My backlog is so big at this point that I can wait years until a game is ten dollars other than select titles that I really love, Zelda, resident evil etc. but the longer you wait now the cheaper the game is and the more finished and patched it is. It’s just not in the consumers best interest to buy a game when it comes out
@jennymelo2098That's fucking absurd and greedy! Stop buying triple AAA games and start buying indie games and AA games. Also, a rushed game is forever bad while a delayed game is good.
I reached the conclusion about a year ago that I pretty much don't care anymore. There is more than enough older classics to keep me busy throughout my lifetime and the same thing goes for movies as well. Not only has the quality dropped and prices have increased, but now I can't play anything or watch anything without propaganda shoved down my throat. For the most part everything gets a hard pass now.
Feeling the same exact way. I have a backlog that could last me a lifetime so i don't feel forced to spend 70 dollars or more on a game or movie trying to push an agenda down my throat.
@@bobpeterson7182 it’s honestly going to come to that. Consumers will begin to find work-arounds unless studios take the Larin approach and, you know, make good games.
It's the late 80s early 90s all over again. Cheaper materials, lack of quality control, and advertising lies all wrapped in a more expensive package. It's bullshit and people deserve to be upset and fed up. Honestly that is why I hardly buy games at all now. I have gamepass ultimate and a MASSIVE backlog of games. I don't buy a damn thing day one anymore since Battlefield 5 launched. They burned everyone by releasing the game to preorders and didn't say the coop multiplayer wasn't launching for another 3 months until right at launch. Now I buy all of these games on sale with deep discounts. I want to play Jedi Survivor so bad, but the issues that game had tell me it is a $25 or less game. That's when I will buy it. Fomo has no place in my wallet after all the times publishers have burned us.
This gen sucks. So I’ve gone back and I’m rocking 360/PS3 and haven’t looked back. So much fun. Games are actually complete, run off the disc, great single player adventure games, and the online still works on PS3. Even better, the games are $5-$10 on average. The graphics still hold up very well today and you don’t feel like you’re playing an older retro console.
Graphics didn't advanced that much in last years. System requirements for a bit of better graphics increase exponentially now. In the future for same graphics with a barely noticeable better effects you will run GPU with it's own 1000W power supply...
Yea, and not just graphics. When’s the last time you played a game, and your mind was blown by the new and exciting game mechanics brought on by the new hardware? Returnal was as close for me to that. Otherwise, it’s all been THE SAME.
@@ChesterMan-qd3xj - I was thinking about this recently and honestly it may be as far back as the PS3/Wii/360 generation. There's some interesting indie titles occasionally but in the AAA space it's really just been gradual improvements in graphics while releasing sequels to the same games the past 2-3 generations. Now budgets are so huge that nobody is afforded the chance to take risks so we're fed the same games over and over again. I'm not denying that there aren't some cool stories in games but the focus on cutscenes and story over gameplay continues to push me further away.
The fact that games are coming out broken and not quality at launch is sickening. Also the fact that they can take your games you paid for away from you is something I will never support.
@@keeganmcfarland7507but some old indie games are overpriced in the second hand market, look up Shantae and the pirate's curse, Switch version online to see what i mean.
Got a gamecube with picoboot and a 1tb sd card, a 1tb modded ps vita and a 512gb modded new nintendo 3ds xl. Ain't no reason to play modern games when there are so many actual good games that came out in the past. I'm literally set for life. More if I could live longer.
The movie industry has suffered from this same problem in the video game industry. As you said, the 90s was a great era for video games. There were a ton of creativity that resulted in many great and unique games. The last decade or so has been plagued with reboots, remakes, and remasters, and it's sad people will spend so much money on this lazy garbage.
Don't worry Hollywood movies don't make enough $$$ anyways & they are losing fans. Give it time & the gaming industry will all go on a strike & lose talent & fall just like Hollywood.
1) Games need to stop focusing on insane graphics and be more about innovation. It should help games keep higher frame rates too. Art direction is why older games still look really good today. 2) The reason why there is less competition is because of game price/creation inflation. More people were in the race because it was affordable and you could take some L’s. That’s just not the case anymore. Which is Xbox and PlayStation are branching out from their consoles so they can make more revenue
The biggest problem with the gaming industry are the investors and their unreasonable expectations. FF7 Remake vs Rebirth is a prime example. Rebirth is a better game, but is considered a “failure” because it was released on PS5 (with less than half the install size of the PS4) and because it had no pandemic to push it, it didn’t sell as well. Also the fatigue of over saturation in FF and other RPGs and blockbuster games was to blame. We just got FF16 last year and I still haven’t had a chance to play that one yet (couldn’t put down Tears of the Kingdom at the time).
Investor are the problem that is true. The fact that a game like Baldur's Gate 3 exist make them piss because Larian doesn't try to milk you dry and have more to offer than their game.
Yea RGT missed alot of good obvious points. Instead he wanted to focus on rumors about nintendo and a dry few months for Sony because they didn't release a blockbuster one month... Yet we just got ff7 rebirth and stellar blade and a huge bundle of games last year.. He falls victim in consumer society once again the bitches about nothing. Rgt isn't someone I take seriously when it comes to news, or any advice with current day issues. Just because he's milk toast and Luke warm on issuesand is unaware of the bigger problem nobody in his niche circle ever mentions.
U made a great point about investors bitching about ff7. I honestly don't mind the fluff of mini games in the world because it makes the current cities more alive, I guess there are other ways they can do it as well. But most of it is optional... But i can't stand how the look at rebirth likes it's a failure. Honestly I think it deserves to be in GOTY category this year
2 million sales in 6 weeks isn't bad, considering it's still selling for $70. Rebirth will continue to sell, same as all new releases, as more people buy a Playstation. Sony knows this. It hasn't been 4 years yet, everyone forgets how it always is in the first half lifespan.
The old games were created with heart and soul. The modern games are pointless cash grabs with woke messaging. On top of that it has all these micro transactions, buggy issues, and paid DLCs. I been spending my money buying older games rather than any new ones.
I've been following games industry for the last 13 years, and for the first time I have lost interest in current era gaming. And I think things are just going to get worse. Im glad that back in 2019 I decided to skip this generation and instead play my backlog of games.
Once something breaks through to the mainstream, it will become increasingly diluted and soulless over time. It was bound to happen to gaming eventually.
I mean the price increase is a product of inflation.. And there's alot of games that released in a good quality sadly content crestor nowadays love to highlight those games that has poor quality for clicks..
Yes RGT, you are right for many of your points listed. The console wars were a healthy competitive atmosphere that brought us great games months after months, year after year, til smartphones / Internet / computers / greed took over the industry. Its more complicated than that i know, but gaming in general was at it's best in the 90s.
Shoot that's kinda how it is now. The only thing I halfway care about on even just Playstation is Ratchet and Clank. Used to care about Naughty Dog until they went the route they did 😅😬🤷
You're part of the problem. Improvements should be made across the board. Stop settling for the bare minimum. Fun and realism in games are NOT mutually exclusive.
That’s yet another reason why i chose Nintendo because they’re not realistic and they’re fun which is something PlayStation and Xbox users don’t know anything about anymore.
“More about fun and less realism.” @Pencers, do you hear yourself? Fun and realism in video games go hand in hand, these days. We have evolved in the video game industry. But, we do need 2 fix some issues within the industry as well, such as bugs, loot boxes and stuff like that. We also need actual finished products.
This is the indie companies time to shine. Triple A gaming companies are laying off and indie games are thriving. Walmart is selling their games cheap and physical games are starting to diminish.
Id rather have small studios making smaller games they are actually passionate about, than have to buy one more AAA title that crashes, has framerate issues, have server problems, and constantly ask you to buy a battlepass.
Is not that arent releasing games fast enough, is more of game quality and their price that doesn't worth. For companies is first how much money they can continue to suck after purchase and the message they can send for the ESG score before thinking in the customer.
