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ESG came from the investors and finance groups with the scores and quotas (and the "incentives"). Some one or some group is pushing this from up top for sure... motive is still unclear.
They don't expect us to buy their game. I believe they are not trying to convince gamers of anything; I believe they are trying to destroy the gaming industry.
It appears these developers have no concept of supply and demand. There is no demand for products where developers insult their customers. I would expect this sort of behavior from a young child who hadn’t learned to get along with other people.
I assume that is the case, I remeber playing perfect dark on n64 and on gameboy colour. It was a special cartage, it needed a battery of its own to run.
As a gamer, growing up in the 00s, I was used to people calling gamers names and blaming us for the world’s problems. I never expected developers of video games to hold that same sentiment
Funny story. They are one in the same. The people who used to call you a loser for playing games realized how much money is in it and now make them while still calling you a loser.
We have traded the christians and older gens hating something they don't understand for the people who make our games to become the very thing we sought to be free from. I'm just dissapointed
I wish I was a Rainbow Monkey; did you know that Rainbow monkeys have super powers? - If they jump off a building they can fly - just like in the matrix !
art and entertainment attracts ludicrously dishonest people, IMO being dishonest as an artist, people don't notice until much later, or in these cases, when they open their mouths they receive extra funding from primordially dishonest people currently
I don't know what gamers expect. It's standard. McDonald's employees hate people who eat McDonald's. Call Center employees hate people that call in. Car salesman hates people who kick tires and say "I'm paying in cash". It's literally every industry and every job, but gamers act surprised
All they hate themselves. Cuz they think life is unjust, bad and ugly, and they were bring here without their permission. That why almost all lefty wokes have multiaddictions.
I'm a 45yr old female lifelong gamer and I'm beyond livid. I remember the absolute joy and escapism games like Secret of Monkey Island, Fay of the Tentacle and literally countless others. Give me a good game and I'll be happy to buy it!
Aww hun I understand completely, me too, I'm a 40+ gamer gal and started with Lemmings, we've seen all the glory days of gaming eh. Monkey Island took me weeks to get thru cos of the mind bending puzzles, but I loved it, was funny and charming, the devs loved their work and they loved us. i also recall a game called Odyssey which the devs spent years perfecting before release. Wonderful people pushed out by activists. Stay strong hun, keep fighting, we will win this!
Soon 45. Ah the 90s. First contact with Doom, Doom II Shareware, UFO-teu and Xcom (here in germany) NFS, Dungeon Keeper, Diablo, ROTT, C&C, TA, and many many more. Great times for gaming. And no mental BS.
@@Sonny_McMacssonIt's a c-munist thing, I think. Remember that in that economic system the customer and choice are an afterthought. The thing that matters is one's connection to power. In other words, it's about who you know, not what you sell
They are pushed in and protected by some higher powers, that is the sole reason they are in gaming in the first place. Under normal circumstances the gamingspace is self-gatekeeping because people who hates gaming won't even get close, let alone becoming a game maker.
If you don't see this person punished or if there's no statement from the studio distancing themselves from his, assume that the studio agrees with him.
@@Dieci-9 Or whoever's in control at the studio agrees with him and people would rather keep their (soon to be non-existent) jobs than speak out against whatever power dynamic is willing to tear the studio apart
Company hires talent to create game Company spends $100 million overall Employees intentionally creates a game no one wants to play No one buys game Company loses $100 million, receives bad press from fans, and fires employees Honestly, I don't know who's more at fault; the developers or the company who hired them. Both are responsible.
The step that is missing is that company fires employees that talks down to their potential consumer. Where did that part go? All the company needs to do is to say: This employee does not work for us anymore the second this kinds of things goes out. Do some damage control, get someone new in, fix the problems that the employee that they fired mess. Than show that thing off and they are off to the races. Where did that thinking go? An employee that talks smack to the people that keeps the company runing, is still on the payrole, that means that the company accepts this kind of behaviour.
They all got their checks. Devs got paid, CEO's got paid, and they got money from Blackrock at lower interest rate cause DEI boxes checks. And investors DO NOT LOOK at the company they are investing in. They give their money to Blackrock, Vanguard, Statestreet, and wash their hands of the rest.
As someone who dabbled a little bit into the realm of level design, the absolute most interesting thing about it to me was solving the "puzzle"... and by "puzzle" I mean finding ways to guide the player with "signage" that wasn't obvious. You really want to help guide the player in the right direction, but you know that it is of the utmost importance for the player to experience that "Eureka!" moment where they feel they figured it out on their own, whether that be finding the spot the treasure is buried in or finding the room where the PC they need to hack into is... the player hates feeling like their hand is being held, but they also hate feeling completely lost with absolutely no indication of where they should even start. After that, the second most important thing to me was telling a series of miniature stories through design choices. Call them mini Easter Eggs if you will. Small details that the player can put together to infer what may have occurred in this space prior to it being the scene for their current objective. Making an office building look used, or a home feel lived in. Why did someone leave that dirty plate by the sink instead of washing it and putting it away? Who left that dress caught half way in the closet door? The feeling of knowing you're not just crafting playable areas to tell the intended story of the current mission, you're also crafting mini stories to help make the place feel alive. It's not just some mostly empty liminal space, it's a real place inside the story that other characters often occupy and do things in. You're not just crafting a sterile, fit for purpose, 3D game space. You are world building.
Great example of that worldbuilding through level design, and I'm sure you've already heard of it: myhouse.wad. If not, I can highly recommend the (lengthy) video titled "MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod" by Power Pak. It's also impressive on a technical level.
I remember a time when the biggest thing 'gamers' had to worry about was the steady growing trend of microtransactions, loot boxes, and DLC being implemented into games despite it being obvious it's just cut content being resold at a premium.
I'm an old gamer, started with Intellivision in the early 80's but haven't owned a console since the Gamecube. Now I'm slightly regretting not making my own games, I'd love to show the world some of my ideas and help kids growing up, discover adventures rather than pioneering pronouns.
@@JohnnySarault-h2r For sure! I've had ideas for a Detective Batman game, where the focus is more on trying to solve crime/mystery and then prep for the mission once solved. A Batman game with harsh consequences for failing might not appeal to broader audiences though. Anyway, I rant, my apologies. UE 5+ looks promising and it may have the multiplatform connectivity, for a special game related to a beloved IP, which would allow for VR/AR, mobile, console and PC to all play together.
This is why gamers are becoming nonbuynary, pre-orders and devs like this have burnt too many, too often for precious money to be wasted on something not made for gamers.
I'll stick to my Chinese mobile games at least I'll get a few hundred hours of enjoyment out of them before I get bored and move on to the next one and if I find one I like I'll drop 60-100 bucks and consider it my game purchase for the next few months
Reminds me of how a few years back comic book writer Kelly Sue Deconnick addressing the criticism about her inserting identity politics into her stories smugly told an interviewer that if they "don't like her politics, then don't buy her books...problem solved". Fast forward a few years later and she would be doing interviews complaining about the declining sales affecting the comic book industry. SMH
Ubi$oft said it best. "Gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games". I guess that means we're free to spend OUR money elsewhere, then. No take-backs, ok? 😂
Remember when in 2014, journalists wrote articles declaring “gamers are dead”? This is the same energy, but worst honestly. They didn’t learn back then and never will now 😔
It's been fascinating to see that this is STILL happening, an entire decade later. These people are insane, because they keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. They keep trying the same things, ad nauseum.
