Modern Gaming.
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
- Exaggerated, but still impassioned.
Modern Gaming isn't fun, it's an obligation. It's a dystopic hellscape bastardizing the things we once found enjoyable about video games, and this video is a cathartic take on exactly why that feeling of resentment towards this new wave of entertainment exists within a lot of people who grew up gaming in the 70's, 80's, 90's, or early 2000's.
This is a comedic video essay on the state of modern gaming. Strap in. it's not going to agree with you.
I leave out some context occasionally for the sake of the joke. It's ok, everything is fine. Please don't be upset.
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Shout out to the Biggest Problem In the Universe podcast. Lots of funny bantz on that show. Sampled them during the bit where Sony and Nintendo call me to bitch me out: biggestproblem.show
00:00 - Intro
01:41 - AAA Games Hate you
03:35 - You keep buying it
04:09 - Matchmaking is dumb now
06:20 - It takes the latter half of your adolescent years for Call of Duty to install
06:40 - Remasters
08:42 - Nintendo and Sony should support their back catalog
10:24 - All Playstation games are C-tier AMC dramas
11:58 - New original IPs are literally just Biomutant 5.5/10
13:05 - Ubisoft
15:13 - Far Cry 1,000,000,000
16:18 - Valve, where are you?
19:51 - EA squandered the EA Sports BIG brand
23:26 - Not enough easy to pick up, easy to master games
25:05 - Every Indie game is a color-blocked low-poly roguelike.
25:18 - All games are still made for PS2
26:07 - Digital sales are complete trash
27:06 - I don't like Discord
27:36 - Gaming is now a job
28:11 - Final thoughts
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I just wanted to say that I'm absolutely floored that people are connecting with this video. This was a pure passion project. I have a good job, but this was (as I described to my friends) a labor of hate. It took me a year believe it or not. Not working full time on it obviously, but the idea percolated for like half a year, script took months, audio was cut and edited before I cut it to any video and that took 2 months, and the video took around 2 months to cut together. I will try and make more videos. I have a couple of ideas. I'm cutting together an update video to shed light on the making of this video and the direction of the channel.
I am inflammatory. It's OK if you disagree with me! This video was just supposed to have the vibe of a psychotic rant I'd have with my closest friends who were sick of me refusing to shut up about this subject. I'm not the authority on what you enjoy.
Hey man if anything you had some absolutely good and great points, so I will definitely try and have some engagement with y’all if possible.
Also loved your video brother keep it up
Was well worth it, the heart and passion that you put into the video really shows. Funny shit!
Deep Rock Galactic is the best horde game, fight me.
The internet murdered gaming in cold blood.
Hey bro, just wanted to say, I have the portal songs downloaded on my phone, you ain't the only one with good taste.
I miss being able to unlock everything in a game by simply playing.
the 2000s good times for gamers
You can thank 10 year olds with an Internet connection and their parents credit card for that.
Now we get to unlock things by simply paying 🙃🫠
@@Tethloach1 fr lmao you used to avoid hayabusa players in halo 3 because they have the skill to potentially ruin your day...now its literally just kids with money...no skill..just money...sad...and btw i teabag in everygame that has a stupid emote system because its way more insulting to dip your balls in the mouth of a dead player than to do a stupid ass trending dance on their corpse
@@DumFuk343-jm4dhfr tho, unfortunately you could get banned in some newer games for that 🙄
This is the exact kind of rant I've never had the energy to properly formulate.
Exactly
The problem is it's still a rant. There is a lot of great games, indie part are bigger and better than ever, you should just avoid the worst part for targeted audience if you're not ready to face those problems and that's it. Every time I'm starting to think that modern gaming is dead and it's not fun for me anymore, I'm taking a break for a week without gaming, then some cool indie game, boomer shooter, remake/remaster or even completely new game are getting released and I'm diving in it just to spend dozens of hours, staying overnight, in pure joy, just like in my teenage years on PS1-PS2 and classic PC games. And I still have so many carefully picked never played masterpiece games in my Steam library, so I probably shouldn't care at all about "modern gaming" problems for the rest of my life.
Americans need to realize Halo wasnt popular in world except usa
He need to stop putting that trash game into the video
Same too much bong resin and hops floatin around in my melon.
staring at your steam library full of games, wanting to play but not finding anything "fun" is a painful feeling
It's all become about money, even more than before. You get that by having kids buy things online, and having DEI to get investors interested. Then, people will respond with "games haven't gotten worse! look at X and X game or these indie games!" and it's such a lame excuse. No one ever said there aren't good games anymore, but the bad is heavily outweighing the good way more than it used to.
Right
This is why Indie games are the color in the dark landscape for us right now. There are tons of great games you haven't played, you just have to look for them. Take the Paperhead demo and Grimhook for example, both are awesome.
@@abcdefg5459 I think it's healthy to be an optimist. Even if tons of games have monetization, they can still be fun in ways regardless. I agree that there's definitely been a downgrade overall on the commercial side though. Good things is, you don't have to be a slave to it.
this^
"Fuck you, grind for cat ears" is hilarious. Because the example shown in the video can't be obtained by grinding. It was only available by using real money!
this felt like a 6 hour video condensed into a 30 minute video rollercoaster of broken dreams and disappointment
i love it
same
we need 2 hours of ranting on why modern gaming makes my pc wet and squishy and easy to die installing many files can cause my pc is broken
this feels like saving time watching oppenheimer for 30 minutes on cinemasins and it was boring as hell except the explosion scene was totally a goosebump moment since watching goosebumps movie on some dvd stores back in the late 2010s bullshit
This man woke up and chose violence but I’m sure the older gamers feel him 100%
IKR? And get this i'm an older gamer and i 100% feel his pain with modern games here.
Egh, he spits a lot of truth particularly about 90% of AAA games these days, but there is plenty of good sh*t from indie studios. Sadly it is also a serious chore trying to find the gems in the mountain of chaff, but at least they are there and don't end up costing you over $100 bucks once you include a little DLC and a season pass or two. God help you if you ever get suckered into pay-to-win microtransactions or gacha.
I'll say its less about age and more about mentality. So many people my age think im a hater just because I expect a game to be fun and worth my money instead of shovelings out AAA prices for half baked, uninspired pos
@@lusoza saying "omg cringe as hell" is a cringe in and of itself.
the guy is an older dude and he plays games. Instead of writing "Older person that plays video games" he just says "older gamer" because it's easier to write and understand. idk why that creates a reaction in u, but we dont wanna type essays. shorthand is a thing
Yeah, I feel him 100%. Absolute tripe like Starfield makes me never want to try another western AAA game ever again.
