I hate myself and my life, the only things I enjoy is reptiles, video games and YouTube vids
Video games feel like they are getting worse and worse, franchises I love forgetting what they were and losing their identity so they can chase after a broad selection of people, and the quality of the games being worse and worse, with issues being inserted in.
And at this point, I just assume every content creator on the platform is manipulative or a pedophile. I can’t watch anything without having to worry about drama, it feels inescapable.
I don’t even know why I am still here, feels like I am killing time until I die. Every single thing feels like it’s getting worse and worse no matter how many people tell me it gets better
I’m in pain and I’m so tired


Me still playing tf2 and fallout new Vegas


Flashing the picture of Sargon the Apple Bees manager has to be my favorite part of the vid.


I'm offended that PokePark is considered shovelware. Ngl, it was a fun, simple game to play as a little kid.


lol Speaking about E3 , E3 2021 was actually for real, this time a joke


personaly i  stick to indies games because man there is some bangers that come out.<br>check out katana zero, you wont be disapointed

personaly i  stick to indies games because man there is some bangers that come out.
check out katana zero, you wont be disapointed


Transformers fall of cybertron is the best game ever made


ngl I'm hella glad Dunkey quit league, I've been watching his channel so much more since then


"So you want a serious, down to earth game that's completely off the wall and has giant robots?"<br>Space station 13

"So you want a serious, down to earth game that's completely off the wall and has giant robots?"
Space station 13


Hell ya Emp coming back with more nascar no joke your like the only “media influencer” that cares about nascar and that your one of the best youtuber out there.


All those reasons I feel are valid, but you're missing what I think is the number 1 reason why it seems like the quality of games are taking a nosedive.<br>That reason is we're growing up. Things that were fun to us as children aren't fun to us anymore as adults usually, and games are no exception. When people are disappointed with a game they expect to go back to the wonder that was playing them when they were young and full of imagination. Think about this for a second. You don't see 12 - 17 year olds complaining about the state of gaming. They're all from adults who grew up in the 90's and 2000's. And I'm sure when the zoomers grow up, they'll be thinking their era of gaming is on a downward spiral also, and probably would bring up the good old days of Fortnite, Overwatch, and PUBG. It's not really a problem you can fix, but you can be aware of it. The magic of childhood is gone, and it's not coming back.

All those reasons I feel are valid, but you're missing what I think is the number 1 reason why it seems like the quality of games are taking a nosedive.
That reason is we're growing up. Things that were fun to us as children aren't fun to us anymore as adults usually, and games are no exception. When people are disappointed with a game they expect to go back to the wonder that was playing them when they were young and full of imagination. Think about this for a second. You don't see 12 - 17 year olds complaining about the state of gaming. They're all from adults who grew up in the 90's and 2000's. And I'm sure when the zoomers grow up, they'll be thinking their era of gaming is on a downward spiral also, and probably would bring up the good old days of Fortnite, Overwatch, and PUBG. It's not really a problem you can fix, but you can be aware of it. The magic of childhood is gone, and it's not coming back.

I agree with all of the points made in emps video and in the comments, I think a good part on why games suck is because being an adult sucks everyone just wants you to work and nothing more.

Yeah I don’t think this is the number 1 point. That’s like saying music is just as good now as it was in the 60s, when it objectively isn’t.

As a zoomer I agree with emp. Literally games were better in the 2000s than now. Up until like 2016, the year that change it all.


So are video games on a downward spiral? Maybe. Maybe we’re just going through another video game crash like the one in the 80’s. But I believe that Indie devs are this generations Miyamoto. Most of them don’t focus on graphics (Celeste and PikuNiku) and they are just pure and fun.


I think that when people say "i like games with good graphics" they mean they like games with good art direction with shows that the developers can make a game look good, realistic graphics just shows that the company has alot of money wich is why you see games from like 4 years ago and look like ass, and games from decades ago that still look good.


pokemon go is only fun if you live in a city. when im at my house there's like 1 pokestop down the road and nothing else...


10:39 yo how the hell is Destroy All Humans tacky liscenced shovelware?


Triple A games from companies who don’t care about their consumers have gotten worse cause they’ve figured out what they can get away with. But I don’t think games in general have gotten worse. We need to become more informed consumers (Not to say we shouldn’t condemn these horrible practices from greedy corporations as well).

@evan tanuwidjaja Lethal League Blaze looks fun, hadn't heard of that one before. It is based on online play from what i can see. That wasn't really a thing during the PS2 era (very rare atleast). So the developers had to make up for it in other ways with story mode, extra modes and unlockables. I don't think this game would relly work well, if it wasn't online. Same with Fall Guys. It's a fun game, but it's also centered around online. Wouldn't really work otherwise.

Bloodstained and Dead Cells, looks pretty good! They're not representative of the PS2 though. The era for 2D scrolling games was predominant in the 90's, not the 2000's. Which is the era a lot of people miss.

Bullets Per Minute is pretty close. Though i'd imagine that whole wave of enemies, would be an extra mode. Not the entire game. A lot of PS2 shooters had multiple modes. Primarily a story mode and then some gimmick like this.

A Hat in Time very well resembles a PS1/N64 B tier 3D platformer. It doesn't really hold up to the great ones on those systems, but it is closer than any other indie game.

The rest resembles the Snes/Genesis era, more or less. Which again, was prior to the 2000's.

No worries! I asked for examples and you gave some. I appreciate it!

@BeastVicious Starsector, Signal Simulator, Bloodstained, Spelunky 2, Risk of Rain 2, A Hat in Time, Lethal League Blaze, Va11 HallA, Hyperlight Drifter, Stardew Valley, Dwarf Fortress, Thems Fighting Herd, Bullets Per Minute, Sonic Roboblast 2 Kart (fanmade project), Dead Cells, Hylics 2, Enter the Gungeon and Fall Guys

Sorry if i'm being an asshole lol

@Matthieu Leperlier Could you give any examples?

@BeastVicious I've seen quite a few games inspired by arcade racing from the PS2 era, adventure games, 3D platformers, classic JRPGs, etc. So indie games are not limited to emulating the SNES/NES era.
Although I get that it's a mixed bag if you want to find games reminiscent of PS2 titles, because indie games are pretty much saturating online stores, many of them are pretty original, new in concept, inspired by modern titles or too retro (so not really PS2-like), etc.
I still think indie games are a gold mine.

EDIT: but yeah it's true that some genres have been neglected pretty badly, or the offer just isn't good.

@Matthieu Leperlier Indie games aren't offering what a lot of people want, neither is triple A. Which is the PS2 type games. The ones he mentioned in the video like Burnout, etc. So many genres has been completely neglected. The indie games does try to cover the Snes/Genesis era. But there's a lot in between the Snes and the PS4, which is completely abandoned. Remember the poll was for games during the 2000's-10. Not the early-mid 90's, which is what indie games often represent.

@Mad Chad Alright, fair enough. It's just that "consumer", kinda has a connotation to that of a farm animal. Who just eats up whatever's in front of them, to consume. A lot of people are like that, buying the next new game whether it's good or not. Whatever trashy business practices the game includes. But there's also a lot of people who aren't like that. That cares for what they buy and wont support greedy wallet vampires.

That's why I'm more interested in indie games. They can be really great, many surpass triple A in terms of gameplay and originality, they cost less, and the devs usually care. And graphics aren't an issue for me as long as I can have fun.

Although there are a few AAA studios I respect, who haven't resorted to dumbing down their games for mass appeal and selling them in incomplete pieces for extra cash (CD Projekt Red, Larian Studios, Obsidian, From Software, and... I can't think of another one).

@BeastVicious

con·sum·er

/kənˈso͞omər/

noun

a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

sorry but youre wrong, op was completely correct in their statement. All customers are consumers.

Why do you use the word consumer? Not all customers are "consumers".


I stopped being a console gamer largely for these reasons. No offense to other gamers, but the industry has just moved away from what I loved about the pastime when I was a kid. I liked playing with my friends and cousins in the same room, not getting slammed online by people who play the game every waking hour and insult my mom. I want real controllers, not Nintendos joycons, nunchuks and touch screens. I dont want  to pay $70 and wait thru 20 minute load screens downloading a first day patch to play what should be a finished game. I miss when consoles booted right to the game's title screen, and you didnt have to be online at all times for the system to work.

I remember how excited I was about the XBox 360/Nintendo Revolution announcements at first, but that console generation ultimately left me feeling cold. Ive never been invested in the latest news of the industry since. Anything I hear about it from my friends who still buy videogames has me convinced I made the right choice, too. Nothing but botched launches, limited releases, lootboxes and nintendo being anti-consumer.

Nowadays, if I play games at all its usually just ROM hacks of my favorite SNES/N64 hits on emulator.

Honestly, there were some amazing games on the 7th generation of consoles that maybe you missed, but still I think these consoles from the 7th gen were pretty good, the lootcrate, micro transactions and other pesky anti consumer actions made by the companies werent that common.


25:31 o my god dude i remember watching this at my grandparents house lol


the 2010's sucked, and it seems the (rest of the) 2020s will be even worse<br>into hell we descend!

the 2010's sucked, and it seems the (rest of the) 2020s will be even worse
into hell we descend!


Imo, I think identifying such a large majority is a problem, it would be like me saying that all gamers are deluded physocpaths, when in actuality that’s a small, or, non-existent minority

I think the AAA industry is a problem; as their influence is spread throughout games.

EDIT: Since gaming dev is already stressful, it’s very rare for a good AAA game, and that’s a shame...

Devs such as Ubisoft and EA are bad examples for the entire industry...

(I still like the video though)


tl;dr: minecraft is so good nobody wants to buy other games anymore


Yeah cuz the 2000’s gave us games like the literal best of Pokemon, Mario, Metroid, nearly all of Nintendo’s franchises were at their peak in the early or even late 2000’s


I don't pre order anymore
Stopped watching game releases, first impressions or looking at lots of reviews before buying
Still play competitively but only for fun, i like the challenge but don't care about the rank i end up with

What did this do to my love for gaming? It full on made me love games again
Buy what you want to buy, play what & how you want to play.

