@@DIOslayer golden age of gaming When borrowing a game was more common, but then there is the risk of your friend scratching the disc, and that’s an awkward conversation.
Ah yes, "modern gaming": >make a decent game >put 30% of the game behind a paywall >leave out 50% of content for future dlc >don't playtest your game outside of the developer team >postpone all bug fixes and rush them for a day-one patch that barely works >blame customers for misinterpreting your game if the story sucks >have early access available to your disfunctional game for 90 bucks >file lawsuits against reviewers who say bad things about your game >do it all over again next year
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This is a major reason piracy is so appealing. Having that data physically on a drive along with a crack that guarantees it will work regardless of internet connection and updates is WAY FUCKING BETTER than legitimately buying the game and being forced to run a specific launcher, needing an internet connection for intrusive DRM, etc. AAA gaming companies are literally monetizing inconvenience and terrible service.
What if somebody invented an AI that could patch ANY game, and it was actually good software with respectable people behind it? Just pirate any new game, then have the hypothetically perfect AI patch it. If only.
@@goofyahdemoman1134 if such an ai could be created the companies creating the games would still have more resources to craft an AI based deterrent for such a crack.
I own maybe 10% of my library legally if they won't let me keep the rights to the property i buy might as well just take it from somewhere else that i can keep
I've transitioned back to console gaming myself. I tried to remember why games used to be more fun as a kid, and it was partly because I was just a kid, but I was also totally immersed in the worlds on my GameCube. I didn't care about graphics or frame rate, didn't even know what that was. On PC I was constantly fiddling with settings to get the most out of my hardware possible, but on console, knowing that the graphics and frame rate are out of my control, I'm able to finally just enjoy the actual game again. I've been playing ghost of Tsushima on my PS4 pro and it's honestly just so nice.
Took the words right of my mouth. I'm sick of seeing gamers nowadays worry so much about stupid shit like OH MAH FPS, OH MAH RAY TRACING. Like jeez, in fact most times on PC, I spend my time asking around on the internet how to fix this or fix that because I bump into more problems than on console lmao, whereas for consoles when I go on the internet, it's to learn how to solve puzzles or what's the best build for my character. Like man, games used to be played for FUN! Not about the graphics. Everytime I play PC is just nothing but issues and issues, whereas consoles treat me well. Don't even get me started on when you're a big gamer and gotta make multiple accounts because for some reason, every goddamn game needs to have its own launcher now. Steam, EA launcher, Epic Games launcher, etc. Then when you haven't played on a particular launcher in awhile, they will log you out and you will have to go through the annoying 2FA. And my C and D drive randomly fills up for no reason. Tldr: PC feels like a problem child constantly wanting attention needing to be fixed, whereas consoles feel like a perfect child.
@@Smiley0.1 on console as long as I get good frame rates that’s all I care about. I’ve played many games from indies to first party games. I’ve experienced awesome graphics to not so awesome shooter to racers to RPGs to sport games. I tried playing some PC games and I couldn’t help myself I spent more time messing with the settings because it was there on console it’s very limited but I asked myself on PC I’ll never play the game because I’ll be constantly messing with setting on console I enjoy the games more.
Literally i spend my time wasting on how to fix that error then playing actual game.. Like some high end games are running just fine on my pc but for some reason gta 5 such a low end game is lagging like crazy shit I'm probably gonna shift to ps5 tbh
RIGHT ON. 2070 super Ryzen 7 3700x will be the absolute last PC components I ever bought for gaming. There’s a reason why devs will always prioritize consoles
Same. I bought a 4090 a year ago and 80% of modern games Ive played since then were stuttering like crazy. If not even high end hardware can make poorly optimized games run well enough, why even bother? Most of the time Ive been searching for solutions and modding games for days only to play them for a couple hours. Its not about your hardware, the fps and graphics its about having fun. Thats why especially Nintendo is so successful.
The worst part about PC gaming isn't even the wildly inconsistent performance, it's the people who are 100% fine with that wildly inconsistent performance. You change nothing if you settle for mediocrity, if you are not honest about quality, you will continue to be sold shit. The amount of people running damage control for Battlefield 2042 honestly upset me, "yeah it has all these issues, but I'm still having fun with it". Please, stop settling for dogshit products, you are helping no one, especially not the industry you love.
My close friend is one of those. He thinks his _Ryzen 7 3700x_ is "mediocre." No you just play shoddily optimized AAA titles and refuse to blame the likes of _Cyberpunk 2077_ for performing poorly.
LMFAO coming from a console baby who runs games at 30-60 FPS MAX at mid to low settings. Dont EVER talk about others settling for mediocrity if you game on console
@@stealthysaucepan2016 they have standards they're just lower than yours. Like I honestly could care less about what other people think about a game. If I enjoy it I enjoy it and I don't let others change my mind. Like for instance I enjoy Halo multiplayer but every time I go onto the Halo subreddit it's constant complaining about the store and I'm like I don't care I like having fun and the cosmetics don't really matter to me.
Honestly, the indie scene is absolutely great on Steam and pc in general. I put 10 hours on SCP Secret Laboratory in 3 days, Crusader Kings isn’t quite indie but the amount of depth and strategy is great, plus the workshop just enhances that factor, People’s Playground is a fun, gore filled sandbox with creative mods. I haven’t touched a AAA game on pc for a year and I don’t really miss it.
factorio, hades, hollow knight, terraria... there are soo many great indie games out there. nowadays you miss the best of gaming if you focus on tripple a
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Most of my favourite pc games are indie stuff that would play misserably on consoles. Stuff like Kerbal Space Program, Cities Skylines or Factorio just aren't the same without a mouse.
@@Z3t487 piracy doesn't take away money from devs or publishers because most likely the pirate wouldn't buy the game anyways. I pirate games because the age of demos is gone and I wanna try out games before I buy them
It isn't just PC, gaming in general has declined in quality and quantity of games over the last decade. I'm getting to the point where I'd rather be working than playing games.
I agree. I’ve been gaming since I could pick up a controller about 16 years ago, and it feels like 2012-2017 was my golden age for gaming. But I’ve never told myself I need to “stop gaming” more than I have in recent years. Fewer and fewer titles think outside the box, and the ones that do cater to a very niche community of people. When single player games became threatened in the last few years, thats when my decline for gaming as a whole started.
I disagree slightly. Yes I think AAA games have gone down the tube, but I think indie developers have come out on top and have shown us that people with much smaller teams and budget have more passion and skill than big budget developers.
@@Harvey2Tall Every indie game that is successful gets ruined by either feature/scope creep (Project Zomboid), abondonment by the devs because they got money already (Valheim), or bought out by a AAA and turned AAA (Minecraft) Indie isn't gonna save us.
There are more games coming out now than ever before and in myriad more genres. But you're right that AAA gaming has dropped in quality (I don't know about quantity) and is just constantly recycling the same gameplay loops and trying to sucker you into spending more money than you already did to buy the broken game in the first place.
I have always said that with technology getting better games should run better on lower end hardware. but it seems that developers are getting lazy with optimizations and expect everyone to have a 1080 or above now and days.
I can attest to this. I used to have a really budget build with a 1050 ti, 8gb DDR4, i5-6400. My GPU was little bit better than the PS4, the CPU was a little bit worse. Physically could not run any new games that were released to PS4, I didn't experience much of it because I just knew to not even try, but one game I tried was Modern Warfare 2019. At lowest settings, 1080p at 70% resolution scaling, with additional programs running to shift a significant amount of my PC's power to the game, and setting high priority in the Windows settings, resulting in the rest of my PC being practically unusable til I closed the game, would run at 50-60 fps TOPS. It's a fucking disgrace how devs treat budget gamers. I luckily managed to get exactly what I wanted at MSRP during this GPU shortage, but I feel heavily for budget gamers.
