Worst games of 2021 - Get your popcorn ready.

[@hman1801]

I look forward to this video every year. Truly unfortunate the state of gaming... especially at the triple a level.

[@TRANCERwin]

by far the worst side of the industry.. .for me the only games deserve my time are the indies, if it weren't by them i wouldn't be playing anymore.. .such a shame :/

[@scottmune4484]

Yep, Indies and the AA's is where its at. Who is aaa aimed at anyway ? Ironically it feels like they are certainly not aimed at us 'hardcore' gamers.

[@Tclans]

Yea, tripple garbage

[@WetAdek]

@@scottmune4484 ''Who is aaa aimed at anyway ?'' 10 year old kids who get their games brought by their moms and have no idea bout gaming but SHINYYYYY.

[@AncalagonGames]

and people still keep buying them so the games will stay this way

[@123rodham]

“The music made me want to vomit on a kitten”. “ I wouldn’t follow these f***ers into a shop, let alone a battle”. Just absolutely hilarious. Don’t ever change Mack 🤣

[@Gruntvc]

The X-ray vision song got me. Hilarious.

[@Keglanek]

Back in the day, many moons ago. You had developers who would make games they themselves would want to play. Todays gaming dev midset is, 'how can we make this interesting enough to hook them in, but frustrating enough to make them buy lootboxes'. Then move onto the next project, to make more money for the shareholders because the shareholders are the REAL customers.

[@Insan3Mach1ne]

so sad i was too young to buy a stock

[@Danielkaas94]

STONKS 📈

[@Diree]

Not entirely correct. What you're talking about are executives beholden to share holders. I'd reckon that most Devs still care about the product they're working on. No Man's Sky is a good example for this. It's still not a "success story" in my book, more a cautionary tale, but let's be real, EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizz, you name them, they all would have abandoned the game and moved onto the next project. Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't released the way it was, because the devs said "fuck it", they very clearly said the game needed YEARS more time to develop, yet the execs said "do it anyway". Yes, sometimes budget runs out, sometimes you take on too much, but I think 90% of the times, poor executive decisions kill what could have become a good game (eventually for some). Instead we get MTX, battle passes, season passes, real money shops, betting, and terribly boring copy-pasted games with lots of busywork but little actual gameplay.

[@ayejay4028]

@@Diree OP is spot on, its really sad how the tech is amazing now, but the actual quality of games has declined significantly

[@andypants1000]

The sad thing is it wasnt even a long ass time ago. Early 2000s still had some great games coming out. Even late 2000s still had some fantastic games.

[@johnpatz8395]

Mack, I’ve got to say, it’s great to hear you laughing, even if it’s how crappy some games are. Take care my friend, we’re all wishing you a speedy recovery!

[@Ervin-1190]

That ending! :D They're dumbing down games to a point where you actually start feeling offended.

[@immutablecantrip]

You've saved me so much money by talking me out of buying games I didn't need. Hope your arm is doing better mack

[@littleaussierippa]

Thanks once again Mack for all you do for us ie: playing shitty games so we don't have to. I hope your arm is getting better. Have a happy new year.

[@ivyfoo502]

I feel like it's been the past 5 years that AAA gaming has been consistent in letting me down.

[@1Jack22]

I think it started around 2012 with Mass Effect 3. The whole decade had like 15-20 good games. In 2000s I've been playing single player games nonstop and I always had some more good games to play.

[@IskenderCaglarM41B441]

​@@1Jack22 2012 had: kingdoms of amalur reckoning Cs go transformers fall of cybertron Sleeping dogs Darksiders 2 Hitman absolution Ac3 Mark of the ninja Max payne 3 Dishonered Far cry 3 Cod bo2 -------------------------------- 2013 had: gta 5 metro last light ac4 bf tomb raider Super mario 3d world Fc3bd Metal gear rising Splinter cell blacklist Coj gunslinger ----------------------------- 2014 had: Bayonetta 2 Wolfenstein the new order Watch dogs I would write more but this is enough for now. Downfall starts with 2015 or 2014. So you are wrong, very wrong. Shame on you.

[@1Jack22]

@@IskenderCaglarM41B441 from this list I only liked: Dishonored, Mark of the ninja, gta 5, Metal gear rising, played most of the games in your list but dropped them, AC has always been shit since the first one, the only good is Odyssey.

[@IskenderCaglarM41B441]

@@1Jack22 I don't care what you like or not. The games I mentioned are great and loved by many people. And that last part is also incorrect. My point still stands. 2012, 2013 and 2014 had great games. Congrats you failed everything!

[@TranquillityOfficial]

The final clip always gets me. Love your reactions Mack and get better soon. These worst of X year videos are my favourite that you make :)

[@divinecomedian2]

Did someone say X? "X-ray vision, x-ray vision, x, x ,x"

[@carbonstar9091]

I'm thankful there are tons of small and medium game companies putting out fun stuff.

[@deadlyrobot5179]

"tons"

[@strakermidwich9679]

Please enlighten me. Valheim was about the last one worth playing!