I've been so hesitant to get a Switch since it launched, try out Xbox for the first time in years and bit the bullet on both this year and I've never been so happy
Not trying to say to be oblivious to it all rather to just care a little less, it's your time; ya better spend it in a way you enjoy

I don't pre order anymore
Stopped watching game releases, first impressions or looking at lots of reviews before buying
Still play competitively but only for fun, i like the challenge but don't care about the rank i end up with

What did this do to my love for gaming? It full on made me love games again
Buy what you want to buy, play what & how you want to play.

I've been so hesitant to get a Switch since it launched, try out Xbox for the first time in years and bit the bullet on both this year and I've never been so happy
Not trying to say to be oblivious to it all rather to just care a little less, it's *your* time; ya better spend it in a way you enjoy

@rejvaik people are starting to do that with cars now too, car isn't even on market yet, but you can pre order it and have it delivered before you've even sat inside the damn thing, or seen what can go wrong, or even seen if you like how it performs. It's asinine, I can't imagine doing that unless I'm totally willing to take a loss or I'm absolutely convinced the product will meet expectations, it's something I'll do very infrequently and with great caution.

@Gustav Ferreira we use the Israeli shekel

@rejvaik The price drop was sadly only a small amount. I don't know what currency you use but I live in South Africa and we use the Rand as our currency. Just so you know the Rand has been a pretty weak currency in comparison to other currencies like the Dollar or Euro for many years as it used to be a lot stronger than the dollar or at least as what my mother told me and games here especially for the likes of Xbox and PlayStation costs R1000 or more which is ridiculous. When I preordered a game it was usually R100 less than the normal retail price. Thankfully after 2017 I pretty much stopped preordering games and only buy a game if it interests me or has a lot of positive reception.

@Gustav Ferreira well I hope you got an ok deal at least, but I know that if you wait the price of a game drops as time passes so it still seems counter intuitive to me

@rejvaik I used to do it back in 2015 to 2017 because there was a slight cut in the game's retail price. I essentially did it to save a little bit of money.

holy shit me too. i play games purely for fun. and i never touch online competitive games unless my friends play it, since online mp could make a game become stressful then it'll lose the fun part

Good for you. I was astonished when I first heard of the concept of pre-ordering

I thought then: "what idiot would buy something without trying it first?" And I'm likewise still astonished that people still do it despite 20 years having passed

Good for you. I was astonished when I first heard of the concept of _pre-ordering_

I thought then: "what idiot would buy something without trying it first?" And I'm likewise still astonished that people still do it despite 20 years having passed


Racing game focused person here:

For the most part, racing games have absolutely been on a downhill spiral. Features of old games that were loved and kept players interested for a long time have often been ditched: best example, Forza Motorsport 4 had unbelievable community features that had people playing for years, the entire Xbox One generation has lacked them in favour of features that would appeal to casual players (graphics, car count, little details that add nothing to the game), while not evolving any gameplay features.

Doesn’t help that Forza 7 took 2 years to fix after launch and still ended up as a bad experience. On the plus side, while Turn 10 studios thought “Horizon sells better, let’s make Motorsport more like Horizon”, Polyphony said “fuck that, we’ll make a game that is heavily race focused” with GT Sport, and the loyalty from the player base is undying. Old GT fans often aren’t keen on it, but there’s no denying it’s changed people’s standards for what track racing game multiplayer should be like, and if Forza doesn’t evolve, it’ll continue to lose players.

These are 2 small examples of a broader genre, but I haven’t been interested in actually putting time into a lot of racing games over the past few years.

Also, progression in racing games is almost nonexistent these days

If it wasn't for Gran Turismo 4, I wouldn't be a mechanic today.

EA just released their NFS HP 2010 remastered and i gotta be honest with u, its really crap , not saying the game is bad ,in fact its good , but the fact that they only made the game cross play and have better color selection , they got alot of people hyped for it and what did we get? stuff that couldve been an update and not a full remastered release , and they didnt bother to make a new trailer

eh atleast the DLC is free in the remastered ig .

but seriously  i agree with u alot , racing games is what made me a car person today , and seeing new racing games that they are nothing but just driving and multiple expansions is just boring and repititive . Oh and forza is the biggest "quantity over quality" game ever, they just keep adding and adding and to the point its boring. i was just playing NFSC like a week ago and it was much more fun , the cars where not easy to handle and despite the short story , it felt challenging , sadly the game crashed for me and idk how to fix it

i hope we see some changes in the future .

I feel like racing games were no longer seen as 'blockbusters' after the 7th generation despite nfs and gt being one of the best sellers on the Ps2. The lack of representation is sad with only gt7 being the only racing game that the ps5 has to showcase.

Yeah it's a shame considering the amount of variety there was last gen and especially with the ps2 generation

Last good racing game I played was trackmania canyon. Still play it today because there isn't another game I get as much enjoyment out of

RSB-Miasma yeah sims are generally doing alright, I mean, I love ACC! They nailed it

Dude, simcades are Sims are doing kinda fine, holding on down, GT7 looking good and those Sims looking hot.
Now Arcade Racers are borderline dead.

Mario Kart doesn't count. People that play Mario Kart play Mario Kart because they want to play the latest Mario Kart they don't care about anything really.
Flagship Nintendo is an exercise in nihilism.

Racing games definitely had an edge during a specific point in time—late '90s to mid '00s—that has been difficult to replicate or innovate. Gran Turismo 4 is a perfect example which doesn't need to be further described. It combined of really good simulation and physics with the relaxed and mystifying nature of '90s Japanese car shows and magazines, such as Best Motoring and Hot Version. I still have hope in series like Project Cars and Assetto Corsa making the difference, along with Gran Turismo 7 giving back its flavor to the simulation landscape.

OltskuMP yeah my point exactly about progression. And if you think credits are easy to get in GT Sport, oh boy, avoid Forza. It’s actually ridiculous

@Just Devon It has actually more single player than Gt5 I think (atleast now after updates). It just doesn't have the same feeling and because you don't need to play them you most likely won't cuz getting money is so easy and there's no motivation to play the races that are all the same.

@Just Devon to me gt3 A-spec is where racing games peeked after watching this video

A Z yeah, absolutely agree with that, and it’s almost complete lack of single player.   Also excited for GT7, GT Sport got me back in the franchise and I’m more than happy with it

I’m not sure if MarioKart counts for what your talking about, but 8 Deluxe is considered to be the best or one of the best by fans.

One thing I disliked about gran turismo sport was it’s always online functionality when all I wanted was a regular GT game that I can load up anytime without the obligation of updating or connecting to the internet that said I’m looking forward to GT7

Trae Fisher F1 is doing a decent job, Codies has done well with DiRT Rally also, minus the DLC strategy with DR2.

Same can be said for the NASCAR Heat franchise as a whole. But Codemasters F1 games have been above and beyond lately.


Made a similar video talking about this awhile ago, It really makes me happy I'm not the only one who thinks this. I started playing Fallout 76 lately and I was telling streamers and friends its actually not that bad. and then they decided to trash on me when i started saying its unlike how the media makes it out to be. I think there's just too much negative press now a days that people thrive on it and expect it. People love being outraged by something they probably don't even care about. I thinks boils down to peoples sense of purpose (imo). Maybe some people feel like when they get into outraged culture they feel like they are a part of something big, in order to "Take down the man" sort of like how hippies were during the 60's except a little more aggressive. But that's more of a personal take on my end.
Personally this is why i support indie developers the most. Usually the games you least expect turn out to be absolute masterpieces. Its just the AAA devs and publishers talk the loudest whereas indie developers are doing it as their passion projects and tend to keep the games simple with an addicting concept (in some cases)

You explained this video with way more depth and detail than i ever could. It's really nice seeing something this important being talked about with someone who actually has a leg to stand on for the community

Great video as always. Hope to see more in the future


Atleast we still have farming sim that get better and better


At the sports game part: why not just play the ubisoft extreme sport games then? >:) checkmate


The real reason why games suck: The Market Grew.
And companies had to adjust to the most common denominator.
For some reason, every company tries to survive in the same section of the market. From evolution, we know that this cannot go on. Companies need to specialize or they are going to go bankrupt sooner or later, because they can't keep up with the big-players like League Of Legends.


I think this applies more to mainstream games, for example I play a lot of total war games and every game has shown a clear deviation and improvement from the last with finished games and dlc not being essential to gameplay

Aphordite Heart I still agree with emp (as I do most of the time) I just think he glazed over some good examples

It is similar to paradox games as well, dlc literally add whole new avenues to play, sometimes whole areas. Hell CK3 is a massive success, and it was released this year, it looks to be a vast improvement on its past title


10:39 DE BLOB?? SHOVELWARE?? Are you on crack, de Blob is critically acclaimed and is one of the best games on the Wii


I may be a bit biased but I think a lot of these points on the shift of game design doesn't really affect Nintendo. Not only did they preserve both couch co op and online, they also made sequels that really mix up the formula like Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, Kirby Star Allies along with a few new franchises. Even the indie and 3rd party games keep the Switch pretty fresh. All of this to me is more important than better frame rates and graphics.

I agree with you on Odyssey and BotW. However, Star Allies is the complete opposite of "mixing up the formula". It's the fourth Kirby we've gotten with the RtDL format and it's beyond stale.


NBA jam on the snes is the best sports game ever made except Wii sports, which is the best video game ever made


It used to be that the only people who regularly watched other people play video games were little brothers. So now we're living in a world of little brothers.


This is why I love Nintendo, Minecraft and Indie games. Fun comes first

Nintendo has some pretty good games, but their business practices make me feel bad for liking them.

@Donut Boi origami king has issues but it really isn't bad...the biggest case with the most controversial big switch game would be sword and shield really

@- not really?a lot of the games aren't remakes...like which games are remakes? Only one I can think of is link's awakening rereleases? no just because some of the best selling games are ports which atleast DO add new content when they actually don't have to doesn't mean that most of there games are older games being remaked or rerelease animal crossing was atleast delayed and is getting more stuff. smash ultimate's designing choices is mainly fine won't defend the online though.BOTW is one of the best games...but it's both a wii u and switch game. Im not gonna defend the issues with 3d all stars like the timed release but people have been complaining about the timed  release if you actually looked around.

