10 EXACT Moments Video Game Fans Tapped Out

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

Anything that describes itself as a "live service" is a massive turn off. Hard pass EVERY time. 👎

[@Son.D.Lollipop]

It’s funny the term “live service” so often follows behind games that end up dead

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

@@Son.D.Lollipop Exactly. Leaving you precisely f**k all to show for your hard earned money when they inevitably shut down the servers. It's a mugs game.

[@jasonlunstrum9599]

Free to play announcement after I've already pre-ordered and paid full fucking price was a chefs kiss

[@evanburke4269]

Okay? Lol you done yet pony boy?

[@lurka1337]

While I also don't like the live service games at least the incoming money seems to allow good Devs to get paid for updates to the game....

[@jimartymcfly5061]

I remember before they announced MGS Survive Konami also announced a MGS3 remaster and even released wallpapers and images, everyone was extremely exited until they revealed it was going to be a pachinko machine. (A Japanese gambling game) It felt like 90% of the MGS fandom turned they're backs on Konami that day.

[@TheHollowBlade]

Wasnt this around the time konami tapped out of game development and focused on pachinko machines?

[@DETRACT0RD00M]

And now, we're getting a proper MGS3 Remake.. that studio has to be completely clueless to have taken this long to remake that IP.. just, wow..

[@bryonyamada2620]

They should have stopped at MGS4

[@Zuranthus]

@@TheHollowBlade yes, and they took so many iconic IP's with them instead of spinning off the gaming department from their electronic media operations (Contra, Silent Hill, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Gradius, Goemon, Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution, Suikoden) now everything they do is a re-release or low effort projects

[@mikejett2733]

Atleast ther making 2 silent hills & a 3rd silent hill 2 HD

[@Specimin6]

Honestly was super excited and hyped up Suicide Squad to others UP until the State of Play. Never had an excitement for a game evaporate so quickly

[@atomicgator5207]

I was really looking forward to Suicide Squad. But now I think I'll just wait till the reviews come in and it's on discount on Steam.

[@Samurai_Stoner]

God forbid you have your own opinion, instead of being a sheep 🐑

[@catandrobbyflores]

I was going to buy it, just to hear Kevin Conroy one last time as Batman. Now im just going to wait till someone puts a compilation on KZbin.

[@Samurai_Stoner]

@@catandrobbyflores yeah because watching something for free is sure honoring the dead... Fake ass fans I swear

[@justcallmexen]

Question: does a spoiler warning count if you spoil the spoiler before the warning?

[@mentalshatter]

Yeah, kinda stupid.

[@bigoj7917]

No. I was also angered by this.

[@lexderp2766]

Nope doesn’t count. Spoiled

[@grantlawrence4600]

For what it's worth, the title used for the number is not the actual spoiler. The real "twist" is much, much stupider. To the point where you legitimately wonder what kind of drugs the developers were on when they decided to end the game that way. It sincerely harms the experience. Makes the whole game not worth playing in a way. It's that bad. Either way, not a game worth playing because of it. In my opinion. The rest of the game can be interesting and make you curious. The ending is abysmal.

[@johnm9384]

Nope, it absolutely does not and I came to the comments to say the same thing!

[@kenshelle1]

Number one is exactly how I feel. Really wanted to play it but now that I seen what I've seen never mind.

[@CelticVictory]

I was hoping for the best with that one but it does look as bad as the hype. So much so, that it's been delayed from the announced launch.

[@Lurker-dk8jk]

Love your videos, Jess. I tapped out on Diablo Immortal upon first hearing it was a mobile game. I like my Diablo games with ambiance and great art direction. I've always loved how the games could make me feel. Never been much for grinding, but the sights and sounds in this series could make it soothing and enjoyable. Can't see that possibility on mobile, where I'd be constantly interrupted by other phone apps. But I'm also leery of Diablo 4's multiplayer requirement. Other people distract me from the experience I want to have, so we'll see how it plays out upon release.

[@MadLadMartyMcFly85]

Flip a coin is it gonna be pay to win* dlc packs Or Pay to play then pay again to play next "season" This is blizzard afterall, fuk knows how they are gonna be blizztardvision🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@Icemann265]

Diablo immortal is tight a’f it’s a free mobile game so not comparable to a console / pc release but still a great way to spend some time if you’re into it

[@TheHollowBlade]

My bud who played it said you can easily go thru the full story without spending a dime, the p2w comes in the end game. So if your on for just the singleplayer portion and thats it then its your standard diablo game.

[@chadharger9323]

You can solo Diablo 4. I did for the open beta. The problem is that it's like ESO or FO '76 with having everyone else be visible. And I swear there were people that showed up at the last second when I was doing a challenge solo. They'd run up and clearly 'grab their reward' then run off without any contribution to the challenge. I think one or two people actually showed up and did help as I was doing a challenge. If this is indeed a thing then there has to be a way to kick out or punish(no reward or some crappy cheap common item) players that try to leech off others who put in the hard work.