[@TastySanchez]

I lost it at "I wouldn't follow these fuckers into a shop, let alone a battlefield" 🤣🤣

[@jjjaime1633]

Lol

[@richardrichardsnotface6229]

I love the way the Far Cry designers tried to make every single one of the games characters look unique and different to the point where none of then stand out and instead look like a bunch of pretentious woke pant sniffers that are about as believable as Bigfoot and likeable as a flamethrower to the jaffas.

[@bricktop.]

My my, that's a lovely blouse you have on

[@BlatentlyFakeName]

They have all been the same since the 3rd one. In fact all Ubisoft games are pretty much copy/paste with a reskin lol.

[@Tetarkall]

@@BlatentlyFakeName Yeah, I’ve noticed how every Ubisoft release, across all their IP’s, have just been The Division reskins. They ruined Assassin’s Creed, which I though was one of my favorite franchises before Origins came out

[@breizhrudie4757]

@@BlatentlyFakeName idk, 4 wasn't that bad. 5 felt empty tho

[@joebloggs8785]

It's not all bad; the worse the games in a year, the more entertaining Mack's video is!

[@deadlyrobot5179]

Well, I'm not playing any video games anymore and as you said 'the worse the games in a year, the more entertaining Mack's video is!'

[@captainalex157]

i applaud your positive outlook.

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

I can't remember a worse year for games, everything was garbage

[@vormina9808]

I believe in 2020 we entered the new Dark Ages. I have never before seen soooo much garbage from the entertainment industry, and not just games, but all of it.

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

@@vormina9808 it started way before 2020, around 2011-2012. It's only gonna get worse from here gonna have a whole generation used to shit games, shit everything

[@busupshot83]

It’s because many of the large AAA studios are being pressured into decisions that aren’t for gamers, but rather for quick cash grabs for the publisher. It will continue until people stop purchasing the cash grabs.

[@ddm_gamer]

@@busupshot83 So its never gonna stop......

[@tgrainwater]

I watched The Matrix: Resurrections last night with a friend, and my oh my-what a travesty. Don't waste your time on it, Mack. Get well!

[@zackari]

Saw it on my phone for free

[@timmeh69er78]

Could feel that it was gonna be shit

[@frederickvondinkerberg7721]

They should have got the two guys who made the 1st movie back to make this one

[@redinthesky1]

@@frederickvondinkerberg7721 The irony in this statement is better than anything in the movie lolz

[@AleksandarBloom]

There are people who like new Spiderman yet call Matrix shit. Those people are brainless dolts.

[@ZenoGy]

It has all turned into a scam . Execrable gameplay , yet flashy graphics so Nvidia can get you to spend 2000 sovs on fucen videocards every upgrade . . The games I enjoy are so old that I can still use my i7 4790k and 1080ti from NINE years ago . Previously used to build a new PC every 3 years or so . Kinda glad I escaped that $ loop .

[@unstableordinance]

You can with most games, but a lot of games are so poorly optimized that only the best rigs will get decent frames

[@joshfoss7407]

the 1080ti came out 4 years ago. The 4790k is 7 years, but it's a processor so they run forever.

[@ZenoGy]

@@joshfoss7407 Youre absolutely correct . Apologies , I built the thing in Dec 2014 , not 2013 like I thought , and I think I used a GTX980 initially . I shoulda edited out the Nine years part . Recently was looking at what the 3080 costs in Aus , approx $2500 , and felt sorry for the ppl building a gaming rig nowadays in order to play underwhelming new games . Cheers mate

[@FxtrotOscrRmeoDelta]

4790K was a beast of a processor. It lasted me from a 760ti to a 1070. I literally just upgraded my system. But the 4790K and the 1070 are still goin strong.

[@Caliboyjosh10]

couldn't agree more on the state of AAA this year, I don't think I played a single one. But as always the little indies never fail to deliver.

[@Grudgebearer47]

Japanese triple A games are still really good though. It’s just the western ones that suck.

[@unstableordinance]

@@Grudgebearer47 Too bad about Sony going into the deep end, a lot of Japanese developers are jumping ship

[@Grudgebearer47]

@@unstableordinance no doubt there will be time they will get worse. But so far they’ve been dominating the trope A scene. Monster hunter rise, resident evil village, shin megami tensei, tales of arise, Nier replicant, final fantasy xiv, final fantasy vii intergarde were all better than any western triple a game.

[@MMACinephile]

Best Triple A Games of 2021 (Not in Order) Returnal Hitman 3 Deathloop Halo Infinite It Takes Two Tales of Arise Scarlet Nexus Psychonauts 2 Forza Horizon 5 Monster Hunter Rise Life Is Strange: True Colors Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Marvel's Guardian's of the Galaxy Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury All in all, while it was yet another horrible year for triple A games, there have been some good ones, (Not sure if It Takes Two and Psychonauts 2 are actually triple A by the way) and I'm not saying all of these games are good however, most of them are. There have only been around 5-10 films total this year that I have somewhat enjoyed. There hasn't been what I consider a top tier film since last year's The Father starring Anthony Hopkins. In the last decade or so, the only films that truly grabbed me were The Father, Interstellar, Ajeossi, Up, 1917, Hacksaw Ridge, Mud, Shitter Island, Blade Runner 2049, and Django Unchained.

