They don't, But Indie developers who make great indie games DO want you to have great single player experiences. There's just TONS of fantastic indie games to play, and with how affordable they are, Its easy to get a bunch of them and explore fun worlds.
Ya open worlds and multiplayer games are the 2 hardest genres to make which is why the aaa industry wants to push towards it because if you have a man who wants a open world game they must play aaa from one of a few companies
Yea but they have to keep complaining about “Modern Gaming.” Never mind it’s a free market and we dictate that market. I mean they could be using their platform to push good games but those don’t get views sadly but they would if more people sought them ought.
i hate games when half of the content is for online mode, because servers eventually dies and your half game will be just a trash in your storage. look at GTA5, the online content weight 40gb
I miss Rockstar single player DLCs. Would have loved RDR2 Alien Invasion. Undead Nightmare was a good as the main game. TLAD was in many ways better than GTA4, and that's not to mention BOGT. Their DLC was goated back in the day
Same problem is happening with Souls likes though. Greedy executives are seeing how much money they make and flooding the market. Eventually we will be apathetic to any souls like not made by From Soft
@@youtubesucks1821 I think even the "bad" souls-like is better than most triple A, i even liked both The Surge and both Lords of the Fallen and both of the Remnant. The only one i didn't like was Immortal Unchained. So yeah, even the bad souls-like are better than most normie triple As IMO.
Might I suggest a game called Grime? I'd argue it's the best Soulslike on the market outside of Fromsoft's catalogue. For whatever reason despite it's quality the game seemed to just get lost in the mix.
@@GodOfOrphans True, i even purchased it but never even downloaded it, every time some "new stuff" arrives and i postprone it on my backlog, i will try it this weekend, thanks for the suggestion.
It's always hilarious to me when people try to degrade split screen by saying "when did you last play..." And I'm like "MFer I spent like 2 years in a house with non-gamers and nothing to do, the Switch is the last console it feels worth investing in multiple controllers even pays off and most of that is strictly PVP or 2 player, you think my buddy's with spouses that game aren't playing it enough to be sick of 2 player or in trouble for playing without it? You need 4 player split screen for these situations to really be possible again and barely anyone has it, without that you're not getting the karaoke or arcade type experience with any home console, which hurts businesses as well as home experience, it is anti-social AF and our hobby doesn't need to be that way..
Modern AAA gaming has made incredible breakthroughs innovating how to take advantage of addictions while generating more revenue for shareholders. All that while minimizing the actual work needed from the game company to generate the money. And now even older releases won't be a problem anymore as there won't be older games around when the companies just can pull the plug to push people to the latest and greatest! Isn't modern gaming great?
Imagine 2 groups of gamers: US, who will play forever because we were raised on masterpieces. YOUNGER PEOPLE, who were raised on Fortnite and other modern games. The gaming industry has a massive issue on their hands, their long term plan is to keep the YOUNGER PEOPLE interested (and spending money) forever... As soon as their life becomes more interesting (girls, work, etc), that younger audience will be gone. Why would they stay?! Think about all the memories you made gaming, they have none of those! In 10 years from now, they might not even remember the name of the games they used to play, and there won't be 4 hours retrospective videos for them to watch either to keep the "fire burning"... The gaming industry has some kind of baby boom issue. They're catering to tourists, it's been like that for 15 years, for us, it's a third of our life... There is no way in hell I will ever be able to forget how the AAA industry treated me like fifth class citizen in my own hobby/passion for a decade and a half. The gaming industry had life-long fans, they lost all that loyalty in about a decade. They squandered billions of years worth of combined loyalty, in less than 3,000 days. Of all the people I knew, literally not a single one of them survived the past 10 years of AAA. They all quit gaming. I personally bought maybe 3 AAA games since 2017.
That's a super interesting perspective. Maybe that's the nature of fandoms today: the core group will always remember the good stuff and be leery of questionable "advancements" while the tourists will quickly come in, and leave just as quickly, as they don't have those core memories/experiences of when it was not just good, but great. Yeah, I'm in danger of basically restating points you've already made. Great comment. 👍
That billions of years in 3,000 days is fucking my mind rn but youre absolutely right! I just hope enough of the new generation of gamers will find those diamond in the rough AAA games or indie titles.
Good points! A lot of games these days are FOMO inducing filled with daily tasks that make sure to either reward or punish you if you skipped a login streak or events. I was a victim of that with a mobile game that trapped me into a routine that at some point felt like a chore, but I'd still push myself to check those "boxes" daily. It's ridiculous that I've repeated the same game routine for years until I reached the point of no return and quit it for good. These types of games leverage on communities and once you get into that social loop then you feel responsible as part of the team and you have to do your part. The day I finally quit (after failing at quitting multiple times) I was tempted to get back in the game by the people on Discord and by myself missing that habit. But it was temporary, because once enough time had passed, I felt free, like a I finally got rid of a weight and I didn't have to stress over event schedules for said game.
The sentiment is completely mutual for a lot of us. and not just for gaming. Just any kind of media is turning to this always online subscription bs that gives you the false illusion of owning things when in reality you own nothing. I love physical and digital media because you OWN them once you buy them. But these subscription models are destroying owning things.
My heart sinks every time a new horror game gets announced with an awesome IP attached like _Evil Dead_ or _Killer Klowns from Outer Space,_ and then it turns out to be just another God-damned asymmetric multiplayer title. You know what's never scary? Like, _ever?_ A bunch of idiot 12-year-olds calling my mom's C-word the N-word the whole time I'm trying to fight off horrific abominations from the pits of Hell.