Speaking of modern gamers, they inarguably are spoiled, living in heated houses, with electricity. In ancient times, as one might call the 1980s, modems were running with charcoal, and gamers had to fight off sabretooths just to reach the floppy disk. They actually used a living mouse, clicking on their ears. And a rub on the little rodent's head replaced the modern mouse.
They had in in the first half not gonna lie
you had me in the first half.
Lmao rubbing the mouse
@@EveyrtttThe second half is also accurate.
Even as someone who lived through that era, congrats on making me legitimately jealous I don't have a nice furry mouse's head to rub.
7:56 “The most patient fanbase”
Tf2 fans:
We almost got that 64 bit executable update let's fucking goooooo
Which tf2 though?
You mean the fanbase full of toxics like WAMO, Zesty, Venusian Rapist, and Mechawreck?
That game is dead, only people that stay are creeps, pedos, groomers, and the desperate 20 that remember the good old days and are perpetually high on member berry flavored copium.
@@rich7739team fortress I’m guessing
@@rich7739 Yes
The most significant reason why modern gaming sucks is it's becoming more and more like any other business sector in the entertainment industry in that it's more focused on profit than fun.
passion pushed aside for profit
@@doctoronishispsychosislab1474 Indeed.
…and THE MESSAGE!
@@vladtheimpaler9118 Sadly that is true.
The old way of doing things was to make a good game, hope it sells tons of copies at launch and that was how you profited. If you wanted more money, you made more games.
Companies realized that was too much effort for too little profit spread too far out. Selling a good game every few years isn't the same as a constant stream of income from a live service game that's got battle passes and mini dlc that's easier to develop than most of the old tripple A games.
I wouldn't have as much of a problem with current games if those increases in profit actually translated to better games but it hasn't. The games make Companies more money than ever, and they almost all feel lazy and rushed.
Also the digital marketplace was supposed to improve our experience. Games were supposed to be cheaper because no physical disc's, Companies would also make more money because now if you bought a game 10 years after release that money would still go to the company that made it, and not a reseller like game stop.
But that also hadn't happened. It just deleted the used games market and the convenience of disc's. But we still pay the same price, and the companies make more profit, for far longer, on lazily made products.
Outstanding work.
Are you actually shitting me, loop daddy? What is going on?!?!?
Girl's Club been real quiet since modern gaming perished
Yeah, this was just nuts.
I just enjou re playing The sims, Diddy Kong Racing, Mario Party 1, old pokemon games.
Because these games makes me feel as happy as a child.
Today's games made confution to me as why I dont get the fun as earlier days.
@@selfdeficientwhy don't ppl ever give from software a shout out lol. They got shit down and never disappoint or do dumb battle passes micro transactions or anything and the games work. Love the video but I feel for FS. They deserve love even from ppl who don't like their games cause they do it right.
Daaaym the real Loop Daddy. Thats some Well deserved Attention right there.
As a game designer this video was absolute catharsis! Thought it was just me going insane, like I just forgot how to enjoy new games, but all of this breakdown hits the nail exactly on the head.
Same dude, same 😂
Holy shit sun tzu makes gaming 😂
Game companies literally pay people to astroturf and manipulate everyone into thinking it's their fault for not enjoying their shitty incomplete games
what do you mean enjoy new games ? They're not fun.
Sure there's a few gems like System Shock, but even that is a remake!! Why bother even trying new games when they all feel like jobs, and like dreary unsubtle political commentary.
@@solmariuce5303 And your life feels in complete dystopian
The kazoo sound so effectively and accurately defines the industry now.
Or the fart reverb
Unlockable #19: constant hackers on every single game resulting in companies tracking all your personal info to ensure you aren’t a bot
I don't basically bother playing any game that requires a system or kernel access
That's just an excuse they use they would track you to sell the data regardless.
Only for them to sell that data to tencent, while having an anti cheat just good enough to ban hackers every now and then but easy enough for them to bypass, so they can make extra money off of the new accounts they’ll buy.
lol.. to ensure you aren't a bot.. oh how naive.
NUMBER 20: THE RISE OF TOXIC GAMING FANBASES MAKE ME WANNA SHOVE A TOXIC VAT UP MY A--
I think the main issue of gaming right now is stagnancy, AAA Corps want to do nothing but generate money and feel like the current setup is perfectly suited for that. In the 1990s and 2000s, everyone was expanding in every direction possible to see what would work and that just isn't necessary for them anymore.
There's always going to be good games coming out and this slump may very well change some day, but I do share your frustration.
That's a great point! We were spoiled with creativity once upon a time.
The Dreamcast should have been called the Fever Dreamcast. There were some batshit insane things going on on that console. Some worked, like the online capabilities and boundary-pushing Shenmue, some didn't work, like Seaman and the Sega Bass Fishing rod peripheral, some were cool and innovative and we wonder why they never came back, like Crazy Taxi and the idea of a detachable visual memory unit, and some were cool and innovative but didn't even really make sense at the time, like the controller cable coming out of the bottom.
Anything was possible with the Dreamcast. They made Sonic work in 3D, they gave us Phantasy Star Online, they gave away stacks of Chu Chu Rocket for free at your local game shop. Space Channel 5 was a thing, for some reason. And then developers worked out that Metropolis Street Racer was cool, but Gran Turismo sold more, so all racing games became GT. And Powerstone was cool, but Tekken sold more so all fighting games became Tekken. And all shooters tended towards Quake, and all RPGs tended towards Final Fantasy, and all puzzle games tended towards the clearance bin.
Credit to Nintendo for still experimenting. The DS was innovative, the Wii was innovative, but even they don't really get out from their Mario, Zelda, Pokémon safe zone all that much any more. The paths are all well-trodden and deviance from them isn't encouraged. We've hit peak genericism.
I think the only way to renew the video game industry long-term is to let a new crisis happen, like a stock crash that happened back in 1983. It may hurt badly in the short term, like the liquidation of AAA companies, leaving legacy franchises at risk of dying off for good, but in the long run? It will be remade anew as indies with fresh talent and ideas become the leading forefront of the industry.
That and consumer issue of modern gaming, since most players lack attention span.
Theres only 4 genres of games made today.
in retros and indies we trust
Amen
God damn bro, that Jeremy bit hit uncomfortably close to home.
Find some new games man. They are out there
Also get more exercise and find a counselor
@@Vometbombsilence
The breaking bad and better call saul binge watch kinda spooked me lol
I'm actually impressed he doesn't touch the "half-solved puzzles and every character won't shut up's problem" of many single player games.
My favorite puzzles are "find the door code"... oh it's pinned to the wall.... next to the door (5 Gamerscore Find the Door Code)
This honestly. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely *love* the RE4 Remake, solid 9/10 for me. But the """puzzles""" are easier than the stuff they put in doctor's offices for kids to play with.
