Why Video Games Suck Now (Part 2)

[@KillerJoeXD]

Watch the first video on this topic here - Why Video Games Suck Now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6rch2Whd9mKhac

[@davidagiel8130]

The end came When mobile gaming revenue took over, not because they were making better games, because they used predatory monetisation practices, and now so do consoles and PC games.

[@brodieorr5393]

Good point. This is an often overlooked factor. The reason there's so much predatory monotization now is because mobile games proved they work

[@SuperStig92]

The lack of quality experiences that mobile games possess is now being imported too on top of the nickel and diming

[@sladikk]

Part of the issue is that most people are in complete denial, saying that while practices as a whole are bad, a few good games like elden ring and baldur's gate make up for everything else being so terrible

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I miss gaming up to the 360 era. The 90's-00's is pretty much peak gaming. Timeless games don't need hyper realistic graphics. Some of the best games have unique art styles, unique damage effects, smaller more interactive environments, destructible objects, physics like effects or funny cartoonish or absurd type of effects. Anytime i say this someone in the comments always says: "umm well we have indie games" but my point is we need this kind of game selection on CONSOLES as well. PC's have steam & tons of access to a unique library of creative projects. Look at the Game Library of the most recent game consoles? Now look at previous generation consoles? There's no competition. It's not even close to the PS2, N64, PS1, Xbox, GameCube, Dreamcast, 360, PS3, etc. If game devs & game companies realize they are wasting such insane amounts of $ & time to make a game that still runs so terribly (no matter if u have the best PC possible. Which proves it's how these games were made. Not the tech hardware needing a upgrade. I bet we haven't even come close to pushing modern hardware to it's limits yet) *So if devs & companies can see it might not take so long to make a game, not cost so much money to make EACH GAME. Give these things a chance to prove they are capable of being timeless. Hopefully we see a resurgence of pure nerdy passion & focus from devs if they are allowed to just focus on smaller passion projects. Especially with today's technological advancements. Previous games should still inspire newer games no matter how far into the future we go. We shouldn't leave those unique aspects of gaming in the past. Hopefully the struggles of the modern day triple AAA games will organically shift change back towards a better direction. I just worry about the gaming industry being at a certain point where people who are severely out of touch with the core gaming community are the ones that are making the most decisions and forcing devs to do things they completely don't want to do because they know it's a bad idea.. I wish we didn't have so many game companies get bought out. I miss when a game was a project worked on by a group of passionate people who decided they wanted to create this passion project.. Now it's like a popular underground band getting bought out by a mega Corp and now they have full say in the way they play music and when they play music and what they say in their music.. I hope gaming snaps out of this dark chapter and they find their roots they left in the wake of the Y2K era..

[@666Daheretic]

I'm not reading all that until you learn paragraphs. However I will address the first few sentences before your structure became unhinged. Yes a lot of indie games are on PC but you can also be on PC and console. Furthermore a lot of these indie games don't require a PC that these AAA games do. They are well optimized and the heavy stylized graphics sometimes can run on integrated graphics. $600 will easily get you playing most if not all indie games you want to play and you can even do a lot with half that budget. Secondly consoles do have indie games. Xbox and Nintendo both have pretty good selection of indie games. Even Sony has a few themselves although admittedly not as much as the other two. Lastly if you want more of these games on the console you guys have to start supporting them. It's a fact that the vast majority of console gamers do not pay any attention to or even immediately discredit a game if its not AAA or ultra realistic graphics. You guys have to stop buying all the AAA slop and vote with your wallets.

