Asmongold Reacts to "Most Popular Games (2004͏͏ - 2020)" 

I think it is a bundle of things. San Andreas runs on tons of things from consoles to Washing Machines. I never played it but from what I've heard, San Andreas to GTA V was a smoother transition than GTA4. It's kinda weird to have a spiritual successor to a game that skips a generation.

I wonder if it sits there due to the endless Modding that game has suffered. Here in Brazil you can buy physical copies of a plethora of modded GTA games.

@@rodrigopinho6613 Well, yeah. But think of it like this. Arma3 was modded to become a GTAV.

It had to be an error from the way they were looking it up. There's absolutely no way in hell SA even vaguely held that much popularity for that long. Zero chance. Whatever they were searching up was bringing up other gta games in the San Andreas score. (Not saying it was a bad game, just saying their search wasn't accurate on that one).

​@@rodrigopinho6613 I'd believe it. Skyrim seems to be in the same boat.

The modding community on GTA SA is so massive, they probably already wrote more code than Rockstar ever did since it was created, i've seen people who wrote working engines for the entire game, modders who created mods for other mods...

Same with Skyrim the modding community carrys the game. Nobody plays it without mods

@@OrangeMelon419 that's untrue, not saying that it's not the mods carrying it (frankly i don't know) but a lot of people still play vanilla san andreas, especially in developing countries

@@zoroasper9759 nooo I mean Skyrim is carried by mods. I never played GTA SA. So I know nothing about it. But I have like 7k hours on Skyrim (with mods)

@@OrangeMelon419 ah sorry brother I misread and thought you were talking about sa To be fair tho it's even more untrue for skyrim, it's been rereleased in consoles that dont allow for modding whatsoever and it's still popular there Pc gaming is getting bigger but it's still nowhere near as big as consoles Theres a few good modding opportunities on xbox but otherwise if not on pc then there's not much you can mod into skyrim

Wait when lol

@@tammushican4823 I cant remember exactly lol I think like 2009 ish

It's google searches. When you google portal 2, then your search includes portal. Guess that's why.

Rockstar knows how to make good games 😂

San Andreas was hands down the best GTA

@@Ironsvillage couldn't agree more. The game had so much to it. So much you could lose yourself in. And when they created online multi-player for it through modding it became even more massive and awesome.

i feel like its because how popular the ps2 is in countries like brazil still

@@92jdeg this right there. I've heard in the Middle East (not Israel) older consoles and PC games are also very popular due to purely economic reasons. On one hand I feel bad for less fortunate people, on the other - PS2 is an absolute banger of a console. I still have mine somewhere.

Bethesda has a plethora of IP tho. Minecraft only has the one. If you added up all the Bethesda IPs on this list, they would easily beat Minecraft.

@@frostpyr0 uuuhhhh? Have you seen the video? If you added them all up TWICE they still would not even be 2nd

@@frostpyr0 The only IPs Microsoft cared about were Elder Scrolls, Fallout and maybe DOOM. The next Elder Scrolls game will easily generate billions in sales alone.

Well you have to remember that Notch sold it in 2014. When the game had "only" sold around 15 million copies. Microsoft were paying 2.5 billion for what was essentially only one popular game. Which is quite a big risk to take. In contrast Bethesda had a plethora of titels when bought. Many of which have sold similar to what Minecraft had in 2014. no one would have expected minecraft to become the best selling videogame of all time.

@Trash Person also notch is an asshole, so im glad he got screwed if anything lol

Agreed. Its impossible for MW2 not making the list when it came out.

Especially with the drop of Warzone in 2020 thought that would have at least made the list

Number 1 game of all time the open world where everyone roamed ah man the nostalgia hits me like a truck

I'd say it's my favorite game of all time. But I hate what it's like now.

mmo rpg just don’t fit the majority anymore, too little time scattered around, not enough for a long time playing at once

@@nobodyspecial596 just wait till riot mmo comes out

Honestly i am suprised how much he was hoping it would make a come back. From videos i have seen (And as was shown here) didn't WoW fall of around 2012 and blizzard just completely fumbled any chance at a proper revival for years to come as the player Base got smaller and smaller.

it was also a great game that keep it's fanbase coming for more

Don't forget the mobile game.

