Stop pretending bad games are good!

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Seems I hit a very big point with this video, I was expecting the vast majority to disagree with me, your comments give me hope for the future of gaming, so glad the vast majority of you have good decent gaming standards, now lets get that message across to the developers of these crap games and stop watching reviewers who just suck up to everything, half of them are not even gamers, they just do it to earn money.

[@deale-]

Here are some Indies I play on my Vita, think you'll enjoy them: - Hotline Miami 1 - Guacamelee+Dlc - Axiom Verge - Rogue Legacy - Shovel Knight+Dlc - Salt & Sanctuary - Binding of Isaac - Geometry Wars 3 - Velocity Ultra - Don't Starve - Terraria - Retro City DX - Shakedown Hawaii - Downwell - Velocity 2X - Dragon's Crown - Muramasa Rebirth - Patapon 2 - Pixeljunk Monsters - Shiren The Wanderer Here are some games I play on my ps4: - Persona 5 - Doom - Mad Max - Dead Cells - Driveclub - Wipeout Omega - Metal Gear 5 - Dark Souls Remastered - Red Dead 2 - Monster Hunter World - Hollow Knight - Warframe - Crash Team Racing (Soon)

[@小阳光-q1o]

I think most people who want to push an IMDB equivalent to game rating is most commonly not a gamer, the ones that think no game should recieve 10/10 or that average is 5/10. It has never been like that in general in the games markets. A 5/10 is garbage for most people, 6/10 is playable but often quite lackluster. A 7/10 is average. 8/10 is good. 8.5/10 is quite good. 9/10 is very good. 9,5/10 is fantastic and 10/10 is perfect. Some scores do not translate well to other times, a 10/10 game from 2007 would not be 10/10 now which is why it must be seen from the eyes of when it was made. Some games are timeless, such as SMB3.

[@xBurzurkurx]

The more 'popular' video games have gotten, the broader the audience the devs need to cater to, which in turn makes the actual 'gamers' suffer. We begin to get shit for $80 CDN MSRP, don't even mention the gimmicky maximumsupremebigdick collectors editions. The industry was infiltrated by a bunch of business moguls who care more about their front lawn than video games. Cheers to you and your channel Mack, been a viewer for a very very long time.

[@Oween]

Your video was good. Just your first comment comparing RDR2 to games what aren't like it was uneeded. At the end of the day, most reviewers only do it for the money and don't care about how people think of it.

[@stormsoul3162]

You are spot on mate just one thing i would ad that you kind of said in the vid but less direct: The earlier a review comes out the more clicks it gets --> the overly positiv reviews will get the review copies earlier. It is like legal bribing and it only works because everybody (im guilty of this too) is to impatient to wait 3 days for the proper reviews. Stupid thing is i wait for certain reviewers but watch the 3min jumpcut fests too giving them clicks

[@user-kf9cd2di2x]

IGN gave Alien Isolation a 5.9/10 because they kept dying... you're absolutely right

[@killagamez4619]

Supportive* William i love Alien Isolation.

[@Tubeite]

Just further proof that game journalists don't play games. They complain that games are too hard for them after 15 minutes and they think microtransactions and loot boxes are a fair deal.

[@TheActionHank]

@@Tubeite lootboxes and microtransactions are fair. You are obligated to buy nothing. You paid 60 dollars for the game they sold. You're not entitled to anything they add afterwards.

[@Tubeite]

@@TheActionHank True, in principle I'm not obligated to buy any of the add ons. Only problem is a lot of developers are making games super grindy by design, so that you are encouraged almost to the point of being forced to buy micro transactions to make any real progress. I play games to have fun, not to have a second job.

[@TheActionHank]

@@Tubeite the only game anywhere close to that is MK11. And they don't impede your progress, it's all for skins. And you can't even buy anything in that game. It's just stupid hard. Lmao It's a product man. Just as movies are only available in theaters for like 7 months. Forcing you to wait or pay now. People who want it will pay.

[@Repented008]

Don't apologize, this video needed to be made. Brand loyalty is why product quality be declining, yo.

[@winstonsmith9494]

So True... Fanboying and Hype does also a good job in making Games into a unbearable, Cash-grab Alpha state Bug feast, that rather introduce more Microtransactions than fixing or Balancing the Game, to make it enjoyable. It is more like: Make it only play Smooth, if ur constantly doing Microtransactions, at best.... i played Fallout 76... in November 2018.... i am done with that shit for couple of years. There are sooooo many good old Games i haven´t played yet ;) So... screw this...

[@idakev]

Oddly enough though, reviewers did end up shitting all over Days Gone (as they should have) and Mack thought they'd give it a 9.

[@arminius504]

@@idakev shit all over? That’s quite an exaggeration

[@D25Bev]

Anthem got mostly 5 & 6. Says it all really. Games that bad shouldn't even be getting 2 or 3's

[@Jinny-Wa]

They are trying to keep good relations with the publishers so yeah... not happening

[@rick_zim]

I think Jeff Gerstmann was fired from gamespot for giving a game a bad review..

[@machoalright]

If people had a spine or something of this kind, we wouldnt be in this poor state in the first place. Wait, it will get worse, because people dont give a shit. Game as an service... or now they want to take control of all of it. And have this scadia shit going on. They dont want us to own anything, just being drones and .. I can not even call it playing anymore... but pushing some buttons and insert some more coins. Watch also this dude kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoakiWOdo79mhNk . Also a reasons why they push us towards this always online BS!

[@supermalevitality1187]

@Adam Young that's not how maths works dude

[@Roguecjb]

@@supermalevitality1187 What he said made sense, what are you talking about?

[@Blaze33405]

There's nothing wrong with liking a bad game. Just don't speak like it's objectively a good one.

[@CamoflaugeDinosaue]

Well said. I’ve liked games that I understand are generally bad. I don’t try to call them great games just because it validates my opinion.

[@Blaze33405]

Kevin same. I like Star Fox Zero but understand the controls hold it back a ton and the negativity because of it is justified.

[@CyberLance26]

But what if you dont agree and actually think its a good game? When it comes to entertainment its only about opinion and there is nothing objective about it at all. I have liked many games most people hate on and thats because i seriously really enjoyed them and if you enjoy something its usually good for you and not the opposite. I have noticed that people use the term "damage control" extremely often nowadays when somebody goes against the majority opinion. Like its not possible to simply dont agree with the majority anymore without it being damage control

[@CamoflaugeDinosaue]

CyberLance26 sure, but “I seriously really enjoyed them” is hardly judging the game by any objective principles of quality. I had a shit load of fun with battlefront 2015, yet I can still understand that when judging a game by most objective criteria of quality, it was a crappy game (I got it used for $7 btw). It’s an entirely different matter if you can actually lay out a case for why the game, judged by a set of (at least somewhat) objective and encompassing criteria, was actually a well made product.

[@florkyman5422]

Do you guys think dragons dogma is a bad game?

[@pedroheemstra9314]

i'm always low on budget, so i don't take any risks, and i couldn't do it without this channel.

[@supersonicknockout5143]

ocean of games?

[@RmFrZQ]

ocean of games without soul and with gameplay tailored for 10 year olds.

[@supersonicknockout5143]

@@RmFrZQ what? oceanofgames is where you download pc games for free

[@ArchieGamez]

@@supersonicknockout5143 Real men uses Codex

[@RmFrZQ]

@@supersonicknockout5143 Why are you suggesting a game piracy\hack site? Anyway, trash games won't be better if you pirate it or buy it. Pirated trash games are not even worth the time to download them, so I simply skip them. And I also prefer to keep my OS clean from malware\crypto-miners\adware ansomware ootkits\etc.

[@Weedwof]

Can't believe that rdr2 is given as an example of refreshing gameplay. Come on, really? Rockstar has been following the same gameplay formula since gta4, just with different settings.

[@CNTMrCallahan]

yes...the world, including characters, story, animals etc is great. but missiondesign and gameplay is really nothing special. and it is Incredible easy.

[@YoungAsznee]

Don't fix it if it ain't broke

[@tenapex7791]

And he says that it was light years ahead of God of War. The game that is actually written like a book, not some shitty neflix superhero TV series, with fleshed out characters, full of emotions and makes sense from start to finish. Having beautiful sceneries, refreshing gameplay (hard gameplay for hardcore crowd) and great story. Yeah its better to go for RDR where if you drop down the roof you got "mission failed" prompt and you wonder why Roman isn't calling you anymore for bowling just to realize its not GTA4 with horses anymore.

[@Lee-wr2ts]

@@tenapex7791 eh . He makes 0 actuall points and just shares his opinion in a way ... the 1st 4 minutes are some stupid example of boss design and random ranting how hes a righteouss reviewer ... Nobody is going to give a review copy to somebody who seems to expect huge desing inovations in every game he plays...