After I returned from my first deployment to Afghanistan the only thing that got me out of the house other than work, was gaming. Midnight releases were the only thing I looked forward to for a long time. Eventually gaming online helped me communicate with people with similar interests. Talking to them gave me something to look forward to. Gaming gave me a sense of normalcy after something difficult. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. So I tend to hold gaming and gamers in high regards. That being said, people attacking potential(friends, supporters, customers, voters ect.) Seems to be a poor model for success. Maybe respect or at the very least, civil discourse, is how we all start to get along when we have real differences. For example the game designer in the suit I like to watch. He's a good example of how to act. Please keep being a good example.
It’s depressing being a gamer these days. I wanted to be a game dev ever since I was a kid but finances and lack of support never really made that come true so I settled on just being an artist for fun. But games were always one of my sources of inspiration especially during the 2000’s and even the 90’s with so many series that mostly are around while others have been abandoned or worse forgotten their identity
Same, i thought i just didnt had the skills and that the people involved in it were too good. Then i got some nice skills, went into a few game jams and the interest is pretty dead for now. Game devs also actually acting like clowns is a killer too. Life lesson: Dont idolize people and what they do.
I always wanted to make my own games, but I dislike programming and definitely don't want to see me fixing bugs. Hearing how the gaming industry is in flames now just motivates me even less.
It's crazy how much more creative and inspiring games felt back in the day, even when I play them today and have never played them before they just give me a different feeling from games of today, feeling far more passionate and interesting.
I remember back in the 80's and 90's gamers were called losers, geeks, nerds for playing video games but the thing that gaming was for the gamer's developers were gamers, gaming journalists were gamers nobody took gaming seriously not even activists. Now gaming is filled with those activists who do not care about the hobby attacking those developers who loved gaming are now replaced with those who want to push their politics and hates gamers, we have activists in gaming journalism who only cares about a game if it fits their politics and gender ideology instead of seeing if the game is good.
I just do not understand this even slightly. Like it makes no objective sense to make a product that is not for the consumer. Like legit, i did not think i would say this, but microtransactions, the nickle and diming, the loot boxes, the aggregious monetization practices, they all make sense. They are built to be predatory on the whales thatll spend the money and feed the company. But this shit? It doesnt make any sense at all. This is like making a chair for someone that needs a table. Like yah, you can put shit on it, but its still a chair, and i wanted a table. And then the company turns around and calls us 'sit-ist' for not wanting a chair, and not buying their chair.
@@sungrandstudiosNah, it make perfect sense. Think of those "devs" as a retail store worker, their salary won't get higher if their game sold well while also having to deal with gamer/customer's critic. A lot of retail worker hate working with customer despite their salary are somewhat came from customer. But for those corpo game dev, it's a little different story, their salary come from investment not customer's money while customer money goes to CEO, shareholders and investors Because of this, if the investors or shareholders don't mind producing slops after slops, the corpo devs won't care either. As for why investors and shareholders don't mind their stuff flops, that is because it's about conditioning their future potential customer so that they can make even more money with even less cost and troubles.
@@dood52751 I dont think you've been paying enough of attention to the investment space. Investors are pulling out, atleast when it comes to the gaming industry. If its touched with DEI they want no part in it. And its very obvious that even with government backing, this kind of agenda driven stuff does not bring enough profit in to actually be in the green, even with government money. This whole thing is a sinking ship, and literally everyone with money is being warned to stay away.
At this point, I'm starting to believe these people give this type of statement in order to sabotage the game studio they work for and provoke the studios closure.
Well you know this year has actually been really interesting for me. Too often i go for the safe AAA games but with developers all saying pretty much that they don't want my money anymore, i've found a good amount of great indie and AA games. Only problem i have is that i won't have time to play every interesting title out there but that's a good problem to have.
@@mrjohnnyk yeah triple A does feel really soulless often. It doesn't take much risks with storytelling or gameplay these days. Just copy paste what made money last time and try to make it blander so it "fits for wider audience".
Children are so non-threatening. I biggest threat I ever got from a child while in an industry of working with children is, "You're not my friend any more." Child, learn how the world works before threatening real adults with a good time.
Is it not bigotry to make taboo of female form? The hypocrisy is brain-melting. There might be something of a culturlal shift on the horizon, but video games are where DEI will still insist. Flop after flop, closure after closure, lay-off after lay-off. How much more is this industry going to erode before something changes? You got Marvel Rivals over here dominating the hero-shooter scene as a F2P because, oh, hey, they care! Fun, immersive gameplay, golden-age character designs, no DEI elements. How could that possibly be??😳
PD died the day MS bought Rare. So did all their IPs. Nintendo doesn't get enough credit. As soon as studios leave their nest they swam dive into a parking lot
I'm a big fan of the N64 original, a shame how Rare/Microsoft buried this IP to the ground since Zero, and watching the latest trailer of the reboot just killed my interest in playing it. I'll stick with the original, developers back then were interested in making games for gamers and nothing more.
Love all the content I've seen from you despite only having found your channel semi-recently and because of other people like you SmashJT for instance. I'm so happy that there are people in the world that care about the industry still. As someone who is a gamer and is disabled I've always found it hard to be taken seriously. I applaud you for giving a voice to those who don't always have one. And speaking of being a disabled gamer and studios movie or otherwise. I've never once thought "I need to see someone like me in a game or I won't play it." Developers are missing the point of movies and games. Most people partake in those activities as a form of escapism. I have to live in a wheelchair why do I want to play a character who's in one too.. Sorry for the mild tangent. Have a wonderful day and thank you again
I used to do some level design and scripting for a Neverwinter Nights server, and had a great time doing it. Seriously considered going into game design but my studies were almost done and in a completely different field, so I in the end I didn't. In retrospect, well done me. I wouldn't want to be a part of this cesspool of an industry at this time.
Actually, yes, Bad Parenting is, in fact, most of the reason that (in America) these employees are childish, mentally damaged whiners. Bad Parenting can be traced back to a Vast majority of social issues (crime, poor mental health, societal issues, etc).
I’m relieved you didn’t punch down on that poor child. It’s bad enough that the cult has snatched him up at such a tender age and brainwashed him into such hostile and self-contradictory stances. We should start a go-fund-me to adopt him out of that cult. At least do something! Think of the children!
I love the minimal amount of effort devoted to this video, not on account of the viewers, but on account of the childishness of the person in question. I for one appreciate that you're devoting your time to bigger and more credible things, and encouraging us to do the same.
Thank you for understanding and appreciating the video on a deeper level. I just uploaded my Marvel Rivals video which I put much more time and effort into because it is fun and celebrates something positive.
