Same, there aren't many great games coming out anymore so it sorta just makes me more pessimistic and unable to be excited for upcoming games because I just expect them to be a disappointment like most games are these days.
Sorry most people don't just shit on Medicare games because they're Medicore but I'd argue video games even back then weren't great you're all just blinded by nostalgia really bad
@@jub8951 sorry, but I’m 14 so I wasn’t old enough to have nostalgia for old games. So here’s my standpoint. Though many people are nostalgia blinded I’ll just show you this what games are objectively better than the modern ones (not my opinion this is games that are objectively better) Fallout new Vegas is better than fallout 4 Far cry 2&3 and blood dragon is better than far cry 5&6 and new dawn (or whatever the pink one was called) Halo 3 is better than halo 5 Every old call of duty is better then the ones out now Every old sports game from 2014 and under is better then the ones now Old Pokémon is better than new Pokémon sword and shield. Any battlefield game is better than 2042 (including fricking hardline) Borderlands 2 is better than 3 Final fantasy back than was better then the ones now GTA San Andreas is better than the remake. ( or gta V that ones up for debates) Just cause 2 is better than 4 I can go on and on, I don’t know what else is proof that it’s not just nostalgia. Keep in mind those listings aren’t just my opinion those games are objectively better than the shit we got today.
@@Sonny2299 resident evil 2 remake and biohazard are literally loved by many and is better than 5 or 6 and the originals since they are much scarier, devil may cry 5 is objectively the best devil may cry, doom 2016 and doom eternal are objectively the best doom games, also talking about Halo I heard infinites good, god of war PS4 is objectively the best god of war, not to mention, spiderman PS4 is objectively the best spiderman game, not to mention horizon, nioh, nioh 2, Bloodborne, sekiro, ghost of Tsushima, not to mention indie games as well, but we're just talking triple AAA not mention games coming out like dying light 2, horizon forbidden west, and oh yeah elden ring and I can go on and on if you want to focuse on the negative expects on a gaming generation? You know how many bad movie tie in games were in the PS2 and Xbox? Alot of them and those aren't the only bad games in that generation because I played alot of them
Mediocre was always the standard in gaming. That's why there are great games, bad games and midling games. Great games, even back then, are rare compared to most other bad and mediocre games. That was always the case.
it was like 3 companies making games back then now there’s at least 10 big ones. More companies means more games. More games means more of a chance for a mediocre game.
People are literally paying 60$ for incomplete games But the worst part of it all are RUclipsRS lying to their viewers saying that the games are not broken
Everyone's in on it. RUclipsrs are incentivized by money and access. Websites like IGN shill to get kick backs from publishers. Publishers lie and deceive all in the name of money. The masses gets tricked and buy into it, and the cycle repeats itself.
It's not about hype...it's about preorders, microtransactions, and early access. We need to stop giving companies money for incomplete products. They're not incentivized to actually complete the product once they have the money in pocket.
Microtransactions are a completely seperate issue. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with Early Access. Plenty of great games have come out of it. Hype is the reason people pre-order. It's also the reason people read blatantly undeliverable Early Access promises and support the game anyway.
@@SpadeDraco Microtransactions are a different issue, of course...but it leads to the same shady business practices. And as far as early access goes...maybe it's my age showing, but I miss the days of games being released COMPLETED. You bought a game, and the game was ready. No patches were needed, no day-one updates, etc. Just a complete game for your hard-earned money. I have a really hard time believing that with all the technological advances we've made over the years, game development has taken steps backward. No. These changes are in the name of lining people's pockets, at the expense of the consumer. And we've convinced ourselves to just take it with a smile. There's no justifiable reason for every game to need countless updates, patches, and day-one dl's to be in a playable state. Especially since we know it wasn't like this ten or so years ago.
@@tizodd6 I think you might misunderstand the concept of Early Access a bit, I'm pretty sure the idea is that if you have a partially made game but lack funds to finish it you can release what you have as proof of concept and people can choose to pay you less than full price so that you can finish it and in exchange for you basically allowing them to be your beta testers and they get upgraded to the full game at no additional cost upon the proper release. obviously there are some people that misuse it, sometimes people waste the money they get or abandon the project, and it's definitely something made more for indie games than for AAA but I've seen it used really well a few times.
@@Eclipsed_Embers I understand what it is. I also know it can be useful for studios that don't have a lot of funds. I'm just tired of seeing it misused, and seeing games stay in EA for years and never get a full release. Like I said...I just miss the days of buying a complete game and calling it a day. The constant nickel and diming is annoying.
@@tizodd6 You made your RUclips account in 2006 and you have a playlist of Old School songs from the 1970s/1980s. So I think I already see where you're coming from. I'm certainly much older than Synthetic Man himself is, but I respect him a little because he brings up a lot of great points in this video. Seeing games in a constant unfinished state is the reason why I no longer preorder games, and haven't done so for years. These days I wait until everyone else has moved on from a game, then I just go and buy that very game for $20 - 30. Fully complete, with all the patch updates the devs made after the game launched, no longer have to worry about unfinished crap. I did this for Red Dead Redemption 2. Picked it up for $30, and despite it's slow pace, I'm really enjoying the game.
Tears of th kingdom is the perfect encapsulation of this point. I feel as though Nintendo could release literally anything, call it Zelda, and it would get perfect scores across the board.
Tears of the kingdom deserves every 10/10 though. Your just upset and hate nintendo, because your just one of those nintendo haters lol. It's legit a perfect game.
@@ash8244 Somehow people like you is the kind of people Synthetic Man talks about in his videos. 💀 “Praising” a game then immediately calling “hater” out of nowhere.
@@ash8244 "y - you're just a hater!!!!!!" i can play at that game too, mr fanboy shill but obviously i won't because calling people names for disagreeing with you is something i grew out of once i got into elementary school
@@LastGhost12 I still remember the days where playing games got you teased and made fun of, though I grew up right on the tail end of it. In my older brother's day it'd get your ass kicked! He used to hide his Comodore 64 in the garage under a blanket whenever friends came over.
@@planescaped I'm curious as to how old you are. People were still teasing kids for playing video games back in the 1990s. Even with DOOM, gaming was still a largely niche hobby. Some grown ups who were like John Romero and John Carmack were into gaming as a hobby, but a large demographic of gamers were kids, including myself.
I will agree hype can ruin a game, but there is a difference between hype and excitement to a certain degree. The casual hype is what I hate personally.
This guy is a little too much doom and gloom… even classic franchises, throughout all he does is shit talk all gaming and make it depressing. Seriously listen to what he says about MGS and Resident evil as a series, he actually doesn’t say much of a single positive thing. He’s just too bitter at this point, it’s not funny or enjoyable to watch like an angry joe or AVGN or even a YongYea, just some guy who’s way to obsessed with how his opinion is perceived in RUclips comments. I still will hope his content takes a turn, but there’s a fine line between sardonic and dour.
@@KratostheThird Even if he’s “ranting”, it’s honestly a bad rant and it’s just rambling about personal opinions, that he applies to everyone. Even talking about the Souls games, he talks like an entitled child who wants his little perfect game, because he has grown so good at video games that he can’t even die in the Souls series anymore, and nothing surprises him at all. Like, if nothing surprises you in gaming, then why do you play videogames? Maybe it’s time you grow out of it and find another hobby, cause you’ve definitely lost interest in it… This video was kind of a disaster honestly, could’ve been handled much better if not for most of the non sensical takes…
As someone who has played the Elden ring beta, I have to say it isn’t just ds3 rollspam generics, it’s a little slower, and focuses on strategy a lot more with the spell system being overhauled, ashes of war bringing tons of variety, and just general additions like stealthing, sleep arrows, power standing which emphasises weapon diversity. They’re making the gameplay more varied which is overall a good thing. I’m personally very hyped for Elden ring, but that’s because Elden ring is the only game I can get hyped for anymore. Most videogames that come out are shit, and with the rise of NFTs, it’s only going to get worse. Elden ring could be terrible but like you said, it’s very unlikely. I’d be cautiously optimistic.
fromsoftware is one of the few game developers that I feel safe about getting hyped about, they have been making amazing games for over 20 years now. I am a old school fan been playing sense kings field and armored core. the thing that he's failing to bring up is that there are always obvious signs when a game compony is about to release a shit game. and fromsoftware is showing none right now. its ok to be hyped, just do your research first, is what I say.
No offense or anything but do you know how many times people have said they beta tested a game and it was amazing, only for it to be a giant turd when it released? There's a fairly popular RUclips who got invited to play Cyberpunk around 6 months before it released and made a gushing 30 minute video about how blown away he was by what he saw. We know how that turned out...
@@Aethelhald well we all know that the people who sung high praises for cyber punk beta were abject liars. you could see the cracks in it there and they chose to ignore it.
@@Aethelhald There were obvious signs cyberpunk was not going to be what the developer were saying, honestly the lengthy development and delays was a huge sign that things were not going as planned. Also before the beta they only showed scripted gameplay not actual real gameplay which is also a sign that developers are hiding things and or lying. Wanted to elaborate even further cdprojekt red only had one successful game under their belt, which is the Witcher three. Witcher one and two are just OK games, not good and not bad. So it’s not like they’ve had a very great track record to even start. unlike fromsoft who has released successful game after successful game after successful game for over 20 years now.
Mate, From Software , at least until now, has never disappointed with its games and I don’t see why Elden Ring should be any different, their games never had micro transactions and all their games have always been single player focused, these two reasons alone would be already enough for me completely trust them on any new game that they could release
@@letsgovideogames4190 but unlike cyberpunk they gave us gameplay of the game before release that isn’t prerecorded super specific scenarios. I mean the closed network test alone was pretty goddamn good especially for such a small portion of the game
@@letsgovideogames4190 Sorry to join the bully train, but I have to agree with most of the guys here. FromSoft has had a great track record with almost all of the games they have released up until this point with a huge dedicated player base for all of them. I don't see Elden Ring failing at all, even if it comes out with some bugs.
Battlefield 2042 getting 8, 9, or even 10 from most gaming news outlets basically says all you need to know about them. Thank god we have SOME major RUclipsrs who keep it real.
@@KratostheThird Depends I guess who you follow. Angry Joe and Skill Up both didn’t hold much back from giving the game a good beating telling people not to play it.
@@blairalexander3009 I haven't looked at Angry Joe the same way ever since his copyright rant back in December of 2013. He certainly has talent and charisma, but compared to his old stuff Angry Joe just comes off as being lazy and uninspired. The reason Angry Joe stood out was because he was one of the first guys to cover video game reviews in a polished format. He came onto the scene back in 2009/2010ish when most RUclipsrs didn't have the resources to make decent video game reviews. Now he's looking like the old guy who has seen better days. He's certainly not bad, far from it, I just don't think he is as great as he used to be.
@@KratostheThird well sure I can echo some of that. I have some problems with his past actions too but he’s still a big RUclipsr and I can always count on him being honest and not shilling.
I didn't follow Cyberpunk at all despite loving The Witcher 3 and being one of the 16 people who bought, played and beat the first game *pre-enhanced edition* From the little I knew of it, it was a combination of me not being as interested in the setting and concerned by how overly ambitious they were being for what was the 4th game they had ever made... A lot of people were very, very derp in their following of CDPR and Cyberpunk honestly, and had incredible over-reactions to what happened as well. Everyone wants to blame CDPR for fooling them despite a lot of people going out of their way to be fools. >__> It's okay, I was there myself once with Dragon Age 2. I adored Origins and Mass Effect at Mass Effect 2... So I followed Dragon Age 2 intently, preordered and was super excited. I knew EA had a reputation and was fully aware of the warning signs, but this was Bioware! This was Dragon Age! But DA2 was just your typical shoveled out EA trash with none of the passion or care that went into Origins, I was a fool and I got burned. Instead of being the type who gets mad that a hotplate doesn't have a "caution hot" warning, learn from the mistake and be more aware in future.
Man cdpr screwed us all lol. I loved their previous game the witcher 3 but damn even playing that now it's still kinda janky in some ways and I've seen a decent number of bugs. But that was a fantastic game. Cyberpunk was a shitty rpg.
Your points about RE and MGS are exactly what i've been saying for some years. The old way of making game is in the past, and it's really hard to get excited for anything new to come out.
IT's not all doom and gloom though, there are decent games still be made in the AA or even just A industry. There are games that barely got any budget and ended up being good, the core gameplay more than making up for simpler visuals.
@@bloody4558 so sad that a game needs tons of money to be AAA quality but the more money is spent in a game the more the devs (or rather, the shareholders and executives) will have to play safe, leading to games becoming more of the same
I downloaded retroarch on the xbox and brother I didn't remember how much fun the wii ps2 and ps1 games were brother and the vast majority of titles that I buy in the series are 360 and they are much better than what we have today.
TL;DR: The thing is, developers aren't hyping up Elden Ring. They teased the title and then stayed quiet for like, 2 years & then announced it'll be coming in 1 year. We have been counting down the days since and now it's just 2 days away!! They haven't been hyping it up like Cyberpunk, they know they don't need to. The hype that exists, does so due to fans of Fromsoft games. Fromsoft have put so much heart & soul into their games, that they've never disappointed. As a company, they've literally earned the hype that Elden Ring is getting. They've never disappointed and released banger after banger. Dark Souls, Bloodborne & Sekiro are all amazing and this is their magnum opus. We all know by now that Fromsoft are NOT a sellout company. They want to give people the absolute best gaming experience they can and they've revolutionised gaming. So many other companies have followed in their footsteps, making "souls-like" games. There's hype for a reason and the fact it's the fan base making all the hype & not the company tells you all you need to know. Also, next gen has come out. Developers got complacent and lazy on the last platform, but with next gen coming out, developers are realising they need to up their game as people want more. They can't just release shit anymore. In 3 years time, there will be countless amazing PS5/XboxSX games. I think developers will start listening to their audiences more and delivering more. Elden Ring will be a great example of what developers need to be doing. We need more horror/action games like Dead Space and open world games that aren't just empty and I'm confident we'll get that & more.
Elden Ring is most certainly NOT next-gen. Another video I watched, two visual artists in the gaming industry revealed just how things work visually in the game, and talked about how old the engine is that FromSoftware is using. If we're being honest here, Elden Ring was an asset flip. From is going to have to adopt a newer game / graphics engine going forward.
About 10 or 15 years ago I saw a shift in the gaming industry, I saw the shift from games that were developed for the love of the game to the shift of games made for profit only. Profit only games are easy to spot, I think that's why all games from our past felt like they were better games.
@@FSVR54 the generations of the people developing games could not be more irrelevant to how good the games are. Boomers and gen X had no more pure intentions than current devs do
@@FSVR54 I'm not a zoomer but it shouldn't matter anyway. We've had plenty of dogshit games in the past prior to the 2010s. There was a literal market crash caused by shitty games back when it probably was boomers making them. Just because you feel a certain way about this subject doesn't make it actually true
It's not normies.... But basic idiots who can't get their heads straight The society becoming so robotic that the space for different views have literally died by now Censorship doesn't allows us to be different and diverse which is so ironic Back when games where made, people of different lives made it, you could see the passion and endeavour devs took to make games Now it's just cash grab industry
That's with all entertainment. These diddlers that make up being gay their whole personality is obsessed with forcing that personality on everyone else too such an extent they get jobs in education and entertainment to do it on a larger scale. Sense being gay is their whole personality they don't have the skill or talent to make content so they copy and steal from previous content. Games movies TV shows comics everything is a rehashed trash copy of true entertainment.
this whole comment section and elden ring is out of hand makes me wonder if they've actually kept up with from software and how their games are on pc, especially currently with multiplayer completely disabled due to people being able to remote acces someone elses computer through dark souls, funtimes dont get me wrong, i think their games are a great experience but sucking up from software this much saying they've never disappointed are seriously oblivious to flaws that have been going on on dark souls for ages and thats all after people managed to corrupt savefiles, get people banned with cheated in items among other things nothing in life is perfect, and if you have these kind of mindsets you're bound to be disappointed with what you will end up with
I think you made a lot of good points in the video. Modern AAA titles have become focused on graphics and animations. If you go on social media you always see how people brag about how "gorgeous" the game looks versus the story and gameplay. After I played AC Odyssey which I didn't even finish, I felt like what made gaming the best hobby ever was gone.
Honestly, the animation isn’t even good, just basic. I also hate mo-cap. For faces it’s fine, but movement/action it’s terrible. It looks like a stunted rehearsal in slow-mo. Hand-animated looks more realistic. But they want to be more like Hollywood so they gotta do mo-cap, face-scanning, Hollywood actors, and terrible stories like Hollywood too.
I got 20 minutes into Assassin;s Creed Odyssey, turned it off, and never played it again. >__> The first time I felt legitimate boredom from a big AAA game, usually I get at least some cheap thrills out of it... but no, just pure ennui.
@@mrshmuga9 also seems like single player is becoming less and less relevant, since being perpetually online to collect their daily rewards or chewing thru lootboxes for a skin are the only things the audience today is concerned with. Even the few so called glorified single player "games" such as death stranding, hardly involves any gameplay.
I've had the suspicion that gaming was going the way of tv and movies for a while now. By this I mean that the "gaming community" is being slowly filled with normies to the point where companies will begin to cater to them instead of the og gamers. Another industry where you can see this starting to happen is anime and manga, little by little more normies are entering it and anime and manga are becoming more and more progressive and westernized.
Yeah animes nowadays are much worse apart from a few its shameful most good ones nowadays are short while longer ones like Dragon Ball Super, AoT, One piece is just complete garbage. 7 deadly sins had so many animation blunders. The only good ones i've seen lately are Zombieland saga and happy sugar life. OG animes like squid girl, DBZ, HxH, Sailor Moon are amazing and different unlike newer ones
That happened to gaming in the late 2010's... The golden age has long since passed and we're in the age of big business, highly corportized AAA games. The easy solution is stop just following big game releases and look for the hidden treasures that are out there, of which there's a fuckton. Case in point, Yoku's Island Express was a great and unique game that I am betting 90% of the people reading this have never even heard of. And Pathologic 2 was a legitimate fucking masterpiece, one of the best games ever made, and it only came out a couple years ago and most also haven't played it. Hearing people lament gaming is dead while they bury their head in figurative sand and garbage is very frustrating... Instead of looking at the trending list on Steam, try digging through the new releases sometimes and looking at things other than what Gamespot has done a spotlight on. I'm personally really looking forward to Eiyuden Chronicles and this game ruclips.net/video/mQwOWME2N-Q/видео.html
@@YBNKASHWAYS little by little identity politics are being injected into anime, it may only be a couple series right now but give it a few years and you'll start seeing where I was coming from.