[@JellyfishSwirls]

I feel the same way about so much of this. especially how money-driven so many of the games are now. in certain genres and franchises there is an immediate divide in skill level between those who have thrown an unreal amount of money at a game and those who are trying to do the (purposely) too painful grind of making it to that level without spending extra money. it's disheartening and also boring gameplay and really makes you feel exploited. i also agree that turning to older games and indie titles is such a comfort nowadays. there's a huge growing trend of emulation of old games that solves so many of these issues and is also accessible and fun. you mentioned briefly in the intro about not actually owning the games you buy. this is a really interesting point that i'd love to hear you go more in depth about because i find it crazy that i still own so many physical games from ps2, wii, ds, playstation that i can play any time i want forever. i know for a fact that a lot of my digital library now could be taken away at any point if the companies decided they wanted to. huge issue in film & music industry too of course - but a very scary direction for us to be heading in ! great video :)

[@KillerJoeXD]

Great comment, I feel people who understand what is happening will respond accordingly :)

[@MiguelDeMarchena]

9 months ago i decided to go full retro games, no more live services, no more digital licenses and no more micro-transactions. I am 50 yrs old and playing video games since the mid 80s.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Niiice

[@Retroloft556]

Preach brother. I`m in the same boat. Having a blast, too.

[@grizzlywhisker]

I stick to mostly retro emulation as well, but there is still a good game or two that comes out each year. Last year RE4 remake was quite good and the year before that had Elden Ring which was great (plus the new DLC comes out soon which will have the game explode in popularity again.) With that said, Nintendo's big first party games (Mario/Zelda) are usually worth checking out as well... But other than those few exceptions, the game industry is pretty much garbage and I have no idea why anyone is buying any of this stuff.

[@Nigel222]

On the plus side its very affordable to get a Laptop these days that will emulate everything from the NES gen up to the PS3 gen.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Very true

[@billy6427]

My opinion... The Savior of The Video Game Market will come from the (Younger ) Indie Game Market

[@gregwilliams4926]

The game that really made me take a step back were the recent fighting games. I love fighting games, and the recent 3 made me think how much better it was back then. Street Fighter 6, Mortal Kombat 1 and Tekken 8. Why in the world would you ever add in an in game currency you have to pay with real money as i already spent it on the $30 to $40 season pass and the $60 to now $70 game. Ontop of paying for the online which I don't do on Playstation anymore for years now. SF6 has the best gameplay but their avatar skins and alternate costumes are just insane prices. I can't imagine if they would ever make a super edition and all those people who spent all that cash on those costumes suddenly became free, just like SFV Championship edition. MK1 is so bare bones compared to the previous MKs that I went back and had fun with the Gamecube & Wii MK games. Every nostalgic skin has a $ on it. Its the only one of the trio that gives you the currency but not by much. Tekken 8 is the game that made me wanna quit buying $70 games day 1. I loved the story, but damn. Adding in a shop after its release made me very pissed. Not to mention a battlepass to get those previous obtainable custom items from Tekken 5-7 be on a time limit. This is why I miss having DLC packs. As dumb as it sounds, they go on sale all the time, this is locked on a in game currency that almost never goes on sale that you always have to trade your real money for fake money. I really hope City of The Wolves doesn't go down this route. I applaud KOF15 and GGStrive for not doing what the recent 3 added, even though I suck on both games it just feels refreshing and not tied down to squeeze the money out of you mind set.

[@mystman7722]

Same. I recall older fighting games you paid for ONCE and unlocked a lot of stuff by simply having fun playing and completing challenges. Now all these unlockables are now paid DLC, not only for cosmetics but entire characters. I can accept cosmetics but not characters, those are the core component of the game, to get the full experience I'm expected to make multiple purchases? Don't get me started on the annoying tier purchases as well: "super edition, gold edition, ultimate edition, etc etc" Nope, I'm out.

[@666Daheretic]

I've recently put 600 hours into Enshrouded. It's a 16 player coop survival RPG with huge focus on creative building so not going to capture everyone but it's really good if you like building and exploring. It has influence from Valheim, Dark Souls, and Breath of the wild but none of it feels hacked in just to have it there. It all feels pretty unified. Combat can be kind if meh. It is early access but the developers are very active in communication with the community. They also have been actively updating and balancing the game since EA launch. It actually has more content and polish than most AAA games do now.

[@bluetoad6848]

Games died when gamer's expectations dropped. If these half baked, low effort games continue to make money, then they're gonna keep making games the way they currently do. A lot of gamers, need to learn to exercise their self restraint.

