johnny, i came here for some tips on another topic but you popped up on my homepage. i'll get to the other videos in about 14 minutes. love your stuff. wish we were friends in real life. have a good one, bud.
I bought it but haven't opened or played it yet. I love anything DQ though can't wait to play it. I actually really enjoyed what I played of DQ Treasures. I have to go back to that one at some point soon.
Was giggling alot at the bleeping of the F bombs, totally agree in that regard, haha! Love the channel all year round but just something very cosy about watching in December/at Christmas time. Much love Johnny and thanks for the content!
I’d already lost a lot of faith in Bethesda so I decided to hold off on getting Starfield right away. Went over to a friends house first and he was going to just show off the game for me. He played it for about 10 mins and he was already bored just trying to give me a preview of it lol.
Well Bethesda games aren’t for everyone but you don’t need to ruin it for people who like it. I used to work at GameStop when fallout 3 came out. People hated that game too.
@@Odinarcade00most people liked fallout 3 because it was a good game. People stating their very reasonable opinion about Starfield not being a good video game doesn’t ruin it for those of you that choose to enjoy it.
I actually really enjoyed Starfield for the first 20-30 hours. I really like Bethesda RPGs so I wasn't disappointed that this used a lot of the same structure. When you first start and everything feels new it's pretty great. I loved exploring the planets, meeting the different companions, joining the factions, getting new powers and upgrading my ship. It feels like the game has loads to offer... then you hit the bottom and realise it's actually pretty shallow. I realised I had visited all the major civilised planets (which was much fewer than I expected) and all that was left was the randomly generated ones. Things started repeating and I kinda realised I had already seen everything the game had to show me. Plus all the annoying little things like travelling between planets that didn't annoy me in the beginning started to become tedious. I ended up pretty meh on the game by the end of it but still got a good 20-30 hours of enjoyment out of it before I reached that point so imo that isn't too bad. Some games don't even last that long.
I kept my pre-order and still have the game, probably won't ever bother playing it, but just adding it to the collection. It's a game that brings back that feeling of being excited for a game, then playing it, and the slow painful look of disappointment creeps onto your face as you slowly shake your head in disbelief.... lol I did watch a game play of Loop8 (before the game was released) and was already disgusted by it, but decided to keep the game in the end.
Funny you should mention Shenmue because I've gotten my girlfriend, who doesn't play game's, interested in the story. I explained to her just how ahead of it's time Shenmue was. We were at Family Christmas gathering today and we were asking about "that day, a black car and where Sailor's hangout" and her Son and some other's immediately knew what we were talking about because they've played Shenmue/Yakuza. I felt good because they are 20 and 30 year's younger than I am and know know about such a great game. 😊
My dad was into me playing Shenmue back in 2000. He used to mock Ryo's voice and it was hilarious. He died in 2007 so I still have good memories of playing Shenmue and him badly impersonating some of the NPCs talking to Ryo.
Sup Johnny. I got a new job that lets me listen to stuff while working so I’ve been relentlessly binging all of your stuff from the past. I even got convinced to start dragon quest 😂😂😂😂😂
Did have a look through not sure if you have answered this but when is your Xmas special with Rob? Binge watch them all every year always a great re-watch 😊
I am glad you brought up the swearing issue in games. It is getting out of hand now. Even our beloved Final Fantasy series is now polluted by it. I know it is part of life nowadays, but I Iike to consider good Video Games as a piece of art and the cursing ruins the enjoyment.
John really im a big fan of the show and I wish you will one day do a fan meet up , i watched you for the past 7 years and i newly moved to canada - quebec , i hope im getting closer to see you in person one day
thought for sure this weekend’s video was gonna be about the game awards. I was hoping to see your reactions not to the awards, but to the premieres and which of the upcoming games or DLC you are looking forward to the most. I finished the FF16 DLC in under 5 hours. I was suprised and disappointed in how ridiculously short it is.
*shrugs* I’m half way through and…ehh for $10 I’m pretty good with it. The mini-bosses have nearly wiped me out a couple times which is more than I can say for almost the entire main game. I hear the final boss of the tower is a doozy. I gather the Leviathan DLC will be much meatier.
I saw this popup on my youtube, been subscribed for a while, but could not watch because of work. Finally got back and I could not find you on youtube and not listed in my subscribed. I had to search for FF9 review to find you.
The take on Forspoken caught me off guard, because while I also wound up disappointed with the game, the fact that the main character goes from the modern world to a fantasy world was shown basically in every trailer, so I'm not sure how that could have caught anyone off guard lol. My issue was once I got to the fantasy world, I only lasted maybe 4 hours because of pacing issues. It constantly felt like the game let me play for maybe 5 minutes before stopping for dialogue / cutscenes or a tutorial. Normally I'm all for some story, but the characters weren't clicking for me so it just felt like constant interactions to the decent gameplay. As far as Frey goes, I actually agree that I found her character more interesting in the intro New York section than once she got to the fantasy world.