Honestly, purchasing new AAA games on its release day or pre-order seems to be very risky since they turn out to be having lots of issues like bugs, compatibility, and overall content quality. Ppl have to wait another weeks or months (maybe even years) to get their money worth out of games when the developers release tones of patches for them before they choose to refund.
I like Indie/small gaming companies because they have to release well working games or they go out of business. There are a lot of smaller game developers doing it right. It's also sad the modding community has done a great job in fixing AAA games like Cyberpunk.
You know who's fault this is? Those guys in reddit that say: "It runs fine for me, maybe it's just your shitty PC, I have an rtx 3090 btw 😎" These cringe guys are everywhere from RU-vid to twitter and they make everything worse
I saw a guy in a RU-vid comment section talking about how the rtx 3090 was the only graphics worth buying and all other cards are "shit" and to "just get a job and buy one"
Their life be like: "I used to be alone, my family disowned me long ago and no one adopted me since and every girl rejected me. Ever since I got an RTX 42069, none of these things have changed but at least I now can cope by asserting dominance over "plebs" with my "godly pc"."
Legit so annoying, they’re the same kind of people who when you ask for help in a game online like: “Hey guys I can’t get past the mini boss at X part of the game, tips?” They respond with: “I did it first try, it’s not hard” and that’s all. Hooray for you buddy, but that doesn’t fucking help me at all.
Honestly, this is how I feel about gaming nowadays. Between terrible ports, overpriced parts, egs exclusives, and microtransactions, I'm starting to look for new hobbies now, It's sad to say, but gaming isn't fun anymore.
@@Void6- yeah 2021 was indicative of that. It Takes Two winning game of the year and all. AAA is going downhill due to corporate greed, studio crunch and ballooning budgets. Indies are definitely on the rise because they’re cheaper, generally more fulfilling and far more creative.
@@SaberRexZealot exactly, Ive been playing both indies and triple A for some good years by now and indies are always the ones that make your jaw drop. Triple A is always kinda the same stuff with a different coat of paint every year. Indies are where the creative risks are at, exploration of graphics, music, mechanics and storytelling, its all there and some stuff is super interesting
P.c gaming is awesome though man. The indie games that are being constantly updated and supported are amazing and better than any AAA out right now. I'll give you a quick list. Bannerlord is an open world midieval strategy/combat game were you command 1000 man armies and fight shoulder to shoulder with your soldiers the combat is clean and commanding the armies is fun you can create your own kingdom or join another and its getting huge updates that add in new features every like 4 months. Kenshi is an open world top down survival RPG in a post apocalyptic alien world. I hate top down RPGs but something about kenshi's setting grabs me it might be that every character can lose limbs making combat tense or it might be the amazing base crafting or how the world interacts with you when you manage to kill a ruler but the best thing Kenshi does is make everything you do feel extremely rewarding you start out as a weakling nobody and stay that way for a long time so even being able to kill a bandit is a huge win.I didnt even mention how you can mod bith games and change a lot of the parts of the gameplay that you dont like both of these games have very active moding communitied. I could add more games but tbh your prob not even gonna read all this but dude p.c gaming is so amazing right now you just gotta look at what the amazing indie devs are doing right now and stop focusing on the corporate souless AAA scene.
@@usrnewxnew5227 Hahahahaha. See I personally can't pay for games since I don't have a credit card yet. So I personally don't really care if games have issues since I didn't pay for it to begin with.
@@Doom_Music_Enjoyer That's such broken logic... you can still buy games with cash, it just takes literally one extra step. Step 1) go to Walmart and purchase a card for Steam/PS/Roblox/Literally all current game markets. Step 2) use the card to pay for games Edit: And this is how I still buy things on Playstation because their store still can't accept my credit card for some reason. So I go to literally the corner store and pay cash or debit, they have a policy against selling gift cards by credit.
@@Nathan-dt2tu well, it's a necessity for me coz my parents don't let me buy games and I also don't have a credit card. That's why I've made a rule not to touch indie games and only get AAA ones. Fuck aaa companies.
As an old gamer, I really miss the days when PC games were released finished, in a box, with collectible items. There was no patching, the games just worked. There were no hidden costs, no micro-transactions, and if there were skins they were free to download (remember Quake 3? Some awesome skins for that, and never cost a penny). Course, this was before the internet was all about corporations making money; it's like the whole internet is monetised now.
I really do miss fat boxes, with games you just install while checking out the goodies inside, like manuals, art etc. I still have access to my old games, I still can play them (even if I have to apply some patches to make them work on Win 10/11) and they still look better shelf, than just an icon in my Steam library.
I miss them too, there's no collectable purpose with digital stuff, you cannot get like a map of the game, lore books, a figurines, statues and such, that's why I prefer physical then digital tbh, you don't get cool stuff with digital, only for the online stuffs, so yeah
Unfortunately, I'm with you. I've been a PC gamer my whole life but I honestly don't play newer games for one because they are unoptimized pieces of garbage with practices I don't support with half-finished games but... just over the years I'm just tired of being excited for a new game, installing it and having to go through the headache of fine-tuning it so it doesn't shit the bed but even then it still does. At least with Consoles I just put game in and game plays. Which is what I want in this day and age... though I'm starting to wonder if maybe *tinfoil hat* console companies are convincing people to make unoptimized shitty ports for PC so that more people will play on consoles.
I like a console for the reasons you listed, but PC will always be my main platform just due to the sheer amount of freedom on the platform. If new games suck, I don't buy them. If anything, the amount of dog shit AAA releases makes me appreciate my PC gaming library even more. So many old games to play, mods, and great indie titles, such as Ready or Not. A $40 Alpha has given me more hours of enjoyment in two weeks than 2042 did in the last month and a half. Also consoles are very prone to performance issues as well, you just don't have the plethora of options when it comes to troubleshooting. When 2077 released I couldn't get over 40fps on the lowest settings. Less than 24 hours later there was a community made control panel for the game that let me tune settings that the developers locked out. Just turning off TAA boosted me to around 70fps, and performance became the least of my worries. I also made Keanu bald for shits and gigs. you don't have that sort of freedom on a console, and that's why I can't commit. Consoles also haven't been plug and play in forever. Every game requires installation, and there is no shortage of crashes and performance issues on console. Most broken PC ports end up running better than their console counterparts anyway, which is kind of hilarious.
That last part you said, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. During the last 8 years, more and more people have started to go to PC gaming and console companies like Sony were probably noticing a decline in their 3rd party game sales as a result. So there might be something going on to make PC gaming look inferior just to sway those newer PC gamers to just stick to console.
Wow, those options were pathetic. I really hate when PC games have high requirements for no good reason. Do these publishers actually think that every PC gamer has a 3090?
Yeah but it's not just that, it's also horrible optimization, they didn't spend more than 5 minutes on that. If a game runs smooth on a fucking PS4 and then runs like shit on 1080p on a 3090?, and a modern cpu, you know the devs just don't give a fuck.
Honestly I don't have a problem with a game requiring a high spec PC to run at some uber-ultra setting, so long as you can run it at a good level without needing to sell a kidney to buy the best toy GPU to run it with.
You're absolutely right. I understand small bug fixes, but no game should need a day-one patch to properly function. Publishers have gotten careless and not seeing monetary pushback from customers.
