Long gone are the days when corporate-backed game studios produced amazing games for the love of it. Nowadays, you can only find that passion in indie games. Frankly, any time I see a project with a $100 million plus budget, game, movie, whatever... I always assume is going to be a massive pile of dog crap. Too many fingers in the pie will ruin it.
Game company should be 3 nerds with a dream, they make their game, it blows up, they get a big studio, their team grows to 30 ppl, AND THEY DO NOT GO PUBLIC.
@@zheartlezz Old every gaming company, that was the standard in the industry until about 2005 when the big publishers started buying out the smaller studios
AAA game companies: "This game cost 12 billion dollars, every single person in the country needs to play it for us to make a profit" Also AAA game companies: "Lmao what do you mean we should make things the fans like?"
That sad bit is that most of the budget goes to things that don´t even matter, the games could cost half the amount they drop on and no one would see a difference.
Games don't cost that much really. These costs are so high because they pay their 100 managers with their own managers and the senior office coffee makers or something lol
AAA game companies: "this game cost 12 billion dollars, its the masterpiece of masterpieces something that costs this much cant be bad, right" gamers: 3/10, get out of my sight indie/ small groups: "this game costed me like 100 bucks, it took a while to get done but i hope you like it" gamers: i didnt knew god was a gamedeveloper, 11/10, how humans made such things? this is surely divine intervention
you kind of got the problem - you do not get 12 billion dollar revenue only from the fans - So gamedesign needs to change to suit as many people as possible - But the ideal game for every individual person is as niche as possible because of individual taste - meaning some people like roleplayelements in their shooter - maybe someone would like to have a dark souls shooter, maybe some likes to have a dark souls shooter with a card driven rougelike mechanic that lets you play an autobattler at the same time and buy boosters to aquire cards - the more you design in a niche the less people you reach but the more fun the people have that like these kind of games - But if you need to have everyone in the country play the title, then you need to design for mass audience giving you a "solid" product but nobody gets their dream game. Thats the reason why indigames work so good, or even kickstarter projects - They can go into the details and explore wilder gamemechanics without risking a 12 billion dollar project that leads the company to bankruptcy - But it would not be the right approach for the AAA titles. The only thing that can bring back creativity is if Budgets for games get smaller again - less risk = more experimentation and narrower gamedesign = more fun but smaller target audience = better games
Rome Total War 2 taught me to never pre-order. It took about 6 months after release until the game was playable and then, years later, Creative Assembly suddenly implemented ahistorical female troops with female voices which utterly ruined the immersion. So the "patriarchy-mod" quickly became one of the most dled mods with a picture of Jordan Peterson as a Roman emperor.
Rockstar, Nintendo, Sony, I'd even add CDPR to the list after the CP2077 launch Even if you don't skip, wait until you can see actual released gameplay and monetisation, but this should be standard practice, not exclusive to 'the list'
@@showmemoviesnow but that rarely happened, Fallout fans are blessed that Todd keep pushing 76 forwards and make it better (to the point that I somehow enjoy 76 more than 3), Hello Game has the golden balls to keep their mouth shut despite heavy backlash and make NMS finally worth the money and CDPR that keep Cyberpunk alive.
Wow! Thank you all so much for watching. I really wanted to try help represent the quieter group among us. I still have so many friends that buy into a lot of these games that are completely unaware of what is happening behind the scenes. I really hoped to shed some light on the industry for them.
Awesome video considering it's your first. I hope you keep making more. The more of us that speak up the more we can affect a change. Thanks for standing up and speaking out for us
Yeah i work a regular office job, i still play in the weekend / when i have energy after work, but i stay out from competitive games now, i used to be good in games like overwatch but i can see my reaction time degrading.
Daily rewards always make me feel bad. Like he said, I'm married, 2 kids, and I work nights (12 hour shifts) so I can take care of my kids and take them to all they're extra actives. I can't login in every day and keep up with a battle pass. Especially a battle pass like COD where the new guns are in the battle pass🤬. So I stop playing a lot of games.
What pissed me off is how they disrespected the men who were on that mission to stop the german heavy water production. It isn't as bad to put a fictional person into a fictional mission - but that operation actually happened.
I'm a game developer, and we are making the exact same mistakes. It's infuriating. Most of us know it's stupid, and what we should do instead, but the leadership is like living in a parallel dimension or something. And the result is the same too, last year we had to lay off people, first time in the history of the company.
Why do you stay at the same company seeing it do the same mistake over and over waiting on your turn to be laid off before the whole company kicks the bucket? Is it just work to you? Do you simply view it as you'll do whatever as long as it pays the bills and then hop onto another company like that when necessary? Or do you view is as something more, are you invested in your craft? Why don't you and other likeminded people go start your own company? I see a lot of people not just game devs but everyone complain about their job. As if they expect everyone else to do something for them. But they won't do anything about it for themselves. For understandable reasons many times but a lot of times people are scared or lazy or entitled. And that's why bad things keep happening. Because these activists and people ruining everything are not scared, do act, don't hold back. So who's going to stop them? No one. Nobody is willing to speak out. Who's going to provide an alternative path? No one, unless you take it upon yourself.
@@Mirkk47 Actually a lot of devs do. There are constant exodus events from AAA resulting in a plethora of indies being founded. Some of the best games out there came to be like this. Supergiant games are ex-AAA. Black Myth Wukong devs are ex-AAA outsource. etc. But in the current state this is extremely risky. Close to 80% of new studios die within their first 2 years. It is worse than restaurants. Not to mention that many countries have a completely lacking legal structure for game studios. And now, with the industry downturn, there is also no funding (unlike in COVID times). Jobs are also dried up. Even senior developers can't find a job for 6+ months. So, basically, if you are a developer and have a family/mortgage etc. this is an extremely risky choice. And basically unless you are lucky to be in the few countries (USA, UK, France etc.) where there is some industry established - you will be fighting your own government too. I understand what you're saying and generally I'd agree but I'm trying to explain that it is mostly a legal/financial problem rather than a creative/cowardice one.
@@Mirkk47 I don't want to start my own company, I just want competent higher ups that do their job (managing) so I can do my job (software development). I don't want to be my own boss, or the company owner, because then I'm no longer doing what I want to do, programming computers.
@@Mirkk47Asking someone to simply start their own company and potentially jeopardise their career and income is very naive and selfish. Game Dev is usually not an extremely high paying job and most are not in a position to live off no income for years while they develop a game they may or may not make money. What you're saying is not thought out at all. If you want the industry to change, then ask consumers to stop buying garbage. That is how you solve issues, and you can see it working already
About what was being talked about at @35:45 I worked in a gaming company before the pandemic and the year before it hit we hired 5 new managers because our projects were expanding in scope. The hiring was made by the Directors and we ended up with 3 people who came from Call Centers (former managers there), 1 who was previously a manager at a small company that dealt with handmade products, and an assistant manager from a company that did accounting software (she was mostly a secretary there). So these 5 new managers were supposed to bring fresh ideas and stuff, these people were 30 years old that at most played some mobile games (bejeweled and such), they had no idea of gaming and games for PC and Consoles and the problem was that even when they started showing that they had no idea what they were doing and myself and other managers mobilized to help them understand, they didn't want to learn. These people were so prideful that they didn't want to even listen to the mistakes they were making, simply brushing it off with an "I was a manager in a different company for X amount of years, it's you who has no idea how management works". In the end, software engineers and developers started leaving the company because they couldn't put up with their shit, and the fault never fell on them (the new hires) because we, the rest of the management group that had been with the company for some time "should have done something to preserve talent". Any attempt to say that these guys weren't good at their job ended with the director saying "Do you think I make mistakes when hiring new people? Remember it was me who gave you that promotion" and other stuff like this. I ended up leaving as well because I couldn't do my job anymore.