Yeah, I agree, I more or less said the same thing in the Video Game Awards video. Personally, I blame the success of Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us. Now every Sony exclusive, and to a lesser extent other AAA publishers, make these "movie games" that appeal to normies. Of course, wokeness soon followed. I can't stand constant cutscenes, forced walking sequences, etc especially when the story usually sucks.
Gamers have become fanboys who defend bad games and policies, which is weird by itself, but more than that, they take criticism of games they play personally. It reminds me of how Gen X treated music bands in the late 90’s. And you know what happened there? Popular music pretty much died. Now gaming may not die, but it’s going to fall of a cliff if it isn’t careful.
No, the internet killed off music. The music industry started to placate to international markets (that prefer pop music) to make a profit since everyone was downloading their music for free. You will enjoy your synthetic music and you will like it.
@@sweetmcnasty The music industry killed itself and just uses piracy as the scapegoat for its sucking and refusing to adapt. It shambles around as a parasitic zombie that brain drains actual talented creatives to prolong it's pathetic existince while bribing governments to enable it to better bully people.
Normies, know nothing kids with their parents credit cards, and whales will basically keep it afloat pretty much indefinitely. I suspect a parralell industry of real games, as opposed to "games as service" fraud rackets and gacha casinos, will emerge and basically soft reboot the industry. I just hope we can get back to the middleware glory days soon because as good as the indie scene is now it's still kinda stuck fixating on just 4 genres, it really wasn't worth the death of middleware that happened towards the tail end of 7th gen. That was basically the flashpoint of where gaming split into nothing but whatever the factory form trend chasing with increasingly predatory monetization, that passes itself off as AAA it or the low budget treasure hunt padded to the gills with walking similators about depression, Roguelikes, Crafting survival shlock, and Metroidvanias. Avo help you if you don't like those genres or just want actual variety because you gotta dig to find anything else that's of quality and there's NOTHING in between the two extremes aside from arguably From Software games.
@@GodOfOrphans Gen X made the last truly good popular music. Millennials basically killed what was left and it reflected the sheer narcissism they they had/have. And don't get me started on how terrible Zoomer music is. It's not even music.
@@GodOfOrphans It's better to just play retro games anyway. AA games like Dante's Inferno and Darksiders were good, it's a shame the AAA industry doesn't even acknowledge the middle tier market.
Man I get so bummed out when you talk about video games, I'm only 17 but I remember when I was younger and this might be the ol' nostalgia talking but games were so much different back then. I'm not gonna come up with the drab list you are usually used to when people complain about gaming because you know much better than me how they were different but most importantly how they were better than the capital G-Slop we get today.
Gaming are dying=you are prioritising wrong things/geting old. Because Tetris and pong never dies. I buy new games every moth but I can play Tetris until I die If I don't want to experience new things....
Elden Ring is probably the only game I'm looking forward to getting this year. I haven't really watched too much gameplay of it, but even if it's just more Dark Souls 3, that's still better than anything i can see coming from any other major studio in 2022. Not super hyped, but it would have to be pretty bad to disappoint me completely.
It feels like we're in a curve. Golden ages of early 2010s and before were about innovating to get a place in the market. Now that it's done, every big company just playing safe even if it means letting down the community, because money first. We're in the low of the curve right now, it just hope it can go up again. If yes, I'll be here first to witness it
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w early 2010's isn't my favorite gen but 2011 to 2012 we've got Minecraft, Dark Souls and the last good pokémon and COD game imo mainstream video games have gone downhill after GTA5 in 2013
@@pikminologueraisin2139 dark souls is the only good game out of that list and that is precisely because it was not a game of it's time, the rest you listed was zoomer garbage.
Game company makes unbelievably wretched game. Fans tell them why it’s bad. Company labels critical fans as toxic racists. That’s the entire entertainment industry.
People must realize these games are a past time for us but its is literally developers job to make good games. They should take pride in the games they produce
Growing up on : banjo kazooie, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Super Mario 64, Star Fox, Super Smash Bros., Final Fantasy 7, Diablo 2, warcraft 3, starcraft, dungeon siege, age of empires, project IGI, Max Payne, blood omen legacy of kain, Soul Reaver 2, baldur's gate series, half life 1, half life 2, vampire the masquerade bloodlines, gta san andreas, supersmash brothers and many many more fantastic games makes me so grateful. They made my childhood magical and nothing could ever replace those experiences.
Holy crap, Kingdom Hearts 3. Not only was it a massive expectation for the next title after KH2 and all the filler games, but they showed off most if not all of the areas giving no surprise to the players. Same with FighterZ and Kakarot which, yes we know what happens, but keep those animations tight for a nice surprise.
Yeah exactly. Like I had fun with KH3 for the most part, but they literally shoved the main plot behind all the Disney worlds and then rushed the ending.
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 Isnt That just Kingdom hearts as a whole though? Been a fan of the series for what feels like my whole life and there's always been a Lot of filler me in the games
I think is exaggerated blaming an entire generation for "ruining an entire industry" because they are just the ones who buy the games(and not all consumers are blind fanboys), the majority of the fault from the corporations because they are the ones who blatantly lie to people with trailers with almost no gameplay and then they rush to complete the development with crunch and then don't refund the people who got disappointed, they are the ones who fix problems with paid DLCs and milk the franchises nowadays. The people who buy games can do some changes in the way they approach games for example by stopping preordering, stopping buy useless DLCs and seeing some benchmarks or gameplays before to get the game. I miss the free demos, not a lot of companies do them anymore. So yeah hype can kill games but I think that companies nowadays force people to be hyped by exploiting the dopamine's secretion showing us beautiful graphics instead of gameplay
The reason I look to Indie studios now more than ever. Backing potentially good games and seeing them grow into something great and successful brings a certain satisfaction to me. Plus other people then get to experience the game aswell. Win-win.
Even indie games are dying though. Every single fucking indie game I’ve seen for the past couple years has been so mediocre at best. Every indie game has the same annoying “quirky” art style and direction, way too many fucking pixelated and 2D games with no creative thought put in the art direction, gameplay is often mediocre at best, every indie story is either non existent or tries too hard to be “deep”. Hell I haven’t seen save for few exceptions any indie game just try to be plain fun without having some “deep” meaning that’s just straight unimaginative.
You constantly praise the older games era but guess what there was still a shit ton of awful games but ppl only look back and think about the good stuff
"Don't be too hyped for a game" There is no hype to be had in all honesty, but perception of community hype via PR teams, biased games journalism, and marketing departments that polish a turd and pretend it's gold. I've recently played the ME Legendary Edition,and it's leaps and bounds beyond anything put out today, 10+ years later. The gameplay mechanics are solid, the story is top notch, and (barring the old ME1) it's not buggy as hell, nor is the game incomplete and broken on Day 1, requiring substantial patches. People don't need to "stop hyping games", what they need to do is stop incentivizing and encouraging a marketplace where a broken glitchy mess is worth $60.
Man from software have yet to disappoint me with their games. Even after all these years they are still the games I go back to. And having played the network test I can safely say that elden ring is everything I was expecting and more. Just hope the final release is stable and I'll be there Day 1 for sure.
I don't think Miyazaki would allow a game he worked on to be bad at release, or bad period. He has a, to my knowledge, nigh spotless record, at least in terms of dark souls and souls inspired games.
I haven't been hyped for a game since 2017 and I still think gaming has taken a nosedive quality wise. New games are just that bad and underwhelming. With or without hype.
@@T-Bonez Let's face it, the goat of gaming was the PS2 era, it peaked in that era. PS3 era (7th gen) wasn't bad either, but it started to decline since then.
@@outlawfly664 its the goat era for the amount of effort put into games to satisfy customers 100% people may disagree if the actual products were the goat but definitely after that era games started to water down.
Still after getting disappointed by Cyberpunk, BF2042, and so many recent games, I can't help but get hyped for Elden ring. The fact they let everyone post the entire network test, and there were little to no negative things to say about the game, plus waiting for the game for many years, I'm hyped for Elden ring. I am confident From Software won't let me down
From Software hasn’t released a bad game yet imo. There’s no reason to not be hyped for Elden Ring after the network test footage. I heard they’re supposed to be releasing ray tracing too it once it releases too
I mean the "trust" people put in CDPR was unwarranted to say the least. What had they done pre-cyberpunk? - Were a tiny indie dev studio that made witcher 1 which, although it was one of those cult favorite games at the time, has horrific gameplay. - Released Witcher 2 which was decent but extremely small scale - Managed to deliver, for the most part, on Witcher 3 but left a lot of promises on the table and the game was a glitch fiesta for a while after release So 2 small games and 1 big game where they MOSTLY delivered, yet people put their complete trust in the company as if they had some flawless track record. I was saying it was gonna be a shitty game when I saw the early trailers where it just looked like scuffed "future" GTA rather than an actual dark dystopian atmosphere. From software on the other hand: - They did stuff pre Souls which gave them a lot of experience (they're actually a very old studio) - They release Demon Souls which was extremely well received to spite its flaws - They released Dark Souls 1 which was so well received it spawned an entirely new genre - They released Dark Souls 2 which was still good (compared to the rest of the gaming industry) but it fell short of expectations because the main team was doing Bloodborne - They released Bloodborne which is great - Released Dark Souls 3 which is great - Released Sekiro which is fantastic They have a proven track record of over a decade now and if you count their extremely old games the studio has almost 30 years of experience under its belt vs a 1 hit wonder that only recently "got big" as a studio. EDIT: And forgot to mention, there's virtually 0 chance of moronic leftist politics being involved. If we're honest the problem with the politics is mostly OUTSIDE the games. A studio gets cucked and they start diversity hiring and fill their studio with talentless idiots who can't do anything right because they fit a race or gender quota instead of looking for the best possible people. Japan isn't infected with this tumor yet, Sony might be after they moved their HQ to California years ago but I trust Japanese devs to not self destruct via moronic politics.
The thing about Witcher 1 and 2 is that at about the two year mark of both games there was the updated versions to both that improved the gameplay. It why my joke is you can’t judge Cyberpunk til it’s second year.
Thing is there has been a decline in the Souls Games since DS2, it was way worse than 1, and then DS3 was extremely mainstream and bland. If Elden Ring looked more original I would be happy because of their games like Bloodborne which is a soulslike not a souls game, and Sekiro was great too. But Elden Ring just looks like an open world Dark Souls 3 with a jump button and Dark Souls 3 already has many flaws closely linked to making the game more available for normies
CDPR were victims of their own success. The Witcher 3 was so extraordinarily good that it gave them a rabid following, one with expectations they were never going to meet. I feel bad for the company and hope they can bounce back like Obsidian, as most people wanted their heads and damned them after KOTOR 2. I just hope they learn from their mistakes going forward.
@@planescaped I don't feel bad at all. If they didn't blatantly lie about countless aspects of Cyberpunk pre-release they'd have some sympathy from me, if they were an Indie game that got swept up in a hype storm like No Man's Sky was then they'd have some sympathy from me. This a massive company that was ran by idiots, blatantly lied countless times to the consumers, proudly flaunted their moronic politics in peoples faces and then delivered a steamy pile of shit. They're a shitty scummy company that is also full of incompetent idiots (most likely diversity hires) and I wouldn't care if they went bankrupt tomorrow. We need to stop this whole "think of the company :( " shit, whether your intentions are good or not is irrelevant the outcome is the same: developers getting more and more leeway to be lazy which publishers react to and rush unfinished games onto the market because the customer will buy it anyways since its "not the poor dev's fault :( "
@@inksword6029 you act like ds1 itself doesn't have a lot of problem itself. But ehh keep thinking ds3 is the worst and thinking elden ring doesn't fix the problem that ds3 have i guess.
Yeah, even though I agree with a lot of what he's saying about hype in video game advertising, it was a little off-putting how he interjected his politics into it to blame leftists for low quality games nowadays. He shamelessly strawmans the common counterargument in order to avoid having to address the political undertones of a lot of popular games from the 90's and 00's, really disappointing how he had to go out of his way to blame left-wing politics when the simple answer is that games nowadays are just fucking boring regardless of whether they have any political undertones or not.
Watch Dogs was one of the most hyped games of the 2010s and what's so crazy is it got 2 sequels. it's like when games do bad now people rely on assuming the squeal will be better when it should not deserve a sequel at all meanwhile games that deserve a squeals take years to come out or they never get released.
To be honest if they did Not fuck up the Marketing watch dogs woud have Gotten a good reception. it had some good ideas yeah the driving sucks but its the better out of all the ones in the franchise from as far as i can Tell. The second one has ludonarrative disonance and i dont know about the third one dont even plan on playing it. Got better games to play or to replay
@@christophbeck1305 yeah definitely the best out of the 3 it definitely had some good ideas but were executed poorly or just removed for something even worse like repetitive mission types etc. The game did improve overtime with more content(never finished the game fully but heard from feedback it was good) but the hyped will definitely be remembered to the point of people saying it was the gta 5 killer at the time
@@yxrackman2397 it Was overhyped and had some fun ideas some Bad ideas the biggest flaw in my opinion Was the shit driving and General ubisoft bs. Story Was somewhere between good and ok and if you ignor the Marketing it looked good But the Marketing fucked the game over i played it years after Release and i found it to be one of the better ubisoft games of the last gen. They nailed the Atmosphere in that game and gave you some cool Tools but i still woud rather play that game over any of its sequels
@@SilverWarrior95 don't forget that the same people will defend games like these and will say "it might be your CD that's at fault" if you ever point out a flaw in any of these games. My CD? Don't they know how console CDs work nowadays? It's just a one time install then it's only used for ownership verification. So if there's a fucking bug,it's the game not a scratch
@@SilverWarrior95 agreed. Even irl is the same shit. At this point ,I may as well move to Russia since they're the least woke Caucasian country. Hell, they even torrent games like a based Chad. These liberated fanboys of shitty AAA game's are so against piracy to the point of shitting on you for pirating a game from a greedy publisher like ea. Shows a lot of their mindset.
Just played the original Deus Ex for the very first time about a month ago and it's STILL super fun to this day. Definitely revisting it at some point in the future.
enough modern games out there too... a lot of indie devs create the 90s games they would have loved to play when they were kids. and enough indie devs create stuff their wildest dreams are made of. Wrought Flesh, Highfleet,... all those things are packed full of originality. Modern gaming isnt dead. you just have a different taste. nothing is wrong with that.... but please stop crying over it... nobody forces you to play Battle royal game number 8558
@@KratostheThird no I switched sides first chance I got. I even killed Navarre in one hit with the PS20. When I betrayed them I first cleared the entire facility of personnel by slowly positioning barrels(explosive and toxic) and then shooting them. Simons was impressed I had killed them all without him noticing. It took a good 30 minutes or so since I didn't have the ability to lift heavy objects.
In my experience, it’s high budget triple gaming that has astronomically declined in quality over the past 8 or so years. There’s definitely some good triple a games, but they are very few and far between. But indie games for me have saved my interest in gaming. There are so many friggin amazing indies pushing the boundaries or just plain fun. They’re some of the best games ever made in my book. Examples: Undertale, Everhood, Ready or Not, Before Your Eyes, Hell Let Loose, Deltarune, Ultrakill, Ravenfield, Firewatch, Boneworks, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, Hotline Miami 1 and 2, Enter The Gungeon, Friday Night Funkin, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, The Stanley Parable, The Beginners Guide, Minecraft, Megaton Rainfall, Splitgate, Inscryption, Loop Hero, The Long Dark, This War of Mine, Furi, My Friend Pedro, Pavlov, Cities Skylines, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, Teardown, Tetris Effect, Oneshot, Slime Rancher, Night In The Woods, Haven, Duck Season, Doki Doki Literature Club, Ghost Runner, Ori, Cuphead, Don’t Starve, Katana Zero, Stardew Valley, Outer Wilds, Carrion, Omori, Lisa, Frostpunk, Hades, Superhot, It Takes Two, Project Zomboid.
I haven´t played a lot of them, but the reason they are so good is that they stem from pure creativity and love for gaming. My current favorite is Death´s Gambit which was remade after getting feedback to improve it even further.
oh ho man doki doki was amazing, such a mind fuck. you neeed to get pathologic 2 thats the best indie ever. and if you like telltale walking dead the wolf among us is a masterpiece and gonna have a season 2 coming out soon.
Tragically funny thing is seeing people still hyping up new Pokemon games. I find it hard to believe they've actually played Pokemon prior to Gen 6, especially with the Gen 5 games being pretty much the best the franchise had to offer.
I got "hyped" for a game in the last 5 years and it was BF 2042 , they did it very well and they give the middle finger to everyone , this games is a disaster . The gaming industry is such in a bad state ....
@@Hunkyger nope the actual "gameplay" trailer that wasnt gameplay at all , another lie and the beta was not that bad compare to the "final" product but yeah they F everyone ...
@@JayCord00 not saying it's in a good state I'm saying you all over hype older games way to much and just ignore all the good games that have come out these past few years
I 100% agree with zoomers being the cause, they've never played a good game in their life because they refuse to go backwards so they think current games are good, also idiots will always buy games and defend companies no matter the age, also as someone who got the platinum on Fallout 3 and New Vegas before playing 4 I still really liked it so I guess I'm an idiot idk
As a zoomer(born in 01) I agree. Even though I grew up with golden games in the ps2 to 360 era ,the fucking generation of gaming is dumb as hell. They'll defend any corporation and spout leftist horseshit and be scared of attractive women. Back in the ps2 era, I remember seeing hot women ,now it's just ugly fuckin mg ducklings because beauty is offensive now apparently. I swear I just wanna fucking die
I hate being gen z because of this and people from older generation is bashing us for like ruining society, the industries and everything. I am tried of my generation. I wish l was born in a other era where could just not being bashed by other people liking other stuff. Even though you guys are right about statement about. Think there is a time now to change up things before it gets worse and boring. I thinking of playing old games that you guys grew up.
Just found your content you are my favorite Doomer game reviewer...That's a compliment by the way.. I've power watched all your content the last 2 weeks
None of fromsofts souls games have ever been bad in my opinion so the hype for another amazing souls/souls like from them is justified. Also I don’t understand what you mean by roll spamming as a problem because rolling is your primary source of defense in every souls game. I get the amount of stamina used for rolling was around its lowest in ds3 and the speed of said rolls but you can argue that every souls game was about roll spam except ds2 because adaptability limits your I frames to a stat so you have to actually time your rolls unless you wanna dump levels into it or sekiro sense dashing doesn’t give I frames. I was prepared for a shit show against the bed of chaos due to everything I’ve ever heard about it but all I did was spam ninja rolls and never got touched once.
