Sorry about the audio issues (loud background music) listening on headphones or turning the volume up a bit can help. Subtitles should also be working, Thanks for all the support/feedback on this video! :)
Oh, it is completely the players' fault. Studios create what is profitable and we keep buying this garbage. Seriously people, go visit the indie scene and vote with your wallet. There is some amazing stuff out there made by small studios.
As a 2000s kid it's so hard to explain this to people. Not just games, this was the same with movies. If it wasn't great, then it nobody cared about it. Those were the standards.
I believe the Music Industry fell first. Back in early 2000s I remember the trend of people who refuse to get CDs and only get vinyls, even more confusing is one such person claimed that format-wise, CD was better but there is something about the recording, I only learn a decade later that it was the Loudness War. Loudness War brought down the quality of recording and ultimately benefited nobody yet they still did. Then we got crazy DRM paranoia in late 00s which got them shooting themselves in the foot again because it was the time that mobile music players like ipods were becoming popular.
I had a conversation with an honest Activision dev who bluntly gave me their own version of events. A contributing factor aside from all this is that everybody wants to make the next Witcher 3 or RDR 2 or similar, but not everybody has the talent and expertise to actually pull it off. This results in vast amounts of money and effort being spent on games with lots of space and little to do in them, with truly subpar writing and QA because they blew the budget elsewhere. Ambition without the resources and faculties to back it up is dangerous.
I so badly want to play Diablo 4. But my inner conscience wont allow me to support Blizzard financially after the shit theyve done over the past 4-5 years.
don't, i played it, i followed what they do from a distance, they're just in for the money, they kept making the game worse because of player retention, just avoid that bullet please
Do you know what’s weird, I have a better time with a cracked/pirate version of a game than I do with the legit copy especially true with modern games.
@@ZeSgtSchultz that's because pc's come in many different shapes and sizes( cpu,gpu combos) and devs need to code the game to work on all of them. Consoles come in one variant and that is why they have less bugs.
Always remember, video game studios don't make games for the buying public anymore, they make presentations, hype videos and games for their shareholders. They are making games to please investors, and must meet their quarterly release dates or face investors pulling out their money. Gaming is no longer about pleasing us, it's about pleasing THEM.
I really miss Demos for games. I miss trying a game out before spending $70 for a game that I dont know if it will actually play. I barely buy games anymore until its a few years old. This year alone I maybe bought 2 games on clearance.
There's nothing worth buying anymore , you're lucky to find 3 good games per year , and Sony only promises 2 AAA exclusives per year now , It's all purposely spread out this thin for greed. I mostly stick with oldschool single player games , and get my yearly shallow but reliably fun for a while multiplayer fix with COD , that's about all you can expect anymore.
Im glad games like bg3 hot super popular with tons of player playing them that is an example of a dev who made games for fun and made with love not to suck your money with predatory microtransaction, battlepass, "service as a game"
They seemed to understand what the gamers market wanted from a video game, at just the right time, its not my type of game but the idea behind the process of development is a step in the right direction for sure, I know some other devs didnt like the success theyve had so far
Even if you're not a fan of games like BG3 or armored core 6, you should want more games like them: smaller games for a niche audience with AAA polish and a fair price tag. Not every game needs to be the next Horizon, and we absolutely need to push away from the predatory monetization of "wallet games" as I've begun to call them. Could you imagine if we lived in the AAA market that wasn't afraid to make games that aren't chasing the current market trends or seeking to maximize profits at all costs...
One dev I've been a fan of since day 1 is Supergiant Games. They make a completely new IP with every release (excluding the newest Hades 2 coming out next year) that have fun gameplay, replayability, and amazing soundtracks. Definitely need to show smaller indie devs like them and Larian more love. I've been enjoying the shit out of BG3 also.
If you know where to look, every month enough games release to last you another three. I just ranked 45 games I liked from 2023, and most of them are pretty unknown.
ahh.. the gold old days ..Back when you just had cartridges, or cd's, All games pretty much had to represent a complete product as soon as it hits shelves, because there were NO do-overs, no day-1 patches, updates. So companies had to be more careful with their releases. 1 had to be perfect at launch so much more invested in troubleshooting and debugging 2 heavily invested in physical game copy and associated boxes, supplies 3invested invested invested
Bro at that time 90% of the games were absolutely ass and broken, companies were not presenting finished product cause nobody would complain if their games were buggy, they would just put it in the trash and go one with their live.
I think the main issue was the improvement in graphics that required more resources to properly show cutting edge graphics. With those comes insane cost. Now a developer can launch a full game with expensive cost and it failed would mean massive losses. Its natural these businesses would lean towards less risky form of product monetization and production. Just look at hollywood and its saturation of remakes/superhero movies and "tame" movies. Good games is possible with a small team. Just look at battle bit. But among these small teams only a handful are successful. The real way to do is to just stop buying the games you are complaining about.
We live in the era of the salesman. All you need to be successful now, is a promise. Doesn't matter if you have any if the skills to make it happen. Doesn't matter if you have a reliable track record behind you. All that matters is that you say you can do something, and someone will pay you for it. Because for way too many people, a promise is just as good a a delivery. This is what happens when the majority of the population is under educated. Not enough people have the mental capacity to make wise purchasing decisions, because that requires being logical instead of emotional. And, I believe this is intentional. Many western education systems have been intentionally sabotaged. Because, whether they be corporate or political, its much easier to sell lies to stupid people. But, there is hope. Even the most blindly loyal lapdogs will eventually bite their masters after enough abuse. Its a slow process, but its clearly happening.
Also, unlike the 90s where games are scarce. Now we got choice more than we could ever choose to play in our life span, but if people are going to be mindlessly and perpetually buy those things. It's their choice, the only choice they decide for themselves of all things they could select from. It took a special kind of people to be like that.
Just play indie games now. Here’s just a few of my favorites off the top of my head: Risk of Rain 2, Pizza Tower, Inscryption, Ori, Outer Wilds, and Subnautica. But there are SO many good Indie games in every single genre that completely eclipse almost anything the AAA scene has to offer these days, with only a few exceptions
Symphony of War Nephilim Saga, Factorio, They Are Billions, Shadows Awakening, Hades, Jagged Alliance 3, Sands of Salzaar, Terra Invicta, Call to Arms. Those are some indies and AAs I enjoy.