@Donut Boi I think the problem with the Wii U ports is the price. But in general nintendo is pretty crappy with prices so... Nintendo has been pretty anti-consumer lately, but as game developers they're great.

@- yeah, like donut boy said, with the exception of game freak, nintendo is still going strong with their AAA games. For example, BOTW, Mario Odissey, Luigi's Mansion, Fire Emblem 3H, Smash, etc.

chirag gupta Hard disagree but I see where you are coming from. They have made a lot of ports because of the low sales of the Wii U, so it makes perfect sense to port them. Heck, the fact that they are adding more content to them in general when they really don’t have to is part of why I think the ports are great. Also most of these warranted complaints are completely overshadowed by what they do great. Smash may have trash online but they have put in so much effort elsewhere with all the characters, stages, and modes. The ports may be very similar to the old releases but you have to think of the people that never bought and never could buy the old versions, and the ports are objectively better than the old ones because of new content. It’s not like it’s gun to your head, forcing you to buy the ports if you already have the original, because there are almost always new games on the horizon, and even the “duds” on the new games like Origami King are still good games and still have many supporters.

nintendo games are sucking recently most of em are remakes/rereleases with little new content like mario kart 8 deluxe, half baked like animal crossing, or suffer from strange design choices and poor online like smash ultimate. BOTW seems like the best game on the switch at the moment. Not to mention Nintendo is making mario 3d allstars a timed release which they'll probably keep doing since no one complains about them reselling games you could emulate from 10+ years ago for 60 dollars as a timed exclusive. If they do it with windwaker I think I'm seriously going to reconsider supporting them.


wii sports resort is still more fun than fifa will ever be to me.

Is better for the simple reason of not having football


Honestly, I think the late 2010s is where triple AAA gaming finally decided to die out, it wasn't nearly as bad in the early 2010s but it did started to decline, it's why I prefer games from the 2000s or some games that I find worthy playing in the 2010s. I definitely gotta try out 90s games though.

Also indie games are a golden renaissance of the 2000s people.

If you can only play one 90’s game, Super Metroid on the SNES. It’s absolutely fantastic. I still play it to this day.


Personally, I think Doom Eternal is a perfect example of the subjectivity playing such a huge role. I've been playing Doom my entire life, really liked 3 in "80s horror flick" kinda way, and really enjoyed my time in 2016.

And yet i was entirely dissatisfied by Doom Eternal to the point where i refunded it and beat it on my friends account, so i could buy titanfall 2.. which i still play.

Its weird man. Its really frekkin weird.


Poor Emp, that The Thing video did not deserve to be taken down. You did a marvelous job as usual, but you know YT's woes more than the rest of us. I'm sure this one random comment won't be any consolation for YT's rejection of your hard work, but I hope it makes you feel better.


10:43 ok cars race o Rama was actually good


Nowli days a lot of games are just pretty little faces with out no personality


For me, breath of the wild displays a sort of antithesis to the current sentiment you show in your video. It was incredibly hype to wait for it, it was a unique and new experience and it pushed gaming as a whole. (in my opinion)<br>I still have lots of hope for the gaming industry :)

For me, breath of the wild displays a sort of antithesis to the current sentiment you show in your video. It was incredibly hype to wait for it, it was a unique and new experience and it pushed gaming as a whole. (in my opinion)
I still have lots of hope for the gaming industry :)

I think what worked with BOTW was the following:

1) It was true open world experience. You had huge world to explore, and it wasn't just a pretty map filled with busy work. Nagivating through Hyrule was actually a fun experience in itself.

2) There is an actual use of engine physic in the gameplay and this, combined with the vast amount of tool given to the player, allowed a lot of creativity. This is something that was cruelly missing in the open world, where everything is traditionnally very streamlined and repetitive, tools being limited to CQC, guns and explosion.

3) Still in the trully open world mentallity, the game didn't railroaded you into a main quest, didn't hold your hand by placing waypoint every fucking where. You had to actually look at the world, rise your nose from the quest marker orthe minimap. The best exemple to that is how BOTW handle the ubisoft tower. You have to find them the old fashion way: go on a high spot and look around. Once you found one, you had to find a way to it. Once you reach it, you had a nice challenge to get on top, each one unique. And once you were on top, it didn't filled you minimap with thousand of crap busy work marker. No, it gave you the geography, a fast travel point and high view point. The rest was up to you.

BOTW worked because it was refreshing, because it actually gave a new experience in an oversaturated genre, because nintendo understood that player in open world love to dick around, test the limit. When BOTW came out, every other open world was filling the same formula: pretty world that you couldn't trully interract with, fight, loot and talking were the only action allowed and the player was basically the slave of the questmarker.

elgatochurro Not every game needs to push the gaming industry forward and have some kind of extreme innovation. BotW takes inspiration from other games while adding in completely new and original elements to create a frankly fantastic open world experience that a lot of other open-world games have failed to live up to. I’m seriously tired of this mentality

>lots of hope for the gaming industry
>breath of the wild
>nintendo
Hold up right there

@Stick Pun Agreed. I'm a little sick of people holding BotW to such a golden standard. Don't get me wrong I think it's a good game. I had a lot of fun with it. But now everybody and their mother is comparing any open-world game to BotW. It's almost like the open-world equivalent to "this game is the Dark Souls of [x]"

technically everything Breath of the wild does has already been done before, that's not a bad thing, you can't make something truly original without taking some sort of inspiration.

@elgatochurro You could be rockin that shit arrowning the yellow dragon then you gotta go drain your own yellow from your dragon and guess what YOU CAN JUST TAKE DAT SHIT WITH YOU then bring it back and keep it up on that TV again! BOTW was the one that really made strong use of that mechanic imo.


10:38 You did not just disrespect my boy deBLOB like that


I was so confused when I first played Spider Man on the PS4; I just kept questioning, "Is this it?" Everyone described it as the one of the best recent Spider games but it just felt shallow and grindy. The combat is way less complex than previous games (Web of Shadows being my reference point) and the bulk of the game is shitty collectathons and checklists. The graphics and webswinging arent even as good as some described it, I have no clue why people like this game so goddamn much.

And the more modern games that were critically acclaimed that I watched and played the more I realised that games are generally getting shittier and using graphics as the selling point. Not to beat a dead horse but TLoU2s combat hardly seems a leap up from the first, only adding elements like proning and silencers which have been in games for years. Most games I play nowadays are disappointing and seem like copies of older games with a fresh coat of paint (still at 30fps) and microtransactions out the ass.


Just wish everything wasent done out of greed for money


The modern Big name games are just complete garbage. But the indie scene is going strong.


10:38 Listen here, deblob is an amazingly fun experience and not "shovelware" it's actually really fun and cool.


You're making good points, but I don't see how all this means that games are on a "downward spiral".

@ProjectFM without bringing up many points as to why it isnt.

His conclusion is that it's up to interpretation. The purpose of this video is to bring up all the points that would lead to someone concluding that the game industry is getting worse.


Throughout watching I was nodding along in your observations. But in the back of my mind I realized I was lucky to never get truly burnt out. Before I could think why you mentioned modding and I realize that video game cycle actually did apply to me. But it was for mods. Players of mods and developers of mods. Yes, there's drama. What doesn't. But at least disagreements are done withe desire to make things better and with that comes people with independent ideas. So rather then lament why something is bad, you are thinking how to make it better. Just coming that base level of some sort of positivity ripples into everything being better.  In the 2000's if you were lucky enough to have a smart phone you still were using text forums often on the game site. Now with Discord it really is all by fans for fans so never better then now.


I feel the same burnout with TF2 right now. I stopped for 2 weeks now and I have been a lot happier without the consistent frustration from it.

Burnout 3 take down was the fuccin bomb ma duude! I wish I hadn’t left my ps2 back home, because you made me want to play the hell out of it right about now. 🤙


Fun Fact: Emplemon got the idea to make this video after a 14 year old on twitter made fun of him for liking Fortnite


I mean not all modern games are bad look at:
Doom 2016
Doom eternal
Mario odsedy
Smash ultimate
Sonic generations
And so on and so on

Don't forget God of War, or as it's more appropriately called, Dad of Boy


tHe SoNiC fRaNcHiSe HaS hAd A rOuGh HiStOrY SiNcE iTs TrAnSiTiOn To 3D...

Edit: This wasn't meant to be a serious critique, I was just referencing a meme.

wdym Sonic has always been shit. They advertise that you "gotta go fast", and yet when I play the original I can't even get up to running speed without bumping into something.

Sonic is the definition of the quote:

Even kings will one day or another, rise, fall and wither out of existence...

@Boombird King I was a huge Sonic fan when the Dreamcast launched. I'll always have a soft spot for Sonic Adventure and especially Sonic Adventure 2.<br>But those games were a broken mess.

@Boombird King I was a huge Sonic fan when the Dreamcast launched. I'll always have a soft spot for Sonic Adventure and especially Sonic Adventure 2.
But those games were a broken mess.

When will you learn that your actions have consequences!

When will you learn that your actions have consequences!

good games:
Sonic adventure
Sonic adventure 2
Sonic heroes
Sonic colors
Sonic and the secret rings
Sonic generations
Sonic unleashed

There were more good 3d sonic games then bad

Walter Nelson 3D sonic games are bad if you ignore all the good ones

Walter Nelson 3D sonic games are bad if you ignore all the good ones

The fact that this entire section here has never once mentioned the Blessing that was Sonic Mania kinda hurts my head abit. Sonic games could do perfect and it would never change anything in peoples eyes if they cant go on a STREAK like the other big shots

Sonic Generations is easily the best Sonic game. Wait it's 2D

Sonic Generations is easily the best Sonic game. Wait it's 2D

I’d argue that sonic adventure is better than Mario 64

I’d argue that sonic adventure is better than Mario 64

At least it had a better history than Earthworm Jim, & Bubsy.