[@atlantic_love]

Sadly they won't. People are actually dumb enough to believe that "preordering" games and buying the most hyped games "gives you clout".

[@esotericmissionary]

Funny how "nickel & diming" is called "microtransactions" nowadays

[@KillerJoeXD]

lol yeh

[@jeffreyrussell4874]

Pacific Drive is really original, and very in depth as far as progression and the game play is fun. Also Pinball M is free on steam and its fun too. Sker Ritual is 25 bucks for anyone who misses old school cod zombies.

[@sourdoughbornsourdoughbred4712]

Hey, this was the plan from the beginning. Thats why all media did the same things at the same time. Lockstep. They hooked us with decent games, movies, in hopes we would buy their propaganda later. All media has had "their" symbols in it since forever, same as today. This barely scratches the surface. Keep going with this your channel will grow. For example: why todd focused on starfield instead of elder scrolls? Because he was told to do so. The development time was less than 2 years I'd say.

[@KillerJoeXD]

;)

[@arkgaharandan5881]

The most fun i had lately was ashes 2063, its a doom mod that is a mad max themed adventure similar to half life, no grinding, no open world, no base building, no leveling systems just a short adventure with a beginning middle and end, no "post game" or season passes. I wish we could get bad to that instead of hundreds of hours of grinding and season passes. You bought a game in the 90s and 2000s and it was a complete game, polished with a beginning and a middle and an end. You played it, finished it, then you moved to another game. It didnt became a second job.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Ashes.. will have to look into tht. Yep I agree with everything u said here

[@gametones]

Before i clicked on this video, i learned that Halo Infinite is going to release a "Helljumpers" mode... i hope this video marks a turning point to return to a new era of gaming with good games

[@billy6427]

In Referring to The Early 80s Crash I have mentioned Quality over kust Just releasing a Game Several times. Its just common sense. Flooding the Indie Market with Cheap Crappy games has a Downside.

[@kez963]

Back when Carmageddon released it was controversial, today is just a normal gory racing game :P

[@KillerJoeXD]

Yeah I remember the magazines talking about that game it got banned some places right xD

[@glokiid]

Games suck now because we keep giving our money to these huge scummy studios and expecting a change

[@KillerJoeXD]

too true...

[@blueshattrick]

That "Tampa Times" article from 1977 has become infamous...

[@thomasjgour4678]

Crazy it's talking g about the small town I grew up in. Milton Bradley was there

[@Perfectblue33]

You seem do do a good job. I am a bit confused why you have 657 members. I will keep a eye on this channel. Have a wonderful day!

[@davidagiel8130]

Do what i am doing, play retro games and indie games, then boycott the entire entertainment industry until it changes or dies.

[@God-k5b]

No one gives a shit about your boycott bro. They will naturally have to change when they realize they need to stop listening to hardcore gamers or try to expand their market to include non-gamers. Hardcore gamers can be just as bad cause they might like specific things in a series that makes it unplayable for regular folk.

[@johnbartender3451]

This is what I do and enjoy at the moment.

[@666Daheretic]

I've been doing this for a decade now. All my friends said I was wrong. "Retro and indie games will never last" they said. Who's wrong now?😂

[@johnbartender3451]

@@666Daheretic Heck yeah. I’m doing a bit of god of war ghost of sparta on psp tonight. I let Legend of Dragoons on hold for a day or two, ps1 (the ghost ship part is a bit of a chore).

[@nordicwarriorgaming4953]

Yep. Play old games and tell your friends about it. Problem solved.

[@TylerMcNamer]

Fear of missing out? I never thought of it like that. I never felt like I would be missing out when it comes to video games. But now that you mentioned it, I can understand why and how these video game companies use this kind of psychology to their advantage. Arcades would do this when new games have been released, but years later, people would still go back to them and they are just as enjoyable. Think the whole missing out stuff all goes with the hype culture, and it is unfair. Comes to the point where the hype becomes far more rewarding than the actual game. Makes me think that video game developers these days treat gamers as stupid sheep willing to shill out their cash for any game being the most talked about just to stay in a community.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Yeh unfortunately many ppl do get sucked in by hype, some don't even notice/ignore how bad the games actually are comparably.