The biggest issue with modern video game studios is that they get the bulk of their developers from "Video Game colleges" which results in developments involving hundreds of people with a very mediocre skill set who have never fully studied art,or quantitve science or literature. In Turn you get very expensive mediocre products with mediocre coding,writing and art. A group of unspecalized people can achieve great things if they are lead by focused talented leadership but otherwise you get the current result which is expensive overly hyped mush. It seems like video game companies don't care about hiring specialists which would require competitive FANG wages and instead they would rather exploit passionate people who attend video game colleges.
What is actually really sad is that I firmly believe that there are genuinely people in the studio who DO play games themselves and want to deliver a good product that would gain even a fraction of he popularity of Path of Exile 2 or Wukong or Stellar Blade, but their efforts are sabotaged by activists like these and they even risk losing their job as the game fails and the studio is shut down. They cannot harm the gamers who simply wont buy the game, but they almost always hurt their colleagues who were sincere in their work and wanted to put forth their passion. No wonder we have whistleblowers, who are just trying to protect their job. Or, as we have seen time and again, the people who are actually talented and passionate are leaving these companies and starting a small studio/project on their own with a band of like minded people. Soon, all we have left are just bunch of activists who cannot make a quality game and had to resort to using modern day-isms to try to sell their game to the yet-to-exist modern audience. This level of self harm is commonly seen in drug-addicts to be honest.
Just saying I'm glad someone as calm and level as Sungrad started talking about this stuff. A lot of the other channels are just rage machines that go off on knee jerk reactions to farm engagement and say the kinds of things that hurts everyone trying to make a reasonable, coherent point and give the activists the brushes to paint us all as actual villains. Props to Kabrutus for cleaning up the DEI Detected Discord too. There were some awful actors that made everyone look bad in the early weeks, but they got sorted.
Even if they deliberately try to destroy some of our main means of recreation, it's not a well thought through plan because people are now more aware and sick of it than at any point in the last couple of years. They're pretty much just destroying themselves and the companies that are stupid enough to adapt to those politics. This shifts the customers' attention to the companies that don't do politics and insult customers. So no matter what their reasoning is, the outcome remains the same. They will never be able to take it all away from us, that I'm very sure about.
As an amateur level designer in counter strike I can confirm that listening to feedback isn't very important, it might not even be in the top 5 most important things. The most important thing is probably visual communication (ie. incentivizing players to go a certain way using lighting or blocking a path with a fence). It would have been a lot better if he said some thing like "considering every players feedback" since most players won't have the same overarching idea about the level as you do but a few ideas will be good so all things should be seriously considered. Further, since this is a single player game they will ship the levels on day one so the only feedback he can consider is if they do any playtesting.
It is obviously you understand level design significantly more than Kolbe Payne. You would be far more appropriate an employee to work on this game than Kolbe.
Someone is craving for praises and validation from his own inner circle. He should start his own company instead of wasting it on someone else's expense.
Never going to happen as his failings would be directly linked to him - accountability and dealing with consequences for your incoherent actions is something these kind of people avoid like the plague
And another game I won`t buy, thank you Mr. Payne. Sungrand love how you call out those industry children on their dumb takes. I would love to see you also talking about positiv examples. As an idea Jonathan Rogers on poe 2. He did a ton of interviews with youtubers big or small and talked in-depth about his company design decisions, why he did things one way and not the other with actual substance. Sometimes he even took away some suggestions to in a professional humble manner. So i think it would be a great way to showcase how you SHOULD act to become successful in an adult mature way.
Honestly I am glad at this point that they are telling us that they are curs makes it so much faster to avoid their turd at this point I feel that the golden age of gaming is far gone with small gems of studios still reminding us of what we lost
Definitely. But then again this sort of feels like movie industry in the 70's, when the big budget productions and big names fell, opening the door for new passionate creatives and smaller productions to flourish.
My favourite game studio is Nihon Falcom. It is a small Japanese rpg developer with less than 100 people, despite being one of the oldest studios in Japan. Their budgets are small, but they focus on great stories, lovable characters and fun gameplay. And, most importantly, they really appreciate their small but passionate fanbase. People who work for AAA studios owned by billion dollar conglomerates need to start thinking like the people who work for small, independent studios. Though sometimes there is bad behaviour from devs at small studios, it seems like the vast majority of childish nonsense comes from AAA employees. It really seems like they have an elitist attitude that comes from thinking that, since they work for a billion dollar company, they are untouchable.
I want to say "Thank you very much" to that Kolbe whatever. He made me save money that I can spend on maybe 3 good indie games. That's a friend right there.
Since this dev doesn’t like gamers and doesn’t want the majority to play his game, then he shouldn’t complain when the majority of gamers don’t buy the game
This reminds me of a quote I heard yesterday. When you have the freedom to believe everyting you want, no matter how absurd or preposterous, people usually do.
Same. I so desperately wanted to recapture the joy that Perfect Dark N64 brought me, (countless hours of the awesomely customizable multiplayer modes and the top-notch single player) that I spent so much time in Perfect Dark Zero always thinking about how it all felt like a downgrade. Even while on a much more powerful console. It always depressed me that, while fun, PDZ as clearly a drop in quality from the near _actual_ perfection that was Perfect Dark.
It makes no sense and it's beyond frustrating. They enter a workspace that hates the audience, an audience that BUYS your product and they get angry when their game bombs financially and critically. And they do this thinking they're the hero
Although I don't suffer from FOMO, don't buy junk games, and certainly don't pre-order, it's always nice when the devs pre-warn us that their game isn't worth buying. There's £60 I can spend on quality indie games instead, and be happy. (Or just keep it and work on the list of shame, maybe even install some of the games that never made it onto my disk).
@EvenTheDogAgrees 2017. Yep, ZeniMax forced Arkane Austin to use that name, I think it killed the hype which is a shame because it's one of the best games I've ever played.
I just cannot wrap my mind around the fact that people like this, we'll sit there and use every insult they can on their customers, and then give the Pikachu face when they're not making money hand over fist. I wonder if this idiot would want to give his money to say a McDonald's restaurant if they called him a bigot if he didn't buy a Big Mac from them? If he truly thinks gamers are a mistake then he has been in the wrong business for all his life
If I had a company and I had an employee who said stuff like this and outwardly showed contempt against the audience that we were trying to make our money with, they would be fired immediately. You aren't going to ruin my company and risk everyone else losing their job because you didn't get hugged by your parents.
Just one of several reasons why i'm retired from modern gaming: No Respect for the customer anymore. The owners, and developers will jump online and publicly trash their game's fanbase, then honestly expect us to show up with our wallet's open when the game releases. No sir. Ain't happening.
