EA is hanging on by the thread of the gamepass on Xbox now. the leech has evolved as other leeching stream services that have a single exclusive item people pay monthly for. it's so sad I don't know whether to laugh or cry. some days it's both
@@Dark001 Indie games and double AA games are doing much better than triple AAA games for example: hollow knight, risk of rain 2, hyper light drift, dead cell, cuphead, vermintide 2, darktide, omori, death gambit, outer wilds.
I feel like what happened to videogames is what happens to every niche art form that becomes mainstream. It becomes a money-making industry and the soul of that art form is changed forever. Edit: Holy cow! 1.3k likes! Definitely my most upvoted comment ever! Thanks peeps! Cheers! 🍺
@yello So you think the fact they still charge you for the same price for games but now only give you 1/3rd of the game and they hide the vast majority of the game content behind dlc costing you 5x the amount it is good? Games just blow these days the only decent ones this day are Indi games
@yello it's not personal, you're just a little wrong. Games now are severely lacking. There'd many many examples and loot boxes, season passes,etc to show this.
@yello meh nothing was personal about my response not sure what stating a fact did to make you think that but nah I will continue reading books as a hobby thx.
@@SerialSleeper30 A little bit of A and a little bit of B. E-sports and competitive online games are massively more stressing. Triple A single player, coop games are way easier. I think achievements can make games more stressing too as one chases for that 100% even when the fun of the game is long gone. I dunno, it feels like games have diverged in widely different ways and there's less interest in making more balanced and fun experiences anymore.
@@SerialSleeper30old games weren't that hard. The gamers of current times are entitled to feel like a winner, no matter what, and cry about difficulty whenever they hit a wall. Tthey rather want interactive movies that reward the effort and the time they put into the game, than practicing untill they get good enough to overcome any challange. Supermario, Castlevania, Contra, Megaman, Ducktales, (Kirby😂) are hard games if you can't play them. Sure. But even first graders could beat thoose games in the 80s and 90s. i don't belive they were special. I think gaming went from playing chess to playing checkers. You want climb a mountain for 20 minutes to get a killer sword. You don't want to spend 20 minutes to learn how to beat the final boss with the same crappy sword you got at the beggining of the game.
It’s funny you mention 2015 because when I talk about mainstream film, tv series and video games going stale I always reference pre and post 2015. There certainly was a massive shift at that time to a more corporate copy and paste assembly line safe product. I think the days of true innovation are gone. I do understand the magic of youth is gone for myself and that does play a large role, but I can’t help but notice the extreme dip in quality across all forms of media in today’s world
the magic of youth went away for me sometime later, but I can easily agree that from 2015 onwards videogames became less daring and, well, more boring. I'm saying this because if my "magic of youth" went away later but I pinpoint the same year as you, then it is safe to assume you are not being biased.
It shifted because of Donald Trump. Mainstream media shit it's pants because of him. They were terrified of the internet and went after game studios, RU-vid creators, influencers, websites, etc. They wanted to purge the deplorables out of the online and digital space
Honestly most of his points were just about multiplayer games anyways, like at around 17minutes where I’m at he said he wants a game to last 2 years but like I was happy with paper Mario thousand year door and that was like 10 hours 🤷♂️
Cause Japanese entertainment knows what people actually want, fun and compelling games/stories with no/minimal bullshit from the outside world in them.
Im 50 and i know exactly why people feel this way. These days kids have so much entertainment thrown at them that unless theyre going 100 miles an hour getting that dopamine fix from the internet that everything else is boring. They also lack any imagination because everything is done for them and it will get worse with the advancement of AI. I play video games daily and have no issue.
You mean like The Witcher 3, The last of Us, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War Ragnarok, Elden Ring, Doom Eternal and Ghost of Tsushima? Games used to suck also, for different reasons, modern gaming also sucks, but mostly for different reasons. But you can still pick some gems from any era as an example of how great that "era of gaming" was. Mix in a bit of nostalgia and you're all set.
@@montygriswald7296 my point being there were shit games back in the day also, but we choose to remembee the good ones. We'll do the same 15 years from now
Facts....Indies are where it's at He hit it on the head.... Putting games out that are TRENDING... AND GREED so sick of trends 🤦🏾 I guess it's the 49 yr old in me talking🤷🏾♂️😅
Indie games are so good because they have soul They don't have to worry about pleasing the investors and earning their money back, they could create games with passion
People seem to exclude the fact that the less internet using technology we had back then the more creative devs got bc of what they had to work with. We think we have better now but its just a digital prison with no souls in these games
Plus the cruder graphics meant that the story/game play HAD to be up to par. If you wanted your game to succeed you couldn't rely on the graphics to sell it for you.
@@Wastelandman7000 Bollocks. Since the early 1990s, it's always been about numbers and visuals. You might not believe this, but there was a time when the now outdated 5th gen console graphics were cutting edge. Final Fantasy VII may always have had silly character models, but the transition to 3D and the use of prerendered backgrounds were huge reasons in themselves why the game was so successful in the first place.
You people need to realize that technology WILL make everything as boring as it possibly can eventually. You just used the word 'art' like our society still cares and carries that word out. Tech is the status quo. Tech is bigger
Am I the only who misses single player cheat codes? Especially after replaying a game a few times. Infinite ammo and health was so satisfying. Just my opinion. Love the content!!
@@zahylon5993 I did not know they did that. Mainly because I read so much about it being such an incomplete broken hot mess I lost interest in it. When I have sufficient time, & have caught up with my backlog, (probably after I retire in 20yrs) I'll have to check that out. Sounds fun.
Cheat codes... bruh! Hex editing FTW! And not just for trying to have fun with that, there's so many games where I literally saved my ass by fixing broken save games (you didn't get that quest item and the game won't let you anymore because you effed up the quest order for some reason?) myself which is impossible these days.
because before it was “how fun can we make this?” into “ how much profit can we make with this?” games have been a thing for too long now, creative ideas are more rare than a studio caring about what the fanbase think of their game and it’s only gonna get worse unless they wake up
Yeah thats why the best games nowadays are indie stuff, cause they typically care more about their stuff and try to make it more creative.One of the best games Ive ever played was actually released a couple years ago, called Outer Wilds. Also probably the most creative and unique game I've ever played
Money is bonus to me, my mind is set on this, how can I make these games fun and the story AWSOME, and don't screw this up or my games won't see the light of day.
I thought it was simply me getting old, I thought I was going crazy and just becoming miserable. It happened with films/tv/games. It’s nice to hear other people are feeling the same thing.
I'll have you know, 'the other people' are too from your time.. it is just that we are getting old and miserable, together.. doesn't mean what we think is the absolute reality. It's the same cycle every generations goes through, but we just have internet and social media now to think that we're somehow exclusive of that reality.
@@LuckyFlesh And full of un-skippable cutscence for a "cinematic experience". Got watch a fcking movie if people need a cinematic experience, let games be about gameplay. Consoles also made it worse with quick time events and halting the progress of graphical advancements we saw before 2007/8.
I miss when you’d play through a game to unlock everything and didn’t have to pay extra money. Also, it was nice when games didn’t have to get a thousand updates.
They get so many updates because they release buggy games AND people cry for nerfs aka “rebalancing” sometimes making an entire game unplayable because then everything is weak. I don’t know why people think it is fun to have weak characters & have everyone be balanced.
People often revisit older games because they were made better and with more passion. Devs wanted you to not only buy their game, but to enjoy it. Although there was no DLC, games felt full and complete, even with the occasional bug/glitch. Half the time, bugs/glitches were hilarious and added to the entertainment value, without really getting in the way. Devs worked to make game mechanics more enjoyable and fun. When you got the product, it was usually in the way they intended, or at the very least, something close to that. Stories were much better, and compensated for less advanced graphics (which weren't necessarily unpleasant to look at in the first place) When you returned to pick up a sequel in a franchise, it was because the devs earned it. You trusted their product, and weren't anticipating updates or features that would be added in at a later time.