Gamers, relax. Gaming is not on the decline, we have indie games and AA games like Fnaf, Batim, Monstrum, Cuphead, Dark Deception, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Hades, Little Nightmares, Celeste, Skul the hero slayer, Metallic Child, Dead Cells, Curse Of The Dead Gods, Cult Of The Lamb, FIST Forged In Shadow Torch, Lumbear Jack, Pronty Fishy Adventure, The Desolate Hope, The Messenger, The Coma, Rain World, 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim, Input6, Stardew Valley, Dead Estate, A Hat In Time, Death's Door, Tunic, Haiku The Robot, Have A Nice Death, Kunai, Natti, Nova Drift, Peglin, Ak-xolotl, Atomic Heart, Voidigo, Spark The Electric Jester, A Short Hike, Lil Gator Game, Scarf, Mighty Goose, Cyber Shadow, Untitled Goose Game, Hotline Maimi, At Dead Of Night, Mail Mole, Nine Sols, TinyKin, Night Blights, Among The Sleep, Pikuniku, Pirate Outlaws, Soda Crisis, Pizza Tower, Pizza Possum, No Straight Roads, and many more awesome indie games and AA games to look forward too!🎁🎊🤩
In high school, I was preordering everything. I felt like every game that would come out would be good. Now I only buy a couple games a year at launch, and typically wait for sales and the game to be playable.
Releasing this video amidst Baldur’s Gate 3, Armored Core 6, Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI, Zelda TotK, Sea of Stars, remakes of RE4, Dead Space, and Metroid Prime which actually get their source material - IDK the title here is definitely a little click bait. I do agree with the points made here just not the conclusion of “modern games suck”. They have issues and some publishers are extremely predatory. But for every predatory shit release you have indie devs and other studios making absolute gold. I wanna also say, I get that clickbait titles are 100% needed for a smaller channel to game the system so by no means am I saying “dont do that” I just think for every bit of negative critique, no matter how valid, IMO it’s important to highlight areas where these things are actually not as bad. Besides this ultimately great work on this video, cheers!
The modern hype culture is so trash. Every game thats borderline decent must be hyped and if youre not on the hype train youre a hater. What? "YoU NeEd tO pLaY iT it's A oNce iN a lifEtIme exPerience" Nnnna youre 13
RUclips Content creator: "It is up to us, people with buying power, to wait and saying no I am not going to preorder your game and not blindly jump onto hype train and trust you because you let us down in the past" Also RUclips Content creator: "I pre ordered diablo 4 deluxe version" Do not get me wrong, the video is good. It just goes to show that in order for stuff to become more consumer friendly and companys kneeing down to consumers instead of spanking the butt of consumers, consumers should stop talking and start acting. Many PC gamers at least are more aware about the bs companies pull of (console gamers too but not as many I think) but still feed these companies money with still buying their product.
Funny how we can divide games from the "Before Cyberpunk 2077" and "After Cyberpunk 2077" eras. That's how bad a single mistake has tainted and changed the entire industry for good.
I picked cyberpunk because it was before the great slow down, and therefore was immune from comments tht would use this as an excuse to justify its outcome, the problem of broken promises came long before cyberpunk, but it was the game that brought the lies front and center, and yet.... ppl continue to ignore
The problem I have with these videos is that they do not address the executive, or the marketing director, or the investor. Developers are hired to produce a product in a time window with a fixed budget, independently of the quality of that the business departments want to meet their quotas, want to meet their quarterly reports in a fiscal year and they just see numbers they do not care about the product itself
its interesting watching content creators and the audience comment on pre-orders in the digital age. I'm dating myself a bit here but we used to pre-order so that we could actually have a physical copy reserved at the store on day one. there were no rewards, no toys, no skins or extra characters, the reward for pre-order was actually getting to play the game and not walk into a store to empty shelves and deep disappointment. Even back then companies started to take advantage of that as they would oversell the pre-order and so if you were not quick enough to pick up "your" pre-order somebody else on the list would get your copy and you were stuck waiting for the "next shipment" whenever that came. Its amazing to me now that people pre buy a digital game that has no scarcity attached to it....
Lemme just... List a few recent and *actually well received* games real quick before you start saying "gaming is dying": -Amnesia: The Bunker (2023) -Apocalyptic Vibes (2023) -My Friendly Neighborhood (2023) -HROT (Early Access 2021-2023) -Shadows of Doubt (EA) -Turbo Overkill (EA 2022-2023) -ADACA (EA) -Blood West (EA 2022-2023) -Cultic (2022) -Dead Beacon (2022) -Dread Delusion (EA) -Fashion Police Squad (2022) -Gloomwood (EA) -Kingdom of the Dead (2022) -Lunacid (EA) -Nightmare of Decay (2022) -Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (2022) -Endoparasitic (2022) -Signalis (2022) -Ultra Age (2022) -Boomerang X (2021) -Cruelty Squad (2021) -Evil Tonight (2021) -Hedon: Bloodrite (2021) -Industria (2021) -Mundaun (2021) -Severed Steel (2021) -Vomitoreum (2021) -Alisa (2021) -Lamentum (2021) -Deep Rock Galactic (2020) -ELDERBORN (2020) -Ghostrunner (2020) -Receiver II (2020) -ULTRAKILL (EA) Video games don't suck now... You just don't want to dig deep enough. Support your indie devs.
@wub9044 what about the people who can't because they aren't told they exist or aren't on their platform. Everybody isn't going to go out of their way to get a pc to play games.
@@chozochiefxiii3298 Solution 1: Use Google Solution 2: Check which game has a console port out or in the works, and if there isn't, look for QnAs in regards to them. It's not that hard.
One thing to note are the dark patterns that D4 decided to use when redeeming battle passes - so they could maybe force some unlucky players to keep playing. Console players were most susceptible as the default cursor position was the 'redeem' button.
My joy got renewed after I stopped caring about reviews, leaks, spoilers, and trailers. They take out the fun in going blindly into something mysterious like I did in the past where we only get screenshots and articles from game magazines. Only look for announcements and dates then I buy.
Man, you’ve got the deepest voice I’ve ever heard and I love it but I don’t know if it’s just my device or my ears but it’s a little hard to hear it behind the music.
Aye, looking through your channel. Are you starting to do video essay on gaming industries and such? If so what are your thoughts on indie games? Are they like the past game development where ones with the most fun and creative mechanics goes on top? How often does a indie game be praised and spotted for their work? And how indie games goes unnoticed for years before they explode in popularity like Among us for example.
I think it's began around 2014-2015 when early access, unfinished dog$hit games, microtransactions become a common thing, many AAA titles have dropped in quality. Another thing to point out is amount of content made for tiktok degenerates, like a character, weapons and overall design uses a lot of toxic colors, cartoonish looks, "cool" animations.