At least it had a better history than Earthworm Jim, & Bubsy.

@NocturnalDragoon did i actually find someone who has the same thoughts as me?

And then Sega gave up after almost reaching greatness. Had they listened to the longtime fans, SA2 could have been a very different game. As would Heroes, Shadow, and 06.

“Look at Sonic Adventure DX! It looks so bad and that means it’s a bad game even thought this port actually has a lot of issues compared to the original Dreamcast version.”

At least Sonic Mania made the franchise goes back to its normal roots again. Just like how Mario went back to his pixelated self again.

Honestly one thing I hate about game critics today and being a fan of Sonic is having to deal with people saying that!

@SRUFUS3D I really don't get the hate for SA 1&2 they're genuinely fun and enjoyable games and SA1 is my favourite Sonic game period

Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 were fantastic games and were beloved for their time. They are still great, especially SA2 which is arguably the best Sonic game period.

<b>laughs in sonic adventure, and no, not the dx director's cut, the original dreamcast game with actual working physics and lacking the glitches you see in the former</b>

*laughs in sonic adventure, and no, not the dx director's cut, the original dreamcast game with actual working physics and lacking the glitches you see in the former*

@Walter Nelson eh...there's been good  sonic games since adventures

@Walter Nelson eh...there's been good  sonic games since adventures

The statement that sonic had a rocky transition to 3D is actually kinda right, since Sega struggled hard to make a sonic game in 3D (Sonic x-treme was a complete disaster, meaning that during the entire life of the Saturn, no truly 3D Sonic games were released). However, the statement is commonly used to dunk on games like Sonic Adventure, even though that game was well received on release, and tons of people (myself included) think that those games had perfect transitions to 3D. But whatever, Sonic 06 exists, so now every critic on the planet will not shut up about Sonic being bad. Every Sonic movie review HAS to bring up the original design controversy. You're basically not allowed to like a sonic product without someone telling you about some blunder that happened 15 years ago.

All Sonic Heroes has to do is fix the special stage.
Sonic 06 could have been decent if the devs were allowed to finish it, I wouldn't mind if they went back and polished and released as a special edition.
Sonic Forces plays well and isn't broken but it totally feels half baked, I wish Sega would go back and add more to it and maybe add a director's cut DLC.

Yeah it has. Quit being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian.

@Russell Doty For real though, if Sonic was never good, why did the Sega Genesis sell like hotcakes after Sonic 1 released?
If Sonic was never good, Sega would've never taken away the total dominance Nintendo had over the gaming market.
And for reference, the Genesis came out in 89, but didn't have much of an impact.
Also, why did so many people become Sonic fans around the time Adventure and Adventure 2 released on Gamecube?

There's my counter argument for IGN.

@Russell Doty For real though, if Sonic was never good, why did the Sega Genesis sell like hotcakes after Sonic 1 released?
If Sonic was *never* good, Sega would've never taken away the total dominance Nintendo had over the gaming market.
And for reference, the Genesis came out in 89, but didn't have much of an impact.
Also, why did so many people become Sonic fans around the time Adventure and Adventure 2 released on Gamecube?

There's my counter argument for IGN.

Sonic Unleashed is the best 3D Sonic and I will always stay true to this fact

Shadow the Hedghog is my guily pleasure and had a deep part in my childhood. Not even ashamed.

Also, Sonic games as a whole always have the best soundtracks ever.
Meteor Herd, Pumpkin Hill, Ungravitify, all that shit slaps.

you're like Justin Y but you always have top comment

you're like Justin Y but you always have top comment

@NocturnalDragoon Shadow's gun gameplay was surprisingly good, despite the concept being strange.

And as for Forces, I think it was perfectly average. And that's why I hate it. Because it brings so much to the table and does almost nothing with it. If it were given more time to have the ideas fleshed out more, as well as making the gameplay more fun and less on rails and stiff (or for Classic Sonic, just completely heavy and slow), then maybe it'd be okay.
Just so we're clear, I'm okay if Classic Sonic doesn't control exactly like the Genesis games and Mania. Generations wasn't exact, but it worked with the level design. In Forces, it feels like the controls and level design are constantly fighting each other.

@Walter Nelson Sonic Adventure 1 was the closest we got to a 3D Sonic game with the classic design philosophy: a high speed momentum based platformer with varying paths to explore and a skill curve that rewards the player with cool shortcuts with enough practice.
Adventure 2 was good, but less physics based.
And after that, a whole new design ideology was adopted. More speed, less momentum-based physics.

You could say, it has been on a D O W N W A R D S P I R A L

You could say, it has been on a D O W N W A R D S P I R A L

@Man in Black Sad how the most polished 3D game still suffers from lack of content (mods are what keep it alive), an overabundance of 2D, lack of originality and planet wisp and the final boss being absolutely terrible. The game also has some minor padding with those in-between missions but that's forgivable.

Holo Fox sux that the ps2 version is the worst tho.

Holo Fox sux that the ps2 version is the worst tho.

If it's not the overreliance on mostly bland 2D sections then it's the forced and radically different gameplay style (all the shit in SA1 and werehog being store brand GoW) and then you have the experimental stuff like lousy world (bland ripoff of galaxy with garbage parkour mechanics) or heroes (which hasn't aged well at all in controls, general gameplay, variety and content). It'd be a miracle if the next 3D game shat out by sonic team turned out to be even half decent.

@Walter Nelson  I am aware you said 3d sonic game, and not including it was a typo<br>and by the way i wasnt planning on going to war about it, I was pointing out that the only good 3d sonic game was the chao garden was a very wrong statement. The fact that you would say that "I was planning to go to war about it" even though you insult me for making a simple mistake in my spelling proves to me that you arent very intelligent

@Walter Nelson  I am aware you said 3d sonic game, and not including it was a typo
and by the way i wasnt planning on going to war about it, I was pointing out that the only good 3d sonic game was the chao garden was a very wrong statement. The fact that you would say that "I was planning to go to war about it" even though you insult me for making a simple mistake in my spelling proves to me that you arent very intelligent

@Dank Memes Best sonic story of all time don't @ me

@Dank Memes Best sonic story of all time don't @ me

Tophat cat the 3D titles are average at best, and dogshit at worst. Only exception is generations.

@Walter Nelson cHaO gArDeN wAs ThE oNlY gOoD oFfIcIaL sOnIc GaMe

@Walter Nelson cHaO gArDeN wAs ThE oNlY gOoD oFfIcIaL sOnIc GaMe

Clay Ayers keep pretending 06 is the only bad 3D title, it won't save it from the ocean of mediocrity.

@Dank Memes Sonic Unleashed and Generations were decent. Heroes is shit.

@Dank Memes Sonic Unleashed and Generations were decent. Heroes is shit.

@Walter Nelson Yo, you know what' up, I say having never played Sonic Robo Blast 2.

I really fucking hate that stupid line, its so overused in many sonic reviews the fanbase can't stand that shit, considering the adventure series still holds up as some of the best 3d platformers, people just love to fuckin dunk on sonic for some reason

Sonic adventure 2 was p good<br>I also really liked Sonic Riders

Sonic adventure 2 was p good
I also really liked Sonic Riders

SA2 and heroes are the greatest sonic games ever made.

SA2 and heroes are the greatest sonic games ever made.

@Dank Memes I love sonic heroes just from nostalgia but it's a kinda average game looking back. Not terrible, but not great. But just thinking about when someone mentions it tho, I really want to go back to my old ps2 save and try to get 100% those last few levels...

Honestly, sonic’s transition to 3D wasn’t bad.  It just when Sega stopped making their own consoles, things began to get rougher.

Chao Garden was the only good official 3D Sonic game.
There are DOOM mods that do a much better job at 3D Sonic than Sega does.
It's not that it doesn't work in 3D it's just that Sega has been incompetent since the early 2000's.

@Dank Memes it was alright I really liked Colours as wel.

@Dank Memes it was alright I really liked Colours as wel.


I hate how much of a focus online is now, I don't care about online multiplayer (seriously, I don't even have PS+) it's stupid that we haven't gotten a new GTA game for 8 years now when in the 2000's if you count the PSP titles (that still made it to PS2), there was 6 GTA games from 2000-2008, a span of 8 years.

Also, yeah, I miss a lot of the shorter games like Burnout, long games are great as well but I don't always have the time for them.

Finally, there's too many micro-transactions now, now I don't hate all DLC, for example I think GTA: IV did DLC well but I hate it when the DLC was obviously cut out of the game and I'll never defend pay-to-win and loot boxes. Even some single player games are pay to win, the grinding in The Crew 2 is so bad that you have to spend real money in it to beat the single player before burning out.

I do like modern games but if I had to choose 2000's or 2010's games, I'd go with 2000's.

That said, excluding Pokemon, Nintendo still seems to be doing good. I'm one of those gamers that wouldn't hesitate to play Mario and Doom back-to-back.


Ah yes. The "anime genre" of video games. Yandere Dev is a hitman clone...

most people dont know anything about "anime genre" and think a certain type of anime game is all there is to it despite tons of different genres that can be either liscenced or original.

Most ppl dont, and touhouisnt even anime

@Oishi me Persona 5, Xenoblade, Dragonball Fighterz. All these games are pretty damn popular <b>and</b> were made in the 2010s. Yandere Simulator is one man making a fetish "game" while taking money from 13-year-olds on Patreon. I agreed with some of Emp's points but man, that comment in the video made me die a little.

@Oishi me Persona 5, Xenoblade, Dragonball Fighterz. All these games are pretty damn popular *and* were made in the 2010s. Yandere Simulator is one man making a fetish "game" while taking money from 13-year-olds on Patreon. I agreed with some of Emp's points but man, that comment in the video made me die a little.

Tbh I don't even consider Yandere Sim in the 'anime genre'. I was honestly stumped when he asked whether I knew any other title in the genre, before he specified that he was talking about anime related games.

Yeah he says that he doesn't know anything else in it's genre, proving that he doesn't even know what genre it's even in to begin with


Has emp lemon been on a downward spiral?

no he keeps getting better.

