The Downfall of AAA Gaming

[@thenoonty]

fortnite sadly revolutionized gaming for the worst.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Yeah

[@razorback9999able]

So does Minecraft and WoW

[@ScienceBabble]

It's not just gaming, it's the entire entertainment industry

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Facts

[@LuckySam56]

This why indie games are slowly becoming more popular. Because of AAA garbage

[@Jayyy_20]

It’s sad how some of the best new games I’ve played are indie games (Fears to Fathom for example). These big companies don’t give a damn about us and it SHOWS

[@HOF_ryan]

@@Jayyy_20facts

[@thespacedisland5746]

There's a lot of indieslop tho. It's all about le retro psx graphics fastpaced breakcore heckon validating boomer shooter

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@thespacedisland5746 Thats true aswell.

[@RacerC45]

Not all AAA games are bad, you know.

[@NineNovem]

I can boil the gaming industry down to one unifying problem: They're made for the wrong reasons. Creepy ass propaganda, unbelievable amounts of greed, straight up stripping us of ownership (always online)... I didn't ask for *any* of this nonsense. I've been gaming ever since the PS2 days and my standards really haven't changed, nor are they very high. Is it good? Does it have a robust offline single player? Yes? I'm sold! But nah. These companies clearly don't want my money. Gotta appeal to that imaginary "modern audience" instead. Fools.

[@MasterChef1957]

The fact that the batman arkham series the og xbox 360 game is better then the newest game suicide squad kill the justice league should just let you know how bad things have gotten

[@DeeDogg-b5o]

Exactly lol you would think new technology would make the current games 10x better

[@plebisMaximus]

The central core issue is it became a profitable industry. Nowadays, the people owning these big, publicly traded companies aren't developers or game designers like it was way back when, it's investors who invite their investor friends to buy their way into key roles and they hire people with the same profit and growth mindset as them for middle-management, which leaves the actual designers, programmers, artists and so on with their hands completely tied. I wouldn't even be surprised if I was told most developers never gave a fuck about games in the first place anyway, since almost everything I see concerning tech is about getting a job. Anyone with passion would've burned it out ages ago or gone indie to keep some level or artistic integrity. The AAA gaming industry is no longer about making games, it's about making money and it's headed by a bunch of people more interested in driving up stock prices through feigned growth and fancy buzzwords than in games. If you told me someone like Bobby Kotick had ever played a game, I'd want some pretty solid proof before I'd believe you.

[@georgearm1253]

Exactly what I'm thinking. Online gaming was exploited to line the pockets of people, and I guess most companies couldn't resist. Remember when Epic made bangers like Gears of War and Infinity Blade?

[@sneakycacti]

yup, covered everything

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@sneakycacti Thanks bro I appreciate that

[@aaronatkinson177]

I've been playing the new astro bot game recently and man does that game take me back to where all video games were like that instead of how most video games are like today

[@MiraiChiaki]

The cure is to play everything and get out of your comfort zone. Between adventure games, JRPGs and so on there is so much to play

[@vHollywoodZay-]

This is definitely true

[@MiraiChiaki]

@@vHollywoodZay-I’ve gotten bored of gaming in 2020 after playing Black Ops Cold War. What I’ve done to not quit gaming was… going out of my comfort zone. Downloaded Persona 5 since it was free on PS+ and I had a blast with it. Now I have so many games to play I don’t even know where to begin

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

Games stopped being really cool after 2013 imo. There's still great games after that year of course, but from there on we saw a decline with every year. Around the beginning of the 8th generation I think is where it began. Games like destiny in 2014 really kicked off the dissapointing AAA games segment. Destiny sold so well and got away with its bad practices and grindy nature that other game studios would follow suit with their games. Next thing you know battle passes and more became more popular. However, those are only a few of the issues that led to some of the games we have today. Lets hope eastern game studios don't follow the wests kind of game development, although we can already see Japanese studios bending the knee. Anyway, great video. GT4 is truly a PS2 masterpiece. I can see myself playing it even 20 years from now. GT6 has the largest car list if I remember correctly, but the menus are uninspired and meh.