Most 1st and 3rd party games nowadays are abysmal. They're usually fortnite/COD clones with more cutscenes than actual gameplay, complete with loot boxes and pay-to-win with a couple gems in-between to keep you guessing. I really want to emphasize that it's solely due to corporate greed and corruption, 100%. It's not budgeting or lack of creativity. These companies don't care about you or making a good product. If these companies wanted to make a good game, they will go out of their way to suffer to make one. Not that they have to, they have the billions of dollars to pay talented individuals. Some of the best games I've ever played were on 16-bit computers requiring severe technical workarounds (like the SNES or Genesis). Making a good game requires fun game mechanics and true passion/creativity, not powerful hardware. The few good games out there nowadays are indie games and ROM hacks. Enderal: Forgotten Stories, Super Mario World ROM hacks, SMBX games, Sonic Robo Blast 2, 0ad and Poppy's Playtime (which you reviewed earlier) are all great.
This isn't a pc problem this is problem with the AAA game industry. We need to stop pre ordering, stop buying the rip off dlc, stop buying the micro transactions. People keep apologizing on behalf of developers and praising them when they start to fix their dog shit games or if they promise to not screw people as hard with mtxs. Also skyrim anniversary didn't launch with ultrawide support either because reasons so you still have to go in to the ini files and download a ui fix to make ultrawide work
Muta isn't exactly the most brilliant guy when it comes to hardware or software. FF7R drops hard on PS5, you still beat its graphical fidelity on PC than you will get on PS5 just on high etc. Consoles are having drops in performance etc too. Nier Automata for instance would go as low as 15fps, Vangaurd on PS5 drops low as 28 and 30's for XBOX.
well as much as you say that and i agree with you people are just gonna do that over and over again EVEN WHEN THEY THINK THE GAME WILL BE BAD.....WHY!?
@@ErgonomicChair He definitely "forgot" that some of these AAA releases were buggy and ran poorly on consoles too. Cyberjunk being one of the more notorious ones. That game had no business releasing on xbox one and ps4 and CDPR should be ashamed of themselves for deceiving people like that. It's not all plug and play and "it just works with no messing around with .ini files" with consoles. At least with pc you have the option of messing around with files and even unofficial fixes. I needed that to fix the skyrim UI in ultrawide and to get F.E.A.R. working without stuttering endlessly. With consoles you have to wait for official patches and hope the devs keep supporting the game. Let's not forget the debacle when microsoft originally announced that the xbox one was going to require being always online.
Everyone said stop preordering games like half a decade ago. Look at where we are now. People spending hundreds in essentially worthless game items that disappear when the game goes byebye, people still believing in obvious marketing hype bs, etc. tldr gamers are idiots
@@AshnSilvercorp The physical release of Fallout 76, from what I remember, was just an empty box with a piece of cardboard inside with a Steam key. Nothing can beat that.
The problem isn't PC gaming as a platform. The problem is that you are playing AAA games in general. They've been on a downhill trend for years now. Even Skyrim was a buggy mess on launch. Yet it still went down as one of the greatest games in recent history.
Idk if the newest version of Skyrim is different, but I think Skyrim is still super buggy lol.. Not as bad as Ghost Recon Breakpoint where I still fall through the freakin map when it was released in 2019. I hate Ubisoft.
For every doom eternal or Resident evil village day 1 on pc, there will be 10 EA games and even the occasional super lol like cyberpuck or GTA trilogy derpfinitive. When on steam, they overwhelmingly negative real quick so you know to avoid.
@@Gandhi_Physique I’m pretty sure people had some pretty valid bug complaints about the new version of Skyrim but instead of fixing them they just added fishing or whatever lmao
I've read this from a CrowbCat video and, as a gamer in his 30s, that hit me like a truck : Remember when we played those games from the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era and we were like "wow imagine how games will be 10 to 15 years down the line"? Yea, here's where we are.
Funnily enough I wanted games to keep like they were, in the GameCube and Wii era (yeah I used to be just Nintendo player) I never thought about graphics, it was all fun and it kept being that way until the PS3/360, although the DLCs, patches that fix otherwise broken games and paying for the online service started in that generation, it wasn't as bad as it is now...even though the development is supposed to be much easier now since everything is done on a PC. Even Nintendo now making you pay for inferior online and they don't gift any games unlike the other 2 platforms which give like 3 games monthly, and I'll never forget about them making you pay so much for poor/bad emulation of their old games. It's not just them being dumb and making bigger games than they can afford to make, it's about creativity and passion, they lack it so much I'm never interested in AAA and almost always prefer indie games.
@@drstrangelove307 Well, I should have mentioned that what I quoted came from a CrowbCat's video's comment section, not from himself. But I wonder why you hate someone who proves their point using footage alone without saying a single word during their videos. I'm not a fanboy or whatever, just an honest doubt.
The one problem on PC is steam has so much garbage and no quality control. It drowns out good indie games that have no exposure. There are probably so many hidden gems in that pile of trash, but they're all suffocating and weight under the stench of garbage.
Same thing with gaming ownership, just get a big HDD and fill it up with compressed repacks. Those are the only games you will ever truly own, without having to fear things like Denuvo certificates expiring, or the game not booting up because it needs a massive day one patch (things which can affect physical copies of games as well).
AAA games are so obsessed with chasing "muh graphic" that they ignore actually optimizing the game 99% of the time, or just don't give a shit enough and pushing. I also hate that digital media has basically completely removed physical discs for PC. You'd think cutting down on the production cost of selling physical discs would lower the price just a LITTLE bit, but instead its still at least $60 USD and now they're pushing for $70 games to become the norm. I love playing games on my PC, but I refuse to play basically any new AAA games at this point.
If you adjust for year on year inflation, games on the 90s and 2000s used to be around $150 in today's value. For me pricing isn't an issue because I'll only ever buy a game if it has something like 80% discount. And even with these cut down, affordable prices I don't think I get my money's worth. Consoles are extremely expensive and rarely have any discounts for games. It'd be impossible for me to game with any console except X-box's game pass. At that point you might as well build a windows computer. I prefer the investment into a PC so that it can also be used for productive work. It's sad that I'll never be able to experience the glory days of PC gaming where you could game on any level of hardware with sensible performance compromises.
And it’s FINALLY coming to PS5 after two years and is rumored to be included in next months PS plus free games so I’m HYPED! PC is really where the great/original indie games are at but unfortunately if it isn’t successful on PC first then it never comes to console which sucks!
I think Nintendo is going to pull a lot of gamers to their games because most of the time they’re complete and actually work. And they’re actually fun.
I feel the issue is the big studios are running out of ideas, meanwhile the indie scene has so many ideas and innovations for games. It’s the sad reality when companies get to the point where they start to loose the point of the game in the first place.😔
I don’t think they’ve run out of ideas. It’s just when they get so big and they’re dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars, they become adverse to risk and innovation. They don’t want to take chances with that kind of money on the line. So they end up sticking to proven methods. That’s one of the reasons I like to play indie titles as well.
gamers brought this on themselves by continually supporting them and giving them the idea that what they are doing is a good idea. The more you throw money at them the more they will think that they are a genius for doing that. DONT DO THAT
I agree honestly. I also think Muta is guilty considering he still plays call of duty and battlefield. Why in 2021 would you buy these terrible games from these terrible franchises.
I keep telling fellow gamers the main reason its like this is us. People out here paying money for a game to not deliver what it should/what is offered. I'm telling them yo that aint rigtht and their response is "well it could've been worse. xyz was worse" as if that aint someone's hard earned money paying for this trash
Which only happened because dipshit normies flooded the hobby. Gaming was better when it was the nerdy wierdo hobby. We should have gatekeeped harder. I haven't bought an early access game or any sort of incomplete mess in a long time. I haven't finantially supported any pay model that isn't "buy the whole game for x, and you get the whole game". I don't touch preorders, even with their shitty bonuses as the idea of buying a game before anyone can say whether or not its a quality product disgusts me.
The fact that so many people still put their faith in AAA companies (buying their “games” and getting disappointed) is why its been like this for so long. Stop buying AAA titles. Stop buying into their marketing.
