"The death of local multi-player" felt that one, my little sister decided she wanted to play a game with me, I went searching my collection for something we could play together. I first went for the PS4, because it was the newest, there was nothing to play together, I had to pull out my ps3, a console as old as she is, so we could play a game.
@LarryMFnSellers4 жыл бұрын
My little brother and I thought we could play local split screen on Black Ops Cold War but apparently Activision didn’t finish it yet, even though there’s literally a split screen tab to click on in the menu. Lazy assholes.
@altandemei26444 жыл бұрын
I remember, my 2 brothers and I all had a DS and mario kart. One evening our parents took us to eat at a restaurant and at one point while waiting for them to finish their dessert we went to the game room, we all had our DS with Mario Kart and we started playing, then another kid and his sister entered the room, they also had DSs but only one cartridge for the both of them but it didnt mattered, we could all play together. We spent like an hour on the balloon battle mode duking it out before our parents were done with their meal. Nowadays i dont think i could do that with my switch even on mario kart 8 or mario party, i miss that feeling of "anywhere, anytime with anybody"
@Lucien_M4 жыл бұрын
Check Rocket League and Gang Beasts
@kelpermoon233 жыл бұрын
you should try ray man legends
@DarkKnightofIT3 жыл бұрын
Halo 5 removing split screen entirely made me not want to play it, because for me a significant part of the fun of games is playing with people (I can enjoy games with friends but hate playing them alone) And if I have to buy TWO copies of a game, and (in the case of Halo 5) a SECOND console to play with my siblings, then I won't enjoy it as much. Replayability (for me) is also pretty dependant on wether or not I can play with friends, I can play the same game for years and have just as much fun throughout if there's other people, and the easiest way to play with people I enjoy playing with is couch CO-OP. Going back to Halo as an example, I have played Halos 1 through 4 several times over, going through the campaigns or messing around in Forge/custom gamemodes with my siblings (mostly through split screen), but I played the campaign of 5 once, and then never picked it up again because none of my friends own an Xbox/Halo 5.
@puppachino4 жыл бұрын
“Competition breeds innovation” When you buy out the competition, there’s no need to change and as such the industry stagnates until it eventually dies.
@timmteller8714 жыл бұрын
Well competition does breed innovation. But competition is spare and most of my fav games are either older or from indi studios that don't belomg to the publisher-developer-media cartel.
@aussieaudir8lms8714 жыл бұрын
Off topic normie meme thing ir what ever(if you think i am feel free) Gran turismo fans(gt):o boy i cant wait fot gt sport Gt sport goses on sale Gt fans:almost all cars have interiors and online but what about more cars and tracks Devs of gt:will be added in updates and no dlc Gt fans:updates what is that no 1000 cars and 100 tracks whaaaaa Gt7:is new gt4 Gt fans: o boy i cant wait Gt 7 come out:10/10 Gt8 ends up like gt sport Thats how is it end up
@marcusborderlands61774 жыл бұрын
@@timmteller871 try some nice AAA games that arent cod and shit. Dark souls 3, Metro Exodus, and Deus Ex are fantastic, but people seem to act like there arent any good AAA games that have released in the past 10 years lol.
@timmteller8714 жыл бұрын
Not into Dark Souls or other games like it but I loved Metro and I do play lots of "older" AAA games as I said. Like Borderlands 2 or BF3.
@robertbektas18104 жыл бұрын
I don’t necessarily agree with emp. So many amazing games are coming out in recent years. If I only had access to the 8 to 32 generations I probably wouldn’t like games as much as I do. Most people don’t want to admit this but around 90% of 8 bit games don’t hold up and about 70% of 16 bit aren’t worth playing either
@Slenderquil4 жыл бұрын
"Then somewhere along the way, companies figured out how to make players purchase the same game multiple times." Laughs in pokemon
@Melecie4 жыл бұрын
not really, pokémon was in a civil war abot whether it is good or bad last time i had been a part of it, which was around june 2020
@Slenderquil4 жыл бұрын
@@Melecie That has nothing to do with the fact that it literally makes 2 of every mainline game to sell the same game multiple times
@Melecie4 жыл бұрын
@@Slenderquil oh. to be fair, i do think that was initially made to encourage trading as since neither player would likely have both versions and/or every pokémon in one version, they'd have to trade to get all of them
@Slenderquil4 жыл бұрын
@@Melecie I do think that it had good intentions to start, but as the interbet emerged and we got more trade evolutions, the dual release system became less relevant. At this point most of the dual releases just feel like an excuse to have people buy more copies of the same game.
@Melecie4 жыл бұрын
@@Slenderquil it _is_ tradition at this point, however that they turned the second release (crystal, emerald, platinum) into double releases as well (b2w2, usum) could _possibly_ be this
@Iamthestig42069 Жыл бұрын
Local multiplayer was sick. Counterstrike LAN parties were a pain to setup but totally worth it
@btfo420 Жыл бұрын
mane I still remember the good old times at cyber cafe, just us school kids and CS 1.6 to chip the afternoon away. Absolute wonderful times
@S1apShoes4 жыл бұрын
17:21 Oh boy! Back in the early 2010's you couldn't set foot in a game lobby without hearing a litany of AVGN and Zero Punctuation quotes. Those guys never meant to kickstart a wave of gamer cynicism, but they certainly unknowingly poured kerosene on the fire.
@ivanmegafanboy19814 жыл бұрын
AAAAASS!
@antifascistamerican37824 жыл бұрын
He’s gonna take you back to the past
@TEPMARMY4 жыл бұрын
Didn't expect to see you here but im glad I did
@ivanmegafanboy19814 жыл бұрын
Also, just a question I need answers for: does James still care about AVGN? or videogames for that matter? I know his main passion is film making and film history itself, that is what he studied for, but is he forcing himself to do AVGN episodes now? I've heard he has writers to make videos about games he never played. I liked the Chex video he made some months ago :(.
@OjamaLemon4 жыл бұрын
hi slap
@MisterN14 жыл бұрын
"I don't care how deep a texture is, so long as the game is fun." -John Romero (Co-Creator of Doom)
@iHawke4 жыл бұрын
"I made Daikatana" -John Romero (Co-Creator of Doom)
@Sokol3294 жыл бұрын
@@iHawke "we don't talk about daikatana" -everyone
@AverageBrawlEnjoyer4 жыл бұрын
Nice pfp mate
@four-en-tee4 жыл бұрын
Doom 1 was the peak of John Romero's career. That being said, it lines up with another memorable quote... "Because if its not fun, why bother?" -Reggie Fils-Aimé
@Sokol3294 жыл бұрын
@@four-en-tee doom 1 shows that a game doesn't need a great story or breathtaking graphics to be good
@Foekoe4 жыл бұрын
This is why you support indie games
@Kirzerk4 жыл бұрын
Indie titles are the future of quality gaming
@EnaTenkiyoGamer4 жыл бұрын
There is a lot of them on PS Vita
@superrobotfish67014 жыл бұрын
Silksong HYYYPPPPEEE!!!!
@crono30154 жыл бұрын
Eh.... Most indie games are boring and too short. Not as good as Spiderman PS4 or Bloodborne.
@crono30154 жыл бұрын
I can see why most indie games are financial failures. Most of them are boring except Cuphead 🤭 Dark Souls is superior
@TaRAAASHBAGS Жыл бұрын
The 00s were the perfect blend of the 80s and 90s "nerd devs" who were experimental and devoted and the modern publishers with their reach, focus, and budget. It helped that video games in general were niche enough to be for the fans first and foremost but popular enough to get some money behind them. Now, anything AAA is corporate all the way through, and video games are so mainstream the average consumer is easily placated by garbage that hits a few check boxes.
@staringcorgi6475 Жыл бұрын
AAA studios would hire these people these days as they have higher tolerance to their bad working conditions
@androidhammer Жыл бұрын
Very true. EA recently bought the developer Codemasters. They made one of my favorite franchises of all time, DiRT Rally. The games were amazing, you could tell that it was a passion project for the devs, the series is attached to Colin McRae's name who was one of the most legendary rally drivers ever. He was practically the embodiment of the sport itself. One of the devs even became a rally driver himself. At the beginning of this month EA and Codemasters released EA WRC, an officially licensed game of the highest level of rally driving. Rally has a rich history full of stories of drivers fighting against each other, the elements, and their own cars. EA made them release a sloppy unfinished mess that doesn't live up to the legacy of their prior releases, and more importantly in my mind, doesn't live up to the fans love of both the games and the sport. I know it's a bit stupid to be really upset about a game being bad, but I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in a game ever. EA finally came for the game I loved the most and sucked the soul out of it.
@CassandraPantaristi11 ай бұрын
@@androidhammer I really hate EA for buying out so many studios. I really miss the studios that were around in the 2000s like Midway, Acclaim, Majesco, Nervesoft, and others.
@fortynights15138 ай бұрын
I would largely agree, but one thing I will say: I have heard some good music composed for video games in the past few years to decade; including those from AAA developers. That aspect isn’t bad now I would argue, even if the games are underwhelming for what they are priced at.
@darkzeroprojects42454 ай бұрын
We need to somehow bring back some of that older vibes, not just for nostalgia though.
@jonfro-mez4 жыл бұрын
Your "Everyone's a critic" section can easily be applied to movies.
@charles_Wayne_34 жыл бұрын
and music which honestly is the biggest dick measuring contest of them all
@JohnBread694 жыл бұрын
And youtube comments
@znightowlz65854 жыл бұрын
@@AxxLAfriku your channel is boring and annoying
@znightowlz65854 жыл бұрын
@@charles_Wayne_3 no it’s movies
@EnaTenkiyoGamer4 жыл бұрын
Ouch
@rainbow_vader4 жыл бұрын
It's so weird hearing his voice coming out of his actual face and not a static image of admiral ackbar
@XXXXXLSBXXXXX4 жыл бұрын
we’ve had face
@AIEmporium7004 жыл бұрын
I had never seen him before, and I always wondered what he looked like. He’s so... average.
@alcyonecrucis4 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t him
@juanandresmendezmartinez80244 жыл бұрын
My god, are we seeing the man behind the downward spiral itself?
@thelamergamer18944 жыл бұрын
I'm not the only one?
@N0glin4 жыл бұрын
"are video games on a downward spiral?" everyone: you mean triple a games
@N0glin4 жыл бұрын
@Granpda Corey perhaps it is time that changed
@fabric19284 жыл бұрын
@Granpda Corey How do you figure that?
@SonimodGT4 жыл бұрын
Wait what are triple a games again? I srsy forgot lol
@N0glin4 жыл бұрын
@@SonimodGT basically games made by companys rather than indie titles which are still made by companys, but small and they have souls
@thegacha16154 жыл бұрын
@@fabric1928 since the general public doesn't care about anything but the big game companies with millions of dollars poured into advertisment of their games
@batesjernigan17732 жыл бұрын
I love the subtlety of Emp playing an 8-bit remix of Toxic by Britney spears at 8:25 when talking about playing online.
@bit8793Ай бұрын
this is what keeps the sunnyv2 "essays" from the big dawgs
@ninjaswordtothehead3 жыл бұрын
Many of these games were made by companies founded and ran by people who had real passion for video games. Now the companies making games are ran by people who's only passion is maximizing quarterly earnings. Focus matters.