[@stevemaclaine4547]

Best fps rage 2 ,one of the best games ever.

[@aquapendulum]

2021 will be remembered as the year where the game industry figuratively vomitted all over the market and its customers.

[@VisualdelightPro]

Including the Chinese and Japanese games industry

[@jarigustafsson7620]

and being finally called out also of their decade old abuse of their poor workforce

[@31er_ohne_AMG]

Wait don't be so fast, 2022 could be worst

[@Pers0n97]

I can see a clear recurring theme here. It's pretty clear that the woke hacks that wormed their way into the current AAA studios have no clue on how to do military games. I mean, it's pretty hard to do that kind of stuff when you are affraid of gun and hate the military.

[@austin4702]

Ahhhhh. The Mack I LOVE... thanks for a good laugh pointing out the trash in gaming in these ridiculous times. You don’t know how refreshing it is. ❤️

[@Trigg3rHippie]

That Panzer IV in BF 2042 jumping on those rocks like a dune buggy looked ridiculous.

[@vormina9808]

Apparently there's no gravity in that game, that tank was bouncing like a beach ball.

[@juliantheapostate8295]

Would have come in handy to bounce across the balkas in the Donbas in '42!

[@kesamek8537]

Big studio gaming in 2021 is like that rain forest river fish that swims up your urethra except this one steals all your money too.

[@DerekDomino71]

I have seen KZbinrs and others talk about a what a great year in gaming this was. I want to throw up in my mouth when I see that. WTF are these clowns playing that is so good? Gaming has become an utter abortion, and this was one of the worst years I can remember. They need to quit sucking off these publishers, and grow a pair. Have they become so accustomed to eating shit that they now want to be fed more shit? This may be the year where I say goodbye to modern gaming altogether.

[@MartinMorning2]

It’s honestly sad iv been getting more hyped for old games coming to the Xbox store rather then new games as most new games just suck and I couldn’t agree more on 2021 being the worst year for gaming by far, the clip at the end of RE8 just sums up how bad this year was in a nutshell, nothing but dumbed down boring & generic games requiring no skill to play and micro transaction filled cash grabs.

[@Van-nk4ee]

It's mostly the soy boys who grew up in the shit game erra, they never played farcry 2 or battlefield 2 bad company. They don't know what a good game even is...

[@Sam-ey1nn]

I really really hope Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gets announced next year. The world needs another great RPG.

[@raphael9055]

What about elden ring?

[@Diree]

@@raphael9055 TBF, calling Elden Ring (or even Dark Souls) an RPG is stretching the definition a bit. So is Kingdom Come Deliverance to be honest. It's not wrong to call them RPGs, but when I think of RPGs, then I think Skyrim, Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Pillars of Eternity, Diablo, etc. We wouldn't call Darksiders an RPG, just because it now has rudimentary leveling and gearing mechanics. Even The Witcher is stretching it to be honest, that's almost more an Action game with some basic dialogue choices, but not a lot of actual story freedom. I'm rambling. Looking forward to Elden Ring, wouldn't call it an "RPG" though.

[@Sam-ey1nn]

@@Diree Have to strongly disagree with you there. You seem to be defining "RPG" as "dungeon crawler". Does Diablo even have a story? In Witcher 2&3 you completely alter the outcomes based on your choices. In fact, Witcher 2 is practically 2 different games depending on which path you choose to play. Witcher 3 has some of the most meaningful choices which effect the outcome of quests that I've ever seen in any game. In KCD many many quests have multiple outcomes, only the main quest is really fixed in place. And Henry himself is a completely blank slate that you can train up however you want to. The most amazing thing about KCD is that combat is maybe 15% of what you spend your time; most of the time is spent training, traveling, investigating (as in real life). It's really set the bar that "RPGs" don't need to have a gameplay loop of mindless dungeon crawling in order to be fun. In fact it contains not a single dungeon! It makes anything Bethesda has ever done look like archaic, in my opinion.

[@Diree]

​@@Sam-ey1nn For me an RPG needs to have two components: character progression through stats and skills (that's why I named Diablo) and freedom of choice to basically do whatever I want (that's why Diablo is considered a hack and slash more than an RPG). The Witcher is a great game series ... and I think the first one is still the one with the most "RPG" elements. Part 2 has you experiencing two different stories midway through, yes, but that's basically one choice. Witcher 3 has choices as well, just like Mass Effect, but they're still very constrained imho. In Fallout on the other hand, just as an example, at least up to and including New Vegas, you're basically free to do what you want. Don't like that NPC? Kill him. Nuke an entire city? Easy. Blame someone for murder? Sacrifice a child? Eradicate an entire faction? Piss someon off so much they send regular kill squads after you? All the while skilling your character to become a male hooker fighting Super Mutants with his bare fists? Not a problem. Games like Baldur's Gate are similar. KCD feels more like "medieval life simulator with tragic story". Sure, it's "role playing", but then every game where you're controlling a character would be a role playing game. Combat is something an RPG doesn't need to have, you're right. And who cares about definitions anyway, just a bit of wasting my time on the internet.

[@fallenren325]

What an absolute tragic year this was... I'm not really shocked, more I'm disappointed about nearly every single game which came out this year. mark my words guys the next will be more worse than this, and the first fail will be propably Dying Light 2. I dunno why but I have this feeling.

