do that progressively, so you don't get overwhelmed during the story mode. Did I mention it has a story mode? Because it does.
Same request as last time! A list of times you were wrong throughout your professional career - giving under or overrated review scores, bad info etc etc ties in well with your mental health spin about embracing mistakes, learning from them and moving forward!
I'd say Rocket League, yes for sports no for racing. The only thing it shares with modern racing games like Fortza and GT is it has cars in it. Unless there was a massive change to its gameplay I missed.
I was really hoping that the whole contract work thing would go well for Jules. This is the most rightfully and casually confident I’ve ever seen him, and it’s staying strong across the recent videos. I hope that is a sign that things are going exceptionally well!
Mario XCOM is why I needed to buy a Switch in the first place. I have been a fan since OG XCOM/UFO Defence AND I also hate the Rabbids, but being able to flank an enemy with Luigi is something I didn’t know I needed in my life and this game is just pure magic.
Literally hopped on to hear Jules remind me how to treat myself. You say it every time, but it’s encouraging. I know it’s sincerely meant and there just aren’t that many people who sincerely want what’s best for other people. Thanks for being your amazing self Jules!
I agree with most of these, but I would definitely put Gone Home or Firewatch above Edith Finch for walking sim genre. Honestly some of the subject matter in Edith Finch could be a bit too much for some people, like the part with the baby in the bathtub....
I recently got to watch a person play Hades for the first time. When they hit the third boss it was priceless. How about a list of arena fights done right.
I would have recommended Kingdoms of Amalur for the intro RPG, but seeing as it released at the same time as Skyrim, it never got the chance it deserved.
Suggestion for a topic: Best games with a famous Hollywood star as the lead protagonist, but NOT as a character from any of their film roles (e.g. WET with Eliza Dushku, APOCALYPSE with Bruce Willis).
I was curious: What games got you folks into some of the genres presented here? Shooters, it was actually both Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. RPGs, it was Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest (AKA Dragon Warrior back in the NES and PS1 days) for JRPGs and Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos for Western RPGs. Turn-based Strategies, it was Master of Magic and X-COM: UFO Defense. Racing, it was Super Mario Kart.
Video games we all go back to/return to playing. Even with the arrival of new games, excitement over future releases or discussions of “goty” we all have that one (or few) game we go back to playing whether it be to 100%, because they’re easy to return to, safe and comfortable or they have that replay ability that just keeps a cold hand on our shoulder.
I personally find the Racing genre a bit misleading as I wouldn't call Rocket League a racing game. Yes it has cars in it, but that about it. If you want a actual beginner friendly racing sim I will highly recommend Automobilista 2. As it has about everything you will need right out of the box, no extra content necessary. Plenty of vehicles from Go-Karts to Formula One and huge selection of courses. it's just as fun offline as it is online.
I'd disagree for Skyrim to be the intro to RPGs. I'd say maybe a mid point for them. The reason why is it's too big. I feel like a new player would find it too easy to get lost and overwhelmed. I like RPGs and even I never beat Skyrim because, for better or worse, there's just to much side stuff to keep me focused.
I think another good example of turn based strategy games is advance wars 1 & 2 reboot camp (yes even if the 1 & 2 remake was scuffed cuz they were made by a dev team who never made a turn based strategy game before). It's a great strategy game that involves both resource and unit management that doesn't immediately drive your nose in the dirt cuz you didn't understand it's mechanics.
As long as you brought it up before: Games that ruin your chances at 100% if you don’t have a guide and miss a specific hidden area / action that in normal play you’d never see!
Personal opinion: Strategy: XCOM. JRPG: Trails in the Sky, Persona or Final Fantasy. Action Hack and Slash: Nier Automata, Bayonetta or Devil May Cry Fast paced Shooter: Classic Doom or Doom 2016. Horror: Dead Space. Builder: Factorio or Satisfactory Stealth: Metal Gear Solid or Dishonored.
Jules! you crazy rad fella, I think you missed the opportunity to give the JRPG's a mention on this list, because (at least how I see it) Skyrim it's not a pure RPG, it has action on it too, so it's not the primal example to talk about a pure RPG😁 maybe it's too trite for me to say, but the pokemon saga (at least the third and fourth generation counting the remasters) are a must play if you wanna play something relaxing but at the same time can be very complex if you look hard enough for things to see
Top video game cliffhangers that never get mentioned on all the other top videogame cliffhangers list. I.E., darksiders 1, Dantes inferno, binary domain, inversion, etc.....
