Why AAA Games Have Gotten So Bad

Asmongold Reacts to: Why AAA Games Have Gotten So Bad, A Casual Gamer’s Perspective
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[@FrenzyLive1]

We need some chinese company to buy Ubisoft and make it great again

[@devonnick6908]

Or Korean ( Stellar Blade )

[@kameronjones7139]

​@@devonnick6908 I would prefer Korean

[@Satancel]

Chinese? lol. These "people" can't create anything

[@bpscast]

Tencent will buy Ubi

[@houseofhas9355]

Making American gaming created greatness again via china. 😂😂😂😂. I'm here for that.

[@hardcorehage]

Videogames used to be made by computer nerds who loved D&D and Star Trek and LOTR. Now they are made by drama club kids and people who went for art school for fashion design and watch Bridgerton.

[@emne5750]

God is that show awful.

[@kyvian251]

They used to watch Star Wars and LOTR and play video games when they got off from developing video games now game devs watch the Big Bang theory and have a wall of funko pops

[@hafirenggayuda]

Like Asmon said in similar discussion; not just usual drama kids, but "loser" drama kids who want revenge to society (their words not mine). As we see, they made it with hate and rage, not -passion- love nor fun

[@homebass3426]

​@@emne5750Tell me about it. My wife watches that show on the 1 TV we have. Thank God for the Steam Deck

[@___IG]

I don't even know what Bridgerton is, thank God

[@lowdistortion]

Anyone ever notice how they gaslight us by saying "technology" issue as to why women in western games aren't scanned right. But for some reason eastern games don't have that problem? Weird

[@YouTubeCensors]

Meanwhile their favorite "Beauty" Debra Wilson always gets a perfect 1:1 conversion... make it make sense

[@KurgerBing-p5i]

because evil hates beauty, its really quite simple.

[@rustymustard7798]

Well it's obvious, the East has secret alien technology they're using to make games not suck.

[@skeletonegaming]

hideo kojima can do scans well. Star Wars Jedi Survivor managed to scan the main character just fine too. Wonder why the scanned female models either look completely different than the source or end up looking like ogres.

[@MG-me7iw]

@KurgerBing-p5i spot on! Evil cannot create, it can only destroy.

[@CalebDoup-up3gc]

Because the audience they’re made for doesn’t buy video games.

[@Kwahzutah]

SO true. Even their attempts to get people from other "identities" or whatever is a total failure. I'm a woman and usually end up insulted by these "overcome your ovaries" storylines that they keep dishing out. Just give us game play and immersion!! It shouldn't be that hard.

[@GurtiusMaximus]

They don’t exist. They’re all bots.

[@spawn302]

Nah they absolutely do. The only thing is that they make up maybe 3% at MOST. And of that 3%, most only play cozy games.

[@CalebDoup-up3gc]

@spawn302 Oh I absolutely agree, but like you were saying they mostly populate cozy games (indie titles) rather than triple A games.

[@Venhili]

Yeah, that's a side effect of marketing to people who don't like capitalism 😂😂😂

[@demoncoww]

Hello -- QA guy here. The problem with QA isn't the scaled up complexity. QA is done either in house by generally understaffed departments or outsourced (generally with disastrous results). QA is done on an extremely strict schedule, with proper iteration time and resolution time not part of the equation. QA now is supposed to find only the most egregious issues and get those into a resolution pipeline, but oftentimes what QA finds are bugs that are considered 'shippable'. To be fair, these often aren't the biggest deal, but sometimes they can be indicative of bigger problems that would've benefited from investigation. In short, the reason big AAA games don't have stable releases is because it's simply not a priority compared to the schedule and the cost, which has scaled up, but nowhere near to a reasonable degree.

[@MrFox64057]

What is there one of in every monkey but two of in every howler monkey?

[@robertbarclay1709]

Dev here, Going to give my two cents. Yes you can say devs are lazy, I agree to an extent but I would also say we are lazy by nature. Asmon is also right to an extent. However, working for a corporate company is simply far too fragmented and I always go back to the video by one of the founders of Fall Out, as it’s true, devs are capped at the pace they can move primarily due to corporate product driven frameworks like scrum. This means a small change instead of for a small studio where QA speaks to dev, dev fixes, it turns into, qa raises a ticket, ticket has to go through PO, PO has to refine ticket, ticket gets stuck in backlog, another dev then eventually get to the ticket with an over inflated time estimate, it then takes 5x as long to fix. It’s just a slow and painful process cause by business scrum frameworks that are product driven instead of a healthy balance that you get in small companies where people have more of a voice.

[@demoncoww]

@@robertbarclay1709 Agile frameworks are a blight on society and there's no metrics that anyone can point to to convince me otherwise.

[@Astristul]

Man, I've been a QA at EA and the main issue there is the bug prioritisation. The game producers knew about the number of bugs that any game had at launch, but still decided to ship the game like that because, otherwise, they would lose a lot of money in that fiscal year. And it's the same story with all their games, and Ubi's doing the same practices!

[@frankdelaroca4085]

the time to finish a feature is becoming insane I blame the strict schedule

[@Beautiful-ModelBarbara-Hut-s1j]

They can’t write good stories because they never went through real hardship. You are slowly seeing this in even in manga how new writers just want to do their own version of popular stories.

[@Great-Dao-of-Elegance]

9:40 Remember that woman who tried to frame her father to be a deadbeat dad only to be proven wrong and be exposed as a rich spoiled brat. She's a writer 😂

[@SirBladewind]

Wait which writer is that? Who is this lady?

[@cecollins68]

Your talking about the breakdancing dad drama 😂

[@Great-Dao-of-Elegance]

@@SirBladewind the break dancing dad and his brat daughter

[@Great-Dao-of-Elegance]

@@cecollins68 yeah lmao

[@АндрейЧуприков-х1т]

Damn she is bad even at that.

[@eggchin9721]

Someone called me a Nazi yesterday for arguing AGAINST censorship, you can't make this shlt up. Of course it was one of those woke clowns so.

[@npcimknot958]

Peopel just dont know definitions anymore.. everything comes around dont worry about it

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

Don't argue with the cannon fodder, they're just noise.

[@HeyRavenousRaven]

The nicer version I get called on the daily is right wing. On the daily. Said friend has a BA in English. Also has TDS. But I've met all sorts of people.

[@ColonelSandersLite]

"Of course we’ll have fascism. We’ll have it under the guise of anti-fascism."

[@charlesbomerschein9707]

One of my Facebook posts got flagged for "False information" when all it showed was: Kamala Harris: "Unburdened by what has been." Marx: "Unburdened by what has been."

[@Nemisish]

DEI D - Destruction E - Exclusion I - Insanity

[@TheBruceKeller]

I'd change the Destruction to Division, but that's just a personal preference. Definitely has been destroying companies.

[@friednoodles666]

that works for sure. my dad and i call it the Didn't Earn It badge, lmao.

[@AlwaysEast]

E for Entropy

[@Jehuty256]

Destroy it from the Inside to rebuild it in their image

[@mugichan521]

Division, Exclusion and Indoctrination

[@Daman3tm]

12:50 Don't forget the fact that back in the day it wasn't all that easy to push out updates. Companies had to make stable games because they knew the players wouldn't always be able to get the updates.

