1. Company forms with hopes and dreams. 2. Company hits it big with a great selling title 3. Company starts hiring people who lean so far left they may as well be lying down on the ground. 4. Same left leaning people scream until they get the game they want. 5. Company heads towards bankruptcy.
And/or: 3. Company goes public/gets bought. 4. Focus shifts from game quality towards quarterly profits and corporate bullshit(which includes ideological hr processes) as this is what shareholders actually care about.
@@JP-ww5vz you forget the part where EA or Activision after buying said company then tries to milk them dry. After which then guts them like a fish & tosses the remains into the mass grave with the rest of the companies they've done that to in the past.
I mean, the honesty is great. When it's actual honesty. His points about FFXIV smack of either "mmos are not his thing" or "no clue what he's talking about"
@@skyesfury8511 It's probably the latter, consider for a second that Razor tends to be against anti-consumer bullshit and then consider how anti-consumer most MMOs are. You not only must buy a subscription, but on top of a constant payment to merely play the game you must also buy expansion passes.
The downside of going completely digital. They can launch a game unfinished and patch at their leisure. Hopefully this business model bites them in the ass, hard.
The other downside is that if their servers go away, you loose your game forever. This happened with the Wii digital games and it will happen again in the future. Sure, you can say that GOG lets you download full installers but its library is not as complete as Steam and no other PC digital stores will let you get one. Uplay, Epic, Steam and Origin games can disappear in the flip of a switch, and there's nothing you can do about it.
@@handsomebrick True, but if there's other games you bought that you didn't download before the server shutdowns there's no way to install them again without modding your system and hoping you can find the install files online.
I was actually impressed with Fallout 76. Ive never seen a single game piss so many people off and have that disastrous of a launch. Quite an accomplishment really.
@Inflammation Gains I bought one of them in the early 2000s. Got bored and quit after an hour. Waste of money. Waste of an hour I could have spent looking for pr9n.
@@Gruntvc I'm sad we will never get the conclusion to that series. We got blue balled by Gabe who teased it for years only to finally say NO WE'RE NOT MAKING IT STOP FUCKING ASKING. It's become a meme up there with the "duke nukem forever is going to take forever to make"
as someone else said PSO2 is actually good, but the rest are trash and I blame the current anti-consumer system that most MMOs follow. Keep in mind that not only must you PAY to play the game EVERY MONTH, but to keep up with the game you must also PAY for expansion passes some of which in the case of WoW are required tbh. Currently that system has caused many of the problems we see, the double dipping leads to half-assed expansions that eventually change the base game for the worse. WoW is the natural extreme of that system and it fucking shows.
I would tend to agree to a certain extent. The trouble is we need a *total paradigm shift* in the MMO genre, and nobody is willing to risk a dud on an experiment of that magnitude so they keep copying the "proven" formula even as that formula gradually becomes less popular. FF14 is currently the most popular established use of that formula (unless WoW hasn't managed to degrade as much as I think it has). FF14's main alteration to the formula is the peculiar pseudo-single player campaign it hoists on you. Which is a little odd for an MMO, but manages to keep people who are into Story involved.
@@Archedgar yeah eq was amazing back in the day. I also loved games mmos from the later 2000s vanguard, Conan, and lotro. Those were the last mmos that felt fresh to me. Most after that started pushing microtansactions and lost their sense of mystery. I don't mind paying a sub if the game is good and worth my time.
If there is a lesson to learn from 2010s then it would be "When everyone acts like the cool kid, nobody end up being the cool kid". So many franchises(old and new) and genres were axed during the 2010s simply because they were not trendy enough. The sheer amount of games that aped COD or the MMOs that straight up copied WoW is staggering, even though most of them ended up never returning a profit( remember homefront or Call of Juarez). Everyone wanted the "cool" casual audience so much that even genres that are fundamentally not for casual gamers tried to attract casual, only to alienate old player and attract no one new(Teef being the primary example of this). Everyone wanted to be the cool kid with the biggest audience and most ended up with no audience.
FF7 is the Metallica black album of the gaming world. While good in its own right it is technically a step down in quality from previous installments and it was the beginning of the end.
