10 Gaming TRENDS That NEED TO DIE in 2025

[@aurawolf2221]

Remakes aren't a problem in & of themselves... but remaking games that are LESS THAN 5 YEARS OLD (looking at you Sony) is absolutely ridiculous, especially when there's 10+ year old games that could actually use remaking (cough Fallout 3 & NV cough)

[@codyott1982]

After the final fantasy 7 remake do you really want them messing with fallout? Does Sony even have a say in that if they weren't exclusives?

[@bronzin1445]

@@codyott1982your comment makes no sense. FF7 remake is phenomenal

[@diamonddead8162]

Let’s do GTA 5 on the ps3 4 5 and probably 6

[@sebastiangibson9671]

@@codyott1982 i dont know about the FF7 havent played but like FF3 and FNV are so much better than starfield whcih was kinda mid i dont want modern bethsda anywhere near the babys Especially since all the people who made them in the first place have already left

[@avinashsanga5840]

​@@diamonddead8162 That's not remake, that's re-release.

[@erecto_patronum]

They need to stop shoving battle passes in single player games.

[@DevinPosey20]

This!

[@FTChomp9980]

This needs to be top comment.

[@moloko912]

What does this mean. Does this mean game like SF6 our smash ultimate shouldn't have new characters after the release?

[@DevinPosey20]

@ they’ve done it for years without season pass and been successful maybe try that again

[@erecto_patronum]

@@moloko912 A game can have a season pass with all DLCs included. That doesn't bother me. I'm talking about games that have a progression based battle pass in the style of Fortnite where you have to purchase the season pass just to rank up and unlock everything but in single player games.

[@harman950]

My personal list: 1.)Live Service 2.)loot boxes 3.)micro transactions 4.)Single player games that require a constant internet connection. 5.) Killing games and not providing an offline mode.

[@wetenschap123]

Microtransactions will never ever fade away. Just look at pop-ups, they still exist. As long as it makes some kind of money, it will be there. There will always be whales to buy it.

[@christonchev9762]

y but do u know why they are doing point 1 and 4? cause of the PC Piracy

[@sicsempertyrannis6541]

@@christonchev9762 make a good product that people will want to buy, and piracy will go away.

[@Psychotoxic86]

UE5 Engine and Stutters

[@cloudsymbol7890]

Micro transactions were fine when they were MICRO £5 for a bundle or £1 for a skin now it's £15-£29 for a skin/bundle like wtf and on a paid game *COD*

[@NefeTri]

Got Rainbow 6 siege to play with a friend towards the end of the year. Took me a solid hour before I finished setting up account, logging in, and playing through the required tutorial. Wow was my motivation to play the game killed by that point.

[@misterspeeds2482]

You missed this game by about 6 years, a shadow of its former self now

[@Wingtrl]

You know what trend i hate when enimies level up with you..... Like whats the damn Point if having a leveling system?

[@GGBlaster]

Keeping the game interesting. Cause you know what’s really stupid? Game areas that aren’t worth going to because the loot and enemies stay at level 1 forever

[@Legendnum23]

@@Wingtrl fallout is notorious for this. But it’s to keep the game challenging. However this is why difficulty’s exist. You find it to easy go ahead put it on hard or very hard. Too hard put it on easy. Some games don’t have that and it gets annoying.

[@kingzach74]

​@@GGBlasterit should be a toggle option rather than the only option. If I want to mow down enemies with my almighty over leveled character, I should have that option to play as I see fit.

[@YouTubalcaine]

Developers aren't taking risks because they're making games for streamers who are playing games for advertisers who are sponsoring games for shareholders who need everything dumbed down to the lowest inoffensive common denominator, and nobody is making games for gamers anymore. Okay, there's a bit of hyperbole there, but this baffling trend of paying to watch other people play games is insidiously ruining the industry for those of us who just want to play games. The love of monetization is the root of all kinds of evil.

[@pht9317]

Source: Crack pipe

[@Traddles]

@@pht9317 Pass that baby over to me then.

[@Caporg3000]

@@pht9317This guy is spitting facts. The fact that you don’t understand it just speaks to how young, dumb, or uneducated you are. Gaming is a microcosm of everything else going on in our capitalist dystopia: Greed reigns supreme, and us normal people suffer. Stay young, dumb, or uneducated though.

[@pht9317]

@Caporg3000 Umm, KIDDO, nothing it stated was a fact, just plain conspiracy. Please cite one piece of evidence to back these claims? You can't... Internet, automotives, and electricity are all part of a "capitalist dystopia." You master the art of saying nothing while convincing yourself you did. Please educate yourself, kiddo it's embarrassing.

[@thiagocotrim478]

The name of the problem is capitalism dude

[@playerman120]

Hot take: Anything under ten years shouldn’t be remade.

[@holdupits420]

They gonna remake Harry potter gogwarts I hear to try and make another 100mil

[@imALazyPanda]

Hotter take, anything from 360 era on doesn't need to be remade. Its not like we were still dealing with tank controls as the norm by mid-late 360 era. They controlled almost exactly like now all it would be is graphics.

[@KapitanTrenktor]

That means the Witcher 3 could be remade

[@peterwoods8299]

I'd say anything under 15 years shouldn't be remade

[@sameer8996]

remakes are still fine but it's the remasters that I have a problem with, I recently played the Alan Wake remastered and for some reason, it felt more janky than the original and honestly I didn't see much of graphical enhancement either, the original still looks fine. the remastered is just badly optimized slop like someone tried to convert a red velvet cake into a chocolate cake by slopping chocolate frosting on it and now it's worst of both worlds.