[@EmperorDionx]

Pandering to the lowest common denominator is the inescapable endpoint of all game companies and this concept is why they will all eventually die. Ive said it many times and ill say it again: Normies. Ruined. Video Games.

[@Bombman297]

I like to fill my backlog with indie games and selectable AAA games such as Astro Bot, street fighter 6, Re4 remake, Stellar Blade, and Zelda botw

[@HOF_ryan]

All very good game choices

[@aaronatkinson177]

I've been having fun playing astro bot 😊

[@Agent-mb1xx]

you buy woke trash such as SF6?

[@awsome1010101]

Video idea: games you've enjoyed recently, even if the list ends up being all indie or remakes/re releases. AAA gaming has definitely been on a downward trend for over a decade now, but they only make up a fraction of game titles that have been released in recent years, they just have the biggest names.

[@CRCR0201]

Imo remasters are necessary if the games are inaccessible on modern platforms like MGS4. What I do hate is stuff like those Last of Us remakes/remasters

[@vHollywoodZay-]

I agree

[@coletale]

I'm gonna save you 50 minutes: don't like microtransactions? just play games that don't have them. don't like unfinished games? just don"t preorder and buy into hype. creativity is subjective! if you prefer retro games, just play retro games! it's not hard.

[@quinnlankittson8570]

Chapter 1 Fortnite was genuinely the last good gaming era

[@MasterXeno0]

I'd argue early 2010's as well. MGR was one of the best games I have ever played in terms of combat and story without sounding cringe or emo.

[@braydenwillard5505]

Agreed I’d say 2000- around 2013 or so

[@MasterXeno0]

​@@braydenwillard5505, exactly. It was a perfect era. I believe it reached its peak around that time period. From 2016 onwards, it is visible that gaming started dying. They were choosing graphics over story and/or mechanics.

[@Ronbotnik]

yeah from the early 90's, till around 2013, gaming was absolutely fantastic 8th generation of consoles was the beginning of the falloff

[@braydenwillard5505]

@ couldn’t agree more bro

[@baki484]

2015 was the cut-off with the few good games being diamonds in the mount of sh*t.

[@sharpester7277]

That racing game montage to the beat of the GTA 3 theme song was quite a cool touch.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@sharpester7277 Thank you 🙏 I really appreciate that

[@oik-es1]

I can pretty much agree with everything you said, W video keep up the great work gng!

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Glad to hear it

[@SONICdopeFRESH]

Honestly, I think gaming is dying for us because we're getting old. I'm 35. In the prime time years imo of online gaming (07-14), I was 19 through 25. The online friends I made, we didn't really have lives outside of either college or a job that we worked to simply buy games for. Well now, we're all older, with wives and children, and life has just caught up to us. Responsibilities and stress keep us from playing religiously, and when we do, there's usually enough on our minds to where we're not fully immersed like we were when we were those young carefree adults. These games now have insane quality, include everything we wished for when we were younger... It's just that we're older now. It sucks because that magic will never come back, but we have the memories, and emulation to preserve the older days.

[@customconcern1]

I feel like this than I go back and play megaman and can’t put it down. Halo reach I’m playing for the first time and it’s amazing and don’t wanna stop. Even cyberpunk now that I’m finally giving it a shot is really good. It’s just games get overhyped now.

[@evankrauss4]

NGL it sucks the gaming industry’s only current goal is, instead of making everything feel unique and fresh, COPY EVERYTHING FORTNITE DOES.

[@Nasiromar410]

I love your point about the creative aspect of gaming being basically dead. I think another factor we have to account for, is the whole BIG BUDGET. These devs get the mindset they are too big to fail because they own a certain IP, they get told “hey we need to make X game” and that is it there are no risk taken or restrictions put in place for the devs and when you have no restrictions it’s hard to be creative because ANYTHING goes, creativity is always bred from restrictions or constraints In all, it’s hard to think outside the box when there’s no box. That’s why older devs were much better because they had to work with what was given and CREATE new ways to do things. Everything is formulaic these days.