Wish game companies would start making FF6 style games again. With no limit on hardware or storage that they had back in the day. And the rapid production cycle they had then. We could get a good FF every year or so. FF6 prelude: The War of the Magi. Would be great!
Ive been replaying FF9 recently. I think its a very well told romance story, especially because its a almost childish youthful innocent romance story. Focused on humor and loyalty with virtually no sexual overtones.
@@Zantetsudex Diffrence is Spoony would shit on them just to troll the mega stans. Don't know if Razor does it for the same reason or if he genuinely hates the series.
@@TrueCarthaginian Yeah its kinda weird how he doesn't even point out that FFXIV became pretty damn great, not just playable, sure its not perfect but it is definitely a great game.
I just want to say Chris Avellone is severely overrated. I can't stand his contrived writing. I like KOTOR a lot, but Chris writing in the 2nd one is unbearable to me.
I was about to object to Final Fantasy 14 being such a disaster, until you made me remember what a complete disaster it was to begin with, as I only jumped on the ship last year. I mean, a MMO being so utterly trash that the company literally nuked the world into oblivion and rebooted it wholesale definitely deserves a place here, regardless of my feelings on the current product.
Product was nice, seems to be starting to go downhill, sure the writing and presentation and all is getting better, but with the massive gutting and simplification of everything that's not a DPS I see it going the way of WoW in a few years time, perhaps less. This coming from an avid player of the game and healer main (tho having second thoughts a lot with how stupidly unfun they made anything but WHM to play)
Oliver ClothesOff He’s got strange taste. The best Star Wars games weren’t the ones I’d pick. I think he played pc in the 90s though where I was console. Different nostalgia.
Battleborn and Lawbreakers are good games, they were not given a chance. As someone that played both, they are actually quite good but people were more concerned with overhyped mediocrity then actual good games.
In its current state, I think Battlefront 2 is arguably the best thing to come out of the Disney side of Star Wars (at least the sequel era). That's not saying much, of course, but I've had a lot of fun with it.
@@ohnoitschris 2k not doing their job as a publisher is also a factor, I learned more about Battleborn from Gearbox and Battleborn's dedicated channel and twitter page then from 2k. Which is why I hope Gearbox publishing snags the rights to Battleborn and relaunches them.
I remember trying the demo to Thief and stopping after 15 minutes. How you manage to make a game feel worse and less smooth than a game from 1997 is beyond me. And I only discovered the Thief series in the 2010's, so it was still new to me when I played the originals.
Dragon Quest XI ... Which only diehard Dragon Quest fans would be interested in and is basically in a different world from Squeenix (Plz Nintendo just get it away from Squeenix for the love of God) Ummm Collection of Mana ... Which are a bunch of 20 year old games
I showed my friend who doesn't read comics the trailer last night. his mind broke for few seconds and recovered soon after and then he had me watch the rest of the rest of the trailer with him and tear it apart. Good times.
Still maintain that FFTactics is one of the finest SRPG’s of the 90s. But it had no involvement from the usual FF team as it was put together by the holdovers from Quest. I’ll always choose the Matsuno/Sakimoto/Yoshida team over Sakaguchi/Uematsu/Amano team.
TrueCarthaginian FFT and Tactics Ogre are probably my two favorite games of all time. The story, soundtrack and artwork is next level. The gameplay is addicting as well
Thief 4 hurt like fire to me. Like Razor I adored the originals and believe them to be some of the best games I've ever played in my 40+ years of life. What Eidos Montreal did to that series was a war crime.
SNES/PS1/PS2 Final Fantasy was fairly heavy on character management and rewarding players for exploring. No, FFXIII was not the logical conclusion of Final Fantasy's direction. FFXIII was everything that a JRPG shouldn't be: a hallway simulator that doesn't give you anything resembling freedom until you're 90% of the way through the incoherent story with extremely unlikable characters and a lifeless setting.
@@auraguard0212 There's a difference between linear progression through the game and the game being a series of hallways where you just run to the next story event. The Deus Ex games are linear. They don't have FFXIII-style level design. Neither does FFX, or IX, or VIII, etc. Those games reward you for exploring the game. As for freedom, I was talking more about character management. In most of the games, while there's definitely a recommended path, there are plenty of opportunities for customization and breaking the normal progression, which is fairly normal in JRPGs. XIII literally plays like a tutorial until you leave the Cocoon right before the last boss.