Knew from the beginning this game would be trash. As soon as they showed the real life actress for the main character in an interview. praising this person no one knows, knew the pandering was most important to them.
Now, I know that everything in entertainment is subjective and all. But reading some of these comments, it makes me wonder how jaded the populace has gotten in gaming and why. Games are arguably better now than they have EVER been, these games in 2023 would have blown our minds as young people in the late 20th century. Maybe it’s too much of a good thing, overexposure. Maybe it’s a part of getting older and having less precious free time or nostalgia goggles or whatnot. Maybe some being too young with less perspective and/or shared experiences. I would like to see a study on this phenomenon of “disappointment”, per se. This can apply to movies, shows and music as well!
No new gameplay in 15 years. Same games better graphics... Less content but then more is sold to you at a later date. Been catching up on 3ds games I missed
Believe it or not, Sea of Stars. I was ready to go IN on that game based on my experience from the demo. While the art is gorgeous, the music incredible and the puzzles were a blast, the game fell flat for me in every other area, and I couldn't muster up the energy to finish.
Honestly I really did like the game while I was playing but I just never finished it and never felt the need too. I wouldn’t say it a a disappointment, but I don’t think it lived up to the hype.
Might be my biggest disappointment cause I was having so much fun with it towards the middle but it was all down hill from there. Genuinely think the game had the potential to be a 10/10 but the combat and story need massive work
@@Oscargoo yeah, I definitely agree. I was having a good time in the middle area but when I got to the shadow book narrator guy something just clicked in my head that I didn’t need to play the game anymore.
I started the game and played half way, really liked the game. Then it stopped for me, I had a 3 weeks pause. Today I finish the game and started to collect all the last trophys, 2 left from platina. There is 2 different ending and if u find everything there is a big surprise.
Starfield disappointed me. I wanted to love it. I bought a series x for the game. I probably put 50hrs into it and wanted it to be good. All the people who never played it talking bad about it. I think I was thinking with emotions instead of my brain. I wanted to really teach these people a lesson. Once the honey moon phase passed I realized how bad the game is. I can't even turn the game on now without shutting it off 10 minutes in. Huge disappointment for me.
i was anticipated with LOOP8 because the game design is by the one who make gunparade march franchise on PS1/PS2 but suddenly got sad with the game after its released :/
The only game I can think of that I played this year that was somewhat disappointing was probably Jusant and I hate to say that because it was such a beautiful looking game. I completed the game, but the climbing controls were very annoying half the time as it felt like I was fighting it throughout the game.
The thing you said about forsaken being two different games, was totally how it was with midnight suns. I couldn't stand walking around talking to people in an RTS I had to refund
I didn’t had any disappointing games this year. But most of the games I bought were retro. I rarely buy new games on release date because they’re going to drop price in 6 months especially “Forspoken.”
"I do not hate any of the developers that worked on any of these games. Some of these games were created by amazing people, who were just trying to do their jobs and sometimes it just doesn't come together.." The Internet needs more of this perspective. Thank you 🙏🏾
Half and half. The rank and file at Bethesda doing coding and making 5 million rock assets to populate the planets deserve praise for their patience. Todd Howard and the staff telling people they don't understand why Starfield is fun. Need to be fired.
My wife was actually heartbroken over Tears of the Kingdom. BotW is probably her favorite game of all time. TotK just changed too much about what she loved in BotW, and reinforced ideas she didn’t like. Didn’t like the new abilities, missed the old ones, didnt like breaking rocks with weapons, didn’t like reusing the same map, DEFINITELY did not like Ultrahand. For her, that game was like, aesthetically all there, but it was kind of a bait and switch for her because in many ways it didn’t play like BotW at all.
I think in many ways, BotW had the edge in being a brand new Zelda experience. It was an amazing feeling for fans. TotK kind of just feels like BotW: Expanded.. like a massive DLC or a mod.. I played the crap out of it, and had fun, but it didn't have the same magic as playing BotW for me either.. Great game that just felt like a lootttt more of the same.
