Yeah, I fucked that up. Sadly all these publishers are the same. Also I'll pin this so the comments don't fill with this response. Ugh, I do hate making mistakes like this since you can't fix a video after it's up. This is gonna annoy me for hours.
Funny how some new games for sale now put up a disclaimer; "No loot boxes" as an important sell point. Kinda like down here in Houston where most new For Sale signs on houses have included the disclaimer "No Flood Damage" after Harvey. Both major disasters with long range reprocussions on future sales.
I'm starting to see an actual story arc with Jimquisition. 2014: Digital Homicide, Revengence 2015: The Konami Wars: Hit the Lever Edition 2016: Digital Homicide, Re-RE-REVENGENCE! featuring the Cornflakes Homonculus. 2017: Attack of the Lootboxes, with bonus Boggle content.
I'm gonna remember 2017 as the year when people finally stopped giving Activision/Blizzard a free pass on everything. Even still, they got out-villained by EA (and maybe WB as well) in the end. Hopefully the current year won't be a continuation of this race to the absolute bottom.
ehhh maybe, when the dawning event hit Activision/Bungie probably become just as bad as EA YongYea did a review about a group of people who did the mathematics for all the rewards in Bright Engrams, and it would take on average $10,000 per year or 4.57 years of grinding public events in a games that has a 3 year lifespan.
Eville Caston honestly I didn't pick up Battlefront 2 because I heard about its shit so I still had respect for EA. Then I went to play battlefield 1 and I couldn't play the French operations that I spent 15 dollars on because I had to buy the season pass to access the content. And I couldn't play the base French DLC maps either because they added a random non affiliated map to the playlist that costs like 2 bucks that I didn't buy
I'd say Blizzard still gets a pass. It's kind of like how Valve was a few years ago. Valve had a ton of goodwill and such built up so they kept getting away with stuff. But they eventually lost that. Blizzard is in a very similar position and I believe it's approaching the tipping point.
And you get A FEW AWESOME SKINS! You still didn't get the actual game this time thats another $9.99 for the lootbox. But damn when you finally do get the game, you will have some awesome skins!
I imagine Digital Suicide are watching this and saying: "He doesn't own Transformers, he doesn't own Skeletor, he doesn't own.." We all know that Digital Suicide are still bitter and still watch Jim.
I will be punishing myself next episode for saying "2K Games" instead of "Warner Bros." like a massive bell-end. Unfortunately it will also be a punishment for my audience, as they don't need to see this.
EA: We’re EA how can we help? Oh wait, that means a fee You paid full price for our new game? To us that’s still for free Here’s a fee to load the game Here’s a fee to start Here’s a cost to simply spawn You see, we’re pretty smart It doesn’t matter what you spent That was just to “join” So step right up, break out the cash As we kick you in the groin. Allowing you to just improve By playing is a sin When we can sell you super gear And make this pay to win. If you wanted Star Wars You simply have no choice We only want to see your cash You really have no voice This business would be perfect If not for all the lamers We wish we could just rob you blind And not deal with the gamers.
When your focus is raking in more cash than you can ever possibly snort off a line of hookers' asses, you don't much care about such tiny details as grammar or spelling.
It’s high noon in Mordor. A lone tumbleweed rattles its way across the black, volcanic plain. A felbeast wails mournfully, somewhere in the distance. But the two orcs standing on the plain below do not react. They stand still, hands hovering over the axes strapped to their belts. “I thought I told you, Pushkrimp,” says the larger orc. “I’m the only Pushkrimp in these parts. This evil fantasy kingdom ain’t big enough for the two of us, so why don’t you Push off while you still can.” The other orc narrows his eyes and spits. “And I told YOU, Pushkrimp,” he replies, “I’ve been Pushin’ Krimps since I was knee-high to a Nazgul. If anyone’s gettin’ pushes off ‘round here, it’s gonna be you.” Both orcs jump backwards, clawed hands grasping for their weapons. They raise their axes, ready to throw, when all of a sudden... WHAM! Both orcs are crushed into paste by a giant lootbox falling from the sky. But at least they got a sense of Pride and Accomplishment.
I had to laugh at the flow chart displaying corporate greed in action. At the final fork in the no branch which ended in 'Update the player profile to indicate non-purchase' my mind automatically added '... and greenlight death by our company assassins'. Repugant to see the rampant greed in their motivations.
Do you remember when you get awesome stuff for playing and beating hard bosses,no..., what have we become ._. Even fucking singleplayer, SINGLEPLAYER has loot boxes
Back in 2011 with Battlefield 3, i noticed 'shortcut' DLC which cost as much as expansion packs and meant you could just BUY all the Multiplayer unlocks instead of playing the game like...well, someone who actually wants to play a game. Going by the ratings in the PS Store as well is what shocked me more so, as people in the tens of thousands had voted highly of these shortcuts. Not only demonstrating how well people responded to them, but how MANY people.
I actually couldn’t play battlefront 2 because of the star cards.. every game I was seeing the maximum star cards on every player and it just became so disgusting
sterling wirth I ended up not paying any attention to the game pre-launch and got it... Now it just takes up space on the list of games I have in origin... which isnt a whole lot to begin with. Id gladly give my copy away or burn it if I could... the downside to the digital format.
It's affecting me aswell. Even if the basic infantry cards do not give any direct advantages (like the Hero cards, Starfighter cards, Reinforcement cards and Vehicle cards), just the feeling of seeing someone have purple colors triggers your brain into oblivion.
Dragoncat Sage a lot of the triple A games in the list are more so mediocre than shit though. I mean even yooka-laylee was just meh, but I don't think Jim wanted to fill the list full of indie trash scam games that had no work on it.
As a long time developer - This 'year of the loot box' makes me fucking sick and frankly embarrassed about the industry. I wish consumers would vote more strongly with their wallets and stop this shit for the greater good of gaming as a whole.
Not sure why I need to prove it, but take a look on metacritic - do a search for my name and you'll see the games I've worked on, LBP PSP, Killzone Mercenary, RIGS PSVR, Heavenly Sword etc...
Lol really? Is that what you think? Why would I do that? What benefit would there be to it? To be honest i'm flattered that you think it's that special to be me lol thankyou for the compliment
I lost it at "VASTLY SUPERIOR=A Hat in Time". Thanks for that one Jim. I remember seeing that developer announce that game so many years ago, so happy to see some people live up to the expectations.
RoverStorm It's so good to see Kickstarter games can still turn out so great. A Hat In Time has to be one of my favourite games of 2017, if not all time.
It was a really good game. I enjoyed it alot. (finished it yesterday) And I'd say it's one of the better games i played this year alongside DDLC (Doki Doki Literature Club) and i can't wait for Team Salvato's upcomming game in 2018. I can't remember any other games where i was like: Yeah this was a fun and good game. (I didn't play that many new releases every year)
Digital Deathsquid Frankly, I thought Firefighters: The Simulation would be where Spear of Destiny is. That bitch cost 30 bucks and sucked equally as hard as the souls/not souls game😅
I don't know about other countries, but Destiny 2 saw a major sale on over the Christmas period, possibly to try entice new players with the lure of a 50% off a relatively new game? But to see such a big sale on a triple-A title not long out like that, kind of gives more of an impression of failure than success.
I think it has a lot to do with the PR disaster-piece that is Destiny 2 over the course of December and the fact that it could make a potentially good Christmas present had more to do with it. Success or failure of the game itself had little to do with it going on sale. That’s how I see it as there are dozens of cases of fantastic games that people really like selling poorly and mediocre games selling like crazy (No Man’s Sky).
Really? Jim didn't even mention BOTW. Hell, the only Nintendo title mentioned was 1-2 Switch, which was largely focused on the high price tag. If you want to make some drama or fan outrage, you gotta be more creative than that.
It's such a shame that there's no Horse game out there that's actually good and has any effort in it, despite the fact that there's millions of little girls out there who'd love to play a video game about horses, just look at the success of StarStable. I swear, if someone actually tried to make a game about horse riding that wasn't garbage, they'd be millionaires within minutes.
And it's not like it would be overly difficult, Zelda had a good horse riding mechanic on the N64 so why can't these people make a good dedicated horse game in 2017?
MetroidJunkie I bet it's because idiot executives still think that either girls don't play games, or that they only play casual games on their phone. They probably don't realize that there's a huge untapped market right before them, it feel like the executives and people marketing games still think the only people playing games are stereotypical teenage boys who only like explosions, despite it being proved false time and again. Just look at the Sims, before that game, no one believed a virtual dollhouse could be popular, but in hindsight, its one of the most popular and influential series in game history.
The worst part about the grind at the end of Shadow of War is that the ending you get is terrible. The entire game is about as non-canon as you can get, but the ending doesn't get creative, it just tries to tie itself to the Lord of the Rings. As if it was canon or something. Why?
It's an easter egg-like epilogue cutscene, what exactly did you expect? It's basically "Talion *finally* becomes a Nazgul then years later dies and goes to the LOTR-equivalent of the afterlife". It wasn't meant to be some sort of huge reward for grinding through the game, it was something that you were supposed to stumble across after you played through a certain number of Shadow War stages. The *actual* ending to the game is the one you get at the end of Act III.
Darn it, now I need a comic of Jim meeting the maker of, say, Skate Man Intense Rescue and they just fly off the handle at him and he says he doesn't remember them because for them the day Jim Fucking Sterling (son) crapped all over their horrible game was one of the most important days of their life but for him...it was Tuesday.
+Chaos Bearded Gaming and more You REALLY don't need to justify anything....or insult others. If you want to prove a point, get evidence and organize your reasons, then present them. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
As an indie dev, here's what bugs me about these games which harp on nostalgia: Developers need to learn to draw inspiration from older games, while making use of the gaming advances of nowadays. Bad cameras, level design, and generally poor design choices aren't good parts of the good old games. They were (and still are) the result of inexperienced developers, or developers who want to arbitrarily make their game hard. These aren't good design choices to make. We shouldn't consider this when we want to pump new life into old genres, otherwise we'll end up with bad games.
agreed, its one thing to pay homage its another to mask out right refusal of game development advancing both in tools and philosophy as 'well that was how it was in the old days'
True, saying bugs, not being able to save your progress or crappy controls is part of the retro charm is like saying people visit a renaissance fair for the plage and dysentery.
