Yes, Video Games Are Still Fun

[@cakestealer5983]

They’re not fun and they never have been

[@antoguino]

so true‼️

[@spectoestis3106]

may god have mercy on you, cause the proceeding people most assuredly will not

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

​@@Zavoukits called freedom

[@C-loud]

​@@nsawatchlistbait289 Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Hating 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅

[@Nobel6Balls69]

‼️RETARD ALERT‼️

[@Matt77889]

People that say gaming is boring now, are the same people that have been playing the same games for the past 5 years

[@DOGEELLL]

Mostly yes but it is true All of the gaming genre has been perfected in the past you want the best stealth game? You wont find it in this era Best shooter ? Good luck with all the battle royale clones garbage that recycle fortrash every time Best rpg? You wont find it now As a gamer that played both era i can easily testify that this era of gaming is just not it There is too many cash grab scam practice greed and manipulation on top of having no creativity and innovation You cant say gaming is better than ever just to agree with those point 2 min after

[@DOGEELLL]

​​@BlackJacked wich lead you to the old school stuff again proving the point of these videos FIFA MADDEN 2K COD Battle royales has always been garbage games for frauds But you guys always target these people so you avoid facing the facts that every indie game is a worse version of old games Hollow knight is a pathetic attempt at ripping off castlevania/metroid and fail miserably And thats the best indie game according to the indie crowds If this is what best indie can do idk what they will when fighters rts and other quality gaming genre are on the table Indie games dont bring nothing new to the table if you have grear taste in games its just worse version of old stuff

[@kade-qt1zu]

@@DOGEELLL Considering Hollow Night has a 90% on Metacritic, 9.4/10 on IGN, 10/10 on Steam, and 4.8 on google reviews, it's safe to say that your opinion doesn't exactly reflect popular consensus now doesn't it.

[@koppy82]

@@DOGEELLL Gloomwood is a very good stealth game in this era. CS2 and PUBG are great shooters in this era. Baldurs Gate 3 is one of the best RPGs in this era. There are more fantastic indie and AA games than AAA cash grab slop and it's not hard to find.

[@RippahRooJizah]

​@Hajimeme7 Just the last few years I have played multiple games I would put as all time favorites, including RPGs. Negativity just gets more eyes.

[@saviorbob]

Gaming hardly looks so grim when you start looking for those weird and wacky indies that focus on hitting you just right

[@BlackJacked]

Hell if you're just not an idiot and realize you can avoid microtransactions, then a lot of games become way more enjoyable.

[@DOGEELLL]

​@@BlackJackedwich lead you to the old school stuff again proving the point of these videos FIFA MADDEN 2K COD Battle royales has always been garbage games for frauds But you guys always target these people so you avoid facing the facts that every indie game is a worse version of old games Hollow knight is a pathetic attempt at ripping off castlevania/metroid and fail miserably And thats the best indie game according to the indie crowds If this is what best indie can do idk what they will when fighters rts and other quality gaming genre are on the table Indie games dont bring nothing new to the table if you have grear taste in games its just worse version of old stuff

[@gavinferguson2938]

​@@DOGEELLLCant lie your spittin facts whenever I look at the indie scene all I see are cozy farming sims, metroidvania, side-scroller rouge-likes, isometric rouge-likes.etc Sure not *all* indie games fit into these catagories. But man do you have to wade through some utter shit before you find anything good. Its the same whenever I look at AAA games and think MTX and battlepasses. Im sick of repitition and a lack of true innovation, its not even like the bar is that damn high either. Helldivers 2 gave us something new in terms if gameplay loops by creating an extraction shooter thats limited to a smaller arena with stratagems that vary in effectiveness depending on the kind if mission your playing which effectivley eliminates any kind of meta from spawning. Its a pretty clever solution to an issue every multiplayer game has had for a long time. Its a pretty clever new loop thats fun, engaging and rewarding to partake in, especially considering its also a 'live service' title. But next to Helldivers I just dont see much that looks like true innovation. Often times games on all sides of the front just create a unique gimmik that reframes already existing gameplay loops, yet these gimmiks somehow never find their way into a sequel or end up forgotten about by the wider industry. Small innovations just dont cut it anymore in my book. This is why people still flock to first party nintendo titles, because they do what indie games do, but just significantly better. Tell me, can you imagine any indie 3D platformer overtaking Mario Odyseey in quality:quantity ratio? Didnt think so. The point and case is that even Odyseey is just an amalgamation of ideas and gimmiks. But they fit so many in, and they blend so seamlessly, to the point that its acceptable to say that the smaller innovations coalesce and make the overall game innovative. Outside of these rare 1st party nintendo games and the odd handful of good AAA games that come out a year, the games industry sorta sucks.

[@Woopor]

@@DOGEELLL this comment has more bias and bullcrap than a CNN or Fox report

[@spectoestis3106]

I played 3 games in a row that made me cry like a bitch, can confirm

[@FloofMother]

“Why aren’t games fun anymore” mfs when you tell them to stop reminiscing about modern warfare two multiplayer as the pinnacle of gaming

[@NovemberGolf55]

I love me DEI hires and diverse transgender characters and ugly woman in my video game it’s totally normal and not been made more popular over the last couple years to push certain agendas

[@dressionep]

Goated comment!

[@suspectnutria]

Or especially Halo 3, as if everything was perfect back then (spoiler no it was not, you had to buy map packs or you got screwed in multiplayer since you couldn't matchmake with those who had the extra maps and you didn't)

[@fullmetalbleachnote]

>no microtransactions >no battle pass >no barebones launches >no pay to win weapons and $20 skins >No hellish grinds that unironically take 80 years to unlock everything without opening up your wallet >no skill based match making >no picking from 6 different editions ranging from $60 to $150 trying to rack your brain on wtf you even want. Lord knows I'm forgetting more BS Multiplayer gaming was better in the 360/PS3 era. It's not even a contest.

[@FloofMother]

@@fullmetalbleachnote “no microtransactions or barebones launches” sorry, what were the map packs that completely ruined matchmaking then?

[@corniel657]

"if you're stuck in the past, you won't be able to appreciate what's in front of you" man that hits hard

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

It's the biggest problem with nostalgia in my eyes. Yes it can be nice to reminisce on the past but we can't go back in time, so why neglect the future?

[@exalented]

​@@CHRB-nn6qpThe road ahead is full of potholes, thieves and beggers. Let's take a right.

[@Dr.Oofers]

@sebabib Context?

[@SquidSushi123]

@sebabibyou are a dumbass

[@NovemberGolf55]

@sebabibcan you blame him tho he’s enjoying his bread and circus with his safe take so he doesn’t have to go against any grain we all know why games are boring now but you can’t say it 🤣

[@thecluckster3908]

The only good “Gaming isn’t fun anymore” video is Stryxo’s because it says exactly what you said, gaming isn’t fun anymore because you’re limiting yourself to a few genres.

[@84bombsjetpack23]

But even then, it's still fun.

[@schultz4966]

“Man who has eaten only McDonald’s chicken nuggets for the past ten years says ‘Food just doesn’t taste that good anymore’.”

[@AmberAmour]

Lmao

[@86Corvus]

A dog sits at a table, his house a raging inferno "this is fine."

[@UMAtronic]

"Why aren't games fun anymore?" Maybe you could play more than two games? Most of these people play minecraft or the same tired shooter for over a decade, then wonder why its boring to them. Get out of your comfort zone, trust me, it helps.

[@wingedhussar1453]

The Minecraft or players tht play same fame for 20 years aren't the ones vomplaing .it's the people who are more casual with games

[@azunkor422]

The ones that stick to very few games aren't the ones complaining

[@mr.shadow1850]

Very dumb opinion btw most of them play different games that's why they have that opinion

[@ArmyofTwoBot]

This is facts, been playing shooters for more than a decade and nowadays, most are just f2p and/or you have to sweat really hard to get anywhere so it got boring really fast. Starting checking out other kind of games on game pass like Hellblade 1 and was hooked. Definitely get out your comfort zone

[@ariannasv22]

YES. THIS.

[@Zeywerks]

"Why aren't games fun anymore" ppl loading up Yakuza 0 for the first time about to experience peak

[@Fembee]

peak

[@IvanTube0]

real

[@vergil_6707]

but then they never bother to play the rest of the series

[@lucasgeorg1214]

Just started Yakuza Kiwami. Is it all peak?