Ideally you shouldn't have to "put your faith" in anything, when you go to a restaurant you don't put your faith in the Chef being able to prepare the meal that was advertised, or when you buy a car you don't put your faith in the car being able to reach the speed that it is advertised as being able to hit, or starting at all. Selling *defective* products (that's exactly what these games that cannot even start without a day one patch and internet connection are), or products that have been falsely advertised is illegal and heavily fined in pretty much every industry, except in gaming where it's completely fine as there aren't any good consumer protection laws in place. The worst thing is when people start blaming each other for the failures of the industry. Customers shouldn't be the one to dish out punishment to these giant companies, the relevant authorities should.
they're insane and don't know how to stop. Its a feedback loop they're stuck in. Just avoid them and don't bother trying to shill the fun indy games to them.
Indie games on PC is the heart and soul of gaming in this current era. AAA studios aren’t concerned with making good games anymore, they have to make a profit for the shareholders. More people need to vote with there wallets and stop buying AAA games until they decide to give us original ideas and great performances.
Hey, like 90 percent of my Steam library is made up of indie and “AA” games. What I mean by double a games is a game with more scope, scale, and funding, than an indie game but less than a AAA game. Some indie games I would classify as a AA experience, like The Long Dark. It’s still an indie studio but their scope and scale is huge compared to, let’s say, a game like Banished. Like did you know that the size of The Long Dark’s survival world with all regions and transition zones makes it bigger than the world of Skyrim. Point is before I get anymore on a tangent, is that most AAA games I either have no interest in playing, can’t stand, or I don’t have the system to run it. For me, I love the passion, the creativity, and the consumer friendly nature of the indie scene. While, most of it I should say.
I don't even know if AAA games can even be fixed by voting with our wallets anymore. All they need is enough idiots to preorder and buy overpriced cringey cosmetics or other microtransactions to turn a disgusting large profit. It doesn't help that a lot of people just don't care and will buy whatever broken unfinished game is popular.
They care while they are small. CDPR was the best gaming company around while they were small, once they got too big they started to feel pressure from shareholders to do stupid shit. Happens with every company when it gets too big. Why can't companies get big while staying honest and loving what they do? Why do all of them eventually put money in front of everything they once loved? Omg
@@dlsoto3568 Damn i sure cant wait for the next big triple A title with more microtransactions than there are atoms in the universe and so many bugs that the game is literally unplayable
I think my replacement for pc gaming at this point is retro handheld modding. Its really fun to see what games you can get running on old handhelds and i recently hacked my vita and its ASTOUNDING just how much shit that thing can run.
This is because, no matter what development companies do, people will still buy anything they release. People need to start showing developers that actions do have consequences. Start boycotting games and maybe we will see an improvement. Until then, expect nothing to improve.
Anyone with a IQ above room temp knows this and doesn't throw their pocketbook behind everything. The problem is that there are lots of normie masses that chase hype and are willing to open their wallets for anything with a bit of manufactured hype. Unless the yearly sports title/mainstreamFPS/trend buyers wake up, it will only get worse and worse.
Sorry to burst your hopes and dreams but its never going to happen unless the AAA industry implodes and changes start being made. This is gunna continue for quite a few more years and maybe longer. I have little to no hope of ever seeing really good games come out consistently without those games just being cash cows or a mockery of their previous ones. Any beloved franchise that's still around is a shining example of the old saying "you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" which the latter definitely applies to.
@@techno-- I always find that hilarious the fact that on emulators u can run resolution upscaling +reshade and get higher fps, I get locked 60fps all the time on smt v, emulation is better than the console itself Right now playing smt 4 on citra (3ds)
@@mgf909 think of all the amazing games we’ve seen over the last 8 years, and people are still hung up on gta 5, it’s a good game, but I can’t imagine playing it more than twice then dicking around with mods for a month
The real issue is that as a whole, the consumers have been buying/pre ordering these broken, half assed games for so long that most companies now throw em out half baked because they know a lot of people will still buy it. If we wanna see change people need to stop buying games day one, need to stop pre ordering etc. But that will never happen no matter how much we all say/ask for it to. There will always be that kid who buys the new call of duty, always that person who gets the latest release from EA, always that guy who buys thousands of dollars in micro transactions. Unless we as a whole decide enough is enough we will never see it end.
I think the best thing is to accept the fact that new AAA games suck and to just enjoy older PC games. Things are gonna get worse, but that doesn’t mean you have to deal with AAA bullshit.
As long as kids exists, their parents/relatives will buy the games for them. As long as people's favorite youtubers are playing a game (muta and BF 2042), people will buy those games. People play the games that everyone else is playing even if it's hot 🔥. Blaming consumers (even if they are being stupid) is stupid. That side of the equation will never be fixed because there are just too many people in the masses to make a real impactful change.
When you consider the fact that old games released like over 10 years ago like L4D2 runs butter smooth, you can't blame us gamers from staying away from new games because they're released unfinished and unpolished. Welcome to MODERN GAMING! When the publishers / devs create the game to suck as much money as possible from the consumer with an unfinished product, I don't blame everyone for quitting gaming.
I feel like this says more about AAA games than PC gaming, AAA games are being treated more and more like early access titles by developers, I have a 6900xt and I've noticed this shit constantly, a new game will get released it'll underperform like im using a midrange card, then people complain and then developers will patch it after months of poor performance
@@rustyshackleford4514 Campaign is really horribly optimized but thank god multiplayer is fine Makes so sense Multiplayer is FREE, so you’re literally paying for shitty performance while becoming alone
@@goofyahdemoman1134 Yea I feel like I got duped. I wasn't expecting such bad performance when online was working fine. It kills me that there is no coop on release. I wanted to play with my brother like ole times.
same people who want to make these changes are the exact same ones who pre order games without any information and just because they're hyped by the trailers. well lucky broke ass me who can't afford any of these games anyway and I'm still playing xbox 360 games (I'm broke because I live in a 3rd world country not because I chose)
I've been hunting for early to mid 2000's games on PC and have been having a great time with little to no issues. I have such a nice backlog that there is no reason to purchase new release games.
I built a high end PC in late 2017 mainly for any games I played on the Xbox One, but I got to play PC exclusive games that were never released on the consoles I played. It's also so fun to play old console games that are on PC with max everything and they just feel so much better
That'd be the only reason I'd get a PC. I'm definitely jealous that the newly redone Bloodrayne games in on PC, and not on consoles, for example. I miss a lot of games from back then, and I'd love to play them again
I’m glad other people are finally starting to see this. I learned with my 1080 Ti. After building an $1,600.00 system, you think that you’d be able to have good performance in any game, but I’ve had more headaches on PC than the performance was ever worth. Half of the time games don’t want to run correctly or have stutter. Also, crossplay is great. But I think it has honestly ruined a golden era of competitive FPS on console.
Spent 2.3 grand on my gaming computer. I love the resolution, frame rate, extra effects. But the headaches can get f_cking annoying. I had to learn stuff like adjusting Memory Module clock speed, updating BIOS, etc., just so that the thing would run Correctly.
@@lanceelopezz223 pc gaming has always been anything to setup and play and not have to troubleshoot so many things from Audio to graphics.. with console you put the game in and play
@@lonemaus562 you mean 10 year old consoles, nodern console games are just as broken as the pc versions, cyberpunk still played best on PC, these are plenty of games where the PC version is the definitive, like the majority of the multiplats. but get used to more broken on release console games (& pc ports)
Even with consoles you don't have "good performance in any game" anymore. And to be honest, I never really identify with people who absolutely struggle with PC gaming. No idea. I kind of enjoy the tinkering still, maybe that's why.