In DS1, in order to fast roll, you had to either wear relatively light armor that offered little defense or use up one of your two ring slots to wear medium armor for okay defense. Mid-rolling wasn't really spam-able without getting hit and fat rolling was VERY difficult to make work. Even then, your shield was your primary method of defending yourself. In DS2, you HAD to time your rolls. ADP made the timing less precise but you weren't going to roll spam your way through a boss. Most enemies were designed to punish you if you tried to roll-spam. Heck, the game even had a stamina penalty for roll spamming. The primary method of defense in DS2 was probably just positioning. You can get away with a lot in DS2 just by moving your character in the correct direction, only rolling when absolutely necessary. (I suppose Shields were still a thing, but I've never really tried to use them in DS2.) In DS3, Armor offered little difference in defense so everyone wore whatever let them fast roll. This made your stamina meter essentially an i-frame meter. Yes, you could get roll-caught, but it was to the point that really only players could do it reliably. Bosses don't have an AI to time their attacks to roll catch you, so the game relied on SOME bosses having combos that would catch you if you were roll spamming IF you didn't roll out of range. Off the top of my head, the only bosses with "roll-spam-catching-combos" were The Dancer, Nameless, Midir, and Gael. Of those, Gael and Nameless were the only ones you couldn't just roll away from to evade combos. They would track you and chase you down. (Dancer kinda did too, but by the time she actually started to chase you, the attack was almost over. Unless she caught you in a corner, you were going to be fine.) Midir just started flailing madly in one direction until his combo ended. If you just roll through the beginning of the combo, you were fine (minus having to chase him across the arena.)
Ds2 despite the hate nailed the roll in my opinion (so long as you had at least 100 agility; a lack of s is not optimal but the actual slow methodical premise of rolling was the best in regards to balancing rolling, especially in regards to pvp).
@ghosty99 Maybe because he's completely wrong? I'm playing a lot of DS1 right now, and to suggest that's a roll spam game is completely fucking wrong and you obviously never played it. Shields are actually viable in that game. Play it before commenting and crying.
@ghosty99 Not really what I was addressing, I was countering the suggestion that DS1 is a roll spam game - it's not. I'm running a tank build right now, large shield with heavy armor. My defense is my shield and poise from the heavy armor so I never get stun locked. The diversity within defensive builds in DS1 were greater - if you want to be a quick dex build, you could be. You want to be a fat rolling tank with high poise? You could be. Both viable.
Just wanted to add that the dash in Sekiro actually does have i-frames, but the timing is *very* tight. And there's a much longer delay after one of them, so you can't really use it to dodge more than one hit.
Gaming is better than it's ever been and it's not because of graphics. People just mistake nostalgia for quality. If these shitty old games were made today you wouldn't like them
@@AnimeisGarbage Nostalgia. Ever heard of it? I play old games and enjoy them sometimes too. I played final fantasy VIIII somewhat recently and had a blast. Same with dark souls, but those games are weaker in every way compared to the best games that come out today. I just beat Elden Ring and now I'm playing horizon and they're both masterpieces. You edge lords think shitting on new games makes you cool or on another level of consciousness or something. I see right through your bullshit
@@tugboat6940 Not really. Now I feel like YOU’RE looking at the past with a filter. Remember when a new GTA or Halo or COD came out, people expected the second coming of christ.
As you said hype is just part of the problem with gaming, to me the real reason gaming has taken a significant nose dive in the last decade or so is that gamers are becoming far too complacent in regards to not just the overall quality of a game but the amount of monetized bullshit they are willing to put up with. An example of quality (or lack thereof): Cyberpunk. I don't need to go into detail as we all know what happened but even on release when it was at its most broken and buggy (it still is now just less so) I saw tons of people defending it. The fact that a game can come out in that state and people will still defend it says everything, in no other industry would companies be able to get away with releasing completely broken products. CDPR basically scammed everyone who bought that game and somehow got praise for it from some people, it honestly boggles my mind. Then the cycle continues because the devs release a few patches and all is forgiven. We need to stop giving publishers credit for fixing what should not have been broken in the first place. An example of monetized bullshit: There is far too many games to choose from in this field but a game I don't see getting as much criticism as it should despite how badly it has been monetized: Halo Infinite. For the most part I enjoyed the campaign, not a patch on the OG trilogy but I wasn't expecting that. I also wasn't expecting the multiplayer to be so restricted in terms of customization that I played one game, realised how bad it was and never touched it again. Battle passes are absolute cancer, I don't give a shit if something is F2P, you are literally paying to unlock stuff through gameplay. I feel like I'm the only one who sees how fucking stupid that is with the amount of people who are just fine with them. It really does feel like publishers have got modern gamers brain washed into thinking that games have to be this way now, kids born in 2010 have basically grown up knowing nothing but all these problems and it's probably the norm for them. As someone that started gaming at the age of 4 on the PS1 and grew up through the PS2/OG Xbox and Xbox 360/PS3 era I know they don't have to be. I don't believe we will ever go back to anything even resembling those times any more but at the very least we could all do our bit to discourage the bullshit.
You can't expect kids aged 10 - 12 to know any of this stuff because obviously they're getting suckered in anyway. They're impressionable kids, plain and simple. The gaming industry is simply leading on with these lies, with this bullshit, with these outward claims that these kids are truly on board with. It's probably safe to say that assuming you're in your late 20s, early 30s, you are probably older than a lot of these "kids" and "normies" the industry is targeting. Young people are much more easily manipulated than older folk.
@@KratostheThird I agree with you, I do not in any way expect kids to know any of this stuff, like I said they've probably grown up with all these systems in their games and so don't know any different. With that being said there is a still a sizable chunk of the gaming market that are adults over the age of 18 that still defend these publishers and buy into the hype. Those are the people I'm talking about. Again, using Cyberpunk as an example, if you go to the Cyberpunk Reddit and check posts from around the time of release you'll find hundreds if not thousands of threads of arguments of people defending what was one of the most botched releases in history. I very much doubt these are kids aged 10-12 that were doing that and that's just one game. There are plenty of examples of gamers that are clearly adults buying into the bullshit time and time again, pre-ordering shit that doesn't need to be pre-ordered, getting mad when something releases broken and then pre-ordering the next game anyway. Publishers have demographic charts, they know these people exist and so think it's okay to keep doing what they've been doing for years because they know kids will buy into anything and so will a good chunk of adult players. You know the type I'm talking about, the ones that hype themselves into oblivion and can't accept when something is bad. Those are the ones I'm talking about.
Fallout 4's issue, on a narrative level, was twofold; the shift to a talk-wheel and voiced protagonist, and a general lack of polish. The world actually has a fantastic level of depth - it's just hidden behind far more mundane things which are shoved in the player's face. For example? All those super mutants you see roaming the wastes? Those are the people kidnapped by the institute, which are then replaced by synths. They don't just kill the people kidnap, they experiment on them and release them back out as super mutants because of an administrator's insistence that they could 'perfect' the FEV. A really interesting plot line covered up by mundane things like piper, hunting for the player character's child, etc.
Better yet, be careful what you get hyped for. I get hyped for Souls games, Monster Hunter games and jrpgs like Dragon Quest 11, Tales of Arise, Persona 5, Nier etc, and not a single one has disappointed me in any way. I hate to sound like a weeb, but a lot of Japanese produced games have a much higher chance of being great and satisfying than most western released stuff like Cyberpunk or Call of Duty.
Hype is indeed dangerous, and specially when is promoted by the Developer. When a developer can just put a trailer with great soundtrack/gameplay/atmosphere and let it speak by itself, then I feel respect for the developer and their work. On the other hand, oversaturation and over the top marketing usually is a meh for me. To be fair, the hype for Elden Ring is quite more healthy. The developers are very honest with expectations, we are not full of trailers. If anything, it's a mix of community and media speculation which in part in kind of magical. I was part of the long waiting of radio silence and it has been quite magical to be from there to here now. But I agree, that the media and part of the community is pushing too much
After the release of fallout 4, I majorly lowered my expectations for basically any AAA title. For the past decade it’s just been constant releases of unfinished games that instantly die because they were so broken at launch. I just hope that they’re some indie developers making great games that focus on quality more than making broken cash grabs.
Something I enjoyed about Skyrim when it first came out was the story. I liked dragons growing up and the idea that you’d be the Dragonborn, literally the chosen one, was enticing. However, looking back, I had made more characters that outright avoided the main quest line to the point that I never used shouts. I played through the main quests only a couple of times. Upon realizing this, I found that I didn’t actually value the story as much as I thought I did. Was it the mechanics? No. They felt lazy. I shouldn’t be able to make an Orc Archmage. That’s why I loved Oblivion so much more than Skyrim. Your choices in character creation actually mattered. It wasn’t just some unique dialogue or racial power. ALL of your stats revolved around those initial decisions. There was more behind the scenes in Oblivion. I couldn’t waltz around the early game slinging magic as an Orc on the same level as an Elf. I could go all-in on an archer and play a wood elf or something. It felt more structured. Also, Skyrim’s graphics haven’t aged very well. Neither have Oblivion’s, but Skyrim’s vanilla graphics look like an acrylic painting sometimes.
Think Bethesda just doesn't know jow to make their main quests engaging anymore. I remember morrowind, oblivion and Fallout 3 for the most part, i was pretty engaged most of the time. In Skyrim and fallout 4 though, I've done all in my power to avoid it, without actually wanting to avoid it. Exploring a building filled with toxic gas that made the gunners all turn on each other making it a warzone, or rescuing a guy from thalmor prison was much more fun than looking for your son or w/e the fuck the goal was in skyrim. Clocked over 300h in both of those games, and all playthroughs I'd just ditch the main quests after killing a dragon in front of whiterun or reaching Diamond City. Never finished either game
If you go look at a release calendar from 20 years ago (2001/2002), more good games released in any 3 months of those years than release in an entire calendar year now--industry is creatively/spiritually bankrupt.
even TLOU 2, the example used in this video, doesn't really prove anything. you could remake that game with straight men as the main characters and the overall message of the game wouldn't be any more or less shallow than it already is, but I guess since the main characters are a buff woman and lgbt people the game is political propoganda.
Cyberpunk is literally the perfect example of hype killing a game, they got Soo many preorders because their marketing team was smart and they didn't even have to make a game lol I hate my life
@ZernoHD the city is fun to explore but theres no interactivity, the gun combat is fun despite the fact enemies are bullet sponges and the AI is pretty damn simple, I'll say this it's not a crime to enjoy the game but your feeding into the machine that is "modern gaming" by buying and playing it then spreading news about how it isnt as bad as everyone is saying it is.
Dark souls 3 isn't about dodge spamming... With appropriate placement you can avoid many attacks by backpedaling or stafing in the correct direction . This is however advanced, not many try to experiment with to conserve stamina. This is true for all soulsborne games.
There's no need to do that in DS3 lol since you almost never run out of stamina. Once you learn how to kill a basic roll boss you learn how to kill them all unlike in ds1 where at least half of the bosses had unique mechanics
@@FireGiantFoot did you have to like your own comment? Anyways just play an actual good game like DS1 or Bloodborne instead of defending the mainstream mess that is DS3
1. gaming has gotten substantially more innovative overall if you don't just look at big releases. The indie market is continuously innovating with brilliant new mechanics, visual styles and narratives, but unfortunately true innovation simply doesn't appeal to as many people, which is why those titles don't get as much attention outside of the right communities. 2. I cannot think of a single game that openly endorses socialism/communism. Even social democracy only has scarse support in games, so I feel like economics in general just isn't something many devs are interested in talking about in their games, nor is it something a lot of people would be very interested in. In regards to what you call "identity politics", we are literally just talking about including people from minority groups into a game's cast in 95% of cases. If you take so much issue with that, the burden of proof is on you to showcase why that is a bad thing, just saying muh politics isn't enough. For the record however, I do agree that diversity shouldn't come at the cost of other aspects. For instance, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to include a lot of black characters in a medieval European game that is supposed to be authentic. 3. A lot of your criticisms are due to the profit motive of big publishers. Needless to say, this is one of the foundations of the free market, so if you REALLY want to do something about the lack of innovation in pretty much all big-budget art productions, be they movies, games or music, maybe you should be a bit more open towards economic alternatives 🙂 4. Yeah, Dark Souls 1 was by far the most thematically interesting and meaningful souls-game imo. It lacked refinement in many regards but for the experience you are getting that often doesn't even matter. Personally I wish Miyazaki would just move on to new innovative projects. Honestly I think games like Déraciné are a good sign for the future here. Yes FromSoft is now big enough to experience some pretty big pressure by their publishers to produce very specific products, but clearly there is still some interest in doing something new and unique. Elden Ring however will not be that. It will be really fun and I'll spend thousands of hours with PvE and PvP, but it's almost certainly not going to satisfy my desire for new interesting game design ideas.
I feel like every indie games are either a generic platformer or turned based rpg with bad pixel art or some low level metroidvannia with unnessecary rpg elements
The thing is we know what Elden Ring is going to be. Big Dark Souls, literally. And that's fine. It doesnt get me hyped but excited to see how FromSoft has changed some things in order to better fit the game to R.R. Martin's writing. And yes, I already know it's going to be GOTY. Which other boring and uninspired AAA game can even hope to challenge it?
And that's where it should end. There is no problem with thinking like this and having hope. But what is a no go would be hype train such as that we saw for CP2077 to a point that everyone ignored all the red flag. Hype so big that it blinds you to blatant glaring issues. And also, Pre orders. Fuck pre orders. As soon as all sort of pre orders die, we should atleast get the buggy releases somewhat in a bearable point
Just the title alone made me like this video. I've been saying this for awhile now, the thing that leads to constant disappointment is unreal expectations. Also NEVER pre-order... More people need to talk about this, the mainstream overhyping isn't helping anyone.
Your videos really upset a certain type of viewer. Left a comment on your last one and had loads of them reeeing at me in the replies. So I'll repeat it again just to annoy them. It's rare now for RUclipsrs to speak their mind without worrying about views or putting off future sponsors. Keep it up, it's refreshing. Hope you can make a success of it.
Hype has nothing to do with why gaming is dying lol. Stop telling people that they shouldn't get excited. Excitement and disappointment is part of life. You don't determine if someone gets to be excited or not. Why do you care if someone is excited, whether or not they get disappointed? Has literally nothing to do with you.
bro i haven't been hyped for a single game in like 5 years, and despite my standards being on the floor, i am still disappointed with almost every release. they really are just 99% dog shit now, but at least that means a game that is a 6/10 sticks out like a sore thumb among all the shovelware
One of the big problems with hype is that it plays perfectly into one of the largest software development trends plaguing multiple industries right now. As someone with an organizational management background, I can tell you that a lot of game developers, especially AAA ones, use some variation of the Sprint or Agile methodology. When you boil away all the marketing meme talk, this ultimately means they focus on rushing a product to market as fast as possible while worrying about doing iterative improvements after release in order to properly "finish" their product. Companies are shipping bare bones products and buying good will from consumers by selling the actual finished product as "continued" or "post-launch" support. Hype is ultimately the measure of conscious real estate a product occupies in a consumer's mind, and the more condensed methodology of the Sprint cycle let's developers take full advantage of that. Every day a game spends in develop is another it risks falling from memory or not making money. Sprint let's companies maximize the initial buy-in hype can create, thereby pumping those sales figures and laying the groundwork for the classic sunken cost trap.
You sound like an older individual who knows his stuff. It's refreshing to hear someone that presents logic and makes rational points. Game testers are a thing of the past. Having early access on Steam and elsewhere was really the beginning of the end when it comes to expecting a quality, fully ready product on release day. Your argument basically explains Ubisoft in a nutshell.
@@KratostheThird The "beginning of the end" was the shift away from static releases and towards "live service" which occurred around the mid to late 2000s. Just look at the number and kinds of updates you'd get on 7th generations consoles compared to 8th generation ones. It's the same thing with Steam as well, updates used to be much less frequent. Prolific and consistent high-speed internet connectivity was the key ingredient that allowed for this change and the widespread adoption of Sprint-based models to occur. Games updating post-launch is so ingrained and expected at this point that not updating - be that frequently enough or at all - is enough to seriously damage the sales and longevity of a company's releases.
@@spnked9516 Mind if I ask how long you've been in this business? But yes. Everything you said here is true. I can tell you from first hand experience that many games from roughly 2006 to 2010 had far less updates. What happened after was a real shift towards "live service". I'm with Synthetic Man regarding his opinions. He, like I, are what are now considered OG gamers, or old school gamers. He's covered a number of old games including the Resident Evil remake, Thief and Prototype. I played Prototype within the second or third day of release back in 2009 and I can tell you the game was actually complete. You didn't sit around waiting for updates to install, you just popped the game into the system and you were good to go. That game was published by Activision, who has now been bought out by Microsoft. Personally, I blame the success of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, The Last of Us, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Heavy Rain for where we are today. Every other big budget AAA game is more like a "movie game". Every Call of Duty and Battlefield is trying to be like this, chock full of microtransactions and lootboxes. With all these updates, we don't exactly have true single player games anymore. Everything is online integrated, which goes back to your point on high speed internet connectivity which accounts for games being broken on release day and being patched later on. The decline started early in the PS3/360 era. The PS2 generation was the last time we could truly say we owned our games and we were able to buy complete games on release. Made perfect sense to preorder back then. Now, there is no point whatsoever.
"The gameplay is less fun, less innovative. Cutscenes are shoved down our throats every 5 god damn minutes. There's microtransactions in everything. There is political propaganda shoved down our throats." Remember, this is the same man that complained about Doom Eternal, a game that pretty much defied all of that while being as good as shooters can get. I agree that the industry isn't as good, but this guy just says things for the sake of saying them. I mean, this is the same guy that has genuinely used The Game Awards as a source for his arguments.
100% agree. It's almost impossible for me to get hyped about anything now. I've been let down so many times now. You talked about dark souls leaning more and more action. I feelt the same way about mass effect. Yes the orginal had clunky shooting but I missed the party customisation and micro management. The 3rd just turnt into a REPEATING arena full of enemy's that you had to kill to progress with cutscenes in between them.
I didn't like Mass Effect 3. The mysterious "kid", the god awful ending, something felt very wrong and off when I first played thru it. But I think what really has killed my hype was the fact that a lot of big name franchises and sequels in the past had notable improvements. Mass Effect 2 was a leap above Mass Effect 1. Uncharted 2 had more exotic locations and more interesting villains. Dead Space 2 kept the horror element while featuring a talking protagonist along with other changes. Then Dead Space 3 comes out and we find that the series was turned into a more generic co-op shooter, rather than a survival horror set in space. Today there's barely anything keeping my interest.
