Shovelware - The Causes and Consequences of Bad Licensed Games - Extra Credits
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2014
- Games based on popular movies or books often turn out to be disappointing for fans of the original material. These poorly made cash-in games often spend most of their budget buying a brand license and then rush through development in order to match release deadlines. Especially now when they are moving to the growing mobile and handheld markets, their poor quality leaves a potential new base of consumers with a bad impression of games.
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"when there's an exciting, short term gain staring you in the face, sometimes it's hard to see the long term damage you're doing. Even if it's to yourself." That's like, every problem in the world right there.
That's pretty much what they say in a highly regarded econ book: "Economics in one Lesson"
That and only looking at a smaller group of people, and not the whole
Thinking about the mobile games market literally make me sick. It sucks that a lot of people are going to grow up thinking that that is what gaming is, and how it should be, F2P, Microtransactions etc.. Out of the hundreds of thousands of mobile games, there's maybe 10 that are actually worthwhile.
Star Trek: Texels. Perfect example of a terrible mobile game.
This is why I don't get involved with stuff like that. Traditional is the way to go but even elements of F2P are seeping into those slowly as well.
I completely disagree with you, NO ONE WILL THINK THAT THE BEST OF GAMING IS JUST ON MOBILE. Everyone I know who play mobile games are aware that games on Pc, Xbox One and Ps4 are better. No one is saying "Mobile games are the best games out there!".
It is like saying that McDonald is the best food out there, everyone is aware that there are better alternatives but more people don't care and why should they?If they want to eat at McD then that's fine and if they want to only play games on mobile then that's fine.
If you go to Best Buy, GameStop, Game, or any other video game retailer they are selling XBoxs, PS4s, and 3DS games! They are demoing their games there! People see them all the time. You don't see mobile games getting a huge space like those others do you?
People are do not think that mobile games are the best of the best, what you are worrying about does not exist. Some people can not afford or refuse to buy consoles or one reason or another and they play mobile. Some people are not into games that much and will play mobile games, that might actually bring more people into gaming!
Yeah but eventually I bet they'll get tired of that and go get a 3DS, or Xbox or anything for that matter.
***** I don't know if you were talking to me but I was talking to gnarkillguch with my comment and I apologies if you thought I was referring to you.
But my comment mention that there must be some people who are getting into gaming through mobile but are you sure that there are people who want to? If I am watching summer blockbusters in movie theaters will I try to watch movie classics? or look for something more Symbolic/intellectual? I have doubts.
If people want to take the next step into gaming and buy a console or pc that's great! If they want to just play mobile games then its fine too.
Shovel knight music at the end.... I see what you did there....
I was about to comment that :p
Me too LoL :D
Lol
A video about Shovelware ends with a Shovel Knight Remix.
Is that just a random pun?
+FanNintendo98 I SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE.
I would not have realized that on my own. I need to play video games more often
+Unoriginal Brony yeah because it is shovelwear
I am kidding
Possibly
Yes I am
That credits song was so clever
ikr
*Is compelled to play more Shovel Knight*
it's funny because that game is DEFINITELY not shovel ware
Whats even more clever is that i've never even played or heard the music in Shovel Knight and i recognised where the music was from immediately after seeing your comment.
Somehow I knew they'd use _Shovel Knight_.
I grew up on licensed games, mostly because when my parents went to buy me games at a young age the things they would pick up would usually be things they thought and knew I liked. Luckily for the most part I got fairly real games, like ones from the lego starwars series and the chronicles of Narnia game, and a harry potter game which was actually my first open world title. I kinda lucked out, but every now and then I got something horrible, unforgivable, yet those never turned me off to games. I think licensed titles are great for early gamers like I was, but shovelware can totally destroy that, and could've destroyed me in all honesty.
Lego games are fucking masterpieces though they are for kids
omg... we might have grown up on the exact games.... except I also had Diablo 1
Calvin Moehlman I had the pleasure of playing Megaman X7 as one of my first unlicensed games. You better bet I went back to my lego starwars's after that shit.
+Amiibo Charles BURN TO THE GROUND!
The original Cars game was a pretty neat open world experience
So *THIS* is why mobile games are horrid.
And their ads
Someday they will be good
@@blade1716 Press X to doubt.
Depends on the game. If it's a freemium game it's almost guaranteed to be bad, but the paid games I've played GTA, Civ 2 and 6 are decent.