@skeetsmcgrew32823 жыл бұрын
Id consider this problem #1. Video games always needed to be profitable, but now they need to be EVEN MORE profitable, year after year. Got a guy with passions? Fuck him, get him off the team, we need a yes-man. Look at Cyberpunk, the creators KNEW the game was broken as fuck and nowhere near ready for release. Arguably they were mismanaged if it took 8 damn years to make a finished game but still, back in the day they would just push back release because they wanted to make a good game. But Cyberpunk was profitable before it even hit the market because of the hype. The company literally couldnt care less if it failed. Worse case scenario, they sell the company to fuckin EA for a quarter billion dollars, go home with a cool $5mil bonus, and walk away as the developers get paid dogshit for being part of the "team that bungled Cyberpunk."
@ash-vx5bs3 жыл бұрын
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 CD Projekt are one of the few companies with people at the top who are actually passionate about distributing and creating great games... It's like complaining about Rockstar Games. They made a mistake and they acknowledged it and refunded anyone who wanted one. Complain about companies who make the same bullshit game year after year adding little to the product, companies like EA and Activision are the real culprits.
@naps70393 жыл бұрын
@@ash-vx5bs why are you shifting blame as if people don't blame EA and Activision for their horseshit too? Surely by now you must know that your entire argument is the reason these companies don't give a shit and will release buggy unfinished games because people such as yourself will still defend them because they made a game you loved in the past. Idk how many times I've seen this exact conversation happen and here you are proving that there's no end in sight to fans giving companies passes. Open your eyes man, Activision and EA and especially blizzard used to make fantastic games until they didn't. We gave them excuses because we didn't want to accept that shits changed and sure enough they abused our trust and loyalty until we ended up at this point where ppl like me have to explain to ppl like you who still try to hold on to hope that the next time will be different. Cdpr is supposed to be different somehow because the witcher was good yet they managed to make the same mistakes as their competitors continue to do to this day and you're giving them a pass bc it was their first time? Hold them accountable for their bullshit and maybe, just maybe, they won't keep fucking it up over and over in the future. I have zero expectations that it'll ever be great again in gaming anytime soon but giving free passes for bullshit needs to end because it gives them more reason not to do any better. We're all tired of it man, I basically play single player games or indie stuff these days but I spend 95% less time gaming and it's not because I've grown older but because gaming has gone corporate and it's just the same old recycled shit or just plain bugged out garbage that asks you for money every time you play. It's all remasters too since they're too afraid to take risks on anything new, just like movies. Entertainment in general is just a shitshow and now I realize I'm rambling in frustration so I'm just gonna end this rant here.
@ash-vx5bs3 жыл бұрын
@@naps7039 You have to give them the pass. EA, Activision, Blizzard all got the pass the first time bro it's like if Tarantino made a bad movie after Pulp Fiction u wouldn't be like "oh he's shit" you would wait for the next movie. The great filmmakers are all old now and the younger generation of writers/directors make great tv shows. The well never runs dry for great content, there's no need to play/watch new stuff all the time if you want to play/watch great stuff all the time.
@naps70393 жыл бұрын
@@ash-vx5bs they blatantly lied about the game running surprisingly well on last gen consoles, they knew the game was an unfinished buggy mess that the testers or whatever group they got to play the game before release said the game probably wouldn't be ready until 2022(and that was for pc) and I guarantee you there was some analysts who said ok the game isn't finished but there's so much hype and loyal customers who believe in this company from our witcher series and did the math ending up deciding that there would be more ppl who wouldn't refund than not or maybe they just said fuck it release it anyways. I mean how are we gonna give them a pass for that? It's like if you are working on a presentation for your job right and that presentation is for a huge client that your business desperately needs and you keep telling your boss yeah its going so good I'm gonna have it finished next week, we're gonna land those clients and you just hype the fuck out of it and your boss says great I will have them fly in next week for your presentation. And when it's presentation time you walk in there drunk with a shit presentation, a bad half assed pitch and your slides don't work so you just wing it and it goes overwhelmingly bad and the clients leave and never want to do business with your company again. Do you think your boss would give you another chance for the next big client? Shit he probably would just fire you. The way that mess was handled should give you a good indication that they don't care about their fans and customers and this whole debacle was just a test to see how bad it really would be if they did the same shit those other companies do. I believe it was something like more than half of the original devs from the witcher series already left the company and they just pump out contractors these days so how can we expect for them to not release another buggy mess next time. When long time devs leave the company the same way we've seen at other companies like blizzard, the games end up what they are these days. Soulless cashgrab garbage. I'm glad a lot of ppl are holding these companies accountable and just aren't playing those games anymore because they know it's just a waste of time and money. I hope you're right and I'm wrong about cdpr but only time will tell. I won't be holding my breath though.
@kennylauderdale_en4 жыл бұрын
I'm not paying $70 for a video game.
@Zayindjejfj4 жыл бұрын
I still can barely stand paying roughly 60 buckaroos. I remember when $49.99 was the highest and then one day that changed.
@marcusborderlands61774 жыл бұрын
ya heard of pc? you can get most games for $00.00 if ya really want to lmfao. Also GOG aint raisin prices to 70
@goncalocarneiro30434 жыл бұрын
When in doubt, emulate it out.
@davitdavid71654 жыл бұрын
I am tryong to survive in the f2p economy. It may be harder to find the good stuff,but with the amount of stuff, tou will stumble across something you like.
@peruserprecurer14464 жыл бұрын
@@marcusborderlands6177 Or Switch/PS4 since they've been jailbroken, assuming your morals allow
@ChucksSEADnDEAD4 жыл бұрын
Me: "Oh boy EmpLemon is gonna tear a hole into AAA studios." EmpLemon: "The Minecraft revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the middle market game industry."
@Musically_Declined4 жыл бұрын
Why does AAA need a hole teared into it? Some of the best games of all time have been AAA of the past 5 years
@mr.squishy50244 жыл бұрын
I actually audibly laughed at this comment.
@eX1st41324 жыл бұрын
emplemon is monke confirmed
@josealfonso83704 жыл бұрын
monke time
@justaguy21834 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why he says that about the revolution... I mean, what were its consequences that led to a disaster for the middle market game industry? It just doesn't make sense from my point of view.
@henriqueaugustus17612 жыл бұрын
When you say simple games, I always remember THQ. They always released 7 out of 10 games that I loved. I didn’t need the best games, just a simple fun and they always released one of these.
@fortynights1513 Жыл бұрын
What could have happened was that we had a middle tier of developers, and those developers either moved to making small mobile games, or grew into larger developers or were bought out. No knock on simple, fun titles, but in some cases, what really sold the game was the small price it was sold for. A good number of these games weren’t sold for what we would call full price at the time.
@ElysiumGD Жыл бұрын
the Juiced franchise in particular
@staringcorgi6475 Жыл бұрын
And also the rock band trilogy probably one of gamings best trilogys
@fortynights15134 ай бұрын
@@staringcorgi6475Two things were unfortunate about Rock Band and Guitar Hero: A. The peripherals they came up with were not capable of being used across all consoles (in the seventh generation as well as going forward after that). And B. Because online marketplaces in the later 2000’s were underdeveloped, they ended up with too many releases of expansion pack games that could have easily been DLC today. Say what you want about DLC being excessive, but I’d rather pay for new Aerosmith, and Van Halen songs as DLC for Guitar Hero 3 or World Tour than the standalone games they came out with.
@staringcorgi64754 ай бұрын
@@fortynights1513 i’m a huge fan of guitar hero but i can acknowledge that they went overboard in 2009 they released too many games and the fact that they made new guitar bundles every year was bad because they weren’t being sold since everybody got their great guitar in 2007.
@DaTLMusic3 жыл бұрын
My main gripe against modern games is the fact that a lot of times they are just not designed to end. You play it until you can't force yourself anymore and then looking back at the game there is no real satisfaction or nostalgia. My favorite games of all time have been games that I can look back on and think "wow I loved that game so much". Chrono Trigger, earthbound, mother 3, escape from monkey Island, etc. Its better to be sad that a game has reached its end then to be happy that you finally left the game.
@ivelsoup3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for being an original person. Good comment.
@madmangogaming3 жыл бұрын
to be honest i think thats a lot down to gamers, any AAA game that falls in under 60 hours of gameplay and infinite endgame just gets met with derision for not having 'enough content' - just cue the angry joe clips
@kavinh102 жыл бұрын
that's why i really wish we had more games like shadows of mordor, the story is ok but everyone gets their own randomly generated enemies and the randomness combind with the nemesis system means you can make ur own story and extends the gameplay beyond just boring quests. orc tries to kill you because u killed his brother gets killed comes back to life goes mad and is now your new insane bodyguard. nowadays seems like the closest thing we'd get is multiplayer padding or roguelites
@LordJackass2 жыл бұрын
I wanna take some time and analyze this some, not this comment particularly, just the sentiment. it's gonna be long so don't read this if you don't wanna discuss this.: I believe that immersion can be broken up into two categories, and games usually fall into one of those two catagories.: Narrative Immersion and Mechanical Immersion. Individual players will usually favor games and franchises that have a focus on one of these types of immersion with breaks to experience the other type of immersion. Narrative immersion is fairly obvious, they're games that have a focus on being an interactive story, and they'll emphasize as much. Starting the game up and losing yourself in a world and universe of good characters, writing, events and intrigue that, are more reminiscent of the joys of a good book. Games that really cater to the audience with this interest are games like Monkey Island, Sam and Max, Grim Fandango, and Maniac Mansion. A lot of point and click adventures fall into this catagory, but aren't stereotypical for narrative immersion as a whole, after all we have games like Bioshock(1,2, and Infinite), Assassin's Creed(1-3), and World of Warcraft that worked really well within this framework. Another genre that falls into this catagory has the fairly unkind description(as Ahoy has mentioned) of Walking Simulators. Mechanical Immersion is one that isn't as obvious in it's description but _is_ obvious in it's experience. Games that have engaging mechanics and gameplay but with less emphasis on story. Games like these are good at replicating what's called the Flow State. That experience that every player has gone through of playing so well yet being challenged enough, that in your mind the controls just melt away, the moment the world around you fades and the game becomes an experience in of itself, and the experience just comes naturally to you. Excellent examples of this are Guitar Hero, DDR, Rock Band, DOOM, Battlefield, CoD, Twisted Metal, Forza, Mario Kart, and Crash Team Racing amongst a plethora of others. This is where I prefer to hang my hat. Games that have an end are easier to have an appreciation for, and are more likely to be remembered as works of art, just as we've seen with books. I feel that for a game to not have an end, it must deliver on a good mechanical immersion in order to ensure it's survival and/or be remembered fondly(weirdly enough, Quake has done this.). Narrative immersion would be impossible to achieve if there is no end to the game, because *ALL* stories must come to an end. it's just that in regard to multiplayer games, a lot of the business models we've seen implemented over the last decade or so have watered down the experience as a whole, making mechanical immersion much harder to achieve.
@Detah_2 жыл бұрын
Yeah the fact a lot of modern multiplayer games have “seasons” where content can only be obtained once in the games life and never again forced me to grind for something I didn’t wanna grind for. I’m glad I stopped playing CTR Nitro Fueled
@BlackBigCrow4 жыл бұрын
"The harsh reality of online multiplayer is that it is very impersonal." This isn't necessarily the case for online multiplayer, and more about matchmaking. Dedicated servers used to build communities, so even if people in there were strangers at first, they quickly became people who knew. Nowadays with matchmaking, anyone you play with is a person you will likely never meet again.