The “release now and fix later” mindset has lowered the standard of modern games so much. It’s a shame when indie devs create a product infinitely better as a hobby, than a AAA company whose sole purpose is to develop a fucking video game. Speaking of indie, *Kenshi* is a well made game that took 12 years to develop.
One of these days i need to actually use the large-ish army i created in order to annihilate the Holy Nation and slavers in their entirety. Kinda did all the recruiting/training and stopped short of actually commencing the war...dang fun game though. Spent many hours clearing murder giraffe nests and selling all the things my enemies were kind enough to bring me, among other things. Kenshi ftw!
As a PC gamer such as yourself for most of my 31 years of life, it has DEFFO gone on a HUGE downhill spiral in the last 10 years. Its really sad on the gaming side and on the tech side, we get incomplete games and have hardware no one can get there hands on. Its actually depressing to compare what it was like even 5-8 years ago.
@@TheGamingAltar last i checked console games had the same issues with scalping and micro transactions up the ass. Also the huge price increases. If you are more of an "indie" gamer you have the time of your life on pc still. Tripple A games are crap across the board nowadays though.
Thank fuck someone with a platform of your size has the balls to speak up about how dogshit the enthusiast hardware hobby is as a whole; most others are fully content building systems day to day with their gifted graphics cards.
PC gaming just isn't as popular as people often say it is. I also had a gaming PC a few years back but truth be told it just isn't that great. 99% of the time the games made for PCs are more graphically impressive yes but after that they often feel very lazy and lacking gameplay. Everything with good gameplay often ends up more on consoles which cost a lot cheaper. I also hated a few things with my PC including how unintuitive it all was and how usless the PC was most of the time. It might be different for me seeing as where I live we don't get good internet so I can't play most PC games online (We'll come back to this BTW) and I don't care for modding games or streaming either. So I ended up getting a switch and using my gaming PC for emulation just like you. Here is the kicker, not only was the switch easier to use, played games smoother on TVs, AND played online games better, yes, my 250 dollar switch at the time I bought it plays games online better than my 1600 dollar PC and it feels more natural. I started to question what the point was to my PC at all? I began to use it just for emulation but it again was very unintuitive and not feeling like it was made for gaming. Just to make it usable and feel better I decided to make it open up right to the games. Then a friend of mine who also was into PC games (Quit 2 years earlier) showed me the world of hand held emulation devices. I have one now and I am VERY happy with it as I got a weaker one to play simpler 16 bit games like I enjoy. This cost me about 200 dollars. I have a laptop now that cost me 400 BTW just to get online. I spent, no joke... 250 dollars on a switch, 70 on a pro controller, 100 for 2 games now, 400 for a laptop, 200 for a hand held emulator. That's about 1020 dollars total. It cost me nearly 600 less to do more. On top of how PC games are handled. (Which I seen several point out being half made, DLC, pay walls, so on) It's just too much to be enjoyable. PC gaming is on it's way out for sure unless the best of the best PCs can have their prices cut in half, software made to make it far easier to game, the entire PC gaming industry changes, and they make it easier to enter also. It's to pricey and not worth it for nearly every gamer out there to own one so something needs to change and change fast
I'm to a point where I only buy these AAA games if they are heavily discounted and I know what I'm getting into. The only game I have pre-ordered in the past multiple years was Great Ace Attorney Chronicles for Nintendo Switch because I know that they aren't going to throw out an Ace Attorney game on switch that has issues, also performance is a non-issue.
I was a PC gamer from my youth to the adult life. It pains me to see that I can't fully upgrade my PC as I was able to do back then. I remember that I was able to upgrade my computer with a 6700k, 16 gb of ddr4 and a gtx 1080ti within a reasonable price. I was able to aford an enthusiast computer. Now with the mining craze, scalpers, etc., getting a gpu is like trying to buy a car (No kidding in my country you could afford a car with the price of a 3090 rtx). And now a PS5 cost the same as a 3070 or 3060 ti, and the performance is nearly the same. So I buyed the PS5 and left my PC to play older games. For a reasonable price I can play next gen games, that I will not be able to do it with my pc considering that I need to upgrade cpu, mobo and ram. Ah those were the days of pc gaming.. and I miss them.
@@tmsphere That doesn't matter at all, getting a new gpu at a good price nowadays is just impossible, a console is the best option at the moment if you really want to play next gen games
@@joaquinmartinez8105 Really depends what you wanna play. I can't go back to aiming with sticks at 60 fps. No can do. Besides my regular 1060 still holds up easily on everything I play/want to play.
One massive pet peeve of mine is the trend to actively remove split screen from PC versions of games. I'd love to play B02 split screen with the boys but my PS3 is broken and B02 can't be split screened on PC.
I found that weird as well, consoles would have performance problems doing split screen, so a powerful PC would be perfect for split screen, yet basically no games have it.
@@videogamezombie100 every now and then there's a decent sale for bo3. if you have a dual monitor setup you can play with one other person on the same PC, it's pretty cool
For PC gaming, Indie titles is where it is at. Some recent games being Toem, Genesis Noir and loop hero. Two of the games you can get from GOG and not have to deal with any DRM and none of these games need a high end PC. You can probably run these on a 10 year old laptop.
Honestly if you're not playing PC games PURELY because of amazing indie titles I don't know what the fuck you're doing. There's plenty of good games coming out on PC all the time, plenty of interesting projects currently in developement, like Starsector which I've put an unhealthy amount of time into, the wow factor these days is mostly in games like that. I don't see what any other platform has to offer that's better than PC indie titles, though I guess that depends on what you're looking for, me I don't give a shit about graphics, I'm fine playing an isometric RPG that looks like it was made in the 90s because I don't care, if the game is good it's good.
@@shApYT Did I say that it did? That was just an example, the majority of actually interesting indie titles that I've run into however definitely aren't that insane on the graphics department, making things like 3D models, which is something I do from time to time is pretty time consuming, a lot of indie games aren't made by teams of people, not really. Starsector is made by a couple of guys, Highfleet is entirely one guy plus an artist from what I can tell, I'm pretty sure the same goes for Hammerfight. Then there's really barebones stuff like Dwarf Fortress and SS13, stuff that's intentionally retro like Brigador and Huntdown, all of these with the exception of SS13 and DF are nice looking games, visually impressive even, but in a completely different way from your average triple A title. Not all indie games look like that, but again in my experience, the ones that are most interesting from a gameplay perspective, and from a mechanics perspective are usually not that insane when it comes to graphics, inde games also by and large tend to be a bit behind whatever is the current high water mark for graphics, and generally more accessible to people on not so high end systems.
My only problem with the PC indie scene is that a lot of games "release" in early access and you have to wait months for any updates. I already bought 3 bigger indie games that I really wish I could sell and buy in ~5 years, when the devs finally do something. A lot of indie devs also follow current trends and mindlesly do genres that sell well on Steam. First it was artsy 2D platformers, then Minecrafty survival, now it's Rimworld-like simulators and boomer shooters.
I've said it before and I'll die on this hill, gaming going mainstream was the worst thing to ever happen. Companies no longer need to make a game for a smaller devoted community that love the product and devs care for, now you just push out generic garbage after garbage and it'll sell no matter what cause there's too many people to care.
@@bitelaserkhalif and yet GTA V is doing well, just like every other GTA despite years of criticism from non-gaming news outlets like FOX making up lies about what you can do in the game. If anything I’d be more worried about the moral superiority of conservatives having an influence, but it won’t. So why complain? You know GTA 6 will most likely kill it in sales and hopefully reviews.
Dub Collector That was back in 2013 though. Politics were a lot different. The left was less queasy than the right back then. Now uh, the right has gotten queasier, and the left has gotten queasier. Mainstream politics in general will shit on it for entirely different reasons.