@@KratostheThird Yeah they try to make games for everyone while also trying to milk us dry. I understand why they do this as a vast majority of people only buy a handful of games a year, while gamers will buy loads. The issue is the "normies" or casual market that only play and buy cod and fifa each year and publishers thinking what works with them will work for the more engaged audience.
Just don't be hyped for anything! Trust me, the games that have blown me away recently were games I went into with no expectations, such as Valfaris. I just grabbed it on sale because the art looked cool and whadduya know, it ends up being one of my favorite games of all time, at least in the top 30, up there with the Contra's, Metal Slugs, and other great run & gun games. Literally never heard anything about it or read any reviews before purchasing and it was awesome
I had the same thing with the Danganronpa series, before playing these games I thought that they would be boring for me, because there is barely any gameplay, and now it's my favorite franchise next to Rayman
I think it's more of a normie problem. Games are being tailored to normies. Normies either buy them or don't. Gamers are becoming irrelevant. Our market share is miniscule compared to normies. It's comparable to the movie industry. Almost every movie that comes out is a reboot/sequel and stuffed full of progressive ideology so that the studios can get their Blackrock/Vanguard funding. Most movies and games fail because normies aren't reliable as a customer base and the people who create them have ZERO passion.
"gaming has never been better" Broh. Be a kid in the 90s, and figure out JUST how deep SaGa Frontier is. And you got that for 45$ out the gate. Idiotic kids. Happy to pay full price to be trickle-fed content via "games as a service" ideals. Getting less content, and it's given OVER time? Imagine final fantasy 7 coming out, but you couldn't finish it for the first 2 years, because you had to wait for patches, events, bugs, and content? F*cking ew. We get soul-less madden-esque sequels every year, constantly. An occasional new IP comes along and is exciting, but then whatever they did that made it special gets turned into a weird "chinese reverse engineered" version of the original that gave us spectacle. Like PUBG leading to the battle royale explosion, or GTA being a free roaming city clone creator. They succeed and then become awful versions of themselves as old crews get replaced with new people who have no clue how to even insert themselves into the original mindsets. It's been bugging me for a long time, gaming is soul-less, what was once seen as art is now just an economic pathway to being filthy rich.
Gaming died the day it became "cool" to be a gamer and all of a sudden everybody had to have a console. PlayStation 2 era was the last Great era of console gaming.
Well when something becomes popular and no longer obscure and a secret only a few people know it becomes mainstream and more available to people who are interested. Happens all the time in entertainment, the PS2 and regular Xbox became so popular that it bred more console generations.
@@IllMatic97 But what you fail to acknowledge is that like everything else when something becomes popular it becomes hijacked by morons. Morons high jacking nerd culture is exactly why we have the trash masquerading as entertainment today. Gaming is absolute dog shit, movies are absolute dog shit, television is absolute dog shit. Gaming becoming popular at killed gaming.
@@justinsantos8514 well bruh it all comes back to what I said before, "nerd culture" and gaming has and is now apart of pop culture whether we like it or not. That's what happens when something seen as obscure becomes mainstream, it is what it is jeef. I'm just super sayin.
Really appreciate the honesty you're putting forth here. I respect somebody that forms their own view by themselves instead of following the 'Group Think' mentality many others seem to express.
@@phil_5430 I understand your opinion. But at least he tries to be real and honest, unlike a lot of RUclipsrs who just pander entirely to the algorithm and avoid certain dialogue to prevent their videos from being flagged.
I mean the dudes whole opinion is "GAMING IS DEAD" and has been for at least a few years .... Just like many others he just grew up and realized mainstream companies want to make money. But reality is that Gamins has never been more alive and accessible, for players and developers alike. You can play games made by dudes from Russia or women from India with just a few clicks on your computer. Stuff like Highfleet, Aurora, Dwarf Fortress, Wrought Flesh, etc.... SO many options !! Back in the day you could only get what was in your local shop. Not everyone could get their games there... 50$ for a game you've never heard of... and then it sucks ass and youre just dissapointed. Then a few years later the console is shut down and thats it. Maisntream is mainstream ... like in music... dont like it then dont listen to it. Enough other artists out there More and more people are flocking to the hobby. If you want simulators, racing games, hyper realistic air combat, fire fighting, grand strategy, or just sailing... you have hundreds of choices for each of those topics.... Video Games have never been more alive ! And I love it !!
@@KratostheThird ?? Yeah but why does he critique games he doesnt even show any interest too? Why should I buy a game that is clearly not marketed towards certain interest I like or in any way interesting for me? I mean come on. He critiques games because they are popular yet he is angry over the route mainstream video games are going. Thats just dumb. Dont you see it? Thats like watching a grown dude critique cartoons because they dont meet his expectations even tough its marketed towards damn toddlers.
I am part of “Gen-Z” and I do agree with your point about that the majority of AAA games seem to be either disappointing or “incomplete” to some, but I do not think that the game is then instantly labeled as “bad.” Games are quite subjective, if you enjoy a game, don’t let anyone waver your opinion by telling you that it’s “bad,” disappointing, or “incomplete.”Games were created for enjoyment, but I do understand how you feel about this subject.
Pretty much the only thing that is subjective in games is story, pretty much everything else is objective like for instance gameplay, how responsive the buttons is level design.
@The Leaprachaun Well as 31 year old gamer cannot say im surprised, but it is just crazy to me how there are games that sells really well and actually leave the soul of the former games from the past.
You can find objective flaws in something and call it bad, and still enjoy it. Modern games have been objectively bad (the majority of them are not finished on launch and are blatantly broken like 2042 and 2077) and this whole "hurr durr it's subjective" shit is getting real old.
I'm guilty of the Cyberpunk hype, because i bought into what CDPR was selling me and all the content creators making constant videos about it. When i saw them slowly strip all the "planned" stuff away, i got less and less hyped. I played through the game 3 times to see if there really was any differences and there really isn't. I suppose i got my money's worth, but it was such a letdown and they can't ever crawl their way back from that, because the main premise of the game just sucks (speaking of the main story). Nowadays, i'm just indifferent to most stuff because i just assume it'll suck. It's better than being overly excited for a game, imo.
While I agree with you, when it comes to From Software, they have only delivered great games so far in my eyes. At least since Demon's Souls (don't know about their earlier games and even DS2 is a good game, just not the best they've made imo). I'm still pretty hyped for Elden Ring because of what I have seen and played in the network test. And yes, loot is already way more interesting than BOTW from what I have seen so far. To be clear though, I think having realistic expectations/cautious optimism for any game release is the most healthy approach (even for Elden Ring). Also NEVER pre-order games in case they turn out to be shit etc. There are usually reviews and stuff out before release if you must get it day one, otherwise wait and see a little if you have the patience. Sorry for the block of text and great video as always :)
I certainly agree that the game will be good, but often "Good" isn't good enough. I have more faith in From Software than I did in CD Projekt Red, but even devs I trust have disappointed in me recent years, namely Capcom twice now in the last couple years with Resident Evil 3 Remake and Village. So, will Elden Ring be good? Almost certainly. But will it live up to Dark Souls or Bloodborne? I hope so, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
@@SyntheticMan I think what makes your comment interesting is that this is something that would come from an invested fan of any series rather than a person that would judge a game SOLELY on if the game individually is good. It's kinda like a recent pokemon fan that views the games as not living up to previous entries and always stating what could be better and why it is not the most robust entry in a developer's lineup. Elden Ring could be a masterpiece to the majority but since devs and companies and the times themselves are ever-changing, there is almost a guarantee that a title won't live up to previous entries in some factors to you. Developers can learn, but it's like they always get ideas that could conflict with what certain people liked from their other games especially if the games have several mechanics or nuances implemented.
Synthetic man I'm 30 going on 31 years old and I have to say it's hands down the amount of artificial but also natural hype that comes with anticipated games. Hype from a natural perspective from fans or if it's a new IP and artificial hype from shareholders and the company making the game. They exploit the human weakness of anticipation. It's our weakness to anticipate something that is getting talked about alot. This is why the internet has been the greatest tool for exploiting that biological urge. At least pre-internet they had to kind of try to sucker you in to anticipating with magazines and TV commercials. Yes for the most part they have to try to make a good game or decent game because there was no patching or banning people from forums that talk bad about a game. Don't even have to do that anymore they literally let people on forums shill it for them to save money so even when the game ends up being mediocre it still made profit.
You're literally barely old enough to remember a world before the internet. I think the better way to present your argument is to say "I recall the time before the internet became mainstream" because magazines and TV commercials were still largely relevant to society. It wasn't until the mid - late 2000s that the internet really started to go mainstream. Before, you mostly had nerds and computer geeks using the web.
Honestly I'm happy elden ring is coming out, I was skeptical as we should with all the games coming out. But once I saw the gameplay, just reminded me of more dark souls 3. Which is really what I wanted. I'm sure they have innovated in same way , hell the jump button enough adds a lot. I just expect more dark souls and I'm happy for it.
The same problem is happening with movies and TV as well. Less and less new, creative ideas. But more and more sequels/reboots, and book adaptations. More and more political agendas, less and less creative freedom and personal themes. Even the projects that ARE original and filled with creativity and ideas, they get washed down by other issues: It’s mostly about money, marketing, political appeal, and “eQuaLiTy.” The higher ups and company owners control what that company does, basically. So if they only care about the above things, then the game/movie suffers for it. That’s why so many people claim “Older movies/games were so much better!” They aren’t all Doomers. There’s a major point there. Back when movies and games were both new and innovative, respectively. When movies started getting super popular, and there was no consuming greed and pandering. When directors and producers just wanted to fucking make movies for entertainment in this huge new medium. Same with games. Back when people only wanted to create fucking video games for other to play. When we weren’t so spoiled and addicted to “best graphics.” When it was just about making fun video games with creative ideas and gameplay, with a new way of telling stories. Yes, money has been and always will be a big factor as to why people make movies and games. Can’t continue making them if you’re broke after all. Problem now is that’s all most companies care about now. It’s mostly pandering for money and sales.
Pandering has always been part of the media since time immemorial. People just think leftist pandering is bad because it's mostly done in a very obvious manner without much nuance that typical leftist media usually has (just read old Japanese proletarian novels, I beg thee). It's just the same as when corporations are trying to pander to the ultraviolent mood of late 90s-early 2000s, except that it's now all about similar thing done but for different political spectrum. As far as I'm personally concerned, people are just mad because recent games does not pander to their beliefs to jerk off to as opposed to the other side who's jerking off to shallow representation without much innovation made by the very same corporation who appealed to the former just a decade ago. That's why this kind of gaming discourse about agenda is tiring, because y'all only pointed out the superficial like libtard SJW fantasy vs betacuck alt-right fantasy and not the substantial, like how the decline of gaming is pretty much a consequence of the industry's own growth as a producer of commodity, which seeks to prevent its own falling rate of profit by producing more and more and more to satisfy the consumer rather than creating to realize their vision.
@ZernoHD I see. Well, I really wish I could share your enjoyment of Fallout 4, friend. Sadly, for me it was just a shallow 200hr dopamine dispenser: shoot -> loot -> build, endlessly. I loved the power armors, though. But, I hated the rest.
I was so hyped for Bloodborne I got a PS4 specifically for that game. In that instance it actually payed off since BB exceeded my expectations. I don't think I'll experience that ever again 😢
I have learned to just appreciate Synthetic Man's political rants even if I do not agree with them lol. After growing up as gaming became mainstream, I never thought I would stop playing it, but aside from the occasional Switch session, I am now done. Personally I think Fortnite, PUBG and the rise of live services was the main problem. Every game wants to be a battle royale and every battle royal is the same game in a different box.
Then you just don't play many games mate.... The video game market has more developers than ever before now. Back in the day it was mostly just small studios slaving away to make a title called 'Superman the Video Game' ... Nowadays we've got Indie devs from all over the world!!! From a russian dev making Highfleet to two brothers making Dwarf Fortress. You just have to look. Mainstram companies will always want to satisfy the mainstream market and nothing is wrong with that. But if you want more then you just have to look for more.
Gaming since 82 (intellivision & C vision), online since 93 (dial up) and I can say it isn’t dying but the quality of majority of the games have dropped dramatically.
To put this in a short comment and not 4 pages. Greed is a main factor. Rush unfinished games with little to no soul in them, copy ideas from other games and at times give everyone a handicap to make sure new players don't get mad because they don't want them to struggle to get rewarded. Skill and dedications seems to have less meaning now. Make false excuses to defend the product when they already knew from the start it was a mess but choose to hide it until they get caught and called out. I could mention plenty more things but yes there are plenty of things wrong with AAA titles these days. And let's not forget about how often they try to appeal their game to everyone, but end up with a mess of a game that only a few people can enjoy. Quite ironic.
I'm having the opposite problem. Ive yet to see a game reveal that can make me hyped in recent times
with you on that one
Same, there aren't many great games coming out anymore so it sorta just makes me more pessimistic and unable to be excited for upcoming games because I just expect them to be a disappointment like most games are these days.
every year i see people on social media going crazy on some generic games, i never understand why they act like they're seeing something awesome
Same
I remember the days of mass effect trailers or witcher 3. Nowadays it's just boring multiplayer games that dont even work.
When mediocre has become the standard/Good you know something is wrong with today's gaming
Sorry most people don't just shit on Medicare games because they're Medicore but I'd argue video games even back then weren't great you're all just blinded by nostalgia really bad
@@jub8951 sorry, but I’m 14 so I wasn’t old enough to have nostalgia for old games. So here’s my standpoint. Though many people are nostalgia blinded I’ll just show you this what games are objectively better than the modern ones (not my opinion this is games that are objectively better)
Fallout new Vegas is better than fallout 4
Far cry 2&3 and blood dragon is better than far cry 5&6 and new dawn (or whatever the pink one was called)
Halo 3 is better than halo 5
Every old call of duty is better then the ones out now
Every old sports game from 2014 and under is better then the ones now
Old Pokémon is better than new Pokémon sword and shield.
Any battlefield game is better than 2042 (including fricking hardline)
Borderlands 2 is better than 3
Final fantasy back than was better then the ones now
GTA San Andreas is better than the remake. ( or gta V that ones up for debates)
Just cause 2 is better than 4
I can go on and on, I don’t know what else is proof that it’s not just nostalgia. Keep in mind those listings aren’t just my opinion those games are objectively better than the shit we got today.
@@Sonny2299 resident evil 2 remake and biohazard are literally loved by many and is better than 5 or 6 and the originals since they are much scarier, devil may cry 5 is objectively the best devil may cry, doom 2016 and doom eternal are objectively the best doom games, also talking about Halo I heard infinites good, god of war PS4 is objectively the best god of war, not to mention, spiderman PS4 is objectively the best spiderman game, not to mention horizon, nioh, nioh 2, Bloodborne, sekiro, ghost of Tsushima, not to mention indie games as well, but we're just talking triple AAA not mention games coming out like dying light 2, horizon forbidden west, and oh yeah elden ring and I can go on and on if you want to focuse on the negative expects on a gaming generation? You know how many bad movie tie in games were in the PS2 and Xbox? Alot of them and those aren't the only bad games in that generation because I played alot of them
Mediocre was always the standard in gaming. That's why there are great games, bad games and midling games. Great games, even back then, are rare compared to most other bad and mediocre games. That was always the case.
it was like 3 companies making games back then now there’s at least 10 big ones. More companies means more games. More games means more of a chance for a mediocre game.
People are literally paying 60$ for incomplete games
But the worst part of it all are RUclipsRS lying to their viewers saying that the games are not broken
Everyone's in on it.
RUclipsrs are incentivized by money and access. Websites like IGN shill to get kick backs from publishers. Publishers lie and deceive all in the name of money.
The masses gets tricked and buy into it, and the cycle repeats itself.
There's too much money involved not to lie.
you realy think elden ring wil release broken this is from were talking about here
@@penguin4241 after cyberpunk i wont put anything past any game studio, from has investors and stockholders to please just like any other studio
@@tylerhill40 you forgot that the people that complain about it, just to buy the best gave. It's for content.
It's not about hype...it's about preorders, microtransactions, and early access.
We need to stop giving companies money for incomplete products. They're not incentivized to actually complete the product once they have the money in pocket.
Microtransactions are a completely seperate issue.
And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with Early Access. Plenty of great games have come out of it.
Hype is the reason people pre-order. It's also the reason people read blatantly undeliverable Early Access promises and support the game anyway.
@@SpadeDraco Microtransactions are a different issue, of course...but it leads to the same shady business practices.
And as far as early access goes...maybe it's my age showing, but I miss the days of games being released COMPLETED. You bought a game, and the game was ready. No patches were needed, no day-one updates, etc. Just a complete game for your hard-earned money.
I have a really hard time believing that with all the technological advances we've made over the years, game development has taken steps backward. No. These changes are in the name of lining people's pockets, at the expense of the consumer. And we've convinced ourselves to just take it with a smile.
There's no justifiable reason for every game to need countless updates, patches, and day-one dl's to be in a playable state. Especially since we know it wasn't like this ten or so years ago.
@@tizodd6 I think you might misunderstand the concept of Early Access a bit, I'm pretty sure the idea is that if you have a partially made game but lack funds to finish it you can release what you have as proof of concept and people can choose to pay you less than full price so that you can finish it and in exchange for you basically allowing them to be your beta testers and they get upgraded to the full game at no additional cost upon the proper release.
obviously there are some people that misuse it, sometimes people waste the money they get or abandon the project, and it's definitely something made more for indie games than for AAA but I've seen it used really well a few times.
@@Eclipsed_Embers I understand what it is. I also know it can be useful for studios that don't have a lot of funds. I'm just tired of seeing it misused, and seeing games stay in EA for years and never get a full release.
Like I said...I just miss the days of buying a complete game and calling it a day. The constant nickel and diming is annoying.
@@tizodd6 You made your RUclips account in 2006 and you have a playlist of Old School songs from the 1970s/1980s. So I think I already see where you're coming from.
I'm certainly much older than Synthetic Man himself is, but I respect him a little because he brings up a lot of great points in this video. Seeing games in a constant unfinished state is the reason why I no longer preorder games, and haven't done so for years.
These days I wait until everyone else has moved on from a game, then I just go and buy that very game for $20 - 30. Fully complete, with all the patch updates the devs made after the game launched, no longer have to worry about unfinished crap.
I did this for Red Dead Redemption 2. Picked it up for $30, and despite it's slow pace, I'm really enjoying the game.
Tears of th kingdom is the perfect encapsulation of this point. I feel as though Nintendo could release literally anything, call it Zelda, and it would get perfect scores across the board.