@joshirby66594 жыл бұрын
I think apps like discord are very helpful for the impersonal issue
@henryfleischer4044 жыл бұрын
That's part of why most of my online gaming these days is in garry's mod. It helps me to connect with my friends, especially since I've been stuck in my home for the last six months.
@themainman87544 жыл бұрын
yo cabal wassap its mac, also I agree
@wsmith79184 жыл бұрын
Even on bigger more recent games like overwatch, i remember seeing certain players multiple times over the course of a few months
@sebastiangrundler76404 жыл бұрын
@@wsmith7918 overwatch was great when it began it was just simple quickplay fun with my friends. the best moments were 6v6ing another group of friends then making friends with them through a party. it got so competitive so quick though and thats why i left
@roarinfireball4 жыл бұрын
I dunno, 2020 gave us "Mr. Krabs overdoses on ketemine and dies." So I think that says something.
@staringcorgi64753 жыл бұрын
Indie games are great but kickstarter games always get the harsh treatment
@roarinfireball3 жыл бұрын
@@staringcorgi6475 I just miss my star wars battlefront 2.
@roarinfireball3 жыл бұрын
@@staringcorgi6475 I just pray and hope that melee gets a better adaptation. I have some good homeboys I need to work up to the challenge. Just rise up to the streets, got the guts, and got the glory.
@_Tzer3 жыл бұрын
pc is truly the master race due to modding content and good communities and lots more indie games
@psyso-cleanedits89533 жыл бұрын
and house of caravans or whatever its called
@L0calLEGEND2 жыл бұрын
When winning is the only thing that matters, the experience starts to quickly unravel when you inevitably lose. The more serious the focus, the less enjoyment exists.
@Gnappopo3 жыл бұрын
The way you realize that you're actually watching a Emplemon video is when NASCAR starts getting talked about.
@sk8terzane8183 жыл бұрын
i like nascar
@saulgoodmanKAZAKH3 жыл бұрын
I have not noticed this
@bigbrothertw3 жыл бұрын
@@sk8terzane818 nascar is neat
@wrinkliestdog3 жыл бұрын
I started caring about nascar because of him
@henrycrabs34973 жыл бұрын
What is interesting about watching cars go in circles?
@CalistheNick014 жыл бұрын
Why modern AAA games suck: People keep buying them
@greyhood60153 жыл бұрын
@Lilyachty fan account idk - What competition was eaten? You mean console variety?
@greyhood60153 жыл бұрын
@Hunter Ansorge - Yeah, I don't get the guy, there's plenty of options to choose from four main platforms, while I consider consoles inferior to PC, you have that option, and Nintendo is it's own thing.
@her09663 жыл бұрын
Pokemon in particular has this problem Despite the continuous growth in not only budget, but team size as well, the game's quality have become shakier and shakier over time And despite this, despite the overwhelming amount of flaws in the games, people still buy them as if it's the last time they'll ever be able to buy a game ever again Initially, I was excited for sword and shield, that is until I saw the first screenshots and demos of it (that showcased a very unfinished looking game despite the proximity of the release) and I eventually lost interest entirely, not only in pokemon, but in modern nintendo as a whole, when I heard that pokemon (among others) were just not nearly as technically or mechanically deep as previous games (plus it didn't help it looked like a wii game despite the hardware being at least twice as powerful as the wii) but still sold as well (if not better) than almost any other game in the entire series All's I'm saying is if a game doesn't look like it'll be as good as you were expecting, don't buy it, your instincts will probably ultimately end up being right
@tristantheoofer23 жыл бұрын
tbh im more into niche shit more (1-100k sub yt channels and rlly good ones)
@kam28943 жыл бұрын
@@greyhood6015 i don’t think they were talking about consoles..
@KiraSlith4 жыл бұрын
"Barely Promoted" >Fortnite Nope. That game was HEAVILY promoted, it's just the "Battle Royal" mode that's famous, that didn't get promoted. I was actually excited for Fortnite Save the World and that too, was a total disappointment.
@louiscrabbmarche4 жыл бұрын
Really was man. Really repetitive game cycle, which became a chore to play.
@KiraSlith4 жыл бұрын
@@louiscrabbmarche It was originally supposed to be a $60 pay to play for the full shebang with no MTX, a mix of Borderlands meets Left 4 Dead with a basic base building system, or at least, that's what it was FIRST advertised as, and it was going to be great. Then they started talking about making it free to play so they added the loot llamas and boatloads of MTX, then it was going to be free to play when it "released properly" with the founders' pack to become a beta player which is when they added mission grinding, and then it just never released properly.
@faker69684 жыл бұрын
The only reason STW was 'disappointing" to many of us was because it was conceived and released too late, announced too early, and has 3 core flaws, the repetitive gameplay cycle and the fact the game had players was that is was associated with battle royale, doesn't help the fact had an awful implementation of micro transactions in a paid early access, slow and lacking updates. I think STW could've been a decent game if they focused on it more earlier in its life.
@volatile1004 жыл бұрын
I got access to the closed beta I think 4 years ago. I thought the game was pretty fun. And then, when the full game released, it was pretty fun. Then I got locked out of playing the game because the que for battle royals was full. Never played it since.
@stepladder32574 жыл бұрын
I just hate when I say "I like Fortnite" I would get death threats and insulted everytime and yes do l do like Fortnite and Season 4 is epic
@GustavoSuperSonic20012 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I spotted Sonic and the black Knight in a store, and man I really miss spotting games with no expectations and having opinions with my friends because we tought it was the coolest thing ever made. Since that day, and entering a part of the industry and internet, mann is difficult enjoy something
@SuperBetaBuxbros. Жыл бұрын
delusional sonic and secret rings is unplayable garbo
@Jayanky4 жыл бұрын
God I just can't say the word "Gamer" unironically
@Retrostar6194 жыл бұрын
It's always been a simple definition to me that means someone who plays games. I still find the cultural aspects baffling.
@aevvah_flxwer85504 жыл бұрын
@@Retrostar619 Same. The word makes me cringe now. If I heard that word a decade ago however I'd be proud to fit in with at least some kind of group, being a wallflower basically. *Pathetic and cringy but I just had to say it.* (Edit: removed extra asterisk -_-)
@shuheihisagi75144 жыл бұрын
Yea when i say it i say it like "GAmer" but in an anoyying voice
@borgwardd244 жыл бұрын
You can do it. I believe in you
@The_Corn_God4 жыл бұрын
But u kinda did tho..
@thejfj4 жыл бұрын
As I dont disagree that local is more or less fun than online, local multiplayer had always had drawbacks as there are people, myself included, whos living conditions used to limit their access to other people with local multiplayer. Online has granted access to many people to connect to others.
@marcusborderlands61774 жыл бұрын
100% I haven't played a local multiplayer game with people in years, simply due to not having anybody to play em with within like 50 miles. And being on pc kinda means i dont really have anywhere for people to comfortably sit lol.
@corneliusmcmuffin32564 жыл бұрын
I would say server based, something like gmod, if you don't like the server there's hundreds of thousands of more to choose from and you want friends you can just invite them.
@Saben.C-Spoon4 жыл бұрын
Online multiplayer streams are how I met one of my best friends
@josueh58314 жыл бұрын
When you don’t have the social life DLC 😔
@nicholaskieler36674 жыл бұрын
I also disagreed with this part of the video for slightly different reasons. My friends and I are all in our 30s and it's just easier to play games over the internet than it is to all get together and sit in the same physical space. I have lots of friends, but many of them have wives, kids, jobs, and live more than a block away from me. Lots of games come out nowadays with local coop only (Cook Serve Delicious, Wizard of Legend, Cuphead, etc.) This always annoys me because they are amazing games with 0 online support and don't even get me started on Steam Couchplay which is the laggiest thing in the world.
@tobie92054 жыл бұрын
"Despite having the potential to connect us with an infinite number of people, online multiplayer has left us feeling more isolated than ever." That reminded me the time you said . They really seem related to each other.
@antonioklaic48394 жыл бұрын
Problems will always exist, they're just different every time. A true utopia is impossible to achieve.
@lukehart91554 жыл бұрын
I read this comment as he was saying it
@tobie92054 жыл бұрын
@@antonioklaic4839 I kinda agree. That's because, from my point of view, humans aren't flawless by any means. All things that we do tend to turn badly and/or have negative effects.
@tobie92054 жыл бұрын
@Supreme Person thanks
@alw28394 жыл бұрын
You definitely deserve the 200 likes. Who do you trust when there's 8 billion voices?
@ratato57142 жыл бұрын
This is why i think that indie games are doing so well, they are just people experimenting and making new experiences
@doom5895 Жыл бұрын
idk why but the characters in these games seems to lose me after undertale came out idk why
@staringcorgi6475 Жыл бұрын
Indie games are better bc the devs tend to have more creativity and leeway as their dev time can be anything they want
@ghostfacepacifist6046 Жыл бұрын
@@staringcorgi6475and they don't have to worry about crazy rabid fans
@staringcorgi6475 Жыл бұрын
@@ghostfacepacifist6046 aaa games don’t have nice fanbases too like the cod fandom is constantly divided in what they want which results in the games being mixed bags
@memesong218 ай бұрын
@@ghostfacepacifist6046counterpoint: every indie horror game ever
@BasilWald4 жыл бұрын
As someone who is in AAA production rn, the major thing compared to the past is that everything is researched and target audience focus groupped to hell and back, because that’s what investors like. Game dev used to be cheaper but due to games like GTAV getting massive revenue streams games suddenly mr business is really interested in making games but they need charts and research that shows games will be profitable. Basically risks can cost you money and people are not as likely to take risks with how much it costs to make an Aaa game
@ChthonicCthulhu4 жыл бұрын
Stop making shit
@unkono4 жыл бұрын
>AAA Production >Adventure time picture
@kiwi30854 жыл бұрын
@@unkono Hmm yes, people that have jobs aren't allowed to like things
@ExeErdna4 жыл бұрын
Which is a catch 22 since too often them playing it safe cost them billions trying to make millions. Investors are idiots when they don't really know about what they're getting into without people playing it safe about the people playing it safe. I've noticed this when the Shovelware started to be "normal"
@ChthonicCthulhu4 жыл бұрын
@@thotslayer9914 Ah I figure, I'm just joshin' him
@branmuffinyogurt93684 жыл бұрын
There is no online championship that will ever feel as rewarding as beating your friend next to you on the couch in smash after they taunted/ made a snarky comment.
@proxybum88954 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed ok
@thelostmessenger4 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed Bruh, I get what you're saying but you didn't have to put in "casual normie" or make a huge rant over how the hardcore minority is being "oppressed" cause these days, I feel that companies are catering more to you guys recently anyway. Unless this is a joke cause this seems to go way over the top, lol.
