A couple things I didn't touch on in the video. 1. I understand if your sentiment is simply that AAA gaming is dead (I would still argue you shouldn't support AAA games in that case) 2. I also don't hold it against you if you buy these games cause you get some money out of playing them (livestreamer, youtuber, game reviewer, etc.) Contestant loadouts episode 10 coming soon.
@@thomasgaming7656 Many of them aren't great, but there are some diamonds in the rough, Elden Ring for example. There are probably just as many, if not more, bad indie games, it's just that they can't rely on the big budget marketing that AAA have and are just forgotten about. The budget itself doesn't decide the quality of a game, the developers do.
@@omolio Indie gaming 'balances' itself out with the sheer amount of games you can find in the indie industry. But again - at this point, there are so many RU-vidrs, people leaving reviews and opinions online that finding good games in the indie industry isn't hard at all.
Also avoid games that are Online, only that game is on borrowed time The game company decides. They're not making enough money, so they turn off the servers so that online only game just died
Growing up poor with potato PC teaches me to actually find a game that is fun and doesn't care about graphics that much. Heck, now even with high-end setup, I still play mostly indie or niche games and have been enjoying them like always
Same dude I used to have a shit laptop when I was a kid so I stuck to 2d games like terraria and meat boy and my taste hasn't really changed too much i still find small and interesting games to play
My first PC was a hand me down from my grandpa when I was about 15 that still ran windows XP when I got it. I just played a ton of modded Doom on it and it was pretty fun. I still play a lot of modded Doom even though I could be playing more intensive games now. I still use the keyboard from that old computer because old keyboards are just built different. That thing is old enough to vote and it still works like magic.
"Gaming is dead" mfs when they find out about non-AAA titles with continuous updates, close developer support, free extra content, and tight-knit playerbases
They would still call these types of game trash because they usually have pixelated or PS1 graphics, people who say that 'gaming is dead' say that cuz they only consider things above a certain level of graphic realism to be games, everything below not. Its not that they dont know that lets say, Terraria (since its what the replies like) exist, they do, but these people straight up dont consider Terraria a videogame, no joke. They say gaming is dead because they only consider AAA games made by big companies to be real games. Honestly I dont even try to argue with people like that tbh :/
Exactly. These people love playing games that hate them. The best way to find cool games that are awesome is on Steam’s discovery queue. This isn’t rocket science, it takes 2 minutes and you just filter through maybe 30 games until you find something you like.
> Be me > Massive backlog of games I haven't played yet > Get some new indie darlings > Holy smoke, they're great > See some old AAA games that I ignored when they came out > Some are great, some are meh > See a neat simulation > Sure, why not > Mess around with it for a bit, quite informative > Starting to make some friends > Get some party games that I passed over due to a lack of friends > Become really popular at game night > See some playthroughs of a recent indie game > Decide to check it out > Pretty neat story so far > Notice a game I've had my eye on is getting good reviews > Guess I should get it now > See an old cult classic on sale for only $1 > Knock it out in 2 days and leave a humorous positive review on Steam > Worth every penny > Still haven't gotten through my backlog > Hear someone say "Gaming is dead" > "WTF are you on about?"
I'd also recommend people stop getting their gaming suggestions from multiplayer-addicted Twitch streamers. I jumped down a "retro" games (20-year-old games; good God I'm old) RU-vid rabbit hole a year ago, and I've played nothing but one banger after another ever since
@swfan24 facts. A lot of people didn't grow up with some of the great older games and unfortunately never bother to check them out jusy cause the graphics are dated
Too many people trust streamers and reviewers for their game choice when they should really find what they like in games and a lot of retro games are amazing.
@HyperboreanPC For real. I've heard so many idiots excuse an older game that's OBJECTIVELY BETTER in every way because "muh graffix" like stfu, you're as good as braindead.
