The Death of The Game Genre - A Rant
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2021
- Who doesn't like open world wammen sims with collectibles, skill trees and a ponytail-bedecked broad wielding a bow? Who doesn't like it 9 billion and one-half times??
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When you try to be everything, you ultimately are nothing
Ghost in the Shell when you over specialized you breed in weakness. Same is true to the opposite.
I wish Tribes would come back but with a doom retro respect.
"A game where you can do anything is a game that focuses on nothing." - a bellend
It just works.
@@anarex0929 If you want something like Tribes I saw something about a game called Midair a few years back. If you haven't given it a look yet, it might be worth it.
The reason is because when you try to be everything, the game ends up playing like something made by people who didn't really make any judgement calls about what should go in the game and what shouldn't. People forget that art is as much about subtracting things as it is about adding them.
Gaming today: Wide as an ocean, Deep as a puddle.
Modern gaming: Billionaire sociapaths who shove more people into the pipeline believing a larger empire = better product. Pure idiotic arrogance.
The Puddles called to protest the unfair comparison.
Nothing makes me want to play your live service game for hundreds of hours quite like it being exactly the same as every other live service game everyone's already playing.
Otherwise known as pushing forward the left stick and pressing X occasionally
And the dreaded phrase global standards
The biggest loss like this is how the term """RPG""" has been generified into being just something you slap on your box to get more sales.
@Jovica Jevtic it's true. It's honestly just like cyberpunk but even worse because your choices don't affect the world or your character at all except for the end of the game
@Jovica Jevtic That's about most rpgs in the past 6 or so years. GreedFall, Outer Worlds, Cyberpunk 2077 etc. Mediocrity at it's finest.
"you level up your character? its an rpg"
@recreational mcnukes I've been playing Pillars of Eternity recently, really liking it, and while it can get a bit boring at times It's still better than most modern AAA RPGs. Tyranny, Wasteland 2, Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2, Shadowrun series, Pathfinder Kingmaker are all good examples as well. So at least we have a plethora of quality CRPGs if nothing else.
There hasn't been a real RPG for so long... "RPG" now just means "open world game with a perk system"
I think a lot of people who’ve been in the movie industry are now working on games has to do with this phenomenon.
Once the people who wanted to go into the film industry realized that gaming as a WHOLE made more, they decided that movies were no longer worth it, and decided to fill something they don't even care about with all their terrible ideas. From game creation itself, to SO many RUclips game 'critics' out there who went and failed at film school, it's pretty apparent they only see it as a cheap, easy way to stroke their ego to a wider audience than actually try to make something worthwhile like the people who made games like they used to be.
Oh yeah. The fucking shitwood actors faces in every AAA game. Gone are the days when we created unique characters...
Not to mention they suck up a chunk of the development budget as well. Dosh that could have been spend better on bug squashing and Q&A, things that AAA no longer seem to do these days.
More money in video games the movie industry is dead
Finally someone who shares my take on the collapse of the games industry. It's all about the subhuman cancer spreading from the decaying corpse of hollywood. Idiots who only know how to do "cinematic experiences" can NEVER grasp that games are all about interaction and telling a story with the environment. It's thanks to these jackasses we get the cutscenes galore that masquerades as games these days. If there is one feature I'd love to see completely BANNED from existence, it's cutscenes, especially ones where the player's control is taken away. Never in the history of ever has there been a greater insult to the media of gaming as a whole. And that worthless trash is everywhere.
1996 - "Ok so we've made a truly revolutionary 3d survival horror game about cops in a mansion shooting zombies and solving puzzles."
1998 - "Ok so we've made a truly revolutionary 3d stealth game about a regular guy who steals from royalty and weird cults."
2021 - "Buy our game that's exactly like every other game or you're a sexist!"
I love that just as we got the mainstream to accept that video games are art. We stopped making them fucking art. We made them boring. What the fuck did they want?
This happens, when corporations and corporate "culture" take over.
I would argue that's the problem though. As soon as games were accepted as art you got all of the people trying to prove something to become developers. Instead of being about the game play, now it's about sending a message and "proving" your worth as an artist instead of making a great game. All the "games have to mature" rubbish and "all games are politics" nonsense didn't help either.
@@DukeWooze This is how we got The Last of Us 2, Spec Ops The Line, and Bioshock Infinite. Games trying too hard to be "high art".
@@vlad4o813 Precisely. lol I read it wrong oops now I look like an ass. Wait I'm not sure I follow. Out of those games Spec Ops I thought was pretty good. I did kind of like Bioshock Infinite. But definitely your comment applies to TLOU2.
@@DukeWooze Yep, this "all art is political" is simply rubbish.
"If we give people choices, they might choose the ones we don't like." - Focus Groups.
Fallout: New Vegas "October 19, 2010" when Bethesda actually meant a dam
Bingo.
Nailed it like the Romans.
Looking at Fallout: Frontier, that hit the nail right in the head.
"You can't join the Enclave, they're a fascist power fantasy!"
Beep Rot Obsidian made New Vegas, not Bethesda.
MORE RANTS ARE NEEDED
Yep. Something oddly relaxing & cathartic about a Razorfist Rant.