Oh no, another developer attacking their potential customers...I never saw that coming. I feel like a lot of these developers are projecting. They are the bigots they fear so much.
its not going to fail to many people love that game series and rockstar hasn't really said or done anything to piss off the public and I still haven't seen anything to make me think its going to be bad considering everything that has been in past GTA games they would have to do something crazy to tank this game and after spending over a billion dollars on it so far that seems unlikely, please rockstar don't prove me wrong
Perfect dark 64 touched my soul when I was young. To see it getting worked on by this cancerous virus of a person is a nightmare I can’t wake up from. From the level designs to the characters to the central hub, mini game simulations, special and unique weapon features… hell even the shooting range! I remember it all. It was amazing. This is such a tragedy, and I really honestly hope that this developers career parishes.
ofc Perfect Dark and Mass Effect studios are filled with npc's.... F*ck me. As someone that love Sci-fi and immersive sim... I can kiss goodbye to quality it seems.
Thanks to devs like this that treat consumers and gamers as enemies and their product as "the message" its easy to identify which games are no/buy and for a "modern audience". They want to go this way with their games then the results will speak for themselves.
When I worked at Treyarch between 2016 and 2019, the majority of the people there supported the same social politics, but we weren't' allowed to go out and give the company a bad name. During that time I was there, one of the design directors went on a political rant on Twitter, and then he was told to take his social media account down. Damage control doesn't exist anymore.
Yes, it’s totally childish. He says we gamers are the the problem, than makes a game that we shouldn’t want to play, then when sales tank, he will blame us for being the horrible people he said we were. And in a weird way, he will be right that we were to blame when he inevitably gets fired for not making the company any money. So he WINS in any argument he sets. He will cut off his face. Control issues there, maybe parental issues. Too bad for Perfect Dark fans.
Perfect Dark is cooked.
Hey man. Let's take back the games industry and give it back to the gamers.
@@sungrandstudios trying my best! Let me know if you ever want to chat on a stream. You’re welcome to hop in whenever I’m live! Just let me know!! Thank you for all you do
Smash bring this dude to a live stream. let him push the gamergate 2.0
sad i really didn't get a chance to play the perfect dark series so i was looking forward to this one but...guess not.
@@SmashJT You missed the chance to say it's perfectly cooked.
"DON'T BUY OUR GAME!"
*Game flops
"How could this have happened?"
"Elementary, my dear Watson. Which is where you belong, instead of in this office." ;)
"Clearly it's because gamers are racist."
A huge mystery.
I was told not to buy the game. And I listened.
@@EvenTheDogAgrees I'm writing that down for later use.
Do YOU understand why "modern" AAA game developers hate and insult us so much, then expect us to buy their game?
ESG came from the investors and finance groups with the scores and quotas (and the "incentives"). Some one or some group is pushing this from up top for sure... motive is still unclear.
@@ZirilianHint #1 money. Hint #2 control.
They don't expect us to buy their game. I believe they are not trying to convince gamers of anything; I believe they are trying to destroy the gaming industry.
It appears these developers have no concept of supply and demand. There is no demand for products where developers insult their customers. I would expect this sort of behavior from a young child who hadn’t learned to get along with other people.
@@Zirilian Divide and conquer. Even gamers aren't safe from the Elite's agendas. It's obvious there isn't a financial motive...
this guy wasn't even born when the last good perfect dark game was released.
Ouch. That was harsh.
Harsh but True, though.
I assume that is the case, I remeber playing perfect dark on n64 and on gameboy colour. It was a special cartage, it needed a battery of its own to run.
@@EcardEcardianThe battery was for the rumble. The cartridge worked without it.
Laptop gun with turret secondary
As a gamer, growing up in the 00s, I was used to people calling gamers names and blaming us for the world’s problems. I never expected developers of video games to hold that same sentiment
We got game devs hating their audience before GTA 6
I totally understand how you feel.
Funny story.
They are one in the same.
The people who used to call you a loser for playing games realized how much money is in it and now make them while still calling you a loser.
the way I see it, the people who used to blame gamers simply joined the gaming industry because it became a booming industry,
We have traded the christians and older gens hating something they don't understand for the people who make our games to become the very thing we sought to be free from.
I'm just dissapointed
"I HATE GAMERS DO NOT PLAY OUR GAME"
-Game releases, few hundred players, game flops and studio crashes, devs lose jobs.
"RACIST BIGOTS"
gamers: (sipping cup of tears)
Old BEJ rule from some old motivator I heard, aka Blame, Excuse, Justify.
I wish I was a Rainbow Monkey; did you know that Rainbow monkeys have super powers? - If they jump off a building they can fly - just like in the matrix !
They can't just use it all the time
@@marcogenovesi8570 I wouldn't even want to drink their tears tbh. They'll find a way to make it taste bitter instead of salty.
Game dev hating gamers is like a car dealer hating drivers or a haircut worker hating people with hair, it doesn't make sense.
Well said.
It makes total sense when you know who's pushing this
art and entertainment attracts ludicrously dishonest people, IMO
being dishonest as an artist, people don't notice until much later, or in these cases, when they open their mouths
they receive extra funding from primordially dishonest people currently
I don't know what gamers expect. It's standard. McDonald's employees hate people who eat McDonald's. Call Center employees hate people that call in. Car salesman hates people who kick tires and say "I'm paying in cash".
It's literally every industry and every job, but gamers act surprised
All they hate themselves. Cuz they think life is unjust, bad and ugly, and they were bring here without their permission. That why almost all lefty wokes have multiaddictions.
I'm a 45yr old female lifelong gamer and I'm beyond livid.
I remember the absolute joy and escapism games like Secret of Monkey Island, Fay of the Tentacle and literally countless others.
Give me a good game and I'll be happy to buy it!
Baldur's Gate 3 😉
I would love to play a Sierra Inspired Graphic Adventure full of nonsense. Sam & Max is still on top for me
47 here. 👊
Aww hun I understand completely, me too, I'm a 40+ gamer gal and started with Lemmings, we've seen all the glory days of gaming eh. Monkey Island took me weeks to get thru cos of the mind bending puzzles, but I loved it, was funny and charming, the devs loved their work and they loved us. i also recall a game called Odyssey which the devs spent years perfecting before release. Wonderful people pushed out by activists. Stay strong hun, keep fighting, we will win this!
Soon 45. Ah the 90s. First contact with Doom, Doom II Shareware, UFO-teu and Xcom (here in germany) NFS, Dungeon Keeper, Diablo, ROTT, C&C, TA, and many many more. Great times for gaming. And no mental BS.
"Listen to feedback" - Dude, the self-awareness is 404.
"Listen to Blackrock"
Fixed for you, mate
That amount of irony is enough to open a blacksmiths
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Any other industry I know of these people would lose their jobs for talking down to the customer on social media.
Open hostility towards customers is becoming the norm, especially if the customers don't want to play ball with the ideology.
@@Sonny_McMacssonIt's a c-munist thing, I think. Remember that in that economic system the customer and choice are an afterthought. The thing that matters is one's connection to power.
In other words, it's about who you know, not what you sell
In the UK most companies have a social media policy that enables them to fire employees that post things online that damage the company's image
@@PhantomGB Honestly, it really comes down to professionalism. They can still have some opinions, just don’t say it publicly.
