I don't buy a pc game until it's at least 6 months old because it will have hopefully been patched by then. "Buggy" games released on day 1 are now the norm. Game companies are costing themselves money because games are usually sold for cheaper 6m+ later after release.
I was building a gaming fund this year, and by mid June I realised that there was so much crud released this year that I barely touched the gaming fund (I only “bought” three games this year aka amassed enough free Amazon gift cards so I mostly got them for free) so I used it elsewhere.
I just bought 2 games now because they are on an amazing sale and great deals and they are out for a while and patched properly. Also they are Complete Editions which means I don't need to wait for anything. Star Wars The Skywalker Saga. Love Star Wars and love LEGOs so plenty of fun awaits. Also grabbed AC Valhalla Complete Edition. I just love ACs and Ubi's open-world. Nothing more to say. Cost me probably 60 euros altogether. I shifted completely to a late buyer especially because I don't have much time to play so totally worth the wait patch and money wise.
I enjoyed sniper elite I played it on series x the a i definitely wasn't as bad when I was playing it and some of the level design was very good, voice acting animation was jank and online was enjoyable enough.
Whats truly scary is that people seem to get used to this. "oh its ok. They will fix the game with patches in a year or two." Like that makes it ok to sell an unfinished game at full price...
@@trashcanmucous5153 for me personally, that 'refresher' has been VR - it's a different enough experience to enjoy as something separate from typical gaming (and helps with exercise too)
@@trashcanmucous5153 frog in a pot effect. much of the shenanigans have been pushed forward so slowly that most people dont notice. more fees and fewer features, and they dont even write their own engines anymore. they dont playtest. there is so much corner cutting, asset reuse, stock assets, and developers seem to be bad at math now.
I actually think that's fine, patience prevails. If you wait a year or two, the game will be "fixed" and likely a lot cheaper. Gives people incentive to save money and buy the game at a heavily discounted price down the line, which is funny because you're getting a much better product than the more expensive first release lol
Early ass cash access where you get bent over by a pubelisher such as lubeisoft, dry humped (lube cost extra) and a sharp sudden decrease in finances... no forplay either. Dry. Then you say thanks very much, and come out the other end with a repetitive boring drivel of a shit piece of entertainment full of fetch quests and really cool microtransactions (nothing with the word micro in it is ever good) wishing you could take back the whole horrible experience and forget it ever happened. And we get on average 3 of these aaa experience games per year, that's if we're lucky. Best part is the privilege of being able to pre order a digital game that can't physically sell out just to show your everlasting obedience for literally no good reason whatsoever. 😀
@@Rocksaplenty It's also just a huge development crutch. Before X-ray vision was a thing in every game, (good) developers would take the time to fully develop and test direction-accurate stereo sound. So if you stood facing a closed door and heard loud footsteps coming from your 2 O'clock and getting louder, you could correctly predict that there is a guard in the next room walking towards the door from your right. Most modern developers don't take the time to do that. In modern games that same guard could either be walking towards the door, or he could be three floors below you and walking in the other direction. You don't know where he is, because the audio design is complete shit. But you need to know, otherwise the game is unplayable. Easy solution? X-ray vision.
Wait till you get into the AAA game industry, you'll leave your idealism behind because you wouldn't be able to fight corporate decisions that are based on market data analysis, and if you're a programmer like me, you wouldn't be able to fight game designers who are making bad design decisions based on the same market data or political considerations, you wouldn't be able to change how the stake holders, who don't even like games to begin with, only review the game mostly from its visual fidelity and pushes a bunch things that don't really matter to a higher priority than it should be, you would be forced to release crappy unfinished game because you can't miss releasing it at that particular date for various reasons that you can't really argue (mostly about money). A big percentage of AAA developers that I know are idealist at heart, they know how to make the game they're working on better for gamers, but they just couldn't.
@@cetus835 I disagree. 2020 wasn’t an awful year for games compared to 2019. Microsoft flight simulator. Ghosts of Tsushima. Crusader Kings 3 is a cracker of a game. Cyberpunk hmm … I mean… Fall Guys was a funny game also. At least in 2020 we were getting 3 or 4 really really good games.. this year, Elden Ring and that’s it. 2018 was a lot better than 2017 also. (For AAA titles), now EA have nothing to do with FIFA anymore and hopefully the Saints Row title can lay down in peace. It’s a matter of time the Battlefield franchise is retired.
Yeah but just think, there is a sliver lining. if absolute dog sh*t like Saints Row wouldn't have come out, and Mack wouldn't have reviewed it like he does. 11:47 That character, it's kinda like if the BFG - no not the Doom gun 😝- got infested with woke bollocks and then went viral on tik tok 🤭😅😆🤣
Someone needs to drive a stake through that and set it on fire. The last half decent game Volition made was probably Red Faction Guerrilla, and they've gone through at least two acquisitions since then. Usually whenever I look at a developers Wikipedia page and the article starts off with "was" I feel a pang of sadness, but when Volition's reads in past tense it will be a relief.
