I hate games that make you play for hundreds of hours with no goal in sight. I like for my games to have a Beginning, Middle and an End. Beat this game and move on to the next one.
I'm the opposite. I love games that can suck me in for hundreds and thousands of hours, constantly pulling me in some new direction. As long as the minute-to-minute gameplay is fun, then I'll have fun playing it.
RDR2's single player game pace killed it for me. The choice only for slow walk or sprinting with nothing in-between, always having to fetch my rifle or shotgun on dismount, and suicidal npc's running in front of my horse so I run over them and now have the cops after me. I never finished chapter two but did play a lot online where somethings were better but Rockstar overall drove many playes away by not fixing some problems, creating new problems, and just flat out refusing to do what works so well in GTA online, having an invite only option.
A good way of dealing with this "problem" is to mind your own business and keep your "feelings" concerning what other people do with their purchased property, to yourself...m'kay?
I'd like to go back and finish Sifu one day. By the time I got to the final boss, I was pretty burned out on playing the same stages over and over, so I only had enough stamina left in me for a couple of attempts before I decided it wasn't worth it anymore.
The FINALS is a phenomenal FPS. The level destruction, brings me back to the Battlefield 3 days. The lack of modes, maps, weapons and something as simple as team death-match really hurts the game.
I think The Finals is gonna be one of those games that gets a huge boost with every new season, and then trickle out until the next season but stay consistent for a long time. It battled Helldivers too along with Palworld. I love it so goddamn much and play every day though haha, I don’t know how I could ever play a basic first person shooter after this sort of destruction ever again
You all actually called Starfield a great game. The game was never great, it had a positive rating from hype mostly then once the majority of players actually got their hands on it they realized that it was a really hollow experience. The only good thing I could say about Starfield was that it was Bethesda's most polished launch.
For a Bethesda product it was definitely more of a 2 foot deep lake more than an immersive experience. I think the legit player feedback should help them optimize Elder Scrolls VI
Came here to say the same thing. Starfield was never great, even in its immediate reception. IGN gave it a 7 and got a lot of blow back but it honestly deserved lower. I've never laughed harder at npcs staring at me. Ending was cobbled together at the last second according to the lead story director. If I could un-play, it I would.
@@weplayvrgamesIf I could un-play starfield and get a refund of my time, I would. I can't remember saying that about any other game in 32 years of gaming.
The thing is between 25 and 40% is average for over 99% of ALL GAMES. The Last of us 2 has THE HIGHEST COMPLETION RATE IN SONY HISTORY... meaning of all the games that been released since the PS3 launch (when PSN and trophies started), more players have rolled credits on TLoU2 than ANY OTHER GAME... *_But the completion rate is just under 60%..._* So, when you consider that... A game having a completion rate of 25% is actually on the better side of average. Especially when you consider some of the most beloved games of all time are sitting around 35%.
@@fajaradi1223 Yes. But that's kind of expected for a game like Skyrim. Vast games like that quite often go unbeaten. It's also fair to mention that Skyrim has been a free PS-Plus game more than once... And it is/was on the "extra" tier for PS-Plus... And any game that has been given away for free or is on a Gamepass-like service will have very low completion rates because lots of folks dive into free games just to try them out, with no intention of ever actually completing it.
I actually think most people don't really finish games anymore.. I mean if you look at most games statistics of finishing them you start to notice that usually less than 30 percent a lot only have at 20 and under
I put a masochistic challenge on my head from the beginning of RDR2 and turned off aim assist completely. Went through the whole game and Marstons part like that. It took..a while, no doubt. Oh, how many missions I failed and was tempted to turn it back on. Nothing quite like one-shotting a bird out of the sky, using a pistol, without help, though, I'll tell ya.
The problem with Diablo IV is that each season has you starting back at lvl 1. So you gotta spend days or weeks grinding lvl's again if you do campaign skip. having to replay game from square 1 to do season stuff is likely reason why so many stopped, its hard to want to replay same stuff over and over like that.
My issue with that is in D3 they'd keep changing things and upping numbers to make builds better. D4, it's all of the most boring builds that become meta and no-one wants to bring it. I'd rather play a new D3 season STILL rather than a D4.
Many people love seasons, so this isn't the case at all. The game would be virtually dead right now if it didn't have seasons going. They are the only thing keeping it alive, unfortunately.
"The problem with Diablo IV is that it's NOT Diablo 2, same with Diablo 3 - it just isn't Diablo 2." Diablo 2 is still untopped in terms of gameplay, replay-ability and sheer addictive strength. All sequel D's are sad larps of a better title from a more civilized age.
Forbidden West felt like it took forever, but I did all the side quests as well. Have to extremely disagree about Tilda being all that difficult of a boss though.
I agree. Tilda was way too easy for a final boss. I beat her on my first try and barely took any damage. I'm a decently skilled player, but I'm nothing special. It was disappointing after how challenging a lot of the game was.
It just wasn't very good. The plot was dumb. The writing poor. The game-play mechanics were decent. I'd probably give it a 75% because of the shitty story and writing.
I spent HOURS in Forbidden West/Burning Shores, and will go back and play the whole thing again. Did a ton of sidequests. I guess we all like different stuff. Speaking of which…. I enjoyed Starfield - a LOT. I get that not everyone did, and I hear their cries - but those that didn’t play through and get to New Game Plus missed a truly fun experience. I will keep going back to this one too.
I stopped playing Fall Guys when they locked everyone out of their trophies and made everyone start over again with a new list. I had two left for the platinum. Once they reset it, I never went back.
Thats me too. Only time i get the tv alone is late at night and then i gota decide if i wanna play a game for an hr or two or catch up on my tv shows that the gf wont watch with me lol
i dont work. i play video games all day every day. my backlog of games i want to play continues to grow. if they stopped making games entirely i still wouldnt be able to play every game i want to before i die.
