The Decline of Gaming

In the last 10 or so years it feels like the quality of video games and especially Triple A titles has declined. But why? With advancements in technology, higher budgets, larger teams of developers, how could gaming as a product be getting worse?? Well, that's what I'm here to tell and show you...
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___TIME STAMPS___
Introduction - 0:00
#1 Perceiving The Decline - 1:51
#2 Complacency - 3:37
#3 Abundance of Remakes, Remasters - 9:22
#4 Chasing Trend (Early Access) - 14:02
#5 Games As a Service, Updates, Online Only, Broken Launches - 16:46
#6 Corporatization of Gaming - 23:51
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[@TheActMan]

Rise and shine, Mr. Act Man... Rise and shine. In what ways has gaming declined in your opinion? Let me know in the comments below!

[@skyj2172]

One word: Microtransactions.

[@vergil5906]

Game journalism

[@reveriesremedy]

Me reading the title: My god is it the end of gaming act man save me!

[@mateoindustries378]

uhhhhhhhhhh..........3:56 ur welcome

[@Ivy64_]

I get the reference. This is a man of good taste.

[@jukson8105]

Imagine giving your test to the teacher and saying "its in early access ill update it"

[@stefanobermair2761]

Made my day

[@marauderthedemon9588]

Jukson fuck you give me money by angry joe

[@jukson8105]

@Niko Umicevic good luck

[@gjhlsniper4970]

@Nessim Yohros its a joke

[@iceagepenguinrace9788]

@Nessim Yohros It's a very true anology dick head if game developers & publishers want their games to sell then they have to make good games people want to buy without any bullshit they aren't entitled to our money.

[@soroorahmadi3388]

By “The Decline Of Gaming” he doesn’t mean that gaming is dying, it’s more popular than ever, he means that the quality of games is decreasing ( I said this because I saw comments that said that gaming isn’t dying)

[@TheActMan]

exactly this, my man!

[@DanielSmith-mp4le]

@@TheActMan honestly I've also been noticing it in the movie industry as well.

[@AlbanianGoose]

You obviously dont play pc plenty of quality games

[@Jakob_Herzog]

That's why gaming companies that put quality over quanity are so much loved and praised as they are a dying breed.

[@7U57HTJRYGHG]

WOOWWW DUDE THATS CRAZY I COULDN'T FIGURE THAT ON MY OWN WOOOOOWWW!!!! THIS IS WILD !!!!

[@bryzsalvador8692]

I think the developers thought process are like this: "We will just release the game unfinished and then wait and see if it's popular enough for us to finish..."

[@yyeezyy630]

Lmao that’s so accurate it’s scary

[@KneeCapHill]

They either stick around to milk it or run away with the money

[@kassios]

Being a developer (not a game dev though) I can tell you that cutting corners is the manager's decision. No developer would publish a half worked project unless he is forced to. Unrealistic deadlines, undermanned teams, feature creep mentality, monetisation ontop of the original progression, greed.

[@bennycuomo544]

*publishers

[@GordonSeal]

@@kassios Nonsense, developers are not slaves. They can speak out, state a protest or internal strike, quit the company or be whistleblowers, there is NO excuse for developers releasing shitty games and only blame management.

[@magniankh]

One area that no one talks about is AI. No game studio is trying to push the boundaries for AI anymore. AAA games will develop the hardest bones, hardly passable AI just to sell the product and nothing more. Look at something like Cyberpunk - beautiful game, NPCs still run into walls. I am very tired of never being impressed.

[@youtubeshadowbannedme]

It's sad that AI from Half Life 2 is more intelligent

[@Deerhunter60641]

Void Interactive is actually doing pretty well in this aspect for Ready or Not, arguable the best Shooter on the market

[@FrogOf4Chan]

Wasn't the FPS FEAR from 2006 the last game that really pushed AI in games?

[@christophersample288]

ah yes, insert fake shitposter remark here common trope. Smh

[@dhollsynthmusic]

even Half-Life:Alyx had poor Ai, dumber than the older HL games. it's like the programmers have lost the code that make good Ai.

[@asiberiantiger188]

I bought the game. Can I play it? "No" I deleted another game to clear space. Can I play it now? "No" Alright it finished a combined 7 hour install and update, may I PLEASE play now? "No" Why? "No internet" Ok, I'm back online. Now? "Ok but only the 5 hour campaign" Right. Gold membership. "Yep" Okay. I've purchased a gold membership. Why is everything locked to me? "Gotta buy the other 80% of the game through DLC" Okay, I've spent a total of $173.28 on this game and sacrificed two other games for space so I can play it. Why can't I play it? "Bug" What? "Game's broken"

[@Cyberwasyoinked]

Basically Modern Warfare but add in a shitty dev team and bugs.

[@captainanus8131]

This

[@Taco_TranZit]

* bug count intensifies with “patches”

[@TheActMan]

So fucking perfect it hurts

[@aldovk6681]

@@TheActMan Yeah no kidding

[@residentevil2928]

The online only is a scam. There is no reason that I should need internet for Residentevil 1 remastered when it has no online functionality.

[@xCwieCHRISx]

maybe its spyware xD

[@El-Duderino-His-Dudeness]

Well you can always crack it.

[@captaincrunch1707]

It's to prevent pirating, thank the thieving scumbags on PC for that ha. It's a bummer but like everything, it's the few rotten apple losers who ruin it for everybody

[@youracreep3838]

They could have put an anti piracy failsafe on it though.

[@Naruku2121]

@@captaincrunch1707 It doesn't even stop the pirating most of the time lol.

[@crimsonsamuraiftw]

It's the times we live in. Every modern media avenue suffers from the same affects of complacency. 99.9% of everything is boring, cloned, soulless, and beaten to death like a rental car to milk every ounce. It's even happening outside of media, nobody is reaching for the stars anymore.

[@mentos93]

I always thought the feeling was due to depression. But maybe you're right. Alot of stuff is shittu nowaday's.

[@xXYannuschXx]

"nobody is reaching for the stars anymore." Thats honestly a good analogy. Over a decade ago it felt like they continously tried to improve a product, make it bigger, remove issue from previous versions, etc. These days you wait 3-4 years and the product is pretty much the same in a new package with new marketing.

[@matheusbarbosa999]

Im glad I never decided to dream big. And now, I see the reality I tought about becoming true. I made a promise to myself to keep on playing games even that It all seens harsh, because there will be always a small experience that it's worth my time and I really don't care about how things are today. If games make me happy, Ill stay with it. But I can't deny, the real good time I had with my Wii seemed to be worthy.

[@GameTheGalaxy]

I agree, but it's also important to vote with your wallet. I stopped preordering games years ago and shit like Battlefield 2042 vindicates that sentiment. Don't give these greedy corps your money if they don't want to give you a good product.

[@crimsonsamuraiftw]

@@GameTheGalaxy Good for you. I've never been in the pre-order camp honestly. I've been lucky to keep myself busy enough until I see a game is out for a while, that has great reviews or is something I want to try, and on like a 50%+ sale on steam. My library is so big I have tons of games I'll likely never get to for a long while.

[@clv603]

The golden years of gaming are behind us. Corporations may be able to mass produce a product, but only passion can produce meaningful art.

[@marcar9marcar972]

Depends on what you want. I want cheap indie games so this is the best age in gaming

[@zackjones8802]

In AAA games? Yes, absolutely. But we're now in the golden age of indie games.

[@JinnYoungKim]

Indie... I'm done with every gaming.

[@leonecartelreborn9628]

@@zackjones8802 Well too bad for me I guess. I've never cared for the indie side of gaming at all.

[@zackjones8802]

@@leonecartelreborn9628 Why not?

[@justsomedangerbigfootwithweb]

"Art is never finished, Only abandoned." -Leondaro Da Vinci

[@lettherebegames8]

Yeah but he was just lazy

[@exitioregem8466]

@@lettherebegames8 My boi was also a genius

[@JimBimBum]

That makes sense, I never feel like I finish any of my art.

[@senseiseth7556]

wait im confused. does this mean that all art is abandoned, or basically saying that art is never truly finished?

[@WideMouth]

@SenseiSeth Both

[@squdesigns1789]

This is another reason why indie games have been on the rise for a while.

[@hollenfeuer1]

That's why I'm OK with EA even if I prefer a 100% at launch. These small developers need the upfront cash, and they get tons testers. EA gave rise to indie games. It's given us some great games. Yes, including PUBG and 7 days to die.