I know I'm years late responding to this comment, but as much as I enjoy listening to Razorfist, at times, he's up his own rear with dumb takes like "FF has always been bad" and pat himself on the back by saying "F you, I've always been right" without listening to counterpoints like a little child. Anyone with a brain can tell that 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12 have better characters, stories, and overall game design than 13.
I have to agree that FF14's original offering was complete trash, but as someone who picked it up a couple of years ago and played until of 2019, it was fun and worth the play. Still grindy as hell and not perfect, but leagues ahead of where it started.
I'm actually sad to see it make this list. I liked the original FFXIV especially the direction it "could" have gone simply because it wasn't another WoW clone. Now we got the WoW clone with a few knickknacks thrown in to make it feel "unique." Played for one year after the 2.0 release and then left never to return. I'm still depressed about it till this day. =(
I'm going to agree with this statement; I played for about 9 months a few years ago around the heavensward release and it was a perfectly serviceable, if grindy, MMO with acceptable levels of monetization. I really dont think it deserves a spot on this list when stuff like Mass Effect: Andromeda exists in the same universe.
I'll agree. It's VERY hard for an MMO to keep my interest these days as I hate most Tab Targeting games, but FF14 was the exception. 90% of this was because of FATES. Those are brilliant and I love them and they are the best idea in MMORPG history. But FF14 1.0 is indeed a legendary failure. Not every day you see a complany release an MMO then immidiately drop the monthly fee, apologize, and fire almost all the staff because it was that much of a clusterfuck.
@@Gael32 Original had lots of potential to be better mmo, however it was in development hell because of shitty game engine from FF13 (another reason why that game deserved to be a turdiest game of the decade)
That’s the POINT. That’s how it SHOULD have been on LAUNCH! “We’ll patch it later” has become the new excuse de jure of the industry to shit out rushed, unfinished products.
My favorite part of FFXIV was naming my character Goddam Nappa. Every time I would get a character reading my name I would read it out to my friends. Like, “Goddam! You killed that monster!”
I mean they didn't really patch xiv to be good they shut the entire game down and made a sequel out of the cadaver of the old one to it called "a realm reborn", then they made a 10/10 expansion called Heavensward.
Been playing FF XIV since ARR! I just can’t agree with a single thing he said! The games awesome! I can’t wait to get to the conclusion of Shadowbringers!
@@dumpsterfyre278 Likewise. It makes me think we have irreconcilable taste in video games. 1.0 was clearly shit-tier because they were still thinking like they were making FF XI but the tech had changed. XIV 2.0 was vastly superior. If you still find it shit-tier you probably just don't like the entire genre of MMO. And if you don't like the genre itself, reviewing literally anything in the genre will be disingenuous. Seriously, reviewing an MMO when you're an MMO hater is like someone who hates sci-fi reviewing DS9.
@@iamthelaw82 You're right about it getting too much heat for the animations, but that was far from my only problem with the game. I hated the story, and writing too. Some of the character were good, but it was overshadowed by the overall plot. Combat was ok, but not why i fell in love with the series to begin with.
For all of its problems, it made a profit. In the end we only have ourselves to blame. Stop preordering games until realistic reviews come out. Yes, you might miss out on a special character skin that does nothing but announce you paid $120 for a $60 game that realistically should be $20. I defended 76 in the beginning. "It's just a Betta" "Of course it's buggy, it's Bethesda" "It's only one patch away from being good" "Wait for the DLC" I was guilty of all of them. And I didn't even pay for the game. I used a friend's second character he created as a mule because storage was such a pain in the ass. Until a couple big companies lose a fortune after trying to push out an crap game, they won't learn. Remember. Do...Not...Pre... Order!
@Timothy Dexter Who are you talking to? The game was still made under the umbrella of Bethesda Game Studios, and it's still probably in everyone's best interests for Bethesda to sell the IP. You're spitting venom at no-one for no reason.