Tears of the kingdom deserves every 10/10 though. Your just upset and hate nintendo, because your just one of those nintendo haters lol.
It's legit a perfect game.
@@ash8244oh dear
@@ash8244 Somehow people like you is the kind of people Synthetic Man talks about in his videos. 💀
“Praising” a game then immediately calling “hater” out of nowhere.
Would love Zelda CDI sequel.
@@ash8244 "y - you're just a hater!!!!!!"
i can play at that game too, mr fanboy shill
but obviously i won't because calling people names for disagreeing with you is something i grew out of once i got into elementary school
A better description would be "gaming is dying and greed is killing it"
That's democracy nowadays. Except for the fact that democracy never worked as intended.
I mean its the greed of the company but its the hype of the consumer that keeps supporting it.
The price we had to pay to move gaming into the mainstream
@@LastGhost12 I still remember the days where playing games got you teased and made fun of, though I grew up right on the tail end of it.
In my older brother's day it'd get your ass kicked! He used to hide his Comodore 64 in the garage under a blanket whenever friends came over.
@@planescaped I'm curious as to how old you are. People were still teasing kids for playing video games back in the 1990s. Even with DOOM, gaming was still a largely niche hobby. Some grown ups who were like John Romero and John Carmack were into gaming as a hobby, but a large demographic of gamers were kids, including myself.
I will agree hype can ruin a game, but there is a difference between hype and excitement to a certain degree. The casual hype is what I hate personally.
Your pfp… LMFAO
like bf2042 the whole thing was just for casuals
This guy is a little too much doom and gloom… even classic franchises, throughout all he does is shit talk all gaming and make it depressing. Seriously listen to what he says about MGS and Resident evil as a series, he actually doesn’t say much of a single positive thing. He’s just too bitter at this point, it’s not funny or enjoyable to watch like an angry joe or AVGN or even a YongYea, just some guy who’s way to obsessed with how his opinion is perceived in RUclips comments. I still will hope his content takes a turn, but there’s a fine line between sardonic and dour.
@@djandjb1 You realize he is ranting, right?
Half of the ranters on RUclips do the same thing. Also, he's said a lot of positive about Resident Evil.
@@KratostheThird Even if he’s “ranting”, it’s honestly a bad rant and it’s just rambling about personal opinions, that he applies to everyone. Even talking about the Souls games, he talks like an entitled child who wants his little perfect game, because he has grown so good at video games that he can’t even die in the Souls series anymore, and nothing surprises him at all. Like, if nothing surprises you in gaming, then why do you play videogames? Maybe it’s time you grow out of it and find another hobby, cause you’ve definitely lost interest in it…
This video was kind of a disaster honestly, could’ve been handled much better if not for most of the non sensical takes…
As someone who has played the Elden ring beta, I have to say it isn’t just ds3 rollspam generics, it’s a little slower, and focuses on strategy a lot more with the spell system being overhauled, ashes of war bringing tons of variety, and just general additions like stealthing, sleep arrows, power standing which emphasises weapon diversity. They’re making the gameplay more varied which is overall a good thing. I’m personally very hyped for Elden ring, but that’s because Elden ring is the only game I can get hyped for anymore. Most videogames that come out are shit, and with the rise of NFTs, it’s only going to get worse. Elden ring could be terrible but like you said, it’s very unlikely. I’d be cautiously optimistic.
fromsoftware is one of the few game developers that I feel safe about getting hyped about, they have been making amazing games for over 20 years now. I am a old school fan been playing sense kings field and armored core. the thing that he's failing to bring up is that there are always obvious signs when a game compony is about to release a shit game. and fromsoftware is showing none right now. its ok to be hyped, just do your research first, is what I say.
No offense or anything but do you know how many times people have said they beta tested a game and it was amazing, only for it to be a giant turd when it released? There's a fairly popular RUclips who got invited to play Cyberpunk around 6 months before it released and made a gushing 30 minute video about how blown away he was by what he saw. We know how that turned out...
Still already bought it
Someone telling me I shouldn’t be hyped
That’s BullShit
@@Aethelhald well we all know that the people who sung high praises for cyber punk beta were abject liars. you could see the cracks in it there and they chose to ignore it.
@@Aethelhald There were obvious signs cyberpunk was not going to be what the developer were saying, honestly the lengthy development and delays was a huge sign that things were not going as planned. Also before the beta they only showed scripted gameplay not actual real gameplay which is also a sign that developers are hiding things and or lying.
Wanted to elaborate even further cdprojekt red only had one successful game under their belt, which is the Witcher three. Witcher one and two are just OK games, not good and not bad. So it’s not like they’ve had a very great track record to even start. unlike fromsoft who has released successful game after successful game after successful game for over 20 years now.
Mate, From Software , at least until now, has never disappointed with its games and I don’t see why Elden Ring should be any different, their games never had micro transactions and all their games have always been single player focused, these two reasons alone would be already enough for me completely trust them on any new game that they could release
careful, you sound like the people who were saying the same thing about CDPR and the witcher series, right before Cyberpunk
Hopefully that won’t happen with Elder Ring and From, otherwise I will get back on this comment section just to that I was wrong
@@letsgovideogames4190 CDPR made ONE good game. Fromsoft hasn’t missed since Demons Souls. It’s not the same.
@@letsgovideogames4190 but unlike cyberpunk they gave us gameplay of the game before release that isn’t prerecorded super specific scenarios. I mean the closed network test alone was pretty goddamn good especially for such a small portion of the game
@@letsgovideogames4190 Sorry to join the bully train, but I have to agree with most of the guys here. FromSoft has had a great track record with almost all of the games they have released up until this point with a huge dedicated player base for all of them.
I don't see Elden Ring failing at all, even if it comes out with some bugs.
Battlefield 2042 getting 8, 9, or even 10 from most gaming news outlets basically says all you need to know about them. Thank god we have SOME major RUclipsrs who keep it real.
Mostly smaller RUclipsrs. The big ones usually shill since they have connections with publishers and developers.
@@KratostheThird Depends I guess who you follow. Angry Joe and Skill Up both didn’t hold much back from giving the game a good beating telling people not to play it.
@@blairalexander3009 I haven't looked at Angry Joe the same way ever since his copyright rant back in December of 2013.
He certainly has talent and charisma, but compared to his old stuff Angry Joe just comes off as being lazy and uninspired.
The reason Angry Joe stood out was because he was one of the first guys to cover video game reviews in a polished format. He came onto the scene back in 2009/2010ish when most RUclipsrs didn't have the resources to make decent video game reviews.
Now he's looking like the old guy who has seen better days. He's certainly not bad, far from it, I just don't think he is as great as he used to be.
@@KratostheThird well sure I can echo some of that. I have some problems with his past actions too but he’s still a big RUclipsr and I can always count on him being honest and not shilling.
This is actually one of the only few times I can agree with Synthetic man
Cyberpunk really killed my hype for anything I don’t feel anything now for most games
I had my expectations low for CP and everyone thought I was stupid for having low expectations. I love how it took a turn.
Patrick Bateman doesn’t feel anything anyway 😉.
I didn't follow Cyberpunk at all despite loving The Witcher 3 and being one of the 16 people who bought, played and beat the first game *pre-enhanced edition*
From the little I knew of it, it was a combination of me not being as interested in the setting and concerned by how overly ambitious they were being for what was the 4th game they had ever made... A lot of people were very, very derp in their following of CDPR and Cyberpunk honestly, and had incredible over-reactions to what happened as well.
Everyone wants to blame CDPR for fooling them despite a lot of people going out of their way to be fools. >__> It's okay, I was there myself once with Dragon Age 2. I adored Origins and Mass Effect at Mass Effect 2... So I followed Dragon Age 2 intently, preordered and was super excited. I knew EA had a reputation and was fully aware of the warning signs, but this was Bioware! This was Dragon Age! But DA2 was just your typical shoveled out EA trash with none of the passion or care that went into Origins, I was a fool and I got burned.
Instead of being the type who gets mad that a hotplate doesn't have a "caution hot" warning, learn from the mistake and be more aware in future.
Man cdpr screwed us all lol. I loved their previous game the witcher 3 but damn even playing that now it's still kinda janky in some ways and I've seen a decent number of bugs. But that was a fantastic game. Cyberpunk was a shitty rpg.
Fucking hell man, did you guys just start playing games a few months before Cyberpunk came out or something?
Your points about RE and MGS are exactly what i've been saying for some years. The old way of making game is in the past, and it's really hard to get excited for anything new to come out.
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IT's not all doom and gloom though, there are decent games still be made in the AA or even just A industry. There are games that barely got any budget and ended up being good, the core gameplay more than making up for simpler visuals.
@@bloody4558 so sad that a game needs tons of money to be AAA quality but the more money is spent in a game the more the devs (or rather, the shareholders and executives) will have to play safe, leading to games becoming more of the same
I agree. I find myself still playing PS3 games because they were all so great. I think I’m gonna buy a ps2 in the future
Ive started playing DS and 3Ds games more and more. Just plain fun. No BS
I downloaded retroarch on the xbox and brother I didn't remember how much fun the wii ps2 and ps1 games were brother and the vast majority of titles that I buy in the series are 360 and they are much better than what we have today.
@@dustygearhead ps1,ps2, nds, psp, gba
Has been my friends for years
I just got one now I'm slowly getting stuff for it. It's a shame when you realize the best games were in our past.
I ordered a Retroid Pocket 2+ and praying that i get it in the next few months. They are on back order and they look fun as hell.
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The thing is, developers aren't hyping up Elden Ring. They teased the title and then stayed quiet for like, 2 years & then announced it'll be coming in 1 year. We have been counting down the days since and now it's just 2 days away!!
They haven't been hyping it up like Cyberpunk, they know they don't need to.
The hype that exists, does so due to fans of Fromsoft games. Fromsoft have put so much heart & soul into their games, that they've never disappointed.
As a company, they've literally earned the hype that Elden Ring is getting. They've never disappointed and released banger after banger. Dark Souls, Bloodborne & Sekiro are all amazing and this is their magnum opus.
We all know by now that Fromsoft are NOT a sellout company. They want to give people the absolute best gaming experience they can and they've revolutionised gaming. So many other companies have followed in their footsteps, making "souls-like" games.
There's hype for a reason and the fact it's the fan base making all the hype & not the company tells you all you need to know.
Also, next gen has come out. Developers got complacent and lazy on the last platform, but with next gen coming out, developers are realising they need to up their game as people want more. They can't just release shit anymore. In 3 years time, there will be countless amazing PS5/XboxSX games. I think developers will start listening to their audiences more and delivering more. Elden Ring will be a great example of what developers need to be doing.
We need more horror/action games like Dead Space and open world games that aren't just empty and I'm confident we'll get that & more.
Elden Ring is most certainly NOT next-gen. Another video I watched, two visual artists in the gaming industry revealed just how things work visually in the game, and talked about how old the engine is that FromSoftware is using. If we're being honest here, Elden Ring was an asset flip. From is going to have to adopt a newer game / graphics engine going forward.
About 10 or 15 years ago I saw a shift in the gaming industry, I saw the shift from games that were developed for the love of the game to the shift of games made for profit only. Profit only games are easy to spot, I think that's why all games from our past felt like they were better games.
yup. Games used to be developed by passionate and CREATIVE gamers. Also gen x and boomer developers were just smarter and had more vocabulary
@@FSVR54 the generations of the people developing games could not be more irrelevant to how good the games are. Boomers and gen X had no more pure intentions than current devs do
@@ryanmcmahon7805 they were smarter overall. just look at the quality of games
@@ryanmcmahon7805 you're probably a salty zoomer
@@FSVR54 I'm not a zoomer but it shouldn't matter anyway. We've had plenty of dogshit games in the past prior to the 2010s. There was a literal market crash caused by shitty games back when it probably was boomers making them. Just because you feel a certain way about this subject doesn't make it actually true
Normies ruined everything like usual. Music, games, anime, movies.
It's not normies....
But basic idiots who can't get their heads straight
The society becoming so robotic that the space for different views have literally died by now
Censorship doesn't allows us to be different and diverse which is so ironic
Back when games where made, people of different lives made it, you could see the passion and endeavour devs took to make games
Now it's just cash grab industry
Comparing all the latest Ubisoft games is also a very good example of them killing their own games series
Ac origins was good though.
Still better than brotherhood or rogue
@@ExtremeMan10 🧢
The beginning of the decline of gaming for me started with the swift rise and increase in remakes and remasters.
You could very well be onto something there, that must be when originality started to die
That's with all entertainment. These diddlers that make up being gay their whole personality is obsessed with forcing that personality on everyone else too such an extent they get jobs in education and entertainment to do it on a larger scale. Sense being gay is their whole personality they don't have the skill or talent to make content so they copy and steal from previous content. Games movies TV shows comics everything is a rehashed trash copy of true entertainment.
this whole comment section and elden ring is out of hand
makes me wonder if they've actually kept up with from software and how their games are on pc, especially currently with multiplayer completely disabled due to people being able to remote acces someone elses computer through dark souls, funtimes
dont get me wrong, i think their games are a great experience but sucking up from software this much saying they've never disappointed are seriously oblivious to flaws that have been going on on dark souls for ages
and thats all after people managed to corrupt savefiles, get people banned with cheated in items among other things
nothing in life is perfect, and if you have these kind of mindsets you're bound to be disappointed with what you will end up with
I think you made a lot of good points in the video. Modern AAA titles have become focused on graphics and animations. If you go on social media you always see how people brag about how "gorgeous" the game looks versus the story and gameplay. After I played AC Odyssey which I didn't even finish, I felt like what made gaming the best hobby ever was gone.
Honestly, the animation isn’t even good, just basic. I also hate mo-cap. For faces it’s fine, but movement/action it’s terrible. It looks like a stunted rehearsal in slow-mo. Hand-animated looks more realistic. But they want to be more like Hollywood so they gotta do mo-cap, face-scanning, Hollywood actors, and terrible stories like Hollywood too.
I got 20 minutes into Assassin;s Creed Odyssey, turned it off, and never played it again. >__>
The first time I felt legitimate boredom from a big AAA game, usually I get at least some cheap thrills out of it... but no, just pure ennui.
@@mrshmuga9 also seems like single player is becoming less and less relevant, since being perpetually online to collect their daily rewards or chewing thru lootboxes for a skin are the only things the audience today is concerned with. Even the few so called glorified single player "games" such as death stranding, hardly involves any gameplay.
@@joshjonson2368 And that's a Hideo Kojima game, so you already knew what he was going to put into it.
I've had the suspicion that gaming was going the way of tv and movies for a while now. By this I mean that the "gaming community" is being slowly filled with normies to the point where companies will begin to cater to them instead of the og gamers.
Another industry where you can see this starting to happen is anime and manga, little by little more normies are entering it and anime and manga are becoming more and more progressive and westernized.
Yeah animes nowadays are much worse apart from a few its shameful most good ones nowadays are short while longer ones like Dragon Ball Super, AoT, One piece is just complete garbage. 7 deadly sins had so many animation blunders. The only good ones i've seen lately are Zombieland saga and happy sugar life.
OG animes like squid girl, DBZ, HxH, Sailor Moon are amazing and different unlike newer ones
You started seeing that shit in the 2010s. In the 00s, normies knew to stay away from Anime and Manga.
That happened to gaming in the late 2010's...
The golden age has long since passed and we're in the age of big business, highly corportized AAA games.
The easy solution is stop just following big game releases and look for the hidden treasures that are out there, of which there's a fuckton.
Case in point, Yoku's Island Express was a great and unique game that I am betting 90% of the people reading this have never even heard of. And Pathologic 2 was a legitimate fucking masterpiece, one of the best games ever made, and it only came out a couple years ago and most also haven't played it.
Hearing people lament gaming is dead while they bury their head in figurative sand and garbage is very frustrating... Instead of looking at the trending list on Steam, try digging through the new releases sometimes and looking at things other than what Gamespot has done a spotlight on.
I'm personally really looking forward to Eiyuden Chronicles and this game ruclips.net/video/mQwOWME2N-Q/видео.html
@@YBNKASHWAYS little by little identity politics are being injected into anime, it may only be a couple series right now but give it a few years and you'll start seeing where I was coming from.
Yeah, I agree, I more or less said the same thing in the Video Game Awards video. Personally, I blame the success of Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us. Now every Sony exclusive, and to a lesser extent other AAA publishers, make these "movie games" that appeal to normies. Of course, wokeness soon followed.
I can't stand constant cutscenes, forced walking sequences, etc especially when the story usually sucks.
Gamers have become fanboys who defend bad games and policies, which is weird by itself, but more than that, they take criticism of games they play personally. It reminds me of how Gen X treated music bands in the late 90’s. And you know what happened there? Popular music pretty much died. Now gaming may not die, but it’s going to fall of a cliff if it isn’t careful.
No, the internet killed off music. The music industry started to placate to international markets (that prefer pop music) to make a profit since everyone was downloading their music for free. You will enjoy your synthetic music and you will like it.
@@sweetmcnasty The music industry killed itself and just uses piracy as the scapegoat for its sucking and refusing to adapt. It shambles around as a parasitic zombie that brain drains actual talented creatives to prolong it's pathetic existince while bribing governments to enable it to better bully people.
Normies, know nothing kids with their parents credit cards, and whales will basically keep it afloat pretty much indefinitely. I suspect a parralell industry of real games, as opposed to "games as service" fraud rackets and gacha casinos, will emerge and basically soft reboot the industry. I just hope we can get back to the middleware glory days soon because as good as the indie scene is now it's still kinda stuck fixating on just 4 genres, it really wasn't worth the death of middleware that happened towards the tail end of 7th gen. That was basically the flashpoint of where gaming split into nothing but whatever the factory form trend chasing with increasingly predatory monetization, that passes itself off as AAA it or the low budget treasure hunt padded to the gills with walking similators about depression, Roguelikes, Crafting survival shlock, and Metroidvanias. Avo help you if you don't like those genres or just want actual variety because you gotta dig to find anything else that's of quality and there's NOTHING in between the two extremes aside from arguably From Software games.
@@GodOfOrphans Gen X made the last truly good popular music. Millennials basically killed what was left and it reflected the sheer narcissism they they had/have. And don't get me started on how terrible Zoomer music is. It's not even music.
@@GodOfOrphans It's better to just play retro games anyway. AA games like Dante's Inferno and Darksiders were good, it's a shame the AAA industry doesn't even acknowledge the middle tier market.
Man I get so bummed out when you talk about video games, I'm only 17 but I remember when I was younger and this might be the ol' nostalgia talking but games were so much different back then. I'm not gonna come up with the drab list you are usually used to when people complain about gaming because you know much better than me how they were different but most importantly how they were better than the capital G-Slop we get today.
