Can Your Phone Be A Gaming Console?

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  • čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
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    Music List (In-Order): Art of Escapism - Our GIants Alone
    Baccano OST - Yuganda Kibou ni Michita Miyako
    Baccano Cover - Prologue
    J. Ralph - A Photo of Smith
    Kärtsy Hatakka & Kimmo Kajasto - Mona Theme Guitar
    Kärtsy Hatakka & Kimmo Kajasto - Mona Theme
    Bully OST - Lowrider
    Claymore OST - Kirisaku Monotachi
    Claymore OST - Kunsenshi
    Phonat & Ian Livingstone - Menu Theme 02
    Ian Livingstone - GRID 2 Loading Theme
    Hunter J Pierce - Kill Collapse
    Jack Wall - Flying Squirrels
    Daniel Deluxe - Dharma
    Fortnite OST - Get Funky Lobby Music
    Genshin Impact OST - Dawn Winrey Theme
    Phonat & Ian Livingstone - Menu Theme 03
    Game & Film List:
    Call of Duty
    Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
    GRID Autosport
    DOOM RPG
    Black Desert Mobile
    Among Us
    Genshin Impact
    Fortnite
    Riptide GP: Renegade
    Motorsport Manager Mobile 3
    Sierra 7
    Alto's Odyssey
    Threes
    Monument Valley
    Reigns
    Golf Peaks
    Lara Croft GO
    OK Golf
    Borderlands 3
    Warface: Global Operations
    Call of Duty Mobile
    Shadow Fight 3
    Real Racing 3
    Limbo
    Absolute Drift
    Cultist Simulator
    Injustice 2
    Rayman Adventures
    Shadowgun Legends
    Max Payne Mobile
    Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
    Grand Theft Auto Vice City
    Bully
    Grand Theft Auto 3
    Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars
    Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories
    Midnight Club 3
    DOOM
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
    Metroid Prime 3
    Hitman Contracts
    Psychonauts
    Far Lone Sails
    Dead Cells
    Valiant Hearts: The Great War
    Slay the Spire
    Doorkickers: Action Squad
    Asphalt 9
    Gear Club
    This War of Mine
    Stardew Valley
    Terraria
    Gears 5
    The Outer Wolds
    Synthetik
    Bright Memory Mobile
    Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation
    Bright Memory
    Gears of War
    Bullestorm
    Borderlands
    TOCA Race Driver 3
    GRID 2
    Pascal's Wager
    Cyberpunk 2077
    Apex Legends
    Little Big Planet 3
    Dreams
    Gran Turismo 2
    Killzone Mercenary

Komentáře • 2,3K

  • @the_dark_jumper2211
    @the_dark_jumper2211 Před 3 lety +967

    My first reaction to the title: "No. Never."
    Me after realizing how many console emulators I have and use on my phone: "Hold on, he's got a point"

    • @FreshTillDeath56
      @FreshTillDeath56 Před 3 lety +59

      Like honestly. How hard is it for Nintendo to port their SNES games to phones and PCs for that matter?! Obviously it's because of a conflict of interest with their Switch console, but look at the success of Fortnite. The big moneymakers of today are the ones that rush to make their game as available to everyone as quickly as possible. Same reason Among Us is huge.

    • @tralphstreet
      @tralphstreet Před 3 lety +24

      @@FreshTillDeath56 Why would you want that? We have more than enough shitty ports with horrible UIs and Arial 12 fonts. No thanks, i'll stick to emulators.

    • @ziggbg
      @ziggbg Před 3 lety +19

      I literally just finished God Of War - Chains of Olympus (a game i never got to play on PSP ) on my Xiaomi MI10 using PPSSPP 10 minutes before watching this video.

    • @jisaka
      @jisaka Před 3 lety +14

      @@ziggbg i finished metal gear solid peace walker on phone, and finished persona3 3 time

    • @Hentai_Ouji
      @Hentai_Ouji Před 3 lety +2

      Damn, nothing can beat a DefJam NY on a way home from work. XD

  • @Ch4pp13
    @Ch4pp13 Před 3 lety +1625

    The potential is there.
    But it gets squandered by the fact that the moment you open the appstores, it's already trying to sell you 100 different versions of Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, and gacha games, devolving it all into "what palette do I want" rather than "which of these are actually good".

    • @FreshTillDeath56
      @FreshTillDeath56 Před 3 lety +64

      And that's exactly why I don't bother.

    • @Thicc_Boyo
      @Thicc_Boyo Před 3 lety +80

      Honestly who actually browses those mobile storefronts anyway, or any game storefront? I can't remember the last time I even used Steam to actually discover a game I might want to play. I don't see how it's much different, other than the increased ratio of garbage to not garbage.

    • @aryabratsahoo7474
      @aryabratsahoo7474 Před 3 lety +8

      Yeah that's the problem. Bad quality control.

    • @KillahMate
      @KillahMate Před 3 lety +45

      "The moment you open the appstores" - that's your mistake right there. Really more than enough gaming websites to find new and interesting mobile games - I only open my app store to click Buy.

    • @TJCCBR47
      @TJCCBR47 Před 3 lety +23

      @@KillahMate plz, Can you list any website or youtuber that recommends good mobile games? Just in this video I got more decent recommendations than using the Apple AppStore my entire life.

  • @tacogirl69
    @tacogirl69 Před 3 lety +486

    The worst problem is how buried any good mobile games are under the avalanche of time-wasters and Skinner box games.

    • @bobsquaredme
      @bobsquaredme Před 3 lety +17

      You gotta pay for the good shit, I guess

    • @tranquility6789
      @tranquility6789 Před 3 lety

      True

    • @tacogirl69
      @tacogirl69 Před 3 lety +47

      @@bobsquaredme Yeah, but how are you even going to find it so that you can pay for it? A lot of outlets that cover games often avoid the mobile market and don't do reviews of mobile games.

    • @yaosio
      @yaosio Před 3 lety +20

      @@bobsquaredme All the good shit are 20 year old games, nothing new.

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn Před 3 lety +5

      @@tacogirl69 Regular gaming websites review mobile games. IGN has a whole section for mobile, you can filter by your specific platform. Then there are also specialized mobile gaming sites, like TouchArcade or Pocket Tactics. Not to mention Metacritic aggregates reviews for mobile games, so if you just want to check for some generally well-received recent games you can go there. And of course if a game was good on PC or console it might be good on mobile too, so you can look for games you know already and just check online if the mobile port is good.

  • @thelenbax8497
    @thelenbax8497 Před 3 lety +585

    The fact that you didn't even need to cover emulation on phones, shows the potential of these "gaming devices"

    • @Goldfire345
      @Goldfire345 Před 3 lety +80

      Once you get into emulation it opens the doors wide open

    • @epic8923
      @epic8923 Před 3 lety +17

      I think unofficial ports should also be mentioned has they're as good as official ports in terms optimization and performance but also include stuff like mod support as well. Delta touch is an unofficial port of doom 1, 2 and 3, where you can run mods like brutal doom on it and many more. There's also quad touch which is a quake port and Xash3d which is a half life 1 port as well.

    • @Goldfire345
      @Goldfire345 Před 3 lety +7

      @@epic8923 i strongly agree I feel like unofficial ports like delta quad and most recently raze touch for games like Duke 3d shadow warrior and blood are honestly better ways to play the games that they support more than the official
      Options
      Delta is far superior to the official doom 1 and 2 ports plus you can play every single other doom engine fps game including heretic, strife hexen, hacx and even other gz doom standalone games
      Quad i believe is the only way to play quake 1 2 3 and hexen 2 since those don't even have ports
      Raze is superior even in its current state to the official Duke and shadow warrior ports the and is the only way to play blood on Android outside of dos box

    • @iloveteateas6722
      @iloveteateas6722 Před 3 lety +7

      @@epic8923 Setting an emulator to run fallout 2 on a phone is a pain in the ass but so much worth it, turn based games are perfect for phones.

    • @frds_skce
      @frds_skce Před 3 lety +6

      The fact that we can play PSP games on phone 5-7 years ago has shown how great mobile phone is.
      You could literally play PS3/Xbox 360 games on phone, considering your device strong enough

  • @spinyslasher6586
    @spinyslasher6586 Před 3 lety +481

    Disappointed to see nobody mention how influential Minecraft: Pocket Edition was in mobile gaming, especially when Microsoft standardised Minecraft to Bedrock edition using the code-base of Pocket Edition and enabled cross-play between console, mobile and PC, something that was unheard of back then.