[@matildatheoboldt2261]

Mobile games have come a long way, heck its crazy how much COD mobile plays like its console counterpart so Immortal may be worth a shot for you

[@andyhowl716]

So I had played neverwinter for like 6 years. Was by far my favorite mmorpg. I loved the loop of using a combat companion until you had to send them off to level up and switch them out with a different one and do the same thing! Well the moment they made it to where you had to have special currency to level them up was the moment they lost a potential lifelong player

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Yeah, that game started off super interesting and they have gradually introduced garbage. I tapped out a couple of years ago. Man I miss D&D :( Screw you WotC :|

[@Wref]

My earliest memory of tapping out of a video game was when I finally beat Ghosts 'n Goblins, only to discover I had to beat the game TWICE to get the real ending. Instantly nope'd out of that one.

[@MadnessStalker]

Destiny 2. Early on when it was discovered Bungie was throttling EXP gains if you were earning too fast so that the free loot boxes from the Eververse shop couldn't be farmed quickly. The experience you were earning from tasks was showing numerically correct on screen, but the progress bar was showing that you were getting next to nothing. They made an excuse about it being a glitch and "fixed it" but then the very next week it was discovered that they just tweaked something else to keep the throttle but hidden differently. I went from very much addicted to the game to never picking it up again in an instant. I didn't even care about the stupid loot boxes. It was 90% consumable cosmetics. It was just so very disrespectful to us as their player base that the magic was gone.

[@konradzukowski213]

What genuinely put away a lot of people from Diablo Immortal was the notion that it's sole purpose was to be an infinite cash cow for Acti-Blizz in China and unfortunately everything is showing that was 100% true. A solid game that hooks you up on the beginning, only to reveal its greed the moment you reach end game. The greed is so enormous that your only chances of progress are either: -f2p farming that will take decades since there are secret limits that are never told in game on how much you can grind without spending a dime. -spending literally thousands of dollars for a CHANCE to get items that you want. You can literally spend an entire cost of your house cost and you're not guaranteed to get what you want.

[@Fionor01]

@@danbauer3669 It's not. The problem might be in choice of games you are playing and developers you are supporting.

[@sphemaseko8035]

Personally, I really loved DmC. I don't think it deserved to be this high on the list but I do get the reasoning behind it. Amazing Combat, Great environmental traversal as well. It being a DMC title is always what held it back. It may be a bad Devil May Cry game, but the game itself, Amazing. Always curious how the actual sequel would've turned out

[@MrLeifbob]

DmC was a buttload of fun yeah ! Loved it too

[@Pethodieus]

Same. It had excellent and detailed animation (at the time) and the core was still there. Plus, it’s not Devil May Cry 2. So theirs that 😹

[@ryunosonomakurakoen]

Funniest part is Capcom began replacing Dante with Nero as the protagonist in DMC 5, who happens to be extremely similar to original Dante, yet looks similar to remake Dante, and fans praised DMC 5 as one of the best in the series.

[@raggaeldestro8609]

I liked the remake better. It was like they got a young Rob Lowe to play Dante. I liked the story was based on commercialism and the boss was a dirty sex-crazed, money-hungry blood-thirsty demon lord CEO.

[@AtmonTheExectioner]

I actually love DMC. I prefer the sassy Dante. The combos felt smoother and faster. Weapon loads were scaled down and combo moves scaled up. More intriguing story and the world looked gorgeous. It also couldn't of sucked that bad...as the Devil May Cry 5 Director wanted to make DMC2 but Capcom wouldn't allow it. Thus he made Devil May Cry 5 as close to DMC without it being to obvious to Capcom. When you look at the setting it is a dead giveaway. DMC is a fusion of London and USA. Devil May Cry 5 has Route Master London buses, London style markets and architecture. Also the place names...very London. Where the American flavour comes in is The RV, the lady that drives it/upgrades your gear (forgot her name) and the soundtrack.

[@zackwarrington7272]

Should have put TLOU2 on here, So many people tapped out after controlling abby. The strimmer who snapped the disc, the players who shut off the game, or just threw abby off the first cliff and were like "Joels avenged" and left it at that. I saw more streamers quit it then finish it.

[@darthgorbag]

Mega-agree. I can't upvote this video because it failed to include Abby Smash.

[@Steven-uy7tf]

Why the hell is The last of us 2 not on this list? People all over the world were breaking their discs and refunding the game.