[@deadsec3554]

Yea the more I see DL2. I'm getting the same feeling

[@Jack-ux1ow]

Tbh the only good thing about the first one was the park our, the rest was quite bland I thought. They have been hyping up dying light 2 in terms of the story and how your choices matter, but if anything causes it to flop it will be poor writing

[@deadsec3554]

@@Jack-ux1ow yea I feel like the choices matter thing is gonna get nerfed in the final game.

[@fastica]

RE8, Ratchet & Clank and Guardians of the Galaxy were quite good.

[@fallenren325]

@@fastica Guardians of the Galaxy had an absolute brain dead gameplay, story was quite good but the fights or flying parts was totally brain dead

[@Fiffelito]

I believe a part of this is that the kids who grew up with infinity runner and all the other asset flips games with massive microtransactions on mobile now have spending cash of their own and are now considered "consumers". This means the acceptance and praising of garbage games is becoming more and more normal, "atleast it's not a pay 2 play mobile game so slap on another 9/10 review". Then you look back to how games used to be.... yeah no.

[@harambae7014]

I'm currently replaying GTA San Andreas for what must be the 6th time now. Absolutely no interest in any of the latest AAA games. That section of the industry is absolutely in the gutter right now and I can't see how or why it'll pull itself back up to its former glory.

[@unstableordinance]

Make sure you play the original one and not the garbage remake, along with the 30fps patch if you are playing on a pc

[@harambae7014]

@@unstableordinance Way ahead of you my friend. Still hunting for a mouse glitch fix though...

[@John-996]

I played the original early this year puts allot modern day open worlds to shame with how much there is to do in the world. Also Played Fallout new vegas which was better then most RPG games in terms of choice.

[@jimmyrustler8983]

@@John-996 New Vegas is a masterpiece compared to most modern stuff.

[@5deadspace]

Companies blaming covid for their games being shit need to take a look at Hell Let Loose.

[@BlatentlyFakeName]

Yea the shit AAA developers blame covid. Yet film crews managed to go out and make the Witcher season 2 and Boba Fett :D

[@whiskyrebel9715]

Thank the fuck christ I wasn't born in this century.

[@Archangelm127]

I still want to play as Castillio's strong right hand and break the fool rebels in my iron grip.

[@jonhare24]

Mack, when are we getting a full x-ray vision song?!

[@Grayfoxhound]

Every single time Mack complains about wokeness in games especially his points about box-ticking vs realism I always agree and I'm a moderatist... Let us pray for the death of the AAA, in its wake, returning to roots where character development and innovation drive sales.

[@johnjohnson1091]

This was the worst year for gaming

[@ccrpalex2456]

Mack's most enjoyable experience of playing Battlefield 2042 was breaking his arm.

[@kyle857]

The revolutionaries in Far Cry 6 reminded me of the guys on the show Whale Wars. A bunch of hippies that are way out of their depth.

[@Cenot4ph]

Mack you're a legend. All the best for the new year

[@Quirkylobster]

remember that battlefield 2042 was initially meant to be a BR chasing that cash cow a few years late. Then having to convert it to a "proper" BF Game. The average feel and play of the game is telling.

[@MartinMorning2]

Thanks Mack for another year of reviews and helping us Save our money, hope you have a good New Years, also glad to see your getting better.

[@SnowWalker1]

"The absolute woke garbage", lmao, It's exactly why I can not stomach Star Trek Discovery! From games to TV to movies, it's all BORRRRRRRING now! I'm sorry but it's boring! I'm female and I want some male leads back! Interesting, charismatic males who aren't mainly focused on relationships...we don't care if they're gay or straight.....WHO CARES? Will we ever see another male Engineer anywhere again? Or pilot? Or mechanic? Forget it. In real life only 5% of pilots are female. Why can't we ever stick with at least a shred of truth? It's not 'woke' it's 'blind'.

[@vimster]

X-ray vision is in everything now. Back in the day we'd call that a wall hack.

[@yewtewbstew547]

I hate it in stealth games because nearly every single time it is included as nothing more than a game design crutch so that the developer doesn't need to come up with more creative diegetic methods of detecting enemies, or even program things like accurate directional audio. You're almost forced to use it, because the gameplay doesn't function properly without it.

[@MartinMorning2]

All X-Ray Vision does is just kill immersion but they add it in so the journalist’s won’t have a cry that it’s too hard smh it’s shit like that why gaming sucks these days.

[@BFG_29]

The Resident Evil Village clip at the end sums up 2021 in gaming perfectly. Lots of bad,really really bad and dumb games out there...

[@MartinMorning2]

Resident Evil Village should have the award for most boring game of the year, literally the only reason it was hyped was because of Lady D’s…… melons other then that it had nothing going for it.

[@raphael9055]

@@MartinMorning2Dem melons fooled us all

[@azalea_k]

The RE series has always been like that, mostly dumb fun. Hell, that window thing is merely for the jump scare, not puzzling.

[@bogstandardash3751]

Quite liked the game personally... Though it's obviously most shapely turd on the turd shelf. Felt comfortable like and old pair of trainers.