They are pushed in and protected by some higher powers, that is the sole reason they are in gaming in the first place. Under normal circumstances the gamingspace is self-gatekeeping because people who hates gaming won't even get close, let alone becoming a game maker.
lol
I love it!
Marketing 101: “I don’t want you to buy the game I worked on……..with 350 other people”
If you don't see this person punished or if there's no statement from the studio distancing themselves from his, assume that the studio agrees with him.
@@Dieci-9 Or whoever's in control at the studio agrees with him and people would rather keep their (soon to be non-existent) jobs than speak out against whatever power dynamic is willing to tear the studio apart
Company fires other people
Company hires talent to create game
Company spends $100 million overall
Employees intentionally creates a game no one wants to play
No one buys game
Company loses $100 million, receives bad press from fans, and fires employees
Honestly, I don't know who's more at fault; the developers or the company who hired them. Both are responsible.
🤔
Yeah, I don’t get it.
The step that is missing is that company fires employees that talks down to their potential consumer. Where did that part go? All the company needs to do is to say: This employee does not work for us anymore the second this kinds of things goes out. Do some damage control, get someone new in, fix the problems that the employee that they fired mess. Than show that thing off and they are off to the races. Where did that thinking go? An employee that talks smack to the people that keeps the company runing, is still on the payrole, that means that the company accepts this kind of behaviour.
They all got their checks. Devs got paid, CEO's got paid, and they got money from Blackrock at lower interest rate cause DEI boxes checks. And investors DO NOT LOOK at the company they are investing in. They give their money to Blackrock, Vanguard, Statestreet, and wash their hands of the rest.
@@EcardEcardianall comes from the top that's why they never get fired
According to them, the fault is ours. Always.
Accountability isn't in their lexicon
As someone who dabbled a little bit into the realm of level design, the absolute most interesting thing about it to me was solving the "puzzle"... and by "puzzle" I mean finding ways to guide the player with "signage" that wasn't obvious. You really want to help guide the player in the right direction, but you know that it is of the utmost importance for the player to experience that "Eureka!" moment where they feel they figured it out on their own, whether that be finding the spot the treasure is buried in or finding the room where the PC they need to hack into is... the player hates feeling like their hand is being held, but they also hate feeling completely lost with absolutely no indication of where they should even start.
After that, the second most important thing to me was telling a series of miniature stories through design choices. Call them mini Easter Eggs if you will. Small details that the player can put together to infer what may have occurred in this space prior to it being the scene for their current objective. Making an office building look used, or a home feel lived in. Why did someone leave that dirty plate by the sink instead of washing it and putting it away? Who left that dress caught half way in the closet door? The feeling of knowing you're not just crafting playable areas to tell the intended story of the current mission, you're also crafting mini stories to help make the place feel alive. It's not just some mostly empty liminal space, it's a real place inside the story that other characters often occupy and do things in. You're not just crafting a sterile, fit for purpose, 3D game space. You are world building.
You have already shown you have more understanding of level design and are a more appropriate employee to fill the role of level designer than Kolbe.
Great example of that worldbuilding through level design, and I'm sure you've already heard of it: myhouse.wad. If not, I can highly recommend the (lengthy) video titled "MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod" by Power Pak.
It's also impressive on a technical level.
You passed game design 101 💯.
Bless you, you actually understand what gamers actually want!
❤
It was me. I left the dirty dishes next to the sink.
Activist devs: "our game isn't made for you, BIGOT!"
Me: "kay."
Yes. Okay.
You, me....and 95% of all gamers man!
To be fair, these people are doing a great job in saving me a lot of money
You are right!
Lol same, it's been great for helping me stop adding to my backlog.
Yeah gives me more time to play PoE2
I remember a time when the biggest thing 'gamers' had to worry about was the steady growing trend of microtransactions, loot boxes, and DLC being implemented into games despite it being obvious it's just cut content being resold at a premium.
Still a problem
Yeah, gamers are always unhappy with something
@@sunderland69 “always unhappy” not true; ive no complaints about elden ring and other games that try their best to create a complete experience
@KitsuneShapeShifter you probably haven't read all those unhappy tryharders about ER being "empty", "worst of Dark Souls", "casual" etc😁
This guy and Josh Strife Hayes are really putting some class back on RUclips with the fancy suits.
And Josh's isn't even real lmfao
I'm an old gamer, started with Intellivision in the early 80's but haven't owned a console since the Gamecube. Now I'm slightly regretting not making my own games, I'd love to show the world some of my ideas and help kids growing up, discover adventures rather than pioneering pronouns.
Yeah! Intellivision! I was an Atari 2600 kid. I can still enjoy those games to this day.
it's never too late to start, and it's easier than ever to make a game of your own. don't let the regret linger!
Learning unreal engine 5 is a bit of a challenge but I believe anyone could do it ..I want to make my own Batman Game
there are plenty of old devs out there
@@JohnnySarault-h2r For sure! I've had ideas for a Detective Batman game, where the focus is more on trying to solve crime/mystery and then prep for the mission once solved. A Batman game with harsh consequences for failing might not appeal to broader audiences though. Anyway, I rant, my apologies.
UE 5+ looks promising and it may have the multiplatform connectivity, for a special game related to a beloved IP, which would allow for VR/AR, mobile, console and PC to all play together.
This is why gamers are becoming nonbuynary, pre-orders and devs like this have burnt too many, too often for precious money to be wasted on something not made for gamers.
I'll stick to my Chinese mobile games at least I'll get a few hundred hours of enjoyment out of them before I get bored and move on to the next one and if I find one I like I'll drop 60-100 bucks and consider it my game purchase for the next few months
Ideal number of pre-orders under any circumstances should be 0 anyways.
Reminds me of how a few years back comic book writer Kelly Sue Deconnick addressing the criticism about her inserting identity politics into her stories smugly told an interviewer that if they "don't like her politics, then don't buy her books...problem solved". Fast forward a few years later and she would be doing interviews complaining about the declining sales affecting the comic book industry. SMH
Ubi$oft said it best. "Gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games".
I guess that means we're free to spend OUR money elsewhere, then. No take-backs, ok? 😂
Gaming industry is doing the same thing. They are complaining about declining sales a lot lately.
It felt like an eternity waiting for you to spill your coffee... and it never happened.
10/10 coffee awareness skills
Remember when in 2014, journalists wrote articles declaring “gamers are dead”? This is the same energy, but worst honestly. They didn’t learn back then and never will now 😔
That is sad.
It's been fascinating to see that this is STILL happening, an entire decade later. These people are insane, because they keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. They keep trying the same things, ad nauseum.
kotaku declares that every few months
People who invade a hobby space that never shared genuine passion for the hobby always want to kick out people who are passionate.
They never get fired. And here I am looking for a job because I got fired over dress code. Why are these people protected?
Echo chamber. Cult entrenchment .That's all.
Oh man, that sucks. Good luck with the search.
@@EvenTheDogAgrees Thanks man, i might have to pretend to be non binary to have a stable job
"Dress Code" is probably just an excuse. Good luck on the search.