[@sniiiper3d645]

It’s just no excuse anymore, black myth wukong came out smooth as butter, stellar blade was great and so as warhammer. These companies CAN make a fixed game but they just wanna meet the release date, imagine someone sells you a busted lawnmower for double the price for more cheaper and efficient lawnmowers and says they’ll fix it over time

[@Ethan-yd4gn]

The reason this "relying on the customer being stupid" thing is working less and less with time is because players are becoming disillusioned with the companies they once blindly trusted. Its all about the pattern recognition. One bad game is whatever, two in a row is disappoining, but whatever, three in a row is suspicious, four in a row solidifies the pattern, and is seen as a fundamental flaw with the way the companies are making the games. They've relied on this tactic for too long, and its run its course, as all things do. Its caught up to them

[@bossked1563]

I think a major reason for such poor implementation of politics is that the writers don't actually UNDERSTAND their own beliefs. So much "agenda" is what I refer to as "Find-and-Replace Analogy": I want to talk about immigration. Find: "Mexicans", Replace: "Twi'leks". Find "America", Replace "Empire". Message: "Look how evil the Empire is for rejecting all these Twi'lek refugees!" An honest, thoughtful analysis begins with the understanding that the hot-button issue is just an extension of a core belief. Immigration, for example, is an extension of "Duty of Care": Who is how responsible for providing what, to whom? This is a genuine debate about balancing the needs of your family versus the needs of your neighbor's family, and how much you can - or should - sacrifice to help others, even if your own family suffers as a result. There are SO many metaphors you can work with at that level, and so many different positions you can take if circumstances change! It makes you THINK, which is what this kind of messaging is SUPPOSED to do.

[@fvb7]

I am hoping for a chapter 2 to this. Keep cooking dude.

[@rumham8124]

Are you a writer? Someone should hire you lol

[@bossked1563]

@rumham8124 I wish lol. "What are your qualifications?" "I've made a mediocre DnD setting, I've played Dragon Age: Origins, and I think The Rings of Power sucks." "Are you willing to relocate to Southern California?" "Not a snowball's chance in hell." "When can you start?"

[@bossked1563]

@fvb7 I'm thinking of titling it "Political Propaganda in Expositional Dialogue in Media and the Problem of Subtext (Or the Lack Thereof)". What do you think? Too punchy?

[@DankWand]

Find "Illegal immigrants", Replace "Refugees".

[@Mianless]

As someone who worked in Games QA, I want to answer the question Asmon asked @20:19. While working on Alien: Isolation, the entire QA team for that game was pulled into an office and screamed at by the QA managers for not inputting enough bugs each week towards the end of the testing period, before the game was going to platforms for certification to be on their systems. Keep in mind at this time, the Alien team had the largest portion of QA testers working on the game, while the other projects continued to do their work simultaneously. So absolutely this happens in games, but I do want to add an additional comment that while it seems to be on the lowest level of QA testers that are the problem, the real problem stems from the top down. Production puts the pressure on the Devs, which puts the pressure on to the QA teams. It all rolls downhill. It's especially soul crushing as a QA, when you see the game you've worked on is still riddled with issues, including ones that you know were inputted into the bug database, and were never addressed due to the lack of time that the upper management has forced onto both the Dev and QA teams. The upper management and Production teams are filled with the types of people that expect 9 women can give birth to a baby in 1 month, when we all know that it's going to take 9 months regardless of how many people are trying.

[@MrRaynx3]

So basically Investors > Upper Management > Devs > QA > Customers. Unrealistic deadlines most likely the main issue and in turn the tail which are the customers get fked.

[@Mianless]

@@MrRaynx3 Pretty much yeah. Also a lot of QA testers are customers themselves. Truly they want what the general public want but often can’t even express their concerns with the project without it being dismissed. Hell even things like in game stores are the very last thing that the testers will have to make sure works, mostly because it’s the very last thing that gets added into a game. It’s always as disappointing to us as it is to customers to see higher ups push these decisions that we know will be disliked by everyone.

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

So its like everything else, too big to fail and too big to operate properly. So now we're stuck with another industry that won't be allowed to die and we have to create gaming welfare.

[@simonebernacchia]

had a boss that embodies that 9 babies in a month mindset -_-

[@YELLOW617.]

Yeah, they set impossible deadlines, fry devs, and sell unfinished products to customers.

[@ProtoNecron]

These woke game developers make games for an audience that doesn't exist. And they wonder why no one is buying.

[@alemswazzu]

Ya, they think they're infallible, every good person believes what they do, so it's not messaging in their eyes, it's just right.

[@akyruz8345]

DEI is easy and valuable investor money. Thats why publishers go down this route. It's often not even about the ideology... it's about to attracting investors that are willing to invest money to push these agendas using this media... and there are a lot of them... the trade-off for the devs is having to comply and to hire diverstiy instead of competence...

[@KazaiTV]

They don't make games for them. They are just chasing the ESG money which they have for a while now and they will do anything for more. That's the reason they hire consultant firms like SBI on top so that they achieve the next quota to gain even more funding. They are helping in creating the modern audience.

[@Potato_Sprout]

Oh the “audience” exists alright. They’re just such a minuscule fraction of the larger gaming population. It’s why Dustborn and Concord got such low streams and sales.

[@-SashaAlex-]

@@Potato_Sprout If we follow that Poll on NeoGaf. It's 5%.... lol

[@abydos]

I love making video games. But I'm afraid that if I want to play about a protagonist who is wheelchair bound (my best friend is wheelchair bound, my old teacher teaches wheelchair bound kids, my girlfriend dances with wheelchair bound kids), then even if I have it in my life, the community would label it as just ticking off a list of things I'm doing with them, when I'm not, I just want to show this world to others as an artist through video games. I had an idea for a game in a wheelchair before, but I rejected it because I was afraid of negative criticism...

[@AprilZN-DokutahSuzuki]

I believe when you're putting in effort, sincere about it and not just checking boxes, it shows and the audience can feel it. I'm sure they will accept your work.

[@MrChochichon]

Well first off, you're an indi dev, so you're less likely to push an agenda because you have a much smaller audience. Then, if the game is good, people won't care. I'm sure most people have an 80-20 ratio between gameplay and world lore. Meaning that anything that is not linked to the gameplay is only the icing anyway. Just don't make a good icing to cover a dump 😅

[@zackang4731]

Speaking as a QA manager, I can say this: Complexity of testing scales exponentially with software complexity, while coding complexity actually scales linearly. The problem is that a lot of QAs(in my experience) coming up with the 'What to test' thinks like a developer, so they miss A LOT of things. Simple example using PoE: In coding, we will probably develop the passive skills, the active gems, and the support gems separately and the code is isolated, and the effort is 3n. However, in testing, we should consider the combination effects of all 3, so the test scenarios should be n^3.

[@Wickedstrife]

There are tons of games with politics, racism, slavery, religion , and so on. It was never a problem. How many rpgs have a race that people dislike? For whatever reason. Or a race of slaves. Almost all of them. No one cared. They were well done, and most were very thought-provoking. Making you consider the morality and choices you were making. Now they have decided we are too dumb to understand these things or are too dumb to handle the nuance. So they have to smack us in the face with it. We should be in a golden age of the most intelligent and creative writers. Yet somehow it is worse than even 10 years ago. I can deal with bugs, glitches, and even graphics not being great. I can't deal with terrible writing, handholding, and forcing your views on me. I'm happy to play a game covering heavy topics as mentioned. As long as it's involved in the story and intelligently done.