It amazes me, the entertainment industry is so detached they genuinely thought taking their advice from the 0.01% of Twitter that have nothing better to do than sit online crying on Twitter all day, was a genuine home run.
@@JamesOsyris record profits? The industry is on death doors, studios are sinking money into floor, where have you been dude? Maybe we should talk about brain power and critical thinking before blaming our "fee-fees" 🤦🤣 god you people would be dangerous with a brain.
One of the main reasons why I left the games industry after 25 years. From the love of the art to hating all the monetization, multiple currencies to loot boxes. It was bad for the soul.
One of the creators of Age of Empires (and Doom) has a youtube channel. I forgot his name but he likes Cthulhu I think, and it should be in his username. He talks about how it was to make the games, and some of the politics involved. Sandy! That's his name.
Major reason I mainly switched to playing indie games. Less predatory monetization mechanics and mostly made by people with passion for their projects...
6th generation was the best generation we ever had. The pinnacle of gaming in my opinion. Games looked good, had depth, 100% of it was on the disc, and we didn't have shoehorned online crap. I still love my GameCube, PS2 and original XBox.
heck does anyone miss local split screen or co-op, cheat codes, fun unlockable by earning it or heck the developers make a damn fun and creative game. I do miss those days
Heck, yes so do I. Split screen, Cheap-pizza, all-night, punch-throwing, cracking-up-laughing all nighters on tons and tons of new games every year. Definitely feels way different now.
Sometimes but most of the time it's less about the actual games and it's that era in my life. No call to responsibility but I also think there's a healthy work life balance where I can llve games today and still be on point
@@mister-pinkman I lost count on how many times modders got DMCA just for making mods. Also almost all AAA games are not mod friendly. Back in the 90s Modding was huge, and it was incentivised by Devs.
Recently graduated with part of my degree in game design and they literally told us in class "don't just try to make a fun game. Take something you believe in and put that message in your game." As if making a game just to be fun was a bad thing.
Like I’ve stated, video game companies are filled with employees that are not gamers but PC political activists trying to push ideology. Employees are hired based off of ideology & Diversity quotas instead of skill & talent. Compare the development team of previous studios to their modern versions & tell me the difference. I’ll give you a few. Colored hair, fat women, no nerds that obviously play D&D / Warcraft, lack of people that stay up for days hunting for an achievement or beating a certain raid. Everything in the modern era, every single company of entertainment has been taken over by PC SJW Leftists & focus on only pushing a ideology / message instead of producing quality content. Nerds that are passionate about creating video games are not allowed to work at the mainstream video games companies anymore, this is why they venture off to create new studios ( Indie companies ) & this is why people love their product more because it’s created by people just like them, gamers. Same thing as movies & TV shows, nerds, the people who created these works of art, have been kicked out of the worlds that they created & have been replaced by PC leftists pushing feminism & whatever else. Simple. As. That.
Maybe I'm just old but what the hell happened to 2 player games, co-op and split screen? Some of my best times as a kid were over at a buddies house playing video games...together...in the same room. Now i have 2 boys that are old enough to play and other than a handful of switch games there isnt much out there
I was talking to a friend of mine about this recently too, totally agree. Again it comes back to money better for them to sell you two consoles, two games and two online subscriptions to play against each other. I purchased an orinigal OG Xbox recently cost about the price as one Xbox series X/PS5 game (with games and controllers too). It is so much fun playing Halo 2 with a few friends still as addictive as ever with the right group of mates. The games are super cheap and it has a tone of muiltplayer games on the console. That is my suggestion.
@@jamesrock27 well then you got ripped off for xbox original hasn't been sold in ten to twenty years be lucky if there worth $40 even a xbox 360 is lucky to get $50 for it! series x is what in the range just for a game at $60 per disk and controller what are those oh yeah also around $50 to $60 range so in total thats $100 to $110 either way you got ripped off kid... smuck..... you got ripped off just like every moron who runs to the next newest thing......
excuse me but uh there is still games and game consoles in the world that still work and play those old games so get off your lazy good for nothing arse and stop crying over spilt milk do something about it. hell I still load up my 360 and play the good old games whats your god damb excuse to just cry and complain?
Dude fr. Some of my best memories are playing contra with my dad, donkey Kong 64 with my little sister and cousins, lan parties playing halo 2 with a bunch of bros, 2k9 with my friend Patrick, staying up all night running through the entirety of marvel ultimate alliance, all in the same room talking shit to each other. Shit when I was 10 the nuclear family of my dad mom sister and me would play battle tanx for a couple hours on random nights. My mom had no idea what she was doing most of the time but we had a blast every time. That’s the whole point of games to me
Golden rule of games pre 2015: "Is it fun". Golden rule after 2015: "Will profits get shareholders that don't even care about games out of my butt cheeks"
@@derth9230 He's stating an opinion. I disagree. I've been gaming since 1977 and games have never been more fun than they are right now. Sounds like some of you need to avoid shitty games better.
The issue isn't so much "greed" as backwards thinking. Before, companies made games with quality because they hoped it would lead people to buy them. Now, companies make games with compulsion loops, shallow pandering, alleged "mass appeal", trend chasing, and addiction mechanics because they know it makes money-- quality be damned. EDIT: People keep commenting that I literally described greed. I disagree since greed is a more destructive method in my opinion, but I understand that it "greed" subject to interpretation. Some games have Microtransactions without being greedy (ex. Fortnite since most are cosmetics which make no impact). Some trend chase and make something better (ex. Red Undead Nightmare cashing in on the Zombie craze in a memorable DLC). Heck, Call of Duty used to do this when their yearly releases were still good yet this still spat our games to rake in a fortune (World at War, Modern Warfare, Black Ops, MW2). You can make a good product and be greedy, but there is a difference between making a good product and shoving it down people's throats (Call of Duty) or getting overambitious (Ex. Killzone trying to be a Halo-killer and poach fans rather than just co-exist like COD and Battlefield) and making expensive garbage that explicitly causes mental harm while delivering nothing (ex. Doom Eternal). At least games like Fortnite bring you in for the fun and events, but get you to stay for the season's pass. Games like FIFA 2021 offer nothing new, but expect you to pay again for players you already had in FIFA 2020.
Exactly. Corporations now know way too much about how to manipulate people into spending money that they no longer need to offer a good product to make money.
Remember going into a game shop and finding some ps2 game you never heard of, buy it for like €5 and absolutely fall in love with it. That's how I found The Suffering and even fable 2 on 360. Knew nothing about them before buying them and then got absolutely hooked once I played them
That's what I love about Fanatical, Humble Bundle, Epic, GOG and Steam sales (or even freebies on Epic). I've bought so many games for a couple of pounds on a whim and fallen in love with them thanks to those deals. I remember picking up Galactic Civilization 3 for free and it sucking up all my time and then a couple months later paying next to nothing for all the DLC. Happy times. I guess it's the same as those days of wandering into a physical store, just a new way to distribute
Today you’d get an box with a download code instead of a disc. And you’ll have to log into their site so that they can track you before you can download the game. If it’s EA or Ubisoft, they will probably required a credit card number, too.
Same can be said about movies too, movies used to be good, now there all convoluted secret meaning bullcrap that if you don't get the ending you have no taste or something it's sad.
I always thought that I grew out of games because they used to be fun, until I realised 'why' they were fun. There was never any stress when it came to playing those games, you just loaded up and you had everything you needed to make your own fun, whether it was a single player or online game. The trend I'm seeing in games now is that you're not given the opportunity to actually have fun, it's artificially generated, boring busy work, grinding, whatever you want to call it, it's not enjoyable to work virtually and in real life. And don't get me started with online.. Unless you're balls to the wall sweating in every multiplayer game that I've played recently, where everyone wants to be the next eSports legend. The social aspect of lobbies have faded from existence, no one ever speaks in matches and it feels like you're playing with bots half the time, if anything you probably are considering how many recent titles have fallen off. It's a shame that gaming has turned into an opportunity for corporate greed, they see games as a product to sell rather than an experience to be cherished and remembered.