@quadeevans64844 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed you had me in the first half not gonna lie
@chasesigler98854 жыл бұрын
Thats why there are smash locals
@chasesigler98854 жыл бұрын
Everybody hates online smash
@someperson72774 жыл бұрын
>Destroy all humans >"Shovelware" bruh
@aliendinoboi70374 жыл бұрын
Dr.Sir Bruce Armstrong Mother Fucker The Third whut about deadly creatures? That was cool
@Matthew-qc9xr4 жыл бұрын
Bruh i saw deBlob in there too, like wtf that game was fantastic
@Melonposting4 жыл бұрын
And Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. That and its sequel are arguably the two best kart racers of all time that don't have "Mario" in the title.
@michaelchristie83294 жыл бұрын
How tf was Drawn to Life lumped in there
@bsgsmusic34514 жыл бұрын
He used a stock image. It’s not his actual opinion.
@jeralwood62902 жыл бұрын
I feel like this is the era of the indie game because while triple A games have been on a downwards spiral I think indie games are finally gaining some momentum.
@spear15042 жыл бұрын
But once a indie developer acted toward triple A games, the cycle continued.
@raskolnikov64432 жыл бұрын
Most are not good though (but there are so many
@staringcorgi64752 жыл бұрын
@@raskolnikov6443 you have to look for good ones
@edwardseverinsen55982 жыл бұрын
Yep, unfortunately a lot of the indie devs try to emulate what they see in triple A titles but not nearly as well so it's as void of fun as the triple A stuff but looks worse and feels worse to play. There are some gems out there though that experiment. I personally like Hyper Demon. It's super unique from a visual perspective as far as games these days. And the audio design is amazing. Takes a lot of sifting to find gold though.
@hollowman94102 жыл бұрын
The Video game crash of 1983 will probably happen again in the near future. The amount of "trash" being produced is getting higher and higher. Executives want games to come out faster and faster to keep up with the increasing demand, but there is simply not enough programers in the workforce. Only a small fraction of people know how game developemnt works, even less people are good at it. This forces companies to abuse their employees and hire low skilled programers, further damaging the quality of the end product. And this is without the predatory tactics such as microtransactions.
@FlareGunDebate4 жыл бұрын
"it is absolutely vital that we dissect the socio economic themes of Shrek Swamp Kart" lmao
@Gnidel4 жыл бұрын
Ogres these days cannot afford their own swamps.
@aevvah_flxwer85504 жыл бұрын
Ogres have layers.
@TomyDayos4 жыл бұрын
For some reason, I remembered that journalists where comparing Orcs to people of color. In both dungeon and dragons and lord of the rings. I think that those journalists must have a very racist vision of Africans...
@aevvah_flxwer85504 жыл бұрын
@@TomyDayos They're idiots then, and what they say doesn't matter (I mean, it does because yeah it's racist, and also doesn't because they and their opinion are all inane af)... -_- Also, aren't Orcs and Ogres different creatures? They're not the same thing.
@TomyDayos4 жыл бұрын
@@aevvah_flxwer8550 I completely agree with you. And yes, they are different. I was just telling something that I remembered. Maybe it's because orcs and ogrees are allies in warcraft... I dunno...
@benefaction99854 жыл бұрын
"if you already have a library of games you enjoy playing, why would you go out and buy a new one that you probably wouldn't even like?" steam sales.
@genzo4544 жыл бұрын
correct.
@dracvich4 жыл бұрын
GABEN CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
@jjju34 жыл бұрын
Fun fact; don't remember the exact statistics but like. 60%+ of sales on steam happen during sales lmao.
@vffa4 жыл бұрын
Well, because I cant play the same game for more than 2 Weeks at best? It's truly frustrating but for me it's not just with videogames, it's literally everything.
@russelldoty27434 жыл бұрын
And then most of those games never see play and waste away in an endless library of backlogs.
@SpeveBobs4 жыл бұрын
Something that I think is important to note here is that gamers themselves have gotten older. Escapism is to a kid like what water is to a fish. Now it's something to just keep us happy as we work through our lives. Of course we'd hold it to a higher standard we can project our discontent on to.
@xXx_Oshino_xXx4 жыл бұрын
@@thotslayer9914 this generation is fucking ridiculous. I just want to play video games.
@linguine45004 жыл бұрын
Make America communist to starve and completely make people hate the idea of going out of the way to learn to get better jobs which require higher intelligence and effort since everyone will get the same. I'm not saying capitalism is perfect, definitely has some *major* flaws, but sure is better than communism. Also tell me if I'm wrong but, last time I checked, it has never been scientifically proven that video games affect the brain.
@danolix4 жыл бұрын
@@thotslayer9914 Stupid ideology.
@lkim1004 жыл бұрын
@@Surteronarto wow, what nonsense
@danolix4 жыл бұрын
@@HelghastStalker Exactly, you want to live in an anarchist society? Great go live in a post nuclear wasteland as a scavenger.
@TheItalianoAssassino2 жыл бұрын
I remember when shovelware was a thing. There were so many random games me and my friends played on DS, 3DS, Wii and Xbox 360 which were mediocre, but enjoyable nonetheless. I think two factors are not to be ignored: 1.) We were kids, as kids, everything is fucking awesome 2.) We had no concept of time and could just grind randomass games for hours.
@CarloNassar2 жыл бұрын
Actually, Factor #1 isn't 100% true. Remember the movie _Norm of the North_ at least a little bit? If not, Chris Stuckmann said the kids in the theater playing that film *wanted to leave.*
@-pressxtostart-2 жыл бұрын
I still have as much time as i want, dont make excuses, games are absolutely shite now, nothing to do with my age at all
@staringcorgi64752 жыл бұрын
Not all shovelware is rubbish as said in the video
@karenwang313 Жыл бұрын
Shovelware still exists, it's just on steam now.
@bLfjle4 ай бұрын
kids nowadays have glorified slot machines with nicki manaj skins and endless season passes, we had modern warfare 2 online. its not the same anymore :( these kids are never gonna have the fun we had. there was something good and its gone now
@13lood13ath3 жыл бұрын
This video pretty much answers why older games are increasing in price and why indie games/developers are getting more attention/respect these days.
@officialprincelouie3 жыл бұрын
Indie games are amazing
@FelipeJaquez3 жыл бұрын
Indie games is where the old "Middle Simple Games" migrated to after the major companies dropped them.
@diegov17433 жыл бұрын
Nah even if this was gaming best era nostalgia would still make old games expensive at a certain point
@BigWheel.3 жыл бұрын
It's also funny how backwards compatability is now a major selling point of modern consoles, buy the new Xbox, to play the games you had on the old one with better graphics and performance. It's nice, but it's like putting an old engine in a brand new race car because the newer engines are too much of a headache to want to use. I should want to play the latest games on my new console, but I don't. That's a problem.
@shelltoe_soul2 жыл бұрын
@@diegov1743 Plus there are only so many NIB copies of any game, especially ones stored with the right level of care to appeal to collectors, and that number only decreases over time. Scarcity is a pretty effective market force, especially when it's not artificial.
@videonmode86494 жыл бұрын
"Gamers don't know what they want" Man... that needs to be its own video.
@linuszarrouk20043 жыл бұрын
Well do you really want that?
@videonmode86493 жыл бұрын
@@linuszarrouk2004 I do, but I... wait... You can't- MY BRAIN!
@TheAweDude13 жыл бұрын
It would be a very short video. Here's the script: "Gamers as a whole are a diverse group of individuals with many differing interests and desires. To try and find what 'gamers' as a whole think would be like trying to find consensus about religion or taxes."
@Exoskel23 жыл бұрын
@@TheAweDude1 Yeah, there are tons of games genre out there. Some people like it some don't.
@BrokenToy3 жыл бұрын
It's unfair to use gamers in a general sense to make an opinion or a design choice of a game. Every gamer knows exactly what they want. I know what I want and what I want gaming culture to be. The thing is, not everyone wants the same thing, and some things people want contradicts with other gamers.
@tracef.28654 жыл бұрын
“You’re giving up seamless dlc and patches” well they used to sell finished games back in the early 2000s so these weren’t always necessary
@alexkozliayev99024 жыл бұрын
You forgot about expansion packs, and patched editions? They couldn't sell downloadable content back then because it was harder to distribute anything online
@ubt__________4 жыл бұрын
those horrible game devs. Giving consumers a full game and then adding more content later is HORRIBLE
@doom58954 жыл бұрын
@@ubt__________ did you read the comment?
@LordVader10944 жыл бұрын
@@ubt__________ "Giving consumers a half-baked game then selling them the solution is GREAT" FTFY, you corporate shill
@madmax20694 жыл бұрын
Meh, I remember having to return to the store I bought a game from because it had a game breaking bug just to get it replaced with a fixed version. and then there are many games that have massive amount of bugs that could never be fixed because there was no way to patch them. You can keep that crap. Just because a game has DLC doesn't means it's not finished.
@LogeenthLive Жыл бұрын
Oh man. This video didn't just age like fine wine. It became the entire Holy Grail.
@misostrange Жыл бұрын
Bro it's only been 2 years...
@HiSodiumContent Жыл бұрын
@myonfriend *gestures wildly at 90% of AAA titles released in the last year*
@thevisi0naryy Жыл бұрын
It aged like wine if you like shitty games
@liammcnicholas9188 ай бұрын
@@thevisi0naryyLike EA and Activision, right?
@hexzyle4 жыл бұрын
> "if you released a broken game 20 years ago people just wouldn't buy it" Except yes they would, because review culture was non-existent and customer information was sparse - if you wanted to know what to buy you first had to buy a magazine.
@flamepan4 жыл бұрын
ya like as a kid I bought bubsy 3d for the PS1 because I had no idea what it was like but thought the character looked cool. Turns out the game was utter garbage. Not like I had much of a good way to find that out back then.
@doom58954 жыл бұрын
he means that most people wouldn't buy it making the game a failure
@maxnul4 жыл бұрын
I was a magazine kid I remember reading Club Nintendo in Venezuela all the time
@IAm-zo1bo4 жыл бұрын
It would get refunded and their next game probably would get less interest People werent that dumb
@voidofspaceandtime46844 жыл бұрын
it wouldn't typically garner a huge audience is the major difference. You didn't see big rigs flying off the shelves, but if it were released now on mobile, it'd probably make a good sum.
@CacoPholey4 жыл бұрын
"People are looking for the best solution in the least amount of time, and anything less in considered a failure" Speedrunners: Is that supposed to be a revelation?
@SonicHaXD4 жыл бұрын
I feel like it's the same with movies. There will always be sh!t (and maybe more then before). But there will also be great things out there too. You just gotta look harder XD
@EnaTenkiyoGamer4 жыл бұрын
Split into parts
@phillipanselmo85404 жыл бұрын
if there's more bad stuff than before even though we have way better technology then we have a consumer problem, "looking harder" is not an excuse to let companies do bad entertainment and not be vocal about it
@Mr.94 жыл бұрын
Just like Mortal Kombat games, there are the really popular one like mkx and then there’s mk11 (but on the plus side if the game didn’t exist we wouldn’t have gotten the masterpiece of rapping that is kk in wheelchair)
@SilverlineXZero4 жыл бұрын
Not at all, on gaming you got whole dead genres, not even exaggerating.
@littlemisseevee23094 жыл бұрын
true, especially horror theres so much trash now
@loganhagler18892 жыл бұрын
Every time I hear anything about Midnight Club I get so nostalgic... Nobody talks about that game as much as they need to.
@grfrjiglstan4 жыл бұрын
Just believe in the sage words of Macho Man Randy Savage: "The cream will rise to the top."