    • @nexenojustice552
      @nexenojustice552 Před 3 lety +30

      Minecraft is one of the best phone games

    • @cloverhal2284
      @cloverhal2284 Před 3 lety +5

      EXACTLY THANK YOU

    • @beseakos
      @beseakos Před 2 lety +4

      One of the first things I played with a pad on phone. I was surprised to see it perfectly mapped like on desktop or on xbox. Genuinely impressed.

    • @i_likemen5614
      @i_likemen5614 Před 2 lety +1

      @@nexenojustice552 It was one of the only games I played

  • @phlxlost8529
    @phlxlost8529 Před 3 lety +400

    Getting a CoD Mobile ad during the video makes it ironically funny

    • @HShango
      @HShango Před 3 lety +2

      Upgrade to premium or adblock.

    • @aryabratsahoo7474
      @aryabratsahoo7474 Před 3 lety +10

      Codm is fun and ok but with microtransations pop-ups l. Damn.

    • @malikkelly
      @malikkelly Před 3 lety +14

      @@aryabratsahoo7474 It’s literally just for skins and the game only gives you a “pop up” when you just lunch it.

    • @yeagmatic
      @yeagmatic Před 3 lety +5

      @@HShango dont encourage people to pay youtube

    • @suryafadillah5263
      @suryafadillah5263 Před 3 lety +4

      @@aryabratsahoo7474 just Ignore and close its not that hard

  • @FranticJ3the3rd
    @FranticJ3the3rd Před 3 lety +651

    Hondacevick is a next level pun

    • @falfires
      @falfires Před 3 lety +6

      I did chuckle at that.

    • @FranticJ3the3rd
      @FranticJ3the3rd Před 3 lety +7

      @SplinterCellRocks It's his name in the CoD mobile segments

    • @serubyne57
      @serubyne57 Před 3 lety

      It took me until the end of the video to realize what it meant lmao

  • @TigerChamp99
    @TigerChamp99 Před 3 lety +172

    Your rant about Gameloft is THE best part of this video.

    • @TheEvilCheesecake
      @TheEvilCheesecake Před 3 lety +11

      It's true that nothing sells like hate these days.

    • @TigerChamp99
      @TigerChamp99 Před 3 lety +26

      @@TheEvilCheesecake I have to agree with your reply because it's the sad reality.
      Gameloft used to be my childhood (played many pre touchscreen smartphone games made by Gameloft), but now they are a shadow of their former selves and they at least deserve some backlash from the fans for their terrible practice.
      I enjoyed Asphalt 9 way more than Asphalt 8 even though both games are filled with microtransactions.
      It's impossible to praise Watch Dogs 1 (for what it is) and not have someone reply to your comment saying that "the game sucks, it's trash". Funny thing is that I liked Watch Dogs 1 and many of my IRL friends liked that game too.
      All I have to say is that the people who spread hate towards a certain game is the minority in the internet but a vocal majority in the comment section, which means that the small group of people managed to spread their hate towards a certain game with their loudspeakers. Take Crowbcat for example, he even managed to turn hating GTA 5 into a trend, even though GTA 5 is an amazing game.

    • @samz8691
      @samz8691 Před 3 lety +4

      @@TigerChamp99 I miss alot of old titles.
      Like Gameloft's older Brothers in Arms titles.
      I still hate Modern Gameloft's direction but I'd at least respect them more if they updated their older titles that weren't filled with micro transactions so we could still play them after Apple dropped support for them.

    • @nedinnis6752
      @nedinnis6752 Před 3 lety +5

      They managed to ruin Asphalt 8 for me with the overzealous ads and monetization. Never looked back

    • @jlewwis1995
      @jlewwis1995 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nedinnis6752 yeah and they removed free rewards for multiplayer win streaks too 😡 I assume asphalt 9 doesnt have them either...

  • @PilotoBahia
    @PilotoBahia Před 3 lety +232

    thank you for dunking on Gameloft, I needed to hear that

    • @Blueflag04
      @Blueflag04 Před 3 lety +5

      Us needed that

    • @CaptPatrick01
      @CaptPatrick01 Před 3 lety +5

      As someone wrongfully banned by them, screw those guys with a cactus.

    • @shioyoutube9041
      @shioyoutube9041 Před rokem +9

      It’s a shame they ended up so bad, back in the day I played some genuinely good games by them but it seems that in the years since they’ve turned evil…

    • @oo--7714
      @oo--7714 Před rokem +1

      Gameloft are good gs though they are saints compared to most Mobil game companies especially the Japanese , Chinese and Korean gatcha companies

    • @zardians_of_galaxy
      @zardians_of_galaxy Před rokem +3

      @@shioyoutube9041 yea they new parent company vivendi really squeeze them out

  • @old-dream-left-behind
    @old-dream-left-behind Před 3 lety +85

    I wasn't prepared for that sudden and violent Gameloft rant... but despite being so taken aback, I adored every second of it.

  • @rickypham9453
    @rickypham9453 Před 3 lety +262

    The fact that the aspect ratio is different in this video to look better on a phone is attention to detail

    • @ellie8674
      @ellie8674 Před 3 lety +17

      it looks sooo good. and the black bars aren't an issue on a larger screen, i hope he continues to do this :3

    • @tommygolding6435
      @tommygolding6435 Před 3 lety +7

      THE NOTCH IS IN THE WAY

    • @yaosio
      @yaosio Před 3 lety +7

      And just like mobile gaming it failed because the hole for the camera on my phone covers up part of the video.

    • @AmeriCanadian12
      @AmeriCanadian12 Před 3 lety +1

      I personally hope he keeps it this way

    • @AmeriCanadian12
      @AmeriCanadian12 Před 3 lety +2

      @@tommygolding6435 just get a phone with a hole punch instead

  • @Ikcatcher
    @Ikcatcher Před 3 lety +739

    It’s amazing how we’ve gone from Paper Toss and Angry Birds in 2007 to playing literal AAA games in more than a decade

    • @aryabratsahoo7474
      @aryabratsahoo7474 Před 3 lety +15

      I still remember the time I played clash of clans.

    • @ryshed4365
      @ryshed4365 Před 3 lety +86

      It's hardly a AAA experience when most games are completely riddled with microtranactions

    • @aryabratsahoo7474
      @aryabratsahoo7474 Před 3 lety +11

      @@ryshed4365 It comes from the fact that it's f2p on play store.

    • @e2rqey
      @e2rqey Před 3 lety +107

      @@ryshed4365 tbh if anything, that makes it more of a triple A experience these days

    • @kevgl27
      @kevgl27 Před 3 lety +53

      @@ryshed4365 have you played a AAA game on a pc/console? They're all riddled with micro-transactions.

  • @OperatorDrewski
    @OperatorDrewski Před 3 lety +1055

    BLOWOFF VALVE ALL THE TIME

  • @northropi2027
    @northropi2027 Před 3 lety +152

    "Even Nintendo's ahead of you on this [branching their IP out to other platforms"
    That's... that's saying something, holy shit

  • @TheUltraDavDav
    @TheUltraDavDav Před 3 lety +71

    That "geshin doubles your phone as a stove" sold me a subscription, just happened i was subscribed already :p

  • @CaptainRasmot
    @CaptainRasmot Před 3 lety +437

    That Gameloft rant was just . . . *mwah*, pure bliss, 10/10 would listen to Ray tear open Gameloft's asshole again~

    • @olotocolo
      @olotocolo Před 3 lety +49

      sad thing that 15 years ago they made best mobile games...

    • @mjsugod1385
      @mjsugod1385 Před 3 lety +37

      @@olotocolo They used to rule the world, now they're bootleg EA

    • @StylerGear
      @StylerGear Před 3 lety +19

      Don't mind me I'm just leaving a 12:56 time mark...

    • @Katatonya
      @Katatonya Před 3 lety +5

      But then he endorsed Asphalt 9, I didn't get that, a game that literally plays itself if you don't change the default controls.

    • @aidan6998
      @aidan6998 Před 3 lety +5

      @@olotocolo I loved playing Nova 2 back in secondary school, blatant Halo ripoff but it was a load of fun.