[@damianwulf8032]

Decent list, but two points that I would have included are having massive file sizes for games that aren't visually stunning (Dead Space remake is 60 GB, Black Ops 6 is 254 GB) and releasing games in an unfinished state. That's not to say eliminate every possible bug or issue, but for every Cyberpunk redemption story, there are too many failures. As a consumer, I want a quality product and not a rushed-out-the-door cash grab.

[@Jjonnnnnn]

there's a reason cod makes their games take hella space...it's the only thing they want you playing lmao

[@robson124]

Today as default I'm a player who waits, at least, for the first patch release before buy the game. Unless is a game that I Hyped to play (usually nostalgia remakes like as Crash N Sane, CTR and Tomb Raider 123 remastered). Online patches made developers spoiled with: whe launch now and fix later.

[@courier11sec]

The fact that cod has been filling up entire hard drives for like half a decade is so crappy. Even when folks don't have the full game just the f2p micro transaction farm.

[@Greengoblin420-69]

@@robson124we shouldn’t be buying games at all that need patches to make them playable. We shouldn’t entertain that bs…

[@Legend77700]

@@Greengoblin420-69good luck with that

[@SushiManSoda]

7:00 I've never heard crickets in a game before but jesus christ I did there. I dont know whats more cringey, what the AI said or the fact the devs thought it was a good idea and greenlit it to stay in. Absolutely embarrassing

[@MattRobeson]

I almost want to know what game it is, just to see if it's really that bad in real life

[@ThePhilosophizer8488]

@@MattRobeson I'm commenting here trying to find the game as well, because holy shit that was PAINFUL

[@danehay5057]

​@@ThePhilosophizer8488 nathan morgan dilemma. Charlie played it.

[@ThePhilosophizer8488]

@@danehay5057 you're a hero.. maybe all your pillows be soft and your beers be cold!

[@DarkAttackYT]

Here are the trends that I wish they died already; - Live-service - Ubisoft - EA - 1 to 1 game remakes for the ones that are already accessible and not outdated for modern audience (Sony in general) - AI-generated games - Unnecessary big budgets - Oversatured open world - Too much focus on fidelity rather than using art styles

[@Ezdine_G8261]

Ubisoft is falling like a flaming plane

[@darknesswave100]

​​@@Ezdine_G8261the funniest part is that it was a self inflicted plane fire 😂 They actually released a trailer with floating doors and swords clipping through scabbards and thought people wouldn't notice

[@khalildakhil6933]

Worst thing is when they cancel a game that would be hype like that Spider-Man game were you can play multiple spider men and they do that for absolutely no reason

[@bigfoxki]

Bully 2

[@tarak950]

I’m sure they had their reasons. I think instead of making a full blow out multiplayer game, they should dip their toes by making a more concise multiplayer experience alongside their single player game. Like imagine picking one of two spidermen, swinging around and doing a couple missions and some combat. Making a full blown game sounds out of their area of expertise and could come across as a downgrade and cash grav

[@tyleroutland435]

Nobody wanted to play that stupid multiplayer game 😂

[@tyleroutland435]

@tarak950 that would be terrible and a stupid idea 😂

[@dtanobo]

There's many reasons to cancel it. You're not a developer.

[@maironamakesstuff]

Goals for 2025: * hire Falcon to voice my video game * develop a video game that requires voice acting * learn how to make video games Not necessarily in that order lol

[@SiCSpiT1]

But do they also have to be good? Because otherwise we can save a ton of money.

[@winter.aaron.m]

I know right. I have lots of ideas...but I don't know game engines or programming. I have some basic 3D skills, can make 3D building models in Autocad/Revit but thats not really overly helpful.

[@maironamakesstuff]

@@SiCSpiT1 Hey, fair is fair, I never specified the _quality_ of the game!

[@maironamakesstuff]

@@winter.aaron.m you feel my pain lol. I know programming but not game engines and have only just started playing with Blender (I have a partially-completed donut so far 😆)

[@modeisin7]

To be fair his voice is half the reason I watch so many videos as I do, I’m not saying Jake is bad but if I had to choose I Falcon

[@selunescorpio]

19:40 Gotta start suing game companies for false advertising because these are macrotransactions, not microtransactions.

[@jasonsmith3537]

Worst trend they ever made was....pre-orders without beta testers. Releasing games still in beta but rebranding it as "pre-ordered". Games that require better hardware because they don't want to spend the time optimizing the software to run on older systems. They drop tons of money into development and then don't stick around to finish and get all the sales off hype. I actually stopped buying new releases until at least 6 months to a year after they come out.

[@HaoHaki]

I think AI voices are fine for background characters, and they are great for modders, who want to add extra quests and content to existing games, but yeah, using them for main characters that you hear during the entire game is still pretty bad atm.

[@aglassofBourbon]

For me what has to stop is: 1. half-assed releases, its ridiculous that games being finished 2 years after release has become the standard and people actually cheer this behavior. 2. Paywall content: battlepass and micro-transactions. 3. AI anything. 4. extra launchers 5. PC exclusives ( looking at you EGS). 6. Consumerism - consumers gotta chill stop asking for early releases and a new game year after year let things cook so they are actually good and innovative. 7. live service has to go, or at least not become a thing. 8. Ubisoft.. just stop making games at this point please, they are soulless and uninspired like a slot machines.