It’s not even triple A games that are the problem, it’s just people playing whatever is new even if it’s terrible. Go play Black ops 1 or Halo MCC, there are plenty of good triple A games if you spend 1 second looking, and they’re STILL PLAYABLE yeah games actually are still playable even if they’re from more than 2 years ago
Gaming isn’t dead, but having budgets so large and sales targets so high and leadership so risk averse leads to almost every big budget game being an executive-meddled homework-copying innovation-free exercise in pumping out game-shaped products that have no intention of or ability to stand on their own merits. crappy disposable commercial art shouldn’t cost so much
@Fallenhell100 You do know that Sony intentionally positioned the PS2 as the cheapest DVD player on the market at the time and a good portion of sales were to people with no intention of ever using it to play games........ right? Incidentally they tried this strategy again with the PS3 but the jump from DVD to Blu ray was not nearly as big of a wave as the jump from VHS to DVD in the mind of the consumer so while people still bought PS3 systems as a blu ray player the strategy did not work quite as well the second time.
@@halo3odst I'll admit I didn't know that but that doesn't really change the fact that if you had a PS2 it was mainly to play games and watching movies was just a plus
@Fallenhell100 ................ except again........ for the people who only bought it to watch movies........ probably the only reason sony decided to include the most useless Toslink port in the world on that machine.
You are 100% right but there is something I would add... Part of the reason people keep playing games they don't actually like is because of FOMO and other forms of addictive and manipulative design.
Keep in mind that the same people that will complain about "the downfall of gaming" are the same people that will buy a game day one just to see how bad it is. Just play games you like.
@willr.1495 to be fair, in some cases, they have a youtube channel where they play bad games for their subscribers. This is my exact situation with Star Wars outlaws
I don't understand this situation. Even for a youtube channel. Just play or talk about what you like instead of buying obvious trash unless you get a kick out of making fun of it or something. People who intentionally buy garbage, knowing it will be garbage, then getting upset that it was garbage annoys me to no end. Then again I'm a crazy person who thinks even most single player aaa has fell off because if it ain't a multiplayer shooter, it's a souls like or a 3rd person action adventure open world. Genres I find dull and oversaturated. Which just goes to show that the issue mainly isn't game quality in the aaa space. Its variety, if more games in a wider variety of genres existed in aaa, then it would be much easier to ignore the garbage.
@mantraki At the end of the day, it really is about greed and money, isn't it... that's depressing. Here i am sad that so many games are out of my reach because they're delisted, and I'm not competent enough to pirate them. Great studios like nightdive also aren't able to get their hands on them because of corporate goblins hoarding ips they don't plan to do anything with.
Genuinely Celeste was an awakening moment for me, made me start branching out my tastes from multiplayer games and I've had a ton of fun ever since (still love a good coop shooter or titanfall 2, but there's so much more to see)
not sure if you made this point in the vid since i havent finished it yet, but i would suggest people dont invest much in competitive multiplayer games from my experience as well as observing others, the joy to be had in those games are predicated on how well you or your team performs. a lot of times you will waste hours in lobbies filled with hackers, cheaters, or toxic sweats who take the game way too seriously. and dont get me started on that "one more game" or "i cant end the session on a loss" mentality. it seriously can ruin lives just from way too much time spent on the game and not enough sleep. unless you already have a group of friends you like playing competitive multiplayer games with, i would suggest casual games instead
No matter how good you are in a multiplayer game you will never be good. Thats why souls games and such are more fulfilling because they are hard but you can beat them and then you feel fulfilled.
@Narko_Marko I mean... You can also learn how to have fun while being bad. You don't have to be EVO champ to giggle at the enemy potemkin getting a hard read on your jump.
I have that problem with Among Us. It takes days for the game to roll me as being the impostor, which makes me want to keep playing until I get it, and I inevitably get it exclusively on super short rounds, or the exact round some hacker comes in and ruins it. It's a pain to make games like that fun, because of the inherent randomizers required for deciding your role, and also people devoted to making it less fun.
I understand the sentiment but I don't think thats a healthy way to look at competitive games. "I would suggest people dont invest much in basketball... ...the joy to be had in that game is predicated on how well your team performs" All the stuff like cheating is bad for sure, but theres a lot of depth and fun that can be added to a game by having an opponent/opponents.
Average FIFA player buying the same game for the 205th time (It has 1% better graphics and new characters) and explaining why EA couldnt have just updated the previous game to add the "new features":
"gaming is dead" they say as i watch old games and genres I love either breaking into the mainstream like monster hunter, souls and CRPGs, or finally getting a revival like Armored Core. The past few years have honestly been great for specifically me, and with Wilds looking great it looks to continue
Dude I recently played Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium and Nier Replicant. Genuinely some of the best games I've ever played period, and they're relatively recent (fair if you say Nier is an update to an old game).