@@Goosewitdajuice317 she loathes older Zelda games. BotW let her play at her own pace, always be prepared with food to heal up, etc. She hated the controls in OoT, how you can’t move the camera, etc. Her interpretation of ToTK is that it’s like the same game but everything is more complicated for some arbitrary reason. I don’t blame her. There are a lot of things in botw that were much easier. Crossing bodies of water, getting a quick boost with Revali’s gale, blowing up anything, etc. It’s basically that they got rid of half the things she liked in the first game and replaced everything else with something more complicated. Like it’s great to attach stuff to arrows but that’s all now more complicated because you have to have the right materials, or you have to hold down more buttons at once, all that kind of stuff. The minute the game was wanting her to start dropping or throwing items was kind of the last straw. It’s hard for her when she finds a game she likes, and then they go ahead and change stuff she didn’t think was broken. I think her ideal game would’ve been a new map with similar abilities to the first game. Just how it is unfortunately.
In my opinion the game became so big that it disconnect widely from the history Most of characters just forgot what happened and they ignore any advance you make at history And each world barely explains anything about it (A little of more lore could've helped) Is just that everything feels disconnected, and the new powers can be so OP that there are no challenge, making that feeling stronger. And weapons look awful when they are fused TOTK technically is an amazing game But it could be a great game if developers worked through that problem
I would love to know your thoughts on Dragon Quest Monsters The Dark Prince. I just started playing it after wrapping up the Super Mario Rpg remake. I am really enjoying it even with it chugging at some points with frame drops.
Forespoken was supposed to be a day one buy for me, but i got caught up in other games i was playing at the time. I guess because I watch a lot of anime and so many have a Isekai theme (sent to another world) that I know that won't bother me. I know the main character cursing a lot won't bother me either. So as an RPG fan i still plan on getting Forespoken.
FF16 is the biggest letdown I've had in gaming in a long long time. It hurts to say that because it was the one I was looking forward to the most (next to TotK). What a bummer 😞...
The story and atmosphere were incredible. Gameplay? I agree with you comments. I got bored too. Probably would have made a great animated movie, they clearly have good stories to tell
The only new games I've played this year are Tears of the Kingdom and System Shock remake. So I haven't had much disappointment this year firsthand. Been playing mostly older games for the first time this year, like Atom RPG/Trudograd, Mother 1, Underrail, Daymare 1998, the modern Shadowrun games, Blood II, Clive Barker's Undying, Broforce, Vaporum, Dungeon Siege 2, Fallout 4 expansions (GoG GOTY release), Crypt of the Necrodancer, Door Kickers: Action Squad, XCOM 2 expansion, ME Shadow of War (that was kinda disappointing, actually), Hypnospace Outlaw, XIII Remake (non busted edition), The Outer Worlds, replaying OOT with SoH (randomizer), replaying Half-Life 1 (25th anniversary update), and then recently replaying the entirety of The World Ends With You for a stupid gag video involving Beat's "skateboarding" (several days well spent). New games I haven't touched but have had some observation: Starfield (Bland, soulless, and boring. The span of a galaxy, but the depth of a nanometer) Final Fantasy XVI (Looks good on it's own, but as a Final Fantasy game....) Forspoken (It's like Black Knight [yes, the movie], but boring. And costs 70$) Redfall (A surprise flop from the legendary Arkane, one of my favorite devs) Gollum (RIP Daedalic) Kong (Why are you even counting this?)
I'm going to be straight up. as a 33 year old married man w a full time job I don't really run into may disappointing gages. reason being I only play games that are highly rated lol
It came out Dec 22 of last year but close enough to 2023... Sports Story was such a mess after the greatness that Golf Story achieved. I really tried to enjoy it but gave up after a couple hours.
@@sigmatic2788 Despite having previously decided that Forspoken isn't for me, I couldn't help but be enticed by his review as well. I mean, listen to the things he says about it: "We start in the real world, and it's really dark and dingy", "It's such a jarring disposition of *where you're from* to *where you go*", "There's a lot to enjoy about this game, like once you get to the fantasy world, the spells that you have, fighting monsters, running up and down buildings...", "All of the sudden I'm in this fantasy world, and it's gorgeous, and it's fantastic!", etc. Pretend for a moment that you haven't played the game already - wouldn't all this make you interested in checking it out?
This sorta reminds of the first time I played Resident Evil 6 and barely made it through Leon's campaign. It was such a shock to the system that it turned me off Resident Evil games for 2 years. Maybe a little different from these games mentioned, but no one is ever hoping for a bad game that's so bad it's miserable to play. Gotta get in on that Kong cash somehow, amirite?
Was jedi outcast this year? It’s not a bad game but i am disappointed when i buy a full price game and by the time it’s in a good state it has been on sale multiple times.
My biggest disappointment was the Dragon Quest Adventures of Dai game. I love dragon quest and love that manga series but that game felt like an early ps2 tie in kind of game. I was so hyped for it when they first announced it as well and now I totally understand why they didn't show much of it up to the release.