I don't play MP only, so those games are not even a blip on my radar. The same applies to live services. A game that i can't play in full total 5 years later is irrelevant to me, so any game with seasons can drop dead for all i care. So that leaves SP, the heart and soul of gaming, and those i will always get...even if it takes me more than 6 years to do so (i still buy, play and finish games released more than 15 years ago). I'm a video game fan, not a video game addict.
Same here i still buy old games not into that online only crap that has no point. Started going thru Resistance fall of man on ps3 again. Also ive never cared about trophies i just play for fun. Kids these days think its the end of the world when they lose in a game lol my nephew recently punched his tv and broke it cuz he lost in fortnite and had to learn what it costs to replace a tv cuz he had to use his own money to replace it. Smh personally if he was my kid he would be going without games for a while to learn how not to act like a jackass cuz you lose at a game
You dont play games indefinitely. I dont see why these numbers are a surprise, you play a game and move on. I go back when theres dlc or when i feel like a replay
I always complete my games, unless it gets ridiculously hard and needs days and weeks of "getting good" to learn the gameplay by muscle memory. It is simply not worth it because of the stress involved and I play games to have fun, not to get more stressed over a mode/challenge I can't beat for the Platinum trophy or 100% trophy list.
Exactly how I feel about Doom 2016 & even more so Doom Eternal... Look fantastic, sound amazing but when the gameplay is so damn repetitive or the case of Eternal an absolute ball buster it just becomes a frustrating mess over an enjoyable experience, just can't be bothered to continue 🙃
Love doom but ill agree i dont like spending hours trying to figure out where to go lol should have a map that tells u the next spot u need to get to. Lol
@@jarredkrum9894referring more to the changes to the combat system, level design in 2016 was great but gameplay wise it's nowhere near as entertaining as what you can get with Doom 2, although that's thanks to the modding community. Slaughter maps & just amazingly well designed WADs outshine any Bethesda let id Software put together. Biggest gripes are how underwhelming & frustrating Eternal is, maps more "open for exploration" didn't do anything for me, game's just bored the hell out of me.
Something to remember regarding Starfield's fallen player count compared to Skyrim's is that Skyrim has the benefit of over a decade of mods. The Creation Kit (necessary for creating most mods) for Starfield hasn't been released yet. I'd wager that once the CK is released and the modding community gets going properly a lot of players will go back to it. That's really what I'm waiting for. There's the bones of a decent game there but the modders need the CK to actually put it together.
Skyrim in it's worst state was still better then Starfield. The reason mods made Skyrim better is because it was already pretty good. Starfield doesn't have that advantage. Mods aren't going to save it.
I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, but you posted this a week early. It’s a creative idea to post a list of games that outperformed 98% of games on player retention, providing the evidence for such while comedically framing it as the opposite conclusion using out of context statements, but it’s important that you drop the video at the right time and clarify it is an April Fools gag.
I can confirm as someone going through forbidden west right now. Its not the difficulty spike. the forbidden west story gets painful to want to complete after a while and the gameplay loop is not hugely satisfying since after a while since alot of the game just feels like you are trying to get the machines to stop spazzing out more than going for strategic hits. the final boss is more tedious than difficult.
To be fair, I'm one of those who doesn't finish games. I enjoy the journey more than the destination and will get distracted by anything and everything before I get too far along the main story.
Yeah, After naming the compilation "GREAT games that everyone stopped playing" i expected great games on the list and here we are at second place with shittiest game of the whole list
It's no stranger that what culture gaming actually enjoyed that game. And that's perfectly okay. Because taste is subjective and this is their channel so they're entitled to their subjective taste and their subjective lists. They don't have to conform to what everyone else thinks. That's not how taste works.
@@OversoulGaming taste isn’t subjective, no. Not in this case. Dogshit is considered to both be disgusting and unacceptable to eat, same goes for playing games with such an abhorrent lack of quality as Starfailed, Suicide Squad, or Dragon’s Dogma 2.
I remember finishing returnal, then going into my trophy-list seeing that it had stopped tracking anything after the second boss. I loved the game but that pissed me of so much I havent gone back.
Hey WhatCulture! I enjoy your videos as they are different from other gaming videos. My only gripe is the video quality. I have been watching the videos for quite a while but I do wish you would improve the video quality. It does not look so good running at 1080p.
I've got like 1400 hrs into RDR2 and Only like 30mins of that is online. Finally decided to put RDR2 down today and play Ghost Of Tsushima director's cut.
Red dead 2 had a drop off because 1) not a lot of us wanted to go through losing another dope MC like in Read Dead and 2) Rocksteady showed little love to Read Dead online
@@atasteofreality609 if people played RDO it doesn’t negate what I said about it not getting nearly as much attention as GTA online. So not sure what you’re trying to get at but yea you’re right, that’s kinda why I mentioned online in the first place…
@@atasteofreality609 you’re either incapable of reading at this point, trolling, or just being pedantic because you’re repeating what I’m saying each previous text. Nice try at trolling though
Diablo 4's problem is that people did not learn their lesson from Diablo 3. That lesson being? Blizz cannot recreate the D2 magic, because each effort is less like Diablo and more like WOW.
Starfields issue for me were the bugs I wouldve been beaten the game past the point where I became a Jedi warrior without a lightsaber. But when I racked up a high bounty and a bug didn't allow me to pay it and all I could do was start the game over....that's the moment I uninstalled the game
I haven't finished forbidden west myself. I will though. I think the problem is they disconnected so much from aloy that she just doesn't feel as connected to the player as she did in the first game. The side characters seem to have the familiar aspects. But aloy just doesn't have that connectivity that she did in the first game. I find myself actually disliking her more then sympathing with her in this one.
A friend put it best: You just went out and expored in Bethesda titles, always finding new things and Starfield becomes with the need for fast travel linear (only twenty or so planets Bethesda properly worked on?)