[@clonetrooperderp]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1722">28:42</a> nfs most wanted... my goat...

[@andynextgen05]

I started playing more single players instead of the typical NBA 2k. And I’ve been enjoying them more and more. I can boot up cyberpunk and drive around and lose myself and the world I’m not expecting much from the world but I’m able to make my own fun.

[@mixy4244]

I personally think that the main problem with modern gaming is the fact that most of games don't even have got enough time to innovate, like in any direction, like take Call Of Duty as an example, like damn, while playing new COD Black Ops 6 i literally felt like playing the same thing as in previous games, just with some better graphics, a little bit changed game mechanics and maps being a little bit diffrent than before, I don't think it's worth my time and money if i play the same thing. But when you go to older games, like Call of Juarez (R.I.P. CoJ btw) you can absolutely feel diffrence between every of the games, like these don't feel recycled at all, which is great, they feel fresh and I like it. I think making game from the ground up (Not like FM8 did) in the end wouldn't really hurt, because if games feel new and is actually pretty damn good, then people will play it, enjoy it and not refund it after playing for an hour. I know that it's buisness after all, but cmon, it feels like they just copy and paste most of the games, like couldn't they actually try something new, like nfs prostreet for example, it feels like an diffrent game, like damn even nfs undercover does feels like an diffrent game (yeah, it's controversial take, nfs mw fanboys would eat me alive if they saw that). Sorry if i made no sense typing this, i'm quite tired while typing this, have a good day/night

[@Remooverevans]

I downloaded the new cod game yesterday off gamepass and decided to give it a try because why not? I didn’t pay for it. I found myself honestly kinda enjoying my time. I hadn’t touched Cod since Cold War. So it’s been 4 years since I’ve played a new cod game. Vanguard looked booty and the 2 modern warfare games looked boring and uninspired. Maybe it’s because I haven’t touched the series since Cold War but I found the multiplayer experience enjoyable. They still need to improve some things for sure but I haven’t encountered anything yet that is super annoying or game breaking for me. I think that my experience is a good idea of how it would be beneficial to space the games out a few years. It surprisingly felt fresh to me which I know people that have been playing the past 3 entries have not shared the same opinion.

[@Riptoc]

Golden age was 94-04

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@Riptoc I said my opinion. But thats a great time you just mentioned also

[@Riptoc]

@@vHollywoodZay- I feel like 2005 was the beginning of the downfall with the release of the Xbox 360. We started seeing digital only games and microtransactions go crazy with that console.

[@Flintonda23]

what a evil world we live in now.

[@chamir-d8l]

W video bro. I cant believe that NFL & Street got canceled

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@chamir-d8l Same man. Its crazy

[@KyleYoung2012]

I still like modern gaming even though most of my time is spent on retro gaming

[@mar1hunnit]

Same here

[@Agent-mb1xx]

1998 to 2011 is my pick, from Ocarina of Time to Dark Souls, the greatest game ever made

[@GoodFuude]

your writing was so good you got me playing grand turismo 4 just for all those tracks and cars

[@Nigel222]

There was a tonne of variety in the PS3/360/Wii generation and thats all gone now. It was much easier to make a profitable game back in those days. We will never get back to that same vibe in gaming again.

[@jumpman2326]

Sports games been trash for years but at least we getting some heat with boxing games like undisputed coming out and then ea decided to be making a new fight night after we begged them for years and just ignored us, now they wanna make a game because they see a opening to make a lot of money but couldn’t do it when we wanted. All these companies care about money these days.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

I heard about EA making fight night. And to be honest with you bro, I think undisputed isn’t that good. But I understand where you’re coming from.

[@NFSBeast2365]

LGBTQ propaganda killed my favorite game

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@NFSBeast2365 Whats your favorite game?

