Modern AAA Games vs 2000s AAA Games

[@MAWK3]

PSA: Saints Row 2006 Still has an active online playerbase! Check them out here 👇 discord.gg/n3BMxqhWdv

[@gomersimpson777ram]

Man where is vr games...

[@gomersimpson777ram]

All these fames got vr mod portal 2 Half-Life Half-Life 2 (and sequels) Deep Rock Galactic Minecraft Jedi Academy Risk of Rain 2 Gamecube emulator (Dolphin VR) Metal: Hellsinger Valheim All modern Resident Evil games/remakes (except 4 which should be coming out soon) Dark Souls Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 Final Fantasy VII Remake Ghost Runner Elden Ring Ghostwire: Tokyo Horizon: Zero Dawn No One Lives Forever 2 Stray Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales Grounded Red Dead Redemption 2 (Old version) GTA V (Old version) RDR2 (Old version) Mafia Trilogy Remake (Old version) Left 4 Dead 2 Life is Strange: Before The Storm - Dawn VR Alien: Isolation - MotherVR The Stanley Parable - StanleyVR Valheim - VHVR Risk of Rain 2 - Drbibop The Outer Wilds - Nomai VR Deep Rock Galactic - VRG Firewatch - TwoForksVR GTFO - VR plugin Dead By Daylight (Private Server) Hogwarts Legacy Mirror 2: Project X Satisfactory It Takes Two STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order Stray Squad Astroneer Borderlands 3 Mordhau Ready Or Not SCUM Conan Exiles The Isle Tekken 7 eFootball 2023 Poppy Playtime Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice OUTRIDERS Dragon Ball FighterZ Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach Grounded Days Gone Remnant From The Ashes State of Decay 2 Ghostrunner Code Vein Little Nightmares Back 4 Blood Brick Rigs Bright Memory: Infinite Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot What Remains of Edith Finch Life is Strange 2 Foxhole ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- The Callisto Protocol Medieval Dynasty Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Remnant II ENDER LILIES Little Nightmares II Tales of Arise 死寂（Deathly Stillness） One-armed cook Hydroneer ABZÛ FPS Chess Aliens: Fireteam Elite GEARS 5 PAYDAY 3 Tropico 6 The Ascent Gas Station Simulator Atomic Heart Dark Deception Ground Branch Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Vampyr Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles Hi-Fi RUSH Tribes of Midgard Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade Hatred Witch It Sword and Fairy 7 Omega Strikers Biomutant The Day Before SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Scarlet Nexus Subverse We Happy Few Dark and Light Choo-Choo Charles Gotham Knights Terminator Resistance Octopath Traveler Torchlight 3 Spyro Reignited Trilogy Darksiders III Ghostwire: Tokyo Life is Strange: True Colors Session: Skate Sim Operation: Harsh Doorstop High On Life BPM: Bullets Per Minute Marauders Ruiner Chernobylite Enhanced Edition POSTAL 4: No Regerts Xuan-Yuan Sword VII Maneater Darksiders Genesis Empires of the Undergrowth Tiny Tina's Wonderland MechWarrior 5 SOULCALIBUR VI Orcs Must Die! 3 Kena: Bridge Of Spirits Marvel's Midnight Suns Call of Cthulhu Scorn The Forgotten City Psychonauts 2 Destroy All Humans! Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 Slender: The Arrival Torchlight: Infinite The Beast Inside Six Days in Fallujah The Vagrant Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition Aliens: Dark Descent Minecraft Dungeons Tower of Fantasy Ride 4 Octopath Traveler II Azur Lane: Crosswave Wandering Sword Fernbus Simulator Visage Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Predecessor Gears Tactics DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age

[@thepianisthd]

Bro i have to really say this: old games was really gold and a real gems, but the games now days since 2020 to now days really sucks up big time man

[@SuzukiBalls]

The first half of this video is very painfully obvious cherry-picking, comparing the worst recent games vs the best older games to try to push the narrative of "old good, new bad". Comparing The Finals to Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 4 to...Unknown 9?? Second half is you focusing on specific companies that are failing to live up to their old titles, which is fair, but it just feels very pessimistic to only focus on the bad games of recent years. There's still plenty of amazing titles coming out like Baldur's Gate, Yakuza, Death Stranding, Elden Ring, way too many to list.

[@saricubra2867]

Why aren't you using the OG PC version of Crysis? Watching that ugly console look, abomination.

[@alptigin5438]

When they were making Red Faction Guerilla, the devs complained the physics engine was making all their buildings fall down. Management responded by making them take architecture classes.

[@BobBob-io2hi]

Lol

[@eric6rock]

@@BobBob-io2hiit showed they made a Physics system that almost resembles reality of what Gravity does in their simulation. Really cool feature!

[@brando3342]

Free engineering courses, that's AMAZING. Great management!

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

Always online: So corporate can brag to their shareholders how many "daily active users" they have. 💀

[@Matt-pb7ds]

Yeah, who is the Cliffy B, Staten or Kojima of this generation? Someone that is just a gamer dude that just happens to be in charge, and doesn't care about data analytics, quotas or other business jargon. Gamers dont want to see spreadsheets or how much profit this game made, just give us games that you want to play even if the developers are the only ones that want to play which apparently now isn't even the case since there are games now that have less players than the studio that made it. They used to say" we make games we want to play", lets get back to that time when devs had fun making games.

[@DJLizardon]

@@Matt-pb7dssaber interactive seems like the only western dev left with that mindset, it’s a shame

[@Peaches-i2i]

@@Matt-pb7ds The problem is thinking Cliff B or Kojima were the minds behind the success, they weren't. They got all the credit while better writers and directors were making it happen. They were part of the problem, the guys who grew fat heads and thought they were everything. Look at Kojima's mess of recent games. Just nonsense made to get in closer with celebs because he was a failed movie director. Cliffy B is still here, GOW, Unreal and other titles have become worse so it isn't him. Games are unironically better when they have less resources to make them.

[@Matt-pb7ds]

@@Peaches-i2i I don't want to say they were solely responsible for making the games great, there's plenty of coders and artists that don't get the credit, what I am trying to say is that they created a good vibe.

[@kotor610]

Nah it's so they can force players on older games to upgrade by bricking older versions of the game.

[@luhvmel0]

Early 2000 games focused on having soul. 2024 games focus on having money.

[@ZloPluh]

Поэтому стоит чаще поглядывать на инди разработчиков, недорого бывает выглядят, но богаты внутри.