[@His0ka]

@@MartinMorning2 i liked Re8 very much. One of the better games this year

[@DarkStryder360]

Very disappointed in The Medium. Think my expectations of an immersive, thriller, horror game was too high.

[@theitechlab]

BF2042 is maybe my worst game of all time. I feel like a total idiot for buying it. I hope it’ll get better, but I’m not holding my breath.

[@lewmaca]

Agreed

[@ma-saracen]

@JJ Hunt BFV flashbacks

[@chrispearl8858]

I bought 3 of these.....not proud of it . These and Cyberpunk were the final straw for me. Im onto indie games on Steam or deep sales from now on.

[@yewtewbstew547]

Welcome to the club. The final straw for me was buying No Man's Sky and Mafia 3 within a few months of each other lol.

[@ForestOfSleep]

It's really sad that FEAR figured out AI back in 2005 and nobody has duplicated it since. In fact it's only gotten steadily worse.

[@ddm_gamer]

Never heard of that game but you sure they figured it out in 2005? Thats a long time ago

[@ForestOfSleep]

@@ddm_gamer Yeah. Newer doesn't mean better.

[@Elsinnombre-ez5dn]

What a fucking joke this year has been in terms of gaining, every fucking AAA title that came out had several problems at the start, let’s see Queue world Deathloop-stutters like fuck Bf2077- shitty optimisation and full of bugs Forza horizon 5- crashing all the time The list goes on

[@LUR1FAX]

Seems like the days of really awesome games that will be replayed for years are over. Or at least currently. Mainstream video games now are developed far too quickly, released too soon, and have garbage level writing and tons of unnecessary wokeness. Just make a fun game that makes me want to play it. And bring genres back. I'm tired of every single game having a crafting mechanic.

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

Bad games are more profitable in this day and age, it's only gonna get worse

[@EmergencyChannel]

The industry as a whole has been purged of talent to make room for diversity hires. Most of the games you loved as a kid were made by teams consisting of majority white male nerds, females and minorities were rare, not because they were excluded but because few were interested in game development and even fewer had the talent to compete. Now studios are full of minorities and women that would not have a job if they had to compete on merit and talent alone and most of them get writer gigs so they can say they have a token female/minority writing for their game. CoD Vanguard has one of the worse CoD plots ever, with horrible, cheesy dialogue and feminist talking points that stand out like a sore thumb in a 1940's setting, it's not a coincidence it was written by a female and black guy, who claim "CoD has no recognizable characters". I guess Captain Price, Soap, Ghost, ect. don't count because they are white males, they meant CoD has no recognizable minority or female characters, it still doesn't because Vanguard was awful. I don't really care if people think I'm being misogynist or racist, it's the truth and I seen the industry destroyed from the inside. Corporations consolidating and wanting to make more money from gamers is also a huge problem, but that wasn't the cause of piss poor writing and buggy gameplay.

[@ernimuja6991]

The problem is that most gaming companies ceos are not gamers. Ptobably because most millenials are not gamers and most workers rn are millenials. As far as I know 90% of male gen z are gamers of some kind or another. So all that needs happen is for gen z ceos to replace millenial ceos. Sure they'll still look for profits however gamers will care about games much more than someone who looks at games as just a cash cow.

[@redbullsauberpetronas]

@@ernimuja6991 the problem is that kids now enjoy shitty lootbox games, these kids are already hooked on gambling. You're out of your mind if you think people growing up will fix this

[@ernimuja6991]

@@redbullsauberpetronas When I was a kid I used to play this shitty ass shrek game. I used to watch the most horrible and jarring tv shows like teletubies and mickey mouse fun house. Now I am a snob who will look down at the mildest imperfection in game design and be umable to play a game unless it is quite right. Kid'll play anything. When they grow up they will refine their tastes.

[@ryanleepeachey4701]

Atleast as PC gamers we get to go back and play the old gems. Just think, console gamers are stuck with this crap 😬 my condolences to them all. 😵‍💫 But it doesn't stop them desperately maniacally seeking out PS5's to play this shite. 😅

[@Nico_Conradie]

Console peasants so far below us, the PC Master race.

[@VoidNoctem]

For me, Deathloop, most overrated crap.

[@robbietorkelsonn8509]

told you, will be sub 15$ at the end of 2022

[@Elgar337]

Glad to see you back in form mate. Terrific video, I had a good laugh.

[@Dearestandme]

What's even worse than AAA games being bad is that many mainstream reviewers and gamers think they're great which is one reason we keep getting sub standard politically correct AAA games made in the first place.

[@HappyBacon777ttv]

The only games I'm personally looking forwards to next year are Dying Light 2 (for me, it's a great hack and slash type of zombie game), Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, and Total War Warhammer 3. Also, I am a bit interested to see how VR is going to develop. There have been some pretty interesting projects, one being Diver-X that just got fully funded on Kickstarter. Looking forwards to the mayhem of bells as well!