This behavior is prevalent in all industries. My firm very rarely brought its workers up through the ranks, and instead would hire outside to fill management positions. We were a cement products factory, so naturally we recruited a works manager from a Walkers Crisps factory, who soon got the nickname "Pringle". By the end, we had managers from all over the place, the food industry, the telecom industry, we even had a former chemist, but too few people from the shopfloor who actually understood how the machines worked and their limitations. Spent hours in endless meetings as these chumps threw around Japanese management fads like kaizen and 5S and hoshin kanri, but none of it ever amounted to anything.
@@CommentThink not that hard to read. Could have used some carriage returns but it's well put. Like this. But yeah I've experienced this in web development before. Sometimes management makes a bad call. You should have taken the opportunity to tell them yes, you did make a hiring mistake
Deep Rock Galactic removed all FOMO from their game. Missed a season? You can activate any passed season and work on the rewards. Missed a cosmetic? Don't worry it can be acquired in game. Missed an event cosmetic (Halloween/Christmas)? All good, next Holiday, they'll have new cosmetics and will have an in game way to aquire the old. They also keep the game cheap and instead have cosmetic DLCs/Support the Dev packs. This way as many people as possible can enjoy their game. Those of us with extra income can on our own accord balance out the low game price. Season pass is free as well. Ghost Ship has it right and I really hope they stay that way.
This is what I intend to implement into my games. I hate FOMO in games so much! The irony of FOMO in games is you get into the mindset of, "do i miss out on the amazing weekend getaway with friends or my wife, etc - or do i miss out on an in-game trader only available on weekends, or weekly quests i need the weekend to complete, or seasonal content, etc" It's utter garbage the way players are treated now, like these games should be a 2nd job instead of a way to relax
They also showed that season pass/daily rewards can work well when they're divorced from monetization. Yeah I don't log on every single day, but I always feel like I have goals and fun stuff to do without being annoyed by monetization. To the point where I've bought their skin packs just because I want to support to them. Non-FOMO Non-Monetized battle passes are actually a lot of fun.
I'm so sick of people pretending that inclusivity and diversity is just a creative decision. People have no idea that ESG grants exists and how far reaching they are. People are truly naive to what is going on in our society.
@@seancollins9597 well. money even used to not be the driving force. it was a creative project usually for the devs themselves. like dota. money was the cherry on top. for your project this is why games like vampire survivors were so popular. they were clearly made as a passion project. that just so happened to also get them some money.
I made the most tame statement on a video the other day. Someone was comparing the new wizard rogue like to hades. And I said it's hades without the political activism. And a ridiculous amount of people had a stroke about it. What a pathetic world we live in now
Casual gamer dad here with 3 young boys and work on BMWs all day before I get home. I don’t spend any money on any new game until I know for sure I will enjoy it. I’ve been burned to many times and I think other casuals are getting more on the same page everyday.
Been a gamer for decades, and only game i ever pre-ordered is Borderlands 2 after playing Borderlands 1. I got lucky with this one, but nowadays the risk of getting a spit in your face instead of a good sequel is so much higher. It's wild to me that so many gamers are willing to part ways with their money to sponsor people who openly hate them.
I never buy on release. Buy 6 months later, get it at a 50% discount, with most of the bugs fixed, and reams of content about the game and it's quirks.
@@cawashka Mechanics tend to work long hours, and kids require a lot of attention. They are very important to tell how little time he actually has to play games.
Cyberpunk is also still very buggy. People are saying that they really outdid themselves but man, I still have NPCs getting stuck in walls, quests not triggering... it's better than it was but it's still awful.
Gaming has been hijacked, like most other things that start off with good intentions. Before, games were made to feed your hobby, now that investors realized they have control, they are more interested in influencing your worldview, not feeding your hobby and fun. Games went from fun to propaganda. This explains literally everything that’s wrong with the industry. It’s why they don’t care if the companies close down after a bad launch. Their goal wasn’t for you to have fun or to make money, their goal was to convince you, or at-least, desensitize you to whatever they are pushing. Influence is more powerful than financial gain. Influence can give you power and control the financials. It’s 1 stone 2 birds if you can get control of the influence. Any normal person would spot that a female main character would be a terrible financial decision when your fanbase is 98% male. Which tells you there’s another objective other than just making money. If I made a bicycle and only wanted to sell it to people with no legs, wouldn’t you question my motives since it obviously wouldn’t be financial gain? 😂
First off 💯 I would add that a lot of these ideologies being pushed are rooted in the philosophy of postmodernism. It has become extremely pervasive in higher education over the last 20 years or so. Postmodernism, essentially rejects objective reality as fundamental, and instead replaces it with subjective reality being foundational. Thus, their perspective becomes unfalsifiable, because you can't prove someone's subjective reality is wrong. It's a perfect mind virus. It is often not explicitly taught, but rather taught implicitly by being the perspective through which subjects are taught, through osmosis. Effectively Trojan horsing people with a philosophy that they are un aware of, but because of its axioms is effectively invisible to the individual who subconsciously adopts it.
@@brawssLife is Strange isn’t targeted to a 98% male fanbase, so your point is irrelevant. whereas Halo on average is. Once you start thinking about business and not with your feelings, it makes much more sense. I’m not saying female characters are bad, and I personally don’t have a problem with them, but you would be naive if you think a game with 98% male fanbase wouldn’t lose money making the main character not relatable to the majority of your audience. There’s always outliers. Tomb raider does well, Horizon zero dawn does well. But also, those games are also not gender swapped from the original male character which is also an issue. Star Wars Outlaws (people wanted to create their own character in a Star Wars game, Concord (lost half a billion $) Saints Row reboot, got rid of all the cool male characters (FLOPPED) Dragon Age Vielguard (can see the incoming shyt storm). You can tell when it’s being pushed, and the sales numbers don’t lie.
First off 💯 Secondly, a lot of the ideologies being pushed are rooted in the philosophy of postmodernism. It has become extremely pervasive in higher education over the last 20 years or so. Postmodernism, essentially rejects objective reality as fundamental, and instead replaces it with subjective reality being foundational. Thus, their perspective becomes unfalsifiable, because you can't prove someone's subjective reality it wrong. It's a perfect mind virus. It is often not explicitly taught, but rather taught implicitly by being the perspective through which subjects are taught, through osmosis. Effectively Trojan horsing people with a philosophy that they are un aware of, but because of its axioms is effectively invisible to the individual who subconsciously adopts it.