[@Fembee]

@@lucasgeorg1214 yes it's all peak

[@Meee261]

Usually games are fun for me at first, then they get boring, and I stop playing for a few months. Then it gets fun again, and I play for the next few months.

[@friesneverdies]

same honestly

[@whosaidthat84]

I've taken long breaks - up to 4 years - and it helps keep things fresh.

[@Crispydogs101]

The perfect pattern.

[@supersmashbro596]

it's normal. it's called burnout, and it happens to everyone.

[@dantdmfangamingrich9802]

You just described Minecraft perfectly

[@wandereringshadow8658]

Not sure if you'll see this, but I'll throw my hat in the ring: I think an issue not talked about is how some people make games their entire life. Like- No other hobbies, just stay in the house 24/7 playing videogames. They burn themselves out because all they do is game, and often hyperfixate on a game until they run their enjoyment of it into the ground. As much as it is a meme these days- I really recommend for people feeling burnt out to take a step away from the controller. There really is so much more to life then the latest COD.

[@marcosdheleno]

i disagree. the issue is not that they only have games as a hobby. its that they have only 1 game as a hobby. and that's the only thing they play. there are so many diferent genres of games, from jrpgs, to 4x strategy, from shooters to roguelikes. but if all you ever play is cod, no wonder you are tired.

[@birubluebiru6861]

This. Ofc its boring when their whole days are just gaming

[@SoulHero7]

If the games you have suck, find better games. We have the internet, we have the gaming community, we have indie developers releasing bangers for pennies on the dollar. There is no excuse to not find a game that fits your taste.

[@ommohammad5507]

No we only have cod

[@KudoRedfox]

@@ommohammad5507 Exactly no other games exist

[@beanman9936]

I LOVE ROR2 RAHHH WHAT IS A BAD GAME?????

[@Ninjaananas]

Or they just go back to replaying the old games they liked. But they are afraid of finding out that they might not even like those anymore.

[@land3021]

Only excuse is stubbornness and an unwillingness to embrace other people's thoughts and feelings cause they have a different identity from yourself, as do the games... both being unfamiliar, OR worse, deemed "too accepted by the mainstream and normies" cause the way they may see it, the moment they embrace the mainstream and normies, is the moment they die... yay some crazy sounding stuff there, but I can't blame'em fully, I got some of that in me too! But I can atleast recognize it, and not make a video that expresses opinions based entirely on my values alone without looking at the bigger picture.

[@jackmcmorrow9397]

New rule: If your backlog entirely consists of GTA, Cod, and Minecraft, you dont get to say "games arent fun anymore". You barely even PLAY games.

[@koppy82]

Tbh those 3 games were the holy trinity back in the day and I agree those times were good. But there's soo many people who are stuck in that mindset now, people just gotta step out of their comfort zone and play different games other than Action, adventure and shooters.

[@rency1803]

To be fair GTA and Minecraft are fun, casual games can be fun. Cod is right for me since I have no idea why they publish the same game every year and people still play it only to complain. At least the other 2 is only one game.

[@DustyEchozy]

Replace "COD" and "Minecraft" with Serious Sam and Doom and those are the 3 games I mostly play.

[@Blue-fg8vt]

​@@rency1803it's not that they can't be fun, it's that when you limit your range to even just one genre of gaming you're bound to get bored, but that's not a reflection on gaming that's a reflection on the gamer.

[@VortexF]

​@@DustyEchozyplay terraria,play ultrakill,play pizza tower,play hi fu rush there are so many AMAZING games nowadays made by indie developers or small studios,lethal company,metal gear rising,TF2,Porta etc...

[@ScrubsWasTaken]

It's very annoying to see someone complain about EA, Activision, and Ubisoft and then pretend like as if all videogames are bad now, especially since we've gotten so many good games last year

[@pugnome]

Yeah we got fucking BG3 and AC FoR, FoR might be my favorite from soft game lmao and I still thought BG3 was goty

[@armaantoor6773]

Such as?

[@Im2lazy4thisCrit]

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[@asackboyplush6508]

​@@armaantoor6773 TotK? Mario Wonder? Pikmin 4?

[@coal4208]

@@armaantoor6773Baldur’s Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man 2, and the Jedi Survivor, just to name a few.

[@noaharchambault8917]

"video games aren't fun anymore" *then proceeds to only play 2K and COD for the 12th year straight*

[@ariesdemiurge]

That Dune comparison was just... so apt. I don't think people realize how self-defeating it is to get at AAA gaming for shitty business practices, but then adamantly refuse to check out a side of gaming that's reaching the same level of scale and quality *without* corporate seeping in. Come a few years, we will have individuals making 2077-type games that are actually finished at launch. *Without AI.*

[@levijackson767]

It is apt, it's a remake. The lack of creativity is palpable.

[@kinetickey]

“Video games aren’t fun anymore” they say as they milk the shit out of the only game they’ve been playing for 15 years.

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@HabitualThinker]

you are fighting an insane amount of invisible ghosts, how do you do it?

[@86Corvus]

Cope

[@maximilian2843]

It's not only playing one game over and over again. Life isn't a straight line so sudden challenging times also makes you enjoy certain stuff less and less periodically. If you start working and are tired all the time, gaming could be less interesting to you than after you used to game after school, for example.

[@Helipshon]

A point that couldve also been said is the fact that you can infact play a lot of those games from the past still. You aren't being forced to play the recent slop that is being pumped out of modern triple A companies, you can always go back and play the games that have existed for years. Emulate it if you have too.

[@Vahron]

I could spend the next 10 years playing only games from the PS2, GameCube, Xbox and Dreamcast, and that would still be a perfectly fine way to enjoy great video games. So many gems from that era are still relevant and genuinely fun today, and not all of them got remasters on modern platforms.

[@witherkilleryeh]

The Crew incident

[@keanux5906]

your pfp is an example of a great game, though it's more story then game and might be "woke" to some people

[@Chaotic_evil_duck]

​@@keanux5906 people that unironically use the word woke in that context have something seriously wrong with them

[@asocksual4910]

Yeah, Valve puts a lot of their old stuff up on Steam for really cheap, Portal and Portal 2 are each only 10$.

[@LimeLoaf]

These people only play one genre of games and get burnt out, then act shocked when they get bored. 86corvus is obsessed with me, how can I tell him lightly that I'm not into twinks? Thanks guys :)

[@DOGEELLL]

THATS EXZCTLY WHAT IM SAYING none of those new games do anything special at all Elden ring is supposedly the best of its era(its judst dark souls 3 with open world) BUT THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT GAMING AS A WHOLE 😂 these people dont get that the golden era was pure innovation NEW IDEAS QUALITY LEFT ZND RIGHT DEPTH COMPLEXITY CREATIVITY When do we get inception of those franchise ??? In the 2020s ?!??! NOPE NONE OF THE CURRENT DEV HAVE THE LEVEL OF THOSE OLDER ERA DEV THAT MADE THE INDUSTRY Its blatant obvious that modern gaming stand no chance even on the video the guy play a xbox 360 game proving our point again And indie games are just worse version of already better games Hollow knight was just a metroid/castlevania rip off that cant compare facts Indie fanboys refuse to accept that gaming died after the best devs quit and the era changed

[@DespairLover]

@LimeLoaf Like cod and fortnite lol

[@kang6914]

Funny how they didn’t get bored for like 3 gaming generations before but now it’s because they keep playing the same games they enjoyed forever ? You guys just don’t want to admit games are far worse now.

[@LimeLoaf]

@@kang6914 I like playing games I like and know when to put them down when I don't like them anymore, Modern games from a shooter genre are better than a 20 year old shooter. The only time where modern games are awful are when you need to pay 35 dollars for more story in a half complete game that was 60 dollars *cough cough* pokemon *cough.* (I'd love to hear you're take on it though, I'm interested in your view.)

[@kang6914]

@@LimeLoaf yeah from a technical standpoint probably most newer games are far more advanced than they were 20 years ago. I don’t know if I would necessarily say they are overall better games though just because of these advances. When you factor in how much they would put into a lot of games back then for just one price. Just as you mentioned there’s been a lot of greed with paid releases still requiring a lot more spending to fully enjoy the experience but honestly that’s been happening for quite a while now I would say ever since online play became popular and all the extra DLC stuff started releasing. Speaking of shooter games maybe like COD for an example I do think were a lot better overall in many different ways than we have now even with all the newer improvements. Maybe not “20 years ago” per say but somewhere around 15 years ago specifically. That’s a whole other debate to be had though and honestly just comes down to which games you prefer but also I know COD is just one franchise I’m just using that as an example.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

I wasn't as depressed in [year]! Which means it was objectively the best era for [thing]!