[@yewtewbstew547]

I'll play Dying Light 2, but the only way I'm paying for it is if Chris Avellone has noteworthy employment in the games industry by the time it comes out. Only seems fair. Dying Light 2's developer Techland were one of the companies who fired him when he got falsely metoo'd last year, because they were afraid he would damage their PR. Despite him later providing ample evidence of his innocence, his future prospects are not looking too good. Much of the games industry doesn't even have a "guilty until proven innocent" approach to this stuff anymore, it's more like "guilty if male, evidence irrelevant."

[@VisualdelightPro]

@@yewtewbstew547 even more guilty if you are a Chinese Japanese Game developer who happens to be male.

[@AngryCommonSense]

Tiny Tina and the whole borderlands series is woke garbage

[@HappyBacon777ttv]

@@AngryCommonSense I mean, whatever floats your boat man lmao... I personally enjoy it as one of the best looter shooters in it's genre with a unique artstyle and great replayability. You do you my guy.

[@AngryCommonSense]

@@HappyBacon777ttv your response is so hipster it’s palpable, grow the hell up kid.

[@timtams5283]

Bf2042 should be the worst because it was a shit game released in a broken and unfinished state... At least the other games are released finished - they are just shit

[@RyuRanXII]

What an awful year for new games! Besides Age of Empires IV, I've only had fun playing remastered versions of old classics: Quake, Blade of Darkness, Final Fantasy I-V, Rome: Total War, Shadow Man... at least I saved some money!

[@foreveremoatheart]

Fucking love you Mack 😍 please never ever ever change, and thanks again for not selling out!

[@samsherrington7423]

Agreed with the movies. Watched Matrix 4, when it released. If you're a fan of the Matrix and haven't seen it yet? Don't. Just don't.

[@samsherrington7423]

@Jeric White I needed eye bleach for the whole 2 hours of that travesty. Looks like when you cut off your balls, you cut off your storytelling ability, also

[@vormina9808]

The blue hair in the preview was the only warning I needed not to waste my time on it.

[@voidphilosopher2321]

I played almost exclusively older games this year, and liked only 2 games released this year, and even them were just alright - Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. These types of games were like a side dish 20 years ago, now it's a main course. I'm completely disaffected by modern gaming, hopefully GT7 and Elden Ring will be really great, maybe even FF16 releases next year. Just noticed Yakuza was last year, this year even worse then =(

[@wutsit2yuhhuh246]

I absolutely love your pfp 🤣

[@voidphilosopher2321]

@@wutsit2yuhhuh246 Thx =)

[@Dregomz02]

This year Sega released only piece of trash NGS lol

[@spaceknarf]

That last clip of RE8 sums up gaming in 2021 perfectly. I am so happy I still have this huge backlog of great older games that will keep me busy for years to come.

[@charmingpeasant9834]

The bow drawing/shooting/reloading animation of that D&D game is the most laughable aspect.

[@ddm_gamer]

Ikr

[@SMlFFY85]

As a teenager in the late 90s, I thought being a game reviewer must be the best job in the world. 20 odd years later I think it must be a soul destroying chore.

[@unstableordinance]

Magazines really were excellent for game reviewers. What most people dont know is that they are not the consumers they are the product. When gaming magazines went the way of the dodo, we went from paying for the reviews, meaning that we are the consumers, to getting them for free, meaning that not the consumers we are the product...

[@VooDooMaGicMan81]

​@@unstableordinanceA year late, but perfect comment

[@Consolex666]

played every farcry straight through, but playing 6 was a chore. nothing can kill you and you can't crank up the difficulty.

[@victornavarro1262]

Battlefield 2042 and Farcry 6 were my most disappointing titles,I was really looking forward for this games,talking smack about the other wannabes and then this happened..very sad.

[@profezzorBALTAZAR]

I was a bit hyped for far cry 6, glad I didn't bother buying it

[@chr1srugby]

I got the Witcher 3 complete edition for 6 quid so I'm playing through that again (lost my disc). Definitely better than 99% of the stuff out this year. I will say though I enjoyed The Forgotten City a hell of a lot. Also a few others were fantastic but typically smaller studio games. The one off this list for me was The Medium. I understand some of your gripes but it was an enjoyable story for me and that carried it through.

[@beardedlonewolf7695]

Overrated game but yea definitely better than all of the AAA this year.

[@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359]

Mack needs to stop bottling his feelings up, and tell us how he really feels...

[@unstableordinance]

**ding**

[@harryvh3356]

I don't know how people are still playing triple A's at all. I'm having a blast with indies. Probably haven't played AAA in nearly a decade.

[@cynicalaries6201]

Thanks for saving many of us from buying these sorry games.

[@Science1677]

Totally agree Mac, it's going to get worse, here come the nft's...

[@RyuRanXII]

Dark Alliance is a disgrace compared to the PS2 spinoffs of Baldur's Gate, which were pretty great top-down coop dungeon crawlers.

[@alecj3454]

Perfect List. The shart triumvirate of Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Far Cry 6 - are my top 3. Every person at involved in every one of those 3 games should be fired. Far Cry 6 was the worst Far Cry game ever made....by miles. Its like Ubisoft just gave up and turned the keys over to the pink hair genderless pronoun club. Ubisoft has shown that its toast. Im done. Battlefield is a master class on how NOT to make a video game. Its the worst parts of incompetence, arrogance, and greed. I cannot enjoy shooting old women in the fact....im sorry....its gross. COD is probably the best of the 3, but something has to be. At least we got a campaign.....too bad it was written by the same pink hair, genderless, pronoun club as Far Cry. These people are savages. Utter human trash with zero ability to do their jobs......but they just keep getting more opportunities. Itll be up to you to take the piss out of 'em in perpetuity. I know you are up to the mission. Thanks for a great year of videos! Hope you are feeling better!