[@roberth4395]

you forgot about politics and virtue signaling otherwise you are spot on

[@ZloPluh]

@@roberth4395 ахах, да, не учёл))

[@convoy034]

I would say 2000s and early 2010s, maybe mid 2010s

[@YuYuYuna_]

Ehh, if you only play AAA game sure. Not enough people know of or consider playing or even looking at indie games as an option for them. Nowadays indie games aren't just those dinky little arcade games that you might play for 15 minutes here and there. They are effectively what the AAA game industry used to be before they became passionless megacorps that milk their franchises dry.

[@gamestuhthereturnoftoxicity]

It's crazy to think the older games had better physics than modern games

[@MAWK3]

Even ragdoll physics have been significantly downgraded in the past generations

[@KidneyStealer02]

@@MAWK3 honestly Rdr2 have good ragdoll physics

[@xgrillsenx]

Yea Half-Life 2, Gta 4, and Red Faction Gruerilla had insane physics for their time. Now, most games' physics don't even come close.

[@shodan2002]

And ai don’t forget about ai it’s so much worse these days

[@gizmo366]

​@@MAWK3black ops 6

[@TheMaximus60]

I miss 2000s and early 2010s a LOT 😢

[@verzeda]

Thank god the games still exist, I've been replaying games from the 90s up to 2013 but not beyond that.

[@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn]

I miss the 2000s and 2010s the best times for gameing today sucks a..s for gameing😢

[@emdeeee]

Back then it was all about turning your baby into ART Today is all about turning your baby into MONEY

[@quisqueyanguy120]

I wanna go back!

[@VITAS874]

I wish modern corporations not exist. They only care about money.

[@Iamgoldman]

Finally someone has done it. This needs to be talked about and thrown in the faces of so called AAA developers.

[@DrakeKillah]

We've been throwing this at them for YEARS... We still buy enough of their shitty games, and they keep making BILLIONS. This won't stop, unless more gamers start putting their foot down, and stop buying games that are poor quality. There have been flops recently, but there aren't enough of them to where it hurts their wallets. A few flops are just a risk they are willing to take, because they make enough on the games that don't flop completely, combined with the savings from taking shortcuts. Sadly, there are too many gamers that have ridiculously low standards; they can somehow ignore complete trash, and even *defend* it...

[@Laxedll]

And the Players themselves too, so many good FPS games came out in last 10 years by smaller companies and people completely ignore them just to jump on the newest shilled AAA game to cry and whine how its bad and angry they are for paying them.

[@dominickelly3881]

People still buy it so even if this video was broadcasted globally to the whole world it wouldn’t change a single thing

[@Simte]

We had it so good. Physical media, tech pushing boundaries, offline SP and MP, no live service BS unless you were looking for it, good writing.

[@emdeeee]

then... the marketing nation attacked.

[@Padlock_Steve]

physical media is garbage bro get off the galaxy gas

[@JvanEdits]

@@Padlock_Steve nice bait kid, but you have to try harder next time

[@kubbykush420]

​@@JvanEditswouldn't have even entertained the idiot.

[@diablow1411]

Miss the days when the games were COMPLETE. No DLC BS, and even if they wanted to push a DLC, it'd just be a small expansion or something (for the most part). Games were not that easy to break, and not saying that they're immune to it, but at least they weren't bug-riddled messes that the 'live serving model' is then brought in to 'fix' those.

[@goga.games18]

F.E.A.R is absolute masterpiece

[@としあき-x8u]

even better than F.E.A.R 2 and 3 in many ways

[@JaggedMercenary]

@@としあき-x8u It is. Like Crysis 1 is also better than Crysis 2 and 3.

[@goga.games18]

@@としあき-x8u in my eyes 2 and 3 feels and looks like completely different games theryre nowhere near 1 in terms of atmosphere aswell F.E.A.R 1 Standalone with dlc is its own thing game like that hasn't been made again...

[@Rokk_]

@@としあき-x8u FEAR 2 was made partially by a different studio, FEAR 3 by a totally different one. You may notice that the hospital and school levels in FEAR 2 were made by monolith and the other unmemorable ones are basically a B-studio invention. The FEAR 1 expansions were also made by a different studio but those guys had a much better grasp on what made the game good, and went with it.

[@khorea]

still playing this masterpeace, modern fps games can't beat the F.E.A.R AI and its enganging combat they are just braindead aim and shoot

[@Slamboni4k]

I love when my video games try to present themselves as "cinematic experiences" and not video games

[@CephlonMayngrum]

Just remember video games were starting to trend to be more cinematic in the 90s with games like ff7 and metal gear solid.

[@LordVader1094]

​@@CephlonMayngrumYeah but they weren't literal movies where you essentially walk from cutscene to cutscene.

[@TurtleChad1]

Older games were Art, newer games are a product.

[@dededede9257]

Always has been

[@crimsonlancer1872]

Older games were novels we played, newer ones are as you say, a product

[@LoveUPes]

Perfectly said...

[@toby2581]

They were always a product. They just used to be better-made products created by more competent people.

No, they weren’t calling them art is what contributed to the mess we have now.

[@jtheckler]

Far cry 2 had a system where you could shoot individual twigs and branches off trees. Overtime these branches and trees will grow back and eventually grow leaves... No big executive today would approve such a model

[@IroquoisPliskin6789]

...it's not the big executives that make the choice about physics. It's the quality of game designers that affect the quality output of gaming.

[@Pacemaker_fgc]

You can have the best game designers in the world, if you allot them no time and no resources and constantly demand they change the product then the game is gonna suck.

[@Manfurias]

One of the issue that I keep seeing with big companies goes directly back to the executives, and how many they are when there's no need. When the number of administration heads keeps growing, the company needs to bring more and more money, which means impossible demands and fewer resources.

[@Pacemaker_fgc]

@Manfurias Worst part is that the actually valuable admin like QA leadership is always the first to get gutted. That's why AAA games are so unpolished now.

[@fearingalma1550]

Star Wars: Outlaws actually has very accurate destructible foliage.

[@mow_cat]

we forgot that games are supposed to be fun, and we forgot that games are supposed to look like art, and not just photorealism

[@kvinconnery8547]

Most of game these days just racing with photorealism but sacrificing elements of gameplay.

[@Mr.Atari2600]

Remember when games let you play with Physics? *Half-Life 2 remembers!*

[@Marandal]

Underrated Comment. I just watched the HL2 Anniversary video. Banger!

[@epicmetod]

So you ignore Quantum Breaks or Alan Wake or Control for sake of nostalgic bias lol

[@007spudman]

Such a fucking good game!

[@Hidoidragon]

Crysis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic also remembers.

[@Marandal]

@@epicmetod 'Insert airplane-flying-over-head noise'

[@Boneheaded123]

The unfortunate thing was that many people overlooked the meticulous attention to detail, but once it was removed, it became one of the most noticeable aspects for people to complain about.