Stop talking like your ass is old, you are not even an adult, talking about back in the day 😂😂😂 go do your homework jesus
Gaming are dying=you are prioritising wrong things/geting old. Because Tetris and pong never dies. I buy new games every moth but I can play Tetris until I die If I don't want to experience new things....
It's not hype.
It's these companies continuously churning out shit quality.
Elden Ring is probably the only game I'm looking forward to getting this year. I haven't really watched too much gameplay of it, but even if it's just more Dark Souls 3, that's still better than anything i can see coming from any other major studio in 2022. Not super hyped, but it would have to be pretty bad to disappoint me completely.
im hyped for the zelda botw sequel
@@user-xo5zu1lw2w Eldin Ring will shit on BoTW, let's be honest
@@Evergrimrecordings that is cap bro
@@H3Li0SS no, it's my opinion. BoTW is overrated.
Based and correct. Elden kino shits on botw
It feels like we're in a curve. Golden ages of early 2010s and before were about innovating to get a place in the market. Now that it's done, every big company just playing safe even if it means letting down the community, because money first. We're in the low of the curve right now, it just hope it can go up again. If yes, I'll be here first to witness it
Early 2010s? Please zoomer, gaming was long dead before that.
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w Nah, PS3 was an amazing console.
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w early 2010's isn't my favorite gen but 2011 to 2012 we've got Minecraft, Dark Souls and the last good pokémon and COD game
imo mainstream video games have gone downhill after GTA5 in 2013
@@pikminologueraisin2139 dark souls is the only good game out of that list and that is precisely because it was not a game of it's time, the rest you listed was zoomer garbage.
@@YBNKASHWAYS HD era was when games began to die, developers started focusing on graphics instead of gameplay inovation.
Game company makes unbelievably wretched game. Fans tell them why it’s bad. Company labels critical fans as toxic racists. That’s the entire entertainment industry.
People must realize these games are a past time for us but its is literally developers job to make good games. They should take pride in the games they produce
ohhh, there's plenty of pride. That's part of the problem.
Its not even developers, its publishers and shareholders that don't Let them do what they were hired to do
Growing up on : banjo kazooie, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Super Mario 64, Star Fox, Super Smash Bros., Final Fantasy 7, Diablo 2, warcraft 3, starcraft, dungeon siege, age of empires, project IGI, Max Payne, blood omen legacy of kain, Soul Reaver 2, baldur's gate series, half life 1, half life 2, vampire the masquerade bloodlines, gta san andreas, supersmash brothers and many many more fantastic games makes me so grateful. They made my childhood magical and nothing could ever replace those experiences.
It’s so sad what gaming has come to
Feminism in video games.
Gaming was great when it was a niche hobby, when it hit mainstream the companies only see one thing $$$£££$$$
@@8-bitsteve500 that's actually a good point I havent considered. When gaming was just a nerd hobby, most developers were one of us as well.
@@martymcfly88mph35 not really but keep telling yourself that
@@jub8951 what do you mean? You think gaming developers were slaying big booty instagram babes?
Holy crap, Kingdom Hearts 3. Not only was it a massive expectation for the next title after KH2 and all the filler games, but they showed off most if not all of the areas giving no surprise to the players. Same with FighterZ and Kakarot which, yes we know what happens, but keep those animations tight for a nice surprise.
Japan doesn't have spoiler culture. Kh3 just wasn't good either way, loll
Yeah exactly. Like I had fun with KH3 for the most part, but they literally shoved the main plot behind all the Disney worlds and then rushed the ending.
Your mistake was assuming those we're filler games
@@Klonoahedgehog the bigger problem is most of them felt like filler games but had actual narrative sandwiched into filler crap
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 Isnt That just Kingdom hearts as a whole though?
Been a fan of the series for what feels like my whole life and there's always been a Lot of filler me in the games
I think is exaggerated blaming an entire generation for "ruining an entire industry" because they are just the ones who buy the games(and not all consumers are blind fanboys), the majority of the fault from the corporations because they are the ones who blatantly lie to people with trailers with almost no gameplay and then they rush to complete the development with crunch and then don't refund the people who got disappointed, they are the ones who fix problems with paid DLCs and milk the franchises nowadays.
The people who buy games can do some changes in the way they approach games for example by stopping preordering, stopping buy useless DLCs and seeing some benchmarks or gameplays before to get the game. I miss the free demos, not a lot of companies do them anymore.
So yeah hype can kill games but I think that companies nowadays force people to be hyped by exploiting the dopamine's secretion showing us beautiful graphics instead of gameplay
The reason I look to Indie studios now more than ever.
Backing potentially good games and seeing them grow into something great and successful
brings a certain satisfaction to me. Plus other people then get to experience the game aswell. Win-win.
Like Mighty n#9 lol
Even indie games are dying though. Every single fucking indie game I’ve seen for the past couple years has been so mediocre at best. Every indie game has the same annoying “quirky” art style and direction, way too many fucking pixelated and 2D games with no creative thought put in the art direction, gameplay is often mediocre at best, every indie story is either non existent or tries too hard to be “deep”. Hell I haven’t seen save for few exceptions any indie game just try to be plain fun without having some “deep” meaning that’s just straight unimaginative.
You constantly praise the older games era but guess what there was still a shit ton of awful games but ppl only look back and think about the good stuff
@Hare75 The Lowly Tarnish they cherrypick when picking older games
"Don't be too hyped for a game"
There is no hype to be had in all honesty, but perception of community hype via PR teams, biased games journalism, and marketing departments that polish a turd and pretend it's gold.
I've recently played the ME Legendary Edition,and it's leaps and bounds beyond anything put out today, 10+ years later. The gameplay mechanics are solid, the story is top notch, and (barring the old ME1) it's not buggy as hell, nor is the game incomplete and broken on Day 1, requiring substantial patches.
People don't need to "stop hyping games", what they need to do is stop incentivizing and encouraging a marketplace where a broken glitchy mess is worth $60.
Man from software have yet to disappoint me with their games. Even after all these years they are still the games I go back to. And having played the network test I can safely say that elden ring is everything I was expecting and more. Just hope the final release is stable and I'll be there Day 1 for sure.
Bloodborne and demon souls are in my to ten there great and I play ds3 every day
Thank you! And fromsoft fans know exactly what to expect from elden ring.
there is a fist for everything so i wouldn't be suprised anymore tbh
yeah this isn’t blind hype we know exactly what we’re getting and it’ll be good
I don't think Miyazaki would allow a game he worked on to be bad at release, or bad period. He has a, to my knowledge, nigh spotless record, at least in terms of dark souls and souls inspired games.
I haven't been hyped for a game since 2017 and I still think gaming has taken a nosedive quality wise. New games are just that bad and underwhelming. With or without hype.
2017 was the goat year for gaming to me and probably the last year that I also got hype for anything.
@@T-Bonez Let's face it, the goat of gaming was the PS2 era, it peaked in that era. PS3 era (7th gen) wasn't bad either, but it started to decline since then.
@@outlawfly664 its the goat era for the amount of effort put into games to satisfy customers 100% people may disagree if the actual products were the goat but definitely after that era games started to water down.
@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 You're talking about the 6th generation (PS2 era)?
@@outlawfly664 yeah. When devs and people making decisions cared about the quality of their games and the people playing them.
Still after getting disappointed by Cyberpunk, BF2042, and so many recent games, I can't help but get hyped for Elden ring. The fact they let everyone post the entire network test, and there were little to no negative things to say about the game, plus waiting for the game for many years, I'm hyped for Elden ring. I am confident From Software won't let me down
From Software hasn’t released a bad game yet imo. There’s no reason to not be hyped for Elden Ring after the network test footage. I heard they’re supposed to be releasing ray tracing too it once it releases too
Forbidden west is pretty good
The last triple A game I got *seriously* hyped for was DMC5, because I know the devs actually take time to make good games
Capcom in avg makes decent games.
@@digduck9463 have you *played* DMC 3?
If not please do, it’s a masterpiece
@@digduck9463 🤡🤡
Starting to think at this point, all the good games have already been made.
Pretty much
Same thing with music and movies but I reckon it’ll all bounce back in about 10 years
Nah they're just not making them for gamers anymore, that's the problem
Sadly but, games its not for gamers anymore.
I feel that they've gotten to greedy and it's no longer about the vision
I mean the "trust" people put in CDPR was unwarranted to say the least.
What had they done pre-cyberpunk?
- Were a tiny indie dev studio that made witcher 1 which, although it was one of those cult favorite games at the time, has horrific gameplay.
- Released Witcher 2 which was decent but extremely small scale
- Managed to deliver, for the most part, on Witcher 3 but left a lot of promises on the table and the game was a glitch fiesta for a while after release
So 2 small games and 1 big game where they MOSTLY delivered, yet people put their complete trust in the company as if they had some flawless track record. I was saying it was gonna be a shitty game when I saw the early trailers where it just looked like scuffed "future" GTA rather than an actual dark dystopian atmosphere. From software on the other hand:
- They did stuff pre Souls which gave them a lot of experience (they're actually a very old studio)
- They release Demon Souls which was extremely well received to spite its flaws
- They released Dark Souls 1 which was so well received it spawned an entirely new genre
- They released Dark Souls 2 which was still good (compared to the rest of the gaming industry) but it fell short of expectations because the main team was doing Bloodborne
- They released Bloodborne which is great
- Released Dark Souls 3 which is great
- Released Sekiro which is fantastic
They have a proven track record of over a decade now and if you count their extremely old games the studio has almost 30 years of experience under its belt vs a 1 hit wonder that only recently "got big" as a studio.
EDIT: And forgot to mention, there's virtually 0 chance of moronic leftist politics being involved. If we're honest the problem with the politics is mostly OUTSIDE the games. A studio gets cucked and they start diversity hiring and fill their studio with talentless idiots who can't do anything right because they fit a race or gender quota instead of looking for the best possible people.
Japan isn't infected with this tumor yet, Sony might be after they moved their HQ to California years ago but I trust Japanese devs to not self destruct via moronic politics.
The thing about Witcher 1 and 2 is that at about the two year mark of both games there was the updated versions to both that improved the gameplay. It why my joke is you can’t judge Cyberpunk til it’s second year.
Thing is there has been a decline in the Souls Games since DS2, it was way worse than 1, and then DS3 was extremely mainstream and bland. If Elden Ring looked more original I would be happy because of their games like Bloodborne which is a soulslike not a souls game, and Sekiro was great too. But Elden Ring just looks like an open world Dark Souls 3 with a jump button and Dark Souls 3 already has many flaws closely linked to making the game more available for normies
CDPR were victims of their own success. The Witcher 3 was so extraordinarily good that it gave them a rabid following, one with expectations they were never going to meet.
I feel bad for the company and hope they can bounce back like Obsidian, as most people wanted their heads and damned them after KOTOR 2. I just hope they learn from their mistakes going forward.
@@planescaped I don't feel bad at all. If they didn't blatantly lie about countless aspects of Cyberpunk pre-release they'd have some sympathy from me, if they were an Indie game that got swept up in a hype storm like No Man's Sky was then they'd have some sympathy from me.
This a massive company that was ran by idiots, blatantly lied countless times to the consumers, proudly flaunted their moronic politics in peoples faces and then delivered a steamy pile of shit. They're a shitty scummy company that is also full of incompetent idiots (most likely diversity hires) and I wouldn't care if they went bankrupt tomorrow. We need to stop this whole "think of the company :( " shit, whether your intentions are good or not is irrelevant the outcome is the same: developers getting more and more leeway to be lazy which publishers react to and rush unfinished games onto the market because the customer will buy it anyways since its "not the poor dev's fault :( "
@@inksword6029 you act like ds1 itself doesn't have a lot of problem itself. But ehh keep thinking ds3 is the worst and thinking elden ring doesn't fix the problem that ds3 have i guess.
Gaming has been dead for me for a good five years
What i've noticed is when there is too many cooks in the kitchen, the game is rarely that great.
*Too many women in the development.
“Hype is killing games.”
3 minutes in and he begins ranting about “the leftists” and “socialism”. Huh?
Yeah, even though I agree with a lot of what he's saying about hype in video game advertising, it was a little off-putting how he interjected his politics into it to blame leftists for low quality games nowadays. He shamelessly strawmans the common counterargument in order to avoid having to address the political undertones of a lot of popular games from the 90's and 00's, really disappointing how he had to go out of his way to blame left-wing politics when the simple answer is that games nowadays are just fucking boring regardless of whether they have any political undertones or not.
Gotta play to the audience of incels.
Watch Dogs was one of the most hyped games of the 2010s and what's so crazy is it got 2 sequels. it's like when games do bad now people rely on assuming the squeal will be better when it should not deserve a sequel at all meanwhile games that deserve a squeals take years to come out or they never get released.
To be honest if they did Not fuck up the Marketing watch dogs woud have Gotten a good reception. it had some good ideas yeah the driving sucks but its the better out of all the ones in the franchise from as far as i can Tell. The second one has ludonarrative disonance and i dont know about the third one dont even plan on playing it. Got better games to play or to replay
@@christophbeck1305 yeah definitely the best out of the 3 it definitely had some good ideas but were executed poorly or just removed for something even worse like repetitive mission types etc. The game did improve overtime with more content(never finished the game fully but heard from feedback it was good) but the hyped will definitely be remembered to the point of people saying it was the gta 5 killer at the time
@@yxrackman2397 it Was overhyped and had some fun ideas some Bad ideas the biggest flaw in my opinion Was the shit driving and General ubisoft bs. Story Was somewhere between good and ok and if you ignor the Marketing it looked good But the Marketing fucked the game over i played it years after Release and i found it to be one of the better ubisoft games of the last gen. They nailed the Atmosphere in that game and gave you some cool Tools but i still woud rather play that game over any of its sequels
People don't care. As long as it looks pretty and they don't have to think, they'll buy it, play it, say it was the greatest thing ever
Literally every time:
-Ghost of Tsushima is such a masterpiece
-God of War 4 is such a masterpiece
-Horizon Zero Dawn is such a masterpiece
Jeez...
@@SilverWarrior95 don't forget that the same people will defend games like these and will say "it might be your CD that's at fault" if you ever point out a flaw in any of these games. My CD? Don't they know how console CDs work nowadays? It's just a one time install then it's only used for ownership verification. So if there's a fucking bug,it's the game not a scratch
@@novapit935 these are dark times...stupidity, greed, ignorance and disrespect for what came before, are ruining everything.
@@SilverWarrior95 agreed. Even irl is the same shit. At this point ,I may as well move to Russia since they're the least woke Caucasian country. Hell, they even torrent games like a based Chad. These liberated fanboys of shitty AAA game's are so against piracy to the point of shitting on you for pirating a game from a greedy publisher like ea. Shows a lot of their mindset.
@@SilverWarrior95 tlou 2 is greatest game ever. .
I really have given up on modern gaming and i will just stick with retro since there is so much i have not played yet
2d índies are awesome. They also carry that retro vibe
Just played the original Deus Ex for the very first time about a month ago and it's STILL super fun to this day.
Definitely revisting it at some point in the future.
@@joeking6972 Ironic I come across this comment. Did you hit the point in the game where UNATCO turns on you?
enough modern games out there too...
a lot of indie devs create the 90s games they would have loved to play when they were kids.
and enough indie devs create stuff their wildest dreams are made of.
Wrought Flesh, Highfleet,... all those things are packed full of originality.
Modern gaming isnt dead.
you just have a different taste.
nothing is wrong with that.... but please stop crying over it... nobody forces you to play Battle royal game number 8558
@@KratostheThird no I switched sides first chance I got.
I even killed Navarre in one hit with the PS20.
When I betrayed them I first cleared the entire facility of personnel by slowly positioning barrels(explosive and toxic) and then shooting them. Simons was impressed I had killed them all without him noticing. It took a good 30 minutes or so since I didn't have the ability to lift heavy objects.
In my experience, it’s high budget triple gaming that has astronomically declined in quality over the past 8 or so years. There’s definitely some good triple a games, but they are very few and far between. But indie games for me have saved my interest in gaming. There are so many friggin amazing indies pushing the boundaries or just plain fun. They’re some of the best games ever made in my book. Examples: Undertale, Everhood, Ready or Not, Before Your Eyes, Hell Let Loose, Deltarune, Ultrakill, Ravenfield, Firewatch, Boneworks, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, Hotline Miami 1 and 2, Enter The Gungeon, Friday Night Funkin, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, The Stanley Parable, The Beginners Guide, Minecraft, Megaton Rainfall, Splitgate, Inscryption, Loop Hero, The Long Dark, This War of Mine, Furi, My Friend Pedro, Pavlov, Cities Skylines, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, Teardown, Tetris Effect, Oneshot, Slime Rancher, Night In The Woods, Haven, Duck Season, Doki Doki Literature Club, Ghost Runner, Ori, Cuphead, Don’t Starve, Katana Zero, Stardew Valley, Outer Wilds, Carrion, Omori, Lisa, Frostpunk, Hades, Superhot, It Takes Two, Project Zomboid.
I haven´t played a lot of them, but the reason they are so good is that they stem from pure creativity and love for gaming. My current favorite is Death´s Gambit which was remade after getting feedback to improve it even further.
oh ho man doki doki was amazing, such a mind fuck. you neeed to get pathologic 2 thats the best indie ever. and if you like telltale walking dead the wolf among us is a masterpiece and gonna have a season 2 coming out soon.
LOL. Undertale is mediocre at best
Tragically funny thing is seeing people still hyping up new Pokemon games. I find it hard to believe they've actually played Pokemon prior to Gen 6, especially with the Gen 5 games being pretty much the best the franchise had to offer.
I got "hyped" for a game in the last 5 years and it was BF 2042 , they did it very well and they give the middle finger to everyone , this games is a disaster . The gaming industry is such in a bad state ....
Hype after the Trailers? hahahahahahahahah :D
@@Hunkyger nope the actual "gameplay" trailer that wasnt gameplay at all , another lie and the beta was not that bad compare to the "final" product but yeah they F everyone ...
So we just going to ignore all the good games just to prove your point or...