Who cares? There's a market for throwback games and all of the problems those games had. The market is big enough for those throwbacks to exist along side other, more modern games. Why does every game need to be tailored to the general masses?
After observing Blizzard for few years, playing their games, I can take a guess that Acti/Blizz is all about checking how much bullshit they can slip past the radar. Seeing how Blizz is successful with most bs, maybe they were thinking that they were some kind of masterminds? I don't know which I despise more: these direct middle fingers from Warner Bros and such, where I at least outright know not to buy their games, or these quick fingers pointed whenever I turn around and they think I didn't noticed.
Oh my God, absolutely agree. Literally, you can tear apart any other microtransactic game all you want and people will agree, but as soon as you try to attack the perfect and immutable Blizzard people rush to actively defend their bullshit and advocate directly against the consumer. Overwatch put paid RNG microtransactions in a premium AAA game and people literally praise them for it. World of Warcraft wants you to pay for both a subscription and every single expansion, and Blizz put microtransactions on top of that. Hearthstone is literally a pay-to-win mobile card game. Yet people love them. This is exactly how microtransactions got out of the mobile hellhole and into premium games and why they're staying.
The worst way Blizzard is anti-consumer is the complete disregard for their loyal customers. The changes they put into their games ignore old players, catering to newer and inexperienced crowd* (extreme casualisation of Blizzard games isn't something new, its the norm, even for their new titles), spoiling the fun that some of said "old players" had with the game and sometimes a sole reason they were playing it and not any other. They strongly go by two principle: - you paid, so piss off, make space for another customer. - we can do anything, because we have enough loyal drones that will pay us no matter what we do. In general, "you already paid, so you won't go away, because you will be feeling remorse for leaving behind all the investment put into our games, and if you actually go away, we don't care, there are plenty more waiting behind you". This is everything Blizzard is today. And nostalgia, tons of nostalgia they aren't afraid to use against players just to bait them into spending another penny. * "waaah, we were owned by this mechanic that isn't directly obvious on first sight and you need to think for a second how it works instead of rushing mindlessly, nerf it!" is honestly enough Blizzard needs to push a change.
slendy9600 It was really fun, actually. I did three sessions and it paid OK (for non union). The only one that sucked was Air Guitar. I blew my voice out on that. But it was last, so that was fine.
Todd Howard You want like a paystub or something? There are no game credits. I can tell you that it was recorded at Bad Animals in Seattle and that I'm repped by Big Fish Northwest. You can look up my other credits on IMDb (look at producers for a show called JourneyQuest... You'll puzzle it out). Also, if I was going to lie, I'd pick a better game.
I found my audition mp3s. I can post them in a zip somewhere if you'd like. EDIT: I threw them on Soundcloud. soundcloud.com/user-403828676/sets/1-2-switch-auditions Note: this was before any direction, so some of the voices are different than in-game, and I'm doing more here than I did in the game. This was October of 2016, and the names of the games/characters weren't the final names. Also, thank you for finally prodding me to set up a Soundcloud account!
Because they are horrible at games and are fan boys of it since they fall into the mediocre demographic who enjoys a shallow shooter and doesn't mind loot boxes
I'll give Yooka Laylee this, it's not very often you get a video game that's considered bad for being too faithful. I actually enjoyed the game enough to buy it, call it Stockholm Syndrome if you will but I liked the game even with its flaws. And I was able to play through it a lot more easily than another game I played recently which I definitely class as a flawed platformer which is Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo; A.K.A one of those games people don't remember Frontier Developments for
Ben Knight honestly I don't get the criticisms. I didn't have any problems with any mechanics/the camera at all. I thought the game was a blast and had some really interesting shit in it. The Icesymetric Castle alone was interesting enough imo
I'm also confused about all the hate. I've heard hundreds of DIFFERENT reasons why people hate the game. Some of the dumbest ones are "I pledged in the kickstarter because I thought Yoka-Laylee was going to be like Banjo Kazooie but instead it was more like Banjo-Tooie" (What the serious fuck) and then there were all the kids boycotting the game because the devs removed 5 seconds of grunts of that John Tron snotty kid. Sure the game is flawed but compared to most of the games that I've personally pledged in kickstarter (including the Double Fine games) it's the only one that actually resembled a finished product.
I feel the game fails to hit most of it's high notes due to its boss designs. That is what turned my head away from this game. The bosses of Yooka-Laylee pale in comparison to DK64/Conker/Banjo Tooie in gameplay depth/creativity. I want to see them improve beyond it, next time with less bugs and a lot more crunch & punch.
Thanks Jim. I love what you do for the gaming community and, as someone who lost faith in it long ago, I appreciate the fact that people like you keep me informed. I've bought several games off your gameplay (I Love 'Reigns') and supported those who actually deserve it. Your Jimpressions of bad games have made me laugh harder than most movies in recent years and your non-toxic attitude towards women and anyone in between is extremely admirable. I hope for another great year from you.
Shigeru.......LOL Agreed, we must have one of those ultra sensitive extreme feminist on our hands that looks at everything as sexist or racist? I didn't even realize sex correlated into this video at all. Edit: I liked the video too though Nyndja.
Ethan Bradberry. I honestly don't know what your end goal is with this line of questioning. By your own admission, you already admit that you are subscribed to at least one. If you want to find more, all you have to do is type "women shouldn't game" or "girls are ruining gaming" into the RUclips search bar and PICK ONE. I'm sure within them will consist of many things that fall under sexist along with hyper critical statements based solely on gender or race. And I also don't see your point about asking about the cunt Vs dick thing because I already said that RUclipsrs were well within their rights to use such forms of insults and even pointed out one that I liked. I like Spoony a lot too but he made a video critiquing FFX and he made a song that was basically "Gay gay fag fag sissy gay fag". Those are literally the only words. He apologized later on for it, saying he never should have done this but Jim Sterling has NEVER HAD to make such an apology because he would never even go there, even for a joke. My point with my initial compliment to Jim is that he goes out of his way NOT to be harsh towards any demographic that isn't his own. Can you accept THAT as the point? I just can't believe I'm being questioned on the merits of a comment that basically says "thank you for being nice to people like me." This isn't a debate. I am thankful for this and am glad I NEVER have to worry about Jim going down that road unlike when Spoony made his 'fun' little gay song, pewdiepie dropped the n bomb, and jontron said some very nice things about preserving his race and 'retards'. It's a short search if you genuinely want to find it. Or do these not 'count'?
Actually, that would be a violation of RUclips rules which doesn't allow thumbnails that doesn't represent the content of the video. This is why, usually, when you see a click baits on a video, it was made from a carefully selected piece of video inserted in the video.
It's incredible just how rubbish EA Battlefront 2 was. The entire progression system is looped through loot boxes, which isn't an enjoyable, or even inspired mechanic. If if you couldn't buy them at start, it would have still been a annoyance. The Star Cards, lackluster multiplayer, completely shit single player, and tacked on Arcade (WTB INSTANT ACTION!), all add up, to a joke of a game, that clearly has no purpose, but to attempt to gain money. I'm honestly angry at not just EA at this point, but at Dice as a company, for not standing up to their corporate overlords, and saying enough is enough. Have some dignity, have some self respect, and maybe, don't take a shit on Star Wars- Particularly not Battlefront.
The list I live for, year after year, time after time. I was particularly interested in this years list. THANK GOD. FOR. JIM. FOR STER DUST. FOR THE CORNFLAKES HOMUNCULUS. Also, #FucKonami You KNOW the year was fucking awful when that huge Shadow of War debacle was only #10.
And FOR DUKE AMIEL DU H'ARDCORE FOR RORY FINGERS FOR JIMSAW FOR SKELETOR FOR SCARECROW FOR THE POG FUCKER FOR THE STEAM CLEANER FOR THE #1 BOGLIN BOY And most of all, for THE MASK JIM WEARS WHEN HE FUCKS
Description on PS store for Horse racing 2016: Horse Racing 2016 is most Fabulous and Entertaining Game for Everyone. If you want to feel real horse racing championship, show your desire and courage to play this game. This Game Uniqueness makes you play this game for hours, you will love to play this game again and again.
One cold winter morning, Mickey Mouse woke up and looked out the window, and there he saw written in the snow with urine, "Mickey Sucks." Mickey called the police, wanting to find out who would do this. A few hours later, the police have completed their investigation and come back with their findings. They say to Mickey, "Well, Mr. Mouse, we have bad news, and we have worse news." Mickey asks to hear the bad news, and the police tell him it's Goofy's urine. Then Mickey asks about the worse news. The police tell him it's Minnie's hand writing.
it is so sad that my childhood to adulthood hobby has become so twisted and morph when i was a child the biggest complaint i could make of a game was it had bad controls or a bad story or maybe a glitch here and there i grew up on the nintindo 64 all way to the xbox 360 i like call those days golden days especially when i got my ps2 and all the games that came for that console the joys i felt... *Then came the Playstation4 and the Xbox one, It has been a shit ride sense*
I've always been a big retro-gaming fan, but 2017 has driven me even further into that nostalgic bubble than ever. I've been spending more time playing on the SNES Mini, GPD-XD and RetroPie than anything else during December.
It's sad, because both of those consoles have some damn good games for them, but other decisions both respective companies made, like forcing you to PAY to play multiplayer online and of course the freaking lootboxes, were just for the sole purpose of forcing you to pay more and it's a disgusting practice.
Really? I thought that between Persona 5, Nioh, HZD, Yakuza 0 all coming out this year (not to mention others like Bloodborne, Uncharted, and Nier: Automata --which let's be honest did not have a great PC port)
The devs took down negative reviews, put their own false positive ones, and went all out and attacked the community. Like this one. i.imgur.com/M5Bfb3w.jpg Got plenty of others.
Yeah that's gonna be a contentious one, but I have my reasons. My lists are contextual and highly subjective, which is why you see some unexpected/unwanted guests on it.