@@trashcanmucous5153 More like the loss of God -- the source of true art, goodness and beauty. As soon as man starts to rely on himself things go to shit. It's happened many times in the history of the world. And its happening again. Its is an awesome and terrible sight to behold. I wish I didn't have to live through it. But there is hope. Hang on to what is True, and He will keep your head above the waves.
A lot of people thought Cyberpunk 2077 was the worst game of the year when it was released because it was so broken, now it's mostly been fixed. AAA games being released half done didn't use to be a thing.
@@roqsteady5290 Not really. The most successful console of all time, the PS2, released games when they were finished because patches were not feasible. It's a choice by game companies.
@@JamesSmith-sw3nk Not saying that all games were released unfinished, just that it has always been significant. It is perhaps more forgiveable if a game is shooting for the moon.
I tried many "Overwhelmingly Positive" games on Steam this year and was overwhelmed by how unpositive they were. People really have no standards these days.
dude u said it. i cant even count how many games ive played int he last 3 years that ppl said were really good and i got about 4 hours in and couldnt stomach another second.
@@titolovely8237 Maybe we should start a small Discord community to share this info around so we avoid the bad titles and only share the good ones. What are the top 3 games you played this year? For me it's Elden Ring, Eleven Table Tennis on Quest 2 (VR) and maybe Teamfight Tactics (the free League of Legends autobattler)
@@emulation2369 What are some good ones that you tried this year? I really enjoyed Elden Ring, Eleven Table Tennis (Quest 2 VR) and Teamfight Tactics (League of Legends multiplayer autobattler)
@@garygohmusic Zero Hour, Ready or not, Source of Madness, Cryostasis (finally bought the key for this hidden gem), Terminator Annihilation Lane dlc, Tormented Souls, Midnight Fight Express and CULTIC
That comparison you did with games 20 years ago was a real eye opener. I knew it was better, but holy shit. So many the games from 20 years ago are still being played and modded. Most of the games here will be totally forgotten within a year.
20 years ago, games were made by gamers for gamers. Today, they are made by devs who don't care to please greedy corporate suits who think twitter and reddit are their audience.
The only positive about all these bad games is that it allows Mack to create pure comedy gold such as this. Laughing from start to finish watching this video, thanks for this Mack and all the work you've done over the years talking the truth!
The shit-meter bar has been set really high this year, but I'm pretty sure the AAA industry will be able to surprise us with even worse garbage in 2023. Thanks for your videos!
Worth A Buy is the only gaming channel that embodies how I feel about gaming these days. Everyone else is just trying too hard to be positive and giving chances to games that don't deserve it.
Saints Row was more that just an appalling game: It was the last insult to fans of the series. IMO, 3 and 4 were already a bad path for the series to take, after 2 was so good. This reboot was just the moldy cherry on top of a shit sundae, but what made it so much worse was the attitude of the devs, who took a decent series and ruined it, then told us to piss off for disliking it. In a decade where GTA has been almost completely absent, we needed a game like Saints Row 2 to come along. Instead we got just another on the pile of ruined franchises.
I thought he was exaggerating, then I realize the last games I actually enjoyed playing (Elden Ring) came out in March. This year has been bad, after getting last year Resident Evil 8, Inscryption, Hades, Psychonauts 2, etc. Even the games I was looking forward to like Darktide ended up being a big disappointment.
@@EmergencyChannel I used this year to catch up on a few games and check out some indie ones that seem promising like Ready or Not, but God fucking damn this year was somehow worse than 2020, at least that year gave us TLOU2 memes.
For me personally it wasn't a bad year. We got awesome games like Sifu, Stray, Elden Ring, GoW Ragnarok, Vampire Survivors, Metal Hellsinger, A Plage Tale: Requiem, Bayonetta 3 and a couple more. Of course we had shit games like the ones Mack mentioned but saying it's the worst year of gaming it's exaggerating a lot (2020 was awful and 2021 was mid)
Anyone remember Mac's video a year or so ago saying that he was optimistic about the gaming industry / upcoming releases? Good to see that delusion has worn off and he's came back to reality.
Everytime I see a positive review from a CZcamsr or a magazine, I check your review before buying. Thank you for your honest reviews. Have a happy new year, man! "XRay Vision, XRay Vision, X, X, X!!!" 😂
I rarely comment on your videos sir but I once again would like to thank you for all the money you've saved me for yet another year. Thank you for your honest and objective reviews and I hope 2023 will have better games and more of your reviews!
Hey man just wanted to drop a comment whether you see it or not and say that you have done a great job over the years making these videos and producing content the way you have. Cheers too next year and I hope it treats gaming so much better!
Couldn't agree more, Mack. Saints Row distilled everything wrong with entertainment in 2022. An unnecessary cash-grab reboot of a beloved franchise, universally praised by the shill media, and made for the mythical "modern audience" by clueless developers who have shown nothing but contempt for their real fans.
Wow evil west was bad? I saw it as pretty average. Old game design was the biggest downside but besides that it was really enjoyable with the boss fights and gear upgrades and hidden chests per level. Hell I couldn’t even find another copy in a 50 mile radius because it was sold out in my area at local brick and mortar stores to gift a friend.