Feel the same way bro Currently playing old SNES, PSP, pre 2012 pc games Mods,.lost of mods Recomendation.....COD 2+ WCP 2.0 Realism Mod ....turms Call of Duty 2 into a realistic war.experice during WW2 If you download it play on the hardest difficulty
I'm just not interested in online games. Theres nothing they can really do to get me to play them. The only games I played this year were Dragons Dogma 2, FF7 Rebirth, Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and Silent Hill 2 Remake. All single player games.
devs never want single player games as early as the 90s. multiplayer games are the best copy protection and thats why they are pushing the negative that players dont want single player games.
Yeah, any game that requires an internet connection just to get past the title screen (if even that) has always been a major "Nope!" in my book. And yes, that does mean that I've never gotten into MMOs, nor mobile..... and hoo boy, the mobile shutdowns have been especially nasty. Pretty recently, I think it was with a Love Live game? Anyway, in the very same announcement that it was getting an English localization, they also announced that the service would shut down in about a month. Seriously, why even bother at all at that point?
I prefer playing single player honestly. Just me and the game I'm making my way through. Nobody else to deal with. Besides, when it comes to online play, considering I don't have a lot of time or energy to put into a game, I'm not nearly as good as other real players. Which leads to constantly losing. I have no problem losing sometimes. That's fine. But if you lose all the time because you don't have a lot of time or energy to develop the skill the other real players have, it leads to not being a fun experience anymore. I'd rather just play alone and worry about just the game and not other players.
Games as service - Live service, subscriptions, cloud, online only etc... will be brute forced on to consumers. UNLESS consumers fight back and push for *DRM-FREE* digital version to be standard option to be sold alongside the usual corporate service crap.
As others have pointed, most AAA big studios want profit so they make live action/online and pay to win games to bleed you dry of your cash, indie developers on the other hand are great at making single player games you can play once but can replay again when u feel like it. PS1 and PS2 era in particular had so many indie unknown games u can find and play that it is amazing.
Season passes have singlehandedly kept me from playing games I would've sunk hundreds of hours in because I can't get over having arrived late to the scene and being unable to play through the stuff I'd have wanted to play and get the stuff I'd have wanted to get. Years ago I played that Pirates of the Caribbean MMO and saw a guy with a voodoo staff. I thought it was so cool and was disappointed that I wasn't able to get one as a free player, but at least it was possible to get one at any time if I decided to pay for a subscription. Now there's games I already paid for, who have had seasons upon seasons of season passes come and go, and so much of the cool stuff I'd have wanted is locked away forever. I'll see someone with cool armor or a cool weapon or something and wonder how I could get it myself only to find out it's from a season pass from years ago that I can't play. I just refuse to play games that will tease me with cool stuff that I permanently missed out on getting.
The main issue with "Games as a service" isn't even the relentless digging into your wallet, which is saying something because dear god gaming did not used to be as expensive of a hobby as it is now. But as crazy as it sounds, there's an even bigger issue with the concept, and it's this: You don't own them. By even calling them "services" they are identifying them as distinct from products. They're not selling you a product, you are paying for a service. The only thing you own are the memories you make playing it, because they can shut down those servers or revoke your game key at any time and you can't do anything about it. Why should we bother spending crazy amounts of money on games if we know full well it's only a matter of time until they get ripped away from us involuntarily? There is a silver lining in all this though, which is that there are alternatives. Proper Single Player games are still coming out. Capcom and SEGA and even Konami (yeah I'm surprised too) and many others including a plethora of indie game devs are continuing to give us options to play new single player experiences. If we want to change the course of gaming history for the better here, it's time to vote with our wallets. Don't fund this predatory live service model and the big name companies will have no choice but to back away from it. They need money to continue to exist and we can deprive them of that much needed resource until they start giving us something worth having again. In the meanwhile, we can just buy other games instead that are already giving us what we are looking for. It's about time we send them a message that we've had enough.
@@TenacityfromtheglassI get the hate DMC 2 deserves (and for a good reason) But please, don"t tell me you "love" the godawful DmC Reboot. That pathetic excuse of a "game" deserves the same or even bigger hate as DMC 2
@@sonicdash9652 I hear they even did the _awful_ and _embarrassing_ cliche of having the character wear something he wore in the previous games and then mock the idea.
I heartily agree, but "when I think about updates to the game, I don't think about a game that's constantly evolving, I think of some patches and bug fixes" While I do understand this sentiment, games having new content isn't a new thing - remember expansion packs? It was like getting the game all over again, only with new stuff to see and do in it. Not to mention things like DOOM wads - community built mods to further extend the playtime of their favorite games. Sure, the live service model of constant content drip feed is actual cancer, but you gotta admit those expansion packs and community mods were great too.
Visions of Mana is a title that I'm looking forward to getting. I waited for years for another Mana game. Right now I can't it since my family may be planning to have it as my gift this year. I'm just glad we got a proper Mana title instead of a mobile like Echoes of Mana that got shut down shortly after it was launched. I was afraid a dead mobile was gonna be the Mana last game to be made. Though unfortunately, the studio closed down I heard after the game got released.
I don't even play modern games on modern consoles anymore. It has gotten so bad that I've lost interest. There are some good games but not enough of them to interest me. I now collect physical games for my ps3 slim and I haven't looked back. After collecting the games I wanna play on ps3 I'll be going for ps1 games.