[@banhammer3904]

Propaganda used to be a bit more cleverly implemented. I like reading sci-fi novels from the 60s, 70s and 80s and finding the social engineering of the time. It's mainly feminism, sexual liberation, anti-nuclear, anti-communist and pro-environmental messages.

[@lawjef]

Wait until the woke censors learn that slavery still exists in 2024 in many, many nations around the world. And, shock horror, their political crusade has done… (checks notes)… nothing to end slavery.

[@AlexCole272]

Exactly. Dei isn’t the problem, it’s when it’s forced, I don’t like force situations, I don’t want a gay character just because he’s gay or stereotypical gay.Ff16 did well with Dion, a gay character, you only know because he’s in love with one of his soldiers but his sexuality isn’t his motives to fight.

[@KazaiTV]

When will people realize that there is a huge difference between political themes and an actually agenda being pushed into a game by trillionares. This shit doesn't affect only a couple of games, it does affect most companies in the west and probably the conpany you work for too. ESG (which every company chases) - pushes DEI in every shape or way possible to get as much funding as possible. Games are bad now because of greed which resulted in the DEI. They hirrd based on DEI without a single thought and replaced / forced out all their talent which made the amazing games of the past. Now you have all this studios filled with DEI hires and activists and are suprised that they only produce crap.

[@Blisterdude123]

Master Samwise (great channel btw) did a video very recently talking about the nuances of politics in storytelling and I'd highly recommend it. I agree when people say it IS impossible to keep politics out of storytelling, but there are ways to authentically present an idea 'within' a narrative. To some, an idea will 'always' be seen as political, depending on your worldview. It behooves a good writer, not to use a narrative as an excuse to bludgeon you with the idea. To have the story be the voice conveying that idea, not to have the voice of the writer lecturing you. A very recent example, off the top of my head. Consider the difference between Andor and The Acolyte. You could be forgiven for forgetting they came out of the same studio.

[@dylanvodden1369]

There's a trans character in Hogwarts Legacy? And people boycotted it because it was transphobic? Make it make sense.

[@1_Solitude_1]

Further proves that you can’t make the sect of people happy no matter what

[@White__Ink]

I think the author behind the original books was/is considered to be transphobic. The developers attempted to adjust for this when making their game to distance from the author. Orson Scott Key made Enders game, but he's quite homophobic. Still an awesome story worth telling and worth sharing, but some people choose to consider include an entire person's character for the art they make.

[@Lurker_Z]

Schrödinger's Representation: It's acknowledged only when it's in the buyer's face and only when it doesn't go against other narratives to do so.

[@KT-pv3kl]

​@@White__Inkstrange because I never heard her say anything that was either hateful or factually incorrect about trans people.

[@brainrich1358]

So trans activists were boycotting Hogwarts because of JK Rowling's stance on trans people. The studio thought the backlash was enough to warrant them to add a trans character last minute to try to please those people, but it didn't work.

[@kalakazam6562]

Also AAA games have a bad habit of fixing fun glitches but never bothering or caring with the ones that really messed up your gameplay.

[@tengr0057]

I had this glitch/bug in rise of the tomb raider. I was playing on hardest difficulty towards the end of the game and got to a checkpoint during some major action sequence. Decided to warp to different area to get one item I forgot. Got back to that checkpoint. Action-music blasting, but the game wouldn't let me progress the story anymore. It was on PS4. Tried to find a fix. No fix. Deleted the game.

[@autistikpickles1018]

Dying Light 2 for me. There's a point towards the end of the game where you need to fast travel back to the previous half of the world map, and the fast travel icons you need to select are just straight up missing. It's been like 2 years at this point and it's still just broken for me.

[@onemanorchestra7492]

From an active game dev in AAA environment perspective, games are full of bugs, not because of game dev laziness, but because of overscoping. Upper management are so greedy of packing games full of things and cutting cost its simply insane and unrealistic. That leads to bugs. Oh and thats not even at mid leadership /production level. This is all the way up, the product owners essentially.

[@robertbarclay1709]

Dev here, Going to give my two cents. Yes you can say devs are lazy, I agree to an extent but I would also say we are lazy by nature. Asmon is also right to an extent. However, working for a corporate company is simply far too fragmented and I always go back to the video by one of the founders of Fall Out, as it’s true, devs are capped at the pace they can move primarily due to corporate product driven frameworks like scrum. This means a small change instead of for a small studio where QA speaks to dev, dev fixes, it turns into, qa raises a ticket, ticket has to go through PO, PO has to refine ticket, ticket gets stuck in backlog, another dev then eventually get to the ticket with an over inflated time estimate, it then takes 5x as long to fix. It’s just a slow and painful process cause by business scrum frameworks that are product driven instead of a healthy balance that you get in small companies where people have more of a voice.

[@Eatbutternow]

I just read an article where the author blamed the big flops recently on a several things. According to them the problem is 1. Studios are taking to long to develop games 2. Studios aren’t making their games inclusive enough to lgqtb and women 3. Studios aren’t doing enough climate change activism 4. Studios aren’t offering enough extra buyable content as soon as the game releases. 5. Studios aren’t focusing enough on online multiplayer games and are doing to much single player stuff. The list was 10 things long but I can’t remember the rest. It was all bullshit. But they were saying how they interviewed a bunch of people in the industry and this is allegedly what everyone believes is the problem. Studios are allegedly looking at Concords failure believing that is they only spent less time working on it and made it even more woke and had a bigger e-shop it would have done better.

[@brandonnotsowise2640]

News outlets do this all the time, with most trending issues. Explaining to us why such and such is that way, every single time leaving out the main cause. It’s deliberate obfuscation and deception.

[@Vapeurss]

They are right in one context. The modern audience didn't show up for Concord. It kind of makes sense that the takeaway would be to double down on everything. Granted they are completely misguided. They are trying to appeal to a group of people who don't play video games, but there is a huge untapped market there if you could just convince them to buy video games. The problem is, they literally think gaming is the worst possible hobby, and gamers are the worst kinds of people.

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

Yes they asked the people that are having the problems and they investigated themselves.... i've heard this one before.

[@mrclean2224]

i will say one thing, theyre right about the first point if nothing else. games take WAY too long to make now. a game that will sell maybe a couple hundred thousand copies are having teams put behind them and worked on for 5 years costing the company more money than it could possibly make on release

[@skibidi.G]

😲

[@dareedle]

We have bad writers for two main reasons. One, they have not lived life, the write life from the perspective of screen life, virtual life than actually living life in the real world. Second, we ha generation of writers that could get a professor or teacher cancelled for not applauding their (gulp) cut and paste/plagiarized/ cliche writing.

[@TurtleChad1]

DEI is a major reason. Alot of people fail to mention this because they're afraid of not being politically correct.

[@thetrashcanman7537]

MAJOR

[@thetrashcanman7537]

It’s definitely the MAIN reason

[@Gapeh0rn]

Right or wrong I google whether something is woke or not before buying it

[@chasedogman2032]

Very bold to say very true very brave

[@darnell-mooney]

lol so many all time great games are games you would call "woke DEI" it's not the main reason, it's just the one reason you are stuck on because you want to bring politics into games just as much as the game companies do.

