I think Fall Guys was the fastest game to be a mainstream "hit" and then forgotten, the thing didn't last a month sadly.

Yeah it had so much potential and had a fun concept


5:07 Two of my favorite football games ever, NFL 2K5 and Tecmo Bowl.


I have a hunch the nfl will end their deal with ea in 2026. Madden isn’t just disliked anymore by hardcore fans. Mainstream people now really hate madden with a passion.


This just in: Local Downward Spiral Man says "no spiral in viddey gaem"


For the argument that "online multiplayer has made us feeling more isolated than ever", I feel like Discord is the exception to that rule. It's weird, I know that the rule used to be true for me, who would only play online games by themselves and enjoy that, but ever since I started using discord and have been in a server populated with people I now call friends, and meet with each other on a regular basis for years now, I've been able to enjoy online multiplayer the same way I used to enjoy playing local multiplayer, just as a group of friends playing fun games.

I never really experienced the local multiplayer experience because I was. A social disaster as a child and never had any friends. Now I <i>do,</i> but those friends are mostly people who live thousands of miles from me. So I feel way more connected to logging into discord with my buddies then I do staring at an empty pictochat lobby on my DSi when I was 8 pretending I had somebody to talk to.

I never really experienced the local multiplayer experience because I was. A social disaster as a child and never had any friends. Now I _do,_ but those friends are mostly people who live thousands of miles from me. So I feel way more connected to logging into discord with my buddies then I do staring at an empty pictochat lobby on my DSi when I was 8 pretending I had somebody to talk to.

Discord is as much part of the problem as anything else. Everyone is confined to their pre-formed bubbles instead of venturing out and talking to random people. Anyone that isn't already apart of some circlejerk isn't going to be able to get into one. The internet used to be about discovery and adventure, but corporations are scrubbing all the fun out, making it safe and squeaky, and corralling the masses into one big boring group that doesn't know how to do anything outside of Reddit and Twitter. It's all a sterilized soulless mess.

Not everyone joins a discord, and not everyone plays an online with their friends every time they play. I've seen the suggestion of "Just find a group" on reddit regarding Overwatch's toxicity. Saying this isn't a problem because Discord exists is just wishful thinking.

And the local multiplayer doesn't quite work for those who didn't have friends nor siblings, but now they can turn on their headset and join discord groups

Well, the difference is you became friends with them online. The same rule applies because you're FRIENDS, not strangers. Discord does a good job of connecting people, for sure.

I have autism and social anxiety; Videogames these days almost depend on being able to interact with strangers over the internet seamlessly.
Games like destiny, anthem, call of duty, to name a few, give me panic attacks.
Online multiplayer is just not an option for me, and you don't want to know how much that kills pretty much any title released in the last 3 years.

>join discord server
>not immediately part of established clique
>banned

ミートローフLv 154


Seeing all those assassin creed games made me happy I only play games that are original,  like Pokémon...

Edit: oh, he actually brings up pokemon :/ my b


I may sound dumb to many of you militaristic critics but…

I just want to play a nice game damnit. I play Smash and Subnautica all the time with my brother on the Switch and that’s about all the gaming I get. I want more in my gaming life but don’t want all the politics and backlash from playing a game people consider “shitty”. You can call this an unpopular opinion if you want but I just want to have fun in a decent enough looking game, even if it’s widely hated and I’d be called the worst person to live for playing it

That being said, I’m considering getting BOTW or Final Fantasy 7. Should I get it? I want your honest opinion and not someone from Reddit.


YO that call back to the claymation video hit hard


Most major game companies have also kind of pushed older fans away, so indies have more or less catered to them.


FF14 in 2021 feels better than any wow I’ve played so maybe mmos are gonna start getting better again


Of course Earnhardt won the 500 in nascar ‘04 😂😂😂😂


is this how i find out activision spent $500 million on destiny...


One of my favorite games of all time is Test Drive: Eve of Destruction. It's basically a racing game where you drive shit cars in demolition derbies and your main goal, besides getting to the finish first, is to just smash shit up as much as you can. It's so much fun and I'm not even that big of a fan of racing games. It came out back in 2004 and as far as I know, they've never done another one in that style again.

Test drive eve of destruction was a fantastic game that I used to play a lot that both the disc and the console wore out.

On the side note I am really surprised that no game developers at least fairly big ones in the racing game genre haven’t tried a video game based on British banger racing, seriously go look it up the real thing it’s insane it makes American destruction derby look like cats fighting over a ball of string.

Love that game along with test drive unlimited on the ps2

Nothing comes close to making me believe I smell the elephant ears and corn dogs, wet mud and rich gasoline than Eve Of Destruction. That damned announcer is one of the best parts of that game.

Wreckfest is a good contender, but it’s very simulation-esque. You can have a shitcar or a derby built machine thing, and of course lots of fun chaos.


I start the video and immediately see Nascar Thunder 2004. I already love this video


What I learned...<br>This guy really likes Nascar

What I learned...
This guy really likes Nascar


2007 Game Releases: Cod4, Halo 3, Portal, HL2e2, Team Fortress, Bioshock, Assassins creed,

2017: Fortnite, Cuphead, Horizon Zero Dawn, Destiny 2, Nier Automata, Breath of the Wild, SM Odyssey.

ill take 2007 thanks


That’s why I ignore all AAA games (except Nintendo) and just stick to Indy


why don't they just make disposable shadow studio names to release new concepts


People thought there would be an Xbox 720 😂


that was both incedible stop motion and an incredible ad, and I hate both of those things, so I'm not sure what to think. real mind opener here.


It's amazing how emplemon consistently makes arguments without backing them up.

@IceBlueLugia I agree with most of your points. Emp makes good videos, but this video is way too generalizing. More games are releasing than ever and yeah AAA games will make boring safe games that would have the most market appeal but they no longer represent the majority of gaming.

the blatant irony of accusing someone of not backing up their points while simultaneously not providing any examples is remarkable

Doom58 I watched the video. It was filled with misleading points, arguments with weak evidence to back them, and blatant disregard for any counterarguments.

What are you talking about? Did you watch the video?

Kind of like the games implementing features and not putting content behind them :^)


>talks about how people don't want to buy a game that's broken at launch and wait for it to be fixed<br>>>laments the fact that no man's sky was abandoned and ridiculed because it was broken at launch and eventually fixed

>talks about how people don't want to buy a game that's broken at launch and wait for it to be fixed
>>laments the fact that no man's sky was abandoned and ridiculed because it was broken at launch and eventually fixed


Don't get me wrong. I hate online multi-player. I NEVER play it. Ever. No matter the game.


E3 isn't for gamers. It's for investors. I seriously hate modern gaming to the point I don't even enjoy most games anymore. I try different games but I get burnt out so quickly now. It's sad.


Monopoly means no competition. Economics 101.


I think the Internet also greatly  influenced gaming. It gave the chance for many developers to reach new audiences with unique ideas that wouldn't been made with traditional means like minecraft, undertale , or among us but it also paved the way for human beings to be terrible and make exploitable software only Aimed for profit. Ea sports games, fighting games, open world games, multiplayer games, mobile games, mmo's, racing games etc. hell not even old games are safe. Tf2 isn't the same tf2 yrs ago


There's literally thousands of super creative, unique, varied indie games. Why not just stop supporting big company games?


what I dislike is that people treat gaming as business, it's not. the maker of chess did not call his game a business but a game, and other people back then too, so why is it now a business? (gaming I mean) can't anyone bring out fun games anymore without thinking about profit once?


8-Bit Gorillaz and Britney Spears were cool to hear.


Emp lemon's face actually fits his voice lol


Nascar thunder 2004 is the greatest nascar game of all time. The fact that there is not a nascar game since that even comes close (except chase for the cup 2005) nascar 21 ignition is embarrassingly bad, even 4 months after it's release.


And then a couple of months later cyberpunk 2077 came out


There are some good games mincraft, bo2, bo1, gta 5, and assassin's creed


I see some of the points ur tryinng to make by refrencing midnight club... but please understand. That game is literally the opposite if what u call it.. that isnt a mid teir game that wasnt pushing innovation. That game LITERALLY gelped pave the way for future racing games😂😂😂😂


A lot of great points. I'd like to add just one more:<br>There are more people today who used to be kids in 2000s but are adults with jobs now. And some of them just can't find time and energy to play games and would rather prefer kicking back and watching good videos like this one...

A lot of great points. I'd like to add just one more:
There are more people today who used to be kids in 2000s but are adults with jobs now. And some of them just can't find time and energy to play games and would rather prefer kicking back and watching good videos like this one...

@DDD when I tried revsiting fire emblem path of radiance I looked online to see what prices were in case I lost my copy, turns out they're over 200 bucks now<br>People are very nostalgic for the gamecube era, as such prices are going to be very expensive, this is part of the reason I support emulation

@DDD when I tried revsiting fire emblem path of radiance I looked online to see what prices were in case I lost my copy, turns out they're over 200 bucks now
People are very nostalgic for the gamecube era, as such prices are going to be very expensive, this is part of the reason I support emulation

@gyO.蓮 your experience means nothing to me, my point is still valid.  People will play a game if it's good whether they have the energy or not ... i'm not saying EVERY person will play it, but lots of people will young and old.  I'm trying to explain that saying "gamers are getting older therefore" is a ridiculous statement that suggests there are hardly any older people that play games which you would have no evidence for because there is none.  The only way older gamers stop playing games is if the genres they enjoy start to suck ass (mmos and strategy games fall into this category)

Haywire5714 I can say from experience that is not true. There are tons of games that I haven't played sitting in my steam library. They're good games, I just can't be bothered.

@Waskomsause i'm saying that the idea that older people will not play games because they lack the time and energy is nonsense.  If a game is good people will play it whether they have the energy or not.

@Haywire5714 No, you didn't. Not having time or energy to invest in a game is different to not enjoying a game.

