"Minecrafts cousin..."
Me: Ah yes terraria
"Roblox"
cries in 2D

"Minecrafts cousin..."
Me: Ah yes terraria
"Roblox"
*cries in 2D*

@Fish_Gaming420 Again, You are spending a good bit of time defending roblox.

You like it, I dont, Lets leave it at that yea?

@John Mcmillan ok well you camt just dismiss all of roblox just because of that. They'res alot of fun original games on the platform.

@Fish_Gaming420 I am certain I played roblox before you were born.

@John Mcmillan well ok??? Have you played roblox before?

@Fish_Gaming420 Other than it censoring 70% of the russian language, Probably alot of other things but I cant seem to find a reason to care.

@Fish_Gaming420 You are on a youtube comment section over the span of many days defending roblox.

Roblox.

If you are going to do something that sad then do it for a decent game.

Minecrafts cousin is terraria.

Roblox is the 3rd cousin that got dropped on the head from the family nobody talks to.

@Wisemankugel Memicus bruh roblox users arent greedy lmao

I feel like Roblox is just a cousin due to its differences and terraria is just minecrafts unpopular brother

@netizen you get censored for almost anything that's normal, you can't even say numbers most of the time

It’s funny how terraria is the polar opposite to roblox. It’s less popular but equally respected

@P8nda #sadcaba been playing since 2013 and roblox is weord but it has crazy potential, once i get enough moneu im investong in the company.

@netizen how the fuck is roblox an mmorpg???? roblox by nature is a CODING platform for teenagers that was just forced to be child friendly.

@Italy 4815 at least good thing with Minecraft is that it has huge modding community and one of the largest mods.

I thought the same thing lol! I’ve always seen terraria as the closest to Minecraft. Roblox I find a bit too... idk, lacking in gameplay??? Like there’s no goal apart from fun. Terraria has a bit of sandbox but has bosses to kill, and a kind of goal. Minecraft also has a goal but even more sandbox and more options than terraria due to red stone/commands.

Overall I like all three but I’ve always seen mc and terraria as the closest! Roblox is comparable though I guess.

I have had so many people ask me whether I was playing minecraft while I was playing terraria even though they look nothing like each other and are completely different

<b>screams in way too expensive shit in catalog</b>

*screams in way too expensive shit in catalog*

I play roblox so much I forgot to say 1 without the m in the front

@Commisar Yarreck wow, that's kinda cool to be honest

@gib speaking of that habbo hotel made wobba into a curseword in my country<br>Literally by censorship created a new insult

@gib speaking of that habbo hotel made wobba into a curseword in my country
Literally by censorship created a new insult

@netizen you can literally make a rts in rolblox in what way is it an mmorpg

@Antimatter30 I would agree with you, because as a 7th grader, it's annoying when everyone praises Minecraft and tiktok, like there's no other options. I do like Minecraft a bit (Unlike tiktok, which has a toxic<br>community), but Ive always thought It was a bland game, Especially on Survival mode, which feels underwhelming most of the time. The main reason I play minecraft is with friends (Which I have to admit it's multiplayer is more fun than Terraria's Multiplayer), or with mods. Unlike Terraria, Minecraft for me requires mods to have fun on survival, which isn't ideal if your depending on a mod community to have fun. I wouldn't be complaining if everyone in my school thinks minecraft is the true god, and when I disagree with them, they claim that I don't like it because they think im trying to be "Quirky", Which Very much pisses me off. Overall, Minecraft is a fun game, but It wouldn't be on my "Favorite Games List".

@Antimatter30 I would agree with you, because as a 7th grader, it's annoying when everyone praises Minecraft and tiktok, like there's no other options. I do like Minecraft a bit (Unlike tiktok, which has a toxic
community), but Ive always thought It was a bland game, Especially on Survival mode, which feels underwhelming most of the time. The main reason I play minecraft is with friends (Which I have to admit it's multiplayer is more fun than Terraria's Multiplayer), or with mods. Unlike Terraria, Minecraft for me requires mods to have fun on survival, which isn't ideal if your depending on a mod community to have fun. I wouldn't be complaining if everyone in my school thinks minecraft is the true god, and when I disagree with them, they claim that I don't like it because they think im trying to be "Quirky", Which Very much pisses me off. Overall, Minecraft is a fun game, but It wouldn't be on my "Favorite Games List".

@FrostBug yea ive almost quit, i just play arsenal, cb:ro, and robber now.

terraria has more of a cult status though

terraria has more of a cult status though

as an avid roblox player, i can agree most of it sucks. its cringe from top to bottom.only thing that is good is some of the first person shooter games.

@menacing reference dogge Honestly, while I like Minecraft, I don't really like it as much as everyone else. Like I have a lot of fun making Redstone contraptions and building structures but I don't really care about the overly simple combat, and survival mode really doesn't hit that itch for me. Terraria had things like dedicated boss battles, a really good soundtrack, a jetpack, tangible progression, and a ton of items and monsters.

@Antimatter30 imho terraria is the second best open sandbox

Terraria is going to keep being dicked until the end of time which is a shame since I think Terraria is probably the best open sandbox game out there.

@netizen the other stuff i talked about is rthro, games that exploit certain genre for profit, pay to play games, hackers, etc

@gib Oh, the chat filter. Makes a lot more sense.

@gib Oh, the chat filter. Makes a lot more sense.

@netizen you can literally have problems communicating with other players because the censor system picks up everything as vulgar. i hated those hash tags

@menacing reference dogge What are you talking about? ROBLOX is a MMORPG built for children. Of course it's going to have rules. What are you talking about when you say "censor"?

While its true that roblox had more creative potential and tools, but the decisions that roblox took and the censor of the players made terraria the brother of minecraft, so yeah, roblox is that weird cousin.

@Granpda Corey Yeah, roblox users maybe greedy but fuuck the roblox company has made 4 billion dollars from the revenue their userbase provides

I was so confused whrn be said Roblox lol

I was so confused whrn be said Roblox lol


26:59 he really wasn't joking about the trademark infringement. that is the Sherwin Williams logo down to the "cover the earth" written on it lol


I feel like most of this video makes no sense at all, but it’s so well written it makes up for it

@Dr.Sir Bruce Armstrong Mother Fucker The Third mostly little things like the “death of the simple game” when earlier in the video he was praising nascar 2004 for having a ton of game modes and content, and the fact that such a huge portion of games (mostly indie titles) show that games can still be amazing as long as you don’t just mindlessly play every new release, which he neglected to mention.


I have rebirthed local multiplayer at my school with One Mario Cart DS cartridge, two DS lites, one DSI XL, two 3ds, and one new 3ds XL.


10:39 Now wait just a damn minute! De Blob and Drawn to Life are not shovelware good sir.


Devolver also called this in their direct, didn't they? How people are more excited for game announcements now than actually playing games, so they went and made a game that announced games?

Which also just so happened to be my first time playing a first person shooter. Yeah.

@Shaman Xeed the only game i can see as worth its hype these days is smash ultimate. but that's simply because smash has earned its hype. i mean few feelings could ever rival sonics reveal trailer for ssbb.
casual normies are only part of the problem. they just don't know better. to be honest, i dont think it will be too much longer before the industry crashes again.
about the one big publisher i can say is close to being still good is nintendo. and ill freely admit even THEY might be slipping in a couple areas.

announcements are supposed to be a means of generating excitement on a possible feature or character.<br>the op is spot on.

announcements are supposed to be a means of generating excitement on a possible feature or character.
the op is spot on.

@123 devolverland expo, It's free but it literally is just ads wrapped inside a pretty easy stealth/puzzle fps

lol, that sounds amazingly hilarious and ironic, but i honestly dont think ill try it out


Past Emp would not believe the amazing state Destiny 2 is in right now lol


The poll that you discussed seems like a poor indicator of a trend in quality. Your audience appears to be mostly people in their 20-30s so of course they will prefer the games from the 2000s. Just like people who grew up in the 90s prefer games from that era. Perhaps the reason video games seem less fun is simply a case of getting older?


Note: the critic section does not apply to league of legends.

Everyone can agree that game is the spawn of the devil.


Sometimes older movie has better effects than today's CGI effects so that point is moot.
For example Terminator 2 or Lord of the Rings. The effects in these movies are timeless.

So many truths spoken though, this video should get more likes. Basically stuff like Steam ruined gaming, they started making games more for every platform possible, crossplay etc and selling expansions left and right, unfinished, buggy, added micro transactions etc. Greedy companies got lazy and only some games are good nowadays.
I mean crossplay is not a bad idea, but needs good execution.


I feel like this video had a lot of good points but also a good amount of weaker once that can fall flat if you think about them.

@daw pler Tbf he does say he doesn't play any and can't think of one. (Even though he brings up Pokemon right after lol).

The examples he used in various sections of the video particularly annoyed me a lot, like how he mentioned artifact and how he thought people where angry because they expected all Valve games=Amazing and groundbreaking, which altought true to a certain extent, it's a far more complex situation, things like gap in games and how many where produced in the timeframe, which made a lot of people get the understandable impression that they no longer made games, and when they do they are trying to cash in another popular franchises as the company felt even more corporate, poorly made updates on the games they had, games being canceled left and right which we now know it was due to Alyx, meanwhile all that emp saw was that "expectations bad". This video just... could've been better

Also games are not subjective, they CAN be, but like every piece of art there is an objective side to it, unless he meant fun in particular since this is the bigger point of the video and if so i agree

This is probably the video of his i like the least, at least when it comes to the essay part of the channel. It's not awful just highly mediocre with a lot of flat poorly thought out arguments and examples

I get that feeling with a lot of Emp's videos. Sometimes he hits the mark quite well, and sometimes he... doesn't. I still enjoy them as a collection of interesting points or things to think about, though.

@Kael M that's because he actually stole that argument from another person

Shaman Xeed This sounds like the same arguments with film buffs over current movies.