I'm somewhat fascinated by the Returnal discourse. I'm by no means a highly skilled gamer, but I didn't find the game to be too difficult. I got the game at launch and beat it (defeated the final boss for the first time) within 17 hours of gameplay and after 15 deaths. Now, the game is arguably easier since you can suspend your game without worry and they added co-op, yet I see a lot of new players on the subreddit continually be frustrated by the difficulty. I understand getting annoyed by the RNG you have to grind for the true ending and platinum trophy, but just beating the game once isn't that hard.
Kinda surprised you didn't mention 'Multiversus'. Good game, but it took a steep dip despite it being an open beta game...and then its said to release later on this year, so who knows if that's going to happen?
Returnal started to feel like a chore. When you die you start over from the start of the game making it a grind to even get back to the point where you died. I traded in the game shortly after beating the first boss.
No it wasnt with all due respect because a lot of people in the world KNEW about the game's existence and played it. Meaning it sold very well on the deverlopers finances. So no that dint make it as an underated because an underated games would be a game that doesnt fullfil the two requesite i have mention we
@@atasteofreality609 which is was considered SUCCESS for Housespark. So i'll have to disagree with you on this account. If You think about it you dont even know the definition of "underated".
I think its funny how I still go back to games that I played years ago because of the variety within the game on launch and developers these days can't keep players engaged without season passes. Its weird how much gaming has changed over the last 20 years. I still haven't purchased a season pass or a DLC. Which I always thought were a waste of money. Guess I'm showing my age with that statement.
I am afraid there is a fundamental fallacy in using completion or progress statistics to determine a games player count, at least in the case of RDR2. 6 years on, I still play it frequently, however, I make no effort to progress the story. The fact is I, like most gamers, am aware of where Arthur's story is going. I am extremely emotionally invested in Arthur and many of the other gang members. Arthur's demise, though I know it is coming, is going to break me. I am perilously close to that point in the story and deliberately do not pursue finishing it. I spend hours just playing in the immersive world, pursuing enjoyable experiences that do not advance the story. I hunt. I fish. I go and have full nights on the town. I will go to town, have a bath and clean up, visit the barber for a shave and haircut, dress up and go have dinner in a nice restaurant, go see a show, go shopping. I also will ride into town, hit a saloon, have a bar fight or just interact with NPCs. The fact is, the world is so well realized, I can live in it without progressing the story to it's heartbreaking conclusion. I know a number of others that do the same. The game is still being played. Completion stats are a poor metric, in this case, to determine player numbers.
That isn't the only metric they are using to come to this determination. And, honestly, these guys have to pump out videos every day to stay relevant, so they have to reach on a good portion of them. It's just a way for them to keep pushing out content and keep revenue going. I wouldn't read too much into it.
"Free to Play" severely cheapened HALO, imo. A franchise that was already struggling since 343 took over and continuously messed it up. Making it free-to-play put the nail in the coffin. And now Infinite is being abandoned for the next game lol
The second boss in Returnal was 100% the hardest boss.. I got the plat trophy too, and he still haunts me.. Also SIFU had a 2 (or 3?) hour demo on PS+ Premium. I made it to the second area in that time, so that drop off could be helped by the demo. And yes you can earn trophies because it’s the full game just limited to the defined playtime.
I’m part of the Returnal crew but not because of difficulty ,at first Returnal had no way of saving progress whatsoever I was gathering keys for the 5th stage almost done with the second half of the game and after surviving a locked room with waves of enemies the game glitched would not recognize I beat the waves would not release the key or let me leave the room I closed the game and couldn’t muster the Will to play again for years now I’ll pop in occasionally maybe one day I’ll finish it it’s a lot better now you can save👌🏾
Beat Horzion Forbidden West, i enjoyed it. Got the DLC on sale. I haven't finished it yet. Tilda really wasn't hard for me. The only other one i played was RDR2. I bought the hard copy and played for 10 mins and, for some reason, never went back to play it. idk why. I'm in my 40s and work full-time overnights, so most of the time sleep overrules gaming. COD Mw3 is what i mostly play now. Just for the ease of hopping in and out of games. Do a few matches get my fix or game for hours. It's smooth and not a lot of wait time. Although mechanics and weapon balancing are infuriating, sometimes overall ease of use separates this for me.
I actually uninstalled Starfield after it took me 5-10 minutes of loading screens and cinematics to get toward my next spot in the campaign, only to find out I couldn't make the last jump because I didn't have enough fuel. That, and I was 2/3 through the game, and still didn't care.
I guess I'm watching Jules too much. I've been thinking recently about an OLD Sega Genesis game "Buck Rogers Countdown to doomsday". I remember loving that one and wonder if there are any SciFi PC games today like it.
I spent an evening playing Returnal with a friend and thought it was fantastic! Sadly roguelikes arent for me so once we got killed by the first boss and sent back to the beginning i just felt deflated. Great game though
Starfield was a great game on it's own, but expectations were very high. It was fallout in space which was so much fun, but Bethesda sold it as something more which is probably why it has so many negative comments
I feel like anyone who started Red Dead 2 and didn't finish it may be clinically insane...although I didn't want to finish it simply because it was so damn depressing.
Starfield was one of those "we'll force you to like it" game when everyone in the world knows they would've rather had another Fallout or Elder Scrolls title!
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you promised 10 great games and then come with likes of Diablo 4 and Starfield. Misleading title. Those are hyped games, but far from great, that is why their player count tanked.
I can't understand how Horizon Forbidden West is on this list. Beating Tilda was not as difficult as this video claims. Like everything else in the game, it comes down to what coils you're using on your weapons and gear and make sure you that you have a lot of crafting resources for crafting ammo. Tilda was a hit, dodge, hit dodge tactic to defeat her. Oh, the Wings of the Ten Blast Sling with high damage coils is your best friend in the Tilda boss fight. The list should have put God of War 2018 and the Sigrun boss fight or Rangarok's boss battle with Gna since those two bosses are straight up more difficult than Forbidden West's boss battle against Tilda.
most of those big open world games are good but if you finished it and got most of the completion done, there's no reason to go back since you spend +100 hrs or more. you can start new game plus later on but need a break.