[@mow_cat]

the vast majority of people don't notice it consciously, but it's still important

[@soggysalami9120]

@@mow_cat Kind of like bass in metal. Or eyebrows on a face. When it's there, everything is fine and dandy. When it's not, it becomes the only thing you notice.

[@denzelwright8475]

It comes from developers actually invested in creating a work of art. Not someone dreading if they're going to lose their job after shipping the product. Or that the developer has already been laid off and the contractor came in with only a week of getting up to speed.

[@wolfskey]

The amount of detail and time you put into this is ginormous! You've done an incredible job.

[@MAWK3]

Thank u so much for watching! 🙏

[@TheGreatPooyah]

To say the video game industry is in a dark state is an understatement

[@UrbanDefenseSystems]

At least the mainstream games yes, but indie and smaller devs are still pushing out quality stuff.

[@solacies]

​@@UrbanDefenseSystems only indie studios have the ambition older AAA studios used to

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

Baldurs Gate 3 is good. Cyberpunk 2077 not on launch day. Honestly 2077 is prolly the new New Vegas with how much mods you can do.

[@humanelemon115]

I mean, yeah, it's in a shitty position, but you can still play the old games, along with several awesome indie games, realeasing day by day. Maybe vote with your vallet instead of complaining

[@UrbanDefenseSystems]

@@humanelemon115 that's democracy for you. People DO vote with their wallets, and they continue to buy modern empty corporate woke games.

[@iamthesenete9123]

The main difference between modern AAA games and 2000s AAA games is that 2000s AAA games had actual soul and effort put into them

[@JustChill-zd4ib]

What soul? Also do you really assume modern games are easy to make? Then go make one right now show us.

[@danielm.370]

Quality vs. Quantity

[@pup123434]

@@JustChill-zd4ibthey’re not easy to make, but being creative is not something that’s impossible to achieve dude. Get a grip

[@Bristecom]

@@JustChill-zd4ib Relatively easier, yes. There are so many tools and standards for development available now, not to mention AI, that many things end up pretty similar. In the 2000's, the tools varied a lot and many just created their own engines for development which gave each game a very unique feel. This obviously took more time/money/effort/skill but it was worth it.

[@SnizelOfficial]

@@JustChill-zd4ib Ah yes the "go make one yourself" argument. Only low IQ individuals use that.

[@RilfDanielson]

I'm so grateful someone made this. I've been trying to explain to people for years that older games were objectively, from a tech standpoint, better. It isn't nostalgia, games today do not innovate and actually have moved backwards of much of the advancements the games of the 90s and 2000s made.

[@BlackNerdMagic]

The Saints Row section was sad to watch. Used to be a great alternative to GTA and has now been neutered to be just another generic action game with cringe humor.

[@berserkronald7008]

Saints Row is my favorite open World game, mainly the 2nd.

[@ministryofwrath]

@@berserkronald7008 saints row 2 is legendary. so MUCH content, such a great character creation engine. forget all the new ones, they should do a remake of this with all features intact. Or at least it would be nice, but with the modern devs, they'd screw it up.

[@PHLYogi]

@@ministryofwrathtoo bad volition is gone now

[@АлександрКобяков-м3щ]

@@berserkronald7008 2-nd game is first game in the series for me,and the best(but,i ain`t played first one,and all parts after 4-rd).

[@АлександрКобяков-м3щ]

@@PHLYogi Shame for Red Faction,i hope another good company bought the franchise(Mindfish can do the trick,but it`s only a dreams)...

[@TunafishN7]

All thoes "AAA" fps shooter games from 2020-2024 look all the same bruh can't event tell which is which

[@unmensocreativo]

Fr man

[@CAPTAiNC]

It is due to MW19 raising the bar for game studios to have flashy and "tacticool" animations for their guns.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@CAPTAiNCeverything must look the same according to these modern gaming zealots

[@notraeon]

cs2 is quite different, imo. has a kinda cartoony vibe even if thats not intentional lol. and it has way more attention to detail than almost any other recent AAA games. thats why i love valve lol

[@uioup7453]

It's because they have unknowledgeable artists, they just turn on 300 different shaders and call it a day, they don't know how things work so everything ends up looking like plastic...

[@dotflann]

Gotta love how devs from the 2000's went crazy showcasing physics since they were no longer as limited by technology

[@RAKUNTU]

The golding age of gaming 1993-2013

[@ThumbsDes]

Hi, I can design attractive thumbnails to your gameplay videos free. Feel free to contact.

[@christianbethel]

For me it's 1985 - 2013.

[@Rjey45ForteFev]

2016

[@fromaggio7654]

Yessir the games of all time

[@JustinBA007]

Doom to GTA 5?

[@bfbuilders]

Older games- Made for fun Newer games- Made for money

[@Drunde]

you are the proof gamers are delusional, you imply that old games aren't made for money, what i can expect from someone with a tf2 pfp.

[@Dregomz02]

@@Drunde They were made with passion money was secondary it was a complete experience with no dlcs but some got expansions and free patches (since late 90s), while now they think about how to overly monetize game FIRST and then deliver a semi playable game that is pretty much a $70 early access game that is broken at launch and with full dlcs that were cut from the game and sold separately

[@Drunde]

@@Dregomz02 games back then was never made for money, they had a budget of millions for nothing, you all are the reason why the industry is dying lol

[@searplays820]

captalism created the gaming indstry and it is destroying it

[@Spermofdog]

Yeah, people in the past went to work to have fun. Makes total sense.

[@Xeptar]

12:06 - Took me a second to realize the TF2 heavy was another comparison and not a inserted meme mockingly jabbing fun of companies making bad games while burning a lot of money

[@jacksongoodman3625]

Also it looks worse

[@skaruts]

lol that's when I realized SW:O's lip sinc'ing makes it look like it's dubbed. TF2 got it right almost two decades earlier. Even many games from the past that didn't do much lip sincing did a better job than SW:O...

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Glad you didn't yeeted the poor bird in that Crysis clip, I know it must've took a lot of restraint

[@276_rein]

I read the comment as the clip played 😂

[@SpeedsterGT7913]

Translated by Google: As a car enthusiast, what bothers me about the current generation of consoles is the absence and lack of major racing franchises on both consoles and PC. Where is Midnight Club? Where is Burnout? Where is Ridge Racer? Where is Driver? Where is Motorstorm? And other franchises that unfortunately remain discontinued from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era. And no, don't go saying ridiculous nonsense that racing and driving games are only for car enthusiasts because it's niche. That's a lie, racing and driving games (Arcade and simulator) are designed for everyone whether you are a car enthusiast or not.

[@Igoreshkin]

And what happend to split-screen in racing games? I still play with my brother in Motorstorm series, blur, split-second.