So did the contents of the menu, now what used to be "meat lover's special" gets you a vegan soy equivalent that's half the size of the original portion but costs double.
That's why I, as a casual gamer dad, play a lot of simulator games. I can drive trucks, farm my fields at my own pace. There are no battlepasses or daily quests, just pure relaxation.
@@ebenezerspludge8369there's a gap wider than the grand canyon between playing a farm Sim and actually running a farm.
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10:35 there was also a problem of Dice stealing real operation from company of male and making women the heroes, even though no woman took a part in said operation.
@redalertsteve_ the only BR I would have liked to see would be a 4 players, 6 teams, BR mixed with firefight mobs. Almost like what they did with halo warzone except make it good this time.
@@redalertsteve_ Yea kinda what I was thinking as well. To make it a success, they would've had to make a totally new BR mode, especially since Halo has flying vehicles as well. If they had put in just any BR-mode copy-pasted from other games, it would've put the game on life-support for a bit with the new BR players, but no players would've been turned into fans. And by implementing such a shoddy BR-mode, it would've only alienated and angered the existing Halo fans, making them turn away from the franchise. What would've been a cool Halo version of BR I think, is 3 teams of 20 players each pitted against each other. And just watch the chaos unfold as the map grows smaller, and ends up centered around one of the big bases on the map or something. Maybe add in some class-like loadouts inspired by Halo Reach or Halo 4, to add build variety and armor customization.
Not only is WW2 not fiction, it's still in living memory. My great-grandparents fought in it, and my grandparents watched RAF and Luftwaffe planes dogfighting over their homes as kids. My great-grandfather was affected by it until the day he died. I find it offensive that they used it as a vehicle for their political ideology.
They are being insulting and trying to re-write history to sht on it i get the feeling this agenda isn't american cause why would it be. Its not just pop culture when you start insulting our forefathers no woman were defending men in ww2 this is a feminist man hatin agenda. You know they don't stop pushing and lying today its this next game they will be talking about how we owe the nazis for our atrocitys done to them cause american men are evil or some other insane garbage.
Nintendo doesn't spend nearly as much as these AAA studios to make games and they outsell them all. Over 28 million copies sold of Mario Odyssey that cost around 100m to make. Gamers clearly go to where the quality is. They don't care about monetization, 100+ gigabyte games, or woke politics - just make a good game.
It’s impossible to make a great woke game. Choosing people for their victimization category over their competence is literally baked into the cake of woke and what you’ve seen the last 2-3 years is the end result.
Woke politics, I believe, will have the opposite effect. The amount of people who refuse to buy a game they'd otherwise play because they don't want wokeness in it is a far higher number than the people who are convinced to buy a game they otherwise wouldn't, because of The Message.
I will never understand Asmon's obsession with Battle Royales. It's not fun, it's the same thing over and over again with different colors of paint. Halo does not and should not have a BR mode. No one plays Halo for BR, they play it for Halo. Such a bad take.
It's because it was the biggest thing of the decade after mobas, whether one individual person likes them or not is irrelevant, it was literally the most popular game mode for years and it still has plenty of players that like it so launching a game suited for that during it's peak without having that mode is simply a dumb decision.
@@KillahEU the biggest thing of like, 2018-2020 at best. Asmon ignores that there hasn't been a well known new name of a BR game since even before Halo Infinite released. He's just wrong on this take flat out, and shows he doesn't get that the same issues of Halo Infinite would have applied to the BR, and when the BR basically got no updates, people would have dropped it just the same. He also ignores that the point of Infinite was to try and bring back old fans, they would have failed utterly had they tried going after the (semi) hip thing for a third time.
@@KillahEU But that's also my point. Halo is unique, no one and I mean NO ONE is going to play Halo for BR. You play Apex or Fortnite for that, not Halo.
AA studios are making better games because their budgets are down to Earth. Having limited resources forces you to restrict the scope to what’s actually important and creatively solve problems.
And sometimes they are wildly successful. Let's not forget Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the man who essentially created the modern "Battle Royale" game mode. HE DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO PATENT IT (unlike Nintendo). He created a mod for DayZ and then Arma 3. His ideas were later adopted into a mode for H1Z1, and then finally he teamed up with a studio he had complete creative control over and made "PUBG: Battlegrounds". Brendan Greene and his PUBG: Battlegrounds deserve all the success they've found - $13 Billion in gross revenue (and counting).
Ernest Rutheford who helped split the atom said "We didn't have money so we had to think" that quote is applicable to alot of the bullshit we see day to day outside of gaming too
They're making Triple A games like they make blockbuster movies. The reason why it doesn't work is that you only have to put up with a crap movie for 2 hours, but as gamers, we put up with crap games and crap gaming companies like a toxic girlfriend.
@@ThePotatoWaveOfficialyeah just stop, let your hobby die and wither away, see it waste to nothingness by rot. You are part of the problem, craps bad and we need to strife to fix it. Think about having a pet, lets say a cat, now that cat got hurt and maybe has some wounds on it maybe couple fleas because of a scruffel with a stray. would you A: nurse it to health or B: put it down, you can just stop caring or it maybe throw it out and get a new one. You are the on the side of B with your comment.
@@darokdeed "Fixing it" would require acknowledging ALL of the problems which many are unwilling to do out of fear of being called buzzwords. So, rot to nothingness it is then.
@@zid9611 they have idiot analysts that only looks at potential growth and they never look at the % chance of actually hitting that potential. They are essentially a compulsive gambler that will continue to push the lever until they finally go bankrupt.
Funny you mentioned that, because I think GGST is actually pretty good at doing diversity. Why? Because the game is a respectable product, aka gameplay is solid, the bgm is pretty decent and the LGBT/weirdo characters don’t do obnoxious shit and punch down on the rest of the cast. Like seriously, just make a decent game, put your diverse characters in without making them doing obnoxious shit and just let them exists alongside other normal characters and nobody would complain
A big part of this is that the video game industry has overtaken the movie industry. It caught up and overtook the movie industry in profitability. Asmon mentioned "target audience". Well, that's changed to as games have overtook movies over the past 25-ish years. Many people gaming now, who wouldn't have been a gamer 20 years ago. They like story, they like Hollywood actors, they don't want a game that challenges them. This is not judgemental, just pointing out the chaneg in demographics. Where does all the money on AAA games go? Visuals. Actors. Sound. Presentation. Gameplay is last and to an extent, gameplay has been dumbed down. Stereotypical AAA games have become interactive movies. Follow the marker to the next cut scene. I think a big part of this is that overlap with movies. Initially, games couldn't look real, so developers focussed on gameplay. If gaming started now. AAA would never be able to invent games as varied as Mario, Civilisation, Diablo, Command & Conquer. Because none of them look like movies! They are games and would not appeal to many in the new target markets who really want an interactive movie. It's not even DEI. If there was no DEI in gaming, most AAA games would still be mainstreamed garbage with lame gameplay. But there are lots of good games, just not AAA games. As Asmon says, don't become a fanboy for a franchise. Go for the middle of that distribution curve, the indies and single A game devs are still doing inventive great games. TLDR: In the 1990's a game was 95% game 5% movie (at most). As graphics became more real, it changed to now, where an AAA game is 95% movie 5% game.