Two freemium games that are decent: RuneScape and Albion Online.
The shovelware problem is not just a standalone problem about the games industry itself, it is everywhere whenever quick greed in commerce collide with development, it exists in websites, software, hardware, toys, and sometimes even bloody residential buildings. As a serviced office clerk, I've seen it hard.
Spongebob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom was a good game.
Remake is coming!!!
@@teu009 When is that happening? I've been hearing about that for what seems like forever but I've seen nothing but a demo in the past year
Party the release date is out, I forgot when tho
June 23rd
Nvm guys it's coming out in like a month
Wait... "grow up on Minecraft"? Am I too old for this show?
Considering Extra Credits is targeted at people in the game development industry, no. You might be too young for the show actually.
q306005
He meant people who grow up on Minecraft should be 5-14 years now.
SUGAR PEAS!
TalesOfGamerz
I'm 16 and i grew up with Counter strike 1.6, half life, Mortal Kombat and GTA VC. so i think that you're overestimating a bit.
siy202 Counter Strike still exists? The boys played that back in middle school, I'm 23 now. I was almost positive everyone moved over to CoD. You're the exception, most guys your age have no freaking idea what most of those games are, except GTA.
The irony is that these descriptions of Shovelware apply completely to many games today made by developer's own titles
I remember my little sister spending $40 on “Barbies puppy rescue” and played twice while at the same time I bought sims 4 and I have sunken 2,000+ hours into it
Sims 4 is garbage, go play Sims 3 with all expansion packs (that are actually good) like a real man/whamen
40 DOLLARS?!??!??!?
Video is about Shovelware
**Ends with Shovel Knight Music**
As someone born in the early 0's I grew up with a lot of shovel ware.
*LIKE ALOT*
I don't think I have any ps2 games that don't have "the game" at the end of them.
haha same as me. I remember transformers the game
I was born in the 2000's and I grew up on games such as Pokemon, The Legend of Zelda and Red Alert 2 (which I stole from my older brother).
I learned from a young age that existing franchise based games were usually crap, even though most of the licensed games I actually played were actually really good: the Lego Starwars games, the THQ nickelodeon games, and even Stuart Little 2 was really great. Regardless, the logic led me to getting some pretty great underappreciated games like "Zapper" and "The Adventures of Cookie and Cream" and even the appreciated classics like "Jak and Daxter" and the Sly games.
Bay Laugh Shrek 2 game is amazing.
Ninja lemur
Also a pretty good movie game, especially with friends
oh haha 6 years later this is even bigger with false advertising so that "trickle" is now a tsunami
2014 video: shovelwares getting worse
2019 gamer: you mean like Battlefront 2?
2014 gamer: na that was a good game
2019 gamer: oh just wait...
That moment when you see Final Fantasy XV A New Empire and realize its literally just a clone of Game of War and Mobile Strike... it even uses the same mini game ad that has nothing to do with the game just to try and draw you in!
I am still weepinig for the Harry Potter videogame series. They started out being actually fun games. Then something happened and they turned into a series of badly directed cutscenes interrupted by repetitive, boring chores with the rare exceptional moment that was kinda fun.
Levene Gál but then Harry Potter hogwarts mystery came out and we where happy
What is that? I haven't heard of it.
That's a terrible example. That game contains immense amounts of microtransactions.
aidanplayseverything I've tried it and it's mildly interesting until you realize you have to wait in the middle of a task to wait for the energy to refill. It's really infuriating since the tasks have a deadline.
Yeah, I think he was being ironic.
*Video about shovel ware*
*Shovel Knight theme as end credits song*
I see what you did there...
I wish there were more sources for mobile game reviews, or a curated app store for them. Right now mobile games are a bit of a gamble weather they're good, fun games or rushed micro transaction boxes.
I can confirm that shovelware and greedy monetization have driven me from the mobile gaming market entirely. I don't even bother looking at mobile games anymore - years of going back hoping things had improved has taught me better. I spend a good bit of cash on games every year and will as long as I am able... But nobody on mobile is getting a cent.
Except for Nintendo Switch devs... That thing is freaking great.
Adam Smith there are mobile games that are good coming out each year
I still consider Sonic Boom Shovelware.
+Catty Mintgum Well, it is based on a TV series, so...