I'm Now Playing Immortals Fenyx Rising And By Far It Has The Best Puzzle Ideas in A Video Game That I've Ever Played .. Also Kena Bridge of Spirit Was Good In Terms of Complexing Puzzle :)
My favorite is Aloy in horizon forbidden west telling you the solution to a puzzle the moment u step into the room. Like shut up b**** I've not even looked around yet.
Or every game having a wiki, or every game has to be completed and has to have a meta, or speedrunning, or streamers, or permanently online devs putting their garbage takes into games AND social media as if anybody asked them.
Definitely deserves more views on how funny and impressive the video was
How is shouting loudly and talking like a redditor or a schizoid on /v/ funny to you?
Truthful as well. It is crazy how low the bar has been set.
The algorithm is picking it up, i found it in my feed and I have not seen this channel before ever
He made it sound like a dystopian future in the present 😂
@@jjcoola998and soon youll see this guy with 500k subs, normal youtube rise if he keeps it up
I haven't been complaining at all about modern gaming for a decade. It's been blissful. They're fun, cheap, no DRMs, no cinematics or QTEs, take minutes to install...
Oh wait... I've only been playing indie games. :)
Modern gaming is Millenials clustered around the trash can fire that is the classics trying to keep themselves warm until the fire inevitability burns out.
this guy is on the edge of insanity for the entire 28 minutes and I love him for it
Anybody who really knows what's going on and what's coming is almost going insane. Myself included. Everything is so garbage. The future is renting everything and it's all designed to break and become obsolete and owning nothing will be normal.
@@ErinBunny24thank you. Somebody finally said it. Worst part is that we’ll all be so disassociated from physical reality (that place where the grass is at for us gamers) that we’ll feel that it’s normal.
@@Bodehi_The_Archivistyou don’t have to just accept the new status quo. You can always pursue passions outside of the internet and surround yourself with like minded people who aren’t terminally online or hollow materialists. I also say this as someone from the Midwest who doesn’t live in a major city.
He's been there for over a decade... All us Millenials remember when c-list releases were better than any triple A release in the last 10 years...
@@SeekerOfSalvation93 problem is the practice is now spreading into other industries now with cars having subscription for heated seats and other features housing prices so astronomically high you are basically forced to pay rent forever or live in the middle of nowhere. proprietary parts on everything so you always have to return to the dealer to get shit fixed even the farmers have to deal with this shit.
I remember when I didnt have to do 10 hours of research before buying a game
Ikr
Or dozens of hours researching, installing mods to fix whatever broken (new) game you actually want to play.
@@_C.J. Bethesda moment
>when you have to spend more time researching than the runtime of the game
@@yolosky2467i had to download fallout new vegas killer on my pc,a mod that terminate the game bc thank to windows 11(i known,i known) the game was crashing every 2 seconds and black screen to death due to that putrid windows, god give me back my xbox 360 that i had to unlock with a screwdriver bc the cd player wouldn't come out to place disc on it,fun times bring me back to boot and play🤤
This man's chaotic energy is unhinged.. Subscribed.
Reminds me so much of Egoraptor's Sequelitis videos. Gotta love it. Fantastic job on the editing and rant.
"It's the best time to be a gamer" no, it's the best time to be a game publisher.
Even that is not good anymore given recent events, lmao
gamergate saw to the end of that
At the end of the day, gamergate has proven to be a sharp decline for the USA in particular. @simunator
this is a really high quality video for your subs
Bro is youtube critic
It’s not about numbers, it’s the talent, 💯
It’s always the small channels that are the best
@@Blank55600 no one asked.
How are you going to know when his next one comes out if you refuse to sub?
You can yell into a void all you want but we're here because of smooth brain gamers who fall for it everytime
Calling all gamers who like modern games stupid is an L take
@@lukethelegend9705
Why? Though from experience extremely few AAA games are worth your time.
@@austinreed7343blanket statements are very rarely true. It’s the same with the game debate. None of it is objective, and none of it has any effect on intelligence. Personally I’m of the opinion that both indie and triple A games kinda suck now, but there’s still quite a bit of great things on both sides. Let people have opinions, and stop getting mad when you can’t change them.
@@lukethelegend9705 That's a great sentiment and all, but the reality is he's right. The only reason these companies get away with being as greedy as they are is because you keep telling them it's OK by buying their trash. That's not an opinion, it's a fact borne out by the numbers.
@@nopenope2550 no, the reason they get away with it is because people enjoy them and you can’t do shit about that. That absolutely is an opinion, disguised as a fact. Shut the hell up.
C-tier AMC dramas, ive never felt so understood in my life
i'm 30 years old, i've been playing games heavily since i was 12. now is the perfect time in my life to give it up, and the state of the industry has made that very easy.
💯
There’s always older games to go back to
@@Userxxx840you càn only replay, reread or rewatch something so many times before you're finally sick of it or just craving something different
When physical sales end them I'm pulling the cord. There are thousands of retro games that i have not played, plus collecting them is kind of cool.
I agree. Also 30 here, but there’s still gems that are worth playing. Elden Ring comes to mind and I’ve been having a blast with modded Terraria
first time this has felt like old youtube in years, maybe its me growing up but god damn this sort of quality while prioritizing jokes over adhd editing without recycling jokes from a tiktok feed is so fucking refreshing yet nostalgic, thanks for this
This is fucking facts so many original jokes man. The vodka piece had me dying.
2016 was the best year of youtube. Everyone is so soft / walk on eggshells at times.
Fr lol
Honestly hearing unapologetic cuss words and substituting stupid with retarded and generally being as politically incorrect as possible with a breath of fresh air. The content filtering and the "youtube don't ban me pwease" when you say something vaguely controversial are so tired and not funny anymore
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How about y’all stop complaining about the bottom of the barrel games that come out ? OF COURSE the most popular stuff isn’t always gonna be great. Look at music for example, you might not like what’s on the radio because the popular stuff is the stuff that usually tries to cater to everybody, but you wouldn’t say “ohh the sad state of modern music”. Same thing for movies or books. Popular ≠ good. Modern gaming doesn’t suck, YOU need to find the stuff you like. Of course call of duty is gonna get stale after 10 years! Indie games are made with heart and passion but nobody wants to support it because it’s not the bottom of the barrel shit you gamers love to complain about.
What's wrong with matchmaking in games ? Whats wrong with playing people close to your skill level ?
I love the new wave of game reviewers that ACTUALLY CARE AND ARE FUNNY
Check out youngdefiant gaming is dead video. Also the only people who thinks gaming is alive and well are modern gamers.