also most AAA companies are hiring people only based on skin color , religion, sexuality and gender, they will choose someone over those 4 criteria's over someone who knows what they are doing and best for the job
@@eusouocarameuirmaobg2 is good but ill say bg3 really got me to return to turn based games again. I kinda got bored of them for a while but bg3 did it in such a fun way (vengeance paladin was so fun)
Only playing brand new titles just isn’t how I or really anyone I know want to play games currently. A friend of mine is grinding Days Gone, another friend and I are midway through Divinity 2, I play Slay the Spire or other roguelikes if I have nothing to do at work. Recently I bought Ghost of Tsushima after it went on sale, but that’s a RARE exception for me because I’ve been wanting to play that since it came out (and I have no PS). The only new game I play now is Deadlock and that’s 1) free and 2) made by Valve, a company that sticks with games long term and at least tries to cater to the player. Great games like Nine Sols or Black Myth Wukong will still be great in a few years for half off or less.
24:50 the point you're making here is spot on. I also think now a lot more of the "casual" gamers are people who uses to be hardcore in the past, but just grew up. I myself don't have a lot of time to play games anymore, but I sure used to! So I still see what they are doing. While in the past the real "casuals" were people who never played a video game besides Candy crush and Farmville before.
I feel that if you're playing games for 4+ hours a day as an adult then you've probably got an issue. You ideally want to be working on your career, working out, physically socialising with friends etc. That's going to upset people, but seriously, you're avoiding responsibility if you're a "hardcore" gamer and you're not making a living from it.
It's disappointing to see how some AAA studios have been releasing games that don't live up to the hype or expectations, especially for devoted fans. It seems like the focus has shifted from in-depth gameplay experience to pushing titles out for the sake of sales.
honestly its kind of alright to not realy live up to certain hypes or expectations, because expectations are always a different thing to a vision of the ones makin something. The real problem isnt the not livin up to them, but simply delivering garbage whilst very much KNOWING they deliver not even halfway finished, broken, bugged, overpriced experiences to people who actualy care. Im fine with not getting what i expected. If its still working, and good in a different way. totaly cool with that. But to have to go so low as to expect a game to simply FUNCTION without burning your pc or console the moment you start it and call that a expectation to live up to.... nah...
At 11:25 Asmon struggles to articulate why Battlefield V goofed by putting a claw-hand woman on the front lines of a WW2 game. Yea, the game is fictitious, but it's setting (WW2) has an established lore (in this case derived from actual historical events). But the same goes for Black Myth, it's set in mythical China, yea its pure fantasy and fable, but it has an established lore. If you're setting a game in an environment with an established lore and then start making (clearly politically motivated) nonsensical deviations from that lore than you destroy any sense of immersion and remind people of real-life politics. That isn't fun. Secondly, it's always the SAME political motivations driving these changes, it's so boring and exhausting to constantly have the same messaging shoved down your throat, regardless of your political affiliation or lack thereof.
Yup, and why almost everyone is a one-pump chump in the last 20 years. I legitimately can't name a single 'artist' post 2005 that has managed to put out two entire decent songs.
@@Jack_Rakan Look on the bright side. At least they are consistent. Consistently bad, but still consistent. That way I know to avoid them, instead of being baited by 1 good song and then being disappointed with the whole album. I use the same rule of thumb for gaming. Blizzard fked up with overwatch 2 and diablo 4, they are dead to me. I couldn't care less how redeemed diablo 4 is now, at some point they will make it bad again it is blizzard we are talking about. I would rather not waste my time investing into diablo 4 and then the game just goes bad again and I feel like I wasted my time. If blizzard brings back 6v6 to overwatch and rebalances everything, maybe I'll reconsider my stance on Blizzard but until they do it is a huge red flag that they don't care and I can expect the same from the rest of their products. I haven't bought an ubisoft game since black flag. I haven't bought an EA game since Jedi Fallen Order, and before that game I hadn't bought an EA game since Battlefield 1. And I only got those 2 games because everyone was saying how good they were, they were not launch purchases. So basically I am just buying good singles now, staying away from the album.
@@TheBoredOne1 Not saying that good artists don't exist anymore. Just that it's so very, very rare to hear a random song on radio the car for example, or from a movie, and to think 'Damn, I really want to hear more from this artist'. And it's even rarer so to look them up and find a second song I like. An example of the rare artist/ band with multiple good songs (for me at least) would be Sabaton with a ton of bangers. An example of a one-hit wonder would be Wiz Kalifa with 'See you again' and nothing else standing out in any way. And then there seems to be another new 'up and comer' artist popping up every day with a decent at best, but usually trash song, and I forget about them 5 seconds after the song ends (if I don't just think 'That was awful, I hope to never hear this ever again').
@@Jack_Rakan my grandad had a bar where i was raisd in first 8 years. And you 100 procent correct. I can name artists from 1920s to early 2000. I have 15.000 songs on my pc. But nothing that came out after 2004/2005
42:46 this sums up CoD perfectly. With the SBMM, it ensures you’re always having a hyper competitive experience. I just wanna hop on for an hour and chill 🥵
This is what is happening in dungeons and dragons. The CEO said that it is a very under monetized gaming industry. They are making large moves towards being a vastly online industry. I think the CEO was a Microsoft executive. The decision-makers have now largely been taken over by suits. And the game is now somewhat more of a superhero factory than starting off as a nobody and building your skills from nothing.
except that DnD is just a framework, I've played for over 20 years and have never played an un-modded official campaign book and have the expectation that any campaign book after strahd to be garbage anyway. If you have mary-sue power-gamers at your table that's your fault for inviting them. It's easier than ever in current year to get all the rules and info you need without giving Hasbro a cent. Pro-tip: anyone who mentions Critical Role at any point should be shown the door immediately.
@@graysaltine6035 we definitely have different ways of thinking. I’ve been playing dungeons and dragons since 1980. And I have always experienced changes to written adventures whether I play through them or run my groups through them. And I’m doing my best to not give wotc any of my money either. Although I have enjoyed getting some re-prints of old modules from drive-through RPG. I don’t mind power gamers, as long as they are enjoying the game and no one else at my table has a problem with it. I’m grateful for their approach to the game and it making me a sharper dungeon Master. And I’ve taken inspiration from critical role in the past, at least with Matts role-playing as a dungeon Master. I’m working on my dungeon master role-playing and voice acting with a current let’s play of the disc version of 2002 original never winter nights. You should check it out if you get some free time.
@@graysaltine6035 It's all about the younger generations. They won't know any better. That's how we have so many loony commies in Gen Z and Millennials. I have 2nd and 3rd edition as my basis for that game. There are new players who only know 5th, which is a tragedy in my book.