[@mythic1868]

Because the game itself was still good. And it was still known for being an amazing story. Some people just didn't like a game based on survivors to have another character

[@Geddn]

Because its one of those games that will be defended to death specially by media now matter how much they fumble something

[@chimeron260]

Man, I convinced my parents to get me Devil May Cry in the 3rd grade, and DMC3 in 4th right when it came out. I’ve played all of them, live every one of them, and while the DmC reboot is nowhere near the best, I feel like I’m one of the only people who still lived it. It’s better than DMC2 any day of the week

[@shinzero0271]

To be fair, that isn't saying much. DMC2 did manage to improve the combat slightly and the devs put a lot more heart/polish into DMC3 after all that feedback. Devil May Cry 4 was extremely solid too. DMC5 probably had the best gameplay but some extremely repetitive level design. DmC's development caused people to check out early when Dante originally looked like his design was a self-insert of the studio head. Then there was the interviews where they were talking about how they hired epic storywriters (when they were essentially just ripping off They live and several other pop culture classics) and mocking the original Dante design. It's like the studio spent more time flexing than actually thinking about how their behavior would be received. The end result was a game that was crass in more of an offensive way than a fun one and featured a Dante who's primary character development (that made him go from unlikable to so-so) came from watching police brutalize a woman who's power required squirrel reproductive fluid to make portals. At least the combat was good at times as a solid early-mid game level design. I think the best thing would've been for DmC to be it's own unique franchise instead of a reboot that changed the entire style and theme of the franchise though. It was always going to lose fans of the first four games.

[@chimeron260]

@@shinzero0271 this feels like it was written by a 7 year old who read all the other reddit posts from people speculating about the game when it was first announced. DmC is a solid 7.5/10 in my opinion, the story is pretty well put together and I actually think DMC4 has the tightest gameplay, or 3. 5 is great but feels a bit loosey goosey.

[@shinzero0271]

@@chimeron260 Honestly, I followed DmC's development and don't use reddit. They definitely altered Dante's design from the initial reveal to look less like their studio head (I want to say his last name was Antoniades or something) at launch. I really wanted to like the game as a whole but the story never caught for me, particularly because they were hyping it as something 'epic' in interviews beforehand. I enjoyed the level design but the overall aesthetic was a real miss to me. I'd probably go 6/10 just from the gameplay and level design. The dialogue was cringe-worthy at best, the story was pretty basic in terms of the topics it touched on, and it was just hard to actually any of the characters. Comparatively, I'd give DMC2 a 3/10 simply because it evolved the gameplay formula even if the story was just awful and the level design was bland garbage. I probably wouldn't mind Lucia showing up again in a future game though. DMC3 was just fun overall. DMC4 was fun but got lazy near the end by having Dante backtrack many of the areas Nero already cleared while fighting the bosses again. I really, really wanted to like 5, but I had more fun just playing around in the Bloody Palace than I did in the main game. Also, I don't think there was anything really memorable about the game in terms of story or gameplay. Nico's driving was just about the only thing that stood out. DMC 5 also had good ideas but it just reinforced that the franchise has a real Vergil problem. This makes 2 games where he's summoned a giant demonic tower in the middle of a city and gotten tons of people massacred by demons. The guy has been the heart of the conflict in the games since DMC3 and I'd like to get a game where the villains weren't Vergil or things created/influenced by him.

[@BadgerOff32]

Overwatch 2. I tapped out of there double quick when I realized that a) it had no PvE in it, the part of the sequel I was most interested in trying out, b) had zero progression or rewards systems, c) it was insanely grindy for absolutely zero payoff, _because_ of the lack of a reward system, and d) they had locked everything behind a ridiculously expensive premium shop, with skins costing 20 quid. I'd even convinced a load of my mates to play it because it was free! I loved the first Overwatch and had played it a ton, so I'd convinced them that it was a game worth playing. I looked like a right arsehole when I was the first one to drop out! Had a similar thing with Destiny 2. Played the first one a ton and loved it so bought the sequel but tapped out after only a month due to how lazy and threadbare it was, how grindy it was, and because any half-decent looking item was locked behind a premium shop paywall. I do still occasionally come back to it every now and then, but I never stay long. All my friends have quit, it's even MORE grindy than it has ever been, and most of the cool stuff is STILL locked behind a paywall, only now, there's 100 quids worth of DLCs I don't own, so I can't do much anyway!

[@koshmareq]

now they canceled the PVE altogether. My favourite fps game is now a walking dead

[@manleeman5212]

I was waiting to see what you'd say for Fallout 76, knowing it would be here somewhere. The NPC thing threw my friends and I for such a loop when we realized we were shocked.

[@brokentuskclan1795]

Being asked to pay for a save slot was just taking the piss.

[@justingochioco1121]

For marvel vs Capcom Infinite, I tapped out when I found out the game didn’t have the x men in the game

[@Dreadjaws]

Not to mention the bullshit explanation they offered for it even though we all knew the real reason for it.

[@MrCjosue24]

Suicide Squad just the same as Marvel's The Avengers 👎

[@Savageking1998]

Good thing they showed how scummy it’s gonna be so people don’t waste money on it

[@charlieprince8671]

Nah it's worse because it showed they didn't learn a single damn thing from one of the greatest flops in gaming history

[@chancedraper6867]

So disappointed. Been waiting years for rocksteady to make another banger. And this is what we get. WE JUST WANTED A SUPERMAN GAME !!!

[@joepeers2789]

DC always copy Marvel these days…movie and games that is….but somehow worse

[@TheInFamousTMF]

It’s actually worse.

[@MrSakata65]

Definitely at the announcement of the DMC, with after years of being a big fan of the OG Devil May Cry it was a slap in the face. Glad they rectified that by continuing the OG series in the end

[@iLLiCiT_XL]

Rocksteady hit the “Dark Knight” rule: die a hero, etc.