It's a game for any aspiring tyrant.

If the game came out any other time people would have been a lot more critical of it

My quarantine time games for me were World of Warcraft and the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as I don't have anything Nintendo to play Animal Crossing on and only a gaming PC which one can't even play Animal Crossing on!

read the comments. people are talking about it.

Ya i was gonna say lol Basically every time there was a new GTA that metric trickled back into San Andreas and everyone started using emulators for it lol

No respect.

@Mavis Beacon And these legs are playability, accessibility and a good story. Who needs a fourth leg.

i always spend the first 2 hours on that game bulking up at the gym so im a monster!

those are searches, not players

*ah shit, here we go again*

Grand the... Zzzzzzzz 😴

I think you meant to say clash of clans

@@mrdean171 no you're wrong

It's monster hunter world to me. As one, who played all the old games on PSP i was so glad it finally got attention and was able to bring out a monster hunter that feels alive, without this 'part of map loading' and countless other annoying things. All wiped away within just 1 generation. Huge jump

They will, i dont remember end of 2021 or beggining 2022 Gta 3 vicecity and san andreas will be remasteres by rockstars :)

@@vladis860 14th november the trilogy remaster releases

Still waiting on that remaster

Careful what you wish for lmao

@@BxPanda7 definitive editions are just ports of the mobile versions of the games changed ever so slightly. not a remaster at all. just Rockstar being lazy.

Based Balkans

@@BeyondDaX GTA Samp :)

now if only gta 4 worked on pc

I'd say it stayed alive and relevant mostly due to modding and memes. Like its a great game but never underestimate the power of memes and mods.

@@Regan995 rs3 nubb

1st it was a massive game in terms of content, 2nd it was intended to run on the PS2 and single core PCs so any third worlder can play and finally it has tons of mods and later a multiplayer version.

GTA SA its huge in... well in SA, South America. People here had shitty pcs for the longest time so the best they could run was San Andreas.

Personally I like the tighter package of Vice City but SA is still great. The last GTA before they started obsessing over realism.

exept it's not because GTA vice city, Bully and Midnight club 3, RDR2 are much better than GTA SA

Best game? Probably not. Definitely one of their most popular though.

It is going to be remastered with gta 3 and vice city

sorry no taco taco

@@Syncphony Sorry i dont speak school shooting.

He does have a point about the girls thought. From personal experience and just one look at twitter, it was wildly popular among women. My GF, who doesn't like 99% of mainstream games, played the shit out of animal crossing on my switch. My friends who got it reported similar stories.

My wife doesn't enjoy games as much as I do. She primarily sticks to Sims. But when Animal Crossing came she sure as hell did.

I purchased Animal Crossing just to interact with dating. Such a waste of money in my opinion.

@@SkorpioVenom It definitely helped that Animal Crossing is a game with a low barrier to entry, so people who have never played games because they don't understand gaming language, can easily get into it. So everyone and their mother (literally) tried it out to see what the fuss is about, and stuck around. Because honestly, it is a fun game. The Sims franchise did something similar, where everything you did was relatable to how you'd do things IRL, so it's easy to understand the mechanics, and you don't have to be good at aiming or fighting to have fun. Back in 2005, girls/women simply weren't that into gaming yet because of stigma. The demographic is changing now, luckily! As a result, however, many women didn't grow up playing shooters and games like dark souls, and while you can practice aiming and camera control as an adult, it doesn't come nearly as easily when you're older. There's a fun series on youtube called "What's gaming like to a non-gamer", where a gamer makes his wife play games to see how she'll do. He's pretty analytical about it too.

@@veradrost9654 "Animal Crossing is a game with a low barrier to entry, so people who have never played games because they don't understand gaming language, can easily get into it." this is extremely accurate. Hell, it was the first game i got my kid playing, because they couldn't read well enough for most games at the time, but could still easily play something like AC and have fun.

same bro, same bro....

