"Gaming Isn't Fun Anymore" 

Or don't limit yourself to only new games. For anyone who's a fan of any genre, there are dozens (potentially hundreds) of GREAT older games they haven't played yet.

Incorrect. Don't limit yourself to mainstream AAA and you will have plenty of fun. There are some AAA games that get slept on so fucking hard

@Carlos Gabriel troll nobody asked.

@Carlos Gabriel modern indie games like?

@Carlos Gabriel Ok gatekeeper

I have tried games I had fun with years ago as a child and it was still good

If you felt like its a second job then its no longer a game. get another game or hobby.

@@lancevance6346 _"Growing up in 2000s, the advancement in games was a lot more noticeable in a very short time."_ I don't think I agree. I think that the introduction of three-dimensional visuals was a pretty significant jump. The most significant jump, to be honest. Super Smash Bros Melee was the last time for a long time where I was genuinely wowed at the fidelity of the visuals in the opening cutscene. The time after that where I was wowed was seeing The Witcher 3 in motion on my computer. Graphics are most often a detriment to gaming, since far too much money is spent on animating minor details that I think should be better spent on making a better game. I have gotten in to games that had great visuals for the time, and games that had great gameplay but did not have impressive visuals, and it's easily the second category that has lasting value and quality for me.

this is why i play runescape

oh man i totally feel you have the same with all this games and is hard catch up as casual player so i stay right now in one of my older games where i had the most fun to play it but sadly not much alive anymore and feel very lonely there most.

Although society itself was better in 1997, as we had more freedom, gaming is much better now.

That is true. Most triple A games got worse or are just mediocre, indie games however are great

I’ve lately been playing some games for a console called the Sega Saturn that only had 3 years of support in North America & it was pretty fun! For a few months before I played any games on it, I was bored with the modern games I had at the time. Now going back to some games like Mario wonder it’s alright

nah then i couldn’t play fallout new vegas

Same, because I born at 1999

True i miss those arcade time

I still have fond memories of some line-based Star Wars arcade game where you had to fly through the Death Star trench. Good stuff.

agree I turned 30 this year and I sit back and think how crazy it is I remember being 18 staying up all night gaming going to work and in a blink boom 30 and it seems to be only getting quicker!!!

46? DAMN

Star Wars Battlefront 2, Modern Warfare 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, guitar hero...damn

Yeah, pretty much. Indie games are killing it in 2022. Tunic is one of them, the game's really amazing and the experience you get from it is both nostalgic and refreshing

as a mainstream fps game player I can confirm that I am indeed dooming

Imagine not playing csgo as a true Chad. No other FPS is as good .

@@arthasmenethil5748 there is more to fps than online multiplayer tac shooters

Literally. I’m an FGC geek and fighting games are only getting better. Metroidvanias, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring. Come on now. lol I’m in gaming heaven 😍😍 MMORPG’s kinda lacking

yeah vampire survivors gave me more fun than 90% of tripple A games.

@thaz fff tell that to Terraria devs tho, and other similar examples

Yup there are so many game studios that are considered small by today's standards, but match the size and scale of devs from the 90's and 00's. Tons of them put out great games yearly and don't have all the predatory crap that AAA games have.

@@antares3030 terraria is the exception and not the rule. It’s true though that it’s not the biggest issue though. Biggest issue is just boring games. No innovation. Cookie cutter crappy games. When someone comes along with a Vision that’s awesome they make an awesome game.

In other words nothing has really changed.

people have a right to their opinions without being labeled. Maybe you should make a video yourself to counter his opinion in a reasonable manner without resorting to boxing and labeling people with a different opinion.

I hate most new games, because of the normie gamer. Those games are full off exploitative stuff like micro transactions, because the masses keep buying that sht. It has completely ruined gaming for me. But just like Asmon said, its all because so many people support it. Companies will always do whatever is more profitable, whatever the consumers want to pay for the most.

yeah its more of a memory of a time period and how they felt then : having nothing else than going to school and then running home to play games thing. The games are objectively not better then than now its just that you experienced them differently as an adult. It's also why kids dont like retro gaming and love their current games its nor the games themselves that changed the most its you as an individual and it's hard to accept that.