Or the companies regulation's/goal's are irresponsible or Unrealistic to meet and we should blame higher up's and CEO's. I bet they're in there screaming "When is this game done" yeah when you quit bitching and have patience that's when.
They're laying off low skilled employees not high skilled, and yes, they are making games. The better graphics is making games take longer, but they are cookin, and you'll notice an uptick in releases in 2025
@@-RH80- I disagree, game studios are going 3,4,5,6+ years between games and wonder why they don’t have revenue to pay employees. Like naughty dog for one of many examples
I feel like it's not just the game or even the movie industry suffering. The world feels "off" and things have a certain sense of dread about it. Even classic gaming is taking a hit. I have 3 classic game stores within my area that are all shutting down due to horrible sales. Strange times indeed.
Getting back into emulation. I got a Miyoo Mini Plus and loaded it with a ton of roms. It's a pretty awesome device especially how small it is. Going to play through Final Fantasy 9 for the first time heh.
I just played FF 9 on Miyoo mini. Make sure other disks are installed. I accidentally got screwed after disk 1. Couldn't resume game. Otherwise it's a great emulator.
Because all the shareholders want their cut as soon as possible. So they have them rush out the game and end up releasing garbage, the shareholders sail of into the sunset with their cash and it is just a case of, ok now patch the morons game.
Good video and I'm glad you talked about riding dev costs. It is wild that games are taking longer and longer to make and expected to sell 10s of million of copies or they "failed."
I’ve pretty much been jumping back into older games and battling through my bag log of games. We’re pretty much beta testers for newer titles these days.
Metal gear solid 2 and 3 was awesome in nostalgia of metal gear What really blew my mind was Metal Gear Soild 4 since day one. It was a mind-blowing on the PS3 that was even better.
I thought video games would grow with me as I aged, they did and I thought my love and enjoyment for them would grow, but that's no longer the case having been a gamer since the Atari and NES. The heart and soul that gaming used to have, with the exception being Baldurs Gate 3 isn't there anymore. Can't support sports games anymore and now Fighting Games is the next genre I'm done with after Tekken 8. Definitely the last console generation I'll be part of because I'm not buying your consoles if I'm renting and not owning the few good games you sell me.
Battle pass and season passes were a mistake Star Wars: new game here I don't want to remember its title because Ubi really hurt its audience once more. Now double with the price tag and content made exclusive as dlc Even fighting games feel less special. Because every major title has a battle or season pass attached for content and characters It is nutty enough just to have the game, but you barely have access to it unless you buy stuff Shareholders need to butt out, let creativity take over. I understand budgets are ballooning, and not in a good way. But there was a time to allow more experimental titles. Sadly all of those titles are rarely made anymore, unless it is super successful And consoles life span. Something needs to change to let a system show off what it can do. MS and Sony are in such a rush, we have not seen Series X or 5 shine more. Always held back by some stupid limitations
I have never worried about playing games when they release. I buy games when they are on sale and most of the time I buy them used. Then, I play whatever I feel like no matter the age of the game. I play on Xbox consoles of all generations and PC, the generations aren't really a criteria for me. I just play what sounds good at the time.
Ellie basically has to fight a transgender character in The last of Us 2 😏 the ✌️girl✌️has the bone structure of a man he tried to escape politics and they put it right in your games
stale in 2024? Helldivers, Dragons Dogma 2, FF7R..., upcoming Stellar Blade ... BUT, the over-woke BS is ruining games on multiple levels.. ... that said, Ghost 2 might get revealed with the PS5 Pro.. ... but, we know Sony held back PS4 projects for the PS5 early line up.., Sony might be doing the same move again (as Xbox is not a rival.. again), holding back for the PS5 Pro or PS6...
@duckguy9785You don't own digital games. They can be removed from your library at any point in time. Same goes for movies and TV shows that you buy on iTunes, Amazon Prime, etc. Look at what happened with The Crew from Unisoft. Physical media gives you way more control for games that don't require online servers aka a mandatory internet connection.
@duckguy9785 God, I hope indie game developers, AA game studios, and independent retail stores (such as PlayAsia and Book-Off for a example) will save physical media of video games, because indie game developers, AA game studios, and independent retail stores cares about you and listen to you.
Helldivers 2 and FFVII Rebirth recently came out, and Hellblade II, Avowed and Stellar Blade will be coming out soon. Pacific Drive is an indie that that is phenomenal that does new interesting things. I still think this is a super exciting amazing time to be a gamer. I feel like there is a LOT of competition producing incredible stuff. That’s how I see it. It is interesting and insightful to see such a downer pessimistic perspective about the industry though.
@Zalkova sequels and indies are automatically bad? 🙄🤔 Maybe you have impossible standards and shd just be fine playing stuck in 90s/early 2000s. Cause there’s still plenty of great games made in that era that I’m sure uve never played, and u dont have to be such a elitist grouch to the rest of us who enjoy games
I think people’s expectations are way to high. Videogames are designed to just chill out y’know. Not every videogame has to be the next AAA big blockbuster. I am perfectly happy with indies and smaller games rn. Every game is for a different type of person. And that is ok. You don’t have to like every game you play. I think games rn are pushing too many boundaries. Get rid of micro transactions please. I am a one and done kind of guy.
This is probably just a me thing, but I feel that games today have become too complicated. What got me into games as a kid personally was the story, characters, environment, sounds. And the best part, I could take my time and take it in. It was like how how books allowed you feel for the story by words, movies allowed you to witness a story and games allowed you to be in the story. Now when I play games, there is this nagging sensation of ' GOTTA GO FAST. GOTTA GET IT DONE NOW.' few games where I feel like I want to take my time and just take in the work the studios poured their time and soul into. No doubt why I have a heart for Red Dead Redemption 2, it gives you that option to take your time and invites you to linger within the environment and rewards you in a very beautiful way. Its not shoving you to the next section of the game. The second part of what I feel is an issue, even with games I like personally, is that the controls are getting a little complicated. To a point where it'll break immersion and pull me out of the experience. I do not mind a game with simple controls. Sometimes less is more and encourages creativity for problem solving when you have few game rules or interactions. Why I feel a few indie games were successful like Undertale, Little Nightmares, Stanley Parable, Inside etc. had pulled off so well. Like if game studios wanna make quick battle royals because that's what they love and want to connect people, great! but if it is only for the sake of a sale or because they are too nervous to branch out , then I encourage them to consider alternative options. Downsizing doesn't equal bad and would actually allow studios to present a full product worth the price that folks can enjoy.
Man you kind of just skipped mentioning Helldivers 2 as one of if not the biggest hit games out on PlayStation and pc. Also while the xbox games slated for this year May seem like hits to us hardcore gamers I’m going on a limb here and say they will be commercial failures. First off if the in Indiana Jones movie is any indication then Indiana Jones is no longer relevant to today’s younger gamers, most don’t know or care who he is. Hellblade 2 is another one, most people have zero clue about the game and can care less. The other 2 games I can’t even remember what they are.
It is difficult to buy video games when inflation is financially destroying the average person. For most of us, there is no choice since we are struggling just to feed our families.
Lucky me I like all type of games that are good and fun. Screw all that don’t see there always games to play. Like I’m enjoying playing Pokémon X and Y on my modded 2DS XL and my switch.
Gaming isnt stale at all. Some of ya need to expand what genres you play. There are a lot of great games that released this year so far. Also play your backlogs. Pick up older games you never played. You don't have to play every new game on release to enjoy gaming. Also gamers themselves are to blame why gaming is in the state it is in. Gamers don't support new games even though they want new ideas. Gamers also want these high fidelity games but then complain that games are taking so long to make.
I agree on some points, but I disagree with other points. You expect people to buy broken, unpolished, lazy, and full of political checklist video games. Games aren't being made for consumers anymore. Instead, it's about a message about society and how there isn't enough representation in games. How about companies stop the political messages and focus on what consumers want. All I want is a good video game. I don't care if it's a reboot, remake, or sequel just do it right.