@@AlexDenton0451 I'd say im a rookie because I started off with 6 whenever it came out but I've been wanting to try out 4 answer i heard its really good and i love how much faster the acs are its sick
I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to just not buy bad games. And it's not like _all_ AAAs are bad. Elden Ring, Cyberpunk after the patches, Hogwarts Legacy, RE4R, TotK, Visions of Mana, Baldur's Gate 3, Xenoblade 3... Not to mention all of the lower budget games and indies like Palworld, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime Remastered, Sea of Stars, Castlevania Dominus Collection, MvC Collection, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Pseudoregalia, Hi-Fi Rush... People aren't playing the right games. Oh, and emulation is getting great. A new Switch emulator for Android is coming out soon, Cemu is getting an Android port, people got Bloodborne working with ShadPS4, RPSC3 is crazy good now, and Xenia has picked up active development again. There's just so much to play.
In December 2021, I wanted to get a PS5 a week before Christmas. No one had any because scalpers and resellers. So I actually got a PS4 Pro and no shit and I'm enjoying the PS4 library. I think people just need to put their money where their mouth is and stop accepting garbage but that requires self-control and mindfulness and God forbid we have any of that in these days.
To be honest, there's no reason to upgrade to PS5 if all you care about is exclusives. Only worthwhile one is God of War Ragnarok, and that's assuming you're okay with a 5 minute cutscene every 5 seconds
@@HyperboreanPC Stick with ps4 if you just like exclusives theres no good exclusives on PS from the current gen, if you wanna try exclusives from this generation either buy a used PS5 or get an xbox series S brand new for 300$
I got a 2 Terabyte PS4 Pro in 2021 for $300 and I felt a little regret becuase I could’ve gotten a PS5 for only $200 more but now I’m glad I didn’t bother spending that much more for only slightly better performance and access to 1 or 2 more games.
quake 4 is underrated, dont listen to the ad8012 guy. It became a favorite of mine as well. I just hated fighting the strogg marine guys who had the hyperblaster, that thing is scary on Hard mode
“Gaming is dead” people avoid mentioning nintendo like the plague because their existence destroys all their arguments that no more good AAA games are being produced
While Nintendo is an evil company (like most of the others). At least they make good quality games most of the time. These Mfs wouldn’t give them a chance because they think the graphics look like Atari 2600 quality and they can’t bear to deal with the frame rate they have. While good frame rate is always better though in the switch’s defense it’s 7 years old
@@fabriciolamana4106literally, and it doesn’t even look that bad, most Nintendo or switch exclusive stuff is built to run at 30fps so it looks *good* but gamers™️ would rather die than admit anything that isn’t 8264728k 46291918600999fps looks good
@@badideagames That's ultimately why I've been playing a bunch of games available through websites like the Internet Archive. They have archived several Flash games on there!
98% of the time it will, that ONE PS4 game that shipped with an empty disc is not the norm. But it's not just about that, it's about availability, which discs/cartridges, etc. have infinitely more of, while a digital store goes down; then it's gone for good.
@@BlueEyedVibeChecker depends the thing is a physical media will decay while digital will not yeah it maybe gone for it if shutdown but I mean even physical media also is similar just that it's a bit longer like there are limited amount of that games copies irl not digital and because of that once the studio or games is shutdown and no copies is being made and the copies get rarer or decay more well it's start to become really limited a digital meanwhile can be save just about anywhere and with the right files and everything you can play these games without worrying too much about the decay or how rarer and expensive to get it I mean look at ps1 and even some ps4/3 games physical media the available copies is either being held off by some rich fucker or the fact it might not even work or it's so fucking expensive that it will blow up a hole in your loan account limits
@@DarksideGmss0513 Enjoy the wall of text. It's about acquiring it, that's the MAIN point of preservation. Imagine the 3DS servers got purged, how are all those digital only games gonna be acquired now? (I know piracy exists, I'm talking legitimate copies for legitimate hardware or even for emulation specifically, as opposed to an online ROM that may or may not be full of spyware) Digital is good for storing it, but physical is better for acquiring it, watch Sony shut down your ability to buy PS2 discs when the CMOS battery dies. (they can't) We need both, digital is better for long term storage, and physical is always better for acquiring the games in the first place. I acquired Sonic Heroes on PC for £5 at CeX yesterday, know how to acquire it without a disc? your only option is to chance a piracy site and hope it doesn't only cost your personal info and any other data the trojan that may have been slipped in wants.