+Catty Mintgum steam is full of shovel ware so is wii so was the NES, IP buying works sometimes, should Nintendo buy Sonic team then it would be in good hands with plenty of resources that can be utilized.shovelware the opposite of this is Sega and gearbox with Aliens colonial Marines
***** its clear that whether Sega likes it or not, Sonic boom needs as much polish as classic Sonic.
***** that's what I meant, don't give it to a LJN or a bad dev. and instead polish it up, Nintendo wont release a game if it is not up to par.
+Catty Mintgum it is
Shovel knight music in the outro
Shovelware
Puns am i right
Episode about Shovelware ends with a Shovel Knight soundtrack. I see what you did there.
I was born in 95, and growing up I was given a Gamecube. There were like three games I remember from those days: Ice Age, Over the Hedge, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. Ice Age (metacritic: 67) and Over the Hedge (metacritic: 61) were passable at best, I haven't played them in so long, so I can't say I have an opinion. But Hot Pursuit 2 was enthralling. But eventually I lost interest, and I went for several years not playing any games until 2011 when my friends got me into Minecraft, which I played exclusively for about 2-3 years until I started trying other games. That's when I became fascinated with games as a media. And now I have finished several dozen different games... I couldn't even quantify it for you.
So yes, if my only introduction to games had been those first Gamecube games, I would have never gotten into gaming in any sort of serious way. Thankfully, I had awesome friends and the internet.
You guys just gained a subscriber just because you included a character with vitiligo at minute 3:49.
This little detail that for many could be irrelevant made me feel recognised and appreciated as one who has vitiligo.
Vitiligo has so little exposure on social media even if 1% of the world population suffers from that!
Thanks guys 💕
Did someone say RAID SHADOW LEGENDS?
We do not speak of it's name...
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0:22 This illustration is just perfect.
So in simple minutes you explained the reason that I used to play games love then, but my sister who used to play Barbie games simple don't care about games.
Yeah.... It's getting better....
Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, even Final Fantasy sold out to the mobile market for a cheap cash grab....
It's both painful and horrifying to see that so many popular franchises have generic awful cashgrab games in the playstore
Shovelware is why the developer of E.T. for the Atari 2600 only got six weeks to program the game before it was supposed to be out the door.
+Michael Mangi (theblackdog) lol true
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS is a license free shovel wear
That's more of a Genre based shovelware rather than licensed based.
The shovel knight music at the end got me
Shovelware ironically is not what shovel knight is...
+Jack Briggs I was really expecting a Shovel Knight joke in here.
Those guys must think we’re stupid. I think in Japan, quality control rules are stricter than in America. That’s why a lot of games produced in Japan (including licensed titles, lots of anime-style or based off games sadly some exclusive there but a lot of them) are so great. Japan doesn’t seem to put in strict deadlines or wants it on shelves as soon as possible regardless of condition of the game, they actually care about quality. Publishers should be punished for putting out garbage or quote-on-quote: “cash grabs”. That consequence is......... Negative Reviews or Reputation Damaging! Losing Money or maybe poor sales because no one wants that shit! Take responsibility! Care about quality! Let’s punish those publishers! Let’s invent a PayBot and everything can go a person or company’s way! (If it’s to amaze, not to disappoint) Thank god the trend is like almost completely dead in the console and PC industry! I wish I could say the same for mobile games. Too much freeware (all countries are suffering from greed) and too much paywalls! Put an end to that practice! Shovelware is the greatest offense to the gaming industry as a whole and needs to be stopped! Punish greedy companies and award hard-working quality-assuring companies who put real effort and time into it! Quality reigns supreme!!!
I worked on one such project for one month as an internship (I was getting paid). One day the owner, in the middle of the office , in a fit of rage (I couldn't stick to his unrealistic timeline, 1 android game every 5 days in unity) Let me know that I was not good enough and he a non developer could do a better job. I was in tears (Not then and there, later when i was own my own). My best friend consoled me though over the phone. Even though It's been some years now, That day I won’t forget.
@John Doe At that time. I really thought I was being incompetent and it was my fault. Today I know better though.
I would totally play "Frasier: Backyard Wrestling".
I know! as long as Maris was a selectable character.
Cheers is an unlockable arena
Yeah, but she'd have to be hidden first. haha
Give it to Capcom. Fraiser vs. Seinfeld.