[@Kriseiri]

that's so real

[@mechadeka]

More like they try to extend that to the entire planet. Totally nothing bad was happening anywhere in the world in my precious 90s.

[@somechupacabrawithinternet8866]

ps2 era is gaming at it's best change my mind

[@sammcdermott78]

@@somechupacabrawithinternet8866 it's where you had the most fun, doesn't mean it was the best

[@crestofhonor2349]

Often times someone’s favorite generation is the one they grew up with. This isn’t surprising at all

[@WowzaBowser]

A lot of people who say this refuse to play singleplayer games

[@monkeeee]

“Videos game aren’t fun anymore” What do you play? “Fortnite, CoD, Apex, [Insert sports game here]”

[@friesneverdies]

this but without fortnite because i will always fw fortnite no matter how many indie games i’ll play 😂

[@Panimal98]

Except even Fortnite and Apex are still fun and different. People just want something to complain about. Games are still (mostly) good.

[@viktorthevictor6240]

​@@Panimal98 Yeah, I've been playing apex with friends for a few months now and I'm having a blast. Don't care too much about rank, as long as I'm in gold or plat I'm happy.

[@williamshaikespire69]

Fortnite is still fun, if you ignore the rich kids inside the game

[@friesneverdies]

@@williamshaikespire69 and they dont even affect the gameplay lol

[@anubis-is-my-pet2993]

I love when KZbin recommends me good small channels

[@BaggioOmbre]

Smaller channels have to prove themselves, so the quality is usually higher in the subject.

[@IBZogTheGreat]

Gotta love finding fellow common sense enjoyers

[@MyledBlaze]

Yes

[@RealityRogue]

This is how I feel too. I roll my eyes every time I see “video games just aren’t the same anymore” Meanwhile I’m having just as much fun playing Minecraft with my friends now as I did when I was a kid. That’s not even mentioning all the other games you mentioned in the video + indie games being the best they’ve ever been.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed.❤❤❤

[@antoguino]

theres definitely an argument to be made that there's more "garbage" games, but theres also way more great games to match them

[@BlackJacked]

​@@antoguinoIt's probably that there were a ton of garbage games back in the day, but people only remember the ones that were good or at least enjoyable in their own way.

[@antoguino]

@@BlackJacked this guy gets it

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@antoguino People don't know about the video game crash. That gaming era was literally characterized by having too many trash games.

[@miyamotomusashi6450]

I find it funny when people say that Nintendo only makes bad games nowadays, and then they almost exclusively talk about pokemon games.

[@vitorhenriquefarias8916]

Even more funnier is that Nintendo doesn't have anything to do with the current state of the pokemon franchise it's gamefreak sure it is a Nintendo IP but they're not involved with it's development

[@86Corvus]

Switch is a dumping ground for halfassed unpolished garbage. The company fugured out pad wielding apes have much lower standards than they previously expected.

[@Blue_Cubes_silly_animations]

This reminds me of people who complain that music is boring and bad now as well.

[@86Corvus]

it is, most games and movies have thesame type symphonic filler music now. This is because these corporate apes try to replicate success of soundtracks like morrowind or classic world of warcraft or old RPGs like baldurs gate and icewind dale where the tracks felt way more creative, memorable and worked on than these generic symphonics now...

[@MatthewT394]

@@86Corvus listen to jpegmafia and tell me its boring

[@Peaaaaaaaaaaa]

Mfs when I pull out meganeko:

[@PGrayOfficial]

If a KZbinr makes a video about this, they usually follow into one of these catagories: - They only play multiplayer FPS games, and because no new hot games of that genre are coming out and are good on release, it means the game industry as a whole is dying - They play only a single game and have gotten bored of it, thus believing that gaming is dead or dying - They believe that indie games aren’t real and that AAA games are the only way to play, and because AAA games have been pretty bad recently, gaming is dying - They don’t play video games

[@Piercing_Mitez]

- They're a game journalist.

[@eightcoins4401]

Theres actually even good big budget AAA games like Baldurs Gate 3 recently

[@thecosmonaut4221]

Bonus point - If they are a content creator and their views are starting to die then that must mean video games are dead

[@koshetz]

I had same mindset in 2014-2018 and thougt games isn't fun anymore but then realised that i wanted good games from wrong developers and after 3 years break started to seek something entirely different instead of relying on companies i don't trust anymore. This year i finished BG3, Hades, DOS2, Elden Ring (can't wait for DLC) and Nier Replicant and i had so much fun with each of these games i didn't had in a decade.

[@skullofglory10]

Aye! People whine about how "Minecraft beta was SOOO much better than modern minecraft!" While i can see where these lads are coming from...As a player who grew up playing the betas, I gotta say no, Minecraft beta was NOT better than modern minecraft. I'll admit, its a subjective thing, but still, They act like all modern versions are trash. Like, Hello? You guys spent a decade asking for an update to caves and then WHINE about the update not feeling like a minecraft version from 10 YEARS AGO. It gets tiring, Y'know? And this is coming from a guy who's been enjoying minecraft since beta back in 2011.

[@antoguino]

that’s what I’m saying, while I may not enjoy Minecraft like I used to, it’s so much fun to play with all the new stuff they’ve added these last few years, and I’m really excited to play it again with the boys when I finally get in the mood again

[@Thescifienjoyer55]

I mean, I do still think that the newest Minecraft updates are kinda lacking. The cave update didn’t even come out in one update, it had to be split in 2, even 3 updates if you count the Wild Update. Mojang overpromised and underdelivered, and ever since then Minecraft updates fell off. Minecraft is still by no means dead or not fun to play anymore (you can play modded Minecraft, which is getting better each passing year), it’s just that the recent updates are kinda lackluster.

[@orange_turtle3412]

The game is better now, objectively. There is more content and therefore more stuff to do, and nothing from the old game was removed. But the community was better back then. Thats undeniable. Minecraft had a culture surrounding it in its early days that has yet to be replicated

[@_BBAGG_]

Honestly, I feel Minecraft peaked at 1.7.10. It's the version I keep going back to and modding over any of the newer versions.

[@lucamayhem]

I like older versions of Minecraft as much as the newer ones, I do go back to beta sometimes but tbh I just don't play Minecraft that much anymore, but yeah I like older MC especially the mods for 1.7.10 and 1.12.2

[@44zeex]

I feel like people just can't play anymore. There always has to be a challenge. I just load up Horizon Forbidden West and fly around the map. I just play, like little kids do.

[@megamillion5852]

This goes very hard with that classic Naruto wallpaper profile pic.

[@Prxypad]

I still sometimes play Skyrim just to genocide everything and then load my save

[@032_m.alfathcirrus5]

Personally to me it's AC Unity, just parkour around Paris doing nothing but free-run.

[@NE0_Messi]

Yeah I'm trying to rediscover my inner child, feel like that'll help me even beyond gaming

[@gabereal]

Have this for skate 3 and ac unity like the guy above

[@wub9044]

The most common argument these folks often say when you tell 'em to stay away from AAA trash and play indies is "So many of them are just copies and rip offs of other games" or "Where should I even be looking for them?" These people are so nearsighted they don't even bother to use glasses (that being Google). All they need to do is type 'indie [genre] games [year]'. It will *never* be any simpler.

[@LAJIRAFA66]

Steam exists for a reason and yet they still complain. I understand complaining about shitty AAA games and how shit quality a lot of them can be but there are some seriously awesome indie games

[@deprofundis442]

Saying "try indie games" isn't really the best pointer. It's about as broad as just saying "try video games". There's tons of bad stuff in that scene. People need actual recommendations if they're telling you that they don't know where to start. If I Google "indie RPG", the quality of anything I might click on is gonna be all over the place.

[@autismandgaming4532]

@@deprofundis442 Good way of explaining it. For every Pizza Tower There's a Yandere Simulator. For every Undertale there's a Garten of Banban. etc

[@86Corvus]

So they are pointing out the truth to you

[@86Corvus]

Im gonna blow your tiny mind, they do google, they did try sone that look somewhat acceptable and they were instantly regreting it. Example? Like castlevanias, played gestalt , the games controlls are shit and theres input delay. The game starts with a forced tutorial, the controll scheme is idiotic and the dumb developer thinks i should use a pad like an ape. Im sorry, i dont play the piano with my feet either.