I agree, his voice in a way strangely tells me everything is gonna be ok.
Give it a couple days ... I'm sure we're going to get more than we can shake a stick at.
@Jimmy Hollywood word its like a mind message
This!
"At this point, the player's MIND is the ONLY thing not being BLOWN."
Ouch. And entirely accurate.
At least the Space Marine sometimes seemed like he didn't want to kill himself.
That's because he didn't bash "his greasy wop skull" against bricks.
I think Shepard would beg to differ.
@@patrickfrost9405 Hey, Shep had two games of banging aliens before he caught the big sad, and he only died up to two times. Not too shabby all things considered.
The other nice thing about the space marine is that he made sense and didn't need an explanation, you could pretty much skip the story and get to the game. Stereotypes have their uses.
@@patrickfrost9405 Renegade Shepard has no regrets.
Always enjoy that trope of "This character doesn't have much upper body strength. Let's give them a bow."
Having taken a year of archery lessons as a young lad, can confirm.
I wish dual wielding pistols comes back into vogue. Bows suck when you got several guys coming at you.
Laughs in English longbow
This reminds me of actual bow practicing ppl laughing at how in Dungeons and Dragons an archer just has to have high Dexterity and doesn't need Strength.
Makes me miss the "dudes carrying volkswagen-sized swords" trope. Then again, I'll never get tired of that. *Looks at Darksiders: Wrath of War*
If you need to bring a "focus group" in to weigh in on what you are doing then you have no idea what you are doing.
"Do any of you guys know what's going on? Anyone? WHAT DO WE DO?!"
Might as well bring in the Council of Nicea.
Focus group is about plausible deniability for the higher ups in the company.
Also, this reminds me of Fallout3 (released 2008) and how most fans of the predecessor complained about it.
@@KainiaKariawb anita sarkisan i hear good things about her xD
As soon as I saw the title I immediately thought assassins creed.
Same 😭
I thought about Bioware
Exact same. Instead of making the assassin part of the game more interesting, they focused on making the map bigger and filling it with chores to do.
“Open world” has more reasons for me to ignore it than get excited at this point.
Ghost of Tsushima is my favorite Assassin's Creed.
@@mariokarter13 i definitely agree. I got platinum on Ghost of tsushima in the first couple of weeks it was out. I absolutely adore this game.
I remember when games didn't try to be for everybody.
Being for everyone makes the most money unfortunately so that’s why they keep on doing it.
And that's why studio's shut down.
@@SAMSARALIVEEEEEE no it doesn't because no one like watered down orange juice
Halo is doing this and has lost so many fans in trying to apeal to everyone they appeal to no one.
Character action gamers: yes, every day
And if they do (i.e. Death Stranding) everyone gets mad at it for some reason
Remember stealth games like Thief, Splinter Cell, and Tenchu: Stealth Assassins? Remember flight combat sims like Colony Wars, Star Wars: X-Wing, and Wing Commander? Remember RTS games like Starcraft, Warcraft, and Command & Conquer? Remember point & click games like Sam & Max, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? Remember good games?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
It sucks being old my friend
Man, I played Chaos Theory recently and it completely blows all of the Assassin's Creed games out of the water. I wish Ubisoft would make more Splinter Cell games instead of cranking out those samey open world snoozefests.
Yes, grew up on the RTS genre specifically.
You didn’t include Ace Combat in there! That series is still great.
@Itch-HeSay Hell, Blacklist is superior to AC, and that game had an identity crisis between classic SC and Conviction style.
"If you can get 30 seconds of fun, you can pretty much stretch that out to be an entire game" a wise gamedesigner once said about Halo 1.
AAA games have forgotten about that nowadays.
@FatherBootyHands nah Halo 2 is better
@FatherBootyHands Appreciate your response dude sorry if I sounded biased it's just that I find Halo 2 more fun for me but it's cool that you like Halo 1 more, different strokes for different folks lol 😁
@Stix N' Stones Duke nukem 3d is a good game
@FatherBootyHands Agreed. 👍
@Stix N' Stones True facts !!!!
Bland, safe, marketable, and soulless. This is what happens when games are designed by corporate bureaucrats rather than artists and innovators. The saddest thing is that even when a developer manages to beat the odds and make a great game they only attract more attention from corporate money-men looking to get their fingers on a piece of the pie.
"Focus groups" hated the NES.
Focus groups: made up of people who still thing hanging around malls is cool.
@@pickeljarsforhillary102 at least the mall has a food court. Lol
@@Postulio71 Is that supposed to be a comeback?
@@morgant.dulaman8733 not at all. Just a stupid joke about hanging out at mall.
@Char Aznable NPCs
Man I thought Styx wasn’t gonna post in a while.
Man this is Spoony
Peace out
He'll probably post tomorrow....curious what that "big news" is.
He posted on Bitchute today. He is having problems with his RUclips account.
@@zachattack2746 I think they are purging people like Styx and others.
Someone can be a great Doctor, Carpenter or Engineer but you cannot be all three at once.
Unless your name is Leonardo Da Vinci
You can
It'll just take several decades of your life, a load of determination and hard work every single day
Commisar Yarreck one or all three of the skills will inevitably suffer. You could maybe be passable with all those things but to be truly great consistently you need to focus on one.