[@neildrunkmaam7040]

🤮

[@jaydenc367]

did ea actually help out indie games? anyways yeah act man never mentions indie games which is a injustice! before this decade indie games wer considered a 'serious' side of gaming

[@CorkScrewDood]

SQUE Graphix Pubg was indie before it got big

[@ZackExplorer28]

too bad you can't play any of them because they're on the f**king computer. >_

[@stonalisa3729]

I'm convinced AAA games are now AI generated

[@orlandofurioso7329]

I mean, balan wonderworld was in a sense

[@phoenyx555]

I think that AI can actually save the gaming.

[@cymikgaming1266]

redfall?,more like redfail

[@I_dcd]

Negative it's the overpopulated geriatrics that want more and more even though they're dead in 5 years. Why can't we just speed it up

[@QuackNz]

@@phoenyx555no absolutely not lmfao

[@OmegaSunsLight]

This was an excellent expose filled some great points. Valid points. I appreciated how you started off with letting the audience know this comes from a place of love from your personal experience. Hopefully industry insiders will see these challenges and step up and consumers find their voice to call these things out. Wonderful job.

[@omganotherun]

"Is this good for the Player?" EA: "There are no Players. Only Payers now."

[@warreng675]

Exactly, they are payers not players. Is this good for the player? no its not its good for fat cats pockets

[@Tony36271]

Maybe it was a typo in the script

[@peterkolesar4020]

I don't understand why are you guys always bashing EA. Yeah they are the DLC kings but at least many of their DLCs are worth it with not just 1 map or a piece of clothing in it. And Origin is most likely the best online game shop ever existed. I have a few diferent titles there and I have most of them for like 15-30€... titles like FIFA, Battlefield, NFS while retarded shitSteam is offering GTAV for 50/60€??? 5 years after release? Not gonna happen with EA, their games are full price up to half a year or so and then they always go down on price and with constant sales you can get their titles basically for free. I have full BF4 Premium content for free... I haven't got anything like that on Uplay or Steam which are the worst online shops ever with almost no useful discounts and prices sky-high but yeah keep bashing EA... When Steam did the monstrous PD2 DLC shit noone cared and it was far worse than anything EA did ever. I really wanted the big bank heist for example but no, you want it? 50€ for bunch of useless stuff I didn't want at all...

[@jimpickens1629]

Peter Kolesár you are literally saying you like EA because they make so many dlc that they cost less and the part about discounts is a lie I can get gta for £8 about 10euro and the dlc is inexcusable for it to cost so much for the pay day dlc but at least it adds a lot compared to EA selling rng loot boxes recently they even took daily loot boxes away

[@marauderthedemon9588]

Jetson George fuck you give me money by angry Joe

[@duncanself5111]

One positive of the past decade in the gaming industry is independent developers making a comeback

[@leatheryfoot6354]

They never left. They were just hidden.

[@cIiffe]

@@leatheryfoot6354 their comeback = being less hidden

[@mikekell920]

This is the age of indie devs and theyre doing great.

[@JinnYoungKim]

I'm already done. Game industries have humiliated and deceived me.

[@imad3914]

what about rdr2 , one of the best games

[@alexandreaganier4217]

man this vid really still is up to date in 2022

[@b.l.5437]

The golden age of gaming is long gone, we have to be thankfull to have witnessed it

[@danielfaress9879]

I'm Glad I Was Born in 1993 So I Got To Experience The Best Year's in Gaming

[@PostUltra]

@braingazer... Nah.. gaming was fine up until 2013 Now it's all "blatant reinventing the wheel" , "target addicts" and microtransactions all over the place.

[@chelseachelseafcsuperfan7220]

Once women are subjugated and not in the gaming space again it will flourish.

[@analyticalhabitrails9857]

If thats the opitome thrn I'm dissappointed and am glad I moved on. Its bittersweet but its best for me.

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

Yeah what an amazing journey it was, now I mostly just do Japanese, Indie stuff or older games from way back, gaming is garbage now

[@vardaannayar]

Worst part is, there’s an entire generation of gamers that see this as the norm, which ultimately will create a norm of all these problems listed in the video. There’s no turning back.

[@micahcook2408]

The system is screaming and decaying right now anyway. Greed can only go so far so who knows what’ll happen in the next couple of months.

[@ArtzyBettz88]

I despise Fortnite for just that . Kids playing it for 12 hours straight on the same freaking map while also suffering from a digital lobotomy.

[@Luca-bv5ic]

@@micahcook2408 hell yeah! EAT THE RICH!

[@spencerrobinson7380]

I disagree. I, 14, have seen the worldwide uproar over battlefront 2 loot boxes. I think that most gamers around my age agree that companies like: Bethesda, EA, and Activision are super scummy and don't deserve to be profitable.

[@spencerrobinson7380]

I also think that 3D games are stagnating and VR is the future

[@afri-cola1594]

Sadly, this is happening everywhere. Gaming, music, movies you name it. The quality of everything is declining, making room for cash-grabbing garbage that for some reason the majority of people love. In what time we live in boys.

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

Blame politics and, most importantly, the big corporate twats that monetize over it Neoliberalism at its finest

[@isaiasvivas3458]

Welp Humanity is Doomed

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

@@lardoy2509 The only solution is for truly devoted indie developers to unite and create their own upstart game companies, and in order to rival the big companies that nowadays spit unlikeable garbage clothed in popular titles they must create games that the populace REALLY wanted and needed

[@thierry1026]

@@VentiVonOsterreich yeah but when people create something good, big compagnies are there to buy them or their work. Think the issue is the influence of money overall.

[@madsines1494]

It really isn't. You just need to look a little deeper for the good stuff in a lot of cases. There's more good games, movies and music out there than ever before. It's just edgy to say that these things suck now.

[@clintgolub1751]

I remember when the decayed state of ‘incomplete releases’ finally dawned on me was when my wife and I eagerly awaited Lego Hobbit as the previous release, Lego LotR was seriously *INCREDIBLE* with its huge open world that let you traverse Middle-earth straight outta Hobbiton right down through Gondor and into Mordor. HOWEVER, Lego hobbit only had parts 1 & 2 in it. The third and final act that was going to conclude the story, ‘The Desolation of Smaug’ WHICH ABSOLUTELY SHOULD’VE BEEN INCLUDED TO BEGIN WITH was instead promised as an additional patch. Well guess what? After they bent the fans over and collected their money, the lazy bastards at Warner Bros. Interactive just shat all over the game by never doing anything to it. No updates, no additional content, zilch! Utterly disgusting how all passion and creativity has drained out of what at one-time looked to be the future of entertainment for everyone. Very very sad.

[@Calakapepe]

Honestly the player base holds 50% of the blame. Because they continued to buy and make these companies money with subpar quality and choices

[@thebrokenglasskids5196]

What's happening to gaming is what happened to both movies and music decades ago. Once something becomes popular enough to be an industry dominated by corporations instead of people, it gets stripped of it's creativity and innovation and becomes a soulless for profit money making mechanism. Everything has a Golden Age, and sadly, it has now come and gone for video games. Goodbye story and immersion, hello battle royale and microtransactions.

[@sadboipotato3382]

Basically corporatism is killing artistic industries. Music is sounding the same, movies are being rebooted or franchised, games are remastered, DLC, Microtransactions, etc. Its sad, but inevitable. The good news is great stuff does exist, but you have to look for it now, and that can be hard for people who don't know how or don't have time.

[@imfatlloll]

old is gold

[@UnchainedEruption]

I call B.S. Corporations are a lazy scapegoat, but they are the symptom not the source. Of course they are going to be risk-averse, but that doesn't mean most consumers would rather prefer low-budget indie titles. It is always up to the consumers to push back against companies and refuse to accept something. That's why micro-transactions in paid games have become a big no-no after that infamous EAfront 2 remake. But when people not only buy the same crap in droves but then BEG the companies for more of the same, what do you expect? When it comes to movies and tv shows, sure I'll agree. Whoever owns the IP can and will kill creativity, even not-for-profit fan productions that put the real deal to shame. But video games? I feel there is less of a barrier to entry, with free access to the state of the art Unreal Engine for e.g. and easy online distribution via Steam, GOG, etc. Thing is, indie devs not only compete with each other and not only compete with massive AAA big-budget productions, but they also compete with pretty much all of video game history that is now available online. Similar reason why it's hard for new bands to compete when Spotify or KZbin let you experience all the great music groups from every decade.

[@UnchainedEruption]

@Yasuo The unforgiven Everything is and always has been about money. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple. That's how capitalism works.