Cyberpunk 2077 is to me still one of the most bizarre things I have seen and witnessed. As someone who was mostly ignorant of the wider gaming and internet landscape until 2018 (its complicated), when I got opened to the wider world, the sheer landslide of things included Cyberpunk 2077 and discovering its development time. I thought "Why would the game take so long to make?" The release of it, I admit, I wasn't sure what I was expecting, and seeing the launch state, I was quite indifferent to it (I had gotten used to discovering and seeing broken game launches post 2018) but I knew it was the most hyped game of the decade and I could only imagine the sheer disappointment everyone else was feeling. But what really got me was how quickly everyone turned around when Edgerunners came out. Now I liked Edgerunners. Good show, fun to watch. But everyone suddenly acting like an anime made the game suddenly better shocked me. Even moreso when one of my friends tried it out (he got it on sale for 15 bucks) and he played for a month before dropping it because the game's balancing and design was still fucked. I could not believe how many people were suddenly up and defending the game for the anime's merits. And I am absolutely convinced, after seeing CDPR's road map for the future and future games, that they did not learn a damn thing. I am NOT excited for the Liberty whatever DLC coming, I do not care what its supposed to do and fix. The game should have come out as they promised for years. THAT is what they should have done. THAT is how it should have been. I will not accept this. They lied to everyone, they overpromised, they undersold and underdelivered. And they still have not delivered even YEARS later.
I'd rather the base price of a game be 100 if it meant the game would be released finished, polished, well thought out and with no micro transactions or dumb pay walls.
One thing I have to say. Games used to be 50 or 60 dollars back when that was actually a lot of money. Nowadays I rarely buy a game at full price so even the $70 base price is more than what I pay. I might buy a game for 40-50 for 25-35 hours of entertainment time. Compare that to going out, where just going out and doing one activity might cost the same for 3-4 hours of entertainment. The truth is the cost of producing good games has skyrocketed and the price we pay stays largely the same. These companies need to make money and pay the bills as well, and developing a project that took years before it produced any revenue is going to be difficult. The point is its not all doom and gloom, and considering the challenges there are still impressive things being accomplished.
My biggest disappointment in this generation as an old school NES gamer is what I call, “BARBIE doll gamers”. Guys spending hundreds of dollars on fake virtual outfits to play dress up with their avatars. COD hasn’t done anything new with the gameplay in years but has a new outfit to sell you everyday.
Like any industry the high salaries mentioned are only for the top lead developers that the company can’t afford to loose. Everyone else works for the cheapest salary the company can justify giving them. Why are games incomplete and buggy? Well because it’s cheaper to hire inexperienced devs and pay them nothing and force them to crunch because they don’t know any better and their is always a readily available supply of people who have game development degrees who will work for Pennys because these fresh out of college developers with no experience just want a coveted Shipped AAA title so that they can then Job hop to a company they actually want to work at. It happened to 343 industries, it happened to Volition and countless others. Most colleges have game design majors now because it’s a major that makes colleges money where as 10 to 15 years ago the industry was a lot smaller and the talent pool of fresh out of college job seekers was smaller too. Nothing wrong with being a inexperienced fresh out of college developer you gotta start somewhere but right now companies love hiring these novice developers because they cost significantly less than industry veterans. At the end of the day companies need to hire competent talented people rather than cheeping out and forcing people to crunch. Also research which banks, mega corporations and investors give these game companies money to fund their games and that will tell you everything you need to know. Who owns a 40% stake of Epic Games?
Do NOT give a company money before assuring yourself that the product deserves to be paid. I do that always, my best example is Halo MCC. I did not play that game until they fixed and made a properly Halo out of it and now it's a good option to play the Halo franchise. DON'T be an idiot
Luckily I only enjoy one series and have no experienced any of these problems. Sure it takes 5 to 6 years to get a mainline title, but i play only it for thousands of hours. Been happy with it for 20 years
The solution is people withholding their money but that wont happen because gaming has become a job and with tons of creators out there who's rent is tied to gaming they will always buy them. Their fans also serve as marketing for the game also. This is up to the community and with a community thats traditionally not friendly somewhat, most will just buy the loot boxes and games just to say i have it. Gaming has become that; banking on clout, streamability, and modern advertising to make pretty visuals and that's all. Check companies employees and see the size difference between the quality assurance dept and marketing.
There's a bit of audio balancing to be done with the music but besides that, very good video. There is only one game I ever pre-ordered and that was Skyrim, because I loved Oblivion and thought it would be more of that. I was disappointed by Skyrim, in all honesty. Sure, both games are broken buggy messes but Oblivion was still a lot more fun and a lot more engaging to me. Never pre-ordered again. Not even for From Software games, even though I know that they will usually deliver top notch stuff.
I think only a few years ago it was unthinkable to insult your costumers because they don't like your product. The video game industry is becoming a joke and they are asking for a new video game crisis with all the garbage they're releasing.
Nice video, but this is just a tip of the iceberg. Of course everyone knows that marketing is a powerful tool, but the moment games stopped having pre-purchase demo, it all went downhill very quickly.
@@KillerJoeXD Ohhh absolutely. No-preorders to boost their revenue prior to actual release and not giving into bought-off youtubers hyping up the game with ''early access'' keys would be the first step.
*After Skyrim in 2011, games just stopped being creative 👎 the only Truly creative games I've played in the last 10 years are CONTROL, Life Is Strange, Outer Wilds and a few FMV movie games* 🕵
Man, turn down the music/background noises, your voice is deep and low I can't hear you. Nonetheless, great video, on point arguments, I would take more time and elaboration on the conclusion, it was correct and could be more elaborated with examples. Great work
Yes you're right, I messed up the audio balance when rendering the video :( but I will definitely be doing a follow up video at some point in the future that goes into more detail with a better audio mix
Interresting video. I'm not sure if its me thats deaf or if your mic isnt set up correctly. But I had a lot of issues making out what was being said due to your voice being muffled. Either way, good job on the video.
I just bought Gold Rush the game on PS5.. it's literally *Unplayable* , never bought a game more blatantly broken and lazily ported. I couldn't even finish the tutorial it was so broken.. yet no refund because I "played" it. Its all becoming a giant scam and I'm honestly really fckng tired of being RIPPED OFF on Gaming. 😠 😡
Like see, when Baldur's Gate 3 came out, and i heard it's incredibly popular, That's because they've put time, love and effort into making an full on amazing game for everyone to enjoy. That's what Video Games are. Not just full on online micro transaction devils, who suck all the money out of your wallet cause that's what everyone cares about. They'll never listen to us and just keep blasting battle passes, DLC's and all of that. I've grown up on video games my whole life and it makes me very upset that they're ruining it for us, even for me. To just manipulate us and spend money on nothing. That's not fun. Hopefully someday, Things will get better. May god help all of us. 😔👍🏻
I am 47, been gaming since the 80s games don't suck now just like music doesn't suck now. Pick wisely there just many more to choose from...I feel sorry for anyone that thinks games suck now..