[@TomTomChannelable]

@@Lee-wr2ts thank god i thought i was the only one who got that impression from him

[@yaohmaji1417]

2:43 "Stompy, stompy, stompy im the boooooooss" i lost it at that Point 🤣🤣

[@tensevo]

Mate, the fucking granade arc, release here. LOLZ

[@karthago2009]

Ser Davos serving people onions and great games.

[@Narniak69]

Starfield is the game that should have been the absolute breaking point for the video game industry. Instead, right when Starfield released, Metacritic literally changed the entire format of their website to hide negative user review scores and completely remove the "thumbs up" option for user reviews. What an amazing coincidence!

[@epicforger12345]

Complains about bad games while playing starwars battlefront 2

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Exactly lol, my goodness that went right over your head lol

[@generic_4938]

It isn't a bad game now tbh also it's really cheap.

[@ve6009]

It's not a bad game.

[@keijijohnson9754]

Well it’s not really a bad game NOW. But when it first came out with the predatory microtransactions? It’s bad in that sense.

[@Krumpulous]

It may not be a bad game now, but it was shit when it released...and that's the point. The game industry is so f*cked by the developers that shove sh*t out only to complete it a year or two later. Why not save everyone the pain, complete the game, and then release it? If there's pressure from the corporate overlords to rush a product out, leave that organization.

[@karyoplasma]

That rabbit at the end had me in tears. Haven't laughed that much this year, thanks.

[@insensitive919]

He's dumb but he's adorable! 🥰

[@bkboggy]

You brought up an excellent point regarding the rating scale. I had to think for a moment... as a consumer, if I see 5/10, which like you said should be an average game, I immediately think of it as a horrible game. Based on years and years of improper reviews, average is now 7 or 8 out of 10.

[@sofadhana1289]

I think he made a mistake there - he talked about relative ranks - average is 5/10, then talked about 'good' being a 6 or 7, which isn't necessarily true. 'good' is not relative to other games. he really meant "better than average" being a 6 or 7. Imagine a world where 75% of all games are worth playing. I'd want them all ranked at 6 or more, using the scale of "

[@SwungCookie]

Not that I would think it is horrible. But why waste your time with an average game when you can play a better one?

[@ObliviousCrow]

@@SwungCookie Because if the game is interesting, or something you know you'll enjoy, it's worth checking out. It depends on the game, and the buyer.

[@Martin1jg]

@@sofadhana1289 Agreed but it still works if the quality of games really is close to be normal distributed and with the amount of crap games recently it might be

[@terrywrist617]

the scale in practice is 7-10 with anything below "plague, avoid"

[@JudgeLazar]

"15 minutes of why Mack is the only reviewer I trust" fixed your title. Thanks for all you do Mack, keep it up.

[@vedi0boy]

Dunkey is good too

[@EraVulgaris-]

@@vedi0boy The majority of his videos are just showing the bad parts of games and him laughing at them. It is not a good representation of the game as a whole.

[@swempley]

15 minutes and all I took away was. "I didn't play the game but here's 15 minutes of why I think it sucks. #1. I watched a video on KZbin."

[@MrQuadro83]

swempley Exactly. If you want to form an opinion about something, you have to experience it yourself first.

[@SilentWrath123]

@@MrQuadro83 Not every pile of dog shit is worth experiencing though. Quite often you can see that something is irredeemable "bull wank" before you experience it.

[@Nopp3]

Games journalism is trash over all. you make a good point though, the faster an article/ review comes out, the more clicks it generates. if they are too critical towards a publisher, they might not get future pre-release review copies, hurting they bottom line. Pre release review copies inherently creates a conflict of interest. they only way i can think of to fight it is for the consumers to have some patience. dont pre-order and wait for proper reviews. then they incentivize you to pre order with god damn preorder bonuses and season passes.

[@WhoWouldWantThisName]

Another thing we can do is stop supporting other channels that do these crap reviews. When what they are doing is working for them there is no incentive to change their MO. I don't know what the hell the rush is to get something so fast anyway. I always want to see what others have to say about it first, and that info only matters when it's sincere.

[@qweteryFTW]

Modern games: 3rd person shooters with stealth and quasi-survival elements.

[@a.g.m8790]

Qwetery you forgot the “light rpg elements” (aka perk points and/or tiered weapons)

[@onebeatmusic3301]

Rabbit playing Batman is my favourite Rabbit moment of all time 😂😂

[@baki_sigma]

Resume very well the actual state of the gaming industry haha

[@budthecyborg4575]

I think this is why I've never really cared that I never played any of the Arkham games.

[@nastyfoxboy5114]

Kenshi. Smuggling drugs and peeling people's skin off. 10/10 lmao

[@dexwrex7594]

Slaves, drugs, racism, cults, spiders, canibals, ninjas, perfection.

[@dmitry6479]

@@dexwrex7594 Anything a human beign can ask for, Unironicaly the best game i would die playing it

[@maycontainnuts3127]

My God I'm surprised to see someone mention Kenshi, but damn I'm happy to see it.

[@dmitry6479]

@@maycontainnuts3127 Same

[@patch-fm]

Hey hey people sseth here...

[@vojnov9885]

Old Jedi Knight games have the best combat mechanics for lightsabers. Looking at Battlefront 2 EA is a joke. No skill, no enjoyement. Good example how games are watered shit nowadays. Not all but many.

[@julioacceus253]

Fallen Order looks so bland compared to 1313.

[@exaltedreverse4463]

Republic commando is my favourite still

[@Tudorgeable]

Imagine a Jedi Outcast redone with Chivalry medieval warfare like mechanics.

[@mechwarrior13]

I used to play WoW until they dumbed down the mechanics to kindergarten levels. Roller tycoon 3 looked good but no where near the level of intracicies in 1 and 2. Cities Skylines is pure shit compared to simcity 4, and simcity 5 was not even a game. StarCraft 2 died and all the korean pros went back to broodwar. Haha sorry I rant but games were made by and for different people even 10 years ago

[@AcerTheRed]

Oh my GOD. I love Jedi Knight 2. The combat in that game was absolutely crispy af

[@dcabral00]

The lesson has always been for me, don't pre-order it, and don't buy it on released. My best experiences have been when I buy a game after everyone has played it, and all the DLC, and patches had been released, and because it was a good game, meaning everyone else has bought it, I will get it at a bargain price. By then, the game may be old, but is new to me.

[@ICBF3TOANZGaming]

I know right! My friends do this a lot and I keep tellin' them they don't need to defend the developers - they're a paying customer!!! *rings bell furiously* 😂🤣

[@elitereptilian200]

@Funnyusername•JPG how does an emoji devalues a comment?

[@edwinleechuanhao]

@Funnyusername•JPG yes because complaining about emojis aren't cringy.

[@kraenk12]

Clearly the vast majority (even reviewers) disagrees with you.

[@thatonegingergamer6673]

Honestly, all my friends were still playing call of duty after black ops and I was the only one who saw the copy paste tactics of the series but all the fan boys have to defend them no matter what.

[@isidorodaviddoro1920]

@@thatonegingergamer6673 This

[@yeetusyourmeetus]

i'm pretty split on this video i'll agree that games journalism nowadays is fucked and the out-of-ten score system is almost worthless because of the standard "average" game score being about 7, but I disagree with some of your comments regarding specific games. Primarily RDR2, which was very much NOT ahead of it's time. Perhaps in presentation alone, yes, but it's design philosophy is deeply tied to Rockstar's current trend of reducing freedom in missions, where if you so much as stray from the indicated path you fail. This is ironic considering your earlier criticism of shooters that box you into a designated area by flashing a "return to the combat zone" message. RDR2 doesn't even give you that, it gives you a line that you either follow or fail. HL1, HL2 and Prey (in your opinion) DO stand out as exemplary games, yes, but they're all exemplary for primarily one reason: their dedication to immersion. This indicates to me that you value immersion beyond anything else in a game, which is fair and understandable. However, what I felt was being implied was that anything that fell short of HL's level of immersion was a bad game, or a wasted opportunity. To some players immersion isn't important, and to pretend that immersion is the main factor in deciding a good or bad game is a little presumptuous.

[@crossdaboss8914]

yeetus meetus this is the most underated comment of all time I agree on so many levels

[@OneThiccSamurai-vn5se]

Yeah this is beyond true.

[@DantesInferno96]

That depends on whether the game in question that you're playing values immersion or not. If it does, the gameplay should reflect it. The last of us, for example, values immersion and it's reflected in the gameplay for the most part apart from stupid AI movements here and there. Skyrim takes immersion quite seriously and it's gameplay and RPG format reflects it very well. It's not just dependent on the gamer. A lot of it also falls on the quality of the game itself. Another example would be - Detroit become human and rdr2 comparison. Detroit doesn't value immersion. It just wants you to experience its story. Thus, it's gameplay is narrative for the most part. Whereas rdr2 is relatively more immersive.

