10 Incidents That Rocked The Video Games Industry

[@MJ_R0S3]

Shoutout to Blizzard for realistically being able to fill an entire list on their own

[@Burnape]

What was funny about the whole Black & White thing is that the games themselves had asked this question with several of its characters, most notably N.

[@kriscynical]

I've never understood the Tanuki suit debacle. Has Peta never heard of, I dunno... a _Halloween costume???_

[@DanTheGirMan]

Surprised Hot Coffee didn't get a mention, that was a big shitstrom.

[@evandaymon8303]

It is but it been talk and referenced a lot. So it is out of the picture

[@jasonschuler2256]

@@evandaymon8303 That... doesn't make sense. If you were talking about the biggest scandals in U.S. politics, would you say Watergate is "out of the picture" just because it's been talked about a lot?

[@jasonschuler2256]

@matt allan No.

[@emmavaria]

I was surprised Jack Thompson's "modest video game proposal" didn't make the list, myself.

[@darrinfromvault801]

Was hoping this was just Ben & Peter talking about games starring Dwayne Rock Johnson. The greatest actoring wrestler to ever live

[@pelago_]

You're on to something

[@Akherousia502]

I'll give PETA one thing, that Pokemon Parody was the closest they've ever gotten to being subtle. No, it wasn't subtle. At all. It was just the closest they've come to it.

[@Hellwyck]

@matt allan Then PETA will complain the pigs have altitude sickness and put them down like they do so many healthy animals.

[@njk3498]

I live in Colorado and I did as a kid when Columbine happened and it rocked the state extremely hard. People turned to video games and music because they couldn't or wouldn't accept that there wasn't any real reason that it happened. People just need something to blame to cope with a completely needless tragedy and those happened to be there

[@SleuthCriminalGaming]

Its not like they could've blamed the real reason and thats the gun law in America were every unstable person can buy a mini gun. I mean if they would do that, then most politicans wouldn't get their share of money from it.

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

It's always funny that PETA fights for animals and yet most people who love animals won't actually support PETA. You'd think that would tell PETA that they are going about their process wrong.

[@roodboy606]

You could say that about most extreme organizations.

[@evandaymon8303]

Especially when they do dumb advertising stuff and destroy a car to protest over some animal abuse or something from Chrysler or fact they been taking people animals illegally and putting them to sleep

[@jeremyriley1238]

True that. In fact, people who love animals don't support PETA because they know their dark past and how they operate. Their games were okay, if you avoid clicking the links to videos (as they are grade a nightmare fuel), plus they made a second Pokémon game that basically made Grimace into one of the monsters.

[@trippysiren7966]

I know VERY few animal rights activists who have respect for PETA. People only support them when they first get into it, but it's so gross.

[@Hellwyck]

PETA love killing animals that are healthy.

[@justinwood2278]

Thank you for this! Activision employees have seen zero communication internally, and Leadership would love nothing more than for the public to forget so they can brush this under a rug. Public opinion is the only way we see any change soon. Most of us are staying to try and improve the situation instead of leaving and being replaced by others just to go through the same thing. I know it's exhausting, but please stick with us so there can finally be some change in the industry. Much love!

[@thedeepfriar745]

Just a reminder that PETA has a disproportionately higher kill rate at their shelters. If you’re in the United States and are looking to adopt a pet there are other options such as the American Humane society and The Best Friend’s society.

[@AvariceOverlord]

I am a simple man. I see Peter Molyneux and I cry inside.

[@felman87]

I'm surprised the Hot Coffee incident with GTA San Andreas didn't make the list. I think Fox News was hoping to have a rerun of that incident when they brought up Mass Effect (and failed at it but that's par for the course over at Fox). First Rockstar insisted it was just modders on the PC but when they found it on the PS2 version, it proved that it was indeed in the game, just inaccessible. San Andreas had to be re-certified by the ESRB as AO (essentially taking it off shelves everywhere) until Rockstar shipped a new version of the game sans content. I remember there being talk on Capitol Hill about codifying the ESRB into law. It's interesting that the ESRB, despite being a part of gaming since the 90s, actually isn't part of any law, but rather just the industry itself opting to rate games (which itself came about because of Doom, Mortal Kombat, Night Trap and such in the early 90s). Before that, games didn't really have any rating (though I do remember Sega trying to do its own thing with Mortal Kombat being rated MA-13).

[@wanderlustwarrior]

PeTA made a game about Pokemon beating up people, with the people being the ones from Black/White, where the Evil Team (Team Plasma) was an organization that was basically a send-up of PeTA themselves. Huh.