The colors the sliders. Woah, nostalgia... You're a drooler

@@roarbertbearatheon8565 That is funny. Especially since have you named yourself as a knock-off GoT character. You changed the spelling. How witty. You drooled all over GoT. I guess you, don't understand what memories are. You know, growing up and remembering what was, compared to now. No. To you, it is all the about, the pretty colours and moving pixels.

@@roarbertbearatheon8565 I am amazed you failed to see what the OG post, even meant..... Hey, remember what you were doing when a certain game came out at a certain time? No. Because, you're a drooler! lol Ah nostalgia.

@@TerraExodus Yes, let's praise the guy who saw colors with names of things he liked go OooOOo up and oOoooooOoo down as "time" passed and got a woody from it *rolls eyes*

Holy shit it even overtook WoW for a while there! :o

Ye rs was way popular even in a small villages library kids been playing it. Cuz it was free and no sys requirements

Runescape?

Or stays there forever, so they wont be that arrogant, egoistic assholes anymore...

The list isn't even remotely accuate. Every number on it was made up and fictional. For one thing wow hit 18mil subs during cata. During the last Q they did it was stated that blizzard MAUs where down (this is overwatch, diablo, sc2 and hearthstone) however wow subs rose. The Q before that it was said that the subs for that Q where higher than they had been during their hightest recorded sub count. Which means they broke 18mil and are still hitting it. People do not know how to properly take in data.

@@chibifox7543 the list is not even true. wow is actually at about 18mil subs atm according to the last investors calls stating wow subs where higher than they have ever been. the higest recorded sub count was during cata when it hit 18mil.

Guys, the list isn't displaying actively playing people but searches on google. It by no means displays people playing and neither tries to hide it, it says at the start of the video.

@@therabbits69 That 18 mill was across all Blizzard games.

@some guy Oh I will for sure. Always fun to remember.

@FBI hahaha what a response

@@BigCheep did we just witness a random reunion here???

@@gorilla615 I didn’t use the name Big Cheep on PUBG but it would have been amazing.

DM him on steam. you only live once my man

I still have a bunch of female friends who play the sims during their free time. This comment holds a ton of value and I wish more people would read it.

agreed

From my experience of playing FFXIV since ARR, I find many female friends that continue to play FFXIV because of not only the storyline but also because of the customization of character looks and house decorations. They always want to make their character look certain way to resemble their ideal look in their head. This could vary from what themselves would want to look like or a glamour that they would like to wear IRL because of cute dresses or whatever. Then for the housing aspect, it's the same as their character clothes/looks and they put whatever house decoration that resemble a lot of their ideal type of house they would like to have IRL too. It feels very aesthetic approach. After all, most people can agree that the end game is all glamour.

Glamour and gposing truly is endgame in FFXIV for us ladies. Housing too, but housing is super expensive and requires a lot of commitment lmao. I am definitely more attached to FFXIV than other games, in large part due to the character customisation and the amount of fanart and fanfiction the fandom gets. 😂

@@duskshadow25 Absolutely true on this! That said, worth mentioning a chunk of majority female fandom isn't aspirational in nature either. Ex. I know I have a metric fuckton of alts purely because I'm fascinated by other people, personalities, tones, and what's possible to create in the game. There's always some element of "this is something I find beautiful/spooky/badass/cute/cool/sexy/elegant/etc." but what the appeal is can vary a lot character to character. Like... I got a male roegadyn alt that is specifically designed to like like a tiger. Not what I'm personally attracted to, but I feel sincerely hyped by how awesome he looks. Sometimes the customization is a way of exploring and connecting with another person/way of existing rather than what you wish you were personally. Also worth mentioning that I've found most people who hang in majority guy fandoms (including some women!) didn't really get this sort of thing, hence "why would you do multiple alts when you could just fantasia and level all your jobs on one character." If you want to create more than one character concept, weave it in with the lore and put so much work into crafting particular impressions through design, then giving that up whenever you want to try something new means losing something you put effort into. Plus if you feel attached to your creation, there's loss in switching. It's actually at a point where the idea of making a character who either represented me/what I personally would like for myself feels really weird and alien haha. I get other people doing it, the idea of doing it for myself is just super bizarre and not as satisfying for me personally. Got IRL to focus on making my own life!