[@NFSBeast2365]

@@vHollywoodZay-Need for Speed. The latest game had LGBT flags in the decal editor and a trans character. While I understand these people exist, I disagree with their lifestyle choices.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@NFSBeast2365 Honestly, I agree also

[@NFSBeast2365]

@@vHollywoodZay-nothing wrong with your opinion. 👍🏽 Edit: I love Midnight Club! LONG LIVE MIDNIGHT CLUB. My favorite rockstar game

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Thats good. I love NFS aswell

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

Astro Bot is a good game

[@aaronatkinson177]

Fun to just like how a game should be

[@RedzaMalaysianCrossover]

I love this type of video. Very well made mate. I want to mention a game called Def Jam: Fight for NY, a celebrity/rapper fighting game made by EA in 2004. The game looks ambitious and quiet ahead of its time. Just imagine if the game came out today......... You may notice, most of the good games don't even need to have fancy graphics. The better/realistic graphic is = The less charm of what video game supposed to be. Oh don't get me start with a lot game came out recently have Fortnite'ish looking character model and graphics. And then insert DEI ideology stuff that appeals to no one. I hate that.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

I was playing Def Jam Fight for NY last night lol

[@hussainahmad5688]

Gaming didnt fall off its just that social media unfortunately points out the bad games much more than the good. There were some horrendous games in the 2000s but you ignored them and played the actually good games. Why not do the same now

[@arthurgamerpro6585]

I agree, look at the 7th generation for example, before a lot of people focused on the bad side, but nowadays everyone loves it to the point of forgetting the bad side, I think it will be the same for the 8th generation

[@bigMax1337]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="732">12:12</a> that's called patron lmao

[@vHollywoodZay-]

True lol. Im not doing that I like thats unnecessary

[@PrettyboyAshtun]

i finish a game and feel noting nowadays which sucks

[@TexasLonghornEnthusiast]

Bro doubled back on madden im cryin 😂😂😂😂

[@geraldgreen2203]

He has a deep hatred for madden and I don’t blame him

[@yourpststudios]

The Max Payne mechanics really were game changing when it came out and still are now. They cannibalized that game to make everything else but never gave it any love for doing so much for gaming in general. I hated how the multiplayer was in that game because I would get whooped all the time and after months of trying, I realized that the reason I sucked was that I was used to unrealistic fast paced shooters where you take 10 hits before you die and that game did not play that.and after I came to that realization, I loved it! Problem was that by that point the game was already dying and it was getting harder to find a lobby. As far as 2K goes, I still play 2K14 and love every second of it.

[@AnonymousC2218]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2899">48:19</a> LMFAO I'm dying 💀🤣 Great video 👍

[@HaloEra-t2s]

Nothing but facts imo. Keep it up brodie

[@vHollywoodZay-]

💯

[@PowerfulRift]

Finally real common sense.

[@TheGr8tPlays]

Glad people are freethinking and sharing their thoughts🙌🏾💯💯covered everything you needed to for sure RE: Iv been saying for years that the only way for lobsters to leave the bucket is if they all work to move the bucket but honestly if everyone stopped spending money all at once on these companies then they are forced to listen

[@Noxis07]

Regarding the broken/unfinished games angle: I feel like it should be the platform owners' responsibility to ensure the games developed for their consoles are up to a certain level of quality. Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo should be outright penalizing developers/publishers for releasing broken products. I doubt Microsoft and Sony were thrilled about having to issue refunds for Cyberpunk 2077. I mean hell, Sony did punish CDPR for that little stunt of theirs. I just don't understand why this isn't the norm.

[@WARLORD626]

Sadly there's only some good Indie game's.Theres a lot that are litteraly just cash grabs next to mobile games.

[@DeeDogg-b5o]

Great video I wish you talked about shooting games more though. Army of Two was a classic

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Army of Two was a goated game franchise

[@RacerC45]

I'm still hard-pressed to find a modern AAA game that is objectively worse than Skull Island: Rise of Kong or The Day Before.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Concord is lowkey just as bad you’re point doesn’t make sense

[@pauloricardo-wn6ps]

@@vHollywoodZay- delusional stuff, concord was boring and generic, skull island and day before were straight up unfinished scams

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@pauloricardo-wn6psThat doesn’t change that the game was pure garbage lol. Comparing a game like concord towards any on those games that bro mentioned doesn’t even make sense.