@philly_sports15584 жыл бұрын
"OHHHHH YEEEEEEAHHH!!!"
@KyleKringle4 жыл бұрын
And let me POINT. To the PRESIDENT. Of the Woorld Wrestling Federation--yeah.
@CGoody5644 жыл бұрын
FACK Macho Man; all intelligent american know dat Iron Shiek is REAL champwon; AAU champwon, oleempic gold medal; I will put Macho Man in de camel clutch, break his back, make him HUM-bell.
@CGoody5644 жыл бұрын
@@toby2581 this is false; there is just as much cream as there ever was; there is simply more junk it must rise above.
@limbonlegs16624 жыл бұрын
I feel like there is no formula to make a great game, but if someone makes a great game, they'll know
@Frenchboi84 жыл бұрын
I like how when emplemon started talking about toxicity in multiplayer games, the music that was playing was (what seemed) like an 8-bit remix of toxic by britney spears. Interesting.
@heidi92724 жыл бұрын
it totally was that 😀
@gamehead12234 жыл бұрын
No, it's a theme from TMNT games from back in the 90's I think
@PLAG64113 жыл бұрын
There was also a part when the video starts playing a 8-bit version of Billie Jean
@poulsdpoulsd65933 жыл бұрын
incroyable
@smallmailman39923 жыл бұрын
It is, his music list called it literally that pretty much.
@DSaC_4 жыл бұрын
It's worth mentioning that bargain bin shovelware moved from the PS2 and Wii over to the app store, which is why you don't see them anymore.
@legoabortionclinic23884 жыл бұрын
I miss it actually in a wag
@legoabortionclinic23884 жыл бұрын
Way
@cardcaptorsylveon4 жыл бұрын
it's still on the switch store partially
@chardaskie2 жыл бұрын
I think as you get older you realize it was more for hanging out and gaming with others than it was ever about the games themselves
@malachor5ve2 жыл бұрын
Damn, he summed up in one sentence what it's taken me years and dozens of new games to figure out lol
@sithmaster43052 жыл бұрын
Not for everyone I certainly played them for stories and solo fun factor outside of games like halo or lfd2.
@danf74112 жыл бұрын
Blew my mind on xbone how few games let you play online with a guest or even with a paid account split screen and how few games had local co op. Damn console makers might want to lobby these developers too preserve co op, like damn why the fuck am I going to buy this console to play together alone and separated with my friends. Might as well just hook up your PC to the TV you can control all your games library and media library with a controller at this point
@davil.56082 жыл бұрын
sounds like a you problem
@charlesmartiniii14052 жыл бұрын
Depends what game. I personally think video games is one of the most underutilized mediums for telling an amazing story. No other artform can bring you closer to being the character. Spec ops the line, bioshock, halo, and others show how amazing triple a single player games could be
@Rubberduckie30004 жыл бұрын
"There are PEOPLE watching other people play sports! To me that's ridiulous!"
@Rubberduckie30004 жыл бұрын
@@arcadejaguar409 I don't mind esports either. I was just pointing out the how dumb that sentence was. It's dumb to criticize people for watching other play games when no one criticizes people watching sports. Or maybe I took your comment the wrong way. Sorry if I did.
@getgle4 жыл бұрын
This but unironically
@four-en-tee4 жыл бұрын
@@Rubberduckie3000 I will say that i've seen traditional sports fans enjoy stuff like i-racing in the case of Nascar fans, so its not that they have a problem with e-sports as a concept. Boomers just don't understand e-sports that aren't based on established traditional sports (like FPS or fighting games), as well as they don't understand watching people play games in general. They think the e-sport has to be something that can translate 1-to-1 in real world sports, which is just a really silly constraint.
@alexmontgomery57614 жыл бұрын
Laura Ponder I agree I don’t mind watching playing games because it interesting there are different genres and they have different reactions but with sports the rules stay the same you can only play them one way one 10 people can play the same game and I would watch all 10 and still be entertained because they have different reactions and commentary
@alexmontgomery57614 жыл бұрын
Laura Ponder not to criticize those who watch sports that’s fine do what you want but there are distinct differences between video games and sports
@DungeonEx3 жыл бұрын
You could say that the internet contributed a huge portion to this problem
@MMFan20043 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I wish Internet didn't exist.
@DroppedMyMarbles4 жыл бұрын
15:25 There's a lot about Artifact that went wrong from not only the poor monetization, but the design and gameplay itself. I'm a huge fan of card games, I am fine with the DOTA property. Artifact was every bad design decision you could put into a card game, designed by the guy who INVENTED card games, and I still want my 20 bucks back.
@dud3inator4 жыл бұрын
I think the game had amazing gameplay and it was super interesting, just extremely taxing mentally imo.
@MrBVS744 жыл бұрын
It was also announced in the middle of the Hearthstone craze, after every studio was coming out with card games (Gwent, Elder Scrolls: Legends). It just felt like a massive cash grab by Valve. It didn't help that it was also announced at a Dota 2 event, a game which has very different principles with its microtransactions than an online card game. In Dota 2, microtransactions are solely used for cosmetic purposes, whereas a game like Artifact basically forces you to spend money to buy card packs.
@Tickerchicken2 жыл бұрын
You can tell Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t a nerd as a kid, making money kicking a ball is insane to me, but to him that’s normal
@ernestschmidt87612 жыл бұрын
Fair
@OtakuUnitedStudio2 жыл бұрын
Both regular sports and e-sports involve creating billion dollar industries for grown adults to play the same games that children do for fun. They are equivalent as far as I care.
@Rahnonymous2 жыл бұрын
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Both require mastery over your reflexes, both require constant practice to maintain being skilled, and both require intense focus at high level play. Only difference is sports is normalized, but videogames are still somewhat considered to be "nerdy" or "childish"
@OtakuUnitedStudio2 жыл бұрын
@@Rahnonymous exactly.
@Rahnonymous Жыл бұрын
@@edn2674 Your brain is a muscle just like any other in your body. Stop using it, and your ability to function suffers. Just because it's easier to see how much effort is put in physical sports, that doesn't mean esports aren't easier. Fighting game players have to study every frame data of every character, what moves you can use to exploit gaps in the opponent's moves, mixups, not be predictable, and all on the fly with split-second reaction timing the entire tournament.
@MusicDecomposer4 жыл бұрын
tHe SoNiC fRaNcHiSe HaS hAd A rOuGh HiStOrY SiNcE iTs TrAnSiTiOn To 3D... Edit: This wasn't meant to be a serious critique, I was just referencing a meme.
@camron.w18414 жыл бұрын
I mean yeah
@dankmemes82544 жыл бұрын
Sonic heros was decent
@camron.w18414 жыл бұрын
@@dankmemes8254 it was alright I really liked Colours as wel.
@tastethepainbow4 жыл бұрын
something something sonic 06
@camron.w18414 жыл бұрын
@@tastethepainbow Yeah pretty much.
@knowndisc4 жыл бұрын
Downward Spirals are like waterslides. If a cartridge touches water it breaks instantly.
@bradens.31254 жыл бұрын
i still think that the one point that you should've gone over, even if it did counter your argument, is nostalgia. nostalgia is an incredibly powerful tool, and i think that it is one of the biggest reasons as to why some people will prefer 2000s games rather than 2010s
@Cooper2874 жыл бұрын
The problem with that is that games like Ocarina of Time still have people go back and play it and think it lives up to the hype even if it is their first time playing it. While some games only seem good due to nostalgia there are still a huge number of games that are universally loved.
@georgeliquor12364 жыл бұрын
Not true, I know a couple of people who have never played games like Melee, TF2 or Mario Sunshine but would rather play those instead of Smash Ultimate, Overwatch or Odyssey. Sometimes the old stuff is better.
@doom58954 жыл бұрын
nostalgia is only like 10% why gaming sucks now i can still find 1 or 2 games i like from the past 5 years
@nickstoltz1674 жыл бұрын
I play new and old games everyday. Some is nostalgia, especially for 5th generation titles, but most of it is legitimate. The original FEAR(2005) is some of the most responsive and impressive single player shooting action ever presented, and it easily trumps any singleplayer FPS campaign. Burnout 3(2004) has the some of the greatest audio/visual design of any racing game, and the slickest most satisfying arcade racing that I haven't experienced since. The sense of speed in NFS:S(2009) is unmatched to this day despite having a direct sequel. The NPC interaction and the physics presented in GTAIV were downgraded for the online-designed GTAV, so GTAIV(2008) still epitomizes the gameplay to the genre. Far Cry 2(2008), despite some obnoxious game-play features and a story that's as transparent as vaseline, still has a distinct advantage in environmental and enemy interaction in the series, and the weapons feel much more powerful. There are plenty of examples to show how screwed we are in game evolution, but one shining case against this is RDR2, that game is a true testament for what any game can be when it comes to graphic and design detail.
@ussliberty1094 жыл бұрын
It's not even nostalgia. I just hate that contemporary games are designed around trying to peddle something to me like a door to door salesman at every given moment. Want to collect all the shine sprites in Mario Sunshine, sure just go get them. Want to collect all the moons in Mario Odessey, don't forget to stop by the cosmetics store. Want to unlock a weapon skin in MW2, better get more headshots. Want to get a certain weapon skin in Modern Warfare Reboot, better buy battlepass or lootboxes. Want to buy a better weapon in Assassin's Creed 2, progress in the story and get it from the blacksmith. Want one in Assassin's Creed Unity, well you're not a high enough level to buy it normally, but you could get it with some Ubi-dollars. Shadow of Mordor, a single player $60 game, trying to sell time savers and XP boosters to make their game less boring than the way they created it is the absolute epitome of everything wrong with developers being run roughshod by marketing and accounting. Odyssey's movement controls and mechanics blow Sunshine out of the water. Modern Warfare's control refinement (balance) and customization beat MW2. And Unity's parkour, architecture, and combat are fantastic. But it's like that episode of Spongebob: "I feel like someone... IS TRYING TO SELL ME SOMETHING!" (He's onto us.)
@Martinit012 жыл бұрын
"We live in an age of impossible expectations. Everyone wants the best solution in the least ammount of time, and anything less than that is considered a failure" EmpLemon. 2020.
@ayylmaotv4 жыл бұрын
checking your friends list and seeing your friends who havent logged in since 2012 is the zoomer equivalent of getting old and watching all your friends die
@TapDat52K4 жыл бұрын
This is not wrong. The feels
@drewinsur73214 жыл бұрын
"yea bro you cool man, we play tomorrow night" 11th of january, 2013. my niga dead lol
@offended3234 жыл бұрын
Unrelated to the video
@Mr_Fancypants4 жыл бұрын
What does that have to do with _this_ ?
@BudgiePanic4 жыл бұрын
Change 2012 to 2017 and that's my steam friends list.
@ldezzer39504 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to add another comment : Gaming is an art industry - imagine if Da Vinci only had few hours instead of years to make a Mona Lisa. The main concern of the most companies in this business is to grow their loyal fanbase, which is hard when there are so many games made almost daily that rapidly draw attention away from other projects. Thats why early access exist, thats why open beta tests exist, thats why DLCs were invented and most games are often rushed into the release state - companies do everything possible nowadays to keep their fanbase entertained and hyped for long enough so they would be around to buy a company's new product, or else their sales might flop, which leads to a bankruptcy
@Capi-FastestRacer4 жыл бұрын
The main concern of most companies in this business is to fatten their wallets. That's why DLC was invented, and most games are often rushed into the release state - companies do everything possible to get as much money out of their "fanbase" as possible for as little work as possible. Gaming has largely been corporatized, you won't find any passion for the craft outside of indie developers, just a passion for making money. It doesn't matter if they cater to their audience or not, idiots will still buy their product; bankruptcy is never a concern for a AAA game company.