@@user-ym2ne1zg1b
Possible
Thats a lifetime of work tho
So for the average person, considering their willpower...improbable
@@user-ym2ne1zg1b
Perfection takes a lifetime to get close
Being good is either natural or trough years of hard work
One can be good in two or 3 different types of sports. It depends on how bad you want it and how far youre willing to dedicate yourself and go for it
I'm still trying to figure out the point of having anatomically correct character creation in cyber punk. The 'sex scene's' in that game look like they were ripped off from the first Dragon Age game. To think they waisted time and resources on that nonsense and left the game itself as shallow as a wading pool.
It was just for shock value nothing else.
Me too. if I could be honest, I'd make my female characters hot either as a middle finger, or just for the story.
The thing with CDPR, if you look at all 3 of the witcher games, the gameplay was never the selling point. The first was pretty clunky, the 2nd was decent but still clunky. The third was pretty darn good but it was the story and role playing and frankly, brutality and honest nature of the world that drew people in.
This being their first FPS, I kind of expected gameplay to be behind other FPSs.
I do feel the role playing aspect is pretty good(except for the male voice is horrible and the fact you can't customize the look of your character post creation).
Funny thing you couldn’t even make the female boob sizes that big despite being able to do that today
@@mattm7798 witcher 3 gameplay is mediocre combat and quest design are really mediocre and that menu design ugh the only things that save it are the graphics and the story
What is killing games is "Marketing" winning the internal conflict & pushing the executives that "The Wider Audience" is what the company needs to pursue. There is NO SUCH THING AS THE WIDER AUDIANCE. Find Your Core Audience, Feed Your Audience Good Gameplay, & THEN Entice others To Join Your Core Audience. Lesson Complete.
"More sales! More money! Now, now, now!!"
That's how dooms fandom got shit (that and hdoom but that didn't show up untill after 2016 I hate console gamers)
This is why i prefer indie games, since they still use genres as a blueprint instead a marketing tool.
As a female, I want to go back to when women were feminine and strong in female ways. Leia. Padme. Ahsoka. Aelita from Code Lyoko. . . I could go on . . . Back when even tom boys were considered feminine, not butch. Why does femininity have to die as quickly as manly men? I don't get it. Nor do I wish to get it.
I'm a dude and I did track and field because I looked up to Lara Croft. I still try to get a workout schedule going in spite of Corona.
becuz of social engineering, feminism, leftism
All part of a twisted plan to divide and control people. its fucked. I miss that era of gaming where women didn't need to raid the nearest archer shop or were aggressively plain looking.
I miss the old days where taking care of a family was actually considered a strong role. Nowadays people think it's "Condeming yourself", which is Moronic.
Because gender stereptypes bad there fore any showing of gender bad too. Cant be masculine cant be femenine, just become an amorphous blob. Blob good.
It's not just in gaming, music and movies are suffering from the blending effect.
I miss the days of PS2, there were SO many titles out there!
Dude, we didn't realize we were in a golden age then. From platformers to extreme sports games, we had oodles of unique games to get our mitts on.
SNES as well. One after the other. And we all thought it would only become better and better but at a certain point, it stopped. It became prettier and there were less really bad games, but the real gamers games were less plentiful.
Same here dude. That's why I started collecting ps2 and ps1 games.
It was literally the same back then, just clones of each other (since that’s what people love to say about games today).
I miss the ps2. But I can't get over that screen
I could go a decade before I see another "Open World" in a game again.
Even if it meant games like Morrowind: The Elder scrolls III, Daggerfall, and Might and Magic 6: the mandate of heaven?
@@beeprot5390 Those are not the kind of quality of open world games we're getting though.
@@beeprot5390 haven't 10 years already passed?
I'm okay with open-world done right, there is an occasional flash of Glory like Red Dead Redemption, and I would love to see the Elder Scrolls series return to a more Morrowind like setting and idea.
Even if it meant gta 6?
theres a reason to bruce lee's "i fear no man who practiced 10,000 things. but i fear the man who practiced 1 thing 10,000 times" and game developers and focus groups? are the fucking first man.
It’s “practice” my friend.
@@reagandow850 sorry. a combo of adhd and being a non-english speaker tends to have spell screwups.
So, Dwarf Fortress would be the 1 thing 10k times, I'm guessing? Still in Alpha, still one of the best pc games I played, if a bit difficult to get into.
@@exodiusthefirst5862 fun fact. its planned to have a steam release and with it a few extra graphical packs!
@@romanplays1 Aye! And usable interface!
That's why I almost never play a AAA game these days. You have to go for mid-tier or indie games if you want a game with any kind of focus.
Most of the games I play these days are old. I just pick a franchise and go to town for a while, or I pick a few and swap between them. For instance, right now I'm swapping between Yakuza and Dragon Age.
@@brofist1959 Just skip Dragon Age 2 and you'll be a-ok.