Exactly what you are talking about in this video is how I felt when they made the next generation update for the Witcher3 and ever since then I feel like I have not loved the game as much.... It's because prior to this update I felt like even with the few remaining bugs, that the game was perfect and ready to be sunset?? But they made the next GEN update and in an attempt to capture some of Elden rings sunlight, and attention that it was getting at the time, they took two ability points away from every major ability that you had?!?!? From five ability points for every major ability, down to three... and this screwed up the game so bad.. it screwed up my perfect build that I had.. that I had been working on for years, over both versions for the PS4 Pro and both versions for the Xbox one X... it pissed me off so bad!! Mainly because the game did not work for the next two years on my Xbox one X, which was the best place you could play that game on console and still to this day!! The game would still work on my PS4 Pro, but would crash constantly after running it for more than an hour... I'm thankful to say the game now works again and I'm playing the PS five version now (which might just be the worst version?) and if it wasn't for God, forsaken update updates, the game would've stayed the game that it was that made me tell people that it was one of my favorite games of all time? Within my top five!? It's still one of my favorites, but the feeling of resentment and animosity is now permanently burnt into my mind from how the development company behind the game CDPR, made such a stupid decision to alter the game for new users, as well as longtime fans of the original... I may be one of the only people that feels this way about it, but.. those updated graphics and a few extra armor suits and swords and couple extra DLC missions were not worth it even if it was free!
Sadly i'm scared for the Prince of Persia sands of time remake and whatever the heck is going on with Beyond good and evil 2. They're gonna fuck that shit up I just got a feeling.
Discs can get scratched, sure, but there's a wealth of games that still work perfectly fine form the original disc. The real solution is to sell physical media and allow it to be easily copied for preservation.
My biggest complaint against Ubisoft, is what they did to the crew!!!!!! That was my favorite racing game to relax and chill too, and go online and play at some point each week , for every week after it's release and the way they did us... all they have to do is make a patch so that us fans can still play it off-line?? What they should've did was kept it online and made it where the diehard fans that really love that game that wanted to still play. It could've paid five dollars per month, to continue supporting servers for online play of that amazing and classic game? The crew two looks a lot better, but the handling is all over the place ... no longer does it have that element where if you know how to race in real life you can use that in the game and when race is over and over?! Which is just dumb... And I also love playing Mass Effect on my Xbox 360 !!! It was one of the first games I played on the Xbox 360 and I remember thinking that that there was a new dog on the block that was gonna dethrone Sony if they kept it up?? (I didn't know it was a timed exclusive at the time..) but even the updates they made to the legendary edition only hurt the game... And don't even get me started on all this woke bullshit... I'm sure I'm not the only one that has a strong dislike, where this is concerned..
I’ve been around for the whole history of console gaming and witnessed it all. Multiplayer gaming was great when it was an extension to single player games like Doom, Jedi Knight, Half-Life, etc. It’s frustrating what Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Blizzard, 2K, Microsoft, and others have done in recent years. Games can start out fun and then they lose most the good features or become unplayable once they no longer have a large audience or when a newer game comes out to replace it. It’s gotten so bad and unpredictable people are afraid to buy games anymore. Especially when they come with a hefty price tag. I’m definitely avoiding these companies like the plague. I’ve had much better experiences with companies like FromSoftware, Ark Systems Works, Sega. I’ve bought a few indie titles also. Mostly I have been collecting retro games the last 10 years or so.
I grew up in the 90's when the biggest competitors were Nintendo & SEGA. Sony came in after being backstabbed by Nintendo for the SNES-CD Add-on. I entered High school in 2001 when Xbox released in November of that year along with the GameCube. I was 20 when Assassins Creed first cameout.
Bro don't ever say the 7th generation of consoles was peak gaming. That is a disgrace to the true peak which was the 6th generation with PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube.
Brotha speaking pure facts. As much as I enjoy the 7th gen that gen was the start of some of the bullshit you see in AAA gaming these days. The 6th gen will remain the golden peak era of gaming. Each system was just dropping unique and incredible games. Damn I miss that era
During the golden age of gaining, it seemed like every single month there were a few games per individual system that came out that you were absolutely hyped and excited for and just had to play?? And while you missed out on a lot of of these, you still got to play and got more of your money's worth and more enjoyment out of these experiences during this so-called golden age! Nowadays, it just feels like ... way too corporate, way too scammed and scheming... and just not white video games are supposed to be... I think all of us over the age of 28 to 30 now, we are all going back and playing all of the older stuff that we now realize was designed for our enjoyment, whereas nowadays a lot of the games that are being designed, are not being designed solely for our enjoyment, but to pander to the largest possible audience, and to preach to us about bullshit and prevent us from the sole purpose in which we play games to begin with, to escape? This is why I am a retro gamer myself now also! And regardless of my opinions or feelings, some of the greatest games of all time came out from the 90s going all the way up to 2018 but as you get closer and closer to that end point, we got fewer and fewer grand and legendary experiences.. this is why it feels like the 90s itself were jammed pack where every single month there were a few games that you just had to play!
How much do you think the literal creation of the term "AAA game" contributes to the modern expectation that a game cost $20M to make and takes 3 years
Plenty of features are lacking in today's games. Local multiplayer, coop mode. COD games nowadays come without these key components and also more recently no Ad-Hoc multiplayer, so it's impossible to create a LAN by yourself lonesome with a couple of friends, you must connect all computers to Activision servers, for they need the overwatch. I think it's BS. Recently premiered games with bugs galore and stutter issues that rival people with speech impediments, it should be illegal.