@DeanRazor Colored Sands or Pleiades Dust, though i don't usually rank them

The downward spiral had become his home.


I read the internet historian like candy crush saga (description)


This is a very insightful video - thank you.
I've played Deus Ex and with the exception of the second which wasn't particularly good, found the later ones to be good. That said, my preference is that the original is by far the best (we miss you Warren Spector). Some years ago, I found a very popular mod named GMDX mod for the original Deus Ex. This overhauls every major facet of the game including graphics (same engine), rationalisation of some odd mapping, skills, perks and a huge amount more. It made going back playing Deus Ex an even a very immersive and fun experience all over again. I've played Deus Ex at least 14 times and will probably go back and play it again before the year is out simply because it's so hard to find fun games these days.
People should remember that the original Counter Strike started off as a mod for HL1 and there was some great single player mods such as They Hunger, a level of quality and story, again a level of quality I'm just not seeing nowadays.


We all just want a game that we can actually sit down in front of a screen and go, 'Yea, thats exactly what I want to play' and not feel like you've spent 24 hours awake after about 30 minutes.


What video is that claymation skit at the end from? Just had some way early flashbacks


I agree with some of this video, but I want to point out one point that stood out.
"Games are in a transitional period right now."
So is it hard to understand that people have changing desires and the industry has changing perspectives?
Maybe games of the past were good, but they are games of the past. I highly doubt a nascar sim made with 2020 tech would even sell well today given how specifically marketed that is.
As well, trends are very prominent. People like something and are willing to try slightly different variations of a game formula to find the one they like best. this is why a genre created as a mod in H1Z1 and a minecraft gamemode is dominating the market at the moment.
However, to people who don't like the trend, they probably wont understand why there are 5 different battle royal games and all are doing well and will talk down on those who play more than one game within the genre, or the kid friendly version because it is just that.
as well, things like local multiplayer are also changing. Changing, not gone. Platforms like discord allow people to connect with the same friends they grew up playing games with despite life forcing people to move, get jobs and so forth.
As well, with inflation, game prices are going to be less than straightforward. $60 in 2000 is equivalent to $90 today. Its clear that no studio wants to break the $60 price tag upper limit, so to expect the same amount of content from a 2000s $60 title vs a 2020 title at the same equivalent price, its literally expected that you buy another $30 worth of the game. Thats literally basic economics.

Finally, there are games coming out left and right that are more innovative that ever. vr titles like Half life alyx and beat saber, sandbox games like goat sim and untitled goose game, proceduarl generation games like ARK survival and No mans sky (after some content updates), as well local multiplayer isnt dead, for example jackbox party games, cinematic games like life is strange and detroit become human, Alternate reality video games like pokemon go, so to say that video games aren't innovative is a downright fabrication and shows a lot of confirmation bias. Now some of these titles aren't inherently brand new concepts, but they almost all are titles that dip their toes into a very unknown and underdeveloped genre that is by definition innovative.

To conclude, I think there is a reason that consistent mediocre game releases exist: to fill the desires of those that want nothing but the game formula that they like. People will always want a call of duty, their sales figures show that (600 and 500 mil IN THE FIRST THREE DAYS for modern warfare and bo4 respectively). but there is a significant group of people that are willing to look for the next best thing, which is why some titles get a lot of hype before they come out (no mans sky, cyberpunk). People dont want games of the past, people clearly want a combination of new and innovative and somewhat familiar. This is why games that are either but not both sometimes struggle. Customer demands and industry standards are changing, so instead of being critical, be patient. Wait for a game to come out before you tell a developer it's good by buying it, and don't be afraid to spend more on a game than the sale price. If you like a game, feel free to buy as much DLC as you want to support the game, and by extension, the creators who probably received a large amount of criticism from those who made assumptions and were disappointed only because their assumptions were incorrect BUT do not buy games that are obvious rehashes of old titles. This is why EA Sports still makes bad games, they still somehow sell well.

Finally, to emplemon, its rather hilarious to give us 20+ minutes of reasons that SOME games today are bad, completely ignoring how some of your points aren't even legitimate (local multiplayer, looking at you) only to say that "games aren't all bad." You very clearly have a bias towards old games, which is fine, but you need to understand that bias does inherently affect how you see newer games. This is the same reason people still buy call of duty year after year. SOME games are on a downward spiral, but thats how market trends work. Some companies try the same thing to satisfy the customer and sometimes they don't work.  Some companies try new and innovative things that sometimes don't work. but to focus on only that is bad, instead of directly comparing new GOOD ideas to new BAD ideas, you are literally just making confirmation bias work in your favor. This made this particular video really hard to watch all the way through because you berate an industry in is relative infancy on only the bad, and spend less than 5 minutes talking about the good. In all, I do appreciate you perspectives on these games as a whole, but the market is changing, and your perspectives need to as well. Otherwise, it'll age just as well as EA sports titles.


6:10 is the solid true truth and nothing but the truth.


I'd be interested in what the "Never Ever" would be for video games. I'd assume something like Runescape, but I think there could and will be another event like runescape. It would have to be a very niche and dedicated community. The melee video touches close, but that's more esports related than video games.

It would be classic wow.
Because classic wow existed before wiki sites.stuff like wowhead
You actually had to explore old wow. It was huge world with lots of little secrets. There are no secrets anymore. Everything is data mined and catalogued before anyone doscovers anything for themselves. And this is true for all games now.

Keksauce 100% I agree Snake Eater is the best Metal Gear game but I feel like MGS 2 would fit the “Never Ever” video better just because of how unique it is. No company will ever replicate that without getting massive backlash with the easiest example being The Last of Us 2.

@Vape Lord Yoda 2 is a fantastic game but I think we can all agree that 3 is where MGS peaked

If we focus on games that pioneer a genre and covered more ground then any other before it, then maybe Minecraft.

Never ever for star wars galaxies could work since it was an mmo with cult following before the genre tried to ape the WoW formula.


Oh, boy, I sure do love when my favorite YouTuber, EmpLemp, dissects the social stigmas and the rapid decay of the internet that cause the game industry to stagnate.


Gaming died when the digital gaming started.


19:54 Elitist gatekeeping, you say?
I remember in the early 1990s my friends bagging out the games I played.
I promise you, since then only the technology has changed.


11:25 Yeah ok, so why do you watch people play sports on TV when you can also go play it yourself?

i only watch let's plays for two reasons, to discover new games or to watch skilled players and possibly gain tips from them


24:12 Nintendo because am probably getting sued for 1 billion Euros just by using dolphin


The point concerning Artifact was so wrong that I had to write this down... Artifact failed not because of it being attached to valve, but surely because of the awful microtransactions that it had. You had to buy card packs WITH REAL MONEY EVERYTIME YOU WANTED A NEW CARD. Look at underlords another game by Valve in the Dota universe. Yeah it's not doing as well as other online games made by valve. But it is still very enjoyable

@Bacon Sir that's another problem, why play this MTX filled piece of garbage when I could play other MTX filled pieces of garbage?

I mean, that’s how card games work. Hearthstone does the same thing, and Yugioh and MTG exist.

@Iara Amelia People at that point, rightfully, had gotten sick and tired of the generic fantasy digital card game. That was the main reason people were pissed, the fact  that people had high expectations for Valve was only a small part of the backlash

it wasn't the Microtrans it was because we had been waiting so many years for the next big thing from the most innovative game company that has ever existed and they shat out a card trading game. It was truly awful needing stupid amounts of money to play but I never even got that far. I didn't touch the game because it disgusted me. I also believe it was removed because Valve realised it had make a big mistake. If it was just the money side they could have tweaked it or even just made it completely free for some PR but it wouldn't have mattered. I wouldn't have touched it even if it was all completely free.

I wouldnt wanna lose valve gamrs since they are still really goos

But people did not know that one the reveal trailer, yet it had negative reactions there.


This has inspired me a to be a Minecraft kid again.


i would've picked 2010s, purely for hollow knight


I would also add that local multiplayer is more than just the closeness to your friends. Since every player needs a copy of the game and a machine to run it on, it's harder to convince someone to join you in a specific game. It becomes a commitment that impacts the enjoyment.


Good video im<br>getting off topic what happened to motorstorm  ?

Good video im
getting off topic what happened to motorstorm  ?


The way you use famous 8 bit songs are unmatch


I feel like everything has been done before and genuinely new ideas are rarer than gold. It's like the opposite of hitting rock bottom and having nowhere to go but up, we've reached the top of Mount Everest and there is nowhere to go but down.

All thoughts have already been thought, nothing is truly original, what changes is how we use that thought


Yeah, you don't get it.
Jeez, up until 13:00, it was a decent video. Then it became a whiner rant.


As always, you've released another incredible video. All of my favorite video games are from years and years ago. Three of my favorite games are from the Nintendo 64. Companies keep barfing games for the money alone that could be used to improve gameplay.


Of all games I would be playing the most in the last decade, I never thought it would be car soccer. But Rocket League really stands out in the massive pool of lame AAA games.


I want an adventure game with good story and without repetitive and tedious side missions


10:59 Now that makes me feel sad inside. Capcom, who made some awesome video games, and THQ Nordic, (who among other games made De Blob 1 and 2 for consoles, which I do not consider shovelware) are really struggling! That's super sad! All these people, including Ubisoft and even Sega, somehow are being left behind. Or they're doing just fine, and those other guys are crazy stinkin rich.


While I agree with almost every point you make in this video, I would like to politely disagree with some of the predatory business tactics in regards to Nintendo. While it is true they have become a lot more money hungry in recent years, with stuff like rereleases and their absolutely abysmal online, I do believe they still put out quality games for local multiplayer. I would attest to the fact that Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Super Mario 3D World are all just as quality local multiplayer handheld games today as the games the DS had it’s time. I’m sure there are more games, but those are the three I am acquainted with, and all three have 4 player multiplayer (Smash Brothers having 8 player multiplayer), all on one console, without needing to own another Switch or game, or even their online service. While Nintendo is no where near perfect, they are probably the one video game company still putting out local multiplayer games.