So that explains why Nintendo games before the Wii generation is basically unaffordable to get or to maintain now-in-days

And that's exactly why Mario sunshine costs 90 bucks right now

@Haywire5714 I don't think you read that right, big fella

nonsense, if a game is good people will play it, young and old.


Yeah I still mostly play old games lmao.


Mate was that a clip from Knox's Corner at 12:40? That's a throwback!


I love how deep EmpLemon goes with his videos, really makes you think about things like this


I thought half life alyx was pretty good


Maybe if there were good games being released youtubers would be too busy playing them to complain about the bad ones. When there is nothing but dog shit titles on the market there's nothing for a gamer to do but complain or sudoku


My favourite games are from the 80s and 90s, but that's because I'm 48 and those are the games I have the strongest nostalgic connection to.


EmpLemon: drops video with “Downward spiral” in the title

Me: Looks at watch and makes a call
        “Hello? Yes I’d like to postpone my therapy appointment.”

EmpLemon: *drops video with “Downward spiral” in the title*

Me: *Looks at watch and makes a call*
        “Hello? Yes I’d like to postpone my therapy appointment.”


Well polish my jimmies! ATV2 was #2 racer on GCN!


De blob actually isn’t half bad the sequel is really good actually.


i don’t know why everyone acts like it’s hard to make a good game, all we want is interactive sex scenes with interchangeable positions. is that really so much to ask?


While we were all saying, "This is what graphics will look in 2011-2020"<br>We weren't thinking, "This is what story will look like in 2011-2020"

While we were all saying, "This is what graphics will look in 2011-2020"
We weren't thinking, "This is what story will look like in 2011-2020"


0:14 whys every game gotta come out the day after my birthday except undertale? am i cursed?


13:18 nice strawman, lets ignore Fallout, Metal Gear Solid, Deus Ex and Killer 7, and instead use a shrek racing game, to show how "games werent political back then"

And yet those games had more going on in their themes and narratives than "people I disagree with BAD" like almost every modern piece of shit political game


this video makes me scared that skate 4 will be a disappointment


Great video, but when you did show the drake meme at the start of the video with the Kingdom Hearts games i have to disagree. I have played throught the kingdom hearts games since february, and while Kingdom Hearts 2 is great, it's definitly not as good as KH3. The graphics are good the gameplay is amazing and the story is trying to piece everything toghether. I can get people who are new to the series or those who didn't really follow the story since KH2 to be dissapointed, but it is a god damn great evolution, denying it is just saying it's bad because it changes things.


Maybe the big company games are spiralling, but indie/small start-up games are still going strong


i dont care about 2010s game id give them all up to play 2000s games


If you want to play a sports game, why not go outside? Why play a game based off of things you can do in real life?

My parents said the same thing to me 20 years ago, now I'm saying it my children it goes to show sometimes some bits of old wisdom are timeless


<b>still playing old school RuneScape exclusively in 2022</b>

*still playing old school RuneScape exclusively in 2022*


You bringing up Nascar Thunder 2004 incites a crazy level of nostalgia for me. I used to play that game with my brother a ton as a kid and still remember it fondly. Between that, MVP baseball, NCAA football games, the 2K football games and even Madden games during that time period and many more. That really was a golden age of sports games and games in general


And this is why you support indie- oh, somebody beat me to it.


you can play online multiplayer with friends


50 dollars in 2000 is 75 dollars now. There were lots of games last generation that were bad and just got forgotten. With the internet everyone now rants a out bad games and most games are never forgotten


Holy shit I haven't thought about knox korner since elementary. What a reference.


I wonder if people felt the same way when film went from an artform to a business.


This just show us another example how the modern human gets to much knowledge and info for it's own good.  Mybe our intelligent grew . But or wisdom didn't .


"That's not true!" - John C. Calhoun's toenail


some random ps2 game about a animated film is better than half of the big games of 2020


Also I hate STEAM for adding completele crap to they'r library just to make revenue not providing a curated selection of amazing or at least decent games that we paying gamers deserve. We are left with a mess that takes some research to filter and find the good games.  I'm a broke ass guy but I spend considerable ammounts of my crap money on games, because I want to support the developers. I don't want to buy shit. For that I open Unity myself and make some broken piece of crap, using templates and poor code.


1. No Man Sky deserved the hate (imo), but not the death threats and such.

2. Eh, I felt this video touched on too many topics in a very shallow way that made this not really interesting to watch and I prefer your videos that dive into specific topics in more depth.

3. I also recognize that maybe I wasn't the target audience as this added nothing new to the conversation on the landscape of gaming and was more a summary to people maybe younger than me so it's cool if that's the case.

@Zachary L I don't think that's the point he was trying to get across. There's nothing wrong with calling the game out on having a crappy launch and still not buying it because of that. People should at least acknowledge the fact that they have gone in and worked on improving the game despite how disastrous the launch was because literally no one else would do the same thing if put in that situation. I can't think of a single dev today that's been as dedicated as they have to fulfilling the promises they made coming off a launch that bad and I think that deserves at least some level of respect no?

@Zachary L While it was definitely partially Hello Game's fault for releasing an unfinished game you do have to keep in mind that once you get into a contract with a publisher you can't do anything no matter how much you think the game needs it.

Agreed. I seriously don't care how hard they worked to make on the promises after release. We shouldn't be congratulating and cheering people for repairing something that was willingly sold broken. <br>Stop lowering the standards of how games can be released.

Agreed. I seriously don't care how hard they worked to make on the promises after release. We shouldn't be congratulating and cheering people for repairing something that was willingly sold broken.
Stop lowering the standards of how games can be released.


The kid stuff will become the important grown up stuff


The anonymous strangers I meet online are my friends and family.


I miss Mario Kart DS too EmpLemon, I was too young to have my own DS but it was still a blast hanging with my bro who had it, get everyone in the neighborhood to come and enjoy playing together
Side note: 14:39 Recently I tried out Dark Souls 2 and love it: I ignored the trend of people hating it for being "trash" and let the gameplay help me decide for myself that I enjoy this "bad game."

I miss Mario Kart DS too EmpLemon, I was too young to have my own DS but it was still a blast hanging with my bro who had it, get everyone in the neighborhood to come and *enjoy playing together*
Side note: 14:39 Recently I tried out Dark Souls 2 and love it: I ignored the trend of people hating it for being "trash" and let the gameplay help me decide for myself that I enjoy this "bad game."


Overwatch is tft mixed with league feels very wrong xD


Best Nascar Thunder 2004 game review on YouTube.


- Great concept, horrible execution.
Like, how could you fucked up a games like Anthem and Avengers?! You already have a good concept, all you have to do is make it good!

- Lack of delivery.
How come we only have 1 hack 'n' slash, lightsaber combat, Star Wars game?
Why no company made anything to compete or replace GTA V? Saints Row? If you want urban murder simulator, your only choices are GTA V or Mafia 3 and it's horrible.
Why Bully 2 haven't come out yet?
 t's almost like they're trying to avoid obvious idea or demand and just stick to contemporary idea.


You really took a dump on Fall Guys like


Phh...XBOX 720?

...my God.

My new favorite video.
By the way, gaming society is dying.


I play Monster Hunter GenU its a relatively old game now but its one of the most replayed Monster Hunter game ever. But playing online I could talk to every person in rhe lobby and we can have fun but I've felt so lonely considering 99% of rhe people you will play with you won't ever see again infact over my 300hrs in it I've only made 1 friend in it


Damn old people, let me play my fortnite.


I know what I want.<br>Kenshi 2 is what I want.

I know what I want.
Kenshi 2 is what I want.


I haven't bought a new game in a long time due to all the hype and then disappointment like Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077, Battlefield 2042, and the list goes on.

For me it all started even sooner right around the launch of the PS4/Xb1. Seemingly overnight we went from Fall 2013, up to that point one of the greatest years in gaming with legendary titles such as GTA V, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Arma 3, and even Minecraft's console release ... to late 2013 and beyond with absolute duds like Call of Duty Ghosts, Battlefield 4 (at least at launch but even later it didn't live up to earlier installments imo,) Assassin's Creed Unity, Destiny 1, The Division 1, Battlefront 1, Evolve (remember that?), and who could forget No Man's Sky. In short like you said a seemingly endless stream of overhyped disappointments that continues to this day ... except by now to me the let down is the norm and to have a game live up to the PS3/360 era is actually shocking.<br>But perhaps worst of all even some hyped up games that didn't totally fail ended up only being okay, such as Battlefield 1, Assassin's Creed Origins, the newer Tomb Raider games, Modern Warfare 2019, etc. They had the potential to be masterpieces but were held back by a seemingly inescapable trend toward mediocrity in games.

For me it all started even sooner right around the launch of the PS4/Xb1. Seemingly overnight we went from Fall 2013, up to that point one of the greatest years in gaming with legendary titles such as GTA V, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Arma 3, and even Minecraft's console release ... to late 2013 and beyond with absolute duds like Call of Duty Ghosts, Battlefield 4 (at least at launch but even later it didn't live up to earlier installments imo,) Assassin's Creed Unity, Destiny 1, The Division 1, Battlefront 1, Evolve (remember that?), and who could forget No Man's Sky. In short like you said a seemingly endless stream of overhyped disappointments that continues to this day ... except by now to me the let down is the norm and to have a game live up to the PS3/360 era is actually shocking.
But perhaps worst of all even some hyped up games that didn't totally fail ended up only being okay, such as Battlefield 1, Assassin's Creed Origins, the newer Tomb Raider games, Modern Warfare 2019, etc. They had the potential to be masterpieces but were held back by a seemingly inescapable trend toward mediocrity in games.


When Nascar Heat 2002 came up on the screen I got so much brain serotonin wth lmao xD


Games got so good that they didn't need to be good anymore. The incentive for innovation was removed the moment that dedicated fanbases were formed off the back of the masterpieces released towards the end of the 2000s. Predatory executives and shareholders know that what is actually released is irrelevant to sales figures, because the preliminary hype is all that is required to get trusting consumers to purchase. To compound this, every developer has realised this, so the lack of competition and incentive for creativity is compounded further. A true modern tragedy...