Liam J Fraiser X Seinfeld : Heritage for the Nothing
From my experience informing peers works about 30% of the time.
Because the typical response is "It can't be that bad and besides its only $1" and they keep ignoring me.
It is quite true that you don't lose much if 1 dollar game is shitty. The worse thing is, that if enough people buy a shitty product, even at that low price, they will be able to put out more shit. People should think further than "do I care if I spend 1 dollar on bullshit".
Its unfortunately the same as the "my vote wont affect anything" mentality where people assume they're the ONLY one who thinks that and doesn't consider the MILLIONS of others who think that too.
Funny, when I hear. "Informing peers." It usually means friends and family. You have to have a position of power or great oratory skills to actually give advice to common individuals and have it respected.
30% of the time is more then 0% of the time =D
And on the side note. I don't vote for votings sake. If there are two politicians running, and I don't like or dislike either of them, I don't vote.
Daniel Brinkerhoff
There's alot more to it than not voting. People will vote for the politicians you don't like. It's important to keep people accountable. The real movers and shakers in the world are the people, and if the people want to destroy their world, they'll do it, unless the people can stop them.
Im glad my parents grew up as gamers and know what is shovelware games. For my cousins on the other hand... they have a lot of Wii Shovelware.
Talking about Wii shovelware.... It is 2018.... i still see Wii games on the store shelves. The shovelware ones at least.
Oli Olive I had a Wii too while growing up. Luckily my family had great history on video games, thus they kept me away from most of the shovelware that plagued the platform.
Charles Campuz I had a Wii too, and never had WiiWare bought for me
Moble Mafia City anyone? Its got 1 star and still bombards me with adds
that's how the mafia works
If only he knew then how true the statement that "Shovelware might be causing more damage" is. Gosh the intense foreshadowing. AAA industry anyone?
They never listened, and they even lowered the standards so everybody is making shovelware. AAA industry is now brutally beaten by indie developers for large... $15 game is now much more fun than $60 games in general, which is a shame for the whole industry somehow.
Ok, but I would play Frasier Backyard Wrestling.
You can't tell me you don't want to play frasier backyard wrestling
Who remembers parents bringing home terrible games for Christmas and ur just disappointed but gotta look happy about it.
that what happend to my friend!!!
i remeber that his first game was a bad batman and he hated gaming soo much
till i forced him to play super mario and he just cant stop playing games! his even a bigger gamer then i am!
shovelware is really a bad thing that need to be stopped
You did a good thing!
Has your friend heard of batman arkham series
Good job sir!
xlegomatteox exactlly
today the compines are HUGE so the develpers and ceo's are in a different level
ceo doesnt care about what the develepers think about the game or what tester say about it
its all about the cash
this thing cannot be stopped and i bet it will only rise
theres nothing we can do about it as gamers even if we unite
because theres alot of gamers that arent connected to the community or just doesnt care about whats going on
and @Steve Verduzco
he played the shit out of it
Nice words of wisdom bomboy2121 and I'm glad your friend enjoy the Batman arkham series
There are also those games that are intended to look like another game that is good so dumb kids will download them or unknowing parents will get them for their kids.
Shovel Knight music at the end; I see what you did there.
the thing that is worse than shovelware based on upcoming movies is shovelware based on upcoming games.
@1:35
I would play Frasier Backyard Wrestling.
Who wouldn't?
3:50 I love how you take the time to portray every sort of person. Vitaligo gets very little recognition and its gratifying to see such a nonchalant inclusion of it here.
darkshard117 I’m not gonna lie, I thought he was dirty because of the “shovel ware”.
Here is another piece of shovelware: War Robots.
In the catastrophic update that happened about a year ago, three new robots were introduced. These three robots broke the old meta instantly. These 200$(yes, I am not joking) robots could fulfill every combat role and were capable of doing so better than any other robot in the game. People of course began to buy these robots. There was no good way of getting them otherwise back then, making the game nearly unplayable.
They earned a lot of money, so they of course they hired more devs to pump out content faster. So, after a short period of time, they released a new 100$ weapon that broke the meta once more. Players complained and complained. At last, they made these weapons and robots available to non-payers, but it took a long time to obtain the new items.
As more and more stuff was purchased, they began pumping out content faster and faster. They completely ignored players on the test server, as they only saw money. Test servers used to excite players, but nowadays, it just worries the player base. They regularly pumped out unbalanced weapons to get more money.