San andreas was one of the best games ever made, Now with MTA you can play with friends on some whacky servers and also speedrunning it had some popularity

It's because of kids from developing countries. yes it's true i am form India . Since 2008 when i was in 4th-5th grade i played gta SA on my laptop(pirated). Here gaming wasn't huge at that time. Here kids with weak pcs play gta SA. And literally every pc had sa at that time even modded SA was sold by internet cafes at 1 dollar lmao . I had a gaming laptop so i deleted it later and bought new games.

GTA SA its huge in... well in SA, South America. People here had shitty pcs for the longest time so the best they could run was San Andreas.

the remaster could’ve also giving it extra boost too.

Search S-A-M-P for gta youll understand. it was gta online before gta online

i was shocked, never expected it lol

@@liquidmodernitytasteslikeu2855 im shocked black desert online is not on the list

@@b13sem i dont expect a p2w game to be that popular and thank god its not

@@slavi8433 p2w or not, the game is still fun, and i think anyone that uses that term is either a pvp player or wants to win against players.

@@b13sem i mean isnt the game pvp oriented ? pvp and p2w is not a good combination

Copium

There will be no WC4, and eve if there was, it will be complete dogwater.

Bitch please, the way the lore is developed anything but wow is fan fiction for the franchise

WoW effectively died when we killed Arthas in Wotlk. Nobody really cared about the arbitrary story created after that.

My goodness all these people with no sense of humour lol

It was the huge number of mods that kept the game going.

huge number of modes and just general good gameplay. alota companies could take a chapter outa this book

@@anthonyhayman4981 vanilla gameplay and story wise the witcher 3 was arguably better, but Skyrim's mods are a whole other story and offer much more replayability. Last time I uninstalled skyrim, my mods were taking more place the the game itself, much more. XD

@@qgqsrg1 was having 200gb of modes :D

@@Divixlol lol I was only in the 100s XD

Also because it was released the say day doom eternal was

Its also a game that brings in way more normies than other AAA games. Normies + COVID lockdown = them gaming more than usual

I think the Doomguy/Isabelle memes might've had a hand in it too.

yeah so many of my non-gamer friends play animal crossing. Its especially popular among girls. I tried getting into it but i got bored in the first hour lol

@@BlueSatoshi Pretty much only gamers knew about that and they are wildly different games, it might have added some players but probably not a lot.

Monster Hunter world was Top 5 most sold Ps Games ever. Its so fun, games like elden ring could really take it as an example how to make thrilling fights

The power of modding just never ending replayability

LoL was even underestimated because I don't think the term "lol" was used to describe it as it is also a word on the internet, I know I searched LoL instead of League of Legends and I think many did the same.

the problem here is that the Asian market isn't considered, lol has more than 100 millions players only in Cina

@@cherno8336 this was tracking searches not player count. if it was playercount LoL blows every other game on here out of the water except maybe minecraft. leagues chinese playerbase alone is bigger than most of the other top 10s combined i would say.

Make it 19th

@@malevolence6020 wait what is it getting ported to this time?

@@BloodyVisualKeiJoker It's the 10th year Anniversary edition

@@BohrokKiller ah ok

@@BloodyVisualKeiJoker Nintendo Switch, probably. It was a big deal that it was on that console when it came out.

It is also a game you dont need to be a gamer to understand.

@@mso2013 i always hated it idk why :(

Okay, children, no gamers and girls...