[@rurio3723]

In the case of the DMC reboot, I unintentionally did the opposite and bought into it. Way back when I was first getting into the games when I was around 12, (and even earlier than that I was watching my mom play DMC 2 on PS2 of all the games, but didn’t play it myself) my mom surprisingly got a PS3 and a copy of the reboot, which would be my first DMC and I, as young as I was, didn’t know it was already getting booed from everyone who knew Dante as a badass demon hunter and not as a teenage edgelord. Admittedly, I played so many hours of it and I even had a gameinformer magazine covering it. So it wasn’t until the release of the definitive edition that I found out through some googling articles here and there why capcom changed Dante’s whole personality, the “not in a million years” line was one example. Even if the overall story was completely changed from that of the prior games, I still liked the combat and I would try again and again to get as far as I could in the bloody palace mode.

[@frostbite3820]

I was on board with Ark survival evolved until it not only released a paid DLC BEFORE the game left early access, but said DLC also let you take the new items/dinosaurs you tamed to servers with people who didn't buy the DLC and use those items against those players. Some tried to justify this by saying "the new items/dinosuars arent that much better than whats in the base game so its not pay to win" Yeah no miss me with that BS.

[@Lubble-]

Feels like this video has been made 5 times in the past few months

[@chefbreccia2642]

Well, game companies keep screwing up, so it's a field ripe for the picking. Again.

[@michaellee4463]

That tells you everything you need to know about the gaming industry

[@eddthehead123]

Ironically, The "Is this an out-of-season april fools joke?" guy has *become* Immortal due to that whole thing.

[@TheKyleBrah]

I thoroughly enjoyed DmC, and am probably one of the few fans that would kill for an actual sequel to it. I'm aware of the Dante and Virgil redesign quirks, but I didn't mind too much. It kind of worked for me as an Alternative Universe of sorts, I guess The awesome gameplay far outweighed the redesign, and I'm sad that I won't be getting another Ninja Theory version, as a sort of Alternative Universe

[@theMeshtar]

Agreed. Emo looks aside, that was one hell of a game. I enjoyed playing it.

[@TheKyleBrah]

@@austinteed3248 I rather enjoyed that feature, lol Forced you to think on your feet. You couldn't just spam the same moves over and over, so it encouraged one to diversify combos out of necessity, which was great for getting those coveted SSS Rankings. But I totally understand if it felt too restrictive for you.

[@theMeshtar]

@@austinteed3248 that was basically what original DMCs did. I remember the first one, using Ebony&Ivory on those masks instead of shotgun was a waste of time and health. At least DmC had the melee fluidity in mind, you could switch the type mid combo, and very quickly, which previous games lacked. My 2 cents

[@TheKyleBrah]

@@austinteed3248 Reminds me of how annoying Ghost of Tsushima was, where if you persistently use the "wrong" Weapon Stance for a particular enemy, the game literally would pause and force you to switch to the "correct" stance.

[@TheKyleBrah]

@@theMeshtar It was as simple as holding the appropriate Shoulder Button, yeah Very fluid system, hence me decrying the lack of a sequel to it ;_;

[@returnofbeans]

Don't forget #6, on top of the redesign, they threw shade at old Dante when a white wig falls on new Dante's head. He says "not in a million years".

[@avarycepierce6296]

That part made me laugh and enjoy the game more

[@TheHollowBlade]

I dont see the hate towards dmc.. it was a great game, and pretty much all my friends who played it enjoyed it also. Outside of the main character changes imo the game is still fantastic gameplay.

[@avarycepierce6296]

@@TheHollowBlade Because they expected to be exactly like Devil May Cry despite it being a reboot. They expected the lore to tie back into those games instead of expecting something completely new.

[@gatemadness]

Nah they threw shade at the ppl who complained about it, let devs have their own vision

[@Dreadjaws]

Nah, this is people gaslighting themselves into thinking this was throwing shade. It was clearly just a jokey reference. It's like Professor X joking about going bald in First Class.

[@sinswhisper9588]

i tapped out from ALL things Blizzard in 2018 as did my friends ... and there were two reasons ... one being the infamous 'do you guys not have phones' debacle that felt like a gigantic 'F-U' to the loyal fans of not just the Diablo Franchise ... but of fans of Blizzard in general ... the other reason is still ongoing today and has to do with back room politics and how they treat their employees and testers ... i get that those people work super hard and a lot of what they produce is a passion project ... i just cant be bothered with blizzard as a company right now that almost as bad if not worse then EA

[@z216ghost]

So you don't use Apple or buy from any companies that proudly use sweatshops and slave labor?

[@uno_king]

I tapped out of Turok 2. I loved the first one, but the second one had no mid level saving, hour+ long levels, and if you missed an objective, your only option was to play the level over in it's entirety. First time I missed an objective was the last time I played.