[@geniusn8343]

Fuck off because you said wrong about my favorite game

[@gmann8659]

This comment....10/10. Reviewing a game is purely subjective therefore you saying Prey is an amazing game when i found it pretty boring doesnt make either one of us correct. I think giving a game a score is pointless to be honest.

[@michaelweidner22]

All in all judging a game as good or bad is a very subjectiv thing. I very dislike if people claim their opinion that it is the universal truth.

[@fireblade2681]

Opinions are subjective but you cant trust most mainstream reviewers to give you their genuine opinion because they are shills

[@fartloudYT]

except you can actually judge a game on quite a number of things fairly objectively. there is nothing subjective to things like technical issues, bugs, lack of content, balance that wasnt tested, poor design etc.

[@0Bennyman]

@Crepitus "Lack of Content" That's a hard thing to define, at what point do you say a game has enough content? When it has over 100 hours? 50? 20? 200? 500? Does it change based on the type of game? Is there a written rule that states this as fact? "Balance" That too hard to define, some would say Overwatch or Rainbow Six Siege is balanced yet others would disagree, who is correct? "Poor Design" Again hard to define, some would say Bosses in Dark Souls are poorly designed while others would Disagree. Or the Level is too Open or too closed, who is correct? Technical issues like falling through the floor is obvious and clear that it shouldn't happen, dropping below 30fps is an obvious issue. But everything relating to gameplay is very Subjective, I personally dislike Dynasty Warriors because the gameplay design of cutting down hundreds of enemies constantly just isn't fun (In my opinion), does that make it fact? Majority of whether a game is good or bad is down to the users preference, not to facts.

[@tsukopara2054]

0Bennyman Lack of content can be quantified somewhat, like a multiplayer FPS launching without a server browser, less than 10 maps, no single player or a short, shit one, lack of social features etc.

[@0Bennyman]

@Tsuko Para What if it's 6 good maps that offer a tonne of variety in how you play? What if it's half the price of a normal release? What if it's free? What if they are offering a new map every month? What if there's constant content being developed? You also said "Multiplayer" FPS releasing with No single player? lol, I think if it has a Singleplayer then it's just an FPS. Also once again your opinion on the Story is as it is an "Opinion", I personally hate COD Ghosts story and would say it's the worst of the series yet some people love it. I also would not see a Server browser as a nessesary piece of content, never needed one for CoD though I did like the addition in Battlefield 3 and 4 and 1 simply because they allowed custom options to how the game played, was it nessesary though? Not in my eyes at all. My main point is that none of this is easily defined and is all down to how the user views it. Whereas the game dropping to 10fps constantly that is not an opinion, that is fact as long as you of course have proof. Technincal Issues are the only thing you can define solidly. (We could also nitpick and say a £40 releasing with 2 hours of gameplay is not enough, *cough* Sonic Forces *cough* and while majority would say that's ridiculous there is still a fair few who would disagree therefore it's not fact)

[@WellyWonkaDonka]

this still holds true today. How far the gaming industry has fallen. But it's sure as hell making bank because 90% of gamers now are braindead and have no idea what a good game is.

[@vagous3029]

truly. The very fallacies we thought obvious are some how being used by people to justify buying games, such as popularity, and nonsense arguments like "iconic","great story","great gameplay" when all aspects of it are always masked by cheap strategies to make them look good, elden ring is a huge example, I never thought they would stoop so low. Elden ring will never compare to dark souls in a 1000 years. The most used strategy is "Exaggeration of elements".

[@tannerhill9648]

This is why I loved Prey from 2017. It let me figure shit out and didn't hold my hand. Dishonored 2 as well. Brilliant games. Kudos to you Mack for speaking the truth.

[@rentalsnake6542]

D2 and D1 are those kinda games you can just play over and over and over. They give you some gadgets and powers, throw you in a big map and say "assassinate this bastard any way you can". It's mandatory to play with the hud off though, the game rewards you for using your brain.

[@m.a.924]

I never finished it because I got stuck in the second out of space objective I just couldnt figure out. But its one of the few First Person games ive enjoyed playing. I have problems with one of my eyes and playing first person makes me dizzy and I get motion sickness so it was already an uphill battle. Being in space just fucked me up and I coudlnt continue.

[@Sophistry0001]

Prey (2017) was one of those gems we only see once every decade or two. It'll be a long time before another game as good as that comes out. Especially if gaming keeps its' current trajectory of coddling players.

[@skippychurch2965]

Prey was amazing. It didn't get good reception nor was it advertised well. And yet here we are. Awesome game

[@aguajaneta]

Prey was okay but nothing special really. It got extremely repetitive about 6 hours into the game and the ending options were retarded. It was quite atmospheric though, It really made you feel isolated. Underrated overall.

[@thrpins8430]

15:08 I think of this every time I watch your channel, love when rabbit makes an appearance

[@FromPlsNerf]

I liked God of War way more than RDR2. I stopped playing it halfway through because I was so bored. I primarily play games like Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity OS 2, etc. Maybe I'll give it another shot if they ever release the PC version. Also Metro Exodus was amazing and I loved every second of it. To each their own

[@stuartyaxley6689]

Bloodborne is an awesome game

[@hybridresistance]

The opposite for me with God of War. I got bored fast as hell with the new God of War.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Agreed, I sold RDR2 to gamestop for like $30 after maybe ten hours. It was a HUUUUUUGE disappointment, and I felt it was guilty of everything he complained about here. It felt sooooo cut and dry and basic just "push buttons to see more of the game". Everything you do is so basic, and boring, and tedious. The story and graphics are both lovely, but the gameplay is a drag in every aspect. It's not fun and light to get through it easy, but it's not challenging or exciting or engaging. It's just tedious fussing to be allowed to see more of the story.

[@isidorodaviddoro1920]

@@ThrottleKitty exactly bro lmao the gameplay is so boring and the game is too long

[@Scottyy788]

@@hybridresistance I never even touched it cause its so expensive.

[@fecomate2542]

RDR2 is not light years away from anything. People only like it because it looks beautiful and its a rockstar game. The gameplay of RDR2 is not new and gets boring Quick. Im not saying its bad im saying its not as good as you say.

[@M0JBK]

And then comparing it to God of War saying that that game is bad. I think he make some valid points, but the examples he uses kind of devalues his opinion in what dee fines a bad game

[@AM-cm2kj]

I don't like it for either of those reasons. The story was good, and I overall just had a good time.

[@LPKarpik]

Simon Farre I disagree, RDR2 for me was an extremely immersive and engaging story in Wild West which I love. Never played GoW or Horizon but I can tell you that you shouldn’t talk too much about preferences. I for instance fell instantly in love with slow paced realism driven gameplay of rdr. Character development was on insane level too, you just had to understand the characters you connected with. So yeah I don’t think you speak for “everyone above 20”

[@schlickrick4526]

Red dead 2 easily has one of the most boring and horribly paced beginnings to any story based game I've played in a long time

[@LPKarpik]

Simon Farre If you say the characters lack any depth it clearly means you have not payed much attention to what’s going on. Nothing happened without a reason in the game. And just because I liked the different pace of rdr and it’s storyline doesn’t mean I haven’t read many books, that’s just argumentation out of the blue

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

I like all of the factory style games coming out. Those kinds of building games seem to be trending upward big time now. People figure out that while you can have some fighting in a game, people are sick of the same old tired formula, especially when there's nobody to expand on it anymore since AAA games refuse to innovate.

[@squidracerX]

I didn't watch the whole video because its a rant. But I do agree I dont see a lot of 1-3 scores on games. I think thats because a lot of "1" games are like Steam shovelware and the big websites dont cover those. If you go on Gamespot right now, there are a ton of 5's and 6's (average) and a few 8's, and like one 9. So it might be on the higher side, but they are covering more "cooked" and finished games usually. (By the way on a scale of 1-10 "6" is average, because it puts you on the passing side, average is never below 50%). And if you are sick of the same game over and over - no way Sony lets this developer make a game like this again. Its not doing well already... So I dont 100% understand this mentality - I think you are getting burned out. If your brain wont let you play games, maybe go do something else? Sure Days Gone came out (which triggered him), and yes its one of Sony's big budget games, but its been pretty panned since it was shown years ago and most people agree its average or below average; (its not getting 9/10 anywhere) - Gamespot gave it a 5/10 in fact!!! It doesn't look totally bad, and most people compare it to Mad Max which also didn't get rave reviews when it came out and got a 6/10 on Gamestop and was a very average game, (and I had fun with it) -- so 5/10 is probably a perfect score for Days Gone!! So why you mad bro!? But at the same time Sony also just put out Dreams in playable Beta ready to release soon - he could have signed up to play and review that instead. Or Heavens Vault looks like no game Ive seen before. There are plenty of games which arent always the same, just some trend towards more coverage, and he was aiming at that for his channel. If you're mad that a grenade shows you the arc of its throw in a 3rd person game (how else are you going to do it!?), then maybe get into a different career? You might be burnt out? Having higher hopes is one thing, but i cant get through your rant. Games are better than they've ever been man.