Amazing video what culture gaming,fantastic job and I love star field should get back into soon,probably play it on the weekend too also halo infinite too.
I still have to play Horizon Zero Dawn yet, never mind Horizon Forbidden West. I own both, just my time is so fleeting and newer games just keep coming out, my backlog just keeps growing and I fear I'll never catch up and I'll likely be dead before I can actually get through things lol...
Alas for The Division, I will go back and play it one day (the single player campaign, at least) but since the servers already went offline for The Division 1 and it's likely they will soon enough for The Division 2, welp.
The final boss in Horizon Forbidden West was easy! I beat her on my first try and barely took any damage. This isn't a brag. I was legitimately disappointed that the game didn't have a more challenging final boss. I'm a decent gamer, but there are probably millions of players more skilled than me.
I mean, gone are the days where you have to beat the game just to watch the final cutscene, and people are so friggin' weird nowadays, they buy these games (usually paying good money), just to later RUclips gameplay footage to watch someone else play it. Baffling if you ask me.
rdr2 drop off attributed to the existence of online, while drop off isn't what happened, what actually happened is people got it for the online so many players but more online than single player lol
Diablo 4 and almost all sports games are coming to game pass on Xbox; if they're not already on there. All new EA sports games were 85% off yesterday. That's all you need to know about the state of gaming.
RDR2 just got tossed to the side by rockstar, feel like most people could see it wasn’t gonna last even from the beginning. Sad to say cause it’s a great game, just never got the support from rockstar it should’ve had!
Adulting sucks... i work all the time, and when im home, I just want to sleep.
Yeah I wanna play games but I end up falling asleep on the couch and dont have the energy to have fun
It's your diet. I stopped the carbs, brain fog lifted. Now I finish 15 games a month easy with only a few hours a day
@@Tenacityfromtheglass What is your work schedule?
@@emmettruskowsky5626 I do shift work from 11p.m to 7a.m in the morning in a noisy factory.
@@emmettruskowsky5626 I'm also a single dad. Got full custody after my ex dipped out. I haven't gotten over 5 hours of sleep in over 4 years
I hate games that make you play for hundreds of hours with no goal in sight. I like for my games to have a Beginning, Middle and an End. Beat this game and move on to the next one.
I'm the opposite. I love games that can suck me in for hundreds and thousands of hours, constantly pulling me in some new direction. As long as the minute-to-minute gameplay is fun, then I'll have fun playing it.
Exactly. Too many games to play; too many other fun things to do
@@JosiahDePhoenix Preach Brother, Preach!
THANK GOD me too. I want to be able to finish the damn game and cross it off the backlog
25k hours dota2 disagree
RDR2's single player game pace killed it for me. The choice only for slow walk or sprinting with nothing in-between, always having to fetch my rifle or shotgun on dismount, and suicidal npc's running in front of my horse so I run over them and now have the cops after me. I never finished chapter two but did play a lot online where somethings were better but Rockstar overall drove many playes away by not fixing some problems, creating new problems, and just flat out refusing to do what works so well in GTA online, having an invite only option.
As someone that has 100% Horizon Forbidden West, the Explosive Spike throwers make a huge difference with the final boss.
Its always crazy to me how few people actually finish single player games. For me thats like starting a bunch of movies and stopping before the end
It's like people have no determination to see things thru anymore.
To be fair there are a lot of movies where I wish I could get my time back. Life is too short to keep slogging through something you don’t enjoy🍻
A good way of dealing with this "problem" is to mind your own business and keep your "feelings" concerning what other people do with their purchased property, to yourself...m'kay?
@Darth-Claw-Killflex whoa touched a nerve? Lol never said it was a problem relax a bit.
@@Darth-Claw-Killflex LOL. LMAO, EVEN.
I'd like to go back and finish Sifu one day. By the time I got to the final boss, I was pretty burned out on playing the same stages over and over, so I only had enough stamina left in me for a couple of attempts before I decided it wasn't worth it anymore.
Same. Been dying to get back into it, but damn once you're playing Sifu, you're ONLY playing Sifu
The FINALS is a phenomenal FPS. The level destruction, brings me back to the Battlefield 3 days. The lack of modes, maps, weapons and something as simple as team death-match really hurts the game.
I think The Finals is gonna be one of those games that gets a huge boost with every new season, and then trickle out until the next season but stay consistent for a long time. It battled Helldivers too along with Palworld. I love it so goddamn much and play every day though haha, I don’t know how I could ever play a basic first person shooter after this sort of destruction ever again
You all actually called Starfield a great game. The game was never great, it had a positive rating from hype mostly then once the majority of players actually got their hands on it they realized that it was a really hollow experience. The only good thing I could say about Starfield was that it was Bethesda's most polished launch.
Starfield was pretty cool till you got into it a bit and realized how uninteresting it truly was. Personally I uninstalled it.
For a Bethesda product it was definitely more of a 2 foot deep lake more than an immersive experience. I think the legit player feedback should help them optimize Elder Scrolls VI
Came here to say the same thing. Starfield was never great, even in its immediate reception. IGN gave it a 7 and got a lot of blow back but it honestly deserved lower. I've never laughed harder at npcs staring at me. Ending was cobbled together at the last second according to the lead story director. If I could un-play, it I would.
BGS’s least buggy game but the game was still full of bugs. 😂
@@weplayvrgamesIf I could un-play starfield and get a refund of my time, I would. I can't remember saying that about any other game in 32 years of gaming.