So you think gaming is amazing as a whole right now? I doubt it, if you do then you need to play some of these video games he's talking about, cuz they're bad. It ain't even being pessimistic, it's looking at reality. So stop trying to use all these labels to completely discredit his opinion, and if your living in a different reality post a video about it explaining what YOU think gaming is like right now. Unless your afraid of online criticism, which is funny since you have no fear about criticizing others.

@@Kratos-eg7ez Take a deep breathe and calm down. Commenting takes less than 5 minutes making a video that is proper take days at a minimum so yes it's normal for him to comment instead of making videos especially if the person doesn't really try to convince people he's right. Pointing out a biais is not saying the video is shit it's saying that as in any time in history people prefer things from their childhood and early life regardless of the progresses that were made. Acknowledging that shouldn't be impossible and saying things were not as perfect as you remember them to be doesn't mean that today is perfect it's saying that you are comparing an idealized view of the past to reality and comparing idealized version of anything to reality is doing a disservice to your point. I like games from my childhood. I love them but i realize that they are not quintessentially better than newer games they just appeal to my nostalgia and after playing them for a while i go back to newer games. Same goes for games from the 80s i played with my uncle, he loves them and i enjoy playing them in his company but i wouldn't play them by myself the games are better or worse depending on who showed them to you, who played them with you and how talks about them with you. That's why games from your childhood you shared with all your best friends feel better than newer games when your friends have more responsibilities, stopped playing video games or aren't as passionate about them anymore. The fact there are more games than ever also skews the perspective, back then there was 1-2 games per year that were making a dent if that so EVERYONE played those and going back to sharing your experience with others, it makes them feel better. Now people have so much choices they don't know what to play and that's why fortnite was so popular and people look fondly on when it came out, because for the first time in a long time EVERYONE played the same game. Online ranks and youtube lets play, or pro players also made many people feel less good about games because back then you could be prideful about being the best in your neighbourhood, your friends or your school but now when the best player is silver well it doesn't feel as prestigious as it did back then when the best in the neighbourhood felt like he was the best in the world.

@@chaost4544 The game is brutal at the start. But by about 50% of the way through the game you are completely loaded with money and the combat starts to get kind of easy in 1v1s.

The narrator is a normie he probly pre ordered bf 2042

@@chaost4544 Honestly it is not that hard once you figure it out. The combat has some cons for sure, like never getting a combo off because even the most unskilled fighter is just going to do a perfect counter so you can only get 2-3 swings in. This limits you to the low level combos. You are better off just raising strength then spamming clinching and getting a few hits in after, rinse and repeat, the enemy won't even be able to hit you. The good thing is though that this isn't fool proof, but even on the hardest difficulty in the beginning of the game you can win the Rattay Tourney as soon as its available as long as you do the training with ?Bernard? (I think) Of course anything where you are outnumbered gets dicey but clinching still works, however better off just playing defensive and perfect countering til they die. For me combat is the last reason I play Kingdom Come, for me its the immersion, the attention to detail, the fact you even have to learn to read and it has an effect on the game itself. The ability to make decisions that have changes to the game and story. I also just love being the best medieval thief around. Honestly need to finish the story, it is good but I always end up just running around doing whatever lol.

Do you recommend this game?

@@SoloAdvocate Great analysis. I agree the immersion into the world is what took the game to another level for me.

Except kids now just play Fortnite and don't even give a second glimpse to games that don't trigger the reward center of their brain fast enough.

As a game maker, i'll try to push my nephew into give a try at some of the games i grew up with and also, some of the ones i've did while explaining the story and evolution of the games, with thr hopes of him to appreciate gaming with a different pair of glasses.

@@wolverineftw that’s why gaming is going too shit is because these kids don’t know any better.