[@TurinAlexander]

While I don't support number one, games should release in a playable fashion, I understand the cheering. It's that they finally fixed the damn game and got into the shape it should have been before taking people's money that is being cheered. It's that they bothered to fix it at all. So many games come out in crap shape, and the devs just move on.

[@simlife445]

wow u must be super poor ai is everything... a 1400 dollar gpu using path traching wihout any upscaleing is 28 fps in allen wake with upsaclacling is 75.... half ass coment need to stop and ppl with wtf names aalss of bourbon are u a drunk??!? even if not wtf is that for name... also 100000% devs do the op of a super poor pso.. hes asking u to make less money... also less laucnhers is asking to sue one of t he richest companys in the world... aka steam from making money TONS of money with very few workers... idally this is tought in schools for math... name.. and ignoring steam is a huge job killer as one of the richest companys in the entire world with one of the lowest empolyyes.... # ban a kid cying on u tube forsuper super low math aka aglaassof nourbun... ideal we sue him

[@schizo_fox]

3rd point i disagree with. You know with all the AI advances if there is one thing that i wanted to see is AI, as in NPCs, enemies etc being at higher level than they were two decades ago in FEAR, HL2 or Far Cry 1. So that one thing youd expect is nowhere to be seen. Probably because you need the rest of the game to work well and that is heavily lacking. So far AI is being used to ditch workers. You would think with so much time and workforce saved the games would be... cheaper to make. And they are. Where is the price drop i wonder.

[@LunarethaAlter]

If Xbox and PlayStation get to have exclusives, PC gets to have exclusives too. Either ditch exclusives as a whole or start making the exclusives worth it. EDIT: Just realized you might of meant exclusive to a specific store front. That's on me.

[@zeikers]

I really like the remakes of old games that I never got to play. The idea of remaking games released in the ps4 generation or newer is insane though.

[@Celthricify]

I'd love some remakes of older Fire Emblem games like Thracia 776 or Genealogy of the Holy War, which never even came stateside 🥺 and maybe a remaster of Path of Radiance for people who can't afford $140+ for a copy of the GameCube disc

[@Demsky83]

I need a PsY-Ops remake, a remake for Max Payne 3, a remake for Infamous 1 and 2, A remake for Metal Gear Revengence, and a remake for Binary Domain.

[@WildStyle]

As much as I have liked... Some remasters... Like Mafia 1! I almost just want to see something new at this point. I'm tired of the same things.

[@JuanitoLima13]

PS4 launched over 10 years ago, I’d gladly pay for and really enjoy an AC Black Flag remake and that’s a PS4 game. Same thing with The Witcher 3, I just played the PS5 remake this year for the first time. So not insane at all. There’s been a lot of improvements in 10 years.

[@MrJambola123]

I feel like at a minimum, remakes for games that we can't play on the same system (horizon zero dawn)

[@OhCorny]

That Spyro and crash remake was something special though. Just waiting for sly cooper next

[@LunarethaAlter]

Keep waiting like the rest of us. Sony would never. Free money? They're allergic.

[@jplosts]

RE4 is so much better of a remake

[@LunarethaAlter]

@@jplosts that's not in this conversation. at all. RE4 is a totally different game from Spyro and Crash, not at all comparable.

[@daequannamathis2780]

I WISH they would drop a new sly copper 😭

[@BHank762]

​@@LunarethaAlter there always has to be that one person...lol

[@justinsbuzz]

A.I. is going to be a larger problem than most people know. There''s no place in gaming for that slop since there's perfectly good voice actors and script writers out there looking for gigs. take away the human element and it becomes a depressing brick of artificial misery.

[@holdupits420]

The problem is you have to pay people and actors are very greedy so they will use a free ai

[@HashtagZelda]

It’s artificial misery, but the misery sure isn’t artificial.

[@LunarethaAlter]

Who is there to hire when everyone goes crybaby mode because they want another ten thousand dollars on top of their ten thousand dollars? It's the VA's faults. They acted extremely stupid throughout 2021-2023, especially with pushing that only people who share race with a character should voice that character.

[@AngryBoozer]

The worst part about corporations buying studios is that they think they're just acquiring a brand and that's what will make the money, not the people who actually created the stuff. This isn't Apple, I don't give a shit about the brand, I care about the artists making the art.

[@UngliYT]

AI replacing artists and other talent. That stuff in BO6 makes me sick. I did a review on BO1 and it really just brings into perspective the lack of creativity in the more modern entries. That’s not to say there’s 0 creativity, but Execs are undercutting artists with that garbage.

[@pagandragon830]

That's capitalism baby!! Get something that works for free even if it sucks. And here we have FAR too many consumers being OK with it.

[@sebastiangibson9671]

@@pagandragon830 it makes sense its not that Consumers are okay with it but look at any well-received game sure voice acting is apart of it and i wouldn't argue for an RPG to have ai voice acting but in like a shooter i can see why people are more eh about it like most peoples main praises are gameplay most people dont bring up voice acting unless its really good in which case its the cherry on top or really bad which unless again its RPG is fairly meh though i dont want talented actors to lose jobs

[@kayc7442]

Netflix is a big indicator of how the majority of consumers just want to consume. Good or bad they just want the content which is sad. I could understand if you couldn't tell the difference because then it would be proper deception but it's the fact that AI art is noticeable and yet people still accept the lower quality.

[@Canadianvoice]

Because their jobs can easily be replaced by others that sold out their industry developing that software. Handmade games will make a comeback.

[@AvastAvoid]

It's not Activision fault it's delusional employees think they ARE a character developed BY Activision. Voice actors need to S T F U and understand that the character is NOT theirs, the voice they choose to use is NOT theirs, it's the characters.