I would have to agree with that. A good portion of this video feels... off. Like, some details don't seem quite right. Too bad my memory is fucked, so I can't place it properly, but I think it has something to do with the Japanese video game industry.


at least there's indie and the main important parts of nintendo


At least the DOOM series hasn’t fell into this downward spiral… yet.


man burnout 3 and shadow the headgehog my fav game ever i played<br>id love to play them again so much

man burnout 3 and shadow the headgehog my fav game ever i played
id love to play them again so much


To an extent. Feels like huge gap triple a and indie. Then you have Nintendo lol


I'd do anything to replay good old Metroid Prime on the dolphin emulator or Kotor 1&2. Those sort of amazing games could of only existed in the 2000s before multiplayer, microtransactions, and forced business models.

kotor 1&2 are still on steam and gog, there's nothing stopping you from playing them right now

I've litterally been playing metroid prime 1 randomizer every month or less

what's wrong with multiplayer? I mean prime 2 tried it...not sure if it was that good but it was something...really as praised as earlier 2000 games are before stuff like microtransactions...there were games that came out later that were also pretty great. there was two more prime games that were also great...even if they may not be exactlly as great as prime 1 arguably...in other ways there better then prime 1. really it seems like people act like games were only amazing and it ended back  at that era...

I would legit pay $90 for a Morrowind Remake. Nothing changed at all except modern graphics, take my money!

@JettStorm Well, I guess it just wasn't your type of game and that's just fine; at least you gave the game a good shake.

@Maul Yeah, I play swtor from time to time. However, it doesn't hit quite as hard as the kotors but, that's ok because, it's a good game on its own and at least I enjoy it much more than the sequel trilogy when it come to Star Wars content.

Its kind of depressing when you realize we’ll never get Good Star Wars games Like Kotor 1-2, Swotor, The OG Battlefront 2, The Knight/Academy Games again...

doodaa83 thanks for the recc, will have to configure keyboard and mouse for dolphin

Kotor 1 and 2 still look stylistically great and hold up better story and strategy wise than most current games

@Xaiga The KotOR games are absolute gems. SWtOR gets close sometimes, but the originals are just exemplary.

Since I prefer pointer controls (and having 3 in addition to 1 and 2), I keep my Wii U out to play the Trilogy

I wish I could forget playing both Metroid Prime 1/2 and Kotor 1/2 so I could re-experience them.

I dont get this extreme love for Kotor 1. I played it for the first time a few months ago and it got so boring at the half way mark.

Kotor 2 is number 1 and Kotor 1 is number 2 when it comes to my top 10 favorite games of all time to this day and I'm afraid there will never be a game that'll top them at this point but maybe Cyberpunk 2077 can or at least make it to the top 10 list, we shall see very soon.

then go replay it.....whose stopping you?

im just wondering why there isnt a metroid prime trilogy bundle on switch yet

Metroid Prime on Dolphin with maxed out upscaling and anti-aliasing makes it look like it came out ten years after it actually did. still can't believe it came out at the same time as Halo

If you have a usb stick and an old Wii lying around, its easy to hack the Wii and use it to rip Wii and GameCube disks to use in Dolphin.<br>I'm into console collecting, but at the same time I'm also working on making digital backups of my physical game collection for if/when my consoles, disks, and cartridges fail.

If you have a usb stick and an old Wii lying around, its easy to hack the Wii and use it to rip Wii and GameCube disks to use in Dolphin.
I'm into console collecting, but at the same time I'm also working on making digital backups of my physical game collection for if/when my consoles, disks, and cartridges fail.

Good call on Prime.

I managed to find physical copies for the whole series, and I hold them dearly.

Online multiplayer was in the 2000's (ps2, Xbox,) multiplayer goes back to the 90's (Doom/Quake Deathmatch, popular then popular now) and even arcade games if you are talking local. Expansion packs were on PC by then (Sims), dlc can be debated. Microtransactions, I don't think so. I would argue about the QUALITY of these things then versus now.

Just like people using could OF only started to appear recently, because who cares about grammar anymore, right?

Would you go download Dolphin and the ROM or....


These Indie master pieces are only good because your expectation are low as humanly possible. And with most AAA games are such a waste of potential, since all the money put in. But you don't even know what you want in the game or potential to be. We live in a country where were used to having everything so when you get anything it's automatically bad. The world advanced some much in last 100 years because people had little to nothing to their name. And now becoming the next star can happen in a day, since lines of code depend if you ever seen in the human ocean.


2:30 Present day games can (sometimes) look better, but they don’t PLAY (systems/experience/content) BETTER


All right let me spell out some games for you. Spider-Man undertale cuphead South park portal 2 a beginner's guide A night in the Woods. All these games and more really good on their own better than most games in the past. Well there I think there's always going to be those BS Games or companies like EA who basically gets you to pay for only half of the game on base I don't think that is going to be standardized across all of the gaming genre. Mostly cuz most companies can't afford to.


I kinda want to hate EA <del>Sports</del> but I kinda can't blame them for exploiting the stupidity of players.

I kinda want to hate EA -Sports- but I kinda can't blame them for exploiting the stupidity of players.


I'd been in a big rut with games lately. Trying to budget time so I could wrap up as many games as possible in my to-do list to "catch up" to the current hot games. I could barely play for 2+ hours of anything before feeling burnt out. But the most fun I've had with games in a long time came from a game I wasn't even planning to play and only heard about the day it released: Genshin Impact. Since it's free I didn't have to commit to paying for it, and I hadn't been following the release schedule so I hadn't set up any expectations for it. It's been quite a long time since I'd been able to turn on a game, blink, and suddenly 6 hours had gone by. Sometimes it's the unexpected event that brings you the breath of fresh air you didn't know you needed.

I do like Genshin it's a good game but it does a have a few minor things with it currently that bother me that will probably be fixed but I still play it anyways like the company that made it they make mobile games feel mostly like actual video games. Currently Adventure rank 31 in it.

Genshin impact is pretty great, and people are still doing exactly what emplemon explains in this video, people trying to find every reason to hate the game, like it being chinese and it's a gacha game and god forbid it "copied" animations of other games. It's at the point that people are trying their hardest to find reason to hate on a game where surprisingly it's not deserved, exactly like no man's sky.

I ALSO AM BACK TO PLAYING GAMES THANKS TO GENSHIN

Myuni now imagine how itd feel to play botw,the game it was inspired by in developement


All of this can be summarized with one simple disgusting acronym: GaaS (games as a service) philosophy. <br>THAT, is what changed.

All of this can be summarized with one simple disgusting acronym: GaaS (games as a service) philosophy.
THAT, is what changed.


Miss when games were made for people to enjoy Not made for big amount of muns


Yeah, they just don't make them like they used to. I find myself playing mostly older games these days


They figured out how to get money, so they recycle the same game knowing fans will reluctantly come back


The video feels a bit frustrating,  because it just seems like you don't play many Modern Games.

Dragon Quest 11 is the best DQ In years

Persona 5 was so good that people who hate JRPGs even liked it.

Sekiro won game of the year for 2019. Which is a surprise because that game isn't mainstream

2010s finally gave us great Super Hero games, Arkham and Spiderman PS4

God of War 4 helped the series gain more attention after years of being ignored.

Devil May Cry 5

Bayonetta 1 and 2?

Mario Odyssey and BoTw?

Uncharted had its problems, but it turned out being a beloved series.

I can go on

Notice how all of these titles are existing brands that do the same thing as its predecessors, that's the core reason why these games are fun. They are well-liked franchises, not new originals or games that push boundaries.

Vic2, Hoi4, CK3, Eu4<br>4 of my favorite games, all released in the last decade.

Vic2, Hoi4, CK3, Eu4
4 of my favorite games, all released in the last decade.

Did you know Ryu Ga Gotoku?<br>It's included in that list.

Did you know Ryu Ga Gotoku?
It's included in that list.

DQ 11 port on pc feels awful to play...it feels like I need a controller just to play a turn based game comfortably

Mario odyssey is nowhere near as good as Mario 64 or galaxy

@Starlight-J <br>Tf you talking about? It's always been that way. The good games you remember from the past ARE the small minority too. 80% of video games is always shit/mediocre it's just the good ones that are remembered while the rest are forgotten.

@Starlight-J
Tf you talking about? It's always been that way. The good games you remember from the past ARE the small minority too. 80% of video games is always shit/mediocre it's just the good ones that are remembered while the rest are forgotten.

@𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓴 𝓕𝓪𝓬𝓮 Sekiro isn't mainstream? Pretty sure it's mainstream by default by virtue of being made by From Software.

@Starlight-J that's literally how it's always been. Go watch AVGN. The shit outnumbered the  gold

Pokemon Black and White 1 and 2 also came out in 2011 and 2012.<br>Also Kid Icarus Uprising in about 2012.

Pokemon Black and White 1 and 2 also came out in 2011 and 2012.
Also Kid Icarus Uprising in about 2012.

@The Irish Potato And that’s always been the case. There were tons of shit games from the 2000s but most of them have been forgotten about in favor of the good ones.

@Starlight-J I think that's not only true for the 2010s. It might just seem that way, because now we have easy access to literally everything. We could take a look at almost any garbage anyone ever produced.

Though those are great games that came out in the 2010s, they are still outnumbered by the mediocore, unfinished games that overwhelm the video game market.<br>At least those amazing games that you mentioned are given the respect they deserve.

Though those are great games that came out in the 2010s, they are still outnumbered by the mediocore, unfinished games that overwhelm the video game market.
At least those amazing games that you mentioned are given the respect they deserve.

The new crash bandicoot title is a banger as well

Yes but I think there is as much shit as there are amazing games.


Companies make worse products because that makes more money!

Maybe it's time to point the finger at the consumer


There hasn't been a better need for speed than underground 2 since it came out. Quite sad


The fact people keep pre-ordering AAA games for $60+ that release completely broken are exactly why games are lack luster now. The consumer base has shown they’re complacent with buying the same broken trash year in and year out. When you remember that those studios are businesses at the end of the day, it’s no wonder why modern games and their releases are trash compared to the 2000’s.

People have been programmed to think they have to have to newest/latest


I've pretty much stuck to retro games because of how garbage Triple A games have been for the past several years, but despite that I still tend to buy the new Nintendo releases and play the many indie gems that are out there. Sure Nintendo does some pretty dumb things that I don't agree with (like the whole limited release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars) but for the most part they tend to put out quality titles. However despite some of the quality titles on the Switch and other consoles I tend to go back to older games on their original hardware. The experience and atmosphere I get from playing games from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s is something I tend to not really get with any modern game. Indie games are an exception to that. These games feel a lot more genuine than your typical $60 Triple A release. I can just get lost in these worlds without having to worry about game breaking bugs, microtransactions, and flaws in the game design. I still love video games but I really hope that the quality of the games will eventually get better.