All my life I’ve been a console gamer and kind of switched to PC after buying a steam deck. So happy to have chosen this year to switch across as there’s a plethora of good games from the past to pick up instead of holding out, hoping something decent will turn up. £40 or £50 for saints row or half life for under £1? Even if it is pretty ancient, there’s only one winner there!
2022, what a glorious time in AAA gaming! /s No wonder I’m still playing older games from the early-mid 2000s. I can’t think of one AAA game I was excited to play this year.
I don't even like the graphics of these games, apart from the horror ones too much bloom and there's this weird excessive blockiness to it as if everything is made of colourful plasticine, it's just ugly. Noticed kids cartoons look like this too these days. Red Alert 2 and Half Life 2 look much better and organic with more detail imo.
scorn just shouldn't have been advertised as a survival horror at all. it's a heavy puzzle horror game about exploring the environment, and occasionally having to pull the trigger at something (depending how quickly you solve puzzles and move forward). rated as a traditional survival horror? yeah pretty bad. but as an explorative love-letter to H.R. Giger it's pretty fantastic, granted that aesthetic is enough to keep you entertained over the slow pace and backtracking or retrying.
They called he ghost who needs toilet paper. Man who needs paper. Feels like that was a placeholder during the quest creation and they didnt even bother to change it.
@@rvh1702 Yeah mate It was a shit year for me as well! Think it was a shit year for a lot of people! Out with the old & in with the new, can't wait for this year to finish!
There should be a war tribunal or something for what happened to the Rainbow Six series. From one of the greatest tactical shooters to Extraction in the span of 20 years. RIP
I honestly had no expectations or interest for saints row 5 but holy shit, by the looks of it, they couldn’t have made a more embarrassingly broken and by the numbers open-world sandbox game if they tried.
YESSSS!!!! I *_knew_* it would be Saints Row. I said as much on the day of release in a comment on a different vid. I put something like "Wait till Mac gets a hold of Saints Row 4. He's not going to be a happy bunny." or something like that. Well-deserved to be the worst "game" of 2020. Love ya Mack o7
Although I do not agree with Shadow Warrior 3 and Evil West (I love FWH games) being bad games compared to what we have in 2022, but when I start comparing with games 10 years ago, I involuntarily agree with your remarks. The acceptable level in the industry (including gamers too) has degraded very much.
What a year... Congrats to Volition, they went out of their way to completely destroy their franchise. Now they're part of Gearbox. Oh, it's not going to end well...
Vampire Survivors Immortality Tunic Plague tale Requiem Nobody Saves The World Pokemon Arceus (Stripped down Pokémon without the tedious BS...bit rough, but decent) TMNT: Shredder's Revenge Bayonetta 3 God of War: Ragnarock Sifu Rollerdrome Destiny 2: Witch Queen (Banger expansion...best since Forsaken...but not ideal jump-in for new players. An actual story...from Bungie!) Grounded Slime Rancher 2 Pentiment Stray Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Dorfromantik Rogue Legacy 2 Neon White Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Cult of the Lamb These were all decent+
Me and my friends moved to PC gaming from console gaming just so we can pirate games and not pay anymore. The crack version is usually available a few days after release anyway. Yes, it's pirating, but we don't exactly lose sleep over it. I'm not paying ever again
Actually I do have a time machine. It’s called a Steam Deck, and ever since I put emulators on it I haven’t touched any steam games and have just been playing my favorite games from yesteryear.
Same here, as well as getting around to some of the games I bought years ago and never played, like Transistor and Outer Wilds. I think the only new ‘AAA’ game I got this year was Elden Ring.
Duckstation and PCSX2 are the GOATs, can't beat them. I started gaming on a desktop PC recently for the first time since the 90's and something I'm really liking there is that a lot of older games either just run well at higher resolutions "out of the box", have fan mods/patches to make them work, or in the best case scenarios; have full blown source code based ports that completely modernize them. I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein via the ioRtCW source port at 1440p 144fps and it's fucking amazing. Open Morrowind is good as well. I'm happy to buy AAA games when they're actually good, like everyone else I did get around to buying Elden Ring in September. Fantastic game. Bought Devil May Cry 5 on sale then too since I missed out on that in 2019, also excellent. But AAA is rarely ever that good now.
Dishonorable mentions to God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West. It's a tragedy that such painfully generic and safe games get heralded as achievements.
Last of us 2 is also hot garbage, but yea I agree that Saints row game looks like a game from 2011 but without any of the humor or character of any of the previous games. Even Saints Row 4 was better because while that was an overpriced expansion, but even that was actually funny…. So bad it probably caused the studio to close down and be gutted, EA style
let's be honest here, the following games may have disappointed you, but they are nowhere near worst games since they are decent 7-7,5 games: Evil West, Shadow Warrior 3, Ghostwire Tokyo
I don’t think we give the worst games of this year enough credit. To include more abysmal story lines, more boring fetch quests and to claim the game has more “Unique RPG elements and a vibrant open world” than the average game of this year, is incredible. I admire it.. surely they’re doing this on purpose… maybe this is just one huge joke..