[@S4RG3N7]

Who remembers the days where you’d gone into one of those ‘gaming’ shops, the equivalent of blockbuster for DVD’s and you’d buy the game, put the disc in and away you go. Always making sure you always save your progress on your PS1 insertable memory card 😂

[@Telhias]

Let me explain this in simple terms. Money flows up and the shit flows down. When investors are shitting on executives, who are shitting on managers, who are shitting on developers who are shitting on customers you are not going to get good products.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi62]

I remember the days you were excited when a big budget game came out and was worth your time to play, and now, the only reason i know whet games are being released is that they are so bad it’s almost like a “any publicity is good publicity” strategy

[@Jordan-Ramses]

I don't. When did that happen?

[@aBadWizard]

​@@Jordan-Ramses long ago, in a timeline far far away

[@thekraken4886]

​@@Jordan-Ramses the golden age of Bioware

[@michael245]

same here the expectations have dwindled down to what are the devs/creators saying about the game

[@neoth8647]

@@Jordan-Ramses Back when Valve still made games, Nintendo was loved, Sony was GOATed, and Blizzard wasn't a complete shartshow

[@yellowraincoat.]

The parallels between the games and television industry are insane. Massive once beloved IPs with limitless potential being milked, eroded and made for audiences that only exist on Twitter. Halo, LoTR, Star Wars are just a FEW examples - it's figuratively and literally so hard to watch.

[@danieln6700]

So many things being destroyed. Lot of social engineering bs going on that ruining entertainment too as well as toxic ppl who want the things they hate changed when never belonged there in the first place

[@brandonnotsowise2640]

Everything we grew to love they seek to twist and destroy. It’s that simple.

[@danieln6700]

@@brandonnotsowise2640 demoralization

[@brandonnotsowise2640]

@@danieln6700 bingo

[@floopi66]

@@danieln6700 yeah its literally cultural marxism. make everything suck

[@thecoffeebadger5807]

Tester: Hey man, you got a few bugs making the spaceships fly backwards. Devs at Bethesda: No it's NOT! We know it works properly! Tester: It's not working! Look at what it's doing right now! Devs: HR will say it does!! Tester: Dude... just fix the code, it's my job to make sure it's working properly and so far it's failing. HR: Stop harassing the Devs. Todd Howard: Ship it, fix it later. Devs: *eats a greasy pizza* Tester: I quit. This is my theory as to why Starfield is what it is. Ego and time pressure makes Quality Control quit their jobs before getting fired for letting bugs happen in the first place. Remember, it is always the tester that is the most responsible for allowing bad games to exist. Add that accountability with peer pressure and the Devs massive ego. All the good testers will just walk away from those jobs. It's a sad perspective.

[@1Jack22]

No, HR isn't involved in the development in any way, but they hire "the right" people for positions of decision making. Regarding testers and bugs, I'm pretty sure 95% of unfixed bugs were found by QA and logged, but the decision in on management to prioritise them and decide when/if to fix them.

[@KT-pv3kl]

It's the tester trying to tell the devs about problems while the devs argue about how manly the female characters jawline should look like and how many types of oppression her backstory contains.

[@Alpha___00]

Toxic positivity supported by HR. Looks legit

[@jacobscholtissek2410]

the probleme is criticism is hate/microagression so you cant critizice bad stuff because that makes you an evil patrialist or whatever they dont like.

[@hippiehdz]

yes and no, i work at QA, im testing games and indeed HR has no word on process, yes there are stupid testers, yes kpi is killing quality and the client sees high bug report numbers as good outcome, there is a system to assign a priority to bugs/issues, sometimes devs dont know why is something not working, and finally as long as its playable and feels good is a go, so they allow small issues to go through which is kinda understandable but there is an important problem, the company, devs dont own timeframes, devs are being overworked and they are not precisely the enemy, there is someone above them screwing it up

[@hemmoau]

Before I watch: it’ll be the same reason as movies, growth across the industry leads to inflated budgets at the top end, which necessitate ‘safe play’s and by the time the product gets to the consumers it’s soulless and feels like it’s made by committee (cos it literally is).

[@Atrus999]

A game that works at release is so rare these days it's an actual surprise when it happens. It's so rare that people give games a better review score just for that reason.

[@1_underthesun]

It's no coincidence that whenever I'm talking about political ideologies in games/movies/shows, it almost always starts with words like "ham-fisted", or "heavy handed" or "patronizing" or "slap-dashed". This wasn't done intentionally on my part, and it took years for me to realize THAT was what I was actually saying was the problem. It's not the ideology itself, it's the terrible ways in which these untalented "writers" incorporate them into said medium.

[@rclaws3230]

Well, the ideology itself is internally-inconsistent, highly theoretical, and impractical, so maybe it's all of those things AND a bad ideology to-boot.

[@1_underthesun]

@@rclaws3230 Oh, the ideology is bad. Worse, many of its tenets are so absurd that there's no way to use it as a literary device without it being ridiculous. So that's part of it, but then you also have "writers" who weren't hired because they were good at writing, but because they were activists.

[@andrewgreeb916]

The common reason stuff gets labeled woke is because it's bad and the ideology isn't helping the product's case, if they made it good, astronomically less people would complain about the ideology.

[@erenmos]

They"re making the games for people who dont play games or they"re making interactive movies, its Very simple

[@TheLitRight]

You hit the nail on the head. They’re making “cinematic experiences” because they’re wannabe directors that couldn’t get a job in Hollywood, so they end up directing a game instead. Almost all the budget goes into their cutscenes, then the gameplay is trash made to hold together the director’s narrative and graphic artist’s unwanted self-inserts.

[@crimsonhawk4912]

Life is strange was pretty good. But I liked dark souls 3 and metal gear a bit more

[@Jobocan.]

A problem is that games have gotten less complex, not more. They're advertised as more complex, and technically... sure, they're running on WAY stronger hardware that are truly limitless as far as being able to do anything you can imagine, and can have more complex physics and visuals and animation and more stuff happening at once... But the actual gameplay complexity has taken a nosedive for most major genres (as have the standards of devs, which is why 60fps minimum isn't a thing in all games on all platforms, which all current platforms are perfectly capable of). Games are more linear, have simpler combat, have less deep leveling/customization mechanics, feel shittier, are easier, have really large open worlds for no good gameplay reason (rarely is the point to have interesting, engaging exploration and finding secrets)... and so on. The very few truly great games that come out every year are the exceptions that prove the rules, and they're rarely as good as older, similar games. QA is only a small part of the issue, the bigger issue being that games are shittier regardless of how glitchy and broken they come out as. Cyberpunk (despite being good) could've come out with no glitches at all and would still have been less complex and interesting than the game that was promised (after a 100% faked reveal trailer with a ton of awesome shit that was not in the final game and is still not in the game). And the games are shittier because of corporate meddling and overall crappier employees (a lot of which make it their mission to fuck games up for various reasons... and some which have it as their job description to fuck games up). And it's been going on for a long-ass time, much longer than people seem to think (the industry has been in the process of crashing for well over 10 years, that's partly why monetization and game prices have gotten stupider every year, companies are desperate and coming to the wrong conclusions about why it's happening). Limitation breeds innovation.

[@korokokenbachi5326]

The situation is like: Fine>starting to be sick>illness>extreme illness>starting to recover>fine again I think “gaming” is in extreme illness situation right now, soon we will find out.