I perfectly agree with your notion. I tend to play retro games more often because good retro games are often packed with content. That’s not to say every retro game was. Some devs just didn’t give a shit back then. However, a lot did. Banjo-Kazooie for instance has huge worlds that aren’t only fun to explore (minus one) but have something to do in them at every step you take. I think the huge difference here is limitations. Back 20-30 years ago, devs had to take into account the fact that their visions likely wouldn’t be possible on current hardware. So many N64 games, for instance, were canned because they were too ambitious for the hardware, which is saying something because the 64 was superior to the PS1 in terms of specs alone (even though storage space held it back in the long run). Devs made games around the limitations which led to smaller worlds jam packed with content. Now there are no limitations. The worlds got bigger. The graphics got better. But the level of content still remained the same, only it was spaced out over a giant world making the world seem empty. Out of every game that I’ve played that released in the past 5 years, the only games that felt like there was always something new to do and see at every turn were Persona 5 and Breath of the Wild. That’s it. I wish devs would stop the graphics and world size dick measuring contest. Focus more on what’s actually in the world, not how big it is

@Marcus Borderlands I'm mainly talking about mainstream Triple A games but I will admit there are some that I do enjoy

you tried games like metro exodus, the modern deus ex games, dark souls 3 and the like? they are all amazing modern AAA games that i absolutely love.

@anab0lic one shoting every other Pokemon with level 100 versus kalos Pokemon maison. Allow us to enable hardcore and extra levels.

I genuinely only buy two to three games a YEAR. And keep playing that. Because so much is just shit.

Old games and indie games were/are made by smaller teams, leading to a more personal touch. This is probably what you're feeling.

Good golden oldie if ya can find the game is custom robo battle revolution for gc. One of my favorites to this day.

@Just A Spectator my main problem with modern Nintendo (as a huge nintendo fan who grew up loving their games) is their single player games are insultingly easy nowadays.

For me AA games are what I'm excited for, while they tend to lack the polish of AAA and Indie games, they're just so experimental and weird that I can't stop myself from playing them despite the jank inherit in most of them.

Nintendo is my bet for quality games atm . But I am still worried about them


This basically can be put in the meme "reject humanity become monke"


honestly I got a 360 launch and it was good for a while,  but I honestly saw no reason to upgrade until ghosts of tsuhima came out. got a used ps4 just for that game. got a good bit of games for it to for only a couple hundred.
red dead 2andonline mass effect something..call of duty a couple of them. was in space in one a d the other was standard. couple sports games fifa,  nfl and nhl
a few others.
but once u beat sekiro, ghost of tsushima, gta v, I honestly don't bother it.
for context, I owned all systems except dremacast. I played games a LOT. to a point people thought I was addicted or at least needed to go into competitions.
if YouTube was a thing in the past, I could easily be one of the "let's play" people.
I have a pc that I emulate older systems on and thsts what i play kay the most.
most rpgs hand hold. SO much so 5hat a game like sekiro and elden ring all are seen as impossible. and gain a cult for being SO hard. unforgiving and such. things old gamers grew up with. learn a pattern and be good cause youll.hace to start over otherwise.
I recently downloaded and beat green hell. a survival game that required you to use a map and explore...I beat the game before u used any YouTube to see secrets and whatnot, and gosh, the amount of comments saying the game is dumb caue it doesn't tell you where to go, has no direction, and expects thr payer to actually play is crazy.


One thing about the "buying an unfinished game" thing, I have over 400 hours on an unpatched version of bethesdas fallout 4 seems finished to me, everything works great and seems more or less balanced. It also crashed less than the latest patch of new vegas that I have 1000s of hours in. Bethesda really polished it outta the box


Elden Ring has opened the eyes of many, can’t wait for more

Elden ring is the most generic crap from has put out in years. I cannot imagine how stupid the souls fanbase is to eat this crap up. It's nothing more than a generic far cry clone with souls combat.


Yeh I’ve been playing Tf2 for 10 years, absolutely no regrets. I’ve had no real interest in playing something modern, because a formula has already been perfected.

Minus CTF of course, that shit is far from perfect


Kind of looking in the wrong place for good games. In franchises? Do we seriously think that'll be where the quality content is? Go look at indie games.


Minecraft (and Roblox) are a lot like Shrek.<br>An otherwise great game that influenced the rest of the industry for the worse.

Minecraft (and Roblox) are a lot like Shrek.
An otherwise great game that influenced the rest of the industry for the worse.


1:18 Bruh he didnt show 14 as part of it thank god I’m not the only one who doesn’t think 14 is as bad as the rest


It all went downhill since the whole zombie games craze


0:00 EA's Nascar 2004 (wow)
1:36 Optimism into The 2010's --> Off The Cliff
2:57 Deterioration of Game Design (>;/)
Eating competition --> Lower Quality Product
5:14 Monopoly

6:10 Today: 2 Extremes, No Middle Ground
Unlimited Gaming --> Minecraft and Roblox
8:25 Online Multiplayer vs Local Multiplayer

9:55 Video Games as Serious Business $$$
11:00 The Game Gets Less Fun, More Stressful

12:50 Political Overscaling
13:54 Impossible Expectations

"Great Expectations make Disappointment an inevitability"
16:28 Social Media has Homogenized Opinion

18:02 Everyone be'ith a Critic
20:19 What do gamers really want?

21:44 Fatigue and Oversaturation
23:15 Battle Royale Spinoffs

26:57 Merchandise

0:00 EA's Nascar 2004 (wow)
1:36 Optimism into The 2010's --> Off The Cliff
2:57 Deterioration of Game Design (>;/)
Eating competition --> Lower Quality Product
5:14 Monopoly

6:10 Today: 2 Extremes, No Middle Ground
Unlimited Gaming --> Minecraft and Roblox
8:25 Online Multiplayer vs Local Multiplayer

9:55 *Video Games as Serious Business $$$*
11:00 The Game Gets Less Fun, More Stressful

12:50 Political Overscaling
13:54 Impossible Expectations

"Great Expectations make Disappointment an inevitability"
16:28 Social Media has Homogenized Opinion

18:02 Everyone be'ith a Critic
20:19 What do gamers really want?

21:44 _Fatigue and Oversaturation_
23:15 Battle Royale Spinoffs

26:57 Merchandise


I would give it all up for old Minecraft and wii sports


I think the title "Have western video games been on a downward spiral?" should be more appropriate


I still havent left the 7th gen of gaming. I have a switch but i play re4 skyrim and binding of isaac so does that really count?


Halo 2 "LAN parties" that went till 2am were amazing, companies killing local multi hurt me deep man. Greed won out and I think thy mostly did it to sell more copies of a game, because if 8 people played at a LAN that's only 2 copies required, but if they all play online that's 8 copies.

@Fries Splitscreen is in Halo Infinite, but the coop campaign isn't in the game yet, I don't remember when they said they will add it in.  Halo 4 (2012) was the last game to have both.

I've never heard that hypothesis before, but that is a really good explanation why local multiplayer is being killed off!

@Grot Oiler What was the last game to have that?

@Fries no splitscreen sadly 😔 I loved split screen coop campaign mode too but that may not return eithrr

Is local multiplayer not possible in these games?

I always played halo 2 on Xbox live and it was a very memorable experience

Halo 2 LAN parties were among my best gaming experiences ever


Artifact section on twitch was a laugh though \m/


Do you think congress should regulate the video game industry? If you could pass a law to fix the game industry how would you write it?


To be fair, if I recall, yanderedev got the yandere clones taken down, or has at least tried to.


NASCAR 2004 and 2005 were the best racing games of all time, not just NASCAR, racing in general.


Simple good games are still being made, like Deep Rock Galactic, which is enjoying immense success. It just takes effort finding them nowadays.


No Man’s Sky has made even more money and won back the room by ACTUALLY making the game they wanted. DID ANYONE LEARN A LESSON? HUH? Did anyone go “Oh hey, may be these giant, corporate machine, publishers, that almost tanked gaming by inserting themselves a la Venture Capitalists into Silicon Valley, after seeing GTA V make billions, these money men with tight timelines and contractual obligations for profits NOW, they almost exclusively make development worse”?  <br>No? Cause we can see the Gen X’ers and boomers refuse to adapt, even when shown absolute proof and results. They’ll still treat video games like any other product, seeing them through Excel and PowerPoint, rather than real world. Because you gotta give time to devs, rushing them makes the industry awful and the product trash, you won’t recoup your losses, stop.

No Man’s Sky has made even more money and won back the room by ACTUALLY making the game they wanted. DID ANYONE LEARN A LESSON? HUH? Did anyone go “Oh hey, may be these giant, corporate machine, publishers, that almost tanked gaming by inserting themselves a la Venture Capitalists into Silicon Valley, after seeing GTA V make billions, these money men with tight timelines and contractual obligations for profits NOW, they almost exclusively make development worse”?
No? Cause we can see the Gen X’ers and boomers refuse to adapt, even when shown absolute proof and results. They’ll still treat video games like any other product, seeing them through Excel and PowerPoint, rather than real world. Because you gotta give time to devs, rushing them makes the industry awful and the product trash, you won’t recoup your losses, stop.


I think easily the worst part of all of this is the lack of local multiplayer. Anyone you want to play games with is now just flat out impossible unless you miraculously connect via a piss poor online network you have to shelve money for. I’d play games on PC if I could, but I just cannot afford a moderately decent PC that is over a thousand dollars just to emulate and mod a few of the games when I can just play most of those games for dirt cheap on Switch. It still makes me feel bad though because I do not want to give Nintendo any money, I’m only doing it because it’s the only option I have within my budget.


Graphics are better than ever? That's debatable. Very debatable.


im pretty sure me and emplemon had the same childhood


I hope you make a sequel to this. I wrote an article about the rigged matchmaking system in Overwatch and how think-tanks have made video games into a giant formulaic way of getting people addicted games and how they do it. This is why gaming companies are able to get away with their BS in general and rake in profits regardless of how bad the game is.