[@ArkaneStephanie]

I am still torn up about how horrible, disgusting bigots seriously hurting representation of same sex relationships in gaming. It's hard enough to get without rubbish like what fox news do coming up every time

[@wanderlustwarrior]

There's already at least one comment from a Fox believer whining about your joke. Let alone the fact that Fox News hosts' own lawyers have defended them in court as being entertainment, not "stating actual fact". At least others of us appreciate the call out, so good on you.

[@brucemckinlay9739]

Yes but so has left wing news sites like CNN. They use the 'entertainment' defense so they can twist and manipulate stories to lean in their desired direction.

[@willbaker6532]

@@brucemckinlay9739 so that makes it OK?

[@brucemckinlay9739]

@@willbaker6532 nope. The media, especially the mainstream media should be straight down the middle. But it's not and it's only getting worse.

[@Muhammadwasapedo]

Just so long as the same view is taken with CNN and MSNBC. The only somewhat unbiased news I've seen on TV is BBC and Al Jazeera.

[@VisualGourmet]

Hatred is one of my most favourite games ever. A virtual massacre a day keeps a real massacre away.

[@atony1400]

No mention of Hot Coffee? I'm amazed.

[@atony1400]

@matt allan in terms of rocking the industry though, that did more than any of these.

[@mccuish]

I remember doing a speech back in elementary school all about video game violence.

[@98nh3609]

This was a very interesting list that made me wonder throughout history in general but specifically in regards to video games and gaming in general. How many "incidents and controversies " were such because of people refusing to use their brains? Or just as much needed an easy scapegoat

[@andid]

Surprised Gamergate wasn't mentioned, given it rocked not just the industry but the entire political landscape for many years, arguably to this day. Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn gave statements to the United Nations fgs. Though I understand why everyone would want to forget it ever happened.

[@austinhuber3131]

Peta has never done anything of consequence.

[@unclepatrick2]

I still want to know why Atari made more ET cartridges then there was gaming systems ?

[@zmbdog]

They didn't. That was Pac-Man.

[@unclepatrick2]

@@zmbdog I heard ET from a couple of people that worked for Atari . I heard that it was Pacman . Either way it a horrible choice

[@DirkCjelli42]

Because the PSN hack happened around when Portal 2 was released on PS3 I had thought that connecting Steam to the PSN had broken the PSN.

[@Nbflowers1989]

Excellent list!

[@michaeljacobs9618]

Oh fox news is all i have to say

[@zeromaximus4261]

Haha, simple but sweet 👍

[@TGAusar]

You guys should do a video on what’s happening with blizzard/activision

[@Ikcatcher]

There’s probably enough controversies from 2021 alone that it can fill up half the list

[@Mistahhuntah]

I bet Peta got their balls sued off over that.

[@JP_Crimson]

If they have any

[@scottlemiere2024]

Waste of money to sue. Parody is protected speech.

[@isthataslothtv]

1. TripleJump's first upload

[@budaroddy]

1:14 *hello PETA* 😎

[@jgowdey]

11:27 😂😂

[@jrchmgn.]

ET's 5 week can't compare to CDPR's 9 years for CP2077.

[@justLIKEvin]

Billy Briber!

[@Iduhwurst]

Rocked...Rawkt

[@nellitheretrogamer8666]

Interesting that you had a clip of the Fable chicken kick right after that PETA thing because that's just what I had in mind. The Fable 3 box actually contains a content warning that the game includes "cruelty to animals" and I presume that that's because of the chicken kick. I always found that a bit odd in case of a game where you slaughter probably hundreds of people with a sword.

[@sonic23233]

PETA aka Team Plasma

[@NarWallPeople]

grand

[@Sam-Fisher]

Hi

[@unkledoda420]

Can we stop pushing that bullshit narrative that the ET game almost killed the video game industry. That is a massive oversimplification of the problems in the industry at the time. The industry was in decline before the ET game was ever developed. The quality control for games at the time was basically non existent. For every decent game there were dozens more that were horrible and in some cases not even functional. At best, ET was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back but did not single handedly almost destroy an entire industry.

[@zmbdog]

E.T. did NOT cause the game crash and the landfill story is a total misrepresentation of what actually happened. Both are idiotic myths and not even slightly plausible if you put any kind of thought into them.

[@zzkpeaceufo2857]

i love you guys

[@louiseogden1296]

Honestly, PETA is pretty much spot on with Pokemon, which is really just digital cock-fighting. Still fun, but honestly, don't think about it too much...

[@zeromaximus4261]

Pokémon is actually based on Beetle Wrestling where 2 or more Beetles are placed on a Rock or branch and attempt to push each other off kind of like king of the hill and the last beetle on is the winner.

[@Hellwyck]

@@zeromaximus4261 *we're = where

[@Hellwyck]

PETA are inhumane, google them.

