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Nowadays with social media it's kinda hard not to have any expectation for a game. For example I was not interested in Elden Ring but its success made me try it. The problem is that after hearing times and times again that Elden Ring was the greatest thing Humanity has ever produced, I was expecting to at least enjoy it. I did not and started to think there was something wrong with me, that made the experience even more frustrating.

In the first hour of the video you make mention of the view that you take in coming in the proper entrance of Braithwaite manor. This place is almost certainly modeled after a place called Oak Alley Plantation which is a short drive outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, which is where Saint Denis is modeled after. The first time I ever visited New Orleans, it was very obvious to me how good of a job that the Rockstar team did recreating the city. IRL there are many places in the city where the architecture is still old and looks visually familiar to how it is in the game. Some of the buildings in the game are 1 to 1 recreations of landmark buildings in the city. Google Oak Alley Plantation, the lead up the main drive with the trees on both sides, the main design of the home are identical. It really gives you an appreciation for the level of work that Rockstar did with this game.

I don't really agree with the FPS comment at the end, everyone's limits to a games technical performance are subjective. Lower frame counts feel too jarring for me personally. Of course that is no reason to shit on the game, but I definitely believe it is a valid reason to not want to experience it. Thankfully it's not much of an issue nowadays, but im unsure of how the console performance has worked in the last two generations. I feel the same way with FOV in games where it is restricted, sometimes it makes me feel motion sick/uneasy. The game might be great but I just can't get into it.

Bioware games from around the 2010s were next level immersion for me, Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins transported me into space/fantasy world with interesting worlds, companions that I would choose build relationships with them. Worlds/planets that all had their own problem and they were bleak and every decision you didn't feel black or white. It was all about perspective and how you would handle the decisions. They were really ahead of their time back then!!!

I think microtransactions have a place in gaming, but that place is definitely not every single AAA game. I can forgive an indie or AA company who doesn't have a corporation or investors behind them

Most open-world games prioritize size over quality, I'm tired of open-world games with the same quest type repeated infinitely, fetch quests or kill a number of enemies isn't interesting. I wanna be lost in a world and discover interesting characters or items on my own, without the devs pointing me to them, I would rather have less content that is meaningful than a lot of copy paste content

I agree - but also disagree. Now the following statement is from someone who's favorite game is Rogue, followed by Black Flag. I love Origins' story, and Bayek as a character. However, I cannot stand the combat. Stealth is quite good, but my God, the combat is horrendous. I hate RPG, "attack, attack, dodge, repeat" combat. I also think it's goofy to hit an enemy forty or fifty times and they're still attacking me. My real issue with Odyssey. It did what Origins did but butchered it mercilessly. The game has the WORST acting in the franchise. Kassandra is a boring and corny protagonist, and Alexios is just slightly more tolerable. The combat is practically the same, but stealth was taken to a whole new level where only completely trash players enjoy it. There is almost no reason to ever play stealth and there were no real stealth gadgets. The story is probably one of the weakest stories the series. Valhalla, well, mostly the same complaints, however, it's not quite as bad, except it's too long.

Game'rs have proven time and again that they will OverPAY (even scalpers prices) for Games and Hardware. So don't expect reasonable pricing on either any time soon. Games aren't dying, their prices just Smell Like It!

you need to have a horse bond level greater than 1 to get the scene where arthur talks to his horse

No fun over competing is rathit

Yes it's microshitaction

Great video, keep up the good work!

For me, it was subnautica. I have thalassophobia. That strange fear of the deep combined with actually experiencing it in the game created an experience that was so emotionally beautiful and enriching

Life is Strange. It feels like the events of this game happened to me personally, they shook me to my core. I genuinely grieved certain characters and almost 10 years later, simply singing the soundtrack in my head still makes me cry.

Capitalism is the problem.