Great video and there was a lot of unfinished games and badly reviewed games out there but there is a lot of great games out there still like Starfield,doom eternal,forza horizon 5,elden ring and hi fi rush and god of war Ragnarok all great games by the way
Would've been good to mention where the games are at rn or. Say for example Cyberpunk 2077, even just over month after release (when I first played on pc) had very few major glitches/bugs left, and in the current year (started playing again recently) the game is actually like at least an 8/10. Features that were promised are in the game, most long form quests have an impact on the world (not like skyrim where nothing matters), which you don't often realise, because most people don't see how the other side is different. Fallout 76 went through a similar change. Now compare that to another game you mentioned BF2042, which is now at this day still barebones, or even Anthem which has been abandoned within the same year. Here the Studio obviously does not care, but in my previous examples, they've been updating away, while the game continues to get a "Never ever buy this/10" from most games. They do seem to care, and in a lot of cases this is just textbook mismanagement rather than calculated greedy decision making. Marketing departments will say "Well, this month and year would be a good release date, because we get the most publicity then", while not realising that the developing departments are going under with technical issues. Then you add third party contracts to the mix for suppliers and other such stuff, and you get a fixed release date that not even the best Studio could keep. Anthem and BF42 were complete cashgrabs tho
Seems like a good video. Can I offer a suggestion? Your voice is clean but a bit muffled from the background music. Perhaps turn the music down so people can hear you a bit more clearly.
Weve gotten alot of amazing game on the other hand like Hogwarts, jedi survivor, high on life, starfield, remnant 2 ,battlebit remastered. Also i thibk cyberpunk has delivered now. The game is gorgeous.
It's the customer's fault for buying and supporting these greedy mtx practices. If these practices didn't make more money than a feature complete game being released and that was it, then there wouldn't be mtx. You can blame devs and publishers for hiring psychologists to find ways to create dark patterns in games to make people act on impulse and spend money but, you also have to blame the people that willingly choose to do so. They boosted profits of these games. These "gaas" or "live service" game models have made most of the gaming industry a bleak capitalist dystopia where games are sold to everyone piece by piece.
The thing I've noticed is they have stopped for the most part trying to create a game with a meaningful story. E.g. max Payne 1 and now its mostly gameplay loops, or just a really boring story e.g. the division 2, is boring as hell. I have not played it but I hear it's the same story with star field. Games used to have cool stories, metal gear solid 2, fear effect, parasite eve, fear, silent hill 4, I am just not seeing a variety of these kind of games anymore and it's really sad.
I get that a lot of games don’t deliver anymore but I got into nioh games recently and it’s one of the greatest games I’ve ever played the combat is crazy it’s like eldin ring but with skill trees for every weapon and yokai abilities and transformations
Oh great video man. Keep up the great work. Only thing i can say tho is the bgm seemed a bit to loud and kinda drowned your voice out. That said my newest game is from 2016 cause nothing made since has been better or even really interested me at all. I just keep playing my old games with mods and such but i am mostly a grand strategy player so im niche at best. Lol
MAFIA!!! Anyone who includes _Mafia :City of Lost Heaven_ Footage immediately gets a sub from me every time. Best game ever, Daniel Vavra needs to be better known, he's one of the last good devs. Praise Vavra! Literally Praise him in your videos!
And to anyone arguing that we've always had capitalism, so this can't be the reason for recent decline, slimy monetization requires time and technology. They would've done this sooner if they could. Otherwise we're stuck arguing that something had happened to the immaterial, moral/ethical quality of game studios, which is absurd. Well... Not so much absurd as basically the other side of the same coin.
We already doing that. CD Projekt Red will go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk. Also Volition closed recently after they made Saints Row
@@bgiv2010it’s really nice to have a single thing to blame all the worlds problems on, and I get it, when ur 15, it seems like u have the answers and solutions. But the worlds not that simple, and capitalism isn’t to blame for all of the worlds problems. When u grow up you’ll look back at this stage of ur life and cringe. I mean, I hope ur 15, if your over 27 this is just really sad.
Video game publishers keep awarding companies based on how diverse they are instead of how good they are at making video games. I’d much rather have a team of a hundred men who are white/Asian who make amazing games than 7000 men/women/its who are from multiple different continents who can’t make a single good game
I actually dont know, to be neutral, I just took some random streamer compilation video and put some clips into that section, there should be a link to tht video in the description, but other than tht I have no idea ive never seen that game before :P
Sorry about the audio issues (loud background music) listening on headphones or turning the volume up a bit can help. Subtitles should also be working, Thanks for all the support/feedback on this video! :)
Oh, it is completely the players' fault. Studios create what is profitable and we keep buying this garbage. Seriously people, go visit the indie scene and vote with your wallet. There is some amazing stuff out there made by small studios.
ah you're fine on the audio part. I could hear you clearly and the video was good. liked and subbed.
I saw this a little late. Disregard my comment and good luck.
No Problem. Loved the Video. Also CDPR will go bankrupt soon anyways because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk. So we won
Also cod mobile makes millions I spent a lot on it
As a 2000s kid it's so hard to explain this to people. Not just games, this was the same with movies. If it wasn't great, then it nobody cared about it. Those were the standards.
Very true
As a 90s/00s kid, I really do miss Demos.
@@arnold20139bro wym there still demos on Nintendo switch PlayStation and Xbox you acting like demos disappeared
Movies is worse tho now they can’t make a good movie to save their life with games they still make bangers her and there imo
I believe the Music Industry fell first. Back in early 2000s I remember the trend of people who refuse to get CDs and only get vinyls, even more confusing is one such person claimed that format-wise, CD was better but there is something about the recording, I only learn a decade later that it was the Loudness War. Loudness War brought down the quality of recording and ultimately benefited nobody yet they still did. Then we got crazy DRM paranoia in late 00s which got them shooting themselves in the foot again because it was the time that mobile music players like ipods were becoming popular.
I had a conversation with an honest Activision dev who bluntly gave me their own version of events. A contributing factor aside from all this is that everybody wants to make the next Witcher 3 or RDR 2 or similar, but not everybody has the talent and expertise to actually pull it off. This results in vast amounts of money and effort being spent on games with lots of space and little to do in them, with truly subpar writing and QA because they blew the budget elsewhere. Ambition without the resources and faculties to back it up is dangerous.
I so badly want to play Diablo 4. But my inner conscience wont allow me to support Blizzard financially after the shit theyve done over the past 4-5 years.
just download a free copy legally bro 😉
4-10 years
Fuck that, play Grim Dawn instead.
It's a terrible game D4 so youre not missing much and your wallet thanks you.
don't, i played it, i followed what they do from a distance, they're just in for the money, they kept making the game worse because of player retention, just avoid that bullet please
Do you know what’s weird, I have a better time with a cracked/pirate version of a game than I do with the legit copy especially true with modern games.
That's how I feel about playing on console. When I game comes out I'll hear all about bugs and crashes, but 90% of the time it's from someone on PC.
@@ZeSgtSchultz
that's because pc's come in many different shapes and sizes( cpu,gpu combos) and devs need to code the game to work on all of them. Consoles come in one variant and that is why they have less bugs.
Because 99% of the time games are made for console fist and then poorly ported to pc, the difference is that you have modders to fix that shit.