@8BitClosedFist Games suck because of all the above. You just can't blame greedy people all the time. There are bad developers as well just look at Anthem and Redfall. Both of these games were given proper development times and still suck because of the developers.
@Piccolo918 I'm confused both of those games you mentioned had rushed development cycles and poor management. I don't get what politics have to do with those games being bad
This is why since the n64 as a kid I chose to stay 2-3 years behind the gaming industry. After n64 I bought a PS1 and then a Dreamcast when they announced the discontinuation and huge price drop. Same with PS2 and xbox360. I’m able to save $$$ because I buy used consoles and only get the great games after all the hype. I didn’t have a Switch until last year as a “modern” console. I did buy a Quest 2 about 6-12 months after launch. It’s similar to waiting for movies to hit streaming. Probably not great for the industry but for sure great for me as a consumer.
I feel it's gotten this way simply because as you said nobody's willing to take a risk, nostalgia is great but not when it's overused like this I'm so over remakes/remasters they completely lost their charm... *looking at you naughty dog.*
as an indie developer myself, the indie game industrie is so broken right now. it's not much better than AAA to be honest. There are solutions for it but it starts already with the fact, that you can only barely make a living from it. You either try to cater to the trends or you screwed. and very rarely someone comes and makes something like Undertale... very rarely though
I think this malaise has been bubbling in the background since the start of the 8th gen. I noticed that while first party PS4 games certainly looked better, I didn't enjoy them as much as PS3 games. Even then people were complaining about games getting dumbed down for normies. This was also the time scummy mobile business practices began to be incorporated into traditional gaming. GG 1.0 and ESG also dropped, which led to the industry over-correcting and hiring on a ton of these vapid activists. Skip ahead to today, and there's really nothing coming down the pipe that I'm excited about. I'm not spending $650 Canuck Kopeks for a PS5 just to play Stellar Blade. I don't play online, so none of these live services appeal to me. Most games now are too expensive, lazy, money grubbing, and broken. Investors keep trying to squeeze more blood from a saturated industry. The politics stuff is getting worse. Even Nintendo have been absolute butt nuggets lately with their crap customer service, broken controllers, online service shutdowns, and the war on emulation. It's all very exhausting. I've gone back to playing older stuff, and even there, almost entirely Japanese games. Definitely the worst it's been in my 30 years of gaming.
Past games were created for the people who wanted a quick dopamine rush - easy to understand, quick, different, and varied concepts. New games are created mostly for people who want leisure, be immersed in an open world, and to forget everything. The best retro stuff that I play - Samurai Kid and Tetris Plus for GBC.
All things I already said on Spawnwave and was laughted at. And here we are. The problem is not 8k power. The problem is the systems are too powerful and not enough developers. Xbox laying off developers and putting all their eggs in one basket till they fail and then another until they fail, and still doing it, not good management. Stick to something until it becomes a success, do multiple things Xbox. CDprojectred walking away from hot releases to gamble on some smaller projects. Cyberpunk could of been big, but oh no everyone wants Witcher 1. We'll see. I'm looking at you Bouldersgate. Bethesda doing the same stuff, thinking they're too big to fail. Or like Activision, more focused on making money as a service than even being fun anymore. Or Xbox just giving up on Halo like that. Or Playstation being more toxic than ever before. Switch2 should of came out last year. Might as well make something completely different now. Make a new NES for the TV 8k, and let the Switch 2 be Gameboy. Focus on this generation longer. You know what everyone talked about when this generation started? They talked about the next generation. If a generation is only gonna be a couple years, you might have dev issues. Hopefully AI can help. And hopefully people who have passion can get back to it and we all can be a little deeper and not so shallow about it. Who knows. Just some of my thoughts
The problem is that Microsft doesn't care, not even the statement making great games will sell. There's overall a lack of competition in this modern generation. The development costs is big factor why there's less variety within the triple A gaming area. It's just Live service this, Remaster this and when that big game does come out it's like a 10 years development cycle. GTA came on the Playstation 3 for god sake. I was started college back when that came out lol
Just having fun with the ROG Ally. And PC modding. But times have changed in video games with games having budgets and having kinematics rivaling the motion picture industry. People just not being satisfied with the profits unless they make like 10x their budget or something.
Too many people want to get into game development, and there's so many new and old games that is physically impossible for customers to buy, or even just keep track of them all, so a lot of titles flop as a result.
I really don’t see the issues with the video game industry, there have always been unfinished, buggy games that have been released since the start of the industry. Just play the good games and ignore the bad. There are so many high quality releases. It’s really not that hard
Just think if everyone just went back to the mountain of older, classic excellent games which there are enough of to last you a lifetime the modern gaming industry would be on its knees. I believe this is going to happen.
I blame greed, all digital future and not owning games anymore for the hot mess the video game industry is in right now. As long as games are digital and I can no longer own video games, then I don't need to waste my money on video games anymore. With my backlog of PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4, Xbox and Nintendo..... I say screw modern day gaming and if the market crashes and burns, well what you expect?!!! The gaming industry can implode for all I care, I'm just done with all this BS! No more physical, no more owning games, unfinished games that need patches, DLC and loot boxes with online service required and then support gets taken away..... Games just aren't fun anymore! All I see is BS coming out of these companies and I'm not okay with buying garbage!!!
Men forgot that videogames improved life not replaced it. Metal gear solid 2 implies the game is a simulation, what are simulations for? Well if you dont know and use videogames to escape reality you need to watch terminator 2 again, or for once and learn why john connor was so good at killing machines.
Why are we complaining already about first party games by Sony after a extraordinary year of gaming last year? People should still have a backlog of games to finish. This isn't even something to focus on,u should focus suscriptions and live service and woke propaganda in videogames nowadays.
2023 was subjective. I thought it was lame, a bunch more of the same. 2024 is actually better for me, starting with FFVII Rebirth, Stellar Blade, Pacific Drive, Hellblade 2, Still Wakes the Deep, and Stalker 2, to name a few.
I did the unthinkable… bought a miyoo mini and joined the retro gaming peeps. Sure the nostalgia factor is fun, but honestly just enjoying the old games more (even on emulator). So many I haven’t played. I still play some new pc titles… but less than ever… and happier gaming than in the last few years.
I'm completely fine with Playstation 3rd party exclusives. Honestly don't care about the first party exclusives besides God of War. The real problem in the gaming industry are broken messy games, greedy live service games and games injected with woke ideology. I'll continue playing Playstation 3rd party exclusives, Nintendo exclusives and older games in my insanely large backlog until things in the industry hopefully improve.
Back in the PS2 era consoles didn't come with high speed ethernet modems built in. At home high speed internet was just coming into being and WiFi was just being developed. Companies couldn't release games with the idea of just dowloading a patch later because it wasn't possible. So if they didn't work and were broken, well the game failed.
@@mr_m4613no it didnt. The only exclusives nintendo released so for this year are : Another code collection, Mario vs DK, Princess Peach 1 remaster, 1 remake & 1 new game Xbox released ZERO exclusives Meanwhile PS5 released FF7 rebirth, Ultros, Helldivers 2, Rise of Ronin, Stellar Blade, Paxific Drive, Foamstars, TLOU2 remaster as console exclusives And theres more im missing So what nonsense r u talking about 😂
i been feeling bored with gaming for a while now, and i came to the conclusion for me is games now and days are way to easy for me so about a year ago. I just really started playing all souls and soul like games that's a lot harder and i been on a roll ever since, gaming is fun again!
Today people just don’t let you enjoy games anymore. There is always hate from all directions cause someone does not agree with a persons view. If a game came out and one person hated it or one person loved it, cool. That’s their opinion, they can feel anyway they want, just enjoy the game or move on. Folk want to make movements to make people feel like them, then games don’t sell cause the voice of the people. I wish they would do that with broken games instead of buying them and then defend the purchase.