I realized I didn't «grow up» when I launched some older games after failing to enjoy modern games. And then played a couple indie games. It's not we who «grew out of gaming», it's corporations who completely lost track of what games are supposed to be.
There's a whole lot of new games that don't fall into that category. Dead Space Remake, Resident Evil 4 remake, Doom 2016/Eternal, basically most 1st party Nintendo/Sony games. And a whole lot, hell even Fortnite is pretty playable for free
@@jackthemi2975 Well then, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, TMNT Shredder revenge, Crash Bandicoot 4, Rayman Legends (that's from 2013 but it's kind of recent XD), Hot wheels unleashed. Those are recent games that I consider just pure fun. I'm sure there are many more, specially indies, but I almost never play indies
Ngl when I was kid playing through that gears of war 2 scene I was balling cuz THATS BACK WHEN VIDEO GAME STORYS WERE GOOD. Like Jesus man what happens to our hero’s 😭I feel like they mess this shit up on purpose
I always thought that the execution of that scene was unintentionally funny (no pun intended). The way the camera focused on her completely blank expression and rotated around her poorly textured head while the music swelled dramatically ... I cry very easily when watching media, tbh, but there's something cursed about that scene that prevents me from taking it seriously. lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TYeU2JYAgJQ.html
@@HerreraAlonso I tried playing Gears of War 4 (got the original 3 games in Xbox One remastered(?) versions when bought Gears 4 at the time) It’s utter garbage, the story was done at the end of 3. In 4 you literally just fight robots (with little purpose for doing so) for the first 5 hours of the game, terrible. I can’t even remember a discernible story that makes sense. They should of done a game about the Pendelum Wars instead of this new garbage. Or a game on the foundation of the Cog and the Gears
Hey! I was a level designer on Star Wars Battlefront I and II, when I worked for Pandemic Studios! Glad to see you liked the game :) I think it was a really good set of games, if I do say so myself. We did the first game in a little over a year, the second in like, 10 months I want to say? Hope I didn't post on this before, if I did forgive me. Anyway, glad people seem to think it was worth playing.
I was an adult when those came out, good series. GL should be shot for not making SWBF3 back in the day over Force Unleashed but c'est la vie. EA/DICE should be shot for screwing up what you guys did so easily.
@@darthbigred22 Can't say I disagree with you. Our games were the single largest pay day for Lucas from a game for quite a while, from what I understand.
Hey do you know why the level design in 2 feels so much more... open/empty? I find it combined with the new, more inaccurate (shooting) classes to produce a game that felt so "console-y" that as a PC game I never migrated from 1 to 2. I tried it once and put it back down immediately. I've wondered since then what happened, and been dumbfounded that so many prefer 2.
I loved playing Battlefront II on the PS2 with my brothers. Only two of us could ever play at a time, but the bots filled out the game nicely for us and it was easily one of our favorite PS2 games.
A big problem with games is how little new franchises we have, all we get is bad remakes and remasters, where are new ideas, characters, stories? Im sick of seeing the same thing all over again these days.
Halo, Gears of War, CoD, and Battlefield were emotional rollercoasters. Not only did their stories absolutely slap, but their gameplay loops, gimmicks, multiplayer, and just over overall *feel* were unrivaled. I have no idea how we got to this point but something clearly went wrong around 2012-2015. Maybe the world really did end and we've all been soulless husks floating around.
No , just there is not much to do, I mean where u go from there . Formula has been perfected there is nthg new u can do with those games. Funny enough how mostly multiplayer games dipped and are shit but singleplayer games are better than ever .
Back then it wasn't about graphics and fps. It was more originality and depth, hell even mobile games were more fun everything is strictly pay to win. Where Is The Fun?
My problem with a lot of games nowadays is there is just too much online-focus. Not just multiplayer gaming-wise, but also downloadable content-wise. It’s probably just me but I get turned off from buying a game when I see there is so much damn content, buy this character, buy these DLC, play online and unlock hundreds of items. It’s good for a lot of people, but I miss when everything you needed was on one damn disc and gameplay wasn’t so grind-heavy to unlock things.
For me, it has to be the fact that you can't just grab a game from the store, download it with no internet and play a nicely crafted finished game, I remember getting halo reach for the first time and playing it the same day and it still remains my last favorite halo game.
I miss the days you could just buy a game off the selves, take the disc out the box, pop it in your console of choice, & away you went... none of this constant downloads & patches BS. _smh_
@@PeteTheGrouch I don't. Patches are good. That's how multiplayer games get balance and they allow different types of loadouts and styles to reign for a bit before nerfing them
I'm a brand spankin new indi game developer. My family and everyone tells me to make these pay to win or micro transaction games and I told them they're morally wrong, and I am 100% against them. I found your video very refreshing to know I'm not alone here. I won't play or participate in any pay to play games. Been there, done that, still pissed off over how much money I wasted before I realized I had been taken advantage of... robbed. I won't buy any early access bull shit. It's like a teacher letting a kid turn in half their assignment and giving them an A as their final grade because they gave their word they'd finish the assignment. That ain't how the real world works sweetheart. I especially won't charge any more for my games than I would pay myself. If the game doesn't suck it'll pay for whatever amount of work I put into it. If I come out with DLC for a game already released, then all previous owners of the game will get it for free as a thank you for funding me to get that far... and here, enjoy some bonus content. Then I'll increase the price appropriately for whoever else is buying it for the first time, and they'll get whatever bonus content thereafter free as well. If the game is actually that good, plenty of new people will buy it, and pay an increased price, that matches the value of the actual game. Call me old fashioned. I call it having class. Step one.... make my first game. Hello world...
@@mysticsaru8577, @Tim S, I know it's all talk until it happens, and words mean little in this day and age... but my word is my bond and money will never own my character.
The assumption was that as long as a game was meaningful, it would sell. But then the devs realized the truth. As long as a game promised meaning, it would sell. And they were right. So many crap games rushed to the shelves by greedy devs who exploit human psychology. smart, but truly unethical
Oh how the human brain can be so exploited... almost makes me want to find my old xbox 360 and find a few good old games I probably have and completely forget about everything.
Everyone's playing garbage annual CoD and F2P model games. It's literally their fault they're not having fun. Try some indie games! Play a flash game! Play a simulator! Play something other than what you're used to and maybe you'll actually have fun with gaming again
That’s not smart godddd when you and rest of people will understand that they can’t do it forever and it will backslash on them soo hard that they will close studio. They don’t look long term they look short term it’s stupidity.
Here are some issues: -People care too much about graphics over good gameplay -developers release unfinished games at full market price -pay to win -no focus on single player modes or splitscreen -lazy writing -quantity over quality (yearly sports releases that are just copy pastes of the previous years with updated rosters)
Also, when you get older (become an adult) you have so much going on in life that you can barely play a game without thinking about some sort of worry in real life, I think this is one of the biggest issues as kids still have fun playing games, but they will never understand the golden age of gaming.
Well that money part is what caused them to be part of bigger companies now because at the end of the day a business needs money to keep afloat regardless how we the consumer feels
Curse micro-transactions that improve gameplay, its absolutely one of the worst things to happen to video games, back in the days to be good you had to be good. Now all it takes is a few transactions and you're having your ego stroked.
Was just saying this few days ago. I miss the PS2 era of games. Unique, fun, and genuinely enjoyable even after you beat the game. I think Couch Co-op was a big deal breaker for me. No matter how shitty a game was, if I can plug in a few friends and play it together, we had a great time. These days almost everything is war / shooting and has to be played online to play with others.
Well the magic of going into a shop and seeing the front cover of a videogame that you'd never heard of before is totally gone. I remember loving Tenchu so much on the original PS1 and one day being in GAME and seeing Tenchu Wrath of Heaven for PS2 for £8.99, a game I didn't even know existed for an insanely low price, I played it to 100% over the next year. The interner ruined a lot of life's little nuances.