Infinite not having a BR wasn't even a top 10 issue with the game. Chasing another trend wasn't the issue Infinite had. It had the launch numbers but couldn't retain them due to a lack of launch content (maps and modes), bad progression, no Forge mode on launch, a subpar campaign. Chasing the BR trend would not have rectified any of those issues when the BR market was already hyper saturated
I'll disagree with you there. BR isn't just another game mode, it's almost like another game entirely. If they had a good BR it would of lived off it's own merit and would of brought gamers into other game modes too, at a lesser rate but some. Sure I have some doubts they could of made a good BR, but if they succeeded it would of saved the game for sure.
28:30 exactly this. I do feel like I have a chore to do with these daily quests. I play Core Keeper as well and its such a breath of fresh air because I can do what I want when I want and not have all those fluff quests to get through before I play the main stuff.
The "I don't have a problem with the changes, ppl are crybabies" bots are awfully quiet these days Edit: I'm a major Pokemon fan, this has been a problem since dexcut and now the games are objectively trash, congrats bots.
@@xChimkin There was a meme that captured that transitioning in interest wonderfully, it was the before-after Ukraine invasion, the day before all the world were specialists in medicine, and the day after they suddenly became military geniuses.
0:54 NAIL ON THE HEAD. Destiny 2 had that with the level tied to armor, but only limited, weakly, challenges available to incrementally increase. Once completed, you had to wait for the start of next week for a chance to try and rank up.
For me it was the lie of "DLC for life" when you pre-ordered the top tier...only for the DLC to be an "add on or extra content" The outright lies were enough for me by 2019 I was done.
@@strawhatdabber Bungie with Destiny 2 burnt its player base on so many levels it could be a Guinness Book record. lol 6000 hours and Bungie shafted me so many times, never again. I didn't play the Final Shape and never will.
@@PrioryCastle Well at least it got some of THE best visuals in gaming. Possibly the best art team, 3D-designers, level designers and music makers out there. I got Final Shape and had some fun with it... was it worth the price? Hmm. I don't know overall because I got the deluxe pack (regretti) and the writing ended up so *terrible*, but they gave me some EPIC experiences since it all looks so good. But yeah no, the new power system they forced on us is once again ehhhh, everything needs to move at the speed of light, Nimbus was a character they decided to make... Osiris is lame and gay... the open world is an empty travesty with soulless activities that might be fun for children below the age of 10... but I haven't played for a few months now. The Final Shape campaign on Legendary I thought was still mostly good, it was a couple of enjoyable hours. If I had just bought the base game I'd probably be happy with my money spent. They just don't deliver what they promise and had to add in the extra political stuff at so many turns. There are quite a few characters that talk about identity politics rather than talk about the insanely powerful God-beings that want to annihilate the entire galaxy and what we're doing about it, and the writers are dropping the ball on the cool stuff too, falling back to a basic understanding of "good" powers versus "bad" powers and nothing really goes any deeper than the game TELLING you "this is an amazing force that is very complicated and cool and amazing (trust us)." Sadge. Haven't spent nearly as much time on it but a couple hundred hours across all of D2? Probably be back again to smash some more dungeons if I can get my buddy along...
Remember when Assassin's Creed used to try and slot their story in with historical events rather than doing their own versions of history? It used to have a degree of credibility that they just don't bother anymore.
And the magic in the world felt real because of how subtle it was, hidden behind the historical world, but now it has full mythological monsters etc. And it shouldn’t be an RPG, you’re viewing your ancestors lives. They lost it when they killed Desmond off, made no sense. I always dreamed of an AC in Poland-Lithuania, now it’d horrendously miss the mark. They did so well with Syria and Italy, depressing industry-wide decline for sure
Guys I was PC gaming in the 90s, you can't even imagine how different it was back then, it felt like every single major game was doing something original and mind blowing. Now the major games are generic clones of what you've seen before and it's the smaller indie games doing the innovating (that's not news), but it has been a very long time since i've played something that's just completely unlike anything I've played before
Well the 90s was also when games had a big leap in technology. New types of games were being created that had never seen before and like you said yourself, these days it’s just clones… that’s why it was “different” like you said, because it was all new for the time. You talk like you’re the only one in the world who played games in the 90s too. Dude thinks he’s the main character lol
@@gazzy9136 most of the people that follow Asmon are young and weren't there dude, it's not ego, they don't know how it was and yes what we have now is 'refinement' rather than 'revolution'
3D graphics is a huge factor in the decline! Think about it - devs have been spending more and more on getting games to look real, there's little resource or care for actual gameplay. Filming hours of cut scenes is an easier way to pad out a 40 hour game than creating something that has a geniune 40 hours of real gameplay but no cut scenes.
17:25 it 100% was ego 343 said they wanted to out due the original halo creators. They came across as more resentful than anything when the topic was about what came before.
We have entered that phase of the Soviet Union in the 80s where the best companies from Soviet Union make wildly under performing products almost seemingly designed to break at a certain point so the factory stays open because you need a new crap car
AAA gaming today feels a lot like the fall of Xerox. Back in the 80s and 90s, Xerox was a leader in innovation but lost its edge when the focus shifted from cutting-edge tech to short-term sales. They shelved breakthrough ideas like personal computing to prioritize immediate profits-and we all know how that turned out. The gaming industry seems to be going down the same path. Instead of focusing on creative, innovative gameplay, many AAA studios are driven by corporate metrics and profit margins-microtransactions, annual releases, and safe, formulaic games. Just like Xerox, they’ve lost sight of what made them great in the first place: pushing boundaries and offering something fresh.
that reminds me of the US auto industry and how it decrepified in the 1970s. the cars coming out of detroit etc were fancy on the outside but mechanically so bad the car salesman called them shitboxes when the customers werent listening. then companies like datsun and toyota made cars that were plain looking but lasted year after year while getting better gas mileage (during the 70s gas shortage) and the US auto industry went into a tailspin for about 15 - 20 years. from 1980 to 1995 if you bought an american car you were either rich or an idiot. US auto didnt get consumer confidence back until the late 1990s, and they only did it by copying japanese standards. the current trend in video game development has already happened in other industries. hope it recovers sooner than later, although thats not likely. the manufacturing of cars never got involved with politics; there was never a "sweet baby" coming after ford or chevrolet.
Infinite was good imho. The problem is that they didn't fix hit detection and managed to break big battle. And it was over for me personally. I loved the game but I could not bear how broken it was. Now I love The Finals :)
For me, seeing the logo of Atlus or Square Enix is still something that makes me happy. I just can't help it. Playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and modern Persona games feels like playing those old games from the PS2 Golden Era
This is a very good point. Streamers push sales, and a huge number of stream watchers have a huge amount of free time. They don't care if the casual players can't keep up, or even enjoy the game. They're after the no-lifers and whales.
So true, it's gotten to the point where I have come up with a term for them "streamer games." Like I'll see some game or play it on Gamepass and be like "this is a total streamer game" because it's either needlessly hardcore or the type of thing where you might as well just watch someone else play it.
@@mrjohnnyk yup the other often giveaway factor was the game's over reliance towards shock humor/horror and "modern" aka gen Z eccentricity to the point the overusage is becoming cringier and it kills game's repetitive nature. Like you can clearly see this devs are just a massive fan of reacting channels/ twitch streamer reactions lol.