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@@Onepieceistheworstfuckinganimegaming is only really dead if you're just looking at cod and fifa. But now we have Sonic Superstars, Elden Ring, Mario Wonder, Pizza Tower, Starfield, Tears Of The Kingdom, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Spider-Man 2, AC Mirage, Payday 3, MK1, Armored Core 6, Pikmin 4, Dead Island 2. Which all are actual peak gaming.
Gaming isn't dead. People are just saying that because they refuse to play other games without comparisons or hell. Even refusing to play other games just for the sake of "they're different."
@@PeppinSpaghett.this... yes totally agree
also because most people only play games to shut their goddamn brain off, that makes them to not understand the game mechanics n lead them to get bored quickly n left the new game n comeback to his/her lame-ass game, or they play other games just because they saw youtuber play it or a random sale announced
He's not a reviewer.
"Gaming is not fun, it's an obligation." This hit hard.
"this thing made me feel a specific way, like no other thing ever made me feel (when I was 7) and now my only purpose in life is continue consuming every game I get advertised, chasing the same feeling I had when I was in middle school and failing every time not noticing that it wasn't the game, it was the time"
Gamers are cancer.
It's all become about money, even more than before. You get that by having kids buy things online, and having DEI to get investors interested. Then, people will respond with "games haven't gotten worse! look at X and X game or these indie games!" and it's such a lame excuse. No one ever said there aren't good games anymore, but the bad is heavily outweighing the good way more than it used to.
My heart
@@lasarousi”wanting fun games is cancer” weird take, but you’re probably a sub 😂
@@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow name checks out
From the very start this gave off Sequelitis Arin Hansen rant vibes, and I loved every minute of it. Everything you said was absolutely true.
Also holy shit you have the Back to the future TellTale game too? Fuck yeah!
Ive been slowly coming to terms with my favorite passtime being dead. Breaks my heart
The way he ended the video “its a transparent memory of something that was exciting, its cynical, its the opposite of fun.. its over” followed by the silence. That hits home. Anyone that grew up playing games before the modern gaming era hopes and wishes to find that magic they once had with gaming, but as much as we want it back, we all know deep down that it truly is indeed, over.
im 28 been gaming forever and fuck man this is such a bitter pill to swallow
Time to grow up chump!
Yeah, those final seconds where brutal. Also, laughed way to hard at the indie games shit because I am trying to learn how to do exactly that kind of game lol
At this point should we just soft quit gaming and pick up new hobbies in life ?
Eh I just play old games recently. Halo: CE (with the shitty "remastered" graphics turned off) and a few mods to spice up it's still as fun as I rememember.... sometimes more so 4k TV @ 60fps is a nice upgrade, again fuck those new textures/models that look like a fan mod but everything else about it is just as fun and sometimes better than it used to be with AI companions that are useful lol
And then emulation for 360 and PS3 are FINALLY starting to come along, Red Dead Redemption and Zombies is just as fun as it was back in the day, especially if you have a fast enough computer to play at high resolution/framerate (anything above 1080p/60fps is good with me I ain't picky, but damn 60+fps AND 4k aged damn good!)
After playing @640p 18-30fps depending on the action (PS3 was my main console) for sooooo many years..... Now it feels like a new game. Emulate the 360 version if your GPU can handle it!!! PS3 version is fun but god damn it has not aged well compared to it's Xbox counterpart. Maybe the switch emulator will be working in a few months for slower systems.... would be nice to play RDR (especially Undead Nightmare) on my phone.
Still wish there were more NEW games to actually look forward to but I am doing OK for now.... At least for single player. no idea what to play multiplayer but I am sick of the E-Sport tryhard mentality many of those games possess.
"gaming is NOT FUN, it's an OBLIGATION" - *could not have said it better myself!!*
@@nickc1425Yeah I haven’t bought a newly released game in years, I just play the old valve games on PC
@@nickc1425while Nintendo isn't free from a lot of these modern issues, they do put out games that are generally fun to play.
Agreed
i think thats what we call an addiction
Legend has it that there's a long forgotten method of "not caring about multiplayer bottomless pits"
i love how the only mention of team fortress was the "hat economy game".
It was a fun game, but they really did overdo it with the hats.
You no longer play the game, the game plays you. Modern gamers are nothing but data points that help the company to make more addictive and soulless cash grabs.
Nintendo games, bg3 are exceptions but the greed is truly disgusting
This video spoke to my very soul. This is exactly why I'm so huge on emulation and older PC games. The funniest thing is that I'm now playing games I've never ever played before and so have no nostalgia for, and yet, those games are still better.
I'm in the same bout. My PC is way too weak for new games, and I can't afford a new one in this economy, so I'm playing older to very old games. I am having more fun than I ever had with modern games in the past 10 years. This industry is really regressing.
@@independentthought3390 Absolutely true. People like to say "it's just your nostalgia speaking", but as I said, and now you corroborated, that has nothing to do with anything. Old games are simply more fun.
It's wild how fun it is to download a new Sega/Nintendo game and having a fucking blast. For free. With no bugs or purchases involved
This is why I bought my Steam Deck. To emulate old games
I love old PC game, honestly. Even with low performance laptop, I can atleast emulate or play old valve game which run at 30 fps, if it works it works.
I've never had somebody describe how accurately I feel about the state of video games right now. Theres the odf gem, sure, but I find myself playing games over 15 years old more and more these days.
This because of one simple fact, you are old.
dude this year alone has had more great games then most people will play what the fuck are you talking about,
Baldurs Gate 3, Street Fighter 6, Tears of the Kingdom, Final Fantasy 16, Hi-Fi Rush, Pikman 4, Dredge, Starfield, Pizza tower, Octopath traveler 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Casset Beasts, Remnant 2, Blasphemous 2, Resident Evil 4, Armored core 6, and more. but hur dur da madurhn state of vidya games.
Because they were made with care and passion, and actually to have fun.
@@joedatius at least half of what you've listed is 100% pure crap. Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4 to name the biggest turds.
Eh, there's still good stuff. Final Fantasy XIV (Endwalker), Judgment/Lost Judgment and Street Fighter 6 are nothing to sneeze at.
Indie games are the only games for me atm
“Ffffuck you grind for cat ears” had me dead lmao
this video feels like it was made 10 years ago, in the absolute best ways possible. absolutely hilarious and a serious breath of fresh air.
sometimes it‘s nice to be remembered what the internet/youtube used to be like…
It feels like a rags video, in a bad way
@@jugftw4868who
I'm little bit cooler then u so to me it feels like it was made 12 years ago
@@--___--dyou must be 11
Its like all my thoughts about gaming for years have been funneled and condensed into 1 video. It was so satisfying
I've been gaming since the 90s and it's only been getting better, especially since about 2020, one year better than the next. I don't know why I have this experience when so many others don't. No I don't play live services, buy micro transactions, battle passes etc. there are games without these, new AAA games, you just gotta look for them.