@@wolverineftw Unfortunate reality of gaming now. How can we monetize the casual consumer. Now we have battle-passes in every god damn game.

@@wolverineftw spoken like a true boomer that says "man kids just don't have REAL fun OUTSIDE anymore". not all kids just play fortnite searching for that dopamine hit you know, have you ever heard of minecraft? plenty kids play that.

you whats funny is predatory games are nothing new they did the dame shit decades ago with arcade games one of the more popular ones thats still around are claw games with prizes

Can life even be won? Nobody has made it so far lul

nope. not true. it’s similar to the rule on how to win at three card monte. you can only win if you don’t play. YOU CHOOSE WHAT SUCCESS IS, and you go for THAT.

@@bluesunrise2323 Especially games like Alien vs Predator, they are the most "Predatory" and also they predate the pay to win practices.

Depends on what and how you're spending: money, or your energy/time?

Terraria?

God of war is overrated. Very mid. And that’s the truth - most games that are considered “amazing” are actually meh. I play since 2002, and starting from 2011, there is only 1-2 games per year that don’t make me yawn and turn it off after 30 minutes. It’s just boring asf.

@@304enjoyer3What makes you think your opinion is the correct one when everyone disagrees with you?

​@@304enjoyer3oho we got an experienced and wise one here, truly a grand master Jedi of video games. People like you are the problem, you get mad when someone responds to your criticism and your responce is "muh fanboy" while desperately wanting people to take you're terrible opinion as a fact.

@@LalalaE15 huh? Looks to me like you’re the one who got butthurt over me saying that god of war is meh. Lol😂

This is so true. When I set up Roblox for my nephew I was surprised to find out what it actually was. Almost every game within Roblox that deals in dungeons are a match for diablo immortal

it happens in everything man... nostalgia always gets in the way... football has this (saying maradona is better than messi for example) movies have this (people always say the 1st and 2nd movies are always better than the last ones, fast and furious is a example and even tho the last 2 were garbage the 4th 5th and even the 6th are way better than the 1st and 2nd)

Game Pass is sensory overload by itself.

nu god of war is exactly the kind of derivative, badly written, wannabe movie garbage that makes modern games terrible.

Indie season

No, they were just more innovative, creative, passionate and willing to take risks back then - after all, the transition into 3D was an insane ride and the industry wasn't completely dominated by corporate suits and shareholders just yet. It also helps that they weren't quite as rampant with soulless capitalism antics as they are today with microtransactions, P2W, gacha, lootboxes, battle passes, cash shops or just releasing completely unfinished, unpolished, buggy games and THEN forcing players to buy the completed versions of said games through rereleases or expansion updates. IMO, the only truly scummy business practices back then were arcades, paid monthly online services for MMOs, and silly/pointless gaming accessories & peripherals. When it came to bad games back in the day - you could rely on gaming journalists for an honest opinion back then or better yet - just rent a game for $5 for a WHOLE WEEK and see if it was worth a full purchase. You can't do any of that today (except rely on honest community reviews (as journalists were compromised years ago,) use emulation to play the classics or uh... sail the seven seas on PC (thank god these three options exist.)