  • @Larry
    @Larry Před 3 lety +1785

    Obviously yes! Look at Raid: Shadow Legends! It has graphics that rival next generation consoles and has a fascinating lore! 😂

  • @existentialselkath1264
    @existentialselkath1264 Před 3 lety +718

    I don't have a problem with 'gaming' on phones, I have a problem with 'games' on phones

    • @toone1562
      @toone1562 Před 3 lety +44

      Tbf its easy to sift through the bad stuff and find some good stuff

    • @georgekostaras
      @georgekostaras Před 3 lety +32

      Not to mention the loot boxes and predatory monetization

    • @suryafadillah5263
      @suryafadillah5263 Před 3 lety +9

      @@georgekostaras you can actually pass that I've just got into mobile gaming and honestly you can find a game where you can Ignore all that stuff and just enjoy the gameplay and play i think people too overdramatize how bad it is

    • @georgekostaras
      @georgekostaras Před 3 lety +59

      @@suryafadillah5263 gambling in video games is a serious problem that’s hurting children and adults. Most of the industry’s worst monetization schemes began in the relatively unregulated world of mobile gaming. I’m not saying there aren’t games on mobile that aren’t an online casino meant to prey on people with addictions but it’s a massive industry wide problem

    • @suryafadillah5263
      @suryafadillah5263 Před 3 lety +1

      @@georgekostaras well if you find any you can report the app

  • @Depthcharge2030
    @Depthcharge2030 Před 3 lety +66

    I know this is a video game video, but your taste in graphic novels is just too good to go without notice

  • @AmeriCanadian12
    @AmeriCanadian12 Před 3 lety +80

    I would like to say how much I enjoy seeing a little bit more of Raycevick's personality in this video than we normally get. Relax, dude. You seem cool enough to let that through.

  • @CriticalNobody
    @CriticalNobody Před 3 lety +912

    Crossy Road and Game Dev Story are all I need

    • @jdg1251
      @jdg1251 Před 3 lety +22

      Game Dev Story by Kairosoft Inc. you say?

    • @Hesojo
      @Hesojo Před 3 lety +10

      @@jdg1251 such a good game!

    • @bananakandy1
      @bananakandy1 Před 3 lety +10

      Literally the only game I needed on mobile for 5 years was Game Dev Story

    • @axing_
      @axing_ Před 3 lety +15

      Kairosoft are gods, so many years of fun in their games

    • @efwefweffrwfef9145
      @efwefweffrwfef9145 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Hesojo I know right? such a shame about the response time of the UI tho, it always feels like you are emulating a mouse through touchscreen or something

  • @SL-vj6df
    @SL-vj6df Před 3 lety +104

    All I'm saying is I can play heavily modded morrowind with a ps4 controller on my phone. That's pretty fucking amazing

    • @Bassist-Beneath
      @Bassist-Beneath Před 3 lety +2

      How can you use mods, does your phone have to be able to use a file manager?

    • @SL-vj6df
      @SL-vj6df Před 3 lety +7

      @@Bassist-Beneath the openmw mobile app (aka OMW or open microwave) has a mod manager which at the very least allows you to set up your load order for esps and esms. Other than that Im just careful with what order I paste in textures/meshes/whatever else that isn't just an esp.

    • @SL-vj6df
      @SL-vj6df Před 3 lety

      @@Bassist-Beneath and also yeah I use cx file explorer to have an easier time with moving stuff around

  • @naaatheee
    @naaatheee Před 3 lety +287

    A 2:1 Raycevick video, I was surprised to see this video actually fit fullscreen on my phone!

    • @naaatheee
      @naaatheee Před 3 lety +9

      Was the choice to make this video 2:1 caused by filming footage on your phone or a whim to try out the aspect ratio?

    • @Raycevick
      @Raycevick  Před 3 lety +88

      Recording phone footage, the blackbars was gonna be doubly awkward for Mobile viewers had I kept it 16:9.

    • @TheButterAnvil
      @TheButterAnvil Před 3 lety +2

      Woah. Weird

    • @abdullayaser700
      @abdullayaser700 Před 3 lety

      @@Raycevick especially for the one plus 7 pro

    • @BLVCKSCORP
      @BLVCKSCORP Před 3 lety

      It is not full screen on my Samsung Galaxy A71

  • @MatheusNavarroNienow12
    @MatheusNavarroNienow12 Před 3 lety +35

    I've been saying for years that mobile gaming has so much potential, unfortunately the monopoly that both google and apple have on app stores makes it impossible to achieve this full potential. What we need is a mobile gaming system like steam on desktop, where games can be rated properly, sold and monetized properly and so on...

    • @Azure9577
      @Azure9577 Před rokem

      Use emulators

    • @awii.neocities
      @awii.neocities Před rokem

      ​@@Azure9577What does that fix? They're neat but 1: They don't exist for iOS unless youre jailbroken or have Altstore, 2: We're talking about specific mobile games.

    • @Azure9577
      @Azure9577 Před rokem

      @@awii.neocities my comment was more or less a recommendation,
      There aren't many good mobile games, but the few that there are, are pretty great

  • @TNT93o
    @TNT93o Před 3 lety +23

    I've been playing Castlevania: Symphony of The Night for the first time on my phone with my PS4 controller, and I haven't such a rewarding and fun experience and what feels like forever. If a late 90s PS1 classic on my phone has given me this much joy, then I wonder what other gems I'm missing out on. Make it happen game companies!

  • @adambarta8751
    @adambarta8751 Před 3 lety +124

    At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch 30 minutes about mobile games... but I have to say... this was an awesome video. Great job Raycevick.

  • @HighwaterTrousers
    @HighwaterTrousers Před 3 lety +359

    I'm hyped you covered this topic! Before the whole pandemic hit, I was actually working on the publisher side of mobile games - specifically, we were working with Japanese, Hong Kong, Chinese, and some European / American indie devs to have their games available worldwide. (Once the virus hit though, the whole chain of development, especially among indies, fell apart so I wound up having to work other jobs in the meantime.)
    But let me just say, we'd see all sorts of mobile gems and cool upcoming projects! Like we worked with Mihoyo when they were doing Honkai Impact 3rd before Genshin Impact and CyGames during their mobile only, Japan exclusive days.
    That said though, holy crap did we also see the crippling roadblocks holding back mobile gaming.
    1. Both Android and Apple stores severely cripple games being easily available and accessible to all mobile users. Since they focus on all apps, games are gonna get buried under things like Snapchat, as you pointed out. But the storefronts are the wild wests, where any garbage gets on and any new game has to compete with asset flips and companies that can pay to manipulate the store rankings.
    With Android, you can at least manually download games and install their .apks, but Apple has a strangehold on all outside apps.
    Without a dedicated and easy to use game store like Steam, downloading / buying games is treated like a red headed step child.
    We actually ran a game store app, but both Android and Apple refuse to support it because then it would take traffic and profits away from their stores. So even having a third party dedicated game store is a pipe dream as long as the operating system makers have a strangle hold on it.
    2. The extreme inconsistancies among phone models and users made troubleshooting games a nightmare. Even when a big name polished mobile game came out, we had to do so much troubleshooting because the games usually wouldn't run on every phone for such varying reasons. And because the userbase isn't as tech savvy as the average pc gamer, it was that much harder to help them get the game running.
    Like when Pokemon Masters released, there wasn't initially any notes telling us users had to have a 64-bit OS. And most people don't know what specs their phone has. And explaining 32 vs 64 bit processing doesn't solve anything. All people knew was the game wouldn't work and we had to answer all their complaints and we couldn't physically fix the game on our end.
    3. This actually leads into the global aspect of phone models. Companies want to reach as many users as possible to make money, usually via the F2P model. But because of the wealth gap between countries, the biggest markets who play mobile games (China, Brazil, Southeast Asian countries) have older phones that can barely run games. So countries with people who can play games, end up playing very shallow mobile games with lots of advertising money or established things like COD Mobile. And then countries with people who can't play all games but use mobile as their primary game platform, can't play all the games because of the accessibility of good hardware. (Indie devs can't obviously afford to test their games on every phone model or older systems and big publishers tend not to invest in anything that would actually tax any system / be a console type game as that limits their market).
    There's tons of stuff I haven't even mentioned, but you did a fantastic job covering the topic as always!!!

    • @MadComputerScientist
      @MadComputerScientist Před 3 lety +18

      Cool insights, thanks for sharing!

    • @MegaDRKSTR
      @MegaDRKSTR Před 3 lety +17

      Introduce minimum system requirements for mobile games

    • @hihellothere9569
      @hihellothere9569 Před 3 lety +10

      @@MegaDRKSTR that's what they are doing?? I have seen the description enough to know that you need at least 2 gb of ram to play COD mobile.

    • @hihellothere9569
      @hihellothere9569 Před 3 lety +14

      But yeah usually the culprit is google and apple holding back the potential for either money, security, or incompatibility.

    • @drewinsur7321
      @drewinsur7321 Před 3 lety +25

      "We actually ran a game store app, but both Android and Apple refuse to support it because then it would take traffic and profits away from their stores" ah yes, monopoly, the inherent human nature multiplier. and to nature there is no such as thing as good or evil.