[@thanosandnobill3789]

An extra. Stop make almost all western games AAA or indie (often pixel art) made by one person and nothing in between. We need more 20 hour AA games.

[@avinashsanga5840]

Like Gollum Or that King Kong game?

[@petesmart1983]

Stop eastern games too not much great games from there either

[@kayc7442]

This is an unfortunate reality with venture capitalism. The would rather have 3 major wins in a year than a dozen mid-level successes. Even though the industry was essentially built on sub 20 development teams. Probably

[@NBAdux]

​@@kayc7442quality over quantity. I'd rather game studios make only 2 8/10 games a year then 5 games which are 5/10.

[@BrndnNZT48V2.0]

Agree and disagree. If it's a shorter game it should be cheaper otherwise for full price I want the most hours without it feeling dragged out

[@SPIRIT706]

“I hate it. I want it to go away. I don’t believe it’ll go away.” That about sums up where we are in the world.

[@JohnMarston-lo5qk]

yeah..why doesn't the world stop for your meaningless life. How come everyone isn't catering to you?

[@Evil-Never-Dies]

Exactly. Universally true. Nothing else to be said.

[@skister82]

Falcon was on form with this one. Triple A content as always.

[@ramonlaasc]

You forgot the worst of all... Online requirement to play non multiplayer games or modes.

[@hewhobattles8869]

8:52 I think Falcon would be a really good voice actor

[@shifterzx]

Proper remakes on older games are great. Low effort remasters are terrible.

[@theneurologist1]

Definitely! They just want the least amount of work and cost for the most amount of profits. Bidenflation is killing everyone in most businesses.

[@Gamer1990100]

microtransactions on top of a battle pass on top of a season pass on top of a $70 needs to end for sure!

[@holdupits420]

Wont end case ppl buy it but I play without buying it and it doesn't change my view of the game i feel better not spending money tbh

[@Triforcefilms]

In order to get my ps5 controller working for some PC games, They have to be run through steam, So when you're playing an EA game, or rockstar/ubisoft etc, that you bought on Xbox gamespass, Thats now a complex circuit of 3 different launchers to get your game/controller working. Its enough to make me chuck my pc in the bin.

[@Odisseia-hh2td]

8:19 voiceover: It's not that easy. It takes a lot of work to record and incorporate, and it's actually quite expensive. There is an interesting video by Luke Dale (aka Lord Hans Capon from Kingdom Come Deliverance) on AI voiceover. For Starfield, they said they hired all of LA to voice the game.

[@BrndnNZT48V2.0]

Games requiring internet because the game is online only. Even if the new test drive wasnt bad, getting disconnected from servers twice before i even entered a race was a buzzkill.

[@BramTheDemon]

I can understand wanting to remake/remaster a game that's old, like for instance the Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario remakes from last year. Both are remakes of much older games, one of which used to cost an arm and a leg if you wanted to buy it for the Gamecube. The remakes that shouldn't exist are those of games that aren't buy maybe 5 or 6 years old and haven't shown their age. Games like The Last of Us Part 2 Remaster and the Horizon remaster were completely unneeded. Give us more remakes like the two listed above, as well as Silent Hill 2 and RE2 and 4, and less of what Sony's been doing.

[@darknesswave100]

To be fair the horizon one does look way better and it was only 10 bucks for it if you already had the other version. So that's not that bad. They could have charged 40 bucks for it but they didn't

[@CodyWhiteMusic]

Example - Concord Don’t release a trailer that just shows a high def cheeseburger wiggling around on a spaceship if that has nothing to do with your game

[@famoussession7426]

Nah Concord clearly failed because of wokeness with the pronouns and purposely making the characters fugly. Everyone knows two/three letter words are the real enemy and ugly characters make total sense to do. If you couldn't tell, this is a joke. But people DO think this.

[@MxNSTR]

@@famoussession7426 let me hate on games that im clearly not the audience for because I dont like people being represented!!

[@moodyshooty]

@MxNSTR who was the audience for concord, exactly? Because they sure didn’t buy it.

[@FTChomp9980]

@MxNSTR The Modern Audience they don't play videogames bro.

[@FTChomp9980]

@@famoussession7426 Accurate and 100% true.

[@zeedude8026]

Should have been an extra point thats more specific to PC gaming, and that is for devs to stop half assing optimization. The amount of terrible ports and straight up unoptimized garbage pc games that released in 2024 by all metrics should be downright illegal. The issue is a combination of out of touch dev teams that think everyone can afford to spend thousands on top end hardware to brute force past thier terrible code, or the mismangement of tech such as upscaling and frame generation. I think its baffling how so many companies want to make a profit but then release a game where an overwhelming majority of pc gamers cannot feasibly run the game at an acceptable level, because despite what the internet will say, the vast majority of pc gamers are on very modest hardware, not halo products such as 4090s.

[@TurinAlexander]

I'm on a 4090 and Jedi Survivor still ran like crap when I played it. I honestly don't know how anyone not as deranged as I am about PC hardware even managed to get it running.

[@liam6550]

To play devil's advocate as a game programmer, when code bases get large enough, it basically becomes unfeasible to refactor it in a clean way. The game I work on isn't large by any means, but even still, I've seen some pretty cursed code in it. But as for optimization, a large part of that is the design and the art. There's a bunch of crazy and neat tricks that programmers use to make sure that the assets work with the game, but if the designer wants a million polygon mesh in the game, there's only so much programmers can do to make it work

[@mramisuzuki6962]

Game devs make terrible PC optimization needing everyone to buy 3k pcs to run the games as well as the over priced PS5 Pro. The irony.