I think that people partly just keep moving on after finishing games partly because there are so many games. You have so many choices. Poor attention spans also play a part. I think it's multiple factors.
Everything has also been done and redone...and mixed up versions of the same games. Developers I feel have run out of ideas. You can only put a new skin on games for so long.
I moved to PC gaming little over a year ago. Took some getting used to but glad I did. Console games for me personally have gotten boring. Hope everyone finds the gaming joy they seek no matter what yeah play on 🤘🏼😊
To be honest I fell off modern gaming in the Xbox one era nothings original anymore just cash grabs, just play old games and the odd game on my Xbox one X
I can't speak about the game industry as a whole, as I've been having some great gaming experiences lately. However, I do feel that the first-person shooter genre has gotten really stale and boring IMO. There's definitely a lot of opportunity for some high quality shooters in the market right now.
I’m not gonna buy unfinished games with huge day 1 patches or digital games that I don’t actually own. Nowadays, I care less and less about what’s to come and more excited about getting into older games that I haven’t gotten around to or have wanted to buy.
All games have been crap since PS3 with one exception. At least Intellivision Amico is going in the right direction. Tommy was right they are the best chance at saving gaming.
The only people commenting on "game stagnation" are content creators. Y'all are essentially starved for stuff to talk about right now. I get it, but that's not indicative of the state of games. Just the fact y'all live in a bubble where the average gamer is constantly in anticipation for the next title. Meanwhile. 80% of switch owners are still playing and enjoying Mario Kart, Pokemon, and Tears of the Kingdom, half of Playstation and Xbox users are mostly playing NBA2K, COD, and Fortnite, and everybody else is still working through backlog of games. I also don't agree with you on Xbox needing an "identity". It's microsoft's dedicated gaming platform. period. that's it. If you want a simple, gaming experience, that doesn't involve an investment in a high PC, and you want the flexibility of being able to ALSO enjoy the games you play, if you're away from your xbox, you can do that. Phil has been consistent about that goal for years now. It's just, Gamers who've been around for the last 30 years, can't wrap their head around a brand, that isn't centered around exclusives, one piece of hardware that everyone is marketed to play. Phil said, literally, "We want to meet gamers where they are"...well, Gamers are on Console, PC, and Mobile....and guess where Xbox services and games can be consumed? Console, PC and Mobile
I have only played two games this year so far sucide squad kills the justice league and rise of the ronin. I love both games and sucide squad got unnecessary hate and im excited for stellar blade so gaming for me is great
Took you awhile to get to your point, but yes, a ban on remakes needs to happen. Stop selling your games and systems people. You keep them all. And stop buying digital, ohterwise you will have to buy remakes because the companies will simply lock you out of your games eventually and force you to spend another $60 on the same game again.
You know if they stopped caring about ray tracing and stuff and just focused on fun games that were cheaper to produce, i'd be fine with it. Put back the instruction manual. These high budget games are boring. I don't even wanna buy em and prefer playing sega saturn and ps1 stuff.
Honestly with the current landscape of gaming, I’m losing interest. I just feel like this would be a great opportunity to play retro titles and even play some I’ve missed back then because the current landscape isn’t that good. I can’t find one solid game this gen that has kept my interest for a few hours at a time.
There are too many games for the market to support. Also, game design fundamentals in modern games are the opposite of what I want from a game. I go and play older games or retro games I haven’t played before and enjoy myself quite a bit.
Most AAA games the quality isn't there anymore they increase the price but they are still broken unplayable or glitchy oh you want that new content to bad locked behind a paywall due to the social issues is the reason for most AAA games flopping it turns people away.
This console generation is the last gaming generation I am buying into except for the next Nintendo system. I have enough of a back log to keep me busy for years.
They keep releasing broken and buggy messes and expecting full priced seventy dollar releases. I’m not buying unfinished games anymore.
There are plenty of amazing games being released. Just go play them instead
My backlog is so big at this point that I can wait years until a game is ten dollars other than select titles that I really love, Zelda, resident evil etc. but the longer you wait now the cheaper the game is and the more finished and patched it is. It’s just not in the consumers best interest to buy a game when it comes out
@@jameswalterthethird That’s basically what I’ve been doing. lol
@@harmansmith84 Same here. I’ve mostly been going back and re playing older games from the past I enjoyed. lol
@jennymelo2098That's fucking absurd and greedy!
Stop buying triple AAA games and start buying indie games and AA games.
Also, a rushed game is forever bad while a delayed game is good.
I reached the conclusion about a year ago that I pretty much don't care anymore. There is more than enough older classics to keep me busy throughout my lifetime and the same thing goes for movies as well. Not only has the quality dropped and prices have increased, but now I can't play anything or watch anything without propaganda shoved down my throat. For the most part everything gets a hard pass now.
This is exactly what I'm feeling right now, you only need a decent PC and you're set for a lifetime
Propaganda? Lol
@@jameswalterthethirdpropaganda means games with non-whites in it
Feeling the same exact way. I have a backlog that could last me a lifetime so i don't feel forced to spend 70 dollars or more on a game or movie trying to push an agenda down my throat.
@@jameswalterthethird We exactly know what the issue is when they use this word. Trigger by something that exist
Prices are going up, quality is going down. End of story.
Buy a pc and pirate all single player games 👌🏻
@@bobpeterson7182 it’s honestly going to come to that. Consumers will begin to find work-arounds unless studios take the Larin approach and, you know, make good games.
I agree 💯
It's the late 80s early 90s all over again. Cheaper materials, lack of quality control, and advertising lies all wrapped in a more expensive package. It's bullshit and people deserve to be upset and fed up. Honestly that is why I hardly buy games at all now. I have gamepass ultimate and a MASSIVE backlog of games. I don't buy a damn thing day one anymore since Battlefield 5 launched. They burned everyone by releasing the game to preorders and didn't say the coop multiplayer wasn't launching for another 3 months until right at launch. Now I buy all of these games on sale with deep discounts. I want to play Jedi Survivor so bad, but the issues that game had tell me it is a $25 or less game. That's when I will buy it. Fomo has no place in my wallet after all the times publishers have burned us.
I'm 99% positive this attitude will change when Nintendo's new system comes out
There's only one thing that's destroying the Gaming Industry??
💷💰Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed💰💷
This gen sucks. So I’ve gone back and I’m rocking 360/PS3 and haven’t looked back. So much fun. Games are actually complete, run off the disc, great single player adventure games, and the online still works on PS3. Even better, the games are $5-$10 on average. The graphics still hold up very well today and you don’t feel like you’re playing an older retro console.
Graphics didn't advanced that much in last years. System requirements for a bit of better graphics increase exponentially now. In the future for same graphics with a barely noticeable better effects you will run GPU with it's own 1000W power supply...
When the video game companies sold actual copies of their games, they never experienced these issues.
Big facts cause they had to truly make sure it passed that quality test
I miss e3. E3 used to force these companies to show something.
That was the problem. They’d show cinematics to generate hype without an actual proof of concept in terms of gameplay.
That Redfall trailer lmao
I feel like we STILL haven't gotten a current gen game yet
There used to be system seller games that would sell consoles but this generation doesn't seem to have any.
This
Yea, and not just graphics. When’s the last time you played a game, and your mind was blown by the new and exciting game mechanics brought on by the new hardware? Returnal was as close for me to that. Otherwise, it’s all been THE SAME.
@@ChesterMan-qd3xj - I was thinking about this recently and honestly it may be as far back as the PS3/Wii/360 generation. There's some interesting indie titles occasionally but in the AAA space it's really just been gradual improvements in graphics while releasing sequels to the same games the past 2-3 generations. Now budgets are so huge that nobody is afforded the chance to take risks so we're fed the same games over and over again. I'm not denying that there aren't some cool stories in games but the focus on cutscenes and story over gameplay continues to push me further away.