Mack, I have 2 questions for you: 1- Since you started gaming, what was the BEST year for games? 2- If you get to play for pleasure, if you have spare time, what games do you come back to over and over? Thanks. Your opinion has been invaluable over the years. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
He answers question 2 somewhat in "The take over of Activision Blizzard" video, number 1 he mentions in one of his streams, early 2000's, 2004 iirc when WOW, half life and other games were released
The only positive thing is that I’ve saved a fortune because nothing is really worth buying these days. Too much emphasis on pretty graphics at the expense of engaging gameplay.
Sadly, Steam reviews are not totally reliable. Lots of copy/paste and bots making fake positive or negative reviews. Some are very well written, but you'll see the exact same thing on other games.
The amount of money I don't spend on video games anymore is steadily increasing by the year
I don't buy a pc game until it's at least 6 months old because it will have hopefully been patched by then. "Buggy" games released on day 1 are now the norm.
Game companies are costing themselves money because games are usually sold for cheaper 6m+ later after release.
oh, you don't get money from your parents anymore? get a job kid
@@JamesSmith-sw3nk That's a great mentality. I do the same.
I was building a gaming fund this year, and by mid June I realised that there was so much crud released this year that I barely touched the gaming fund (I only “bought” three games this year aka amassed enough free Amazon gift cards so I mostly got them for free) so I used it elsewhere.
I just bought 2 games now because they are on an amazing sale and great deals and they are out for a while and patched properly. Also they are Complete Editions which means I don't need to wait for anything. Star Wars The Skywalker Saga. Love Star Wars and love LEGOs so plenty of fun awaits. Also grabbed AC Valhalla Complete Edition. I just love ACs and Ubi's open-world. Nothing more to say. Cost me probably 60 euros altogether. I shifted completely to a late buyer especially because I don't have much time to play so totally worth the wait patch and money wise.
I feel blessed not having played any of these games.
I feel cursed having played 1 of these games. (Nfs uninstall)
same here.
Same, same.
I enjoyed sniper elite I played it on series x the a i definitely wasn't as bad when I was playing it and some of the level design was very good, voice acting animation was jank and online was enjoyable enough.
Sniper elite and evil west are good games dont miss out on them listening to this bum
Whats truly scary is that people seem to get used to this. "oh its ok. They will fix the game with patches in a year or two." Like that makes it ok to sell an unfinished game at full price...
welcome to early acsess...the worst thing in gaming.where devs milk you for a product that half the time dose not even get finished.
@@trashcanmucous5153 for me personally, that 'refresher' has been VR - it's a different enough experience to enjoy as something separate from typical gaming (and helps with exercise too)
@@trashcanmucous5153 frog in a pot effect. much of the shenanigans have been pushed forward so slowly that most people dont notice. more fees and fewer features, and they dont even write their own engines anymore. they dont playtest. there is so much corner cutting, asset reuse, stock assets, and developers seem to be bad at math now.
I actually think that's fine, patience prevails. If you wait a year or two, the game will be "fixed" and likely a lot cheaper. Gives people incentive to save money and buy the game at a heavily discounted price down the line, which is funny because you're getting a much better product than the more expensive first release lol
Early ass cash access where you get bent over by a pubelisher such as lubeisoft, dry humped (lube cost extra) and a sharp sudden decrease in finances... no forplay either. Dry. Then you say thanks very much, and come out the other end with a repetitive boring drivel of a shit piece of entertainment full of fetch quests and really cool microtransactions (nothing with the word micro in it is ever good) wishing you could take back the whole horrible experience and forget it ever happened. And we get on average 3 of these aaa experience games per year, that's if we're lucky. Best part is the privilege of being able to pre order a digital game that can't physically sell out just to show your everlasting obedience for literally no good reason whatsoever. 😀
As an aspiring game developer these games are a masterclass in what not to do
Why anyone would include X-ray vision knowing this channel will roast them remains a mystery to me
@@londonspade5896 publishers.
@@Rocksaplenty It's also just a huge development crutch. Before X-ray vision was a thing in every game, (good) developers would take the time to fully develop and test direction-accurate stereo sound. So if you stood facing a closed door and heard loud footsteps coming from your 2 O'clock and getting louder, you could correctly predict that there is a guard in the next room walking towards the door from your right.
Most modern developers don't take the time to do that. In modern games that same guard could either be walking towards the door, or he could be three floors below you and walking in the other direction. You don't know where he is, because the audio design is complete shit. But you need to know, otherwise the game is unplayable. Easy solution? X-ray vision.
@@londonspade5896 you really think major gaming companies care about that lol
Wait till you get into the AAA game industry, you'll leave your idealism behind because you wouldn't be able to fight corporate decisions that are based on market data analysis, and if you're a programmer like me, you wouldn't be able to fight game designers who are making bad design decisions based on the same market data or political considerations, you wouldn't be able to change how the stake holders, who don't even like games to begin with, only review the game mostly from its visual fidelity and pushes a bunch things that don't really matter to a higher priority than it should be, you would be forced to release crappy unfinished game because you can't miss releasing it at that particular date for various reasons that you can't really argue (mostly about money). A big percentage of AAA developers that I know are idealist at heart, they know how to make the game they're working on better for gamers, but they just couldn't.