I'm going to get shot for this but my disappoint pick was Mario Wonder. It was a fantastic game don't get me wrong, but man was it over way too soon. I also was failing to see how it was as revolutionary as everyone else was claiming, to me it seemed like what New Super Mario Bros. Series should have been all along.
Forspoken looked bad before launch but I was surprised just how bad the general reception was. Every year there's plenty of bad games released, but it felt like this year a lot of big names dropped turds too.
Co-incidentally I thought Forspoken wasn't as "disappointing" as my most disappointing games. Before it came out, people said it was terrible, so I went in, expecting that and thought it wasn't that bad.
Its getting closer to Christmas 🎄. I always look forward to a happy console gamer sunday.
Guess what Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday! We can spend it with Johnny
@@Mintcar923 nice 👍
It says a lot when you make such a bad game for Johnny to say he actually hates it. lol
I look forward to your videos every Sunday John. Thanks for the amazing content man. You're truly a great gamer!!!
I was wondering his upload schedule and I found it
johnny, i came here for some tips on another topic but you popped up on my homepage. i'll get to the other videos in about 14 minutes. love your stuff. wish we were friends in real life. have a good one, bud.
Gotta agree with the Xseed cover art. Not only that, they provide a game manual in the case which is fire.
on another note, I hope Kim is enjoying the new DQ Monsters game as much as I am.
I bought it but haven't opened or played it yet. I love anything DQ though can't wait to play it. I actually really enjoyed what I played of DQ Treasures. I have to go back to that one at some point soon.
Was giggling alot at the bleeping of the F bombs, totally agree in that regard, haha!
Love the channel all year round but just something very cosy about watching in December/at Christmas time. Much love Johnny and thanks for the content!
I’d already lost a lot of faith in Bethesda so I decided to hold off on getting Starfield right away. Went over to a friends house first and he was going to just show off the game for me. He played it for about 10 mins and he was already bored just trying to give me a preview of it lol.
I played it for 125 hrs and had fun but what hurt them is that unlike old bethesda games you dont really run off the beaten path
I lasted a couple of hours. 10 years ago this may have worked for me, now just boring and I gave up
Well Bethesda games aren’t for everyone but you don’t need to ruin it for people who like it. I used to work at GameStop when fallout 3 came out. People hated that game too.
@@Odinarcade00most people liked fallout 3 because it was a good game.
People stating their very reasonable opinion about Starfield not being a good video game doesn’t ruin it for those of you that choose to enjoy it.
I have had every Bethesda game since arena, starfield was the first I hated. Boring, dated and woke. I lasted 3 hours
Starfield and Diablo 4 were the games I was the most disappointed in this year.
Starfield was really bad but I expected it to be honestly.
Starfield my game of the year.. weird
Diablo 4 is amazing. Game just Need end game dlc
I actually really enjoyed Starfield for the first 20-30 hours. I really like Bethesda RPGs so I wasn't disappointed that this used a lot of the same structure. When you first start and everything feels new it's pretty great. I loved exploring the planets, meeting the different companions, joining the factions, getting new powers and upgrading my ship. It feels like the game has loads to offer... then you hit the bottom and realise it's actually pretty shallow. I realised I had visited all the major civilised planets (which was much fewer than I expected) and all that was left was the randomly generated ones. Things started repeating and I kinda realised I had already seen everything the game had to show me. Plus all the annoying little things like travelling between planets that didn't annoy me in the beginning started to become tedious. I ended up pretty meh on the game by the end of it but still got a good 20-30 hours of enjoyment out of it before I reached that point so imo that isn't too bad. Some games don't even last that long.
Hahahahahahahaha
Christmas tradition is here! It’s time to binge all of your Christmas Episodes HCG! Leading up to this year’s highly anticipated Christmas special!
Love watching your videos during December it really ties together the holidays for me thanks Johnny 😊
I pre-ordered Loop 8... then thankfully reviews for it came out like an entire month before release so I was able to cancel the pre-order😁
Yikes that was a close one.
Ditto😊
I kept my pre-order and still have the game, probably won't ever bother playing it, but just adding it to the collection.
It's a game that brings back that feeling of being excited for a game, then playing it, and the slow painful look of disappointment creeps onto your face as you slowly shake your head in disbelief.... lol
I did watch a game play of Loop8 (before the game was released) and was already disgusted by it, but decided to keep the game in the end.
Funny you should mention Shenmue because I've gotten my girlfriend, who doesn't play game's, interested in the story.
I explained to her just how ahead of it's time Shenmue was. We were at Family Christmas gathering today and we were asking about "that day, a black car and where Sailor's hangout" and her Son and some other's immediately knew what we were talking about because they've played Shenmue/Yakuza.