@@MrDevious88 I actually like DA2. I think it's far, far better than people give it credit for. I've played it maybe a dozen times over, and this is my conclusion. Sure, it's rushed, sure, some of the character interactions were a bit pozzed, sure, the combat is a step back from Origins in many ways, but I like the fact that the plot is the political intrigue of one city and not some world shattering danger. It's probably the worst of the three, but by no means would I rate it lower than a 6/10, possibly 6.5 or 7.
@@brofist1959 I agree. While I do consider DA2 the worst in the series, it's still a competent, solid game. Origins was just such a masterpiece that DA2's inferiority felt that much more amplified.
@@brofist1959 I agree. It's inferior to Origins, but its not a dumpster-fire. The plot and companions are good and the gameplay is pretty decent, though I prefer the tactical one of DAO. If it actually got 2-3 years of development instead of 16 months it might have been far better.
The games industry in 2005: 5 star meal with a big portion
Games industry in 2020: microwave meals
You know what i remember something about that, i remember games being fulfilling, where each game release felt like lasting. Now it feels like you cant enjoy one game or a few games because theres soo many coming out all at once.
“We need to put half-assed RPG elements in every single game we make”
DOOM Eternal devs: Here is gun, shoot things.
BuT mUh PlAtFoRmInG rUiNs ThE gAmE!111!!!!!!1
But for real, Doom Eternal is the best AAA game to come out in years.
@@someguy9970 lol Last of Us 2 push stick cutscene
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 What?
doom eternal has mild RPG elements tho
@Zoomer Waffen
Too fast paced for a Boomer like you?
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
After 11-years of Federal employment, I am convinced that the term "focus group" is supposed to be oxymoronic, but anyone who participates in a focus group is unaware.
The Death of Genre, AKA The Imagine Dragons-ification of gaming.
HAHHAHAHAHA great analogy.
@@Archedgar
I think it's just that they spread themselves too thin. Trying to make everyone happy when in reality is just becomes bland, gray, mystery meat-type music.
Correct me if I'm mistaken.
@@Archedgar Imagine Dragons should Imagine writing a different song once in a while.
@@jeffreyhutchins6527 What, you don't like that song where they say "thunder and the lightning" 2057 times in a row? C'mon, man.
@@Archedgar Imagine Dragons is the kind of music that gets overplayed on the radio, VH1, commercials and the playlists at supermarkets and clothing stores. People really don't like the overexposure.
Adding the phrase “A Rant” to a Razorfist video is redundant.
True point there, bud !
Though... Some people STILL need a subtle reminder of our King's prime vocal talent... which is the swift and precise shredding of any crappy part of this landscape we blissfully call 'the internet' with the weight of a 20 lb thesaurus in hand !
There's a reason that Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't use focus groups to test if games are fun. If he finds them to be fun, then that's all he needs to approve of the game.
Caesar? I thought you got stabbed?
I never thought I would miss the oversaturated bloated era of gaming that was 2008-2012. But that looks like the renaissance compared to today's game market. I haven't bought a new game in actual years. And for the first time in my life since I first picked up a controller I can't name one solitary game I am looking forward to it's release. It's sad really.
I suggest checking out Yakuza 0 if you haven't yet. It's not a new title, but you'll have a blast with it if you love beat 'em ups and a unique game setting.
I don't know. I mean the last good original games I bought was Deadcells and Children of Morta and Sekiro :Shadows Die Twice
@@lillpoetboy was never a fan of the partially slow realistic action games like skeiro or even gta, postal 2 was a better gta imo a lot more fun I never got into gta
You have huge triple a titles with millions of Dollars in Production and people play games Like rust, among us and phasmophobia...
Not to mention Stardew Valley and Dust, both games made by ONE fucking person EACH, or games like Subnautica and Dead Cells made with a handful of devs. It's so odd, enthusiasm for games remains high despite the AAA decline, well everything that isn't DOOM that is...a game so good it's the only franchise Bethesda has that it couldn't kill.
@@mezotech5419 Might be because DOOM does not try to be anything else but a good damn good shooter with some epic heavy metal soundtrack.
Agreed. I dont even really play AAA games anymore. Now that I have a good pc im always on independent games because they still have the fun aspect old games have.
@recreational mcnukes Ah yeah, how can I forget Binding of Isaac. Absolutely retarded how many hours I've lost to that game.
Dude, I just got back into playing jagged alliance 2. ^^
It always fascinated me when SquareEnix was baffled when the Bravely series did well, and fans were hungry for more. It shows a significant lack of vision.
Just wait until the gaming industry starts pumping out remakes, reboots, and reimaginings like their woke Hollywood counterparts...oh wait...never mind...
I use to wish for remakes/remasters of late 90's and early 2000's games, now I fear it.
I would love to see a modern Interstate 76 or a new Quake, but I dread how they would butcher them to hell and back for a buck and some praise from Social Media Morons
I just had Silent Hill HD flashbacks.
Hey, I’m glad that Xenoblade Chronicles got a full remake. I never got to play it way back when and now I’ve sunk 130 hours into the best version of it. And I’m actually still not done, that was just the main story I finished
Last of us 2 so woke for diversity 💀
Just like mass effect
You know what the next Doom needs? Base building!
Hahahahaha ha
@Jovica Jevtic Platforming doesn't deter from the experience, it adds to it.