It has been truly a special year for bad games.
Every successive year asks the previous year to hold it's beer
@@cetus835
I disagree. 2020 wasn’t an awful year for games compared to 2019. Microsoft flight simulator. Ghosts of Tsushima. Crusader Kings 3 is a cracker of a game. Cyberpunk hmm … I mean… Fall Guys was a funny game also. At least in 2020 we were getting 3 or 4 really really good games.. this year, Elden Ring and that’s it.
2018 was a lot better than 2017 also. (For AAA titles), now EA have nothing to do with FIFA anymore and hopefully the Saints Row title can lay down in peace. It’s a matter of time the Battlefield franchise is retired.
Yeah but just think, there is a sliver lining. if absolute dog sh*t like Saints Row wouldn't have come out, and Mack wouldn't have reviewed it like he does. 11:47 That character, it's kinda like if the BFG - no not the Doom gun 😝- got infested with woke bollocks and then went viral on tik tok 🤭😅😆🤣
Emphasis on the word "special"
Special ed
A well deserved win for Saints Row. Volition are done.
Spoilers :o
Someone needs to drive a stake through that and set it on fire. The last half decent game Volition made was probably Red Faction Guerrilla, and they've gone through at least two acquisitions since then. Usually whenever I look at a developers Wikipedia page and the article starts off with "was" I feel a pang of sadness, but when Volition's reads in past tense it will be a relief.
they went woke.. they went broke
Its not just the games industry that's disapointting, somethings gone wrong with this world.
Agreed 100%
But the world was always wrong kinda
Depends on our focus now
@@trashcanmucous5153 *C A P I T O L I S M*
@@trashcanmucous5153 OK Marx.
@@trashcanmucous5153 More like the loss of God -- the source of true art, goodness and beauty. As soon as man starts to rely on himself things go to shit. It's happened many times in the history of the world. And its happening again. Its is an awesome and terrible sight to behold. I wish I didn't have to live through it. But there is hope. Hang on to what is True, and He will keep your head above the waves.
A lot of people thought Cyberpunk 2077 was the worst game of the year when it was released because it was so broken, now it's mostly been fixed. AAA games being released half done didn't use to be a thing.
How has cyberpunk been fixed lmao? Nothing was fixed.
It has always been a thing.
Its still a piece of shit
@@roqsteady5290 Not really. The most successful console of all time, the PS2, released games when they were finished because patches were not feasible. It's a choice by game companies.
@@JamesSmith-sw3nk Not saying that all games were released unfinished, just that it has always been significant. It is perhaps more forgiveable if a game is shooting for the moon.
I tried many "Overwhelmingly Positive" games on Steam this year and was overwhelmed by how unpositive they were. People really have no standards these days.
dude u said it. i cant even count how many games ive played int he last 3 years that ppl said were really good and i got about 4 hours in and couldnt stomach another second.
I prefer games with "Mixed" ratings, bc you can find real gems there.
@@titolovely8237 Maybe we should start a small Discord community to share this info around so we avoid the bad titles and only share the good ones. What are the top 3 games you played this year? For me it's Elden Ring, Eleven Table Tennis on Quest 2 (VR) and maybe Teamfight Tactics (the free League of Legends autobattler)
@@emulation2369 What are some good ones that you tried this year? I really enjoyed Elden Ring, Eleven Table Tennis (Quest 2 VR) and Teamfight Tactics (League of Legends multiplayer autobattler)
@@garygohmusic Zero Hour, Ready or not, Source of Madness, Cryostasis (finally bought the key for this hidden gem), Terminator Annihilation Lane dlc, Tormented Souls, Midnight Fight Express and CULTIC
That comparison you did with games 20 years ago was a real eye opener. I knew it was better, but holy shit.
So many the games from 20 years ago are still being played and modded.
Most of the games here will be totally forgotten within a year.
"So many the games from 20 years ago are still being played a modded.
Most of the games here will be totally forgotten within a year."
****ing agreed!
20 years ago, games were made by gamers for gamers. Today, they are made by devs who don't care to please greedy corporate suits who think twitter and reddit are their audience.
BUT 2023 could have 8 games with full release that may be really good, and some great, so I hope it is the best year in a decade!
Neverwinter Nights 1. A game maker toolkit that came with a admitedly meidocre campaign is still being player 20 years later.
Most of these will be forgotten within a few months, let alone a year.
The money I saved this year just watching this one channel, thanks Mack.
That's why I sub to his Patreon. Mack gets a cut of all the money he saves me lol
“If you pay fifty pound for some shite, it’s a lot worse than paying a fiver.” 10/10 truth right there 👊🙂
The only positive about all these bad games is that it allows Mack to create pure comedy gold such as this. Laughing from start to finish watching this video, thanks for this Mack and all the work you've done over the years talking the truth!