  • @HiddenGemsReviews
    @HiddenGemsReviews Před 3 lety +366

    That Gameloft rant resonated with my soul on a wavelength I haven't felt since playing a pitifully awful Assassin's Creed clone from them called BackStab.
    That game was 2 hours long, cost $7, had zombies in it because it was 2011, and its only saving grace is you can't buy it anymore.
    Thanks for articulating my exact feelings about them from a decade ago.

    • @V-Jes
      @V-Jes Před 3 lety +30

      Bit ironic that Gameloft would make an Assassin's Creed rip off tho considering they did do a pretty good (for old Java phone standards) 2D platformer out of Assassin's Creed 2 onto old phones before that.

    • @ketrub
      @ketrub Před 3 lety +7

      @@V-Jes also they're literally a subsidiary of Ubisoft

    • @Tetsuito
      @Tetsuito Před 3 lety +15

      @@ketrub Not since 2016. They are part of Vivendi now.

    • @ketrub
      @ketrub Před 3 lety

      @@Tetsuito they were when they made the AC rip off

    • @samz8691
      @samz8691 Před 3 lety +6

      Yeah Gamelofts Library is very mixed. And the delisting of many old games by Apple has gotten rid of most of the good ones.

  • @5persondude
    @5persondude Před 3 lety +294

    Phone Companies: “Our phones are as powerful as the Xbox 360!!!”
    “Okay, can you make games like those for your phone?”
    Phone Companies: “...please play Candy Crush Saga, available now!”

    • @aolson1111
      @aolson1111 Před 3 lety +36

      Phone companies don't make games.

    • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
      @ineednochannelyoutube5384 Před 3 lety +11

      @@aolson1111 Thoey could publish them.

    • @reinbeers5322
      @reinbeers5322 Před 3 lety +26

      @@aolson1111 It's a joke, obviously.
      But accurate.

    • @flamixflame2685
      @flamixflame2685 Před 3 lety +25

      @@aolson1111 Sony, and Microsoft have been developing and publishing games for the last 2 decades, they also make phones.
      Apple is doing something as well but nobody cares.

    • @kdsm6424
      @kdsm6424 Před 2 lety

      @@flamixflame2685 they kinda care with that game version (or was it a subscription) of the app store and getting exclusives... now making games on the otherhand, yeah nahh

  • @bartandaelus359
    @bartandaelus359 Před 3 lety +5

    Insane that you made this entire video without mentioning that every final fantasy from 1 to 9 and Tactics:War of the Lions are all available on the platform. Not to mention emulation which in itself is an enormous value add.

  • @a1lebedev
    @a1lebedev Před 3 lety +50

    Hahaha. Your rant about Gameloft was marvelous, love it!

    • @Raycevick
      @Raycevick  Před 3 lety +36

      These two comments are giving me mixed messages.

    • @PDS350
      @PDS350 Před 3 lety +12

      @@Raycevick lol

    • @a1lebedev
      @a1lebedev Před 3 lety +10

      @@Raycevick duality of man

    • @jordanium5593
      @jordanium5593 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Raycevick which one is true, mr raycevick?

  • @VoidedMedia
    @VoidedMedia Před 3 lety +43

    I appreciate the aspect ratio of this video as I watch it on my phone

    • @boe277
      @boe277 Před 3 lety +2

      As a pc user
      :(

  • @nydalitecrafter
    @nydalitecrafter Před 3 lety +37

    The inbuilt level select in Max Payne Mobile is also one of the reasons I still play it now and then. It really adds to the feeling of just “pick up and play”. Bouncing between any part of the game whenever I wanted was just absolutely brilliant. Especially on bus rides.
    Thank you for mentioning this port, it’s barely brought up but I think it’s set an example for what mobile ports can and should be.
    Fantastic video by the way, greatly looking forward to what’s next 👍

  • @spook3112
    @spook3112 Před 3 lety +10

    I don’t know why, but this video made realize why I love video games again.

  • @coffeecheetoschicken8569
    @coffeecheetoschicken8569 Před 3 lety +7

    Man, this video made me realize how much I missed your work. I recently started watching Jacob Geller and he made a video called How to Write About Videos Games. It’s a love letter to his favorite articles that are about people’s experiences with different games. As some one who’s life would be nothing without music and writing (when the two combine, oh mama, I’m wet), that video really blew the cap for video essays for me. Because of that video, it’s hard for me to see video essays the same way ever again. This video made me realized why when ever you upload a video, I get excited and clear some time of my day that very day it’s uploaded to watch the video. The way you write so passionately mixed with the way your vocalizing. When you start talking more aggressively and the words you use start to take a change, I feel my emotions shift. Then you bring it down again and ground it, and I’m back to a calmer state of mind. Your humor is something that I enjoy as well. I will admit, I do not play video games nearly as much as I used to. Since I’ve graduated high school in 2018-19 and start a mentorship in music production, my love for music simply became an obsession and slowly pushed other interest aside. I’m not using the bullshit excuse of “oh, I don’t have time now”. I do have the time, I simply lost interest and have changed. From the occasional story driven game or open word game, I don’t play many games anymore. Though I wish to change that in the future. But it’s channels like these that make me want to play games again because of how these videos are written, where people speak so passionately that keep enjoying video games without actively playing them. It’s like how I can ramble on about the newest Tame Impala album, 1990s electronic music, 1960s psychedelic music, some random internet album I found on Bandcamp, literally anything electronic music, anything relating to music history, some minimalist classical piece, some face-fucked metal band named Infant Annihilator, and so on and so on (I’m starting to ramble even though I’m just writing a list) until one A.M in the morning just like you, Jacob Geller, Nakeyjakey, and a bunch of channels I watch and discover that write the beautiful created scripts that come from place of love and care for the thing they’re obsessed with: video games.
    That was a lot of writing to say, Raycevick is pretty pog UwU XD Rawr!

    • @Raycevick
      @Raycevick  Před 3 lety +2

      It was a lot of writing, but it's greatly appreciated, thank you!

    • @imgladnotu9527
      @imgladnotu9527 Před 2 lety

      (in Ray's Voice:) ok but seriously, how did we get from a serious appreciation letter composed on youtube to ending with "uwu rawr xd"

  • @ladyhoratia1709
    @ladyhoratia1709 Před 3 lety +19

    i entered this video with a bit of skepticisim but i left it amazed. incredible video.

  • @LordOwenTheThird
    @LordOwenTheThird Před 3 lety +44

    I hope to god mobile gaming becomes what the vita scene felt like a few years ago.

    • @Calvin_Coolage
      @Calvin_Coolage Před 3 lety +5

      I wouldn't hold your breath.

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid Před 3 lety +1

      nah, I hope those people move on to handheld PCs instead

    • @jmgonzales7701
      @jmgonzales7701 Před 3 lety

      @@protocetid or maybe a new Xperia play will suffice

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid Před 3 lety

      @@jmgonzales7701 Heard it was cancelled however there's a known prototype. You really think a smartphone stacks up to the wonder of technology that is a PC in handheld form? A device with graphics that put phones to shame and will play an endless amount of games? Something you can use as a desktop by connecting it to a monitor, mouse and keyboard? It won't be long before models that play current gen games are released. The current offerings already can, just not satisfactorily.

  • @thesebi10
    @thesebi10 Před 3 lety +169

    Hot damn, Reycevick mentioning a game I worked on.

    • @SamualN
      @SamualN Před 3 lety +7

      what was the game you worked on?

    • @ZarKus
      @ZarKus Před 3 lety +52

      @@SamualN Roblox Master race: ultra hd edition

    • @Sixtixx
      @Sixtixx Před 3 lety

      which one?

    • @ZarKus
      @ZarKus Před 3 lety +20

      @@Sixtixx as i said. The ultra hd edition

    • @Evanz111
      @Evanz111 Před 3 lety

      Awesome to see you be a fan of his videos!

  • @TheSoulchild12
    @TheSoulchild12 Před 3 lety +9

    It's insane that Fate/Grand Order despite it's problems has provided me with literal hundreds of hours of dialogue or visual novel scenes and RPG gameplay, and is a testament to how beneficial mobile can be for more traditional genres like JRPG's.
    Now if only Square would make GOOD ports of the Dragon Quest games...

    • @abadenoughdude300
      @abadenoughdude300 Před 2 lety +2

      Also there's Honkai Impact with storywriting that dwarfs the vast majority of AAA games with superinflated budgets and huge staffs.

  • @tjwatson2249
    @tjwatson2249 Před 3 lety +6

    One of the most exciting, fun, and thought-provoking videos I've ever seen.
    My iPod Touch in 2010 was more fun than our Wii, with Tap Tap Revenge, Modern Combat 2, 3, and 4, and GTA Chinatown Wars. While I've become a PC gamer since and love building, I've always felt more comfortable with my phone for games.
    Notable mentions!: Rebel Inc., The Walking Dead, XCOM, Mudrunners, and Game Dev Tycoon.