[@Kirbylover489]

Did you try forager?

[@piraat070]

For me Days Gone is a platinum game i will play the game untill i get platinum, its Sons of Anarchy meets zombies. And i love that. For me Its 7,5/10

[@stephenhartley2853]

factorio is the best game of the last ten years by miles

[@Jizzyjangle1]

​@@squidracerX Not so much a rant- more like exposure.. let me explain If you class steam shovelware as games, your perspective is compromised, as you give credence to cancer. Those are not 1's or 2's out of 10, they are NIL. Perspectives + standards are subject to change over time, so if gamers accept that calibre of shit as even an increment on any version of a rating scale, in say 20yrs time it may be considered average or so-so. You-see? Thats why mack is needed.. because he reiterates a perspective/standard almost lost to time. Just like a computers 'system restore' feature.. Im sure the analogy is simple, even for a pony. Jokes aside it may be a shock to some, but our current 'standards' of gaming are the product of RAPE. Thats why we mad bro. Grenade arcs? Xray vis? Console ports? The purists may as well wallow in shit

[@SecureGM]

We miss the rabbit. Let him have some fun like in the old, good times, when he played Batman and rang the bell.

[@soundwave9414]

The only reason Battlefront is popular is because its the only multiplayer star wars game on console.

[@profanegunman7586]

Also because the original 2 back in the day were great.

[@soundwave9414]

@Cheetah Man they arent multiplayer capable still or "next gen"

[@soundwave9414]

@@profanegunman7586 im separating the new and the old out of respect for my childhood

[@Material_Monkey]

@@profanegunman7586 People that liked the og dont like EAs version.

[@profanegunman7586]

@@Material_Monkey I know, but a lot of people still bought the new ones in the hopes that they'd be good on the name alone, mostly normies that don't game much anymore and don't pay attention to gaming news.

[@zedekai9456]

I agree, except for the 10/10s needing to be perfect. If 5/10, means 'middle of the road' average, that means 10s and 1s have to exist. They exist as especially great, top of the heap, or especially terrible, bottom of the heap. Either 10 doesn't mean perfect, or 5 doesn't mean average. 10 just means, or should mean, better or equal to everything else that exists.

[@RedX165]

Curious to know Mack why you think RDR 2 is such a great game? From a world building and story aspect I agree with you but ain't you one to criticize a game for lacking in its most important feature being gameplay? Their gameplay design is decades old while their controls still feel like I'm playing GTA IV which weren't that great control wise. Rockstar mission design has been getting linear and linear with each new open world title release. Gone are the days in GTA 3 you can do any mission you want your way. In RDR 2 and GTA V for example if you don't do it 100% the Rockstar way you fail the mission.

[@iladelproductions8820]

My thoughts exactly! while i love the world and certain mechanics like the camping system,and the need to eat etc im still left with a feeling of dated especially where missions are concerned.

[@probablyfear124]

RedX165 its gameplay is incredible, you just never learnt how to use it or simply change the controls.

[@RedX165]

@@probablyfear124 No its not. Flicking the angle stick up for a head shot is not fun or challenging. The gunplay is far too stiff. RDR 2 regressed towards GTA IV in terms of gun play.

[@probablyfear124]

RedX165 then turn off auto aim you imbecile. Also, did you not stop to think that perhaps a reason as to why it “regressed” is because of the fact you don’t have full auto machine guns in the 1800s? Did that thought not pop into your head? Of course it’s slower and more methodical... Your problem stems from the fact you’re treating RDR2 like a cowboy version of GTA. It’s not. It ridiculously more slow paced, and if you can’t come to terms with that then that’s your problem, not a fault of the game.

[@RedX165]

@@probablyfear124 You can't just turn off auto aim when the whole game is design around auto aim itself. With input lag and latency really hurting the game. RDR 1 was one of my favorite games of last gen. It was a cowboy game but it didn't take realism to the extreme like this game does. Its controls for free aim weren't cripple like it was in RDR 2 to add a sense of "Weight" or other BS excuses you apologists use. Take a open world game like MGS 5 and see how a real game is suppose to play control wise. Rockstar always had a problem with its controls. They can make great worlds and stories but when it comes to gameplay. It always was lacking. Max Payne 3 and GTA V seem to be the exception and the right path moving forward. RDR 2 went the GTA IV route which was just unresponsive controls. Don't believe me? Watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYi8hYKFqdWfj5o

[@inigoooo6071]

Red dead was written extraordinarily well and probably had the best story and presentation of any game in the last few year. However, it has extremely limited game design and essentially boiled down to a glorified shooting gallery at points And the online mode is a greedy cash grab mess of shit

[@law-cd1sx]

Peggle should satisfy your every need.

[@inigoooo6071]

Dan Law Absolute masterclass 👌

[@CyberLance26]

I have not played Red Dead redemption 2 yet but i have played most of Rockstars games and non of them had a good story in my opinion and it will probably be the same on that game. On the Rockstar games i have played its mostly about doing random jobs for different random people and nothing happens in the actual story for most of the games. Rockstar is great at everything else when it comes to making games but they are not very good at making storys.

[@IkarosTypeAlpha]

the online is such a mess of wasted potential. While I personally loved the singleplayer, they had the opportunity to create a pretty unique and enthralling western sandbox online and instead we got GTA: 1899. It's a god damn shame Rockstar has so much talent for SP but lack any of the sort for multiplayer.

[@CNTMrCallahan]

@@IkarosTypeAlpha i feel like they arent even trying. Where are houses,hot air balloons etc? Online still feels like beta,sp offered much more. Its not red dead,its a bad gta.

[@III_phr]

You and your channel are changing my life and how I'm looking at games. Keep up the amazing work, you are a miracle.

[@karlturner5678]

Thank you for being so honest Davos Seaworth, where would we be without your onions?

[@DjangoFatt]

What people need to do is stop acting like any feedback with a hint of negativity is automatically void, if you're not discrediting people for praising something don't turn around and do it to them for criticizing, It goes hand in hand, you may not agree with their points but that doesn't make their words any less valid than yours, as paying customers we *All* have the right to voice our opinions/experiences with said products. Let's also stop this trend of sheep blindly defending corporate entities as if they need you brown nosing all their anti consumer business practices.

[@Airyed]

Good points people have this obsession with having things they like being special for example, I like watching finding bigfoot but I know it's trash but I enjoy it but for some reason people will not be honest about things they like

[@edwinleechuanhao]

Exactly! I hate it when defending your rights as a consumer gets yourself labelled entitled. Like what??

[@Paul_Hardy]

I loved Red Dead 1 but Red Dead 2 (which I bought an XBoneX specifically for) I found boring. I was shocked by that at first because I was such a big fan of the original, but then I realised that RD1 was a perfect recreation of the Spaghetti Westerns of which I am a huge fan. RD2 is like being a cowboy in Central Europe. Too much greenery, not enough dusty trail. Great gameplay in terms of the detail and sheer effort in world building and the hunting and fishing are great, but I feel that the environment is unconvincing and the story is tiresome. So tiresome that I'm struggling to get through it. I do appreciate the game on a technical level though. It's stunning. On the plus side, RD1 is not only backward compatible with XBoneX but is also enhanced with higher resolution textures, so I'm enjoying replaying that too. Also, UFC2 is pretty good, so it's not all bad. Love your channel mate. I know it's hard going in the current climate but don't give up. Gamers need your voice and others like you to cut through the mainstream bullshit. Can't wait for your MK11 review ;)

[@Handonforehead]

You can explore the original red dead 1 map near the end of the game so you might wanna keep playing for that. Also the story really picks up in the last 15 or so hours

[@tt_the_blackout7133]

There's no denying that RDR 2 is one of (if not) the most technically impressive games ever made. Unfortunately I just couldn't stand the incredibly basic gameplay. It's almost emberassing that a game with that budget and that amount of man hours put into it, has such bad gunplay that the developer literally defaults your preferences to autoaim (not aim assist like other games mind you, it's full on autoaim). Besides this, I also had a lot of problems with the missions. I didn't finish the game, but like 30 hours in, every mission defaulted to: go to place, walk while people talk, and then shoot everyone when in every single mission, shit hits the fan at some point. Rinse and repeat. The game felt so casual to me that I just didn't get any satisfaction from playing it. Compare this to God of War, which had such good gameplay that I couldn't stop playing it, despite the problems I had with the story and worldbuilding in that game. I'm happy to be alone in my opinion about RDR2 though, because the devs definitely deserve praise after working that long on it.