I notice a lot of creators try to be for "everyone," and I'm fine if my personal opinions don't reach the widest audience. For example, I don't bother people to like and subscribe or dance around certain controversies because I feel like chasing analytics and focusing on engagement takes away from that human aspect. I openly welcome anyone to disagree with me because it helps me expand my perspective and sometimes challenges my beliefs.
@GrumpyCat97 2 player in sanandreas is peak nostalgia fuel! I still remember finding one of the 2 player icons and yelling to my cousin "yo, get over here! You're not gonna believe this!"
@@Tenacityfromtheglass yes, me and my bro were causing chaos, especially with cheat codes. i remember recruiting peds that carries rpg and watching second player dodging rockets was fun.
what makes u like the "dinamic combat of batman"? I tryied it and for me is boring pressing only X to attack... whats ur perspective comparing that combat system to a devil may cry or bayonetta combat system? assuming that u play 1 of them ofc cuz I dont know... I just wanna know u think that system is perfect cuz for me is boring af...and dark souls gameplay is boring too btw... I dont see what ppl say its soo great by pressing X and occasional B to dodge or Y to counter attack...
You don't "just press X/Square" to attack. There's multiple gadgets and tactics for taking on multiple variants of enemies. I don't know what you were playing, but you either weren't playing it right or you didn't progress enough.
@@dapperfan44 I played all the 3 good batmans, great scenary but that gameplay for me is boring, thats why im asking whats soo cool in it cuz i didnt saw it... Not trying to attack no 1 like u, butting useing and extra button for some gadget, I enjoyed and was more engaging combos on dmc
Have you played any game made by Vanillaware or RGG? Since you're mostly talking about western shit here I thought I name these 2 as a recommendation. Both are certainly on Fromsofts level.
I'm done with modern gaming it sucks every game is a overpriced piece of trash.I went back to the good old days ps1 PS2 PS3.Modern gaming not for me anymore I'm done with it
@vishizzy you're cherry-picking. I said I initially welcomed digital because I thought it was convenient. None of us wanted our ownership of media stripped away from us.
@ THEY ARE DOING DIGITAL SO you CANT RE SELL CANT BRING GAME TO FRIENDS HOUSE AND THEY CAN ALWAYS SELL IT AT FULL PRICE BECAUSE NO USED PHYSICAL COPIES AVAILABLE DIGITAL IS ONLY MEANT FOR COMPANIES TO PROFIT SO THEY GET THE FULL PRICE FOR THE GAME AND CHEAPER FOR THEM TO NOT MAKE CASE AND ARTWORK. I I WILL NEVER BUY DIGITAL AND THEY CAN REMOVE IT ANYTIME TOO SO YOU DONT OWN IT AND HAVE TO KEEP ADDING SPACE TO YOUR SYSTEM ITS SUCH A MONEY GRAB AND DUMB GEN Z FELL FOR IT DIGITAL IS THE BIGGEST MONEY SCAMS SINCE PYRAMID SCHEMES. IT WILL BE DIGITAL THEN STREAMING AND THESE FANBOYS FALLING FOR IT!!
You don't have to buy bad games There are so many great games God of war God of war Ragnarok Doom 2016 Doom eternal Resident evil 2 remake Resident evil 4 remake Resident evil 7 Uncharted 4 Marvel spider man 2018 Marvel spider man 2 Devil may cry 5 Nier automata Tekken 7 Mortal Kombat xl Ghost of Tsushima Sifu Monster hunter world Finale fantasy vii remake Finale fantasy vii Rebirth Street fighter 6 Pointless video
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They don't, But Indie developers who make great indie games DO want you to have great single player experiences. There's just TONS of fantastic indie games to play, and with how affordable they are, Its easy to get a bunch of them and explore fun worlds.
Yeah, but i miss the double A's when we had psp/psvita gba/ds/3ds
Ya open worlds and multiplayer games are the 2 hardest genres to make which is why the aaa industry wants to push towards it because if you have a man who wants a open world game they must play aaa from one of a few companies
Yea but they have to keep complaining about “Modern Gaming.” Never mind it’s a free market and we dictate that market. I mean they could be using their platform to push good games but those don’t get views sadly but they would if more people sought them ought.
Too bad, I play exclusively single player games and pretty sure I'm not the only one.
99 percent of my library is single player and if it is multiple player I has a single player mode I like playing more anyway like Mario Kart.
You are not alone. All of the games on my backlog and games I'm planning to play is single player.
I recommend the middle earth games. Lord of the rings setting with Arkham combat
You're far from being alone my entire collection (not big by any stretch) is single-player.
Same here. Been playing singleplayer games since 1989 when I was 3. My first videogame I ever played was Super Mario Bros.
i hate games when half of the content is for online mode, because servers eventually dies and your half game will be just a trash in your storage. look at GTA5, the online content weight 40gb
I rly hope someone reverse engeneer the online part of Space Marine 2.
I miss Rockstar single player DLCs.
Would have loved RDR2 Alien Invasion. Undead Nightmare was a good as the main game. TLAD was in many ways better than GTA4, and that's not to mention BOGT.
Their DLC was goated back in the day
@@mobbs6426 indeed
@@mobbs6426 I don't like that too but I also don't like how I'm forced to downloaded those updates for a mode I don't even play!!!
Nowdays i mostly just play single player indies and souls-like
Same problem is happening with Souls likes though. Greedy executives are seeing how much money they make and flooding the market. Eventually we will be apathetic to any souls like not made by From Soft
@@youtubesucks1821 I think even the "bad" souls-like is better than most triple A, i even liked both The Surge and both Lords of the Fallen and both of the Remnant. The only one i didn't like was Immortal Unchained.