    • @micahdadbeh5955
      @micahdadbeh5955 Před 2 lety

      I grew up with modern combat four, nova three, Gangstar Las Vegas, and even some of Glu’s games.

  • @christianandrew9251
    @christianandrew9251 Před 3 lety +38

    V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Daredevil? Raycevick is a man of culture I see.

  • @Tardivex
    @Tardivex Před 3 lety +117

    No mention of emulation? That's one of the best ways to play "real" games on a phone

    • @abdullayaser700
      @abdullayaser700 Před 3 lety +2

      I was disappointed as well

    • @abdullayaser700
      @abdullayaser700 Před 3 lety +6

      I guess because it's not official

    • @frds_skce
      @frds_skce Před 3 lety +1

      Well, can't really mention it cuz it's illegal

    • @pronounjow
      @pronounjow Před 3 lety +15

      @@frds_skce It's illegal if you don't own the hardware and the games, if you don't dump the needed firmware and/or BIOS from the hardware as required and instead use illegally publicly available firmware and BIOS files, and if you don't back up your own ROMs and disc images and just play those.

    • @MrMediator24
      @MrMediator24 Před 3 lety +5

      @@pronounjow distribution is illegal. Usage on other hand...(by the way, I live in country where government institutions use pirated software and 99.99% nobody gives an f)

  • @NoahNCopeland
    @NoahNCopeland Před 3 lety +33

    An important thing to add to the conversation is the race-to-bottom pricing caused by free to play nonsense. Legit ports of legit games are 1/3 the price as their steam counterparts.
    The award-winning GRIS is $17 on steam, and only $5 on mobile.
    There's such a stigma against charging more than 5 bucks on mobile, I think that might discourage a lot of the devs from porting to mobile.
    Remember when Super Mario Run got crucified for charging $10?

    • @xbrandon2252
      @xbrandon2252 Před 2 lety +2

      That's because super Mario run was done better by other devs and for free, also $10 for a game like that when there's tons of other games that cost less or even more that have way more content. I'd rather buy max payne or rayman for a few bucks instead of Mario run for $10 you know what mean

    • @hgmd3284
      @hgmd3284 Před 2 lety

      I got run a while ago, and Iove it!

  • @jaysonagli6210
    @jaysonagli6210 Před 3 lety +19

    Why is CZcams hiding you from me?

  • @Free-4554
    @Free-4554 Před 2 lety +2

    21:20 You didn’t have to call out all of the fatherless people out there Ray

  • @DanieleCapellini
    @DanieleCapellini Před 3 lety +21

    Imagine not using the Dodge Avenger video as the source of a best no context RCR clip.

  • @ahmh8411
    @ahmh8411 Před 3 lety +20

    Here is a list i made a while back. There are some gems in the premium section of the appstore. Some are ports of older consoles or PC games and some were made for mobile first.
    This is not a comprehensive list but you are bound to find atleast a few that interest you especially if there are some retro or indie games that you never got around to playing.
    *Made for mobile first:*
    80 Days
    Antihero
    Badland
    Battleheart Legacy
    Card Thief
    Dandara (Originally made for mobile but was released on PC first)
    Evoland
    Florence
    Framed
    Hidden Folks
    Lara Croft GO (From GO series)
    Love You to Bits
    Monument Valley
    N.O.V.A. 3
    Old Man's Journey
    Prune
    Reigns:Her Majesty (From Reigns series)
    Sorcery series
    The Room series
    Wayward Souls
    *One Time ingame Payment:*
    God of Light
    Grimvalor (Like Dark Souls)
    Night of the Full Moon (like Slay the Spire)
    Oceanhorn (Like Zelda)
    Space Marshals
    The Bonfire
    *PC or older console games:*
    Ace Attorney Trilogy
    Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
    Banner Saga series
    Battle Chasers: Night War
    Beholder
    Bomb Chicken
    Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    Cat Quest
    Company of Heroes
    Crashlands
    Cultist Simulator
    DOOM
    Danganronpa
    Darkest Dungeon
    Dead Cells
    Detention
    Disgaea 1
    Donut County
    Don't Starve
    Door Kickers
    Downwell
    FEZ
    FTL: Faster Than Light
    Forager
    Forgotton Anne
    GRIS
    Game Dev Tycoon
    Ghosts'n Goblins
    Goat Simulator
    Gorogoa
    Grand Theft Auto franchise (Up to GTA: San Andreas)
    Her Story
    Hotel Dash
    Hotline Miami
    Icewind Dale
    Life is Strange
    Limbo
    Max Payne 1 & 2
    Metal Slug series
    Minecraft
    Mini Metro
    Monster Hunter Stories
    Oddworld series
    Oxenfree
    Planescape: Torment
    Professor Layton
    ROME: Total War
    RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic
    Sayonara Wild Hearts
    Slay the Spire
    Star Wars:Knights of the old republic
    Stardew Valley
    Super Meat Boy
    Terraria
    Teslagrad
    The Bard's Tale
    The First Tree
    The Talos Principle
    The Walking Dead
    The Witness
    The Wolf Among Us
    This War of Mine
    This is the Police
    Titan Quest
    To The Moon
    Tropico
    Typoman
    Valiant Hearts
    Valkyrie Profile
    Warhammer Quest 2
    Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
    XCOM: Enemy Within
    Ys Chronicles
    *IOS only:*
    Bastion
    Bleak Sword
    Crypt of the Necromancer
    Gone Home
    Hyper Light Drifter
    Infinity Blade 1 to 3 (Delisted)
    Inmost
    Invisible Inc
    Journey
    Moonlighter
    South of the circle
    SteamWorld Heist
    The Pathless
    Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
    Transistor
    What the Golf?
    *Square Enix games:*
    Chaos Rings 1 to 3
    Chrono Trigger
    Dragon Quest 1 to 8
    Final Fantasy 1 to 9
    Secrets of Mana & Adventures of Mana
    The World Ends with You
    and more.

    • @jcfawerd
      @jcfawerd Před 3 lety +1

      Max Payne 2 never comes to mobile
      Add to One Time ingame Payment: Republique
      PC or older console games: Bully, fahrenheit indigo prophecy

    • @user-ot8xn9dh6m
      @user-ot8xn9dh6m Před 3 lety

      Holy Shit I loved NOVA 3 back in the day :D

    • @sushantdua3335
      @sushantdua3335 Před 3 lety +2

      Fez is also iOS only

    • @professordetective807
      @professordetective807 Před 3 lety +2

      Huh, seems to have all the the titles I think of.

  • @tonythetony8438
    @tonythetony8438 Před 3 lety +18

    I love using my phone as an emulator machine, especially for handheld
    Also emulating DS games and actually touching the touchscreen instead of using a mouse is neato

    • @dr3w399
      @dr3w399 Před 3 lety

      @László Buzas i use a modded 3ds i got for 10 dollars i prefer physical controls to touchscreen

  • @dlbutters7164
    @dlbutters7164 Před 3 lety +2

    Your enthusiasm is contagious, fella, i'm happy for you!

  • @simonwoods2169
    @simonwoods2169 Před 2 lety +1

    This video unironically change my mind about the subject. I used (like still many people) to make fun of phone users as gamers, now I welcome them in the community.

  • @HunterMearo
    @HunterMearo Před 3 lety +38

    One thing to note with Genshin is that you can't go from ps4/5 to phone and take your account with you due to Sony being Sony.

    • @yaosio
      @yaosio Před 3 lety +12

      Also Genshin Impact is just a casino masquerading as a game.

    • @malikkelly
      @malikkelly Před 3 lety +4

      You can from PC to mobile though, which is awesome

    • @nisnast
      @nisnast Před 3 lety +6

      @@yaosio that's gacha games for you

    • @HunterMearo
      @HunterMearo Před 3 lety +7

      @@yaosio that's gacha games in general, genshin is one of the fairer ones though, compared to the money people sink on the fate series game and their ilk I've only spent ~£40 on it over the last year and I have all but 2 of the characters. If genshin wasn't so fair with the free to play economy I'd have dropped it like I dropped just about every EA title in recent memory.

    • @HunterMearo
      @HunterMearo Před 3 lety +5

      @@malikkelly yeah, I wish I knew that was the case before sinking £40 and about 100 hours into the ps4 version, now I feel bound to the console. At least I dodge the spooky PC anticheat tho

  • @docdingusmd1272
    @docdingusmd1272 Před 3 lety +6

    I was pleasantly surprised to hear you use some of the Baccano! OST in the video :3

    • @SkinnyBlackout
      @SkinnyBlackout Před 3 lety

      Is it worth a watch? I tried watching Durarara but it was just too ridiculous too quickly.