I believe that, just like movies, the companies time passed and the companies slowly figured it out. At the end of the day the big ones have an incentive to play it safe, and figuring out the crowd helps them doing so. They've found the most stable source, rather format, of videogame income.

Personally I'm not dissapointed that its this way now, it made sense for the format to slot into some common form. What makes me sad is that the ones with the budget to try something new are discouraged to do so. While I consider the industry entirely saved by smaller studios nowadays, I'm still hopeful that repeats of the likes of Doom 2016/Eternal will still show up from AAA studios from time to time.

There's still a flame out there!


You need to watch the Obsolescence video that Veratasium made a few weeks ago. It focused around the light bulb. If companies try to out-do eachother by making longer lasting light bulbs, it will destroy the market because eventually, nobody will need them because the product made itself obsolete. That's why the best gsmes ever made are from the mid 00's to the mid 10's. If companies continued to compete to make better and better games, the best games would be made and nobody would want new games.

Games such as
COD MW2, MW3, BO2, BO3,
GTA 4, and 5
Minecraft
Borderlands 2
Ratchet and Clank 1 and 3
Need For Speed Most Wanted
NFS Underground 1 and 2
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Donkey Kong 64
Mario series up to Galaxy on Wii
CS GO
Half Life series

All of these games are over 7 years old, some over 15 years old. Yet not many games can beat them. Sure I missed a few, but the new shit aint it.


All my favorite games of the decade were singleplayer games from studios that stuck to what they were good at. Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption and 2, The Last Guardian, halo reach. And many of my favorite games had Local multiplayer. Playing split screen Halo or Mario Kart after school was extremely fun.


As a gamer since 1989 that today I play games from the 90s and early 2000s I can say this, the ones reponsible for the current pathetic state of gaming are gamers themselves


I like this type of videos ( gaming history for good or for worse) .I hope that you  make a new one.


Half life made everyone realize you could tell an amazing story and have amazing set pieces in a game and Minecraft made you realize how much time you could spend on a game and it seems every dev took the wrong message from both games and instead of making amazing games you could play for hours and have amazing set pieces we have 200 hour long games with no choice and sets you on a rail for the whole game.


He's right about gaming getting less fun. I used to play overwatch but the pressure of my team is nerve-wracking.


The age of DLC, from what I can remember, started with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the Xbox 360 / PS3. They eventually introduced DLC map packs, which on first glance was completely frivolous at worst. But if your buddies bought those maps, you couldn't join them in multiplayer. They took advantage of that FOMO and ran with it ever since.

I'm OK with DLC if it really adds something to the game like an extra mode or a full blown campaign (like the old PC expansions). I have a problem with microtransactions instead of playing the game you have to pay to unlock things and if can unlock it by playing it's a really bullshit thing like grinding for months everyday which at the end makes paying inevitable if you really value your time, I sadly got into GTA Online recently (before I used to play it on a friend's PS3) but I just can't play it in it's currents state you have to play the game like it's a job if you want to advance in the game, but if you want you can for credits.

I'm not against microtransactions in a F2P game (since it's the only income the game has) but it's really bullshit when a full price game does it and even worse when in order to play it you are deemed to do pay because the game's designed to fuck you over.

The only mdoern game DLC I can compliment is that of Resident Evil 7. Capcom aside from creating a pretty high quality game, chose to create some really solid DLC. Some of it was just to answer some story questions and tie up loose ends, and the rest was just fun challenges and game modes that can honestly kind of stand on their own. What's cool about the DLC is that they all work a little differently and have their own atmospheres and ideas. So they were actually creative and at the same time expanded the lore.


All your criticisms have some solid validity in the AAA industry. And yet, maybe in response to all those problems, the indie scene has also never been more popular. We are living in the golden age of indie gaming.


This is going on with movies and shows as well, everything is a remake or a spin off of something. Focusing more on special effects then telling a story or character development.


The Reason  Why I Like Nintendo Games Is Because Of Their Charm, Their Simplicity And Their Fun.


I REALLY like this video, and I'm just wondering, do you have ANY interest in MAYBE talking about the LittleBigPlanet series? A series that's been treated SO UNFAIRLY by its developers (and partially its audience) ever since 2014? And by the way, ARE you a fan of LittleBigPlanet? Because if you ARE, I'd LOVE to hear you talk about YOUR experiences with the ENTIRE LittleBigPlanet series, your opinions on ALL of the drama that LBP has been facing since 2014, as well as all of YOUR IDEAS for a potential LittleBigPlanet 4! I REALLY hope you'll consider this topic for a random analysis video, because seriously, I could listen to you talk about ANYTHING NOSTALGIC for HOURS!!


EA used to make great sports games, they made phenomenal other games too. (NFS Underground series, Burnout 3 etc etc)


The video game industry and community is remarkably similar to the film one now


I was born in 2005, and split screen was the thing back then in my PS2. <br>Playing Boudakai slit screen was the best thing ever.

I was born in 2005, and split screen was the thing back then in my PS2.
Playing Boudakai slit screen was the best thing ever.

Same bro but I played Xbox 360 and played bo1 or bo2 with my siblings and Idk about you but I miss being a kid tbh but that's the way the sun settles.


No man's sky wasn't written off for failing to meet my expectations. I just refuse to give money to scum developers who happily tell bold faced lies to their customers. If you think what they did is acceptable and people should just be happy that the game is functional now you completly missed the reason people were upset with that game.


I played a fair bit of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 and whenever I tried a newer edition I just went back to playing 2004. Is it better than all the newer ones? I don't know, but it is the one I like the best.


Your two separates groups, the infinite small mobile games and AAA games miss a third one to me, the independent ones. It has been a thriving kind of games, from which minecraft emerged, and there are some very very good games there and very different rules (than the ones valve and all are subjected). It is really growing up, so that even what is called independent today can already been considered somewhat industrial (not independent for lack of word).


I prefer the newer games because sometimes you want an expansion on the world in the game, best example God Of War.


It seems to me also that old games have more replay ability, like a new triple A game has 1 to 3 hours of REAL content, while an old game or an indie game have 5+ hours of content even if it's not online.

@RampageBlizzard yea lol, there are some exceptions like gta V and red dead redemption (and many others).


Maybe they wanted to add more to games like you said. But they havent fulfilled or focused etc. Thankfully we have various games that are essentially indie


I would give up all those next gen "improvements" just to have finished games released again.


Valheim is that one game that makes you feel like a kid again.

Mainly because I didn't watch any videos about it


Holy shit I wasn't expecting to see dwarf fortress mentioned. I'm extremely biased but everyone should definitely play it if they're sick of current games


4:05 that timing with the music is amazing.


In my complete honest opinion games are getting watered down and trash because of multiple different things varying from toxic communities who abuse any mechanic for the win in multiplayer based games to developers cutting extreme corners to profit as much as possible while also hitting a deadline on time


That mod for mario Kart is great. Would recommend it.


everything after 13:00 had me in awe. Honestly one of the best ways I've heard society summed up.


Are games getting worse? Yes, i do think so. I believe movies and music also are. We are past the most innovative times.

I mean think about it, did people complain back in the PS1/PS2 times that the games are so much worse than the NES and DOS era? No i don't think so. It's not just nostalgia, they were great then and are great now. I think it's really that simple.


Nah I think everyone just hypes games up to the point where they can't succeed or people are either blinded by nostalgia or can't change. Combine this with the few years of mystery boxes and micro transactions being the business model. The games are perfectly fine.


10:39 DeBlob is far from shovelware. It's not amazing but it's pretty good.


Before: games are made for the love of gaming<br>Now: games are made to prove that games are "serious" And not "juvenile"

Before: games are made for the love of gaming
Now: games are made to prove that games are "serious" And not "juvenile"


I decided to test this out and I pulled out my old Nintendo DS and played “LEGO BATMAN: THE VIDEOGAME.” A game I grew up with and then after 100%ing it I can say I had more fun playing it than I do with any game from the 2010’s how the fuck is that possible?

That Game has shit loads of content and only costed 39.99$ when I first bought it and still holds up to this day yet modern day games cost 70$ and I’m hearing 80 dollars will become the new standard and thats fine in the case that it’s packed full of content and enjoyable.

But if Modern Day Games are gonna’ cost that price but lack content that older games have and have the audacity to charge more for DLC that should’ve come packaged with the game to make it less of a buggy sloppy mess than I’m sorry but I’m not endorsing that and I refuse to buy games and if that means that I will no longer be able to partake in Gaming as a hobby then oh well videogames thanks for being a part of my childhood we had some good times but I’m just done.


I pretty much exclusively play games from before the 2010s, even though half of them are older than me. I have a ton of newer games with thousands of hours of content but they're all too... Intimidating I suppose? And like you said, there's really very few good quality mid tier games nowadays, and most are riddled with dlc and microtransactions anyway. It was only recently I found out that fucking bloons td6, a game I pain 7 quid for has their own premium currency. I understand wanting to support a developer and to get something neat in return but the game is just so saturated with them I can't stand to play it. Even goddamn minecraft has its own premium currency, and minecraft dungeons, a £20 game has barely any content and tries to squeeze the extra buck out of you for the dlc. Although exclusively playing old games comes with its hurdles as well, most publishers just throw out a completely broken game for the extra buck. And it's up to the consumer to take up the mantle and patch it into a finished state. Honestly if I could have my router to connect back in time to the early 2000's I would, if just for the better games. Also it would be pretty funny to foreshadow a bunch of really menial events just to fuck with people.


Yea, my favorite game of all time is an indie game masterpiece from like, 2017. Hollow Knight


The only thing i disagree with is the Artifact point, even if it was made by some no name developer, it would STILL have Richard Garfield, the creator of magic and sort of the father of tcg's to it, it would still have made waves by how awful it was


Love how you put paper mario from the 64 on the list as if it wasn't a shallow attempt to do what Square did with Super Mario RPG.

I liked both of them, but I I think I liked Super Mario RPG more because it changed the standard of a typical Mario Vs Bowser game

Instead we have mario ally with Bowser and we even got the princess to ally with the player and be a party member too


Rockstar games is a great example of a company who hasnt released unfinished games. RDR2 was the greatest example in recent times of an actually good game.