[@RedX165]

I don't think you are alone. The reason why God of War won so many more GOTY awards over RDR2 was do to RDR2 horrible gunplay and mission structure being even more linear than God of War despite being an open world game.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Ssaaame. tired of seeing people holding it up as as shining example. Just watch a cut together video of the story, it's so pretty, such nice characters, but there is no gameplay. It's just tedious fussing to get more story. If it was fun and engaging like dark souls / bloodborne? Awesome! If it was simple and light to get to the story at a more enjoyable pace? Not my thing, but I'd still at least play that! But "Do unfun tedious fussing for about 45 minutes EXACTLY HOW I SAY OR START THE F**K OVER" between every story beat gets so exhausting.

[@rightthen.3243]

Agree, it looks amazing but the complete lack of in-mission freedom kills the enjoyment.

[@TheUKNutter]

These types of games exist because kids overrun the industry. They will start crying if the game isn’t spoonfed throughout the entire thing. Which means no sale.

[@miceandgods4171]

While I agree with your stance on game reviews 100%, I'm completely lost as to how Days Gone sent you on this journey? The reviews have been all over the place. In fact it's suffering from the exact opposite of your examples. Instead of automatic great scores by reviewers that suck at games, they are rating it poorly when it is evident they didn't play more than an hour (gamespot score/5- did a tips video in which all they did is read the skill descriptions and the one bit of advice was for the very first camp, and horrible advice). IGN score 6.5 but do I need to describe that hot mess? "Another gruff white male protagonist." Even her reasoning for the score was mindboggling. A biker getting a slowmo ability is ludicrous in her eyes, but a cowboy, detective or hunter is somehow fine. I agree 99% of games reviews are horrible for the same reasons you listed (non-gamers, bought by the developers, ect). I'm just perplexed how days gone sent you there? And honestly, Days deserves a score relative or better than a farcry game because of the divisive fun factor. Some will love it, some will find it boring. Overall though it's a beautiful game, mechanics are great, skills and upgrades feel rewarding, suffers from some technical bugs like audio delay and some rare framedrops at odd moments but you rarely encounter them (audio bugs the most prevalent). Just like farcry, a well built game with a few bugs and a polarizing enjoyment factor of you love it or hate it.

[@loth4015]

Lol, the reviewer of gamespot also complained on twitter that the zombies were white and complained about sexism etc. And as you mentioned "WHITE MALE". No way that I could take that seriously

[@SolaireGamingPT]

There should be more rabbit appearances, Mack!

[@2e45t7u]

Larian Studios Divinity Original Sin 1&2 Probably the only "full" games I've played recently.

[@camwardart]

so true

[@arnox4554]

CrossCode. Holy fuck, CrossCode. So full of content and story, you may not be able to get through it all.

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

Pillars of Eternity seems to be good, too. I'm not far in yet but man, I missed such games SO MUCH!

[@carstenhansen5757]

I like the game, but I'm the sort of guy, that starts a new game 1/4 in the game. it SUCKS to play the first island again and again and again and...

[@darthkek1953]

@Paraponera T *Another reason for this is that you'll hit level cap way too quickly.* The best reason to get RPGs on a PC is mods, POE is no exception they have mods to make it more like Baldur's Gate, spell & gun improvements, rebalancing, and yes of course - LEVEL CAP REMOVAL.

[@AFGuidesHD]

what game is this ? 6:41

[@shivam13juna]

world war z

[@simonseminsky4251]

You mean like you and your review of Far Cry New Dawn? 😁 lol I didn't expect such a debate 😅 Just to clarify I meant it as a joke, New Dawn is actually not that bad.

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Best FPS of the year so far, the campaign is crap but everything else is so much damn fun, not my fault if you listen to all the people that don't know a good fun game when they see it.

[@bricktop.]

@@WorthABuyreviews Annndddd......*MIC DROP*

[@partyp3opl393]

@@ryanrichardson76 Not all games are born equal.

[@stephensearles673]

@@WorthABuyreviews days gone is a very fun game, very much like mad max which you liked?? So I don't get the hate at all, there's a lot of customisation for the bike and that's what you liked about max upgrading the car

[@andrewlife2769]

Far cry is very boring

[@RobWright1981]

People don't get the 5 is Average dynamic. I'm convinced it's a brain type issue.

[@NiallMc99]

Ye haha. When you see games reviewed on big channels the lowest score they give is 5.

[@oso1165]

it's because bought and paid for reviewers have shifted the mindset. now a 7-8 average. 5 is dogshit. mainstream reviewers have messed it up by ranking every game that comes up above a 6.

[@lwaves]

+Robert Wright Completely agree, although I always ignore number scores as they are meaningless. The words, the words that we listen to and read are more important. As Oso 11 says, certain sites have shifted the mindset and as new gamers have come along they've taken the 'new' (wrong) way on board. Mack is wrong about one thing though. 10 does not mean perfect when applied to a review. It simply means the highest score bracket, as in excellent. If translated to percentages, that puts it in the 91-100% range. 10 only means perfect when the results are objective (i.e. 10 questions are asked with objectively correct answers). As reviews are subjective, the idea of perfect cannot apply.

[@lwaves]

@Daniel My bowels are functional and look what comes out of there. Do they get a 5 out of 10? ;-)

[@rattek2749]

It's because 5/10 is an F. 7/10 is a C. C is average.

[@The_Immortal_Wombat]

I don't agree with your idea that no game should ever be a 10/10, it kind of makes the scale useless if you don't utilize the entire scale. A 10/10 game doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, but it should be a masterpiece of gaming. I do agree that perfect scores are given out too frequently. I personally really like reviewers that rate games out of 7. 1/7 is terrible, 2 is really bad, 3 is below average, 4 is average, 5 is a good game, 6 is a great game, and 7 is a masterpiece. I think that's enough to really get across how good the game is but not so drawn out like giving something an 8.6 or whatever

[@CiraxMusic]

10/10 should only be given to games that have invented brand new stuff that blows your mind. Stuff like Halo 3 with forge, theatre, armour customisation etc.

[@The_Immortal_Wombat]

@Azzury Street That's totally fine. Enjoyment of games is totally subjective. People get way too caught up in the weeds about game score but I think a game's score should be very general (roughly say how good it is, what parts of it were good and what was bad), and that should inform you if you personally should get the game or not. When reviewers try to rate out of 100 or out of 10 but give it a decimal point they're getting up their own ass too much, just say if the game is good or not and let that be it. In fact, that's what Mack does, he doesn't try to act all pretentious and give games some super precise score, he just says what hits the mark and what doesn't and either gives it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

[@The_Immortal_Wombat]

@@CiraxMusic I totally agree, perfect scores should only be given to masterpieces of gaming that revolutionizes it's genre or even creates a new genre.

[@Maniac3020]

My big pet peeve lately is games that put a feature in, as if it were on a checklist. Dialogue wheels, minimaps, quest markers, regenerating health, a "morality" system, glowing points of interest; just to name a few. Just putting it in there "because every other game has it", not because it belongs in that specific game.

[@DerpySnake]

What will you choose???? Will you forgive him, or kill him????? Oh my such a hard choice and such a good mechanic!!!!!!!

[@oom-bakkies]

The current state of gaming takes the wind out of my sails.

[@FlyinHome2]

strydom666 RDR2? GOW? Spider-man? Witcher 3? Are those bad? What you're trying to say is the worst of the games made right now takes the wind out of your sails.

[@Dresdenstl]

Play more indie or AA games. I just got Risk of Rain 2 and got into the Yakuza games with Yakuza 0 on Steam and they're both amazing.

[@ShapeyFiend]

Loved both of those. Unfortunately as a KZbinr you may feel pressured to review the largest AAA games. They're probably the most boring and repetitive games you can find because they can't afford to innovate or iterate and have to map every single detail out before they start.

[@dirtyharry2029]

Risk of Rain 2 is boring imo in its current state, Never tried the Yakuza games personally.

[@Axisoflords]

Yakuza Kiwami 2 is hitting Steam on the 10th aswell, look out for that!

[@reyinsarcade]

I used the ps2 version , it was really good

[@Mayorofsexytown1303]

This is really true. It seem AA devs are the only ones making games like they used to be .

[@IKvASS]

That's why I jumped into VR, barely play a flat game anymore. Despite limitations, and no AAA support it is a breath of fresh air, and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

[@Jistarii]

This is so refreshing. I'm glad you covered this. Absolute shite lately. Reddit fanboys will downvote anything negative you say about a game. I'm glad you said. The gaming industry right now is in shambles with shit games. Absolute money grab shit, and people line up to get it shoveled down their throats.

[@DarkAgeDan]

I've always said that. WorthABuy never cuts so often. Just talking over unedited footage. The only review I trust. It's like when you see movie trailers and then what you saw on the trailer is can sum up the entire movie.

[@WitheringZealot]

DarkAgeDanny yeah like the DBS Broly movie

[@TheLizardKing752]

Time was (like 5 years ago) If there was a game I was really excited about, I would try to not watch any gameplay footage before I got the game myself because I didn't want it spoiled for me. I wanted to go in fresh. I think No Man's Sky was the last game I did that with. Now I analyze the crap out of any game I'm interested in. I probably would have ended up buying Anthem if I didn't take the time to listen to what people were saying about it first. It could be Half-Life 3 coming out I'd still wait and listen and make a careful decision about it.