If you're getting anything less than 60 with that hardware I have to assume you're using a 4k monitor, just play on 2k or 1080p and you'll never drop below 144.
@@aurum6501 Yeah, too much hyperbole, when the problems with AAA gaming in '15 were less obvious in comparison to now. And gaming as a whole is still very much alive and well, even if AAA gaming today is going through a crisis of quality and consumer friendliness.
Exactly. It’s silly. AAA gaming is definitely experiencing a crisis of anti-consumer practices, but there have been a ton of great releases since 2015 that weren’t buggy or broken (most notably by Sony’s first party studios). Last of Us 2 was polished. God of War was polished. Ghost of Tsushima was polished. Sekiro was polished. Horizon Zero Dawn was polished. Then there’s Nintendo’s Switch exclusives that were all polished. Red Dead 2 was also a polished game. Most recently, Forza and Halo Infinite were polished (with Halo exceeding initial expectations amidst concerns). AAA gaming is not dead. Let’s see how Starfield turns out next.
The sad part is that it's not as if the companies genuinely cared back in the day, it's more that they did not have the means to exploit the consumers as they have now.
There were definitely studios that gave a shit back in the day.. Bullfrog, Black Isle, Square, Obsidian, Blizzard, Strategy First. were all making dope, engaging, working games back in the day that still hold up. Then they got bought out, taken over or got corrupted.
There are so many awesome games from that era, like F.E.A.R., No One Lives Forever, Impossible Creatures, Age of Mythology, TOCA Race Driver 3, Battlefield 2, I could go on for a while.
my upgrade into next gen was purchasing a PS5 and I feel like it's the best choice I could've made, I had a pretty good gaming rig nothing too crazy, but the simplicity of a console is something I enjoy.
Never bought or “rented” a new release. Ninety nine of one hundred times something is screwed. This has been true for just about ever. I’m 74 and been gaming since day one.
Risk of Rain 2 and Hades are 2 indie games I tried this year (I'm not an indie guy, or wasn't before) and was massively impressed. Now I'm definitely trying more of these types of games. I got 100+ hours out of each for a grand total of like 40 bucks. Cyberpunk I got 35 hours for 80$.
@Wismic It doesn't suck, that just means the indie games are where you should be looking for your entertainment instead of big-budget releases. I've recently started playing Enter the Gungeon, and I'm loving it. Prodeus is a great FPS, I think Muta had some seconds of gameplay onscreen.
The Actman is right in that the quality in games are declining. Most AAA games have been disappointing for YEARS. I no longer preorder; I usually wait for either a "complete edition" or good sales.
@@konradcurze8176 And you're a racist. See, I can call people words that have lost their meaning too. How about you pick up a history book and learn what fascism really is instead of using buzzwords?
Bandai Namco had it's first numbered Ace Combat release in over a decade with AC7. Of course I preordered it having enjoyed five previous titles. Immediate regret. Story has annoying difficulty spikes that I needed to cheese, most characters are forgettable, allies do literally zero damage, all you hear is the missile warning from a billion drones, and all the cool multiplayer modes from AC:Infinity have been axed in place of _just_ deathmatch. Of course normies love it, but it's just not the same quality I expected. Never preorder.
@@randgrithr7387 lol i forgot bamco were the ones making those games. Still, if i haven't heard people talking about them all this years i guess it's for a reason... Or i'm just not checking the right places :0
This is a very true video. It should be a wake up call for consumers on PC to realize that just because we have better hardware, it doesn't mean that we are getting better quality games. Companies use the excuse of PC having better hardware to ship out extremely unoptimised ports and then chalk it up to the consumer thinking they don't have the hardware to run it like in days of yore. Now we all just get extremely low quality and terrible ports, even with the best hardware. Go indie is basically the option at this point. There are lots of indie game developers who make very good games who hardly see the light of day. They are the ones making quality and good games for PC, we should support them.
I don't know why this video must be about pc gaming in general instead of AAA games launching in an unfinished state, not providing a good experience for the PC users or being underwhelming as a whole. A lot of people never bother chasing the high end specs of computer gaming nor they care about big boy releases from companies that don't even try to put out a decent product that works at launch. I do agree with Muta's take of big companies prioritizing profit over actually delivering a decent experience but it seems odd to tie it exclusively to pc gaming.
I kinda got that vibe.. like now apparently being a PC gamer is the equivalent of being a cuck.. somehow.. And your absolutely right. The majority of PC gamers don’t own the most high end hardware or chase the next best thing according to what mainstream says is “must-have” at the time. Most PC gamers from my experience are PC oriented from a much broader perspective that branches out way farther than video games. And in the end they game on their PC because it is ultimately something they use for much more than that.
@@silentlamb2077 yeah, so at what point did he talk about him being done with the other functionality in a computer? He's literally talking about pc gaamming only. And personally I've never seen a pc gamer who isn't striving towards getting better specs just so they can play graphically intensive games, which are normally aaa. Also aaa or not ,pc gets some of the most dog 💩 ports ever.
Developers only need to tailor the game engine settings for the 3 or 4 permutations of console hardware vs pc gaming's vast diversity of hardware options. So when developers are incentivised to cater to the lowest common denominator, you definitely have a better consumer experience with a console. The irony is pc gamers already know this and choose pc gaming anyway because apparently we enjoy suffering.
This was a rant and i appreciate it. I'm seeing more and more people getting fed up with seeing less passion more greed when it comes to the games we get.
Not going to lie to you, I used to be a huge gamer. I loved my PC and my shooters, and competitive games as a whole. Lately tho for the past year I have just felt bored and miserable playing triple A titles and competitive multiplayer games. I think the market is oversaturated with the same shit repeated over and over again. I haven't had a shooter that has felt as fresh and as good as Team Fortress 2, Titan Fall 2, and Doom Eternal in a while. (Doom Eternal was the last "new shooter" I've enjoyed). Topple that with the community being toxic as shit for every competitive game out there and it just sucks all the fun out for me. I don't want to sweat my ass off in every match I play, or get destroyed by bots/hackers, or have someone talk shit to me after a long day of school and or work. I have gone back to single player games for enjoyment. Persona 4 Golden, Metal Gear Solid 5, Super Mario Galaxy, Pokemon Shining Pearl, etc. Those are games I've been enjoying lately. That and the few mobile gacha games I enjoy. I just hate how the industry has gotten, I'm tired of multiplayer first developed games, and I'm tired of every triple A game feeling the exact same. Either a mashup of current multiplayer game trends, or a cinematic story based game with a "open world". I just want the good old days back.
As far as shooters go, I'd check out Dusk if you haven't already, really fun oldschool Quake style FPS, which also has multiplayer, though last I heard the servers were kinda empty. Its also going to get workshop support soon for easy mods and custom maps.
I don’t even game that much anymore and definitely don’t know enough to make conversation about the gaming industry. But somehow listening to Muta is calming and relaxing. It’s like being bombarded with funny truth bombs even if it doesn’t effect you directly. Keep the good work going my dude.
Tbh games haven't really been fun as they used to be since the 2010s, Back then you didn't even need to pay for some overpriced subscription to play online on any genre of game, you could just press play and enjoy every ounce of it. Like how muta said in the video how games arent full anymore was very true. I would rather wait until the whole thing is released.
Yeah. There's so much good stuff out there that's even released current day that I have to look pretty hard to be pissed about something. Not saying that perhaps contemporary practices in that side of the industry don't ruin the whole "gaming experience" but... there's so much stuff out there to try you know. Stuff that won't piss you off.
@@VerTheBonBonVoni I dont do modern AAA games tbh. I only have old ones and I dont buy any new games. But I hard support indie experiences and those jaded by AAA confuse me slightly but I get it because AAA is the FACE of gaming, they have the most advertising.