I know this community doesn’t really play sports games that often so let me tell you, emp barely even scratched the surface when it comes to how bad sports games like 2k21 are


I subbed to Emp 3 days ago. I'm still watching. Is this an addiction?


It's sad that we have the technology necessary to make any game we want now, but thanks to money and greed it's not being taken advantage of..


If you are hung up on graphic fidelity over gameplay you are part of the problem.


Spiritfarer is the latest game that gave my pure joy at certain moments


This topic has always been on discussion for more than a decade. Short answer: Yes and No long answer: Play different videogames than the one IGN or any other mainstream videogame media company pushes, this is more the case for PC than consoles as the plethora of different types of videogames far outnumbers the number of console games and gives the player a ton of selection to choose from.

In short: Play more videogames you daft chucklenuts


i think the problem with video games is that everyone becomes too tryhard due to places like Twitch and youtube, that act like you need to be the greatest all the time, and suck the fun out of everything. i installed rocket league for the first time last week. i did the tutorial and felt like i did decent. i did casual matches after an hour of playing, i felt angry, like i wasnt as good as everyone else, even switching matches. it was infuriating to watch people making crazy goals, while i could barely hit the ball towards the net. there’s nothing more demoralizing than that, so after a while i said “fuck this”, uninstalled the game, and played Saints Row 2. it’s impossible to be a casual gamer die to people who play 6 hours a day every day because someone they watch on youtube is better than them


Games have really just become so unfun for me, like I'll be playing COD or GTA or some shit and think, 'why am I playing this? I'm not having fun at all' the ONLY game series i can say i truly enjoy nowadays is Yakuza. Yakuza is a series that is literally built around having fun, the very little DLC the games have are really just if you want extra stuff and don't benefit anything, the games themselves are just great games full of emotion and heart, and it makes me sad that there isn't more games out there like Yakuza


Death Stranding, Control, FFXV and more are pieces of art that will stand the test of time

@Sephiroth One-Winged Angel Nier Automata is one of the best games ever made, and that was released in 2017.

Death Stranding and FFXV are hot garbage

Nier and persona can be added to that list


I'm from India and let me tell how i feel about games now a days.<br>Way back in 2005-2006 i used to pay 15 bucks and play one hour vice city in a game store and had fun. It doesn't matter to me whether i play missions or just had fun roaming in Panzer tank. Fast forward i'm playing COD mobile but not happy with the micro transactions and loot boxes because back in the day i dont know about them and my opinion is games are no fun. It's all about micro transactions and loot boxes even they claim their game is free to play but reality is it's pay to win.

I'm from India and let me tell how i feel about games now a days.
Way back in 2005-2006 i used to pay 15 bucks and play one hour vice city in a game store and had fun. It doesn't matter to me whether i play missions or just had fun roaming in Panzer tank. Fast forward i'm playing COD mobile but not happy with the micro transactions and loot boxes because back in the day i dont know about them and my opinion is games are no fun. It's all about micro transactions and loot boxes even they claim their game is free to play but reality is it's pay to win.


This is why I purposefully don't watch trailers or look into games anymore. If a friend of mine tells me about a good game and the basic concept sounds good then I will buy it and go in totally blind. You guys might think I'm lying, but to this day I have not seen the cyberpunk trailer and only have a loose understanding of what it is.


1995-2007 golden years of console gaming


man remember the days before fortnite?<br>back when there was a chance at UT4 ever being finished... man that was the best fast paced fps game ive ever played.. of course the team that was developing it are now part of the fortnite team.. so yeah.. they are busy printing money now instead

man remember the days before fortnite?
back when there was a chance at UT4 ever being finished... man that was the best fast paced fps game ive ever played.. of course the team that was developing it are now part of the fortnite team.. so yeah.. they are busy printing money now instead


The phenomenon of toxic userbases with an ELO ranking attached actually existed <b>before</b> the advent of online video games. If you played rec sports, you will understand what I am talking about. It was the kid who thought he was prime time for the major leagues and thought he would get scouted for a college team. If you, God forbid, lost, they were insufferable to be around.

The phenomenon of toxic userbases with an ELO ranking attached actually existed *before* the advent of online video games. If you played rec sports, you will understand what I am talking about. It was the kid who thought he was prime time for the major leagues and thought he would get scouted for a college team. If you, God forbid, lost, they were insufferable to be around.


its good and all but battlefront2 does hold its own to the original


2:27 Isn't that the proton database? Like how well you can play WIndows Games on Linux with Steam's Proton tool? unexpected place to see that


Casual gamers don't play games, they watch gameplay


I actually hate youtubers like Dunkey for the soul reason that he creates a group of people who blindly form opinions around games without actually having any form of interaction besides his video. For example he blindly calls paladins an overwatch rip off based off of a couple of abilities that are shared between the games. Because of this paladins never really got a fair chance to succeed. A  game that is (in my opinion) way better than overwatch struggles to find success today because a bunch of people saw one video on the internet saying "haha it's basically overwatch".


Artifact wasn't average my dude, the monetization model was so, so bad.


Mid 2000s was the golden era for sports games


When you shoes gameplay of atv 2... I wasn't ready for the hit of nostalgia.


You lost me at the 13 minute mark when you kinda brushed off the entire point of art because “escapism”.

Like yeah sure people are just getting a brief reprieve from their life but we all understand the difference between the fantastical world of Atlas Shrugged compared to The Great Gatsby. Both of those books are fictional, but you can tell a lot about a person by which one resonated with them more

You can’t simultaneously accept that art is politically charged while saying “I don’t care about the politics, it’s just fun!”. You can’t play the Witcher series without engaging in the story, and therefore the themes in that story. I suppose you could just... turn off all the audio, but then why play it at all.


fighting game payers have been playing old games since 2007,they were ahead.


Love how your driver for Nascar Thunder 2004 was Dale Earnhardt .   Nice callback :)


This is why I apply healthy skepticism and back up and assume it wont be the best thing.

I feel sorry about the people that get butt hurt cause I said my experience was different than they think it is or will be

Also about the zelda. Majors mask had more enotice from previous fans btw. Nonetheless yandere sim like game you mentioned there are a few competitors


<b>yes not just games but movies and music as well. its all been done before</b>

*yes not just games but movies and music as well. its all been done before*


People blamed me for nostalgia but I still think 90's games were far better than modern ones. They had to get it right the first time because of recalls.


the fact is simple. people are caring too much about what other people think, too much "let´s shock everything",  too much "everybody is a critic" and people thinking online gaming is a real war

this is why I prefer simulators even for online playing. everybody taking care of its own


Nowadays, the time you should look into buying a game is a year after the actual release date.


There may be no more good sports games, but there a ton of amazing games and franchises that are blowing everything before them out of the water.
I’m talking about the souls series, bloodborne and sekiro
Monster hunter, devil may cry,
All of platinum games from vanquish to the new nier games.
Doom 2016, doom eternal and indie games like hollow knight, dead cells, Isaac, sas, ori and cup head.
There are so many hundreds of insanely fun games that are the antithesis of what you are talking about. You can’t tell me that from software and those like them, aren’t passionate to an insane degree. It’s just not true. I would never trade my first playthrough of monster hunter world or bloodborne for any tony hawk or goldeneye experience.

most people who say gaming is bad now are mad because thier favorite franchise is dead and they won't get over it, they also ignore anything that isn't mainstream, and many just have nostalgia and expect everything to be like thier warped view on a game


Well not all AAA games are like that there are many good ones out there that don’t have DLC


I am glad you tell it as it is. you don't sugar coat the truth.


Video: plays for one second
Me: YES.

I haven't seen a finished title of release day since f-ing Skyrim

Video: *plays for one second*
Me: YES.

I haven't seen a finished title of release day since f-ing Skyrim


Can't stand how people continue to pay 60 bucks for updated rosters in 2k and Madden


14:51 Dude, they had expectations because the dude in charge SAID that all those things were in the game, and they weren't. He fucking LIED, and stole their money! That guy doesnt deserve sympathy, he deserves a law suit.


21:14 you are joking, but I'm really waiting for slightly more accessible version of DF.

And about exhaustion, I have games I play, and games I watch, There is practically no overlap there.


7:56–9:55 Emplemon hitting the nail in the coffin, ESPECIALLY when it comes to explaining why local multiplayer via with friends & family is much more fulfilling and enjoying than playing with random people who will flame you just because they want to win soooo badly in a VIDEOGAME


I havent bought a new game at release in 7 years wish other people would have the same will power instead of being sheep.

Same, I'll play my 17 year old copy of the first Kingdom hearts, my 20-year-old copy of diablo 2, and my 13-year-old copy of Call of duty World at War for the 10 billionth time before I shill out for these disgusting quality of newly released games


FIGHT KNIGHT, you play as a Knight that can only punch things. It's a good game for punching skeletons and other stuff.

Ruiner is what Cyberpunk could have felt like.

Risk of Rain 2 is fucking amazing.

Deep Rock Galactic for the bois to mine asteroids infested with creeping bugs.

Darkstone, old personal favorite I played as a kid that is like Diablo but has a deep 80's Conan feel to it or Willow feel. Has some texture loading issues from time to time but it's solid fun.

Battletech: good story, great gameplay, deep connection to crewmates. Good if you grew up with Mechwarrior or Mechassault.

Hardspace Ship Breaker. The 2nd opening scene of Titan A.E. made into a game YAY.

Civ 6... because Civ 6.

Planetary Annihilation, old fanbase from Total Annihilation that wanted an rts where planets are now weapons... yes.

Paladins, Overwatch but fun and casual with friends.

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order because god dammit Dark Souls needed lightsabers.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Pandemic) on PC the community has lots of fun and the mods are fucking godly.

Minecraft... it's calming until it's not.

Stalker series because bugs can actually sell insanity of an alien invested hell scape... also vodka heals rads.

Messenger. Self aware ninja time travel.

Wasteland Remastered because the original is kind of dated and puzzle solving is fun.