[@MalfunctionWhocares]

One of the common points that annoys me is when people try to bring up how the older gens were better because "Look at all these great games we had [List of basically every well known game from a certain era]" as if ALL gaming eras didn't have a significantly higher batch of unremembered mediocre games or outright garbage. Sure, back then bad games generally had different issues than current bad games, like Live Services and DLC obsession was less common back then, but regardless, they were still crappy and/or mediocre games all the same, and the ratio was still "Less good games than bad/mediocre". Even back in the days of Arcades and retro consoles, this was the same. All generations have this similar thing. Not that it's worth making this point though. Most of these types will just respond with "Name some current games that are good", and whatever you answer, they'll find a find to say "Nuh uh", such as the "I don't care about or personally like that game so it doesn't count" or the classic "calling it "soulless" as if that means jack shit anymore", to finding some way to shove political bullshit into their reasoning, among many others.

[@mattc7420]

It's always "7th gen was the best" when it's the same generation as Ride to Hell and Colonial Marines. Or worse "The 90's was the best" when most of that crowd has probably never touched DOS.

[@zyonhenderson67]

BRO THANK YOU! Sorry for caps but I swear man. Its like people forget how ass some games used to be. Sure games were epic back then, but we had a long share of stinkers. Honestly, there are so many options and games that came out 5 years ago that I havent even had a chance to play. There are still plenty of great games

[@JechtMakesVideogames]

I disagree with the arcades part, unless its about some of them being absolutely shit, and yeah some retro consoles were completely unbearable to play with. The rest I slightly agree. Indie games are carrying the shit out of this industry.

[@DADA-yt1pt]

@@MalfunctionWhocares 110% agree with this. And what I find interesting is that I grew up with titles that are considered to be pretty mediocre. Like both episodes of Sonic 4, but I nevertheless enjoyed them back then. Hell, I even enjoyed Sonic 06 when I played it. I also can't say much about games like Dragon Ball Z Sagas or Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly seeing as I haven't played them, but those games are widely criticized by many people, and yet there are still people who consider them nostalgic and enjoy them despite the flaws they may have. (Which is completely fine, of course) And while I don't want to excuse mediocrity or just act like it's okay to put little to no effort into video games, if people can enjoy stuff like that in the older era, then I don't see why the same can't be said for the current era. Not to say that people have to like certain games, of course, but one man's trash is another man's treasure, as they say. I'll always agree with the notion that every era has good and bad in it, and while I won't dismiss the bad in this era, there is a lot of stuff I find really enjoyable in this era as well. I get to re-experience games with an HD glow up or with extra content like Katarmari Damacy or the Final Mix versions of some of the Kingdom Hearts games or both with Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe. There are modern games I enjoy like Sonic Frontiers, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Mario Wonder and Dragon Ball Fighterz. And the fact that you can play triple A games on the go with the Switch and Steam Deck will always be awesome to me. I don't think I'll ever truly get bored of gaming.

[@MakiRB]

"If you're stuck in the past, you won't be able to enjoy what's in front of you" I'll add that also what is behind you! I recently started playing NES and SNES games on emulators and it has been a blast! There are great games from the past that people ignore. I've been playing Contra, Punch-out, Kirby, etc. FOR FREE. It really is just a matter of looking hard enough.

[@gxalcremieshiny4229]

I have found gaming quite boring awhile back a friend of mine suggested: "How about you... don't play a platformer?" I looked at my recent games and... yup... all platformers, I wasn't growing tired of games, just platformers. So then I played some 3rd person shooters, FPS, horror games and it truly refuels your game-drive It's easy to fall in this "same-genre trap" as you like a genre, see more of it, and you want more of it Did I enjoy all the games I played? No. Some games were not fun, but that's alright, not everything has to be to my tastes

[@ethansprague2005]

Same genre trap is so real, I've gotten out of that trap and now I change genres every game I play because I realized how much I enjoy the variety

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

Love yourself and play Guardian Heroes and Skies of Arcadia

[@Fatigue023]

I can't hear those ppl over me having fun in games like ULTRAKILL

[@autismandgaming4532]

"Games aren't fun anymore" mfs when I tell them to play Pikmin 4

[@gaving7825]

The real problem: People having a lack of genre variety in their gaming, usually due to a lack of trying new genres or being overly comfortable with familiarity (or both). Then they complain and whine about the fact the 69,000th CoD game is copy-paste when they were basically always copy-paste ever since ~2011, if I ate the same three foods every day for 13 years I would get tired of them too.

[@actual_maniac]

"Video games aren't fun" *plays only FPS games and Minecraft*

[@VortexF]

Change "FPS" Games to CoD and CS bc half of the people that complain about games not being fun anymore only tried one or two triple A FPS,there are so many great one's like ULTRAKILL, Helldivers 2,Lethal Company(kinda),and Minecraft players refuse to believe that game's like terraria exist,which are going to give you the same wonder that old school Minecraft gave you when you were younger

[@staringcorgi6475]

Mc has mod packs which play different so it’s hard to be bored

[@Daralexen]

@@staringcorgi6475 There are issues with the modding community though. Such as the current "horror" trend of low-effort mods started by Cave Dweller and massive Lolcows such as TheyCallMeDanger and the Scape and Run: Parasites dev team.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@Daralexen stay away from the crappy mod packs and stick with witj the ones that are high effort like tekkit or feed the beast

[@Daralexen]

@@staringcorgi6475 I primarily stick to vanilla+ modpacks such as Better Beta and Re-console along with the occasional adventure/survival-themed ones. However, the crappy modpacks and mods like RLCraft, Fear Nightfall, Parasites, and Cave Dweller + its DeviantArt OC clones, are extremely popular with KZbinrs. Which leads to them burying the good ones on CurseForge.

[@firepeaman2440]

"Video games aren't fun anymore!" -says the guy who only plays COD, Minecraft, and Sports games.

[@NukeSurveilance]

Fr

[@86Corvus]

not everybody has to like everything little buddy. In no way you undermined your imaginary opponents argument by the way

[@firepeaman2440]

@@86Corvus Where did I say they had to enjoy everything? If you only play the same five games, you're going to get bored. Facts are not strawmen.

[@peteromg9292]

"Video games aren't fun anymore" mfs when i show them the ENTIRE INDIE GAME SPACE (side note: i love ultrakill, and ror2)

[@Daralexen]

Or show them more niche franchises.

[@Seinsmelled]

indie games suck

[@1woozy]

@@Seinsmelled the criteria used to define 'indie' is so vague and dynamic. I can't help but imagine people who say the shit you just said hate anything that's not trendy, AAA or a copy of what came before.

[@Seinsmelled]

@@1woozy i just dont play video games except YBA and fortnite

[@jacobbachman4014]

⁠@@Seinsmelledyba is indie due to lacking a publisher/substantial starting budget lol

[@g00bleck]

I'm glad this is a sentiment that's being talked about more now

[@SizzleCorndog]

“Games aren’t fun anymore” spoken like someone who hasn’t been fighting bugs on a backwater planet or hunting Safi’jiva at 2am

[@zerozone5848]

or mewing with furious rajang at 4am with the event quest "MEWING is number one" in MHW iceborne

[@Rhettroizms]

11 months ago the guy who made the "video games are fun anymore" video made a sequel to it called "Video Game Are Fun, Actually" about soem new games that are fun.

[@theviniso]

It's all about the engagement. In a year he'll make a video called "video games are not fun again".

[@factory_enslavement]

​@@thevinisoIt's all about views

[@Ninjaananas]

​@@factory_enslavement The irony.

[@patrickthebunny2626]

I need to remark, It doesnt have to do anything with this video, But I really starting to consider the "X isnt Y, actually" as a new annoying video title template, idk tho

[@chedder_chandlure4363]

"Gaming is dead" mfers when I tell them to get out of their comfort zone and to revist old classics they haven't played

[@86Corvus]

no, this moron is arguing that modern state of the gaming market is good enough. Its not. Going back to older titles is only happening because there arent enough good new titles to play which is the argument of the people he criticizes. Gaming is dead.

[@nitro5247]

You’re right. You’re so right. Games have been and are still great. Like you said with Atlus, Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance came out this year and it’s my GOTY by a long shot. There are so many games to be discovered, for every type of gamer. Just give yourself the chance to find them.