This sounds so much like COD and FIFA nowadays. People will complain, especially with COD, about how shit the current instalment is every single year and still buy the next one anyway. If there hasn’t been a good one since BO2 in your opinion, then why do you still buy them?


Probably MBAs in the companies ruining everything.


Put me in the Pokémon sapphire and GameCube era and I’m set.


Best sports games are Mario sports games. Make a new Mario Strikers Nintendo please


I had to revisit this video after E3 2021<br>History may show that it was the chaotic times more than anything, but I still remember when everyone was excited at 80% of the announcements, now everyone seems to be extremely disappointed and disinterested.

I had to revisit this video after E3 2021
History may show that it was the chaotic times more than anything, but I still remember when everyone was excited at 80% of the announcements, now everyone seems to be extremely disappointed and disinterested.

I didn’t care about how many hate E3 I honestly though it was overhated but that one was justifying garbage

People’s expectations are often unrealistic


13:13 Yep there it is "escapism!"
It makes u feel like ,  ........ Better!. ANd takes u out of any current bad stuff in ur life ! escapism!

Thank u escapism!

Problem is .... You can't escape forever..


Just dont play AAA and AA games, problem solved.


Does anyone know the background song that starts at 13:40


I’m a woman- sorry for being pOliTiCal I was just born this way- and I too just want to escape into games!  Guess I’ll just stick to single player in spite of enjoying online FPS, because mens way of “relaxing” is screaming at me to make them a sandwich, when they suck at the game more than I do…

Sorry my dolla is as green as yours and videogame companies have finally decided they want it.


I remember going to EB games with my parents and getting a Simpsons game for my ps2, and i had so much fun. I also remember playing a couple EA games like NFS: Undercover and NHL 2009 and honestly thats where it flatlined for a while after the xbox 360 came out.


Very subtle smooth criminal midi there emp.


Not just games,  movies, music everything


More relevant than ever w release of BF 2042


got to appreciate billie jean in the background lmfao


The bigger they are, the harder they fall. As entertainment becomes exceedingly more corporatized, originality and innovation tends to get lost in translation

Say what you will about Nintent do, but it's a miracle that a company that big STILL delivers high quality titles that  can be played for decades to come. (They're also currently the richest company in Japan)


22:20 same with books, movies, plays, music, etc. So many fewer exceptional acts and products. Only more to harvest from the past.


>Really good CPUs that trash talk you

XDDDDDDDDDD

That sounds like the end goal of AI tbh lmao


"Barely Promoted"
>Fortnite
Nope. That game was HEAVILY promoted, it's just the "Battle Royal" mode that's famous, that didn't get promoted. I was actually excited for Fortnite Save the World and that too, was a total disappointment.

Fortnite br had potential imo. It was a shooting game with a different and unique and fun gameplay style. Now its epics cash cow :/

@GribbleGrobbleson They had a 10 page spread in GameInformer, 2 weeks on Gamestop's little In-Store TV program and a 2 week layout on GameFAQs and Wikia. It was VERY well promoted for the time. back in 2014-ish, when Fortnite was first announced.

@Stepladder Death threats, seriously? I hate Fortnite but I would never threaten to murder someone who just plays it. I'd take their opinions with a grain of salt but not do crimes.

It was promoted for years too lmfao then abandoned for money

It was not heavily promoted though, it was promoted heavily after it blew up and got popular. Before it blew up, it was not promoted...

@That Guy Gamestop here in Chico, CA was plastered in Fortnite adverts when "Save The World" WAS Fortnite. It was a pretty big deal.

Fortnite early on had next to no promotion.  Hell, I only found out about it after a friend told me that it was basically “pubg with building.”  They only started doing massive promotional campaigns after the game took off

I just hate when I say "I like Fortnite" I would get death threats and insulted everytime and yes do l do like Fortnite and Season 4 is epic

I got access to the closed beta I think 4 years ago. I thought the game was pretty fun. And then, when the full game released, it was pretty fun. Then I got locked out of playing the game because the que for battle royals was full. Never played it since.

The only reason STW was 'disappointing" to many of us was because it was conceived and released too late, announced too early, and has 3 core flaws, the repetitive gameplay cycle and the fact the game had players was that is was associated with battle royale, doesn't help the fact had an awful implementation of micro transactions in a paid early access, slow and lacking updates. I think STW could've been a decent game if they focused on it more earlier in its life.

@Louis Crabbmarché It was originally supposed to be a $60 pay to play for the full shebang with no MTX, a mix of Borderlands meets Left 4 Dead with a basic base building system, or at least, that's what it was FIRST advertised as, and it was going to be great. Then they started talking about making it free to play so they added the loot llamas and boatloads of MTX, then it was going to be free to play when it "released properly" with the founders' pack to become a beta player which is when they added mission grinding, and then it just never released properly.

Really was man. Really repetitive game cycle, which became a chore to play.


Half Life 2 andFallout 3 - good games?!😂😂😂 Instant dislike


9:07,    and that is why you should play Due Process


You are so blinded by nostalgia. You are completely ignoring so many amazing games that came out in the 2010s. Also your complaint about online games has nothing to do wiht the game itself but wiht the community around the game. It’s not the devs fault people don’t want to go to their friends houses to play games anymore. Old game good new game bad. I’ll admit sports games are trash now and many franchises are putting out disappointing entries but that doesent mean all games are bad now and were better before.


my comments probably not gonna reach you but if you love handheld gaming a?I absolutely recommend you get a gpd XD it's fucking amazing honestly best gaming product I've ever bought and I've been gaming since the nes


WWE GAMES were the best from 2000 to 2009


As the last defender of Keiji Inafune, and as someone who actually loves Mighty Number 9 as a good game, thank you for putting in a segment about that game most people overlook. I'm not going to pretend the Kickstarter wasnt a big debacle, but I have always stated that the hype generated couldn't have been fulfilled even if the release of the game came with a free cure for AIDS and Cancer in every box.

@Melonposting Given my history with this game, and the rabid, VICIOUS criticism people hurl at it, I thought it best to be thorough because whenever I leave even the slightest detail out, people capitalize on it. I also just genuinely find the story interesting and like explaining thing (See: my channel).

@Reploid REVO You don't have to copy/paste the entire Wikipedia article, you could just say "they made promises they couldn't fulfill and the backers got screwed over because of it".

@Melonposting Some backstory on that: The WiiU CANNOT run the Unreal Engine and required MASSIVE modifications to get it working, which likely led to the WiiU crashes. Inticreates, the developers for the game, insisted on making Mighty Number 9 in Unreal Engine and assured Keiji Inafune they could make it work despite reservations. Trusting Inti, he told them to go through with it. Mighty Number 9 was their first game made in Unreal and not in their proprietary 2D engine. They wanted to branch out and basically used MN9 as their testbed.

 This is also why the handheld ports of the game never released, because the game cannot run on those systems via Unreal. An entirely new version of the game was being worked on, but was shelved indefinitely. It's also why the graphics on the final game were scaled back, as Inticreates did not know how to optimize the game properly.

This isnt the first time Inticreates made big promises and failed to deliver on them however, as when they promised an online multiplayer mode for MegaMan 10 but couldn't deliver on it, Capcom severed ties with them for undisclosed reasons and never worked with them again.

Nevertheless, Inafune and Inticreates still maintain a friendly working relationship, and is the action director on the Azure Striker Gunvolt series by Inticreates.

@Reploid REVO It was on a Wii U at launch

@Melonposting What pray tell were you running it on? If it was for PC, would you mind giving me your PC specs? I dont believe any platforms suffered from anything you're describing unless it was an underpowered computer, or the WiiU, which was fixed in an update.

I played MN9 for about an hour before it crashed my entire system and the only way to turn it off was to unplug the power cord. But it also led to its sequel/Gunvolt crossover, Mighty Gunvolt Burst, which really is a great game. So it wasn't a total loss.

@Itai Shufaro I personally donated $4,000,000 of my own money to this project  and I am sorely disappointed it did not bring my dead grandmother back from the grave. Inafune is a con-man.

Wait the game did not come with a cure to all known illnesses? Nah man disappointed 1/10 cannot believe I paid 5 usd on kickstarter for this.


ever think maybe its just people growing up and not having as much fun with  a videogame as a kid would have, so we look back when we enjoyed games more when we were a kid. Maybe it is not entirely a problem with game development, but also a problem with us, even the games you loved as a kid just aren't the same anymore.

I also think it could be playing the games they didn't like and playing what they did like.


how are they suppposed to compete with minecraft<br>lol

how are they suppposed to compete with minecraft
lol


Kh 3 was fixed with final mix<br>As was kh2

Kh 3 was fixed with final mix
As was kh2


Games are still good.

Games are still bad.

They are just not fun anymore.


This video has showed exactly why I've been wanting to get away from the internet and why I came back to Team Fortress 2 and got into Melee because I don't remember all the videos I watched yesterday whether they were positive or negative and realizing that I've been more physically active and have been spending more time with my brothers. I remember when the internet was fun now I feel that it's been preventing me from doing the things that I actually want to do.


I don’t have…

No, the only social media I partake in is the YouTube comment section.  I don’t follow the hype and I use people like Sseth, Mandalore and CV11 to find interesting games to try out.  Rimworld, Factorio, PayDay 2 and ARAMs on League are my mainstays.  I run a table top group on Sundays.

Watching this, I feel myself conflicted.  I must be under a rock for most of this.  However, I can see what you’re taking about in this.  It just wasn’t that important to me.

Neat thesis.  I enjoy these formats much more than when you plant a bunch of memes and scorched soundbites in a vid.

Oh shit, that’s Internet Historian at the end!


Before watching. I play alot of retro games too. And I don't think games are on a downward spiral.