It was garbage, lootboxes especially don't belong in singleplayer games, kills the immersion, and they always lock shit behind fucking paywalls, just like in mobile games, but at least I don't have to pay $80(AUD) for a phone game. Not that I can see any reason to spend money on mobile games either. How the fuck some people can spend hundreds on that shit is beyond me, takes fuck all money to make mobile games, but they still charge the same amount if not more for their purchases than AAA games 😂
The only entry I personally disagree with is Yooka-Laylee. Granted it could've been better but I still thought it was good. Yes A Hat In Time is WAY better but I still like Yooka-Laylee.
I'm really happy Skeletor got himself such a good honest job working for Jim. This year seemed to have less broad diarrhea splattered everywhere like previous years, but it had really REALLY hard concentrated shit in a few places. And as a giant Mass Effect Trilogy fan I feel sick to my core as I know it's not gonna be long before I'm going to have to mourn that franchise once EA kills it after Anthem doesn't do well after all the shit EA pulled and killed its audience's faith in its games. I've already made peace with the fact that we're never gonna have a good Mass Effect game again, but to think of Bioware's future death and inability to ever make ANYTHING good again is really heartbreaking. Hopefully the writers of the Trilogy will go on to write for Star Trek or work on developing a new Massive galactic society type game. Hopefully WITHOUT EA or some other cartoon villain ready to shiv them (no offense Skeletor)
I can't wait until EA goes bankrupt and is forced to vomit up its IPs to those who actually want to make them engaging and fun again. I think Mass Effect can come back...give it like 20 years or however long it takes to take the IP out of EA's cold dead hands.
Holy Shit when you're stuck in the wall in Battlefront I've never noticed the mission says "Get the plans *safetly* to *our* U-wing". Multi-million pound game made by goddamn EA and nobody bothered to spell check. There are countless Polish indie games with a better grasp of English.
BF2, a Star Wars game coming out near the same time as a new SW movie coming out, being the 2nd best selling game in November? Also, STAR WARS. I'm more surprised that people are so surprised.
Something really dumb I saw recently on tv: An ad for Battlefront 2. "The best online experience." was one of the quotes. I don't remember what reviewer said that. How can someone lie like that? And attach their name to it?
$$$ It usually works this way if you're not jim sterling. These generic game review companies like IGN live by the fact that they have to release their review the earliest. And the only way they can do that if they suck the publisher's cock because without them they won't get their games early.
It would be easy to get that quote, let me give you an example: And when asked why the loot-boxes were like this, they said it was for 'The best online experience.' I highly doubt that EA. Then you just clip out the complete sentence there, and unless someone reads the context or you get sued, your fine. It's immoral and unethical, but this IS EA we are talking about.
I hope EA loses exclusive rights to Star Wars because I would rather see Bandai-Namco make a Star Wars fighting games based on SoulCalibur or be given to Temco-Koei so Omega Force can make a new Dynasty Warriors but with the Star Wars paintjob, just like how Hyrule Warriors was DW but with Zelda attached. Oh! And happy birthday, Jim.
But the question is would Disney give Bamco or Tecmo-Koei the rights to the franchise? Maybe make a couple games themselves, but I think if Disney is going to give the rights to a game publisher, it'll be a big US publisher. So who would it be if not EA? Who would they give it to that sounds reasonable and not piss off too many people?
None. Disney doesn't have to give exclusive rights to a single publisher. One year could have Star Warriors and another could have a good fighting game.
Oh come on Disney knew exactly what EA had planned. If you walk to the devil of video gaming you know what to expect. You want a really great Star Wars game? Beg to Sony to make one, maybe Bethesda but hell not EA.
I would buy a "Star Wars - Star Warriors: Empires" in a Heartbeat. If Omega Force ever is to do a Star Wars game they better go the "Empires" route. Create Custom Characters (including aliens), hire/capture Lore Characters, conquer the Galaxy for either the Empire, the Rebellion or the Hutt Cartel. Lots of Weapon/Mousou Kits to choose from or creating a completely unique one. DW:E ist the perfect basis for a Star Wars game.
That Spear of Destiny water looked like it was just a solid terrain mesh with a water material added to it instead of the basic grass or gravel. We were testing some level geometry at some point in UE4 and just quickly made solid meshes with water material to see how the level looked visually while the water was actually just walkable terrain.
EA in general just gets the worst game of 2017 (Mass Effect: Andromeda, Battlefront 2, -Mirror’s Edge Catalyst- ). It basically had no good games. Also, NBA 2K18 should have been on the list too. Also, Happy birthday, Jim!
Mass Effect wasn't bad after they'd patched it. It just wasn't... good. The gameplay was fine but the story and characters (usually biowares strong point) fell flat.
The sad part is that Andromeda might have been good with much more after launch support, but they abandoned it and killed the developer. Battlefront 2 is still being supported, though.
You're right. That Beautiful People moment WAS worth replaying again. In fact, I watched it over and over. It's a shame that shareholder-driven corporatised game production has come to rule the industry because that's the core reason everything is so appallingly shit, why companies like Activision and WB are making such stupidly daft decisions pertaining to how games work. I think their long-term strategy is simply to outlive the Jim Sterlings of the world, that if there is a regular crop of however-many million new 14yo gamers out there who know no better than to pay for every tiny upgrade -- having been trained to pay-to-play by mobile gaming -- then eventually those "re-educated" 14yos will out-number the rest of us who remember what gaming used to be about and every PoS game can be in-game store-delirious and make the T2/GTA5O levels of creamy cash on every piece of crap their programmers can pump out. This is what happens when too much money gets involved. But, please DO still rail against the dying of the light, Jim. There are still some of us who remember gaming as you do.
pokeface119 You do realize this has been the best year for video games im over a decade right? Just because a small amount of games were really REALLY bad shouldnt take away the dozens of amazing games to come out this year. This whole lootbox thing shouldnt stop 2017 from being the amazing year for games it was.
You know, I remember a time on the C=64 when seeing the EA logo made me feel excited, stuff like M.U.L.E., Archon, Bard's Tale, and Summer Games. It must seem weird to young gamers that EA used to produce ground-breaking games which represented the best the industry could offer.
NoJusticeNoPeace I feel the same, but isn't it happening everywhere? I remember when BioWare were world leaders in the RPG experience; now they're a hollow shell of what they used to be :(
To list down the all of the reasons that make me despise EA would take me forever, but anyway here is some of them : 1-They own the license to the Star Wars games which is one of my favorite franchises of all time & we've seen how they ruined it . 2-Their parasitic attitude of buying beloved legendary developers like BioWare & turning them into shells of their former selves . 3- Ruining a lot of great franchises like Mirror's edge , which is a favorite franchise of mine , by releasing a lifeless underwhelming sequel to it .
Onward to the year of mega lootboxes. Characters, maps, weapons, quests and all the essential game play assets are only inside lootboxes (4,99 and the platinum lootbox 9,99 with chance to get 3 of the shit what regular gives (chance 0,5%)). Happy mega lootboxious year of 2018 everyone!
Surprised you didn't do a special mention for all of those achievement spammers on steam, rubbish asset flips selling themselves on giving you ten thousand achievements or whatever.
That's what the Steam Ambassador Award is all about. And frankly giving that cynical money-laundering system any more exposure is probably a bad thing.
It's Tallen, from the ffuuuutttuuurrreee. I stopped playing Shadow of War due to the loot boxes. But now that they've removed them, I've played through again. Games a blast. Better than Shadow of Mordor. DLC being $15 for a new reskinned tribe was pretty shitty though.
Robin The Paladin as someone who has loved the NBA 2K series since the Dreamcast era, I agree. Thanks for fucking one of the reliable high lights of my year, 2K!
Another year, another load of shit that makes you question how hasn't the industry crumbled beneath the weight of it yet. I mean seriously, that we haven't had a crash yet when we had such large scale disaster such as BF2 and the lootbox debacle is remarkable... Keep up the good job Jim. I hope this year brings you nothing but good stuff.
TheLegendaryVGA96 there were also some really good releases this year. Its just the shit releases far outshadowed the good ones (most notably the AAA games)
This is getting really bad, how can i trust to buy any game in the steam store when there is piles of shit everywhere? I can't even buy a game now without checking playthroughs to check that the game isn't a broken hell hole thereby spoiling the game experience in the first place. This is bad because with bad games clogging up the entire store even multiplayer games suffer cause people can't be bothered shifting through the shit to find them. Also, the steam store has lost a lot of reputation because people have spent $50 on games only to find they are glitchy stains on their already strained lifestyle. Case in point we may need another game store site that has good quality control because the steam store has turned into some black market that can't be even bothered to clean its floor.
You what? Yooka-Laylee no.9 in worst of the year? I can understand someone feeling disappointed with the game as a whole but with the complete deluge of shite we got this year this seems a bit silly. Also for all the faults you could level at the game, bad platforming controls are definitely not one of them.
Justin Wilson I think it made the list because originally Jim was looking forward to it, even admitting he backed it to cock a snook at Microsoft’s treatment of RARE, only to find it was (in an overused meme) MEDIOCRE!
I was a backer too, I definitely have issues with the game, particularly regarding level structure, but overall it never lied about what it was going to be: a warts-and-all N64 era platformer, and on that it delivered. I feel there's a lot of exaggerated expectation vs reality going on with this one, it was never going to match the sheer polish of the likes of Banjo-Kazooie on the budget they had, especially with modern asset requirements. People tend to underestimate the effects Nintendo's money, resources and assistance had on Rare's overall quality. With the above in mind I personally find some of Jim's complaints about the game a tad spurious.