​@@alexs29 Yes, I'm absolutely with you when it comes to things like toxic monetization. Can't wait for the EU crackdown on gambling in video games. However, I fundamentally disagree with some of the points you made. Please hear me out. Developing and publishing a game has never been more accessible, you have individual devs publishing games that sell millions of copies, a teenager can learn game development on RU-vid and all the tools to do so are free. And they do! It shows, we keep having fantastic indie successes that are made by small teams or even individual devs. Not only game development but gaming itself has been democratized to a crazy degree, some of the most popular and best games out there are completely free to play. You can play great games on hardware anybody can afford and older but still fantastic titles are on steep sales all the time -- a thing that we take for granted nowadays, but back in the day if you wanted a specific (older) game and your store didn't have it, good luck! You have things like Gamepass that give you a huge value, tons of games and new titles you can play for very reasonable subscription fee. All of these things put more great games in the hands of more gamers, and the number of gamers keeps growing! The same goes for content creation around gaming. Maybe you think game journalists used to be more reliable back then, but as somebody who has been reading gaming magazines since the 90s I think the sheer volume and quality of information you can get on games nowadays dwarfs anything we had in the past. Maybe you were able to read a good, well written review by a reputable game journalist that featured a couple of screenshots but nowdays you can watch 1000 people play a new game and talk about them live within seconds. You can find a huge number of independent reviewers with lots of integrity giving you their honest opinion. You have huge communities for even the most niche games and user reviews to a degree that simply didn't exist in the past. You never have to buy any game without being informed about it and if you do and it sucks you just refund it. In terms of innovation, new tech like UE5 has extremely promising potential to help create games that look better than ever before. Crossplay games allow gamers to play together no matter which hardware they have, even if its just a phone. This wasn't even imaginable 20 years ago. The number of games released every year keeps climbing and existing games getting new content is almost expected at this point. Beyond "conventional gaming", you have new technologies like VR that (despite still having some way to go) keep getting better and better, there are VR games that are so mind blowing even my 80 year old dad can't help but be astonished. The reality is, there is more innovation, creativity and passion in gaming today than ever before and if you don't see it, brother, you haven't been looking!

I agree

@@nottiredofwinning3736and yet you’re wrong lol

That’s really insightful and I actually agree with you now that I think back to my teenage tears

yea

Let's begin with Zelda 2 😁

Play Windwaker!

ocarina of time, link to the past and wind waker are my favourites these games are the reason zelda fanboys exist and new zelda games that are actually more like a 7/10 get 10/10 from msm like ign.

@@yakimandu5098 It's time to take those nostalgia goggles off grandpa

@@turkeyman631 that's totally fair. I just hear golden age of gaming and my first thought is SNES. I'm sure a handful of people would be like check out this boomer.

@@turkeyman631 no, there was never a time when quality was valued over monetary gain. there was just a time when more AAA developers understood that if you make a high quality product you will see your revenue increase.

2004-2010 ish imo. We had the mass effect games, Halo 2 and Halo 3, CoD.. It was hard to beat. I'll never forget seeing mass effect at Hollywood video, knowing nothing about it and renting it.. then me and my friend played it 14 hours a day all weekend. It was legitimately one of the most mind blowing game experiences I've ever had. Plus the WoW golden era and runescape if you were into MMO'S. Halo 3 is still my favorite game of all time though. The midnight release was insane.

@@turkeyman631 > there was a time where quality was valued over how much money they could make never happened, you're delusional

It also shows that peoples perceptions are different based on a lot of different factors, but no - there must always be a right answer and a wrong answer to the "Golden Age" of games.

I agree, I think those two decades the days when people were the most hyped to see what new game was around the corner. I just don’t get excited anymore.

@@chenstormstout9456 Maybe because you’re older? I’ve never been more excited for anything more than the Elden Ring DLC

@@danitron4096everyone is excited for that. That’s an exception

Thats 3 words lol. But agreed

It's sad there is a positive grind , it's fun if I do it by my own will and not as a necessary daily etc. I can grind a full day for a weapon I desire BUT it's just not fun if I'm forced to play every day just so the company's can show off their numbers to the shareholders

I'd argue the original NES made it mainstream. No one was getting bullied FOR playing games in that era. I'm sure some people we getting bullied, and their gaming habit was a target though.

@@PaulFilmer The main difference between then and now is far more girls play

@@freedomextremist7215 You might want to watch out with the phrasing: Getting bullied was a good thing. I think you mean, it felt good back when gaming is a niche hobby.

Settle for mid-budget games. They usually have the polish of AAA but are on a smaller scale, meaning they can get away with some of the riskier ideas that indies use because their profit margin isn't as small. They are the Unsung heroes of the industry if you ask me.