I agree that big studios don't want to give people the best product possible. They want to give people the minimum. I hate that consumers never get the blame though. If morons didn't constantly buy the newest game year after year then big studios wouldn't have incentive to do so.


The best soccer game of all time is Ape Escape 2.


Ah yes Klay world is a bona fide internet classic


I had the same simple game lineup and remember vividly hangin out with friends and someone saying “hey let’s play this” and then tossing in a disc and being into the game in a couple of minutes.  Now if you don’t play a game every single day, you have to wait 20-60 minutes for updates before you can even begin to play.  The days of hoping from one disc to another are long gone even though we have local storage at our disposal now.

@BigWheel I have the same issue, but the install and download time has gotten so excessive that I've ended up just playing less games.  I played RDR2 when it came out over a year ago and since I've moved I haven't even unboxed my Xbox One.  I just don't care enough anymore and the risk of a 30 to 60+ minute console and game download pretty much wipes out whatever gaming time I would have had.

The problem i have with local storage is I'll download a handful of games, fill up my console and then after a few months, when I've gotten tired of all those titles I have to go delete them and wait for the new games I'll play to download, it's fine but still inferior to just having to swap out a memory card and or disc. And it almost limits what you'll play, because if you have any large games that you don't play often you'll be stuck holding onto them just so you don't have to re-que them. Or you'll want to play something only to find you deleted it a month ago and now you gotta free up space.

not to mention that updates sometimes change game's dynamic or even content. Look at removed content in Superhot because it referred to self-harm

I feel old. I am from the days of plugging in a cartridge and being up an running with a buddy beside you in less than a minute. I agree with your point on how awful it has become for those who just want to pick up and play for 30 or so minutes.

When you wanna play COD and the 200GB update pops up RIP


No Man's Sky proves a good point. People hated it because it was popular to hate it. When they relaunched it people liked it because it was popular to like it. I liked it at launch and got exactly what I expected cause I avoided the hype. I played 9 hours and I was done with it. I checked it out after "it's good now" and it was just awful. It wasn't any better, but people somehow convinced themselves that it was.
People hold the opinion that is safest to hold and it makes them feel included, but it isn't productive. Kids, don't like things because you're supposed to. Like them because you like them.

Some of your topics like gatekeeping are irrelevant. People liking bad games that then see sequels or reiterations of objectively bad games deserve their backlash. The mindless masses buying every new Apex skin are the problem.


Well the people who make these games are political driven instead of making great games. I remember when you were able to find great games and lots of them at the end of the year several years ago. Granted that it is covid-19 era and it's disrupted the gaming industries but I'm talking before Covid-19. What you have to do as a consumer just don't buy games that have a low ratings and broken games from reviews.


This video is a nutshell

No one was toxic and no video during 200’s but now everyone has and is


I miss playing excitetruck and beetle adventure racing.


God please I need more tf2 appreciation, these sprinkles of references are giving me fuel for life

Funny how the year I go back to TF2 and find myself enchanted by it once again is when mr Lemon sprinkles it into his vids

@Daniel Jones especially now beacuse It s scream fortres

Was playing earlier for old times sake. It still has that old magic!


can you make a bad video? jesus christ. Also this video is so accurate in so many ways


Ah yes gamers, the most oppressed group in society


It’s like listening to surfin bird and wishing more music was like it lol


“You’re giving up seamless dlc and patches” well they used to sell finished games back in the early 2000s so these weren’t always necessary

They have certainly gotten lazy over the years with the thought of "yeah we'll just fix it with a patch", but even back then devs would release buggy games. Clearly wasn't the norm, but it did happen occasionally. Of course, I'm talking more about the PC space.
Daggerfall released with many game breaking bugs, including one where you literally could not finish the game. That got patched a few months after release, but imagine someone in the mid-90s downloading a fucking patch over the internet. Not happening, most people didn't even have internet.
Also don't even get me fucking started with shit like SecuROM and other DRM bullshit that could, I shit you not, actually break your hard drive.
I'm glad a lot of that stuff is over nowadays, but the convenience has obviously led to laziness and incompetence.

@Nobody In particular <br>Dude, there were a lot of NES clunkers.

@Nobody In particular
Dude, there were a lot of NES clunkers.

@Afqwa we remember those timeless classic because those were full experiences that you paid ONCE for them and got to have everything that was available for it. Maybe there was a bug or glitch here and there, but generally you had a quality product in your hands for you to enjoy.
And if a game wasn't the above, it was a rushed hackjob done with no passion nor will to make anything good, and would say that if games were patchable back then, it would've still not made a huge difference.

Nowadays 99% of all games are rushed hackjobs sent in stores asap, are incomplete, buggy, content is being cut off to sell it back to you, made grindier to entice you to those microtransactions, are basically gambling with lootboxes, and usually need to wait a year or more before you have something you can call "complete", if that even happens anyway.
cough cough Anthem cough cough

Yeah, I'd gladly go back to those old days.

@Afqwa we remember those timeless classic because those were full experiences that you paid ONCE for them and got to have everything that was available for it. Maybe there was a bug or glitch here and there, but generally you had a quality product in your hands for you to enjoy.
And if a game wasn't the above, it was a rushed hackjob done with no passion nor will to make anything good, and would say that if games were patchable back then, it would've still not made a huge difference.

Nowadays 99% of all games are rushed hackjobs sent in stores asap, are incomplete, buggy, content is being cut off to sell it back to you, made grindier to entice you to those microtransactions, are basically gambling with lootboxes, and usually need to wait a year or more before you have something you can call "complete", if that even happens anyway.
*cough cough Anthem cough cough*

Yeah, I'd gladly go back to those old days.

@Alex Kozliayev remember when nintendo used distribution events back in gen 2 and 3 to patch their games

Yeah, people are forgetting that the Angry Video Game Nerd is bashing on NES titles that are buggy or rushed. And it's not like anybody could install patch to your cartridge. We just remember the timeless classics and not all the lemons.

@LordVader1094 It really depends. If a game is wonderful and completely finished, and then the devs decide to make dlc if the game is really popular, there is no problem. If a game is riddled with problems that are fixed in the dlc that is a problem. I hate the pokemon sword and shield dlc because they fix a major problem people had with the game, the non inclusion of a lot of old pokemon, which are brought back in the dlc. I really like the breath of the wild dlc however because it was a great game that was fully finished, and added some cool bonus content with the dlc when the game sold really well.

@Holden The Gamer Im not going to argue whether or not DLCs are good or bad, but in both of those cases the solution to the games being unfinished would be a longer deadline.

You could never hope for growth from those finished games. Once you did everything to do in them you were done. Like it or not, microtransactions and dlc allow the life cycle of games to extend great lengths

@Doom58 tf is this supposed to mean?
"Not all games are sold unfinished"
"YEA BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS ONE GAME THAT WAS SOLD UNFINISHED"

i think that patches are great, but the quality standards need to be applied, old games had a odd glitch every now and then, but they were typically found by experamenting and messing with the game, kind of like a unintentional easter egg, not walking around until something went wrong

Meh, I remember having to return to the store I bought a game from because it had a game breaking bug just to get it replaced with a fixed version. and then there are many games that have massive amount of bugs that could never be fixed because there was no way to patch them. You can keep that crap.

Just because a game has DLC doesn't means it's not finished.

@cookielover_2015 "Giving consumers a half-baked game then selling them the solution is GREAT" FTFY, you corporate shill

@cookielover_2015 did you read the comment?

those horrible game devs. Giving consumers a full game and then adding more content later is HORRIBLE

You forgot about expansion packs, and patched editions?<br>They couldn't sell downloadable content back then because it was harder to distribute anything online

You forgot about expansion packs, and patched editions?
They couldn't sell downloadable content back then because it was harder to distribute anything online


Super Smash Bros. Remix is pretty fuckin neat, too.  Smash modding community is awesome.


What goes up must come down.

And down did it come.


I think these game companies get hammered badly now is because there a triple AAA game studio with billions of dollars and they can't even make a single game that is more intuitive and interesting original and well fun! We want party game and games to play with friends<br>And games that are not glitchy. These high expectations haven't been met vary much others than red dead redemption 2 which is like God tier. It's a bunch of expensive POS games.

I think these game companies get hammered badly now is because there a triple AAA game studio with billions of dollars and they can't even make a single game that is more intuitive and interesting original and well fun! We want party game and games to play with friends
And games that are not glitchy. These high expectations haven't been met vary much others than red dead redemption 2 which is like God tier. It's a bunch of expensive POS games.


Jimmy Kimmel scoffing at people watching creators play video games for enjoyment… is peak boomer mentality.
Like get with the times, just because you don’t understand it doesn’t change the fact that it’s super popular.
And if Kimmel’s overlords deemed it profitable enough, they’d make him play video games on his late night show.


My Monday: Turn on the Neo Geo, I'm all set for fun!

Your Monday:
1) Get Internet
2) Wait more in lobbies for strangers than actually playing the game
3) Headset or Get kicked out of a game
4) Toxicity
5) Doxing
6) Corrupt, Infantile Idiosyncrasies amongst all players
7) Mumble rap in a party chat
8) Sharing your social media & not actually gaming
9) Repeat Step "1" down to "8" everyday.

You feel good?


I saw that Dunkey reference at the end. I rate this video a 1/10


I feel this video is very true. After watching this, I reflected on my game collection, I realized that the last game that I have been excited for, and delivered a good experience, was hollow knight. That got me worried dude.

@Brokkrep i am still alive and will :D i just forgot about this thread lol. i hope you are having a good day.

@RiskOfBaer i picked up quite a bit after it released, i have recently got celeste, and it is one of my favorite games of all time. i even got into it enough to speedrun it, and have had a blast lowering my personal best the last couple of months.

Maybe it's because I've been burned a lot with games, but man there are some that still get me hyped. I'm still waiting for a horror game that gets me as good as Cry of Fear got me. It isn't the "best" horror game, but it's the one I talk about the most.