[@danielhicks4826]

Test Drive Unlimited also and this solar crown crap does not count same issues seen here.

[@killrockit]

It’s bizarre to me that a gamer car enthusiast won’t mention or might not even know about Assetto Corsa Competizione. 😮😮

[@M_CFV]

@@killrockit none of the games he listed are racing sims, is why. He knows that game, forza motorsport, and f1 are a thing. He wants real racing games back like midnight club, not racing sims.

[@mow_cat]

to be fair, the best car game of all time (burnout paradise) is still relatively obscure people seem to like basic realistic racing games compared to ones with personality

[@Entharion]

I have nothing to add to this except that I've noticed the harsh decline in quality of AAA games and it feels good to have it validated. Thank you.

[@RMDetho]

modern game development is Ikea furniture being presented and sold as proper artisan pieces.

[@samzony]

What is artisan?

[@RMDetho]

@@samzony artisan - "a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand." Like professional woodworkers that charge a grand for a varnished plank, those are the people I generally mean. (varnish is nice finish for wood)

[@samzony]

@@RMDetho Oh I got it now!

[@chillhour6155]

Really good analogy 👍

[@johanbjorkman1914]

You pay good money to get qn incomplete product lol.

[@YoloTub3]

Blame the esports community for suggesting to remove game physics on multiplayer games

[@arsnakehert]

esports people should go play real sports and stop being a cancer to the video game industry

[@steiner_01]

Esport games never go out PC gaming community, Quake es the unique Real e sports

[@radiantansel202]

Calling games a "sport" was our first biggest mistake No, sorry, I love tournaments and competition I'm not doing a sport either eSport also ruined fighting games since thousands of casuals came by, expecting to be the next Evo Moment 37 makers and because they found out our games were hard, devs made everything to appeal them

[@queuedjar4578]

It's good if you are actually trying to tightly design a game in that way, but we also need room for the spectacle and interactive games. Not everything needed to be a sweat fest shooter.

[@OleNesie]

@@radiantansel202 Share some brain damage for the rest of us goddam

[@hAze_the_shrimp]

16:35 "we don't die, we multiply" *proceeds to multiply*

[@Goshorai]

If anyone tells you "games are better than ever" and that "you're just a grumpy adult," show them this video.

[@MeadeJ67]

Or just ignore them because they are usually kids who don't have a frame of reference & therefore their opinion is meaningless. That's what I try to do at least. Let them grow up & watch all of their favorite franchises lose their identity. Let them experience the even more soulless reboots & remakes of their beloved IPs. Then maybe they will start to understand.

[@mow_cat]

​​​@@MeadeJ67you can't outvote them with your wallet though, that's the problem (they outnumber you and everyone who cares about quality in video games) the franchises they like can't be ruined, because they play bad games the industry will just continue to be this way as long as people hold these incorrect beliefs and put up with bad games

[@The_One_Eyed_Rouge]

​@@mow_catYup. We're unfortunately the minority here. As long normies continue buying fortnite slop and gamepass to play COD. These garbage practices in the industry aren't really going to change anytime soon.

[@dr.loomis4221]

The bigger and more expensive games get, the more we lose those little details that make games special.

[@ericg968]

The game industry has been hyper capitalized to the point nearly every employee is in near constant risk of being laid off if their companies shareholders don’t extract as much profit out of them as humanly possible. Even studios that take in record profits constantly lay off their staff. Understandable why the quality of gaming at least in the AAA space has dived off a cliff

[@TedFegal]

I started with goldeneye on the n64 and here I am today. Without going into long winded detail, we absolutely have regressed or at minimum have been stagnant for a decade or so now

[@MAWK3]

Same Ted! That and Super Smash Bros on the 64. It's crazy how we went from Goldeneye in 1997 to Crysis in 2007. So much has changed it is Unreal.

[@TedFegal]

@MAWK3 then from 2014 to 2024 I can't spot a single difference haha

[@gomersimpson777ram]

Man get vr headset

[@MAWK3]

@@gomersimpson777ram I got one lol

[@MAWK3]

@TedFegal Watch Dogs 1 vs Outlaws would be interesting comparison!

[@alface935]

I feel like AAA today are suffering from some problems like: - "Too many cooks in the Kitchen" - Inexperienced Developers - Developers that don't play games and only work there for the Money - Short dead lines despice the fact that games keep getting more and more complex overtime with more and more moving parts - Little play test due to short dead lines - "Release first and fix later" - Broken games at launch - Not having the full game on Physical Media anymore requiring a download to install the rest of the game - Always online DRM - Getting delisted from Digital Stores after the License of the Cars or Music expires There is probably more that I forgot please let Me know more

[@isaacvitela5131]

Roadmap promises just to appease the gamers, but to only not go fully through with it.

[@cyberpunk11x]

Women developers that's a big one ..do not underestimate the ability of women to fck up everything.

[@alface935]

@isaacvitela5131 Yeah that one too Thank You

[@Johnsen290Games]

the problem really is the executives and directors, they should be the ones that get fired, not blame the devs

[@alface935]

@Johnsen290Games Yeah and also that made Me remember another problem: - a lot of Higherups at gaming companies today got there because of investiment on the company and got voted up to became a higherup by other investiments with no actual experience on how to program or make games at all Which is different with how it used to be which was that They would join as a Dev and work on the games for years and then work Their way up the hierarchy until became Ceo etc One example of the old way of higherups was Satoru Iwata which started working as a Programmer at Hal Laboratory in games like Mother 2 and a lot of Kirby games and later on He became Nintendo's Fourth President and Chief Executive Officer

[@richardbeare11]

FEAR goes almost unmatched to this day.

[@richardbeare11]

The focus on simple but thoughtful and intentional level design - to compliment an AI designed precisely for their environments - along with punchy and reactive interaction smd environment - made a game that still to this day that is absolutely stand-out. Goal oriented action planning (their AI decision logic system), solid use of voice (but not overused), ability for AI to traverse obstacles designed precisely for the AI (etc), smart use of space and tempo (etc) - this is the special sauce that made FEAR, well, FEAR. They kept their focus sharp, and nailed it.

[@reepusvanguard]

early 2000s: Umm hello? IM GAMING! now: Ugh... why did I bother playing this game.

[@redsentry9785]

Very 2000's

[@RexRex-n5t]

Real people remember the FPS game on PS2, "Black". So much these days looks and plays worse, runs worse on your computer because devs are not paid to optimize.

[@totaldemolition]

I just commented on this! I love the game so much haha

[@tenacious7704]

It is an incredible game still play it on xbox

[@noobzerhech5lerschannel889]

This Game is awesome and the cutscenes are so good

[@socks2441]

yeah, its a good reason to have a playstation 2 emulator on your pc, then you can play it with improved resolution etc too.