I'm just not really into indie games

Victim andys like to pretend that they were getting shoved into lockers because they had a genesis

Undertale, OFF, omori, Death stranding, Furi, so much more

@@Arsonaught yep loved all of those too

both ori games,

@@niallrussell7184he didn’t think having a mouse would catch on?

I have been gaming in the 90's but didn't have the money for a good Pc to play Half-Life. So funnily enough my first play of Half-Life was threw the PS2 version.

as much as i love indie games i think I'll be playing morrowwind and oblivion to the grave lol

You're really missing out because there were some bangers. I've tried a plethora of Indies including the ones you mentioned and only one was fun to me. I couldn't believe you mentioned stardew valley lmao. I slept while trying to play that boring mess. What a joke 😂😂😂

100% agree. I used to only play shooters and I got super burned out on them and took a break from games and when I came back to games, I tried new genres and games I thought I would never enjoy (Stardew Valley, New World, Valheim, Lost Ark, etc) and had a ton of fun playing them. Now I am more open minded to different game types and have fun playing games again

This. People nowadays are so jacked up with dopamine from drugs, constant gaming, and phones. Just do other stuff. How can you expect to do something 24/7 and always make you just as happy every time? Blows my mind.

Doing challenge runs of games you used to play is a good way to make them fun again. I just beat NFS: Most Wanted (2005) with only the Fiat Punto you get at the start of the game and that made it fun again.

Exactly, I have a friend, albeit not a very close friend but still consider him one, who refuses to play anything other than multiplayer shooters. He's constantly complaining about having nothing to play because CoD, Destiny 2, Valorant, Apex Legends just isn't doing anything for him at the moment, but if we suggest any other genre, or even great indie shooters, he'll just swipe them away because he's "not gonna play that garbage".

@@bombomos easily

Bro don't say it with the hard R

I've met two of my best friends from playing games online back in 2013. We're still friends now and still playing games today. One lives east and the other west and I'm in the middle. We will fly to go visit each other or meet for events in other places. Good stuff

​@Lyrics_Destroyerhow old are you?

You mean you like the thing that you already like and have no real idea of the alternatives but you somehow like it better than things you don't know about... tell me more oh wise one, smh

Yeah because you were a kid, everything was great then...yo yos were great too right?

@@happywednesday6741 nope. I was crap with them. But with the shift of focus in the gaming industry, and every game having long term impacts/not supporting couch co op, these moments get rarer and rarer. :) Just like to play games with people and extended runs or multiple consoles aren't always an option.

@@wykydytron Idk about that my guy, first quarter we have Hogwars Legacy and Jedi Survivor. Around Q2 we will have a Zelda ToftK, Diablo 4, Suicide Squad (gameplay could be good, but from what i saw... Nah) Q3 is pretty much quiet, my list only has Silksong as a good game and then Q4 has AC Mirage, Spider-Man 2, Lies of P, FF16, Pragmata, Armored Core 6 and most likely Payday 3! Every part of the year has great titles, see? 🤷

So what i mean js that, it doesn't mean the year won't be any special, just because you don't like specific game genres

I see stuff pretty much this way as well. There's so many good games coming out each year that I only have time to play through some of them. This year in particular I'm gonna grab Wu Long on release and enjoy the shit out of it.

@@mateusz7953 My main game possibly will be Hogwars Legacy, but as long as Armored Core 6 comes out, i'm moving on to play that instead!

@@macathedj Baldurs Gate 3 should be out in Q3 or Q4, can t wait, Neverwinter Nights and 2 were my favorite games, BG was outdated if you compared it to NWN, so I ve never gotten in to it. Wish there was more DnD games, theres Solasta, but something just feels of for me.

@@PervySage723 Gamers always be complaining about having nothing to play then miss all these gems

Some of the greatest games of all times came out in the last decade. Elden ring, dark souls 3, the Witcher 3, Valheim, Stardew Valley, Red dead redemption 2, God of war and ragnarok, Hollow knight and many more. If you honestly believe people who like modern games are in denial, you’re delusional.