Sounds like ya need to play some Newblood games


An interesting coda to this is the release of EA's Star Wars: Squadrons. They've specifically stated that the game will not get big updates or DLC, and as a result of them swinging the pendulum all the way back, there's a contingent of fans who want those things. The stockholm syndrome has come full circle.

Honestly, given that the game looks good, I'm not shocked. Hell, I don't play it, but I almost want to see it, or sympathize with those who do.

I think the difference with Squadrons and other games is that Squadrons was made from the start to be a complete game, and it worked as such. A lot of other games seem designed to make money, and the best way to do that is to sell parts of the game for full price and then have the users get the full game that way. It's the difference between being sold a cheeseburger and having the option to pay extra for some bacon and being sold a hamburger for full price and then being sold the cheese, bun, and condiments separately, or with some held as bonuses for buying it early before they even have the recipe or for buying it from different locations. And you never even get the option for bacon. And it also seems like the presentation is extremely good but the ingredient choices are poor.

Basically, what I'm saying is that the financial design philosophy for squadrons seems different and more 2000s-ish than most AAA games which get released today, and this different financial philosophy results in a better game where spending more to improve it even further should be seen as fine, where-as other games have a different financial design philosophy which doesn't produce a good product to rely on spending more to improve it.

@Evan Burke I'm loving it, personally, but it sounded so weird to hear that they're not planning on adding anything. Like, yes I'm glad there's no microtransactions and I'm glad the game released fully formed, but there's always room for improvement and sometimes the only way to discover that is by having the masses play the game.


6:55 Thought you were gonna say Terraria


I honestly don’t feel bad about companies bringing awareness to things. Sometimes you can’t reach people any other way. Plus, dude gamer gate was bad. Really bad. If games are escapes for women, or minorities and they’re getting harassed then it’s not an escape for everyone. Where’s the fairness of that? Just ignore it because people want to check out? No. The these things need to be called out.


This kind of sounds like it was written by someone with incredibly outdated tastes, and opinions on the modern gaming landscape. I'm one of the dislikes on this video, and here's why.

I do kind of agree that games nowadays aren't releasing with enough substance to justify a high price tag, but this was true even for older games. Part of this has to do with the decline of crunch, and the other has to do with influence from higher ups in the corporate chain/company philosophy.

Another reason these games might not meet expectations is just because the creatives, the programmers, and the talent that made the original games so great just simply aren't there anymore, or don't really have as much of a say in these games anymore.

As for the point about LAN gaming.
For me, my online friends are my entire world.  While I do agree that playing games with your friends and family is fun, I don't think online play should be dismissed, either. I am personally of the belief that online relationships can be just as impactful and meaningful as relationships in the real world.

I do like the content however, and the interesting discussions it brings to the table. Subscribed.


I would play 2000s games. who give a shit about modern games and "7th gen", as if they're any better anyways. like you said, it's all downhill from here, here actually being about 2011.


This video is mindblowing. Everything straight up hit the nail on the head perfectly.


I'm kinda surprised that the clip at 13:49 didn't get you copyright struck by Political Juice


Games were easier to develop for back largely because the console hardware was actually pretty obsolete when they were in the market. The PS2 had the most games because of its popularity AND it was easy to develop for BECAUSE it was weaker than the Xbox and GameCube. However, during the latter half of the 7th gen and all of 8th gen consoles, games were becoming harder to develop for consoles and, therefore, publishers need those games to be successful. Why would you dump millions into a game that has a 50/50 chance of failing when you could dump millions into a tried and true formula that gets you money? This is the mindset of the top executives.


Burnout 3 :) midnightclub . Those where the days


I would rather play Roblox, Minecraft, and Sims 2 and wii sports over Terraria and cities skylines if i had to choose


I think we've had this conversation for the last 15 years. In fact, you have this same argument in every media, I'm certain. People complain that there's so much crap video games, music, films, ... nowadays and it was better years ago (ignoring limitations of that time). But the real reason is that you mostly only remember the good from the past, and you experience everything now. In the future, you'll remember the good things of 2010s and hate the current stuff of 2020s when you reach the year 2030. – Note how I've said 15 years, because that's at least what I remember. This means people dislikes 2000s in favour of 1990s. It's an ongoing cycle.

Rock and roll guy here. You're spot on; I argue the same things myself with people who say "They don't make music like THAT anymore...", etc. What amounts to rock criticism/ writing anymore now is micro-chopping "genres" and "FFO"-For Fans Of; that has nothing of substance to say about the music being criticized that's out of the ever-more-granular context of things gone before. Expect that to happen with video games too.

I want no fucking microtransactions in mainstream games and no pay to play online. That used to be the norm "back in the day". Why can't we bring that back instead? If you want nostalgia, I am nostalgic about that.

@Mkilo97 eh...there is still certainly good stuff mentioned though

@busterbackster1 some things change ,some not , some gotten worse . i do like the the progrees of realisem and graphics , but in terms of mainstrem games ., like mainstrem movies ...fuck no.

@ThotSlayer your right he has points, but we can't just pretend things were perfect in the past, I'd say in some ways they are better now

@busterbackster1 honestly he still have a point nostalgia may play a roll , but some standarts i the industry , hell ! mainstrim enterteiment industry change swifftly , so no i dont disagree with him , the only titles that are ok and try sometthing new but also familier are indie title .

@Mkilo97 it is mostly nostolgia, you don't have to look far for great games now, or even alright games that you make memories with friends, there are practices from the "glory" days that were just as bad or worse as shit they do now

Sure, there is absolutely good stuff today.  But objectively, why is it that new stuff today that could be good not as mentioned as stuff in the past?  I strongly agree that looking at the past with rose tinted glasses is bad.  Hell, I’m completely against nostalgia through and through; but you have to admit, it’s NOT JUST nostalgia that makes people say today’s stuff sucks.

Ya this is what I've been trying to argue to people who say "games now are all bad" for years


Indie games are more popular than ever, and you don’t have to get games on just steam, Xbox, or PlayStation


OK Xbox is obviously better than PlayStation, PlayStation may have higher sold numbers but that’s because they sell in countries that Xbox does not.

I own both and a PC, but PC game pass single-handedly destroyed any competition.


Games have been shit since after 2013 shouldn’t have taken this long to realize that


"Everyone wants the best solution in the least amount of time, and anything less than that is considered a failure."

Damn. Like... damn.

"Everyone wants the best solution in the least amount of time, and anything less than that is considered a failure."

Damn. Like... *damn.*


11:35 I was waiting for WingsOfRedemption to show up.. I wasn't disappointed.


Why buy games?

When you can get them for free by stealing


10:38 drawn to life ISNT shovelware at all


IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT RAID SHADOW LEGENDS OH GOD


Good commentary, but the discolored Simpsons clips are off-putting. Just use the clips as they originally appeared, because the green tint is nauseating.


ironically on the part about kickstarter, I got a kickstarter ad for turbo kid

Meowstein Migchungus, The Travelling Merchant


As a future game designer I will never be greedy, stupid, and unoriginal.


i get what you mean but your definition of 'simple game' is 'solid, fun, not particularly innovative, but still nice to own and play for a couple of weeks before revisiting in a year'. <br>isn't that just nostalgia? like maybe games had to rely more on fun game mechanics than graphics back then, which is why we think of them as 'simple'. thank you just leaving my pretentious comment for the day

i get what you mean but your definition of 'simple game' is 'solid, fun, not particularly innovative, but still nice to own and play for a couple of weeks before revisiting in a year'.
isn't that just nostalgia? like maybe games had to rely more on fun game mechanics than graphics back then, which is why we think of them as 'simple'. thank you just leaving my pretentious comment for the day

MrMormon Yeah, I can remember me and my siblings with my Ipod 1 and Old ass Ipad playing Minecraft on local player.

@Alde Baran its 12 years old thats plenty of time for nostalgia

How old is Minecraft?<br>Not old enough for nostalgia to be the main factor of its success, that's for sure.

How old is Minecraft?
Not old enough for nostalgia to be the main factor of its success, that's for sure.


Your logo on the merch reminds me of paint.


Hey play guardian tales it's an actually good game. It has a really good story. Only downside is that it's a gatcha but the game is really generous with the premium currency.


Yo good content, I'm just here vibin to music in the background


That twitter Ad ninja did is something straight out of a satire with all the hashtags and promotions for al the businesses.


That little "I really wish I weren't here right now" button on wings legitimately made me crack up.


Games were better when I was younger and less cynical and not depressed


new games are psychologically designed to be addictive. they're going at that angle extremely hard. don't believe me? ask yourself why a crappy looking building game like Minecraft was incredibly addictive. why so many people played it. 100 million players? that's almost 1/3 the population of the entire US.

there's a lot more going on than meets the eye. game "design" isn't the thing anymore. it's designing game ADDICTION that gets and keeps the players. and they're better at it now than ever before.

many players =/= addictive game. minecraft isn't even the best example of this, at least when you compare games like fortnite, candy crush, just about any mobile gacha, etc


I have pretty much quit gaming because everything is online play and microtransactions. The games are no more entertaining than they were 20 years ago, maybe even less so. But they lack any soul or depth. The only thing they seek to deliver is your credit card number to the publisher.

The 2000s were that perfect middle ground between giving the player a beautiful 3D experience and asking for some more money.

For example, think about Nazi Zombies mode on COD:WAW. For the initial purchase price, you were provided a full video game with decent graphics, a great single player story, a great local multiplayer experience, and a great online experience... And all of that all over again with another game mode, Nazi Zombies. The only time you were asked to pay up is if you wanted additional content. We are talking additional levels, weapons,  items and story. The asylum level of Nazi Zombies was incredible and cost something like ten bucks. I played it for hours and hours and hours.

Now developers just tax you nonstop for the privilege of having a rare skin or a cheeky item. They feed on your impatience. Grind is built into every game from big studios.

Grinding. It's what's wrong with modern games. They all hit a point where you have to grind to hit the next level, the next powerup or the next weapon. A grind which can be removed with the purchase of a nebulous in-game currency. Your choice is grind for this thing or just pay.