Look up "Nucleus co-op," I have been using it to play Dinkum split-screen with my wife on PC with controllers and it has worked really well. It can be a game-changer for you if your computer can handle running multiple instances of the game at once.
Old games were made for gamers. New games cost 10x more and it's too risky to try new things or come off the path of hand holding the non-gamer, who is needed because the gaming community alone can't generate enough revenue. I played halo 2 for the first time recently. It's great, but the reason its great is entirely because I'm a gamer. I'm challenging myself to play at the highest difficulty, making trick kills and trying to be a baller master chief. Non gamers won't do this, and they won't have fun. They wanna see the cutscenes and the story. They don't want to die and play over sections. The growing of the industry has also ruined it.
This is true for all entertainment. There’s a fundamental risk-aversion plaguing the corporate world. Movies churn out sequels because they’re “safe”. Books stick to publishing horny teen vampire romance because they think that sells. Streaming services butcher beloved IPs (LOTR) rather than come up with something new that could possibly fail.
Looking at how much technology advanced in the last 42 years, we’ve managed to go from Atari and NES to having near lifelike graphics and VR. Technological advancements like that are just mind boggling.
@@_Killkor It's incredible how Bethesda made Daggerfall in 1996. A vast open world (while automatically generated) , it had great dialogue, endless content and even a court system. A game of this scale was unheard of. Today's games are usually dumbed down, repetitive & boring, copy cat games en masse, etc. Indie Games are where the love for the art is still there.
A huge part of problem is the people who play without having any fun, most online shooter games you will see people finding some way to play like a machine, instead of going all rambo and gun blazing.
@@TW0man4RMY honestly this is the biggest problem in multi-player games now. Best mics you'll get now is in pc indie tactical shooters... but I wanna play cod and have a full lobby of mics like it used to be
Sometime along the road, people stopped playing games for fun and relaxation. The rise of streaming makes people playing game literally as a job. The rise of esports makes people approach and analyze games seriously. The rise of speedrunning makes people more care about bugs and exploits and most optimal repeatable routes. And of course there the gacha games that designed to give same satisfaction and addiction as gambling. With new games from established studios now built literally with one or more those aspects, no wonder fun is never a priority when designing one anymore. And so games that looked fun is from indies, which as the video already said, filled with bugs, early access shit, unoptimized as hell, and most of the time broken promises. A new release that actually good game with acceptable bugs today is really very rare and should be cherished.
It seems your argument is the following: (P1) _If people play games the way I prefer to, then people have the most fun that can be had playing games._ (P2) _People don't play games the way I prefer to._ (C) _Therefore, people don't have the most fun that can be has playing games._ This runs contrary to my experience because I haven't enjoyed frenetic _shoot 'em up_ styles of play for at least 14 years (I say because GTA IV happens to be the earliest game I remember playing _like a machine,_ as you say). As far back as I can remember, it's been the _guns blazing_ style of play you refer to that has always detracted from the fun of playing with and against others, in my case. With all that said, I still find that games used to be a lot more fun. That's either a result of my disposition with respect to playing games changing, or it's a result of games actually being less fun, in general.
There are still plenty of great games, even in the AAA market. The problem lies in how oversaturated the industry is and how mediocre products usually end up being the ones that get big advertising budgets and attention. So many games get left on the wayside because people would rather just play whatever's big or whatever their favorite content creator pushes on them
True. There are a lot of indie games that are often perfect because their creator put a lot of time, with no pressure, on developing and testing the game and actually listens to the small comunity that he does have. Also the game wont be pay to win because the creator usually cares more about ppl liking his game and probably has a job
@@MG-wm9kq When Elden Ring came out and i got some hours in, I was like halleluja finally a game that I enjoy for once without some stupid lootboxes and shit. Been waiting so long for a good game. and there it was ELDEN RING. Now Im just hoping that Diablo 4 will be a superb game. but with Diablo Immortal in the back i feel scared....
My thoughts? Game devs and film makers themselves, the actual artists, WANT to make the best possible games. They WANT to make their games as fun as they think they can be. The ones who sign their paychecks, though, have different priorities. They figured out what system best satisfies *their* priorities, and making the kind of game the devs want to make ain't it.
@@CoachSeamus While I've been a PC guy my whole life, I have to agree with your timeframe, though I'd specify it more to be around the years Left 4 Dead 2 was big. Honestly, I really hate how corporatized the internet has become. You can't see anything now-a-days without someone or something trying to sell you something, or otherwise trying to fleece you for cash. Once the big boys figured out how to optimize their online activity for maximum monetary return, combine that with their constant desire to buy up every little thing that shows marginal success so they can apply that process to them, and suddenly no one can have nice things anymore. They went and sucked the fucking life out of the internet. So far, my only hope is in Valve who are big and financially stable enough to do whatever they want, but who aren't publicly traded and so aren't beholden to a group of leeches who expect them to do everything possible to achieve the biggest return on investment. They're in a special place that enables them to take their time and try new stuff, and Half-Life Alyx is a testament to that. Ah shit, I just rambling. Point is, fuck corporate greed.
I think people have to remember that 10 years ago, you didn’t have massive publishers. Video games were still a very new market so both publishers and devs had to make their games actually enjoyable if they wanted any hope of sales. Back in 2001, nobody knew Halo would eventually become this massive iconic franchise. Back then, it was finically risk for Microsoft to back, as was their brand new Xbox console. Even CoD MW back in 2008. Sure CoD had a few games out, but no one expected that would be the game to rewrite the FPS industry. Instead you had publishers giving the devs the financial resources they needed to make the best games possible, and then cross their fingers that people actually enjoyed those games. Now these companies ones have grown into billion dollar corporations that can easily ride the coattails of massive franchises. These publishers are so large, it Doesnt matter they keep putting out flop after flop after flop. Just look at EA. From Anthem to BF 2, the Battlefield games to everything wrong with FIFA. EA hasn’t had a decent game in YEARS yet it is still massively profitable. Sadly making a bad game Doesnt put a dent in the corporations sales anymore, but also gamers won’t wise up and stop purchasing new games. Everyone knows how dogshit EA is, yet why do so many people buy their new games at $60+ when they know it will be broken and riddled with micro transactions?
I don't think good games are disappearing, its just that a bigger amount of bad games are being made. In the last few years we got RDR2, Doom Eternal, Elden Ring, Psychonauts 2, Sekiro, RE 7, God of War, Half Life Alyx, DMC5 etc. These are some of my favorite games ever made, and calling them fun is an understatement
There have ALWAYS been bad videogames. You can tell just how young and dumb a nerd is when they say bullshit like "videogames aren't fun anymore" or "it never used to be about graphics or fps". Fuck, people were EXCITED for games like Silpheed on the original Sega CD. They called it a STAR FOX KILLER. They were comparing the pre-rendered videos being used as backgrounds for that game to PC games of the time!
I agree also there was a ton of dumpsters fire games in this period but most people never played they were all for the Wii and DS lol. Now that other consoles have such a huge market for other consoles people are starting to see the flood of bad games. The were quite a few stinkers for PS2 and PS3 as well but I think most Americans had xbox
The Wii alone had more shovelware bullshit than the past two whole gaming generations put together. So did the PS2 and the DS. We’re honestly in a bit of a gaming renaissance compared to the early 2010s, especially when it comes to indie titles.
Micro transactions and being forced to buy DLC/add-ons ruined the fun in videos games. The fun came from unlockables. Unlockables are now hidden behind a pay wall.
The best franchise I played as a high schooler was probably the mass effect franchise. It felt impactful and true to what video games were about. It wasn’t too easy or hard. Even in mass effect three when micro transactions were introduced to the multiplayer, it wasn’t just pay to win. You had to strategize as a team to function, survive, and have fun. It was a good game.