[@annelise1412]

Sometimes is okay to rest of things you love, believe me, when I don't feel videogames fun anymore I stop playing 2-3 months and when I come back it feels SO GOOD

[@starstorm1267]

I fall out of interest in games all the time. I expect it to happen every time I pick up a new game actually, no matter how invested in the game I’m currently in. Because I know eventually, I will start to miss it, and go back to playing it again. And it’s always just as fun to return to

[@antoguino]

sorry for unpinning the funny comment but i thought it’d be cool to address a few arguments that deserve to be recognized 1. “We’re talking about AAA” While I personally think that AAA games are still doing fairly good, with tons of hits coming out, I can understand the sentiment that companies like ubisoft are creating with insane pricing systems, however they don’t reflect the whole game industry, and lots of AAAs are putting out good games. 2. “Just focusing on the good is unproductive and you need to criticize the bad as well.” This one is pretty valid, I think it’s fairly reasonable to criticize bad and uplift good, but in doing so you have to acknowledge that for every single era of gaming, we’ve been doing that. Yes, of course there are more garbage games, but there are also more great games, the ratio hasn’t changed, but the volume has. 3. “X Franchise has gone down the shitter, what do?” I empathize with this one, and that’s what the suicide squad story was supposed to be for. I get that when a franchise you care about gets all scummy and greedy that it sucks, but unfortunately you just need to vote with your wallet and move on. It really does suck, but again, it doesn’t mean that video games are dead, it just means it’s time for new things to take their place. 4. “That’s just like, your opinion, man” True‼️ Just as much as I am allowed to convey my opinion that I think video games are better than ever, you’re allowed to disagree, because there ARE valid reasons to that side of the argument. I just think branching out helped me out a lot and I think it’d help you guys too. Your opinion isn’t valid if you’re crying about diversity though, look inside yourself and really ask yourself why you’re mad about that 5. “The gaming is dead crowd doesn’t actually mean gaming is dead.” I get that it’s hyperbole, but I feel like it’s not super helpful to just say that “gaming is dead” when we’ve get bangers coming out left and right, and I’d say that the majority of games people remember from the last few years would be good ones 6. "It's always the same answer 'just play indie games'" You did not watch the video buddy i’ll be updating this as i see more interesting arguments, maybe ill make a video idk

[@peighnesshonourchign9164]

Tears of the kingdom was just overhyped dlc, super Mario needs a hiatus, there's too many dark souls clones, n indie games either try to remake a classic or are gimmick games for streamers. Every big dev wants live service, turning games into work. Also, the point u made about "just play the game everyone else thinks is cool" is wild. Cannot believe u thought that was a good take. Lol. Just conform, right? That's how we got to where we are. By following the trends

[@fyran6453]

*thank you for showing how AAA games are not 100% bad like every single indie game fan addict tries at all costs to tell to the others*

[@BulletSponge71436]

Frick you for the thumbnail.

[@justsomeguyontheinternet5898]

@@peighnesshonourchign9164”Just play the game everyone thinks is cool”. This is not a bad take at all it makes complete sense.If you’re hating media like games or whatever or think the genre isn’t the same anymore maybe you could look at actual popular and look up why their popular? Like let’s say I think single player first person shooters are a boring genre. It’s all military propaganda junk or whatever the fuck you want to think. You could easily look up popular fps that people love like Half life 2,Doom eternal, and Bioshock 1. Playing a game everyone likes isn’t a bad thing and saying that as advice isn’t bad at all it’s logical as fuck. Why wouldn’t you want to look into things that well received and considered popular. Then again I shouldn’t expect logic from someone with a dumbass username.Seriously why don’t your take your crappy takes to some subreddit like mohair in action or whatever it’s called.

[@antoguino]

@@peighnesshonourchign9164 i guess it was a bit odd to say it that way, it's more of me saying that when there's universal acclaim for a certain game, you should try it, it's a good way to find games that you might like. I'm not saying to "just conform" but rather to look on the bright side and see where it takes you

[@durag_rico]

Thanks for even the thumbnail, you have to look deeper than games that have the biggest marketing budget to find games with heart and passion

[@matejmaric3346]

"Why aren't games fun anymore?" - Me back in 2022 after finishing my 2587th game of League. Glad I managed to get rid of that addiction. Literally worse than alcoholism. People just need to get out of their comfort zone and start playing new things and doing new stuff. I picked up Vampire Survivors at the start of 2023 and it blew my mind. I didn't believe how such a simple game could be so much fun. Spent over 150 hours on it and cause of it I started looking up similar games and ended up enjoying a totally different genre of games that I've never really touched before. Started with Halls of Torment and after I played Death Must Die and Project Lazarus and I loved them all. Death Must Die then led me into new genres, platformers and dungeon crawlers like Hades, Dead Cells and Hollow Knight. If you think games are not fun anymore just get out of your comfort zone and pick up something totally different. Stop playing your MMO you've logged over 3k hours into and about which you don't care anymore. I still play MMOs occasionally. I log into Warframe every day and do my dailies. I've been into that game since 2016 and I still enjoy it, I still Guild Wars 2 too. But if I only kept playing these 3-4 games like I used to between 2018-2022 I would still think videogames aren't that fun anymore. Cheers, sorry for the essay!

[@JurassicB]

Honestly people gotta argue about everything on the Internet

[@mr.x2567]

People are worthless.

[@Rustylorde]

you know what? i love this message. i love this whole video. it is a positive view on a terrible situation where nothing seems to be getting better, but they are! the loud voices of slop will not drown out the quiet whispers of brilliance.

[@DionPanday]

Just consume product and don’t ask questions

[@Rustylorde]

@@DionPanday i am not denying that we should protest, i think i should clarify. we absolutely should protest with the AAA directors, who are making terrible games with overworked people, or sometimes intentionally trying to make an actual scam. that is bad, and we should try to stop it. i think this video is trying to show us that there is still light, that there is still hope for videogames, even triple A, but it still agrees that there is a bunch of terrible stuff coming out. it's just that the loud voices of slop are louder than ever now.

[@DionPanday]

@@Rustylorde No this video is clearly saying I know games aren’t as fun as they used to be but you could you like please ignore all that and pretend everything is a okay? Oh games are pandering to minorities? Just ignore it, oh indie games use nostalgia and don’t offer anything truly unique? Just ignore it. And if you really want to pull a strawman just say the people who are criticizing only play the same 5 popular games despite having no evidence for this. Because like we all know if you don’t like a badly prepared meal, eating a completely different meal will magically fix the original badly prepared meal. K thx bye.

[@Rustylorde]

@@DionPanday did we watch the same video? i got the message that: "there are bad things, we should not support them. but there are some better things, you should support that." if a positive attitude and spreading hope seems like "ignoring the bad things of games." the last part of the video is trying to be advice! try going out of your comfort zone, try new things, stuff like that! not everyone plays a lot of different games! if you think that pandering to minorities (which all games do, there is no everyone game) or using nostalgia as an indie game is a bad thing, i'd like to hear why nothing in the world can ever be truly unique anymore, there is just too much stuff to make something new that has no parts that are used elsewhere, but they can be different enough to tickle that dopamine factory.

[@nessie-from-earthbound1601]

@Rustylorde I think that other guy may be too fair up his own ass to engage with others in good faith, but I do give you kudos for still being polite. I don’t mean that sarcastically! That can be rare to find online nowadays

[@ArtsyPuppy]

I think another thing to add is that people also just need to find other hobbies variety even outside of games makes life so much more interesting go for walks, learn new skills, make something, find new shows or movies to watch, read a book series you never finished as a kid, revisit something you loved as a kid and see how it’s changed for you, doing that is an eye opening experience and at least for me has really changed how I viewed things from my past there’s so much to do in life, so many new and old games and so much variety that I think limiting yourself to only 1 genre or 1 hobby is just dull there’s also just a general problem of really hyping up nostalgia and putting so much emphasis on it when nostalgia really isn’t the end all be all gaming was not perfect back then whatsoever, and it certainly isn’t now, but I think we need to stop looking back at time periods and be like “this was the peak everything was downhill and it was perfect then!!” just because we were kids

[@kw4093-v3p]

Completely agree! More people need to have a positive outlook on gaming.