I was hyped for RE7 when it was coming out. I bought a PS3 just for The Last of Us which became one of my favourite games ever. I'm looking forward to Sons of the Forest, because that game kicked ass. Stranded Deep had me hyped, but never quite gave me what I wanted. Still fun to play when I want to unwind. The Long Dark is one that paid off in spades. I bought it the month it hit Steam and have never been unhappy save when they first let the story mode out. It was abysmal, but the hype behind it was too much as well. They took the feedback and reworked it into something much better. Sandbox is still king tho.

Mine was Titanfall 2, and that was in 2016.

Last game I was really excited for was probably Pokemon Heart Gold.

After that my excitement became more of a "ah, looks alright. Might pick it up" kind of feeling.

@RiskOfBaer He already deleted his comment. Maybe he died.

Hollow Knight has been ages ago, we got so many amazing games since then. Were you just not looking? Or maybe you just have a very specific taste?

I was really excited when The Crew 2 and it was fun two years long, but now they are dragging you more and more paying more.


Fun fact: Sammy Classic Sonic fan was actually a troll.


Psychonauts 2  is one game that didn't get dropped in the downward spiral


I was really hoping this was going to be Bart listening to The Downward Spiral.


"Two copies of Dwarf Fortress, please!"<br>...Dwarf Fortress is free lol

"Two copies of Dwarf Fortress, please!"
...Dwarf Fortress is free lol


"I've never played a single Anime related game in my entire life"<br>"Pokemon Go was the most fun i've had in any game in the past decade"

"I've never played a single Anime related game in my entire life"
"Pokemon Go was the most fun i've had in any game in the past decade"

This reminds me of when I was a kid and someone told me Pokemon was a "Korean cartoon" and I actually believed them.

@ExpertOfSound I mean it kinda died for alot of people as soon as august came around and school started back up

@Squinchy  it is, the og designs on the box are in anime style and the show exists and is anime

It was fun for a little bit....then the 3 step glitch happened, you couldn't track them down anymore. It just kept getting worse and worse, and people were FURIOUS at Niantic.

I dropped out of it in 2016, and it broke my heart. I really wanted to keep enjoying it.

@Jazz Feline It wasn't why do you think Pokemon is in Smash? That's like saying Sonic, Street Fighter, Kirby, Devil may Cry, Bayonetta, ect are Anime as well lmao

@Jazz Feline ...No<br>It started in games,bro

@Jazz Feline ...No
It started in games,bro

Well... Pokémon started as a game and then an anime was made after because of the success so technically the franchise isn’t anime related.

@ChickenInASweater a mix between stealth and life sim I guess?

Pokemon Go was my second favorite video game experience, behind RuneScape

Then Niantic destroyed the game by removing the competitve aspect, breaking the Get powerful pokemon > Earn Gold through gyms > Use gold to Get powerful pokemon

@ChickenInASweater yandere simulator is meant to be a "hitman" game, then yandere dev added a bunch of other stuff to it and it all became so confusing that the starting theme disappeared

jakerockznoodles
Remember how this debate started. People are arguing if Pokémon is an anime game because of the comparison to Yandere sim. And that definitely wasn’t based off a specific anime.
I don’t think “anime games” literally mean a game adaptation of an anime, I think it just means the game has a certain art style(at least based off the steam tags)

@Jazz Feline Go back to your own timeline.

I think he meant that it was based upon the video game. It wasn't based on the Pokemon anime, more so based upon the games.

@ChickenInASweater Stealth assassination, but then YandereDev went (more) insane and decided it needs to be the next Shenmue.

tecnically the anime is related to the games but still the same point

@That Guy But it was a game first. A game with an anime style is a game, not an anime.

@Squinchy yes it is.  It’s literally made by the Japanese with an anime character design

It was a game before it was a show though

@Mr. Friendship no it started out as manga.

Anime = Animated<br>Simpsons is anime, I know he meant Japanese rooted, and that's still dumb for emp to say

Anime = Animated
Simpsons is anime, I know he meant Japanese rooted, and that's still dumb for emp to say

@nitroflux_o - youth reasoning. That is to say, none at all.

@ChickenInASweater stealth and espionage like metal gear

@Jazz Feline No. Pokemon started out as a video game for Gameboy before it became an anime TV show and one of the most beloved franchise of all time.

You know, jelly filled donuts instead of onigiri?

@Jazz Feline pokemon red and green came out in 1996 in japan, the  anime started in 1997, however red and blue localizations and release in the west were in 1998. Altough i still agree that pokemon does have an anime art style.

@Kossolax the Foresworn what kind of reasoning is that

shit that reminded me of sometime over 10 years ago when me and buddies were arguing if pokemon is an anime or not. they said it wasnt, I said it was.<br>I think their logic had something to do with either mouth/eye ratio or just because they liked it and didnt want to think about it as anime because anime equals bad.

shit that reminded me of sometime over 10 years ago when me and buddies were arguing if pokemon is an anime or not. they said it wasnt, I said it was.
I think their logic had something to do with either mouth/eye ratio or just because they liked it and didnt want to think about it as anime because anime equals bad.

I don’t get what he meant by “never played a game in the genre” like wtf kind of genre was YandereSim even meant to be??


Yes Kingdom of Loathing is crack concentrate I would be happy super gluing myself to the 2003 browser RPG


I still play richard burns rally because I think it's still one of the best rally games out there


You know what makes me sad pandemic studios were 99% done with star wars battlefront 3 so that means somewhere out there is a playable version that's 1% away from done and we will never get to see it let alone play it instead we get dice half arsed attempt at recapturing what pandemic did <br>Games today are lazy templates with different skins no new creativity look at dead rising to DR4 games have less content than the original release like the zombie army trilogy compared to zombie army 4

You know what makes me sad pandemic studios were 99% done with star wars battlefront 3 so that means somewhere out there is a playable version that's 1% away from done and we will never get to see it let alone play it instead we get dice half arsed attempt at recapturing what pandemic did
Games today are lazy templates with different skins no new creativity look at dead rising to DR4 games have less content than the original release like the zombie army trilogy compared to zombie army 4


11:18 people have also been watching other people play "real" sports for centuries. but ofc jimmy doesn't mention that.


Just realise that you don't need to purchase every game. This year I've bought 3 games this year, love them all, and still play my old games too; and I have fun!

Same. We should learn to treasure what we have! :D


'city of heroes' is free to play and still awesome.<br>i never play anything else.

'city of heroes' is free to play and still awesome.
i never play anything else.


I agree. The only game i play, for about 6 years now is rocket league


Madden NFL 2004 was also a timeless classic and I don't like sports


lego rock band gave me more hours of fun than any modern call of duty and i will not stand by and watch it be called shovelware.


this is why I love speedrunners so much: They don't give a flip about how much people like their games and they put 5000 hours into them anyway.

@StateoftheMind Friend, theres no such thing as a community as something representative, it literally gets it's name from the fact that it's a group of people with the fact that they are their own individuals being the easiest form of categorizing them. It's like saying "the government", "the youtubers", or given recent events "the police"/"the protestors".

@fury .pha. sure, but can you say to the 10 people upvoting that comment and making suicide jokes in this comment section?

@StateoftheMind dude my friends met the best destiny 2 speedrunner as of last week. he was apperantly the nicest person ever and his skill was apperantly unmatched. they are some of the most dedicated people i have ever seen tbh.

@Lukasz Spychaj i really dont know anymore.

@StateoftheMind Even if that was true, what's the problem?

the speedrunning community however has been transphobic as of late


There’s a reason why I still play the wii and ps2


Give up all other games for a 2007 old school RuneScape? Already done 😂


Before watching I would say more of an monetary incentive.


To be honest I have played several modern games and I don't feel like they hit the same as the og games that's why I play the og star wars battlefront 2


"As soon as the hype train gets behind an upcoming title, that game is doomed to a monsoon of ridicule if it falls anywhere short of perfection"

Yep, I took a quick look at some of the released footage of cyberpunk and sure enough the comments are all outraged at how imperfect it looks. That game isn't even out yet ffs

@z NightOwl z I agree. I had no idea what the fuck was going on with the story because I can't be bothered to play the other 2, the movement feels clunky and weird, I had to repair my weapons constantly which was decently pricey early game and I really didn't wanna have to deal with oiling my swords to give them buffs or whatever. I can understand why people like it but god damn it's only somewhat strong point is the story, and again I just didn't care about it.

@SimpIeton  I legit think I'd enjoy watching it more than playing it. I still dont think the story is as great as it's made out to be.

@Sage Hanson it’s combat is trash and it’s moral choices are so lazy and limited

@Junkyard Doggo dark souls is a good example of a fanbase with no idea how to criticise

This is exactly why HL3 will never exist.

@Mister Tago Mago Bro I fucking Love Skyrim, Dark souls, and Breath of the wild, but fuck the Witcher 3. It feels like it should be a combination of all 3 of those but I just don't like it.

Afaik most hype surrounding an upcoming title is usually instigated by the development and marketing teams in an effort to boost prospective sales. <b>No Man's sky</b> is an example.

Afaik most hype surrounding an upcoming title is usually instigated by the development and marketing teams in an effort to boost prospective sales. *No Man's sky* is an example.

@Mister Tago Mago I'd never touch Witcher 3 as a game, but damn, the amount of cutscene is very admirable. I watched so much of it.

@Junkyard Doggo I'm not an interested fan, but the hype was definitely manufactured by the devs, so I don't feel sorry for them.

I dont get why this game is so hyped up but then again I hated The Witcher 3

@Junkyard Doggo yeah but the media can be part to blame with that

It's kinda sad that regardless of how good cyberpunk ends up being. It's always gonna be disappointing the absurd expectations and hype put on it.


I get Hollow Knight from torrent. After i finished the game, i bought it from steam. Also i bought another copy for my friend just for support the team behind this master piece. From now on i will not buy any game before try it.


see the reason why i mostly play games from indie devs


So basically the internet caused all this


“Raid shadow legends”😂😂 gets me every time

Never played it, is it any good in your opinion?

Never played that, is it any good in your opinion?

This comment should be tagged as 'spoilers' 😄

@Jamaljason boyz gillis every one who has used the internet knows

I have mad respect for you as someone who has played Midnight club 3: Dub edition


At least we got finished games back then.