I felt good because they are 20 and 30 year's younger than I am and know know about such a great game. 😊
My dad was into me playing Shenmue back in 2000. He used to mock Ryo's voice and it was hilarious. He died in 2007 so I still have good memories of playing Shenmue and him badly impersonating some of the NPCs talking to Ryo.
Sup Johnny. I got a new job that lets me listen to stuff while working so I’ve been relentlessly binging all of your stuff from the past. I even got convinced to start dragon quest 😂😂😂😂😂
Dragon Quest owns. DQ 5, 8, 11, and Builders 2 are all amazing.
'She seems like she's angry at everything.' 🤣🤣
He's just a humble Canadian lol
Did have a look through not sure if you have answered this but when is your Xmas special with Rob? Binge watch them all every year always a great re-watch 😊
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I am glad you brought up the swearing issue in games. It is getting out of hand now. Even our beloved Final Fantasy series is now polluted by it. I know it is part of life nowadays, but I Iike to consider good Video Games as a piece of art and the cursing ruins the enjoyment.
It enhances it. It's a real world character in a fantasy world. It's supposed to be different. And cussing isn't new lol
Starfield and weirdly enough Zelda TOTK...just felt like BOTW 2.5, couldn't get into it
Don't you mean 1.5? 2.5 would seem to indicate that it's a proper standalone sequel and then some.
John really im a big fan of the show and I wish you will one day do a fan meet up , i watched you for the past 7 years and i newly moved to canada - quebec , i hope im getting closer to see you in person one day
Seriously, Baldur's Gate, did I miss Johnny doing a video on this? I was so sure that was a game he would be all about
Ordered a physical copy! waiting on that.
thought for sure this weekend’s video was gonna be about the game awards. I was hoping to see your reactions not to the awards, but to the premieres and which of the upcoming games or DLC you are looking forward to the most. I finished the FF16 DLC in under 5 hours. I was suprised and disappointed in how ridiculously short it is.
*shrugs* I’m half way through and…ehh for $10 I’m pretty good with it. The mini-bosses have nearly wiped me out a couple times which is more than I can say for almost the entire main game. I hear the final boss of the tower is a doozy. I gather the Leviathan DLC will be much meatier.
Johnny!! When is the Christmas episode!!!!!!! Been watching since day 1!!!! CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!
Forspoken actually sounds pretty funny with the bleeping 😂
The sad thing about Loop 8 is that it was made by the same studio that made Lunar and Grandia series...
Yikes
Love the Splatterhouse shirt Johnny!!
I played trails from zero , fractured but whole , ni no kuni 1 ,and diablo 2 this year . Everything was dope
I saw this popup on my youtube, been subscribed for a while, but could not watch because of work. Finally got back and I could not find you on youtube and not listed in my subscribed. I had to search for FF9 review to find you.
"What were they thinking!?!?"
The take on Forspoken caught me off guard, because while I also wound up disappointed with the game, the fact that the main character goes from the modern world to a fantasy world was shown basically in every trailer, so I'm not sure how that could have caught anyone off guard lol. My issue was once I got to the fantasy world, I only lasted maybe 4 hours because of pacing issues. It constantly felt like the game let me play for maybe 5 minutes before stopping for dialogue / cutscenes or a tutorial. Normally I'm all for some story, but the characters weren't clicking for me so it just felt like constant interactions to the decent gameplay.
As far as Frey goes, I actually agree that I found her character more interesting in the intro New York section than once she got to the fantasy world.
The character also doesn't end up going through any growth. The game was just bad in so many ways.
It also ended up making the studio get shut down.
Knew from the beginning this game would be trash. As soon as they showed the real life actress for the main character in an interview. praising this person no one knows, knew the pandering was most important to them.
@@bgill7475 What makes you think it made the studio shut down?
@@AssociationAdmirer check news articles.
@@bgill7475 I already have. You're the first I've heard claim that the merger was in any way related to Forspoken.
Now, I know that everything in entertainment is subjective and all. But reading some of these comments, it makes me wonder how jaded the populace has gotten in gaming and why. Games are arguably better now than they have EVER been, these games in 2023 would have blown our minds as young people in the late 20th century. Maybe it’s too much of a good thing, overexposure. Maybe it’s a part of getting older and having less precious free time or nostalgia goggles or whatnot. Maybe some being too young with less perspective and/or shared experiences. I would like to see a study on this phenomenon of “disappointment”, per se. This can apply to movies, shows and music as well!