[@Slomoshun4u]

More governments need start making steps that The Netherlands and even Australia have made. Context: Netherlands is well on their way to outright banning loot boxes in games bought in their country. (I don't know if this well end with requiring devs to be able to turn off the feature or outright banning the entire game.) Australia has changed their video game classification to require games with loot boxes be Rated-M.

[@MerkavaMk4M]

You can not buy them in the Netherlands some games are blocked, some do not give the option and some ask if you are Dutch and if you say no you can buy them

[@I_AM_NOVA.]

Triple Gay games will save Halo Studios

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

They will need to attempt a world record orgy of As to even attempt to save it. Sadly that amount of money doesn't exist in reality.

[@AlwaysEast]

Well I don't see anyone killing themselves over Halo being ruined, except maybe the developers when they're made redundant.

[@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct]

*Gaylo Studios

[@AO_9]

That's the best term I've heard

[@I_AM_NOVA.]

@@AO_9 Thanks

[@TravisFawver]

Modern games are just missing a few things. A few hundred million more dollars and a few more people in leadership positions with diverse backgrounds and hair colors and we'll have the perfect game.

[@imbatman6029]

😂

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

Instead we got societal preachers and cults of sexual identification.

[@RoyaleLevite]

This is why we need AAAA games...

[@RealJohnnyGuillotine]

Then UbiSoft's Skull & Bones awaits your purchase.

[@tysonbazzell2349]

Nah bro, AAAAA is what we want!!!

[@OrphicPolytheist]

Hahaha, nope.

[@kameronjones7139]

And then get potentially bought out by a Chinese company....

[@elitereptilian200]

yeah poor Ubisoft is just misunderstood..

[@nubbyfresh5623]

11:40 it is my honest opinion that a majority of the time that player agency is removed in a lot of these situations is because the writers honestly believe that if you give the players the choice to make the "wrong decision" then you were encouraging players in those directions.

[@natebroadus8474]

This is a great watch. He's right, the problem is that too many modern games lack any real sense of agency. They tell a story and try to tell you how you're supposed to feel about it, instead of letting you form your own opinion. Asmon is also right about a lot of modern video game writers being weirdos. They can't write normal, because they're awkward and abnormal in a lot of cases.

[@yoshimasterleader]

I'm going to disagree that Games have become more complex over time. Some are like what Rockstar puts out but, most of AAA games today only look complex on the surface. I would say the 6th and 7th generation of games had more going on under the hood mechanically than what we have today.

[@jarredlkling]

It's about all the crazy unlocks and shit now. Back in the day a game's was also the levels and beat the final boss. Now every game has like 30 grind mechanics that just add nothing to a quality story. A game like Banjo and Kazooie is lighters more simple in the design and mechanics then Something Harry potter. They are the same type of game but harry potter is sooooo much more complicated in unnecessary ways

[@Ralathar44]

Games are still more complex on a pound for pounds basis, but they're more focused on what matters and what sells in terms of mechanics. (DEI and demographics is a completely different discussion, im just talking mechanics here). Example: Compare GTA IV to GTA V. GTA IV is actually alot more complex in most ways and there are many videos on this. But GTA V solid infinitely more and remains more popular. Because GTA IV has more complexity but GTA V better game loops.

[@seoskimi5872]

Couldn't agree more, AAA games are mechanically dumber and basic physics wise. Not to mention the cutscene simulator galore on Sony last 10 years with stale gameplay. Shooters regressed. Indies are the way

[@Ralathar44]

@@seoskimi5872 Yeah, you're right, BG 3 is bad.

[@seoskimi5872]

​​@@Ralathar44name more. Almost every big franchise regressed or stagnates across all genres. That's when they are not remastering or remaking games

[@greatgirros24]

0:18 he's at 10k now

[@Khann_2102]

He deserves it, good videos

[@Predator-ng3gn]

Good for him

[@SteveFard]

14k now

[@TheObicobiHD]

Hell yeah 👏

[@RobertMalachowski]

I didn’t understand Hogwarts Legacy, how can it be so diverse long before the movies? What happened between the game and the movies, a purge of non-ethnic Brits? They must have all been banished on a mass scale. That’s at best, and at worst it’s very dark and I don’t know what they were thinking

[@prjndigo]

Example of game dev incompetence. In Starfield there's a guy named Dennys on Mars who sends you out for 5 helmets or 6 guns or whatnot. If you have two of that name of gun in your inventory marked with hotkeys IT WILL TAKE ONE OF YOURS EVEN IF YOU HAVE MANY MORE THAN REQUESTED and I reported that bug before release last year. Its still there... it isn't even a bug, its an incompetence.

[@prjndigo]

the way you keep up with QA/QC when dealing with very large programs and highly complex environments if you hire planners and codemasters... a codemaster doesn't need to be a gifted programmer he just needs to make sure people are working on THE RIGHT VERSION of the code. Otherwise you get bugs and faults re-released in patch after patch.

[@argg.x]

100% unrelated but imagine what would have happened with DoTA 2 if Blizzard had won the lawsuit.

[@andrewgreeb916]

Blizzard got pretty far with that one, DOTA 2 is not an acronym for legal reasons.

[@GeneralDingo]

Before watching the video I'm gonna give my gut feeling on this. There's 2 problems: 1. Execs that look at high sales figure games, don't understand why they worked, and insist on copying surface level qualities and trend chasing. 2. Devs who push agendas too hard, instead of crafting a satisfying experience. In some extreme cases they actively hate their own audience. In both cases, the mistake is not understanding who your audience is and what they want.

[@TyrusJames]

adding 'gem' type currency is a sly way to try and keep the immersion of a game, when in reality it is immersion breaking when you use real money to buy it

[@skermunkel6002]

Indie South African dev here and thank you so much for bumping this ZA content creator up! The South African scene needs more voices that can pierce the global sphere we have such an awesome scene over here! Thanks Asmon and thanks to the amazing community for boosting this!

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

I don't think that games are released incomplete because developers are lazy. I think it's because executives insist on releasing the game, even though it's not done in order to match road maps they have laid out for investors.

[@SkorjOlafsen]

Holding to a schedule is not the problem. We just can't tell from the outside whether the execs hired 50 people when it would take 100 to make that schedule, then pushed out the game unfinished, or whether there were 120 people who were just lazy and only got the job half done. Either could be true, or both, and no one internally is going to be able to speak honestly about it until years later. Either way once the funding is spent, the game has to ship. The real evil is when the whole affair is orchestrated from the beginning. When there was never a realistic plan to make the date with all promised features, because the actual plan all along was to exploit gamers. When the plan was to sell an EA game as a 1.0 release, then used day 1 sales to finish the game. I think that's what's been on the rise for the past decade.

[@justinmadrid8712]

Maybe, but there are several other reasons for releasing an unfinished game. 1- They may not want to invest more money in a game’s development, unless it proves to be successful, so they release it first. 2- They might need to release a game on a specific date, in order to meet holiday demand, or to avoid releasing alongside another game that will steal buyers. 3- If there was a campaign hyping up the game’s release, they want to release the game before the hype dies down. There is more ofc.

[@king_kiff3969]

I've never bought a battlepass let alone a game that has them, this I why I hate kids that do... Tourists destroying gaming.

[@eugeneenriquez2691]

In case why people are confused with the "secondary currency" talk. Look up Japan's pachinko parlors and how those work. I swear, these corpos found inspiration to take the CONCEPTS of how pachinko parlors work.