@@skullzans is it though? Like, its a part of it, but independent games have always been a huge part of the face of gaming. AAA games like fifa, fortnite, call of duty, these sorts of games are insanely popular and infamous, but on the other hand you have games like Tetris or Minecraft.
IMO, a good antidote to this is to become a Patient PC Gamer: - NEVER preorder and NEVER buy games at launch, specially AAA games. - Buy older games on sale, and/or emulate old console games. - 2-3 years later get the AAA titles you abstained from buying, with all the bug-fixes and maybe all the DLC, for like $15 or $20. Also, hang in there Muda. Love your videos 👍
I very rarely preorder games anymore, its almost always best to wait for a sale or an ultimate edition. The only exceptions for me are indie games from trusted devs, mainline Mario and Zelda games, and Fromsoft games.
I've never preordered games in my life. I'm only going to be getting Security Breach is because a friend is getting it me for Christmas. But I pretty much just play simple old games and emulate DSI games. I don't like many of the newer games due to how boring they turn out too be or none I'm actually interested in. I do have some in mind that look great on Steam - Such Art and an Alchemist game. Otherwise ill wait for a like 80-90% sale.
Shame that this is the only way to play AAA games without much disturbance. Bought Fallout 4 GOTY for about 10 bucks summer 2021. Been pretty enthusiastic about the game since E3, even after the reviews came in. It pays off big time. It's not a sports game either so buying it late will not spoil the experience. Although in the meantime I gotta keep searching for other games to play to forget about Fallout 4 but still watching the sales.
Destiny2 and Battlefield 1 show me exactly what optimization is. I can run these game with a mid-end (or maybe low-end nowadays?) PC and the games still look phenomenal and even reach minimum 60-80 fps. These games have well-aged graphics and yet I cannot, for some ungodly reason cannot play MW19, BF2042, Halo Infinite and whatever AAA-game on similar scale on just MEDIUM or LOW graphics. Especially Halo Infinite, with its simplistic graphic design struggles to reach fucking 60 FPS on low settings. Say what you will about old hardware, but they should be ALWAYS allowed to play on fluently on low and medium settings!
it’s like Mutahar said in the end. It’s up to people as a whole to figure this out. The prices sky rockets , the quality downgrades and what do people do? Nothing. They accept it and in actuality they make fun of anyone that can’t afford it. People need to start standing up to these corporations , boycott , protest. Etc. Idc.
@Green Mamba Games Show me the receipts, man. I don't believe for a second that the Cyberpunk community decided, collectively and with no sort of organization, to all pick 2020 as the year they'd get out the torches and pitchforks if CDPR didn't give them their game. All those claims about death threats, without citations and user histories, are just gaslights and astroturf; sleight of hand to distract people from the fact that CDPR effectively embezzled their investors' money, committed loan fraud, and generally just betrayed the trust of their community.
Boycotts work when new ignorant audiences don't walk into loot boxes and battle passes. Companies can recoup the cost fairly quickly since every "Game cost" they spend is equal to a full purchase.
Devs 10 years ago: we have to hand craft everything and be careful with optimization Devs Now: they got good graphic cards lets just slap this million tri count rock here and copy and paste it 50 times, they won't even get close to the rock too so lets put a 16k texture
bruh "they got good gpu's"? The Top 2 most popular gaming gpu's are mid to low end gpu's (GTX 1050 ti and GTX 1060) lmao hardly anyone these days can run the newest games at all
Ah, back in my day we were HAPPY to own a game and play it until our systems overheated, disk or cart. We loved our games, and the creators' passions showed
Been playing on pc for 15 years now, I 100% agree with everything you said, it’s bullshit what we have to put up with given how expensive our hardware is… It didn’t just go down hill in the last decade, it fell off a fucking cliff and exploded into a million fucking pieces.
I love how these companies give less shits about optimisation and how well the game runs on a system, in the same time where it is IMPOSSIBLE to buy a newer graphics card without selling both kidneys.
THIS. If your pc is getting old for intensive games just buy a Series S/X. It will be so much cheaper than an upgrade and you won't have to put up with inevitable performance issues you're gonna get anyway because they don't know how to make pc ports anymore. And it's come full circle. You'd think we got out of the shitty pc port era, but that only lasted a short while. Now nearly every pc port is stained with performance issues. The only new-ish AAA game that felt like a genuinely great pc port was Doom Eternal. And I think that could be because they actually developed the game for PC to begin with. Well that and IdTech being an amazing engine developed by professionals who know what they're doing.
I sold everything I owned of value except my Phone/PC and went fully all into the Stock Market. Best move I’ve ever made. P.S. Do your research on the Stock Market, calls/puts, buy vs. ask prices, etc., _and,_ *above all else,* your “Double D’s” (due diligence) in any and all - all companies you think about investing in.
I just got into investing as well. Probably the smartest choice I’ve made in my entire life. Got in when the market was crashing, now my portfolio looks very very beautiful.
Halo Infinite definitely has a memory leak or an asset streaming issue when in the open world. I can run it at a pretty solid 4k/60 lock at high settings preset on a ryzen 3900x and rtx2080, but after about an hour in the open world the framerate will just drop to 38 fps and stay there until I close/restart the game.
I agree. I saw someone say that there was another open world game a while a go that ran badly because there was a massive body of water in the game that was being rendered when you weren't near it and when it was out of sight. There's probably just too many things off screen in Halo Infinite that's messing with the game, because the multiplayer runs 100% smooth
Wait wait wait. For years PC fanboys told me they the master race. You can build a PC that out performs consoles at 300 to 500 dollars. Are you telling me they lying? Lol no way. I been laughing at this PC is the master race bs for years. I got my own PC and like you, mainly use it for emulation.i also do game pass but most games on there not on PSNow is small scale. I've never cared about insane performance anyways. I can play most games on high with great results. Haven't played this gen yet. But I will upgrade eventually to play the next Elder Scrolls, Starfield, and newer games not on PS.
at this point, is buying a disc even really considered 'owning' it? like it's a disc. there's likely a MASSIVE initial update you need to install to allow the game to function properly
@@birdsarentreal9790 Thats the problem with AAA companies only allowing dedicated servers. Back in the day, every game use to support non dedicated servers that anyone can host off their computers. The good news is that indie devs who make multiplayer games are still keeping non dedicated servers alive so that anyone can host online games off their PCs.
I think his point was that without internet, you can put the disc in and play it, even without the day one patch. Also being able to lend it to a friend or sell it to someone as well instead of ti being locked to some DRM server.
@@birdsarentreal9790 Even for Halo Infinite's campaign, you cannot play the game initially offline. If you try to, it installs the content on disc and then requires an internet connection. The physicals media supporters still deny this, and 20 years from now is someone wants to buy the current consoles and games, they'd better hope that they can get some updates on a flash drive and then install them to the consoles. The last truly plug and play generation was the PS2/GameCube/Xbox/Dreamcast era
Modern gaming has turned me into a "patient gamer" and the sales is why I became a PC gamer. Don't need to constantly upgrade when you just take your time, especially as there are plenty of free games given like Fallen Order was given for free the other day.
Modern gaming has made me highly consider selling my PC/Ultra wide and going back to console. My baseline is just about every game is going to be ass on release and most PC games today are half-assed ports of console games. I pretty much only use my PC to run Rocket League at a high frame rate and have to suffer through the miserable Xbox PC app to play with my console friends. I just feel like it’s not worth it anymore. I got my fill of modded Skyrim/Fallout over the years and am just frustrated. I feel like I am constantly waiting for something to make PC gaming worth it.