[@durakeno5575]

Love how you still some good examples from the current era.

[@MAWK3]

Appreciate you watching, man! 🙏

[@OfficialRaaja]

The Finals is probably the only modern day game with good destruction physics and even then it's not even AAA it's an Indie game made by a smaller studio of ex AAA devs

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

I renember back then i was marveled at how incredible the graphics,physics and details on these games were and fantasizing about how much better they would be on the future... Well looks like we were at the peak already.

[@lucignolo8333]

Same, i remember watching my bigger brother play hl2 and crysis on his pc back in 2006-2007 and i was wondering about how cool games will be in the future. Ffw a couple years and I’m playing masterpieces like bf3 and black ops, so my wish kinda became true

[@robertharper3114]

We had no idea we were living in the golden age and it's over now.. at least we were there to experience it while it happened. 🙁

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

we have hardware that people back then couldn't even dream of and yet it seems like we went backwards in every way except maybe grapics

[@Armageddon-yt3so]

That was me when I played Gears of War for the first time. I remember at times just stopping to admire all the little details that were going on in the background and being like yep this is next-gen. This was back in 2008. To me that era, the Xbox 360/PS3 era, was the last actual leap in graphics that actually felt like a proper jump from the PS2/Xbox gen. Then we go from the 360/PS3 to Xbox One and PS4, and felt like the jump in graphics wasn't as impressive. And it only got even less impressive the more time goes on with these newer consoles.

[@youravghuman5231]

ps3 era was the peak in gaming. years later is just small improvement over graphics that's all

[@vincent-xcx]

Damn, some games were actually good. I’m so lucky I was a teen between 2006 and 2012. I experienced the best games with soul and no agenda.

[@michaelnorkus5592]

How were facial animations in Half Life 2 better than 90% of games today?

[@unmensocreativo]

Even the tf2 ones are better

[@KUPSMusic]

Style over substance man, always. Valve really knew what they were doing back in the day.

[@HenryTownsmyth]

​@@KUPSMusicthey had style too, their games were most advanced in graphics.

[@audie-cashstack-uk4881]

Link in wind waker still holds expression crown fact

[@TimSlee1]

Yeah, the cutscenes are better than we remember them, the acting and motion capture really carried them.

[@lasarousi]

Who would have thought that the limitations actually, tangibly spawned creativity, today not only devs have infinite resources but also miserably fail at being artists.

[@chillhour6155]

There is a popular saying, limitations breeds creativity

[@MamoMark]

It wasn't the limitations, it was the dramatically lower budgets. When Spider Man 2 costs 300 million you aren't going to make a very creative product. Infinite resources? Ha. Yeah right.

[@apoletestry3766]

Money is a recource.

[@redditor7548]

The games are not passion projects anymore. The devs are underpaid and just there for a paycheque and the share holders don’t want to spend too much money and time with a game so have tight dead lines and so just pump out cheap slop for the masses to consume and make a quick profit. This is why the games are bad.

[@eazy-333]

This video is perfect. From start to finish.

[@MAWK3]

Thank u for watching 🙏

[@Varil92]

I played videogames since the early '90s and I got to tell you: gaming peaked in the early 2000s. Everything after that is just a disgrace. Today the medium has been totally corporatized by big companies whose CEOs know nothing about gaming. Games today have no soul, no ambition, nothing. It's all empty and souless corporate shit.

[@prestige_materials]

I couldn't have said it better myself *High fucking Five* straight-up

[@aaaa_0484]

Thats why i play indie

[@XxKeNoHxX]

I see your icon is Commander Keen and can tell you're a man of culture

[@averagegigel1448]

Somebody that speaks my thoughts. I remember things starting to easily go downhill since 2006.

[@lolo-yb7fp]

COMMANDER KEEN?

[@dasist9573]

Crowbcat is born

[@MAWK3]

Big ups Crowbcat!! Love his work

[@DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-]

I just commented this

[@JordanMontgomery-y6j]

​@@MAWK3he nitpicks idk how he is liked

[@MAWK3]

@@JordanMontgomery-y6j h

[@JordanMontgomery-y6j]

@@MAWK3 the resident evil 4 Video is literally just old bad new good

[@nillk2168]

You know devs love their game when you find small details everywere

[@georgedahuha4876]

cryengine is just a masterpiece.

[@АндрейИльин-д6ж]

source, upiterex, frostbite and more

[@xavdeman]

0:21 For anyone wondering, this game is Shadowrun (2007), a now defunct multiplayer game.

[@Igoreshkin]

It still playeble

[@wander7984]

i thought it was bioshock

[@fare-5174]

Actions speak louder than words. Not a single word from the creator of the video, just straight up facts for half an hour, and the point is well made. Mad respect.

[@StarCenturion]

I liked the ending a lot. There's a lot of garbage today, but even among that garbage, there will always be some gems still releasing, no matter how terrible the industry gets. Gaming is really negative these days, but I think that should be the prevailing message. Vote with your wallet, avoid the slop, only buy games that truly deserve your time and money. You only have so much of both.

[@MAWK3]

Couldn't of have said it better. Games like Astro Bot & Space Marine 2 prove that despite how negative things are now, Good AAA still do exist! Thank you for watching BTW!

[@dededede9257]

Just like before

[@spacewargamer4181]

Nice to see some positivity at least

[@piousrampage]

Gaming is still pretty decent if you just stick with games from East Asia and Eastern Europe, along with the occasional good western game.

[@bdkj3e]

That's exactly what I've done, haven't bought a new game since Doom Eternal.

[@n.erdbeer]

The Finals destruction is cooking it, a breeze of fresh air in 2023.

[@AlgaeEater09]

Theyre the same devs from the old bad company games

[@n.erdbeer]

@@AlgaeEater09 yes and they refined the destruction process.

[@Nomad-bl4yw]

game has ugly androgynous characters though

[@Apollo5752353]

​@@n.erdbeerI'd go as far to say that they can set the industry standard on their destruction alone, since it's just so damn good. I never play Heavy but when I do, I use the shoulder charge to go through the walls. It's just fun

[@n.erdbeer]

@Apollo5752353 I am a hammer guy, great fun. :)

[@Professor.Chucklenuts]

In Team Fortress 2 if there is an enemy present nearby an teammate you can see the face of both the teammate and the enemy turn into a grimace while the eyes focus on said teammate/enemy. It's details like those that made gaming special for me.

[@Stefan-dr7fn]

back then : few passionate people with brilliant ideas actually wanting to get something good out there. now: oh games = money glitch

[@happybuggy1582]

Bet all the old games shown combined is still cheaper than $70

[@Stefan-dr7fn]

@@happybuggy1582 that as well !