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

Interest definitely got dunked into cold water when Diablo Immortal was announced as a mobile-only game, yes, but I'd argue it was when it came out that to fully upgrade a character you would either need to spend literal years grinding, or tens of thousands of actual dollars to do it immediately, that the game went from barely floating in shallow waters, to dropping like a rock off the continental shelf. That was a huge shitshow.

[@thedanbot85]

I still have a mug that says "Don't nephilim have phones?" From that whole diablo immortal fiasco. The developers were totally tone deaf in that whole situation. They presented a mobile game to predominantly pc gamers, who, historically, hate mobile games. It didn't help that it was only a reskin of a Chinese title that already existed, and still took another 5 years to release. In the words of the red shirt guy, "is this an off season April fools joke?"

[@karllubangas7425]

This was new and fun! I hope there will be a part 2

[@nosliwec]

I'm surprised the rebooted SimCity (from 2013) wasn't mentioned, but maybe by the time this came out players had already tapped out after 10 years of no new SimCity games.

[@razanon4373]

I nearly ignored DmC due to the trailer that had him smoking. That was so disrespectful to Dante's original concept that it really pissed me off. They wanted to make a cool character that didn't smoke (a lot of the cool types were portrayed that way at the time). Thankfully they nixed that but I still hated the changes and the story. The combat had a huge issue in color coded enemies that made your weapons bounce off if you used the wrong ones. Definitive edition did fix the combat though, very solid. I definitely would have liked the game if it wasn't a DMC reboot. I love that series in all its dumb cheesy glory.

[@Dumbstuffwatcher]

Studios refused to acknowledge that Fortnite only worked as a live service because it seamlessly and easily supported cross-platform play. The fact of its being otherwise free and all the 3rd-party tie-ins helped, but its success is a unique blend of factors that would necessarily pretty much only work once. It isn't even a game I've played more than an hour or so of- it's not a great game but it didn't have to be. It was just the first to do something everyone wanted

[@brettpikkert4746]

12 Minutes is one of the best games of 2021

[@legendarycat2457]

Me and my friend that are big fans of devil may cry series...we always put up an argument with DMC: devil may cry. Me going on saying, "the game is actually fun and enjoyable." With my friend then responding with, "I'd rather love more of the older devil may cry games than DMC: devil may cry. I do not see it worth a part of the series." I understand and all but I still will go on saying the game is enjoyable.

[@avarycepierce6296]

The game is enjoyable. As usual: people had high expectations and got mad because it wasn't exactly how they expected it to be. Sometimes you just got to take something for what it is without preconceived notions.

[@USSoulSniper]

Always watch video game videos from you guys with Jess!

[@darth_olomew]

Let's see top 10 overly cartoonishly evil video game villains

[@DanaOtken]

I liked DMC, having previously tried playing the PC port of 3. I didn't own a controller at the time, bought a controller, and discovered I still couldn't figure out what a couple of the early tutorial tips meant. So I can't claim I had enough time to get too attached to the original version of Dante, and find it interesting that the story of DMC seems to do a lot to convert him back to that original version, after starting out as a kid dedicated to his idea of being awesome and not doing anything important... which doesn't matter because fans of the original didn't play long enough to see this.

[@PeachM0de]

SSKTJL is gonna be bad. Too bad it was also Kevin conroy’s last voice roll. Way to tarnish his legacy.

[@bluetable4412]

After hearing that it's basically destiny mixed with limited flying mechanics, I gave up all hope for the game.

[@scottgardener]

Those of us who have been playing on official servers for Ark: Survival Evolved are experiencing our jump-the-megalodon moment right now, as the game is about to be re-released in remastered form at full cost all over again, ($60, but they were originally going to charge extra for re-buying the DLC expansions, too) and the official servers with our years of progress on the verge of being wiped with about four months notice. Bonus points: my tribemates on PS4 couldn't rejoin if they wanted, because the new version, unlike the version that is out now, is only supported on the newest consoles.

[@WarGhoulKharas]

Got a new one for you: "Overwatch 2 cancels PvE."

[@willbrashear]

The moment they released a patch that redesired your Star Wars Galaxy game.... that was filled with bugs to the brim and made you start as a jedi. Previously, to be Jedi or Sith you had to do quest that took months up to a year of dedication... then theynadded the force sensitive village that widdled it down to a month atleast. So when my friend (as it took her a year to do)seen you started as a jedi... we went to City of Heroes.

[@jamison85]

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is actually pretty fun. They were forced to scrap the microtransactions, so now everthing is unlockable purely via gameplay. You'll have to grind a bit if you want all the upgrades, but right from the start, all classes and heroes are playable at base level. Picked it up in for a few bucks in January, and have not regretted it one bit.

[@ChrisThorne19]

I'm shocked Brigitte's release from Overwatch wasn't on this list. So many people left after then. I only have one friend from Overwatch 1 that plays casual every now and again. The rest refuse to play again.

[@gamerkingdom1442]

I continued playing after Brigitte, but I understand why many left after this. Especially when GOAT began to take over the META!! But, eventually I left the game with Overwatch 2. The GREED in the game’s new shop was, insulting!!