@@ChesterMan-qd3xj Gravity Daze 2 and Sega before Sammy bought them. Sega pushed this industry forward more than anyone else.
The fact that games are coming out broken and not quality at launch is sickening. Also the fact that they can take your games you paid for away from you is something I will never support.
dont buy a game if its only digital.
WWE 2k
Everything's overpriced, New and retro
In this economy what isn't overpriced.
Indie/AA games: Are we a joke to you, guys?
If you're in America, it's called Bidenomics.
@@keeganmcfarland7507but some old indie games are overpriced in the second hand market, look up Shantae and the pirate's curse, Switch version online to see what i mean.
Or you can just wait for sale or buy 2nd hand?
Got a gamecube with picoboot and a 1tb sd card, a 1tb modded ps vita and a 512gb modded new nintendo 3ds xl. Ain't no reason to play modern games when there are so many actual good games that came out in the past. I'm literally set for life. More if I could live longer.
The movie industry has suffered from this same problem in the video game industry. As you said, the 90s was a great era for video games. There were a ton of creativity that resulted in many great and unique games. The last decade or so has been plagued with reboots, remakes, and remasters, and it's sad people will spend so much money on this lazy garbage.
Well, stop buying remakes/remasters of retro triple AAA games (including the Nintendo ones) and instead, start buying indie games and AA games.
@@keeganmcfarland7507Indie games are In the exact same boat as these triple AAA developers.
Limitations breeds creativity and that’s what Nintendo still has.
@@keeganmcfarland7507 I never said I bought any of these rehashes, so stop assuming.
Don't worry Hollywood movies don't make enough $$$ anyways & they are losing fans. Give it time & the gaming industry will all go on a strike & lose talent & fall just like Hollywood.
1) Games need to stop focusing on insane graphics and be more about innovation. It should help games keep higher frame rates too. Art direction is why older games still look really good today.
2) The reason why there is less competition is because of game price/creation inflation. More people were in the race because it was affordable and you could take some L’s. That’s just not the case anymore. Which is Xbox and PlayStation are branching out from their consoles so they can make more revenue
1.SEEEGGGGGAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Old Sega here. Pole's Big Adenture and Segagaga to name a few.
The biggest problem with the gaming industry are the investors and their unreasonable expectations. FF7 Remake vs Rebirth is a prime example. Rebirth is a better game, but is considered a “failure” because it was released on PS5 (with less than half the install size of the PS4) and because it had no pandemic to push it, it didn’t sell as well. Also the fatigue of over saturation in FF and other RPGs and blockbuster games was to blame. We just got FF16 last year and I still haven’t had a chance to play that one yet (couldn’t put down Tears of the Kingdom at the time).
Investor are the problem that is true. The fact that a game like Baldur's Gate 3 exist make them piss because Larian doesn't try to milk you dry and have more to offer than their game.
Yea RGT missed alot of good obvious points. Instead he wanted to focus on rumors about nintendo and a dry few months for Sony because they didn't release a blockbuster one month... Yet we just got ff7 rebirth and stellar blade and a huge bundle of games last year.. He falls victim in consumer society once again the bitches about nothing. Rgt isn't someone I take seriously when it comes to news, or any advice with current day issues. Just because he's milk toast and Luke warm on issuesand is unaware of the bigger problem nobody in his niche circle ever mentions.
U made a great point about investors bitching about ff7. I honestly don't mind the fluff of mini games in the world because it makes the current cities more alive, I guess there are other ways they can do it as well. But most of it is optional... But i can't stand how the look at rebirth likes it's a failure. Honestly I think it deserves to be in GOTY category this year
2 million sales in 6 weeks isn't bad, considering it's still selling for $70. Rebirth will continue to sell, same as all new releases, as more people buy a Playstation. Sony knows this. It hasn't been 4 years yet, everyone forgets how it always is in the first half lifespan.
The old games were created with heart and soul.
The modern games are pointless cash grabs with woke messaging. On top of that it has all these micro transactions, buggy issues, and paid DLCs.
I been spending my money buying older games rather than any new ones.
You had a point until you gave yourself away with the "woke" bit. Go away, neckbeard.
Heart gold soul silver. Made with heart and soul truly
@@reggiebuttsmash2321 Old is gold my friend.
@OtakuBenny2210 That generation of games was truly the last great generation of gaming. Everything after 2014 has been going downhill.
You can say that about anything.
There are exceptions, but this isnt the rule.
I've been following games industry for the last 13 years, and for the first time I have lost interest in current era gaming. And I think things are just going to get worse.
Im glad that back in 2019 I decided to skip this generation and instead play my backlog of games.
Once something breaks through to the mainstream, it will become increasingly diluted and soulless over time. It was bound to happen to gaming eventually.
Way too many open world... FPS... MMO... Remakes.... Remasters all too similar and generic.
When games increased in price I expected an increase in quality as well. So far that has not really been the case.
I mean the price increase is a product of inflation.. And there's alot of games that released in a good quality sadly content crestor nowadays love to highlight those games that has poor quality for clicks..
That's true of everything right now. A prominent example being food. You are often paying more and getting less.
Yes RGT, you are right for many of your points listed.
The console wars were a healthy competitive atmosphere that brought us great games months after months, year after year, til smartphones / Internet / computers / greed took over the industry. Its more complicated than that i know, but gaming in general was at it's best in the 90s.
"how many 2d pixel roguelites do you need? how many cozy farm sims do you need?"
THANK YOU
I'm so sick of "cozy games" always being farming life games. They aren't even cozy, they're just boring.
Nintendo will be the last console standing. The rest will be set top pc boxes that are able to play everything except Nintendo games
Shoot that's kinda how it is now. The only thing I halfway care about on even just Playstation is Ratchet and Clank. Used to care about Naughty Dog until they went the route they did 😅😬🤷
I haven't given this much thought but maybe the game should be about fun and less realism.
You're part of the problem.
Improvements should be made across the board.
Stop settling for the bare minimum.
Fun and realism in games are NOT mutually exclusive.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Maybe actually release the game in it's entirety and not being sold on future promises and potential.
That’s yet another reason why i chose Nintendo because they’re not realistic and they’re fun which is something PlayStation and Xbox users don’t know anything about anymore.
“More about fun and less realism.” @Pencers, do you hear yourself? Fun and realism in video games go hand in hand, these days. We have evolved in the video game industry. But, we do need 2 fix some issues within the industry as well, such as bugs, loot boxes and stuff like that. We also need actual finished products.
This Spawnwave rivalry is getting real… and I’m here for it. Love both you guys. 😂
No rivalry. RGT is the Dollar Store version of Spawnwave.
Spawnwave is NWO and RGT is NWO Wolfpac 🤘🏻🤘🏻
This is the indie companies time to shine. Triple A gaming companies are laying off and indie games are thriving. Walmart is selling their games cheap and physical games are starting to diminish.
It really feels like things are shifting in a direction nobody is sure of. Quite scary.
ya its spooky
Id rather have small studios making smaller games they are actually passionate about, than have to buy one more AAA title that crashes, has framerate issues, have server problems, and constantly ask you to buy a battlepass.
The time of the "AAA Games" has ended, the rise of "INDIE Games" has begun. 🤓
All the video game companies are laying off employees…. Because none of them are making games, at least not fast enough
Good thing I'm becoming a indie game developer.
Is not that arent releasing games fast enough, is more of game quality and their price that doesn't worth. For companies is first how much money they can continue to suck after purchase and the message they can send for the ESG score before thinking in the customer.
Or the companies regulation's/goal's are irresponsible or Unrealistic to meet and we should blame higher up's and CEO's. I bet they're in there screaming "When is this game done" yeah when you quit bitching and have patience that's when.
They're laying off low skilled employees not high skilled, and yes, they are making games. The better graphics is making games take longer, but they are cookin, and you'll notice an uptick in releases in 2025
@@-RH80- I disagree, game studios are going 3,4,5,6+ years between games and wonder why they don’t have revenue to pay employees. Like naughty dog for one of many examples
Good stuff. Loved the topic and the discussion, bro. I agree most entirely. Gaming is great nowadays, but also in a rut. I think both are true…imo.