[@Zool2107]

Can you just stop this stupid "few" passionate people thing? Just watch the closing credits of any AAA game made in the 2000s. The list of people working on those games goes on for minutes...

[@helloimuzumakikira1]

Out of all the modern games, the finals actually does pretty well and actually feels like an upgrade

[@alexjackyperson101]

Out of all the modern game studios, Sony and Microsoft are active destroying gaming

[@Wilma_Dickfit_huh]

Yep, but it's an unplayable sweatfest that feels like shit even when you're winning.

[@RyanCooperRB]

@@alexjackyperson101 What does that have to do with destruction in The Finals?

[@Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie]

The Finals is slop. Uninstalled after 25 min of gameplay. Was made for zoomers

[@morris89swe]

It's clear as day, games were better in the 2000's. I mean Far Cry 2 has more details than Far Cry 6. Gaming is pathetic today, and this current generation blows by the way. I have not seen many good games for the PS5 or XB series and we are more than half way through the generation. I am happy staying on XB one, PS4, PS3, PS2 , PS1 and OG Xbox also Gamecube. Nice video, it really paints a clear picture of how dire the gaming industry have become, it's important that we speak with our wallets until the industry stops treating us like fools.

[@Vrangsynn]

Couldn's say it better myself. I thrive on emulation, everything up to and including PS3 and 360 can be reliably emulated on PC. All consoles and arcades on emulation plus all classic PC games from places like GOG and of course less legal places, and it is heaven.

[@morris89swe]

@@Vrangsynn GOG is an awsome site. I got the original Deus Ex from there, one of the greatest games ever made imo. I can't do emulation that much because I am a bit lazy setting it up and my pc isnt the best, I still got all the original consoles which I love playing on though. I'm glad we are on the same page regarding this useless generation.

[@HuyGaming96]

As much as I hate modern gaming nowadays but saying far cry 2 has more details than far cry 6 is ridiculous. Do u even see the bullet hole when u shoot the corpse? Far cry 6 has that but far cry 2 it's disappeared right after u shoot

[@Gumbo354]

WHAT DETAILS?!?? The map is empty, nothing but desert, boring ahh gameplay in far cry 2. At least #6 practically looks like your average Cuba. Not to say 6 is any better

[@HuyGaming96]

@@Gumbo354 yeah far cry 2 sucks man. At least in far cry 6 u can have fun while in far cry 2 is very annoying

[@manuelsaiz5827]

Videogames are just like cars, evolving backwards.

[@ahmedhamm5464]

at least in cars it makes sense, it makes them more money here there is no reason for it

[@longtailgt]

@@ahmedhamm5464 No it does not make sense. Look at the nonsense Jaguar is doing and tell me it makes sense - It doesn't. While it's arguably true that cars have technologically evolved and are perhaps objectively better on average, there is still a lot of shit going on, much more than before, and above all, a vast majority of the cars have lost the soul and character that their predecessors had, not to mention 95% of them look like utter shite now. They're too complicated, and manufacturers are selling you "features" that you'll never use in your lifetime. There's a reason why people are flocking to buy modern classic cars from the 90s and 00s, because that was when cars were objectively better than before without being stupid like today.

[@Red-kc3dw]

Appreciate the effort you put into your work,man

[@MAWK3]

Thank you Red!!

[@Chibi1986]

"I'm yellow enough as it is, Dex." I love that line. Never gets old.

[@MrAeral]

This is an amazing video, thanks for showing off all of the legendary games. I think we still have some bright future with games like THE FINALS

[@lizardizzle]

The extremely complex models, shaders, and textures that devs commit to really hamper their ability to contort facial flexes. They try to make faces look "real" without giving them actual movement and expression. Just look at older horror games with character models and monsters having their whole shapes contort and move and get mutated with complex animations. Instead, we get overly detailed static meshes for everything that the devs just can't actively work with. Instead, they have to cut the camera away during moments to hide the fact they can't animate complex motion.

[@zangl2955]

I want a game with crazy real physics at the expense of ps3 graphics. Wouldn’t mind.

[@aaronsmith7143]

What? Plenty of games have highly detailed models and still exhibit complex facial expressions. Not every game is a modern ubi game. Look at the last of us, uncharted, rdr2, ghost of tsushima, ratchet and clank, stellar blade, infamous second son, spiderman, Detroit become human, all the dark picture games, the yakuza/like a dragon games, FF16, FF7 remake, the re remakes, and silent hill 2 remake. And That's just big studio games off the top of my head.

[@HarrisonVogl]

This is incorrect, the most likely answer is that the animators had a substantial amount of animation to do and were time poor so they had to compromise on quality

[@M_CFV]

@@aaronsmith7143 he isnt just talking about faces dude he mentions entire bodies contorting in horror games

[@Staravora]

You've managed to nail the point that games haven't been good for a long time

[@MAWK3]

Thanks!!

[@baconburgeronly3089]

Nah, games have been good. it's just few and far between

[@Sclurbs]

It's crazy how much of this you just will never notice if you pirate all your games. It's like not being up to date with movie trailers when you have ad blockers on everything

[@themightybagle99]

Honestly the destruction on The Finals Is absolutely crazy, shit can get obliterated within seconds.

[@MrXreuf]

Nope. Try other game, once

[@Annieareyouokayshamone]

Damn, 33 mins? You put effort into this my boi

[@MAWK3]

Thank you Annie!! It took a lot of effort to get it right. 2 weeks ago, it was a complete mess 😅

[@tastyterpenes4140]

@@MAWK3This is seriously an eye opening video dude. It’s what happens when the people making the games are hired because they are “safe” picks and comply with the supposed “industry standard”. In layman’s terms, you hire a square to make games, you get boring games. All of the things that made games fun are fundamentally lost because the people who made the games back then weren’t the “safe” picks but rather people, who on a large scale, were ambassadors for the common man.

[@特勤干员水无月]

I still lament that F.E.A.R. 1 and the expansion pack don't have high quality real weapon mods...

[@LZ_TUSK]

This whole video shows what video games were in late 90s and early 2000s. Games were built different in 2000s compared to Video games nowadays. Everything is F2P , micro transactions to mid-gen refresh. Today’s era in video games are so dumb down it’s upsetting 😢. Love the video mawk❤❤❤

[@MAWK3]

It's definitely not the same anymore 😞 Thank you!!

[@darkwingduke1631]

The modern triple A industry's most potent competition is its own older games. I bet you money if they could, theyd take those away to force everyone to buy the newer trash EDIT: Yeah so Blizzard is taking down the GOG releases of Warcraft 1&2 along with Diablo because now they have the AI slop "Remakes" on battlenet.