I replayed all 3 when the remastered collection came out and holy fuck there isnt any other trilogy that satisfying that includes so much detail game to game and has pay offs for doing all the side quests. The continuity between the 3 games has yet to be matched by anything else. Truly was a masterpiece and yeah people hated 3’s ending but man the whole story had weight. You were fully invested in this galaxy wide threat. You really felt like you were Shepard and trying to bring everyone together to save the galaxy. Sucks to realize those types of games are pretty much extinct now.
I think the thing is though, Mass Effect is kinda bad, It’s gameplay is repetitive and unexciting, the writing only barely saves it and that’s only for Paragon, Renegade is cringy and cliche. I think it’s mostly nostalgia, I’m sorry to break it to you.
@@Jaydee-wd7wr Idk I mean it definitely benefited from the quality updates in the new remaster especially the first 2 but it was a new original IP at the time so you can forgive a lot of its faults. But having returning characters in all 3 games that seem to remember how you interacted with them in the previous titles did a lot for immersion. It wasn’t perfect but you could tell a lot of effort went into the game and you remember it for how it made you feel like this badass commander who was the galaxy’s only hope. In 15 years the only thing games like Cyberpunk or Fallout 76 will be remembered for is false promises, corporate greed.
@@Jaydee-wd7wr Played it for the first time in 2018, so no childhood nostalgia, best trilogy I've ever experienced. Bought Andromeda, all the books, comics and movie after the games, *I'm* sorry to break it to you but Mass Effect *IS* actually good. Not only is the combat not repetitive, it's very unique to its genre. It's singeplayer and of course you play as Shepard but you're in control of your entire squad, using BioWare's classic combat pause you can order your team around, command them to execute certain actions and strategically place them around which is integral to beating the trilogy in Insanity difficulty. Not to mention weapon mods, the versatility of loadouts, the class-unique abilities and that's honestly just scratching the surface of the gameplay, you obviously need to replay them and try to do more than just aim and shoot cause it seems like that's the only thing you did. About what you said about the writing... Dude. You're just blindly hating at this point. It's regarded as one of the best trilogies in gaming for a reason, and that reason is usually the world building and writing, you're deadass wrong.
I remember saying to my friends in the late 90’s early 2000’s “can you imagine how good games will be in 20 years time?! With awesome graphics and gameplay” well the graphics are certainly pretty good but the gameplay….ehhhh
i dunno i think some modern games have amazing game play, im totally happy with games like deus ex hr / md. elden ring, most souls games, nioh, astral chain, xcom 2, pillars of eternity, path of exile, a plagues tale, king arther knights tale. list goes on. all those games have much better gameplay than many older games for the time. There just so many shit games now days you have to look harder for games you like.
Because video games are busy in making a game with "good graphics" that most people can't even see because they don't have strong enough PCs instead of actually making fun gameplay.
I think another one of the big problems today is the focus on graphics needing to get better and better. It takes a lot of time and resources to make a game look really good and that takes time away from the development cycle. Back in the day games didn’t need to be top of the line 4K ultra HD running at 60 fps, they just had to look decent and play great.
And those games are much fun what most of the super mega hyper realistic ganes today. Makes you wonder… that’s right, we don’t play graphics at the end of the day.
I agree, 1080 is more than good enough for me. Actually, the games I enjoy most are 16 bit graphics games with modern polish. Gunbrella for example coming out tomorrow is killer for me and only $15. I don't think games need to be $59 let alone more they're charging today. We have copycats and microtransactions that suck. Yes, the greed will eventually kill the industry like when Atari's crap killed it. I think the market may crash as the prices are going up and not quality. I know that most of the games I'm going to buy are going to be under $30. I'll just wait until a sale and price drops. A few Nintendo titles I want I just get a couple vouchers so I only paid $50 for Zelda.
That's honestly why I have been gravitating towards Nintendo lately. Still play my PS4 and love it but recently Nintendo has really been doing it for me.
The graphics and sounds are not the problem, rather, it is the nickel and diming of everyone, the political activism, the corporate executives and bean counters, and the people that are honestly too lazy to make a complete game from the start that are the REAL problems with video games.
Battle Royale games became the new mold to where a lot of games are based. It's all the same formula with different skins. It also nickels and dimes with microtransactions, making money take priority over the base things that make you want to play it in the first place.
Dude you nailed everything! I was in my 20’s when the 360 was out and Halo 3 ending still gives me goosebumps. All gullied up one of the most intense video game missions ever. The flood from Halo 1! Here I am in my 40’s still looking for master pieces like that. I just want to sit down for an hour or more and zone out and forget about what’s outside my door.
What happened to Gears is tragic. The original trilogy told a hard, gritty, and surprisingly emotional story of the realties of war. The new Gears is a joke, and I mean that literally. It’s like the Marvelfication of the super hero genre but worse. Nothing felt serious. I’m probably over exaggerating, but every bit of dialogue between the characters felt like a battle of quips and cheap one liners, and if there ever was a serious moment, the new characters would be back to cracking jokes in the next mission. I remember there was a choice to save one person or the other in Gears 4 and my whole decision was based on who was less annoying rather than emotional attachment
I enjoyed Act II and "Act" IV of Gears 5, but that was also because they literally just returned to Gears of War 2 and the original Gears of War, respectively
Delta squad is like hanging out with my friends. Delta squad with the kids... Is like me hanging out with my kid. Love her, but can be "annoying." I do think Kaits story and background attachment to Myrrah. That's interesting to me at least. Maybe after G6, they go back to Pendulum wars. Although I'll be in my mid 50s by then..
I only played some hours of Gears 4 but wholeheartedly agree. It felt Like it was constantly trying to be witty and funny and all the seriousness was gone
Reminds me of the campaign in battlefield 4. In the end it was kill Chinese chick or kill black guy. Both were annoying and i was wishing I could kill both
My biggest issue with modern gaming is that everything is designed with the idea that the player has to do 100s of repeatable tasks that are usually souless all for the sake of adding 100s of hours of gameplay loops to the formula and it's nauseating. I personally made the shift back to Nintendo over the last several years and it's recaptured my attention. People seem to sleep on the fact that Japanese developers today are still making genuine games with classic game formulas that don't require you to spend your entire summer to get the full scope or even beat the game to begin with and to me that's what gaming always was. I specifically remember back when I still rented games at blockbuster that because you only had them for a few days I got good at finishing everything in about 3 days. Good luck doing that with anything today.
We can't stop it. I have met so many people younger than me who are ok with modern games probably because they were to young to experience the masterpieces we played. It was so depressing when I asked them why they don't try out some old souls games and they say that it's to old and they don't want to miss out on the new games cause all their friends are playing and if they don't spend money on the new battle pass they are not as cool as their friends🤦♂️ the cycle continues with next generations
Hey interesting points and I can def relate here…. As a software engineer myself, I wonder if we are just in a weird age where everyone is focusing on improving visuals, fps, pixels, cross play, multi platform as well as monetization, large scale (tons of people) mass multiplayer etc etc.. Devs aren’t just supposed to create something simple for one console anymore, all of stuff mentioned earlier - that takes an insane amount of dev time - so they can’t focus on good stories or innovation in gameplay. Trying to stay optimistic here, I’m hoping we are getting to the point that all of that’s out of the box game engine stuff and they can focus on truly innovative gameplay (maybe)
@@dumbdickler670 I don’t disagree, and def not taking up for greedy publishers. Just dropping a bit of optimism in hopes that stuff becomes boilerplate moving forward and we’ll actually start seeing innovation - but money talks so I’m not holding my breath!
An excessive focus on visuals has been the name of the game(ing industry) for the past 15 years. It’s just that now you have skinner box microtransaction bullshit on top of it. None of the trends in the gaming industry or new tbh, it’s just the same shit getting worse.