I say screw that. Just make it a part of the game. That's that the 2000s was good for

As much as gaming has fallen of due to the casuals playing trash on a daily
It is still less dead than what anime has become anime is the most dead medium no substance to be found anymore
Completely dead medium both are horrible now but anime is definitly the worse


I'm profoundly happy to see you put super paper Mario in the "good games". That is so underrated and extremely fun to play

A bit sad that he put color splash there too, it's got some good dialogue


It got so much worse with Origami King... I'm not even a paper mario fan anymore because more than half are sh*t


this was honestly one of my favorite videos of yours and that’s not something i say lightly. thanks for putting my thoughts into words. you managed to explain exactly how i feel about this decade of gaming. also thanks for making fun of that “all art is political” bs. i’m tired of that stupid argument being brought up all the time.

just thank you emp. thank you for always making great content ❤


NASCAR Ignition 21 is probably the worst NASCAR game released in the last 10 years.


This holds water when back 4 bloods tried (failed) fill the shoes of left 4 dead


That is an interesting paradox <br>The internet has given us the ability to connect to millions of people but left us feeling more isolated than before

That is an interesting paradox
The internet has given us the ability to connect to millions of people but left us feeling more isolated than before

Because we quickly found out that being able to contact and connect with everyone doesn't mean you'll get anything out of doing that connection. Or that they'll want to be friends with you in the first place.

Simply playing a multi-player match doesn't mean you'll make friends.
How many people have you played with that you've never spoken to or played with ever again? We're all just faceless users at the end of the day, were not connecting on any personal level though. So there's very little reason to pursue it. We are Essentially strangers.

Literally the meaning of death stranding

To be fair, you can be lonely in a huge city, internet gives the possibilty of connecting to other peapole, but it doesn't mean it guarantees it, for me internet made me feel less isolated, when i started using it properly

Because it isn't connection, it is communication that's got better.


If by spiral you mean fell off the cliff then yea


Billy Jean 8-bit is waaaay too distracting for me to play attention


I can't believe I forgot about Klay World


Overall, I really like most of the points made in this video, but one aspect that I feel you might have left out on purpose is being able to play online games with friends that you might not be able to see in person or that you met online. With online gaming, I am able to continue playing games with my friends that you cannot physically meet up with, and that's one of the most important things for those types of multiplayer games, friend parties. But screw random matchmaking. That's nearly always toxic.

It's nice that you keep in touch with your friends outside your purview; however, the whole point of existence is to have a relationship with the people that ARE in your general vicinity.  Imagine not having the internet...how much time would you be spending with your friends outside your community? None. Now, what would you be doing instead with your time? <I'll give you a second to think about it> Exactly. And everyone around you without friends in your area would be doing the same thing...creating NEW LOCAL friends.<br>In other words: the more isolated from your REAL environment you become, the more isolated I become, the more isolated we ALL become.

It's nice that you keep in touch with your friends outside your purview; however, the whole point of existence is to have a relationship with the people that ARE in your general vicinity.  Imagine not having the internet...how much time would you be spending with your friends outside your community? None. Now, what would you be doing instead with your time? <I'll give you a second to think about it> Exactly. And everyone around you without friends in your area would be doing the same thing...creating NEW LOCAL friends.
In other words: the more isolated from your REAL environment you become, the more isolated I become, the more isolated we ALL become.


Replace super paper mario with paper mario 1 and 2, then everything else


25:54 what game was that little song clip from?  Sounded really familiar


Them chastising people for watching others play video games is quite hypocritical, considering the same could be said about.....watching people play sports. The usual argument is "Why watch what you could be playing yourself?" Yeah, why watch football when you can play it yourself?


Steam games for pc are the only last bastion of fun games.


Since you said you know no anime games let me recommend some vn’s i like

The princess the stray cat and matters of the heart
I she tell
Making lovers
Along with that please try
Melty blood: type lumina
Guilty Gear Strive
Xenoblade chronicles in general

Lucie’s Guard [8th Apostle of the Twelve]


Bro the 8bit billie jean in the background slaps to hard I can't concentrate


I remember being scolded by my mother when I used my own debit card to pay for some items in Team Fortress 2. "Why are you spending your own money on a game item? What's the point of spending money on something that isn't real?" After this video, I think she was right. The only money that should be spent is money to buy the game, Items should be given based on skill or achievements.

@Person until the game eventually dies and you lose everything you spent your money on.<br>Expensive clothes are a scam, but guess at least you still have your pants or what if the company suddenly goes under or what.

@Person until the game eventually dies and you lose everything you spent your money on.
Expensive clothes are a scam, but guess at least you still have your pants or what if the company suddenly goes under or what.

naaaahhhh, tf2 trading is another giant on its own. your mom is right and you are wrong, you feel me? no need to spend that money, but, for tf2  ITS OPTIONAL. you can enjoy the game without paying a cent. all base unlocks are unlocked through achievements and other weapons are just found as random drops which incentives trading. and thats the thing, trading. and you can craft weapons too. better than most modern monetization models.

Well the game is free and they gotta make money somehow.  It’s cosmetic also, so tf2 cosmetics are essentially the same thing as Gucci clothing or something, aka useless but people still buy it.  It’s virtual, sure, but as long as the game itself is free and the in game purchases are cosmetic only I think it’s a fine business practice.


Skate 4 will change it all… I’m lying to myself to stay happy guys let me be.


I’m sorry I have to say this opinion is wrong. Play more JRPGs if you want good games. Western games with a few exceptions have been shit for a long time.


what is that song in the beginning? <br>super smash bros. melee ,the adventure map?

what is that song in the beginning?
super smash bros. melee ,the adventure map?


In my opinion this is the funniest EmpLemon video since the copyright school series at the end of last year. I would also go on to argue that it's the best overall EmpLemon video since the Never Ever on Hungrybox. I feel like his content started to cover really niche topics and, while they were still great videos, I found it hard to rewatch them over and over like I could with the videos from 2017-2019. I'm really thrilled to see an amazing video from EmpLemon, and I can't wait to see what else we get this year.

@Green Gear once he started blaming Minecraft for the modern gaming climate I shut if off right there

I'm kind of on the other end of the table. This video seems so nostalgia pandering for 2000's era gaming. Most of his points have been done before and so I'm disappointed. Usually emp lemon produces videos looking at issues not talked about but this.. well was below standards. Nice to watch but below standards.


Tiger Woods golf during the same era as NASCAR thunder is the same way.


I had nascar thunder 06. Am I still cool? I need validation.


Idk. I love old school runescape too much to go back and play 2007 scape.


Where do I get the total trademark infringement collection??


Honestly I think that a lot of great games are being made. Especially on the switch , like Three houses and such.


doom. hollow knight. gungeon. metroid. monster hunter. shantae. dark souls. pikmin. (everything released by platinum). i can't even list the sheer volume of great games that have come out in the last 5 years.


Games nowadays are starting to feel like music. <br>There are good ones, you just have to search for them.

Games nowadays are starting to feel like music.
There are good ones, you just have to search for them.


Man now I remebered Heroes of might and magic series, fucking Ubisoft


indie games are basically the only way to get that "play it cause i want to, not cause i'll fall behind" feel


Forza Horizon 5 out there not letting gramps Nascar Thunder 04' down.


Hollow knight was neat for a kickstarter

Сэмюэль Декемпер

Its also...not a great metroidvania... IN MY OPINION. I understand why people enjoy it


Damn he really called de blob shovleware. Imma have to take a break.


Yes most games just suck today. Period. They are over padded, boring as hell, this whole open world fad needs to GO and this shoving woke bullshit needs to go as well


I think a lot of people talk about how graphics = realism. Like good graphics can be so subjective like is it just the picture quality (definitely isn't but some think so) I feel like a game like celeste which has a 16 bit art style has good graphics, because for me good graphics is something that is just good to look at or something original.

Graphics that are meant to imitate real life are doomed to become outdated and unrealistic in time. Games with graphics that aren't necessarily the most life like, but have their own artistic identity last forever. For example, Shenmue was praised as being one of the best looking games of its time now looks like dog shit, whereas a game like TF2 has a much more cartoony art style has the stood the test of time.

For me, what constitutes as good graphics is what fits the game and the themes it is trying to portray. For example, a game like Team Fortress 2 gains little from having a realistic artstyle, as it has a more wacky and off-the-wall tone, so the devs instead gave it a more cartoon-like artstyle. A game like Destiny 2, that tries for a more serious tone, benefits more from a less cartoon-like, more realistic style (at least compared to something like TF2). In the end, good looking graphics are good, but they must work in tandem with the tone/attitude of the game, otherwise it can be kinda jarring.

there's definitely a difference between good graphics and a good looking game


i swear i’m hearing like an 8bit version of toxic by britney spears at like 9:32


It almost seems like that cynicism is a defense mechanism for when games started being overhyped by game companies and in consequence disappointing their players.

And a ridicolous imprisoning mindset depriving people of being genuine


I love how U slammed Jimmy Kimmel made the video for me


Broo i was wondering why i feel so negative all the time lately but now i get why


i only play the old games. snes n64 ps1 gameboy color, those were the games i grew up playing and i guess it turned out i don't actually like videogames. i like MY videogames that i played and i don't enjoy the new ones and i don't spend money on anything besides magic arena and even that sucks now too tbh


I feel like Hype has turned into something developers should dread nowadays.
If you release a good game and it gets no hype, it'll usually end up in a better position since, while it might go under the radar, there'll always be a chance it gets big at a later time and it'll probably devellope a dedicated fanbase. Meanwhile if it gets a metric ton of hype it'll either completely blow up in the devs face due to being overhyped or it'll die down eventually and everyone forgets about it.
Of course there are cases where a game that gets hyped up a lot stays relevant, but the risks kinda outweight the positives here

Ghost of Tsushima is a good example of this. I barely heard anything about it after its initial reveal and didn't even realize it was released until a friend of mine told me. Sony kept that game kinda under the radar because it was a new ip, but I loved it and I'm glad it ended up doing as well as it did.