Laughing is my coping strategy... holds back the tears
And the AAA publishers are putting the price of games up at least another $10 in 2023. Time to just say NO.
2022 was a rough year. In so many ways
Not for MMA fans at least 😎
Wait till you see what happens in 2023.
just like ur mum last night, heyy ohhhh
The only winners this year where the people who didnt buy any of these games, to those people i salute you o7
The shit-meter bar has been set really high this year,
but I'm pretty sure the AAA industry will be able to surprise us with even worse garbage in 2023.
Thanks for your videos!
Worth A Buy is the only gaming channel that embodies how I feel about gaming these days. Everyone else is just trying too hard to be positive and giving chances to games that don't deserve it.
Saints Row was more that just an appalling game: It was the last insult to fans of the series.
IMO, 3 and 4 were already a bad path for the series to take, after 2 was so good. This reboot was just the moldy cherry on top of a shit sundae, but what made it so much worse was the attitude of the devs, who took a decent series and ruined it, then told us to piss off for disliking it.
In a decade where GTA has been almost completely absent, we needed a game like Saints Row 2 to come along. Instead we got just another on the pile of ruined franchises.
Yeah that's the funniest part, with GTA out of the picture (indefinitely I suspect) Volition basically had an open goal in front of them.
"It is the worst year for gaming"
When you think it's impossible for things to get any worse, yet they still do.
I thought he was exaggerating, then I realize the last games I actually enjoyed playing (Elden Ring) came out in March. This year has been bad, after getting last year Resident Evil 8, Inscryption, Hades, Psychonauts 2, etc. Even the games I was looking forward to like Darktide ended up being a big disappointment.
worst year so far*
@@EmergencyChannel I used this year to catch up on a few games and check out some indie ones that seem promising like Ready or Not, but God fucking damn this year was somehow worse than 2020, at least that year gave us TLOU2 memes.
For me personally it wasn't a bad year. We got awesome games like Sifu, Stray, Elden Ring, GoW Ragnarok, Vampire Survivors, Metal Hellsinger, A Plage Tale: Requiem, Bayonetta 3 and a couple more. Of course we had shit games like the ones Mack mentioned but saying it's the worst year of gaming it's exaggerating a lot (2020 was awful and 2021 was mid)
Ghost needing toilet paper to pass onto the afterlife was quite funny tbh.
Anyone remember Mac's video a year or so ago saying that he was optimistic about the gaming industry / upcoming releases?
Good to see that delusion has worn off and he's came back to reality.
Easily Saints Row because many of us actually wanted a good saints game.
We do not deserve you Mack. Haven't laughed this hard in a while
Everytime I see a positive review from a CZcamsr or a magazine, I check your review before buying. Thank you for your honest reviews. Have a happy new year, man!
"XRay Vision, XRay Vision, X, X, X!!!" 😂
Congrats to Saint's Row for making it to this year's #1!
Indie games have been saving gaming for years now.
Where would we be without this channel? So refreshing to have at least someone standing up against the modern gaming industry. Always makes me laugh!
I rarely comment on your videos sir but I once again would like to thank you for all the money you've saved me for yet another year. Thank you for your honest and objective reviews and I hope 2023 will have better games and more of your reviews!
Hey man just wanted to drop a comment whether you see it or not and say that you have done a great job over the years making these videos and producing content the way you have. Cheers too next year and I hope it treats gaming so much better!
Shut up suck up
Thanks
Mack "It's the worst year for gaming"
Me "The worst year so far!"
Honestly this cracked me up, seeing every review video from this. He’s correct on every point 😂😂 mutual feelings
We are blessed to have you as a reviewer of this tripe, God bless Mack
It’s not just money, but time. A lot of these are free on game pass but still I wouldn’t touch them.
Couldn't agree more, Mack. Saints Row distilled everything wrong with entertainment in 2022. An unnecessary cash-grab reboot of a beloved franchise, universally praised by the shill media, and made for the mythical "modern audience" by clueless developers who have shown nothing but contempt for their real fans.
Saints Row was aiming to tank. Tossing a coin on each decision might have made a better game. Either way, tossers were in charge.
Wow evil west was bad? I saw it as pretty average. Old game design was the biggest downside but besides that it was really enjoyable with the boss fights and gear upgrades and hidden chests per level. Hell I couldn’t even find another copy in a 50 mile radius because it was sold out in my area at local brick and mortar stores to gift a friend.
No real pricks were hurt in the making of this video...
So much fun listening to your commentaries, thanks man!
All my life I’ve been a console gamer and kind of switched to PC after buying a steam deck. So happy to have chosen this year to switch across as there’s a plethora of good games from the past to pick up instead of holding out, hoping something decent will turn up. £40 or £50 for saints row or half life for under £1? Even if it is pretty ancient, there’s only one winner there!
You should definitely put those musical jams on Spotify or Bandcamp or something, absolute classics!
They're about as rinse and repeat as the AAA industry imo.
@@trittybitty1174 Isn't that the point?