I think its more the 'gaming as a service' mindset. Your not supposed to play a game, finish it, and put it in your book case for the next go round in a year or two. No, now your supposed to login every day to get your quests (I don't care if its called that in other genres, playing 5 matchmade games or doing an npc a favor its the same thing when your aim is some ingame currency), buy the season passes every four months, not to mention pimp out your character with the latest $14.99 fashion accesory. In short a game -- a single game when we've never had more of them is supposed to be what you do, your hobby and part of your lifestyle. Obviously the point of it all is money, and thats not a bad thing. I'm a developer too, and I'd never code the stuff for work that I do If I wasn't paid to do it. The problem is the extent. In order to suck $200 dollars out of you in the span of eighteen months, their incentivized to leave the core experience lacking and lock content which in an earlier generation would have been getting crammed in to the last minute behind paywalls they're gonna hit you with later. The fix is simple if impossible, people need to quit buying lootboxes, and season passes, etc etc.
To your point on greed: The same things happened in the film industry. In the beginning, films were passion projects, made to express the filmmakers' ideas. That was the only thing pressing the technology forward, the want to entertain the audience. Very quickly, studios realized it made a lot of money, and they wanted the monetary payoff without the creative effort. Unfortunately for them, it doesn't work that way. Just take that same story and look at video games. Games are just this century's version of it.
This video captured exactly what's going on in modern gaming right now. That's why I've moved to retro gaming and what I used to play or just old masterpieces that I never got to play before. I'm obsessed with the Metroid series right now because of how simple and fun it is being able to explore and upgrade. The ONLY game in recent time that I've genuinely enjoyed was Red Dead Redemption 2, which is by far the best game I've ever played. Oh yeah, Metroid Dread was pretty great too.
Yes I feel like Nintendo is riding on the success of past ips 🤷 Innovative games are now more rare. That’s why Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sold well $$. It’s just Breath otw 2 A quality title but fans want original fun ideas
@@Fascistbeast Agreed even though it's still miles ahead of other modern day games, and it indeed was anything but original.. Although that, it's a solid game..
There's something to be said for how the culture of gaming has changed due to technology. Back in the early 2000's, games were designed for their market - mostly teen and young adult males that may or may not have internet access. Without the ubiquitous internet access we all enjoy today, devs can't patch games regularly after release. Therefore, devs had to release games with all of their most glaring problems already fixed by collaborating with quality assurance teams. Today, *people complaining online* are effectively the quality assurance teams of old. Microtransactions as a business model, without ubiquitous internet access, wasn't feasible back then either. Back when, it just-so-happened that releasing a fun game on day 1 was the *only* way to ensure a game would be financially successful. We can't assume games will be fun anymore by seeing a trailer and a gameplay demo at E3 like we used to. Like it always has been and always will be, *players* need to show publishers and developers what kinds of games make money by being selective with their purchases. When you give somebody cash for trash over and over, they *will* keep selling you trash.
There were games that were released with bugs back then. Just there was no way to patch the game you bought. If you bought a game with a bug that was so serious that is made the game unplayable or whatever you were basically screwed. If you opened the package, you couldn't get a refund. All you could do is exchange it for the same buggy broken game. But what you would most likely have to do is wait for the new revision of the game to get released. They didn't talk about this much back then. Especially in the 90's. So, you would just be stuck with a game you can't play that you paid for. There was no Steam so you couldn't request a refund. Developers and publishers didn't really do much to fix the mistake either. If you still had the receipt from the purchase you might be able to get a refund if you shipped the game and receipt off to whatever address was being used that is if anyone was willing to do this and it's not likely they would. You could get patches for PC games in the mid to late 90's I believe.
@@michaelhuegel4146 and which revision? lol dude I'm confused. The 90s for me was DOS, WIN 95, Sega Genesis/ super Nintendo and eventually when I was lucky an N64. Late 90s I had a modded PS1 and even Japanese games worked? I'm legit curious. I rented Superman 64 and threw it across my kitchen and they let me exchange it. Even shitty game demos I had like spaceship warlock worked? No straight up standards for pretty much everything, not just games have tanked.
What characteristics do you mean considering my little bro thinks he has ADD and he loves Astroneer, a game about slowly building a space colony as one exo planet astronaut
Although I too played many of these games and still love them, I'm not a fan of this argument. Yes, there are many major AAA games that become more and more generic as their franchise goes on. That doesn't mean that all video games suck now. Video games are the best they have ever been. There are hundreds of thousands of indi games redefining genres, nearly ever Sony game is a 10 out of 10, and we have modern masterpieces like Doom Eternal and Red Dead Redemtion. If you don't like generic bullshit stop playing generic bullshit. If the radio is playing Nickleback just change the station, don't just sit there and torture self and claim that all music sucks because of Nickelback.
I think what people don't understand is that majority of the time it's not the devs who are "greedy" they're told by higher up at the company or their "overlords" the publishers of the game i.e activision, ea, microsoft, etc. They have to do what they're told and that they're expendable
Worthless executives ruined music, and now they’re destroying gaming. I think it’s all a conspiracy to get us to work harder since when a game is basically just endless grinding I may as well just go work at a job and at least get paid. Fuck.
I think the most of people actually understand that, developers don't do bad games on purpose, they are just workers now. When you want to make some interesting or oldschool game, you have to collect money and publish it by yourself, as it happened with Kingdom Come, Daniel Vávra (creator of original Mafia 1) just wanted medieval game without fantasy elements, but publishers didn't like his idea so he collected money and did it and it was hit, so people want weird, not ordinary games, but publishers want their surance like CoD 35 or Fifa 2459 or something.
I rarely see any hate go through devs, outside of lime CD Project Red for their handling of CyberShit. Almost always the hate is at the publishers, especially EA and Bethesda. Even with Anthem, I don’t think I ever saw criticism directed specifically to BioWare, it was all at EA
@@Lawrence_Talbot I liked Cyberpunk, but game was crashing every 15-30 minutes and that's really crazy in games where you have to spend like 80 hours to finish most of quests. It is still crashing even after many patches and after few crashes, game wants check integrity and it's always downloading some broken files, it's total madness to play it. I had such problems even with Fallout 4 in the past, but I solved it somehow, but I was not able to solve my problem with Cyberpunk, do you know how patient I was when I spent 70 hours in the game? 🙂
@@Pidalin hey man I’m glad you brought that up. So many people swear cyberpunk is fixed now. Hell they say it’s “perfect” simply because CDPR made it and it’s less buggy. I refuse to get until it’s massively on sale or I know for a fact the bugs are fixed. I hear it runs better on the standard xbox one and Xbox’s one s but it crashes more than ever on next gen thanks to recent patches.
Let's not be children. Let's place the blame squarely where it belongs, at the feet of the players. It's the players who keep buying shit clone games, loot boxes, and even unfinished games. Preordering everything. The players need to look in the mirror and accept that they are the fuel powering the current games industry.
It's a great way to launder money, too - would one go too far to consider that the 'whales' in these games are actually tasked to spend dirty money, while at the same time encouraging others to compete with their spending?
It’s not just you growing up. I had already left home and was in college when Halo 3 came out. I experience Half Life 2, Portal, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Skyrim as an adult. I noticed the soul vanish from gaming around the same time you state.
Man, I remember the endless nights of playing Gears of War multiplayer games and how we, a bunch of random dudes, became friends and there was so much banter in the lobby while waiting for the next round to load. Nowadays? No banter, no nothing. The soul has left gaming because of corporate greed. And also, I really don’t care about different character skins or suits. I just want to have FUN!!!
Gaming is not as good as it used to be, but they are making more money than ever before and so that's it... I feel that more and more the best gaming experienes can be found with indie devs.