The better thing would be for Zenimax to back off from BGS and let them get back to making games without having profit as their only goal. Bethesda was really great pre-Skyrim.
I loathe the fact that people still compare The FF14 of 2.0 and beyond, with the FF14 of 1.0 when the two games are just that. Two completely separate games. FF14 2.0 (or just ARR) was a complete re-build of the game, using a completely different engine with different progression systems, mechanics, story, and even a completely reworked map. Saying that 1.0 was "patched" into being good would be like saying the Original Doom was patched into Doom (2016).
@Timothy Dexter honestly? XIV tends to avoid most of the exaggerated bullshit FF is known for. that's really what I love about it, lord knows I hadn't enjoyed anything from the franchise since IX. You get a bit of the theatrics but it's toned down by a lot comparatively and for the most part it's this mismatched low-tech environment on our side and the imperial side is near future high-tech. if I had to knock it for something, it'd be presentation. The way the engine is for things can't really show off high-end action scenes very well, everything's kinda slow or conveyed through dialogue so it sometimes doesn't have the punch that a singleplayer experience would. And I guess that the tone can lean towards optimism a bit heavy at times.
@Timothy Dexter Have you played FF14 at any point within the last 3 years? It plays nothing like 1.0 did and with the exception of slog between ARR and HW the game is actually incredibly interesting and smooth to play.
Can't argue with FF13 being the worst. The havoc it caused for the whole JRPG genre cannot be understated. Like...no joke, the developers of Dragon Quest IX actually said in interviews that Dragon Quest was "more of a Western RPG". The game that LITERALLY DEFINES THE JRPG is calling itself a Western RPG because FF13 was such a damn embarassment. Dragon Quest disowned JRPGs. That's...something I'm never getting over.
@Dragonking1984 Play a real RPG like a western CRPG and you will see what is glaringly deficient in JRPGs. JRPGs should not have RPG in their name due to the lack of role playing in those games. They're linear adventure games with stats and inventories, but I guess that constitutes role playing to the high IQ Japanese.
The Dragon Quest IX developers should apologize for daring to call their game a western RPG. I don't care how bad JRPGs get, Dragon Quest IX, or any of the games in the series, is not comparable to a western RPG. Maybe they and other JRPG developers should play a proper western RPG (like a CRPG) and learn from them. Maybe then they'll quit shitting out the same formulaic trite of turn-based combat, grinding, and shallow stories and characters.
@@veeedeee68 I plan on it. I got KOTOR like a year ago free from XBox games with gold. I was so bored with other games and not wanting to drop more money on a new game to finally twist my arm into playing it because I can't normally stand turn based combat
This was clearly a list of the five terrible games that haven't been purged from your memory. I would now like to remind you that Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Ride to Hell: Retribution, and Duke Nukem Forever were all released this past decade.
I have to confess that I know next to d**k about video games (other than the few I enjoy playing), but I keep coming back to watch your treatises (rants) about them because -- quite frankly -- your commentary and editing is sublimely entertaining!
The first and only Final Fantasy game I ever tried was 13. A coworker sold me on the hype a day before it came out. I remember the exact moment when I realized I made a mistake buying that game. It was around the very beginning, when the guy in a trenchcoat said "Well, I am the hero after all." After the weekend, my coworker told me I had to play the game for at least 20 hours to get a real feel for it, so I never played it again. That game absolutely deserves the top spot for worst game of the decade.
4:40-4:49 Honestly, I wanted Fallout Co-Op. Because when I was playing Fallout 4, the thing I was thinking was "Man, companions can suck sometimes. Wish I had a friend who could help me take down baddies simultaneously better than they can".
ive played enough CoOp games and shit, Singleplayer Fallout is dead at the moment. Bethesda refuses to learn and they have enough morons still playing 76 that nothing will change.
I’d be willing to watch a video describing the merits of different paint brands if Raz0r was in it with his glorious snark and unmatched creative insults.
You massively underestimated how many bad triple A games came out in the last 10 years, I mean the man could only list his five most loathed, and the pure shit half of the industry has pulled makes Andromeda look like the golden turd, the pile of shit that's the least wet.