[@MiguelRodriguez-ff9wl]

For the most part it's not even the developers that want to "treat gamers as stupid sheep", they just make the game and take orders from the higher ups such as investors, who have to be made happy first, as well as the developer's game publishers, if game developer companies already had money at their disposal during the development process, then why even go to a publisher? Why should publishers exist then? They provide funding, and they own part of your game too. Game devs do want to deliver the best experience but management makes it difficult. This is what happens when anything goes corporate.

[@michaelhalterman8144]

The problem is 100% us. The consumers. Obviously there is a pretty substantial market share of us who spend loads of money on garbage games and microtransactions, otherwise we wouldn't see it so often. Also, to be fair, we have gotten some absolute bangers in the past few years. It's not all bad but we vote with our dollars and if enough of us quit spending money on all the things wrong with the gaming industry, those things will go the way of the dodo.

[@nordicwarriorgaming4953]

I stay well away from modern games and refuse to play or review them. Retro games are where its at. Great vid.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Thanks!

[@nordicwarriorgaming4953]

@@jamespaguip5913 I just don't trust them. I have more than enough games to last a life time.

[@FearNot777]

Excellent video, great stuff.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Much appreciated!

[@kevdogyt08ti]

A few are playable (and standable), but yeah - most games nowadays do suck... Hopefully they'll get better in the future (hopefully)...

[@jacoryarnett7347]

This is why south korean, china and japan dominated the gaming industry.

[@raptorskilltor4554]

Number one greed

[@grizzlywhisker]

Yeah, but it's not just greed. Greed is part of it, but they're also using gaming as a form of what's essentially psychological warfare. Corporations are abusing the medium in an attempt to manipulate public opinion and promote social/political agendas through things like "ESG" (environmental social governance) by promoting leftwing cultist ideologies... This is why you see more and more "woke" nonsense in your video games.

[@Jeustful]

I'd stop using mostly montages of bugs, as I've found them very distracting and kinda taxing when trying to focus as well on what is being said. Right now I'm on a slump after putting 300 hours on Cyberpunk 2077. Now it's a pretty amazing game. The open world is full of stuff to find and the stories it tells are so good!

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I barely play any new games these days

[@666Daheretic]

Have you peaked the indie and AA scene? Some pretty good bangers and they won't cost you a months utility bill.

[@geoffreychauvin1474]

I think a lot of the influencer as friend stuff is ridiculous. I remember how it was when games were amazing in the psx era and later ps2. Past that point games have been downhill and I'm just over it. I don't buy anywhere near as many games as I used to but I still get burned every so often and that just sucks

[@KillerJoeXD]

Me too man, me too, burned too much

[@selfingwithclare]

Nice video, made some good points Joe.

[@wub9044]

I said it in the previous video and I'll say it here again. Shut up about how "gaming sucks now" and support your indie devs.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Its all very well just saying "indie games"....Like what games? Where should people be looking? So many are just copies of each other or rip offs of other games. Its just as few and far between that something great comes out that I've seen

[@wub9044]

​@@KillerJoeXD Google exists for a good reason. "Indie [insert genre] games [insert year]". It can't be simpler than that. Also if you really believe they're just copies of one another then you're simply not analyzing them well enough and just assuming things. And even *if* you're tired of the same genre then just branch out and Play. Something. Else. *That interests you*. *Never* force yourself. Play something you *want* to play. I'd too get sick of eating the same sandwich for breakfast every day. That's why I'm switching to scrambled eggs or cereal. Just like how I switch from *Signalis*, to *Pseudoregalia*, to *Cruelty Squad*.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

3 reasons: -greed -the new religion: DEI -the immaturity of a majority of gamers who can't stop giving their money to companies that hate them.

[@Jumppig2]

Give one more reason and it'll be the 4th horseman of death of gaming.

[@chuckchan4127]

​@Jumppig2 Brain Drain of the industry as a whole. Good example is founders of companies like Bioware or Blizzard jumping ship.