    • @docdingusmd1272
      @docdingusmd1272 Před 3 lety +1

      @@SkinnyBlackout I highly recommend it! It's still over the top in terms of ridiculousness, but definitely more down to Earth than Durarara

    • @SkinnyBlackout
      @SkinnyBlackout Před 3 lety

      ​@@docdingusmd1272 Thank you, I'll put it on the to do list.

  • @DatAsuna
    @DatAsuna Před 3 lety +7

    Genshin and Honkai have been filling my wants for character action/adventure games with big stories to dig into. Jedi Academy on android while not an official port has full mod support and playing a botmatch with custom maps/models is fun in short bursts.

  • @burentori9620
    @burentori9620 Před 3 lety +18

    Raycevick is the only few successful CZcamsrs that do "Quality over quantity."

    • @metallicfingers
      @metallicfingers Před 3 lety

      I could name a few.

    • @Blueflag04
      @Blueflag04 Před 3 lety

      Just like white light

    • @ProducoesBatata
      @ProducoesBatata Před 3 lety

      @@metallicfingers please do. I know a few but I'd like to know more.

    • @metallicfingers
      @metallicfingers Před 3 lety

      @@ProducoesBatata
      -captain disillusion
      -nerd city
      -averagepixel
      -nakeyjakey
      -nerdsync
      -internet historian
      -ahoy
      -studson studio
      -houstonproductions1
      -raycevick (of course)
      -sabrina and friends
      -jabrils
      -nathan zed
      -kaptainkristian
      -uricksaladbar
      -gmtk
      -eliquorice
      -new frame plus
      -artorr
      -nick robinson
      -for every kind of geek
      -dj peach cobbler
      I'll try to keep adding to this list as time goes on

    • @ProducoesBatata
      @ProducoesBatata Před 3 lety

      @@metallicfingers I miss jakey.

  • @Jojo-mw7yn
    @Jojo-mw7yn Před 3 lety

    I looked at the title and thought "eh not too interested" but since its you I watched and I'm glad I did. Excellent video as always! Keep up the great work

  • @ettubrute5709
    @ettubrute5709 Před 3 lety +11

    Already lots of comments saying "No" seconds after video release.
    It baffles me why people click on a video they won't even give the time of day to watch to then just show how closed their mind is on the comments section.

    • @MrTheta-lc8zy
      @MrTheta-lc8zy Před 3 lety

      I feel like people skimmed over the “controller support” but part.
      But the instant response I do not blame them for.

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Před 3 lety

      You’ve said it. I also don’t understand why ppl can’t spend half a second to click like. You are being entertained by the hard work of channels like this, for free (essentially), the least you can do is support these creators by clicking a button.

    • @NeroVingian40
      @NeroVingian40 Před 3 lety

      Well, they’re not wrong. For every good game on mobile, there’s a ton of bad ones as well. And the App Store highlights those bad games first, that people literally didn’t even knew there are good games on mobile. Can’t blame people on that.

    • @ettubrute5709
      @ettubrute5709 Před 3 lety +1

      @@NeroVingian40 look buddy, I'm not blaming anyone here, what they think of 'mobile gaming' is of no consequence to me. What I am saying is, why click on something they are clearly not interested in and leaving a comment that doesn't add to the discussion. Like I said, I'm just baffled, not pointing fingers and blaming people for their opinion.

    • @NeroVingian40
      @NeroVingian40 Před 3 lety

      @@ettubrute5709 ah, fair enough, sir. Continue on, I guess lol

  • @David.Marquez
    @David.Marquez Před 3 lety +74

    The moment I saw Final Fantasy Tactics being sold on the App Store I knew phones had at least something going on for them.

    • @thackston6241
      @thackston6241 Před 3 lety

      I first beat that game on my iPhone

    • @DJWolfHouse
      @DJWolfHouse Před 3 lety

      And arguably the best version, that or the PSP WotL version. Though emulation is the best imo for that sweet 2x speed 😎

    • @JosibiusZ
      @JosibiusZ Před 3 lety +3

      Never though I´d find Final Fantasy Tactics on the Play Store but there it is... Glad it won´t fade away once the PSP store shuts down.

    • @robertnomok9750
      @robertnomok9750 Před 3 lety

      @@DJWolfHouse Well I prefer psone with mods installed.

  • @akwikone9219
    @akwikone9219 Před 3 lety +11

    THAT BACCONO OST AT 2:29, such good taste

    • @sirbungle793
      @sirbungle793 Před 3 lety

      You know where I can watch baccano?

    • @akwikone9219
      @akwikone9219 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sirbungle793 Since it's sadly not on Funimation or Crunchy Roll, You'd have have shell out for physical copies... Unless you don't mind ads and popups on sketchy sites, then search "Gogoanime Baccano" and you'll find it.

    • @Drek492
      @Drek492 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sirbungle793Don't bother with streaming, you probably got 4 different versions on nyaa.si

  • @andreylucass
    @andreylucass Před 3 lety +2

    Your phone is much more powerful than the switch. Great video.

  • @Drmcpoop
    @Drmcpoop Před 3 lety +1

    This video is really important these days. We've come to a point where mobile gaming is more than possible, it just needs a solid playerbase of people seeking the right experiences to really make the platform shine. Great video!
    The baccano music helps a lot too

  • @zaidlacksalastname4905
    @zaidlacksalastname4905 Před 3 lety +112

    The cloud has so much potential it's kinda scary for the industry

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Před 3 lety +21

      The way AAA gaming is going, an alternative for independent studios to release is fantastic.

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Před 3 lety +19

      Exhibit A: Sony is planning a remake of The Last of Us for ps 5. Just like in film, the industry appears to be stuck.

    • @zaidlacksalastname4905
      @zaidlacksalastname4905 Před 3 lety +4

      @@Psilocybin77 especially since successful indie games(which are usually much higher quality) are pretty easy to run

    • @zaidlacksalastname4905
      @zaidlacksalastname4905 Před 3 lety

      @@Psilocybin77 they should do a live action remake of the mario movie

    • @TheKurtkapan34
      @TheKurtkapan34 Před 3 lety +8

      geforce now has been a godsend for me for the last 6 months. i'm playing aaa games on my shitty 11 year old pc and having the best times of my gamer life of about 20 years. Finished Witcher 3 a month ago. I missed so much. It's totally worth it.

  • @zaidlacksalastname4905
    @zaidlacksalastname4905 Před 3 lety +12

    You didn't mention emulation. You can have a whole library of great classics on your phone, and it's pretty easy because retroarch exists

    • @allenqueen
      @allenqueen Před 3 lety

      I played Pokémon FireRed on my mobile. If it were not for mobile devices, I would have never played it on my PC

    • @Blueflag04
      @Blueflag04 Před 3 lety

      You can even run switch games soon

  • @blackcowboymusic
    @blackcowboymusic Před 3 lety +18

    * ETA Prime wants to know your location *

  • @ImNotJust
    @ImNotJust Před 3 lety

    love the irony of getting a warpath ad during this. the trailers acts like its a realistic ww2 shooter but all it is, is a clash clone.

  • @kylerclarke2689
    @kylerclarke2689 Před 3 lety

    Oh my God I didn't realize what I was missing with videos that don't use a phone's whole aspect ratio. Nice touch.

  • @GeorgeEndress
    @GeorgeEndress Před 3 lety +90

    Wake up babe, Raycevick just uploaded a new video

  • @kennethkeith3098
    @kennethkeith3098 Před 3 lety +7

    Didn't expect to see Sebastien Grainger shopping for vinyl records in a Raycevick video.

  • @sejol3081
    @sejol3081 Před 3 lety +10

    I hope there'll be more people like you, Mr. Raycevick. I dream that in the future mobile gaming will unite people: from weebs like me playing gacha games to old-school gamers playing legendary classics. We just have to hope that the big companies will see the potential that the smartphones possess.

    • @RusticRonnie
      @RusticRonnie Před 3 lety +1

      Honestly, I think streaming will take over before mobile gaming is a core development platform for game devs.

    • @AlexIsTired__
      @AlexIsTired__ Před 3 lety +4

      @@RusticRonnie i dont think so. Mobile Gaming is absolutely gigantic in the Asian Market, and its constantly getting bigger in other regions, and you can get somewhat real (sometimes fully) console experiences on there. Streaming might get big, but probably in the far future, because Stadia failed hard now, and i dont see a company logically trying to make streaming games big again. There are quite a quite a few problems with streaming, the input delay, phones getting fried or the games just not cutting it.