@@retroarcadefan I don't think so
Your colorful commentary makes me laugh so hard and cheers me up when I'm having a bad day. Thanks for the finny videos mate.🤣🤣
Love it. It had to be Saints Row!!! Haha Thanks for the laughs this year Mack!
But man this year was truly a disappointment with 2 major clusterfuks for me being shadow circus warrior and soy rows
"X-Ray Vision, X Ray Vision, X, X, X!"
Indie games saved this year with the AAA exceptions of god of war ragnarok and elden ring
Actually really like Callisto, it's hilarious, but it's good, watered down Dead Space, get on hard sale
Mack pretends to not like hand holding but used a guide for elden ring. Never forget
Using a guide is pretty normal? That's what we used to do...
2022, what a glorious time in AAA gaming! /s No wonder I’m still playing older games from the early-mid 2000s. I can’t think of one AAA game I was excited to play this year.
I don't even like the graphics of these games, apart from the horror ones too much bloom and there's this weird excessive blockiness to it as if everything is made of colourful plasticine, it's just ugly. Noticed kids cartoons look like this too these days. Red Alert 2 and Half Life 2 look much better and organic with more detail imo.
scorn just shouldn't have been advertised as a survival horror at all. it's a heavy puzzle horror game about exploring the environment, and occasionally having to pull the trigger at something (depending how quickly you solve puzzles and move forward). rated as a traditional survival horror? yeah pretty bad. but as an explorative love-letter to H.R. Giger it's pretty fantastic, granted that aesthetic is enough to keep you entertained over the slow pace and backtracking or retrying.
Regarding Scorn, they must've patched in more checkpoints or something, because I really enjoyed my time with it tbh.
They called he ghost who needs toilet paper. Man who needs paper. Feels like that was a placeholder during the quest creation and they didnt even bother to change it.
Need For Speed is a tragedy. Whoever thought the series needed going in the direction it has needs to be arrested.
i havent played the new one but it looks identical to heat which i thought was good but i wouldve liked some difference
Came for singing, and didn't leave disappointed. Thanks, Mack!
2022 was a shit year all over, but I do look forward to Macks end of year round up video's! Keep going mate! Love ya work!
Same here. Absolute SHIT year, personally can't wait till it's over
@@rvh1702 Yeah mate It was a shit year for me as well! Think it was a shit year for a lot of people! Out with the old & in with the new, can't wait for this year to finish!
@@Ryan-lx6oh Well then, looks like it's just keep going strong brother! Best of luck to ya
Running around with a pogo stick hitting penises...
I had to pause the video due to laughing.
Never change Mack! Best game reviewer on the Internet.
Can’t wait to see all of these games for $10 Black Friday 😂
Saints Row is not only the worst game of 2022, but it’s the worst AAA game I’ve ever played.
Saints row devs did everything possible from their side to get Mac's award 🤣
7:13 - the funniest part. "Slap your f*cking fess man!"
There should be a war tribunal or something for what happened to the Rainbow Six series. From one of the greatest tactical shooters to Extraction in the span of 20 years. RIP
I honestly had no expectations or interest for saints row 5 but holy shit, by the looks of it, they couldn’t have made a more embarrassingly broken and by the numbers open-world sandbox game if they tried.
2022 wasn't the best but was certainly better than 2021
I'm not gonna lie those little songs Mac does absolutely slap harder than my step-dad. He sounds like Group X with a Scottish twist 😂😂
There were a lot of stinkers this year.
"The biggest tide of runny diarrhea in 2022"
🤣🤣🤣
SHAME
Mack have a wonderful New Year, thank you for all the laughs and good infos!
YESSSS!!!! I *_knew_* it would be Saints Row. I said as much on the day of release in a comment on a different vid. I put something like "Wait till Mac gets a hold of Saints Row 4. He's not going to be a happy bunny." or something like that.
Well-deserved to be the worst "game" of 2020. Love ya Mack o7
Although I do not agree with Shadow Warrior 3 and Evil West (I love FWH games) being bad games compared to what we have in 2022, but when I start comparing with games 10 years ago, I involuntarily agree with your remarks. The acceptable level in the industry (including gamers too) has degraded very much.
Forget the games. I'm here for the comedy. Dude you are hilarious xD
What a year...
Congrats to Volition, they went out of their way to completely destroy their franchise. Now they're part of Gearbox. Oh, it's not going to end well...
Vampire Survivors
Immortality
Tunic
Plague tale Requiem
Nobody Saves The World
Pokemon Arceus (Stripped down Pokémon without the tedious BS...bit rough, but decent)
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
Bayonetta 3
God of War: Ragnarock
Sifu
Rollerdrome
Destiny 2: Witch Queen (Banger expansion...best since Forsaken...but not ideal jump-in for new players. An actual story...from Bungie!)
Grounded
Slime Rancher 2
Pentiment
Stray
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Dorfromantik
Rogue Legacy 2
Neon White
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Cult of the Lamb
These were all decent+
60€ for Saint's Row. And here comes the Game of the Year for 4€. Vampire Survivors.
Scorn was incredible, not every game needs to be a 1990s platformer to satisfy your criteria. The art alone was worth playing it for.
said no one ever
@Leve levi Well no, I've just said it.