So yeah, even the bad souls-like are better than most normie triple As IMO.
Might I suggest a game called Grime? I'd argue it's the best Soulslike on the market outside of Fromsoft's catalogue. For whatever reason despite it's quality the game seemed to just get lost in the mix.
@@GodOfOrphans True, i even purchased it but never even downloaded it, every time some "new stuff" arrives and i postprone it on my backlog, i will try it this weekend, thanks for the suggestion.
same
God i miss split screen co-op L4D2 on splitscreen was some of the most make or break a friendship action ever made
Specially nowdays even Steam have remote couch co-op features, it would be amazing.
It's always hilarious to me when people try to degrade split screen by saying "when did you last play..." And I'm like "MFer I spent like 2 years in a house with non-gamers and nothing to do, the Switch is the last console it feels worth investing in multiple controllers even pays off and most of that is strictly PVP or 2 player, you think my buddy's with spouses that game aren't playing it enough to be sick of 2 player or in trouble for playing without it?
You need 4 player split screen for these situations to really be possible again and barely anyone has it, without that you're not getting the karaoke or arcade type experience with any home console, which hurts businesses as well as home experience, it is anti-social AF and our hobby doesn't need to be that way..
Me and my friends play a lot of Nintendo games for this reason Super Mario Party was our thing.
Modern AAA gaming has made incredible breakthroughs innovating how to take advantage of addictions while generating more revenue for shareholders. All that while minimizing the actual work needed from the game company to generate the money.
And now even older releases won't be a problem anymore as there won't be older games around when the companies just can pull the plug to push people to the latest and greatest!
Isn't modern gaming great?
Thank you for mentioning Dishonored and Prey. Immersive Sims are one of the biggest loss of "modern gaming".
Imagine 2 groups of gamers:
US, who will play forever because we were raised on masterpieces.
YOUNGER PEOPLE, who were raised on Fortnite and other modern games.
The gaming industry has a massive issue on their hands, their long term plan is to keep the YOUNGER PEOPLE interested (and spending money) forever... As soon as their life becomes more interesting (girls, work, etc), that younger audience will be gone. Why would they stay?! Think about all the memories you made gaming, they have none of those! In 10 years from now, they might not even remember the name of the games they used to play, and there won't be 4 hours retrospective videos for them to watch either to keep the "fire burning"...
The gaming industry has some kind of baby boom issue. They're catering to tourists, it's been like that for 15 years, for us, it's a third of our life... There is no way in hell I will ever be able to forget how the AAA industry treated me like fifth class citizen in my own hobby/passion for a decade and a half.
The gaming industry had life-long fans, they lost all that loyalty in about a decade. They squandered billions of years worth of combined loyalty, in less than 3,000 days.
Of all the people I knew, literally not a single one of them survived the past 10 years of AAA. They all quit gaming. I personally bought maybe 3 AAA games since 2017.
That's a super interesting perspective. Maybe that's the nature of fandoms today: the core group will always remember the good stuff and be leery of questionable "advancements" while the tourists will quickly come in, and leave just as quickly, as they don't have those core memories/experiences of when it was not just good, but great. Yeah, I'm in danger of basically restating points you've already made. Great comment. 👍
That billions of years in 3,000 days is fucking my mind rn but youre absolutely right! I just hope enough of the new generation of gamers will find those diamond in the rough AAA games or indie titles.
Good points! A lot of games these days are FOMO inducing filled with daily tasks that make sure to either reward or punish you if you skipped a login streak or events.
I was a victim of that with a mobile game that trapped me into a routine that at some point felt like a chore, but I'd still push myself to check those "boxes" daily. It's ridiculous that I've repeated the same game routine for years until I reached the point of no return and quit it for good.
These types of games leverage on communities and once you get into that social loop then you feel responsible as part of the team and you have to do your part.
The day I finally quit (after failing at quitting multiple times) I was tempted to get back in the game by the people on Discord and by myself missing that habit. But it was temporary, because once enough time had passed, I felt free, like a I finally got rid of a weight and I didn't have to stress over event schedules for said game.
The sentiment is completely mutual for a lot of us. and not just for gaming. Just any kind of media is turning to this always online subscription bs that gives you the false illusion of owning things when in reality you own nothing.
I love physical and digital media because you OWN them once you buy them. But these subscription models are destroying owning things.
You'll own nothing and be happy
@@nikobellic8002 NEVER, NOT IF THE HIGH SEAS HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT! 🏴☠
My heart sinks every time a new horror game gets announced with an awesome IP attached like _Evil Dead_ or _Killer Klowns from Outer Space,_ and then it turns out to be just another God-damned asymmetric multiplayer title. You know what's never scary? Like, _ever?_ A bunch of idiot 12-year-olds calling my mom's C-word the N-word the whole time I'm trying to fight off horrific abominations from the pits of Hell.
@@cigoLxeL I feel the same. I'm sure no one wanted a "Mars Attacks!" Tycoon theme park game either, but we got one anyway.
Feel the same way bro
Currently playing old SNES, PSP, pre 2012 pc games
Mods,.lost of mods
Recomendation.....COD 2+ WCP 2.0 Realism Mod ....turms Call of Duty 2 into a realistic war.experice during WW2
If you download it play on the hardest difficulty
I'm just not interested in online games. Theres nothing they can really do to get me to play them. The only games I played this year were Dragons Dogma 2, FF7 Rebirth, Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and Silent Hill 2 Remake. All single player games.
devs never want single player games as early as the 90s. multiplayer games are the best copy protection and thats why they are pushing the negative that players dont want single player games.