Maybe it's the genres I play? Mostly RPGs and there have been a ton of them, more than I can ever keep up with. Just in 2023 there's been Fire Emblem Engage, Hogwarts Legacy, Wo Long Fallen Dynasty, Zelda ToTK, Lords of the Fallen, Lies of P, Starfield, Baldur's Gate 3, IMO these range from ok to one cracking my top 5 all time list. 2022 had a similar amount of games (like Elden Ring and Xenoblade 3 Woohoo!) as did 2021 (Monster Hunter Rise and Metroid Dread woo hoo!) and 2020 (Ghosts of Tsushima and Cyberpunk 2077 woo hoo- uh eventually!). 2024 has kicked off with Palworld and Dragon's Dogma 2 and Black Myth Wukong coming soon.
If you read this far, good luck, I hope you find games that make you happy.
Been a gamer since I played mario on my brother's nintendo 64 as a child. I turned 27 last year. Game releases were always such and excitement for me. Now it's just not the same. Have been really strongly considering selling my consoles and quitting. I just don't enjoy it enough to justify the time it takes up now, and I'd consider myself a casual gamer.
I never pay full price for digital games. I wait for 70% or more discounts before I buy, because I know I won’t have it forever.
Interestingly, the only games worth buying physical these days are horror games. Dead Space Remake, RE2 and 4 remake, RE 7 and 8, all great games that work out of the case without need for any updates to run.
I hope to god this generation of gaming doesn't get somehow worse than it already is and that we recover from this in the next year or so, it totally won't end with paying 10 bucks for every gigabyte you install of a game that everyone agrees is complete and utter shit!
We aren’t recovering in the next year 😂. We’re very lucky if triple A gaming ever does come back at all. Indie is the future
There are still like... 2 good AAA companies. But Indie games clearly at least try making good new games.@@NicEeEe843
It's things like this that make me not really mind being poor and can only afford Xbox 360, at least the games are dirt cheap and I know they're finished on release
Well gamers keep buying the trash, and so long as they do, the market isn't changing.
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205Yep some also defended the crappy practices
I play Factorio, Oxygen not Included, Supreme Commander Forget Alliance Forever and Stellaris. Awesome games get updated all the time with added content and are really addictive.
I've just realised that's why I'm obsessed with vr, as it captures the feeling of early days of gaming where every thing was fresh and new.
There's just nothing quite like hearing a great rant that is 100% justified. This video is amazing.
Damn fucking right 😂 Everything in this video this guy said was 100% right. And this is why i will always play PS2 until the day i die.
@@unchi1999 thats just sad tbh
@@SordidusFellatioWhatever you say dude and plus i even see shitloads of comments who say they play PS2 and yet you don't say that to someone else but to me. God why do people think i'm suspicious all the time 🤦♂️
@@SordidusFellatio And plus they like my comment like crazy so you can't deny that so ha ha
@@SordidusFellatio I think you're the one that's sad IMO
The last point hit the closest to home, about it feeling like a job. Grinding endlessly for those few moments where it might possibly make the game enjoyable
Play nintendo games! They are the best and can do no wrong
the minute he said job it was a true it really do be like that moment frfr
@@kinesslop651 well nintendo games are for the most part kid stuff games, so it gets really boring really fast
Why a play a game that makes you grind when plenty of new indie games come out every year
@@bobhill-ol7wp well the best games of all time are all AAA games so indie games can be good but never on the highest level of quality
Executives and activists ruined gaming
Edit: after going through the video, Holy crap your point about Son's exclusives feeling like playable TV shows is way too accurate. This new god of war felt all great and shiny when it came out, but I recently replayed god of war 3 and there's a night and day difference in the amount of fun I had. No constant yapping from atreus, no weird camera angle, actual gameplay instead of hours of custscenes.
Baldur's Gate 3 is definitely the exception to many of these. Especially about creativity, innovation, and quality.
Only because they aren't public, that's the fundamental issue in gaming and entertainment
Cringe dating sim for fucking nerds
This video was euphoric. Perfectly summarises what's wrong with the current state of the industry delivered with genuine frustration, not fake reaction video rage. Subscribed right after watching.
You wanna know what I realized you don’t have to do anything that this guy says like you could just boot up your PC or console and just play games that you think are fun you don’t have to play online games to have fun Single player games are pretty fun, and you could just have a small Library of games you don’t need to buy all the latest games you just need to buy games that look fun to you and if they’re not that’s OK you can delete them and play the ones that you do enjoy☺️
You just grew old. You literally sound like the boomers complaining about the good old times.
Kids today would look at Among Us/Fortnight/Minecraft the same way you look at Zelda games.
@@forte609 why do you think I’m complaining? I’m just trying to be nice damn
@@Robot_Mouseps he was talking to the guy you replied to
@@Daniel-om4ce oh sorry
This video is amazing and I’m glad it was dropped in my recommended. To be fair, indie studios are still trying to keep the industry alive, but most AAA studios are too busy bathing in shmeckles to worry about anything but a bottom line
Uhhh.... I think you meant "shekels" unless...
yeah, like all those porn games and early access games on steam are keeping the industry alive...lol. indie devs are just as bad as AAA devs; for every one good indie game theres MOUNTAINS of shovelware.
@@nikoc8968You generalizing every indie dev with that. That barely makes up any of the good games they make.
@@Swifto_Sweeper 99% of all independent game software IS literally unplayable garbage. every year, if you count 100 masterpieces to decent level indie games, you'll also see upwards of 13.000 + horrible games nobody plays. thats the statistical reality of game development (and thats only on steam btw, the numbers seem worse on the Play store). its too easy to make somthing that "Plays" in a 3d or 2d environment, with the rise of Unity and Unreal, so the standart for quality dropped immensely. thats not to say there aren't fantastic indie games by small teams or even solo made and released every year, is just that sometimes those get buried by the sea of trash released every year, and may take longer to be found, if at all.
@@dfghj241 There're already more known indie masterpieces that you can play in your entire life. If you don't want to search garbage can for gems that's already been done for you, there're hundreds of articles like "top 20 indie games in that particular genre/year e.t.c"
nintendo still makes real games, and actually make DLC after the game comes out if it even has DLC.