Yep...the Witcher series is a prime example of this. It had a small, but dedicated fanbase initially. When the 3rd game came out, and it blew up, CD Projekt Red got much deserved kudos. OFC, I hope they can keep the success coming with the 4th Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077.

I think Among Us is an excellent example


i’m only a few minutes in and i can already tell this video is going to be one of the most depressing videos i’ve ever seen… the only thing giving me hope is BOTW and Mario Odyssey


Damn, wasn’t expecting this video to hit as hard as it did. “Not every game is gonna be a masterpiece. That’s what makes each masterpiece so special.”

I’ve been cynical for a long time, cursing developers (and capitalism) for seeking profit instead of pouring heart and soul into a piece of art. But you’re right—there are still artistic masterpieces that come out every once and a while, and we should cherish them.

What a beautiful comment, we should be happy little good things continue to happen despite all this.<br>And maybe those bad games are not as bad as they seem, f*ck microtransactions always though

What a beautiful comment, we should be happy little good things continue to happen despite all this.
And maybe those bad games are not as bad as they seem, f*ck microtransactions always though


I feel like the story of Bloodstained is a perfect and complete circle representing both the creator and his creation, that being the Castlevania series and how its own spinoff revived the genre.


Companies wouldn't have massive polarizing hyped up failures if they would stop spending half the games total cost on marketing a game before it's even fully conceptualized.<br>If they make a good game, word of mouth on the internet will will be more effective than any marketing campaign could ever hope to achieve.

Companies wouldn't have massive polarizing hyped up failures if they would stop spending half the games total cost on marketing a game before it's even fully conceptualized.
If they make a good game, word of mouth on the internet will will be more effective than any marketing campaign could ever hope to achieve.


I remember my last year of elementary school, being absolutely blown away by the fact that in GTA IV people could move their fingers, such a small detail, and yet, to me it looked so mind blowing


"This is as good as it's gonna get" definitely applies to the Elder Scrolls games, which peaked with Morrowind and have gone downhill in story, creative quality, and roleplaying ever since.

Haven't played Morrowind a lot but I agree.
Gladly the Elder Scrolls Modding community has managed to create some amazing experiences using Creation Kit, Script Extender and whatever tool they can use.
The only reason I play Skyrim is because of how easy it is to mod it.


The mornings of putting the Midnight Club cd into the PS2 and playing for a couple of hours
It was an amazing feeling playing games that truly was bang for the buck
It's actually amazing how I'm feeling more alive than ever playing single player games in this day and age than anything


The last decade of gaming has been a mixed bag for me. I love the last few Resident Evil games, the last three Mortal Kombat games, and the Metro series, but a lot of rushed out, flavorless junk has been released these last 10 years too.


Memes aside but NASCAR Thunder 2004 was a killer game even for a person like me doesn’t enjoy racing games. The game had a really good soundtrack too.

Happy to see people who aren't even Nascar fans that acknowledge how great Nascar Thunder 2004 is.


Video games give different emotions and experiences and it's up to you to know what emotions and experiences you like to feel or want, don't let no one control your emotions or experiences, don't let people control how you feel but be open to new things


as a wise man stated:

"EA Sports, what a shame."


One of my favorite games is Super Monkey Ball 2.<br>It's easy to learn, hard to master, and it gets straight to the point.

One of my favorite games is Super Monkey Ball 2.
It's easy to learn, hard to master, and it gets straight to the point.


When you're most concerned with how best to piece out parts of a game to maximize profits, making a good game becomes a low priority.


Good video overall, just a bit boomer on the coop irl play segment. Even though playing in person is great and amazing, being able to consistently play with friends online is just so much better. (Not every household is functional for offline play).


I remember playing Burnout Paradise in 2011 when I was 3, the first game I've ever played along with Hot Pursuit and Undercover (I now know it was E10+ back then). I remember picking up my Mesquite and beating the hell out of my rivals. I tend to find Road Rage my most favorite back in 2011. Recently back in February of this year, I got the Remastered version for my Switch to revisit the memories, and it's been a decade ago when I played the original, and you know what they say: "Viva la Burnout!"


I mean, competitive gaming has also affected older games like Mario 64, and Smash bros Melee. Weather it’s positive or negative is up to interpretation.


All my favorite games from the 2010s were Japanese games
Dark souls, NieR, and the Yakuza games are my favorite game series ever
The only other games to compete off the top of my head are the red dead games

I thought in it some more and fallout and a few star wars games probably make the list


Y’know what’s funny about assassin’s creed though, syndicate and unity are actually pretty good games but nobody gave a shit when all the bugs got patched out.

It just confirms that people care more when a game misses the mark rather than is actually decent.

Shouldn't be released broken as shit anyway

I think it's More of the fact that releasing a half baked game Is pretty damn shitty, even if you 'eventually" fix it.


I liked the video but I don't find it convincing that games as live platforms to be the reason for the loss of B-tier games. Minecraft's success is explainable by coinciding with the upswing of consumers in the market. I think instead the studios previously doing b-tier games moved into the more lucrative mobile market in-mass to make mobile class games leaving the former devoid of developers.


Gaming is killing itself. And we as consumers have no one to blame but ourselves


14:39 another example that comes to my mind was Marvel vs Capcom infinite, sure I get the complaints the game can look ugly at times and its roster def was a downgrade but Im upset a lot of people wrote off the core gameplay which Id say its on par if not better than the last game and was the most innovative the MvC series tried to be and Capcom might get mixed signals on why it failed


VR has been an exception for me. I really love it. Generally I just ignore any big AAA game and only stick to games I know I'll like (Pavlov, Vrchat, Wreckfest)


this just made me realize I was to young to really comprehend things around me at that era of games. personally i would have loved to play games like halo and black ops2 and be hyped for new releases of zombies dlcs. and the games I play now are just the good games for the past such as bo3. nothing will ever change about this game and no new content will be released so the is not exactment in anticipation for new development because its all over. would have loved to be 13 in 2010 even if that did mean i would have to go through the hell of cod lobbys i feel that the experience would be unmatched.


When you said "name a game you've played in the same genre" referring to Yandere Sim, I immediately thought 'Hitman', not realizing that 'anime' could be considered a genre of videogame.

Yeah, anime is popular so he writes it off as an entire genre, not an art style choice


When I was younger I played the EA Nascar games and loved them all the way up until Nascar 08 just like you said in the video, and I stopped playing them. When Eutechnyx picked up the license and made their first game Nascar The Game 2011, I thought about trying it but never did. I also eventually seen Nascar Inside Line in GameStop and thought about picking it up, but didn't because both games weren't looked very fondly upon by the YouTubers I watched. They influenced me into thinking the games weren't good, so I never tried them. Well here recently after years of curiosity I finally picked up all the Eutechnyx games and honestly they really aren't that bad, infact I quite enjoy playing them. It's crazy how hearing other people's opinions about something can change the way you perceive something.


there are so many great games, its more about reaching the bare expectations than to break new grounds. we don't like many new games bcs we are set up to dislike them sadly


Such a good video! I too feel the same about gaming as a whole, not enjoying it as much as when I was a kid. nowadays I just want a new or HD Jet Set Radio Future (though Bomb Rush Cyberfunk coming out in 2022, very excited about that) A new def jam: fight for NY but with the mechanics as indepth as Tekken 7, with everymove being viable without having spamming the same 2 shitty moves or cheesing it like the Ice Climbers wobble. wishing Smash Ultimate was more like Melee, with the fast paced, precist movement and combat, new 3d mario games, a Donkey Kong Country 4 with them classic snes graphics, maybe even 32 bit if that looks cool. New Spyro 4,  cool looking ps1 graphic games. a new game like Trials Evolution, Trials Rising feels a little lack luster. Just something new, and different I don't mind.

I feel like with all these ideas and things I want at this point, in order to achieve this I need to learn game design, which is something I don't want to do lol


How the hell did you hide from me for so long, your videos are fantastic.


the last new game I bought full price was Mass effect 3 10 years ago. I have got a few newer ones when they were years old and discounted but really very few games have been worth my time let alone my money.


No, Artifact was a really bad card game. The core gameplay loop was deeply flawed and not fun. <br>The announcement didn't help the cause, but artifact still had a solid (enough) launch but players jumped ship at a very rapid pace after release.

No, Artifact was a really bad card game. The core gameplay loop was deeply flawed and not fun.
The announcement didn't help the cause, but artifact still had a solid (enough) launch but players jumped ship at a very rapid pace after release.


When i watch your videos and i actually think about what you're saying it unironically sends my mental state on a downward spiral. everythign you say is very true and it doesnt feel good


This is why speedruns are exploding. They mix (mostly) old school games, with perfectionism, people watching on the new platforms, the revival of forgotten and obscure titles, escapism and breaking old technology using modern knowledge.


18:30 I disagree with this point, there is honestly A LOT to unpack with this specific example. Especially in terms of the individual and how they've handled the project.


It’s weird, started out playing all the single player games on Nintendo consoles, single on PC, then when Xbox hit got into pvp, but getting older now I kinda find my loss in interest in pvp and going back to playing chill non pvp games, even those that are still multiplayer without pvp.


If deteriorating game design is a truck heading towards you at 60 MPH our growth, familiarity with tropes and evolved taste is us also traveling at 60MPH towards it. The failure of modern game is exaggerated by us, long time gamers who've seen it all.


I think western triple A studios are creatively bankrupt. Fortunately other segments of gaming, like japanese and indies, are in a much better state.