@@andyog8252 yes

there's lots of reasons why it was popular, asmon's take was bad lol

@@vikkran401 Hmmm Not really, He Just plays more Other Games now

@@shadowsage2636 WoW literally is a subscription service and it has a store that you buy from with real money, or you grind.. same as GTA V

@@fran2911 you understand nothing

@@shadowsage2636 I know they're different, but both are greedy imo

@@cduncan7797 idc lmao

I remember back in the day when the only game I knew was Runescape, and my buddy would describe this game to me everyday

honestly i am surprised it even made it on to the list, game was hot trash which is why it dropped off so fast :D

@@ShakeNBakeUK The thing is, it had recognition pre-launch as it did have a bunch of developers who should have known how to make such a game... But then it bombed hard and dropped off the face of the planet.

How was it shit? Spore was incredibly successful (Even being able to get on this list at all means you are absolutely a successful game) and so many people still play it simply cause of the replayability.

It made it on the list because the list is based on searches. There was massive hype for Spore when it came out. It went off so fast because it didn't take long to realize it was bad. It was honestly similar to no man's sky in that the scope was massive and it was procedural generation. But in the end, the gameplay was boring and some of the more promising features were barely implemented.

Sex sells and this was one of the first mainstream games to include adult only content. On top of being a great game!

@@NutriNerdy No it wasn't, not even close. If you think that's why san andreas was popular, you're delusional.

@@jameson3500 Yeah he's delusional asf

Not just gender but the entire demo is appealing to every profile. you can be a kid or a 40 years old, you be can a guy or a girl, you can be rich or broke, you can be a hardcore or a casu, etc... Right place right time I guess help boost that fucker up but people would have organically jump on it too, remember the DS one ? Even the school's bullies played that shit, and the cheerleaders had Nintendogs.

It was definitely orientated more for girls. Most guys tht played it, were either really young or because their girlfriends dragged them into it

yeah and if somehting is evenly split male female in gaming then it has a 2 sigma out of normal distrubtion deviation to the female side....just sayn....

I don't know about an 'even split,' but I agree with Asmon's mention of girls. There's not as many girl gamers as guy gamers, but for videogames that can appeal to both genders it's a big help. Fortnite may have had a LITTLE BIT of appeal to female gamers because of the cute skins you can get, but it's still a gun game. A shooting game. It's also highly competitive which is itself masculine. With Animal Crossing it's lighthearted, it's fun, it's downright adorable, you can meet neighbours and help people and do little things like go fishing and catching butterflies and helping a museum, you can also visit other people's worlds and enjoy the different fruit trees they might have, etc. I can see how that would be HIGHLY appealing to females, but also it's obviously a fun game in its own right. Being male has done nothing to me to dissuade me from playing it, beyond the aspect of perhaps fearing my father catching me playing a game that is so blatantly cutesy thus feeling massive disappointment and/or disgust emanate from him. It's a genuinely fun game, there's lots to do, you can customize/expand a home, and it appeals to both genders. Minecraft similarly has some appeal to female gamers but not as much as Animal Crossing. Very interesting stuff. I feel like playing Minecraft now. Animal Crossing? Yeah I might someday play it again, to try a version of Animal Crossing that was released after 2010. Oh wow actually I just checked... I think that ALL my memories playing Animal Crossing stems from the very first game which was released in 2001, 21 years ago. Wow... but yeah I do tend to play games that are more hardcore. World domination with Civ5, surviving The Zone in Call of Pripyat, suffering in WWII via Red Orchestra 2 or Rising Storm, or Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, etc. Minecraft was the dominant game for me for a long time, I expanded big-time into various biomes and did a lot of mining, made towers and castles and like statues or symbols or whatever so that at any one given time on the surface I could SEE something I have built even if it's off in the distance. I'd build a new structure, do a lot of mining, explore around the structure until it was JUST in sight in the distance, and then build yet another structure to continue. Even made an underground powered railroad that was over 1km long so that I can fairly easily and quickly traverse my little empire. I also made maps. Then one time, when I had reverted my game to an earlier version to try an online server which is not something I used to do often, I forgot to return the game to the current version. I entered my Minecraft world... and lost so much. Pretty sure entire buildings just disappeared, and it wouldn't come back. Maps, journals, lots of different things... broke my heart. I have scarcely touched Minecraft since that day, but I do imagine at some point I will get back into it and once more expand an empire. Make another 'Tower of Pimps' (Rooster Teeth reference), probably have a different world for when I'm sober than for when I'm drunk (because it's usually while drunk that I do stupid shit and die in lava or whatever), and I can experience how Minecraft has changed under Microsoft. See the different mobs, maybe experiment with the Nether which I didn't particularly bother with in the past, build with new materials, and so on. I had even dedicated some structures to people who had passed on, like a relative of mine and also for Lt. Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov for whom I think I had constructed a bridge. Had a lot of good times, playing that game... and I imagine a lot of girls have had a lot of good times playing Minecraft too but likely more-so Animal Crossing I think. Higher percentage of females than with Minecraft. Oh yeah, and I never played in 'Creative Mode' before. Never, not once.