The thing is between 25 and 40% is average for over 99% of ALL GAMES.
The Last of us 2 has THE HIGHEST COMPLETION RATE IN SONY HISTORY... meaning of all the games that been released since the PS3 launch (when PSN and trophies started), more players have rolled credits on TLoU2 than ANY OTHER GAME...
*_But the completion rate is just under 60%..._*
So, when you consider that... A game having a completion rate of 25% is actually on the better side of average. Especially when you consider some of the most beloved games of all time are sitting around 35%.
I've played Skyrim 4 times without ever finishing them. Am I contributing to the statistics?
@@fajaradi1223same and yes we are
I finished it and I wish I hadnt played it at all
@@fajaradi1223 Yes. But that's kind of expected for a game like Skyrim. Vast games like that quite often go unbeaten.
It's also fair to mention that Skyrim has been a free PS-Plus game more than once... And it is/was on the "extra" tier for PS-Plus... And any game that has been given away for free or is on a Gamepass-like service will have very low completion rates because lots of folks dive into free games just to try them out, with no intention of ever actually completing it.
I actually think most people don't really finish games anymore..
I mean if you look at most games statistics of finishing them you start to notice that usually less than 30 percent a lot only have at 20 and under
Didn't really stop playing Starfield. I binge a few hours every Saturday.
Same, just booted up a new character
Still playing as well. Great game. And it’s going to be supported for the next ten years. Can’t wait to see what’s in store.
@@TheMusicolophile 🤣
I put a masochistic challenge on my head from the beginning of RDR2 and turned off aim assist completely. Went through the whole game and Marstons part like that. It took..a while, no doubt.
Oh, how many missions I failed and was tempted to turn it back on.
Nothing quite like one-shotting a bird out of the sky, using a pistol, without help, though, I'll tell ya.
Yeah you try Red dead 1 on Hardcore mode so much fun maxpayne 3 and The Warriers are also great on hardcore.
That's a crazy handicap wo the aim assist
@@lefengsterVLOG I couldn't keep it on, it made it feel too easy
The problem with Diablo IV is that each season has you starting back at lvl 1. So you gotta spend days or weeks grinding lvl's again if you do campaign skip. having to replay game from square 1 to do season stuff is likely reason why so many stopped, its hard to want to replay same stuff over and over like that.
I don't personally like that but I heard that's exactly what everybody else loved about seasons in Diablo III
My issue with that is in D3 they'd keep changing things and upping numbers to make builds better. D4, it's all of the most boring builds that become meta and no-one wants to bring it. I'd rather play a new D3 season STILL rather than a D4.
Many people love seasons, so this isn't the case at all. The game would be virtually dead right now if it didn't have seasons going. They are the only thing keeping it alive, unfortunately.
"The problem with Diablo IV is that it's NOT Diablo 2, same with Diablo 3 - it just isn't Diablo 2."
Diablo 2 is still untopped in terms of gameplay, replay-ability and sheer addictive strength.
All sequel D's are sad larps of a better title from a more civilized age.
Every ARPG season is like that. 🤦♂️
Forbidden West felt like it took forever, but I did all the side quests as well. Have to extremely disagree about Tilda being all that difficult of a boss though.
I agree. Tilda was way too easy for a final boss. I beat her on my first try and barely took any damage. I'm a decently skilled player, but I'm nothing special. It was disappointing after how challenging a lot of the game was.
Technically Tilda wasn’t the final boss. The Horus fight in the Burning Shores DLC is. That fight was hard. Tilda was a cakewalk in comparison.
It just wasn't very good. The plot was dumb. The writing poor. The game-play mechanics were decent. I'd probably give it a 75% because of the shitty story and writing.
I knew a lot of people who enjoyed streaming The Finals. Now half of them are playing Helldivers II and the other half are browsing indie titles.
I spent HOURS in Forbidden West/Burning Shores, and will go back and play the whole thing again. Did a ton of sidequests. I guess we all like different stuff. Speaking of which…. I enjoyed Starfield - a LOT. I get that not everyone did, and I hear their cries - but those that didn’t play through and get to New Game Plus missed a truly fun experience. I will keep going back to this one too.
It took me years to beat Red Dead 2. I would get wrapped up in the world, put it down for a while and just keep repeating that.
I stopped playing Fall Guys when they locked everyone out of their trophies and made everyone start over again with a new list. I had two left for the platinum. Once they reset it, I never went back.
I stopped playing after a couple weeks cuz it got repetitive and boring
It takes me longer to beat a game because I always have to go to work.
Thats me too. Only time i get the tv alone is late at night and then i gota decide if i wanna play a game for an hr or two or catch up on my tv shows that the gf wont watch with me lol
i dont work. i play video games all day every day. my backlog of games i want to play continues to grow. if they stopped making games entirely i still wouldnt be able to play every game i want to before i die.
I don't play MP only, so those games are not even a blip on my radar.
The same applies to live services. A game that i can't play in full total 5 years later is irrelevant to me, so any game with seasons can drop dead for all i care.
So that leaves SP, the heart and soul of gaming, and those i will always get...even if it takes me more than 6 years to do so (i still buy, play and finish games released more than 15 years ago).
I'm a video game fan, not a video game addict.
Same here i still buy old games not into that online only crap that has no point. Started going thru Resistance fall of man on ps3 again. Also ive never cared about trophies i just play for fun. Kids these days think its the end of the world when they lose in a game lol my nephew recently punched his tv and broke it cuz he lost in fortnite and had to learn what it costs to replace a tv cuz he had to use his own money to replace it. Smh personally if he was my kid he would be going without games for a while to learn how not to act like a jackass cuz you lose at a game
Most of these aren't what I'd call "great" games so the fact that a steep drop-off happened checks out.
That’s crazy, how tf could anyone start RDR2 and not finish it?!