I think the biggest issue with modern game releases compared to older game releases is that we're not told enough nowadays. We're promised perfection, the companies convince us the product is perfect before we even buy it or know what the game is actually like to play, and we're told that we're being inconsiderate to the developers when we expect what was told to us.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a good example, a very obvious target, which is why I don't like using it as an example, but it is there. We were hyped up for years, not on our own, but through promises, celebrity deals etc etc, and of course the studio couldn't have lived up to that. A better example I like to use is Fallout 76. From prior experience, we should have known that 76 would be shit, yet there were still fanboys spending hundreds of dollars on the game before it'd even been released, off the back of promises from the studio, all the while red flags kept going up all over the place, but bethesda were completely opaque about the true state of the game, pretending it was fine and hoping people would look past the bag and cola fiascos that lead up to its release. When it released, who were the ones laughing? People who'd experienced better games than what Bethesda were offering and who'd learnt from their past titles not to listen to what they say and make their mind up post release.

Also, games like Artifact deserve the hate they got, it's irrelevant how good the game is in itself, the problem is that Valve were trying to blindside people into giving them exposure for a game they knew nobody would give a single solitary shit about if it'd had a quiet release. The problem with Artifact is not the fans, it's the developers, Valve kept us in the dark for over a decade, then decide to have Gabe himself hype up their next release. I can't help but feel like it was manufactured to be hated in order to drum up interest, or to test the waters of what the company could get away with, I am so glad it died, because if it had succeeded, we'd be in much darker times now than we currently are. The same goes for Destiny and Anthem etc.

In regards to graphics vs gameplay, I think people were arguing for better graphics because the least developed aspect of a game usually tended to be the graphical aspect, and people weren't voicing their full opinions. Like you order a burger with cheese, but it comes without cheese, then you ask for some cheese, next time the burger is exclusively cheese.

I miss the days where devs asking for pre orders was a declaration of confidence in their product, not a blatant fucking scam to sell people a product they have no idea about, like jack and his cow, except the beans aren't magic.


I think about the fall of gaming a lot
But a different reason
They say the limit is your imaganation right?
Well
How much of your imaganation can be unique? What can you make that can be different to your other ideas? Especially when you have a set of rules you have to follow.

New survival builder game? Battle royale? Fighter? Shooter? All are incredibly popular and have been made to death, its gonna be hard to stand out when you make a game of one of those genres.
Games are eventually gonna get unoriginal and boring, and we might even end up in a dark age where we have nothing to play, nothing to have fun with except finding a hobby.
Its scary because I'm completely unprepaired for it and I have no clue when it will happen.


EA really shows how patents and copyrights can ruin competition.


22:10 Yup. I've noticed that gaming is way more fun if I play...Whatever I feel like! I'm currently playing a ROM Hack of Paper Mario for the N64, a bit of CSGO with friends and occasionally some Burnout Paradise. But that's it. I used to binge WoW 24/7 but the oversaturation of games releasing, games media existing and gaming being so huge in general made me...Retreat. I do more sports, care more about being social with buddies IRL and, interestingly, this sparked me wanting to play more video games! Over-exposing oneself to the same thing again and again burns you out. As a Child, I always looked forward to the next release, same as a teenager - As I couldn't just play 24/7 and did other things. Nowadays I'm a grown ass adult and if I wanna, I can wake up, grind Stratholme for reputation for 48 hours then go to sleep like a mummy for 12 hours if I took a few days off of work.

my tip essentially: Go outside, eat a Hot Dog with a friend, catch a movie at their house, ride a bike or go jogging. Then, once you come back home, it'll be way more fun to play video games then, as it's more varied and not the status quo. Also check out mods and fan creations! There are tons of them, they're fun af as they were made BY gamers FOR gamers.


I was told 5.5 years ago that Metal Gear Solid 5 was garbage. 5 years later i felt robbed that I didn’t get enough time with this game. Single player games are too underrated.


No mention of Dark Souls whatsoever. The term Souls-like implies how much influence the series had on the decade of gaming. There's a reason you don't hear Minecraft-like, though you do hear crafting, but Minecraft wasn't the first game to have crafting while Souls had a lot of firsts (that people are constantly trying to replicate).

Imo the Souls franchise is the most influential series of the decade, with Dark Souls being the most influential game.


Late, but I would say this is mostly true but there are some huge exceptions. Mainly Nintendo and some indie games. Nintendo had a legitimate renaissance with the Switch, even though the Switch is the least powerful console on the market. They released games in old franchises that bring completely new and unique experienced while still feeling familiar. BotW and Odyssey are my favorites of their respective franchises. And games like Hollow Knight and Shovel Knight capture old school styles with polished game design and extra creativity. The Switch is also greatly supports Local Multiplayer


I agree with most of the points in this video, but the Artifact announcement was booed because the fans didn’t want DOTA: The Card Game.


I used to be the type to blame game companies and while some of that is true, I've come to realize that consumers like ourselves are a huge fucking problem. So many mindlessly fork over $60 (now $70) for half finished products and yearly updates of popular franchises. Hell, the problem with mobile gacha gaming that's seeping over to consoles are whales who spend so much money on skins/cosmetics. Microtransactions in general make way too much fucking money, and too many idiots with extra cash validate these awful design choices. We're getting the games we deserve.


Back then you got a game with: a good story, music, multiplayer, local multiplayer.<br>Now you get: either a multiplayer or a campaign (rarely both), buggy/incomplete game that requires patches or DLC to be good. Not to mention the long time between games (where is Elder scrolls 6? Or gta 6?)

Back then you got a game with: a good story, music, multiplayer, local multiplayer.
Now you get: either a multiplayer or a campaign (rarely both), buggy/incomplete game that requires patches or DLC to be good. Not to mention the long time between games (where is Elder scrolls 6? Or gta 6?)

Damn this comment section is a boomer feast


i like 2010s games but i always kept a mindset of a 2000s.<br>but in fairness one person and indie are the future of the 2000s made so good in the first place only companies fell what made them iconic in the first place

i like 2010s games but i always kept a mindset of a 2000s.
but in fairness one person and indie are the future of the 2000s made so good in the first place only companies fell what made them iconic in the first place


I feel like everyone from the early days is just buying everything new in hope it fills the void of their favorite game dying off.

For me there is a handful of games that never got the proper ending. 😪


Imagine paying 70 Dollars for an unfinished game


Even Rockstar Games fell and gave up to the money.<br>Just gonna leave that there

Even Rockstar Games fell and gave up to the money.
Just gonna leave that there

I more blame take two for Rockstars downfall. But that’s just me.


If you actually sit down and play some of the games of our childhood, you start to realize that we're letting nostalgia influence our opinions.  They're still fun, but they're not always better than what we have today.  Another problem is we're comparing new games that come out today to literally the best games of a generation.  Think of all the crappy movie games made years ago that weren't spiderman 2.  You're not comparing modern spiderman games to all the crappy ones, they're all compared to spiderman 2.  And finally, as you pointed out, games come in trends.  Even back in the day, half the games out there were just generic collectathon 3d platformers taking advantage of sm64 success.  Maybe you don't like the current trend, but that doesn't mean it will be this way forever.  Eventually the next archetype for a game will come out and it will likely be different from what we have today.


I like that you used the album cover from "Wish You Were Here". I don't know if you did it intentionally but the symbolism is spot fuc**ng on.


Midnight Club 3 (Dub Edition Remix) is the greatest street racing video game of all-time. The extremely intricate and detailed customization one has at their disposal is unmatched to this very day and it's extremely sad.


Its crazy how I can have the complete opposite mindset as someone who only plays indie games


What I do now is just see  a few youtubers that upload rarely games, and only play what really looks nice (like the Nier remake, or the new RE8) in regards to new games, and to have fun, experiment and play games from the PS2 era that I never touched. There are so, so many gems in that era that are basically unknown... TBH, regarding the end of the video, gamers kinda have forgotten that the games we adore from 2000s, did have many problems we ignored because we loved them. But now, small stuff are regarded as game breaking even if the game is amazing...


Most of the games I play are either games I've been playing for years, indie games or games that are old. I don't own many games from past like 2015.


Breath of the Wild alone would be enough for me to choose 2010s over 2000s


Great vidéo but just to make à point, I don't think video game hasn't been controversial in North America since the vidéo game crash when Atari was ruling over the gaming industry


I'm like that for DF, I WANT TO GIVE THOSE 2 MEN MONEY they deserve it for literally making one of the most complex environment sim, probably in the world of video games. All for free, until they finally release it on steam. I'm literally donating at least 5 copies worth, those 2 deserve way more though.


Giving up all 2010 games? Toontown online vastly makes up for all the bad 2010 games.


Good video but we need to criticize games, obviously the hate trains on certain ones are annoying, but someone like Dunkey makes awesome points in his dunkviews, he’s the one dude who’s opinion I will trust and respect


There's a theory to be said that we think the past was better becuase you only remember what's good (for one reason or another) and while your in the present you only see the negative.<br>    I have no evidence but it's much easier to find good games from a time period when it's over.

There's a theory to be said that we think the past was better becuase you only remember what's good (for one reason or another) and while your in the present you only see the negative.
    I have no evidence but it's much easier to find good games from a time period when it's over.


I agree, I play games to enter a new world and have fun but no, let’s ruin someone’s day by constantly killing them. And that’s why I play single player games and sea of thieves


Many of the "shovelware" games you shown are actually pretty good.

i think he just googled wii shovelware and put it on screen without looking at it too much


"peak of local gaming is DS era handhelds"<br>Someone wasn't gaming in 90s LAN parties

"peak of local gaming is DS era handhelds"
Someone wasn't gaming in 90s LAN parties


Exclusivity is the reason Star Wars games have fallen so hard compared to the 2000s. 8 years (10 years considering the full contract) of exclusivity and what does EA have to show? Two mediocre Battlefront games inferior to the originals, a decent Souls-like action/adventure game, and one flight sim that could've gone big in the Esports sector had EA and Motive not done everything in their power to leave it in the dust due to it being a $40 release with no microtransactions


Remember when it was uncool to play video games and got harassed for it? Those same people are now the ones playing video games and telling you, you're favorite game from the 2000's was sooooo good.