Pirate games are a good way to mine crypto for some Russian guy
@@LordmonkeyTRM good. Then let me go download some games to help the russians
Always remember, video game studios don't make games for the buying public anymore, they make presentations, hype videos and games for their shareholders. They are making games to please investors, and must meet their quarterly release dates or face investors pulling out their money. Gaming is no longer about pleasing us, it's about pleasing THEM.
I really miss Demos for games. I miss trying a game out before spending $70 for a game that I dont know if it will actually play.
I barely buy games anymore until its a few years old. This year alone I maybe bought 2 games on clearance.
There's nothing worth buying anymore , you're lucky to find 3 good games per year , and Sony only promises 2 AAA exclusives per year now , It's all purposely spread out this thin for greed. I mostly stick with oldschool single player games , and get my yearly shallow but reliably fun for a while multiplayer fix with COD , that's about all you can expect anymore.
Great video, just one small suggestion, please make your voice louder and the music quieter, other than that great video!
Thanks, will do!
Same not by much tho
Im glad games like bg3 hot super popular with tons of player playing them that is an example of a dev who made games for fun and made with love not to suck your money with predatory microtransaction, battlepass, "service as a game"
They seemed to understand what the gamers market wanted from a video game, at just the right time, its not my type of game but the idea behind the process of development is a step in the right direction for sure, I know some other devs didnt like the success theyve had so far
Even if you're not a fan of games like BG3 or armored core 6, you should want more games like them: smaller games for a niche audience with AAA polish and a fair price tag.
Not every game needs to be the next Horizon, and we absolutely need to push away from the predatory monetization of "wallet games" as I've begun to call them.
Could you imagine if we lived in the AAA market that wasn't afraid to make games that aren't chasing the current market trends or seeking to maximize profits at all costs...
One dev I've been a fan of since day 1 is Supergiant Games. They make a completely new IP with every release (excluding the newest Hades 2 coming out next year) that have fun gameplay, replayability, and amazing soundtracks. Definitely need to show smaller indie devs like them and Larian more love. I've been enjoying the shit out of BG3 also.
If you know where to look, every month enough games release to last you another three. I just ranked 45 games I liked from 2023, and most of them are pretty unknown.
ahh.. the gold old days ..Back when you just had cartridges, or cd's, All games pretty much had to represent a complete product as soon as it hits shelves, because there were NO do-overs, no day-1 patches, updates. So companies had to be more careful with their releases.
1 had to be perfect at launch so much more invested in troubleshooting and debugging
2 heavily invested in physical game copy and associated boxes, supplies
3invested invested invested
Bro at that time 90% of the games were absolutely ass and broken, companies were not presenting finished product cause nobody would complain if their games were buggy, they would just put it in the trash and go one with their live.
I think the main issue was the improvement in graphics that required more resources to properly show cutting edge graphics. With those comes insane cost. Now a developer can launch a full game with expensive cost and it failed would mean massive losses. Its natural these businesses would lean towards less risky form of product monetization and production.
Just look at hollywood and its saturation of remakes/superhero movies and "tame" movies.
Good games is possible with a small team. Just look at battle bit. But among these small teams only a handful are successful.
The real way to do is to just stop buying the games you are complaining about.
We live in the era of the salesman. All you need to be successful now, is a promise. Doesn't matter if you have any if the skills to make it happen. Doesn't matter if you have a reliable track record behind you. All that matters is that you say you can do something, and someone will pay you for it. Because for way too many people, a promise is just as good a a delivery.
This is what happens when the majority of the population is under educated. Not enough people have the mental capacity to make wise purchasing decisions, because that requires being logical instead of emotional. And, I believe this is intentional. Many western education systems have been intentionally sabotaged. Because, whether they be corporate or political, its much easier to sell lies to stupid people.
But, there is hope. Even the most blindly loyal lapdogs will eventually bite their masters after enough abuse. Its a slow process, but its clearly happening.
Charlotteons!
Also, unlike the 90s where games are scarce. Now we got choice more than we could ever choose to play in our life span, but if people are going to be mindlessly and perpetually buy those things. It's their choice, the only choice they decide for themselves of all things they could select from. It took a special kind of people to be like that.
That's why I mostly buy either old games or indie games.
Just play indie games now. Here’s just a few of my favorites off the top of my head: Risk of Rain 2, Pizza Tower, Inscryption, Ori, Outer Wilds, and Subnautica. But there are SO many good Indie games in every single genre that completely eclipse almost anything the AAA scene has to offer these days, with only a few exceptions
Symphony of War Nephilim Saga, Factorio, They Are Billions, Shadows Awakening, Hades, Jagged Alliance 3, Sands of Salzaar, Terra Invicta, Call to Arms. Those are some indies and AAs I enjoy.
Gamers, relax.
Gaming is not on the decline, we have indie games and AA games like Fnaf, Batim, Monstrum, Cuphead, Dark Deception, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Hades, Little Nightmares, Celeste, Skul the hero slayer, Metallic Child, Dead Cells, Curse Of The Dead Gods, Cult Of The Lamb, FIST Forged In Shadow Torch, Lumbear Jack, Pronty Fishy Adventure, The Desolate Hope, The Messenger, The Coma, Rain World, 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim, Input6, Stardew Valley, Dead Estate, A Hat In Time, Death's Door, Tunic, Haiku The Robot, Have A Nice Death, Kunai, Natti, Nova Drift, Peglin, Ak-xolotl, Atomic Heart, Voidigo, Spark The Electric Jester, A Short Hike, Lil Gator Game, Scarf, Mighty Goose, Cyber Shadow, Untitled Goose Game, Hotline Maimi, At Dead Of Night, Mail Mole, Nine Sols, TinyKin, Night Blights, Among The Sleep, Pikuniku, Pirate Outlaws, Soda Crisis, Pizza Tower, Pizza Possum, No Straight Roads, and many more awesome indie games and AA games to look forward too!🎁🎊🤩
Well yeah obviously, if AAA studios can’t give us quality games then indie game companies will
In high school, I was preordering everything. I felt like every game that would come out would be good.
Now I only buy a couple games a year at launch, and typically wait for sales and the game to be playable.
Me Too I started that all the way back in 2011.
Releasing this video amidst Baldur’s Gate 3, Armored Core 6, Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI, Zelda TotK, Sea of Stars, remakes of RE4, Dead Space, and Metroid Prime which actually get their source material - IDK the title here is definitely a little click bait. I do agree with the points made here just not the conclusion of “modern games suck”. They have issues and some publishers are extremely predatory. But for every predatory shit release you have indie devs and other studios making absolute gold.
I wanna also say, I get that clickbait titles are 100% needed for a smaller channel to game the system so by no means am I saying “dont do that” I just think for every bit of negative critique, no matter how valid, IMO it’s important to highlight areas where these things are actually not as bad. Besides this ultimately great work on this video, cheers!