[@jacobblaustein7779]

How is DEI a religion? Please define it if you can

[@positivea9111]

I like this video, you know the answer, you don’t blame capitalism for most problems of gaming like most entitled anti capitalist children and it’s feel refreshing. People always want to give up on life and just point fingers at the current problem we have in modern gaming, but I can tell that you have determination for a better future in modern gaming.

[@TylerMcNamer]

*This never happens in the pinball industry.*

[@KillerJoeXD]

Haha

[@valetboy21]

The pinball industry is a completely different animal. To own a single pinball machine cost more than almost every console and you need to have knowledge on how to maintain and/or repair your machine, or know some one who does. This can often times include the need to know how to use a soddering iron or how to read an electrical schematic to trace where a faulty wire or blown fuse might be. And the price of modern pinball machine can be cost between $5000 and $10,000 for games who final code has not been finished and in few rare cases never even get their final code update.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

@@valetboy21 Dude... it's a joke.

[@valetboy21]

@@The-Man-On-The-Mountain And how am I supposed to know that? Pinball is a very niche area that most gamers are not informed on. I happen to know quite a bit on the matter and I felt like sharing. Sorry I missed the punchline. I promise to wear heels in the future so that the jokes don't go over my head.

[@delaineexd3271]

Well said joe 😭😭

[@KillerJoeXD]

Thanks! :P

[@grizzlywhisker]

I just want to know who is buying these terrible games and paying for their worthless digital goods like "skins" and whatever else. The losers who are purchasing this stuff are nearly just as culpable for destroying the industry as the con artists selling it... Last year I played RE4 remake which I thought was quite good, the year before that I played Elden Ring which was fantastic. I play maybe one or two video games per year at this point because there's just nothing else worth my time/money and that's just the way it is. Other than the upcoming Elden Ring DLC and the overdue sequel to Hollow Knight, there's really nothing else on my radar for video games and I'm okay with that. I feel like maybe many young people do not have hobbies or aspirations outside of gaming so they end up just buying whatever garbage is out there and fueling the demise of the gaming industry.

[@alien777]

Alan wake 2 love it, Favorit game ever.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Really? I still havent got around to playing it yet

[@alien777]

@@KillerJoeXD o love it. Is Not for everyone. But you can feel the love the devs but into it, and there is so much Story (so much you can find,that at to it - commercials, short movie, Songs, fbc files) The gameplay is something like re3, but it has uniq twist alla remedy. And the Music Bangs. The story, Chefs kiss.

[@chappanagent]

Last non woke pure entertainment game I played was Arkham knight, hitman woa, witcher 3. 🇮🇳🙏

[@SteveBrandon]

How about "making the sort of content that used to be accessible in single-player mode multiplayer-only"? Aside from it being always-online, which is an instant deal-breaker for me, multiplayer-only career mode is another reason why I won't be buying Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown despite having bought and greatly enjoyed the first two Test Drive Unlimited games, both of which had full-fledged single-player career modes in addition to the option of playing it as an MMO. (Sorry, Nacon, I know you're pushing multiplayer in TDU:SC because there's far less incentive for players to spend money on microtransactions in single-player mode but I've never been interested in online multiplayer and I never will be interested in online multiplayer.)

[@KillerJoeXD]

Yeh for Microtransactions. Its a shame they see the millions being made by others and go for greed

[@just_stevesey1782]

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug

[@brodieorr5393]

A month's rent? Where you paying $70-100 a month for rent??

[@brodieorr5393]

Even 200 is cheap as hell

[@KillerJoeXD]

Haha. It was hyperbole. Exaggeration

[@brodieorr5393]

@@KillerJoeXD I know I'm playing lol

[@Westile]

6:57 "Making a good quality game and making profits were directly linked - one in the same." Lol you wish. 7:17 "You didn't make a purchase on hype alone." LOL YOU WISH 99% of people purchased 90% of their games based on the box-art, commercial, and premise; the games could be 6/10 mid and a 4 paragraph long article """reviewing""" it wouldn't save you from purchasing it since they never delved into specific details.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Lol. I have to say I don't remember getting a dud game back then. They were always at least complete and finished and in line with the price. If a friend had recommended it, or it was in a gaming mag and peeked my interest it was usually worth it. Even like a game based on a cartoon or movie, like taz or bugs, batman/xmen would be more reliable than anything made today But as i said maybe not the 80s games before third party games were more controlled. But that was before my time lol As for the profits. Some ppl may have made a buck or two on a lesser game. But the big bucks were reserved for well made great games. Now even trash is making big money, using manipulative monetisation tactics.