At some point, they got so much money they began sponsoring youtubers in an effort to advertise the game to get more players, thus meaning more money.
They realized that few were actually buying the items, so they made a propaganda. They said that they would decrease the item cost and make stuff easier to obtain at the penalty of higher upgrading costs and longer upgrading times. When the patch hit, very few items lived up to the propaganda, and the massively increased upgrade times and cost came with a hidden silver and WR royale token nerf, so it would be a absolute nightmare to upgrade it. They got a few panicked buys from it, and they considered it to be worth it.
They made many new year promises. Only a few of them have been fulfilled.
They used to censor players complaining about the game to hide its true nature, but they stopped as they knew that they can’t really do much to stop it.
Some time later, the players got to know that the old company actually sold the game to mail.ru. They simply developed the game under the mask of the former company.
The old company saw the catastrophy unfold, and decided to make a similar game with better everything. They went under a new name, namely “RED BUTTON” (all capital, no quotation marks). The new game is called “battle of titans”, If you would like to play it.
So far the new game is far from throwing War robots off its throne. But it will happen eventually.
Mail.ru figured it out, and is now stealing features from the new game to add onto War Robots. They really don’t want their biggest income to dissipate.
War robots is good!!!!!!
lol at 1:38 the "c" in backyard is missing
ET for the Atari 2600 perfectly demonstrates what they are talking about. Atari spent 20 million dollars for the license at the of July. The film was already out, so Atari shot for a Christmas release instead. To leave enough time for all the physical carts too be made, the game had to be finished by September 1st, leaving only about a *single* month to actually program the game.
Even Steven Spielberg was... less than impressed with the result the first time he saw it, and suggested they just rip off Pac-Man instead. However, Atari moved forward, and dumped the half finished product onto store shelves. The results were a disaster, with the game only selling a fourth of the carts produced, and a lot of those were returned to Atari. The game was the straw that broke consumer's confidence in video games, a confidence that wouldn't return until Nintedo hoodwinked consumers and toy companies into believing the NES was a robot toy. No seriously, they packaged the first NES's with the "Robotic Operating Buddy" (aka ROB from Smash and Mario Kart) to hide the fact it was a video game console, since no toy store was willing to stock another video game console after the crash (there had been literally dozens of consoles trying to compete with the Atari 2600 before the industry tanked).
Please don't make bad things so cute. The shovel is so cute, it makes it hard to think of it as bad.
0:39 I know it's like four years after this video came out, but I really love the Derpware box. Reminds me a lot of Gir. It's not stupid, it's advanced.
Will there ever be a Derpware plush?
"Did somebody order terrible?" -Scott the Woz
And today, three years later, we have mobile shovel games from AAA games. I am looking at you FFXV!!!
yeah, my mother used to buy those bad games for me and my brother, just because she'd recognize it as a show we've seen and it's cheap cost. we usually ended up hating them. i think to this day, she doesn't understand why we don't buy alot of games that are based on movies we like.
4:17 You mention the PS1/2 over the Wii? Do you even remember how much garbage was published on Wii?
The ds was also flooded with crap not even the dsi only having 5 physical games was not safe
K1naku5ana3R1ka dude I actually got a used Wii recently and all the games that I have looked at and played are garbage except for a handful of gems.
Bleubroze xb360 had some dumpster fire indies
The Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings games were some of the few that I thought maintained the quality AND aesthetic of their respective movies and books.
I've downloaded and tried probably dozens of mobile games, but I only ended up keeping 3 of them. Mostly the ones that didn't smash adds down your throat at every opportunity.
Meanwhile, I've probably downloaded thousands of games, I've only kept a dozen or two. Cell Lab, Hoplite, Minecraft, Age of History 2, SwordandGlory, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Antiyoy and Spaceflight simulator
i download maybe hundreds of games, yet i kept three..
the most expected one is roblox (ofc imao) but the least expected ones are doom 1 and 2
I really like that Shovel Knight remix... oh, I get it now!
You made the little Shovelware character in the thumbnail image entirely too cute
that's why we only play indie-developed games here
shovel knight soundtrack? On a video about shovelware...GENIUS
two letters: E.T.
o O 0 Four letters: DVDA.
E.T - Considered by many to be the worst game ever to have existed
LJN
Menno Astfalck and it isn’t the worst. Not even close.