I recently acquired a wii, I am now into my mid 20’s, from my girlfriends sister and now the only thing my friends and I want to do is, play Mario cart when ever we hang out.


Nah there's just so many more games. Sekiro is unique and perfect for example


Burnout 3 takedown was my shit if I could only play one racing game forever it would probably be this one


Heres something i have to disagree with you Emp, probably AAA studios arent making local games as much, but indie studios do, and thanks to them this decade there are more local multiplayer games on pc only than in the 2000's, the ammount is insane, and the quality is great.


I f*** hate this new era... I would definitely go back to the good old days! When they were putting love and caring with all the games. Now it's just like you said they release a broken game cash up us even more


SimCity too. SimCity 4 was so good, but then came SimCity 2013. Ugh.


WHOA YOU PLAYED ATV QUAD POWER RACING

GOD DAMN THAT WAS LEGENDARY 😂😂😂


No Man's sky is pretty bad example. Devs themselvs made unrealistic promises and lied about the game. It deserved every bit of the hate it got.


"Just play indies lol" did the trick for me. Games are fun again!

You speak the truth, there are so many great ones


i'm playing C&C 3 kanes wrath. Xbox, 2008 ish game..<br>would be playing dune 2000 with mods but i did some questionable unit input values and my laptop got quite hot + black screened & never turned on again..

i'm playing C&C 3 kanes wrath. Xbox, 2008 ish game..
would be playing dune 2000 with mods but i did some questionable unit input values and my laptop got quite hot + black screened & never turned on again..


What does cringe even mean? Its been used so much that its lost its meaning. At this point, it just means:
You do something i don't like so you're a bad person?
What am i supposed to do anymore if everyone judges everything i do? Is having fun a bad thing?


I get what you’re saying but a lot this is just coming off as “back in my day” level arguments. The sentiment you have for local gaming is similar to the ones people have for online gaming. Also quick thing about the poll, you only polled your audience so it’s not fair to say “half of all people” would rather have 2000s games.

I love stuff from GameCube, Wii and Wii U, but part of me died at the end of the 16-bit era.

@RandomPikmin No you're right about it. If you used twitter you'd see that IGN especially is heavily biased towards PS and PS first party studios. So yes, while they're not really taking money, doing a favourable review for early review copies which in turn generates revenue through clicks is essentially the same thing anyway. I don't mind poltiical nuance in games, it's something I've appreciated ever since metal gear. However, I do believe that reviewers should be held to a particular standard before they are actually considered "games journalists".

@Dante's Inferno I was referring to the implications a story might have, things like portrayals of minorities, themes present in a game, what the core message of a story is etc. rather than gameplay. Sure, I wouldn't want Dean Takahashi to review my gameplay, but he could have interesting things to say on the implications of the story my game tells or whatever (not saying that he does, but just saying, theoretically, different reviewers could have different strengths and review different types of games). And, tbf, I don't really care about reviewers either that much, I was talking about a more general mindset I've seen when trying to discuss political things and themes in games.

I do agree about not really liking most professional reviewers. I think that, though I doubt reviews are bought, many reviewers are scared of being on the wrong side of big AAA games companies, which is why you see them say such absolute bs like the other reviwers you mentioned. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it feels like if you get on the bad side of Rockstar, Nintendo, Naughty Dog etc. by giving their games not good reviews, you don't get review  copies on their games, meaning you lose a considerable amount of income due to the decreased traffic your website/youtube channel/ whatever receives. This would really force reviewers to lick AAA-boot and give highly inflated reviews and excuse their bad worker practices. But, if I'm honest, I don't really know much about game reviewer culture (I tend to just stick to games my friends recommend) so if I'm spouting bullshit, please correct me.

@RandomPikmin Dude you want people like Dean Takahashi and Jason Schereir reviewing your games? You are right about the art aspect of games but it has led to a lot of awfully pretentious reviewers who don't even finish a fucking game. And guess what? There are overwhelmingly more pretentious reviewers than more genuine reviewers. Someone fucking compared the last of us 2 to Schindler's list not too long ago because of their pretentiousness.

@AlinaGray88  I mean this is such a broad and vague generalization that it's instantly false, but just for my own entertainment, and for practice, I'd like to dissect this claim.

Many people, yourself included I imagine, would admit that some new games are better than some old games, so I could just say your statement isn't true as an absolute and be done with it. But just pointing out that an absolute statement in this context can't be true, doesn't address the more complex flaws in the mindset being presented. And anyway, you were likely thinking that overall, or generally, old games are better than new ones.

Ok, so... how do you determine the "overall" quality of games from different decades? I'd assume you think that the "better" games were "higher quality" than the other games. How do you determine that, like what does "higher quality" even mean?

"Higher quality" and "better" are both very vague, and ultimately subjective. But... let's just say "higher quality" means popular, for argument's sake.

If "higher quality" means popular, then how would you determine that? Perhaps by sales? Ok, so then how do you take into account the difference in the general popularity of gaming between the 2000s, or the 1990s, or the 2010s? That would cause huge differences in nominal sales numbers, so how do you factor that out?

Maybe you want to factor out the difference, by using the quantity of people who purchased the console a game was sold on, as the "total population" of this experiment. Then, compare that "total population" to the fraction of that population who bought the game. This could work, but then you run into the problem of games released on multiple consoles versus exclusive titles. How do you factor that out without making a subjective judgement call? Well, maybe you compare games from the same, console exclusive series, released in different decades; Halo vs Halo 5, SSBM vs SSBU, etc. However, even then, you run into various outside factors manipulating your data.

Let's say, again for argument's sake as this isn't based on real sales, that the ratio of Gamecube owners who bought SSBM is higher than the ratio of Switch owners who bought SSBU. However, maybe this higher rate of sales is not caused by SSBM being a "better" game, but by the Gamecube having less variety than the Switch. In this scenario, Gamecubes are being bought with the sole purpose of playing SSBM, while Switch owners are having to choose between SSBU and other games. This causes Switch owners to buy SSBU at a lower rate than Gamecube owners bought SSBM, not because SSBU is worse or less popular than SSBM, but because SSBU has competition.

This imaginary scenario is just one example of how the ratio of console owners to game owners can be skewed by other factors. Another factor could be the popularity of consoles.  Halo 4 released on the Xbo360, which was doing pretty well in comparison to the Playstation 3, but Halo 5 released on the Xbox One, and the Playstation 4 proceeded to wipe the floor with it. This could cause huge differences in console sales and game sales.

So sales aren't a reliable method to determine quality.

Maybe popularity, and therefore "quality," is determined by ratings and scores. Whose ratings would you use? Would you take scores from various publications and find an average? User reviews, critic reviews, or both? Would you use reviews from any time period, or just from the decade the game was released in? In 2001, a game was subject to mostly reviews by professional critics, while 2020 games get hundreds, even thousands, of reviews by random users who may have never even played the game (not saying that critics are necessarily more accurate than random users or the opposite, just that these two groups do give very different ratings). Plus, history has shown that the publics and critics opinions on games can change drastically from their initial estimates. If a reviewers opinion on a game changed from 2005 to 2015, how do you count their ratings? Do you count both, and if not how do you determine which to pick? How do you know a low rated game released in 2015 wont be considered differently in 2025?

Basically, whether you use reviews on release or all reviews of a game, you arent' getting the full story either way.

@AlinaGray88  I mean this is such a broad and vague generalization that it's instantly false, but just for my own entertainment, and for practice, I'd like to dissect this claim.

Many people, yourself included I imagine, would admit that *some* new games are better than *some* old games, so I could just say your statement isn't true as an absolute and be done with it. But just pointing out that an absolute statement in this context can't be true, doesn't address the more complex flaws in the mindset being presented. And anyway, you were likely thinking that overall, or generally, old games are better than new ones.

Ok, so... how do you determine the "overall" quality of games from different decades? I'd assume you think that the "better" games were "higher quality" than the other games. How do you determine that, like what does "higher quality" even mean?

"Higher quality" and "better" are both very vague, and ultimately subjective. But... let's just say "higher quality" means popular, for argument's sake.

If "higher quality" means popular, then how would you determine that? Perhaps by sales? Ok, so then how do you take into account the difference in the general popularity of gaming between the 2000s, or the 1990s, or the 2010s? That would cause huge differences in nominal sales numbers, so how do you factor that out?

Maybe you want to factor out the difference, by using the quantity of people who purchased the console a game was sold on, as the "total population" of this experiment. Then, compare that "total population" to the fraction of that population who bought the game. This could work, but then you run into the problem of games released on multiple consoles versus exclusive titles. How do you factor that out without making a subjective judgement call? Well, maybe you compare games from the same, console exclusive series, released in different decades; Halo vs Halo 5, SSBM vs SSBU, etc. However, even then, you run into various outside factors manipulating your data.

Let's say, again for argument's sake as this isn't based on real sales, that the ratio of Gamecube owners who bought SSBM is higher than the ratio of Switch owners who bought SSBU. However, maybe this higher rate of sales is not caused by SSBM being a "better" game, but by the Gamecube having less variety than the Switch. In this scenario, Gamecubes are being bought with the sole purpose of playing SSBM, while Switch owners are having to choose between SSBU and other games. This causes Switch owners to buy SSBU at a lower rate than Gamecube owners bought SSBM, not because SSBU is worse or less popular than SSBM, but because SSBU has competition.

This imaginary scenario is just one example of how the ratio of console owners to game owners can be skewed by other factors. Another factor could be the popularity of consoles.  Halo 4 released on the Xbo360, which was doing pretty well in comparison to the Playstation 3, but Halo 5 released on the Xbox One, and the Playstation 4 proceeded to wipe the floor with it. This could cause huge differences in console sales and game sales.

So sales aren't a reliable method to determine quality.

Maybe popularity, and therefore "quality," is determined by ratings and scores. Whose ratings would you use? Would you take scores from various publications and find an average? User reviews, critic reviews, or both? Would you use reviews from any time period, or just from the decade the game was released in? In 2001, a game was subject to mostly reviews by professional critics, while 2020 games get hundreds, even thousands, of reviews by random users who may have never even played the game (not saying that critics are necessarily more accurate than random users or the opposite, just that these two groups do give very different ratings). Plus, history has shown that the publics and critics opinions on games can change drastically from their initial estimates. If a reviewers opinion on a game changed from 2005 to 2015, how do you count their ratings? Do you count both, and if not how do you determine which to pick? How do you know a low rated game released in 2015 wont be considered differently in 2025?