[@joshconfer209]

Using dark souls as the benchmark for why aaa runs together like carbon copies is more apt than every other point. It's iterative of every game before it, but receives all the praise being groundbreaking.

[@lunarfifthstudios]

I am a voice actor who has done many small games, but all the big studios seemingly just want AI, so now I am building my own team of fellow steadfast voice actors because of the debacle.

[@holdupits420]

Ai will do your job for nothing good luck old chap

[@lunarfifthstudios]

​@@holdupits420​ thank you! The struggle is real, appreciate the kind words. 🙏 AI won't compare with actual originality, just make somewhat convicing copies. Artists of all kinds don't just understand this, we believe it to the core of our being. This is why I am not only gathering genuine voices, but also writers, illustrators, designers of all kinds. And, seeing as now I am simply hiring myself, then I actually agree with you - AI can keep doing nothing for nothing while human ingenuity rises to the challenge to go further. ✌️

[@mihailstratan343]

​@@holdupits420not in the state it's in right now

[@darknesswave100]

​@holdupits420 yeah and if it keeps going like it is then it'll stay being terrible. You CANNOT replace real people with AI and get the feeling voice actors put into their work. If you think they can you're delusional and that's being nice about it

[@RworldKM]

Blame the black sheeps on your industry that threatened to hold strikes on their employers, or change the lines of anime dubs without permission. These people have brought a plight to your jobs, and why studios are looking into AI instead.

[@brentlichtenberg]

2024 was also the year of QA professionals being fired en masse. I know a lot of people still looking for work. Also, I now need a game with Falcon as a voice actor.

[@spiderwraith0]

i think the worst part about the account requirement issue is when they slap it on a SINGLEPLAYER GAME (lookin at you sony), i kind of get it for multiplayer, especially if you're going to allow crossplatform play, but for single player games, theres no point. at all. Also Falcon begging video game devs to feature his voice in a game is hilarious, would genuinely love to see that in any game, hope you get there someday Falcon!

[@X2011racer]

Cross saves are a minor bonus, but a lot of games on Steam that have that requirement don't offer Cross saving. In the case of Forza Horizon 4, technical issues (as stated in the FAQ) are the reason why your save data from the Microsoft Store and Xbox versions can not carry over to Steam. Only your Backstage Passes are shared between all 3 versions.

[@spiderwraith0]

yeah but i mean for true single player games, like marvels spiderman, black myth wukong, things like that

[@X2011racer]

@spiderwraith0 Cross Saves could work for Single Player games, too, but there's always one reason or another that Cross Saving doesn't happen. Heck, even Gran Turismo 7 has cross saves between PS4 and PS5 since an SEN account is required to play.

[@spiderwraith0]

right, but thats kind of the only reason to have to sign into an account every time you want to play a game, otherwise theres no point

[@ChristopherMathieu]

23:20 "You've gotta do one game as a proof of concept, and if it does decently, the *second* game is where the money goes in." A prime example: Solasta. The first game wasn't visually impressive and didn't have great voice acting, but it managed to take the current D&D rules, iron out flaws, and show it can be fun to play. They recently announced a sequel, and it's REALLY obvious they're giving it a much larger budget.

[@Mortiel]

I've been playing through Solasta recently for the first time and definitely enjoying it. While you can definitely tell it wasn't on the budget level of BG3, it still manages to do some interesting things that I think really should be adopted by other games... Like, in a party-based RPG, having the entire party take part in conversations and not a singular MC. I'm definitely excited to see what Solasta 2 does.

[@Legendnum23]

Single player games shouldn’t have any online aspects. No live service and no always online type of bs. Leave that in online games. Single players should not require online to play.

[@gameranxTV]

Yeah we can understand that!

[@Dizzy_The_Egg]

Dino Crisis remake FTW!!! Falcon to voice act in Elder Scrolls 6!!

[@TheRealBaldEagle]

That is one that NEEDS to happen! I've been hoping for a Dino Crisis remake since the first Resident Evil remake came out.

[@GamerbyDesign]

Again I am that guy that hate AI by default.

[@jhovainechen7577]

So am i. Fuck AI

[@MxNSTR]

🤝

[@ced1106]

AI is only good for babe videos, steampunk sharks, and movies better than those Disney remakes. 😋

[@paulw5039]

I'm 50 and I hated mobile phones when they begun to take off in the late 90's. Hated how it tethered you to work, even after hours, made you 'always on'. Previously if you were away from a phone and not at work, you were uncontactable, and I liked the freedom and delineation of that. I refused to get one for years. But of course I have a phone now. Everyone does. My point is, see how you feel about AI in 20 years, when it's ubiquitous and just part of the default societal experience.

[@oxer09]

You use siri?

[@huangjun_art]

[Bane voice] When the inFamous series gets a remake, that trend has my permission to die.

[@vruxdrossgaming]

Don't forget Sly Cooper.

[@TheRealBaldEagle]

Yes to both.

[@UwUOwl]

Fun Fact: They canned a Prototype/inFamous crossover game to focus on Concord.

[@Delusional98]

@@UwUOwlprototype was one of the best games of my childhood hands down in my top 10 forsure

[@devincarter6005]

@@Delusional98agreed, prototype is heavily slept on

[@PepitoKin]

I worked in video games as a concept artist for 10+ years, and I agree and enjoy hearing everything you commented about bad practices inside the industry.