Is that Shovel Knight music for the Shovelware video? Nice.
*EA walks in*
So shovelware is going down?
let's fix that.
Overchair
@@enderallygolem Alphasymbol
and this is why i love telltale games they care about the series they adapt.
***** well all companies arnt perfect. i did find that game decent it's not horrible as people make it out to be thoe.
I hope the mobile shovel knight game won't be shovelware
Don't worry
We will only be able to play as king knight
*sniff, sniff* I smell a pun
I am so glad that the outro was a Shovel Knight remix XD
Most licensed games are shovelware except for these ones
Simpsons hit and run
Spiderman
Goldeneye 007
Any of the star wars games
The Arkam batman series
Toy story 3
I dunno, Star Wars Battlefront 2 came pretty close.
Any lego games, cars 2,
_Kingdom Hearts_ (at least the original) I feel technically counts, depending on context
For the record, I would absolutely play Frasier: Backyard Wrestling.
Feels like the same thing happens with animated shows
The Wii and DS was famous for this
As well as the PS2 and GBA
Cory in the house
The nes does not have shovelware.
I feel like shovelware has gotten even worse over the years. Many of them feel like someone copy and pasted the games with a simple reskin and just called it a new game.
I will defend Barbie Secret Agent on my honor, that game was dope
Shovel knight is true shovelware
*Dies of laughing*
2:06
Love the IT Crowd reference :)
Shovelware (and copycat games) is the biggest pain in the ass in the mobile market. Especially when I want to play a racing game. It’s gotten to the point that there isn’t anything much worth playing on mobile platforms now.
Games like the warriors, toy story 2, ice age 2 the meltdown, evil dead fist full of boomstick/regeneration, scooby doo night of 100 frights, spongebob the movie game, jurassic park operation genesis, I don't think the movie/spin off games like this will be made as good as they used to be sadly
I would totally buy Frasier Backyard Wrestling.
5 years later and this is still a problem
Heh, Shovelware episode ends with Shovelknight music. Clever.
And this is why Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom gets a remake, unlike most movie/show licensed games.
The bubble is about to pop! I think the mobile game industry will deflate soon. So much garbage on the app store -- it's hard to find anything of quality.
Yep. Made that mistake years ago by getting Dragon story. It's basically a Dragonvale rip-off.
0:22 that has to be one of, if not, the best pun they've had on this show
90% of humble bundle titles are shovelware.
1:37 Frasier Backyard Wrestling was my facorite game after Seinfeld Smackdown ‘17
You know, when I first watched this video I said to myself, "Hey that was a pretty good episode, I really like that outro music" and little did I know then, but this episode was my first taste of my favorite video to date, SHOVEL KNIGHT, so as I rewatched this video and heard the outro music, all the memories came flooding back. Along with the realization of the outro music, and all I can say to that is: I really DIG the outro music, it just SPADE my day.
Getting an ad to a Star Wars gacha game on this video is the peak of irony
Hit the nail as to why so many mobile games are a rip off like clash of clans and Vega conflict
Not to mention the seemingly *_endless_* supply of match 3 games...
shovelware gives console libraries longevity. shovelware is the reason i still emulate and play so many weird and obscure ps2 and wii games. I'd have very little interest in those consoles if they didn't have vast libraries to explore. most of them are duds, sure, but a lot of them are so-bad-its-good, or at least have an interesting gimmick. Once in a while there's a "shovelware" game that I actually would consider a really good, underappreciated game.
Like Mercury meltdown madness for the Wii?
EA and Activision, we're looking at you.
I love how "Shovelware" sounds like a company that develops games/software, a bit like BioWare... I might use that in a story...
Also, outro music from Shovel Knight... I see what you did there...
We'd like to go back to these types of videos please
Franchises that have had some good games: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Warhammer 40,000
James Bond,Spider-Man, The Bourne
Weird how Pokemon started acting this way.
so true, my sisters only got shovelware barbie games and they lost interest in games, but I asked for good games and I love videogames to this day
Yeah Pixel Gun 3D for Mobile is some pretty popular shovelware. You often see players running around with the weapons that require the least skill to use, such as a 1shot sniper rifle while I usually run a laser bow that I can get the cheeky ricochet kills with.
it’s more of a pay to win game than shovelware. That game had effort put into it