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The reason open world games are boring are for the same reason you never want to smoke again after your dad catches you and makes you smoke the entire pack until you puke. It's like that story in Exodus when God sends a flock of pigeons to feed the Jews for turning their noses up at the mana. We're being given meat until it comes out our noses. It goes too far. It winds up being too much for anyone to handle. It distracts from the main plot, and makes you forget what you came here to do. I've always thought I wanted that, only to realize how much I hate it, in the end. Games should provide just enough side content to make the player feel that sense of agency, but should eventually force the player back on track in order to progress any further. One of the better games at this was the Metro series. In that game, the main plot is the journey, and not the destination. The plot is what keeps you moving from place to place, but then lets you explore just enough to learn about what this world is about, and what you're actually fighting for. Or, to help you understand the evil you're supposed to be fighting against. It does try to carry a message, but avoids forcing it onto the player. You're allowed to be good, or less than good. In the end, you learn more about yourself, and why this game is a bit prophetic. In fact, it could seriously make you rethink your life. That's quite an accomplishment. On the other hand, I've never even come close to finishing an Elder Scrolls game, because I always get so side-tracked that I completely forget the main plot. Usually, their main plot sucks, anyways. Oh, not another messianic save the world superhero quest. Puh-lease! That has been done to death, already. It's too unrealistic, and overly idealized. I simply can't relate or find myself empathizing with the situation or characters. At some point, I become so powerful and bored that I start to want to become evil, and just kill everybody. A game should never make you feel bored and want to turn on the people you're supposed to save. That's quite a failure on the part of the writers and game designers. Another problem is the fact that the world just becomes a walking sim if you're allowed to go literally anywhere. The plot should be about the journey. It should get you from place to place, but then also motivate you to continue on. The side content should merely add to the story, and deepen your connection to the world. When the world becomes the game, it's gone too far. You're going to get bored quick, because everything will just become a chore. This holds true in the real world. The best experiences are the ones which take you places, and allow you enough freedom to not only take in the sights, but to meet the locals and form relationships with the people and sample their culture. However, at some point you have to get back on the boat, and get to the next stop. It should feel like a tour, and not a destination. For anybody who has been on a really long vacation to only one place, they often complain that they got bored after the first week, and regret spending two weeks. On the other hand, when those weeks are spent on a tour, and they are going from place to place it never gets boring, and they always feel like they wish they could've stayed longer. Game designers need to build their games with this in mind. It's the same reason why Las Vegas is popular, and Reno sucks. Las Vegas is like a river cruise with an asphault river. You can sail up and down the strip, island hopping the different casinos. And, that journey is often more exciting than any of those destinations. It's the reason island hopping cruises, and river boat tours are more fun than a long stay at a resort. People enjoy a jouney more than a destination. It's the same reason why the best urbex channels on CZcams are the ones which focus more on the journey than the destination. At the end of the day, the stay gets stale quickly. So, a game should feel more like island hopping, and less like trying to take advantage of everything a massive resort has to offer. You should walk away with unanswered questions, a sense of incompleteness, and a burning hunger for more. It should force you onwards before you're entirely ready. There need to be restrictions, and limitations. There needs to be a time limit, and something forcing you back on schedule, like a cruise ship that is going to depart with or without you. There should be consequences for doddling too long. The best way to accomplish this, is to make the companions you're with get upset and threaten to leave you. Just like in real life, if you refuse to leave the casino when your friends are ready to go, you just might get left behind and find yourself stranded. Open world games should permit you to fail the main quest if you don't complete what needs to be done in the allotted time. Evil takes over, and the world takes a dive for the worse. People turn hostile and refuse to sell to you. Everybody now hates you. Your friends won't respond to your texts. Life in that world is no longer pleasant. That can be enough to motivate you to get on with things. Personally, I avoid games which boast about their open world. I know that's going to turn into a grind after a week or two, and I'll never finish it. If I can get it cheap, and just enjoy adventuring around without the expectation of beating it, then I might pick it up. Otherwise, I'm going to prefer games which don't force me to smoke the entire pack all at once. I want the tour; not the lifestyle. It should feel like a vacation; not a career. That way I can peel myself away to play your other games, too. That means more money for you. It's a win win. Get a clue.

For me it’s Elden ring, my first souls game and i shared it with my wife, it was an unforgettable experience for sure

Gaming addiction is a problem because developers highjack the human psyche. Games are not bad in themselves, but developers who abuse human psychology to encourage addiction to their games are the problem.

I found you through this video and man its a good one. There havent been that many games that have impacted me but the two games that have impacted me by far the most are NieR Replicant and NieR Automata. These games are just that good, the relateable and loveable cast, the engaging story, the humor, the way HOW its story is told, the soundtrack and especially the true endings of both games I just cant stop thinking about them almost 2 year after I finished them. Definetly subscribed to you because that video alone shows me how much passion you have for your videos and games.

I can't fully agree about the world of The Witcher 3 feeling as if it is running without the player. In fact, the NPCs that stand around everywhere felt especially lifeless to me, just like cardboard cutouts spouting the same line over and over again. That made the world feel rather empty, hollow and fake to me, when I wasn't in a cut scene or some scripted event.

Elden ring is prob the best open world game

I seem to be very unlucky when it comes to my taste in games. I hear so much good stuff about RDR2, but I'm just not really into "cowboy stuff", especially not cowboy stuff in a swamp. If the game would at least take place in the Wild West, the Arizona desert or California, I would be more drawn to it. It isn't just that though. It seems there is something that keeps me from wanting to try every unanimously praised great game in recent years. I would love to play a huge, well made fantasy RPG and I hear everyone swoon over Baldur's Gate 3, but I just hate party based RPGs. I don't want to be some swarm intelligence hovering over a group of characters. What I want from an RPG is to immerse myself into a single character, be that character and then use this character's strengths and weaknesses to interact with the game world. Using a whole group of characters like tools in a tool box breaks immersion and totally ruins what a RPG is all about to me. I want a real ROLE PLAYING GAME when I play a RPG, not a RTS disguised as a RPG. It seems people think those two genres mix well together, like peanut butter and chocolate or something, but to me they don't because each genre's key attributes dilute and ruin the other one's. I also didn't like it the other way around back in the day, when I first played Warcraft 3. I wanted to play a RTS and the RPG elements they mixed in there (with all that focus on hero characters and rushing around the map to get them upgraded) just annoyed me and diminished the RTS gameplay I was looking for.

praising the intro of skyrim when an alternate start mod is one of the most popular ones out there + taking control away from the player is one of the hottest takes ive heard in a while

RDR2 is the greatest game ever made. Witcher 3 is great.. but every last thing about RDR2 is better. Every last thing.