[@patrickl671]

4:17 Just straight up wrong. It’s was $40 to buy it new or $10 to update it to PS5. Got a whole new game mode and a ton of features in a $10 update. Now the Last of Us *Part 1* remake was absolutely egregious. The part 2 update remaster was not.

[@mattyt1961]

I don't even want the new game mode, but for the upgrade price I was still considering it (still might when I go back for another playthrough)

[@Mrchair905]

Sir this is a place for angry reactionary gamers, please take your facts elsewhere.

[@roberthendersonjr.595]

Number 6: When you play the Mas Effect trilogy it launches the EA app thing first, then from there it launches the game launcher, then the game runs which is actually just another launcher for the three games inside it. There had to be a smoother way to do it but here we are with a launcher for our launchers launcher. Launcher-ception. 😂

[@109Eken]

It's launchers all the way down

[@toaf6467]

being able to save a game whenever you want needs to come back.

[@kayc7442]

This is truly annoying in today's gaming. Not being able to put the game down is the ultimate disrespect of my time. The way saving has been implemented in the past decade is criminal

[@Glubbdubdrib]

But that’ll lower gamer retention by hours played😂

[@kayc7442]

@@Glubbdubdrib I would bet this is actually a major conversation talking point in the design room 😁

[@HorizonCodes]

Its gotten so bad that i have to google whether or not a game allows me to save anywhere before i play it

[@mahdy1368]

sometimes for the sake of storytelling it makes sense

[@Coldtrojan]

I think it's worth expanding your understanding of AI voice actors to AI images as well, as they're just as bad as the AI voices and they also steal from the artists you're supposed to care about. Prompting is not a skill, it's just describing to someone else what they should be doing. Illustrators, modelers, etc also deserve to have their property not stolen from them and then used to compete against them.

[@theghostfacekza4549]

Ai sucks but I think you're referencing something Twitter says that isn't completely true

[@RandomHero374]

Dont care for battlepasses. Dont care about skins. Dont care about lootboxes. Dont care about DLC's. I just want a complete game that already has everything I paid for. People with disposalable incomes will always buy this trash to support it. So it will not change.

[@mosstwig3591]

DLC can be very rewarding and fun though? Not all DLC sucks

[@ablindman3328]

You forgot battle royals and hero shooters. The market will be nothing but if we dont end it this year.

[@TheNintendoDScollector]

Everything that black ops 6 is doing.

[@zachpowell8653]

Did you watch AndyPants video on Black Ops 6 today?

[@IAMthatIAM992]

That Hifi Rush talk made me realize I'd better buy it physical. No way those licenses are gonna hold up in 5 years

[@TheHudsonPhoenix]

Speaking of which, LRG still hasn't announced physical pre-orders yet even though it was confirmed like a year or two ago.

[@CertifiedMVP]

First trend that comes to my mind that immediately need to die is having early access locked by a pre-order or 3-7 days early access that is only accessible by buying the most expensive edition. STOP IT!!!!

[@darknesswave100]

For real just release it early if they can let people play it by buying the most expensive version

[@aPimpNamedSlickback4484]

How could you not mention video game pattens? Imagine what story telling in open world games could be if any game was allowed to use the nemesis system that was in Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of war… also the whole pal world thing

[@jaimyyelvingtonmusic]

If soulslikes and roguelikes could die off that'd be great.

[@braydailing6475]

28:12 has me crying😂. Absolutely beautiful editing😂

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

I hate getting excited about a game only for the game to be canceled.

[@kayc7442]

This is unfortunately a double edge sword. Without hype games can get cancelled due to lack of public interest but it also puts unnecessary pressure on an upcoming game. Plus the public essentially became free beta testers so you can't always hide the game away until release date. I'm not sure how to solve this problem

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

@ Unfortunately, neither am I. You just have to wait and hope for the best.

[@TurinAlexander]

That one's easy. Stop getting excited about stuff that doesn't exist yet. We have plenty of stuff that you can play now, get excited about that.

[@kayc7442]

@@TurinAlexander I will say that pre-ordering games is a bad habit and ideally a practice I wish people would stop doing but that is wishful thinking. Early access is a fools errand. It's essentially players paying to test unfinished games. But hype should be only for games with actual release dates and any significant delay causes all hype to be permanently dissolved until the day the game officially releases.

[@nekoboy56]

8:04 no matter how "good" ai voice acting gets, it'll never compete with actual VAs.

[@joshjordan1486]

funny

[@RoyMatzem]

Of course will. I cant wait for it. We need cheaper games.

[@nekoboy56]

@@RoyMatzem I highly doubt AI voice acting will make AAA games cheaper.

[@RoyMatzem]

@@nekoboy56 Of course will. But let me be more clear; i mean cheaper to produce, not cheaper to buy.

[@nekoboy56]

@@RoyMatzem Naw. Any game that uses AI anything isn't getting a dime from me. Ever.

[@FirewingNitehawk]

Falcon’s Voice Overs: • The Assassin's Creed Series Falcon • The intro Giant Bird 🍗 in Demon Souls • Bird 🍗 background sounds in Breathe of the Wild series • Squaking sounds when Jake does his bits for Gameranx 😂

[@paulpallo5513]

I get what you're saying @ point #5, but Dark Souls is not a AAA game. From Software was definitely a AA studio when it was made, they were not a household name and that game did not have a AAA budget. Games like Elden Ring and later games were made with a much larger budget and could be considered AAA. I get what you're saying though, the range is From Software (current) and Naughty Dog (current) which makes sense.