I feel like it's not just the game or even the movie industry suffering. The world feels "off" and things have a certain sense of dread about it. Even classic gaming is taking a hit. I have 3 classic game stores within my area that are all shutting down due to horrible sales. Strange times indeed.
It's because the economic/financial system is dying and on its last legs. What it will be replaced with is a mystery however.
My city has one retro video game store and it's still going strong
Getting back into emulation. I got a Miyoo Mini Plus and loaded it with a ton of roms. It's a pretty awesome device especially how small it is. Going to play through Final Fantasy 9 for the first time heh.
Such a great game
Yup… posted something similar too
I just played FF 9 on Miyoo mini. Make sure other disks are installed. I accidentally got screwed after disk 1. Couldn't resume game. Otherwise it's a great emulator.
@@jjwhy321y3 Yeah I made sure I have all 4 discs in their own folder. Thanks!
Why does everyone keep putting out broken and unfinished products and then expect $70 for them. The video game industry is VERY drunk
Because all the shareholders want their cut as soon as possible. So they have them rush out the game and end up releasing garbage, the shareholders sail of into the sunset with their cash and it is just a case of, ok now patch the morons game.
I mean it takes 5 years to make a new AAA game or longer. There are gonna be slow years it is what it is.
10 years for a game like GTA 6 lol
That’s why we need more AA games
Good video and I'm glad you talked about riding dev costs. It is wild that games are taking longer and longer to make and expected to sell 10s of million of copies or they "failed."
DreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeamcastGuy
@ DreamcastGuy Where you been my dude ? We miss you on Spawncast 🖤
Hey not a true Sega fan man. MS fan man instead.
I bought a Mega Drive a month ago and now I like gaming again. Sega did it right back then.
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Just emulate the mega drive
Wait till you try the Saturn.
@@murderman8578 nothing beats playing on a real Mega Drive, plus there’s still sound issues that I hade with emulation of Mega Drive games.
@@murderman8578 I have for a long time, but it’s just not the same.
I’ve pretty much been jumping back into older games and battling through my bag log of games. We’re pretty much beta testers for newer titles these days.
I’m actually not surprised. Out of the big 3, Sony relies on 3rd party support the most and Nintendo the least.
Metal gear solid 2 and 3 was awesome in nostalgia of metal gear What really blew my mind was Metal Gear Soild 4 since day one. It was a mind-blowing on the PS3 that was even better.
I thought video games would grow with me as I aged, they did and I thought my love and enjoyment for them would grow, but that's no longer the case having been a gamer since the Atari and NES. The heart and soul that gaming used to have, with the exception being
Baldurs Gate 3 isn't there anymore. Can't support sports games anymore and now Fighting Games is the next genre I'm done with after Tekken 8. Definitely the last console generation I'll be part of because I'm not buying your consoles if I'm renting and not owning the few good games you sell me.
It doesnt help that every game now has content held behind paywalls even though theyre completely done on launch...
Battle pass and season passes were a mistake
Star Wars: new game here
I don't want to remember its title because Ubi really hurt its audience once more. Now double with the price tag and content made exclusive as dlc
Even fighting games feel less special. Because every major title has a battle or season pass attached for content and characters
It is nutty enough just to have the game, but you barely have access to it unless you buy stuff
Shareholders need to butt out, let creativity take over.
I understand budgets are ballooning, and not in a good way. But there was a time to allow more experimental titles.
Sadly all of those titles are rarely made anymore, unless it is super successful
And consoles life span. Something needs to change to let a system show off what it can do. MS and Sony are in such a rush, we have not seen Series X or 5 shine more. Always held back by some stupid limitations
These problems are far less pervasive in the AA and indie spaces. That's where I spend most of my gaming dollars.
I have never worried about playing games when they release. I buy games when they are on sale and most of the time I buy them used. Then, I play whatever I feel like no matter the age of the game. I play on Xbox consoles of all generations and PC, the generations aren't really a criteria for me. I just play what sounds good at the time.
If it aint physical i don' buy it, if it's woke i don't buy it, if i don't like the gameplay i don't buy it. I am saving money and not missing out.
Ellie basically has to fight a transgender character in The last of Us 2 😏 the ✌️girl✌️has the bone structure of a man he tried to escape politics and they put it right in your games
@@NickRobbins82 Never buying that. Did enjoy the first game.
@@NickRobbins82Abby is not transgender, thats just a bs lie you made up.
stale in 2024? Helldivers, Dragons Dogma 2, FF7R..., upcoming Stellar Blade
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BUT, the over-woke BS is ruining games on multiple levels..
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that said, Ghost 2 might get revealed with the PS5 Pro..
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but, we know Sony held back PS4 projects for the PS5 early line up.., Sony might be doing the same move again (as Xbox is not a rival.. again), holding back for the PS5 Pro or PS6...
Some video game companies even encourage us that owning is bad.
It’s not that hard to find amazing games that actually support good publishers….
@duckguy9785You don't own digital games. They can be removed from your library at any point in time. Same goes for movies and TV shows that you buy on iTunes, Amazon Prime, etc.
Look at what happened with The Crew from Unisoft.
Physical media gives you way more control for games that don't require online servers aka a mandatory internet connection.
@duckguy9785 God, I hope indie game developers, AA game studios, and independent retail stores (such as PlayAsia and Book-Off for a example) will save physical media of video games, because indie game developers, AA game studios, and independent retail stores cares about you and listen to you.
@@keeganmcfarland7507 no they care about the money they make off you lol
@@keeganmcfarland7507 also physical media does not equal them caring about you
I been at it since the 2600, but imo the PS2\Gamecube era was the BEST...😎🇹🇹👍
It honestly was. I would say the start of the PS2/Xbox/GC/GBA through to the end of the Wii/360/PS4/DS era was the real golden age for gaming.
Include Dreamcast in that group however brief it lived.
Helldivers 2 and FFVII Rebirth recently came out, and Hellblade II, Avowed and Stellar Blade will be coming out soon. Pacific Drive is an indie that that is phenomenal that does new interesting things.
I still think this is a super exciting amazing time to be a gamer.
I feel like there is a LOT of competition producing incredible stuff. That’s how I see it. It is interesting and insightful to see such a downer pessimistic perspective about the industry though.
@Zalkova sequels and indies are automatically bad? 🙄🤔
Maybe you have impossible standards and shd just be fine playing stuck in 90s/early 2000s. Cause there’s still plenty of great games made in that era that I’m sure uve never played, and u dont have to be such a elitist grouch to the rest of us who enjoy games
I think people’s expectations are way to high. Videogames are designed to just chill out y’know. Not every videogame has to be the next AAA big blockbuster. I am perfectly happy with indies and smaller games rn. Every game is for a different type of person. And that is ok. You don’t have to like every game you play. I think games rn are pushing too many boundaries. Get rid of micro transactions please. I am a one and done kind of guy.
This is probably just a me thing, but I feel that games today have become too complicated. What got me into games as a kid personally was the story, characters, environment, sounds. And the best part, I could take my time and take it in. It was like how how books allowed you feel for the story by words, movies allowed you to witness a story and games allowed you to be in the story. Now when I play games, there is this nagging sensation of ' GOTTA GO FAST. GOTTA GET IT DONE NOW.' few games where I feel like I want to take my time and just take in the work the studios poured their time and soul into. No doubt why I have a heart for Red Dead Redemption 2, it gives you that option to take your time and invites you to linger within the environment and rewards you in a very beautiful way. Its not shoving you to the next section of the game.