Reading books might be able to create self awareness and solve my problems that can't be explained in words 😢

Bioshock Infinite, AC4 Black Flag, The Witcher 3, The Last of Us, Uncharted 4, Final Fantasy X, Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2), Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear Solid 4 are some of my most memorable games.

Well done! You might enjoy the Mass Effect Trilogy if you never tried it.

No man it's not dying, believe you me. We are just getting started and there ain't stopping us now no matter what!

Born in 2002??? *croaks*

27:20 Yes, but today the games are 60-70% done. Nowadays you need all the DLC to reach 90% done. I wish we had 95% developed games from release.

Blatant cash grabs killed the fun for a big part. For me it is.

AC Valhalla is awesome.

Dead before 2025

I’m prolly older than many of you so I’d like to mention some of the classic Sid Meier titles like Civ and Pirates.. Also, while I was a casual rpg fan previously playing Suikoden for the first time somewhere around a decade ago made me more hardcore.. I then found my current favorite series Trails.. However playing so many hours of it kinda burnt me out a bit so I’m now deviating a bit dabbling in many different genres & devs.. Most recently the two fairly recent VanillaWare titles in 13 Sentinels & Unicorn Overlord

you have literally copied hotelnovemebers video that he made wtf

I got ac2 when I was a kid and the Xbox 360 came out, I could never know what I was doing when I played it but when I got older and finally completed the game, it felt like reliving what I felt for that game when I was a kid

Theres never been more games available to play. TF are you talking about?

Played through It Takes Two with my 16yo daughter and we both had a blast but we bonded more over our mutual hate for the main characters and joked about how the parents seemed like they were on some drug fueled trip as their weird child pottered about the house.

skyrim is just the greatest game of all time, i can't explain it but there's no game i would rather play again for the first time

It’s ded. You’re beating a ded horse. Like dsp

Great vid !!

I feel people who think gaming is dying aren’t playing many games, they’re only playing the big multiplayer AAA games and not noticing some more different types of series like JRPGs or survival horror

I'm hoping the reason Sony have been so silent regarding their first party games for so long is because they are only going to show the games when they're ready to ensure they release complete and do everything they're promised to do.

The main problem with multiplayer gaming these days is its become a second job. People have lives outside of video games. People have jobs, IRL friends, families to take care of. Focusing on grinding some video game takes so much out of your life these days. Devs intentionally make timegated tedious grinds in order to encourge people to pay microtransactions to progress faster. Multiplayer games like deep rock galactic where you just simply join and chill with friends are a rare site now. And imo pay to progress faster is paying to win since you do get a time advantage over other players. In terms of competitive games content creators populating the META is what ruined those which cause many communities to become hostile towards new players.

Oh man if only he knew what was going to happen a month later.

Gaming isn't dieing. It's changing.

I love walking around doing nothing in RDR2, but seemingly find it difficult and boring when I'm actually out and about. I love how Alan Wake 2 can turn an uncomfortable feeling of anxiety into a "bring it on, motherfuckers". I love how games like The Witcher 3 or Telltale's The Walking Dead makes me relish the significance of choice and initiative, whilst in real life I'm afraid of doing so. When things don't go my way in Elden Ring, I don't get pissed off, I just know I need to learn more, that I haven't figured it out yet. I hate guitar practice, but improving my Pokémon makes me wanna keep improving them. In real life, I find myself being insecure and judgmental, but in games I'm able to appreciate and understand the nuances of people and their lives. To me, the games we enjoy the most reflects certain aspects of ourselves. Art is a tool for growth and self-realization. It can teach us something about ourselves and the world around us. It has this incredible way of expressing the beauty of our existence, and the importance of our experiences. It seems to be able to talk us in ways only our hearts can understand. If a game draws me in, it means I have lessons to learn.

I agree, expecting all games to be 60 FPS is absurd! There's no excuse for it being that sluggish, that's the lowest common denominator that LCD screens dragged us down to. Aiming for a mere 60 Hz means that the slightest performance hitch will drop the framerate, to well below what the cheapest monitor can display. A responsible developer would aim to get at least 90 FPS on the minimum hardware specifications, at minimum graphics settings. That way there's room to absorb any unforeseen slowdowns, without cutting into the displayed framerate on entry-level hardware. Now, if you want to crank up the graphics beyond the lowest settings, you'd need better hardware to maintain the baseline minimum FPS. That's fine, it's to be expected: if you have more GPU capacity, you can turn on antialiasing without dropping below 120 FPS. But no matter what, there's no excuse for having only 60 FPS at native resolution and minimum settings. That would be the mark of a shoddy game, and anything approaching 30 Hz is unplayable.