[@HenriFaust]

Indies still exist. Stop buying AAA.

[@apophis2129]

"Some remakes are just a shameless cash grab" *Stares at Rockstar in 2021*

[@MariOmor1]

*stares at all of EA's FIFA games*

[@bambam4857]

@@MariOmor1 you could just stare at 75% of EA's games.

[@MariOmor1]

@@bambam4857 how about all of them 😈

[@Balo657]

Also need for speed hot pursuit, literally identical to the original. No graphical change.

[@elitedima9672]

Stares at call of duty

[@Daikuro1]

As I hear each point and correlate it with my own experiences, for some reason Return of the Obra Dinn kept popping up in my head. I realized it's because that was the latest game I've played that truly felt like the antithesis of all the complaints enumerated in this video. That game was complete, bug-free as far as I'm aware, trailblazing, highly unique and instantly memorable. And it didn't waste any energy trying to convince you to play it forever or even more than just once. Just "here's this great game, play it, like it. wasn't that cool?"

[@ysteineriksen6405]

This is an amazing reflection over the status and decline of gaming! Thank you for putting so much time and effort into this

[@ryanpaquette7685]

I miss local multiplayer being way more common.

[@formarkv]

This deserves way more likes. Counterintuitively, gaming is more of a neckbeard solo hobby today than it used to be

[@ryanpaquette7685]

@@formarkv Thanks man. Some of the greatest times I have on Xbox one are 4 player co-op on Overcooked 2. That game usually ends up a glorious shit show with most friends 😂There are still quality options, but it does make me nervous to see the availability of same-screen multiplayer being strangled by an obsession with profits on the part of the game makers. I also like your point, it's bad for society overall. We need to game with thy neighbor, break hot pockets, and whatnot.

[@saymyname2618]

Thats mostly because being a gamer today costs A SHIT TON OF MONEY,so you cant say "hey buddy come to my house so we can play X game"cause you would need to buy game X for your friend to play with you,so its cheaper to make an online system to put people that are away from each other play together.

[@Sypher_v1]

We still LAN almost weekly, Quake 3, UT2004, Counter Strike, TOCA..... Hearing your opponent sqerm in the same room is pricless and you can't capture that with an online MP. Games like Toxikk is our new FPS that we LAN on and we need more games like that.

[@nikolauswilliams3124]

Wouldn't want to have basic features that have been around since the 90s, now would we?!?!

[@0113Naruto]

Modern gaming is like fast food. Focusing on profits and quickness rather than quality.

[@fishy_vinny]

I've never thought of it like that

[@hazaltiger5601]

Like gta 5 online it started off good with business and many features that you can experience, they had a great start but then they released flying bikes,cars tanks and much more fucked up stuff... it ruined the experience for me, from a good roleplaying game it became a tryhard fest....

[@pacreeper2323]

You mean Fortnite?

[@MityLite]

@@hazaltiger5601 You've gotta admit though that they've been doing good keeping it alive for so long, I even see them investing in ads that I occasionally pop up for me when im scrolling through social media. But I agree on your point, the only thing that keeps me going on that game is me and my friend creating a private lobby and using a trainer tool to spawn in all the new cars etc. they keep adding.

[@randombloke165]

Jmad0113 Gaming has always been like that since the Atari 2600.

[@RawrItsJuul]

There is definitely a decline in gaming, I noticed it especially when I started playing older games again. Yeah everything looks pretty these days, but are mostly shallow experiences. Everything has to be open world, to justify the pricetag games are filled with busy work. It doesn't feel like games are made to be fun or entertaining anymore. You do the same thing over and over again. There is less variety in the genres of games, because a game needs to make all the money in the world or else it's not successful. It's this kind of mindset that ruins the final product. They have to keep shitting out new games so release them in a broken state, patch them later. Who cares people have pre-ordered it anyways, the companies have your money so they don't need to care about quality. It's not like there aren't any good games anymore, but because of corporate meddling people can't make games they want to make anymore. Not with fun in mind but always with money, and it shows.

[@josephmueller3752]

maybe it's just because people got old with responsability etc and there are too many games to choose from, so it's no big deal to play these games like it was 20 years ago

[@RawrItsJuul]

@@josephmueller3752 That's what I used to think. This is very subjective, obviously this is all opinion based. For me that reasoning falls short because that doesn't explain away why I fell in love with gaming again after playing games from older generations. Games I never got around to back in the day, ones I have no nostalgic feelings towards. Comparing how games were made then and now you can see big differences. It also can't be explained away with only one explanation, there are multiple factors. One that also contributes to how developers make games these days is with digital distribution. Without other forms of monetization older games had more of an emphasis on fun, there may be less content but what was there had better quality. Nowadays games are designed more to keep you busy, there are a lot of things to do but what's there is more and more of the same. People want to think they're getting their money's worth, so every game is turned into something bigger than it needs to be. I like open world games, but not everything needs to be open world. There are still many games I enjoy from this generation, but I can't help feel like things are getting more and more the same. We've figured out what works and there is less innovation because of it. Of course there are indie games, and I do enjoy those a lot too. But I would like to see more innovation with AAA games too.

[@josephmueller3752]

@@RawrItsJuul what I am saying is, if you take one of games of today, and you put it in the past like 20 years ago, it would have been the best game ever and you'd have said today "they dont make games like X anymore"

[@RawrItsJuul]

@@josephmueller3752 I don't think I agree with that. Games from today should be judged by today's standards. Most importantly, of course people from back then would think a modern game would be the best thing they played, but how is that a fair comparison? That ignores the progression other games have made to push the genre forward. It's a limited perspective. Compare this to movies, let's say you go back to the 80s and show people the Hobbit trilogy. It would probably blow their minds, but what does that have to say about the original lord of the rings trilogy? We now have the power of hindsight, like I said I have no nostalgic attachment to a lot of the old games I'm playing right now, yet there is a quality that I find lacking in modern games.

[@dreamday988]

As someone who played games like RE, Tomb raider, COD with my dad back when I was 5..its sad that I have to say that frickin Genshin Impact ( a gacha game) has better story than 90% of the games today. Playing games always gathered my family together as we all tried to crack puzzles in TR, hide behind dad as he was playing RE3 and 4, and oh man..Wolfenstein return to the castle! The game I was so terrified of because of that one level with like catacombs and zombies in it.. Quake 4 like omg such nostalgia. Again, its sad that Genshin is giving me more emotion and I am so invested in GATCHA game than triple A titles…

[@noahhastings6145]

You know, there's an old saying my gramps used to tell me: "If it ain't broke, it's been 2 years and 3 $40 DLCs"

[@juan-tonsoup1792]

Wise man.

[@Bryanmiester]

Juan-ton Soup I miss the City super intendant and it’s little face emojis while I constantly got slapped by golden brutes on LASO (Literally gonna go play now)

[@juan-tonsoup1792]

@@Bryanmiester Haha, now I want to!

[@TommyWeber]

Noah Hastings kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4ndd5qVi86Dg7c

[@masternobody1896]

That's doki doki is the best or gta san

[@2555Edu]

if the decline was only restricted to gaming... Movies, Music, TV Shows, almost every piece of media and art is losing its soul to bloody money

[@andrespodra8459]

noticed the same thing.. I used to download movies.. now it seems they make only some fkin marvel and comic films that fit into 1h30 min time frame or are maisntream dumb. Game of thrones - last season. Everything is so bad.. that there is nothing to buy or to pirate. Maybe im just old..

[@2555Edu]

@@andrespodra8459 yeah, I watched a lot of japanese anime, but not anymore, a tip for you that worked for me was starting reading books, classics of philosophy and medieval fantasy, it's great

[@andrespodra8459]

@@2555Edu I read Dumas Ascanio lately, Dunno i think i have to go and read Tolstoys War and peace with its 1250 pages, it will give a boost for a week or some xD. But thx for advise!