    • @asandax6
      @asandax6 Před 3 lety

      Check out "ETA Prime" he deals with reviewing phones, PCs and Accessories for Emulation and Gaming.

  • @EvDenney
    @EvDenney Před 3 lety +1

    happy to see the volvo at the end, glad you're okay! built like tanks

  • @Just_RJ
    @Just_RJ Před 3 lety +7

    I myself have a Note 9 and use it for emulation all the time, since the S Pen gives me a very good DS like experience. But there's something about having a dedicated device for gaming that can fit in your pocket that just feels more special. Not to mention, I highly prefer the control scheme of both my PSP Go and Vita, with the former being smaller than my phone anyway. I tried the whole controller clip-on thing, but it was annoying having to use the touchscreen on menus and stuff, plus the controller itself has to go in a bag - not something I'm always willing to carry with me everywhere I go. I even have a Switch, but I don't take it out of the dock too often because of that. I think I'm still looking for the perfect device for me, but for now, I think I'm leaving mobile gaming alone. I've always been one for portable gaming, but when it comes to mobile phones, there's still something missing.

  • @MarfYT
    @MarfYT Před 3 lety +6

    Raycevick,
    Firstly, I just want to thank you for taking the time and learning how much potential there really is in mobile gaming, and then sharing it with the Internet. I've been playing mobile games as my primary gaming experience for basically half my life now, and I've always been shut down by others who just dismiss mobile gaming as nothing more than Angry Birds and Candy Crush. Asphalt has been my main focus for the past 2 years now, and I've even seen an eSports community grow and I've had the chance to compete in tournaments! The recent explosion of Fortnite and other titles like you mentioned are finally doing the concept of gaming on your phone justice, but like you said, there is still SO MUCH more room! For 400$, a person can buy an iPhone that can do literally anything. Cloud streaming, any mobile game out right now, AND it has enough power to emulate wii games at full speed! Decades of games just fit in my pocket now, and it's truly mesmerizing' If more work is done in the emulation space, I can see PS2 and other consoles being playable on phones in the near future. One thing that people forget about mobile gaming though, is that the potential for these devices to perform at a high graphical fidelity has been around for almost a decade now! I remember back in 2011, EA ported the entire first Dead Space game to iOS! During those early years was also Rockstar's release dates for GTA 3 and Vice City on mobile. These console ports are not recent, they ran on devices almost as old as people playing Fortnite today, and people sometimes forget that. I remember instead of an Xbox 360, I played on an iPod touch 5 gen, and I would show people Modern Combat 4 in 2012 and they were confused. They genuinely thought I was lying to them, or playing a video on my phone instead of running a real game. How could the same device that played Flappy Bird also play a true triple­A FPS game?
    Speaking of Modern Combat, I want to also talk about Gameloft. Your "fuck Gameloft" was amazing. BUT. .. the Gameloft story is not as simple as people think. Yes, their games are not original in overall design. Modern Combat=COD. NOVA=Halo. Gangstar=GTA. It's painfully obvious. What people forget is the fact that these games, that I would say delivered 90% of the console experience, FIT IN MY POCKET IN 2012! There was NO other company providing that quality of game for mobile except for maybe EA and Ubisoft with some of their releases. I really encourage anyone to go back and play NOVA 3, which I consider to be the greatest mobile FPS of all time. Besides the individual games, for me and a lot of other people at the time, Gameloft provided all of those experiences that people had with console games but with our phones/iPods. People have fond memories of Halo multiplayer, I have fond memories of NOVA multiplayer. I remember spending HOURS playing instagib with random people, it was amazing. Asphalt also provided my racing fix, along with other legendary mobile racing games like Riptide. Why wait to get home to play NFS when i could get my adrenaline rush in the car or during lunch break? I remember the day the Asphalt 8 teaser trailer dropped, and I CRIED. There's no way the game could look THAT good... holy crap it looks that good... on my freaking iPOD! And im doing barrel rolls in a Bugatti! 2010-2013 was considered the Golden Age for Gameloft Games. Yes, I know how gameloft games are nowadays. BUT, in 2012, you could buy a gameloft game for 7 dollars and you didn't need to worry about ads or microtransactions, and you got essentially a console triple-A game in your pocket. However, they DID NOT sell out to Vivendi, which turned the company into the husk of its former self you see today. Vivendi FORCEFULLY bought out majority shares of Gameloft. In fact, Gameloft fought against it, but were unsuccessful. You can still tell there are people who care at Gameloft, and that part is obvious with how good Asphalt 9 is, even if the improvements aren't too drastic over Asphalt 8 which came out in 2013.
    So, to wrap things up. Mobile gaming, as a result of the incredible power of mobile devices, has the potential to become the greatest form of gaming ever created. The misconceptions and low standards of people helped to turn it into what you see today. Yes, your phone can be a console. It was the console/PC for MANY people, and still is today. I have more fond memories playing Gameloft games than I do playing Battlefield, or Need For Speed. That's not to say everyone should give up their PCs and Xboxes, what I am saying is that those experiences thought to be exclusive to those devices can be translated with near-perfect accuracy onto something that you carry everyday in your pocket. Was NFS Hot Pursuit better on mobile than on PC? No way! But that was in 2010! If NFS Hot Pursuit can run on a nintendo switch, that means in can run on a majority of mobile devices today, so why is EA not jumping on that? I wish I knew... At least i can play Speed Racer: The Videogame for the Wii on my new iPhone. Which when i was a kid, I never could have imagined was possible.
    To everyone saying mobile gaming is not true gaming, not only are you lying to other people and missing out on great experiences, you are lying to yourself. Play GRID: Autosport, or GTA San Andreas on your phone. You'll be very surprised.

    • @tranquility6789
      @tranquility6789 Před 3 lety

      ayy its you! love your channel

    • @spinyslasher6586
      @spinyslasher6586 Před 2 lety

      It's sad to see what Gameloft has devolved into recently. Their NOVA and Modern Combat series had heart in it. They were fun to play and delivered actually high effort content on mobile. I recently downloaded the latest Modern Combat game to relieve my memories, and holy shit did it make me sad. The game is an unbalanced pay to win piece of shit. Even though I was quite good at aiming I was constantly getting killed by players who had ridiculously op guns that you had no way of getting without spending hundreds of hours or buying it from their store.

  • @wile123456
    @wile123456 Před 3 lety +20

    Nothing says aging early millennial like that intro lol

  • @Dr.Strangelewd
    @Dr.Strangelewd Před 3 lety +7

    I play Morrowind and OpenXcom on my phone. Xcom especially works incredibly well on touch screen, which should probably apply to all turn based games.
    MOBAs are not for everyone, but Wild Rift was a big surprise for me as well, very comfortable controls.

  • @verdunian595
    @verdunian595 Před 3 lety

    Bro really had a no context rcr clip at the end. This channel is godly

  • @leviyeager9779
    @leviyeager9779 Před 3 lety +18

    Couldn't disagree more with your assessment of cod mobile, it's controller implementation may not be fantastic but if you're used to playing on a touch screen it plays great. I've had more fun playing cod mobile than modern warfare or cold war

  • @DanTheGirMan
    @DanTheGirMan Před 3 lety +7

    Mission Impossible on the PS1 "Hi, my name's Greg, and I'm looking for my dog" "HMMMM DOG!?" is pretty burned into my memories.

  • @arthurdurham
    @arthurdurham Před 3 lety +10

    Also, emulation. If you have a decent enough Android phone there's tons of emulation options. Played Resi 4 gamecube version on my phone recently

    • @irshkashirkle
      @irshkashirkle Před 3 lety +4

      I was gonna say, im surprised he didn't mention that. I have every Nintendo emulator up to citra on my phone, and citra actually runs BETTER on my phone than on my laptop 🤷‍♂️

    • @arthurdurham
      @arthurdurham Před 3 lety

      @@irshkashirkle Probably for legality reasons

    • @irshkashirkle
      @irshkashirkle Před 3 lety

      @@arthurdurham thats fair

    • @tranquility6789
      @tranquility6789 Před 3 lety

      I can play mw3 and sonic colors at 1440p on my oneplus 7t

    • @GmrLeon
      @GmrLeon Před 3 lety

      @@arthurdurham emulation's totally legal tho. It's how you get the games that's unnecessarily murky. If you already have a copy of whatever game you're playing and personally dump it though, it's still 100% legal. Pretty much every game I emulate I've personally ripped/dumped myself.
      Protips for this:
      -For PS1/PS2, have a PC/laptop with a disc drive (CD/DVD), and the software called ImgBurn. This software allows you to rather easily rip either platform's games for use with emulators.
      -For PS3, get a compatible external bluray drive, and use 13xforever's One-click PS3 Disc Dumper, or use custom firmware on a PS3 and some homebrew software.
      -For Wii/GameCube/GBA/DS/3DS games, look into homebrew for the Wii and 3DS, and get a GameBoy Advance GameCube link cable. Make sure your Wii is one of the backwards compatible models (i.e. has GameCube controller ports on the top), and that's where the GBA GameCube link cable comes into play. It takes awhile, but you can dump your GBA carts using some Wii homebrew software via the ol' link cable this way.
      For Wii/GameCube & DS/3DS games, simply use the relevant homebrew software on the Wii and 3DS to dump the disc/cartridge contents to external hard drive or sd card respectively, and you're gold.