[@jollygrapefruit786]

The best thing I did for my gaming hobby was picking up another, totally unrelated hobby. Fishing has gotten me not just off of video games, but away from my PC entirely. It makes the time I do get to spend on my PC in general, but especially gaming, feel so much more meaningful. Im also spending more time with my friends and grandfather!

[@tavernadodevilhunter6732]

"Games are not fun anymore" Me playing warhammer boltgun "the emperor guide me" Yes i saw many of this same videos i understand some points but, they aways play the same game, sometimes even lot of live services. There's a lot good games, example katana zero is indie game is so fun to play

[@behimezio]

these times looks like that picture of a bus where one person is looking at the mountain side while the other is looking at breathtaking view of the valley .

[@Antonio_Dude]

"I guess even if you force back what was lost...it still wont be the same way it was"

[@Alphabottt]

Playing games from different genres is definitely a game changer (lmao) i started playing more single player games recently and not just the same 5 things and i been having so much fun

[@henryfleischer404]

I got into an RPG for pretty much the first time recently. I've been playing Panzer Dragoon Saga recently, after playing too many first person shooters.

[@autismandgaming4532]

I got into the Pikmin series last year, even though the RTS Genre is one I would be terrified by under any other circumstance

[@Palindrome3945]

Full grown adults wondering why the action of playing doesn't feel the same as when they were kids.

[@Veo87]

Thank you for counteracting the general trend to be negative and catastrophic that I see among KZbinrs.

[@lemonov3031]

Playing more than 1 genre challenge: impossible

[@WaitNoIdidntMean]

"video games aren't the same anymore" *has 3000 hours on tf2, gmod, roblox, and gta 5*

[@marcinmcula99]

As someone who never played games as a kid and only started getting into it a few years ago I never experienced this issue, playing these modern classics for the first time is awesome. It just seems like people prefer to whine and complain instead of doing something productive or fun

[@theburgersystem126]

Yes literally same. I was looking for a comment like this.

[@eightcoins4401]

Consuming and whining are the sole personalities of the most vocal gamers.

[@Zeruel132]

I'm currently sitting at 600 games on my Must-Play games list, with another 600 games on my wishlist, knowing I'll likely die from old age before I get through them all. Whenever I hear people saying that there's nothing to play or nothing good, I just can't help but wonder how they've managed to get through 40 years of gaming content already while I'm struggling with a single year's worth of releases. I genuinely love video games and there's some absolute crap out there, but there always has been. Hilarious to see people looking at 2013 with nostalgia when I vividly remember the gaming discourse predicting a video game crash by 2015 due to the reboot culture that was coming up or in late 2000s when everyone said PC is dead and developers killed it due to bad ports. To me, it sadly seems to be just a ton of people stuck in their comfort bubbles and with a lack of critical thinking about these types of things. If their favorite childhood game series doesn't hit the same way during their 4000th hour on it, then suddenly the entire medium is dead.

[@ObliSubX]

I bet those are the kind of people that play online games waaaaay too much. I can tell, because some of their arguments goes like "Imagine being a kid, booting up your windows 7 and hanging out with the bros, having a few rounds on (instert generic shooter game name) every night. Yeah, those days. But it's not the same anymore". Yeah it's cool and all, Brrrooo. But those are just memories. Move on. Just because those days are over doesn't mean that gaming in general is boring. I too feel that way. I miss 2020 when I used to talk a lot with people and EVEN play online with some of them, even for a little. Nowadays I just focus on my personal life and watching anime/cartoons and playing Sonic games whenever I feel like it. And despite the fact that my life now is boring. I never blame it on games. Even when I do the typical "boot up the pc and play nothing" dick move, I don't think for a second that it's because gaming is boring. It's just that life got fucked up over time, that's all. There is a saying that goes "life is what you make of it" and I couldn't agree more with this statement. If I was in the right position, I CAN make my life way more fun than it ever has been and bring back that joy of gaming. Maybe someday.. maybe someday....

[@mrnobody9611]

"Videogames arent fun anymore" ok brother talk for yourself, we all are still having fun 😂😂😂

[@joejoemojo]

got so sick of seeing those videos in my recommended. i still enjoy games the way i want to and theres nothin wrong with that

[@bonkers1917]

List of games I really like (some older, some more recent) in case anyone wants to find something to play: - Viscera Cleanup Detail (Simulator, Optional Co-op) - Everhood (Rhythm, RPG, Bullet Hell) - Stacklands (Management, Cards) - Bad End Theater (Visual Novel) - Left 4 Dead 2 (FPS, Optional Co-op) - Dust: An Elysian Tail (Metroidvania, Beat ‘Em Up) - SUPERHOT (FPS, Puzzle) - Rayman Legends (Platformer, Adventure, Optional Co-op) - Hades (Rougelike) - Recettear: An Item Shops Tale (Tycoon, Simulator) - Hi-Fi RUSH (Rhythm, Beat ‘Em Up) - Yuppie Psycho (Horror Exploration, Puzzle) - Hypnospace Outlaw (Simulator) - Omori (Psychological Horror, Adventure) - Volcano Princess (Life Simulator, Management) - Castle Crashers (Beat ‘Em Up, Optional Co-op) - Tetris Effect (Puzzle, Optional Co-op) - Sucker For Love: First Date (Parodic Dating Sim) - Cult Of The Lamb (Rougelike, Management) - Graveyard Keeper (RPG, Crafting) - Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Tactical RPG) - Slayers X (FPS, Doom-Like) - Vampire Survivors (Bullet Hell, Optional Co-op) - Your Turn To Die (Horror Visual Novel, Puzzle) - Idol Manager (Management) - Hatoful Boyfriend (Parodic Dating Sim) - Charlie Murder (Beat ‘Em Up, Optional Co-op) - Persona 5 Royal (RPG) - Needy Streamer Overload (Psychological Horror, Management) Hope this list has something new for you to try! If anyone has recommendations then feel free to leave some as well. :]

[@zebelray8093]

Banger List dude!

[@bonkers1917]

@@zebelray8093 thanks!! I tried to put a big enough variety of games so that anyone could find something they like. if you end up trying any of these I’d love to hear how it goes! :)

[@DADA-yt1pt]

Castle Crashers is still one of my favorite games.

[@bonkers1917]

@@DADA-yt1pt absolutely!! I’m so happy I grew up with it. I’d beg my brothers to play it with me on our 360 all the time. even after all this time it’s still one of my favorite games.

[@radzzi01]

For people who said gaming isn’t fun anymore, go and buy a switch with tears of the kingdom, Kirby and the forgotten lands and TTYD remake instead of playing fortnite 24/7. You’re welcome😊

[@MoonWielder]

People who share this sentiment lack imagination. That's why they need to open up to games they haven't explored yet.

[@mmarshfairc3]

Yep. Video games are for weirdos, nerds and dorks. This is the end result of video games going so mainstream. The average person watches movies and thinks “who’s that? Why did they do that? How did they get there?” While looking at their phone. Same applies to video games. If a game doesn’t give them a dopamine hit and let them zone out they give up.

[@mr.x2567]

@@mmarshfairc3 what are you even doing watching a video about video games?

[@mmarshfairc3]

@@mr.x2567 I don’t know what you’re asking me.

[@bam_bino__]

@@mr.x2567read their comment again

[@ArcadeStriker]

Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers had been a fangame I had waited for five years as the sequel of SRB2Kart...and adter it dripped on April 24th, I can say I have over 60 hours logged in a month, first time in forever I play a game that much.

[@cmckevitt]

bro thank you I see all these videos and I’m like “play different games dude” like it’s not that deep lmao

[@moazzinazhar8565]

Gaming isn't boring we just need to find the right game I no joke finished sekiro like 7 times in a week or two modded it and am replaying and I still enjoy it

[@Radec_G]

Sekiro is one of the few games i bother to platinum, I don't give a sht about trophies but sekiro is so fun that i literally use platinum as an excuse to keep playing it

[@moazzinazhar8565]

@@Radec_G exactly I am not a completionist but this is the first game in which I just keep coming back and finding something new

[@fernandodecarlosmalcher7977]

THANK YOU, it's so frustrating hearing people saying games aren't fun anymore, it just feels like recently everyone has a mentality of complaining all the time, it really bothered me how ff7 rebirth came out shortly after suicide squad, and nobody talked about it because they were to busy complaining about that game, is true that there's a lot of garbage that it's been put out, but for every bad game, there's another great one, not to mention that sometimes it feels like people that complain about it, just don't try to find any good games, and would rather be stuck with the same garbage

[@stevencurtis7157]

Microtransactions aren't micro. They aren't usually even minitransactions and are sometimes macrotransactions.