The modern hype culture is so trash. Every game thats borderline decent must be hyped and if youre not on the hype train youre a hater. What? "YoU NeEd tO pLaY iT it's A oNce iN a lifEtIme exPerience" Nnnna youre 13
RUclips Content creator: "It is up to us, people with buying power, to wait and saying no I am not going to preorder your game and not blindly jump onto hype train and trust you because you let us down in the past"
Also RUclips Content creator: "I pre ordered diablo 4 deluxe version"
Do not get me wrong, the video is good. It just goes to show that in order for stuff to become more consumer friendly and companys kneeing down to consumers instead of spanking the butt of consumers, consumers should stop talking and start acting. Many PC gamers at least are more aware about the bs companies pull of (console gamers too but not as many I think) but still feed these companies money with still buying their product.
Funny how we can divide games from the "Before Cyberpunk 2077" and "After Cyberpunk 2077" eras. That's how bad a single mistake has tainted and changed the entire industry for good.
I picked cyberpunk because it was before the great slow down, and therefore was immune from comments tht would use this as an excuse to justify its outcome, the problem of broken promises came long before cyberpunk, but it was the game that brought the lies front and center, and yet.... ppl continue to ignore
When battlefield 2042 announced their "fix" most comments were positive.
That right there, is proof "fix it later"works
The problem I have with these videos is that they do not address the executive, or the marketing director, or the investor. Developers are hired to produce a product in a time window with a fixed budget, independently of the quality of that the business departments want to meet their quotas, want to meet their quarterly reports in a fiscal year and they just see numbers they do not care about the product itself
its interesting watching content creators and the audience comment on pre-orders in the digital age. I'm dating myself a bit here but we used to pre-order so that we could actually have a physical copy reserved at the store on day one. there were no rewards, no toys, no skins or extra characters, the reward for pre-order was actually getting to play the game and not walk into a store to empty shelves and deep disappointment. Even back then companies started to take advantage of that as they would oversell the pre-order and so if you were not quick enough to pick up "your" pre-order somebody else on the list would get your copy and you were stuck waiting for the "next shipment" whenever that came.
Its amazing to me now that people pre buy a digital game that has no scarcity attached to it....
Well most people are just plain dumb and ignorant
Lemme just... List a few recent and *actually well received* games real quick before you start saying "gaming is dying":
-Amnesia: The Bunker (2023)
-Apocalyptic Vibes (2023)
-My Friendly Neighborhood (2023)
-HROT (Early Access 2021-2023)
-Shadows of Doubt (EA)
-Turbo Overkill (EA 2022-2023)
-ADACA (EA)
-Blood West (EA 2022-2023)
-Cultic (2022)
-Dead Beacon (2022)
-Dread Delusion (EA)
-Fashion Police Squad (2022)
-Gloomwood (EA)
-Kingdom of the Dead (2022)
-Lunacid (EA)
-Nightmare of Decay (2022)
-Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (2022)
-Endoparasitic (2022)
-Signalis (2022)
-Ultra Age (2022)
-Boomerang X (2021)
-Cruelty Squad (2021)
-Evil Tonight (2021)
-Hedon: Bloodrite (2021)
-Industria (2021)
-Mundaun (2021)
-Severed Steel (2021)
-Vomitoreum (2021)
-Alisa (2021)
-Lamentum (2021)
-Deep Rock Galactic (2020)
-ELDERBORN (2020)
-Ghostrunner (2020)
-Receiver II (2020)
-ULTRAKILL (EA)
Video games don't suck now... You just don't want to dig deep enough.
Support your indie devs.
If you have to dig, maybe it's because it's in a grave?
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Nice allegory.
Now go play the games on the list.
Good list.
@wub9044 what about the people who can't because they aren't told they exist or aren't on their platform. Everybody isn't going to go out of their way to get a pc to play games.
@@chozochiefxiii3298
Solution 1: Use Google
Solution 2: Check which game has a console port out or in the works, and if there isn't, look for QnAs in regards to them.
It's not that hard.
This video did a good explanation about how we all feel about modern gaming in it's current state (as a early 2010's gamer myself)
One thing to note are the dark patterns that D4 decided to use when redeeming battle passes - so they could maybe force some unlucky players to keep playing. Console players were most susceptible as the default cursor position was the 'redeem' button.
My joy got renewed after I stopped caring about reviews, leaks, spoilers, and trailers.
They take out the fun in going blindly into something mysterious like I did in the past where we only get screenshots and articles from game magazines.
Only look for announcements and dates then I buy.
Man, you’ve got the deepest voice I’ve ever heard and I love it but I don’t know if it’s just my device or my ears but it’s a little hard to hear it behind the music.
TLDW: Gamers are the good guys and video game companies are the bad guys! The good guys do nothing wrong and the bad guys do nothing right.
Aye, looking through your channel. Are you starting to do video essay on gaming industries and such?
If so what are your thoughts on indie games? Are they like the past game development where ones with the most fun and creative mechanics goes on top? How often does a indie game be praised and spotted for their work? And how indie games goes unnoticed for years before they explode in popularity like Among us for example.
I think it's began around 2014-2015 when early access, unfinished dog$hit games, microtransactions become a common thing, many AAA titles have dropped in quality. Another thing to point out is amount of content made for tiktok degenerates, like a character, weapons and overall design uses a lot of toxic colors, cartoonish looks, "cool" animations.
Bungie started it with Destiny.
You realy put some work in this video i didn't expected video this good for someone with low subs. I think you deserve more
Thanks I appreciate it :)
we need a second crash of the videogame industry. bigger, harder and more brutal than in 1983.
Cyberpunk 2077 is to me still one of the most bizarre things I have seen and witnessed. As someone who was mostly ignorant of the wider gaming and internet landscape until 2018 (its complicated), when I got opened to the wider world, the sheer landslide of things included Cyberpunk 2077 and discovering its development time. I thought "Why would the game take so long to make?"
The release of it, I admit, I wasn't sure what I was expecting, and seeing the launch state, I was quite indifferent to it (I had gotten used to discovering and seeing broken game launches post 2018) but I knew it was the most hyped game of the decade and I could only imagine the sheer disappointment everyone else was feeling. But what really got me was how quickly everyone turned around when Edgerunners came out.
Now I liked Edgerunners. Good show, fun to watch. But everyone suddenly acting like an anime made the game suddenly better shocked me. Even moreso when one of my friends tried it out (he got it on sale for 15 bucks) and he played for a month before dropping it because the game's balancing and design was still fucked. I could not believe how many people were suddenly up and defending the game for the anime's merits. And I am absolutely convinced, after seeing CDPR's road map for the future and future games, that they did not learn a damn thing. I am NOT excited for the Liberty whatever DLC coming, I do not care what its supposed to do and fix.
The game should have come out as they promised for years. THAT is what they should have done. THAT is how it should have been. I will not accept this. They lied to everyone, they overpromised, they undersold and underdelivered. And they still have not delivered even YEARS later.