Gamers slobbering on, doing a split on, spinning on, and gargling a corporation's meat because, "This one will be better, they'll get it right this time."
@dogf421 a lot of them would still write the games off. DRG and UK don't have fancy graphics and elden ring isn't a movie game that holds your hand the entire time
@@HyperboreanPC There is a lot of good indie games and double AA games also their some good Warhammer 40k video games and Warhammer fantasy video games as well.
The RU-vidr Bumble McFumbles did a over an hour long video about just indie games a few days back giving a game for any genre and the comments were loaded with people pitching there own favorite indie games that you could alternatively play
I wanna get into DRG so badly, I'm just so stupid and do not understand it. I've tried playing the first mission like 3 times and turn it off half way through every time. Probably cause I don't have friends lol.
Started playing The Finals in January of this year after over a year of playing War Thunder. Never realised how little fun I was having with WT, a game that consistently managed to anger me despite my interest in its mechanics. Through my experience with The Finals, if I noticed I was consistently more upset/angry than happy/having fun with a title, I'd just drop it and play something else.
Just find a game you've never heard of with overwhelmingly positive reviews on steam and prepare to have a blast. Learning a new game with no prior knowledge is a joy like no other. Alternatively, if the entire internet is talking about how good a game is, AAA or otherwise, chances are it's actually good.
I think I played COD (rebirth) for like 4 games. The gunplay was great, but it just felt soulless. Immediately went back to my normal roster of titanfall, DRG, and the finals
@@HyperboreanPC yes. If you’re looking for that gunplay, Insurgency Sandstorm is awesome. Funny people in voice chat, but also a seriously tactical game
If people talk about no longer playing a game you play, and they refer to it as "I'm X months clean." You should probably consider not playing that game.
I used to enjoy Need for Speed games, but noticed they were going downhill back when I played Pro Street, Porsche 2000/Unleashed was my favourite, though NFS online was pretty fun before they shut it all down, haven't played NFS games since or anything from EA really.
Preach! Too many peeps play cod and whatever gets hyped to mainstream. Never scratching the surface of one of the most unique canvases to exist for storytelling.
New CoD update and my rapidly dying internet combined with a college class that reminds me why I have this hobby to begin with has me going back to play Psychonauts and hyping myself up remembering games I love like Chrono Trigger and BioShock. You’re right, I do have the opportunity to play games that fuck and damnit it’s high time I took full advantage of that fact.
WARNING ESSAY COMMENT INCOMING I'm someone who ignores most triple A games and focuses more on indies and double A stuff. And even then I still kind of get depressed about it. 2 days ago, I was trying to play Vanquish, a third person shooter character action game by Platnum Games. I like Platinum, and a lot of people liked this game, so I thought maybe I'd like it. But whenever I tried to play it, I wasn't enjoying it that much. And it got me to think "Was I so spoiled on good games that they just weren't that enjoyable, or was I just now realizing that gaming will never be as exciting as it was back before the 2020s?" I thought maybe I'd take a break from gaming for a few days. One day later and the depression goes away, and I wanted to continue playing Vanquish. Which just makes me wonder if maybe I'm overrelying on gaming, and if I should force myself to take a break from it. This comment was going somewhere, but I think it went off the rails a bit.
"Gaming is Dead, COD MW2023 was a disaster." *BO6 is announced.* "Alright, I will give this franchise one more chance, but if Black Ops 6 fails, activation has to give me a pinky promise they'll do better next time."
Trust me, if CoD truly for the gamers, they could have made only one CoD after BO2 or Infinite Warfare. Then adding more campaigns over the years while let the players make and mod their own servers.
Heres a few secrets about gaming. Theres still good AAA games coming out Theres a constant stream of good Indie games. Theres a backlog of hundreds of thousands of great games both indie and AAA that have come out in the past 30 years.
@ZeallustImmortal this is what I'm saying essentially. Good AAA games are more rare these days but I doubt most people complaining have played all the great older games out there
@@HyperboreanPC You wanna know the craziest part? Games used to release buggy and unfinished way back then. Its not a new thing. We are just drawing more attention to it.