@thelostmessenger4 жыл бұрын
This is true now that I think about it. Maybe animal crossing NH could've only come a year later after it's original release date due to them finishing the event updates and finish the full game. Instead they released it in increments so people could enjoy it earlier with the bonus of continuous attention. They even postponed the actual release date before it came out early 2020. Or maybe it's just a tactic, who knows.
@zvezdopyls4 жыл бұрын
da vinci?!
@kimgkomg4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if the canvas kept getting bigger and bigger as years went on and as demand for larger paintings went up, Davinci had to keep hiring more and more artists until eventually his trademark style was nowhere to be found.
@pokeman50004 жыл бұрын
Then these companies deserve to fail. Thats the main problem with our market that now requires a trillion dollars every 10ish year to bail it out. Companies overledging themselves because they are banking on a big payout. More chefs in the kitchen doesn't solve problems faster, its just a bigger deficit. Then games like Don't Starve or Stardew Valley come along and take a big fat SHIT on "Triple A" gaming companies. The problem with the gaming industry is greedy moralless companies and the dumb consumers that facilitate them. The best video I've ever seen that summarizes this is from this guy kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5KkeWCZq5esmNE&ab_channel=Samyoline "Theres a reason why EA looks like a money grubbing monolith... Because it is one. And there is a reason they treat you like a little bitch... Because you are one."
@realkingofantarctica3 жыл бұрын
It boggles my mind how, for the same amount of memory it takes to download a patch for a broken, rushed videogame today, I could download countless of the best videogames of all time from the 90's and 00's.
@FrankiieeC933 жыл бұрын
That is why I stopped buying new games when they came on DVD. There is far too much space the designers just fill it with crap. Even a CD is a bit large, but a least 650MB concentrates the programmers mind a bit. Upscaled on a modern PC, PSX games are brilliant but Mega Drive is even better.
@French4083 жыл бұрын
Right. What bloats game size are image files. The higher quality image, and more varied the textures, means you have to dedicate more and more storage as graphics get better and better. A game that can clever reuse textures will be smaller than a game that has different biomes and environments each with their own textures.
@jeffw82182 жыл бұрын
Retro-gaming is also a much more fun community.
@lucasng47122 жыл бұрын
@@FrankiieeC93 LMAO this is just bad reasoning
@sigmamale41472 жыл бұрын
Graphics and nothing else
@ryaquaza3offical2 жыл бұрын
“You’re giving up Raid Shadow Legends” I see this as an epic win
@patrickmoroney29914 жыл бұрын
Cyberpunk 2077 has made this video even more relevant.
@Epii_4 жыл бұрын
CP2077 isn't exactly the first game to do this kind of bullshit
@patrickmoroney29914 жыл бұрын
@@Epii_ I know, but it has been the most high-profile game to do it in recent memory.
@Whaterman14 жыл бұрын
Idk man Super mario odysey, rdr2 and 1, gta 5, uncharted series are very good games from the 2010s era
@patrickmoroney29914 жыл бұрын
@@Whaterman1 You're right about those ones, but I think Cyberpunk is the biggest example of one of Emp's points, in that it's a game that was hyped up years before finally being released as a buggy, unfinished mess that immediately drew the ire of its supporters.
@Terence1354 жыл бұрын
@@patrickmoroney2991 it is
@billsmith304 жыл бұрын
The thing about Artifact, it was more of a response to Valve as a whole than the game. Artifact was the first game theyd announced between 2013-2018. and if you want to disregard Dota 2, that gap expands to 2011-2018. A legendary dev that had gone silent for many years finally announced a new project, and it was just a card game. Not a left 4 dead 3, not half life 3, not portal 3, not a brand new IP that would push the envelope. Something that immediately appeared to be trying to capture the audience of Hearthstone or Magic. If they had released any kind of traditional game within the 3 years prior, the response to Artifact wouldnt have been anywhere close to that extreme. If you really pay attention to the live reaction, everybody was into it even on the screen announcing the title. Until the exact moment the screen says "card game"
@Nukestarmaster4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, there wasn't anyone angry at Bethesda for launching Elder Scrolls Legends.
@netherwolf30124 жыл бұрын
@@yousquiddingme As soon as that would get heard people would have hated it anyway. I doubt it would have helped to NOT day what it was.
@netherwolf30124 жыл бұрын
Otherwise, I don't think he did his research on that one.
@GravitonArc4 жыл бұрын
Not to mention the neglect they give their still active games. Dota 2 and CSGO are starting to lose attention from valve, and it's been three years since they gave TF2 a major update. All three of these games still have big playerbases that contribute financially to valve, and they get silence in return.
@henri91094 жыл бұрын
Artifact had bigger problems than the Valve logo though. Those who didn't mind the new card game by Valve (like me) were seriously disappointed by the horrible design decisions of the game. Gameplay was fun but only way to progress was with your credit card. Once people realized they've been scammed by Valve, the game died faster than lightning.
@TheGoku9533 жыл бұрын
Feel like another reason for why modern games can only either be huge or small titles with no inbetween is because nowadays games that fit the current technological standards are far more expensive to make than before (you have shit like rockstar having multiple developers just to make the horse's ball physics in rdr2) and thus, since companies don't want to face backlash due to not having perfect photorealistic graphics they either go all in or instead create smaller indie titles. This is why the PS2 era was arguably the best videogame era of all time, the cost of making good, groundbreaking games was just right for it to not break the game's budget, which would also explain why there was a lot more genre and thematic variety in games back then
@CtrlAltSHIT3 жыл бұрын
Games now as your comment puts are super pushy on graphics and to this end create undue amounts of labor however the point of this video I think is to say even though this is what gamers say they want I can't think of the number of gamers who look right past breathtaking vistas and other excellent scenery and photography work and ask the very simple question. "where is the game?". I think it would be more accurate to say the budgets for AAA games are being mismanaged causing to much funds to go to graphics instead of making sure they have a game that is fun and worth playing. However this could also be the developer fault as well. It could be staff driven issue who have expectations of there own of what a good game should "look like" and failing to meat that expectation is failure to make a good game. ... hard to say.
@Abel-Alvarez3 жыл бұрын
Facts! The PS2 era was arguably gaming at it's finest.
@xaviersaavedra74423 жыл бұрын
Um, you did take off your nostalgia glasses before writing this comment right. The ps2 and their contersparts are good but I wouldn’t call them the apex.
@Abel-Alvarez3 жыл бұрын
@@xaviersaavedra7442 you wouldn't, most people here would.
@Manic_Panic3 жыл бұрын
@@xaviersaavedra7442 Why not? Creativity was vastly superior in this era, the hardware was finally capable of proper 3D environments without it blowing budgets or having a pixelated mess with clunky controls. In comparison to today, you either have live services (team shooters mostly) or cutscene/vehicle simulators unless you go indie. What also helped in my opinion is that it was a very experimental era. There was no trend. In the past, it was 2D or 3D platformers, for the PS3 era it was military FPS and now it's fully live service multiplayers. Also, games came in their entirety on disc which means you can still play them today like they were new. They don't rely on servers. Speaking of servers, multiplayer games were in their infacy back then, however it was entirely free for supported games. So you had co-op and online multiplayer, especially on the original Xbox... and the best part about it is that the multiplayer wasn't a live service, there was no grind or addiction, just basic good old fun. Before the PS2 era, games are normally criticized because they were actually very short (1-3 hours long) once you stopped dying every minute. Dying and recouping lost progress was the "fun". Saving was also more complicated, the N64 and PS1 did try to fix this issue although most games either had horribly long distant checkpoint placements or things like passwords still. The PS2 and Xbox have perfected it. Another aspect I would like to point out is that besides the Dreamcast, all other consoles did well and competition was fierce. Despite the PS2 outselling the competition, each console had a lot of bangers and offered many reasons to own them. If I was an adult back then, I would have tried to buy all 3 (PS2, Xbox and Gamecube) because they were actually worth owning. Nowadays I can just game almost everything on my PC, there is zero excitment over these new consoles. This is why a lot of people - including me - look at the 6th gen as the best one. It was powerful enough to change the landscape (in a good way), offer much needed quality of life improvements, all consoles offered great games, the limitations of the past were gone and it's fondly remembered as the last generation before the aggressive monetization, shortage of creativity and other bad things like paid online.
@hazelXin2232 жыл бұрын
Honestly my favorite games in the last decade have all been single player RPG's and local multiplayer games I can play with friends. They straight up are the greatest. I stream too, but I'm always in it for the fun. If I'm not having fun, I'm out.
@Peeps74689 ай бұрын
Amazing. You’re winning at life!!
@LemonyPep3 жыл бұрын
wii sports resort is still more fun than fifa will ever be to me.
@ElMondiola3 жыл бұрын
Is better for the simple reason of not having football
@hiei76823 жыл бұрын
No chance at all, really.
@jackal253013 жыл бұрын
not really
@raffandbotnik3 жыл бұрын
hi lemony
@Carlitonsp14 жыл бұрын
That's a weird peak of "Local Multiplayer". Everyone has to own their own consoles but not the same game, compared to N64, PS1, PS2, GC, or The Original Xbox where all you needed one person who owned the game, but spare controllers and accessories.
@Pr0jectFM4 жыл бұрын
The 3DS was way better with single-card multiplayer. I'd say that was the peak, if anything.
@Carlitonsp14 жыл бұрын
@@Pr0jectFM I think everyone's peak of Local Multi-player was when they had the most fun playing with their friends. Though as someone with little experience in this, I could see the Dreamcast or N64 being the peak for most people.
@jeff-gx6ij4 жыл бұрын
Going to other peoples houses just wasn't an option for a lot of people, so the DS's setup was perfect for that. Everyone brings their console instead of going to someone else's.
@brocolyrics43314 жыл бұрын
Nowadays the Switch offers that experience, plus you can take it anywhere you want
@hexzyle4 жыл бұрын
@@brocolyrics4331 Yeah, the Switch is awesome, and contains a counterexample to every single point of the video. This entire video plays like EmpLemon forgot anything and everything that is good exists. Like he's being fed information from a spiral of social media that popularizes and circulates existential dread, and then assumes that means that videogames are actually getting worse.
@klipk72964 жыл бұрын
"As soon as the hype train gets behind an upcoming title, that game is doomed to a monsoon of ridicule if it falls anywhere short of perfection" Yep, I took a quick look at some of the released footage of cyberpunk and sure enough the comments are all outraged at how imperfect it looks. That game isn't even out yet ffs
@orpheustelos234 жыл бұрын
It's kinda sad that regardless of how good cyberpunk ends up being. It's always gonna be disappointing the absurd expectations and hype put on it.
@shawklan274 жыл бұрын
@@orpheustelos23 yeah but the media can be part to blame with that
@mistertagomago79744 жыл бұрын
I dont get why this game is so hyped up but then again I hated The Witcher 3
@SimpIeton14 жыл бұрын
@@orpheustelos23 I'm not an interested fan, but the hype was definitely manufactured by the devs, so I don't feel sorry for them.