Thanks for mentioning end game bosses and counts of them with no clear way to skip ahead on the timeline. i loved the spoilers
I think the last game I played and fully completed the story was RDR2.. And maybe God of War.
Are gaming channels paid to say Starfield was good?
Yes. Less so these days. I guess the money has run out.
I tried twice to play it. So fucking boring
You dont play games indefinitely. I dont see why these numbers are a surprise, you play a game and move on. I go back when theres dlc or when i feel like a replay
Especially single player games
Because clicks
Your cool lol 😊
Destiny, Dragonball Xenoverse 2, and Fortnite have entered the chat
I'm still playing Tetris , super Mario world, donkey Kong Country, Mercenaries, THUG......fam, games get played for decades if they are good enough
I always complete my games, unless it gets ridiculously hard and needs days and weeks of "getting good" to learn the gameplay by muscle memory.
It is simply not worth it because of the stress involved and I play games to have fun, not to get more stressed over a mode/challenge I can't beat for the Platinum trophy or 100% trophy list.
Exactly how I feel about Doom 2016 & even more so Doom Eternal...
Look fantastic, sound amazing but when the gameplay is so damn repetitive or the case of Eternal an absolute ball buster it just becomes a frustrating mess over an enjoyable experience, just can't be bothered to continue 🙃
Love doom but ill agree i dont like spending hours trying to figure out where to go lol should have a map that tells u the next spot u need to get to. Lol
@@jarredkrum9894referring more to the changes to the combat system, level design in 2016 was great but gameplay wise it's nowhere near as entertaining as what you can get with Doom 2, although that's thanks to the modding community. Slaughter maps & just amazingly well designed WADs outshine any Bethesda let id Software put together.
Biggest gripes are how underwhelming & frustrating Eternal is, maps more "open for exploration" didn't do anything for me, game's just bored the hell out of me.
Ive been playing the Resistance series again now thats an enjoyable game. Kill me some aliens lol but yeah hard to outdo doom2
The Finals just dropped season 2 and it's amazing.
Jess, that under 9000 line was incredible and savage and lovely all at the same time
Something to remember regarding Starfield's fallen player count compared to Skyrim's is that Skyrim has the benefit of over a decade of mods. The Creation Kit (necessary for creating most mods) for Starfield hasn't been released yet. I'd wager that once the CK is released and the modding community gets going properly a lot of players will go back to it. That's really what I'm waiting for. There's the bones of a decent game there but the modders need the CK to actually put it together.
Skyrim in it's worst state was still better then Starfield. The reason mods made Skyrim better is because it was already pretty good. Starfield doesn't have that advantage. Mods aren't going to save it.
I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, but you posted this a week early. It’s a creative idea to post a list of games that outperformed 98% of games on player retention, providing the evidence for such while comedically framing it as the opposite conclusion using out of context statements, but it’s important that you drop the video at the right time and clarify it is an April Fools gag.
I can confirm as someone going through forbidden west right now. Its not the difficulty spike. the forbidden west story gets painful to want to complete after a while and the gameplay loop is not hugely satisfying since after a while since alot of the game just feels like you are trying to get the machines to stop spazzing out more than going for strategic hits. the final boss is more tedious than difficult.
Ive never played any of these games but JUST started the Halo Infinte campaign with friends. I havent played since 4 but it feels pretty good.
To be fair, I'm one of those who doesn't finish games. I enjoy the journey more than the destination and will get distracted by anything and everything before I get too far along the main story.
Have you ever just got in your car with someone and picked a direction and drove that way for hours with no destination?
Bro tried to sneak in Starfailed💀
Yeah, After naming the compilation "GREAT games that everyone stopped playing" i expected great games on the list and here we are at second place with shittiest game of the whole list
@@Spr0ket as soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew someone with an IQ in the single digits made this video💀
It's no stranger that what culture gaming actually enjoyed that game. And that's perfectly okay. Because taste is subjective and this is their channel so they're entitled to their subjective taste and their subjective lists. They don't have to conform to what everyone else thinks. That's not how taste works.
@@OversoulGaming taste isn’t subjective, no. Not in this case. Dogshit is considered to both be disgusting and unacceptable to eat, same goes for playing games with such an abhorrent lack of quality as Starfailed, Suicide Squad, or Dragon’s Dogma 2.
@@Tarnished-bn5gq"It's not opinion if it's MY opinion." There, I fixed your bullshit take for you
I remember finishing returnal, then going into my trophy-list seeing that it had stopped tracking anything after the second boss. I loved the game but that pissed me of so much I havent gone back.
Hey WhatCulture! I enjoy your videos as they are different from other gaming videos. My only gripe is the video quality. I have been watching the videos for quite a while but I do wish you would improve the video quality. It does not look so good running at 1080p.
I'm level 200+ in RDR2 online, but still have to finish Chapter 6 and the epilogue...lol
That's sad
I've got like 1400 hrs into RDR2 and Only like 30mins of that is online.
Finally decided to put RDR2 down today and play Ghost Of Tsushima director's cut.
Red dead 2 had a drop off because 1) not a lot of us wanted to go through losing another dope MC like in Read Dead and 2) Rocksteady showed little love to Read Dead online
Damn, the Arkham games dev did the online for RDR2? That seems odd. Obviously I know what you meant, but it's a funny slip.
Not accurate at all. RDR2 online is literally the reason why people did not finish the campaign.
@@atasteofreality609 if people played RDO it doesn’t negate what I said about it not getting nearly as much attention as GTA online. So not sure what you’re trying to get at but yea you’re right, that’s kinda why I mentioned online in the first place…
@@DiggThePump yet you literally made it your second factor
@@atasteofreality609 you’re either incapable of reading at this point, trolling, or just being pedantic because you’re repeating what I’m saying each previous text. Nice try at trolling though
As you guys said in other videos - Diablo 4's problem was the patch that nerfed the players attack and defense - which heavily pissed off the fanbase.