[@TBSxDRUMS]

Surprised Overwatch 2 wasn’t on this list at all. I think the fallout of the original playerbase was much larger when OW2 not only made OW1 stop getting updates anyone cared about but then released with unacceptable bugs and riddled with microtransactions and a very rough transition for many original players who lost all their account progress. OW2 was definitely a huge burn!

[@wariodude128]

Funny thing about 76 is that people had been yelling about getting a Fallout MMO for literal years and then they got a pretty mediocre one. Don't know what monkey paw was used to wish that one into existence, but at least now there are NPCs. Haven't played it myself, but still, happy for everyone who still is.

[@kurtfrederiksen5538]

For the microtransactions I would argue the companies did not scale back their plans. They intentionally overreached so that when there was backlash they could be the "good guys" by scaling things back to what they originally intended, which was still a big push forward. As for my tap out moment, X3 Reunion. This was back in the day where you could get games on disk. Reasons for tapping out: * The system requirements on the box were significantly lower than what they actually were. (mis-advertising) I was looking for a game I could play on my laptop so this was important * The user manual referenced menu items and game mechanics that did not exist * The disk were mislabeled and required you to insert them in the right order (there were 4) * Game required like a 1-2 Gig patch to get running * The only official help you had was their user forums Felt so slighted by this that Egosoft is now on my list of publishers I avoid.

[@CamuiNox]

"Requires an internet connection to play" on the front of a box is pretty much a "stay away" in big, bold, bright red letters for me. Babylon's Fall, Anthem and Avengers being the most stand-out examples recently, which I would have probably played otherwise. Then there's battle passes of any kind - see Chocobo GP. And now, the one that hurts the most for me: Pokemon. With how Scarlet/Violet received little to no support after a pretty bad launch, I was already just about to turn away from the series, but with paid DLC taking priority over patching the base game, I'll now turn to the clones and inspired fan projects. I played a few rather dismal ports on Switch, but there's no reason for a console exclusive to not be properly optimized.

[@Shiirow]

giving King Shark a gun is like giving The Hulk a gun. it all sounds so asinine. like they couldnt bring in a character or two whose whole shtick is a gun, like Captain Cold or Firefly? and they had to make Deadshot black because "will smith" even though thats not remotely accurate...

[@BrokenNoah]

9:20 Correction, it's not microtransaction, it's called "randomized content mechanic" lol

[@honeypeadigital]

Overwatch 2. Characters locked behind paywall. Never gave it a shot after that news

[@Kialandi90]

I couldn't get past Dante's new look for DMC. Never played it, never will

[@samjames3947]

I'll be getting Suicide Squad, cause the story looks interesting, but only on a deep discount. Remember, no preorders.

[@DozenMarks]

I will pre-order the hell out of anything I know for sure I'm going to play. Suicide Squad though is one I'm definitely waiting for a sale as well. At this point I just want to play through the story for the fun character moments and then drop it forever. Too many other things coming out soon I'm vastly more interested in.

[@woteveruk1]

@@DozenMarks same, if i know its something i absolutely want for example tears of the kingdom, i will pre order it, but something like suicide squad i might get on sale.......eventually

[@joshw1619]

Just watch the cutscenes on KZbin... Dont pay any money for the game... Even if it only costs $1, don't buy it.

[@pixelchickenrider9566]

One of my favorite games was Borderlands and Borderlands 2. I tapped out on Borderlands 3 with the terrible story, super long and boring cutscenes, and what ended up being pretty boring itemization after I played around for a while with the few builds that really worked. I hear they improved on it, but I never went back.

[@Pethodieus]

Which is sad because their were some improvements to the gameplay, but the writing was a step back, off a cliff.

[@silvarace]

yeahh i tried to stick it out, and it did get better, than it got, then it got better again and now its just kind of okay. they seemed to really not like people optimizing there builds so they made it harder to farm for weapons you wanted instead of idk having legendaries at least all work. they kept doing things to shift the meta which meant you then had to go and refarm your gear so you could play the highest difficulty stuff and it became a slog in the worst way

[@Hreimr]

Far Cry 6 during the intro - when an untrained barista disarms an experienced guerilla fighter. Also Ubisoft (you know Scammisoft).

[@jarjaracroft]

not only did they reveal skins for $75, the very next day they announced that cosmetics would be becoming free soon. So anyone who bought them when the came out was hard out of luck

[@tycepickett1238]

Yeah suicide squad kills the justice league was definitely something I was looking forward to playing. And the cut scenes, story and voice acting all seem great. But the gameplay where everyone on the squad is using guns and jumping around with jetpacks and playing as king shark or captian boomerang seems like there's no difference between them other than a skin? Yeah no thanks.

[@jaredsheaff939]

That bouncy drum in Sonic 3.

[@clarenceweaver1820]

3 things that immediately shut me off to a game: 1. Single player experience that requires an internet connection. 2. Micro transactions 3. Actively/Intentionally antagonizing the players.