Question: What do gamers really want?<br>Gamers: Cheater Free games

Question: What do gamers really want?
Gamers: Cheater Free games


We've also all been "desensitized" greatly... truth about a thing like GTA is, everybody's just chasing that high they felt when they first played gta3, vice city, or no doubt San Andreas.. Then, couple that with the burning out, aging and moving on with the lives of.. ballsy game developers, who were making games they themselves wanted to play, so their 💕 went into it.. and then They got financially backed by someone who recognized the business model as a winner... They got old, moved on, and like with any profitable enterprises, the vultures, set about the gaming industry. Scavengers that have no original, boundary pushing, immersive ideas.. Everybody's attempting to do something better that someone else has already done.. Like a higher and higher definition will do the trick.. There's something becoming intrinsically sad, about gaming, like a theme park that will never be new again..


This is why I stick to single player games. I love me some Fromsoft titles

The Yakuza series are also great games. 0 and Like a Dragon are my favorites, but all of them are worth playing in order.


i think the death of the simple game is a big contribution to large popularity in games like fall guys, among us, knockout city, etc. people find these simple games that have been missing for a long time, they have their fun with it for a good while, and once people move on, they look back and call the games dead. its a toxic way of thinking that makes it discouraging for these simple games to even try to exist


The push for hyper realistic graphics is a plague. I will take a stylized game over a realistic game any day as the stylized game ages much better and is significantly more pleasing to look at. It also separates itself from other games that just fade into the background of uncanny valley nightmares

@Shelltoe Soul ya I'd say you're right. The odd thing is I'm surprised a larger amount of people don't look back at 'realistic games' from even a few years ago and realise that that style of graphical design will age very poorly. Its my opinion that the very best looking games don't try to look real at all

@MrApollo11 yeah I think thats just because those kind of games sell hardware unlike more stylized and less hardware-intensive experiences. You have the advertising budgets of video game industry titans seeking to demonstrate why their game looks better, why they push the limits of some new console past the previous boundaries, and the natural way to achieve that is thru photo-realism. How else can you adequately show the maximum limits of a system? we dont really have an alternative as of yet, and most people are just mindless sheep who pretty much play whatever content creators and their friends are playing so the perception that more real = better game is gonna take a long time to get out of some people's heads, because its been so doggedly pushed by every major publisher in the industry.

@Shelltoe Soul oh no I'm not saying they aren't being made, I think if anything they're more prevalent then ever because of indie game devs. What I'm saying is that the dominate industry and consumer base is pushing for more hyper realistic looking games

Stylized game experiences still exist, they are just primarily in the indie space. Just look at Lethal League Blaze and the upcoming Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.

THANK YOU <br>Those are exactly my sentimonies

THANK YOU
Those are exactly my sentimonies


Minecraft: the younger more respected brother<br>Roblox: the just as well known brother but less respected due to some shady actions

Minecraft: the younger more respected brother
Roblox: the just as well known brother but less respected due to some shady actions


Talks about re-doing everything over and over

Forza: we, actually you got us


Is it sad that i own an xbox series x... top of the line pcrig... and im currently playing my PS1... you know games with solid story lines and no glitches to deal with!


Yes cant we get a game that doesn't take up a quarter of my computer storage

every game must have 5 copies of 4k bee movie

No, because we need to see every individual pore on this character’s face. /s


emplemon needs more views instead if these other commentary channels who add no substance to their topics


I dislike the sentiment that we should just accept average (probably pay to win) card games from studios with amazing high quality games in their backkatalog. When my favourite band announces they will stop putting effort into writing music and just start covering what ever is in the charts right now because it will get them the same stream numbers I'm gonna be upset, because I like that band for their artistic vision and execution and it's not my job to accept everything on the bases that it's good for their buisness and other bands also perform average music with less effort.


I don't think competitive game modes don't ruin the games BUT seeing the top level players make people think that EVERYONE (especially in team games) has to play exactly like the pros or else omg you ruined everything. Even though the top level players don't even come close to the same way as most people and what is top for pros is not top for everyone else.


Play video games all my life and I ain't never became addicted to video games until I started playing Apex Legends and fortnite I never had a game make my heart pound out my chest when you're in a top 3 situation. And at the same time when you lose it feels like somebody stepped on your puppy in front of you or something like your whole world's over. And makes you so coated that I find myself standing up for hours


The pick of sad Hbox sulking in the chair over the new generation of reboots is great lmaoo


My man, my boy, Emps... please don't tell me you actually classified Ghostbusters for the Wii as shovelware.


Feels almost prophetic considering few things have changed in a year, if not gotten worse   The next gen UE will make shovelware even easier to churn out, but still look pretty in a demo, just like music creation software, you don't have to learn anything in depth, the tools take care of it all.


And for some reason, companies think gamers want movies in a videogame format
I cam her to play a game, shoot zombies, travel through a different world different to my own, have fun
Not watch whats essentially a 8 hour long movie with a cookie-cutter plot about revenge or racism (from a guy who’s homophobic and sexist) and why its bad while the only keys I can press as  W, A, S, D and X, or if the devs feel spicy, maybe the space bar every once in a while


So the internet is the problem? Seems like every problem was directly or tangently related to the internet; The hype, the over saturation, knowing about it to early, the professional gamers, the online-multiplayer, the political-ization of everything etc. The internet for all it's blessings really is a curse sometimes.


The Knox’s Korner reference had me glued in.


From the thing you showed a lot of good games came out in 2011


Roblox was at peak in 2017, when lots of small companies that made things where you can make other small things started shutting down and roblox was the only place where you could find the "making not for something or because something, just chill making thingy" alot of small companies shutting down, flash dead, games became just the same thing that worked over and over. Slowly the fun of making and the fun of exploring and just looking at different designs just went away as 2010's went, and, roblox, a place with lots of unexperienced youtubers just making videos. It was just video just the video and not just..... it was silly, just that, humble.... and yeah..... it seemed so. Just, lots of weird unfinished broken games with some just cool thing going for them. It was good while it lasted, until it became build a huge game community of zombies or you're bad simulator and everything went off.


EmpLemon:<br>Our favourite phrase is "downward spiral".

EmpLemon:
Our favourite phrase is "downward spiral".


Yeah, but Roblox is a game from 2004.<br>I'm not talking about minecraft releasing in 2009 beacause back then it was unplayable.

Yeah, but Roblox is a game from 2004.
I'm not talking about minecraft releasing in 2009 beacause back then it was unplayable.


"This elitist gatekeeping was nowhere near as prevalent in the past... Nobody really cared what video games you played for fun."

holy shit bro what planet do you live on

@Julian Bell There were probably shitty people back then but not as extremist and not as much. social media usually polarizes people a lot. For example: Since I’ve left Twitter, many of my political opinions have calmed down. That doesn’t mean there’s something inherently wrong with being far in any political spectrum but we often treat opinions more as communities rather than a way to think.<br>We start treating people as irrational beings just based on a few paragraphs we read online. I’m not free of charge of doing so but I’ve tried to engage in arguments far less in recent years.

@Julian Bell There were probably shitty people back then but not as extremist and not as much. social media usually polarizes people a lot. For example: Since I’ve left Twitter, many of my political opinions have calmed down. That doesn’t mean there’s something inherently wrong with being far in any political spectrum but we often treat opinions more as communities rather than a way to think.
We start treating people as irrational beings just based on a few paragraphs we read online. I’m not free of charge of doing so but I’ve tried to engage in arguments far less in recent years.

I’ll be honest, I can’t remember a single time I’ve been insulted as a kid for liking a video game. The more I grew up, the more It happened to me.

@Julian Bell Exactly. It's just easier to come across. Back then you actually had to find it.

@Julian Bell that's a really good point.

Pre social media it was all different.  That type of judgment and gate keeping was limited to gaming publications and the people that you personally knew in your life.  Now, with Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, etc, all you see is a giant barrage of criticisms and opinions regarding every game that exists.  Yeah, people were still shitty before, but the shittiness is amplified with social media

It’s called not being a corporate lap hound and seeing problems

There were a few arguments about what should be played here and there, but seriously, it got WAYYYY worse


19:26 is when i realized why Nintendo made the new super Mario series


Cyberpunk was the greatest game of 2020 ( yakuza like a dragon coming in second )


I would go back to the 2000s for club penguin.


14:09 Have you seen the price of it tho? People do have the right to ridicule this overpriced product


You know what? Screw it, I don't care about the world's problems. I didn't care about them when the video dropped and I still don't nine months later. If that makes me an awful person then so be it.


I seriously enjoyed this video. If I had to change anything, it would be the conclusion, it was a bit fast. Either way, great video and amazing advertising lol


Its funny how you go on a 5 minute mini rant about SJW culture in video games but you completely missed the real reasons why corporations do this to their games. The reason corporations play the SJW card is not because they want historically oppressed minorities in America to feel culturally valued, its because they are playing the google ad algorithm. By inserting a bunch of silly political stunts in your game 3 months before release, you can begin advertising your game with more tags. Tags like "female protag, black protag, lgbtq etc.". Ironically, capitalism is the reason for these silly "woke" distractions from game immersion. 4/10, too much water and not enough salt


They should just remake NASCAR Thunder 2003. I'll even take a remasterer


ive literaly only watched 1 video of sackboy a big adventure witch was ign first 10 minutes, and im just waiting to get a ps5 to play it without spoilers and i hope i dont get burned out


I remember those claymations. And his dubs of the matrix.

Is it klops or something like that


My friend tried to get me into league of legends and I played 3 rounds and got called a retard 16 times


I mean my favorite games all came out in early 2010s and wii sports


why are most of emp's video's really good, but he has such bad video game takes?


the mobile game expectation has dropped from hill racer to shit-you-play-for-5-minutes-because-of-some-shit-ad-that-only-4-year-olds-click-then-never-touch-ever-again level


They more or less skipped the spiral and went into freefall. People will defend the worst games like their lives depend on it, born consumers aren't going to change anything.