Platforming in DOOM Eternal is there so you could get adjusted to the parkour mechanics and wouldn't have any problems with using them in a combat scenario, which the game actively forces you to, since if you stop moving, you stop breathing shortly after and since the terrain is random, you'll have to do a lot of jumping, so it's better to get adjusted to it when you're not being cornholed in the eyesocket by the marauder and his background dancing posse of mancubi. Once you have adjusted to it, it's there as your downtime from combat because having nothing but combat arenas would just get monotonous and tiring. This is why these games have puzzles and platforming as well as shooting despite the shooting being the main course; the same reason why a sandwhich has bread in it despite most people being there for the toppings rather than the bread.
Also DOOM 1 and 2 had some platforming elements in them as well despite not even having a jump button. Getting to E3M9 or Map 30 anyone? Oh, I'll happily trade endlessly trying and failing to get to the platform with the switch to the exit to Map 30 without vertical mouselook in favor of all the platforming of Eternal. Hell, the final boss of 2 is defeated with platforming.
@@AllardRT i really disagree. i don't enjoy platforming at all and to me it felt the game was half shooter (which i wanted ) half platformer (which i hate )
@@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 Beats key hunting
@@AllardRT At least when you're key hunting you're also shooting shit along the way. If you're parkouring and platforming you're generally not shooting anything when shooting is pretty much Doom's raison d'être.
I remember the Dead Rising franchise. Frank West (together with the franchise) was brought back only to get murdered and mutilated by developers who wants to turn it into Assassin Creed.
Wait what?
*Hank East
@@Megatron_95 look up Crowbcat's and Tehsnakerer's videos on Dead Rising 4, it was a colossal shitshow that proved just how utterly poisonous "focus testing" is
The original idea for Dead-rising 4 was this edgy serious story, to which Capcom said no, so the team had to rewrite the whole story, which affected the whole game to be remade in one year.
They took out literally everything that made Dead Rising unique and made it a generic game. Just watch Dead Rising vs Dead Rising 4 to see how much attention to detail 1 had with just its gameplay compared to the unfinished mess the FOURTH (technically 5th) game is. There is also a video that explains what the developers wanted for Dead Rising 4 and as far as I remember, they wanted to make anything BUT Dead Rising. At one point Microsoft wanted them to make something to compete with the Last of Us. The main draw was using almost anything you could get your hands on as a weapon to kill zombies, weapons ranging from swords, chainsaws and guns to shower heads you could stick on zombie's heads that will spray their blood out, plates you throw like ninja stars and cooking oil you can throw under zombies to make them slip. Hell, combine some food in a blender and you make a Spitfire Smoothie, you can weaponize your own spit. And instead they wanted to make a Last of Us clone.
Sony really nailed down the generic third person cinematic adventure “rpg” game.
Modern games: "I feel like butter that's been scraped over too much bread"
Or was it Bilbo Baggins?
This is why DMCV was great, looking forwards to Bayonetta 3... The character action genre is alive and well!
Unfortunately the character action genre is slowly dying out, with very few games like DMC being made these days. A shame really.
@@vlad4o813 I'd rather a dying genre that's still making kick ass games than unfocused trash.
@@Garry_Combine True, but it's a real shame that not enough character action games are being made today. And with no news on Bayonetta 3, we may not get one for quite some time.
Bayonetta 3 is definitely going through development troubles
Those are pretty much the only remaining ones! Ninja Gaiden died, Astral Chain didn’t appear to sell well, Darksiders 3 didn’t do well, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance sequel may never materialize, and God of War moved away from the genre, for good. I wouldn’t say the genre is really alive and well.
I can't get over the fact that there's a horizon zero dawn ad under this video for me.
But yeah completely agree. It's amazing how a whole industry can simultaneous try to cram so much varied bullshit into a product only to all end up with the same thing.
So basically it's the same as it's always been
I’ll blame lack of variety for my recent trend of pulling out the older games.
Not gonna lie, I've actually started playing games from my high school days rather than playing most of the stuff that coming out now. I'm rebuilding my gba library for starters.
Still have my ps2. Ssx snowboard games, plus King kong and I Got a good and fun street basket game, that Can not be replaced. Different games in different genres
same, i've been playing the shit out of my vita, silent hill 1 and valkyrie profile this last week, gonna try exist archive and i found tenchu stealth assassins online, just gotta plug it in and move it over, god i loved that game so goddamn much, hope it plays well on the vita
"So you want a realistic down to Earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robot." - Itchy & Scratchy focus group
Thank God that there are still indie and mid range devs that actually get what players want and make games good enough to replace AAA. I can't recall the last time I bought a new AAA game.
If you really want a sad example of this, look at Star Fox. Its a series that could have been Nintendo's own Rogue Squadron series (maybe even with potential to have spin-offs in the more complex Space Simulator sub-genre). Instead it got diluted by trying to make into something it wasn't and injecting controller gimmicks when it wasn't needed, leading to lesser acclaim and lesser sales.
Its why SF64 is still beloved almost 25 years later because it wasn't embarrassed being a dedicated rail shooter that got its replay value from having the player get better at the levels.
It's like how Dawn of War was loved because it maintained the dark and gritty look people expected yet somehow got shinier and shinier as the games went on despite the fanbase screaming they just want it like the first game the whole time.