"It only takes a few minutes to log in" yeah... but you want to game not to do a chore. there are also times that you wouldn't want to touch your PC and would rather lay down.
25:20 not only this, but our time.. space marine early access on friday vs launch on monday for the poors, 9-5 monday through friday workers feel obligated to pay 40usd extra to play when they have time to enjoy it and its fresh...
@@justanobody0 If you look at gaming as a whole. Most AAA are getting less sale each entry 1st week. Yes there are still big seller here and there. But it used to be a few game were huge each month. Now we're lucky if there a good big title ever other month. They are making more on microtransaction. But there bases aren't picking up numbers anymore. Concord was just bad on ever lvl. On top of being a exclusive for bla console that nobody needs. With a PR disaster just before. In a over crowded genre that dieing off in populared.
@@user-zl1vf4me1p Metaphor english localization is ruined by "localizers". Western game journos are probably so proud of their allies "cooperating" with Atlus, one of the most respected JRPG devs.
That makes sense ...but why are they pushing modern propaganda on something where so many died in such horrible ways? Fiction ? They shouldn't use the names ,they should make something completely different .
Yeah like have French Resistance Fighters and have a few be females in with them and maybe if they added the Soviets we could have had a couple based on RL people. When we get to Modern day and 2042 there would be a bit more wiggle room especially in western armies. It just felt very disingenuous like they didn't add it for genuine reasons to expand the story and fit that historical fiction mark they added it to check a box
The issue with "daily reward" structured games too is that, in a way it makes it so you're too busy finishing your daily's to actually enjoy the bulk of the game, you have say, 2 hours to play a game and 1 of those or half an hour is gone just finishing your daily quests. In genshin for example you would do the 4 daily quests, spend your resin and boom, now you can choose to either spend the half an hour you have remaining to walk around and explore the world in a hurry or you can do something else, when you could just be exploring the world calmly and enjoy the actual game which is botw-like exploration(sorta)
30:00 on the topic of not having enough time to play video games, there was this old JRPG called "the world ends with you" they had a really neat mechanic. It basically would level up your equipment based on how long you were offline. And certain equipment would evolve base on AFK XP. Players nowadays refer to that mechanic as the "touch grass rewards". It basically gave you incentive to put the game down and just do something else. I think a lot of games would benefit from that sort of reward structure
Can we stop this mentality that existing fanbases cant support their franchises. We have supported our favourite franchises for 20+ years, nothings changed. Their "modern, broader audience' doesnt even equal 1/10th of the the existing fanbase but theyre only catering to that "modern, broader audience" and then blaming the failure on us instead of themselves
These games were popular for a reason. I think you could often streamline them a bit and maybe ease new players in. But it is not like many of them were that complex to start with. There is not much that actually prevents even people with game journalist skills from playing them...
I think gaming should be the type of thing where you play it at your own pace, when you're in the mood. It shouldn't be something were you feel forced.
The concept itself is not bad, just overly misused. Monster Hunter is doing that, old WoW used to do that with dailies & rested bonus, etc. In short, if the game is good, I dont have a problem with daily rewards.
Haven't bought a EA, Ubisoft or Blizzard/Activision game for ages for exactly those reasons. I even started playing indie games and make content around it as there are so many gems compared to the big ones
I really love that the people who use the argument "It's a video game, it's fiction you bigot" are the same people that pushes for dark skin colors in genshin. They get told the same thing "it's a video game, it's fiction", and suddenly it's a problem.
those people are so dishonest is crazy if there arent thing they dont like, its the ist and phobes, it should have all the representation in the world to be more realistic if there are things they like but people dont want it, "why do you care so much, its fiction, you are ist and phobe" there is no way to win. game full of blacks? full of women? full of lgbt? full of propaganda? good, its fiction why do you care game full of whites? full of men? full of straights? you say communism is bad? bad, its men power fantasy, you need to add this and remove this
just tell them how silly it would have been if voldemort had bought an AK and shot up hogwarts. just because it’s fantasy, it needs internal consistency. if it’s fantasy derived from a particular era or event, it also needs to be consistent with that era or event. imagine if in medal of honor you came across a wizard who can stop bullets, it’d feel almost as silly as putting diVeRsiTy on the front lines of a word war💀
Because it's a BS response. It's not meant to have any meaning. It's meant as a deflection and a tool to shame or ridicule you. They're defending their agenda.
youtube not even trying to hide they deleted my reply now, no comment here but still got a notification because someone made another comment, hilarious
BR's are for certain player bases. Planetside 2 tried to make a BR, Planetside Arena. It died. And the cost of development took so much away from Planetside 2 that that game is dying.
Battle Royals are an awful game type. Can be upto half hour of looting before a hacker just wall glitches you. Also it's a lazy way yo make games. We have enough of the crappy BR
I mean, it started it downwards spiral when wrel started adding unnecessary changes and updates. But yea, a lot of resources invested in planetside arena. Then game started dying even faster 2 years ago When i quit the game 2 years ago, i miss it so much, only now i see how great couldve it been... And actually todsy, what we have these days, i would give anything for planetside 2 from 2020 or earlier. Its perfect for what peoplr want today, log in any time, do anything, be casual or tryhard, its perfect, no servers, no fomo, no p2w
True I bought it, I was so hyped but if I had known about Ng+ fast travel points being removed I would have said no. My fault though I enjoy souls like games and need to be careful, no preorder watch it first.
I'm in the same boat. I actually just downloaded Throne and Liberty then no more than 5 minutes later just uninstalled it. I just don't have the time anymore to invest in games that require min/max build strats, time-gated content, paywalls and other nonsense.
I'll be lucky if I can get 3 hours gaming during weekdays. Started Elden Ring back in March. That's the only game I play and still haven't finished the game.
What's kinda missing in this is the following: We were kids back then. We came home from school and booted up our PC or console and played for hours without a worry in the world. Now I come home at 7 pm and while booting up my PC I already think about tomorrow and what I have to do at work. My faucet is leaking, my refrigerator is broken, my roof is damaged... I just can't enjoy gaming anymore due to the headache I have from real life.
Fix the faucet, roof and refrigerator first. They are more important than games and if they cause you stress, take that stress away. These things are in your control. Never think about work after you clocked out. You are not getting paid for those thoughts. This is also in your control. Reduce your stress levels and you'll enjoy your free time again, whether that's gaming or something else.
I used to play Fallout 76 daily after it got fixed and they added seasons. Then one season I got a bit burned out, missed a lot of dailies and I didn't reach the final rewards of the season. I just dropped the game after that. Games shouldn't be daily chores. Sometimes I just want to play something else. But if you do that nowadays, you're gonna miss out on content. And I hate that.
Games went mainstream and now shareholders control everything (I know this is a gross simplification). Game studios that used to be run by gamers are now run by businessmen.