Diablo 4's problem is that people did not learn their lesson from Diablo 3. That lesson being?
Blizz cannot recreate the D2 magic, because each effort is less like Diablo and more like WOW.
Most of these games couldn't die fast enough!
Forbidden West lore and pacing were a let down compared to Zero Dawn. It dragged so much that I set it to easy mode and pressed ahead!
Sneaking suspicion that they included starfield on the thumbnail just for the rage clicks
Some high tier marketing.
I got to NG+10 in Starfield and stopped. Basically waiting for updates now.
Starfields issue for me were the bugs I wouldve been beaten the game past the point where I became a Jedi warrior without a lightsaber. But when I racked up a high bounty and a bug didn't allow me to pay it and all I could do was start the game over....that's the moment I uninstalled the game
I haven't finished forbidden west myself. I will though. I think the problem is they disconnected so much from aloy that she just doesn't feel as connected to the player as she did in the first game. The side characters seem to have the familiar aspects. But aloy just doesn't have that connectivity that she did in the first game. I find myself actually disliking her more then sympathing with her in this one.
A friend put it best: You just went out and expored in Bethesda titles, always finding new things and Starfield becomes with the need for fast travel linear (only twenty or so planets Bethesda properly worked on?)
I'm somewhat fascinated by the Returnal discourse. I'm by no means a highly skilled gamer, but I didn't find the game to be too difficult. I got the game at launch and beat it (defeated the final boss for the first time) within 17 hours of gameplay and after 15 deaths. Now, the game is arguably easier since you can suspend your game without worry and they added co-op, yet I see a lot of new players on the subreddit continually be frustrated by the difficulty. I understand getting annoyed by the RNG you have to grind for the true ending and platinum trophy, but just beating the game once isn't that hard.
Kinda surprised you didn't mention 'Multiversus'. Good game, but it took a steep dip despite it being an open beta game...and then its said to release later on this year, so who knows if that's going to happen?
Returnal started to feel like a chore. When you die you start over from the start of the game making it a grind to even get back to the point where you died. I traded in the game shortly after beating the first boss.
I'm sorry but starfield wasnt a great game
Got bored very quickly 😂
Absolutely mid
Any game with Emil P as the lead writer is absolute trash, it's why I refuse to play Skyrim.
I'll give you good but unreasonably buggy. The bugs are what made me quit...
Yeah, agree. Starfield is firmly in the meh middle category.
Returnal is underrated
No it wasnt with all due respect because a lot of people in the world KNEW about the game's existence and played it. Meaning it sold very well on the deverlopers finances. So no that dint make it as an underated because an underated games would be a game that doesnt fullfil the two requesite i have mention we
@@christiamcruz7454 well, you’re absolutely wrong. It’s sold under 900,000 copies to date so yes it was/is highly underrated.
@@atasteofreality609 which is was considered SUCCESS for Housespark. So i'll have to disagree with you on this account. If You think about it you dont even know the definition of "underated".
Good Vid. Enjoyed going into player numbers, both during the release, and again during the fall.
I think its funny how I still go back to games that I played years ago because of the variety within the game on launch and developers these days can't keep players engaged without season passes. Its weird how much gaming has changed over the last 20 years. I still haven't purchased a season pass or a DLC. Which I always thought were a waste of money.
Guess I'm showing my age with that statement.
I actually beat Sean in Sifu as a fluke and didn't go back for a while due to life. I need to remedy that.
I am afraid there is a fundamental fallacy in using completion or progress statistics to determine a games player count, at least in the case of RDR2.
6 years on, I still play it frequently, however, I make no effort to progress the story. The fact is I, like most gamers, am aware of where Arthur's story is going. I am extremely emotionally invested in Arthur and many of the other gang members. Arthur's demise, though I know it is coming, is going to break me. I am perilously close to that point in the story and deliberately do not pursue finishing it.
I spend hours just playing in the immersive world, pursuing enjoyable experiences that do not advance the story. I hunt. I fish. I go and have full nights on the town. I will go to town, have a bath and clean up, visit the barber for a shave and haircut, dress up and go have dinner in a nice restaurant, go see a show, go shopping. I also will ride into town, hit a saloon, have a bar fight or just interact with NPCs.
The fact is, the world is so well realized, I can live in it without progressing the story to it's heartbreaking conclusion. I know a number of others that do the same.
The game is still being played. Completion stats are a poor metric, in this case, to determine player numbers.
That isn't the only metric they are using to come to this determination. And, honestly, these guys have to pump out videos every day to stay relevant, so they have to reach on a good portion of them. It's just a way for them to keep pushing out content and keep revenue going. I wouldn't read too much into it.
I stopped playing 'RDR2' because I don't know how to play poker at the riverboat-casino...couldn't get pass that part
I liked Starfield, but I don't play it right now because I moved on to other stuff while waiting on the Shattered Space DLC.
"Free to Play" severely cheapened HALO, imo. A franchise that was already struggling since 343 took over and continuously messed it up. Making it free-to-play put the nail in the coffin. And now Infinite is being abandoned for the next game lol
I can honestly say, I too have never finished any of those games, either. Of course, I have never played any of those games...
Halo infinite is making a minor comeback, so saying noone plays it is crazy.
No, it isn't
@@NxtDoc1851I mean, did you see his name. You're shocked he commented this?
The second boss in Returnal was 100% the hardest boss.. I got the plat trophy too, and he still haunts me..
Also SIFU had a 2 (or 3?) hour demo on PS+ Premium. I made it to the second area in that time, so that drop off could be helped by the demo. And yes you can earn trophies because it’s the full game just limited to the defined playtime.