Nintendo still charges full price for rereleased titles from 20 years ago onto a shitty subscription service that barely runs on the only system it functions on, while scalping prices for their hardware & gimmicks that they forget about & never learn from their mistakes because they work off a stagnant Japanese culture mindset in a country that's going to collapse from a birthing crisis because their work culture is crushing their spirit. Nintendo doesn't make "real games" more so than any other company, BotW stil had all the same garbage & nonsense in it that Ubisoft games does with lighting up maps & towers & collecting crafting materials with weapons that break every 5 minutes.
Nintendo gets a pass because their branding makes people think they're a family friendly corporation when they would(& have) sued people dying of cancer for getting Mario themed stuff in the hopsital.
@IAmTheBugInsideYou
I'll always pay for quality. Most games make you pay for the game and nickel and dime you with micro transactions which cost more.
@@channelofstuff6662 BotW had tons of bugs on launch & TotK barely runs on the Switch oftentimes. The last 3 sets of Pokemon games were nonfunctional, the games never go on sale & you pay full price even years after the fact, the DLC they sold for the Pokemon games added onto the base lacking experience.
For DLC for other games, it's nonexistent unless you're talking about how bad Splatoon has gotten over the years, or Xenoblade 2/3 which are the few times when they're decent. A handful of 8/10 games locked onto their hardware if you don't pirate it, doesn't justify their shitty business practices & subpar UI & hardware.
@@IAmTheBugInsideYou
I have BOTW on wiiu & switch and both run fine. you have games across the board that run horrible and gamesrun like trash if they even work.
bottom line is nintendo quality is far above the rest. even the companies you think are better say nintendo is that.
i have a new pc build for nothing , i get bored so fast, sometimes within 10 min.
Great time to go and buy some classics that you've never had the chance to experience. I played portal 1 VERY LATE in life.
A satirical video essay that is somehow true and not at the same time. I love it
He gets it!
@@selfdeficientOh, it was a joke! That explains all the comments here- _they completely missed the point._
Fuck that. Everything he said was unfortunately very true
@@exoticshoe1524 I mean you can very much tell that this is an emotional rant, which I mean fair enough, the whole situation is very frustrating but by staying level-headed and doing some research you can learn a lot about the state of gaming as a business. Everything from the fans to the big companies to even development teams are messed up.
@@LordGecko9291which is why it's true? Are you uh ok bud? Denial much
That's why recently I've been delving more and more into indie games, preferably developed by one or few people. I honestly feel better spending a few bucks on an indie game, knowing it goes to truly passionate people. And some games (like Starsector or Project Zomboid) truly put mediocre AAA games to shame, with how much depth and polish they have
100% agreed, don't starve together, Stardew valley, battle brothers, the long dark, small studios / small developers make creative content still.
and even when a game like project zomboid gets boring there are always mods (that are easy to download) to make things interesting
There are still great AAAs and horrible As (indies) tho, don't simplify it that much
@@BLET_55artem55 true but more often than not indie games will have more effort put into it and a better overall experience (the good ones at least) despite having a much smaller budget and team
Haha wtf I read the first half of this before clicking read more and I wanted to mention PZ but you already did. Such a great, innovative game. I just wish they had more devs to release faster. I’ve been waiting for NPCs forever
Finally someone points out how a lot of indie games are. We have the best technology ever for making games and models and indie devs sit around making color-blocked low poly PS1-esque games. I don't get the nostalgia of those honestly, I get looking at old games and feeling inspired by the ideas behind them but I've never went "boy howdy I miss having terrible graphics where a face was 4 different flesh tones placed in a matter that kind of looks like a face if I'm really drunk and my astigmatism is kicking in". When I say I want a game inspired by Blue Stinger, Deep Fear, Galerians, Parasite Eve, Carrier, or Martian Gothic I don't want the graphics to match the source material.
The writing here is actually really well done, quality work man
I play a good amount of stuff from the late 90s/early 2000s (Halo CE, Quake, WipEout/BallisticNG, Unreal) and it's insane how advanced a lot of those older games were for their time. So much creativity and content for players, all at a cheaper price without any microtransactions or fluff. They are fun for the sake of fun and don't make the player actively hate the experience.
I’m more of a RPG and strategy player-that same time frame gave us Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, Total War, Command and Conquer, Morrowind…all these titles pushed the genre forward and set new standards in one way or another.
In the current age, gameplay is continually simplified to the point of casualness and the only “new” features are claims of better graphics (usually meaning uncanny valley and poor optimization).
This is just another reason BG3 is GOAT/miniature giant space hamster.
Aw man WipEout was the shit back in the day.
When the video store was dying / dead was the best time to play video games.
You could rent games, dirt cheap, for up to seven days or something like that, and it became a ritual because it is cheaper than buying expensive games.
Post-2008 when like wow is really popping off in the MMO genre had millions on every f****** game, I think that we had the best you know until like VR gets really good, or some other gimmick I can't foresee.
@@warlordofbritanniathank you, because I was about to say that games like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, etc. are some of the most rewardingly complex games I’ve ever played, and they are literally older than me.
Also, fuck yeah Morrowind is my favorite world space ever. And the lore behind Resdain and the Chimer?👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
dude i love WipEout
I feel like this is one of the most comprehensive and entertaining videos on the state of the game industry today.
You can hear the voice performance get better over the video. Your delivery and timing reminds me a lot of Egoraptor's performance in his sequilitis videos. I mean it fully as a compliment, as some people can get a little weird about him.
Honestly since this video was recorded over the course of months, it's very possible. Next video I recorded in like 2 days and I think it's much more consistent.
It sucks that gaming is being looked at more and more as a business than being a fun experience. Companies are looking to make the most amount of profit they can instead making the best game they can. They don’t care if that takes corner cutting or crunching or releasing an unfinished game if it’s to make profit.
Dude I always wondered why as a kid it seemed so easy to rent a game and complete good portions of it over a couple of weekends. Always felt off when as an adult I realized I would *not* be able to do that w/ nowaday's games.
Cause like you said, games today are just so massive and big, thinking they're full of content....when really it's just bloated with filler.
Yeah, and they're also really buggy because of how much more complexity is in modern game dev. Its true a lot of them are released too early, but the complexity still plays a role in how buggy they can be. More moving parts means more things can go wrong, Oblivion for example was cutting-edge back in the day but was ridiculously buggy as a result.
@@Shmandalfit's a Creation Engine game, all that interactivity and detail came with its gremlins.
@@Shmandalf Yet there was nothing wrong with the jank and funny engines of the past, just added charm to the game.
One of my biggest pet peeves is the shear size of the games when you install and update. And you barely don't really see any difference outer than the battle pass
It’s mostly graphics, (high res textures, standard necessity to support 1080p, and often higher) and audio (a lot of AAA have full voice acting and high quality music), which isn’t easy to compress without losing quality.