Jim, I don't know if you'll read this but since Destiny 2 was such a wet blanket, you may like Bungie's older stuff back when they weren't bossed around by pre-season 1 Cyril Sneer. Halo predecessor, the Marathon Trilogy is my main example. If you thought Doom 4's backstory told via the Codex was a damn fine way to tell a story, I'm afraid Marathon did it first back in 1994. It just wasn't given enough recognition because the trilogy used to be Macintosh only and old Macs generally made garbage gaming computers. Bungie, among others, did a damn fine job of rectifying that with their older games. Imagine the original Doom with smoother platforming, rooms over rooms via 5D space that predates the Build Engine by 2 years, a rich, deep, complicated story that rivals Halo itself within only three games and told via terminals, similar to the datacubes, beautiful 2.5D environments, real liquids instead of hotplate polygons (in Marathon 2 onward at least) and in the sequels, _DUEL. WIELDED. DOUBLE-BARREL. SHOTGUNS._ The best part is that all three Marathon games are not only available on Windows now, but they are freeware on all main modern operating systems, thanks to the modern version of their engine, Aleph One, which is the Marathon equivalent to GZ Doom. alephone.lhowon.org/ You can get some great mods from the above link too, like Eternal, which is based on Halo's alpha story (which itself was a sequel to the Marathon games before becoming the Halo we know), Rubicon, Tempus Irae and Tempus Irae 2: the Lost Levels. (no, seriously) Pathways into Darkness is also awesome but it's modern port is freeware on the OSX app store only. It's basically Wolfenstein 3D meets both System Shock games with a Quake 1 style setting, albeit one that isn't mostly brown and grey. itunes.apple.com/us/app/pathways-into-darkness/id617234634?mt=12
Thought shadow of war was Warner Bros, not 2k?
Yeah, I fucked that up. Sadly all these publishers are the same. Also I'll pin this so the comments don't fill with this response.
Ugh, I do hate making mistakes like this since you can't fix a video after it's up. This is gonna annoy me for hours.
Jim Sterling I forgive you dad.
Fuck 2k
BigGLO Marc fuck WB
Watch now how 300000 comments will mention this. I was about to until I saw this comment.
Funny how some new games for sale now put up a disclaimer; "No loot boxes" as an important sell point. Kinda like down here in Houston where most new For Sale signs on houses have included the disclaimer "No Flood Damage" after Harvey.
Both major disasters with long range reprocussions on future sales.
Richard Jennings well even payday 2 said they would have no microtransactions, but added them anyway
*Turning Players into Payers*
Quote of the year
*coin jingle*
Time stamps:
0:53 - Middle Earth: Shadow of War
3:36 - Yooka Laylee
5:21 - Horse Racing 2016 (lol)
7:11 - Vaccine
10:14 - Destiny 2
12:40 - Spear of Destiny
13:51 - Art of Stealth
14:50 - Airport Master (Steam shit)
14:56 - Call of Nightmare (Steam shit)
15:01 - LAWNMOWER GAME (Steam shit)
15:04 - Cart Racer (Steam shit)
15:10 - DRUDES SANDSTORM (Steam shit)
15:17 - FIDGET SPINNER SIMULATOR (Steam shit)
15:22 - FUR FUN (Steam shit)
15:31 - Masked Forces: Zombie Survival (Steam shit)
15:35 - Survival Driver 2 (Steam shit)
15:55 - Texas Tango (Steam shit)
16:03 - PICCLED RICC (Steam shit)
16:15 - 1-2 Switch
16:29 - Life of Black Tiger
18:19 - Star Wars Gamblefront II
Would've done this quicker but the Steam shit was difficult to track down lol
Break these Chains of Love!
Thats alot of shit lest
That's a big pile of Steaming (steam) Shit.
HighEvolutionary175 don't forget sonic forces. They rushed the game for $40 and have super sonic for $2.
Thanks but, you should edit it so that the time stamps are on the fifth line so you have to read more
Star Wars Battlefront 2 is one of the best multiplayer shooters ever. It's a ton of fun and has so much content.
The 2017 one on the other hand...
And Disney KNOWS Gamblefront 2 fucking failed cuz the actual Battlefront 2 is now getting steam patches and fixes
Leon what?
Leon There is another game called Star Wars Battlefront 2 from the early 2000's. Like 2005.
Worst of all, almost all players in EA BF2 are defending all its flaws, heck, they even want microtransactions back!
What the ACTUAL FUCK!?
Star Wars battlefield 2, is it bad that what really bothers me is seeing Darth Vader and Rei fighting with/against clones?
Thanks for never missing mondays. Even on holidays you crazy man.
So far we've hit every Monday coming. I'm proud of that. Thank you!
Jim Sterling "In the words of House Sterling...Monday is coming." One of your old quotes I remembered
OH MY.
HOLY SHIT I GOT A HEART FROM LORD STERLING AND FEEL MORE ACCOMPLISHED THAN I SHOULD
Thank god for Jim Sterling
I'm starting to see an actual story arc with Jimquisition.
2014: Digital Homicide, Revengence
2015: The Konami Wars: Hit the Lever Edition
2016: Digital Homicide, Re-RE-REVENGENCE! featuring the Cornflakes Homonculus.
2017: Attack of the Lootboxes, with bonus Boggle content.
What will 2018 hold?
Jim Sterling Cinematic Universe confirmed.
How likely is it that Disney will acquire EA, Activision and then Jim Sterling in the same year?
I think 2018 might be, The Indie Game Kerfluffle: Rise of Chungus
I'm gonna remember 2017 as the year when people finally stopped giving Activision/Blizzard a free pass on everything. Even still, they got out-villained by EA (and maybe WB as well) in the end. Hopefully the current year won't be a continuation of this race to the absolute bottom.
ehhh maybe, when the dawning event hit Activision/Bungie probably become just as bad as EA YongYea did a review about a group of people who did the mathematics for all the rewards in Bright Engrams, and it would take on average $10,000 per year or 4.57 years of grinding public events in a games that has a 3 year lifespan.
Eville Caston all 3 of em can go to hell m8 all 3 of them shall burn
Eville Caston honestly I didn't pick up Battlefront 2 because I heard about its shit so I still had respect for EA. Then I went to play battlefield 1 and I couldn't play the French operations that I spent 15 dollars on because I had to buy the season pass to access the content. And I couldn't play the base French DLC maps either because they added a random non affiliated map to the playlist that costs like 2 bucks that I didn't buy
I'd say Blizzard still gets a pass. It's kind of like how Valve was a few years ago. Valve had a ton of goodwill and such built up so they kept getting away with stuff. But they eventually lost that. Blizzard is in a very similar position and I believe it's approaching the tipping point.
Eville Caston Capcom pretty much got away with milking your money via DLC this year, and so did Nintendo with that awful Zelda BOTW DLC.
In the near future you won't buy a $60 game. You will buy a $60 loot box and hope that the game is in there!
Nah, the boxes won't be $60, that's too obvious. They'll be $15 each, but the chances of getting an actual game are .065%
You only get parts of the game, collect all 12 parts to unlock singleplayer and multiplayer.
Hope not to get the same part of a game over and over
And you get A FEW AWESOME SKINS!
You still didn't get the actual game this time thats another $9.99 for the lootbox. But damn when you finally do get the game, you will have some awesome skins!
Spoiler alert: a year later you discover that there is no game.
I imagine Digital Suicide are watching this and saying:
"He doesn't own Transformers, he doesn't own Skeletor, he doesn't own.."
We all know that Digital Suicide are still bitter and still watch Jim.
petrichor without a doubt
I hate to be "that guy" but I think you mean Digital Homicide. Assuming you are talking about the guys who sued Jim for an absurd amount of money.
The Champ I imagine it was a play on words in regards to the way that they drove themselves into the ground.
I will be punishing myself next episode for saying "2K Games" instead of "Warner Bros." like a massive bell-end.
Unfortunately it will also be a punishment for my audience, as they don't need to see this.
Punishing yourself? Sounds kinky
Just when I thought 2018 might finally feature some quality content, this happens. Thanks Jim.
Moldy Knight Jesus is displeased. Very displeased.
Jim Sterling you totally did this on "purpose" *wink wink* 2Kbisoft KonamEA WarnerHoes
Everyone does mistakes jim. We r human being after all dad
EA: We’re EA how can we help?
Oh wait, that means a fee
You paid full price for our new game?
To us that’s still for free
Here’s a fee to load the game
Here’s a fee to start
Here’s a cost to simply spawn
You see, we’re pretty smart
It doesn’t matter what you spent
That was just to “join”
So step right up, break out the cash
As we kick you in the groin.
Allowing you to just improve
By playing is a sin
When we can sell you super gear
And make this pay to win.
If you wanted Star Wars
You simply have no choice
We only want to see your cash
You really have no voice
This business would be perfect
If not for all the lamers
We wish we could just rob you blind
And not deal with the gamers.
This is the comment of the year right here
I simply adore you
My heart gets warm while reading this.
Ea in a nutshell 2018.
Bone Lonesome Rhymedown Worthy
I could be wrong, but Skeletor might be Jim Sterling in a mask...
Corsuwey or Jim is Skeletor in a mask
@@cookieface80 or maybe Skeletor really let himself go after the masters of the universe cartoons ended.
cookieface80 or maybe Jim is Jim dressed as Skeletor dressed as Jim
A BIT too skinny and muscled don`t you think?
@@afrog2666 Skeletor moves and sounds different than Jim, though.
21:20
They couldn’t even write “safely” right for Battlefront 2.
When your focus is raking in more cash than you can ever possibly snort off a line of hookers' asses, you don't much care about such tiny details as grammar or spelling.
Snortet offet a linetet ofet hooketers assetes.
jbiehiable remember Mercenaries 1? Now that was an incredible game back in the day. =]
It’s high noon in Mordor. A lone tumbleweed rattles its way across the black, volcanic plain. A felbeast wails mournfully, somewhere in the distance. But the two orcs standing on the plain below do not react. They stand still, hands hovering over the axes strapped to their belts. “I thought I told you, Pushkrimp,” says the larger orc. “I’m the only Pushkrimp in these parts. This evil fantasy kingdom ain’t big enough for the two of us, so why don’t you Push off while you still can.”
The other orc narrows his eyes and spits. “And I told YOU, Pushkrimp,” he replies, “I’ve been Pushin’ Krimps since I was knee-high to a Nazgul. If anyone’s gettin’ pushes off ‘round here, it’s gonna be you.”
Both orcs jump backwards, clawed hands grasping for their weapons. They raise their axes, ready to throw, when all of a sudden...
WHAM! Both orcs are crushed into paste by a giant lootbox falling from the sky. But at least they got a sense of Pride and Accomplishment.