[@hooliopaulio]

Console games that when loaded say "Press any key to continue", and pressing any key takes you to the menu to load your save game, or change settings etc. Just load straight to the menu.

[@TurinAlexander]

Also, do you know how long it took for me to find a keyboard that has an "any" key?

[@MDavis-d4v]

I'd be happy with "remasters" of games from the NES/SNES and N64/PS1 eras. All that would need to be done is to update the graphics to look like something released today and i'd buy it again. But yeah, but it makes the game worse, its an absolute fail. And when its just a re-release with no graphical updates, it just gives you access to it on a modern console, i'll pass. But the main trend that needs to die is the onslaught of "passes" in games. I am so tired of season passes and battle passes in games. I'm buying a game to play, not a subscription service to additional content that is locked behind a paywall.

[@gatofacha9242]

It`s worth noticing that The Finals footage was from the beta and it doesn`t sound like that in the real game, it`s so much better now and with human sounds too lol

[@louigucciversace]

Not even beta, but alpha at that...regardless it was rough then & now is pretty decent

[@dogwithdabutter4]

they also use it for semi-dynamic commentary that wouldn’t be even possible from real voice actors. There’s rarely a case where this works in the industry, but here this is the exception rather than the rule- even if it doesn’t seem that way since The Finals is the first real notable game to use AI. It’s literally a multiplayer game with real-time commentary. If there was going to be a scenario where AI voices were okay, it would be this one and this one alone.

[@5968RAJU]

Hey Gameranx Team, I just want to say a very Happy New Year. I have been a subscriber since 2014 and I appreciate the hard work you guys put into your videos. I also appreciate the fact that you are not selling your soul to get more clicks. Thank you from New Zealand.

[@mastertoyouall3272]

We deserve a Dino Crisis Remake just like Resident Evil 4 got.

[@Luzgar]

Video games not being about the games themselves. Let's get back to the fundamentals.

[@TheBatmanWhoDoesNotLaugh]

20:29 so falcon is black

[@mike41062]

😂😂😂😂 to be fair, you'd have to "aks" him to really know.... I hear you there though (literally)....

[@TheBatmanWhoDoesNotLaugh]

@@mike41062 lol

[@MajorTheGiinius]

Does it matter that much to you 😅

[@Astraeus..]

Bethesda pushing their so called "next-gen" update on PC users was utter bullshit. We had 4k mods for their game literally the same year it released. We had better "HD" graphics than their HD update gave us, and they took up a fraction of the storage space. You want to give people some kind of "next-gen" option, fine, do that. But I think I can speak for literally all PC gamers; we don't need or want any of your shit "upgrades" for your games, modders have it covered.

[@goldenkirby2135]

Then you have Microsoft taking modders for granted and not paying for using their work

[@drgonzo123]

Two of my favorite games the past few years; Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and Hi-Fi Rush. At least Tango was saved and we’re hopefully getting a sequel to Hi-Fi.

[@Retro_simone]

Hey Falcon, former AAA dev here,doing a solo game right after leaving the industry, please lend me your voice! I have the PERFECT role for you. Perfect role.

[@whyjnot420]

Falcon talking about voice acting like he isn't voice acting felt rather confusing. To be clear: even providing voice over narration is a form of voice acting.

[@jaydeebow6431]

Wish they would stop putting all that DEI garbage in our games, that is a trend I think is absolutely coming to an end. Most gamers won't buy anything with it in games anymore. I know I won't. If they/them don't stop, they will go broke.😅

[@blacksailsfan4life]

how dare a protagonist be anything other than a boring swm 🙄

[@russellwestbrook462]

Can I ask genuinely why? Why does a game having a female protagonist or a black protagonist stop you from playing it? I’m not trying to rile you up but I would just like to know why

[@frickzjee]

@@russellwestbrook462 it's very clear when the game has a minority character being opressed and having revenge on white people, when the characters are as ugly as they can be so snowflakes dont feel insecure about their bodies, when developers on social networks share their political views and send hate to 99% of people that dont have some kind of mental disorder. This might fly in California but guess what, world is not California. People won't support games that insult them. This has nothing to do with female protagonist or black protagonist.

[@kagelynx]

Pronouns

[@bismarckus5745]

The 'Hi-Fi Rush' (who also made the GREAT 'The Evil Within') situation still blows my mind.

[@icy1007]

11:48 - No, it does not make games look worse.

[@MrKaYo323]

Sony Pony. 😢

[@alexpomeroy-slater2755]

Quit jamming multiplayer into everything, you have your annual COD and sports games

[@gameranxTV]

More single player focused games. Fingers crossed for you! :D

[@dfunk2429]

Season passes and games as a service need to be stopped

[@stefanhatcher6486]

Need to stop the Souls games they've been a problem especially when playing it safe

[@Badeky]

That piggy piggy piggy was b.i.g. Cracked me up

[@OG_Agrivar]

Currently replaying The Witcher 3, since it was on sale on Steam and I do love achievements... SO annoyed to discover that I have to launch the game in Steam, which then launches the CDPR launcher, which *then* lets me launch the game if I want the damn achievements to actually register. I *HATE* all these extra launchers!!!

[@Syrin23]

6:39 NO ONE holds their flashlight like this. NO ONE. It's absolutely RE TAR DED to do this. It is literally the worst possible way to hold a flashlight.

[@UsoRich685]

Plenty of people hold flashlights like that???