[@Uzabi]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Everything is keep looking better: * Movies has never looked better. * There never was more music to choose from than today. * There are so many shows to choose from thanks to platforms like Netflix. * Today is a really great time to be an artist! With growth of youtube and platforms like Instagram, it is so easy to find artists you like and support their work. * Gaming: Making a game is very easy now. There is plenty of games to choose from Indie developers. Also AAA games has never looked better. Now the bad things: * The media has always been trash, since forever (so no change here)

[@andrespodra8459]

@@Uzabi well, thats just your opinion man (et al The dude)

[@420_laundry]

that tristram village tune at 15:25 kickin in... it's just soooo much childhood kickin in like the matrix

[@Sicktoid]

Excellent analysis about the state of the video game industry and equally relevant now in 2023 as it was in 2019. I think one huge reason for stagnation and complacency in the business is because the only real field where the games have been pushing the envelope in the past two decades has been their graphics and presentation. And I feel like that has been a major double-edged sword for gaming. While all the visual flare, motion captured Hollywood actors and high budget cinematics look nice and they are an easy way to hype up the crowds, them becoming part of the big gaming titles has increased the difficulty of content creation in a severe way. Back in the 90s, Bob the Content Creator could single-handedly whip up a passable side quest for a major RPG title in a weekend by re-using some existing assets and just writing up some dialogue. Now, you gotta go through a pitch meeting, bring in the artists, allocate funds, call up the voice actors... I personally don't really care about all that additional detail and I'd like to think I can see past the superficial gloss of the presentation, so the current state of things really saddens me. But putting myself in the shoes of the major game studios, I can easily see myself settling for less and becoming complacent, when the presentation standards they have set for themselves have made everything into a major pain in the ass.

[@muscacholi]

2 years later: Guys I swear we are still in Early Access our game isn't shit

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

*Laughs in fortnite early access*

[@zedg7473]

Meanwhile, last game update 21 months ago...

[@indraservo5764]

Star Citizen

[@hollenfeuer1]

People really don't understand early access. Games take a fucking long time. Pubg is great now. 7 days to die is great. He's a little too harsh sometimes.

[@hollenfeuer1]

Though I will always prefer the old way. Keep your title in development, don't do EA at all. But if we played rd2 since alpha, we'd be talking shit about it. For 8 years.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

EA Interviewer: It seems your application is only half filled out. Applier: The other half is $19.99 EA Interviewer: You're hired.

[@faketoddhoward7280]

It just works

[@DoodleDan]

What an incredible comment

[@zexfafa2794]

@@faketoddhoward7280 with 16 times the details

[@faketoddhoward7280]

@@zexfafa2794 yes.

[@detritus3676]

yes

[@jacobburrell613]

There's a few things I want to say. Here's something that has been mentioned countless times, and it's been mentioned countless times because it makes total sense: if game developing companies nowadays only care about the amount of money that goes into their account, why would they not use the games that they've made in the past as blueprints and apply everything they built into those successful games into new games? If they develop and finish refining a game into its best form, how does it make any sense to make something new and not integrate the concepts of your most successful products into the new products to achieve an enhanced version, using the same parts. If gamers want something better than your most successful products, don't throw those concepts out, upgrade them by building on that same concept. If something works, why make something entirely new and unfamiliar that risks being a failure? These companies are sabotaging themselves. To summarize in a scenario, if you make a wheel, and it turns out successful, but now the public want a wheel with better traction, don't reinvent the wheel, just enhance the traction on your already successful wheel. I understand what companies are trying to do: they're trying to revolutionize gaming. Absolutely, revolutionize gaming, but make sure your product has a solid foundation behind its building so that when it's done, it does fall apart. That's like making a never-before-seen building that has no solid structural integrity; all your innovation, time investment, money, resources and other stuff is wasted when your building falls to the ground. This Gaming Revolution is a rushed revolution. Look at every successful and beneficial revolution in history (the French Revolution was a mess, and you see that revolution produce a monster: Napoleon's French Dictatorship) and you'll see that from start to finish these revolutions followed a slow and steady process. The same must be with this Gaming Revolution. Every game developer is rushing to revolutionize the industry, but every single one of them sooner or later stumbles, and when they do, they stumble hard. Revolutions of any kind cannot and should not be rushed, for just as a blacksmith shows and practices enduring patience to create a revolutionary sword that becomes a well refined and polished weapon, so too must the gaming industry show and practice enduring patience to create well refined and polished games. That is why patience is a virtue. Look at Cyberpunk 2077, it looked good on the outside but rotten on the inside. The game was the first of its kind (can you really count BioShock?) A game that's the first of its kind doesn't have the luxury of having a past game backed as its foundation, so because it was a brand new game in every way in the gaming industry, the developers should have been utmost patient with developing it. Its failure was because its developers were rushing unnecessarily. Look at Red Dead Redemption 1, it was a big success, and it was a brand new idea, why was it successful? Because Rockstar took their time developing it. *Edit*: I've erased what I previously said about why Cyberpunk 2077 was a failure. Which was, "Look at Cyberpunk 2077, that game had no foundation underneath it whatsoever, and what happened? It fell apart" and put what I should've said at the bottom.

[@reservoirchannel5576]

because corporates threw out those creators who only knew how to enhance their games, how you could make a minecraft without notch? how you can make a cod game without zampela? how you can make a sims game without will wright? answer is - you can't

[@Cazamalos]

I think pre orders also made a huge impact in releasing broken games, once publishers realized that millions of people would pre order a game after just watching a teaser with the logo and no actual gameplay, publishers knew they could exploit these hardcore fanbases.

[@MikeLi1019]

People who purchase all those micro-transactions in games only prolong this problem!

[@miles2142]

lol if they're having fun its okay

[@miles2142]

@dragonsder good choice mate

[@grungical]

I somewhat understand it, its frustrating but in the moment when you see the item or whatever it may be and really want it but know you shouldnt buy it and support the micro trans model, but you still really want it and know that boycotting it wont make them change for a long time if ever, so you just bite the bullet and buy it, you feel bad but you got that thing you wanted and really enjoy it even with the bitter taste it leaves in your mouth giving in to the asshole company. I feel bad for some of these people I hate those people out there who spend $100s even $1000s on those random packs, I hate that shit so much, I hate when I see you tubers making videos based on just buying a shitload of them and the whole video is just them unpacking them with their dumb ass "humorous" commentary.

[@Xellos976]

I think microtransactions are popular not because most people like them, but because the few people that do buy them buy a lot of it

[@zackrose6261]

Though on big games where more money is needed to keep updating it even after launch, Micro-transactions or paid dlc.

[@Admiral_Grufus]

Star Wars: Empire at War, probably the oldest Star Wars game that still has a solid, wonderful fan base. Hell, the devs came back last January to help the modders with bug fixes. Like holy hell, this shocked the hell out of everyone

[@Norberzt]

Thanks for the info. More OG Star Wars deserve more justice to the OG Games made before 2010. Thankfully TT games made it possible for the lego complete saga to be more avaible to mobile users. Imagine if the 2005 Battle Front 2 was genuinely remastered minus the microtransaction crap of the modern era

[@J_Caban]

@Wyatt Peck who gives a duck about metacritic scores? I don’t think I’ve ever thought to look at a Metacritic score when buying a game

[@hamvirvalyshh9713]

A good game

[@derLenno]

Oh boy you just activated the nostalgia. Time to Download and play that great game!

[@Dan_Kanerva]

@Wyatt Peck i hope your comment is a troll bait

[@GraveUypo]

well, half life alyx ended up being exactly what you're asking. extremely experimental, innovative and fucking awesome. the problem is that it was a one-off and we're at a valve drought again.

[@Jayken96]

I was going to watch this video, but realised it was nearly 3 years old. I'll wait for the remastered video to come out

[@izucc4703]

“You cant rush art” - Old guy from Toy story

[@zacross8504]

“A delayed game will eventually be good, but a rushed game is bad forever” -Miyamoto

[@aaronskinner4973]

Too late!! Just patch the broken toy! It will be better.

[@ChewieLewis]

His name is Geri

[@aygwm]

I just read that in his voice

[@shpankey1053]

izucc I just finished watching toy story 2 lmaoooo

[@Isaiah-ft5nx]

Politics, greed, lack of passion for games, the unwillingness to take risks, lack of customer lash back for unfinished games releasing, and the cost of making a AAA game with modern graphics is hurting gaming.

[@imfatlloll]

agreed, i don't even want to know what future generations will have... only triple A titles with microtransactions everywhere while being rushed with no actual effort. finding good games is starting to become a challenge.

[@Noreallyimstarving]

I don't know if I'd say lack of back lash... Some of these crazy nutters send actual death threats to devs. I'm sure they get very creative in how they explain what they would do to them and their family.

[@i_likemen5614]

@@Noreallyimstarving they should have sent death threats to the businessmen running the company

[@ltchugacast131]

It’s hard to create backlash in the era of dude bro gamers that are like “stfu dude I don’t give a fuck. I just wanna play Fortnite and cod with my bros”

[@Noreallyimstarving]

@@i_likemen5614 death threats aren't going to do shit but land you in jail and on a watch list.