@@normanmccollum6082 Animal crossing definitely has a more feminine vibe to it and as a guy, if you were caught playing it then it would workout for a good laugh between friends or your dad and you lol. Unless you get emotional and insecure about it then expect it to become a gag 😂 It's unfortunate boys like you dont know how to deal with thr situation because of society feminizing its men

Did this count consoles? Also early 00's i bet ps2 era game were pulling alot too since it sold like 150 mil units

Well this changes everything haha totally missed that point

Many non computer people goes online life suddenly thx to Corona. This increasing the number of entertainment. We see this spike with other form on computer entertainment like netflix. Heck, Amazon skyrocketing thx to the pandemic. Global life style changed.

@@schwartzy65 155 million

@@schwartzy65 im assuming so because a lot of the games on the list were console exclusives

Also with Animal Crossing, releasing a cute, family friendly, time consuming game in the heart of quarantine was just the perfect storm for Nintendo.

Literally everyone knows how popular forntite and minecraft are.

@@pullt "Holy shit Fortnite was popular. Oh my God, I didn't realize how big it was" -Asmongold

@Trash Person Definitely, but as we see here most games in history haven't had the success that Animal Crossing in that brief period so it will always be a huge standout moment for gaming. Like those numbers are insane mainly because it takes a year or two for even the biggest games to reach that number and they got lucky and did it in a few months.

@Trash Person But also, Shadowlands was a huge success sales-wise. Just not player retention and subscription.

Most of the popular games tend to towards the rated age. Minecraft basically +4 years old can play so it’s what it is.

@@dale7326 And I have been playing it since 2011, the game has infinite potential, which means it is going to be relevant for a very, very long time.

@@suomilaava371 this, i have been on the minecraft community since 2012 and to this play its still one of my main go-to games,its just such a great masterpiece that most overlook

Minecraft : I'm a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence

San Andreas: *sees another king rise and fall* "Ah shit, here we go again."

The reason people who didn't play game knew about it was because the subscription cards were at the checkouts at every grocery store in a time when this was NOT common, it's not nearly as deep as you think it is.

@@unlisted9494 Yes and no. Everyone knew what the game was because of all the documentaries about people losing their jobs and wives and shit because of it. WoW was literally everywhere in 2005-2010. I still remember the BC launch where people destroyed a glasswall of a shop because everyone tried to get inside of the shop first. It was the IPhone of gaming basically.

I can't imagine them letting the IP die but, I could see them rebooting the franchise in the next decade at some point. Honestly, after how I feel they've destroyed old lore with new developments, and the story telling overall has taken a dive in similar fashion to GoT (some things they do well but, overall they fucked it up), I'd be down for a reboot. Though I am saying that with the big hesitation that if they did reboot it the rebooted lore and characters could end up much worse. It's unfortunate but, after the Sylvanas fate cutscene I've given up on them being able to fix the mistakes they've created and undoing the damage to the old lore I so very much enjoyed.