If they don't want to make single-player games that's fine I just won't buy. It's that simple.
well, too dam bad, cuz I have a huge backlog. Don't need new games
I remember how Good Rockstar games Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also, them saying get use to not owning games is crazy.
Yeah, any game that requires an internet connection just to get past the title screen (if even that) has always been a major "Nope!" in my book. And yes, that does mean that I've never gotten into MMOs, nor mobile..... and hoo boy, the mobile shutdowns have been especially nasty. Pretty recently, I think it was with a Love Live game? Anyway, in the very same announcement that it was getting an English localization, they also announced that the service would shut down in about a month. Seriously, why even bother at all at that point?
I prefer playing single player honestly. Just me and the game I'm making my way through. Nobody else to deal with. Besides, when it comes to online play, considering I don't have a lot of time or energy to put into a game, I'm not nearly as good as other real players. Which leads to constantly losing. I have no problem losing sometimes. That's fine. But if you lose all the time because you don't have a lot of time or energy to develop the skill the other real players have, it leads to not being a fun experience anymore. I'd rather just play alone and worry about just the game and not other players.
It's just a suggestion, don't take it seriously, but I'd like to see a vid about how DLC and micro transactions affected fighting games
Havent played a lot of newer fighting games but i remember easy fatality tokens killing mortal kombat for me.
Games as service - Live service, subscriptions, cloud, online only etc... will be brute forced on to consumers.
UNLESS consumers fight back and push for *DRM-FREE* digital version to be standard option to be sold alongside the usual corporate service crap.
As others have pointed, most AAA big studios want profit so they make live action/online and pay to win games to bleed you dry of your cash, indie developers on the other hand are great at making single player games you can play once but can replay again when u feel like it. PS1 and PS2 era in particular had so many indie unknown games u can find and play that it is amazing.
Season passes have singlehandedly kept me from playing games I would've sunk hundreds of hours in because I can't get over having arrived late to the scene and being unable to play through the stuff I'd have wanted to play and get the stuff I'd have wanted to get. Years ago I played that Pirates of the Caribbean MMO and saw a guy with a voodoo staff. I thought it was so cool and was disappointed that I wasn't able to get one as a free player, but at least it was possible to get one at any time if I decided to pay for a subscription. Now there's games I already paid for, who have had seasons upon seasons of season passes come and go, and so much of the cool stuff I'd have wanted is locked away forever. I'll see someone with cool armor or a cool weapon or something and wonder how I could get it myself only to find out it's from a season pass from years ago that I can't play. I just refuse to play games that will tease me with cool stuff that I permanently missed out on getting.
The main issue with "Games as a service" isn't even the relentless digging into your wallet, which is saying something because dear god gaming did not used to be as expensive of a hobby as it is now. But as crazy as it sounds, there's an even bigger issue with the concept, and it's this: You don't own them. By even calling them "services" they are identifying them as distinct from products. They're not selling you a product, you are paying for a service. The only thing you own are the memories you make playing it, because they can shut down those servers or revoke your game key at any time and you can't do anything about it. Why should we bother spending crazy amounts of money on games if we know full well it's only a matter of time until they get ripped away from us involuntarily?
There is a silver lining in all this though, which is that there are alternatives. Proper Single Player games are still coming out. Capcom and SEGA and even Konami (yeah I'm surprised too) and many others including a plethora of indie game devs are continuing to give us options to play new single player experiences. If we want to change the course of gaming history for the better here, it's time to vote with our wallets. Don't fund this predatory live service model and the big name companies will have no choice but to back away from it. They need money to continue to exist and we can deprive them of that much needed resource until they start giving us something worth having again. In the meanwhile, we can just buy other games instead that are already giving us what we are looking for. It's about time we send them a message that we've had enough.
have you played Devil May Cry 5? it's a good single player game
I love every dmc game, except dmc 2.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass You like Banjo Kazooie, so do I.
@@TenacityfromtheglassI get the hate DMC 2 deserves (and for a good reason)
But please, don"t tell me you "love" the godawful DmC Reboot. That pathetic excuse of a "game" deserves the same or even bigger hate as DMC 2
@@sonicdash9652 I hear they even did the _awful_ and _embarrassing_ cliche of having the character wear something he wore in the previous games and then mock the idea.
I heartily agree, but "when I think about updates to the game, I don't think about a game that's constantly evolving, I think of some patches and bug fixes"
While I do understand this sentiment, games having new content isn't a new thing - remember expansion packs? It was like getting the game all over again, only with new stuff to see and do in it. Not to mention things like DOOM wads - community built mods to further extend the playtime of their favorite games. Sure, the live service model of constant content drip feed is actual cancer, but you gotta admit those expansion packs and community mods were great too.
Visions of Mana is a title that I'm looking forward to getting. I waited for years for another Mana game. Right now I can't it since my family may be planning to have it as my gift this year. I'm just glad we got a proper Mana title instead of a mobile like Echoes of Mana that got shut down shortly after it was launched. I was afraid a dead mobile was gonna be the Mana last game to be made. Though unfortunately, the studio closed down I heard after the game got released.
I don't even play modern games on modern consoles anymore. It has gotten so bad that I've lost interest. There are some good games but not enough of them to interest me. I now collect physical games for my ps3 slim and I haven't looked back. After collecting the games I wanna play on ps3 I'll be going for ps1 games.
Same I've been taking advantage of the region free aspect of PS3 and vita and importing older games.