Prove my point , what point ? The gaming industry ? If you think its in a good state well 🤣🤣🤦🤦
@@JayCord00 not saying it's in a good state I'm saying you all over hype older games way to much and just ignore all the good games that have come out these past few years
I 100% agree with zoomers being the cause, they've never played a good game in their life because they refuse to go backwards so they think current games are good, also idiots will always buy games and defend companies no matter the age, also as someone who got the platinum on Fallout 3 and New Vegas before playing 4 I still really liked it so I guess I'm an idiot idk
As a zoomer(born in 01) I agree. Even though I grew up with golden games in the ps2 to 360 era ,the fucking generation of gaming is dumb as hell. They'll defend any corporation and spout leftist horseshit and be scared of attractive women. Back in the ps2 era, I remember seeing hot women ,now it's just ugly fuckin mg ducklings because beauty is offensive now apparently. I swear I just wanna fucking die
I like both Fallout: New Vegas and 4. 2 playthroughs for NV, and 4 playthroughs for FO4.
I treat NV as more of a RPG, and I treat 4 as a shooter.
I hate being gen z because of this and people from older generation is bashing us for like ruining society, the industries and everything.
I am tried of my generation. I wish l was born in a other era where could just not being bashed by other people liking other stuff. Even though you guys are right about statement about. Think there is a time now to change up things before it gets worse and boring.
I thinking of playing old games that you guys grew up.
Just found your content you are my favorite Doomer game reviewer...That's a compliment by the way.. I've power watched all your content the last 2 weeks
None of fromsofts souls games have ever been bad in my opinion so the hype for another amazing souls/souls like from them is justified. Also I don’t understand what you mean by roll spamming as a problem because rolling is your primary source of defense in every souls game. I get the amount of stamina used for rolling was around its lowest in ds3 and the speed of said rolls but you can argue that every souls game was about roll spam except ds2 because adaptability limits your I frames to a stat so you have to actually time your rolls unless you wanna dump levels into it or sekiro sense dashing doesn’t give I frames. I was prepared for a shit show against the bed of chaos due to everything I’ve ever heard about it but all I did was spam ninja rolls and never got touched once.
In DS1, in order to fast roll, you had to either wear relatively light armor that offered little defense or use up one of your two ring slots to wear medium armor for okay defense. Mid-rolling wasn't really spam-able without getting hit and fat rolling was VERY difficult to make work. Even then, your shield was your primary method of defending yourself.
In DS2, you HAD to time your rolls. ADP made the timing less precise but you weren't going to roll spam your way through a boss. Most enemies were designed to punish you if you tried to roll-spam. Heck, the game even had a stamina penalty for roll spamming. The primary method of defense in DS2 was probably just positioning. You can get away with a lot in DS2 just by moving your character in the correct direction, only rolling when absolutely necessary. (I suppose Shields were still a thing, but I've never really tried to use them in DS2.)
In DS3, Armor offered little difference in defense so everyone wore whatever let them fast roll. This made your stamina meter essentially an i-frame meter. Yes, you could get roll-caught, but it was to the point that really only players could do it reliably. Bosses don't have an AI to time their attacks to roll catch you, so the game relied on SOME bosses having combos that would catch you if you were roll spamming IF you didn't roll out of range.
Off the top of my head, the only bosses with "roll-spam-catching-combos" were The Dancer, Nameless, Midir, and Gael. Of those, Gael and Nameless were the only ones you couldn't just roll away from to evade combos. They would track you and chase you down. (Dancer kinda did too, but by the time she actually started to chase you, the attack was almost over. Unless she caught you in a corner, you were going to be fine.) Midir just started flailing madly in one direction until his combo ended. If you just roll through the beginning of the combo, you were fine (minus having to chase him across the arena.)
Ds2 despite the hate nailed the roll in my opinion (so long as you had at least 100 agility; a lack of s is not optimal but the actual slow methodical premise of rolling was the best in regards to balancing rolling, especially in regards to pvp).
@ghosty99 Maybe because he's completely wrong? I'm playing a lot of DS1 right now, and to suggest that's a roll spam game is completely fucking wrong and you obviously never played it.
Shields are actually viable in that game. Play it before commenting and crying.
@ghosty99 Not really what I was addressing, I was countering the suggestion that DS1 is a roll spam game - it's not. I'm running a tank build right now, large shield with heavy armor. My defense is my shield and poise from the heavy armor so I never get stun locked. The diversity within defensive builds in DS1 were greater - if you want to be a quick dex build, you could be. You want to be a fat rolling tank with high poise? You could be. Both viable.
Just wanted to add that the dash in Sekiro actually does have i-frames, but the timing is *very* tight. And there's a much longer delay after one of them, so you can't really use it to dodge more than one hit.
Gaming is better than it's ever been and it's not because of graphics. People just mistake nostalgia for quality. If these shitty old games were made today you wouldn't like them
That's why people play those old games today and enjoy them?
@@AnimeisGarbage Nostalgia. Ever heard of it? I play old games and enjoy them sometimes too. I played final fantasy VIIII somewhat recently and had a blast. Same with dark souls, but those games are weaker in every way compared to the best games that come out today. I just beat Elden Ring and now I'm playing horizon and they're both masterpieces. You edge lords think shitting on new games makes you cool or on another level of consciousness or something. I see right through your bullshit
@@AnimeisGarbage also our expectations are through the roof compared to what they used to be.
@@AnimeisGarbage oh and anime is 100% garbage. Half the fans are pedophiles and I'm not some right winger who throws that word around like crazy.
@@tugboat6940 Not really. Now I feel like YOU’RE looking at the past with a filter. Remember when a new GTA or Halo or COD came out, people expected the second coming of christ.
As you said hype is just part of the problem with gaming, to me the real reason gaming has taken a significant nose dive in the last decade or so is that gamers are becoming far too complacent in regards to not just the overall quality of a game but the amount of monetized bullshit they are willing to put up with.
An example of quality (or lack thereof): Cyberpunk. I don't need to go into detail as we all know what happened but even on release when it was at its most broken and buggy (it still is now just less so) I saw tons of people defending it. The fact that a game can come out in that state and people will still defend it says everything, in no other industry would companies be able to get away with releasing completely broken products. CDPR basically scammed everyone who bought that game and somehow got praise for it from some people, it honestly boggles my mind. Then the cycle continues because the devs release a few patches and all is forgiven. We need to stop giving publishers credit for fixing what should not have been broken in the first place.
An example of monetized bullshit: There is far too many games to choose from in this field but a game I don't see getting as much criticism as it should despite how badly it has been monetized: Halo Infinite. For the most part I enjoyed the campaign, not a patch on the OG trilogy but I wasn't expecting that. I also wasn't expecting the multiplayer to be so restricted in terms of customization that I played one game, realised how bad it was and never touched it again. Battle passes are absolute cancer, I don't give a shit if something is F2P, you are literally paying to unlock stuff through gameplay. I feel like I'm the only one who sees how fucking stupid that is with the amount of people who are just fine with them.
It really does feel like publishers have got modern gamers brain washed into thinking that games have to be this way now, kids born in 2010 have basically grown up knowing nothing but all these problems and it's probably the norm for them. As someone that started gaming at the age of 4 on the PS1 and grew up through the PS2/OG Xbox and Xbox 360/PS3 era I know they don't have to be. I don't believe we will ever go back to anything even resembling those times any more but at the very least we could all do our bit to discourage the bullshit.
You can't expect kids aged 10 - 12 to know any of this stuff because obviously they're getting suckered in anyway. They're impressionable kids, plain and simple. The gaming industry is simply leading on with these lies, with this bullshit, with these outward claims that these kids are truly on board with.
It's probably safe to say that assuming you're in your late 20s, early 30s, you are probably older than a lot of these "kids" and "normies" the industry is targeting. Young people are much more easily manipulated than older folk.
@@KratostheThird I agree with you, I do not in any way expect kids to know any of this stuff, like I said they've probably grown up with all these systems in their games and so don't know any different.
With that being said there is a still a sizable chunk of the gaming market that are adults over the age of 18 that still defend these publishers and buy into the hype. Those are the people I'm talking about. Again, using Cyberpunk as an example, if you go to the Cyberpunk Reddit and check posts from around the time of release you'll find hundreds if not thousands of threads of arguments of people defending what was one of the most botched releases in history. I very much doubt these are kids aged 10-12 that were doing that and that's just one game.
There are plenty of examples of gamers that are clearly adults buying into the bullshit time and time again, pre-ordering shit that doesn't need to be pre-ordered, getting mad when something releases broken and then pre-ordering the next game anyway. Publishers have demographic charts, they know these people exist and so think it's okay to keep doing what they've been doing for years because they know kids will buy into anything and so will a good chunk of adult players.
You know the type I'm talking about, the ones that hype themselves into oblivion and can't accept when something is bad. Those are the ones I'm talking about.
I’m 15 and I agree with everything you said there.
Fallout 4's issue, on a narrative level, was twofold; the shift to a talk-wheel and voiced protagonist, and a general lack of polish. The world actually has a fantastic level of depth - it's just hidden behind far more mundane things which are shoved in the player's face.
For example? All those super mutants you see roaming the wastes? Those are the people kidnapped by the institute, which are then replaced by synths. They don't just kill the people kidnap, they experiment on them and release them back out as super mutants because of an administrator's insistence that they could 'perfect' the FEV.
A really interesting plot line covered up by mundane things like piper, hunting for the player character's child, etc.
Tbh you coulda not been hyped for BF 2042 for example and the industry would still feel like it’s dying
Better yet, be careful what you get hyped for. I get hyped for Souls games, Monster Hunter games and jrpgs like Dragon Quest 11, Tales of Arise, Persona 5, Nier etc, and not a single one has disappointed me in any way.
I hate to sound like a weeb, but a lot of Japanese produced games have a much higher chance of being great and satisfying than most western released stuff like Cyberpunk or Call of Duty.
Hype is indeed dangerous, and specially when is promoted by the Developer. When a developer can just put a trailer with great soundtrack/gameplay/atmosphere and let it speak by itself, then I feel respect for the developer and their work. On the other hand, oversaturation and over the top marketing usually is a meh for me.
To be fair, the hype for Elden Ring is quite more healthy. The developers are very honest with expectations, we are not full of trailers. If anything, it's a mix of community and media speculation which in part in kind of magical. I was part of the long waiting of radio silence and it has been quite magical to be from there to here now. But I agree, that the media and part of the community is pushing too much
After the release of fallout 4, I majorly lowered my expectations for basically any AAA title. For the past decade it’s just been constant releases of unfinished games that instantly die because they were so broken at launch. I just hope that they’re some indie developers making great games that focus on quality more than making broken cash grabs.
Don't worry they are basically the only people that gives a shit about gaming.
Something I enjoyed about Skyrim when it first came out was the story. I liked dragons growing up and the idea that you’d be the Dragonborn, literally the chosen one, was enticing.
However, looking back, I had made more characters that outright avoided the main quest line to the point that I never used shouts. I played through the main quests only a couple of times.
Upon realizing this, I found that I didn’t actually value the story as much as I thought I did. Was it the mechanics? No. They felt lazy. I shouldn’t be able to make an Orc Archmage.
That’s why I loved Oblivion so much more than Skyrim. Your choices in character creation actually mattered. It wasn’t just some unique dialogue or racial power. ALL of your stats revolved around those initial decisions.
There was more behind the scenes in Oblivion. I couldn’t waltz around the early game slinging magic as an Orc on the same level as an Elf. I could go all-in on an archer and play a wood elf or something.
It felt more structured. Also, Skyrim’s graphics haven’t aged very well. Neither have Oblivion’s, but Skyrim’s vanilla graphics look like an acrylic painting sometimes.
Think Bethesda just doesn't know jow to make their main quests engaging anymore. I remember morrowind, oblivion and Fallout 3 for the most part, i was pretty engaged most of the time. In Skyrim and fallout 4 though, I've done all in my power to avoid it, without actually wanting to avoid it. Exploring a building filled with toxic gas that made the gunners all turn on each other making it a warzone, or rescuing a guy from thalmor prison was much more fun than looking for your son or w/e the fuck the goal was in skyrim. Clocked over 300h in both of those games, and all playthroughs I'd just ditch the main quests after killing a dragon in front of whiterun or reaching Diamond City. Never finished either game
I feels skyrims graphics have aged pretty well. I played it on a PS4 pro without mods and for the most part it looks great
Lol learn how the turbo garbage leveling system works and you do even goofier shit in Oblivion
Play Morrowind
If you go look at a release calendar from 20 years ago (2001/2002), more good games released in any 3 months of those years than release in an entire calendar year now--industry is creatively/spiritually bankrupt.
gaming's decline: Hi
indie game creators: No
Complains about politics in video games when Fallout is a giant political statement☠️
even TLOU 2, the example used in this video, doesn't really prove anything. you could remake that game with straight men as the main characters and the overall message of the game wouldn't be any more or less shallow than it already is, but I guess since the main characters are a buff woman and lgbt people the game is political propoganda.
Cyberpunk is literally the perfect example of hype killing a game, they got Soo many preorders because their marketing team was smart and they didn't even have to make a game lol I hate my life
preordering outside of physical copies should be banned, this would solve alot of problems
@ZernoHD the city is fun to explore but theres no interactivity, the gun combat is fun despite the fact enemies are bullet sponges and the AI is pretty damn simple, I'll say this it's not a crime to enjoy the game but your feeding into the machine that is "modern gaming" by buying and playing it then spreading news about how it isnt as bad as everyone is saying it is.
@ZernoHD you are the most obvious paid shill ive seen, go home
Or maybe we were too naive to see
@ZernoHD "theres no conspiracy" - paid shill
Dark souls 3 isn't about dodge spamming... With appropriate placement you can avoid many attacks by backpedaling or stafing in the correct direction . This is however advanced, not many try to experiment with to conserve stamina. This is true for all soulsborne games.
There's no need to do that in DS3 lol since you almost never run out of stamina. Once you learn how to kill a basic roll boss you learn how to kill them all unlike in ds1 where at least half of the bosses had unique mechanics
@@inksword6029 just don't use crest shield and +3 stamina ring doubt you can roll spam after that.
@@FireGiantFoot i don't
@@inksword6029 boooo
@@FireGiantFoot did you have to like your own comment? Anyways just play an actual good game like DS1 or Bloodborne instead of defending the mainstream mess that is DS3
1. gaming has gotten substantially more innovative overall if you don't just look at big releases. The indie market is continuously innovating with brilliant new mechanics, visual styles and narratives, but unfortunately true innovation simply doesn't appeal to as many people, which is why those titles don't get as much attention outside of the right communities.
2. I cannot think of a single game that openly endorses socialism/communism. Even social democracy only has scarse support in games, so I feel like economics in general just isn't something many devs are interested in talking about in their games, nor is it something a lot of people would be very interested in. In regards to what you call "identity politics", we are literally just talking about including people from minority groups into a game's cast in 95% of cases. If you take so much issue with that, the burden of proof is on you to showcase why that is a bad thing, just saying muh politics isn't enough. For the record however, I do agree that diversity shouldn't come at the cost of other aspects. For instance, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to include a lot of black characters in a medieval European game that is supposed to be authentic.
3. A lot of your criticisms are due to the profit motive of big publishers. Needless to say, this is one of the foundations of the free market, so if you REALLY want to do something about the lack of innovation in pretty much all big-budget art productions, be they movies, games or music, maybe you should be a bit more open towards economic alternatives 🙂
4. Yeah, Dark Souls 1 was by far the most thematically interesting and meaningful souls-game imo. It lacked refinement in many regards but for the experience you are getting that often doesn't even matter. Personally I wish Miyazaki would just move on to new innovative projects. Honestly I think games like Déraciné are a good sign for the future here. Yes FromSoft is now big enough to experience some pretty big pressure by their publishers to produce very specific products, but clearly there is still some interest in doing something new and unique. Elden Ring however will not be that. It will be really fun and I'll spend thousands of hours with PvE and PvP, but it's almost certainly not going to satisfy my desire for new interesting game design ideas.
I feel like every indie games are either a generic platformer or turned based rpg with bad pixel art or some low level metroidvannia with unnessecary rpg elements
@@pikminologueraisin2139 are there any particular indie games in those categories that you think get a lot of undeserved praise? 🤔
Today's gaming industry is more so about numbers and greed Than actual quality and fun.
It's From man. Not whomever the fuck made Cyberpunk.
The thing is we know what Elden Ring is going to be. Big Dark Souls, literally. And that's fine. It doesnt get me hyped but excited to see how FromSoft has changed some things in order to better fit the game to R.R. Martin's writing. And yes, I already know it's going to be GOTY. Which other boring and uninspired AAA game can even hope to challenge it?
And that's where it should end. There is no problem with thinking like this and having hope. But what is a no go would be hype train such as that we saw for CP2077 to a point that everyone ignored all the red flag. Hype so big that it blinds you to blatant glaring issues. And also, Pre orders. Fuck pre orders. As soon as all sort of pre orders die, we should atleast get the buggy releases somewhat in a bearable point
@@retrobit5973 i just pre order elden ring so much hype!
Dying Light 2 is probably going to be pretty good if it is anything like the first one.
@@zypa0442 You are either a troll, aren't you?
@@retrobit5973 Why would you say that?
Just the title alone made me like this video. I've been saying this for awhile now, the thing that leads to constant disappointment is unreal expectations. Also NEVER pre-order... More people need to talk about this, the mainstream overhyping isn't helping anyone.
i preoredered the collectors edition for elden ring
I also pre ordered elden ring
Your videos really upset a certain type of viewer. Left a comment on your last one and had loads of them reeeing at me in the replies. So I'll repeat it again just to annoy them.
It's rare now for RUclipsrs to speak their mind without worrying about views or putting off future sponsors. Keep it up, it's refreshing. Hope you can make a success of it.
As someone who was taking the fight to said shrieking harpies I vouch for and second this.
Agreed. Don't back down.
Gaming is dying and hype is killing it
So now lets play RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Hype has nothing to do with why gaming is dying lol. Stop telling people that they shouldn't get excited. Excitement and disappointment is part of life. You don't determine if someone gets to be excited or not. Why do you care if someone is excited, whether or not they get disappointed? Has literally nothing to do with you.
bro i haven't been hyped for a single game in like 5 years, and despite my standards being on the floor, i am still disappointed with almost every release. they really are just 99% dog shit now, but at least that means a game that is a 6/10 sticks out like a sore thumb among all the shovelware
*Gaming isn’t dying it was murdered!*
Yeah Today's gaming industry is more so about numbers and greed Than actual quality and fun, I am 35 years old by the way, American Aborigine male.
One of the big problems with hype is that it plays perfectly into one of the largest software development trends plaguing multiple industries right now.
As someone with an organizational management background, I can tell you that a lot of game developers, especially AAA ones, use some variation of the Sprint or Agile methodology. When you boil away all the marketing meme talk, this ultimately means they focus on rushing a product to market as fast as possible while worrying about doing iterative improvements after release in order to properly "finish" their product. Companies are shipping bare bones products and buying good will from consumers by selling the actual finished product as "continued" or "post-launch" support.