Even if they get fired, they are quickly hired by their goons in other companies. It is an infestation.
After I returned from my first deployment to Afghanistan the only thing that got me out of the house other than work, was gaming. Midnight releases were the only thing I looked forward to for a long time. Eventually gaming online helped me communicate with people with similar interests. Talking to them gave me something to look forward to. Gaming gave me a sense of normalcy after something difficult. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. So I tend to hold gaming and gamers in high regards. That being said, people attacking potential(friends, supporters, customers, voters ect.) Seems to be a poor model for success. Maybe respect or at the very least, civil discourse, is how we all start to get along when we have real differences. For example the game designer in the suit I like to watch. He's a good example of how to act. Please keep being a good example.
Thanks for sharing this message. Also, awesome snake in the profile pic. My friend raises snakes and would think that is very cool.
@@sungrandstudioslol that's my ball python. His name is Frank Snakenatra.
Unless he was with Rare back in the N64 days then he is NOT a developer for Perfect Dark.
there is another game releasing in more recent times with the same name on Xbox
This guy makes the 360 team look talented and deserving of praise.
It’s depressing being a gamer these days. I wanted to be a game dev ever since I was a kid but finances and lack of support never really made that come true so I settled on just being an artist for fun. But games were always one of my sources of inspiration especially during the 2000’s and even the 90’s with so many series that mostly are around while others have been abandoned or worse forgotten their identity
The industry is trash, but indie games stil shine......for now.
Same, i thought i just didnt had the skills and that the people involved in it were too good. Then i got some nice skills, went into a few game jams and the interest is pretty dead for now. Game devs also actually acting like clowns is a killer too.
Life lesson: Dont idolize people and what they do.
I always wanted to make my own games, but I dislike programming and definitely don't want to see me fixing bugs.
Hearing how the gaming industry is in flames now just motivates me even less.
It's crazy how much more creative and inspiring games felt back in the day, even when I play them today and have never played them before they just give me a different feeling from games of today, feeling far more passionate and interesting.
I remember back in the 80's and 90's gamers were called losers, geeks, nerds for playing video games but the thing that gaming was for the gamer's developers were gamers, gaming journalists were gamers nobody took gaming seriously not even activists. Now gaming is filled with those activists who do not care about the hobby attacking those developers who loved gaming are now replaced with those who want to push their politics and hates gamers, we have activists in gaming journalism who only cares about a game if it fits their politics and gender ideology instead of seeing if the game is good.
Yeah it's crazy how polarizing the contrast is between gaming journalism back in the 90's 00's and gaming journalism in the 10's and today.
Don't want us to play?
No problem dude. 😂
They ain’t gotta tell me twice 😅
It’s MA’AM!
I just do not understand this even slightly. Like it makes no objective sense to make a product that is not for the consumer. Like legit, i did not think i would say this, but microtransactions, the nickle and diming, the loot boxes, the aggregious monetization practices, they all make sense. They are built to be predatory on the whales thatll spend the money and feed the company.
But this shit? It doesnt make any sense at all. This is like making a chair for someone that needs a table. Like yah, you can put shit on it, but its still a chair, and i wanted a table. And then the company turns around and calls us 'sit-ist' for not wanting a chair, and not buying their chair.
That's well said. I just cannot understand their thought process.
@@sungrandstudiosNah, it make perfect sense.
Think of those "devs" as a retail store worker, their salary won't get higher if their game sold well while also having to deal with gamer/customer's critic.
A lot of retail worker hate working with customer despite their salary are somewhat came from customer.
But for those corpo game dev, it's a little different story, their salary come from investment not customer's money while customer money goes to CEO, shareholders and investors
Because of this, if the investors or shareholders don't mind producing slops after slops, the corpo devs won't care either.
As for why investors and shareholders don't mind their stuff flops, that is because it's about conditioning their future potential customer so that they can make even more money with even less cost and troubles.
@@dood52751 I dont think you've been paying enough of attention to the investment space. Investors are pulling out, atleast when it comes to the gaming industry. If its touched with DEI they want no part in it.
And its very obvious that even with government backing, this kind of agenda driven stuff does not bring enough profit in to actually be in the green, even with government money. This whole thing is a sinking ship, and literally everyone with money is being warned to stay away.
At this point, I'm starting to believe these people give this type of statement in order to sabotage the game studio they work for and provoke the studios closure.
I absolutely feels that way. It is so obvious how these statements have an effect on games and studios.
They must really hate their coworkers to want them to end up unemployed.
It's certainly more comforting to think that. In my experience these are very misguided, not very bright people that fell into a cult.
What's even crazier is how these studios refuse to fire them.
Mission success. I WONT.
Well you know this year has actually been really interesting for me. Too often i go for the safe AAA games but with developers all saying pretty much that they don't want my money anymore, i've found a good amount of great indie and AA games. Only problem i have is that i won't have time to play every interesting title out there but that's a good problem to have.
That's an insightful perspective. It is bizarre they value twitter likes over our trust and support as customers.
I couldn't agree more! There are immense amounts of indy games available and in this day and age their production values rival those of AAA.
Yeah AA really makes the sort of games I used to look towards AAA for, and now AAA just feels like overproduced passionless slop.
@@mrjohnnyk yeah triple A does feel really soulless often. It doesn't take much risks with storytelling or gameplay these days. Just copy paste what made money last time and try to make it blander so it "fits for wider audience".
Children are so non-threatening. I biggest threat I ever got from a child while in an industry of working with children is, "You're not my friend any more."
Child, learn how the world works before threatening real adults with a good time.
Hahaha yes, that's the right attitude.
I have a business, and I declare MY CUSTOMERS as a "mistake," and treat them like garbage.
_Go bankrupt_
How did this happen?
Is it not bigotry to make taboo of female form? The hypocrisy is brain-melting. There might be something of a culturlal shift on the horizon, but video games are where DEI will still insist. Flop after flop, closure after closure, lay-off after lay-off. How much more is this industry going to erode before something changes?
You got Marvel Rivals over here dominating the hero-shooter scene as a F2P because, oh, hey, they care! Fun, immersive gameplay, golden-age character designs, no DEI elements. How could that possibly be??😳
Well said. I've got my marvel rivals video going live in an hour or two!
The great thing about video games is how no matter what's going on with them today, it has no ability to affect what was made before.
as someone who played perfect dark on both the n64 and 360 this is truly sad to see. However it's not surprising.
PD died the day MS bought Rare. So did all their IPs. Nintendo doesn't get enough credit. As soon as studios leave their nest they swam dive into a parking lot
@@Mark-sd4hv RareWare in the '90s was a team that is almost unmatched even to this day.
I'm a big fan of the N64 original, a shame how Rare/Microsoft buried this IP to the ground since Zero, and watching the latest trailer of the reboot just killed my interest in playing it.
I'll stick with the original, developers back then were interested in making games for gamers and nothing more.