Shoot, I remember when Leeroy Jenkins came out. People were gathered around a screen like "lol, look at these people playing this game called Warcraft" and I was like "oh hey, that's Leeroy Jenkins! Yeah, I play Warcraft, I know of this thing that you are talking about!"

it was popular ruled by nolife loser nerds while all the outgoing gangstas and cool chicks played gta on ps2 / pc. Well chicks loved mostly sims but yah.

Gotta consider how many people play games now compared to at the time of WoW launch. Back when WoW launched and I would even say for a good while after gaming was not cool. There were people in school who would bully you for liking video games back then and even those who did like it and weren't considered nerds wouldn't outwardly talk about it. So once games became commonly accepted for all people, not just nerdy dudes you see the total search counts skyrocket. WoW and San Andreas were the first games that truly broke into that main stream threshold big time.

Minecraft is legit a cross-generation game

No games are restricted to only one generation or a specific age(not the +18 games, and i mean the corn games), back then in 2010-2011 me my friend and my brother played it, i was 11 my friend a year younger than me and my brother is 8 years older than me, after my generation even the little ones liked it and still playig it for some years now as adults. You have to consider that how low the requirements were and still is, easy to access and cheap, easy server creating and multiplayer option with friends, modding etc. Same as GTA:SA with the not too official multiplayer platforms withg modded servers etc. Even back then you could just use the official free version which didn't let you to upload skin and cape but you could play with your friends in offline mode.

plus it released when covid got big so they probably got a lot more interest

Yeah, New Horizons got TONS of 'elderly women' into video games. And buying 3DS and Switches.

@@itsmaxey4597 I think that's what the biggest factor was. I never played one until then and if it weren't for quarantine I wouldn't have gotten it. It also just has a safe/cute universal visual appeal

@@itsmaxey4597 in my country switches sold out for months because of kids being in lockdown

@Honudes Gai God, I can't wait to play some Rune Factory games.

It has nothing to do with girls, and much more to do with non gamers. I gifted my mom a nintendo switch with Animal Crossing and she loved it. Exactly because it's easy to play and it's a chill way to pass time. It's very very easy for a non gamer to get into Animal Crossing, and much harder to get into anything else that needs some time commitment and higher dedication. What makes Animal Crossing more popular is the fact that gamers play it and non gamers play it. While WoW will only capture one of those audiences. Dividing it by gender is something ridiculous and outdated imo.

@@paulogaspar8295 You just described a perfect marketing strategy as if it was a bad thing from a bad game for some reason.

@@paulogaspar8295 this comment is so stupid. You have no idea what sells and what not. A game to be popular has to be played by everyone. Thus animal crossing did so good.

Chats filled with retards lol

​@@idioteque09 Even though saying game is for girls may seem outdated or ridiculous as you say, it's still a statistical fact that these games attract more young or feminine people, due to the overall look of the game it attracts. We shouldn't forget about math and statistics as it is the real science, the further we try to ignore the fact that people are different based on many things, the worse. We should accept our differences and not be toxic to each other. In the past almost all gamers would most likely agree that The Sims is also the game more for a female audience and this wasn't taken as a bad thing. It's stereotyping people in a way, based on average demographic facts, there's always something true about the stereotypes, otherwise they would not exist for a long time. It's the same with legends and the myths.. there was always some truth to it, even though the events could be entirely different.

This! It was the game everyone was playing during the first months of quarantine

Doom Crossing!!!!

Ahem Doom Eternal And the crossover was awesome

Come on man. If you like Animal Crossing its cool. But it really is a girl game.

girl game

@derp derpin The game has literally almost infinite potential, you can use it as an engine to build a functoning computer, and you can basically re-create other games within the game. That said, it's most likely never going to complitely die off.

rip d2r tcp/ip

that's because you get a lot more searches on modded games, since people loop up mods and stuff, console players probably never even google their games, or do it once in their lives

This is very true, and it also proves that re-releasing Skyrim on every new console did wonders for its sales and popularity~

I play a game with no Story, no NPC's and no Quests. It's called DayZ. I have around 600-800 hours in the Mod and 4500 hours in the Standalone. Go figure. sometmes I don't care about Story, Grind or things like quests and NPC's.