[@Westile]

@@KillerJoeXD Sorry but the AWESOME MARVEL GAMES were typically a 5-hour watered down beat-'em-up where they spent 90% of the budget on advertisements and licensing and then use a fancy commercial to have kids buy an average casual game. Marvel vs Capcom and Spider-Man 2 are good, but those are some of the exceptions. Hulk 1 and Spider-Man 1 on PS2? Completely average dog-water that was slapped together because gamers back then (especially kids) had no way of ascertaining whether the $60 game back then ($100 now, inflation) was actually worth it or not. There's no article or review back then that's gonna tell you how run-of-the-mill the combat is and that the web-slinging is a gimmick. Games back then sold based on appeal and good advertising. You're a kid and you like Hulk? You saw the commercial for his new game? That was a sale, regardless of quality.

[@chiapets2594]

Cyberpunk doesn't suck

[@primeoetgrunn]

Cyberpunk had a very problematic launch to put it mildly. While the stories, characters and worldbuilding were really good from day one... the technical issues made Bethesda games look polished at times, though. It is a good game now, dare I say it's one of the best available at the moment.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

cyberpunk does suck, the problem with cyberpunk was not it was released unfinished but that the story sucked and it was a rpg without any choices. Also now it has level scaling it sucks more because every enemy is a bulletsponge.

[@Scornfull]

@@arkgaharandan5881 The story is amazing what the fuck are you on about

[@Lavonne1]

Smh just shows the gamers are the true fault

[@asura-astrian9760]

@@arkgaharandan5881 nobody asked you

[@sibel9272]

Do you only play AAA games? We have gotten plenty of great indie games. Katana Zero, Pizza Tower, Disco Elysium, Inscryption, and so on.

[@bobbob9821]

The rise of paid KZbinrs and react streamers ruined gaming. This introduced the concept of the "Flavor of the Month" video game. This means that game companies can now release games that may not necessarily have enough content or quality, but are flashy enough to attract the attention of streamers and generate initial sales. However, once the initial hype fades, these games are often abandoned by the companies.

[@SUPERFunStick]

I hope i misheard you or did you straight up call out only one game in this entire video and it was dead space? Of all the actually deserving games to call out by name, you choose one of the only games in the industry that ea destroyed with part 3, but eventually realized how stupid they were, and dropped a totally beautiful remake last year. If anything it's a total success story all around for everybody because dead space is the only game i can think of that gamers adore, ea destroyed, then actually listened to us and gave us a remake of one of the greatest horror games ever made and turned up every awesome part of it to 11 after

[@KillerJoeXD]

Erm... "left a lot of dead space in video games"... that part? Haha, I meant empty space in the games as in not much to do., not the game dead space. No I tried not to call out many games really because theres too many let downs it would be a whole other video to list them :)

[@kaydog2450]

Ah yes blame everyone for games sucking now its funny how there a large group of people who dont even play videogames i bet are being blamed too its the devs that should be blamed for their games sucking

[@Tribow]

video games dont suck now. Tired of seeing these videos

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

AAA sucks now. Indie has never been better. Kinda clickbait title.

[@KillerJoeXD]

Thoughts on ur fav indie games from the last year or so?

[@RacerC45]

Stop with the rage baiting. Video games DON'T suck, okay.

[@Neon_Bayhem]

I keep seeing in my recommendations videos about how games suck now or how games are boring now or how games use to be better in (insert KZbinr's youth years console generation) but I'm in my mid 40s. I've been gaming for nearly 40 years and I enjoy gaming now more than ever. Y'all are either playing games wrong or playing the wrong games for you. There's choices. Lots of them. I own nearly 150 games digitally on PS4and I've never owned nearly that many games in my life. I haven't watched this video and I won't.