File size optimization isn’t really a priority and I couldn’t care less. Storage is one of the cheapest things one can upgrade, and most large games are either MMO/PvP games, which I don’t have time to grind more than one or two of, or singleplayer story/action that I just uninstall if I’m not actively playing.
The real issue is the money and dev time saved by not optimizing file size is rarely put to good use.
@@xdress1746 True
@@idreamofdragonso5677 No that isn't true. People cant tell the difference between 64kb/s and 256kb/s sound but it is 4x the size and graphics wise a 100gb game and a 10gb game doesn't really have that much of a visual difference.
Right? Look at that game "RIOT: Civil Unrest"
Requires a $600 minimum spec PC to even run, is 12 GB, but looks like it should function on a SEGA Genesis.
This is such an American issue. If we had actual first world internet speeds, this would be an inconvenience and not a day long bullshit Fest. Game size isn’t going down, not until file storage is revamped or a new innovation comes along… but if I actually got the 500mbps I pay for and not the 30 - 50 I actually get on a good day, I could have downloaded BG3 in minutes.
Cyberpunk was only popular because of the anime. In other words, Cyberpunk 2077 is just a modern version of an LJN game.
this is ride to hell retribution but set in 2077 with all A.I robots and annoying music that gives me an headache. SO GET AWAY ANOTHER WAY TO FEEL aaaahhhh SHUT THE FUCK UP.
This video made my depression depressed
Rain World is a perfect example of how you can make a really good game that is enjoyable and has a complex ecosystem without cinematic gameplay and just simple pixels.
Honestly i noticed that most games that i actually enjoyed playing a lot didn't focus on realistic graphics and instead used a cartoony or pixel style.
This video was mostly made regarding AAA games. We can remain in bliss with our indie masterpieces.
Another rain world player!
Gfx should never be the priority. The best games in my 35 yrs of gaming were not pretty. Graphics are a bonus at most.
yes! the games i enjoyed the most didn't had the best graphics in the world and they were far more interesting
graphics shouldn't be the priority in games and should be done and polished at the end when they know everything else works@@kosmique
Wow. As a 40 year old who has been gaming most of my life this is too real. The technology and talent is there to create almost anything and just like the film industry modern day results are bland and unengaging. I have been playing starfield and in 20 hours that uneasy feeling has sunk in. Its a unfocused, repetitive mess. 😢
Damn I was excited for Starfield - got board quickly
42 here. Back than, I used to just play Demos. There was always a Demo to play from a new game and you could check on the latest tech in gaming and how it runs too.
Today it's just, if they got you they got you. The only product, if something is wrong with it, you stay on your own .
@@memoli801demos should be a standard for any new game as you can experience it yourself instead of believing a sellout in social media who’s brainwashing you to buy a bad product. That’s why I pirate games and give zero F* about it
With music as a hobby, the best work I did, with sense, with emotion, a beginning and an end, was when I had to improvise and get creative due to lack of equipment and high quality, advanced stuff.
dumped 120hrs in and finished main+faction quests. good stuff but just… not enough? no… not memorable? no. it just aint the same these days……
I swear to god I just rewatch this anytime a new game comes out I've been waiting for...
Sometimes i am thankfull that i dont have a top notch pc, and can experience small to medium size games that are more durable and enjoyable.
That was like a orgasmn of hate. years of build up tension and energy releasing in one, forceful and cathartic eruption. nice.
the epitome of impotent nerd rage
It's amazing to me how often I express these exact sentiments to people my age (on the verge of 40 years old) and get CRUCIFIED while "2023 was actually a great year for games!" is crammed down my throat. I've been playing games since I was 4 years old, but now the writing is on the wall that most games are largely not for me anymore and it REALLY sucks to be aged out of your most cherished hobby. If you think 2023 was a great year for games, please know you sound like someone who has been starving for the last 3 years and someone finally threw you a cracker.
Hahahaha yeah. I couldnt come up with a better analogy than this.
That’s why they’re saying it dude… because there’s been some mid ass years for gaming lately. Even then it depends where you look, there’s a lot of fantastic indie games out there, even ones that aren’t rogue-likes, but those are for sure in at the moment.
I have this exact same problem. All I want to play is mission based linear games like Tomb Raider or Ratchet & Clank or Crash Bandicoot or Bulletstorm etc but those aren't made that often anymore. I even stopped upgrading my PC because there's no point. I got myself a PS5 and I'll buy a few games like those that come out a year and I'm done.
Well I'm 29 years old & feel the same. I miss the time when a good game meant good story & creative gameplay, not how many polygons it has. quality & creativity diminished when greed took over.
feel the same way its like everyone has capitalist brain worms.
3:00 bro you nailed the stewie sound😂
You used to do challenges and achievements to unlock cool stuff and skins.
Now you just buy everything..
The whole “looking through your steam library trying to decide what to play” hit me hard. I’ve been doing that for the past 2 months. I ended up replaying (ironically) the remakes for Mafia 1, 2, and 3. Someone save me, I’m dying inside.
Play old games with mods. Dawn of war (2004) was an amazing rts at the time and had a solid player base and mod community. It still does. DoW unification came out in 2018 with new maps, skins, music, voice acting, campaign, factions, units, balancing, game modes, ui, loading screens and a lot of other stuff. For free. Also in 2004 out came UT 2004. arena combat with no player stats, no battle passes and no after purchase monetization (all on the disk). Lots of fun if you never played it. (also has great mods).
It's all become about money, even more than before. You get that by having kids buy things online, and having DEI to get investors interested. Then, people will respond with "games haven't gotten worse! look at X and X game or these indie games!" and it's such a lame excuse. No one ever said there aren't good games anymore, but the bad is heavily outweighing the good way more than it used to.
Look for older games that released in 2000-2010 you haven't played yet. I was in the situation you described many, many times and most of the time such game saved me. Last time I "had nothing to play" despite having 100+ games on steam I, for the very first time, played Amnesia The dark Descent and I fucking loved this game.
oh dear im in the same state currently...
Play baldurs gate or divinity 2 😊 fun to mod as well
This video is so well written but it also has sequelitis energy and I love it
Says in his channel that Egoraptor is one of his influences. So it makes sense
Dude I've been looking for a crazy channel who actually speaks facts with that old vulgar language like the early 2000s and i found itttttt
Now it's so misogynistic and hateful to talk about your dick like how fucking dare you!
Agreed fully. It's fucking over.
Every word you said, 100% true
Damn, it hurts.
You only have two videos and you have more humor and talent than some creators who’ve been doing this for years. Please make more.