Hype is ultimately the measure of conscious real estate a product occupies in a consumer's mind, and the more condensed methodology of the Sprint cycle let's developers take full advantage of that. Every day a game spends in develop is another it risks falling from memory or not making money. Sprint let's companies maximize the initial buy-in hype can create, thereby pumping those sales figures and laying the groundwork for the classic sunken cost trap.
You sound like an older individual who knows his stuff. It's refreshing to hear someone that presents logic and makes rational points. Game testers are a thing of the past. Having early access on Steam and elsewhere was really the beginning of the end when it comes to expecting a quality, fully ready product on release day.
Your argument basically explains Ubisoft in a nutshell.
@@KratostheThird The "beginning of the end" was the shift away from static releases and towards "live service" which occurred around the mid to late 2000s. Just look at the number and kinds of updates you'd get on 7th generations consoles compared to 8th generation ones. It's the same thing with Steam as well, updates used to be much less frequent.
Prolific and consistent high-speed internet connectivity was the key ingredient that allowed for this change and the widespread adoption of Sprint-based models to occur. Games updating post-launch is so ingrained and expected at this point that not updating - be that frequently enough or at all - is enough to seriously damage the sales and longevity of a company's releases.
@@spnked9516 Mind if I ask how long you've been in this business?
But yes. Everything you said here is true. I can tell you from first hand experience that many games from roughly 2006 to 2010 had far less updates. What happened after was a real shift towards "live service".
I'm with Synthetic Man regarding his opinions. He, like I, are what are now considered OG gamers, or old school gamers. He's covered a number of old games including the Resident Evil remake, Thief and Prototype. I played Prototype within the second or third day of release back in 2009 and I can tell you the game was actually complete. You didn't sit around waiting for updates to install, you just popped the game into the system and you were good to go.
That game was published by Activision, who has now been bought out by Microsoft.
Personally, I blame the success of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, The Last of Us, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Heavy Rain for where we are today. Every other big budget AAA game is more like a "movie game". Every Call of Duty and Battlefield is trying to be like this, chock full of microtransactions and lootboxes.
With all these updates, we don't exactly have true single player games anymore. Everything is online integrated, which goes back to your point on high speed internet connectivity which accounts for games being broken on release day and being patched later on.
The decline started early in the PS3/360 era. The PS2 generation was the last time we could truly say we owned our games and we were able to buy complete games on release. Made perfect sense to preorder back then. Now, there is no point whatsoever.
"The gameplay is less fun, less innovative. Cutscenes are shoved down our throats every 5 god damn minutes. There's microtransactions in everything. There is political propaganda shoved down our throats." Remember, this is the same man that complained about Doom Eternal, a game that pretty much defied all of that while being as good as shooters can get. I agree that the industry isn't as good, but this guy just says things for the sake of saying them. I mean, this is the same guy that has genuinely used The Game Awards as a source for his arguments.
Funny how this guy complained about every games having microtransactions but he literally advertised raid shadow legends
@@joshuacelani1857 I know. He is a Neanderthal. It takes courage to listen to him and not bash your head into a wall
sure, sweetie
ya same with movies. my solution: play old games and watch old movies
Perfect example of action Vs horror is dead space and dead space 3.
and Dead Space 2
100% agree. It's almost impossible for me to get hyped about anything now. I've been let down so many times now.
You talked about dark souls leaning more and more action. I feelt the same way about mass effect. Yes the orginal had clunky shooting but I missed the party customisation and micro management. The 3rd just turnt into a REPEATING arena full of enemy's that you had to kill to progress with cutscenes in between them.
I didn't like Mass Effect 3. The mysterious "kid", the god awful ending, something felt very wrong and off when I first played thru it.
But I think what really has killed my hype was the fact that a lot of big name franchises and sequels in the past had notable improvements. Mass Effect 2 was a leap above Mass Effect 1. Uncharted 2 had more exotic locations and more interesting villains. Dead Space 2 kept the horror element while featuring a talking protagonist along with other changes. Then Dead Space 3 comes out and we find that the series was turned into a more generic co-op shooter, rather than a survival horror set in space.
Today there's barely anything keeping my interest.
@@KratostheThird Yeah they try to make games for everyone while also trying to milk us dry.
I understand why they do this as a vast majority of people only buy a handful of games a year, while gamers will buy loads.
The issue is the "normies" or casual market that only play and buy cod and fifa each year and publishers thinking what works with them will work for the more engaged audience.
Just don't be hyped for anything! Trust me, the games that have blown me away recently were games I went into with no expectations, such as Valfaris. I just grabbed it on sale because the art looked cool and whadduya know, it ends up being one of my favorite games of all time, at least in the top 30, up there with the Contra's, Metal Slugs, and other great run & gun games. Literally never heard anything about it or read any reviews before purchasing and it was awesome
I had the same thing with the Danganronpa series, before playing these games I thought that they would be boring for me, because there is barely any gameplay, and now it's my favorite franchise next to Rayman
A few games that really surprised me where, cross code, unsighted, indivisible and the Darksiders series.
Nah, i am hype as shit for elden ring
Valfaris is amazing. The dev for that game also made Slain: Back from Hell which is another fantastic game.
@@fragileglass9622 I'm playing Slain right now after enjoying Valfaris! It's good, not quite as good as Valfaris, but I still dig it.
I think it's more of a normie problem. Games are being tailored to normies. Normies either buy them or don't. Gamers are becoming irrelevant. Our market share is miniscule compared to normies. It's comparable to the movie industry. Almost every movie that comes out is a reboot/sequel and stuffed full of progressive ideology so that the studios can get their Blackrock/Vanguard funding. Most movies and games fail because normies aren't reliable as a customer base and the people who create them have ZERO passion.
"gaming has never been better"
Broh. Be a kid in the 90s, and figure out JUST how deep SaGa Frontier is. And you got that for 45$ out the gate. Idiotic kids. Happy to pay full price to be trickle-fed content via "games as a service" ideals. Getting less content, and it's given OVER time? Imagine final fantasy 7 coming out, but you couldn't finish it for the first 2 years, because you had to wait for patches, events, bugs, and content? F*cking ew. We get soul-less madden-esque sequels every year, constantly. An occasional new IP comes along and is exciting, but then whatever they did that made it special gets turned into a weird "chinese reverse engineered" version of the original that gave us spectacle. Like PUBG leading to the battle royale explosion, or GTA being a free roaming city clone creator. They succeed and then become awful versions of themselves as old crews get replaced with new people who have no clue how to even insert themselves into the original mindsets. It's been bugging me for a long time, gaming is soul-less, what was once seen as art is now just an economic pathway to being filthy rich.
Gaming died the day it became "cool" to be a gamer and all of a sudden everybody had to have a console. PlayStation 2 era was the last Great era of console gaming.
Well when something becomes popular and no longer obscure and a secret only a few people know it becomes mainstream and more available to people who are interested. Happens all the time in entertainment, the PS2 and regular Xbox became so popular that it bred more console generations.
@@IllMatic97 But what you fail to acknowledge is that like everything else when something becomes popular it becomes hijacked by morons. Morons high jacking nerd culture is exactly why we have the trash masquerading as entertainment today. Gaming is absolute dog shit, movies are absolute dog shit, television is absolute dog shit. Gaming becoming popular at killed gaming.
@@justinsantos8514 well bruh it all comes back to what I said before, "nerd culture" and gaming has and is now apart of pop culture whether we like it or not. That's what happens when something seen as obscure becomes mainstream, it is what it is jeef. I'm just super sayin.
People playing the same game mode with the same guns every day… but saying that the game changed BECAUSE IT HAS NEW SKINS 💀
You make a good point.
Really appreciate the honesty you're putting forth here. I respect somebody that forms their own view by themselves instead of following the 'Group Think' mentality many others seem to express.
He just tries so hard to be anti mainstream its actually cringe. He is just a little depressed loser nothing more
@@phil_5430 I understand your opinion. But at least he tries to be real and honest, unlike a lot of RUclipsrs who just pander entirely to the algorithm and avoid certain dialogue to prevent their videos from being flagged.
I mean the dudes whole opinion is "GAMING IS DEAD" and has been for at least a few years ....
Just like many others he just grew up and realized mainstream companies want to make money.
But reality is that Gamins has never been more alive and accessible, for players and developers alike.
You can play games made by dudes from Russia or women from India with just a few clicks on your computer. Stuff like Highfleet, Aurora, Dwarf Fortress, Wrought Flesh, etc....
SO many options !!
Back in the day you could only get what was in your local shop. Not everyone could get their games there...
50$ for a game you've never heard of... and then it sucks ass and youre just dissapointed. Then a few years later the console is shut down and thats it.
Maisntream is mainstream ... like in music... dont like it then dont listen to it. Enough other artists out there
More and more people are flocking to the hobby.
If you want simulators, racing games, hyper realistic air combat, fire fighting, grand strategy, or just sailing... you have hundreds of choices for each of those topics....
Video Games have never been more alive !
And I love it !!
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 This guy properly critiques games. You're the very type of person he mentions in his video.
@@KratostheThird ?? Yeah but why does he critique games he doesnt even show any interest too?
Why should I buy a game that is clearly not marketed towards certain interest I like or in any way interesting for me?
I mean come on.
He critiques games because they are popular yet he is angry over the route mainstream video games are going.
Thats just dumb. Dont you see it?
Thats like watching a grown dude critique cartoons because they dont meet his expectations even tough its marketed towards damn toddlers.
I am part of “Gen-Z” and I do agree with your point about that the majority of AAA games seem to be either disappointing or “incomplete” to some, but I do not think that the game is then instantly labeled as “bad.” Games are quite subjective, if you enjoy a game, don’t let anyone waver your opinion by telling you that it’s “bad,” disappointing, or “incomplete.”Games were created for enjoyment, but I do understand how you feel about this subject.
Pretty much the only thing that is subjective in games is story, pretty much everything else is objective like for instance gameplay, how responsive the buttons is level design.
@The Leaprachaun Well as 31 year old gamer cannot say im surprised, but it is just crazy to me how there are games that sells really well and actually leave the soul of the former games from the past.
You can find objective flaws in something and call it bad, and still enjoy it. Modern games have been objectively bad (the majority of them are not finished on launch and are blatantly broken like 2042 and 2077) and this whole "hurr durr it's subjective" shit is getting real old.
This video is going to aged REALLY poorly. It's going to blow everything in the past few years out of the water.
Edit: I was correct.
You were correct
This video aged like milk, and I'm glad. I'm happy Elden Ring is amazing.
I'm guilty of the Cyberpunk hype, because i bought into what CDPR was selling me and all the content creators making constant videos about it. When i saw them slowly strip all the "planned" stuff away, i got less and less hyped. I played through the game 3 times to see if there really was any differences and there really isn't. I suppose i got my money's worth, but it was such a letdown and they can't ever crawl their way back from that, because the main premise of the game just sucks (speaking of the main story).
Nowadays, i'm just indifferent to most stuff because i just assume it'll suck. It's better than being overly excited for a game, imo.
While I agree with you, when it comes to From Software, they have only delivered great games so far in my eyes. At least since Demon's Souls (don't know about their earlier games and even DS2 is a good game, just not the best they've made imo). I'm still pretty hyped for Elden Ring because of what I have seen and played in the network test. And yes, loot is already way more interesting than BOTW from what I have seen so far. To be clear though, I think having realistic expectations/cautious optimism for any game release is the most healthy approach (even for Elden Ring). Also NEVER pre-order games in case they turn out to be shit etc. There are usually reviews and stuff out before release if you must get it day one, otherwise wait and see a little if you have the patience.
Sorry for the block of text and great video as always :)
exactly. If there's a studio to get hyped for its fromsoft
I certainly agree that the game will be good, but often "Good" isn't good enough. I have more faith in From Software than I did in CD Projekt Red, but even devs I trust have disappointed in me recent years, namely Capcom twice now in the last couple years with Resident Evil 3 Remake and Village.
So, will Elden Ring be good? Almost certainly. But will it live up to Dark Souls or Bloodborne? I hope so, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
@@SyntheticMan okay this is a sentiment I really feel with shit
That's what people said about CDPR too....before Cyberpunk 2077 released.
@@SyntheticMan I think what makes your comment interesting is that this is something that would come from an invested fan of any series rather than a person that would judge a game SOLELY on if the game individually is good. It's kinda like a recent pokemon fan that views the games as not living up to previous entries and always stating what could be better and why it is not the most robust entry in a developer's lineup.
Elden Ring could be a masterpiece to the majority but since devs and companies and the times themselves are ever-changing, there is almost a guarantee that a title won't live up to previous entries in some factors to you. Developers can learn, but it's like they always get ideas that could conflict with what certain people liked from their other games especially if the games have several mechanics or nuances implemented.
Synthetic man I'm 30 going on 31 years old and I have to say it's hands down the amount of artificial but also natural hype that comes with anticipated games.
Hype from a natural perspective from fans or if it's a new IP and artificial hype from shareholders and the company making the game.
They exploit the human weakness of anticipation. It's our weakness to anticipate something that is getting talked about alot. This is why the internet has been the greatest tool for exploiting that biological urge.
At least pre-internet they had to kind of try to sucker you in to anticipating with magazines and TV commercials. Yes for the most part they have to try to make a good game or decent game because there was no patching or banning people from forums that talk bad about a game. Don't even have to do that anymore they literally let people on forums shill it for them to save money so even when the game ends up being mediocre it still made profit.
You're literally barely old enough to remember a world before the internet. I think the better way to present your argument is to say "I recall the time before the internet became mainstream" because magazines and TV commercials were still largely relevant to society.
It wasn't until the mid - late 2000s that the internet really started to go mainstream. Before, you mostly had nerds and computer geeks using the web.
@@KratostheThird point is I still remember
Honestly I'm happy elden ring is coming out, I was skeptical as we should with all the games coming out. But once I saw the gameplay, just reminded me of more dark souls 3. Which is really what I wanted. I'm sure they have innovated in same way , hell the jump button enough adds a lot. I just expect more dark souls and I'm happy for it.
Exactly. I don’t think anyone is going to except it to be a masterpiece but honestly people just want it to be fun.
@@lcameron4802 Uhh I absolutely expect it to be a masterpiece.
@@TheStraightestWhitest well don’t. There’s obviously gonna be issues with it when it releases.
@@lcameron4802 Such as? Plus, flaws are literally unavoidable. It'll still be the greatest game ever made.
@@lcameron4802 by that logic no game is a masterpiece, every game has some issues.
The same problem is happening with movies and TV as well. Less and less new, creative ideas. But more and more sequels/reboots, and book adaptations. More and more political agendas, less and less creative freedom and personal themes. Even the projects that ARE original and filled with creativity and ideas, they get washed down by other issues: It’s mostly about money, marketing, political appeal, and “eQuaLiTy.” The higher ups and company owners control what that company does, basically. So if they only care about the above things, then the game/movie suffers for it.
That’s why so many people claim “Older movies/games were so much better!” They aren’t all Doomers. There’s a major point there. Back when movies and games were both new and innovative, respectively. When movies started getting super popular, and there was no consuming greed and pandering. When directors and producers just wanted to fucking make movies for entertainment in this huge new medium. Same with games. Back when people only wanted to create fucking video games for other to play. When we weren’t so spoiled and addicted to “best graphics.” When it was just about making fun video games with creative ideas and gameplay, with a new way of telling stories.
Yes, money has been and always will be a big factor as to why people make movies and games. Can’t continue making them if you’re broke after all. Problem now is that’s all most companies care about now. It’s mostly pandering for money and sales.
Pandering has always been part of the media since time immemorial. People just think leftist pandering is bad because it's mostly done in a very obvious manner without much nuance that typical leftist media usually has (just read old Japanese proletarian novels, I beg thee). It's just the same as when corporations are trying to pander to the ultraviolent mood of late 90s-early 2000s, except that it's now all about similar thing done but for different political spectrum. As far as I'm personally concerned, people are just mad because recent games does not pander to their beliefs to jerk off to as opposed to the other side who's jerking off to shallow representation without much innovation made by the very same corporation who appealed to the former just a decade ago.
That's why this kind of gaming discourse about agenda is tiring, because y'all only pointed out the superficial like libtard SJW fantasy vs betacuck alt-right fantasy and not the substantial, like how the decline of gaming is pretty much a consequence of the industry's own growth as a producer of commodity, which seeks to prevent its own falling rate of profit by producing more and more and more to satisfy the consumer rather than creating to realize their vision.
Have no expectations and you might be positively surprised. That's how I approach gaming now. Or any other modern entertainment
Honestly, going in blind is so much more enjoyable. I had a great experience with Inscryption that way.
@ZernoHD Go in blind with any other Fallout and you'll experience catharsis then, lmao
@ZernoHD I see. Well, I really wish I could share your enjoyment of Fallout 4, friend. Sadly, for me it was just a shallow 200hr dopamine dispenser: shoot -> loot -> build, endlessly. I loved the power armors, though. But, I hated the rest.
I was so hyped for Bloodborne I got a PS4 specifically for that game. In that instance it actually payed off since BB exceeded my expectations. I don't think I'll experience that ever again 😢
Bloodborne!! 🐺
I have learned to just appreciate Synthetic Man's political rants even if I do not agree with them lol.
After growing up as gaming became mainstream, I never thought I would stop playing it, but aside from the occasional Switch session, I am now done. Personally I think Fortnite, PUBG and the rise of live services was the main problem. Every game wants to be a battle royale and every battle royal is the same game in a different box.
Then you just don't play many games mate....
The video game market has more developers than ever before now.
Back in the day it was mostly just small studios slaving away to make a title called 'Superman the Video Game' ...
Nowadays we've got Indie devs from all over the world!!!
From a russian dev making Highfleet to two brothers making Dwarf Fortress.
You just have to look.
Mainstram companies will always want to satisfy the mainstream market and nothing is wrong with that. But if you want more then you just have to look for more.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Fair point pal.
Gaming since 82 (intellivision & C vision), online since 93 (dial up) and I can say it isn’t dying but the quality of majority of the games have dropped dramatically.
To put this in a short comment and not 4 pages. Greed is a main factor. Rush unfinished games with little to no soul in them, copy ideas from other games and at times give everyone a handicap to make sure new players don't get mad because they don't want them to struggle to get rewarded. Skill and dedications seems to have less meaning now. Make false excuses to defend the product when they already knew from the start it was a mess but choose to hide it until they get caught and called out. I could mention plenty more things but yes there are plenty of things wrong with AAA titles these days. And let's not forget about how often they try to appeal their game to everyone, but end up with a mess of a game that only a few people can enjoy. Quite ironic.