[@bdkj3e]

That's why the MW2 remake didn't have online multiplayer, everyone would have stopped playing the "modern version"

[@darkwingduke1631]

@@bdkj3e Indeed mang

[@finkamain1621]

@@bdkj3e They also released it during their Warzone release so they obviously count lose players from their precious Warzone

[@tomdylan2074]

I really appreciate the hopeful message at the end with shouting out the modern bangers that were released recently. Something Crowbcat clearly doesn't know.

[@MadnessMan13]

Such a great video bro. Watched the whole thing. I’m so happy you took a huge dump all over the new “Saints Row” while also highlighting just how special the original 1 & 2 were and still are today. Also loved how you included Fear, Bad Company, Red Faction Guerrilla, Far Cry 2 & Crysis. All phenomenal games that I still play to this day. They truly don’t make games anymore with the same amount of effort and creativity & you put it all on full display. Glad I got to live through the golden era of gaming when I was a teenager. Respect.

[@MAWK3]

Thanks Madness man for the support! I felt as if the 2022 devs ignored a lot of what made the OG's so beloved. SR 2006 has aged very well to!!

[@Lulpe]

In my opinion, a game doesn't need to have crazy physics if they don't benefit gameplay. But some of the examples are just crazy, like, how can a simple thing like trees falling down became a thing of the past?

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

That's because trees are made of "carbon credits" now. They only exist if corporate says they do.

[@isaacvitela5131]

Because there's a difference between giving a sh!t and the other that doesn't. Why bother hiring a chef that doesn't enjoy being a chef?

[@user-ot8wl7oh9s]

Fear was so f@cking peak I can't believe we need to rely on indie studio (Trepang2) to make that experience again.

[@DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-]

KZbin got sensitive and removed my comment for criticizing modern gaming and today's gamers so I just wanted to say that I loved this video and that you got some serious Crowbcat quality right there

[@MAWK3]

Thanks DJ! My goal was to aim for that while doing my own style into the mix

[@lasarousi]

KZbin actually censors if you insult gaymers, they treat them like a minority or endangered species LMFAO

[@speedking7224]

Even better in a way because he actually promotes old games and explains why they were so good and updates us on their player count.

[@TestamentFromTheForest]

I got censored plenty of times myself recently.

[@DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-]

@@TestamentFromTheForest KZbin is trying to silence us unfortunately,they hate the truth

[@bulbul1253]

When it comes to Cutscenes, Eyes is Ubisoft's greatest nightmare.

[@Capewearer]

I just remember that one hilarious AC Unity bug, where face texture disappears and only floating eyes with teeth are left.

[@Momoka7]

A very nice video, surely took you allot work and time to get all the footage!

[@MAWK3]

Appreciate that, it was a lot of fun to make!

[@ABCkirja]

just keep buying new consoles + pc components + yearly releases + dlcs&battle passes&cosmetics before release + remasters + remakes + accept day 1 patches as a norm + on and on because "game development is much more complex and challenging now" + don't ask questions + consume

[@Agent56000]

For me gaming from 2006 to 2014 was the bomb

[@gruntaxeman3740]

That was great time. Another good time was around 1990.

[@Agent56000]

@ if you don’t mind how old are you. I was born mid 2000. Hence I wouldn’t know lol . Tell me what those days were like

[@gruntaxeman3740]

@@Agent56000 Quarter century older... Back in late 80s and early 90s there was a clear difference between computer games and console games. Console games were very childish and all arcade. But computer games, mainly in PC, started to be very ambitious. What I mean, computer games were increasingly made for adults. We have very hardcore gaming back then, like realistic military simulations, RPGs and strategy games. Casual games were story based puzzle adventures but they were often extremely well done. One of the reason was that PC was very expensive, that is used for work and gaming was option so the games were made for that audience. That golden era of gaming stopped when Playstation arrived and 3D-gaming started to be more common. Same games were made both consoles and computers, and hardcore games vanished. Also game developers often didn't know how to make 3D-games properly as technology became more common so many 90s 3D-games were garbage. Many of the all time best games were made to PC in early 90s. At one point in time, top games seemed to keep coming every month. I've still got archive of games that I haven't yet played from that era but are known to be top notch, so I will play them now when new game releases are micropayment garbage.

[@Someone_2406]

@@gruntaxeman3740 I feel jealous of you guys. You got to experience them. I was born in 2006, and I was about 16 years old when I got to know about consoles (I had very less exposure to gaming) But honestly, modern games suck, in the sense, most do. I prefer older games. Maybe from 2010 to 2015

[@gruntaxeman3740]

@@Someone_2406 Early 2010s and late 00s was indeed great time. We got Stalker - shadow of chornobyl, Dead Space, GTA V, Europa Universalis IV... Excellent games. PC game development changed mid 90s when they started to make games to Windows, and that caused issue that isn't really solved. When Windows is changed, old games break and game developers don't fix them. Old console games and DOS era games (with DOSBox emulator) are more accessible. What I mean is that old games can be still experienced. Especially point and click genre because games were originally written to game engines with virtual machines, that are ported to modern computer so they can be played natively. Nearly every point and click adventure made by LucasArts is excellent game and some of them are remastered. GOG is also selling RPGs from that era like Betrayal at Krondor. If the old game hasn't been remastered, the low resolution on the big screen is annoying, so that may require to move the monitor further away. Upcoming Civilization VII is also game from 1991 with added mechanics and graphics. Early 90s military flight simulators suffered from old graphics. So even while they are playable, I would not touch them. They were anyway delivered back then with a thick physical manual, UI is weird and needed to keyboard layout somewhere and joystick to use that fighter, so the effort is no longer worth it to be able to simulate things with ugly 320x200 graphics. But, I wish we got that _mindset_ back and similar stuff with modern gaming technology.

[@kinefish1674]

Attention to detail is about things you don’t notice, modern games make it about the things you’re gonna do anyways

[@Imperial.Soldier]

The new Crowbcat

[@MAWK3]

Big Ups Crowbcat 🙏🔥

[@fardinfzssd4038]

Old games always great i hope gamers loving it forever

[@SteelKicker01]

This video is so good, I don't think I've ever downloaded a video before lol

[@TheFly212]

2003 to 2011 is the absolute peak of the game industry. It's not close. It won't eve be that good again. Sad. But true. Being a late teen and early 20s man in this era truly was a godsend if you were a gamer. Greatest times of my life really. And gaming was a major reason why.

[@LongDaysPleasantNights]

I was not expecting Shadowrun gameplay in the intro. One of the most underrated FPS games of all time. So many memories across the old era of gaming

[@galacticboy2009]

I'm glad you shouted out Crowbcat in the description, because about 6 minutes in I'm just thinking "so this is basically Crowbcat"

[@pandjalu6]

I never thought you would do this kind of video, it's pretty good.