[@skrillah6259]

I actually like days gone alot....

[@DesertTechMDR-]

I love this game. The majority of vIdEo GaMe JoUrNaLiST, pathetic shills who work for a pittance and have a false sense of superiority over us, won't. And I can say it's likely because of Mark Copeland's radio segments. And after TLOU, and GOW - people have HIGH expectations for Sony properties. There's shit in here I don't like, "RPG" elements, AI could better - especially for humans, some enemies are WAY too bullet spongy, gunplay's a little dated, bikes are customizable but guns aren't, I can't unequip primary + special weapons, and the worst offender of all: I haven't found a single gunshop. Yet. I found a fishing and outdoors shop, but not a gunstore that has good shit like my favorite gunstore here in Kentucky does, that sells Barretts and semi-auto M249's. I could really use an M95 or M82 CQB in this game. Regardless of that, absolutely excellent game, I'm drawn into the game's story.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Honestly, it looks better than RDR2 to me. They are basically the same game, but RDR2 has about 3 times the tedious bullshit he is complaining about in this video. I don't get at all why he has such an issue with that game, but apparently loved the hot tedious 15-year-old-gameplay-feeling mess that is RDR2. (Don't get me wrong, RDR is very pretty and has a nice story, I always get someone yelling that angrily at me when I point out it's many, many, many, horrible, horrible flaws)

[@AzaIndustries]

I pre-ordered Halo2 (physical special edition copy (super cheap painted metal case which rusted)). There was a massive queue waiting for the store to open. I don't think any game release has come close to how big that was for the time. Back then the industry was still fairly honest. Advertising, trailers, and gameplay footage was legit. The hype was REAL, not artificial, not socially engineered, not pumped out by massive marketing firms. It was pure love for the medium, which the devs shared and were allowed to express in their work. And gaming looked so promising back then, we all imagined how massive the scope, complexity and detail of games would be in the future. How much better the AI would be, how dynamic and atmospheric the worlds would be. I don't think any of us could imagine the industry would turn into such a souless, money grabbing, bare minimum shell of it's former self. No one pushing the limits of technology and programming (factorio is a good exception to this), no one making the scope of games larger than they had been before, simulations and dynamic systems creating truly unique emergent gameplay. Games come so feature bare now and people don't seem to care? Even in fairly a simple genre such as arena shooters. UT2004 for example came with - brilliant AI, - singleplayer modes and maps, tons and tons of maps. - plenty of difficulties to choose from, - mutators! - unrestricted modding - packaged dedicated server executable (seriously how did gamers let that slip away?) - no forced login or reliance on proprietary servers. 2004 was the peak of gaming in my opinion, revolutionary game one after the other, the least of which being UT2004. - WoW - HL2 - GTA: SA - Halo 2 - Burnout 3 Takedown - Far Cry - Hitman contracts - The Sims 2 The list goes on! (the next year producing my all time favorite Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, it's best feature IMO being how well and detailed the espionage story was written, especially compared to newer games "terrorist who don't like America and want to blow us up") To this day can we really say current games have improved on all of these? Or have they become homogenized, streamlined, and restricted? What game has felt like a journey from start to finish, where you felt so cemented in the world it created around you like HL2? (maybe once with Bioshock!) How can they be now with so many distractions baying for your attention? "social" features, DLC, micro-transactions, "cinimatics", zero-subtlety. Oops.. I wrote a lot more than I thought.

[@icedsmoke]

I’m not offended but you can’t be so closed minded. People have different opinions. I like God of War better than. RDR2. I loved the Witcher 3. I am not right but that doesn’t make you right either it’s just a matter of opinions you know? People have them. Bye Mack.

[@lalcantara18]

Rdr2 suck the most boring game ever and the online bs completely kill it for me

[@wakingfromslumber9555]

No Rdr2 is truly a masterpiece but the PlayStation 4 is too crap to play this game , I’m waiting for a PC port please !

[@wasim2230]

This is so true and sad. I was expecting you to review Outward, not the most amazing game, but a small development team with a nice vision, keep up the great videos.

[@pride893]

I have 90 hours in outward from the last week lol. Not the most polished game but well thought and can be so much fun playing.

[@lorddiethorn]

Fifty in school is a F which how many grade games also people won’t ever buy a game that less than a six

[@imperialpilot]

Please do a review of Mordhau great sir!

[@thechosenone729]

yes, yes and yes again... it's fucking epic game.

[@NinjaSushi2]

I've been playing Chivalry Medieval Warfare since 2013. I've been waiting for Mordhau since 2015. The game is so amazing and it just released! I can't imagine how much more awesome it'll be in 2 years from now after they've updated and patched and applied new content. It's going to be epic.

[@orooooooo]

He just did 👍

[@__-bw5gb]

As he said^^^ Also, he said he was doing the review in this video. Try watching the whole thing through before commenting.

[@ReplaceWoN]

Somehow it's managed to get worse 2 years later.

[@WarbirdFan66]

it is nice to actually hear someone speak the truth about a game at least once in awhile, so please be frank...love your reviews, excellent job mate, cheers

[@ScottJoC]

What defines truth exactly, just saying something controversial ? How do you know that the others aren't being truthful? Mack here thinks Dark Souls 3 is a bad game, I would take what he thinks is a bad game with a massive heap of salt.

[@MrWuffels]

@@ScottJoC thats perfectly fine, you don't have to think the same way of the games as Mack on their own. But it's sadly true, that the review market is bullshit... How the hell is it possible, that EVERY fucking game that comes out gets a 7/10 or higher, in case it's an AAA title. If the average of reviews is 8/10 for games, a 10/10 means nothing. The average should always be a 5/10.

[@nebojsazakic]

@@ScottJoC because they are fucking shitstains.

[@kraenk12]

StylerStillAlive That’s not how the school grading system works and so don’t reviews.

[@MrWuffels]

@@kraenk12 eeeer .... where do you come from?

[@TheGamingDroid9000]

anyone else want a full and complete let's play by rabbit

[@0Bennyman]

Days gone is a 6-7 in my books, I think it looks great (Weather effects are incredible, the fact it all builds up in real time is amazing to look at) and feels great for the most part. I enjoy just chilling on my bike roaming around the world and then randomly getting knocked on my ass by some people with an outstretched wire. Yeah it has it's issues but It's definitely not a "Bad" game, it does what it does to reasonable standard and I'm glad I pre-ordered it to keep my sane until TLOU 2 finally comes out.

[@ElephoontOfTheShapes]

The thing is, opinions exist, which is something Mack doesn't seem to understand most of the time. Don't get me wrong I think he's a great guy and good reviewer but he definitely has some issues when it comes to accepting that dissenting opinions exist and not everyone has to like or dislike games according to his limited definition of what a 'good' game is. I do agree that the quality of games has not been getting any better these past few years but that doesn't mean all the games Mack doesn't enjoy are 'bad'.

[@ahhhhyes]

@@ElephoontOfTheShapes he called days gone bad without playing it... reviewers shouldnt do that tbh

[@beardedsavage2028]

This just popped up in my feed in 2021 and it’s still relevant.

[@woozie3241]

And who is at fault for this?? US, GAMERS. We need to stop playing and buying bad games

[@Tanesis]

The problem there though lies in identifying bad games. Most big review sites will not score AAA games so harshly for fear of review embargos (I suspect). Also a 'bad game' is also subjective. I really liked Andromeda f.e. You probably like games that I think are dog trash so it's kind of not so easy

[@user-eu5ol7mx8y]

@@Tanesis Gamers should take a bit more responsibility and do more research. I usually stay away from major gaming sites and watch reviews from smaller KZbin channels. Steam user reviews can be quite useful sometimes as well.

[@woozie3241]

@@Tanesis Yes, I agree. Also, kids... They love nice graphics and animations instead of good game mechanics and story. Biggest consumers of AAA games are becoming more younger. Notice how all games have flashy graphics and animation, but bad game design... Its sad to see the shift in the gaming industry over the past decade...

[@woozie3241]

@Josiah Sepulveda yes minecraft is a brilliant game that is played by all age groups, i enjoy it also. But, look at the gaming industry in the 90s. Then look 00s. Then look 10s. Notice a gradual but certain shift in making the games less difficult, more accessible (but lead to no depth), more flashy and eye candy but less puzzle and mechanical. We have devs spending millions and millions of dollars on putting ray tracing in games, we have amaizing details in games. But have we inovated in game design, and game mechanics. Hell no! We went from rpg's to action games wirh rpg elements. We went from 2d platformer to no platformers(except nintendo) We went from multiple aaa studios making turn based rpg's to nowadays only a few non aaa studios making them. We went from strategy games being a popular ganre to it being a niche ganre. We went from fighting games being the staple of the game industry to a handful of aaa releases a year, which get no attention if at all. But, we got run and gun fps games that are visual spectacles. We got action-adventure one button to atack one button to dodge games. We made 0 new mainstream game genres despite the huge technical upgrade. Sorry for the rant...