ART!
Blue Laser and out of that lootbox came 2 push krimps and some other shit.
The lootbox contained another pushkrimp. However he was legendary. He was better than the other two at literally everything.
Thank you for your service, Skeletor.
I had to laugh at the flow chart displaying corporate greed in action. At the final fork in the no branch which ended in 'Update the player profile to indicate non-purchase' my mind automatically added '... and greenlight death by our company assassins'. Repugant to see the rampant greed in their motivations.
My frist video of 2018. Thank god for you sir!
You honor me!
Jim Sterling Same for me as well. Love me some Jim!!
Started your year right
Same here. Starting the year off right!
Fernando Garci-crespo yep first video of the year for me as well
Do you remember when you get awesome stuff for playing and beating hard bosses,no..., what have we become ._.
Even fucking singleplayer, SINGLEPLAYER has loot boxes
Back in the day beating a hard boss just meant you could play the next level, not sure what awesome stuff you are talking about
rare stuff, mods, weapons, costumes, trophies, achivements, you name it.
So like in Shadow of War where beating bosses can give you new weapons, armor, achivements, bases, and/or allies.
Back in 2011 with Battlefield 3, i noticed 'shortcut' DLC which cost as much as expansion packs and meant you could just BUY all the Multiplayer unlocks instead of playing the game like...well,
someone who actually wants to play a game.
Going by the ratings in the PS Store as well is what shocked me more so, as people in the tens of thousands had voted highly of these shortcuts. Not only demonstrating how well people responded to them, but how MANY people.
The need for accessibility for casuals was taken advantage of for greedy stock brokers =C
Something strangely carthatic about watching jim go off on these bad game publishers
barduk4 it's....it's been a bad year
"Go off"? More like "gets off"! Haha
Sorry, I'm tired
I know it's been 8 months but it's (cathartic) not what you typed which is carthatic.
true
This is currently trending on the official Destiny 2 forums, my sides are in orbit.
TheMixEmperor The Destiny forums are what I still have to play of that game
I actually couldn’t play battlefront 2 because of the star cards.. every game I was seeing the maximum star cards on every player and it just became so disgusting
sterling wirth I ended up not paying any attention to the game pre-launch and got it... Now it just takes up space on the list of games I have in origin... which isnt a whole lot to begin with. Id gladly give my copy away or burn it if I could... the downside to the digital format.
It's affecting me aswell.
Even if the basic infantry cards do not give any direct advantages (like the Hero cards, Starfighter cards, Reinforcement cards and Vehicle cards), just the feeling of seeing someone have purple colors triggers your brain into oblivion.
You know this year had some shit games when Mass Effect Andromeda didn't even make the list.
Holy Shit! I completely forgot about that pile.
That was in his "mediocre games of 2017" list on the Jimquisition site, in case you weren't aware.
Chaos Xeloc I feel like shadow of war should have been on the mediocre games of the year.
Chaos Xeloc Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware, although I'd say it's more bad than mediocre.
Dragoncat Sage a lot of the triple A games in the list are more so mediocre than shit though. I mean even yooka-laylee was just meh, but I don't think Jim wanted to fill the list full of indie trash scam games that had no work on it.
As a long time developer - This 'year of the loot box' makes me fucking sick and frankly embarrassed about the industry.
I wish consumers would vote more strongly with their wallets and stop this shit for the greater good of gaming as a whole.
Andy Knowles Do you have any proof that you're a developer?
Not sure why I need to prove it, but take a look on metacritic - do a search for my name and you'll see the games I've worked on, LBP PSP, Killzone Mercenary, RIGS PSVR, Heavenly Sword etc...
Andy Knowles You have no proof that you're actually Andy Knowles, whoever that is. You obviously found their name on metacritic and used it.
Lol really? Is that what you think?
Why would I do that? What benefit would there be to it?
To be honest i'm flattered that you think it's that special to be me lol thankyou for the compliment
Andy Knowles If you're actually a developer, then I apologize. However, this is the internet, where kids will do anything to get attention.
I lost it at "VASTLY SUPERIOR=A Hat in Time". Thanks for that one Jim. I remember seeing that developer announce that game so many years ago, so happy to see some people live up to the expectations.
RoverStorm It's so good to see Kickstarter games can still turn out so great. A Hat In Time has to be one of my favourite games of 2017, if not all time.
It was a really good game. I enjoyed it alot. (finished it yesterday) And I'd say it's one of the better games i played this year alongside DDLC (Doki Doki Literature Club) and i can't wait for Team Salvato's upcomming game in 2018. I can't remember any other games where i was like: Yeah this was a fun and good game.
(I didn't play that many new releases every year)
So you should be happy about Yooka-Laylee, since it lived up to expectations and was a great game.
I think your description of Life of Black Tiger makes it sound better than it is
I think the use of any words would make it sound better than it is.
mark s I think being speechless would make it sound better than it is.
I'm slightly surprised that Gacheduine wasn't on the list. But then again... Life Of Black Tiger.
IS SONY FUCKING HIGH?!?!?!?!?!
Digital Deathsquid technically it came out for vita in 2016 sooooo i guess it doesn't count xD
Digital Deathsquid Frankly, I thought Firefighters: The Simulation would be where Spear of Destiny is. That bitch cost 30 bucks and sucked equally as hard as the souls/not souls game😅
I don't know about other countries, but Destiny 2 saw a major sale on over the Christmas period, possibly to try entice new players with the lure of a 50% off a relatively new game? But to see such a big sale on a triple-A title not long out like that, kind of gives more of an impression of failure than success.
That's because they just released the DLC I expect. So they have some overpriced content to push.
I think it has a lot to do with the PR disaster-piece that is Destiny 2 over the course of December and the fact that it could make a potentially good Christmas present had more to do with it.
Success or failure of the game itself had little to do with it going on sale. That’s how I see it as there are dozens of cases of fantastic games that people really like selling poorly and mediocre games selling like crazy (No Man’s Sky).
I really enjoyed the aggressive marketing in form of an Destiny 2 app popping up on my PS4, as if it was already installed...
Love that old school RUclips icon mane.
lunahula agreed. Like when a new hype phone is 60% off a week after launch. You know it's shit.
Wow, Jim. Including Zelda Breath of The Wild was a crazy choice. But the Kellogg Humanculous shitting on it was unnecessary.
Michael Barrett Well done.
I'm gonna be so disappointed if that doesn't happen now.
Michael Barrett Awaiting the reeeeeeeplies of Fanboys?
Was spelling "homunculus" wrong part of the joke?
Really? Jim didn't even mention BOTW. Hell, the only Nintendo title mentioned was 1-2 Switch, which was largely focused on the high price tag. If you want to make some drama or fan outrage, you gotta be more creative than that.
"The art of stealth" is actually a pretty fitting name. Whatever art is in this game is so stealthy no one can find it.
copied from a comment on the video right?
I don't know, I just came up with it.
It's a really obvious joke though, so it wouldn't surprise me if someone else already made it.
6:14 When N64 Zelda's Horse Racing Minigame is far better than this entire game.
It's such a shame that there's no Horse game out there that's actually good and has any effort in it, despite the fact that there's millions of little girls out there who'd love to play a video game about horses, just look at the success of StarStable. I swear, if someone actually tried to make a game about horse riding that wasn't garbage, they'd be millionaires within minutes.
And it's not like it would be overly difficult, Zelda had a good horse riding mechanic on the N64 so why can't these people make a good dedicated horse game in 2017?
MetroidJunkie
I bet it's because idiot executives still think that either girls don't play games, or that they only play casual games on their phone. They probably don't realize that there's a huge untapped market right before them, it feel like the executives and people marketing games still think the only people playing games are stereotypical teenage boys who only like explosions, despite it being proved false time and again. Just look at the Sims, before that game, no one believed a virtual dollhouse could be popular, but in hindsight, its one of the most popular and influential series in game history.
games in the n64 era were also fun, another thing games these days don't have.
The majority still is teenage boys. They do look at demographics...
The worst part about the grind at the end of Shadow of War is that the ending you get is terrible. The entire game is about as non-canon as you can get, but the ending doesn't get creative, it just tries to tie itself to the Lord of the Rings. As if it was canon or something. Why?
It's an easter egg-like epilogue cutscene, what exactly did you expect? It's basically "Talion *finally* becomes a Nazgul then years later dies and goes to the LOTR-equivalent of the afterlife". It wasn't meant to be some sort of huge reward for grinding through the game, it was something that you were supposed to stumble across after you played through a certain number of Shadow War stages. The *actual* ending to the game is the one you get at the end of Act III.
The day you met Jim fucking Sterling, son was the greatest day of your life but for him... it was tuesday.
Shiirow solid street fighter movie reference
*OF COURSE!!*
Actually, it was Monday.
Darn it, now I need a comic of Jim meeting the maker of, say, Skate Man Intense Rescue and they just fly off the handle at him and he says he doesn't remember them because for them the day Jim Fucking Sterling (son) crapped all over their horrible game was one of the most important days of their life but for him...it was Tuesday.
LMFAO that EA shade at the end had me fucking rolling!
They more than had it coming.
This was a very easy year to make a list for.
+Chaos Bearded Gaming and more Sounds like you personally identify with your game purchases. Fool. XD
+Chaos Bearded Gaming and more You REALLY don't need to justify anything....or insult others.
If you want to prove a point, get evidence and organize your reasons, then present them. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
troll bait is troll (Chaos Bearded is, I mean)
All of this shit is frighteningly similar to what caused the 1st video game crash, just saying.
Never even heard of Horse Racing 2016, Vaccine, Spear of Destiny, Art of Stealth and Life of Black Tiger... Kind of glad about that now.
Don't watch enough Jim Sterling, son.
"I am negative art."
I choked laughing!
As an indie dev, here's what bugs me about these games which harp on nostalgia:
Developers need to learn to draw inspiration from older games, while making use of the gaming advances of nowadays. Bad cameras, level design, and generally poor design choices aren't good parts of the good old games. They were (and still are) the result of inexperienced developers, or developers who want to arbitrarily make their game hard.