@SimpIeton14 жыл бұрын
@@mistertagomago7974 I'd never touch Witcher 3 as a game, but damn, the amount of cutscene is very admirable. I watched so much of it.
@DonderNashawk2 жыл бұрын
4:28 I'd also just like to point out that Nascar Racing 2003 Season still has an active community of modders and players, even almost 20 years later because it's so timeless, so eat shit EA.
@iNoToRiOuS3 жыл бұрын
Was not expecting a Klay World reference holy fuck that's a throwback
@beansandrice88963 жыл бұрын
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy first reply
@spareribs99983 жыл бұрын
Wait you're still alive? wHeRe ArE tHe GuN pArOdIeS?
@mini_hek3 жыл бұрын
holy shit he still exists
@KenhelExcallius3 жыл бұрын
wHErE gUN pARoDieS
@DaTLMusic3 жыл бұрын
Yeah lol blast from the past
@jackingle33684 жыл бұрын
It's crazy to me, I remember being in elementary/middle school watching his YTP with my friends, and we would pee ourselves. Now I'm in college, and he is making well-informed video essays, it just amazes me how time flies and people change.
@doom58954 жыл бұрын
Same except I was in elementary too bad almost all good channels now are pretty much only video essays, no animators or skits that last more than 30 seconds or just about any other content really.
@BL4NK.F4C34 жыл бұрын
@@doom5895 why are video essays a bad thing?
@doom58954 жыл бұрын
@@BL4NK.F4C3 they populate 99% of good content now
@BL4NK.F4C34 жыл бұрын
@@doom5895 and that's bad because...?
@doom58954 жыл бұрын
@@BL4NK.F4C3 its fucking repetitive and i don't want to watch it and that apply's with a lot of people, back then there was a bigger diversity of content. i'm sick of essays being the only thing worth watching here its boring.
@thersites78744 жыл бұрын
"I've never played a single Anime related game in my entire life" "Pokemon Go was the most fun i've had in any game in the past decade"
@k_____________________4 жыл бұрын
lmao
@chickeninasweater41094 жыл бұрын
I don’t get what he meant by “never played a game in the genre” like wtf kind of genre was YandereSim even meant to be??
@makssachs89144 жыл бұрын
@@chickeninasweater4109 Bugs
@KossolaxtheForesworn4 жыл бұрын
shit that reminded me of sometime over 10 years ago when me and buddies were arguing if pokemon is an anime or not. they said it wasnt, I said it was. I think their logic had something to do with either mouth/eye ratio or just because they liked it and didnt want to think about it as anime because anime equals bad.
@nitroflux_o10404 жыл бұрын
@@KossolaxtheForesworn what kind of reasoning is that
@ZyxieRumor2 жыл бұрын
_"As much as Gamers complain and ridicule the games they play, we all know they're going to buy the next one anyway. Even though it seems that everyone hates games these days, people wouldn't get so frustrated that they love video games deep down."_ -Emplemon's Video Games Downward Spiral
@bloopahVIII2 жыл бұрын
aged pretty well tbh
@Rahnonymous2 жыл бұрын
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. To love or hate something means you care about it enough to warrant a reaction. If you didn't care about something, you wouldn't have any positive or negative feeling towards it.
@LittleMushroomGuy4 жыл бұрын
"Simple" games still exist, the Indie market is better than ever
@elnacho87004 жыл бұрын
@h_grunt Grow up, pick up a football.
@ticklemesenpai4474 жыл бұрын
I agree. For instance a game I have played for so many hours is kerbal space program. Its a simple physics sandbox where you make spaceships and explore the solar system or you can do whatever you want. Its this open ended concept that keeps the game exciting with a simple loop of design, test, rework, and complete the mission.
@aquarius52644 жыл бұрын
yeah i've spent countless hours just playing small indie games. you should see my itch.io library.
@generalrubbish95134 жыл бұрын
@@elnacho8700 New thing bad, old thing good
@Diwasho4 жыл бұрын
Most indies are still lacking professionalism and budget of the 2000's mid-tier games but their heart is in the right place.
@baconsir11594 жыл бұрын
When he said “Pokemon Go was the most fun I’ve had in any game in the last decade” *...that hit different*
@ThomasJames694204 жыл бұрын
I would agree but then there's smash ultimate..
@ralphthefrog30864 жыл бұрын
legen belcher Pokémon go just hit different in summer 2016 man, something smash can’t even come close to.
@sunglassesskeleton4 жыл бұрын
I completely unironically think those couple months right after Pokemon Go came out are the closest I'm ever going to get to knowing what world peace would be like. I had friendly conversations out in public with complete strangers!
@rampageblizzard3 жыл бұрын
He’s been playing the wrong games
@majamystic256 Жыл бұрын
ehhh, I didn't really like Pokemon Go, I can understand why others like it, but it was just not for me
@ryantessier91883 жыл бұрын
Great take! One minor dispute - the move to multiplayer wasn’t driven primarily by Minecraft, it had been a trend since early 00s due to companies seeing popularity of multiplayer FPS’s. Certainly Minecraft contributed but I wouldn’t characterize Minecraft as having driven developers to build it in needlessly, they just helped accelerate the trend.
@gavin_19732 жыл бұрын
Yeah, gold standard games like COD 4, and Halo 3 (both made in 2007) I'd say were the main reasons for the online multi-player trend, atleast on console.
@memelord76432 жыл бұрын
Tbh yeah cause in the og battlefront that i have theres a white online thing at the bottom
@adhchopper2 жыл бұрын
You entirely missed the point. Watch again.
@ryantessier91882 жыл бұрын
@@adhchopper are you sure watching again will help me get the point? Wouldn’t it be easier if you explained what you see as the point? It clearly upset you that I didn’t get it
@TheGeeksterIX2 жыл бұрын
Minecraft didn't cause the shift towards multiplayer. But, it did cause Triple A titles to artificially bloat in an attempt to compete with Minecraft's unlimited potential for unique gameplay, and simple fun.
@steveluna16272 жыл бұрын
Back then I remember it was hard chosing which game buy because almost everything was such a good game. Now I have problems chosing too but this time is about deciding which game isn't crappy or even if it actually works as intended
@doom5895 Жыл бұрын
lol right there litterally NOTHING to play now
@nintendaholic13 жыл бұрын
“Raid shadow legends”😂😂 gets me every time
@Bedhed473 жыл бұрын
I have mad respect for you as someone who has played Midnight club 3: Dub edition
@jamal37733 жыл бұрын
That game is pay to win
@blakeskit3 жыл бұрын
@@jamal3773 every one who has used the internet knows
@CLOYO3 жыл бұрын
@@Bedhed47 that game was the best
@fullmetaltheorist3 жыл бұрын
It came out of nowhere lol
@Blackpapalink4 жыл бұрын
On the people rooting for games to fail thing, I find people hold this sentiment almost exclusively to the big shot AAA publishers. I do want to see games like NBA/MAdden 2k21 fail because it's ridiculous how 2K/EA can get away with blatant gambling in these games.
@Volvith4 жыл бұрын
I just want the big corporations to die off. Bring back videogames to an era when people were creating games for all intents and purposes out of their garage. With budgets that didn't start with a 9, and happened to be a some 7 figure number... People always say "the good old days", and that's usually disregarded as "ha, it's just you thinking about the good old days"... ... Boy cries wolf, boy dies, nobody believed him. I miss the good old days. When things were simple.
@planescaped4 жыл бұрын
The _only_ time I ever see anyone rooting for a game to fail is when it is coming out from EA, Activision, Take Two, and Nintendo(namely pokemon because it's so iterative).
@mickantra4 жыл бұрын
yeah indie game releases like undertale and stardew valley never get the backlash they deserve just OvwHElmingLY PosiTiVE reviews on steam they are like the indie equivalent of nickelback
@roboguy754 жыл бұрын
Hargbratch Still rather play them than most triple AAA titles
@blazmatic12164 жыл бұрын
@@planescaped did you see the halo people when it was announced? people were celebrating that a meme was born out of 1 face
@catholic-cath-3-rook4 жыл бұрын
"Minecrafts cousin..." Me: Ah yes terraria "Roblox" *cries in 2D*
@Sternburg4 жыл бұрын
I was so confused whrn be said Roblox lol
@wisemankugelmemicus17014 жыл бұрын
@Granpda Corey Yeah, roblox users maybe greedy but fuuck the roblox company has made 4 billion dollars from the revenue their userbase provides
@menacingdawg4 жыл бұрын
While its true that roblox had more creative potential and tools, but the decisions that roblox took and the censor of the players made terraria the brother of minecraft, so yeah, roblox is that weird cousin.
@EMOTIONOGRAPHY4 жыл бұрын
@@menacingdawg What are you talking about? ROBLOX is a MMORPG built for children. Of course it's going to have rules. What are you talking about when you say "censor"?
@gib45924 жыл бұрын
@@EMOTIONOGRAPHY you can literally have problems communicating with other players because the censor system picks up everything as vulgar. i hated those hash tags
@Unknown_Ooh2 жыл бұрын
Oh my.. Nascar Thunder 2004.. the first ever Nascar game I played and fell in love with. Put many hours into that game and no other Nascar game has given me the same amount of joy.
@nervigeskind31313 жыл бұрын
*The* most immersed I’ve been in a game, weirdly has been Call of duty 2 on PC, something about having to retreat while German infantry and tanks are mowing friendlies down, then jumping into a trench and mowing them all down with an infinite ammo MG42 sets a spark in me.
@_gouda79282 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Call of Duty 2 is still amazing. The russian campaign in particular. There's nothing quite like those sections where you crawl through trenches with tanks driving overhead or destroying that German-occupied building. I just played the multiplayer for the first time a few days ago and was surprised to see there were still some people playing.
@shelltoe_soul2 жыл бұрын
@@_gouda7928 yeah CoD2 MP on PC has always had a decent little community. It's still really fun. I've played probably 2000+ hours on X360 and PC over the last 17 years.
@staringcorgi64752 жыл бұрын
The only thing that isn’t accurate is that you regenerate health
@rightinthedome99732 жыл бұрын
Multiplayer is still alive and multitudes times more fun than anything out today
@ethanstump2 жыл бұрын
From what I've seen, the more innovative places are the solo indie games. There's all sorts of concepts from something like disco Elysium that the culture of mainstream multiplayer either wouldn't get or would pan. That's not to say that you can't have an intelligent multiplayer, just that it's both harder to pull off and also less rewarding for the devs who do.
@thelostmessenger4 жыл бұрын
I was playing animal crossing new leaf in a mechanic's shop and a guy came over and said: "what are you playing?" I said "Animal crossing." He immediately responded "Does it have good graphics?" I wanted to tell him that games don't need good graphics to be good but I guess I knew that he just couldn't relate fun without the game having realistic graphics or it would be considered dated.