Thats because video games is seemed normal now. Same goes for Anime. I've been doing both since I was born almost 3 decades ago. And back then I got made fun off for playing pokemon Yellow and watching Deathnote. But now adays its "Normal"
The customer base is dumber. Like he said, the companies get lots of record setting money because people buy slop and trash and ask for more. "You get what you fucking deserve." - Joker
@@MonstersNotUnderTheBed yeah, but I think thag is a result of becoming mainstream like the one guy said. Games used to be nerd shit and nerds are usually super engaged into something they like. Giving them a shit new game would‘ve meant a huge loss of reputation in their target audiance and probably also in their pocket. Nowadays being a nerd became cool somehow so everyone is playing games. Most of these people are casuals though and they don‘ t really care. They need flashy neat graphics and quick gameplay instead of well thought out stories and game mechanics. Like the guy said, same with Anime (or any other piece of media these days really). Anime used to be fun and unique, now they shit our hundreds of new shows a year and all of them are built up like a lego set. Always have to hit those same key points to keep the dumb mainstream audience to understand what is going on!!! Movies too… look at the degenrats watching Marvel or Star wars these days. Why care about story or cannon? Just make a shit movie and through in some brand recognition for the brain dead masses to cheer…. Look it is R2D2 whooooo! And there, there is Darth Vader whoooooo I think I‘m orgasming!!!!!1!!11!!1!
I feel this biggest reason is battle passes. You have to play or you miss out on unique things or sometimes just useful items and that feeling of needing to play ruins the fun.
Gaming has become work when you start to feel this way. Personally I'm lucky in a way, since I simply stopped caring about the cosmetics and other unlocks about the time of battle passes. Everything just feels like a "dime a dozen". When there's so much stuff nothing feels special, especially when there's no "skill" in unlocking it. You just play. Before we had special challenges for special things.
Battle passes were one of the worst things they added to games, just like seasons in battle royale work very well but in games like code and Battlefield it's the worst thing, it's annoying just to see it, just like skins.
“Games we’re not made to be overly complex”. These generations of gaming definitely rooted out and destroyed a lot of the complexity of earlier games that I really wanted to see flourish and develop along with the tech and sadly the industry just took a different path.
@@ragerontilt4778 It disgusts me because a traitor and thief and bully used it, and I remember his filthy existence whenever I see the word. Not tring to offend you. Just being unfiltered and getting carried away on the internet like I usually do before goinig to sleep.
@@ragerontilt4778 PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE WHY I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT MASS MURDER AND TERRO RIM gah if you dotn like aggression you shouldnotbe allowedtolive
My age has crept into my mind for a possible reason why I feel this way, but sometimes... just sometimes... a game comes out that glues me to the screen like when I was 12. Just wish it happened more often cause it's getting to the point it doesn't justify building a high end rig or even spending almost a grand now on a console anymore. With rereleases, remasters, reboots, sequels that miss the mark or could have just been a DLC itself, everything needing seasons passes and just the lack of trying to hide the grind factor anymore. Not even getting into loot boxes and real money currencies. Even after spending over $100 on a game, you're arguing with yourself if you like it or not cause you just don't want to admit being ripped off... again... and again... and again...
Embrace the old times. Fortunately, one of the neat things about the industry is that it allows you to replay most old games in history in one way or another if you have the hardware.
I definitely think it's an age thing, but not necessarily because we're aging, we've just played way more video games than we had when we were younger so that inevitably leads us to not have as many novel experiences when playing them. A lot of video games ARE similar because some mechanics just work and/or are intuitive, so the majority follow suit. When 3D games were first coming out there was a lot of experimentation because it was new technology, but since the PS1/PS2 days 3D has pretty much become the norm without much room to grow. Personally, I think the next big avenue for change in video games is VR, we're just not quite there yet.
I never get immersed in videogames anymore, when I was playing as a kid I feel like im in the game but nowadays all I see are the game mechanics, is the framerate good, how long is the play time, getting all the trophies/achievements, it sucks, I can't even feel the same joy when im playing my favourite game tomba 2
@@rhysking3597 I think a lot of people also forget just how BAD some of that experimentation was and how much of it was done. most FPS / TPS games play and feel similar. Not because they're copying or bad or anything like that. But because we've experimented for 2 decades now and found the best feeling mechanics for those games. "I wish they'd experiment more" They did. You just kinda missed it
I found myself becoming jaded with gaming in my 40s and then a buddy gave me a game he just bought the day before because he didn't like it and I have had 1200+ hrs in Remnant From the Ashes!
30 hours to “code” a weapon skin. Assuming the code/engine is modular enough (in aaa game it will be) to allow switching materials on a mesh, it should be incredibly simple, and I could see it taking a competent artist no more than 3 hours to make something good. programmers have nothing to do with making weapon skins, besides implementing the system to switch them in the ui, verify purchases,
@@doktoracula7017 No the programmer has to put in the textures after the artist is done with it, plus if there are bugs with the skins like if it's an animated skin then they will have to fix that
Video Games, just like comics, and nerd culture in general, was bought up by corporate, and they don't know or care to know what made these things appeal to us to begin with. It's all about pushing what THEY want on us, instead of giving us what WE want.
He mentioned Beta’s - and this is another point. Remember when a beta was special and despite being a complete game was an *almost* complete game? I remember the Reach Beta was a beyond special time in gaming history, and while much of it didn’t make it to the final release it was so much fun!
Its stuff like this that makes me appreciate games like Stardew Valley, Terraria, Cuphead, etc even more. Relatively cheap games but definitely got your money’s worth
@@haaxxx9 As game development becomes more accessible, more people get into game development, artistic expression within indie games are also more common. Indie devs are also more likely to invest heavily in the fun factor, hell, even I have beem thinking about making a game myself cuz I have so many ideas. But there's still the whole programming thing, and I can't program at all x.x
I played Terreria pirated about 6 years ago, enjoyed it for hundreds of hours and I wanted to get it for what it was worth someday. Went for sale at like 2 dollars during this year's Summer Sale and I lasted playing Terreria's simple fun way long than the disingenuous complexity that TLOU 2 tried shoving in my place!
This is why I’m a huge Zelda fan, the games are always unique and getting larger and more complex and there’s zero cash grabs. Breath of the wild only had one dlc that was like $30 and it was worth every single dollar Nintendo seems to be the only company that isn’t pay to play anymore. 👌🏻
@@onerandomguy4832 yeah but nintendo games can still be enjoyed without online play. other companies literally dont care about the single player experience anymore and they shove micro transactions down your throat the moment you boot up the game
Heck even when Nintendo pushed Mario Strikers out early on the Switch, the game itself was working great- Just missing some characters, but those missing characters DIDN'T affect the core gameplay.
@@phoenixchampion7 exactly I liked that game but it was no where near as good as strikers charged on the wii but I also have a problem with find one game in a series that I absolutely love and then compare every single game that comes out after it and if it doesn’t live up to what I liked about the one game then I’m just like mehhhh lol
I remember graduating highschool in 2015 and being hyped to see the new Star Wars film that December. "Finally, some great Star Wars films for my generation to enjoy in theaters and share with my kids like my dad shared with me" was my thought. I ended up leaving the theater feeling empty and the next two films were even worse (to me). Seems like 2015 or so, everything in western media just started being a cash grab, full of pandering and heavy handed political messages. Video games come out half finished, missing core features but with fully working MTX stores. If you would have told my 10 year old self in 2007 on Halo 3 launch night that a Halo tv show would come out and you will hate it, he'd think I was crazy or something. No, they have just made everything shit in the future.
I also graduated in 2015. I just turned 27 last week. If you would have told 12 year old me that fallout 4 was going to suck I would have laughed. Mad max fury road was the last good movie I remember releasing and it came out in 2015. The last good game I remember coming out that was genuinely incredible is blood borne in 2014. Beyond that it’s hit and miss, don’t get me wrong there’s good stuff but not as timeless. I really thought that growing up the trend of good games, movies and tv shows would continue. There was always something interesting. But not anymore. At least we got to grow to adult age before it all turned to crap. Still doesn’t help that I’m having a kid soon and I know they are going to grow up in a WEIRD world. Anyways
Here is the thing, the entire f u c k i n g franchise has political messages, and it all weaves together. Moreover, its competition also has them as well.