[@Syrin23]

@@UsoRich685 Nope. If you do that, you are controlling it with your shoulder and biceps with no fine control. It's completely unnatural and fighting basic anatomy. They throw this in movies, and if you have any military friends, they will be laughing their asses off

[@UsoRich685]

@ ??? Do you have hand eye coordination problems? You can easily control that with your wrist. The buttons on flashlights used to commonly be on the bottom so holding it like that give you an easier way to turn it on or off with your thumb. And wtf does the military have to do with it? No one cares what a bunch of dudes in the military think 😂😂

[@marcwolfleach]

Stop making everything digital only If they want to have a bigger success they need to eventually make copies of games that have all the dlc already included I can’t remember the last time a resident evil game came out that has the dlc on disc thanks to that I still haven’t played the dlc for the last 4 or so games

[@creptoredark1199]

hey love the vid, can you put the game title in the corner of the screen while gameplay is playing in the background, there were a few I did not recognize, keep up the great work

[@Chaoticwhizz]

I'm a little surprised the complaints about microtransactions didn't mention one of the biggest "microtransaction" of the year. The $90 mount in World of Warcraft. The mount is a non-flying mount when everyone can fly at lvl10. It has an auctioneer and some other vendor which is the same as in-game cities and some towns. At most, it saves you a couple minutes of travel time. Essentially, you are buying a $90 status symbol. It sold very well, of course, so there will only be more like it.

[@jaefrmbk2k]

noticing a lot of qualifiers for these trends that suck 😅 love you guys❗️ ❤️ 🎉

[@codyweston7489]

We Gotta boycott micro transactions in any paid games. I won’t buy any game with micro transactions until it’s price drops and all the micro transaction stuff comes with it (though, I guess that’s a PC privilege). And some companies I have price limits based on company behavior (EA? $5 whole game max, and only with all micro transaction items included). It’s hard. Some games I want to play, but I won’t give the company money on principle. If nobody else does it though, then nothing will change.

[@tylorp2474]

They are skewing the concepts of a remake vs a remaster. Seems to not like remasters not REMAKES. Horizon and last of us 2 are remasters. Res4, silent hill, ff7 remakes.

[@GoldenJoe9176]

Remakes from 6th gen or below are okay, some 7th

[@TheMightyMRP]

Regarding remakes, my favorite games these past years have mostly been remakes (Dead Space Remake, RE2R and RE4R, P3Reload, Silent Hill 2 Remake, the FF7R games etc). Remakes of older games are important and amazing, its unnecessary remakes like the TLoU remakes that shouldn't exist.

[@mathewm6294]

I wouldn't mind Sony doing remakes of their less heralded games, like those Champions of Norrath games or Primal or Rise of Honor. Even The Getaway games had their fans...

[@Mrchair905]

I’d love a Resistance remake so much.

[@chescomaceira]

The piggy song and the AI voice acting made this peak entertainment. LONG LIVE THE FALCON!

[@lady_draguliana784]

In modern corporate america, the difference between their astronomical sales "expectations" and the reality of their sales can be listed as loses and comped by the govt as tax breaks b/c they promised that amt to their investors. this lets them make profits from a game, keep them (not pass them on to their investors) and still pay off the investors by skipping out on paying taxes, and they might even qualify for a subsidy or bailout to boot to pay those investors. (yeah, bailouts are still happening, btw, and they're part of the corporate financial structure now). it's the new industry standard for all of industry. this model also allows them to make profits from companies that never make anything, those fake companies from pt. 1 raked in billions in investor's capital, then just shuffled it around. it's disgraceful. EDIT: note that this is the new standard, it's not going away unless legislators step in, and the GOP and their "Glorious Leader" have already announced that they're going to make it all worse.

[@vcdgamer]

8:30 Hey Falcon. Would you be interested in being a voice actor for one of The InBetween's upcoming trailers? Or have you record a line similar to your Gameranx intro that'll be an easter egg in the game?😅

[@JohnCena-rf2lw]

gameranx 2025: 10 gaming trends that need to die in 2025 gameranx 2026: 10 gaming trends that died in 2025 gameranx 2030: 10 gaming trends that died in 2025 that we miss and want back

[@MyOwnVoucherEverywhere]

I just realized something. Bare with me here. Closing a development team after one project not preforming how the publisher wanted it to is kind of like firing a head coach after their first year not going how the owner wanted it to. Some people need time to build something worth while, and a lot of times it takes more than the first attempt to do so. First impressions aren’t always everything.

[@RedDev1l757]

You did a voice in Day of the Tentacle. Don't lie :)

[@roberthiltz2741]

Good points on all 10 plus the bonus, but regarding number 9; nostalgia can garner excitement and actual joy for a good remake/reboot depending on how long we have waited. Dragon Quest 3 hd 2d is a fine example as I have put 40 hours in since I purchased it recently and it harnesses the love and art of its original creators mixed with the quality of life stuff that we didn’t have back in the nineties. Perhaps other large companies like Square Enix could learn a thing or two before belting out a 60 or 70 dollar title that nobody asked for and pay attention to us gamers that have literally spent thousands in the last thirty years on stuff we like

[@athena-to7rz532]

The HL3 announcement at the end 💀 me! Keep up the great work, Falcon! Btw, I would 100% support ANY GAME that hired you or Jake as voice actors!

[@qxz9p]

I’m just here to listen to falcon continue to crap on Bethesda’s creation engine. It really is bad.

[@darko-man8549]

@27:00 - the new Instagram avatars are also like this. My partner (who loves using the Avatar to react) wondered why the update made them weird; I explained her the weird state of art when companies make it both cartoon but realistic rather than one or the other