No new gameplay in 15 years. Same games better graphics... Less content but then more is sold to you at a later date. Been catching up on 3ds games I missed
Believe it or not, Sea of Stars. I was ready to go IN on that game based on my experience from the demo. While the art is gorgeous, the music incredible and the puzzles were a blast, the game fell flat for me in every other area, and I couldn't muster up the energy to finish.
Same. Extremely disappointed because people were raving about it. So mad I wasted my time on it
Honestly I really did like the game while I was playing but I just never finished it and never felt the need too. I wouldn’t say it a a disappointment, but I don’t think it lived up to the hype.
Might be my biggest disappointment cause I was having so much fun with it towards the middle but it was all down hill from there. Genuinely think the game had the potential to be a 10/10 but the combat and story need massive work
@@Oscargoo yeah, I definitely agree. I was having a good time in the middle area but when I got to the shadow book narrator guy something just clicked in my head that I didn’t need to play the game anymore.
I started the game and played half way, really liked the game. Then it stopped for me, I had a 3 weeks pause. Today I finish the game and started to collect all the last trophys, 2 left from platina. There is 2 different ending and if u find everything there is a big surprise.
Awesome video man 😎!
Starfield disappointed me. I wanted to love it. I bought a series x for the game. I probably put 50hrs into it and wanted it to be good. All the people who never played it talking bad about it. I think I was thinking with emotions instead of my brain. I wanted to really teach these people a lesson. Once the honey moon phase passed I realized how bad the game is. I can't even turn the game on now without shutting it off 10 minutes in. Huge disappointment for me.
As soon as you began the intro, I knew you were gonna talk about the Gollum game
Loved Breath of the Wild and Tears of Kingdom gave me tears of boredom
i was anticipated with LOOP8 because the game design is by the one who make gunparade march franchise on PS1/PS2 but suddenly got sad with the game after its released :/
Loop 8 is so nostalgic for the 80s that they replicated the first Prince of Persia’s walking animation.
Guess that since Forspoken gave old man Johnny this reaction, he won't be playing GTA 6 at all then
I won't be. All woke garbage must fail
I was quite surprised to hear you'd keep Kong part of your collection. If I hated a game I think I'd resell it aha.
The only game I can think of that I played this year that was somewhat disappointing was probably Jusant and I hate to say that because it was such a beautiful looking game. I completed the game, but the climbing controls were very annoying half the time as it felt like I was fighting it throughout the game.
Those 2 games must have been made by the anti-Peter Jackson
Johnny talking about point and click have you ever played the broken sword series?
No Game Awards reactions? I was hoping to see your thoughts on the new MANA game
“What could go wrong? Well it seems everything”
I can honestly say I wasn’t really disappointed in anything I played this year, but I only really play games that I’m pretty sure I’m going to like
Great video
I only have time to play 1 or 2 games a year and I chose some great ones, so I'm not disappointed
Dude that shirt is awesome!
The thing you said about forsaken being two different games, was totally how it was with midnight suns. I couldn't stand walking around talking to people in an RTS I had to refund
He was actually talking about Forspoken; Forsaken doesn't have the same issue.
@@AssociationAdmirer haha that's the game I meant, too many "for" prefixes!
I didn’t had any disappointing games this year. But most of the games I bought were retro. I rarely buy new games on release date because they’re going to drop price in 6 months especially “Forspoken.”
What is the purpose of looping in Loop8? Sounds like the game fell flat, but I'm curious what the motivation of the loop game mechanic is?
😎 Happy Sunday ✌️
ready for the charismas special
"I do not hate any of the developers that worked on any of these games. Some of these games were created by amazing people, who were just trying to do their jobs and sometimes it just doesn't come together.."
The Internet needs more of this perspective. Thank you 🙏🏾
Half and half. The rank and file at Bethesda doing coding and making 5 million rock assets to populate the planets deserve praise for their patience.
Todd Howard and the staff telling people they don't understand why Starfield is fun. Need to be fired.
The bleeping of the gratuitous swearing had me laughing so hard!
I had no expectations for Forspoken or Gollum to begin with.
I think the biggest disappointments were Starfield and Spiderman 2.
What made Spider-Man 2 disappointing?
I haven't played it yet but I've heard it doesn't compare to the first one.
@@SwagimirPutin I didn't like how the focused on the worst part of Spiderman 1 (Mary Jane) and decided to give her even more protagonism.
@@pilouuuu And beat her relentlessly with the ugly stick… and the lame other characters missions… and the nonstop wokeness.