No game could be so good, it wouldn´t get boring after a while...Not even recall when I last finished a game
I’m part of the Returnal crew but not because of difficulty ,at first Returnal had no way of saving progress whatsoever I was gathering keys for the 5th stage almost done with the second half of the game and after surviving a locked room with waves of enemies the game glitched would not recognize I beat the waves would not release the key or let me leave the room I closed the game and couldn’t muster the Will to play again for years now I’ll pop in occasionally maybe one day I’ll finish it it’s a lot better now you can save👌🏾
Beat Horzion Forbidden West, i enjoyed it. Got the DLC on sale. I haven't finished it yet. Tilda really wasn't hard for me. The only other one i played was RDR2. I bought the hard copy and played for 10 mins and, for some reason, never went back to play it. idk why. I'm in my 40s and work full-time overnights, so most of the time sleep overrules gaming. COD Mw3 is what i mostly play now. Just for the ease of hopping in and out of games. Do a few matches get my fix or game for hours. It's smooth and not a lot of wait time. Although mechanics and weapon balancing are infuriating, sometimes overall ease of use separates this for me.
I actually uninstalled Starfield after it took me 5-10 minutes of loading screens and cinematics to get toward my next spot in the campaign, only to find out I couldn't make the last jump because I didn't have enough fuel. That, and I was 2/3 through the game, and still didn't care.
I guess I'm watching Jules too much. I've been thinking recently about an OLD Sega Genesis game "Buck Rogers Countdown to doomsday". I remember loving that one and wonder if there are any SciFi PC games today like it.
Man I only have time to play on the weekends(barely). My work hours are wild.
I spent an evening playing Returnal with a friend and thought it was fantastic! Sadly roguelikes arent for me so once we got killed by the first boss and sent back to the beginning i just felt deflated. Great game though
Starfield was a great game on it's own, but expectations were very high. It was fallout in space which was so much fun, but Bethesda sold it as something more which is probably why it has so many negative comments
I feel like anyone who started Red Dead 2 and didn't finish it may be clinically insane...although I didn't want to finish it simply because it was so damn depressing.
I'm not insane I just don't like the western setting enough to continue.
I tried three times on a fully patched RDR 2 to reach the first point where saving is allowed and it kept hitting a game breaking bug.
How is deceive inc not on this list?
Starfield was one of those "we'll force you to like it" game when everyone in the world knows they would've rather had another Fallout or Elder Scrolls title!
you promised 10 great games and then come with likes of Diablo 4 and Starfield. Misleading title. Those are hyped games, but far from great, that is why their player count tanked.
Most of the data collected comes from Steam only.
I can't understand how Horizon Forbidden West is on this list. Beating Tilda was not as difficult as this video claims. Like everything else in the game, it comes down to what coils you're using on your weapons and gear and make sure you that you have a lot of crafting resources for crafting ammo. Tilda was a hit, dodge, hit dodge tactic to defeat her. Oh, the Wings of the Ten Blast Sling with high damage coils is your best friend in the Tilda boss fight. The list should have put God of War 2018 and the Sigrun boss fight or Rangarok's boss battle with Gna since those two bosses are straight up more difficult than Forbidden West's boss battle against Tilda.
I beat Sifu pretty easily. The last 2 bosses are insanely hard, but not impossible
most of those big open world games are good but if you finished it and got most of the completion done, there's no reason to go back since you spend +100 hrs or more. you can start new game plus later on but need a break.
seeing fall guys...fall...is sad, i love playing it so much during its early days.
Amazing video what culture gaming,fantastic job and I love star field should get back into soon,probably play it on the weekend too also halo infinite too.
I only stopped playing Starfield because one of my main storyline quests bugged and I couldn’t progress
I really don't understand how can one ignore completing rdr2 tbh game was too short for me i want more
I still have to play Horizon Zero Dawn yet, never mind Horizon Forbidden West. I own both, just my time is so fleeting and newer games just keep coming out, my backlog just keeps growing and I fear I'll never catch up and I'll likely be dead before I can actually get through things lol...
Alas for The Division, I will go back and play it one day (the single player campaign, at least) but since the servers already went offline for The Division 1 and it's likely they will soon enough for The Division 2, welp.
The final boss in Horizon Forbidden West was easy! I beat her on my first try and barely took any damage. This isn't a brag. I was legitimately disappointed that the game didn't have a more challenging final boss. I'm a decent gamer, but there are probably millions of players more skilled than me.
Starfield is not a great game.
I don't get why saun was seen as so difficult if you learn his small moves he is by far the easiest.
I'm still playing rdr2 probably on 20th playthrough , but if people can't even finish the story then don't complain why they won't add dlcs etc. .
Y’all put Starfield on this list with a straight face and expected us to not fry y’all in the comments.
Like Red Dead 2, Horizon Forbidden West is super easy to just end up playing in the open world.
Nice list. Please make list of "A game so bad it is good".
I mean, gone are the days where you have to beat the game just to watch the final cutscene, and people are so friggin' weird nowadays, they buy these games (usually paying good money), just to later RUclips gameplay footage to watch someone else play it. Baffling if you ask me.
Nobody just stops playing great games. If it’s a great game people will keep playing them.
Even at 9000 players, starfield still has 200% more players than Suicide Squad
rdr2 drop off attributed to the existence of online, while drop off isn't what happened, what actually happened is people got it for the online so many players but more online than single player lol
That's crazy as single player is the best aspect.
I surprised Pal World only got mentioned as helping to kill The Finals and didn't get its own entry on the list.
Diablo 4 and almost all sports games are coming to game pass on Xbox; if they're not already on there. All new EA sports games were 85% off yesterday. That's all you need to know about the state of gaming.
This is about 92% of any game I play, everything feels repetitive, so no draw to go back to so many things.
I will admit that I just stopped playing RDR2. Didn't even get particularly far, just to the first town, lol.
RDR2 just got tossed to the side by rockstar, feel like most people could see it wasn’t gonna last even from the beginning. Sad to say cause it’s a great game, just never got the support from rockstar it should’ve had!