I'm currently pursuing a master's degree in surgery but I've been a gamer since I played Tekken 2 and grand turismo on the PSone all those years ago. What he's talking about makes a whole lot of sense. My game collection does not go past 2020 and it's mostly single player games not bound to daily 'quests'. There's just no time in the day to be a hard core gamer. Older titles were based on 'get in, get it, get out'. Just experience the whole game and walk away not this 'release the game and patch later'. I don't have the time to wait on that not to mention micro transactions. Epic 1st video. Kudos.
Some of the price differences on N64 etc was because the cartridges could have a different components, and could therefore cost differently. This wasn't as much the case on PS1.
In Fallout 4 there is magazines that you find in the game world, some of them unlock new hair styles, power armor paintjobs and face tattoos, your exploration is rewarded with cosmetics. In Fallout 76 you press Esc and put your credit card to unlock the same thing. Now people will gonna say that cosmetics dont matter, they dont change the experience in the game.
I've always liked that about Fallout 4. The magazines reward your exploration with more customization or character bonuses. Paint-jobs for power armor, face tattoos, hair-styles, settlement building parts, useful perks for combat or stealth skills, things that can help you survive longer (or make more money) in the wasteland. Exploration is encouraged by the gameplay design - I want to build a thing, I need materials to do that, those materials are in this location guarded by that enemy. Clean out the enemies, loot everything you can, sometimes you just get some lore for the area, other times you get a magazine or some rare items. You go back home and build the thing and much more stuff until you need the materials to build the next thing... and the loop starts again. Microtransactions encourage scummy behavior like making that build-explore-fight-scavenge-build loop grindy as all hell. An example (using F4 as the base because I've never bothered with 76) would be making "Adhesive" ultra-turbo-rare because basically every crafting recipe needs it, but for only 400 Golden Caps (valued at $4.00), you can buy a 10 pack of adhesive, perfect for getting you through 20 crafting items that need it. Then to make it a claim that it's not "pay-to-win," you give players 5 Golden Caps for their daily log-in, reward one or two per major quest completed, and then you can say, "You can earn our premium currency in the game, you just might have to play more of it to do so." And, no, cosmetics do kinda matter. I don't care if it's the best gun in the game, if it looks like a pipe-gun pulled out of a steaming pile of deathclaw shit, I won't use it. If the solution is to buy the "Golden Deagle Skin" from the MTX shop... I still won't use it... Because I'm not paying for a skin-swap that was encouraged by having the original model look like shit.
None of the glitches, bugs, etc have ever been a deal breaker with me regarding bethesda. I always knew what to expect with their over-reliance on the modding community's unofficial patches. Everything pertaining to marketing, monetization, policy, etc surrounding fallout 76 was when I knew bethesda was no more, to me.
@@h1r086 Same. You knew when you bought a Bethesda game, you were buying into bugs, glitches, community patches, and official mod support. You bought the game _knowing_ there were bugs to be found, that it's built on the back of a 20 year old game engine, and that within 3 months of the official dev-kit coming out (Construction Set/GECK/Creation Kit), there'd be unofficial patches to fix problems, and the mods would start trickling in to give you more to do. Elder Scrolls Online was always kept "divorced enough" from main TES lore that any "weird shit" was just them filling in unwritten gaps. Fallout 76 launched with the obvious intent of "everything's a grind, players must support their own economy, the whole game's an asset-flip of Fallout 4 with some Skyrim reskins, and we're doing this because online games make MONEY! We want our hands in your wallet at all times." Online games have no mod support - that means no community unofficial patches, no custom races to shake things up, no fancy new suit of one-off, lore-shattering power armor because "it looks cool." That F76 decided to take a huge _shit_ on Fallout's lore was just an added nail in the coffin.
I HATE FOMO in games. It's probably one of the biggest reasons why I don't play MMOs that much anymore. WoW is so full of FOMO now. As soon as I missed a Twitch drop in New World it felt like sh-t and I never watched another New World stream. I've never purchased a battle pass in my entire life. All of that crap makes me hate a game so fast. It makes it easier to just hate a game and move on than to keep trying to play. Heck, I'd probably still be playing Diablo IV if it wasn't for Season 1 dropping right in the middle of me still casually playing through the campaign. Instead I just straight up never even finished the last act and closed the game for good. And so did all 4 of my friends who bought the game at the exact same time, literally all of us quit like exactly 1 week before season 1. I just wanted to play the game that I bought on release, not NEW Diablo IV with weird vampire-themed events. And then if you do finally open up a game like D4 again, and you earn a SINGLE seasonal reward, it all of a sudden reminds you of the hundreds of seasonal rewards you missed since you left, and you quit again after a week. I just.... seriously.. FOMO and seasonal gameplay makes me absolutely seethe at how much I hate them. Diablo 2 had 2 seasons. The base game and the expansion. And your original character was still perfectly good to use whenever the expansion came out instead of making you have to start over.
Same. D4 is supposed to give you the option to play seasons if you want to and then return to eternal, but there's really no choice when they trash the eternal realm every season. It's so obvious they are putting a time limit on the game to create urgency that keeps you playing so you can keep up. That, and all the slot machine psychology really make for a massive waste of time.
And they're adding FOMO to single player games now. I don't even understand the logic behind that. Not even pre-orders and stuff like that, just random limited time events and stuff. They don't ask for money for them most of the time, too.
Doing the same in Stalcraft. Game lost 20% of its playerbase in a month cuz of companys bs. While speakers and the 1% that plays 24/7 are all "yes mans"
I have a weird perspective on this. I'm a huge RTS fan and the games I play the most are RTS games like SC2 and Sins of a Solar Empire 2. The thing with the RTS community is that it's really small compared to other genres so games have to be good. Anything less is quickly forgotten. I think a big thing is that many game companies take their fans for granted and can make money off slop games because there's always going to be enough people buying it.
Dude, I like classic style arcade genres... Like, Shmups, Rhythm games, Beat em Ups and fighting games... Almost no new big company shmup actually ever comes out, at all, but there is a rich history of past games, good ports and remasters and there are great quality indie games... Overall I'd say we still eating way way better than say, fans of sport games or even FPS... At least we know we will have 1 really good game per year, cause somebody will make it, alone if necessary. The only genre I know in which the best games are actually some of the best ones is JRPGs (J cause I don't really play western RPGs, but may be the same)...
@@autisonm Tempest Rising looks so good. I do have some concerns about minor details like the unit physics and pathing but overall it looks great. I'm personally really excited for DORF.
Yo, why have so many AAA games been so dogshit over the past couple of years? It's like they don't even care about their games anymore. Talented and passionate people need to be at the forefront of gaming.
halo infinite BR would've been big for the game but tbh they didn't even launch a damn co-op campaign on release. With that, poor campaign story writing, no forge mode, or custom games. The game shot itself in the foot so bad even a BR mode wouldn't have saved it.
I literally was going to say that halo infinite didn’t even launch with co op. Also, management was horrible I’ve heard. Pushing to get the game out b4 it’s was ready.