@@Saska2oon That last line is how I always feel about console gaming, last gen it was exclusives and it worked I bought a Ps4. This time around everyone but Nintendo is bringing stuff to PC I'm happy to wait and play it with all the enhancements.
I don't care about sales. I play on game pass and PSNow mostly. If I get a game it's a few a year tops. Or black Friday. Sales on PC hasn't benefited me like I thought
To be honest, when I was a lot younger, I never understood the appeal of wanting to play any Indie games over the awesome production and fun gameplay AAA titles provided. However, now that I’m a lot older, I find the opposite to be true. AAA titles are generally (not all, but more than half) are a disappointment and indie games are pushing the envelope and a whole lot of fun to play.
It WAS true AAA games was the only games to play 'back in the day' - but now...it's changing It's changing in a way where youtube content creators replaced cable tv when the tech allowed for it That's starting to happen now in gaming
PC gaming has become such a joke these days. We pay top dollar for broken games that take months or even years to run recently on systems that cost 2-4x the price of current gen consoles and yet so many of us like to brag about how much better PC gaming is. I think we might either be stupid or delusional at this point for putting up with this shit.
@@oxiclean9477 Yeah thats true too but if all someone cares about is games and buy a 3000 dollar PC and end up complaining how they just spent 3000 for something just to play COD and battlefield, it doesn't look good for the PC community.
Everything that's happened to the gaming community is the gaming community's fault. If it weren't for the millions of gamers who suck up for the big corporations, we wouldn't be in this situation right now. "Oh but the devs/publishers started it" - it doesn't matter. If we wouldn't have consumed it, they wouldn't have continued with their practices. How many people do you think will still buy the next Battlefield or Call of Duty? What about if a new Cyberpunk game comes out promising to fix everything the first one did wrong? We deserve what we got.
This is exactly why I refuse to pay full price for any games other than indie. I also play single player ONLY games, so I don't buy Battlefield or CoD but why pay for a game upfront knowing it's going to be broken when I can wait for a year or two and get it 50-60% cheaper and working. The problem with modern gaming, or should I say gamers is FOMO and gullibility.
Yep I've been on pc now for like 8 years and I just weed out the company's that don't deserve my money. PC has a super massive variety of quality games that deserve the support.
People are really quick to play the blame game and forget that these businesses are trying to cash in on games that were created with different management, employees, etc. Legendary games from the past have brought these businesses more money than they could have ever imagined and now they are trying to make more but fail because they lack the spirit game developers had in the past when gaming wasn't so profitable
I've realised that this issue persists in the pc version of many japanese developed games, Nioh 2 is the most recent example I experienced where despite my hardware the game fails to maintain a consistent 60 fps. However on PS4/5 this issue does not exist, I've heard its because in Japan PC gaming is still relatively unpopular when compared to the console gaming space.
I feel this is more of a result of the direction the entire gaming industry going. I found myself wondering why hadn't been exited for a game in about 10 years. I feel it's a result of big companies meddling and ruining the game development process and now AA games are almost always overhyped broken and shallow. There a reason it's 2021 and im still using a ps3.
It’s so crazy to know that in my life time I saw games get to the point of selling as incomplete products. And that’s only crazy to me because I remember buying fully developed games and gladly paying full retail price for them. I strictly buy games now once they go on sale. Sure there’s a a few here and there where I feel the need to play on day one, but otherwise I’m not giving money to these half assing developers.
I am genuinely saying this... 🏴☠️ exists for a reason. And I am serious. You will ABSOLUTELY have a better experience these days with with it, than buying the same games legitimately. It's a shame that it had to come to this, but if AAA publishers don't care, why should we? Atleast try out a game that way before buying, so that you don't feel ripped off for 60/70 bucks.
Man, as someone who plays at 30 fps, low graphics settings, and most likely 2+ year old games (primarily indie as well) on a gaming laptop, always interesting to hear something I'll probably never experience-including prices. Probably the only thing I can add to this is that I find some Japanese game ports that I've played often are just very poor and restrictive. Some of them try to learn for the next games, but most just continue on.
Yeah, japanese devs suck ass at porting because the PC market is pretty small over there. My only hope is that they learn from amazing succeses like Monster Hunter: World and finally start taking the PC market seriously.
@@vhuyjgvyj monster hunter world was a broken mess when it launched. Constantly crashed, didn't support 21:9, and ran like shit on a 1080ti I had then.
@@DrAnimePhD nah, handheld just doesn't interest me. If anything, something like GeForce Now would probably be what I'd go for even if it's limited both on time and games. However, I'm rarely pulled to triple A titles anyway so it's no issue.
@@HmongHeroo Well that's the cool thing about the Steam Deck, is it's a Switch like PC. You don't have to use it in Handheld. You can connect it to a USB-C docking station (it has an official one sold separately but any USB-C dock will work with it,) and turn it into a living room game console or a traditional PC, as Valve demonstrated it running Windows as an actual workstation (and yes, it can output to 4K)
@@maninthemask6275 I certainly won't deny your experience with PC gaming, I've had issues too, but it still doesn't justify blaming the platform as a whole.
@@77wolfblade I don't think there is a right or wrong, better or worse in this scenario--sometimes developers care enough to port things to and from with care and sometimes they don't give a f*ck. If they favor one the other will invariably suffer, I think. It sucks, for sure, but it is what it is.
the age of AAA gaming is absolutely dead. when megacorps all collectively adopted the game development model of “crunch the shit out of devs, release a game half-baked and unfinished and let said devs continue patching it after launch, and milk the game financially with microtransactions”, they pretty much put themselves on a ticking timebomb, where eventually consumers would become fed up, and i think we’re starting to see that. this is why im never going into a game design or game development career ever.
While I agree I wouldn't say that's true for other platforms. Elden Ring Horizon Forbidden West Gran Turismo 7 Spiderman 2 God of War All are upcoming AAA games that SHOULD be good. It's about quality over quantity. I have a gaming PC and a PS5 but the PS5 has given me a better experience when it came to first party AAA games. Sony should bring more quality games to PC (PROPERLY).
You're gonna let Shitty Triple A Studios and Incompetent Devs ruin your Dream? Don't be a Negative Nancy. Make those Ambitions happen and prove to us and them that you're ten times better than what Shittysoft, Abusetivision or any other Incompetent Company has to offer.
The same studio who does the pc ports of most console games aren’t the same, also games will always be better on consoles especially now due to how amazing they look. Who cares about 144hz single player game at 1080p when I could have it at 4k60 or 4k120.
Madden and CoD are the two biggest franchises and they release the same game every year. Maybe gamers are getting fed up, but AAA trash still sells... so why would devs ever do more work than the minimum viable product?
Is it dead when AAA games sell millions before they are even released or reviewed? If anything AAA game is doing better than ever, just not from the perspective of an informed customer.
honestly I've stopped buying games on release for the most part. I enjoy my older games much more, and I dont need to play stuff on release. I wait till steam gives me at least a 30% off, and depending on the reputation of the developer i might wait for an even bigger discount. Games aren't running away from me as long as they're on the store.
Although I've got no problem playing AAA games. I gotta say that the price they're giving is not worth as the indie games that I have played these days.
And from the fact that, indie games had like 30+ hours of content. And the triple AAA experience was like >10 hours of content, you know there's is a problem....
@@Jedssski My friend goes from new game to new game all the time and he's laughably addicted to achievements. He'll buy any new game he's interested in for $60, beat it in like 3-5 hours, get a bunch of achievements in a week, and then he ends up buying a new game. He's one of those consoomer types that always needs the new product and never goes back to the old games
I think the best aspects of PC gaming are MMOs (the few good ones), indie games, and strategy games. AAA games are something I rarely ever buy, infact idr the last time I spent $60 on a video game.