Companies are releasing incomplete games then drop day one patches because they're relying on the customer to bug test for them.
I'd rather the base price of a game be 100 if it meant the game would be released finished, polished, well thought out and with no micro transactions or dumb pay walls.
One thing I have to say. Games used to be 50 or 60 dollars back when that was actually a lot of money. Nowadays I rarely buy a game at full price so even the $70 base price is more than what I pay. I might buy a game for 40-50 for 25-35 hours of entertainment time. Compare that to going out, where just going out and doing one activity might cost the same for 3-4 hours of entertainment.
The truth is the cost of producing good games has skyrocketed and the price we pay stays largely the same. These companies need to make money and pay the bills as well, and developing a project that took years before it produced any revenue is going to be difficult. The point is its not all doom and gloom, and considering the challenges there are still impressive things being accomplished.
Games are getting bad because of general public stepping into gaming.
And general public can be easily manipulated.
I wait a year or two when I buy a game. I know, as a customer, I have the power to send the message I'm not paying for garbage.
nice video bro👌 whats the name of the first song playing?
FYI Dark And Darker isn't free. Only alpha was... Its now paid early access
Fromsoft one of the last companies with passion 💯
Hey! How can you say that? There are PLENTY of great games out there. Do you want me to list you a few?
Sure!
I wouldn't mind if you do.
Tripple A videogames*
DO NOT LUMP IN INDIE WITH THE GARBAGE!
My biggest disappointment in this generation as an old school NES gamer is what I call, “BARBIE doll gamers”. Guys spending hundreds of dollars on fake virtual outfits to play dress up with their avatars. COD hasn’t done anything new with the gameplay in years but has a new outfit to sell you everyday.
Games today not great. But look at the music industry and cinema. In compare with music and cinema nowadays games are not bad.
I mean, a lot of people pre-order and get broken games, then complain about it. Stop buying broken games. simple. I don't buy day one games anymore.
Like any industry the high salaries mentioned are only for the top lead developers that the company can’t afford to loose. Everyone else works for the cheapest salary the company can justify giving them. Why are games incomplete and buggy? Well because it’s cheaper to hire inexperienced devs and pay them nothing and force them to crunch because they don’t know any better and their is always a readily available supply of people who have game development degrees who will work for Pennys because these fresh out of college developers with no experience just want a coveted Shipped AAA title so that they can then Job hop to a company they actually want to work at. It happened to 343 industries, it happened to Volition and countless others. Most colleges have game design majors now because it’s a major that makes colleges money where as 10 to 15 years ago the industry was a lot smaller and the talent pool of fresh out of college job seekers was smaller too. Nothing wrong with being a inexperienced fresh out of college developer you gotta start somewhere but right now companies love hiring these novice developers because they cost significantly less than industry veterans. At the end of the day companies need to hire competent talented people rather than cheeping out and forcing people to crunch. Also research which banks, mega corporations and investors give these game companies money to fund their games and that will tell you everything you need to know. Who owns a 40% stake of Epic Games?
Do NOT give a company money before assuring yourself that the product deserves to be paid. I do that always, my best example is Halo MCC. I did not play that game until they fixed and made a properly Halo out of it and now it's a good option to play the Halo franchise. DON'T be an idiot
Luckily I only enjoy one series and have no experienced any of these problems. Sure it takes 5 to 6 years to get a mainline title, but i play only it for thousands of hours. Been happy with it for 20 years
What series? :)
They aren't wrong this time, this kind of behavior wouldn't happen if people actually stop buying every single shit they release...
The solution is people withholding their money but that wont happen because gaming has become a job and with tons of creators out there who's rent is tied to gaming they will always buy them. Their fans also serve as marketing for the game also.
This is up to the community and with a community thats traditionally not friendly somewhat, most will just buy the loot boxes and games just to say i have it.
Gaming has become that; banking on clout, streamability, and modern advertising to make pretty visuals and that's all. Check companies employees and see the size difference between the quality assurance dept and marketing.
Great video! Thanks for calling out the bad gaming practices. The more who know, the less who buy this crap!
Savage video essay man🤙🏽 you’ve earned a sub. Keep it up! Looking forward to the next one
There's a bit of audio balancing to be done with the music but besides that, very good video.
There is only one game I ever pre-ordered and that was Skyrim, because I loved Oblivion and thought it would be more of that. I was disappointed by Skyrim, in all honesty. Sure, both games are broken buggy messes but Oblivion was still a lot more fun and a lot more engaging to me.
Never pre-ordered again. Not even for From Software games, even though I know that they will usually deliver top notch stuff.
I think only a few years ago it was unthinkable to insult your costumers because they don't like your product.
The video game industry is becoming a joke and they are asking for a new video game crisis with all the garbage they're releasing.
You're killing it with your awesome content Joe
Nice video, but this is just a tip of the iceberg. Of course everyone knows that marketing is a powerful tool, but the moment games stopped having pre-purchase demo, it all went downhill very quickly.
Well said, I think we have a bigger problem that could go either way, but its up to us to change the direction these companies are taking
@@KillerJoeXD Ohhh absolutely. No-preorders to boost their revenue prior to actual release and not giving into bought-off youtubers hyping up the game with ''early access'' keys would be the first step.
*After Skyrim in 2011, games just stopped being creative 👎 the only Truly creative games I've played in the last 10 years are CONTROL, Life Is Strange, Outer Wilds and a few FMV movie games* 🕵
Man, turn down the music/background noises, your voice is deep and low I can't hear you. Nonetheless, great video, on point arguments, I would take more time and elaboration on the conclusion, it was correct and could be more elaborated with examples. Great work
Yes you're right, I messed up the audio balance when rendering the video :( but I will definitely be doing a follow up video at some point in the future that goes into more detail with a better audio mix
Interresting video. I'm not sure if its me thats deaf or if your mic isnt set up correctly. But I had a lot of issues making out what was being said due to your voice being muffled. Either way, good job on the video.
Ill take a look into. I have a very low voice so on some devices it doesnt come through well. Thanks for pointing it out
Yo keep the bloops at the end in future videos it rewards people like me who watch videos all the way through
"I don't blame content creators for this, it's their job to be positive"
Uh, why not though?
Content creators' jobs isn't to be positive, it's to create content ☠️
I just bought Gold Rush the game on PS5.. it's literally *Unplayable* , never bought a game more blatantly broken and lazily ported. I couldn't even finish the tutorial it was so broken.. yet no refund because I "played" it. Its all becoming a giant scam and I'm honestly really fckng tired of being RIPPED OFF on Gaming. 😠 😡
Music is far too loud at places btw
Excellent video! You covered almost everything exceptionally well. I added a comment covering the rest (dark side) of what's happening as well.