[@dbzfan4evermj233]

I am 12 minutes in and I agree with everything your saying this video deserves 1 million views

[@HOF_ryan]

NBA 05 was my favorite one. I used to play with my father all the time when I was a little kid

[@vHollywoodZay-]

I used to play the game first thing in the morning when I was like 7 lol

[@Honed-]

im sorry man, ive been saying this for years, your just screaming into the void, the only thing that speaks is money.. i stopped giving companys like these my money, but people just keep spending anyways...

[@VCiPz]

Amazing video, all truth was spoken. Subscribed 💯

[@vHollywoodZay-]

I Appreciate that! I will

[@eigengrau1]

Ew, Nomi and JD Beck playing the MF-Doom beats (rhinestone cowboy).. Now this was a nice surprise! And yes, all points here hit the nail; I'm happy and thankful for beeing a teenager in the 90s/00s .. Last and best time for Gaming, Music, Films, Trends -you name it.

[@AsymmetricalCrimes]

One thing I'll mention is the feminization of gaming has always been a thing. MGS2, which came out in 2001, literally tricked and lied to its players that you'd be playing as Snake through the whole game, switched him it out of nowhere after the prologue and had you play as an effeminate blonde dude who's gf constantly nagged him all game and to this day people love MGS2. It's not about what's in the game, its the execution.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@AsymmetricalCrimes I agree. I just feel like it wasn’t used as a way to send a message that they were attempting to push in our faces

[@outofshapebatman]

Dude what the hell is Kratos doing in fortnite

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@outofshapebatman Kratos is in Fortnite because of both companies knowing that they’ll make more money off the collaboration

[@outofshapebatman]

@vHollywoodZay- it's just weird to me because the Kratos I loved from the PS2 was the antithesis of kid games

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

I walked past my mates younger brother playing Fortnite and seeing Kratos, Goku and Rick teabagging some cartoony looking guy who built a tower at light speed was something I didn't think I'd see.

[@makikuma91]

Damn, this video has it's own vibe, it's fun listening to you. Been watching a lot of foulmouths and screamers lately. But you just lay that stuff out there and say it like it is. And yeah, I agree, it's weird now with games, especially with all that money that those companies have. Not all is lost, though. There are so many bangers coming out as well. And even games like sea of stars get free updates and dlc's soon. There are still developers who really care. You just really need to carefully look. Before I purchase anything nowadays I always wait for reviews and gameplay videos. Never, ever pre-order, bro.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Thanks I really appreciate that. Yelling for 50 min was not gonna happen 😂

[@billybobbibeau5121]

Racing games are my jam and its insane how nobody talk about how little meat there is on the bone rn and how fucking gross it is Even big racing gamers dont seem to realise that the last really good big budget racing game came out in the xbox 360 days There is a few okay games out there but they havent been updated in years Right now were treated with a very safe forza every year, a confused need for speed every other year, forza horizon but made by ubisoft and once a generation we get a gran turismo Also mario kart just died sometime a decade ago apparently There is no reason for me to pick any other game than forza currently (except i wont even play that id rather play pgr2 or one of 40 different racing games that offer their own unique experience that came out in the 2000s) because they are all the same and forza is just floating on top as a result because of big budget and the fact they are the only ones that put out games lol

[@baki484]

Here is what I've noticed. We wait longer for new IPs up to over a decade with comes out with less features despite it copying what already exists (Gotham Knights). We wait 5-7 years for a sequel only for it disappointing because its broke or the improvements are marginal to non existent (Marvel's spiderman 2). Big budgets for graphics? That crap is only good when you jump in for the first time after that you don't care the gameplay is what matters spiderman 2 or Gotham knights prioritizing graphics over performance especially the latter. Trend chasing... Yikes Gotham knights, Avengers and Suicide squad chasing the generic co-op, looter, and live services or rpg high. Ubisoft already ruined that sh*t with their rpg AC games. Gotham knights giving the same vibe turned me off immediately (devs who made it were from Ubisoft).