I see this type comment for every channel that hardly has videos either I'm finding a shit load of *gem* channels or people have gotten boring I'm with the ladder.
@@XZ-IIIyea you have to go to newest comments to see real comments lol otherwise its just dicksuckery on every video
Isnt this Erin? like OG yt
this is a uniquely brain-crumbling combination of nostalgia and cynicism
Yea but there’s definitely a lot of truth to be found in a number of the criticisms made
Calling bullshit on the nostalgia part. He's objectively correct. At least about the modern AAA scene.
@@SpadeDraco Video games are so much more than the "modern AAA scene", which still gives us the likes of Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Armored Core 6, Elden Ring, Ace Combat 7, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Metroid Dread, Super Mario Odyssey, and so much more. Video games are so much broader as a spectrum, so the cynicism is not only hilarious and unearned, it's indicative of an unwillingness to play anything that doesn't fall within an extremely narrow wheelhouse that isn't even representative of the wide range of experiences that are even possible in video games.
If "video games are over", that would be news to me, I will likely never finish my backlog at this rate.
@@cmdrfokker The fact that half of the games you listed were made by Nintendo (a company renowned for still sticking to the "old" philosophy of trying to release games in a complete, fun state) and the fact that the others you mentioned were released literally years apart kind of undermines your point.
It used to be not uncommon for us to get 6-8 "slam dunk" releases per year.
@@SpadeDracoIt sounds like Nintendo is carrying the AAA gaming industry since the other two have fallen off in a way.
Thank you for the take down of Sony cinematic games . I noticed this trend 15 years ago and hated it back then. You used to be able to feel games dying but now they are fully dead . They aren’t games anymore they are virtual colonies for game devs to
Suck money out of our pockets
I remember in 2007 when I thought gaming would just get better for the next 16 years
The example that breaks my heart the most is Tekken characters being paid DLC. My favourite thing about gaming as a kid was unlocking secret characters by playing the story and piecing together the lore.
I'll tell my grand kids about those glorious days, and they will never truly comprehend what they missed out on 😢
"fuck you, grind for cat ears" literally had me laughing so hard I started coughing
Great channel by the way! Hard to find on CZcams someone that just tell it how it really is out there :) can you do a video about going back to retro gaming. That would be cool.
I like how the only bash towards indie gaming is that a lot of them look weird
that's because I don't have a lot of negative things to say about them. If anything that section was supposed to be a compliment haha
Honestly: if gaming as a whole was still fun, we all wouldn't be talking about it. We'd just be playing games.
Try Elden ring, best game ever made, modern, u guys just play the wrong games, From Software Games r still 100% Videogames to love and play for months
@@geekinoffamolly8230 i have completed elden ring once and enjoyed it but i would never play it again
@@geekinoffamolly8230"try this specific ass hardcore rpg" yeah what good recommendation
@@geekinoffamolly8230i dont care about generic dark souls game number 159 give me something different ffs
@@geekinoffamolly8230 no i don't think i will. I want my preferred genres to be functional again thank you.
I have to thank the game industry actually. Ever since I was a kid, I was a hardcore gamer, I have hundreds of games on my library and spent a ton of money on gaming. However, the last few years of gaming were so fucking dogshit, that boredom forced me to find other things to do. Ever since that, I fixed my life, I got into shape, and I feel better than ever before. I went from a base dweller loser to an actual gigachad. Thank you gaming, your noble sacrifice saved my life.
And what a needless sacrifice. Both on your end and on behalf of gaming
As I got older, what I learned is that a game worth playing respects your intelligence and incentivizes you to appreciate your reality. Risk takes your whole evening. There has NEVER been a run that I've played that doesn't end in some kind of argument
Then there's chess and there's a decorum that's widely accepted within the people who appreciate the game. You win through awareness and skill. Then again, time is a commodity in that experience, so it factors in better than games that revolve around chance
@@BraggingRite You are not wrong. I have to thank a lot of good things for gaming. I developed my problem-solving skills, leadership skills, and social skills, hell even I learned English through video games. However, lately, gaming was so bad and boring, that I realized I wanted more from life than rot away in my chair. I'm not denying I have a passion for gaming, and from time to time again, when I finally find a game that truly respects my intelligence, I play a bit. However, I found a balance, and I became a better man after I stood up from my chair, and started working on myself.
Most people feel this way that games have become too escapist, & that we don't do enough outside of them. You should still be working out, working, & having other hobbies outside of gaming. You realized you were one of the people that it was just taking up all your time & keeping you in the sludge instead of being fun, & you changed that. So that's good.
@@apeblackberry3641wow what a testimony
I recently have been buying classic video games systems. I' currently have the PS2, GameCube and original Xbox. At first when I started buying retro games it was first nostalgia bait until I started playing them and remembered why I loved these games. The gameplay still holds up to today and just being able to put in a game, not needing Internet to play the game. Everything is right there to unlock but you do have to grind for items but that makes it all better. There was so much variety across all categories of games but games today feel all so singular when it comes to the top IPs. With all the classic games I got as well going to continue to expand my collection with getting a N64, SNES, PS1, PS3 XBOX 360, Dreamcast and WII. I say it's going to take me a very long time to catch up to modern gaming but I am more happy then I could ever be as a gamerr
There ARE good games out there, the old bloated studios who see games as an investment first are not the places to look for them
After watching this video, it made me realize that the good old days are gone. I really want to start focusing on my health and a good career because picturing myself 10 years from now trying to still find joy in video games and realizing I have done nothing with my life scares the shit out of me. This video was a big wakeup call too me for some reason. Thanks for that.
Well none of us want to end up a DSP....
I damn u can still play games just don’t do it all day🤣🤣
@@moose5497 I don't, but thanks for the comment 👌
They aren't wrong tho @@lusoza
The really scary part comes later when you've got the career to retirement level, are in good health, had kids, sent them to school/careers of their own and realize that you've hit 65 and there's nothing left for the next 20-30 years because yo sacrificed your hobbies to get here.
Then you'll remember when your (grand)parents looked deep in your eyes as a kid and told you not to waste your youth and realize you made the same mistake they did.
Give this man a sub, he's deserved it.
I just wish he could be more positive, it isn’t fair to judge a whole industry by just scratching the surface with big broken triple A’s
Many Indie games are still incredible, and even games like God of War, Red Dead Redemption, Elden Ring, and plenty of other Triple A’s that deliver just fine on being great games.
I’m not saying this guy doesn’t have a point, I just wish he would change his doomer mentality.
aight, but what does he want on it? garlic?, bacon?, mayo?
Nop
I gave up gaming in 2018 by selling all my working consoles along with all my physical games and I never regretted it since with how low the industry continues to sink each year.