Love all the content I've seen from you despite only having found your channel semi-recently and because of other people like you SmashJT for instance. I'm so happy that there are people in the world that care about the industry still. As someone who is a gamer and is disabled I've always found it hard to be taken seriously. I applaud you for giving a voice to those who don't always have one. And speaking of being a disabled gamer and studios movie or otherwise. I've never once thought "I need to see someone like me in a game or I won't play it." Developers are missing the point of movies and games. Most people partake in those activities as a form of escapism. I have to live in a wheelchair why do I want to play a character who's in one too.. Sorry for the mild tangent. Have a wonderful day and thank you again
I used to do some level design and scripting for a Neverwinter Nights server, and had a great time doing it. Seriously considered going into game design but my studies were almost done and in a completely different field, so I in the end I didn't. In retrospect, well done me. I wouldn't want to be a part of this cesspool of an industry at this time.
Same way I feel about never getting into gaming journalism.
Actually, yes, Bad Parenting is, in fact, most of the reason that (in America) these employees are childish, mentally damaged whiners. Bad Parenting can be traced back to a Vast majority of social issues (crime, poor mental health, societal issues, etc).
I feel bad for these people.
I’m relieved you didn’t punch down on that poor child. It’s bad enough that the cult has snatched him up at such a tender age and brainwashed him into such hostile and self-contradictory stances. We should start a go-fund-me to adopt him out of that cult. At least do something! Think of the children!
I love the minimal amount of effort devoted to this video, not on account of the viewers, but on account of the childishness of the person in question. I for one appreciate that you're devoting your time to bigger and more credible things, and encouraging us to do the same.
Thank you for understanding and appreciating the video on a deeper level. I just uploaded my Marvel Rivals video which I put much more time and effort into because it is fun and celebrates something positive.
@@sungrandstudios I knew it!
que CJ meme clip "Ah shit, here we go again,"
Such an articulate gentleman. Thank you for sharing.
The biggest issue with modern video game studios is that they get the bulk of their developers from "Video Game colleges" which results in developments involving hundreds of people with a very mediocre skill set who have never fully studied art,or quantitve science or literature. In Turn you get very expensive mediocre products with mediocre coding,writing and art. A group of unspecalized people can achieve great things if they are lead by focused talented leadership but otherwise you get the current result which is expensive overly hyped mush.
It seems like video game companies don't care about hiring specialists which would require competitive FANG wages and instead they would rather exploit passionate people who attend video game colleges.
That and most people were chosen for superficial features as opposed to genuine ability.
What is actually really sad is that I firmly believe that there are genuinely people in the studio who DO play games themselves and want to deliver a good product that would gain even a fraction of he popularity of Path of Exile 2 or Wukong or Stellar Blade, but their efforts are sabotaged by activists like these and they even risk losing their job as the game fails and the studio is shut down. They cannot harm the gamers who simply wont buy the game, but they almost always hurt their colleagues who were sincere in their work and wanted to put forth their passion. No wonder we have whistleblowers, who are just trying to protect their job. Or, as we have seen time and again, the people who are actually talented and passionate are leaving these companies and starting a small studio/project on their own with a band of like minded people. Soon, all we have left are just bunch of activists who cannot make a quality game and had to resort to using modern day-isms to try to sell their game to the yet-to-exist modern audience. This level of self harm is commonly seen in drug-addicts to be honest.
I don't know why anyone would ever expect that much intelligence from an ex Halo dev.
Just saying I'm glad someone as calm and level as Sungrad started talking about this stuff. A lot of the other channels are just rage machines that go off on knee jerk reactions to farm engagement and say the kinds of things that hurts everyone trying to make a reasonable, coherent point and give the activists the brushes to paint us all as actual villains.
Props to Kabrutus for cleaning up the DEI Detected Discord too. There were some awful actors that made everyone look bad in the early weeks, but they got sorted.
Even if they deliberately try to destroy some of our main means of recreation, it's not a well thought through plan because people are now more aware and sick of it than at any point in the last couple of years. They're pretty much just destroying themselves and the companies that are stupid enough to adapt to those politics. This shifts the customers' attention to the companies that don't do politics and insult customers. So no matter what their reasoning is, the outcome remains the same.
They will never be able to take it all away from us, that I'm very sure about.
As a future actual gamedev, I’ll love and appreciate whoever who supports my game.
Right!? Us developers should feel excited and grateful we get to share something with our fellow gamers.
Interesting business strategy these days. Creating products so customers won't buy them. Amazing!. I would never have thought of that.
As an amateur level designer in counter strike I can confirm that listening to feedback isn't very important, it might not even be in the top 5 most important things. The most important thing is probably visual communication (ie. incentivizing players to go a certain way using lighting or blocking a path with a fence). It would have been a lot better if he said some thing like "considering every players feedback" since most players won't have the same overarching idea about the level as you do but a few ideas will be good so all things should be seriously considered.
Further, since this is a single player game they will ship the levels on day one so the only feedback he can consider is if they do any playtesting.
It is obviously you understand level design significantly more than Kolbe Payne. You would be far more appropriate an employee to work on this game than Kolbe.
Someone is craving for praises and validation from his own inner circle.
He should start his own company instead of wasting it on someone else's expense.
Never going to happen as his failings would be directly linked to him - accountability and dealing with consequences for your incoherent actions is something these kind of people avoid like the plague
Marketing team: Lets spend more money in marketing tham the actual game.
A single dev: Let me ruin that.
And another game I won`t buy, thank you Mr. Payne. Sungrand love how you call out those industry children on their dumb takes. I would love to see you also talking about positiv examples. As an idea Jonathan Rogers on poe 2. He did a ton of interviews with youtubers big or small and talked in-depth about his company design decisions, why he did things one way and not the other with actual substance. Sometimes he even took away some suggestions to in a professional humble manner. So i think it would be a great way to showcase how you SHOULD act to become successful in an adult mature way.
Honestly I am glad at this point that they are telling us that they are curs makes it so much faster to avoid their turd at this point I feel that the golden age of gaming is far gone with small gems of studios still reminding us of what we lost
Definitely. But then again this sort of feels like movie industry in the 70's, when the big budget productions and big names fell, opening the door for new passionate creatives and smaller productions to flourish.
"DON'T BUY OUR GAME"
Me: Say no more.
My favourite game studio is Nihon Falcom. It is a small Japanese rpg developer with less than 100 people, despite being one of the oldest studios in Japan. Their budgets are small, but they focus on great stories, lovable characters and fun gameplay. And, most importantly, they really appreciate their small but passionate fanbase.
People who work for AAA studios owned by billion dollar conglomerates need to start thinking like the people who work for small, independent studios. Though sometimes there is bad behaviour from devs at small studios, it seems like the vast majority of childish nonsense comes from AAA employees. It really seems like they have an elitist attitude that comes from thinking that, since they work for a billion dollar company, they are untouchable.
Nice. Yeah, I prefer games from smaller studios. Inti Creates is amazing and I buy whatever they make.
YS series is GOAT
I want to say "Thank you very much" to that Kolbe whatever. He made me save money that I can spend on maybe 3 good indie games. That's a friend right there.