  • @xxcornerismxx
    @xxcornerismxx Před 3 lety +4

    Not gonna lie, hearing the Baccano OST in the background put a big stupid smile on my face

  • @tamius-han
    @tamius-han Před 3 lety

    Unrelated but as an ultrawide user, I am extremely pleased that Raycevick is not one of those plebs that hardcode letterbox in the video.

  • @ianism3
    @ianism3 Před 5 měsíci +1

    GameSir's newer phone controllers are killer. the G8 Galileo is essentially identical to an Xbox controller that snaps around your phone and supports keymapping for any games that don't natively support controllers. I got one for my partner and she's obsessed, apart from the fact that it's kinda big for her hands... she has a Galaxy S23, so in addition to mobile games she can emulate anything up to and including the Wii (and Switch, but we don't play it). the only restriction is that a few platforms (PS3, PS2, Xbox, XB360) don't have emulators in active development, though there are a couple PS2 ones out there.

  • @michalko93
    @michalko93 Před 3 lety +6

    Yeah, retroarch + bluetooth controller and you have everything that I dreamed as kid.

    • @Goldfire345
      @Goldfire345 Před 3 lety

      No doubt there I've got more than 10 retro systems emulated on my android device and I'm living the dream although at this point I've gone the extra mile to get an android handheld just to cut out the conroller as a separate thing I need to carry. The Gpd xd plus.

  • @slavi8433
    @slavi8433 Před 3 lety +11

    holy shit my man put some baccano ost in there.

  • @samuelzenoob2019
    @samuelzenoob2019 Před 3 lety +6

    Two Words: Assoluto Racing. Highly recommend you try it out on mobile. It's a genuinely amazing racing sim and has verrry Gran Turismo mechanics and vibes.

    • @Blueflag04
      @Blueflag04 Před 3 lety

      It's very p2w. Those import cars are hard to get

  • @randodox8375
    @randodox8375 Před 2 lety +1

    I didn't know that there are a lot of FULL and IMPROVED port of classic games and indies games available in my pockets!
    We really need a platform app like steam but in the phone so that we can discover new games like this. If Raycevick didn't make a video about the state of gaming mobile, i wouldn't know these game exist at all.

  • @polrusstomakriss9001
    @polrusstomakriss9001 Před 3 lety

    I'm 6 mins into the video and low and behold you shock me with information that you've covered within seconds which is impeccable on your part via subscribed automatically!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @yf_NorthernAreas
    @yf_NorthernAreas Před 3 lety +5

    "It Tickles the same caveman brain's lust for chaos"..... Accurate AF😭😭😭

  • @priyanshukumar7116
    @priyanshukumar7116 Před 3 lety +15

    I'm surprised you didn't delve into rhythm games

    • @Blueflag04
      @Blueflag04 Před 3 lety

      His finger would probably snapped

  • @prasunbhuin3259
    @prasunbhuin3259 Před 3 lety +12

    The way I, a regular mobile gamer, sees it, there's very little competition to make mobile games better.
    I play cod mobile regularly and after pubg got banned in India it's the only fps game that's good. Been waiting for competition that will ruffle the developers for so long.
    There's A LOT of money to be made here yet neither are there any alternative platforms other than playstore nor variety in AAA titles.
    Been waiting apex legends mobile port for an year now
    Don't get me wrong there's really good games on mobile without being ported like Clash Royale, Brawl Stars etc that is made to be played in bite sized chunks
    But games that is required to be played for hours, that cinematic or story driven games are so rare

    • @leonamoonslasher7070
      @leonamoonslasher7070 Před 3 lety

      You never tried indie games on phones?

    • @qqq3230
      @qqq3230 Před 3 lety

      no one wants to develop on mobile because of the big companies like ketchapp they steal peoples games change their graphics and rerelease them and because they are big or has contacts with google play idk their games are always at the front page while indies cant even be seen when you type their names

    • @prasunbhuin3259
      @prasunbhuin3259 Před 3 lety

      @@leonamoonslasher7070 I sure do
      Rarely though
      Mekorama and magium are my favourites

    • @prasunbhuin3259
      @prasunbhuin3259 Před 3 lety

      @@qqq3230 can you give some examples please

  • @Richyman397
    @Richyman397 Před 3 lety +1

    *6:24* "...vice city stories..."
    Me: instantly looking up vice city stories on the marketplace hoping it's on there
    Dude don't say that I was genuinely happy for a second

    • @StinCrucing
      @StinCrucing Před 3 lety

      psp emulator runs great on the phone, doesn't need a beefy phone either.. I play vcs that way (there's even a 60 fps patch and cleo mod for spawning cars/selecting missions etc.. for the emulator version)

  • @TimeToGrind
    @TimeToGrind Před 3 lety +1

    One of my favorite videos on this channel in a while. Brawlstars has had me addicted for a long time.

  • @yt_Ajay_
    @yt_Ajay_ Před 3 lety +8

    I was not expecting to find RCR here

  • @varunnarain50
    @varunnarain50 Před 3 lety +4

    As someone who was away from his console and PC for almost 2 years. I've sunk god knows how many hours into PUBG mobile, before aim assist, revives etc the game was pretty hard-core and quite a lot of fun and I've been "properly" gaming since I was 3.

  • @Spoggi99YT
    @Spoggi99YT Před 3 lety +17

    To be fair Gameloft had some great mobile games back in the days. Does anyone remember Rainbow Six Shadow Vanguard or Splinter Cell Conviction on iOS? Those were great mobile experiences and I am very sad that they are not available anymore and no studio utilises today‘s mobile hardware to develop games like that again in better graphical fidelity.

    • @emperortgp2424
      @emperortgp2424 Před 3 lety +7

      They're also one of the few publishers who published decent J2ME games for non-smartphone devices. As someone from a third world country those games were one of the first gaming experiences which exposed me to the wider world of games, and I wouldn't be such a fan of gaming if this wasn't the case.

    • @Romax-pg2is
      @Romax-pg2is Před 11 měsíci

      I remember playing Ferrari GT Evolution back in the day.

  • @nikean7
    @nikean7 Před 3 lety

    Man, this video made me realise how much I missed your work, hope that everything will be smoother from now on!

  • @agustingiacomelli
    @agustingiacomelli Před 3 lety

    loving the aspect ratio of this video!

  • @Gamebit257
    @Gamebit257 Před 3 lety +8

    The 23:27 RCR bit killed me! LMAO

  • @mariolis
    @mariolis Před rokem +4

    I really think you should have also mentioned the thing that turns a phone into a real console to the next level ... EMULATORS !
    For real , from the PS1 to the PSP every nintendo console from the Gameboy to the 3DS and from the NES to the Wii ... emulators for ALL these and many more are FREE to download directly from the Play Store
    The gaming potential from Emulation alone on android is INSANE

    • @oo--7714
      @oo--7714 Před rokem

      Emulation is terrible, those games look and play worse than mobile games

    • @mariolis
      @mariolis Před rokem +4

      @@oo--7714 true , but thats only because mobile games have surpassed old console games in graphics
      that doesnt make old console games any less worth playing though, and i think that mobile emulation with a ds4 controller and a phone clip is the perfect way to enjoy such games

  • @strikerecho2592
    @strikerecho2592 Před 3 lety +11

    Me at 12:00am: Time to get some Sleep.
    (Raycevick uploads a vid)
    Also me: But that can wait.

  • @naturally_rob
    @naturally_rob Před 3 lety +1

    The OnePlus series has blown me away! I got the phone about a year ago, and it's been a very pleasant experience.

  • @bresevic7418
    @bresevic7418 Před 3 lety +1

    I can't believe you went an entire 16 minute video about mobile gaming without mentioning sky: children of the light :( it was developed natively for mobile by the same studio behind journey, and I think it's an excellent example of what mobile gaming can be