[@MAWK3]

Glad you liked it!

[@will5459577]

The fact that cod don’t use licenses for their guns now is pathetic

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

"It's to protect the children" 😅 I think it's cuz of a recent California law. Apparently if you don't know the real name for a gun, it can't do harm.

[@finkamain1621]

Even the vehicles. There's a jet in Black Ops 6 that's a combination of a Grumman A-6 Intruder, an LTV A-7 Corsair II, and an English Electric Lightning. As an aviation enthusiast, it's actually infuriating to look at a made up subsonic jet that has two supersonic afterburners that are over-under, but the intakes are side-by-side. Not only that but the intakes are where the cannons are. Makes absolutely no sense and you could not create an aircraft like that as there's no air intake and a supersonic engine on a subsonic airframe would rip your wings off if you go anywhere near Mach 1

[@MrXreuf]

Yeah, good old days.

[@Ranger-v5q]

FarCry 2s foliage physics and the way fire would spread made you feel like you were actually burning the forests down. Probably the most fun I've ever had in a game.

[@pliskinboi]

Glad you brought up the online only model Xbox has. It's crazy to me that my series s can just tell me I'm not allowed to play the games I bought.

[@zyphxrAE86]

3:28 Black is my all time fav FPS game, thanks for including it in your list!

[@warmongerhero]

In the pursuit of realistic graphics they forgot about everything else needed for realism.

[@theshockmaster8071]

This is a great video, hopefully the next generation can have more competent game engines and developers.

[@MAWK3]

Thanks dude! I fully agree

[@venator5]

Things that I miss. -Splinter cell Convinction and Blacklist: Ai is actually making a search by walking room by room and looking behind possible cover. So basic yet ever since the release of blacklist in 2013 only watch dogs legion managed to get it right, Star wars Outlaws made by the same company messed it up. -Ai facial animations which actually looks right. Again last time I seen it done right in WD legions. -AI on the map actually doing something like gardening cooking or whatever and not just standing or walking. 2016 AC Unity did an impressive job, Watch dogs keept the basics and many game still sucking up with it. -AI actually communicating so that the other will respond or act the way being ordered/ asked and not just randomly chatting stuff. (See above) -Ai actually calling the other one out by name: Call of Duty Until Black ops. -Ai actually capable to tell the other where the player is located, Like "behind that car, On the second floor etc" which is criminally overlooked in stealth games. Last ever encountered this in Mercenaries 2. Ever since only Mirror's Edge Catalyst managed to get as far as giving a general "Up there!, above us, down there" chat.

[@bananaempijama]

Damn....Splinter cell went to shit after double agent. Oooh boy playing at day time 😅??

[@Jimmyknapp2]

Ever play Metro?

[@CasvalSVER]

Next time someone is trying to gaslight you over how "games are better than ever", just send this and a middle finger emoji if your phone has one.

[@staticintheatmosphere]

even the damn online games had an offline mode...

[@ShadowLancer128]

Dear ChatGPT, why do you think video games from the mid 2000's had better interaction physics than modern games from the 2020s? ChatGPT said: The perceived superiority of interaction physics in mid-2000s video games compared to modern ones can be attributed to several factors, including design philosophy, resource allocation, and industry trends. Here’s a breakdown: 1. *Focus on Physics as a Selling Point* In the mid-2000s, advancements like Havok Physics and ragdoll effects were revolutionary and often used as marketing highlights. Games like Half-Life 2 (2004) showcased realistic physics interactions with objects and environments as a core feature. Modern games often prioritize graphics, narrative, or online multiplayer features over in-depth physics. As a result, interaction physics may take a backseat. 2. *Simplification for Broader Appeal* Many modern games are designed to be accessible to a broader audience. Complex interaction physics can lead to unintended player confusion or frustration, so developers might intentionally simplify these mechanics. Mid-2000s games often targeted a more "hardcore" audience, embracing intricacies that appealed to enthusiasts. 3. *Resource Allocation and Performance* In the mid-2000s, game worlds were smaller, and fewer resources were needed for things like photorealistic graphics or vast open-worlds. This allowed developers to dedicate more computing power and development time to detailed interaction physics. Modern games have much larger and more detailed worlds, so developers must allocate resources differently, often cutting back on nuanced physics to maintain performance. 4. *Development Tools and Engines* Many mid-2000s games were built on engines that emphasized physics-based gameplay, like Valve's Source Engine or Epic's Unreal Engine 2/3. Developers leaned heavily on these tools to push boundaries in physics interactions. While modern engines like Unreal Engine 5 are more advanced, their complexity can mean physics systems are more generalized or modular, leading to less emphasis on bespoke, game-specific physics. 5. Trends Towards Realism Over Experimentation Games in the mid-2000s often aimed for fun and experimentation over strict realism. Titles like Garry's Mod or Red Faction: Guerrilla encouraged players to experiment with the environment in ways that weren't strictly "realistic." Modern games often emphasize cinematic realism, leading to more constrained interactions that fit the game's visual and narrative tone. 6. Evolving Game Design Philosophies The mid-2000s was a golden age for emergent gameplay, where developers encouraged players to "break" the game in creative ways using physics systems. Today, games often prioritize tightly controlled experiences, which can limit such freedom. 7. Nostalgia Players who grew up with mid-2000s games may remember them more fondly due to the novelty of the physics at the time. Modern games might feel less innovative, even if their physics systems are objectively more advanced. While modern games might not always match the tactile feel of mid-2000s classics, the focus on other aspects like graphics, AI, and world-building has led to different trade-offs in game design. Some indie developers and niche titles continue to prioritize interaction physics, keeping the legacy of those earlier games alive.

[@kabbablabba4073]

damn chatgpt is actually getting really good at writing essays

[@tier1turks]

And gonna take your job easily.​@@kabbablabba4073

[@sussyjagras]

@@kabbablabba4073 bro that's just the start, AI is definitely not a meme if you know how to use it. AI won't take our jobs in the next decade but it's still a very powerful tool

[@M_CFV]

Lol the new physics are not objectively more advanced at all.

[@MrXreuf]

Too many words for saying stupid shit... Just playing half life 2 or just Halo, and compare with any other modern game on unreal engine 5, and say me that again...

[@dotflann]

Close enough. Welcome back crowbcat

[@brickproduction1815]

A lot of love and dedication was shown to older games

[@4biddenflow]

Yep. Game studios now are about making games pretty without much substance. It’s like if someone made the most delicious-looking meal possible but it tastes bland and makes you feel frustrated you spent your hard earned money on it in the first place.

[@shodan2002]

Now it’s all corporate no innovation

[@Jakevoss96]

you're an og for showing FEAR love my baby