@@asraiSOAboohoo you had to acknowledge black and gay people xd
@@hibarikyoya854 🙄🤡
When are we seeing the annual retro Christmas tree Johnny
My wife was actually heartbroken over Tears of the Kingdom. BotW is probably her favorite game of all time. TotK just changed too much about what she loved in BotW, and reinforced ideas she didn’t like. Didn’t like the new abilities, missed the old ones, didnt like breaking rocks with weapons, didn’t like reusing the same map, DEFINITELY did not like Ultrahand. For her, that game was like, aesthetically all there, but it was kind of a bait and switch for her because in many ways it didn’t play like BotW at all.
I think in many ways, BotW had the edge in being a brand new Zelda experience. It was an amazing feeling for fans.
TotK kind of just feels like BotW: Expanded.. like a massive DLC or a mod.. I played the crap out of it, and had fun, but it didn't have the same magic as playing BotW for me either..
Great game that just felt like a lootttt more of the same.
Very interesting
@@Goosewitdajuice317 she loathes older Zelda games. BotW let her play at her own pace, always be prepared with food to heal up, etc. She hated the controls in OoT, how you can’t move the camera, etc. Her interpretation of ToTK is that it’s like the same game but everything is more complicated for some arbitrary reason. I don’t blame her. There are a lot of things in botw that were much easier. Crossing bodies of water, getting a quick boost with Revali’s gale, blowing up anything, etc. It’s basically that they got rid of half the things she liked in the first game and replaced everything else with something more complicated. Like it’s great to attach stuff to arrows but that’s all now more complicated because you have to have the right materials, or you have to hold down more buttons at once, all that kind of stuff. The minute the game was wanting her to start dropping or throwing items was kind of the last straw. It’s hard for her when she finds a game she likes, and then they go ahead and change stuff she didn’t think was broken. I think her ideal game would’ve been a new map with similar abilities to the first game. Just how it is unfortunately.
Man, that’s wild. Imho, Tears of the Kingdom did everything Breath of the Wild did but better and then some 🤷🏻♂️
In my opinion the game became so big that it disconnect widely from the history
Most of characters just forgot what happened and they ignore any advance you make at history
And each world barely explains anything about it
(A little of more lore could've helped)
Is just that everything feels disconnected, and the new powers can be so OP that there are no challenge, making that feeling stronger.
And weapons look awful when they are fused
TOTK technically is an amazing game
But it could be a great game if developers worked through that problem
Honestly everything I’ve played this year I was happy with nothing really disappointed me.
I would love to know your thoughts on Dragon Quest Monsters The Dark Prince. I just started playing it after wrapping up the Super Mario Rpg remake. I am really enjoying it even with it chugging at some points with frame drops.
Goty for me
@@james441agreed.
Johnny any update on the Christmas episode?
Dude I love how positive you are
Can't wait for tomorrow morning new upload 🎉
Are you going to put Metroid Prime 4 on your most anticipated of 2024 list?
Forespoken was supposed to be a day one buy for me, but i got caught up in other games i was playing at the time. I guess because I watch a lot of anime and so many have a Isekai theme (sent to another world) that I know that won't bother me. I know the main character cursing a lot won't bother me either. So as an RPG fan i still plan on getting Forespoken.
Its an ok game. I bought it at launch and beat it. Has decent fun with it.
Forespoken sounds like it has Trevor as a playable character lol
Loop 8 is a game that you have to play like two loops then take a few weeks off then go back and repeat. Make it last a summer you could say?
FF16 is the biggest letdown I've had in gaming in a long long time. It hurts to say that because it was the one I was looking forward to the most (next to TotK). What a bummer 😞...
Same. It's so shallow when it comes to the gameplay. There's literally nothing but combat.
Same
The story and atmosphere were incredible. Gameplay? I agree with you comments. I got bored too. Probably would have made a great animated movie, they clearly have good stories to tell
Waiting for your reaction to the game awards!!
The only new games I've played this year are Tears of the Kingdom and System Shock remake. So I haven't had much disappointment this year firsthand.
Been playing mostly older games for the first time this year, like Atom RPG/Trudograd, Mother 1, Underrail, Daymare 1998, the modern Shadowrun games, Blood II, Clive Barker's Undying, Broforce, Vaporum, Dungeon Siege 2, Fallout 4 expansions (GoG GOTY release), Crypt of the Necrodancer, Door Kickers: Action Squad, XCOM 2 expansion, ME Shadow of War (that was kinda disappointing, actually), Hypnospace Outlaw, XIII Remake (non busted edition), The Outer Worlds, replaying OOT with SoH (randomizer), replaying Half-Life 1 (25th anniversary update), and then recently replaying the entirety of The World Ends With You for a stupid gag video involving Beat's "skateboarding" (several days well spent).
New games I haven't touched but have had some observation:
Starfield (Bland, soulless, and boring. The span of a galaxy, but the depth of a nanometer)
Final Fantasy XVI (Looks good on it's own, but as a Final Fantasy game....)