[@random-person-online-16]

The shoutout to indie game developers was so appreciated! People forget how much creativity and love indie games are made with, and their level of popularity speaks to how well theyre made, especially considering they have to fight every step of the way to make a name for themselves against these multi-million dollar companies and their more well known titles.

[@jasonjasso666]

It’s frustrating because you know they don’t really mean what they say, not really. Usually, the statement “there were no good games this year” is just a misplaced critique of the fact there were no good games THEY liked this year. I’ve seen this exaggerative take when it comes to movies as well. I didn’t think it needed to be said, but just because there isn’t an abundance of media catering to your interests, doesn’t mean an entire medium of entertainment is to blame.

[@ImNotSimon_totally]

ill be completely honest most of the whole "woke bad" arguments just feel like "woman character does not have massive badonkers, 0/10" but actually taken seriously somehow.

[@shnubdawg7730]

Aloy is literally so beautiful and like even considering her lifestyle in the game she still looks good. Not only that but I find her to be a character I can really relate to.

[@Homerboy44]

People make those kinds of arguements will turn a salty "this dude cheated" to a knee-jerking "This guy is racist!" for attention. It's stupid.

[@86Corvus]

heh little boys talking... youd fuck two stacked rocks if they reminded you of a titty thats how hard up you are... Not really a good position to ejudicate on quality of female characters in videogames. On top of that you are ignorant of the past.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

People saying games are boring should try just playing games they actually like instead of insisting they play the most popular games only.

[@vengeance1450]

This is the best comment on here, everyone is just forcing their opinions on what games they like when we all need to make opinions for ourselves. People that force themselves to like a game that is popular by the majority of people make no sense. I personally hate a lot of popular games like all of Fromsoftware's games and Balurs Gate 3, instead of forcing myself to like them I make my own opinions and play what I like. Don't let strangers on the internet make your opinions for you.

[@AlexanTheMan]

A lot of these opinions come from people who just play shooters, or only play games from 90s-2000s franchises that have been creatively exhausted nowadays. And mobile games. Branch out lads!

[@LibraScope]

Facts. As someone who's been playing games for over three decades now, plays every genre you can think of, remembers the major controversies, trends, gimmicks, and other issues along the way, and still regularly goes back to games from every era from the NES onward... you're 100% correct. That is not to downplay the issues the industry faces today. They are serious issues, and arguably more dangerous to the health of the industry at large, than anything it has faced at this point. But I'm also NOT going to pretend that a game like True Crime: New York City on Xbox wasn't literally a beta version accidentally printed to discs, making a late game boss impossible to beat. I'm not going to pretend Street Fighter II and many other games didn't expect you to buy five versions of the same game over a handful of years, all for prices that - adjusted for inflation - were ridiculously anti-consumer when you put it all together. I'm not going to pretend that every publisher under the sun didn't say "Hey, let's make a terrible Devil May Cry clone", or Mario clone, or GTA clone just to blindly cash in on a trend. I'm not going to pretend Resident Evil 1 wasn't intended to be a remake of Sweet Home, before being released twice more on the PS1 with new controls/content, and then remade just a few years after that. I'm not going to pretend EA wasn't buying up licenses like the NFL license, to create anti-competitive monopolies. I'm not going to pretend that publishers weren't giving studios 8 months and exactly three nickels to create a licensed movie tie-in, because they knew it would sell no matter what. The problem... is the fact that capitalism is the framework in which the art is being made. When money is the primary driving force, these types of trends will always exist.

[@rokkudayo]

I've been playing nothing but Need for Speed Unbound, Like a Dragon, and other J-RPGs for the past year or so and I couldn't be happier

[@mizuko6132]

It’s kinda like music. People who say music is getting stale usually listen to like 3 genres. With video games some people usually stick to two types of games. What’s unfortunate for video games is that companies are looking to make the next Fortnite or GTA online.

[@Toma-621]

A lot of people who say games are boring now either A) Play the same games over and over with no variety B) Have lost interest in gaming as a whole as they've gotten older and think everyone should feel the same (they tend to say stuff like "if you're above x age and still play games you need to grow up") C) Don't really play games anyways and are just making a video for views/to capitalize on how bad a lot of modern releases are

[@m.abdullahsabir9544]

subbed for the bangin' music choice, can't wait to see what you channel has 💙💙💙

[@Basegud]

Last month I played Deltarune, the kind of sequel Undertale, for the first time, and my god was that game fun, and the best part is that its only 2 out of 7 chapters deep right now. My main save is at like 500 minutes of playtime, and I don't regret a single second of it, even though I played it all within a week. lt just proves that indie games are so cool

[@guiltyoregano7131]

Everyone wants to remember the great games that came out back then. Then they like to forget about the shit we got. Ride to hell retribution,mindjack,and all those horrible movie license games.

[@danjames8314]

i've never understood the sentiment of gaming being "dead" or "dying" To list my own currently installed games in my steam library for a moment to illustrate what you can find if you branch into multiple genre's (or even a few niche games in some more mainstream genres): Barotrauma - Full release in 2023, still getting updates - 170 hours played Battlebit Remastered - Still in early access and still getting updates - 55 hours played (and rapidly rising) Darkest Dungeon - Released in 2016 no longer getting updates - 110 hours played (got the game in 2023) Deep Rock Galactic - Released in 2020, is soon going to have another major update and a new game like it is on the way - 370 hours played Factorio - Released in 2020 and is soon going to have a major DLC released - 170 hours played (majority of that within a single month) Fallout New Vegas - released at the start of time and is still one of the most narratively pleasing games to play to this day (and if modding counts then gameplaywise too), 240 hours played Forts - Released in 2017, still decently actively updated - 130 hours Foxhole - Released 2022, is one of the most unique games (let alone MMO's) out there and while it has problems, no game will make you feel like a cog in a machine more than this - 240 hours played (and endless hours thought about, seriously I don't know why) From the Depths - Released in 2020, still getting minor updates to this day - 110 hours played Kerbal Space Program - Released in 2015, No longer updated - 450 hours played Noita - Released in 2020, still receiving updates occasionally and is one of the most cryptic games out there - 80 hours played Project Zomboid - Still in early access and is in active development - 180 hours played Ravenfield - forever in early access because solo dev moment, recently got a new update for improved modability - 300 hours played Risk of Rain 2 - Released in 2020, soon to get a new DLC - 140 hours Space Engineers - Released in 2019, is somewhat still developed with what looks to be a new game on the way with a newer (and frankly very impressive) engine - 220 hours Stellaris - Released in 2016, is a paradox game so you better believe there's still DLC being cranked out - 170 hours Team Fortress 2 - released before time itself, is effectively abandoned but is still incredibly fun - 880 hours played Terraria - Released just after the start of time, final update is totally coming soon and then the game wont be developed (its going to be developed until the heat death of the universe) - 350 hours played Valheim - Released in 2021, just received a major update and is actively being developed - 150 hours These are the games that I semi-regularly play on steam, god only knows how many hours I've played Minecraft for or many, MANY other games that I've got lying around (cough, Voices of the Void, Cough) or games that i played on other devices, but the games I've listed alone make up probably half of my steam playtime. there's around 40 more games that I've played over 30-50 hours of and had my fill over the past few years (as well as a few that I've got over 400 in and just don't play anymore or have just become lost in the list of over 100 titles in my library that I've simply forgot about) New games don't fit your fancy? look between the cracks and find niche communities that surround insanely addictive games, or play older games that have long since acquired cult status, they often have for a reason. chances are you can find niche games in the genres you normally enjoy and one might just hook you.

[@valutaatoaofunknownelement197]

Your comment deserves more likes and attention. You did a great job breaking it down.

[@jimmorrison903]

When people say gaming is dying, they are talking about an era where almost 90% of the games are high quality in storytelling, gameplay, innovation etc etc. The fact that you said "look between the cracks and find niche communities" is a testament to this, because back in the old days, you didn't need to. You enter a store, you see the first row, and they are all amazing games. Today, the first row is filled with AAA games that are buggy, messy and filled with microtransactions.

[@X_irtz]

Project Zomboid is goated.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Ironic that Battlebit Remastered is mentioned there as it's literally a throwback to 3/4 era Battlefield.