[@stefantsarev4442]

I loved it how in the Star Wars Pre-EA section (23:10) The Act Man included the original 16-bit "Falcon Vs. Tie Fighter" from SNES' Super Star Wars.

[@JoshuaTimothyHoward]

great video. thanks for putting this together

[@bananaskindevelopment2236]

1990's - buttons and joy stick 2000's - controller, mouse and keyboard 2010's - my mum's credit card

[@smokeyspy]

@Lord Farquaad oh no....

[@smokeyspy]

@Lord Farquaad Why don't you play with mine then

[@aesopwolf3126]

@Lord Farquaad MLG is over since 2015

[@jovenc4508]

www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=330

[@aesopwolf3126]

@@jovenc4508 okay Bro

[@The1Floyd]

More relevant than ever with the Cyberpunk release.

[@tiagosantos680]

came back for this

[@user-ok4du7nj5n]

Cyberpunk launch isn't that bad if you compare it to skyrim and dragon age inquisitions launch

[@ireallygotnothing]

Well people kept bitching and moaning about the delays so there's shit on both ends of the stick i think

[@dbstop9194]

Not to mention XIII remake and Marvel´s Avengers...

[@arimarino2]

@@user-ok4du7nj5n Games shouldn't be launched with this amount of bugs and glitches, and the fact that it happens so often that we normalized it is a problem. Yes, compared to Skyrim and DA Its not that bad, but the problem here is that those games and other games with similar problems were released decades ago, and the same thing keeps happening today.

[@Platinho]

amazing channel. congratulations on being so good

[@Drawn_Together_Lover]

Doesn't anyone see a trend of ports, microtransactions, unfinished games, unnecessary spinoffs, etc.?

[@supermariofan03]

Problem with that is does the average consumer care? The consumer who doesn’t read into what goes on behind the scenes at a company, never reads gaming news, doesn’t watch, nor do they even KNOW who AVGN, Angry Joe, Caddicarus, Nitro Rad or JonTron (When he reviewed games) are?

[@bim8498]

The most heartbreaking part is the amount of beautiful art and talented design wasted on overall mediocrity...

[@jokerbattle7331]

You are right about that. But what can they do. They need money to survive and big companies like EA promise them bigger pay than they will go for that option.

[@domnoya4130]

That extra profit from micro transactions dlc etc is not going to the devs. That isn’t money for the company to survive i guarantee. That is money for the stockholders and executives of those companies not at all the devs. They will push the boundaries on how much they can exploit the consumer until sales start to drop. Greed plain and simple greed or the need to constantly grow to constantly get that bonus for the investor and exec. In an capitalist market this will always happen eventually until the consumer stops spending and changes are forced through financial consumer decisions.

[@Uzabi]

What??? Today has literally never been a greater day to become an artist (not counting the corona), what you all guys are talking, literally?

[@Uzabi]

​@Coolest It is so easy to get a following on youtube / instagram as an artist right now. And if you have a following you can convert it into a business. If you are good at art, and people like what you do, you will get noticed! I really doubt it, if an artist, who is good enough at we he does, he wont be able to find a better job, or even start his own business... I am really waiting for a counter argument. I am really not seeing it. If you have any example of any recent bad / missused art please let me know (I will know where you are coming from)

[@Uzabi]

@Coolest Nice counter argument. I see you cannot even defend your point of view. "Purged from"? Yes especially artists like: * rossdraws * loish * kuvshinov ilya * cyarine * zeronis * anninosart and many more~

[@nopecowyt]

When you see that one of the selling points on a single-player game is "No Microtransactions." You understand that gaming has just gone down.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

That is easily changed by selling mods to the game.

[@danielfaress9879]

Greed And Advanced Technology is The Main Reason's Not To Mention Were Spoiled With Gaming in 2022

[@xtrawunsch]

I would say this is why i now enjoy watching reviews way more now than back in the day. I am too tired to go through the amount of trash that exists nowadays. This is why i appreciate independent reviewers and their craft so much: They will call the industry on their shit. People like the Act Man, Jim Stefanie Sterling, Zeropunctiation, Raycevick, Alanah Pearce and so many more are voices that we need now more than ever.

[@EricJh21690]

7:17 when you say take lessons from Bono but show pictures of Elton John that gave me a good chuckle 😂 Joking aside, I totally agree on your take about these things. In the last 5 years since this upload, not much has improved or changed unfortunately.

[@Istatymas]

For some reason it feels that when company faces too many problems with the game they just give up and release early access to get as much money as possible by making fake trailers and then run away from their creation as far away as possible without a second thought to finish the game.

[@tomhaswell6283]

This is an effect of the democritisation of game dev tools and engines. Small studios can make games, which results in gems that would mot have been possibly under the old game dev model but there is also the risk of broken, unfinished or just bad games. Publishers would just shut these projects down while these smaller companies can release that scam on Steam amyway and cash enough money to be successful. Sadly big companies like EA and Bethesda are getting on that trend aswell. A decade ago, a game like Fallout 76 would have been impossible to get released. It would never have seen the light of day.

[@tomboy_kisser]

Cube World. Go ooon, take the money and ruuun.

[@williambourbois4689]

You know, I didn’t really notice HOW MUCH lootboxes are in games nowadays A decade ago, it would have seemed crazy but now it’s normalized.

[@chironthecuddley6144]

I miss the days of unlockables, large post games and cheat codes. I don't mind DLC packs for costumes, story and more maps/game modes, but I HATE loot boxes. If I'm giving you my money, give me what I paid for.

[@martinivanov1319]

a decade ago they didnt exist :D

[@Nitrodino7875]

@@chironthecuddley6144 Agreed. I am iffy with costumes tho, but maps/gamemodes/ACTUAL CONTENT I am good to pay for.

[@tryeasy1634]

I miss grinding challenges with friends to flex on who unlocked what first

[@tryeasy1634]

Fwuffycodbunny Dude loot boxes are fucking horrible, it totally destroys skill gaps and the need to even become better. Why become good and grind out the time when you can type in some digits from a credit card and start facing people that have a much higher skill area because they actually worked for it. Fucking stupid

[@REOsama]

The indie scene is still full of innovation, it represents what gaming used to be

[@camerons6028]

you forgot the ultimate insult "What, don't you guys all have phones?" - blizzard

[@ragingsaviorkami9862]

Don't you guys want another P2W mobile games with gems, micro-transactions and energy system?

[@jdgustofwinddance.7748]

The problem is that “consumers” and “gamers” let them. The fans are part of the problem, too.

[@pysixguy8119]

Absolutely. People need to stop paying for the scammy in game purchases and also just stop buying games until you know they’re going to be worth playing. In an age of overly abundant garbage games don’t buy at release. Wait a while to see gameplay and then buy if it looks good. We need to stop rewarding producers for pumping out trash. It’s the only way to fix this mess.

[@ultraheaven8968]

@@pysixguy8119 What you're asking for is for people to stop being stupid which is a tall order

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

@@ultraheaven8968 I like the words u used

[@gabrielbay9739]

The fans are less eager to risk buying a new game

[@jdgustofwinddance.7748]

@@gabrielbay9739 games aren’t even whole when they come out anymore.

[@sgt_lensky]

Can someone please tell me the name of the music at 15:34? I remember it`s from one of my favourite childhood games, but just can`t quite remember the name of music or game itself.

[@jammydoddgerz1167]

It’s sad because it’s becoming worse and worse it’s made me not wanna play games anymore not worth my time

[@Bramptonboy2006]

Unfortunately yeah tbh can only hope it gets better but it doesn’t seem that way the only way is for there to be change 🫡

[@youknowyoufuckedupright3058]

It's mostly due to old investors and rich business men who never even played video games that see gaming as digitized casino's rather than actual gaming artforms.

[@tomhaswell6283]

Doesn't apply to all companies but that is one part of the equation. Konami is a 'beautiful' example for this kind of philosophy.

[@youknowyoufuckedupright3058]

@@tomhaswell6283 I was about to put in both old investors and rich business men, but I was in a rush when I typed this.

[@steve00alt70]

@@tomhaswell6283 there are millennial boss's that act the same so....

[@tuanseattle]

Go see Sharktank and watch Kevin O Leary then the answer is obvious. It's all about the money. More money. It doesn't matter how rich you are. You have to take the last cents. Even paying tax is bad. When you have greedy people who does not even want to pay tax, how can we expect them to care about anything other than profit (and short-term profit at that).