Forspoken (It's like Black Knight [yes, the movie], but boring. And costs 70$)
Redfall (A surprise flop from the legendary Arkane, one of my favorite devs)
Gollum (RIP Daedalic)
Kong (Why are you even counting this?)
Dilions Rolling Western 1st one, i forced myself to beat it, asking during each day why im doing this to myslef?
Not released this year, but is Grandia HD collection worth the money or dissapointment?
Don’t know about HD but the original Grandia is a classic you should absolutely play it.
I thought gollum was bad…. Well Kong takes the cake literally
I'm going to be straight up. as a 33 year old married man w a full time job I don't really run into may disappointing gages. reason being I only play games that are highly rated lol
Final Fantasy 16.. man hyped and i couldnt get through 5 hours or it. Sucks too I bought one of those top editions too.
It came out Dec 22 of last year but close enough to 2023... Sports Story was such a mess after the greatness that Golf Story achieved. I really tried to enjoy it but gave up after a couple hours.
Forspoken sounds amazing to me I havnt played it but im going to now lol your review made me stoked for it.
Hope this is an attempt at humor. The game is really bad
@@sigmatic2788 Despite having previously decided that Forspoken isn't for me, I couldn't help but be enticed by his review as well. I mean, listen to the things he says about it: "We start in the real world, and it's really dark and dingy", "It's such a jarring disposition of *where you're from* to *where you go*", "There's a lot to enjoy about this game, like once you get to the fantasy world, the spells that you have, fighting monsters, running up and down buildings...", "All of the sudden I'm in this fantasy world, and it's gorgeous, and it's fantastic!", etc. Pretend for a moment that you haven't played the game already - wouldn't all this make you interested in checking it out?
Thankfully I didn't play one terrible game this year, and that's all thanks to my trusted reviewers like yourself.
This sorta reminds of the first time I played Resident Evil 6 and barely made it through Leon's campaign. It was such a shock to the system that it turned me off Resident Evil games for 2 years. Maybe a little different from these games mentioned, but no one is ever hoping for a bad game that's so bad it's miserable to play.
Gotta get in on that Kong cash somehow, amirite?
Surprised redfall didn't make your list
...I just noticed you have two copies of Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest on your shelf.
Was jedi outcast this year? It’s not a bad game but i am disappointed when i buy a full price game and by the time it’s in a good state it has been on sale multiple times.
Hey Johnny! Haven't you played Dragon Quest Monsters: the Dark Prince? I'd love to hear your opinion about it
My biggest disappointment was the Dragon Quest Adventures of Dai game.
I love dragon quest and love that manga series but that game felt like an early ps2 tie in kind of game.
I was so hyped for it when they first announced it as well and now I totally understand why they didn't show much of it up to the release.
I feel it could have definitely been better. Such a good manga and anime so unfortunate
Dont worry. I played dqx offline on steam this year. 500 hours to do all. Definitely my goty. And looks like it's coming stateside next year.
I'm going to get shot for this but my disappoint pick was Mario Wonder. It was a fantastic game don't get me wrong, but man was it over way too soon. I also was failing to see how it was as revolutionary as everyone else was claiming, to me it seemed like what New Super Mario Bros. Series should have been all along.
I'm surprised by anyone who had high expectations for For Spoken
My disappointing game was dragon quest 11. I know I'm years late but just got it a couple months back and it's just so vanilla
Man I hope your ok after playing that bad king Kong game my condolences to your time
Forspoken looked bad before launch but I was surprised just how bad the general reception was. Every year there's plenty of bad games released, but it felt like this year a lot of big names dropped turds too.
Co-incidentally I thought Forspoken wasn't as "disappointing" as my most disappointing games.
Before it came out, people said it was terrible, so I went in, expecting that and thought it wasn't that bad.
One thing that bugs me about Forspoken is the contrast. The game is too bright and too dark simultaneously.
So I wonder if you know that Phantasy Star IV just turned 30 years old.
Johnnyyy!
My most disappointing purchase was FFXVI. Not as bad as these, but I couldn't get more than half way through it.
Wonder if MP4 would have made this list had it come out early
If anyone knew what MP4 is
January's Playstation essential games of the month; Gollum and Rise of Kong.
what did you think of the gta 6 trailer?
I started Starfield and The Outer World's at the same time.
I'm still playing The Outer World's. 😊
now it's time for you to play day before. day before makes kong and gollum look like masterpieces in comparison
Final fantasy 16 and jedi survivor.
I purposely double tapped to rewind "it's like grounding day, you do it over and over again" just for the luls.