Thanks to emulation, PS1 games can be run on a 10+ year old smartphone if you want.
How i wish i could wipe my memory of certain games to play again and again
Exactly what you are talking about in this video is how I felt when they made the next generation update for the Witcher3 and ever since then I feel like I have not loved the game as much....
It's because prior to this update I felt like even with the few remaining bugs, that the game was perfect and ready to be sunset?? But they made the next GEN update and in an attempt to capture some of Elden rings sunlight, and attention that it was getting at the time, they took two ability points away from every major ability that you had?!?!? From five ability points for every major ability, down to three... and this screwed up the game so bad.. it screwed up my perfect build that I had.. that I had been working on for years, over both versions for the PS4 Pro and both versions for the Xbox one X...
it pissed me off so bad!! Mainly because the game did not work for the next two years on my Xbox one X, which was the best place you could play that game on console and still to this day!! The game would still work on my PS4 Pro, but would crash constantly after running it for more than an hour...
I'm thankful to say the game now works again and I'm playing the PS five version now (which might just be the worst version?) and if it wasn't for God, forsaken update updates, the game would've stayed the game that it was that made me tell people that it was one of my favorite games of all time? Within my top five!?
It's still one of my favorites, but the feeling of resentment and animosity is now permanently burnt into my mind from how the development company behind the game CDPR, made such a stupid decision to alter the game for new users, as well as longtime fans of the original... I may be one of the only people that feels this way about it, but.. those updated graphics and a few extra armor suits and swords and couple extra DLC missions were not worth it even if it was free!
Sadly i'm scared for the Prince of Persia sands of time remake and whatever the heck is going on with Beyond good and evil 2. They're gonna fuck that shit up I just got a feeling.
Discs can get scratched, sure, but there's a wealth of games that still work perfectly fine form the original disc. The real solution is to sell physical media and allow it to be easily copied for preservation.
"Peak of video gaming" *shows a 360*
If that's where you started, you were too late for the peak.
The Developers as well, not just Publishers
My biggest complaint against Ubisoft, is what they did to the crew!!!!!!
That was my favorite racing game to relax and chill too, and go online and play at some point each week , for every week after it's release and the way they did us... all they have to do is make a patch so that us fans can still play it off-line?? What they should've did was kept it online and made it where the diehard fans that really love that game that wanted to still play. It could've paid five dollars per month, to continue supporting servers for online play of that amazing and classic game?
The crew two looks a lot better, but the handling is all over the place ... no longer does it have that element where if you know how to race in real life you can use that in the game and when race is over and over?! Which is just dumb...
And I also love playing Mass Effect on my Xbox 360 !!! It was one of the first games I played on the Xbox 360 and I remember thinking that that there was a new dog on the block that was gonna dethrone Sony if they kept it up?? (I didn't know it was a timed exclusive at the time..) but even the updates they made to the legendary edition only hurt the game...
And don't even get me started on all this woke bullshit... I'm sure I'm not the only one that has a strong dislike, where this is concerned..
I’ve been around for the whole history of console gaming and witnessed it all. Multiplayer gaming was great when it was an extension to single player games like Doom, Jedi Knight, Half-Life, etc. It’s frustrating what Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Blizzard, 2K, Microsoft, and others have done in recent years. Games can start out fun and then they lose most the good features or become unplayable once they no longer have a large audience or when a newer game comes out to replace it. It’s gotten so bad and unpredictable people are afraid to buy games anymore. Especially when they come with a hefty price tag. I’m definitely avoiding these companies like the plague.
I’ve had much better experiences with companies like FromSoftware, Ark Systems Works, Sega. I’ve bought a few indie titles also. Mostly I have been collecting retro games the last 10 years or so.
I grew up in the 90's when the biggest competitors were Nintendo & SEGA. Sony came in after being backstabbed by Nintendo for the SNES-CD Add-on. I entered High school in 2001 when Xbox released in November of that year along with the GameCube.
I was 20 when Assassins Creed first cameout.
Bro don't ever say the 7th generation of consoles was peak gaming. That is a disgrace to the true peak which was the 6th generation with PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube.
Brotha speaking pure facts. As much as I enjoy the 7th gen that gen was the start of some of the bullshit you see in AAA gaming these days. The 6th gen will remain the golden peak era of gaming. Each system was just dropping unique and incredible games. Damn I miss that era
@@Protege88 2010's got some good games
During the golden age of gaining, it seemed like every single month there were a few games per individual system that came out that you were absolutely hyped and excited for and just had to play?? And while you missed out on a lot of of these, you still got to play and got more of your money's worth and more enjoyment out of these experiences during this so-called golden age!
Nowadays, it just feels like ... way too corporate, way too scammed and scheming... and just not white video games are supposed to be...
I think all of us over the age of 28 to 30 now, we are all going back and playing all of the older stuff that we now realize was designed for our enjoyment, whereas nowadays a lot of the games that are being designed, are not being designed solely for our enjoyment, but to pander to the largest possible audience, and to preach to us about bullshit and prevent us from the sole purpose in which we play games to begin with, to escape?
This is why I am a retro gamer myself now also! And regardless of my opinions or feelings, some of the greatest games of all time came out from the 90s going all the way up to 2018 but as you get closer and closer to that end point, we got fewer and fewer grand and legendary experiences.. this is why it feels like the 90s itself were jammed pack where every single month there were a few games that you just had to play!
We had now idea how good those times were!
You don't know what you have until you lost it
There aren't a whole lot of complete games these days.