[@youknowyoufuckedupright3058]

@@tuanseattle I honestly hope that changes in the next upcoming years. With so much media outrage these days you'd think large companies like EA would take a hint.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

“Let’s make games to tell unique stories” “Let’s make games for fun” “Let’s make games.” “Let’s make some money” “Let’s make money” “Money.”

[@User-ge7ni]

tHeWasTeDYouTh it’s always been about the money dummy

[@darkness14267]

@@User-ge7ni Private companies trying to grow there business aren't about endless profits like a giant corporation. They would absolutely fail.

[@Revolver_Ocelot16]

Just like most movies

[@xzempty_8387]

dEEp

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

@@xzempty_8387 pretty deep. i like to go deep from time to time

[@sknnyd2676]

This video will age well. 2021 was a huge step back for gaming and 2022 hasn't faired much better

[@LuminesDragon]

The main problem with gaming is that it has became far too cinematic. Like you stated in the video the graphics, story telling, animation's have exploded in quality, but this has led a lot of the AAA studios down the wrong path trying to turn games into movies, so mass audiences can consume them. Games are games their biggest pillar's will always be the physics engine they use, and the options and tactics they give to the player to overcome the games challenges and puzzles. The gameplay is the horse and the storytelling is the buggy.

[@heywoodjablome2767]

Sony is probably one of the worst offenders of giving us over-glorified interactive movies masquerading themselves as "video games with cinematic cutscenes".

[@razorback9999able]

Not helping is that you'll have to go to the graphics settings to correct poor default settings, and arm your skip cutscene key so that you'll get to the exciting part. Playing video games is like playing toys, but in a digital space, and if the game doesn't give you interactive pieces to play, then it no longer is a video game.

[@harrisonward3464]

The most oppressed minority of all time: Gamers

[@yaboycyn]

@@TheActMan I'm quoting you on this

[@harrisonward3464]

The Act Man okay, maybe I’ve misspoken.

[@Ivy64_]

@@TheActMan carful extra credits might make you a nazi

[@josesosa3337]

Gamers get demonized so much. Will it be mentioned in history? Gamers are...... Racist Sexist Homophobic Anti women Pro violent Potential criminials Sociopaths Add to the list....

[@TheActMan]

@@yaboycyn OH NO

[@djdievjfkfjwhks]

"almost non of this applies to nintendo" Me: cries over pokemon sword and shield

[@silversmoke8398]

Yee. Was sad that wasn't mentioned.

[@concealedlag5989]

When I decided not to look at the game as what it could have been and what it is instead, I have found it's one of the better games in the past years.

[@MegaPunchMovies]

Well Nintendo only owns 33% of Pokemon. The Pokemon Company makes most of the decisions.

[@_terrorbilly]

The exception that proves the rule.

[@djdievjfkfjwhks]

@@concealedlag5989 imo it's easily the worst pokemon game till date. It has no story, the wild area gets boring fast and raids are broken. Anyway that's a big can of worms to open like I said just my opinion.

[@Michael-ex8lk]

The marketing team gets promoted over the actual game developers and it leads to worse games, more monetization, and quality cuts in all the wrong places.

[@JuT11]

I don't think it's relevant to compare the number of games studios released in the past compared to now, because it takes a LOT more time to make a triple A game today compared to the 90s or the 2000s. The standards of what a full price triple A game should be keep getting greater and greater each time a really good title comes out and brings new ideas. Consequently, games cost more and more money to produce, so game studios have to look for investors to finance their new productions. And there's the problem : the more money you invest in something, the less risk you will be willing to take with it. In the past, studios were able to produce and release games much quicker, and so more often, than today, so if a game flopped it wasn't that bad because you had several other games coming out soon to make up for it. GTA San Andreas was developped in 21 months and 10 million dollars, Red Dead Redemption 2 took 8 years and over 500 million.. The stakes for success and failure were not the same then as they are now.

[@GraceAlder99]

I disagree with your San Andreas to red dead comparison. That both took roughly same time to create. The only difference now to then is there are alot more ppl playing games than before... Gamers used to be a niche part of entertainment. Now everyone owns a console... Simply put the masses moved in on gaming n naturally so does the greed

[@gregorymirabella1423]

the saddest part is that this is what newer generations are stuck with. they'll think that this shit is normal.

[@shotshotshot]

Same phenomenon goes for movies too. Everything sucks now

[@TopFlightSecurity415]

i feel sorry for the youngins of this generation, from covid , to shitty jobs,games and movies smh

[@joebenson528]

@@TopFlightSecurity415 And public education pushing Social Democracy (aka fascism/communism).

[@jytvreal]

@@TopFlightSecurity415 they have to face 7 hours of school every day of their childhood

[@jessesdomain444]

Yup

[@Anastasia_Romanova1901]

*"We are concerned that Gaming is replicating the experience of 1973 Oil/Gas Crisis is known for"*

[@british-sama7007]

Ouff

[@lightzpy8049]

China ruins everything

[@Nezha_Main]

@@lightzpy8049 that sounds more interesting than "adman ruins everythign" tell me do they actually share real facts? x_x (this is a joke btw i know china ruins everything with pollution)

[@ihhh3631]

@@Nezha_Main Yes, human pollution

[@RATGODORIGINAL]

@@Nezha_Main china shits on economy all over the world and the world itself. But honestly without it we would be equally screwed.

[@UmbreonMessiah]

That moment with Artifact is the perfect summation of Valve since DotA 2 changed the company. Everyone was out of their mind excited for Artifact, the first online TCG where you could actually buy and trade singles with people. It was going to *change* TCGs. And then they limp-wristedly revealed it was tied to DotA 2 and *EVERYONE* jumped off the train. It could have just been another MTG clone and it would have gotten more attention.

[@toasty7553]

I find it funny that this video was a response to what was happening for gaming in the mid-late 2010's but even now in the early 2020's (and likely into the mid 2020's but hopefully not beyond that) the issues highlighted in this video are mostly still present and we even have new problems like games shamelessly being unfinished or just not working on current hardware (looking at you Jedi Survivor on both PC *and* console). Heck, even delays are not good signs anymore because there's little to no telling if the game is in endless development hell and should just be cancelled (like Redfall).

[@TGSGrass]

“...where launching a complete game is an urban myth.” This shit had me rolling 😂

[@chiraqg1374]

TGS Grass it’s not that funny kid

[@TheSovietFuze]

@@chiraqg1374 you're so tough!

[@LUCAS420BLZ]

It wasn't funny at all It was hilarious as fuck

[@tokezedits5127]

TheLegend its because hes from chiraq😂

[@collinghood6828]

Chiraq G13 no one likes you

[@damaskusseraph6046]

Let’s sell these corporate guys cars and when they get it they have to pay extra for tires, and paint while the engine DOesnt work, so we take a year to fix it.

[@shitemastermike]

no they have to get each part in loot boxes

[@damaskusseraph6046]

Michael Yeager no they get half the car first. Then get the radio, speedometer, interior in loot boxes so it’s mismatched

[@stylesrj]

And the seats should be made of nylon trash bags and not the leather promised.

[@aliceakosota797]

Dude all those cars are already shit to begin with lol should see the planned flaws purposely built in by engineer so the consumer has to hand more cash over to fix them same thing because why would they make a product that works and lasts? That's bad for business

[@stylesrj]

@@aliceakosota797 I hear the same shit about computers and this "planned obsolescence" people mention. "They deliberately design components to fail after 5 years so you should get a new one!" My computer is still running parts I bought back in 2012 (and 2013 when the power supply was faulty). Hell, it could just be a sleasy mechanic trying to sell you stuff like headlight fluid and the car works just fine with a bit of an oil change and new filters.

[@omgjimmyboy]

I think another problem is growing up while video games themselves were growing up a lot of people have lost motivation to play, maybe also a motivation to create. My favorite games are still final fantasy, Resident evil, devil may cry, star craft. The late 90s early 2000s was the peak of gaming and nothing has topped it. I will however say I loved bloodborne, last video game I enjoyed.

[@itdoesntmatter8224]

someone finally mentions the solitaire problem Thank you! @The Act Man

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

This video should be called the decline of triple A gaming

[@erwinlommer197]

There is no decline of AAA games. They are making more money they could even dream of. Ubisoft, ea etc. are all making more and more money every year.

[@gliderchucker9644]

@@erwinlommer197 I think we're talking about the moral and mechanical aspect, are we not?