[@trievoluzione8868]

Project Gotham Racing and Driveclub got killed way too early. The only racing game that interests me now is Assetto Corsa but that's more of a sandbox like racing game. Its deadass sad how many racing game ips got killed off...

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Facts

[@billybobbibeau5121]

The pee filter in forza horizon 1 is half the fun :>

[@rinoyujin]

Go woke go broke.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@rinoyujin 100%

[@pauloricardo-wn6ps]

>baldurs gate 3 >life is strange >the last of us part 2 >cyberpunk 2077 >alan wake 2 >spiderman 2 keep coping tho

[@rinoyujin]

😂!

[@whiskeygamer9402]

Games that start from 1979 to 2020 is all I play these days 👍🏽🥃

[@xROCKLOBSTUHx]

I saw a picture of 343's staff compared to bungie... 343 is all female... possibly she/her, they... but either way. That explains Master Chief. This video hits all the marks. I full heartedly agree with it all.

[@Hakaishin-225]

Everything always gets ruined by big corporate companies

[@LonelyStardefender]

just wanna point out,the first one to blame is the gaming community,yes...but the plateau is shared with microsoft they were the first one to charge to be able to play online when everyone was giving it for free...and the community allowing them to do so instead of xbox sales plummeting is what made other companies to say fuck it,well do it too that alone shoulve ended the same way the "online required to play" went,microsoft being mocked and competition makiung ads on how to share games anyway,now we here,take it

[@bigMax1337]

I'm sorry monetization is on gamers and the game playing public. If nobody buys those games and the micro transactions they'd be a thing of the past. You can put it on horse armor or team fortress 2 hats but people bought them.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Thats true

[@Moziilla.Firefox]

i agree ✅ good video keep up 🔥😃

[@Wickedred413]

I appreciate you homie for saying what a lot of people are afraid to say about modern gaming and the gaming industry.

[@baki484]

People are saying these, things they are just drowned out by the consoomers.

[@Wickedred413]

@baki484 it's hard for companies to listen to people when they have money clogging their ears

[@illegalwaffle]

One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while. Definitely will be watching that vid on Madden soon because I hate current madden as well

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@illegalwaffle I appreciate that man. That means a lot to me

[@Pavlov-animation]

VR still doing good

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@Pavlov-animation True that. Especially with Arkham Shadow releasing

[@Abosone]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1540">25:40</a> that domi & jd beck madvillainy tribute earned you a sub my friend😂

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Im happy someone realized it lol. Thanks for the subscription 🙏

[@OfficialSSMunitions]

I think the title "The Downfall of AAA gaming" would fit this video better. Cause your title is making people think that the entire industry is on the shitter.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

True let me fix that

[@OfficialSSMunitions]

@vHollywoodZay- Well done.

[@Wwolfzy]

You can sell your car in fh4 but in action house.

[@FavoredPizza]

It’s always money pump out less maximize profits

[@commandervulkan]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1028">17:08</a> Yes because we've never used a pronoun for a Robot such as Optimus Prime, R2D2, The Iron Giant, WallE, Robby the Robot, or Bender

[@vHollywoodZay-]

There all robots bro they don’t have genders. This was a stupid comment.

[@donthasselthehoff5753]

​@@vHollywoodZay- Yet in every single one of the mentioned franchises characters in the stories have used pronouns for robots, except for Wall E. Calm your tits.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Doesn’t matter 😂 a robot in general cannot be a male or female. Thats all im saying goofy

[@SkyTied]

What's the background music here called? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="79">1:19</a>

[@SkyTied]

Also here lol what is this track 5:03

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@SkyTied 1:19 is Close by Foewi 5:03 is Noon by Foewi

[@krux02]

Games are at an all time high. Never in history did we have access to so many games at the same time. Never was a time, with so many game releases as today. Never was there a time with as many board game releases as today. Yea, there are super popular soulless cash grab games out there. But guess, what, you can ignore them.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Doesn’t matter if most of the games we have access to are Mediocre lol. Not saying there aren’t good games