[@anonymousfwefwefwefweff]

I`d think i`d rather play with Banter Piss, than play farcry6!

[@lunarbound9975]

What aspects didn’t you like about FC6? Genuinely curious, not trolling

[@purefoldnz3070]

The best part of Far Cry 6 is that you can shoot the hipster characters giving you missions even set them on fire. That's definitely worth something.

[@GuestOfGregoryHouse]

You just know the new Saints Row will be on next year's list. And that Forspoken game.

[@vladp7973]

" you deserve what you voted for " hahaha very correct Mack, very correct 👍

[@joshfoss7407]

given the choice between two shit sandwiches, most folks picked the one that was firmer and smelled less.

[@vladp7973]

@@joshfoss7407 spoken like a true juvenile. this ain't south park bud

[@eskimo4130]

The trouble is, people are voting based on what they think they're gonna get. Then you have those who vote for the opposite party because they're scared of the one they dislike the most. Two party politics at its finest.

[@vladp7973]

@@eskimo4130 society always swing back and forth like a pendulum. like the saying goes "hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" right now we're in the last portion of that cycle, that's why it's important to be independent (thinker, and worker) and strong free of useless feminine emotions. too many manchilds out there acting too effeminate

[@hiyasuamv9776]

The PTSD I got from seeing 8fps when I played the medium still haunts me

[@Valderin]

maybe it's actually time to buy a computer rather than trying to play on a calculator?

[@hiyasuamv9776]

@@Valderin I got a 3080Ti friend, and yet I still suffered lol

[@Pedone_Rosso]

In a year with not that many games that were top notch production-wise, and still fun to play, at least we had a lot of Worth-A-Buy content dinging that bell all over them, to lighten the morale. Let's hope in a better next one, shall we? Thanks for your videos, and good luck with your recovery! (It was the best year to have a problem at your arm, hopefully?)

[@ianfyfe3371]

Looking forward to the New Year and your presentations Mack. Hope your arm gets a lot better and stay safe.

[@seb2750]

Lotsa contenders this year, quite a strong showing for this award. I cant honestly pick the winner for once

[@prezzeruk4054]

Ive noticed a huge drop in quality, in three top forms of entertainment. Weak boring movies, dire and flat games and music has took a hit too. Its like they have simply ran out of ideas, the originality has dried up. Thats why we are getting, remakes, rehashes and re-do's all over the place! No one wants to take a risk, by making something new and fresh. They would rather stick to what they know sells. Thats why we have 6 farcry games ffs! And god knows how many cods and assassins creed games. Imagine being a dev, full of ideas, but having to remake the same game as last time! What a effing let down!

[@MightBeSmart]

Never played dungeons and dragons nor COD, so IMO the worse game of them all was Battlefield 2042. Its a game they can throw 100s of updates at and the game will still not be saved at all. It is NOT savable, they should delete it, give people a refund, apologize, be fucking ashamed and start all over. And then they should go back and hire testplayers (proper gamers) and go back to old school battlefield. i was in chok how bad this shit was.

[@bushmonster1702]

I remember PC Gamer giving Dungeons and Dragons 82% lol

[@Nico_Conradie]

They have zero integrity.

[@The.Doctor.Venkman]

"Mack, the whole world seems to be a BAG OF SCHITE at the moment!"

[@GuestOfGregoryHouse]

"Handholdy Bullshittery"

[@claudegreengrass9174]

when the x ray vision song popped on, i spat my beer all over the monitor. hilarious mack

[@CoolSs]

Your rants are the only thing that give me hope. That someone actually got standards and will not accept the crab they throw at us.

[@brickboy3420]

I have discovered this Channel 3 months ago and i binged watched all of your Videos, Content is funny as hell, enjoyed every sec. Im happy to see your back and i hope your doing better. Btw Day 1 of asking Mack to Review CrossCode ★

[@arnox4554]

CrossCode is a... Experience. lol In both a really great and bad way. But I only say bad because the dungeons are brutal. Even just the first dungeon, by the time you finally get out of it, you're just kind of mentally exhausted. And of course, the game is SO big. Expect to sink at LEAST 60 hours finishing the campaign. With all that said, I'm really glad that I played it. The game makes a unique and deep impression on you through everything, and that's pretty incredible. That's a sign of an amazing game. So yes, I'd absolutely recommend it with the big caveat that CrossCode requires some serious commitment to finish.

[@kwisclubta7175]

3:45 "you spawn in, guys, as this fuckin' prick..." LMAO!! 🤣 I love Mack!