​@@danitron4096Even though gaming has adopted some bad practices, it will always be fun to me. I loved the 2010_2016 era because I have the best memories there but if I had to pick an era of gaming it will always be now no matter what. Even if there are more turds than before, the amount of good games will always keep on growing and growing. Gaming hasn't died to me and I don't think it will ever die. Sorry for my rambling.

Same. Slower paced is my jam now. Death Stranding was a walking sim like no other. I hope DS2 has space walking man.

@Volt35 Oh yes, how could I forget about Death Stranding? Amazing atmosphere, I kept thinking about the game and humming the soundtrack for a couple years after completion.

@Mel if you are interested in story games play dragon age origins. In this game you make your own destiny. You choose the dialouge you want and it is really thrilling. I finished this game atleast two times.

@@alister4936 Thanks for the tip, I did play that back when it was new on the 360. Good game!

@@MelAncholynus i see, glad you enjoyed it.

Yeh it’s just growing up and having other stuff to worry about

Well the funny part is the video narrator sounding like he’s 15.

@@AngeloGene Exactly, and not one microtransaction or special edition! I think people are looking at the past of gaming with rose tinted glasses a little. AAA games suck but they always kind of did.

Fomo as well as peer pressure. You MUST play the same game your friends play, you MUST buy unique skins if you don't want them to laugh at you. As a kid you want to fit in with your group and you end up emptying your parents' account because how could you not, "everyone does it".

Not true. Even if it's a theme ive seen before, different games are different.

​@@strsocerplaya9 I think your underestimating the potential affects. Ya but the transition is different. Learning curve is skewed because skills transfer. Experience and immersive is subjective to what we already know and experience. I believe its just mostly old people who experience this issue. Its like taking Weed vs Cocaine as your first drug. Obviously Cocaine would hit harder. And it would be different if you were already a drug user or not. I think your underestimating the potential affects how it influences you as a person and how it affects people around you that also affect how games culture develop

@@AK255. ...I dont do drugs so I cant relate to what you're talking about with that analogy. I'm not young or old and I can appreciate both old and new games. If i havent played it, I havent played it. Unless you're talking about someone that has never ever played a game before, the learning curve is also not that big. Games are mainstream. Even toddlers play games on their parent's phone. I remember going from pc gaming to console and it was awkward but after a few hours, that was it. And that's a bigger jump than just going between games on the same console.

Resident Evil 4: VR Mode on PSVR2 has been absolutely incredible. I'm having the video game time of my life right now. lol You can't get an experience like that on some flat 65" OLED TV. Pancake gaming is getting kid of stale imo, i'm far more interested in the potential of VR & AR since both have so much room for growth, and it's the only place where stereoscopic 3D exists, life sized characters & environments, and motion controls that surpass anything on consoles.

Battle royale, 1st person shooter, mmorpg, rpg, arcade, 3rd person shooter, sandbox, survival, indies etc. bruh he named a bunch of genres, I believe there is no need to add more to get to the point lol

Multiplayer has ego tied up in it. When nobody wants to lose, you're not in for a relaxing time.

@@Worick_ exactly, you can’t just play for fun in a competitive space. Winning is fun, losing isn’t.

And tbh, multiplayer games are where most of the p2w / microtransactions are. Not always, but mostly.

@@elmhurstenglish5938 90% of the time tbf haha

"Came out" as a gamer" is fucking hilarious.

You came out as a gamer? Holy shit

True, I've been playing gen 3 Pokémon games and its great! Honestly so much better than SV and Arceus

For me Its not that theres more bad games, it’s that theres fewer good/innovative games

@@Kitth3n well I can agree with the innovation part, but that's partly because the profit motive has been largely refined. Games are more expensive than ever to produce and flopping can sink a studio. So if you want innovation it won't be in the mainstream, because the mainstream has been largely defined and refined.

@@christianokoye9491 true I understand why but still an unfortunate situation

Half way through and yes it is fun.

@@michaelh878 The dialogue is hilarious.