Basically, whether you use reviews on release or all reviews of a game, you arent' getting the full story either way.

Even if it was 30% it’s still a significant minority worth discussing ‘why’ to

I understand where you're coming from because I've had my share of great times playing online games with my friends as well, but it's fundamentally different than playing with people in the same room as you. If that's not your preference, that's fine, but the point being made in that part of the video is that the rise of online gaming has made it so developers just don't develop local multiplayer in their games, which really sucks.

It has nothing to do with "back in my day." Older video games are just better. And this is coming from someone born in 2000, not 1990.

Like with the no local multiplayer thing the only reason I didn't buy halo 5 was because it didn't have local multiplayer. I just straight up refused because I played halo for local multiplayer so I could shoot my brothers. My favorite game in the series was reach because of the forge mode. I enjoyed my time in halo 4 because of the customizability of it, I didn't like the campaign though, kinda sucked. Halo 3, great campaign and great multiplayer. Halo 3 ODST, single greatest Halo campaign I've ever played. Halo 2, good campaign, ok multiplayer. Halo 1, I never played the original but I played the remaster on the 360 so I can say that the campaign is really good, don't have an opinion on the multiplayer because I never played it. Honestly, the halo series dropped in quality after reach because bungie left, halo 4 was the first time 343 industries came in and it was pretty good and it still looks better than a few Xbox one games, campaign sucked as I stated before but the multiplayer was some of the most fun I've had in quite a while. And it makes me happy whenever I see a modern game studio look back at the past and take some inspiration from the times before them, (epic games adding split screen to Fortnite for example).

@Leaf Finite Right? It's like gamers want video games to be considered art and yet shit on anyone who analyses these games as if they are art, which of course includes the political implications of games and making political statements in games. But nooOOoOo, muh escapism.

Edit: spelling

@Lies Müge  the little "politics eurgh" rant made me laugh so hard because of how random and childishly it was presented

Emp is usually pretty heavy-handed with his own opinions, but this video is legit just sort of annoying. Love your work, Emp, but  just seems like you're stringing along your opinions with the worst possible examples to support yourself, even if I AGREE with a lot that you're saying.

@Ziggy HFX Why wouldn't he use it though? The entire point is that there's a lot of merit to old games that isn't present in the new ones, and the poll shows that a lot of people do see it.

@Poefred yes but he did not even acknowledge that more than half of the people polled like modern gaming. It comes off as more of like " I don't care that my opinion isn't in the majority I'm still going to use this anyways"

@Ziggy HFX Whichever one got the most votes wasn't the point. The point was that a sizeable portion of people do prefer older games.

From his poll he only looked at what confirmed his bias. It's genuinely impressive the amount of oversight.

@Fearghal O'Hara Yeah he seems to have completely ignored the majority of people who voted there. I mean, there were only 2 options after all.


Naughty Dog and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.


The patches and dlc is not a bad thing. The problem is when they hardly put any effort before releasing the game

Some games would've benefited massively from that just 20 yrs ago and those were developers that worked very hard on.

The other things I can agree on. The advent of online play made this a more isolating experience. While you can connect with anyone around the world online, each experience is very impersonal. I miss local multi-player games such as Mario Kart, even Mario Kart DS.

I think games pretty much reached their peak in the 7th generation (PS3/Xbox 360/Wii era) as far as graphics and processing power and if there are improvements, they're minimal.

Microtransactions - my biggest complaints but then again it's also our fault we let them do this

Games have gotten longer. People think that longer is better but it's not necessarily the case. Some of the best games I've ever played are shorter than 30 hrs even shorter than 20. Long cutscene at the beginning, 15 hours of tutorials, story pacing and progression slower than molasses until you've played 15 or 20 hours of it. Yeah that doesn't seem exciting.

I think we can't also can't blame developers for everything. A lot of is is also our fault. We have to consider that there's SO many games out on the market. It's so saturated with games both good and bad. The standards are much higher now. Back then if you were a kid and you had 2 or 3 games to play even a mediocre game was good. Also if all you're playing are good games, you won't know what a bad game is and every game to you will be meh. After decades videogames being released you'd think a lot of ideas have already been done so it will be hard or nearly impossible to be innovative. (On a monthly basis lots of games are released). That's when I think its good to re release old games, remake them,  port them or remaster them. I seriously doubt someone played the entire PS2, Wii or DS library alone.


OMG you put a Klay World clip I have so much nostalgia for that


The only game I still play was released in 1994


The future of the gaming industry lies in the hands of indie devs.

I agree. I'd say that indie devs are the ones who are most willing to experiment and innovate or at least try something new in the genre they're creating in. Whether it's in gameplay design or technical design. Eventually their ideas become the new trend and maybe a standard for gaming in general.  It's happened for the music industry as well as the film industry.


Ever since Godhand in 2006, video games have been on a downward spiral.


ok rewatching this video:<br>why did you call de blob shovelware? its a good game in my opinion

ok rewatching this video:
why did you call de blob shovelware? its a good game in my opinion


Minecraft had gotten me some great friends worldwide so I wouldn't say online multiplayer isn't all bad

there are some games that do stuff like this. minecraft (outside of minigames and large servers) is an example, but there feels like less online games which actually push you to make friendships with others that are not mmos. journey is an excellent example of a game like this, and i heard sky children of the light is similar


Wait, the series deteriorated after a vacuum of competition was formed due to that competition providing incentive to make a great game?
Sounds awfully familiar....
cough YouTube cough cough

Wait, the series deteriorated after a vacuum of competition was formed due to that competition providing incentive to make a great game?
Sounds awfully familiar....
*cough* YouTube *cough cough*

Dr.Bright isn't allowed to use Foundation servers for his Youtube account.<br>Get off the Foundation's servers Bright,maybe use your own PC.

Dr.Bright isn't allowed to use Foundation servers for his Youtube account.
Get off the Foundation's servers Bright,maybe use your own PC.

Bio-error 1d10t: User unable to create name.

@Devcron I agree, we should all have famines again.

Yeah, early 1900's capitalism all over again.

It's almost as if this relentless drive for profit in a "free" market leads to an inevitable trend towards monopolisation or something...

Dr. Bright is not allowed to comment on YouTube videos while using foundation servers.


This is why I don't play the new games anymore, because the people making the games are many times pushing some sort of agenda or politic. Just as you said, here I am in my 3rd world country barely getting time to play and, if I do and I get a new game, I get agendas shoved down my throat.


30 minute essay fueled entirely by nostalgia


games back then had to be finished polished and bug tested out of the box, now its all sloppy, 10 years ago i thought updates and dlc over the internet would be a good thing


Dreamcast, PS2, Quake 3 Arena, Star Wars Battlefront II 2005..... You sir are a man of culture.....


I feel like now people are stuck in this "I just want things to go back" so they buy and buy hoping one day they can enjoy Nintendo again and not taking down fan games and reselling them or paying for content back.<br>we hate call of duty but we still come back because we just want it to be like the old times its why remakes and remasters sell so much for just being the same game

I feel like now people are stuck in this "I just want things to go back" so they buy and buy hoping one day they can enjoy Nintendo again and not taking down fan games and reselling them or paying for content back.
we hate call of duty but we still come back because we just want it to be like the old times its why remakes and remasters sell so much for just being the same game

I wonder if in the future, a game company may reform back to the favored old style, or perhaps a large demographic would revert back to a better game.

Nintendo goes the safest route. Was Pokemon Sword/Shield a bad game? I do think so, I still bought it because I knew essentially what I was in for. I played it for roughly 80 hours and for me that's okay. It's not just with video games but many other things as well, but I find it harder and harder to enjoy things in general. So paying 60 Bucks to preferably getting 60 to 100 hours out of it is worth it for me as there is a 1 Dollar for an hour of expiriencing something new or somewhat enjoyable. Also it supports still the same developers that made those gems in my childhood. Gaming has become a huge thing with a massive demographic and demand on reinventing themselves every few years. And it's hard to please everyone. If you try to change too much, you may scare of older fans of a series but do to little and get called out for not being innovative enough.

If the products weren't utter shit there wouldn't be a need to chase the past.


16:51 > this extends to TV as well, there is hard evidence that the toxicity of the Steven Universe Fandom is why the show rushed to the ending with full SJW conversion and unsatisfactory conclusions to all the remaining plot lines.


a lot of reason for games being worse is bad companies and sometimes, I don't mean all the time is cause of nostalgia.


Hey, Destroy All Humans and de Blob were great games


I'm so glad I kept all of the PS2 games I played as a kid all these years. I don't play them very often anymore but they are always a blast to go back to

@GOAT You can also softmod a PS2 very easily and play games off a hard drive connected to the PS2 network adapter.

Or just use AetherSX2 on Android to revisit them if you hate taking up space.

Me too , have a storage box full of them lol.


generic game company asks what game I would ever want
pulls up 982million miles of notes

*generic game company asks what game I would ever want*
*pulls up 982million miles of notes*


It's funny how the leak just ruined it even more.


"today movies have better effects than 90s movies", eh Jurassic Park , Independendce day and many others have to disagree


I don't understand why people buy sports games every year in the first place


"Everyone wants the best solution in the least ammount of time and anything less is considered a failure"

Damn, that kinda sounds like cyberpunk

@4nt I got cyberpunk about a week after release. I crashed once after 3 hours of playing and encountered one or two bugs. My PS4 was like 3 years old. It crashed less than minecraft for gods sake.

Bugs aside I loved the game did three play throughs. Story and world was really well done, I could care less if they didn’t add ray tracing on a ps4, or even not having cop chases I don’t even remember getting wanted by the police during my play throughs. I’d kid people were expecting it to be gta 5 in a cyberpunk world.

Yeah nobody wants actual solutions, people always try to fix a problem instead of actually preventing a problem in the first place, lack of any common sense or use of the brain causes this and that problem won't go away anytime soon.

@Connor P yeah and that's how they lead to building up insane levels of hype and letting people down. As for myself I never pre order games no matter what it is I just wait until release to see what's up.