Why must you open those wounds 😭
"Let's make it a MOBA style game as well, it'll totally dethrone League, DOTA and Starcraft!"
I seriously hope everyone involved in that abortion will never find work again
At 2 they got it so good all they had to do was tweak a few more things and keep the same squad based gameplay. But no, they had to make a MOBA to try to gain people that don't give a fuck about Warhammer, while alienating the people that cared about the story, universe and characters. Dawn of War 3 should have been a lesson on knowing your roots and audience, but it's a lesson that nobody wanted to hear about.
It is pretty telling that two of the most popular games of the last year were the smaller titles Among Us and Fall Guys. Among Us is a laser focused TTT-esque deception game, and Fall Guys feels like the natural evolution of the party game genre. Neither of them has any extra frills in their gameplay, everything is designed to serve their core concepts.
Sony's games are kinda just 'Sony: The Emotional Game'. Sony really need to up the quality in their games and stop focusing on cutscenes and drama.
It's like they saw how well MGS4 and uncharted were liked by fans and said all games we make must be this
They don’t need to do that. They just need to make their games well written. Something that’s extremely unlikely
I think you mean they need to make actual GAMES again! ;)
Nintendo won't even make a game unless they can think of something new to use as a gimmick, but Sony is content on making the same game 50 times.
All of Sony's games now are the equivalent of Oscar bait movies
Its a damn shame every game ever now is copying the last of us, even fucking God Of War lmao
I couldn't even play the new game. The first trilogy is soo much better. I hated the fucking axe throwing shit and puzzles
@@MrLolguy93 Then you missed out on *alot.* Including a certain nod to the old Trilogy(or Quadrilogy, considering that prequel PS3 game), that I wont spoil. Heck, its more than a nod, its important to the plot & Kratos' character development there.
If every game were copying this model games would be alot better
@@Walt_Xander94 The existence of the blades of chaos in the game does not change the fact that the combat is clunky and awful and the game is overall extremely slow and filled with throwing the axe and calling it back to the hand. FatLeon is right, the first 3 titles are far superior experiences.
Kratos: It's MAAM.
For me, system shock 2 was about as scary as Deadspace 1 despite the dated graphics, the low polygon count, playstyle and story all just mesh together in an eerie way that I can't describe.
I'd recommend either of them if they're on sale
Shodan is bae
Silent Hill 2 was "cinematic" but had a soul. Lots of puzzles, combat in a game where the journey through pain is more important than the destination.
System Shock 2's low poly count added to the uncannyness of the enemy designs.
@@SwallowFury yeah I never installed those texture packs, those low Polly's add so much to those creepy hybrids
100% agree. As my dad used to always say "if you do 10% of 10 separate tasks... you never get anything done".
Great advice
I remember when every clown wanted "open world this" and "open world that". One fucking guy was in fucking tears when Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee was announced not because it's a console version of Go... it's because it ain't fucking open world!
Mommy? What's gameplay?
Its that thing you watch your favorite youtubers do sweety.
@@Sixstringman HAHAHA good one
Last time I was this early, I was poisoned and dying in Betrayal at Krondor
My guy you just earned yourself a sub and some respect. I've never been able to put my feelings about the game in industry today into words but you just did it for me. Thank you
I'm disgusted how these companies raped the RPG-genre into this amalgamation of shit, that doesn't even resembles its former self!
I have to say though, getting rid of any character development really does save time when I can just skip all the dialog options from diversity checkbox squad since I've heard this all before. It does get awkward when one of the DCS npc's dies and the game pauses to acknowledge it like I was supposed to reflect on how much I was going to miss them, but they forgot to give them a personality outside of the box they checked off.
Video game development has been ruined by one thing:normies.
This.
Btw, did you watch the latest episode of attack on titan? Episode 6 is profoundly lit.
I’ve been saying it for years: the soaring popularity of the PS3 and 360 was the best and worst (leaning more towards worst now) thing to happen to gaming. Normies ruin literally everything
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I don’t know if you posted this ironically but I spat out my chicken Mc nuggies
@@britneyspheres7yearsago11 honestly I can't recall why, just felt like having a chat. ^^
>Razorfist Rant about Video Game Industry
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This is why I always end up gravitating back to Nintendo titles. They've done the best job of keeping it pure.
Their gameplay is the best.
True, although their incessant Wii U porting to Switch gets on my nerves! Waiting on new Metroid, DK, Zelda BOTW 2, and Mario Odyssey 2.
@@princesg7052 Definitely can't argue that!
@@princesg7052 In all fairness, the Wii U had a bunch of good games, but very few people played them because they were on the Wii U.
This makes me miss older games that that were incredibly niche but still fun. I remember how much I loved the Lost Planet series for being wholly unique, if not flawed games. We don't get that kind of variety anymore. I hate it.
I think something everyone is forgetting is a simple fact:
The genre died when casual audiences became the focus of companies.
Go back and think about when games started courting a casual market, and then think about the terminology being used by those industry heads to sell their product.
Instead of being a game solely suited to one group, of which was probably shrinking because they were aging out of their respect hobby, you pulled in a large collection of younger gamers to hand them a plethora of toys to play with and just said 'have at it'.