[@GGamersUnited]

@@gliderchucker9644 Yes, we are! The quality is long gone! Pre-order fanboys live in a bubble though.

[@GGamersUnited]

@@gliderchucker9644 imagine so many kids growing up in this shit, they don't know anything else in order to judge and compare..having a sense of what is good and actually worth 60 bucks comapred to unfinished cash grabs. Adults can be even worse pre-order fanboys though and many young gamers are actually mature enough, also with big brains lol, to see the BS going on for years! Many are eating it up though....young or old. :(

[@JLuke2oo7]

@@erwinlommer197 you completely missed the point of the entire concept of this video. The fact that you think AAA games haven't declined because greedy companies are making more money than ever just proves the fact. Sorry mate, but you're a big part of the problem with this mindset...

[@Bojaxs]

It's a case of "be careful what you wish for". I remember back in the early 2000's during the (IMO) the peak PC gaming years, gamers were complaining about the video game industry not getting the same respect or treatment as the music and film industry. Some gamers wanted their hobby to be legitimized by having video games go mainstream. Not seen as just for nerds. Well, video games are now mainstream. Can we honestly say things have gotten better because of it?

[@littlesneets8026]

Agreed. Sometimes, things are better left as niche hobbies, because the environment of the mainstream media tends to denature the quality of the hobby, with the over saturation of memes, political activism and scapegoating, corporate shilling, and predatory gambling mechanics

[@SwarumtheForum]

@@derechtem0mo Yeah. We could get a ps5 for 80 bucks if the company who made it wanted to operate at a huge loss. Can you cite where you got this information from? Because frankly, what you just said is incredibly idiotic.

[@derechtem0mo]

@@SwarumtheForum If you use ur brain and just break it down to all the parts not having to cost so most because some greedy fucks make them overpriced and too expensive then there would be no problem with the prices of a ps5 i just told.

[@user-bm8xo3mw1k]

Any hobby getting mainstream will always eventually be diluted and suffer a slow but very painful death

[@nickthepick8043]

Hence why the comic book industry is a joke now.

[@jadenkootenay8549]

2 years later and nothing has changed

[@Charles-hy6gp]

Well greed has not limits, its nothing new. Why you think the gaming crash of 1983 happened?

[@hdhdhhxhsbd4864]

When you talked about how modern AAA titles are released unfinished and basically unplayable, I had to remember something funny: When I was 13 and started gaming in 2006, there was this RPG by a smal german game company called "Gothic 3". i don't know if anyone still knows this game, it was part of a series and the secod game, Gothic 2, was very much critically acclaimed at the time. I also started reading video games-magazines at this time and remember how everyone expected that Gothic 3 would be great. However, it was also released buggy as hell and got terrible reviews because of this but it is honestely kind of funny how that was kinda regarded as something rather unusual in the reviews I read. I remember this pretty well, everyone made so much fun about this while nowadays like 15 years later with all the technological changes and the billions of dollars more in the gaming industry, everyone is kinda used to AAA games from the biggest development studios having to undergo 374673276 patches before they work after release.

[@Perkonsmane]

Gothic is amazing a eastern european legend

[@2canines]

@@Perkonsmane "a eastern european legend" How so? I would say central European. Or maybe call it north European, more so than east at least.

[@Thund3r0v]

@@2canines It is Eastern European in the sense that, outside of Germany, it gathered a following mostly in Poland, Ukraine and Russia (not to says that Hungary or the Czech Republic and Slovaks do not know of the game). So while the game is German made, it was more popular in the former Soviet Block than in the West.

[@hdhdhhxhsbd4864]

That's interesting. .In Germany it was a huge thing, it was the first RPG that me and all of my friends who were my age ever played

[@bristoled93]

When I want to play single player I don't want to have to connect to the internet to be able to play.

[@MichaelSmith-cb8gg]

Me to I just want to put in a game and play

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

@@MichaelSmith-cb8gg Especially that put in! Physical copy. Not this update evey week crap. If they can't get things reasonably right in 3 updates, maybe it should be asked why are they bothering to make games.

[@nunyabusiness8538]

dark souls would like to know your location

[@paramesh95]

We have GOG for playing offline

[@Grim_42]

I think that’s for new updates and patches for the game

[@BlackouttheNightWing]

I don’t mean to sound like one of those “it was better in my day” people, but back when you couldn’t make patches to games, the devs actually had to released finished and (relatively) bug free products if they wanted them to be popular. But a lot of AAA game studios have become lazy now that they don’t _have_ to finish a game, they can just rush it out with the promise of a finished product later down the line, and they’ll still make money because people will pay for early access. It’s like paying to play-test a game.

[@custom-r]

And even there people are definitely going to make it popular all over the internet too. Free marketing as it were

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

@Aaron Moore I'm 22, and I totally agree with this fully knowing that back then games were MADE not PROCESSED.

[@akkros707]

Well back in the 6th generation of gaming not every home in America was connected to the internet unlike now where basically everything is online. So many games had you play offline which most of the time involved replaying single player campaign over and over again. Many games that had multiplayer forced you to play with 1 or 3 other people on split screen. Many games didn't have bots to play with (from my knowledge). The only game I knew from that generation that had bots was Medal Of Honor Rising Sun (2003). Also, if you had many other people over at you're house, you used System Link to link up you're consoles to play 16 player matches which btw, is anyone gonna talk about the fact that many games lack 4 player split screen now and the fact that Systen Link is non-existent due to everyone connected to the internet?! In the early 2000's, there was a huge lack of internet use which where if devs were making a game, they needed to check and fix any glitch or bug that makes they're game unplayable. Imagine all the buggy triple A titles being released during the 6th generation? yeah...what a fucking mess it would be or already is.

[@LOLNATIONCH]

You have clearly not watch enough of AVGN and others channel like his to said that. The Pac-Man port, E.T and alot of Atari games can be considered equivalent to EA pratice of buggy game (obviously no loot crate possible back then) just to make a quick profit. And while you mostly remember good games from the previous eras, you forget that alot of playstation 1, 2, 3 ; Xbox(S) are shit. Remember Kinect? Saying that things were better in the past is false. And if you really want to be nick picky, just watch speedruns, PLENTY of bugs there (some even skipping entire games).

[@akkros707]

Also let me add something as well. I never grew up with 80's consoles like Atari and all the other consoles and I can't remember any other ones. I also know that what I'm about to say is not gonna make sense or I'm not gonna have anything to back up my point and not have a lot of information so if I make a mistake, just tell me and also I don't know a lot of the 80's consoles. From what I've read on the internet, games in the past even before the PS2, Xbox and GameCube generation came, many games had suffered from memory card glitches, or half the time your memory card ended up breaking completely forcing players to just keep rebuying the same thing over and over hoping too never have to pay for another one again. What I'm trying to get at here is that there were games out there that suffered from saving glitches, shitty controls, and other bugs too. I'm not sure what else to say now.

[@captain_red_beard4202]

I just got depressed. Stopping at 23mins in. Need to go for walk and clear my head, then play some Vectorman 2 on my Genesis. I'll come back and finish hearing you out in a couple days.

[@worldofwatii7366]

i remember my favorite game when i was younger was Plazma Burst 1-2. waited like 5 years for PB3, i wonder why 🤔

[@djedwards8394]

Money took over. Suits replaced hoodies in the top floors of production studios

[@thewhizkid3937]

^ microtransactions...

[@electronresonator8882]

not a bad thing, you really need money, you don't pay your lunch with a hug, you can prove me wrong tho, pay your lunch only with a hug from now on

[@ccricers]

I think also it's from the salaries of game developers still lagging behind all other software developers. Mainly in part for the game industry operating more like showbiz than traditional software. The greed affects every person working involved in the project and takes advantage of someone's passion. Because you need a ton of passion to work for half the salary of a web developer and making a much more technically complex piece of software.

[@ReeseL4D]

Boeing outsourced their coding to minimum wagers. Shareholders care about profits and little else. Most politicians are lawyers, not business people. Most board members are experts in finance, marketing, business, management, law. They may know nothing about the product itself. They will sacrifice long-term goals/benefits for short-term profits because they do not intend to work there long. They want to cash-out with as much profit as possible. Same goes for politicians.

[@awesomeguy2009]

@@electronresonator8882 Well, I could hug someone tight until they go unconscious and steal their lunch:/

[@edgararakelyan2412]

As a kid I recall playing so many different awesome single player game that I could get lost in. Nowadays im lucky if even one video game comes out per year that can give this feeling.