[@npcimknot958]

10000% if anyone thinks asia will save gaming.. buddy, where do you think the gambling mechanics came from? Why do you think mobile gaming is huge in asia? And all = $$$$$ gacha gambling mechanics. It’s delibearlty making you addicted.. same with anime etc.. idol culture.. asia.. has a gambling problem.. and why so many stories have to do with gambling and the consequences of it.. because the creator lost family over it.. got screwed over by their parents from gambling, etc.. its a problme.. even in the smaller sense.. ufo catchers are gambling as well. Gotta get good.. gonna get the toy.. but to get that next chance.. gotta pay up.

[@gabrielm4656]

You're mixing things up. The pachinko currency is used because gambling for money is prohibited, so they add an extra step. In the case of games, they use secondary currencies to disassociate the price of things from the real money value and make them look more acceptable. The concepts are different.

[@raviel498]

4:40 Thank god somebody finally said it.

[@Tephomab]

Buggy games on launch is usually down to pressure from shareholders and publishers, trying to force devs to release games faster than they can. It kills the passion because developers aren't given enough time to make something that is good and complete, while still ticking all of the boxes needed to compete in the industry.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

7:15 don’t forget the two of them high fiving over the guy in wheelchair 😂

[@jeremysumpter8939]

Cyberpunk did representation correctly...You have trans characters but the game doesnt need to scream it at you. They act like normal people doing normal things just how most would in real life.

[@danieln6700]

Yea cos in a world like that u can edit yourself so much that being trans is old news with all the body modifications and human and machine combos.

[@npcimknot958]

@@danieln6700i mean.. if you really think about it.. its almost just vanity at that point.. and turning yourself into a god.. going against nature

[@chrislevack405]

I just don't get why a person's genital composition and sexual preference is necessary. Think of how many characters in literature that don't focus on those qualities that are amazing characters.

[@jeremysumpter8939]

@@chrislevack405 its how these grown children rate their value in the world, whoever has the most labels, whoever has the most victim points. Then they have to scream it at you to make sure you. If you live your life like that, you are going to inject it into whatever media you create because its all you know.

[@livamyyo]

Oh but it is in your face if you pay attention to the writing. And the stickers on the car. It's pathetic how many people glaze Cdpr for their dog game just cause they fixed some bugs and gave away some free cosmetics.

[@Lurker_Z]

Imagine you pre-order a new type of car, but when you move the wheel to the right, the car goes to the left and the brakes are leaking fluid. Imagine you pre-order a new type of refrigerator, but it sometimes heats up its contents instead of cooling it and sometimes it connects wrongly to the power grid, causing sparks in the plug. Video games seem to be one of the few industries where selling incomplete products before they're even made isn't immediately destroyed by the law.

[@skrillah6259]

Cars have recalls all the time actually

[@Lurker_Z]

@@skrillah6259 That's my point. There are consequences. How many game recalls beyond _Concord_ do you remember?

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

The frustrating thing about the mega games that come out with bugs that make it unplayable is that they so often only take 1-2 months to fix them. Like they worked on this game for six years but they couldn't work on it for 6 years and 2 months.

[@you1027]

Someone I usually don't care much for brought up a really good point the other day. It's quite possible AAA companies are doing these obviously-bad moves *intentionally* to rile people up even more than what a merely sub-par product would do, because they can then blanket dismiss all backlash as raging ad hominem because of a few extra-expressive voices drawn to the mix. So they can dodge any liability or accountability brought up in a shit product's reception, if the negative response can just be summarily thrown out as "hate." This actually makes all the sense in the world once I thought about it: corporations these days spend more of their time and efforts trying to dodge accountability/liability, than providing whatever product they're purportedly in the business of. HR is to shield the company. Execs spin things to protect the company. Legal departments of course exist to weasel the company out of any binds. Even small businesses these days - get called LLC's. Limited Liability Company. The whole point is to not get in trouble - not get held accountable - for what they do while they do it. Which is very telling of their intentions. Corporatization, industrialization, of games, is the very problem. Such structures are absolutely antithetical to art mediums at their core.

[@Mr.Frijoles]

Padda, articulate his points very well, his video editing is actually not bad. And it’s a breath of fresh air hearing someone with similar complaints, and issues with video games nowadays. If he keeps cranking out videos like this he deserves a follow.

[@Chesslover69420]

AAA Games situation is crazy

[@Gundwn]

as a developer i disagree with your take on the bugs. there's a big difference between something that should have been caught with regression testing, which i would refer to as a bug to be simple, and what most games have nowadays which is features that were never in a working state and a conscious decision was made to just release it anyways. when they finally "patch" them they're not fixing bugs, they're just finishing working on it. maybe it's just me but it's really obvious when something is an intermittent maybe hardware-specific bug which is easy to tell by whether or not it affects all players. when things are broken for everyone, especially those that are easily reproducible with basic gameplay, that's just laziness. the other problem with releasing unfinished intentionally broken games that most people don't seem to care about but i do is they're intentionally wasting your time. you paid for a product when it was supposed to be ready and after taking your money they've just bought themselves more time to finish development. we used to have midnight releases and we'd go and pick up games at midnight. if people were still doing that only to find out that the game isn't done yet and you're going to have to wait some amount of time for them to hopefully fix it they would never get away with it again let alone every single release. just because it's a digital download doesn't take away from the fact that everyone's time is valuable and i'd rather waste money than my time. i also don't think this is the actual developers doing these things. i've never worked with a developer that wanted to release something that wasn't ready unless they were being forced to do so and it sucks. the problem is with the management that make decisions for profit at the cost of their reputation, customer trust, reviews, etc. making profit is important, but you can only exploit your customer base's trust so many times so to me i never understood the tradeoff especially for AAA studios that make their own timelines and have control over every aspect of a game. tl;dr: unfinished features != bug

[@npcimknot958]

It does seem lie that.. they want the initial sales.. get to the point you don’t qualify for refund.. aka cash grab .. and ‘finish the game later’

[@thalanoth]

Til you read the day1 notes from the devs and there's entire sections dedicated to "known bugs". Sometimes it's not even just a completions of unfinished content agenda in a text or forum style, it's a video release. Crunch sucks, but, to release anyway is a death-sentence. Should be illegal to release unfinished content if you advertised the product as such, but, yes, unfinished != bug

[@SvargasName]

13:06 19:06 20:00 @AsmonTV I am game developer with 20+ years experience, and I could tell you in detail why lots of bugs isn't a QA problem. TLDR: 1. Quantity prioritized over quality. 2. Vintage development practices in gamedev, underusing automatic testing (which should be part of implementing the feature, not after-the-fact testing). Also, bugs taking too long is part of how shaky their codebase is, and how hard it is to guarantee that the fix didn't break anything. The bugfix itself often takes like 10% or less of the time, the rest is manual testing, 90% of which should have been automated. p.s. I also worked in free-to-play a lot, and can say that you are 100% right about how microtransactions affect design of games. Ugly default skins so premium skins sell, make a problem to sell a solution, extra currencies with funny conversion ratios, gamba, all of that.

[@williamreid8299]

A perfect example of recent half-cooked AAA software is the last WoW patch where many many guild banks were wiped and Blizzard could not or would not recover the items. If they no longer properly analyse a change and fail to test that change before release. If they no longer do backups - or if they do but don't test the restoration process then what's safe anymore? Nothing it would seem because they can get away with it.