Epic Typhlosion a point? No, hes got a loaded gun waiting for that franchise. And ill join him. GT sport was a pile of shit from release day. Hardly anyone bought it, and those that did sold it a week later. It took everything we loved about the franchise, and threw it out the window for DRM. Then, after all the back lash, they come back withe single player content, and new cars that patched in every few weeks. FUCK. THAT. They have been screwing fans since GT5. That game lasted just 4 years before they forced everyone to 'upgrade' to a 'new' game, and shut down the servers. It was but a farce. The 'new game' was identical to the old one, with some new cars, a few new tracks, a new tire model, and GT vision. GT5 could have patched these features in with ease. But that wasnt enough for yamauchi. Gotta get that sweet revenue, only to shut the GT6 servers off JUST 3 YEARS into the games life cycle, shutting the ps3 down for good. This series can eat a dick. I called it quits after gt6, and im never going back. Hundreds of other racing games out there that are superior to gt sport.
@@Lrules364 Absolutely agreed. Haven't played GT since GT4, and thought Sport would have been an excellent opportunity to get back into the series. BOY OH BOY, was I disgusted with I was met with. I don't care how much free shit GT Sport squirts out now, it is still at its core a messy trend chaser, and not at all what I remember from the series. I might actually pick up Forza Horizon instead, looks to be much better.
@@Lrules364 I didn't mind all those issues since it was half finished. But my biggest turd point to this game is simply if you want to save your game you have to be always online. Are you fudging kidding me. And recent updates lacks new contents. From 10-11 every month to 3 cars in 2 month span? Heck no. But I still play it no matter what.
Andromeda isn't that bad. Its just wildly not up to par for the Mass Effect franchise. There's a good game in there though if you can get past the abysmally presented opening hours. I don't blame people for not liking it. 76 is... a different kind of beast. Its very good at what it is, but most people didn't want that. Doesn't necessarily make it bad, and most of its horribadness came from Bethesda in real life, not in the game. But again, don't blame people who were upset by it, its incredibly, shockingly niche.
Honestly, it's sad, while Andromeda was not up to par with the first games, and lacked in many spots, it far surpassed 70% of the games we've gotten in the last decade, like fuck, I'm surprised it was a full playable game.
@@planaraspect9461 played andromeda to completion. There is not a good game buried there, hell I reached a point where it was barely a game at all since my ship hub map kept disappearing causing me to fall into forever void. And the story ends with the most wet fart ending of the entire fucking series. They get a Dyson sphere and all of andromeda's problems basically vanish and there's no problems.
@Matthew Chenault Add on the fact that no one involved knew how to make an actual mmo which they openly admitted at one point. Its honestly surprising how many people didn't expect it to be garbage
What really is mind boggling how these companies double down. No matter whether Sqeenix, Bethesda or Bioware. The should have just stopped and moved on. Focus their ressources on new products. No they double down and sink more millions to fix unfixable problems.
When did Square Enix double down? FFXIV is a shining example of a company releasing a terrible product and then fixing it and making amends to their customers. I am not really sure what more they could have done to make the situation any better. Square should be commend for what they did, so we can show developers that if the treat us right and listen to our feedback we will reward them, not forever castigate them and make any amount of work never worth their while.
This Guy You Don't Know this. A similar situation occurred with ESO being utter shit on launch and ZOS went back and fixed it the hell up to release it again near the console launch and since then the game has gotten pretty damn good. Great story content, great pvp mode, can’t speak for the PvE crowd much though.
@@thisguyyoudontknow4653 Final Fantasy 13 sequels. And 14 is still shit and overpriced because fixing that mess bled them of money. 15 is at best average and they made a fishing vr for it. A fishing vr was a violent demand of the fanbase of course. Ff Type 0 is a shit game. Piss poor quality.
The original release of FF14 was absolute garbage. Saying that the massive overhaul is trash is disingenuous especially the latest expansion is one of the best FF titles of all time. FF14 is the best mmo on the market right now. Not that is a very high bar to clear.
@Timothy Dexter Good in who's opinion, random nobodies on youtube. Have you not realized that all opinions are piles of shit including yours razors and mine.