[@zeromaximus4261]

@@Hellwyck haha thanks

[@PeterGriffin11]

I guess? But the games and anime make it clear that Pokémon like battling each other and in the Pokémon World people who mistreat Pokémon are portrayed badly so I don't really agree that it is completely the same as real life cock fighting but at the end of the day it is just a video game and Pokémon aren't real so it really doesn't matter. I just wish people would stop trying to blame games and cartoons for real life crimes it's really stupid most of the times.

[@nutchunks]

So the Kane and Lynch Gamespot thing basically just confirmed that all reviews, at least from major publications like IGN Gameinformer and Gamespot, are paid for, which is obviously why a game like Cyberpunk 2077 got 9-10 across the board before anyone could actually play it and see what a crapfire it really was. I've noticed the padded score gameinformer gives to games they know are amazing but cant give a nine or higher because of outside influence, like Dishonored and many other 10/10 games receiving an 8.75 from them. Go look up all the games they've given that score to. It's all a scam.

[@AusSP]

I think Cyberpunk is more a matter that journalists are pretty willing to believe it when a company tells them that certain bugs are going to be fixed in a day one patch, or something, and journalists only getting PC, which is the far more stable version. Day one patches being so common that it's an easy pill to swallow.And then there was a day one patch... and it didn't fix anything. Basically... many journalists are way too accepting of how the game is "intended" to be, and others are unwilling to step on very important toes.

[@scottlemiere2024]

What EA calls "crunch time," the trucking industry has been doing for decades without end.

[@KingBatiatus]

Thumbnail legit looked like the Taboo Series Part II. Good grief.

[@lostchild]

Oof

[@nerometalmkii2876]

Not lootboxes guys! How dare you be so rude... "SuWpwiSE mEecHaniCks" yEEssH!

[@MasterXehanort96]

Early, but ill comment again after i actually watch it lol

[@vincentmoran4821]

No 'No Russian'? That still leaves a bad taste

[@nerometalmkii2876]

Wow Peter Molyneux is a total ***** (Stop deleting my comments YT I am expressing my opinion and nothing more)

[@Spacemutiny]

Hideo Kojima is absolutely insufferable and overrated. I don’t blame Konami for getting rid of him.

[@LaRavachole]

He's not perfect but he's absolutely better than Konami ever will be. Konami is where good IPs (Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Contra, etc) go to die or be milked in the most cash-grabbing and soulless way possible.

[@zeromaximus4261]

@@LaRavachole what’s that I hear in the distance? The cling clang of pachinko machines slowly killing one of the best psychological horror franchises ever! The Horror!

[@LaRavachole]

@@zeromaximus4261 *"The horror! The horror!"*

[@zeromaximus4261]

@@LaRavachole haha

[@scotthardie5141]

Opinions are fun

[@pitchblack189]

I’m sure Doom played a part in it. Parents shouldn’t allow their kids to play games they’re not old enough for. The kids also probably had some mental issues maybe even abuse at some point in their life and access to guns

[@mistermack4987]

Well adjusted people know the difference between reality and make believe. Those kids were sociopaths regardless of what they played or listened to

[@colbyvanquished7708]

The political bias bullshit in these videos is shit journalism. Gotta love the irony.

[@mistermack4987]

How dare they critique a game about dogfighting and slavery? Sorry, I meant to say Pokemon. Same same, right?

[@SteveMacSticky]

Sexual content does not belong in a mainstream game even as an unlockable option

[@Banquet42]

It can be done well (e.g. Mass Effect). Are you referring to explicit or exploitative games in particular or all games?

[@freddiejohnson6137]

If it can be used to further the narrative or set a scene then there is nothing wrong with it like in any other form of media. As long as it has the correct age rating and parents don't buy if for their children then complain after I don't see anything wrong with it if done right.

[@SteveMacSticky]

@@Banquet42 games mainstream, if children were to play it, don't include it

[@SteveMacSticky]

@@freddiejohnson6137 I agree. I was talking about mainstream games that are sold for all ages.

[@nutchunks]

Thats what PEGI and ESRB are for. If this is in reference to the San Andreas thing, which I cant even believe people havent realized yet, required the content to be modded back into the game because there was no way to access the cut content from a retail copy, and the assets and animations were still left in the code. So really anyone up in arms about the hot coffee thing was just straight up misinformed.

[@Giantsfanlewis]

Yup, keep talking politics from a country you aren't even from and don't even understand. Unsubscribe

[@scotthardie5141]

Bye Felicia, enjoy Fox News

[@Giantsfanlewis]

@@scotthardie5141 sure, I'll enjoy being right 6 months before you. Enjoy thinking all those conspiracy theroies won't come true. But hey, no vaccine mandates and only 15 days to slow the spread right? 🤡

[@MasterAdam100]

Such a little snowflake that got triggered when Fox News was shat on for like 3 seconds lmao You conservative Americans are so weird. You say you hate corporate news but go on to defend Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

[@laniasmith4439]

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