[@DarkLess89X]

"Woke is not capable of creating anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good"

[@Un_Abandoned]

This day in age, if it's "triple A," it still might be shit

[@Korvolio]

Still? It's guaranteed until proven otherwise. Wait at least a year so the game is fixed and buy it on sale. In meantime enjoy indie games and thousands of mods. I honestly have no idea why people still care about "triple A"

[@rockmanfan5104]

​@@Korvolio couldnt agree more. I always think "shit" when i see or hear AAA. If im proven wrong ok but that is hardly ever the case

[@Pepe-dq2ib]

Indie is even worse.... there are 100s of indie games every year and only 1% are even close to decent. This video makes it sound like top hit indie games like BM Wukong is the standard.

[@purechaos3498]

Crazy how asmongold wasn’t mentioned on the song “Dupe - Drama” 😮😮😮

[@adi6293]

I work in a whiskey label printing factory and the quality / kpi thing is so true, they introduced new targets for time to get the job done recently and the quality went down hill across the board....

[@Buerfrumhell]

The pendulum is known for swinging. It’s hated for not disclosing when it plans to.

[@lflintx]

Jesus, the ability of Asmongold to turn a 10 minutes long vídeo into a 40 min long vídeo with his nonstop inputting is something else.

[@Senumunu]

It's a content mill He is repeating what he has said thousand times before

[@dr1zzzy]

Lol just don't watch

[@necodriver1419]

I'd agree if this wasn't a part of the stream. These videos are made from him streaming, it's not him just making this video to talk about this one thing. Plus, this is stuff that needs to be constantly reiterated, they're huge problems in gaming that he and the video are talking about

[@code066funkinbird3]

Remind me of garnt does

[@Sleep.ye.]

remember the skillshot events in Skull and Bones that was like DbD's generator mechanic? AAAA games will be the new NFT

[@DanielDorn-tr7tw]

I dont understand one word you say But I think I dont want to understand what you said

[@silentsixteen]

Dead By Daylight

[@lemurtheory9350]

Something that confuses me is why most developers don't just first grab assets and mechanics of what works well in the last game move it over, change details, and update it to new games theme and mechanics then work on the new stuff that you don't have yet. Save time, money, and people. Fromsoft and their souls/born/elden games have been doing this and its been working well. even when working on a new type of game they haven't tried much before.

[@daiwang8111]

Because patent. Yes, you can patent abstract idea, which is wild. Try copying "throwing-ball to catch mob" mechanic and nintendo will knock your door

[@lemurtheory9350]

@@daiwang8111 That shouldnt stop them from reusing and updateing their own assets and mechanics tho.

[@PixelPoizon]

Hi, QA guy here! We do actually report the same bugs that gamers end up getting, devs just don't act on them due to time constraints.

[@HerbusWinkle024]

36:00 when I was in 3rd grade my biggest problem was when my mom accidentally washed my Yu Gi Oh cards cause I left them in my pocket. Glad I’m not a kid in todays world

[@cunningrat_]

The funniest thing is that now gaming companies like EA, Ubisoft have realized all their big old IPs were and ARE the peak of the creative output and quality, where their creators loves their projects instead of looking for a bag. So now are just rehashing old classics with new "Graphics" that are usually more broken and garbage than the actual original release of the game! The magic of hiring only "Brace face" as your entire creative force. The companies that used to push absolute bangers, now are acting like a desperate gold digger trying to paint their dead dementia riddened husbands porchse that's been rotting for the past 12 years with just a different coat of paint trying to sell it for its original value or dare I say make a profit THANK GOD they are getting bankrupt they just have to get used to not having jobs OR money. Also they somehow broke the transmission painting just sucks but they are getting what they deserve.

[@joshua3340]

Hopefully Ubisoft's self-inflicted downfall will positively influence future games to prioritize optimization, quality and gameplay over "diverse" and "inclusive" incentives.

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

They'll all be fixed once they get sold to China. Then you'll understand.

[@luminousparadox7529]

Considering thier quality control Nintendo really have fucked up with pokemon. If it got half the love zelda has pal world probably wouldn't have even happened

[@Genju89]

Pokemon games are developed by gamefreak, not nintendo. Nintendo has some % shares of game freak, and licencing rights and some other stuff, but the creative (or in case of pokemon uncreative) freedom is with gamefreak. And gamefreak does the minimal amount of work to sell 20mio copies every other year. They lucked on the IP, and are milking it. I dont think gamefreak has ever done any other quality game. And pokemon games being worse than the Initial versions 25years ago, is such a sad thing.

[@Sir_Bratze]

i still cant believe that big companies release slop and think we dont notice. like we didnt buy the "eyes" dlc

[@solomani5959]

Things will change when people don’t buy it. And agree, don’t even play it (or pirate it).

[@michael245]

when you as a company for any game focus on inclusivity representation instead of world building and script writing you deserve to fail

[@GSXR750ization]

I hate regulations from the government. It's often turned into a industry with billions of your dollars disappearing. But I'm against gambling for children.

[@An.Unsought.Thought]

Dude who cares? Children arent gambling. They dont have the money. Very rarely do parents enable it, and honestly, its their problem. I don't care at all if it ruins their lives. It doesnt effect me.

[@GSXR750ization]

@@An.Unsought.Thought What were you wanting to portray with your comment? You don't care but felt the need to share your opinion. Kids buy loot boxes and similar items. It's plainly conditiong for gambling.

[@Charalyn0010]

@@GSXR750ization Kids get the money from parents. If the parents keep giving them money, what's the problem exactly?

[@perfectiondreamusa]

2:50 Wario The Kick Streamer

[@Danceofmasks]

What these companies do not understand, is that how well a game makes money does not actually mean what they think it means. Yes, Diablo Immortal made ungodly amounts of money. But I have not bought a single game from ABK since Diablo Immortal was announced. It does not affect how well whales finance your one predatory game, but it will affect the fact that some people will never buy your products ever again.

[@xX1Mankrik3Xx]

Asmongold, AAA QA person here, QA is not the problem. The problem is that companies don't want to spend the money for more DevQA and more Engineering positions that actually FIX the bugs. Meanwhile our MASSIVE regular QA teams find/report/document bugs for the dev teams to fix. A lot of these issues will sit untouched by devs for very long periods of time, if at all. Logic would tell you that this is QA problem, but AAA gaming has corpo'd everything to such a degree that a lot of studios don't even have DevQA any more, putting more stress on the developers and engineers to fix bugs.

[@MiguelSpence]

i loved Spec OPs the line, memorable game and intense story

[@JimmyRond]

AAA shit, here we go again...

[@sirellyn]

Honestly the gaming community is SICK TO DEATH of any sort of woke "representation" There's been nearly ZERO of anything else. When is the last time ANY sort of good character wore a cross necklace in a game? Or even had a hero obey the 4 cardinal virtues? Forget PREACHING about any of that. When is the last time "representation" from factions making up 70+% of the population for decades were even used?? We notice it only goes one way. That's the totalitarian aspect we cannot abide.

[@eldenarmortem975]

I mean, CP2077 has huge latino comunity and they are verymuch christian like latinos irl. But if you want representation of 70% of west people, then that would be atheist, atheist abiding by few christian customs.

[@sirellyn]

@@eldenarmortem975 I'd put lapsed Christians or atheists preferring Christian values as even Dawkins has labelled himself recently. And yes that would account for 70%+ in the west when you add in the Christian factions. The vast majority is NOT being represented at all with top surgery scars and dreds with half shaved heads.