[@Tanesis]

@@user-eu5ol7mx8y I get you. Research is good, however as you get older you get less time to game. Once you take work, family time and sleep out of the equation research directly impacts my limited game time. Also even with research you can't always make good calls. The bias of the sources can often colour perceptions. I've bought a few awful games becuase I've seen them played on KZbin and they, at least superfically, looked good. They then turned out to be terrible.

[@rdm0108]

10/10 doesnt meant perfection. It means setting the bar. There's a difference.

[@CyberLance26]

Yea i hate it when people say a 10/10 means its perfect because thats not true at all. It means its one of the best games available at the time.

[@CyberLance26]

@@berry4901 Yea thats what i said. A 10/10 means thats its one of the best games available at the time and not that its perfect.

[@SpecialNeedsMuffin]

Eh, can really feel the RDR2 bias here. Not for me.

[@Animal_lives_matter]

RDR2 actually suffers the very problem he complained of: go here, follow this waypoint, talk to this exact person, don't stray from the fixed route, watch this cutscene, press button now etc. It's like a fake open world game. Read all about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6etgX6FgamGpdU

[@MrDash711]

Agreed, Red dead 2 was arguably rockstars most boring game. Yeah yeah great story but a great story won’t carry a game that’s slow and clunky.

[@bucelliLeo]

You know, I really have to agree about the atmosphere of games where everything is made to suck you in. That's the most important thing, but that' hardly ever addressed in reviews. Mostly it's "number of weapons" "number of maps" it's always easily quantifiable things, when really a lot of the most important things can't simply be quantified. Although, I will tell you, I have an advanced degree in economics, and we do a lot of statistics, and it's a problem everywhere. It's a real problem in the world. The most important things can't be quantified, but we have just come to love numbers more than actually important messages and insights. Hey, If a game feels like it was made via "toolkit", then chances are it's just very boring to play because there's nothing to it that makes it special. If I've already played the same game, but with a different "skin" then I have very little reason to play it again.

[@ElNietoPR]

I think GoW winning GOTY was more of a statement to the industry that games don't need multiplayer and microtransactions in order for it to sell or be good. I still think GoW deserved being GOTY, despite of that. I truly loved the story, gameplay, music, everything.

[@BombaJead]

@Tattle Boad yeah I mean I appreciate what they did with GoW but it definitely felt more like a movie than a game. As for it winning goty well personaly I would choose Monster hunter world over it by a big margin but I yeah that's subjective.

[@bubuasqw123]

Main point of god of war was the 1 infinite secuence through the whole game, but red dead redemptioon 2 had more features and technology evolution

[@paft]

World War Z is currently a good example. You're the only reviewer I've seen so far that didn't say it was good. I tried it at a friends... I wasn't impressed from the get go and after about 10mins I couldn't be arsed. It offers nothing new. The swarms are cool but that's it. It isn't bad but it's OK at best.

[@Slowbo]

its pretty much a 5/10 at best, its so average and like you say doesn't do anything exactly new yet I see people lapping it up saying its just as good as left 4 dead.

[@AcornSmokes420]

Im only addicted to wwz because of the coop, and the time goes by when playing it...now since i got days gone, i probably wont play wwz on my xbox anytime soon.

[@Vulcanfaux]

The 10/10 I think depends on your own personal opinions and likes. A perfect game for me is not something for you. And vice versa.

[@dragonisorigins-official4693]

To each his own

[@swaglord7105]

There are objectively bad games.

[@甜甜-t5k]

I prefer Fallout 3 over New Vegas.. I don't even like NV and my friends try to convince me I'm wrong. It's my own opinion.. like yeah NV might be better made but it's not more fun for me personally.

[@Supersonicspyro]

Imo there is no such thing as a 10/10 game

[@Vulcanfaux]

@@Supersonicspyro over all I'd agree. But again on personal level. I'd argue the opposite. Monster hunter generations ultimate. That is litterally my perfect game. Everything about that game I love, the combat, the abilities, the difficulty curve, the monsters, but again. Only for me. Maybe there are others that think so too, but they are not me so I cant say for them. I'm not saying it doesnt has flaws. But its flaws are so insignificant to me that it doesnt matter. And even then the only flaw I even feel is worth pointing out about mhgu (and the series in general) is the start. The first hour of this game that I've sunk over 500+ hours into.

[@Willias]

Our opinions seem to differ on what makes a good game good and what makes a bad game bad, and it's entirely possible that you have a bad opinion.

[@IMeanMachine101]

Mack i love u but that fry cry new dawn was a thumbs down m8.

[@contrastprinciple4389]

They should've done a proper sequel to blood dragon and ditched everything else.

[@rippspeck]

At least get the name right. It's Fry Car.

[@petesgoproxboxchannel5581]

HA didn't even go near it played Farcry 5 on hardcore...........wast that hard outpost's got a bit repetitive then I tried to use the AI to any degree & refunded the fucking game ! They even tell you at the start We've taken out CLIMBING THE TOWER'S I glided form one tower to another in farcry 3 & it was amazing FUCK YOU ! So if you hadn't guessed I took one look & laughed !

[@petesgoproxboxchannel5581]

@@rippspeck A Far Cry FROM Far Cry

[@MRPP]

Risk of Rain 2 is probably among the best indie surprises as of late. The game feels whole even if it's early access and the gameplay loops is very solid.

[@poposterous236]

That's literally the only game I bought on launch day since the release of the Dreamcast in 1999. I bought it as almost a knee-jerk reaction. Hell of a game.

[@cobyjim]

I'm a big fan of the channel but I'm playing Days Gone and actually really liking it. To refer to your scoring system I would put it at a 7/10. Good game but nowhere near perfect. It has it's issues for sure but I'm having fun and story is decent. My main gripe is the gunplay. It's a bit janky. Shame you couldn't review it. Ah well.

[@voidremoved]

its like that on purpose

[@realhamonwry8620]

@Darren Scott - What brand of fucking stupid are you on? Gun mechanics are horrible.

[@RikoguSnow]

I don't think a 10 out of 10 should mean "perfect". As you said, no game can be truly called "perfect", which means if you assign that meaning to a 10 then it is effectively an unattainable score and makes the scale a 1 to 9 scale, which gives you less precision to communicate an overall evaluation numerically. If you are going to use a 1 to 10 scale in your reviews, I think a 10 should mean the game has the highest level of quality you could reasonably expect a game in its genre to have.

[@UberStomp]

Totally agree.

[@elcidS15]

Once battlefield stop letting you flatten the entire map, it started becoming generic.

[@valistrutu]

Bad company!

[@theretrodj907]

Battlefield 1 did it well... Battlefield 5 is shit

[@holdenraymorris]

When did it stop? I just played a match of battlefield 1 on verdun heights and the end result had the map looking like swiss cheese

[@fin5494]

You can level buildings in BF5 too Lol, especially with a V1-Rocket

[@elcidS15]

Fin Who gives a shit about V though?

[@kvasir8931]

Gotta love when people think their personal taste is a universal truth. Especially when they havent even played the game they are complaining about. That said, there are always valid critizism of games. Personally I hate quick time events, but im not gonna pretend that my taste is superior and that everyone who likes it are morons or that people who also dislikes them have "decent gaming standards". I mean come on, get over yourself.

[@si_w8201]

I haven't seen any reviews giving Days Gone a 9 out of 10. It's a solid 7 to 7.5...

[@SomeDudeQC]

Same. Surprised no one else mentioned this.

[@RRW359]

I think one problem is the confusion over what different numbers mean. Common logic says that on a scale of 1-100, 50 is average/mediocre, but anyone raised with the American grading system is tought that 70-79% is a "C", which is average. This means that one person can give a 7/10 meaning that the game is mediocre, but people will read it as good. Reviewers are also less likely to give a game anything under 70% unless the game is REALLY bad, because people (and publishers) will complain that it shouldn't get a "D", which in our grading system means below average.

[@noctis678]

The new Prey game was honestly the best FPS/RPG since Half Life 2 imo.

[@GeneraluStelaru]

Half-Life 2 wasn't an FPS/RPG. What are you talking about?

[@Revealingstorm.]

the new Prey was the best game of that year it came out. Absolute classic.

[@helloj1680]

Prey is not an RPG

[@Longdogsilva]

Prey was total trash xD

[@Spacefrisian]

@mat safrick Yes, those games where you level up and open boxes, just like Dynasty warriors, thats obviously a beat em up RPG or Dark souls, where you slash and slash, level up and open boxes. DUH!