What are you talking about xbox360 games and even x box games got patches all the time
6:33 i wish same thing could be said with GTA Defective Edition
The sad part is that we already have definitive editions of those games. Rockstar just doesn't want us playing them.
@Devon Chase I you're the first youtuber I've heard say that prefers digital to physical. What's your opinion on game licenses and Steam's lawsuit?
How much do you think the literal creation of the term "AAA game" contributes to the modern expectation that a game cost $20M to make and takes 3 years
Then they don't want me to buy their games. I can odo that.
Plenty of features are lacking in today's games. Local multiplayer, coop mode. COD games nowadays come without these key components and also more recently no Ad-Hoc multiplayer, so it's impossible to create a LAN by yourself lonesome with a couple of friends, you must connect all computers to Activision servers, for they need the overwatch. I think it's BS. Recently premiered games with bugs galore and stutter issues that rival people with speech impediments, it should be illegal.
Overall good video.
Some critical takes, but this I see this as your personal opinion.
But I am sure a lot of people would stop watching for these.
I notice a lot of creators try to be for "everyone," and I'm fine if my personal opinions don't reach the widest audience. For example, I don't bother people to like and subscribe or dance around certain controversies because I feel like chasing analytics and focusing on engagement takes away from that human aspect. I openly welcome anyone to disagree with me because it helps me expand my perspective and sometimes challenges my beliefs.
GTA5 should have 2 players since there's 3 protagonist, i am sure PS4 and PS5 are capable. GTA SA has 2 players and that was on PS2
@GrumpyCat97 2 player in sanandreas is peak nostalgia fuel! I still remember finding one of the 2 player icons and yelling to my cousin "yo, get over here! You're not gonna believe this!"
@@Tenacityfromtheglass yes, me and my bro were causing chaos, especially with cheat codes. i remember recruiting peds that carries rpg and watching second player dodging rockets was fun.
I still prefer Final Fantasy XVI & Visions of Mana moreso than garbage live service games.
I’m tired of the constant remakes and remasters this console generation it’s so lazy and I just want something new form these company’s
what makes u like the "dinamic combat of batman"? I tryied it and for me is boring pressing only X to attack... whats ur perspective comparing that combat system to a devil may cry or bayonetta combat system? assuming that u play 1 of them ofc cuz I dont know...
I just wanna know u think that system is perfect cuz for me is boring af...and dark souls gameplay is boring too btw... I dont see what ppl say its soo great by pressing X and occasional B to dodge or Y to counter attack...
You don't "just press X/Square" to attack. There's multiple gadgets and tactics for taking on multiple variants of enemies. I don't know what you were playing, but you either weren't playing it right or you didn't progress enough.
@@dapperfan44 I played all the 3 good batmans, great scenary but that gameplay for me is boring, thats why im asking whats soo cool in it cuz i didnt saw it...
Not trying to attack no 1 like u, butting useing and extra button for some gadget, I enjoyed and was more engaging combos on dmc
Have you played any game made by Vanillaware or RGG? Since you're mostly talking about western shit here I thought I name these 2 as a recommendation. Both are certainly on Fromsofts level.
Oh, yeah, as soon as vanillaware announced unicorn overlord, I instantly said "wait! These are the people who made muramassa demon blade"
@@Tenacityfromtheglass Yup, same as Odins Sphere, Dragon's Crown and 13 Sentinels. These guys are amazing.
I'm done with modern gaming it sucks every game is a overpriced piece of trash.I went back to the good old days ps1 PS2 PS3.Modern gaming not for me anymore I'm done with it
You should really abandon ship franchise pick some of your like Nintendo switch might be loophole grab go play in ride
Dude said at 9:50 that he wants all digital future. NEVER MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO. All your info is for modern gen z gamers. Go buy micro transaction
@vishizzy you're cherry-picking. I said I initially welcomed digital because I thought it was convenient. None of us wanted our ownership of media stripped away from us.
@ THEY ARE DOING DIGITAL SO you CANT RE SELL CANT BRING GAME TO FRIENDS HOUSE AND THEY CAN ALWAYS SELL IT AT FULL PRICE BECAUSE NO USED PHYSICAL COPIES AVAILABLE DIGITAL IS ONLY MEANT FOR COMPANIES TO PROFIT SO THEY GET THE FULL PRICE FOR THE GAME AND CHEAPER FOR THEM TO NOT MAKE CASE AND ARTWORK. I I WILL NEVER BUY DIGITAL AND THEY CAN REMOVE IT ANYTIME TOO SO YOU DONT OWN IT AND HAVE TO KEEP ADDING SPACE TO YOUR SYSTEM ITS SUCH A MONEY GRAB AND DUMB GEN Z FELL FOR IT DIGITAL IS THE BIGGEST MONEY SCAMS SINCE PYRAMID SCHEMES. IT WILL BE DIGITAL THEN STREAMING AND THESE FANBOYS FALLING FOR IT!!
You don't have to buy bad games
There are so many great games
God of war
God of war Ragnarok
Doom 2016
Doom eternal
Resident evil 2 remake
Resident evil 4 remake
Resident evil 7
Uncharted 4
Marvel spider man 2018
Marvel spider man 2
Devil may cry 5
Nier automata
Tekken 7
Mortal Kombat xl
Ghost of Tsushima
Sifu
Monster hunter world
Finale fantasy vii remake
Finale fantasy vii Rebirth
Street fighter 6
Pointless video
Even Dishonored dwarfs in comparison to Arx Fatalis imo.
this is why minecraft java edition and legacy console minecraft is my best friend
8:49 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But there is a Mass Effect 4