That's how you got your Fornites, Minecraft, and games like Kingdom Hearts. These games became the industry darlings, and so everything molded to fit around these types of games, that's why FF7:Remake, a turn based game, went straight to Hack and Slash, even though that particular type of game and narrative don't work well with that style of game.
It also might help to remember that games are not very story focused anymore: Monster Hunter, Fortnite, and so on, don't give you anything to sit and chew on. They just exist to be sandboxes you make your own entertainment in, so if you're not having fun the industry will consider it your fault instead of retooling to make a game that will satisfy.
Remember: Don't you guys have cellphones?
Same thing happened to Hip Hop.
Gaming died in 2006 - 2007.
I just stumbled upon this channels d HOLY FUCK I love it!!! This man is entertaining, he gets to the point, he explains his criticisms in amazing detail and does all of that in a span of 8 minutes. I may have only watched this video so far but now I will binge watching the rest tonight!!! Loved the video man keep it up.
With our amazing technology, I'm STILL waiting for a new turn based RPG and a tactical RPG.
Those get popped out like candy. PoE 1,2; DOS 1,2; Pathfinder; BG3 is en route; Wastelands 1-3; and a whole lot more.
Best experience I've had was Voidspire/Alvora Tactics, or Horizon's Gate on steam. Indie dev, but it has focus and originality that I miss.
I miss Valkyria Chronicles. It was so great.
@@benisrood You took the words out of my mouth.
I mean an honest to goodness RPG without hack and slash, shooting, minecraft bullshit, or dlc.
@@uumdi I'll check em out.
I hate indie games, but slay the spire showed me there is hope for good ones.
Its like going to the grocery store and having a difficult time trying to find plain old chocolate ice cream. Its often difficult if not impossible because everything is mixed with something else. Cant just have plain shit anymore. Its similar to how cranberry is in every fucking thing. Cant I just have normal juice, please? Reminds me of a saying Ive heard my parents use when they would mix the leftovers together into one big mess, "It all ends up in your stomach anyway." Yeah, but my stomach doesnt have taste buds!
I blame video game “journalism” and mainstream reviews for the state of the industry now. When average at best games are being praised endlessly, those are the only games we can expect to be made with a budget now.
I blame the woke and SJW crowed. Whatever they get their grubby hands on they screw up.
At the end of the day you can't even blame them. You have to blame the consumer. They follow the money. People keep buying. If people bought good games then the publishers would demand it. Keep buying broken games with microtransactions that's what they'll keep pumping out.
This is exactly why Doom Eternal didnt win game of the year even though it clearly deserved it. It had focus, the devs wanted to make a skill based action shooter and they actually stuck to their guns.
Well platforming...
@@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 Oh please the platforming wasn't even that hard and barely effected the game.
@@shanewebb3341 I mean, it was still shit and felt like an afterthought.
@@shanewebb3341 it was just boring
Thank God lol. Imagine if they tried to do what comics did and sacrificed the game's identity just to attract people who usually aren't into that kind of game...
Guy at work asked me what i'm playing today. ( we're both 30)
I answered " Xenogears on ps1 "
He laughed , " you mean you're not playing the new COD ? "
- actual conversation
Murder him and make it look like an accident.
You know AC: Valhalla was bad when he made a video about it three days later
Yeah he wasn't impressed. thats putting it lightly.
Especially when anything with a hint of mythology or fantasy nowadays has to be some flavor of Norse, or involve a generic butch female with a bow.
Assassin's creed has been dogshit for years so it's not surprising that valhalla sucked. The last ac game I played was syndicate and it was unbelievable dull for me. Gow4 is one of the better AAA games out there ( in my opinion at least).
@@andymartinez4268 In my opinion all of the AC games suck. I’ve never understood the hype around them and i never will. Boring combat, boring stories, bad acting and bad dialogue. What is there to like about AC? they’re so damn repetitive too and they keep making the open world bigger and emptier with each game.
@@SAMSARALIVEEEEEE I've only played ac 2, 3, and syndicate and the only one I liked was 2 and even then it wasn't great. I tried to understand the appeal of the series but it just as you described: boring.
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A third-person action-adventure with light crafting and stealth elements.
You mean, EVERY game in the last ten years?
Very true! Add a wall hack mechanic also!
Everytime I hear about focus groups I flash back to that scene in Robocop 2 where the get input on how to make him more community friendly.
Last time I was this early Antonio and Terran were just a business transaction
It says a lot about the decrepit state of the modern games industry when you can have far more fun with a game that's 20+ years old. My PS4 barely gets used these days and most of the games on my PC are older titles, it's nice to take a long walk down memory lane and go back to time when games were made with actual love and care.
retro is the future.
AAA games have been shite for years and will stay that way.
@Jimmy Hollywood because Koreans and kids like Pretty Lights
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Also, sports brahs from both sides of the Atlantic pond keep buying the same ball game every year with the team ultimate cards.
@Jimmy Hollywood monster hunter ain’t bad but the games are pretty samey
@recreational mcnukes Well its even worse because that (Fifa) Ultimate Team p2w loot box crap from the sportgames also showed up in other games like EA's NU Battlefront 2.