[@thugnastynastythug9181]

I feel the same way

[@pysixguy8119]

I think there’s maybe one of these games every 3-5 years now. It’s pretty sad.

[@littlej493]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels like this

[@fluzzles]

@ObzPotato same here. My top favorite game, literally #1 for me is Team Fortress 2. I played that game back in 2009 until today. I had like 9k hours on my first account and got almost 7k on my current account. And I can't stop playing it. Its F2P and also has micro transactions(luckily not DLC's and not that extreme) but its acceptable and in my opinion still alot of fun. The community is holding together. Since fucking 2007. The games between 2005 to 2014 were the best. Now they just hide all their BS like mentioned in the video behind their "shield". All a hidden scam.

[@User-hv2sz]

@jagdish joshi Kingdom Come Deliverance has a real old school vibe to it. It doesn't really hold your hand throughout the game and its challenging. Its an open world story driven RPG game with a focus on medieval historical accuracy. It may not sound as exciting as a fantasy game but it really is a lot of fun. The game is not afraid to take it slow nor does it feel the need to add a pointless fight to everything. What I really like is the game's quests are designed to be fun. One of my favorite quests is going out drinking with a pastor and doing drunk shenanigans and having to giving mass service for him while being hungover. Good game

[@Novistadors]

Its so weird watching these older videos when the Act Man talked with a heavier deeper tone. Its nice to see he's gotten more comfortable and sounds a lot more natural in his newer videos lol

[@dennissinned6299]

I wish you would make a video about how unique Star Wars Galaxies was and it's mechanics. Sanbox game, where you could adventure, craft everything, have your own non instanced buildings, how detailed and deep the crafting was, the social aspect, etc. Many have made videos for different existing servers but just about everyone is focusing on combat.

[@mrfivegold]

Gaming isn’t dying, just the big industry thugs who ruin our games.

[@thvles1039]

That’s exactly it. Gaming is actually progressing upwards aside from that.

[@slycooper1415]

Yeah

[@nxxiv436]

Gaming in general became worse when India got mass internet access now all I see is PUBG Mobile all over youtube smh

[@mrfivegold]

People tend to forget a lot of middle market success stories like Greedfall made by Spiders studios. Why do you think Microsoft bought Inexile and Obsidian, they want the brains behind the games. And will do anything to make them happy, because Microsoft felt the fall of sales for Xbox when they let too many great minds leave jobs disgust.

[@seveamin1]

It is, at least with people i know. I used to be a gamer and havent played in 3 months most people have slowed down/stopped using around me( im not even old lol)

[@Alduizard]

Indie is where the innovation and passion is at. As long as people keep relying on AAA industry to deliver them good stuff, they will keep getting screwed over.

[@harrycoin5900]

Indie also has a lot of trash, blatant asset flips, or games that never get finished. Yet still, its also the place where you find innovation, or good reuse of old mechanics and style.

[@Alduizard]

@@harrycoin5900 Every single person who starts at game dev independently starts at indie. Therefore, substandard products are expected to be a thing. But what indie projects have that the majority of AAA projects dont have is the passion, so even in evidently lower quality products, you can witness thought and innovation.

[@Pajali]

Alduizard Also, indie games tend to be cheaper, so I’m more forgiving if it’s less than perfect. Obviously, it still needs to be functional, but things like graphical issues, glitches, or fewer features are easier to overlook in the context of a $10-$20 game than with a $60+ game.

[@Alduizard]

@@Pajali And the majority of indie games DO NOT have BS monetization systems and offer complete value for money. Look at games like Mordhau that offer such an extensive cosmetic customization with 0 microtransactions, where you always feel like every single element of the customization could have been easily held behind a paywall but it wasn't. Sadly, while we criticize AAA games for bad monetization, we don't highlight such games to the audiences to show the opposite end of the stick.

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[@Hollowdude15]

Great video man and have a nice day everybody :]

[@mckdogdrums3543]

Games have definitely lost their soul a bit over the years. This a great video and it brought up many fond memories of my xbox gaming years.

[@basedsneedclave175]

My favourite thing with this industry is removing basic features we had 19 years ago

[@ok-hd1fk]

Wich game does that?

[@Patricswift]

Fallout 76 forgot to be fun and that was around since before ET

[@nuge0133]

@@ok-hd1fk you cant play split screen spec-ops in the new modern warfare

[@infernalsymphonytv2928]

@@ok-hd1fk Wwe games are well renouned for removing features present in the first game 20 years ago only to add them back in after a few years have passed and brandish them as 'new' features

[@JoshuaKnight]

@@ok-hd1fk The better question is which ones _don't_ do that.

[@jasonkyleadams7577]

I remember "DLC" as far back as the 90s. It came in a box, had a manual, was usually complete, and had hours of gameplay value. It was typically bug-free (or nothing game-breaking) and you felt like you got your dollars worth. They called them "Expansion Packs". We are to blame for the way the gaming industry is evolving. Vote with your wallets.

[@RyukyuStyle]

if you had a computer in the 90s you wernt worried about spending money on an expansion pack lol.... pc gamers were people who were wealthy and middle class... console gamers have always been traditionally people who cant afford to game on pc. I think the problem now is because now poor people are being priced out of the console space now as well. I cant even play smash because you have to buy so many characters lol. i cant in good conscience spend that money on something like that when its above my means. it doesnt matter what i do, or how little i play and buy, this is only going to get worse and worse, so voting with your wallet doesnt do anything. the wealthy people with disposable income take priority and they dont have the same scarcity sense about money that i do, because i have to budget carefully to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. wealthy people get drunk and order things on amazon they dont even remember they ordered, because money means nothing to them. these types like the gaming industry how it is, because they dont care about paying more money to have a better experience than everyone els, they are wealthy. the feel entitled to have a better experience than someone who isnt wealthy.

[@istvanfodor9749]

Voting with your wallet is quite literally the reason it has taken this form. Companies follow what makes them profits. If you have people bitching about micros for cosmetics while also buying them, why should they change the business model?

[@arnoldmunez5057]

@@RyukyuStyle lol that game comes with 40 playable characters what are you talking about?

[@chainsawplayin]

Doom 2 is the most famous expansion pack ever

[@kurierklumpen577]

Amen

[@jimbuh]

Innovation in gaming is basically dead. The last game I played that felt like it belonged in the modern day was Red Dead Redemption 2. Everything since then has felt like a massive backwards step. 🙄

[@deadzedrossie]

Please like and share this video with anyone who truly enjoys gaming. This is a great video and it’s very educational. “We are the consumer” “We” must change this. Band together to be heard before gaming as a whole becomes to rotten and money sucking greed overwhelms the entire community to the point of becoming irrelevant. It’s not to late! We can change! We must change!

[@JizzyF83]

Remember the old wrestling games where you had so many ways to customize a character. But now all clothing items are locked behind loot boxes

[@jytvreal]

the only thing that costed money was the game itself

[@sabres_fan7467]

Tbh these days I take pride in rocking my boring stock cosmetics, it feels really good stomping a lobby looking like an average joe but knowing I didn’t spend a cent more than what the game cost me. It gets problematic tho when there are blatant advantages in loot boxes that you basically have to pay for(bo3 shotgun pistol for example, best sidearm in the game)

[@daniellamoreno3616]

For real though!!

[@aizen9693]

Smackdown vs raw 2010 lmfao

[@JacquesduPlessis11]

@@aizen9693 Smackdown Here Comes the Pain

[@TheAlienGangster]

That crowd reaction to the Artifact reveal is exactly how I felt when Fallout 76 was announced

[@twistedoperator4422]

Try 999% of games now

[@Mrhellslayerz]

I don't think publishers are actually good at defining what a good reaction sounds like compared to a bad one. As long as people make some kind of vocal noise, they see it as hype.

[@Ratzmoonmopes]

That doesn't make any sense though.

[@bigprojects2560]

Tried looking for a time stamp to post, got annoyed and gave up 🙄

[@nuclearmonster8084]

Hella agree Even before launch I was like "Oh no......."

[@SuperhotdogZz]

I’m playing Fallout 4 and had my phone on auto play and i was like who is this? Then I realized it was your channel lol. But man, the way you deliver the words has changed so much that I can hardly put you and past you together. On the side note, i quit gaming since 2014 and didn’t come back until recently, I didn’t find myself missing out too much.

[@johngibson1435]

bro please tell me all the game music in the background that was in the video pleeeease.