[@SmaugUKA]

You could tell she had no idea how to pronounce Donte since she said Dante twice. The whole point of the name change by fans (which again was never even mentioned) was it was a Don't and Dante, or Not Dante...Don'te. A pretty big oversight considering they used the Donte name for this video. Could have also mentioned the person asking if Diablo Immortal was an out of month April Fool's Joke. (Something was has become just as well known as "Don't you have phones?") It's like WhatCulture likes to use Pop Culture and or Memes as a basis for things, but then doesn't reference/acknowledge them afterwards.

[@Bman32x]

DMC: Devil May Cry could have been fixed if when the wig fell on his head, he looked in the mirror and said “huh, not bad.” And then the wig stays on your head when the gameplay starts back up, complete with ridiculous challenge of the wig will stay on your head so long as you don’t get hit. Beat the game with the wig still on your head, you unlock an S-tier devil trigger that you one shot basically every enemy in the game.

[@ShaenMOGaming]

Avengers also made all of that contents part of the free March 31 cosmetic updates where every hero had like two dozen costumes name, plates, and all that they’re formerly cost money that are now free.

[@epicthrower7659]

What gaming really really hates Suicide Squad, and they want you to know it. It seems like every video they put out is bashing on suicide squad.

[@Zoofa188_Qe]

I mean rightfully so

[@DamnDaimen]

Path of Exile, when you get your first skill point and you see the skill tree.

[@Afalstein]

Okay, hear me out on Death Stranding: The game later reveals that Amelie is essentially a goddess of the afterlife (the beach), so she's also hinting that she's the queen of the underworld and the very personification of the living/dead realm they're currently running through. The whole game is meant to be a re-imagined version of an ancient Japanese legend of Princess Himiko and Amaterasu. So there's logic to the line, even if, ultimately, it doesn't make sense and it comes across cringey as heck.

[@Jedi_Pirate]

Also the actress is Lindsey Wagner, who in the late 70's was the Bionic Women (Spinoff from the Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Man), who famously in every episode would have slow motion runs, etc. So this to me is a nod or throwback to her previous character as an actress.

[@imakeshoes1]

If they remove the always online requirement for Suicide Squad then I’ll definitely try it. Until then, it’s a hard pass

[@kevingame3198]

Unless we can get the government to Ban games with microtransactions loot boxes, battle pass live service service elements

[@Thor847200]

The issue with Fallout not being Single Player and it being Online instead is that what Fans actually wanted with a "Multiplayer" experience in Fallout was Drop-In Coop for the Single Player Campaign. Not a server of people who are against you. I would LOVE Campaign Coop in other games as well. Games such as Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Elderscrolls, Horizon, and many other deserve to have a Campaign Coop instead of a Mutliplayer PVP mode.

[@evanflynn4680]

Mass Effect Andromeda: "I'm sorry, my face is tired."

[@Silverslate]

The puzzle hints in God of War Ragnarok have turned my PS5 into a indie and RE4 machine. I was excited for the game and love the story and gameplay but the outright insult to my intelligence that is the games refusal to let me think at all eventually broke me as the realization that the game aggressively did not want me to interact with half of its content killed my desire to finish it. The game has a myriad of wonderful accessibility options, but not one "shut up" button for puzzles, which seems like an amusing afterthought in retrospect.

[@tonytony8595]

Thats any modern game it seems unfortunately.

[@Relaxedplaythroughs]

I was one of the few people who was fine with no human npc in fallout 76 two reasons knew they'd get around to it eventually and I always loved the environmental storytelling that all the fallout games have. Almost no npcs are found in the vaults we explore and all the story is found in terminal entries and holotapes. And its these stories that normally stick with people like the music vault or Gary.

[@jerardthebacon]

I started playing it with my friends before they added npcs and we enjoyed it.

[@Relaxedplaythroughs]

@@jerardthebacon same been playing since about a 3 months after release

[@aaronforsythe8556]

Played some in the beta and that was enough for me to walk away

[@Relaxedplaythroughs]

@@aaronforsythe8556 well yeah the beta was a bug filled nightmare full of crashes

[@B-A-L]

I tapped out on Far Cry 5 when I finally managed to finish the Jacob hunted timed mission after ten attempts only to find out you have to repeat it another four times, each one getting longer. Particularly annoyed with that because it was the first Far Cry game I was genuinely enjoying, particularly the storyline itself.

[@ken_kaniff246]

I just don't understand why microtransactions are so expensive. They could make things super cheap and would probably make a killing

[@xanderac]

Marvels avengers double dipping on charging their players for both Thors to have skins with the helmet on or off and charging twice was so silly

[@Vasarcdus]

Destiny 2: "vaulting" content that we already paid them for.

[@gordon1891]

Tapped out on Halo with number 4. Between the Captain Del Rio scene & the game end battle/boss being a Q.T.E. Haven't been interested in going back to the franchise since.