The only dead thing about gaming is community in big games. The social aspect isn’t lively at all even in MMOs. You need to take initiative and meet people and follow through with invites and play time which I struggle with a lot. I do miss being able to jus hop in party chats or turn on the mic in game and talk to fun people on both teams.
Word. I hate how most multiplayer games have tried to fight toxicity by basically removing all the social features. No pregame lobbies, no interaction with other teams besides the matches, no in game community hubs, voice chat and text chat off by default, no all chat for most games, etc
A friend of a friend buys all the AC just to collect them, because they have no personality so they made collecting all the AC part of their personality. They don't even play the games.
@@masterseeker360 I get the new menus because of how installs work now and the advancement of consoles, but I would also like a setting that instantly boots up a specific game unless I tell the console otherwise
@@HyperboreanPC i am an xbox main but really want to go to pc because they have started filling up the start menu with way too many ads for games i really dont care about sometimes they have a fullscreen thing at bootup and its just kinda annoying the games i play are all available on pc but some xbox 360 games are just better on xbox unfortunatly once i finish my library im done i havent bought any new games recently its just not worth it
really glad to have subbed to this channel. i like these commentary vids but you’ve also convinced me to pick the finals back up and i’m having a lot of fun with it. good work mate! cheers.
I used to feel like gaming was dead, i was never a AAA gamer but i kept buying shitty games, i was a second away from quitting games altogether, i'm a sonic fan and frontiers was close to coming out so i figured "ehh one more run with the blue blur before i put the hobby down forever" it reignited my love of games, i felt like a kid playing sonic adventure 2 again. i tried new things, persona mortal kombat got out of my comfort zone, went back in time to try old games i never played before..... gaming isn't dead, is your favorite franchise dead? maybe, i know spyro is pretty much dead, but that's ok, there's countless different games out there for you. try a soulslike if you're a nintendo gamer. try a chill puzzle game or a simulator if you're a hardcore fighting gamer try anything, there's some good in every area of gaming, you've just got to look
After going down that rabbit hole there's now countless 90s-early 2000s, and some hidden gem late 2000s shooters like singularity and wolfenstein 09 that I want to play. However I'm not competent enough to pirate and patch these games without getting a virus on my laptop. So I just wait till nightdive never gets their hands on them. Avp 1 and 2 No one lives forever 1 and 2 Singularity Wolfenstein 09 Soldier of fortune Necrovision Unreal That's just off the top of my head.
About pre-orders. The only games I ever pre-ordered was Doom Eternal, Dying light 2 and Payday 3. Loved the first two to death but got rightfully burned on Payday 3, so I switched to primarily emulation and started viewing new releases with a healthy amount of skepticism. Saved me a lot of money lol
I agree. The reason I still enjoy gaming is because I’ve found lesser known games like VIVIDLOPE and… Idk, World of Goo? I should get into more indie games tbh…
My new passion is trophy hunting on older games for the ps4 both to revive the classics and forget about all the slop coming out for consoles. It's been stressful at times yes, but feels beautiful to re-discover gems long forgotten in my box like Arkham Knight. Edit: spelling mistake.
Most “casual” console owners play multiplayer games. Gaming is more of a social event to casual players who just want to do something fun with their friends. If the multiplayer game market was bigger and large multiplayer games had competition we wouldn’t have as much slop.
Fair. I used to play more single player stuff (I still do from time to time, I’m working through Link’s Awakening remake rn and loving it) but most of my recent gaming has been casual multiplayer games with friends (like Splatoon, Chivalry and Sea of Thieves) I don’t touch CoD though. I have an intense dislike for any sort of modern war game or non-fantastical shooter. Too drab and boring, at least Splatoon is lively (and has less annoying 8yo’s ironically).
The finals is the main thing i make content for but i alternate every couple weeks to something else. I got a star wars outlaws review in the works. Just don't expect me to say anything nice lmao
sooo real i keep hearing shitty arguement about some shitty triple a game while im over here chilling on my underpriced indie games having a blast hell i'll have a blast on some shitty triple a game but it aint gonna kill me or i hope not since how some people are complaining it makes it seem like it
Do good games even exist anymore? Yeah, people play bad games, but it's either that or play nothing at all. I opt for the latter option or then I just play old classics, but good games aren't really being made anymore. The only exception that I'm actually excited for might be the Gothic Remake, I really hope that it might actually be a good game worth playing.