[@darklord9581]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="959">15:59</a> also I feel like it’s a Sony agenda to push for female leads, didn’t they start off with the uncharted and infamous second son that had female leads on the ps4, then we had the last of us 2, ragnorok also had a couple scenes and arcs with the female leads, we had the forspoken fiasco, Ribbet in rachet & Clank and now we have ghost of yotei that also has a female. OHHHH and let’s not forget they are bringing in Silk in Spider-Man 3 or her own game. I honestly believe it’s a Sony Agenda. We could also say Horizon, but her case is odd. Like apart of me feels like she wasn’t a agenda pushed character but after seeing them remake horizon I believe she’s apart of the trend like a remake of her game before Days gone or blood borne you know what I mean…. 😅😅

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

Female leads can be good if done right, Tomb Raider is a prime example. Problem is, most big US companies like to make empty soulless women characters for the sake of pandering to a crowd that has never touched a game in their lives. It's not women gamers don't like, it's poorly written characters and shallow gameplay. (Which seems to be the norm these days.)

[@darklord9581]

@ yeah and also a lot of the companies always try to make the women more manly then men and it’s not bad but a lot of it is forced lol. Like I was playing black ops 6 the other day and most male operators are calm or tech savvy then we have one woman look super agro mean muggin and then we have another one doing pull ups lol☠️🤣even in Mw2 Alandro looked way more normie then his former female partner who was in the cartel all tatted and jacked 🤣

[@BaseballGuy66]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2381">39:41</a> to be fair, saying the people who support the game are so stupid comes off as opinion bashing, and I know that Gravityball thing is very stupid, some people can like it if they want (even though it isn’t about basketball) everyone is entitled to their own opinions

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@BaseballGuy66 Your honesty right. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I need to work on accepting that not everyone has the same mindset as me.

[@craigratio]

Damn you Michael Transactions.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Lmao

[@FamousKidd24]

2k is really the worst imo. Myteam and Park is lowkey impossible if you don’t have a lot of time to play. Its either spend 100s of dollars or Play for 10 hours a day

[@ZahJehm]

I will say the master chief point is asinine. Some gay people are masculine as well, and may seem themselves in master chief other than his inherent heterosexuality. Also just don’t wear the pride skins, they’re for people celebrating pride and in ally ship with the gay community, like how some white folks had blm in their bios. I think that point was a bit overboard in trying to prove games have gotten soft, other than that I agree with that segment wholeheartedly.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

I ain’t mad at it. You have a point

[@gimme.shelter]

Bought Wildlands yesterday, very boring game. Car physics is sluggish but not in the satisfying way, felt like it's magnetized to the floor. The sign were always there.

[@billybobbibeau5121]

Well wildlands isnt really a car game, its not perfect but its a fun sandbox

[@trastewere]

👏👏👏 very well put video. 100% agree

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Im glad you liked it

[@codytravers]

RIP Radical Heights

[@aaronatkinson177]

I love you gameplay of sleeping dogs 🐕 i love that game wish it got a sequel really unfortunate that the game may not have a future still a fun though

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@aaronatkinson177 Sleeping dogs is one of my favorite games of all time

[@davidavery7718]

Honestly had me till he said Arkham Asylum was "10x better" than Arkham Knight. Like bro take off the nostalgia glasses fr

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Bro are you deaf??? I said GOTHAM KNIGHTS. Not arkham knight

[@baki484]

He said *Gotham knights* clean the wax out of your ears. The arkham series improved with every installment.

[@skyzocka]

Woke shit is destroying it, but more and more people are rising against it. GTA 6 will bring a new golden era.