[@SilverSpectre266]

Hot take. But for me it was when they killed off Desmond in AC. I was already feeling fatigued with the series but kept going because I was actually invested in the story but after that I just stopped because it felt like this was the moment they were going to just try to milk and stretch the series as far as they could. Every now and then I pop in to see what's going on in the story and the lore, but I haven't regretted not buying or playing the games anymore because it seems like since the Desmond Era they've broken and changed every rule the series originally set in place and are just doing whatever to keep it going. At this point they might as well drop the whole modern times and Animus thing but apparently Mirage is going back and the end Odyssey ties to the Desmond Era so we will see what happens

[@cybertramon0012]

tbh, when Diablo Immortal was announced, I was embarrassed by the reaction to it than the game. They hadn't gone out and said 'hey, we're announcing stuff about Diablo 4' and then pulled the rug out from under us gamers. They just said they had an announcement about Diablo, everyone assumed it was about Diablo 4, and then got upset that it wasn't about that at all. Yes I know that they're vindicated now by the heavy and exploitive microtransactions, but at the time it still felt like we were getting mad about what they were announcing wasn't what we wanted them to announce.

[@solidkwon]

From the title of the video, I was actually acting moments in the game that had people give up, like the bridge level in Crash Bandicoot, experiencing the game ending glitches on Batman Arkham Knight on PC, etc But this vid is just more bashing of the same games that have gotten bashed so much already lol

[@maxvolume72]

I would have loved it if they just made it so a game like fallout 4 was co-op, it would work so well being able to still have a story and complete it with friends

[@kevinkunkel9444]

Golden Sun. In the second game, I could not beat the final boss.

[@gamerkingdom1442]

For me, it was OVERWATCH 2. I love the game, but I CANNOT stand its monetization!! You know it’s bad when the LOOTBOXES of the original game were more TOLERABLE than what they did in 2!!!

[@sammoore5864]

This

[@ShawnChang6453]

Oh, Wahtculture. How I love the way you rub salt to the wound by spelling DONTE.

[@matosz23]

I played Returnal for the first time this year. Marvelous game. Even got me to platinum (under 20 hours). Now as for that blasted tower...

[@nikgokuhil]

Yup, I played and liked DMC game, its combat, environment and so on, but the disservice dont to both Dante and Vergil in it was immense

[@Kranitoko]

Although I've already played 12 minutes, maybe you should add a spoiler warning BEFORE you reveal the next one on the list, with the title "it was all a dream" being a big spoiler in itself 😂

[@mqsiti8849]

it really depends on how we see it... i love returnal since it is a rogue-like game and the auto-save mechanic wasnt really that needed, even if u just started learning playing it, the longest u can run is probably 2 hours starting from 1st world - 3rd world, then 4th world - 6th u needed to start a separate run.

[@buzzsawgr81]

yeah, the prices for skins for avengers was just insane. though as of a few days ago everything in the store is now free, so those like myself who waited and didn't feel the need to pump hundreds of dollars into the game now have it all for free.

[@wesker1152]

The biggest disappointment for suicide squad is that this is the last piece of content we get from kevin. So it needs to be a banger for him alone. Unfortunately the live service part is definitely my red flag and has since suspended my hype for it😔

[@Raven17778]

After allow 20 years of halo I tapped out at infinite for refusing to add ranked slayer. It’s so wild to me that they took such a intrinsic game type out, i never understood why.

[@nishidohellhillsruler6731]

What they did to Captain Boomerang is the highest disrespect he has ever suffered, and you don't have to believe me, but it's saying something.

[@FreezingToad]

Out of the games you listed here, it was FO76 that did it for me. I actually enjoyed the story telling in that game, in spite of the lack of NPC's. But when everything started to boil down to daily/weekly quests, the seasonal releases that were purely cosmetic, and the lack of story expansions, past the BoS release, I had to dip.

[@MadaCunningham]

Whats the figurine above the N64? White top on and what looks like a scythe in hand?

[@Ensensu2]

Captain Boomerang could have just recycled the guns into newer, better boomerangs, but no, he had to go shoot bullets out of them like a boring normal person.

[@Bodya_CN]

Fallout 76. It was difficult to make a game worse than Fallout 4, but BOY did they succeed.

[@TrueDiox]

I love almost everything about Ghostrunner. But had to tap out of it because I usually don't have the time to go through an entire level in one sitting and, as a gamer working dad who does not get to play whenever I want to, a game wasting my time is a giant-sized no no. Which is also why I'm not getting anywhere near Returnal regardless of how good it looks.

[@TheViper4Life]

Suicide Squad is what came to mind for this video. I once believed that Rocksteady would be the ones to do the impossible...give us a good Superman or Flash game. So I was already apprehensive when it was announced to be the Suicide Squad, but once that gameplay dropped I noped out. Unless people say it's WAY better than it looks, then I'm not even bothering with it.

[@somedude4805]

I love DMC as a stand-alone game. It’s fun as F to play, in my opinion, but I’m glad it’s not canon.

[@SorenPenrose]

Do you guys not have phones -Sacricial Lamb sent to salivating fans who we all knew were about to be sorely disappointed

[@DonkThikkness]

Moral of the story, don’t let nostalgia f*** you over. I feel bad for Blizzard, Marvel, DC, Star Wars fans.