Like see, when Baldur's Gate 3 came out, and i heard it's incredibly popular, That's because they've put time, love and effort into making an full on amazing game for everyone to enjoy. That's what Video Games are. Not just full on online micro transaction devils, who suck all the money out of your wallet cause that's what everyone cares about. They'll never listen to us and just keep blasting battle passes, DLC's and all of that. I've grown up on video games my whole life and it makes me very upset that they're ruining it for us, even for me. To just manipulate us and spend money on nothing. That's not fun. Hopefully someday, Things will get better. May god help all of us. 😔👍🏻
I am 47, been gaming since the 80s games don't suck now just like music doesn't suck now. Pick wisely there just many more to choose from...I feel sorry for anyone that thinks games suck now..
Great video and there was a lot of unfinished games and badly reviewed games out there but there is a lot of great games out there still like Starfield,doom eternal,forza horizon 5,elden ring and hi fi rush and god of war Ragnarok all great games by the way
Can you make your voice over louder?
Because that is the only thing i didnt like about this video.
Kudos for good content, broski! Please make more 🔥
Would've been good to mention where the games are at rn or. Say for example Cyberpunk 2077, even just over month after release (when I first played on pc) had very few major glitches/bugs left, and in the current year (started playing again recently) the game is actually like at least an 8/10. Features that were promised are in the game, most long form quests have an impact on the world (not like skyrim where nothing matters), which you don't often realise, because most people don't see how the other side is different. Fallout 76 went through a similar change.
Now compare that to another game you mentioned BF2042, which is now at this day still barebones, or even Anthem which has been abandoned within the same year. Here the Studio obviously does not care, but in my previous examples, they've been updating away, while the game continues to get a "Never ever buy this/10" from most games. They do seem to care, and in a lot of cases this is just textbook mismanagement rather than calculated greedy decision making. Marketing departments will say "Well, this month and year would be a good release date, because we get the most publicity then", while not realising that the developing departments are going under with technical issues. Then you add third party contracts to the mix for suppliers and other such stuff, and you get a fixed release date that not even the best Studio could keep. Anthem and BF42 were complete cashgrabs tho
Seems like a good video. Can I offer a suggestion? Your voice is clean but a bit muffled from the background music. Perhaps turn the music down so people can hear you a bit more clearly.
Wow, the millionth "gaming is dying" video essay. How original.
Weve gotten alot of amazing game on the other hand like Hogwarts, jedi survivor, high on life, starfield, remnant 2 ,battlebit remastered.
Also i thibk cyberpunk has delivered now. The game is gorgeous.
No that game is still trash
Cyberpunk is still mediocre
It's the customer's fault for buying and supporting these greedy mtx practices. If these practices didn't make more money than a feature complete game being released and that was it, then there wouldn't be mtx. You can blame devs and publishers for hiring psychologists to find ways to create dark patterns in games to make people act on impulse and spend money but, you also have to blame the people that willingly choose to do so. They boosted profits of these games. These "gaas" or "live service" game models have made most of the gaming industry a bleak capitalist dystopia where games are sold to everyone piece by piece.
People who shill and accept mediocrity from these game releases are at fault
You have beautiful voice to listen to. Just make the music a bit quieter. Good video, keep it up!
The thing I've noticed is they have stopped for the most part trying to create a game with a meaningful story. E.g. max Payne 1 and now its mostly gameplay loops, or just a really boring story e.g. the division 2, is boring as hell.
I have not played it but I hear it's the same story with star field.
Games used to have cool stories, metal gear solid 2, fear effect, parasite eve, fear, silent hill 4, I am just not seeing a variety of these kind of games anymore and it's really sad.
Max payne and metal gear ah man they were great games. Amazing stories for sure
I get that a lot of games don’t deliver anymore but I got into nioh games recently and it’s one of the greatest games I’ve ever played the combat is crazy it’s like eldin ring but with skill trees for every weapon and yokai abilities and transformations
Poped up in my recommend, cool video dude!
Please mind your audio mixing mate, you're barely audible. It sounds like you've overcompressed your voice.
Great video on the poor state of modern gaming.
Oh great video man. Keep up the great work. Only thing i can say tho is the bgm seemed a bit to loud and kinda drowned your voice out.
That said my newest game is from 2016 cause nothing made since has been better or even really interested me at all. I just keep playing my old games with mods and such but i am mostly a grand strategy player so im niche at best. Lol
Thanks I appreciate the feedback, I'm playing older games also :P
I only play yugioh duel links. Konami is the only company that cares about gamers nowadays.
You know a video is good when over a third of the total views count liked the video
10:03 I can see what game the studios are playing
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I honestly didnt even time it like tht I just put a bunch of random clips together for tht section haha, glad you noticed :P
People need to pirate more
MAFIA!!! Anyone who includes _Mafia :City of Lost Heaven_ Footage immediately gets a sub from me every time. Best game ever, Daniel Vavra needs to be better known, he's one of the last good devs. Praise Vavra! Literally Praise him in your videos!
Most players dont care about anything and this specifically is the problem.
The reason as everything else: capitalism. The solution is the same, as well: protest, boycott, unionize, organize, and cooperatize.
And to anyone arguing that we've always had capitalism, so this can't be the reason for recent decline, slimy monetization requires time and technology. They would've done this sooner if they could. Otherwise we're stuck arguing that something had happened to the immaterial, moral/ethical quality of game studios, which is absurd. Well... Not so much absurd as basically the other side of the same coin.
We already doing that. CD Projekt Red will go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk. Also Volition closed recently after they made Saints Row
@@bgiv2010 ahhh, a fellow hasanabi/Vaush intellectual I see. Great points. Capitalism bad. Socialism good.
@@bgiv2010it’s really nice to have a single thing to blame all the worlds problems on, and I get it, when ur 15, it seems like u have the answers and solutions. But the worlds not that simple, and capitalism isn’t to blame for all of the worlds problems. When u grow up you’ll look back at this stage of ur life and cringe. I mean, I hope ur 15, if your over 27 this is just really sad.
games suck because they quit carrying about the gamers they only care about profits but they eventually will figure out it going 2 cost them
I see content creators as walking talking advertisers for these kinds of things. It's ridiculous.
you are going up, i feel it
Video game publishers keep awarding companies based on how diverse they are instead of how good they are at making video games. I’d much rather have a team of a hundred men who are white/Asian who make amazing games than 7000 men/women/its who are from multiple different continents who can’t make a single good game
Really enjoyed this Joe thanks!
intro had me dieing
Games suck because development companies like Activision and Blizzard are publicly traded commodities now.
i hate to say it but with this hard core laziness going on now and days the video game subject is dying
what game is this in 9:14 minute?
I actually dont know, to be neutral, I just took some random streamer compilation video and put some clips into that section, there should be a link to tht video in the description, but other than tht I have no idea ive never seen that game before :P
I've seen tons of videos on this topic lately, sadly gamers will continue to support trash