These aren't good design choices to make. We shouldn't consider this when we want to pump new life into old genres, otherwise we'll end up with bad games.
agreed, its one thing to pay homage its another to mask out right refusal of game development advancing both in tools and philosophy as 'well that was how it was in the old days'
True, saying bugs, not being able to save your progress or crappy controls is part of the retro charm is like saying people visit a renaissance fair for the plage and dysentery.
I really hate when people do the 'that's how it was' excuse. We don't live in the old days, we should appreciate the new methods of gaming now.
but there you hit on the nerve that nostalgia plays where its like a warm old sweater where everything was good in the old days
Who cares? There's a market for throwback games and all of the problems those games had. The market is big enough for those throwbacks to exist along side other, more modern games. Why does every game need to be tailored to the general masses?
After observing Blizzard for few years, playing their games, I can take a guess that Acti/Blizz is all about checking how much bullshit they can slip past the radar. Seeing how Blizz is successful with most bs, maybe they were thinking that they were some kind of masterminds?
I don't know which I despise more: these direct middle fingers from Warner Bros and such, where I at least outright know not to buy their games, or these quick fingers pointed whenever I turn around and they think I didn't noticed.
All of it equally. In the words of George Carlin, "It's all bullshit and it's bad for ya."
Oh my God, absolutely agree. Literally, you can tear apart any other microtransactic game all you want and people will agree, but as soon as you try to attack the perfect and immutable Blizzard people rush to actively defend their bullshit and advocate directly against the consumer.
Overwatch put paid RNG microtransactions in a premium AAA game and people literally praise them for it. World of Warcraft wants you to pay for both a subscription and every single expansion, and Blizz put microtransactions on top of that. Hearthstone is literally a pay-to-win mobile card game. Yet people love them. This is exactly how microtransactions got out of the mobile hellhole and into premium games and why they're staying.
The worst way Blizzard is anti-consumer is the complete disregard for their loyal customers. The changes they put into their games ignore old players, catering to newer and inexperienced crowd* (extreme casualisation of Blizzard games isn't something new, its the norm, even for their new titles), spoiling the fun that some of said "old players" had with the game and sometimes a sole reason they were playing it and not any other.
They strongly go by two principle:
- you paid, so piss off, make space for another customer.
- we can do anything, because we have enough loyal drones that will pay us no matter what we do.
In general, "you already paid, so you won't go away, because you will be feeling remorse for leaving behind all the investment put into our games, and if you actually go away, we don't care, there are plenty more waiting behind you". This is everything Blizzard is today. And nostalgia, tons of nostalgia they aren't afraid to use against players just to bait them into spending another penny.
* "waaah, we were owned by this mechanic that isn't directly obvious on first sight and you need to think for a second how it works instead of rushing mindlessly, nerf it!" is honestly enough Blizzard needs to push a change.
I'm a voice actor in 1-2 Switch (EN). And this makes me happier than pretty much anything else ever has.
slendy9600 It was really fun, actually. I did three sessions and it paid OK (for non union). The only one that sucked was Air Guitar. I blew my voice out on that. But it was last, so that was fine.
Andy D Proof?
Todd Howard You want like a paystub or something? There are no game credits. I can tell you that it was recorded at Bad Animals in Seattle and that I'm repped by Big Fish Northwest. You can look up my other credits on IMDb (look at producers for a show called JourneyQuest... You'll puzzle it out). Also, if I was going to lie, I'd pick a better game.
I found my audition mp3s. I can post them in a zip somewhere if you'd like.
EDIT: I threw them on Soundcloud. soundcloud.com/user-403828676/sets/1-2-switch-auditions
Note: this was before any direction, so some of the voices are different than in-game, and I'm doing more here than I did in the game. This was October of 2016, and the names of the games/characters weren't the final names. Also, thank you for finally prodding me to set up a Soundcloud account!
I like how he used EA's headquarters for the intro.
Rule 33 of developing a game:
If it exists put it in a loot box
Loot boxes within loot boxes?
..Or go play golf. Earn millions to do practically nothing.
Rule 34 of Developing a Game:
If it exists, someone will eventually make a nude mod of it.
Stolen 211 Nude loot boxes?
The intro was *PERFECTION*
Indeed it was! :D
The intro was the best part. Thank god for Jim's production team, because man tits waving a stick doesn't cut it.
Xantain just because is your house right? skeletor thats bs
Myahhh
Considering your avatar, I think you might be a little biased. ;)
Destiny 2 is #7 in Eurogamer's top 50 list. Let that sink in.
well, it was... "decent" when it released, then Activision, well, Activisioned
Did you see the fan's choice list they posted this morning? It's so much better...says a lot
It's almost like people have different opinions. Note I haven't played Destiny 2 nor do I intend to play it.
Because it’s a good game
Because they are horrible at games and are fan boys of it since they fall into the mediocre demographic who enjoys a shallow shooter and doesn't mind loot boxes
I'll give Yooka Laylee this, it's not very often you get a video game that's considered bad for being too faithful. I actually enjoyed the game enough to buy it, call it Stockholm Syndrome if you will but I liked the game even with its flaws. And I was able to play through it a lot more easily than another game I played recently which I definitely class as a flawed platformer which is Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo; A.K.A one of those games people don't remember Frontier Developments for
Ben Knight honestly I don't get the criticisms. I didn't have any problems with any mechanics/the camera at all. I thought the game was a blast and had some really interesting shit in it. The Icesymetric Castle alone was interesting enough imo
I'm also confused about all the hate. I've heard hundreds of DIFFERENT reasons why people hate the game.
Some of the dumbest ones are "I pledged in the kickstarter because I thought Yoka-Laylee was going to be like Banjo Kazooie but instead it was more like Banjo-Tooie" (What the serious fuck) and then there were all the kids boycotting the game because the devs removed 5 seconds of grunts of that John Tron snotty kid.
Sure the game is flawed but compared to most of the games that I've personally pledged in kickstarter (including the Double Fine games) it's the only one that actually resembled a finished product.
But Banjo-Tooie was the better one by a long shot.
I feel the game fails to hit most of it's high notes due to its boss designs. That is what turned my head away from this game.
The bosses of Yooka-Laylee pale in comparison to DK64/Conker/Banjo Tooie in gameplay depth/creativity.
I want to see them improve beyond it, next time with less bugs and a lot more crunch & punch.
I also enjoy YL. Beware to be influenced by all the negative criticism
Thanks Jim. I love what you do for the gaming community and, as someone who lost faith in it long ago, I appreciate the fact that people like you keep me informed. I've bought several games off your gameplay (I Love 'Reigns') and supported those who actually deserve it. Your Jimpressions of bad games have made me laugh harder than most movies in recent years and your non-toxic attitude towards women and anyone in between is extremely admirable. I hope for another great year from you.
Shigeru.......LOL Agreed, we must have one of those ultra sensitive extreme feminist on our hands that looks at everything as sexist or racist? I didn't even realize sex correlated into this video at all.
Edit: I liked the video too though Nyndja.
Okay, name ONE RUclipsr that has a "toxic attitude towards women"
Ethan Bradberry. I honestly don't know what your end goal is with this line of questioning. By your own admission, you already admit that you are subscribed to at least one. If you want to find more, all you have to do is type "women shouldn't game" or "girls are ruining gaming" into the RUclips search bar and PICK ONE. I'm sure within them will consist of many things that fall under sexist along with hyper critical statements based solely on gender or race. And I also don't see your point about asking about the cunt Vs dick thing because I already said that RUclipsrs were well within their rights to use such forms of insults and even pointed out one that I liked. I like Spoony a lot too but he made a video critiquing FFX and he made a song that was basically "Gay gay fag fag sissy gay fag". Those are literally the only words. He apologized later on for it, saying he never should have done this but Jim Sterling has NEVER HAD to make such an apology because he would never even go there, even for a joke. My point with my initial compliment to Jim is that he goes out of his way NOT to be harsh towards any demographic that isn't his own. Can you accept THAT as the point? I just can't believe I'm being questioned on the merits of a comment that basically says "thank you for being nice to people like me." This isn't a debate. I am thankful for this and am glad I NEVER have to worry about Jim going down that road unlike when Spoony made his 'fun' little gay song, pewdiepie dropped the n bomb, and jontron said some very nice things about preserving his race and 'retards'. It's a short search if you genuinely want to find it. Or do these not 'count'?
Breath of the Wild should have been in this videos thumbnail just to screw with people.
Drakulas Kuroyami that would've beautiful
So BotW would be in the thumbnail for both the top 10 best and worst videos, and wouldn't actually be in either video, I love it
Hahaha get it so i can troll nintenfags :DDD xddddddd
Actually, that would be a violation of RUclips rules which doesn't allow thumbnails that doesn't represent the content of the video. This is why, usually, when you see a click baits on a video, it was made from a carefully selected piece of video inserted in the video.
Drakulas Kuroyami I don't think he wants to deal with another ddos anytime soon,
While we're at it, let's make that Hawaiian senator person of the year, yeah?
Next to Jim, of course. Thank God for Jim.
I dunno never trust politicians to do the right things the right way, they usually find a way to make themselves look worse than the ones they oppose.
It's incredible just how rubbish EA Battlefront 2 was.
The entire progression system is looped through loot boxes, which isn't an enjoyable, or even inspired mechanic. If if you couldn't buy them at start, it would have still been a annoyance.
The Star Cards, lackluster multiplayer, completely shit single player, and tacked on Arcade (WTB INSTANT ACTION!), all add up, to a joke of a game, that clearly has no purpose, but to attempt to gain money. I'm honestly angry at not just EA at this point, but at Dice as a company, for not standing up to their corporate overlords, and saying enough is enough. Have some dignity, have some self respect, and maybe, don't take a shit on Star Wars- Particularly not Battlefront.
The list I live for, year after year, time after time.
I was particularly interested in this years list. THANK GOD. FOR. JIM.
FOR STER DUST.
FOR THE CORNFLAKES HOMUNCULUS.
Also, #FucKonami
You KNOW the year was fucking awful when that huge Shadow of War debacle was only #10.