Best games on the ps2 they should remaster. Best music based games, that arent guitar hero. Best games/game reveals to come out of e3 and gaming conventions. Keep up the work and make sure to take care of yourself too😊💪
Two in one? I'll do you one better, and it even has a "friendly" difficulty setting. 😅 Endless Dungeon. Roguelike twin stick shooter that's also a tower defense game. And when it's not a tower defence game, your "tower" is moving and it becomes a horde survival escort mission...that actually doesn't suck. I don't like tower defence games, and I especially don't like escort missions, but I've been having an absolute blast with it.
"Video games that you cannot easily play from the beginning anymore". Hitman and Hitman 2 were delisted from the digital stores, except for the introduction, forcing me to buy physical copies to get the achievements. Overwatch is gone now that Overwatch 2 is out. Destiny 2 removed the beginning of the story. World of Warcraft requires you to be on a special server. I'm sure there are others.
honestly i recommend two other games for racing: Rock & Roll Racing, which is awesome!!! no game has a better soundtrack and the absolutely funny and weird Karmagedoom!
Ahhh, sir, I think by 'M***o vs Rabbids Kingdom Battle' you ACTUALLY meant 'Shining Force 1 or 2'. Old, yes, but timeless, and they play like XCOM... without the Pain. 😉
I was wondering how we were going to address turn-based. My introduction was xcom, and it was brutal. Also,I’d put firewatch as an honorable mention for walking sim.
Throwing it out here but other easy access fighters would include: Street Fighter 6 probably the gold standard Guilty Gear Strive is actually pretty friendly DNF Duel but its player numbers are pretty low so not much online there. Same with Them's Fightin Herds having low player numbers for online Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising Tekken 8 has a pretty involved tutorial/single player element and is the easiest Tekken to enter There's also Footsies and Dive Kick for more simplified fighters.
Hades isn't 'less advanced' than other games of the genre, quite the opposite, I'd call it "more refined". but I'm of the mindset (2-yrs into my game dev college education now) that lots of 'brutally hard games'... actually MOST of them... are cases of "it's not a 'bug' it's a 'feature'!😖" I feel the same about "minimalist-story" games. where the 'story' is optional and only via text, perhaps attached to found items. Game dev is hard, both technically and _financially._ it's a hard business. so games have to go out ASAP. if that means they can't refine the gameplay to a proper final-state, leaving it difficult-because-it's-sh1tty, then so-be-it. or if the tiny dev team was pushed to the limit making the game, leaving no time/money to make a proper story, then they can just attach whatever notes they DO have as text to a few bits and bobs about the game at the last minute and call it an 'artistic choice' despite it being painfully obvious that it was anything but. you'll notice the brutally hard games that're unclever, and bare-bones games with little-to-no story (despite being in a typically story-heavy genre like fantasy) tend to come from 3rd party, and/or small, and/or indy studios... that's not a coincidence. indy's that work within these confines can be absolutely brilliant masterpieces by making cuts elsewhere: Metroidvania's have some awesome examples of games with fantastic, tight gameplay AND great stories, so it's very possible, but it has to be well-designed and managed to achieve that.
Ulf being a dragon rider might be my least favorite plot development ever, not just in this universe. His story has 2 or 3 paths, and I'm not interested in seeing any of them play out
How about games that you should only play blind? Or games where spoilers ruin the game. For example shadow of the colosseus, which has a far greater impact on you if you don't know the ending.
I didn’t know the ending of Shadow of the Colossus and stopped playing after the third Colossus. It’s a credit to the game-I was feeling bad about killing the Colossi and just knew it was wrong. What other game makes someone feel that way?
Fantasy Strike is horrendous. Street Fighter 6 has so many options and features now to be accessible to anyone with their modern and dynamic control schemes. Tekken is also super easy to get into.
Can't agree there, if we're discussing games for non-fans of the genre. I like a good roguelite that emphasizes permanent progression, but I bounced right off of Dead Cells when I realized how skim milk the permanent progression aspects are.
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is an essential game to get you into RPGs? I got into that genre with Pokemon Platinum! That was my first RPG I’ve ever played!