[@DionPanday]

@@jimmorrison903 this

[@generalpacman6414]

For me it’s take a breaks from the same 2 games I play on a daily basis and go play other games.

[@antoguino]

true I play the batman games way too much

[@CatboyyyX3]

This is the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard because video games are better than they have ever been,and that’s just litterally a logical fact,these people just can’t believe they have grown up and are in a diffirent time and therefore take nostalgia over everything😂

[@86Corvus]

Snorting that crack rock copium huh?

[@86Corvus]

No, its you who wallow in filth thinking its a palace

[@ClintonJoeGaming]

@@86Corvusget a grip

[@ironfistalexander3246]

the best era for gaming is always in the past because you forget all the middling/bad games and remember all the best ones. survivor's bias

[@gochi6542]

Idk man, personally it really does feel different. I just can’t get into games anymore. Maybe it’s me who’s changed and fallen out of it because life has really beaten me down. I’ve added over 115 wildly different games to my library but nothing sticks. It’s not the same anymore, and I think this is what at least some folks mean by that. I can’t seem to do it anymore

[@CrazyguysGamingCGG]

In 2023, i tried out so many games. Fnaf. Plants vs Zombies. Deltarune. Undertale. Terraria. Tears of The Kingdom. You just need to step out of your bubble if you eant to appreciate games more

[@RetroPuffyMC]

I very much agree with these points and feel the same about modern games. Not everything has to be focused in the AAA sphere let alone the newly added AAAA goliath GOTY known as SKULL AND BONES!!! Jokes aside, I've been replaying a lot of older games recently while also scouting indie titles like a madman. There's always a lot more out there. What I did find funny calling out the FPS-only peeps is that EVEN those have great indies lined up: Boltgun, HROT, DUSK, Roboquest, Deep Rock Galactic, Trepang2, Turbo Overkill, mothereffin ULTRAKILL etc etc. You get my point. It's just the ones that only focus on big names and big corpos that just really need to expand more and as you said, break out their comfort zone, and to stop farming off all this negativity that gaming is "dead" when it's far from that point.

[@antoguino]

that thing about FPS was mainly a joke, I’ve played some damn good shooters these past few years

[@CarlosDiaz-fs6cv]

Ahhhh. Dusk is so muc fun.

[@teiull9388]

@@antoguino you saying that gaming is at its peak right now is a definite truth, not only are the tools the most accesible and best they've ever been, but gaming is actively being pushed to its limits, as well as devs in general having a ton of knowledge from old games on what to do/not do, is corporate slop a problem? sure, but these people are making it be a even bigger problem by talking about the games and buying them, if you hate corp slop so much, stop talking about it, stop buying it, stop engaging, use your hard earned cash for fun games instead, and your time playing meaningfull things, you don't even have to dabble slighly into indie to have a ton of fun, the past few years have had some of the best triple A games ever made, Doom Eternal, Alan Wake 2, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Tears of the Kindom, and I can go on and on. Another big aspect these people fail to see is simple, as kids your brain is literally stupid, your critical thinking skills are basically nonexistent, you can play the most annoying bullshit section of any video game and still find it fun, as an adult you now, at least on some level, understand what constitutes "good" and "bad" game design, so ofc games may not feel as fun anymore, you can no longer play any slop and have fun! So just seek out better games, as an adult ive started really delving into game design and analysing everything I play, and I find doing it more fun then playing the games themselves, sure its not for everyone but god damn is it fun, in general ive never had more fun gaming in my life then in the past few years, not only because of the game quality and my new appreciation for them, but also simply because I played some of the best games ive ever played the past few years, ULTRAKILL, Crosscode, Sekiro, and so many more, anybody who says that gaming is dead, not only has no awareness for the real state of gaming, but also has no inherent respect for it seeing they can't even dabble into big triple A titles like tears of the fucking kindom. Another huge issue I see is that people play 1-2 games, mostly MC and CoD or other games or game series, and naturally burn out, thats normal, but instead of trying something new they stick to the same thing they've been doing for a decade and complain on the internet about the "decline" of gaming, just play Hades dude, just play Hades.

[@Sacred_Sword]

This is a long winded response and I do hope you or really anybody are able to see this but the problem with modern videos games is complicated and has a variety of reasons some not known to us. It's not that video games aren't fun anymore. It's undeniable that there are great games out there just waiting to be found but it's just that with the advent of patches, updates, DLC, live service slop, and a ton of terrible ideas and choices and awful companies like Sweet Baby Inc it's clear a lot of new video games that come out nowadays just aren't as good, are ruined through an update or on release, have fatal flaws, or are ruined through their sequels and successors. The best example I can pull is Pokémon. For me personally this series has been my favorite ever since I was a kid. I've been following it ever since 2010 and for nearly 15 years we haven't seen a game with as rich with content and as groundbreaking of a story as the Gen 5 games that came out on the DS. And keep in mind the DS is 20 year old hardware. This isn't nostalgia speaking by the way I've looked at these games and I've seen their qualities and screw ups without the rose tinted glasses. X&Y were bottom of the barrel, Sun & Moon has a bunch of issues plaguing it, USUM was a scam that should've been a free update, Lets Go sucked, Sword & Shield was a disaster, BDSP was a bigger disaster, and Scarlet & Violet while better than the previous two were still even bigger disasters. There were bad old games like Diamond & Pearl and the original RBY just like how there were good games along that path like ORAS, Legends Arceus, and hell I'd still say Sun & Moon were good despite what I said but there's definitely an imbalance. There has to be a reason why the modern games just aren't as good as the DS era of Pokemon. Something happened and while I can't point to one reason it's obvious something weird went on or is going on at Game Freak. Something that's affecting the games so much that we never got as much content as we did in Black 2 & White 2 in a modern game. Don't get me wrong there were definitely bad games in the past. Wii and DS were plagued with shovelware galore but during those times the idea of a super popular triple a game flopping and being a bad game was a rare occurrence but now it's every Tuesday when the internet finds a new awful triple a release to take a dump on. Nowadays especially this year it feels like each game company is competing to see which one does something that's the most anti-consumer. Again it's not that video games aren't fun but my point is there's a lot of reasons as to why a ton of games are failing and are just mid or straight up bad. Vote with your wallets everyone. There's a reason why piracy exists. Companies need to understand that when someone pirates a game most of the time it's never a price problem it's a service problem. If you read this far thank you.

[@BlackbladeYT]

Thank you! I’ve been so sick of seeing those videos myself and I’m glad to see someone address it

[@Caluben]

2023 alone was one of the best years of gaming. There were sooo many bangers released. To say video games are boring now a mere year later is a you problem, not a video game problem.

[@Dante82301]

"games aren't fun anymore" **proceeds to only play minecraft, team fortress 2, maybe even a bit of cod**

[@leo5907]

also *play minecraft like if it was terraria or only speedrun the game*

[@Dante82301]

@@leo5907 it's almost like doing the same thing over and over gets boring eventually

[@leo5907]

@@Dante82301 yeah like minecraft its a sandbox

[@MisterM4n]

I'm starting to enjoy videos dunking on brain-rot video essay frenzys

[@Doge10YT]

You know how those overly negative, nostalgia stuck videos go viral? This one should too. Thank god someone addressed those annoying videos. You can literally game and ignore the bad or generic releases. That's how many games there are. Me, I'm currently playing FF7 Rebirth, and it's not worse than the older FFs.

[@lilbin378]

Nostalgic bias is a very real thing that does seem to affect a lot of gamers. When I was young I used to love games like “sonic the hedgehog” and “Spyro a hero’s tail” and many other games that even at that time weren’t well received. I would spend so much time in them and had an absolute blast. And I now look back on these games with such fond memories. There is something about the brain of a child that will always see the fun in something. Recently I played halo infinite, a modern game that was received very poorly. Most people despise it, but it was free so I picked it up and because I had no expectations I thought it was actually really fun. So much so that I decided to buy the master chief collection (a collection of original halo games) I played halo combat evolved and it was absolutely appalling. It was so boring to me. And yet it is regarded as an absolute classic, which I can understand. But the fact remains that it is remembered so favourably simply because of the nostalgia. It might have been cool for it’s time but it doesn’t hold a candle to it’s modern successor. And yet if I had grown up playing the original halo games then I have no doubt my opinion would be vastly different. Nostalgia bias is a strong factor