[@adityarao2827]

This is exactly on point. I recently (approx half a year ago) started reviewing games myself, and have always been taking 5/10 as the average. I don't think I've ever given a 10/10 because I have never found the perfect game (as of right now). The closest I've given is a 9.5 to a re review of titanfall 2 (and that was due to a little bit of bias, I probably would have given it a 9). I one hundred percent agree with you Mack, people are giving out reviews with super high numbers while not even understanding what those numbers mean.

[@insensitive919]

I know Angry Joe would get a lot of flack, back when I still watched him, because he would occasionally give 3's and 4's to games he actually liked. People would get so angry and confused and his fans would have to explain to them that he's not IGN.

[@coolmacatrain9434]

Games have been continuously dumbed down since the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era, to the point were we are lucky to get ONE genuinely great game per year... if that?

[@ViceHacks]

Really wish this had more views. It’s a very good synopsis of how crooked the gaming industry has become. I wish to see change in my favorite artistic medium, but I fear the days of old where you had actual gameplay trailers, could own the full game when you bought it, and didn’t have to worry about the devs ruining their game mid life cycle because it was finished apon release, may be over due to the market growing so large in the past 10 years with players getting accustomed to getting pimped by the publisher/devs. Couple that with a mentality of profits over artistic integrity and expression and you get the modern video games industry. It makes me sad, but appreciative of the really special gems we’ve gotten in the past.

[@juicedup14]

And here you are saying days gone is bad without even playing it really makes me think 🤔

[@bradcasper4823]

Players there are glitch hunters

[@eldigan431]

days gone gameplay is good, the story is kinda eh

[@lorddiethorn]

The was at least different in how they structure it

[@MLNRCH]

Thank god. I've been saying the same things since I saw the footage too. Almost every open world game. Go here, speak to this person, go there for them and get, kill, destroy this for them, come back, speak to them again, go somewhere else. Rinse and repeat until you've covered an area. Spot on about the driving genre. So many reviews of them, the reviewer drives third person, or is all over the place. Good stuff. Love a good moan.

[@ryanLikesRainyDays]

I've been saying this as well. Game reviews have become almost irrelevant to the quality of the game. You can clearly get a sense if which games are meant to do well and which aren't. A consensus starts to form after the first slew of positive (paid, "encouraged", whatever you want to call it) reviews that later reviewers don't want to stray far from. I'm thankful for people like you. You're one of the last few who actually praises and criticizes games in turn on a point by point basis. That's how I know you're honest. You're happy to trash the bad aspects of a game and then in the next sentence state how great the sound is. Normally you see reviewers do the approach where if they give a good score, every element is written as if it's great, and issues are glossed over, but if they give a bad score, even good elements they find a way to act as if they are trash. At this point, I just view some footage and check forums to see what actual users are saying when they aren't being paid or under job security pressure to see what I might think of a game.

[@christophersilverberg4217]

Missed opportunity: "I've been sitting here banging my head against the wall. Good news is: I've got more wall..."

[@raidone7413]

Mack, you should try out Kenshi for review. It might be the gem you were looking for 😉

[@TimN-5]

Came here to say this. Mack will love it.

[@Swwatter]

Great game but horribly unoptimized.

[@raidone7413]

@@Swwatter agree. Some ways to make it run much smoother are to run compressed texture mod and put it on an SSD. Significant boost but still unoptimized. At least it's not an online game

[@Swwatter]

@@raidone7413 yeah it does run fine for the most part on vanilla if you don't have a potato. But even then the crashes happen :-( still hasn't stopped me from clocking 300hrs on it though. It is a gem.

[@suplextrain]

Days Gone is not bad. It's a solid title and I think most of the technical issues people had were solved with the day 1 patch (because I haven't any yet and I'm several hours into the game). Again, I'm not saying it's amazing. But it's not bad either. That game is getting a bit too much shat on when the biggest issues were technical ones that were mostly present before release (the version reviewers played). I mean you yourself just looked at a YT video and decided it was shit.

[@Buckeyesfan92]

I agree 100%. It does have tech issues though even after patch. if it werent for that Id give it a 10 honestly. with the tech problems its a 9 for me until they fix them. the hate for this game is unwarranted

[@stephensearles673]

@@Buckeyesfan92 I think it's very unfair for mack to trash the game,when he's not even played it

[@sirratch5099]

I agree. People are fucking idiots if they can't see this games worth.

[@tommo3190]

You are missing the point mac is making. He watched some gameplay and didn't want to play the same generic shit he already knows he doesn't like.

[@stephensearles673]

@@tommo3190 it's not generic shit at all its actually a very fun game and isnt that the whole point of playing games

[@hobbes2234]

THANK you, sir! Finally someone who speaks up. This bullshit of ripping customers off needs to stop right now!

[@PCGamer77]

13:03 I like deep strategy games, but "complexity-for-complexity's sake" has been a big problem with them since the late 1990s. The core fanbase for these games seems to bear a lot of the blame. It seems like whenever developers try to streamline a design, the obsessive-compulsive-anal-retentive gamers all raise hell about how it sucks that they can't micromanage every little detail. So we all get to enjoy micromanagement hell because a few noisy people are playing strategy games instead of getting the psychotherapy they apparently need.

[@Videogerilla]

“I don't mean to offend anybody” OOOOOOOhh for fuck's sake

[@valeriusyciox1234]

I know, no ones going to read my comment now, but I'll just take my time to write it anyway. I'm only 15 years old, from Austria, and I'm very interested in all the gaming industry. I've already thought about exactly this topic for about a year now. I've seen some small KZbinrs addressing the same issue, but not taking any initiative, and keep making those "bad" reviews and everything. I'm happy to see you're taking responsibility in not producing those stupid reviews. I also want to spread this message (and more bullet points, about why the modern gaming industry sucks) around especially the younger gamers. Cause nearly everybody of my friends are the worst type of gamer you could expect. Just for an example, they say Fallout 76 was the best entry in the series, despite only having played Fallout 4 and maybe, but just maybe tried Fallout 3 at some point. They are not interested in how older games, had better ideas, better gameplay and were innovative. They just wanna see good graphics and thats it. I'm so fed up as well man, I can't describe it. I am actually going to start producing videos myself now, and taking initiative against this whole situation. I really appreciate every single one of ye out there supporting innovative indie titles, and not those AAA already completely corrupted publishers. I'm going to play some good old Fallout 1 now, or maybe Halo 2, see ya chaps, have a nice day!

[@sosig8332]

I haven’t been as immersed in a game as I was in red dead 2 since I was a little boy and my imagination ran wild and I was mesmerised by games. Like since I experienced red dead 2 I realised that games have just gotten soooo shit that they don’t capture my imagination and attention as well..which is their job. It isn’t cause I’ve gotten older, sure I’m not as easily pleased. But games are shite and so similar these days

[@PCGamer77]

14:13 I award the button-spamming rabbit a 10/10.

[@Sireristof1332]

Thats why we need people like Skillup, Joseph Anderson, Angry Joe, you, Turbo button, Mandalore ETC ETC. We always know who is playing it and we get reviews with integrity, subjectivity and a Fair view. Dunkey made a great video similar to this one

[@logicomamk2848]

Lmao Angry Joe is a fucking sellout shill

[@kraenk12]

Skill Up gave Days Gone an 8.

[@isidorodaviddoro1920]

@@logicomamk2848 yeah lol

[@fullsizedwarf]

It's a good point about battlefield. A lot of youtubers were praising it knowing the content of their channel depended on it. BFV is average at best even after all the patches etc.

[@ZekeMagnum]

BF 5 is an okey FPS game but shit battlefield game

[@armybear2]

@@ZekeMagnum I haven't played any Battlefield games except for Battlefield 3 and even then I thought it was a pretty awful game. I can't imagine how shitty the current ones are now that they include stupid SJW stuff, and try to milk you for every penny as a "live service" with microtransactions instead of focusing on making a good game. Hell I even bought Battlefront 2, for $5 and I still disappointed on how shitty the game is. The only thing Dice is good at is making good graphics. Everything else since then I can tell are pretty sub par in terms of actual game play, and design. Especially when it comes to level design, and writing. I also remember when Battlefield Hardline came out and even diehard Dice fans couldn't defend the garbage that it was. Battlefield 3 had horrible pacing, horrible AI, and so many shitty quick time events. Most of the campaign was like watching an interactive novel instead of playing an actual game. When I watch people play other Battlefield games I notice the same trend. And obviously Dice / EA games focus on multiplayer aspects more than single player, but even then the multiplayer aspects of the games are pretty sub par and gimmicky. Like for instance Battlefield 1, was like every other Battlefield game with basically historical revisionist weapons. There was like no point of even making the game a WW1 game other than to pretend they were making something fresh in a time period that hasn't been explored before.

[@kingofmonsters14]

the way you described your mind in the beginning: me every single day.

[@randomguy9193]

There is nothing wrong with liking a game that is not very good, and i don't think that people who have different opinions should be disliked. It just makes no sense...