Me and my friends moved to PC gaming from console gaming just so we can pirate games and not pay anymore. The crack version is usually available a few days after release anyway.
Yes, it's pirating, but we don't exactly lose sleep over it. I'm not paying ever again
Great video Mack! I understand that it takes more time and skill to make a game nowadays, but holy f*ck... the state of AAA games is a disaster!
The Ghost Wire Tokyo segment at 7:00 is easily the best thing I have ever watched. Superb analysis!!
Looking forward to these videos every year. Laugh my intestines sore every time. Please, never stop....
Actually I do have a time machine. It’s called a Steam Deck, and ever since I put emulators on it I haven’t touched any steam games and have just been playing my favorite games from yesteryear.
Same here, as well as getting around to some of the games I bought years ago and never played, like Transistor and Outer Wilds. I think the only new ‘AAA’ game I got this year was Elden Ring.
Duckstation and PCSX2 are the GOATs, can't beat them. I started gaming on a desktop PC recently for the first time since the 90's and something I'm really liking there is that a lot of older games either just run well at higher resolutions "out of the box", have fan mods/patches to make them work, or in the best case scenarios; have full blown source code based ports that completely modernize them. I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein via the ioRtCW source port at 1440p 144fps and it's fucking amazing. Open Morrowind is good as well.
I'm happy to buy AAA games when they're actually good, like everyone else I did get around to buying Elden Ring in September. Fantastic game. Bought Devil May Cry 5 on sale then too since I missed out on that in 2019, also excellent. But AAA is rarely ever that good now.
I wait all year for this Mack, you’ve got no idea
Dishonorable mentions to God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West.
It's a tragedy that such painfully generic and safe games get heralded as achievements.
Last of us 2 is also hot garbage, but yea I agree that Saints row game looks like a game from 2011 but without any of the humor or character of any of the previous games. Even Saints Row 4 was better because while that was an overpriced expansion, but even that was actually funny…. So bad it probably caused the studio to close down and be gutted, EA style
let's be honest here, the following games may have disappointed you, but they are nowhere near worst games since they are decent 7-7,5 games:
Evil West, Shadow Warrior 3, Ghostwire Tokyo
I don’t think we give the worst games of this year enough credit. To include more abysmal story lines, more boring fetch quests and to claim the game has more “Unique RPG elements and a vibrant open world” than the average game of this year, is incredible. I admire it.. surely they’re doing this on purpose… maybe this is just one huge joke..
After Shadow Warrior 2, I was really excited for 3 - loved the weapon variety and the slightly random levels. They took all the good stuff away :(
SW2 was amazing. All we needed was more missions quests and maps for that game 🥺
I was disappointed by 2, fucking loved 3 though. Glad they ditched the looter shooter shit
Mack, I have 2 questions for you:
1- Since you started gaming, what was the BEST year for games?
2- If you get to play for pleasure, if you have spare time, what games do you come back to over and over?
Thanks. Your opinion has been invaluable over the years.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
He answers question 2 somewhat in "The take over of Activision Blizzard" video, number 1 he mentions in one of his streams, early 2000's, 2004 iirc when WOW, half life and other games were released
2007. Orange Box. nuff said
Evil West wasn't a bad game.
You just had to be nostalgic for old 360 console games.
Jim Sterling explained it best
Only a 13 minute video? With how shite 2022 has been I would have expected a feature length film.
I haven't bought any new release AAA games this year. I was interested in a few but all of them have fallen short of my expectations.
the worse games get, the better Mack's reviews.
Here is the deal, listen to Mack, Raptor, GamerZakh - and you are basically in good hands.
GManlives is also good
The only positive thing is that I’ve saved a fortune because nothing is really worth buying these days. Too much emphasis on pretty graphics at the expense of engaging gameplay.
The Rainbow Six Extraction bit has me in tears. It's almost as good as his no mans lie (Sky) impressions.
As soon as I saw that custom character I knew which one it'd be lol.
The worst year for [AAA] gaming...so far!
3:33 - God of War Ragnarok sweating rn
Sadly, Steam reviews are not totally reliable. Lots of copy/paste and bots making fake positive or negative reviews. Some are very well written, but you'll see the exact same thing on other games.
Time laps
00:00 Intro
00:39 Games list
01:48 Need for speed
02:38 Callisto protocol
03:13 evil west
04:08 scorn
04:56 autobahn police 3
05:59 sniper elite 5
06:59 ghost wire tokyo
08:51 shadow warrior 3
09:49 rainbwow 6 extraction
10:58 saints row
11:49 conclusions
I'd love to see a best glitches of the year video 😂
The bog roll quest was probably stolen from Conkers Bad Fur Day on N64, iirc
I still think you're wrong about Scorn. So I guess it's gratifying it slipped off the list at the end.
Yeah standards keep on dropping. The only positive is that there's just so much being developed you get some nice games still.
NO WAY Rainbow Six Extraction came out this year, I don't even know if anyone else has even covered it... wow
By this year I mean 2022