The second part of what I feel is an issue, even with games I like personally, is that the controls are getting a little complicated. To a point where it'll break immersion and pull me out of the experience. I do not mind a game with simple controls. Sometimes less is more and encourages creativity for problem solving when you have few game rules or interactions. Why I feel a few indie games were successful like Undertale, Little Nightmares, Stanley Parable, Inside etc. had pulled off so well. Like if game studios wanna make quick battle royals because that's what they love and want to connect people, great! but if it is only for the sake of a sale or because they are too nervous to branch out , then I encourage them to consider alternative options. Downsizing doesn't equal bad and would actually allow studios to present a full product worth the price that folks can enjoy.
Man you kind of just skipped mentioning Helldivers 2 as one of if not the biggest hit games out on PlayStation and pc. Also while the xbox games slated for this year May seem like hits to us hardcore gamers I’m going on a limb here and say they will be commercial failures. First off if the in Indiana Jones movie is any indication then Indiana Jones is no longer relevant to today’s younger gamers, most don’t know or care who he is. Hellblade 2 is another one, most people have zero clue about the game and can care less. The other 2 games I can’t even remember what they are.
It is difficult to buy video games when inflation is financially destroying the average person. For most of us, there is no choice since we are struggling just to feed our families.
Lucky me I like all type of games that are good and fun. Screw all that don’t see there always games to play. Like I’m enjoying playing Pokémon X and Y on my modded 2DS XL and my switch.
Off couse is got boring most games are the same and things like VR that bring something new get click bait hate videos from guys like u bro.....
Gaming isnt stale at all. Some of ya need to expand what genres you play. There are a lot of great games that released this year so far. Also play your backlogs. Pick up older games you never played. You don't have to play every new game on release to enjoy gaming.
Also gamers themselves are to blame why gaming is in the state it is in. Gamers don't support new games even though they want new ideas. Gamers also want these high fidelity games but then complain that games are taking so long to make.
I agree on some points, but I disagree with other points. You expect people to buy broken, unpolished, lazy, and full of political checklist video games. Games aren't being made for consumers anymore. Instead, it's about a message about society and how there isn't enough representation in games. How about companies stop the political messages and focus on what consumers want. All I want is a good video game. I don't care if it's a reboot, remake, or sequel just do it right.
@@Piccolo918 Why do people bring up "political messaging" so much nowadays? Do gamers actually think that's why games suck and not greedy ceos
@8BitClosedFist Games suck because of all the above. You just can't blame greedy people all the time. There are bad developers as well just look at Anthem and Redfall. Both of these games were given proper development times and still suck because of the developers.
@Piccolo918 I'm confused both of those games you mentioned had rushed development cycles and poor management. I don't get what politics have to do with those games being bad
I’m not interested in playing anything else outside of Nintendo because no one else aligned of my philosophy apart from Nintendo.
This is why since the n64 as a kid I chose to stay 2-3 years behind the gaming industry. After n64 I bought a PS1 and then a Dreamcast when they announced the discontinuation and huge price drop. Same with PS2 and xbox360. I’m able to save $$$ because I buy used consoles and only get the great games after all the hype. I didn’t have a Switch until last year as a “modern” console. I did buy a Quest 2 about 6-12 months after launch. It’s similar to waiting for movies to hit streaming. Probably not great for the industry but for sure great for me as a consumer.
AAA companies have become comfortable… until they start to fail and new companies rise, the situation will prevail
I feel it's gotten this way simply because as you said nobody's willing to take a risk, nostalgia is great but not when it's overused like this I'm so over remakes/remasters they completely lost their charm... *looking at you naughty dog.*
Has anyone actually said, that the bait to not call him out as an obvious Nintendo RUclipsr, is just a way to ensure we're all commenting?
Yes, that's been brought up many times lol.
as an indie developer myself, the indie game industrie is so broken right now. it's not much better than AAA to be honest. There are solutions for it but it starts already with the fact, that you can only barely make a living from it. You either try to cater to the trends or you screwed. and very rarely someone comes and makes something like Undertale... very rarely though
can you stop punching down on spawnwave?
I think this malaise has been bubbling in the background since the start of the 8th gen. I noticed that while first party PS4 games certainly looked better, I didn't enjoy them as much as PS3 games. Even then people were complaining about games getting dumbed down for normies. This was also the time scummy mobile business practices began to be incorporated into traditional gaming. GG 1.0 and ESG also dropped, which led to the industry over-correcting and hiring on a ton of these vapid activists. Skip ahead to today, and there's really nothing coming down the pipe that I'm excited about. I'm not spending $650 Canuck Kopeks for a PS5 just to play Stellar Blade. I don't play online, so none of these live services appeal to me. Most games now are too expensive, lazy, money grubbing, and broken. Investors keep trying to squeeze more blood from a saturated industry. The politics stuff is getting worse. Even Nintendo have been absolute butt nuggets lately with their crap customer service, broken controllers, online service shutdowns, and the war on emulation. It's all very exhausting. I've gone back to playing older stuff, and even there, almost entirely Japanese games. Definitely the worst it's been in my 30 years of gaming.
Past games were created for the people who wanted a quick dopamine rush - easy to understand, quick, different, and varied concepts.
New games are created mostly for people who want leisure, be immersed in an open world, and to forget everything.
The best retro stuff that I play - Samurai Kid and Tetris Plus for GBC.
All things I already said on Spawnwave and was laughted at. And here we are. The problem is not 8k power. The problem is the systems are too powerful and not enough developers. Xbox laying off developers and putting all their eggs in one basket till they fail and then another until they fail, and still doing it, not good management. Stick to something until it becomes a success, do multiple things Xbox. CDprojectred walking away from hot releases to gamble on some smaller projects. Cyberpunk could of been big, but oh no everyone wants Witcher 1. We'll see. I'm looking at you Bouldersgate. Bethesda doing the same stuff, thinking they're too big to fail. Or like Activision, more focused on making money as a service than even being fun anymore. Or Xbox just giving up on Halo like that. Or Playstation being more toxic than ever before. Switch2 should of came out last year. Might as well make something completely different now. Make a new NES for the TV 8k, and let the Switch 2 be Gameboy. Focus on this generation longer. You know what everyone talked about when this generation started? They talked about the next generation. If a generation is only gonna be a couple years, you might have dev issues. Hopefully AI can help. And hopefully people who have passion can get back to it and we all can be a little deeper and not so shallow about it. Who knows. Just some of my thoughts
The problem is that Microsft doesn't care, not even the statement making great games will sell.
There's overall a lack of competition in this modern generation. The development costs is big factor why there's less variety within the triple A gaming area. It's just Live service this, Remaster this and when that big game does come out it's like a 10 years development cycle. GTA came on the Playstation 3 for god sake. I was started college back when that came out lol
Just having fun with the ROG Ally. And PC modding. But times have changed in video games with games having budgets and having kinematics rivaling the motion picture industry. People just not being satisfied with the profits unless they make like 10x their budget or something.
Too many people want to get into game development, and there's so many new and old games that is physically impossible for customers to buy, or even just keep track of them all, so a lot of titles flop as a result.
I really don’t see the issues with the video game industry, there have always been unfinished, buggy games that have been released since the start of the industry. Just play the good games and ignore the bad. There are so many high quality releases. It’s really not that hard
A rushed game is forever bad while a delayed game is good.
@@keeganmcfarland7507 I do t see how this applies to my comment at all lol not to mention patch’s now exist
Speak for PlayStation PC and Xbox you don’t speak for Nintendo who don’t have unfinished and lagging games.
@@Adamtendo_player_1 three hopes, age of calamity, botw…. All have performance issues with the first two being borderline unplayable at times
Just think if everyone just went back to the mountain of older, classic excellent games which there are enough of to last you a lifetime the modern gaming industry would be on its knees.
I believe this is going to happen.
All that I know is I'm going to make my game the best it can be, I'm 3 years into development now and still going strong.
What kind of game?
@@D3sdinova It is a co-op Roguelite inspired by a bunch of different SNES era games.