[@clovermite]

22:21 Let's be real: C - was the OLD minimum viable product. Nowadays, it's D- or even F+ in some cases. "Oh yeah the game is fundamentally broken and unplayable right now guys, but trust us - we have a roadmap. Just one more month and the game will be barely functional."

[@vitruviandrums]

Playable - is the new MVP. Just playable. As long as it runs.

[@chucknya1448]

I can attest that competent QA teams do uncover a whole lots of the issues; they just don't get fixed in time for many reasons (priority, time, or immensely hard to repro and fix properly). Most games are basically miracles that managed to ship. It's like a Jenga tower held together by hope and prayers. Within a day, there might be 200 changes done to the game, statistically speaking there's always a chance any of them can improve and/or make stuff worse. Basically the only remparts against between a stable game launch and a bad one is effective management processes (which include QA), skill/experience of the team and time. When QA is bad, it's often because the project management is even worse...

[@christophersmith2642]

1:00 look ma im a timed comment

[@jeffreysherman8224]

Bro, HOW!? This popped up perfectly at the right time!

[@mitchellclark3070]

I see you!

[@arkbeetlegaming]

​@@jeffreysherman8224 i think youtube do that always.

[@RDebski]

Nice mask...🤦‍♂️

[@UmbrageousZX]

Imagine if that dude as a new youtuber gets asmon to react to all his videos lol? No pressure mate xD

[@justinmadrid8712]

Nope. He will run out of content too quickly.

[@SunnyWave174]

Who cares, he has a full time job anyway and YT is not his life time goal​@@justinmadrid8712

[@UmbrageousZX]

@@justinmadrid8712 You don't say? Weird how I said No pressure mate ha?

[@justinmadrid8712]

@@UmbrageousZX I just meant that he pretty much covered like 10 years of content in two videos lol.

[@Dae...]

I agree with most things Asmon says. But one thing I don't is when he said if a game is good and has DEI or woke, it will still sell well. It won't. Gamers don't like this sht full top. He argued that point with Cyberpunk or BG3. But they weren't advertised as such and only has woke if you chose to with choices in game. That being said, games that have body type 1 and 2 are a joke. Revert them back to male and female. If men and women are so alike, why are body type 2 covered? Hypocrits 🤦‍♂️

[@npcimknot958]

I think it’s true tho. But dei and woke is virtue signalling vs a studio that really believes this stuff.. it’s not really woke.. if you actually practice and believe it.. and there has been good games with this stuff.. it is what it is. Peopel need to toe with their wallets..

[@Mant111]

It depends on how much the woke was allowed to fester. Take BG3 for example, you have bullshit like pronouns and some stuff, but you ALSO have super-sexy characters, waifus, stuff that appeals to normal people. BG3 did it right by having BOTH sides, unlike shit like Concord who went 100% one side and ignore the other.

[@KT-pv3kl]

​@@npcimknot958 you got it backwards. Dei and woke is not just virtue signalling but the vast majority of people don't stand behind the ideology and only go through the notion to not get cancelled. People who are convinced of the ideology and push it with actual conviction are absolutely woke. Even more so than the people who just pay lip service.

[@LB-yg2br]

@@Mant111bg3 has pronouns? Explain that. Who is bg3 is a trans or nonbinary “they/them”? I’m in chapter 2 and haven’t come across that

[@UltimateCerberus]

2:25 I, on the other hand, would love to see a Waluigi game that acts like a buddy cop, where he is a detective and has Daisy as his partner.

[@notanactualuser]

The thing that needs to change is that digital items no matter what they are, come with a license that allows you to transfer and resell them. And companies doing loot boxes have to declare the odds of each possible item. That would at least mean consumers could make informed decisions and can resell their purchases if needed.

[@Emerl18]

Asmon is wrong about the secondary currencies. They're not there ONLY to confuse the customer. They are also a way for the developer to have time-limited sales for the packages of the currency, where you can obtain the same amount for less cash, and then even long after the sale has expired, your currency has the same value as it would have if you had bought it at full price. So I think secondary currencies are fine, as long as the developers can justify it with a reasonable schedule of sales for the currency packs.

[@Martin-jm8wi]

You could do that without secondary currencies. Simply make an offer "Charge your account with $50 and we'll add $25 for free!" Or keep it simple making the conversion rate 1:1 with you secondary currencies

[@kyvian251]

If they aren’t there to obscure costs. Then why is it always odd numbers? Example: 40 dollar pack for 1200 points, dlc costs 1000 now you have 200 points leftover and it makes you want to spend more money to use the leftover points. Why not just directly say the price value on the skins themselves? Why don’t all games have direct conversions, 10 dollars for 100 points 20 for 200 points etc etc

[@kyvian251]

Also, these secondary currencies have no value outside of the game. So if you have 20 dollars worth of points leftover there’s no way you can refund it or get your money back and it’s stuck on your account forever.

[@Emerl18]

@@kyvian251 I said they're not there ONLY to obscure costs. I never denied that was one of the reasons they do it.

[@Emerl18]

@@kyvian251 Spending 20 dollars to have 20 dollars in an account you can't refund is not a single bit different than spending 20 dollars for gems/doohickeys that you can't refund in your account.

[@bigsmoke167]

Are they actually getting worse, or is the internet making it easier to hyper focus on the failures of games? That line of most indie games being better is just flat out wrong. Like 90% of indie games suck, you just focus on the 10% that are actually good

[@roflBeck]

I prefer the 10% of good indie games over the 2% of good AAA games.

[@emne5750]

Both corpo games sucking hard and a majority of indie games being trash can be true at the same time. His point is that indie is pulling most of the weight when it comes to innovation when it used to be AAA.

[@CGGS_0]

As someone who essentially stopped playing newer games that is 2020 or newer (Cyberpunk and Forza Horizon 5 being the exception). I'd say yes.

[@rockmanfan5104]

You sound very butt hurt. Even if 90% of the indy games do suck [they dont btw] thats better than 100% being trash and unplayable like AAA

[@sheogorath1374]

The thing is, there are way, WAY more indie games. So that 10% heavily outnumbers good AAA titles. So it feels like indie games are better than AAA titles, even if most indie games are not. When you stop looking at percentage and look at the actual numbers, you are more likely to have a good experience with the indie games.

[@-Tetragrammaton]

Nintendo just ruined their IP for pokemon

[@XC11301991]

Lol, they are too big to fall. Palworld situation is whatever to majority of the fans, and most other people don't care either. Whether Nintendo wins or loses the lawsuit won't affect Pokemon's popularity. Obviously it's preferred they lose as patenting game mechanics sucks ass.

[@stinkfinga4918]

Sure they did lol

[@shiniesglitters5424]

3:15 that is NOT what happened. they filed divisional patents which take already established patents and subdivided them into more consolidated patents. This is a scummy tactic to make patent lawsuits much harder because instead of just dealing with the 1 patent they have to deal with 4 individual patents. The original patent was filed in 2021 for pokemon archeus and the effective date on the patents that it was divided into are based on that date so they are enforceable from 2021 onwards even though they were created in 2021.

[@carrottoponcrak]

I don't think you realize that with QA, they dont get the time or scope they need to do their job. Blame their managers, QA doesn't make any game decisions lol