Tetris Worlds xbox original... I got lost on it for two hours without realizing.

Conker Live and Reloaded can run 360 great game.

Armello is a fun digital board game type thing. Game of thrones with animals.

Warhammer Dawn of War Dark Crusade. This shit is busin' and I love the Imperial guard absolutely dominating with artillery. Soul Storm expansion can be better that this if you install the apocolypse mod where like a thousand untis can flood the screen and tank your fps.

Brutal Doom with Doom One mashed mod pack. Hard to install if your new to modding but worth it.

Civ Revolution a little more casual but playing Aztecs as a super military state can be great fun.

Metal Arms Glitch in the System: funny, fun, with couch play for pizza night on a 360 with four controllers.

Chess because chess will never go out of style.

Candy land because that shit is amazing and the art is a classic.

Hard to come by but the Gauntlet series is good and the Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance series is good. Both are 4 player coop chaos fests.

No mario kart, monopoly, or smash friendships die in those matches. Jokes aside the wii version of monopoly is really good fun with a board made out of cheese.

Castle Crashers.

Halo... all of them up to 4.

Gears series up to Judgement. Yes I liked Judgement sue me.

Mk series.

Injustice series.

Tmnt series. I mean c'mon let's be real these were the shit on Xbox and Gamecube.

There are a lot more I could add but I think it's takes looking around and away from the trenches of AAA. Most games that are great are away from the normal places.

.......

Metroid Prime trilogy because I grew up on it and it's a good share. Try to get the wii version but if you can't gamecube is just as good. It feels more authentic with the wii sensor y'know.

Dead Space with the vibrant reshade and louder sfx.

Advent Rising is a nice Scifi story.

Okay I promise I'm done, have hope bros.

Damn reading this reminds me of all the damn good games that have come and gone in popularity over the years.


5:05 Now wait  minute. Do Codemasters and the F1 games not count as sports games?


Oh man I remember loving atv2 when I was younger


true, better graphics, but not much focus on the 'fun factor' anymore


i still play the tokyo extreme racer series and i thinks its better than any street racing game released since


Does anyone know if there's a 3D 8-bit video game open world sandbox MMORPG that just cost a one-time purchase and maybe it's only a couple of DLC can someone tell me if it exists


i havent paid for a game in over 10 years. only been playing old good games or torrenting


what? deadly creatures for the wii was dope!


I think we only see modern games as "bad", because we don't have the benefit of retrospective. in 10 years, we'll be talking about the games that were good that came out this decade.


This can easily apply to the Roblox community
It's full of YouTubers rushing to make videos on how RoBlOx mEsSed uP and ignoring anything good that comes from it and full of cry babies saying "the community sucks!" whilst actively tarnishing it
its a major negativity bias

@Mild Monster Great because of the graphics on the eyes? Or because you like its aesthetic?

@prophet of indrid cold yeah that's why it's great

I always thought roblox sucked though that was mostly do to the primitive graphics being hard on the eyes. Aestetics can be just as important as graphics if not more important.


12:57 I totally agree with you

2000s & 2010 were the last Year’s I liked Video games

20:40 reggie I miss you and you’re right if I’m not having fun why bother


202X: everything is a sequel, a remake, unfinished, overpriced, or unbelievably derivative.


See i dont have many friends to play with, the solo experience is pretty much my only experience.

So when 90% of solo or limited MO games are complete garbage, unfinished or run so horribly they can barely be tolerated if at all regardless of how good they are (looking at you metro)...

I have to turn to the MMO experience. I get hit with massive grindwalls to unlock barely any content like World of Tanks; entire portions of the game locked behind forcing having a group (ESO, horde games) or a community that is insufferable from a casual standpoint.

I gradually shift into a competitive tryhard as its the only goal i have; to have fun. But getting massacred without friends is no fun. But dedicating hundreds of hours to getting better just to have a shot at being fun isnt fun either;

24k battles in war thunder. 3:1 K/D ratio on my better vehicles, almost 4:1 on some. Global 64% win rate.
And the only time you can chalk me up as having "fun" is when i get RNG'd and im an unstoppable killing machine slaughtering all in my path because i spent 7 years training myself to be that; and when i AM that i have no fun because theres no challenge, no end goal.

So i end up going back to fucking minecraft and building a massive port city complete with several immense ships, a boom gate to ward off pirate raids and custom tailoring a dozen chunks just so they look nice from the crow's nest.

Gods i miss the simple but fun games of the 00s


The more triple a games represent casinos worries me


My man actually woke up one day and decided to be based


What about From Software? I would keep the 2010s just for them


I'm loving these videos, great content, and you clip from Koth, RLM, ed edd n eddy, spongebob... good shit


I remember when the biggest rumors on the block was the ps4 and the xbox 720


Yo this is fax, like I've put in 300 hours into an online multiplayer, yet I've had more fun playing mario party with my siblings for 30 minutes.


Wow... I had no idea there were that many Assassins Creeds... unbelievable.


Best gaming memories are on my wii with my older brother and I beating LEGO Star Wars late at night, playing that awful yet fun and arcadey need for speed hot pursuit game and me and my buddies playing Mario kart, making stupid mii’s and trying super hard at golfing and boxing in wii sports.

Pretty sure I have 3000 in wii sports alone

The Wii such an excellent Console I have a huge library of games because of how good the Wii was I come back every day still to play


It's because we haven't had a new GTA game in 8 years to set a new gold standard of videogame quality.

GTA 5 nor RDR2 didn't fix anything about the industry...in fact 5 arguably made things worse. What makes you think GTA 6 would help?


say what you will, but we had Fallout New Vegas


I probably play minecraft more than games made today


You included half life 2 and called it a downfall in the next decade lol


You're right! I don't give a shit about the world's problems. I already have enough of my own problems so cut men some slack.


I can't help but feel the bit around the 12:00 to 14:00 min area is not super cool. My bf and I were arguing about whether or not that whole bit about "gamers not caring about political issues is bad" bit is satirical or not.
I think about the whole controversy around Jerma and his trans rights comments and people coming out of the woodworks to shit on him and his audience when the facts are that trans people are still discriminated. I feel like if your fans have shitty behavior, creators have an obligation to say that bigoted behavior is wrong because god knows they aren't hearing it from any other important people in their lives.

(I'm not looking to start some huge thing, I just want to know what ppl think about this segment)


2:30 "Xbox kinect, Raid shadow legends" My man got me cracking up at 2am, but seriously though I remember really loving kinect and I remember all the good times me and my friends had playing star wars and actually feeling like jedi. I never understood why people hated it so much, the only criticism I had for it was that it didn't have enough games and the games weren't long enough, because if this one game could make us truly feel like jedi think of all the other things they could've done!


2:42 a small price to pay for club penguin


You can’t deny it, we all loved Pokémon GO


when you do it good the first time, the second has to be better or its complete failure

One way I would do it with a game like cod would be to have the player be the bad guy like having them play as the Japanese or nazis in ww2, imagine a d day mission where your one of the mg42s on the beach head firing on usa troops, that shit would be strange. Or maybe a Japanese pilot dogfighting the USA Air force only to end the mission by kamikazeing into a ship.

@tvhead one game series that pulled it off were the mario games witch makes since considering marios been going strong for over 20 years. Racing games,party games,rpgs, the luigi mansion and wario games. Nintendo seems to know how to do it. Maybe they should sit the other game companies down and teach them how its done.

@prophet of indrid cold you make a good point

One way around this conundrum is not to be better but to be different enough to avoid direct comparison while maintaining the core of the game series.


25:41 just got done watching your dane video, not knowing or caring who he was, and now I'm taking notice that you chose his car. Dang bruh.


Monster hunter rise sadly fell into this<br>Unfinished story for dlc later

Monster hunter rise sadly fell into this
Unfinished story for dlc later


“The same is true for Minecraft’s respected cousin”

Me: Terraria

“Roblox”

Me: What?


to be honest japanese exclusive games are at least of a higher quality than these


Good video however you showed a bit of your normieness when you showed the wii paper mario as the good paper mario rather than mario the thousand year door.


That Billie Jean retro kinda got me unfocused


I have tons of AAA games on steam yet id rather play roblox.


pcs are good, i basically only play indies with close friends (and VR which will soon be destroyed by facebook)


I think you're focusing waaaaay too hard on public perception / social media. Like, why would companies give any shit about any of that. It's simply the monetary incentive of spewing out repetitive garbage.


What I have noticed the most in my three decades of gaming has been a shift in focus for games. A lot of this is cultural, as the online community is king and has also been the most difficult to please. A lot of games come out with a strange intention of knowing they're going to die (any competitive shooter game for example). It may be here for now, but once the servers go dark, the game dies. Microtransactions don't help either, and DLC is also a new form of cancer. We've been bred into thinking this is okay, when it didn't ever used to be this way. Now it's impressive if a game is delivered fine and done from day one. That is what changed, in my opinion. We're about to enter an era of "games as a service" soon I believe and it will be rare to "own" a game ever again. The greed has changed the system and we continue to capitulate because the marketing isn't just commercial, it's cultural. It's streamers and sponsorships.

Games used to be meant for you alone, or to be shared with anyone directly near you. The internet has changed that forever, and with the adjustment in the model and our acceptance of being gamed (pun intended) we are allowing this to ruin gaming as it is now, and certainly once was.

On a positive note, indie games tend to be where the light is. No pressure, no hype (usually) and a lot of fun.


I remember everyone having a blast on LittleBigPlanet, and everyone getting hyped for Dreams just for no one to talk about Dreams anymore

I think it’s because LBP was super accessible, where even a 4 year old could make a level. Dreams is pretty hard to make stuff in if you don’t know how to do it.


The 2010s have had less games that were good but damn the good ones are good


Flash games were the mid 2000's games I consumed the most. I loved Mastermind: World Conqueror, Bloons Tower Defence, Book of Mages, and Platform racing 2.

bloons tower defence is still going strong, on a 6th installment (although its off flash and is on steam) its a great game, microtransactions sadly, but they are nowhere near required