Good luck, man
I blame greed, all digital future and not owning games anymore for the hot mess the video game industry is in right now. As long as games are digital and I can no longer own video games, then I don't need to waste my money on video games anymore. With my backlog of PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4, Xbox and Nintendo..... I say screw modern day gaming and if the market crashes and burns, well what you expect?!!! The gaming industry can implode for all I care, I'm just done with all this BS! No more physical, no more owning games, unfinished games that need patches, DLC and loot boxes with online service required and then support gets taken away..... Games just aren't fun anymore! All I see is BS coming out of these companies and I'm not okay with buying garbage!!!
Men forgot that videogames improved life not replaced it. Metal gear solid 2 implies the game is a simulation, what are simulations for? Well if you dont know and use videogames to escape reality you need to watch terminator 2 again, or for once and learn why john connor was so good at killing machines.
Why are we complaining already about first party games by Sony after a extraordinary year of gaming last year? People should still have a backlog of games to finish. This isn't even something to focus on,u should focus suscriptions and live service and woke propaganda in videogames nowadays.
2023 was subjective. I thought it was lame, a bunch more of the same. 2024 is actually better for me, starting with FFVII Rebirth, Stellar Blade, Pacific Drive, Hellblade 2, Still Wakes the Deep, and Stalker 2, to name a few.
PCMR has been eating pretty well on the indie/AA side. We've always had a way bigger pool to draw from in that realm, though.
I did the unthinkable… bought a miyoo mini and joined the retro gaming peeps. Sure the nostalgia factor is fun, but honestly just enjoying the old games more (even on emulator). So many I haven’t played. I still play some new pc titles… but less than ever… and happier gaming than in the last few years.
I'm completely fine with Playstation 3rd party exclusives. Honestly don't care about the first party exclusives besides God of War.
The real problem in the gaming industry are broken messy games, greedy live service games and games injected with woke ideology.
I'll continue playing Playstation 3rd party exclusives, Nintendo exclusives and older games in my insanely large backlog until things in the industry hopefully improve.
Back in the PS2 era consoles didn't come with high speed ethernet modems built in. At home high speed internet was just coming into being and WiFi was just being developed. Companies couldn't release games with the idea of just dowloading a patch later because it wasn't possible. So if they didn't work and were broken, well the game failed.
There’s a reason Nintendo skipped 2024 🙃
Nintendo skipping 2024? Nintendo has released more exclusives than Xbox and Playstation combined.
@@mr_m4613 really peach show time is something ur going to be toting around lol
@@jameswalterthethird don’t forget about Endless ocean 😂😂
@@Jdogtoocool ah yes and two remakes/remasters. One of which who asked for lol
@@mr_m4613no it didnt. The only exclusives nintendo released so for this year are : Another code collection, Mario vs DK, Princess Peach
1 remaster, 1 remake & 1 new game
Xbox released ZERO exclusives
Meanwhile PS5 released FF7 rebirth, Ultros, Helldivers 2, Rise of Ronin, Stellar Blade, Paxific Drive, Foamstars, TLOU2 remaster as console exclusives
And theres more im missing
So what nonsense r u talking about 😂
i been feeling bored with gaming for a while now, and i came to the conclusion for me is games now and days are way to easy for me so about a year ago. I just really started playing all souls and soul like games that's a lot harder and i been on a roll ever since, gaming is fun again!
Today people just don’t let you enjoy games anymore. There is always hate from all directions cause someone does not agree with a persons view. If a game came out and one person hated it or one person loved it, cool. That’s their opinion, they can feel anyway they want, just enjoy the game or move on. Folk want to make movements to make people feel like them, then games don’t sell cause the voice of the people. I wish they would do that with broken games instead of buying them and then defend the purchase.
I think that people partly just keep moving on after finishing games partly because there are so many games. You have so many choices. Poor attention spans also play a part. I think it's multiple factors.
Everything has also been done and redone...and mixed up versions of the same games. Developers I feel have run out of ideas. You can only put a new skin on games for so long.
"The harsh realities of life have taken toll..."
-Big Punisher
I moved to PC gaming little over a year ago. Took some getting used to but glad I did. Console games for me personally have gotten boring. Hope everyone finds the gaming joy they seek no matter what yeah play on 🤘🏼😊
Ff7 rebirth proved it worst game I’ve ever played. Ff7 rebirth Charley’s revenge. Game sucked all the way to the end
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To be honest I fell off modern gaming in the Xbox one era nothings original anymore just cash grabs, just play old games and the odd game on my Xbox one X
I can't speak about the game industry as a whole, as I've been having some great gaming experiences lately. However, I do feel that the first-person shooter genre has gotten really stale and boring IMO. There's definitely a lot of opportunity for some high quality shooters in the market right now.
There is some good games here and there but this gen has been my least fav generation of gaming ever. I been going back to my ps3/360 lately
I’m not gonna buy unfinished games with huge day 1 patches or digital games that I don’t actually own. Nowadays, I care less and less about what’s to come and more excited about getting into older games that I haven’t gotten around to or have wanted to buy.
All games have been crap since PS3 with one exception. At least Intellivision Amico is going in the right direction. Tommy was right they are the best chance at saving gaming.
The only people commenting on "game stagnation" are content creators. Y'all are essentially starved for stuff to talk about right now. I get it, but that's not indicative of the state of games. Just the fact y'all live in a bubble where the average gamer is constantly in anticipation for the next title. Meanwhile. 80% of switch owners are still playing and enjoying Mario Kart, Pokemon, and Tears of the Kingdom, half of Playstation and Xbox users are mostly playing NBA2K, COD, and Fortnite, and everybody else is still working through backlog of games.
I also don't agree with you on Xbox needing an "identity". It's microsoft's dedicated gaming platform. period. that's it. If you want a simple, gaming experience, that doesn't involve an investment in a high PC, and you want the flexibility of being able to ALSO enjoy the games you play, if you're away from your xbox, you can do that. Phil has been consistent about that goal for years now. It's just, Gamers who've been around for the last 30 years, can't wrap their head around a brand, that isn't centered around exclusives, one piece of hardware that everyone is marketed to play. Phil said, literally, "We want to meet gamers where they are"...well, Gamers are on Console, PC, and Mobile....and guess where Xbox services and games can be consumed? Console, PC and Mobile
I have only played two games this year so far sucide squad kills the justice league and rise of the ronin. I love both games and sucide squad got unnecessary hate and im excited for stellar blade so gaming for me is great
Took you awhile to get to your point, but yes, a ban on remakes needs to happen. Stop selling your games and systems people. You keep them all.
And stop buying digital, ohterwise you will have to buy remakes because the companies will simply lock you out of your games eventually and force you to spend another $60 on the same game again.
You know if they stopped caring about ray tracing and stuff and just focused on fun games that were cheaper to produce, i'd be fine with it. Put back the instruction manual. These high budget games are boring. I don't even wanna buy em and prefer playing sega saturn and ps1 stuff.
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I have loads of games I haven't played yet
It does seem a little slow but does leave time to get to the backlog
Honestly with the current landscape of gaming, I’m losing interest. I just feel like this would be a great opportunity to play retro titles and even play some I’ve missed back then because the current landscape isn’t that good. I can’t find one solid game this gen that has kept my interest for a few hours at a time.
There are too many games for the market to support.
Also, game design fundamentals in modern games are the opposite of what I want from a game. I go and play older games or retro games I haven’t played before and enjoy myself quite a bit.
the little kids who play today's games are going to grow up and be perfectly well-adjusted adults in furry suits
I’ve always been curious, why do you pretend to dislike SpawnWave so much?
Most AAA games the quality isn't there anymore they increase the price but they are still broken unplayable or glitchy oh you want that new content to bad locked behind a paywall due to the social issues is the reason for most AAA games flopping it turns people away.
Gaming stinks. Nintendos next console will be 7+ years out or date when it finally releases.
This console generation is the last gaming generation I am buying into except for the next Nintendo system. I have enough of a back log to keep me busy for years.