@frogglen63504 жыл бұрын
Animal Crpssing is boring as a whole. Not as good as Persona 5 or Dragon Quest 11
@thelostmessenger4 жыл бұрын
@@frogglen6350 I think that it's because it's kind of made for a casual play-through and those are console games anyway. I'm talking New leaf, not New Horizons
@bullettime11164 жыл бұрын
@@frogglen6350 its not for you then i guess
@jaquitavulpix34184 жыл бұрын
There's a difference between realistic and aesthetic graphics. Things can be highly stylized and simple if they commit to and capture a pleasing aesthetic - and look awesome; and there's games that value realism above all else (even gameplay), which tends to get boring and age worse - or it hasn't gotten enough resources in production so it looks unpolished from the release.
@RedMaitreya4 жыл бұрын
@David Lazaro Yes you are right
@spotieotie3 жыл бұрын
EmpLemon and Internet Historian are the heros we have needed this whole time.
@twiceremoved73392 жыл бұрын
I've watched the entire history of modern videogames in my lifetime. It began with the "Graphics Wars" when advertising started convincing young, inexperienced gamers that better graphics=better games. The quality of the design of games started slowly slipping and although a few games managed to pull through and bring graphics+gameplay, but most games started to become 1-play and then shelved forever interactive movies. It got worse when DLC arrived. People were excited to get more content from their favorite games, but it was all an excuse to charge more money for less work and release unfinished products. After that, monetizing upgrades and skins became more common and we continued crashing downhill. Imo, Nintendo is the company that has taken the least of these horrible ideas as far as the other companies, but Nintendo has it's own share of unique issues mainly falling under the category "Give people everything but what they ask for." Stop buying new games, let the industry die, and wait for the next renaissance. Fkn control yourselves or it will NEVER improve.
@skeletorthebest72044 жыл бұрын
Devolver also called this in their direct, didn't they? How people are more excited for game announcements now than actually playing games, so they went and made a game that announced games? Which also just so happened to be my first time playing a first person shooter. Yeah.
@WhatIsMyPorpoise4 жыл бұрын
lol, that sounds amazingly hilarious and ironic, but i honestly dont think ill try it out
@myfunbox3554 жыл бұрын
What's the name of the game?
@williamsmith69214 жыл бұрын
@@myfunbox355 devolverland expo, It's free but it literally is just ads wrapped inside a pretty easy stealth/puzzle fps
@supersmashbro5964 жыл бұрын
announcements are supposed to be a means of generating excitement on a possible feature or character. the op is spot on.
@supersmashbro5964 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed the only game i can see as worth its hype these days is smash ultimate. but that's simply because smash has earned its hype. i mean few feelings could ever rival sonics reveal trailer for ssbb. casual normies are only part of the problem. they just don't know better. to be honest, i dont think it will be too much longer before the industry crashes again. about the one big publisher i can say is close to being still good is nintendo. and ill freely admit even THEY might be slipping in a couple areas.
@frogglen63504 жыл бұрын
I mean AVGN exposed how shitty games have always existed. Back then you can sell a bad game with no worries of meta bombing and negative reviews. Games that people worship like Earthbound, sold poorly and got ignored 👀👀👀👀👀
@MILDMONSTER12344 жыл бұрын
Yep, everyone circle jerks chrono trigger but that game didn't do anywhere near as well as Final Fantasy
@realykid4 жыл бұрын
except earthbound sold badly because it had a terrible marketing campaign, and in japan it sold double the units than in the us because of that. plus in japan mother was already an established franchise while in the us you're gonna get a game you know nothing about
@arminkuburas16964 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed why do you keep spamming this everywhere?
@liammcnicholas9188 ай бұрын
But Earthbound is actually good
@bullmonty7644 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the best example of “Impossible Expectations” is how I saw about a billion ads for Stadia when it was about to come out, and then nobody gave a rats ass as soon as it did come out
@doombybbr4 жыл бұрын
I was against it to begin with, because I knew it wasn't possible for anyone who isn't on google fibre.
@limeflashlight41012 жыл бұрын
I miss games like Katamari where you can get a great designer with a good budget and devs and not have to worry about microtransactions. Just play the fun simple game and maybe share it with a couple friends if they are willing to play it. When you finish it you can come back to it every once and a while and grind some new high scores or get a better time.
@VenomousValentine4 жыл бұрын
"So you want a realistic down to earth game... that's swarming with magic robots?" -A quote from the simpsons that perfectly predicted the best game ever made, nier automata
@_GF312_4 жыл бұрын
how the hell do they hit it on the nail many times?
@dasirrlicht54154 жыл бұрын
@@_GF312_ By swinging the hammer A LOT.
@henrynelson93014 жыл бұрын
I just completed it yesterday, and holy shit, it has one of the best video game narratives I’ve ever seen.
@Astolfo20013 жыл бұрын
They also predicted Evangelion with that quote.
@JohnDoe-wm1xd8 ай бұрын
Arguably this is how we got HellDivers
@CountOfMonteCristo_4 жыл бұрын
Good lord I completely agree with the “everyone’s a critic” part of your video, I remember playing the new Resident Evil 3, and it was in no way an amazing revolutionary game, I thought it was a solid action shooter experience done very well. And I remember commenting how much I liked the game on a review and I was bomb basted by “elite” know it all’s telling me how I’m wrong and stupid for liking a game. I seriously hate contributing to any sort of conversation online now a days and that situation really killed it for me. Talking about games isn’t very fun anymore.
@Screamingmanta4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely hated it, but it had good parts and Jill finally got some form of love.
@IANGEL101I4 жыл бұрын
I liked it but I wish it didn't cut out so much content from the original. RE2 Remake did this as well, making the Leon and Claire scenarios end up with almost the same cutscenes and bosses for their respective scenarios. Leon never fought G4 Birkin and Claire never fought the Super Tyrant like they could in the original. But it wasn't as bad as RE3 Remake's cuts with it cutting out entire sections from the original like the park, clock tower, dead factory, and making the city feel shorter as well as not having much to make you replay the game like story-altering decisions and Mercanaries: Operation Mad Jackal. Capcom's work on RE2 Remake gave me hope for RE3 Remake. It wasn't a complete disappointment but rather a decrease from "great" to "good". History repeats itself: RE2 is better than RE3.
@poison27904 жыл бұрын
lol now people replying to this with their thoughts of RE3 when that wasn't the point.
@progamerman274 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I liked assassin creed 3 and felt like I am alone in my opinion
@IANGEL101I4 жыл бұрын
@@progamerman27 Don't worry, I liked it too.
@LalitoTV4 жыл бұрын
This is another reason as to why I really like among us, there's nothing to win, no leaderboards, no upgrades no nothing Just a fun little board-ish game that you get to play with friends easily Even if they're don't usually play videogames
@spceinvdr66034 жыл бұрын
I’ve had some of the best laughs I’ve had in years with my friends because of among us
@dankmemes82544 жыл бұрын
Yes I love gsslighting my friends
@TRDario4 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed I feel like you forgot to add "gamers rise up" somewhere in there
@ethhics4 жыл бұрын
@Shaman Xeed "It's just a game. Why u hevv to be mad?"
@blaster.m19434 жыл бұрын
@@dankmemes8254 dank memes.
@MilesProwerTailsFox3 ай бұрын
This video aged like whine Context: concord
@emma_tm3 ай бұрын
and assassins creed lol
@theponderingwarrior78394 жыл бұрын
Perhaps it would a good sign if developers stopped putting emphasis on really bad deadline philosopheies that require them to make annual releases. I can see that being a good start for many future games.
@Duplicitousthoughtformentity3 жыл бұрын
Release it when it’s ready. Don’t announce it until it’s basically done. Spend the next year and a half polishing and bugfixing anyway, THEN release it.
@sekairedblue3 жыл бұрын
To the people sitting at the top, annual releases are just annual positive cash flow, they could spend 4 years on a good game but why do that and risk running dry, if you're a succesful company/franchise you just gotta pump games out to keep making a quick buck. So yeah, not the developpers' fault, just the guys who make the decisions and are disconnected from the very industry they work in.
@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde29914 жыл бұрын
Emp lemon downward spiral complaining ITS CHRISTMAS 2 MONTHS EARLY
@tastethepainbow4 жыл бұрын
"And that's bullshit!" - The Bullshit Man
@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde29914 жыл бұрын
@@tastethepainbow at least let Halloween past before you start putting up the Christmas lights
@philly_sports15584 жыл бұрын
"All you ever do is complain."
@purplehaze23584 жыл бұрын
Wait, the series deteriorated after a vacuum of competition was formed due to that competition providing incentive to make a great game? Sounds awfully familiar.... *cough* KZbin *cough cough*
@samshapira82954 жыл бұрын
Dr. Bright is not allowed to comment on KZbin videos while using foundation servers.
@MoonatikYT4 жыл бұрын
It's almost as if this relentless drive for profit in a "free" market leads to an inevitable trend towards monopolisation or something...
@ACE-si4ng4 жыл бұрын
*cough* *cough* Economy noises
@MaelPlaguecrow69424 жыл бұрын
Yeah, early 1900's capitalism all over again.
@aturchomicz8214 жыл бұрын
@@MaelPlaguecrow6942 yay.......
@Dasan282 жыл бұрын
This is why I like retro games.
@BASEDHITLORLOVER14n884 жыл бұрын
Kind of unrelated but I've been playing minecraft for literally what feels like my whole life, I still play it today with friends and I most likely have at least 10k hours on it. And that's considering the fact that I've never even played through a whole survival world or actually beat the game, lol. Says a lot about the entertainment value it has
@Rob-sf4xy4 жыл бұрын
Minecraft is one of thr greats for sure
@Ramsey276one4 жыл бұрын
That's why I spent YEARS seeking to play it! Got it in Switch! XD
@bruhmentium26934 жыл бұрын
minecraft really was revolutionary for its time if you think about it
@Shyguymask4 жыл бұрын
What are y'all's favorite Indie games? Some of mine are Epic Battle Fantasy, Kingdom Rush, Creeper World and CrossCode
@Alpha-ql8rm4 жыл бұрын
Among Us lol
@andoy_4 жыл бұрын
tyler the creator, you prob dont know him he is really underground.
@DrDrake-lq8nh4 жыл бұрын
Deadbolt, Postal 2, and Ultrakill, Katana Zero.
@okaten35224 жыл бұрын
I haven't finished Crosscode, but I'm 50 hours in and it is already one of my favorite games.
@catwaveanimation81064 жыл бұрын
I agree
@purplehaze23584 жыл бұрын
If TF2 is your most played game of all time, what’s your take on Valve’s mismanagement and neglect of it?
@atom64864 жыл бұрын
Dr. Bright, how many times must we tell you not to comment under youtube videos without direct permission from the O-5?
@Boxhemia4 жыл бұрын
>what is your opinion on bad thing? >its bad *roll credits*
@georgeliquor12364 жыл бұрын
@@minty4resh It isn't though?
@MattyMatthew-m4o4 жыл бұрын
@@minty4resh Try playing on creators.tf i was skeptical at first too cause I heard some negative things, like pay to win and whatnot but most of the negative things turned out to not be true at all (It doesn't even have any way to spend real money whatsoever) and It's honestly the most fun I've had with Tf2 since the awful meet your match update I feel like an idiot for having so much prejudice towards those servers now. They're amazing. Completely different from the awful casual matchmaking.
@wardedthorn65234 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I'd say valve has done a fantastic job with it, but they're at least still updating it. That's pretty impressive
@gearguts72592 жыл бұрын
I come back to this video again and again and I always take a slightly different view of videogames after watching it. Thanks for the great content as always Emp.