Thats because all developers misunderstod witcher 3 succes.
Remember when RPGs taught you the life lesson of dusting yourself off and coming back stronger after getting your ass kicked? If not, you're part of the autosave generation.
It's really sad to see video games declining, because it's my personal favorite medium not just for storytelling, but because it's really the most entertaining for me. I love to play video games when i have free time, when i'm bored. Modern AAA games are hit or miss. Some are hit like Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War 4, Spider-Man PS4 and Resident Evil 2 Remake. But unfortunately, most are miss like Fallout 76, Battlefield 2042, Marvel's Avengers, Anthem and Metal Gear Survive. I think the best way to play good modern games is to look for Indie Games. Or replay the old games from past generations. Hopefully the gaming industry will get better in the future.
Indie games are becoming more feminist. Your best bet is retro gaming. I’m in some communities online and joining them was the best decision I have made.
noone is like razorfist his intellect and humor is unmatched period!
For all their faults, Undertale, FNAF, and Cup Head, nailed this "Focus" thing of which you speak.
RDR2 has been the single most refreshing dip into an immersive open world that I can remember in recent times. I think there was a unique thing going on with the incredibly lengthy depth of wildlife animations, behavior and variety. That paired with the small amount of NPC's that roam the map outside of St. Dennis, the game actually felt alive.
Compared to Cyberpunk which im 40 hours into, it's immersive yes, but the hundreds of NPC's needed to populate a major metropolitan area really breaks immersion because of the lack of diversity between their npcs. I keep seeing the same dude serving noodles in 5 different districts in each little market. Granted RDR2 did this with the trapper, but they originally had the idea of using a different fur trader at each post but scrapped it due to deadlines.
RDR2 has something special, they don't inundate and drown you with NPC's, and the NPCS you do run into or wave at in passing are done in such a way that it feels like each one is individually unique. Granted I would never be able to strike up a side quest with them or just have anymore dialogue than "howdy Partner" but they felt more alive than the npc's i ran into within Night City.
The wildlife and environments of RDR2 amazing and the keystone to the game in my opinion. The Wildlife and Environments are more immersive than the people they depicted, however that being said the people that where depicted are STILL better than modern/past characters within story driven RPG's.
Yawnyea be like: I beg to differ cause that's what they told me to think😐
Nioh 2, Doom Eternal, and Hades were my standouts from 2020. Those games felt really focused and had fun gameplay.
Truth. Good taste in games, friend!
Nioh 2 was my 2020 GOTY. Might actually also get it on PC since it's not full-price, has mods, plus I'll be able to play with friends (only friends I have who are into this type of punishingly difficult ARPG don't have PS4s).
We're going to reach a singularity where every game is exactly like Fallout 4 but with celebrities and I hate it.
I'm very much over the open world, narrative focused action game with hollow RPG features thing. I like the IDEA of a big open sandbox to play in as part of a game with gorgeous graphics, but just looking at all the markers on the map usually results in sensory overload and I rarely want to invest more than a couple hours before I think "ya know, I'm kinda done with this.".
Limitation breeds creativity.
Games back in the day could completely change from their vision. Nowadays you’re screwed as developer these days if you do that because of the cost and size of teams.
Man, what I wouldn't give for a third person open world stealth action game with crafting, with a maudlin story attached,
Sadly such things only exist in fables and the dreams of madmen.
Lol
Morrowind?
@@destroyerinazuma96 ....you're technically right and I hate it
I'll say this once: Far Cry 3 is the reason why Ubisoft has faltered with every single release. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great game but it has been the template for every terrible release since. And no, including a Blood Dragon Easter Egg in FC5 is not gonna make me like the game more, Ubishite. The game still sucks and the ending is fucking hair-pulling!
Sad when you realize fc3 was a criticism of the same thing it spawned .. A tragic irony .
" Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity ? "
I went back and played the original Tomb Raider not too long ago, and it was the most fun I've had playing a video game in ages. Fantastic level design and puzzle elements, constant tension and isolating atmosphere, gameplay that didn't constantly hold your hand like a helicopter parent aggressively helping their toddler up the front stairs, and a female character who isn't ashamed to be 100% woman. It boils my blood what they've done to Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider franchise with the reboot. That bow will _never_ be able to fill the shoes of the dual pistols. Are the controls a little funky to get used to at first? Yeah, but at least the game knew what it was doing with 'em!
I'd personally like to see more games with crafting.
it's always been boring except for Skyrim in my experience they actually have a skill-based mini game similar to Dragon Quest 11 where you can actually break the item if you fail
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 I like Fallout 4 crafting and Dying Light crafting. You can really make and customize some cool stuff there.
Limitation often fosters creativity
The tree of game design must occasionally be refreshed with the blood of companies and shareholders.
Rambo month needs to happen
Damn I miss Razor's movie and metal reviews. I wish he could have also talked about a few of those badass 80s/90s Hong Kong movies like Hard Boiled and Police Story!!!
Video games have shared Hollywood's fall from grace in the film world. A steady decline in quality + SJW politics + sequel/prequel rubbish= Formulaic, boring games