Dude, DRG, Satisfactory, Space Marine 2? You're doing exactly what this video said not to do. Good games come out all the time, they just don't waste all their money marketing.
For your 5 commandments, I offer what I call "the patience clause" If a game has had at least 1 year's worth of bugfixes/patches after release, commandment 3 is rendered null and void until the day when a "game ruining update" releases. This commandment is based on the subreddit "r/patientgamers" which is meant for people who only buy a game 1 year after release, in order to ensure a good experience.
Dude I'm a guy who loves mech games above all else, this genre has been SWIMMING in great new games and updates for existing games. AC6 is the best intro to mech games period, MechWarrior 5 and Online have been getting solid DLCs and updates for years now, there's new Multiplayer Mech Games coming out, Battletech is making a huge comeback as a whole, we are in general, SO BACK. And thats just my niche, there's so much good stuff out there thats older too!
Fr tho, a piece of advice, try looking more into the double A and the Indie market. There's been a ton of underrated gems I've been having a blast playing (Trepang2, Sulaco, Sanabi, Garage: Bad trip and teh list goes on...).
AA is unfortunately a bit rare these days cause all the money from big publishers goes to movie games with fancy graphics or marketing the latest free to play FPS
A wise man once said about games: “Pick out one that you can do, as opposed to a whole bunch of them that you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.” (Fenslerfilms GI Joe reference)
I straight up don’t play games when their entire selling point is their graphics, it’s not worth my time and I would much rather play a good game with graphics straight from 1985 then an awful game that looks like a movie
DRG player? B B B BASED?! This is the problem with those doomer channels like NovemberHotel who thinks that the only games that exist are being made exclusively by Xbox, PlayStation, EA, Ubisoft, etc. Sometimes he does mention indies, but it feels like he constantly wants to ignore them to push the narrative that gaming is dead.
I think a lot of people who grew up during the 360 era and (oh god) later, don't really have the frame of reference for how many different types of game there really are to play. I remember that being the beginning of people who just play solely COD or some other multiplayer game. It's insane that now you can spend about a hundred dollars and get every classic PC game ever, right now
I agree with you 100%, I used to be a valorant addict but then I decided to try playing something else and I have never turned back to that absolute shit, anyways enjoyed the video!
Gaming isn't dead. It's just that AAA studios don't produce good games anymore and Indie games surpass AAA games in quality while costing a fraction of the price but people refuse to stop buying another recycled Ubisoft or EA game. In the recent 6 years I only bought one AAA game since the others are simply not worth your money or time. Hell i've been finding FREE games that put 60$+ AAA games to shame so if you guys want a change, start with yourself.
I mean, Pokemon does come the closest to being that these days, but even then, it's still enjoyable if you don't go in with the mentality of "screw this game".
i actually enjoy these videos a lot proud to be part ur 1k club bro. keep making these kinda videos please. i’ll still be here when ur channel sky rockets lol. hmu if u tryna play some space rock or the finals lol
Honestly, the constant bad new game releases have just made me go back and play those games I never had or couldn't when I was younger. I'm playing thru the first Dragon age rn. And I've gone thru and played the campaigns for CoD2 and CoD3. (CoD2 is actually a really fking fun campaign)
"Gaming is dying." Nintendo. War Thunder. Black Myth Wukong. I just listed one game company, one free-to-play game and a brand new game (at the time of this comment) that just proved the statement wrong. Gaming isn't dying. The customers just went to places where they can get the entertainment they want. Entertainment the current Triple A market isn't providing them.
@@kocant1274 The war thunder community is often over critical of the game, but that is mostly because of the grind. Other than that war thunder is actually a pretty good game.
Also, can really help to figure out what you like and look for games that specialise in it. I've had many great hours playing little indie PVE survival crafter games with lovingly crafted maps. Never would have even looked for them if I hadn't realised how much joy I got from the Frostfall mod in Skyrim.
At this point, I've given up on AAA games and play things like Minesweeper and 3D Space Cadet Pinball They're actually pretty fun and don't get you too hooked in.