@Blues well, it has been unfortunately proven time and time again that the farther away the announcement is, the more general sales and preorders they can get. Except for Nintendo, Nintendo's weird.

@Connor P yeah if that's the case I'd say they announced the game far too early as well. I don't know why that's a trend. Announcing a game at e3 when all they have is a cinematic movie and a powerpoint presentation of what the game is supposed to be back at the office.

@Blues they only started full development after the witcher dlc was finished, and numerous changes in scope as well. It was essentially what Emp said in this video about kickstarter, they announced the game WAY too early. It was basically bragging they got the license to get the fans of the tabletop behind them and interest an audience. Short term gain for long term failure.

I would agree with this if cyberpunk wasn't in development for nearly a decade

@4nt waiting to put out the game would have made the millions of people who preordered the game pissed off that it didnt come out soon enough<br>CDPR was essentially in a damned if you do damned if you dont situation

@4nt waiting to put out the game would have made the millions of people who preordered the game pissed off that it didnt come out soon enough
CDPR was essentially in a damned if you do damned if you dont situation

I mean, yeah, but Cyberpunk came out in an awful state. Not saying its fair, but the behavior was somewhat warranted.

CDPR should've waited to put out the game, or at the very least, they should've cancelled the base ps4/xbox one ports if they were that horribly unoptimized. Like, on the PC end of things, NVidia managed to quell a lot of early problems with the game's release, and while there was still issues like the save file size limit (which exceeding over would cause save file corruptions), at least it was nowhere near as bad of a PR disaster as the current gen console ports.


When people say Skyrim is bad bc its graphics... I cry.


Fully integrated competitive gameplay "FULLY INTEGRATED?" Yeah sure


The idea that the consumer knows exactly what they want is ludicrous, especially in regards to a video game experience. If I told a dev team exactly what I wanted, and they made it, what do I get? A bland reflection of my desires with no twists or surprises. A good dev team should know what aspects of their game was fun when making a sequel, keep that stuff in and from there, try something new. You're essentially asking me to spend my time money on an experience you are providing. There's a goldilocks zone of knowing what I'm going to get. Too little, and I'm not interested. Too much, and I don't even need to buy the game, I can just watch someone else play it.


Honestly same thing with anime and manga after the boom of the 90s boom anime and manga turned into serious business similar to video games in turned into a multi billion dollar industry with very serious businesses


man i knew somehow it was all minecrafts fault


21:17 Straight up the No More Heroes series


That "People watching other people playing video games instead of playing them themselves is stupid." way of thinking is hilarious, when you remember that people saying it most likely watch sports on TV instead of, you know, playing them themselves...

@Shaman Xeed Thanks for proving my point.

It's funny that I never once said anything about which one is harder or more impressive, so good job projecting <3

Rotfl. I love how I clearly triggered all the people who don't consider games "real" sport and don't think you can take pride in your skills just like with other "real" sports. After all, we can't value anything else other than physical fitness and appearance, right? World would collapse if those people, that I bet you'd make fun of/bully, turned out to be worth putting on the same level as those idealized symbols of masculinity. Sharing spotlight with people vastly different than you, who value and prioritize different things, would shatter your current, apparently very narrow, world-view.

@Ultimate Gamer plus not everyone is physically fit or even able at all to play the sport anyways

@Ultimate Gamer Then you never saw players at the absolute highest level playing. I don't think you can even really call yourself a gamer if you never heard about top players reaching some insane APM. The level of focus, mental capability and reflexes isn't something you can just reach by casually playing the game. Many people don't know about it and it's rarely talked about, but when you're a pro player on a team, like in LoL for example, you actually have to play game 8-10 hours 5 days a week, just like any professional athlete would train in order to be always at their best. In fact they play those games so much, it's no longer about fun and for some, they stop enjoying the game altogether. Just because one is focused more on physical aspects it doesn't mean it's superior. Sure being fit is a lot of work and it benefits you outside playing, but that doesn't mean being a pro at games isn't just as demanding.

@Ultimate Gamer yeah, the fun of videogmes are the injokes and intricacies mostly unfound in sports.

@blue cactus Not sure if trolling or, but the point of watching either sports or e-sports is to watch someone in peak condition/level you'll never reach. Also for human drama.

It's stupid both for games and sports. Watching something can't be as fun as playing it yourself

The upside with games is you can put a funny emote in chat


dude when runescape was popular i had like 3 friends with computers. no shit it was less popular than minecraft


In my perspective. There are two sides of The FNAF Fandom, The Fan Theorists which are acceptable in their own regard and The Furries. I don't need to explain what's the problem with the latter now, do I ??? [16:50]


I havent bought a new game in almost 5 years and i can say happily i’m not missing out on anything. Videos like this have only proven my point. The companies have completely lost themselves to greed, and their magnum opus was the ‘fallout’ over 76. Oh, and VR is still a long way from being more than just a pricey gimmick. I have a few friends on the oculus kick and almost everything they play is some sort of shooting gallery type affair. You can’t sustain an industry only on lies, and even worse is the phenomenon of the pre-order. STOP PRE-ORDERING and these thieves will start producing games again. I could keep going, but i got other things to do.


The 3ds was the peak of simple fun, in my opinion. Smaller, more focused titles would come out there all the time, and when something big was out, it was polished and lasted you longer than some console games.

I loved playing the World Ends With You and the Chrono Trigger port on my DS lite so much.

My all time fave game franchise has been the professor layton series and I agree!! The DS lite to the 3ds had such good and varied titles that catered to all audiences


Yeah, ever since Madden 05 (NFL 2K5 is the greatest) and to this day, microtransactions.


We stopped caring about having fun so we could care too much about caring.


I swear, it's also so easy for kids to also accidentally spend money. I once misclicked when i was like 8 and accidentally spent 40 dollars on robux i didnt want. with the click of a button. This was on the XBOX, on PC, where i play roblox now, its much harder to do


Upon opening this video I got a free v bucks ad. I was convinced it was a gag done by Emp at first.


mkwii avoids all of this
>2000s game
>graphically ok
>online fun
>good fanbase


I never thought I would see a klayworld reference in a video made in 2020


As of today the only decent sport Game is the F1 franchise, and the bad news are that EA bought the developer in 2020. So we are going to lose it very soon.


You saying, what I think a long time...
Games from the 90s are Really Good and most of the Best Games of all Time.
Just Buy old Games then New Games! Yeah
´
But New Games are Good is very Rare this time...
Just 2-3 Games a Year are Really Interesting to me...and the Rest are Really Good Games from the Past...

YOU HAVE NO TIME IN YOUR LIFE TO PLAY ALL GAMES ANYMORE!!!!

XD


"nobody ever makes a video about a game being decently adequate"

Bro, watch Whitelight

@Brandon Sausage I don't think that was really the point he was trying to get across. It wasn't that that don't exist, but the medium is oversaturated to a point that it's hard to find non polarized opinions about games.

@Whitelight indeed. Although I still want to tell him that you can do the <i>"surrender to the cops fake out and then cause a blackout"</i> in Watch_Dogs if the heat level is below level 2 and it's at night.

@Whitelight indeed. Although I still want to tell him that you can do the _"surrender to the cops fake out and then cause a blackout"_ in Watch_Dogs if the heat level is below level 2 and it's at night.

@Whitelight Agree. I would never say it to his face, but he is a great content creator, and I respect him very much

@TheBigShot You really should man. He's possibly the best YouTuber in the entire galaxy.

@TheBigShot ignoring information doesn't proves a point it just ignores another one. Also he's actually pretty popular just because it's not what you see doesn't mean it doesn't exist

Another great channel is Running Shine. They're a great example of what Emp was talking about too. Their YIIK video is by far their most popular video because it was a new release at the time that didn't live up to hype and it was trendy to shit on it. Although I think it's a great video, it's a crime how underrated their other stuff is in comparison because there's a real authenticity to hearing them talk about the games they had enjoyed from their childhoods. Goes to show what people want in game reviews. Also, I am referring to Running Shine as "them" because multiple people work on the videos.

and don't forget Minimme

ps: after I think about it, Minimme talks about older games which just reinforces what Emp said about "old games are more fun" thing

Never heard of him, which proves Emp's point.


Actually, Ultimate doesn’t have any dedicated servers at all😪😂


I quit watching any hype for upcoming games. If a game gets announced and it interests me, I dont consume any media about it, any of the sneak peaks or gameplay footage reveals or anything. They fill your head with all this bullshit about how great the game will be and its just a big let down. I miss the days when I'd see some PICTURES for a game in a magazine and then see it in stores 6 months later. I let my guard down and I let the NMS hype get to me. But i was still skeptical so I torren....er "borrowed it from a friend" on release. I was so let down after playing for a few hours and Im glad I didnt pay cash for it. I get that studios want to hype their game so that it will sell but if the game cant sell itself without fake videos of either excluded or choreographed content of what the game is "supposed" to be than why should the gamer care. E3 is only cringe because of this in my opinion. I hadn't watched an e3 in awhile but watching E3 2021 it just felt so disingenuous. Almost to an offensive degree. They werent trying to sell me a game. They were trying to sell me an idea of that game, and those are far from the same thing.


I would rather play gang beasts and Mario party than league of legends and call of duty


2:14 and absolutely nothing of value would be lost except indie games.


"you want a completely grounded realistic game, that's totally off the wall and swarming with magic robots"- You could of just said "You want a gundam game"

After seeing the replies, this might just be most Japanese mech games.

It makes me question why there isn’t a big budget amazing Evangelion game on recent hardware. The closest thing we have is the N64 game.


A Knox reference? holy shit it's been ages


What if we just stop making games? Do we really need anymore?


We've gotten so many incredible games in the last decade; Celeste, Hollow Knight, DKC Tropical Freeze, Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, the entire Soulsborne series, Overwatch, Minecraft (if you don't count alpha/beta early access), The Witcher 3, BotW, Divinity Original Sin 2, Night in the Woods, MK7/8, Portal 2, The Last of Us. I can go on like this forever; this decade contains most of the all-time great experiences in gaming imo. The rise of indie games has given us so many excellent games as well, and represents a really positive shift in the industry.