And
FOR DUKE AMIEL DU H'ARDCORE
FOR RORY FINGERS
FOR JIMSAW
FOR SKELETOR
FOR SCARECROW
FOR THE POG FUCKER
FOR THE STEAM CLEANER
FOR THE #1 BOGLIN BOY
And most of all, for THE MASK JIM WEARS WHEN HE FUCKS
Shame on you, Jim. Skeletor-Vision? When the much more obvious Skele-Vision is on the table?
The MediEvil remaster trailer already called dibs
I forgot Anthem was EA. I just lost all hope.
Orbbb24 Sadly, we must always remember that Bioware's soul belongs to EA..
A body is found!
You are in trouble.
So, what, like a week's detention? Sorry I killed Mr. Jones, principal. I won't do it again.
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At 21:21 , has that misspelling always been there and I just never noticed
“For me, it was just Tuesday.”
M. Bison reference. Classy.
OF COURSE!!!
When ever i hear spear of destiny i always think of wolfenstein 3D
Yea me too
I think of medieval Christian mythology, myself, but that works as well.
I think of the classic post punk goth band. I am getting old.
Glad it wasn't just me, Matt
One cold winter morning, Mickey Mouse woke up and looked out the window, and there he saw written in the snow with urine, "Mickey Sucks." Mickey called the police, wanting to find out who would do this. A few hours later, the police have completed their investigation and come back with their findings. They say to Mickey, "Well, Mr. Mouse, we have bad news, and we have worse news." Mickey asks to hear the bad news, and the police tell him it's Goofy's urine. Then Mickey asks about the worse news. The police tell him it's Minnie's hand writing.
Also, this is the first comment I wrote in 2018.
Genuinely laughed at that :)
Loved your epic battle with the possum.
Yeah that joke sure was funny when I first read it in 2008.
jesus that's an old joke
it is so sad that my childhood to adulthood hobby has become so twisted and morph
when i was a child the biggest complaint i could make of a game was it had bad controls or a bad story or maybe a glitch here and there i grew up on the nintindo 64 all way to the xbox 360 i like call those days golden days especially when i got my ps2 and all the games that came for that console the joys i felt... *Then came the Playstation4 and the Xbox one, It has been a shit ride sense*
Get a Nintendo Switch and forget the rest!
PC is no better. Steam is complete shit these days
I've always been a big retro-gaming fan, but 2017 has driven me even further into that nostalgic bubble than ever. I've been spending more time playing on the SNES Mini, GPD-XD and RetroPie than anything else during December.
It's sad, because both of those consoles have some damn good games for them, but other decisions both respective companies made, like forcing you to PAY to play multiplayer online and of course the freaking lootboxes, were just for the sole purpose of forcing you to pay more and it's a disgusting practice.
Really? I thought that between Persona 5, Nioh, HZD, Yakuza 0 all coming out this year (not to mention others like Bloodborne, Uncharted, and Nier: Automata --which let's be honest did not have a great PC port)
"Why is he Jesus?" I genuinely rofld at that one. Like on the floor and everything. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaa!!!
lol Art of Stealth, greatest dev meltdown since DigiHom
HAZARDOUS88 what about that bigoted Australian guy? Or was that 2016? The shittiness is all blending together for me
Yeah, that was a long time, was last year and 2016.
That's why I said SINCE DigiHom, this game came after that masterpiece.
What exactly happened?
The devs took down negative reviews, put their own false positive ones, and went all out and attacked the community. Like this one.
i.imgur.com/M5Bfb3w.jpg Got plenty of others.
+1 Finally someone understands that Shadow of War is utter garbage.
Yeah that's gonna be a contentious one, but I have my reasons. My lists are contextual and highly subjective, which is why you see some unexpected/unwanted guests on it.
People been white knighting for the game all year long these people are ruining gaming
You state that as fact when it's merely an opinion.
It was garbage, lootboxes especially don't belong in singleplayer games, kills the immersion, and they always lock shit behind fucking paywalls, just like in mobile games, but at least I don't have to pay $80(AUD) for a phone game. Not that I can see any reason to spend money on mobile games either.
How the fuck some people can spend hundreds on that shit is beyond me, takes fuck all money to make mobile games, but they still charge the same amount if not more for their purchases than AAA games 😂
Fly MeToTheMoon I don't see why people can find it fun
What kind of cancer was that on the end? What dev. would listen to that and be like: "Yep. Nailed it, perfect. Gonna sell like hot cakes!"
All it needs is a plucky teen protag and a love triangle and *BOOM* it prints money.
The only entry I personally disagree with is Yooka-Laylee. Granted it could've been better but I still thought it was good. Yes A Hat In Time is WAY better but I still like Yooka-Laylee.
2017: The year that the games industry was so fucked, it made Ubisoft look good by comparison.
Can't wait for Ubisandbox 2018!
As time goes on, Ubisoft seems less and less evil and more and more like a bunch of incompetent idiots.
Yeah, Ubisoft aren't evil, they're just really stupid. Adorably so, actually.
@Xeno you know part of Ubi's fault is that EA bought a bunch of their stock and tried a hostile takeover a few years ago.
Ubisoft gets too much crap, if you ignore the fact they release an assassins creed each year they're relatively a decent company.
I gotta admit..the montage of Flaming horseshit games on steam is almost beautiful
I'm really happy Skeletor got himself such a good honest job working for Jim.
This year seemed to have less broad diarrhea splattered everywhere like previous years, but it had really REALLY hard concentrated shit in a few places.
And as a giant Mass Effect Trilogy fan I feel sick to my core as I know it's not gonna be long before I'm going to have to mourn that franchise once EA kills it after Anthem doesn't do well after all the shit EA pulled and killed its audience's faith in its games.
I've already made peace with the fact that we're never gonna have a good Mass Effect game again, but to think of Bioware's future death and inability to ever make ANYTHING good again is really heartbreaking.
Hopefully the writers of the Trilogy will go on to write for Star Trek or work on developing a new Massive galactic society type game. Hopefully WITHOUT EA or some other cartoon villain ready to shiv them (no offense Skeletor)
I can't wait until EA goes bankrupt and is forced to vomit up its IPs to those who actually want to make them engaging and fun again.
I think Mass Effect can come back...give it like 20 years or however long it takes to take the IP out of EA's cold dead hands.
Fidget spinner game > Star Wars: Battlefront II
You should work as a game publisher, pitching those money making schem- I mean, _grade-A-marketing-ideas,_ yeah..
Getting a razor blade lodged in my urethra was a better experience than Stars wars battlefront 2
You haven't even played the game
Holy Shit when you're stuck in the wall in Battlefront I've never noticed the mission says "Get the plans *safetly* to *our* U-wing". Multi-million pound game made by goddamn EA and nobody bothered to spell check. There are countless Polish indie games with a better grasp of English.
Get the limited edition "Commas and hyphens pack" for only 2,000 credits.
You can't use vowels in text chat unless you unlock them first.
Hey stop giving them ideas
It hurts my soul to see that Destiny 2 is actually selling well
Mr. Soup idiots
Mr. Soup well it's like 15 dollars at some places....I guess if you call it selling well at a massive discount t then ye
It hurt my soul that Battlefront 2 was the 2nd best selling game for November... like FUCKING HOW
BF2, a Star Wars game coming out near the same time as a new SW movie coming out, being the 2nd best selling game in November? Also, STAR WARS.
I'm more surprised that people are so surprised.
Yeah but with the amount of backlash it got and mainstream media also reporting on it I was expecting maybe top 20 but number 2!!!, just shocking
Something really dumb I saw recently on tv:
An ad for Battlefront 2.
"The best online experience." was one of the quotes. I don't remember what reviewer said that.
How can someone lie like that? And attach their name to it?
$$$
It usually works this way if you're not jim sterling.
These generic game review companies like IGN live by the fact that they have to release their review the earliest. And the only way they can do that if they suck the publisher's cock because without them they won't get their games early.
It would be easy to get that quote, let me give you an example:
And when asked why the loot-boxes were like this, they said it was for 'The best online experience.' I highly doubt that EA.
Then you just clip out the complete sentence there, and unless someone reads the context or you get sued, your fine. It's immoral and unethical, but this IS EA we are talking about.
LOZFFVII those "reviews" are just tittles that you can pay for.
5:28 did Jim predict the Chungus meme nearly a year before it became viral
He has always called his characters chungus
Jim did not actually predict it, he just inspired it
He's used Chungus since like 2011-12.
I hope EA loses exclusive rights to Star Wars because I would rather see Bandai-Namco make a Star Wars fighting games based on SoulCalibur or be given to Temco-Koei so Omega Force can make a new Dynasty Warriors but with the Star Wars paintjob, just like how Hyrule Warriors was DW but with Zelda attached.
Oh! And happy birthday, Jim.
But the question is would Disney give Bamco or Tecmo-Koei the rights to the franchise? Maybe make a couple games themselves, but I think if Disney is going to give the rights to a game publisher, it'll be a big US publisher.
So who would it be if not EA? Who would they give it to that sounds reasonable and not piss off too many people?
None. Disney doesn't have to give exclusive rights to a single publisher. One year could have Star Warriors and another could have a good fighting game.
Fighting and musou Star Wars games? Ugh, no thanks.
Oh come on Disney knew exactly what EA had planned. If you walk to the devil of video gaming you know what to expect. You want a really great Star Wars game? Beg to Sony to make one, maybe Bethesda but hell not EA.
I would buy a "Star Wars - Star Warriors: Empires" in a Heartbeat.
If Omega Force ever is to do a Star Wars game they better go the "Empires" route.
Create Custom Characters (including aliens), hire/capture Lore Characters, conquer the Galaxy for either the Empire, the Rebellion or the Hutt Cartel.
Lots of Weapon/Mousou Kits to choose from or creating a completely unique one.
DW:E ist the perfect basis for a Star Wars game.
pause a 21:21 I swear to god. "SAFETLY" did they even bother with this game?
no but the store works 100% so priorities check out
gotta get dat cheddar
Happy New Year and Happy Birthday, Jim!
Carl Catron Don't forget....
Happy Rusev Day.