Ha I still have my PS2 with GTA San Andreas play it most weeks it's the best GTA ever made.

if you think about it, there are people that are still playing CS 1.6 too. It's kind of awesome that for some people there's just a counter strike that's "their game", and each one still has at least some semblance of an active community even with Global Offensive being the titan that it is.

There are simply FAAAAAAR more games these days and FAAAAR more player, especially casuals who just want to tap their screen a little and that's it. Working in the industry myself, I got a lot of friend who make smartphone games. They all say, that you get the most players with close to braindead 'games', the big majority loves that the most.

Well wow was in the top for a long time it's still pretty cool

@@miriamweller812 people don’t like subscription based games anymore. POE like modal is far more successful now. I always wanted to play wow but I am not going to pay monthly period.

@@kipa_chu Yet people love subscriptions as such apparently, Netflix; Disney +, Game Pass... Maybe they want just more for that price than just one game.

@@kipa_chu cus you want pay to win right...but of course.

And somehow thet even managed to destroy it.. cancelled the game etc.. 😅

It runs on an Intel Atom with integrated graphics. It has a great story, tons of gameplay and it sucks you in.

@@Ar1AnX1x lmao IV is fucking dogshit.

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For real. I'm super happy that Minecraft has stood the test of time and is still popular as heck. I was like 10 when it came out and I could only watch youtube videos at first until I managed to convince my mom to buy it for me and pay her in cash because obviously I couldn't pay online back then. So many 1000s of hours and so many great memories with people I've not interacted in ages... Great game

It’s a game that caters to literally everyone and it’s easy to run.

Thats a fair point. True and real.

Plus the mobs allow you to do anything. And the Mods for minecraft is endless

So what you're saying is that Minecraft is for children. I agree. Children / school kids love Minecraft. I would rather watch paint dry than open that game.

Ummm yeah no. It aint the same.

Nah, not really. RS came out in like 2001 and sure it was popular, but it did not hit those numbers as far as I recall. Lineage 2 was solid, but gated by an endgame grind that had lost a lot of it's playerbase within a year of release, and it came out in 2003 or so. It also had some pretty terrible marketing, so while it was popular sure, it failed to even be on the radar of a lot of players at the time. So by the time this list came out it was far smaller.

@@tegaautomata2094 I think it also depends on what country you are living in. So far I live in 3, in my country the most famous MMO was MU Online, then when I moved to another country, they had Lineage 2 and then the other one - Runescape. Even when WOW came out, nobody here was playing it, everyone was all about RS.

I think gaming communities are just a lot more split up and diverse now due to the size of the gaming world now compared to then, so only unique new everyone can join in experiences rise above the rest.

@@jerubaal101 I think popular genres are fucked nowadays but niche genres are doing extremely well. 4X gamers or simulation gamers have the largest variety and quality games they've ever had for example. I do agree to a point though.

I really like your comment I couldn't have said it better... that's how the whole art industry work theses days unfortunately... this ain't really different with movies and music... just the same lame bullshit being remade only to pump money out of costumers... definitely not out of passion. Creating for passion is old story... nowadays making money has become more important then actually ''creating''... And the whole industry of ''art'' is suffering because of greedy corporations, shareholders, and dumb people who support this dumb shit that doesn't mean anything... and it will just keep getting worse... and it's just fucking sad... because art is meant for expression and not for brainwashing & making money. The future of art lies behind indie & passionate artists who won't compromise their integrity for "money"...

This just shows free time is dying and if you only got 30 minutes to play. You do not want a new original idea you have to learn.

Still the best racing game ever created and no one can tell me other

​@@JRgaming27 Absolutely. The only one that even comes close imo is Burnout Paradise. NFS Carbon was good as well, but was way too short a game.

@@crazydude5825 that game was goated 🤣

I love how we can all probably pin point that awful time ahaha.