"Make your game - Make it for you"
Lovely statement
Was so on edge towards the end of the video I thought you was gonna spill the coffee for sure.
This AAAA The Initiative game will crash hard, especially considering the budget
Since this dev doesn’t like gamers and doesn’t want the majority to play his game, then he shouldn’t complain when the majority of gamers don’t buy the game
Spread collar with a full- windsor. Classy choice, sir.
This reminds me of a quote I heard yesterday. When you have the freedom to believe everyting you want, no matter how absurd or preposterous, people usually do.
"The most important thing about level design?"
Is it fun?
Sometimes I feel like people in the gaming industry completely lost sight of that simple concept. "Fun? What is that?"
Sigh..... by the elder gods. I feel like they lack so much real-world skills.
every week we get a new one ruining their own game
So true lol, saving me money though. I am totally disinterested with new games for the most part now. Well done industry!
'Don't buy our game!'
Thanks for saving me money.
I got plenty of other great games to look forward to like Monster Hunter and Kingdom Come.
why don't games company's want consumers to want to buy their games, why keep insulting them
I genuinely want to know the answer to your question.
They got taken over by people who prioritize ideology and agenda above all. The industry needs to remove them from their positions.
"I'm going to model female game characters and call gamers weird"
Aw, man... I played the hell out of Perfect Dark Zero...
Same. I so desperately wanted to recapture the joy that Perfect Dark N64 brought me, (countless hours of the awesomely customizable multiplayer modes and the top-notch single player) that I spent so much time in Perfect Dark Zero always thinking about how it all felt like a downgrade. Even while on a much more powerful console. It always depressed me that, while fun, PDZ as clearly a drop in quality from the near _actual_ perfection that was Perfect Dark.
It makes no sense and it's beyond frustrating. They enter a workspace that hates the audience, an audience that BUYS your product and they get angry when their game bombs financially and critically. And they do this thinking they're the hero
Although I don't suffer from FOMO, don't buy junk games, and certainly don't pre-order, it's always nice when the devs pre-warn us that their game isn't worth buying.
There's £60 I can spend on quality indie games instead, and be happy.
(Or just keep it and work on the list of shame, maybe even install some of the games that never made it onto my disk).
You're truly making great videos this year! Really proud of you
Hey thanks man! I really appreciate that. My marvel rivals video is going up in a couple of hours.
That's a real shame. I love immersive sims and the trailers so far looked kinda cool. They lost my sale tho.
Great info look forward to working together in the future!
I knew that AAA immersive sim was too good to be true, time to replay System Shock and Prey.
Which Prey though? Prey, or Prey?
Yeah, don't you love it when they name the reboot the same as the original?
@EvenTheDogAgrees 2017. Yep, ZeniMax forced Arkane Austin to use that name, I think it killed the hype which is a shame because it's one of the best games I've ever played.
This channel is new but it's already iconic. Keep it up man.
I just cannot wrap my mind around the fact that people like this, we'll sit there and use every insult they can on their customers, and then give the Pikachu face when they're not making money hand over fist. I wonder if this idiot would want to give his money to say a McDonald's restaurant if they called him a bigot if he didn't buy a Big Mac from them? If he truly thinks gamers are a mistake then he has been in the wrong business for all his life
Exactly. They don't even need to insult and attack us. Their cult echo chamber has conditioned them to think that way.
If I had a company and I had an employee who said stuff like this and outwardly showed contempt against the audience that we were trying to make our money with, they would be fired immediately. You aren't going to ruin my company and risk everyone else losing their job because you didn't get hugged by your parents.
I would take it a step further and fire whoever hired them as well.
Just one of several reasons why i'm retired from modern gaming: No Respect for the customer anymore. The owners, and developers will jump online and publicly trash their game's fanbase, then honestly expect us to show up with our wallet's open when the game releases. No sir. Ain't happening.
Yup, no longer supporting subscriptions or buying into AAA hype, I'm over it.
Oh no, another developer attacking their potential customers...I never saw that coming. I feel like a lot of these developers are projecting. They are the bigots they fear so much.
I'm way ahead of him.
It would be nice if a Marvel Rival character's design breakdown is on the way, that's my favorite type of video
Like someone once said to me "when GTA falls... Western triple A gaming will end"
gta will never die
As Rockstar already stated, GTA 6 is intended for a "modern audience"
'NUFF SAID
@idkhonesty-78 probably, like any other game that is money making 🤣 but I kinda get what they are saying.
its not going to fail to many people love that game series and rockstar hasn't really said or done anything to piss off the public and I still haven't seen anything to make me think its going to be bad considering everything that has been in past GTA games they would have to do something crazy to tank this game and after spending over a billion dollars on it so far that seems unlikely, please rockstar don't prove me wrong
@@Sum_Yousah Well. It's a good marker but at that point it can mean nothing beside marketing bs. We see how it is when it came out.
To be fair, "listening to feedback" could also describe the process of playtesting and learning what works and what doesn't.
Hello, thank you for the great content.
Perfect dark 64 touched my soul when I was young. To see it getting worked on by this cancerous virus of a person is a nightmare I can’t wake up from.
From the level designs to the characters to the central hub, mini game simulations, special and unique weapon features… hell even the shooting range! I remember it all. It was amazing. This is such a tragedy, and I really honestly hope that this developers career parishes.
ofc Perfect Dark and Mass Effect studios are filled with npc's.... F*ck me. As someone that love Sci-fi and immersive sim... I can kiss goodbye to quality it seems.
I think he was hoping for reverse psychology to take effect, while not realizing that the opposite of the intended will occur
Thanks to devs like this that treat consumers and gamers as enemies and their product as "the message" its easy to identify which games are no/buy and for a "modern audience". They want to go this way with their games then the results will speak for themselves.
When I worked at Treyarch between 2016 and 2019, the majority of the people there supported the same social politics, but we weren't' allowed to go out and give the company a bad name. During that time I was there, one of the design directors went on a political rant on Twitter, and then he was told to take his social media account down. Damage control doesn't exist anymore.
EVERYONE is over it. It’s not just gaming. It’s EVERY FORM of media
I can’t even watch a commercial without being lectured
Yes, it’s totally childish. He says we gamers are the the problem, than makes a game that we shouldn’t want to play, then when sales tank, he will blame us for being the horrible people he said we were. And in a weird way, he will be right that we were to blame when he inevitably gets fired for not making the company any money. So he WINS in any argument he sets. He will cut off his face. Control issues there, maybe parental issues. Too bad for Perfect Dark fans.
I’m just amazed that there is a new one of these people EVERY SINGLE WEEK. The year is almost up and we might still see a couple more😂
4:21 That has to be a big burn to these " Game Devs" hahaha
Imagen stepping into a bakery and the baker yells at you for wanting his baked goods.
I legitimately thought it was that Hansen fella from the Avowed debacle. I swear to God these people are starting to look all alike.
The lesson here is for companies to be very careful about the people they put in charge of hiring.
we need a list , too many never to buy from names to keep in mind