I was 14 when Battlefront 2 came out on ps2. That game was SO much fun. So many different game modes. But the single-player story line had unbelievable depth. Starting off as the clones fighting in the Clone Wars progressing through the rise of the empire. Even the cut-scenes in that game were amazing. They legitimately could have based a movie franchise off that games storyline and it would have been infinitely better than that tripe they called the sequels.
Og battlefront 2 had so much to do we were spoiled for choice the newer ones just feel empty i know the eventually added more stuff to the recent battlefront 2 but its nothing compared to the original
@@rhyslightning3037well about that... They stopped working on Battlefront 2 2017 in like 2021-2022 no more updates are coming to the game and they consider it "complete"
@@jeffhelmick8065 they should or given us the battlefront 3 we were gonna have years ago with land to space battles that were seamless so pissed that game never got complete
It’s a lesson in letting go. The more I stick around to watch, the more of a twisted mess I see. Anything you hold onto will morph into something unrecognizable. RIP good times 👌
my oh my, do i miss that feeling of spending 45 minutes to an hour at gamestop just perusing all the games and accessories and playing whatever demo consoles they had displayed. from the very second i'd open that door, it literally felt magical at the time. nowadays, the rare times that i even go to gamestop anymore, i'm in and out with what i need in like 3 minutes.
Well, that's because you didn't have as many responsibilities. Also, for me, GameStop usually meant perusing all the games that I could never have or play. We did end up with a dozen of them for the Wii & GameCube though.
I remember the Indian manager upset because I took advantage of the receipt's promise that I could return a game for another, which I did to make sure I got the best game I could get. He said something like: "This isn't a rental." I remember choosing Lunar Legend, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones and Golden Sun plus its sequel. Oh, my childhood! How society crippled you with school that was mostly a waste of time such as imaginary numbers! I don't need them in my life. If others do for computer stuff that I enjoy, that's irrelevant to my need to know the stuff. But there are always idiots defending the tyranny of stealing countless days of millionsn of lives to teach shit you don't need. PS I no longer enjoy witchcraft games, because I know what they represent. I still listen to the music though, because it's great and has no bad messages in Golden Sun for example.
I absolutely agree with everything you said in this video,games just aren’t fun like they use to be and literally scroll through the PlayStation store looking at all the games and nothing even remotely peaks my interest
Yes cuz all u all grown up , it's not same ofc , u always remember good things . I mean it's funny rly watching memes in 2015 , golden age was from Nintendo 64 till like Half Life 2 . Then gold age was like 2005/6 till 2012/13 smth like that . In 2030 it's gonna be 2015-2022 . And its not hard to see why I mean ( Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild , God of War , Spiderman , Elden Ring , Ghost of Tushima , Mario Odyssey , Call of Duty Modern Warfare , Fozra 5 , Persona 5 , Doom , Doom Eternal , Horizon , Sekiro , Bloodborne , Assassin's creed Valhalla , Destiny 2 , Jedi Fallen Order , Monster Hunter World , Metro Exodus , Metal Gear Solid V , Last of Us , Rezident Evil games 7,8 and Remakes , Devil may cry 5 , Read Dead 2 , Xcom )
@@chriscamaratta1 there are a few. Saying games aren't fun anymore just demonstrates how little games that person has played. Incredible experiences have dropping I the past 5+ yrs from single a to aaa across all platforms.
I sure wish I could go back in time to the early 2000's to enjoy once again the evolution and good games we had at that time. Almost every game felt unique back then. Good video, you touched every single problem with todays gaming industry. Also who here remembers EA in those days? I sure feel old when I can say that I've seen a day where EA was good developer and publisher.
Ea used to be a great company then the micro transactions came about and big companies got very greedy. They started making so much money on them and people were happy to pay real money on in game items that everyone else followed suit. Now Indie games feel more fun.
I always remember fondly the PS2 era of Need for speed games, Most wanted is to this day one of my favorite games of all time. Also the OG star wars battlefront and PS2 Ace Combat games
I agree with a majority of this video. However, I'd like to add that in my opinion video games have gotten a little too competitive to a point where it feels like more developers want to "balance" things only when the pros or streamers want it fixed. It feels hard picking up new multiplayer games that I can enjoy because it's either a really competitive enviroment (even in the casual mode) or the community just isn't welcoming to people who are new to the game. It's at a point where I personally don't feel comfortable playing games like Rainbow Six Siege or Call of Duty by myself anymore because I feel more relaxed knowing that my friends can help provide a more fun and enjoyable experience.
Halo Infinite moment. Can't enjoy that games multiplayer at all, it feels like it was designed to be as sweaty as possible, largely due to 343 targeting the pro scene and forgetting that the games used to be party games
Alot of games incorporated MMR which i think is maybe not singly responsible but deserves alot of blame. Every game i play I feel if I don't run the best loadout, perks, add on and play the sweetest possible, the I can't win. Call of duty is one of the most noticeable ones back in mw2 and mw3 I would quickscope in multiplayer and not care cause it wasn't that serious, but now every lobby is so sweaty its exhausting.
@@baileyf1998 I completely disagree and think games after 2015 are better than ever. I never played a ranked game until Rocket League, and then spent 2000 hours in a single year, and already played it 3000 now, which is more time that I played GTA V in 8 years despite that being my previous most played game. I never had a problem with Pay to Win. Never had a mocrotransaction problem. Never had a problem getting a game and it being broken. The reason I played Halo years ago with honestly just because friends played it. It has nothing to do with "oh the story is to complicated for my small brain" - even though Metal Gear games thrived on complicated story but nevermind consistency - I just don't want to waste so much time on games, and when I do, I'd rather play the 2015 Rocket League where there is no leveling up nonsense, where every player has the same abilities and a fair chance at winning.
@@creeeamy7133 Wait, you mean Halo infinite is actually a fair game now and is dedicated to fairness/sweat/competitiveness? Congratulations, you just increased Halo Infinites sales
@Chill gaming Can't argue with the facts on the iffy NES library Chill lol! But in hindsight you did at least get a fully made crap game compared to this kickstarter-fueled abandon the indie game baby behind the dumpster reality we live in now. P.S. Loot-crate games are pure cancer in my opinon.
100% correct. Once they figured out how to monetize within the game with micro transactions, packs, etc, it became a vicious cycle that remains unbroken. That's all that matters to them. Get the game out regardless of the state of it. We'll make money off of micro transactions and half heartedly fix the issues
What changed ? We decided to treat games with more focus than our jobs, basically turning them into jobs we pay for. We are as guilty as designers and publishers. But, no. There's no way it can be also on us, right ? Always someone else's fault
I'm glad someone was able to put this into words for me. I couldn't figure out these past few years if I grew out of a lot of gaming because I got older, or because games weren't as good as when I was a kid/teenager. The only time I ever felt that same magic of gaming were I was so immersed and played for hours on end was when I was in college and Kingdom Come Deliverance came out. A historical medieval free roam RPG made by really passionate devs.
I remember bringing this up in some Xbox forums that the Gears of War games were boring. They had pretty graphics but the game was so boring and I got roasted for it
Yeah I believe that was the beginning of the end. After Black Ops 2, CoD became the shepered leading the herd of the other AAA corporations to greed. Don't get me wrong, I still had fun even up until recently (last year was the last time I played) with games, but it was never the same. I think maybe a part of it is that a lot of us have played 1000s and 1000s of hours of games of all varieties and so we have experienced all that gaming has to offer, and it became stale.
@@Stephen7764. Remember the GFuel promos and colalbs at the beginning of Modern Warfare 3's marketing juggernaut? Slowly and slowly applying MTs post Black Ops 2? The former point was one of the main reasons why streaming and esports culture was born
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 I love the idea of people competing in video games, but the game itself shouldn't be solely designed around being an "esports title." Just look Counter-Strike. It's an incredibly popular "esport," but it wasn't designed to be one. It's a genuinely fun game and that's why it's found so much success.