@@Pengartmake your own video then, have the people upvote it and you'll be megaphone'd to the public as well Oh, it's easier to moan in the comments? Alrighty then
One BIG thing AAA companies just can't seem to realize: cost of creating games grows exponentially, but the sales figures of games grow linearly. The more money you keep pumping into a game, the less likely you are to make a profit, no matter how many copies you sell. Realistically, how many games EVER have broken the 100-200 million dollar profit margin?
this is why they are going into the rat race of making live service games...each company want to have their own Fortnite, Minecraft, etc. Because they can keep milking the players with minimum budget. However this is a high risk high return kind of thing...and we gamers are tired of these live service things already.
No it does not ,costs did not grow ,even a single person can make something much fun than any AAA studios ,before it was way more difficult ,now they have a engine with all the assets they need plus Ai
I don't think it's a coincidence that the KCD devs straight up refused to add D.E.I. components to medieval Bohemia, because the core of the game was intended to be historically accurate. That's why you felt like you were living in that world, and it was distinct and memorable. It wasn't just modern day with funny hats. And it was just the classic hero's story. For the most part it was a story of good v evil.
Perfect random stranger on the internet is the first game worth playing?! I don't know anyone that's played it and I've wanted to give it a shot. Do I buy it and invest the time?
@@arnejohnson7542 The first game is one of my favourite games of all time. Sure it has some bugs and the combat is difficult but I personally find it extremely fun and I recommend it to anyone who likes difficult RPG games. Just don't forget you start out extremely weak but the combat gets super fun after levelling up.
I almost never buy games for consoles, first off (even if they are also on pc) Ive quickly learned that a lot of AAA focused too much on graphics and not enough on gameplay. So i wasnt on the demo for most of this BS even before theu started hating gamers.
Battlefield lost its lustor when they started trying really hard to make battfield moments. The whole point of BF moments is they werent intended and thus were really crazy and high skill or funny, contrasting the serious game. Now theyre trying to marvel-ize bf with funny haha comic relief and funny haha bf moments. Dog water.
That jump out of fighter jet shoot rpg then re-enter plane trailer really killed the interest of BF to me. It feels like a clown show. The same reason I disappointed when I went from Red Alert to Red Alert 3
People have also realized that live service games are not permanent. Games add FOMO and unfun endless grind in order to reach "where the game gets good" so you're more likely to pay for their sub/microtransactions/boosts. WoW can at any point shut down, and all those hundreds of hours of grinding would in the end amount to nothing, and all that money spent is virtually burned in front of you. People are tired of spending hundred hours to catch up to a whale who spent 70 bucks, or the atrocity that is intentionally mundane grinding so they can throw microtransaction offers at you.
This is exactly how I feel about Once Human. The game is pretty good, but I feel so stressed trying to keep up with the updates and daily tasks and rewards. I feel like im missing out so much that I just dont play instead. Fucking game was so good too.
Modern gaming is absolute dog shit compared to how gaming was back in 2007 when Halo 3 was the game everyone played. Gaming will never be that good ever again fact.
1:20 coz of the live service shenanigans by the west. just getting stuff done in a battle pass is so 💩. if i play a live service gacha game im done within 2 hrs . i stopped playing wow due to the fact that its near pointless to progress to that game .
Sigh. Some old games are so well optimized while still looking okay even by today standards. Optimization in AAA titles just nosedived and you can see the exact moment when it happened: several years ago, when first games built on UE5 and featuring AI upscalers started to release.
I have a feeling that the biggest influencing factor that changed gaming in the past years, are people who play video games for a business. People who make money from playing, who can invest that money in their game, getting awesome and flashy content, moving fast up the rank and making it look like the game is fast paced and in turn much more fun than it actually is. People who watch the stream get lured into it and want to buy the game as well, not realising time and money you have to spend to have as much fun as their favourite streamer has. For gaming publishers this is very symbiotic relationship sinds it's became much more common for streamers to get an early access for their stream. I also believe that the expensive $100,00 + deluxe pre order packs are targeted mostly to gamers with a gaming business. For them it will simply be a business expense. Indy game makers can't really tap into this marketing because it takes a whole company and legal team to set up a network for pay to win content. Indy game makers really have to build on gaming quality to get a community. Most streamers won't just nilly willy start up a game that no one has been asking for. So it has to be a game with such fun gameplay that a mouth to mouth advertisement has already given the game a bit of traction. Just a little rant, please add or critique if you have a different opinion.
"It's called having a life" "It's for people with no life" God it makes me feel so much rage when I hear that. As if slaving away at work all day is any more of a life than having free time to do whatever you want.
Quest Giver : Sony Quest : If you dont like it dont buy it! Objectives : Keep your funds in your wallet and do nothing Quest Completed! Achievement : Skipped Ghost of Tampons succesfully!
There's very little information about Ghosts of Yotei, even the idea that the team is completely different is false. I'm 99% sure all of this outrage has been manufactured. Interesting to see folks who consider themselves critical thinkers believe what they hear only when it aligns with their existing views.
@@Arnazistithis sort of argument would have its merit in 2018 Today, if there is the stench of woke tampons, it's 99,9999% woke tampons. Go argue with the companies for never breaking that rule, not for us noticing the clear patterns
@@LudwigVaanArthans Your argument has little to do with what I'm trying to say specific to Ghosts of Yotei, unless I'm misunderstanding. Are you essentially saying you're not willing to look farther than the talking points provided by youtubers? The reason I'm compelled to talk about this is because with things like Dustborn, Concord and Shadows you could smell the BS immediately, with Ghosts of Yotei it's a little bit different. Multiple points have been turned into ragebait by RU-vidrs, like the former Sony exec who said don't buy it if you don't like it, who has absolutely no involvement and no association with Sucker Punch Productions yet you'll see this repeated everywhere. A second point made to argue that GoT is woke is that the dev team is completely different (which in itself makes no sense) and used pictures from 2018s International Womens Day where SPP celebrated the 20 or 30 women that work there (out of 160 employees) saying that this is the new team. The timeline is basically that the trailer came out for Yotei. Then a small percentage of content creators knowingly or unknowingly fabricated outrage using made up talking points. Now two weeks later you have folks on RU-vid comments and twitter saying that "there's a stench of woke tampons" when in reality there never was. There are no "patterns", if you've played GoT you'll know there's multiple lead female characters. The overwhelming majority of people are receiving Yotei quite well (unlike Shadows with 133k dislikes on its trailer). It just happens to align with the clusterfuck that's going on with Ubisoft and Concord and etc and it's extremely easy to bandwagon on outrage.
Good 'ol games: Let's do everything we can so EVERYONE can enjoy and love the game! Games nowadays: Don't like the game? TOO BAD, peasants. Shoo! Don't buy our game! Strange marketing strategy 😂
My theory goes further. There's a good chunk of people who want to make these titles theirs and destroy these companies. Money doesn't actually matter to them. Destroying something we love gives them joy as they're sold on the idea that "gamers are toxic" through and through.
They're just spiteful mutants. They're envious of what is others can create, and have worked so hard to become just like them, but know deep down they're next to worthless and incapable of ever leaving that shadow. Thus they become angry and would rather destroy what was once their passion.
26:10 Silent Hill 2 remake is having this same thing happen. There are a ton of bot comments in a lot of the comment sections surrounding SH2 shutting down any criticisms.