[@roughrambo1000000]

We'll see. Rockstar has been backtracking on some humor from the older GTA V releases. We also got to remember that Rockstar isn't the same company that made GTA V and it's earlier games

[@nathanscorpse8035]

Yeaa that’s not the reason it’s mainly bcuz these corporations are just greedy and if ur going to say they are trying to target more people because of inclusivity they’ve been doing that for years trying to market to a bunch of weird 12 year old boys

[@Senti17]

Idk man Rockstar is slowly becoming what they made fun of in the 2000s I doubt they brave still. But VI will bring a new era

[@nathanscorpse8035]

@ rockstar has always been known for making satire games and showing the idiocracy from people they were making fun of ppl like the commenter lol

[@pauloricardo-wn6ps]

isn't rockstar already woke for rewarding the player with good karma points for killing r*cists in RDR2? or for making the protagonist of their period piece western so specifically not r*cist, s*xist or h*omophobic? or for making one of the protagonists of the next GTA a woman? if not then i can't wait for GTA6 to have a gay or trans character that isn't a stereotype and a bunch of pride flags through out vice city and see a bunch of 30 yo virgins losing their minds

[@Ryan_Mercury]

Great rundown, many thanks!

[@vHollywoodZay-]

My pleasure! Im glad you enjoyed!

[@DoomyRei]

Cod has cool skins collabs too I love it

[@novelcrownzero2341]

Facts bruh these companies are snowflakes

[@FufuMonkey]

Not hating I think the rest of the video was good and you had many good points but you talk so slow it sounds like you cut multiple times mid sentence.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@FufuMonkey I appreciate the honesty bro. I’ll make sure I won’t talk so slow.

[@retrogametech1626]

They want each player to have there own console that’s why there getting ride of coop games

[@darklord9581]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="435">7:15</a> should of mentioned the Battlefront collection lol. All they had to do was update the visuals and give it a good online and the game could of lived for some years but they released a buggy messs of a “remaster” not even a remake and to top it off the main selling point for a lot of us was the online multiplayer and yet they only had 3 servers in release and they were all laggy and bad servers lol. They had goldmine and just blew it up from small mistakes lol. Like the amount of disappointment and dissatisfaction those rereleases has caused for us. Just buy the PC OG version and okay online.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

You’re 100% correct bro. My mistake

[@darklord9581]

@@vHollywoodZay- I was so broken over the release and a lot of other Star Wars and battlefront fans were upset. Like all we wanted was online for OG Battlefront 2😭😂

[@vHollywoodZay-]

@@darklord9581 Yeah I remember that. EA pretty much destroys everything they get their hands on sadly

[@floopygoober5003]

when the youtuber is making decent points and then they go into "le masculinity being taken away"🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

It's funny how all the games in the thumbnail are made in america. I personally avoid american politics being shoved in my face by not playing games made there, works 99.9% of the time, the remaining 0.01% is that one government funded game from some European country somewhere that was so boring it's hard to remember the name. The one where words are power and the "heroes" gaslight their enemies to weaken them.

[@KhizerKhan-s2j]

New games are not trash ❌

[@Hakaishin-225]

😒

[@vHollywoodZay-]

Sure buddy

[@baki484]

Your display picture is of the disappointing sequel (spiderman 2) I've ever played. It was missing the side activities of the first 2 games, stealth is definitely worse with AI that's even more braindead and combat devolved into a castrated, gimmicky joke with worse gadgets like the web grabber and upshot, no suit powers, suit and visor mods as it was mostly stripped back. The only improvements and good things are Yuri Lowenthal's performance, traversal and visuals. The devs conformed to some stupid article that has issues with spiderman working with cops in the first 2 games so the cops are non existent. Let's talk about Bryan Intihar and his ego getting in the way of actually making fun game or improving the where the game is *clearly* lacking instead of shoving crap like the MJ sequences or the Hailey sequence. Spiderman 2 largely failed and rode on the hype of the first 2 games and pretty visuals. It's spiderman so everyone will clap like a seal buy because spiderman sells. That's why the "switch up" happened honeymoon stage didn't even last for this one.

[@baki484]

​@@vHollywoodZay- You're right about games being overly sensitive have you seen how the characters in spiderman 2 talk to each other? It's like they are scared of offending each other like HR is watching them.

[@vHollywoodZay-]

😂😂😂 Thats what im saying bro. Its some people in my comments that have a issue with what I said for some reason

[@snotz]

dude, fuck yes...