[@fawkes1035]

Glad you added that clip at the end, that one cracked me up the first time too

[@Diree]

I just got Dishonored: Death of the Outsider in a magazine, so I decided to buy Dishonored 2 during the Steam sale for like 4 bucks ... Yeah, that game is 6 years old, but so what. It's 100 x better than anything on this list, cost me basically nothing, even has replay value if you want to, and is certainly not perfect, but you can see that the devs at least cared about their product, instead of shitting out something serialized every year. I also got Partisans 1941 in the Humble Bundle and that's not bad either. To be honest, HB has been worth it every month for me so far. Granted, I play almost any genre, but still. Fuck, I had a ton of fun with Maneater past week. Not a great game either, still more enjoyable than FC6 I reckon. And I'll likely just play Elden Ring next year for a whole lot of hours.

[@charmingpeasant9834]

Dishonored 2 came out a broken mess upon it's launch.

[@LimeymanZero]

People play/watch them is the problem, stop buying shit games and watching shit shows and movies people!

[@Nico_Conradie]

Agreed, people keep buying these shit games. And watch and defend woke shit shows like Wheel of Time for instance. So they will keep pushing out the mediocre garbage forever.

[@wafflecopter9296]

Games used to be made by a handful of nerds in their basement. That's why they were good. Now it's made by trend chasing CEO's

[@SilvioManfredDante]

Village was the best of a bad bunch for 2021. It had some fun moments, and I only wish Capcom would focus more on survival horror and less on action.

[@Ralphunreal]

Village is awful, a generic fps that ruined the RE franchise even more than it was already.

[@yewtewbstew547]

It seems like they started to head in the right direction with RE7/2R, but then opted to make exactly the same mistake all over again. I guess action games really do just sell better :/

[@Hard2hit94]

Village was amazing. One of the best in the series, only game I've liked this year next to halo.

[@way-rp4pi]

@@Ralphunreal I agree Village was garbage

[@IRMentat]

2010s the decade that development of games/movies/music/TV got so technically easy that cretins with no talent, vision or respect for the franchise/customer/business could waltz in shit on the bed then wait for the critical applause to flow in like a leak from a silage tank. 2022 hopefully the companies have finally learned but I very much doubt it. Minimal changes able product is the go-to and half assed products the full prices launch experience

[@celticwinter]

What a year. Again. I don't even keep up with what's coming out anymore. I didn't have a bell to compensate for my disappointment. Like Cipher said: ignorance is bliss.

[@cosimomarino6885]

this was amazing, thank you Mack! ....still waiting on a playlist of all your songs including "X ray vision"

[@mikerochburns4104]

I had so much fun this year with *Loop Hero,* something totally new and the soundtrack was so 1981. *Valheim* has been almost a daily driver for me. *Ender Lilies* and *Death's Door* scratched that yearly itch for self flagellation (I'm still playing *Hades* too.) Superficially a game that looked similar to Hades was *Curse of the Dead Gods.* Then there's *Dorfromantic,* soo chill and a great 10-15 minute filler too. Not to mention - *Banners of Ruin, Warpips, Tails of Iron, Blades of the Shogun Aiko's Choice, Dreamscaper, Griftlands, Skul the Hero Slayer* and another _'glad I'm wearing brown trousers'_ *Subnautica* game. Those were just some of games that I bought and liked this year. I didn't buy a single game off of Macks list. 😇

[@unstableordinance]

You want a game that will kick your ass try out ghostrunner

[@mikerochburns4104]

@@unstableordinance It's been on my wishlist for a while now. I have quite the backlog.

[@terranaxiomuk]

I love the little song piss take interludes. That x ray vision was definitely up there haha.

[@gaz3602]

I'm back to playing bf4 that's how bad this year's games are

[@davidpalmer8591]

"X-ray vision" makes me laugh every time

[@JamesRestin]

He's got great musical composition and timing skills. I listened to that part repetitively. Now, I'm going to his Days Gone review to listen to a musical performance of his there.

[@powerbelly211]

That last clip, finding the combination by looking out the window had me roaring laughing when I played it too. I couldn’t believe they kept it in the game, it was so lazy.

[@andyshirvis5747]

Lets not forget consumers' culpability in the garbage fire that is AAA games today. Cretins keep buying Call of Poopy every year no matter how garbage the previous one was. This sends the message to the publishers that they can get away with pumping out garbage every year. Idiots also pre-order due to having a learning disability. You could tell from information before the release that it was going to be biblically bad and guess what, morons still pre-ordered it, even the deluxe edition or whatever it was called.

[@Frost_Saber]

"I want to support the developer" they say to justify their impatience to preorder, as if somehow buying a game after its finished and tested isn't. "I trust this company they have a great reputation, its safe to preorder from them" ...Cyberjunk 2077 anyone?

[@yewtewbstew547]

@@Frost_Saber I had that conversation with someone elsewhere not too long ago, where I was warning them not to pre-order the GTA Definitive Trilogy. They literally told me I was wrong because, and I quote, "this is Rockstar, not CD Projekt Red." The irony clearly lost on this person that people said exactly the same thing about CDPR before Cyberpunk.

[@ddm_gamer]

@@Frost_Saber I realy thought i would have learned my lesson after Cyberpunk. I mean that game even got government funding and still failed.

[@vitallink4830]

Never played Call of Duty Vanguard and never will, but my votes on that for the sheer audacity of implying those brave men were cowards.