[@MiguelRodriguez-ff9wl]

It's the business side of games that hurting games as a whole, with predatory monetization practices, unfinished games filled with bugs at launch, loot boxes, the "fear of missing out" model, live-service games, dumbed down game mechanics so the casual player doesn't get hurt or confused because he doesn't understand basic math for an RPG game, all of our favorite games that use to never be this bad, are now bad, companies saying "pre-order now" after just show casing a CGI trailer that didn't even have gameplay. Every major titles does the same thing too in their games, they all have leveling systems, crafting systems, perk-based progression systems, "follow the way point" systems, armor with stats. Multiple of millions of dollars are poured into these huge games and they'll do anything to please the investors first, which hurts creativity on the developer side because they don't have a final say.

[@Neon_Bayhem]

@@MiguelRodriguez-ff9wl half this shit was happening in the 90s too. I pre-ordered every game I wanted back then and was even suckered into getting the strategy guide. I don't preorder anymore, heck I don't even buy games at full price or day one. I play f2p games a lot and I don't spend money anymore. I haven't spent more than $60 on Fortnite and after I spent $200 on Warframe I learned to play without spending and even started earning platinum on the auction market selling shit. Waypoints and markers are no different from the strategy guides they use to push us to buy. I have less time to play so I appreciate the conveniences anyways. I love RPG mechanics in games, I use to play a ton of JRPGs in the 90s and never got into CRPGs so simplified RPG mechanics are normal to me. Fomo only affects the young. Live service games can be good. I'm juggling 6 games right now so similar gameplay helps though jumping between PlayStation and Nintendo is still jarring. Gaming today is good. I don't pay more than $30 for a game usually but I did buy Granblue Fantasy Relink full price. P.S. The good thing about seeing gaming my way, I'm always a happy gamer. Games don't make me sad or angry or disappointed.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

I like games like half life, system shock 2, tomb raider 1, soul reaver, etc, games that are not wasting your time with crafting, base building, grinding, repettive side quests and other crap and have a solid experience from beginning to the end by taking you on an adventure. Now there is barely any games like that, its all looter shooter, crafting survival grindfest time wasting times a thousand with seasons and season passes and seasonal events and more west of time and they are never finished, nor on release or years later. I have no idea why anyone would waste their time on a game like destiny 2 that is gutted and changed since it was released beyond recognition and one day it will be taken offline.

[@Neon_Bayhem]

@@arkgaharandan5881 there are more games released every year than ever before. All kinds of games are being made. The type of games you like are still being made they are just not the mainstream because that's not what the majority buy. If mainstream games have crafting it's because that's what sells. No lie, I've spent over 1000 hours on Fallout 4. I use to be a Survival Horror and JRPG guy in the 90s and 00s but now I really enjoy these kinds of games.

[@Neon_Bayhem]

@@jamespaguip5913 you lack reading comprehension if you think my position is different from yours. Read my comment again and take it in. Evaluate what you are reading. It's not that deep. I use simple words in a simple way. Also it's "you're" and writing a sentence like "your wrong about gaming sucks" is terrible grammar. English is not my first language and I know that much.

[@cjjorge6636]

i am a rom hunter i will not be ripped off by them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cjjorge6636]

THEY NEED NEW STORY'S AND STOP FPS GAMES WAY TO MUCH THEY SUCK ALL THE SAME !

[@abcdefg3214]

Games were poorly made, you had to put you're imagination more into the game to compensate... Now we are over relient on better technically made games to give us an experience rather than make our own...

[@thomasjgour4678]

Not sure about poorly made... the graphics were not the best but the game itself was far superior to anything out today. Developers back then had to do more with far less. You definitely had to use your imagination and so did the Developers, wh8ch is why the games were better. There's games from the 80s and 90s that I probably put 3k ir 4k hours on vs today it's mostly trash games but good graphics that can be ran through in a few days..