That Spear of Destiny water looked like it was just a solid terrain mesh with a water material added to it instead of the basic grass or gravel. We were testing some level geometry at some point in UE4 and just quickly made solid meshes with water material to see how the level looked visually while the water was actually just walkable terrain.
EA in general just gets the worst game of 2017 (Mass Effect: Andromeda, Battlefront 2, -Mirror’s Edge Catalyst- ). It basically had no good games.
Also, NBA 2K18 should have been on the list too.
Also, Happy birthday, Jim!
Sambou Jaiteh Didnt Mirror's Edge came out last year rather ?
J yup
J Really? Huh. Just goes to show how bad EA was with that one too.
Mass Effect wasn't bad after they'd patched it. It just wasn't... good. The gameplay was fine but the story and characters (usually biowares strong point) fell flat.
The sad part is that Andromeda might have been good with much more after launch support, but they abandoned it and killed the developer. Battlefront 2 is still being supported, though.
2:54 "but for me it was Tuesday" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH good reference
Those lawnmower intermissions cracked me up..
Oh, and Happy Rusev Day to you, too!
You're right. That Beautiful People moment WAS worth replaying again. In fact, I watched it over and over.
It's a shame that shareholder-driven corporatised game production has come to rule the industry because that's the core reason everything is so appallingly shit, why companies like Activision and WB are making such stupidly daft decisions pertaining to how games work. I think their long-term strategy is simply to outlive the Jim Sterlings of the world, that if there is a regular crop of however-many million new 14yo gamers out there who know no better than to pay for every tiny upgrade -- having been trained to pay-to-play by mobile gaming -- then eventually those "re-educated" 14yos will out-number the rest of us who remember what gaming used to be about and every PoS game can be in-game store-delirious and make the T2/GTA5O levels of creamy cash on every piece of crap their programmers can pump out. This is what happens when too much money gets involved.
But, please DO still rail against the dying of the light, Jim. There are still some of us who remember gaming as you do.
Jim I don’t know how you don’t have an ulcer after all them steam games
The man dresses as Skeletor on a semi regular basis. I just don't think he takes it all that seriously....
Man, I had forgotten how bad the picture quality on VHS was.
The M. BISON reference was beautiful.
"I love video games.....That must be why I HATE them so much!" You got a like, a subscribe, and a fan out of that sentence alone. GJ, keep it up.
2018 will automatically be better because we'll get a full year to celebrate the glory and wonder of Rusev Day.
2018 will even have an extra Rusev Day!
2018 should be a better year because it can't get worse than this, right??
pokeface119 You do realize this has been the best year for video games im over a decade right? Just because a small amount of games were really REALLY bad shouldnt take away the dozens of amazing games to come out this year. This whole lootbox thing shouldnt stop 2017 from being the amazing year for games it was.
HicksZ34 zelda, splatoon 2 and super mario sucks though
U sir just made my day
You know, I remember a time on the C=64 when seeing the EA logo made me feel excited, stuff like M.U.L.E., Archon, Bard's Tale, and Summer Games. It must seem weird to young gamers that EA used to produce ground-breaking games which represented the best the industry could offer.
They did buy up everyone who DID make ground-breaking games. RIP Pandemic.
NoJusticeNoPeace I feel the same, but isn't it happening everywhere? I remember when BioWare were world leaders in the RPG experience; now they're a hollow shell of what they used to be :(
To list down the all of the reasons that make me despise EA would take me forever, but anyway here is some of them :
1-They own the license to the Star Wars games which is one of my favorite franchises of all time & we've seen how they ruined it .
2-Their parasitic attitude of buying beloved legendary developers like BioWare & turning them into shells of their former selves .
3- Ruining a lot of great franchises like Mirror's edge , which is a favorite franchise of mine , by releasing a lifeless underwhelming sequel to it .
Summer Games was Epyx... but yeah. I was an Apple // kid myself.
+Paul S You're right, my bad. But I could easily replace it with Wasteland, Populous, or Seven Cities of Gold, all of them classics.
Onward to the year of mega lootboxes. Characters, maps, weapons, quests and all the essential game play assets are only inside lootboxes (4,99 and the platinum lootbox 9,99 with chance to get 3 of the shit what regular gives (chance 0,5%)). Happy mega lootboxious year of 2018 everyone!
I'm just waiting for them to cut out the middle man and let you buy lootboxes directly on steam, unassociated with any game.
Yet a year later when WB wasn't making any money for Shadow of War they took it all out once they got what they could from it
Jim you actually made me google the meaning of spermatozoa. Start of 2018 and I learned a new word.
Thank God for you
Half a decade from being two scores. Does it matter though? Not everyone knows every single word the dictionary has to offer
Mark Haynes What age will I learn this word? I am too lazy to Google and learn it earlier than expected, but I have no idea what to expect.
26 here, haven't heard of the word spermatozoa. Sounds made up honestly, but I'm rather certain it isn't.
Actually the singular is spermatozoon
Wait... That giant bee thing in Yooka Laylee... It sounds like he's making the fucking noise Doomguy makes when he's hurt in the old games!
Surprised you didn't do a special mention for all of those achievement spammers on steam, rubbish asset flips selling themselves on giving you ten thousand achievements or whatever.
That's what the Steam Ambassador Award is all about. And frankly giving that cynical money-laundering system any more exposure is probably a bad thing.
It's Tallen, from the ffuuuutttuuurrreee. I stopped playing Shadow of War due to the loot boxes. But now that they've removed them, I've played through again. Games a blast. Better than Shadow of Mordor. DLC being $15 for a new reskinned tribe was pretty shitty though.
I would have excluded Yooka Laylee and put NBA2k18 instead
Agreed
Robin The Paladin as someone who has loved the NBA 2K series since the Dreamcast era, I agree. Thanks for fucking one of the reliable high lights of my year, 2K!
NBA2k18 isn't a game, it's a service.
I think Jims has a specific key for the puking at eververse clip in his editing program from how often he needs it.
Yooka Laylee...The lizard has 2 tongues. THE LIZARD HAS 2 FUCKING TONGUES!
Shadow of War has come a long way. From a 6 at most to a solid 8
Another year, another load of shit that makes you question how hasn't the industry crumbled beneath the weight of it yet. I mean seriously, that we haven't had a crash yet when we had such large scale disaster such as BF2 and the lootbox debacle is remarkable...
Keep up the good job Jim. I hope this year brings you nothing but good stuff.
TheLegendaryVGA96 there were also some really good releases this year. Its just the shit releases far outshadowed the good ones (most notably the AAA games)
The A-Trane I know that, but taking into account the great/fiasco ratio we've had in the last years still baffles me...
The game industry we once knew died long ago. What we see today is the undying, Lovecraftian-esque horror its reanimated corpse mutated into.
This is getting really bad, how can i trust to buy any game in the steam store when there is piles of shit everywhere? I can't even buy a game now without checking playthroughs to check that the game isn't a broken hell hole thereby spoiling the game experience in the first place.
This is bad because with bad games clogging up the entire store even multiplayer games suffer cause people can't be bothered shifting through the shit to find them.
Also, the steam store has lost a lot of reputation because people have spent $50 on games only to find they are glitchy stains on their already strained lifestyle.
Case in point we may need another game store site that has good quality control because the steam store has turned into some black market that can't be even bothered to clean its floor.
because you're ignoring all the great games this year
As eloquent as it is justifiably hostile. Well said Sir. A very happy, healthy and lawsuit free New Year to you Mr. Jim.
You what? Yooka-Laylee no.9 in worst of the year? I can understand someone feeling disappointed with the game as a whole but with the complete deluge of shite we got this year this seems a bit silly. Also for all the faults you could level at the game, bad platforming controls are definitely not one of them.
Justin Wilson I think it made the list because originally Jim was looking forward to it, even admitting he backed it to cock a snook at Microsoft’s treatment of RARE, only to find it was (in an overused meme) MEDIOCRE!
I was a backer too, I definitely have issues with the game, particularly regarding level structure, but overall it never lied about what it was going to be: a warts-and-all N64 era platformer, and on that it delivered. I feel there's a lot of exaggerated expectation vs reality going on with this one, it was never going to match the sheer polish of the likes of Banjo-Kazooie on the budget they had, especially with modern asset requirements. People tend to underestimate the effects Nintendo's money, resources and assistance had on Rare's overall quality.
With the above in mind I personally find some of Jim's complaints about the game a tad spurious.
Deluge of shit? This year has had tons of amazing games. That wasn't one of them.
Jim, I don't know if you'll read this but since Destiny 2 was such a wet blanket, you may like Bungie's older stuff back when they weren't bossed around by pre-season 1 Cyril Sneer. Halo predecessor, the Marathon Trilogy is my main example. If you thought Doom 4's backstory told via the Codex was a damn fine way to tell a story, I'm afraid Marathon did it first back in 1994.
It just wasn't given enough recognition because the trilogy used to be Macintosh only and old Macs generally made garbage gaming computers. Bungie, among others, did a damn fine job of rectifying that with their older games.
Imagine the original Doom with smoother platforming, rooms over rooms via 5D space that predates the Build Engine by 2 years, a rich, deep, complicated story that rivals Halo itself within only three games and told via terminals, similar to the datacubes, beautiful 2.5D environments, real liquids instead of hotplate polygons (in Marathon 2 onward at least) and in the sequels, _DUEL. WIELDED. DOUBLE-BARREL. SHOTGUNS._
The best part is that all three Marathon games are not only available on Windows now, but they are freeware on all main modern operating systems, thanks to the modern version of their engine, Aleph One, which is the Marathon equivalent to GZ Doom. alephone.lhowon.org/
You can get some great mods from the above link too, like Eternal, which is based on Halo's alpha story (which itself was a sequel to the Marathon games before becoming the Halo we know), Rubicon, Tempus Irae and Tempus Irae 2: the Lost Levels. (no, seriously)
Pathways into Darkness is also awesome but it's modern port is freeware on the OSX app store only. It's basically Wolfenstein 3D meets both System Shock games with a Quake 1 style setting, albeit one that isn't mostly brown and grey.
itunes.apple.com/us/app/pathways-into-darkness/id617234634?mt=12
8:31
That guy is trying to hit the last dab of 2017. 😂