God I fucking love Michael Clayton. Jesus Christ. What a film. What a ride. George Clooney is the greatest actor of our age. Seeing someone else mention this masterpiece has brought me to my knees. I’m in tears. Michael Clayton. My God.
The most braindead thing about pre-orders is that back in the day, when physical disc copies were the only way to play games, pre-ordering was a way to guarantee that you got a copy even if the entire Gamestop sold out. Nowadays digital copies of games makes it totally obsolete, you can buy it from the comfort of your couch and install it day one. It's a blatant scam and the fact people fall for it makes me depressed
if its the same price i dont think preorders are neccesarly bad. i remember i needed days to download gtav and it let you start the download earlier. thats wass reason enough for me xD
@@derGerharti like waiting at least a week. It’s usually easy to avoid spoilers at that point and if the game is a hot mess you’ll know within a few hours. Plus, I don’t trust companies like IGN to give good reviews, so it gives independent reviewers like ACG time to get their review out. I do pre order sometimes for the same reason as you though if I’m very confident that the game will be good; I pre ordered RDR2 and Elden Ring and did not regret it. I also pre ordered No Mans Sky, which is the reason I’m reluctant to pre order nowadays 😂
I see a lot of times if you pre-order with PS+ they'll give you like 10% off and being able to pre-download nowadays is pretty fucking dope. I was able to start playing Jedi: Survivor right at midnight I didn't start the download at midnight
The benefit to preorders now is installing the game before the release date. It eliminates the problem of buying a new game on release date and being excited to play it, only to have to wait 4 hours for it to install. That being said, yeah, modern preorders are still fucking dumb
You know when you follow a friend's TH-cam and he just drops when he feels like it, not like he's even trying to make it a job. That's Jakey but with almost two million subscribers.
Yep, and we can see that in a lot of our society today. Shit getting worse and there being no consequences for anyone responsible is just the norm now, so when something doesn't go quite as bad as it could have, people are pleased.
Cyberpunk winning the Steam Awards "Labour of Love" award was the biggest joke! They fixed a completely broken game and these gormless morons praised them up the a** for it!
Imagine a big movie company announcing release dates for movies they haven't even begun writing and/or imagine that same company reshooting entire chunks of story a month before a movie's release and crunching VFX artists so that said movie ends up looking like PS2 cutscenes.
To add to Jake's point, I think the issue got worse when Open World games became commonplace. Instead of scaling the bug checking and QA to the larger size of the game's worlds, they kept the same development times and release windows to appease stockholders, which led to crunch as an industry standard, and corporate greed as an acceptable reason to release broken games to make money NOW and fix problems later. (If ever.)
I say it on my own comment, but even the fact they just keep releasing humongous worlds is itself bullshit marketing crap (remember the "the biggerer you ever seen" marketing era? that came literally from marketing departments). So you just have to make a super large environment that maybe look cool at places (but definitelly not enough to fill the map), often times stappled to a game that shouldn't even be an open world in the first place, filled with arbitrary collectatons for the illusions of content. Had devs just made the game map that fits their actual game, all those resources could have gone into making the actual game, and not having superflous parts means fewer things that can and will go wrong in the first place.
@@louisvictor3473 I remember playing arkham city for the first time (after asylum) and being slightly disappointed at the map size for a few minutes before I realised it looks so much better working in reasonable constraints. I'd take that any day over a vast but less memorable tundra (unless the game was specifically using a tundra or distances to it's advantage)
@@spacebassist Funny you mention that, because that was deliberated by the game devs. Sefton Hill (the game's director) said on a talk once that they wanted to create a very richly designed and gameplay intensive open world, so what the team thought is that they should go smaller while everyone was going bigger and bigger, so that they could make someting more unique, with each bit being handcraft and intentionally placed where it is. Search Sefton HIll DICE 2012 Session if interested (at 7:37 if you get the gamespot video)..
@@louisvictor3473 i think a great counter example is breath of the wild, there are vast plains, but the world feels very intentionally designed and it isn't too big over all
Yes i absolutely agree on the "praising the overlords of shitty corporations because they keep releasing patches to games that should have been from day one"! It frustrates me how many people defend these companies for releasing garbage only because some name is attached to it.
okay but you just have to wait for the Day 1 patch because you know you can trust the yoga ball gamer to deliver on his spins. this is just part of the way things are. maybe don't read everything you read on the internet lol can't spell IGN without ignorant.
Watched the first minute. Went to see what Micheal Clayton was. Watched the trailer. Rented the move. Watched the movie. Went to work. Had the weekend. Came back here, then realised this was the video that made me watch Michael Clayton.
originally i wrote something super dumb for this pinned message but after reading some really kind comments i just wanted to say thanks for watching and showing up. whether you love the vid or hate it for whatever reason - means a lot that you gave me a chance. xoxo jinstagram ► instagram.com/nakeyjakey jwitter ► twitter.com/nakeyjakey
Jakey is like that one homeless guy you used to see a lot and now isn't around anymore but once or twice a year you see him and are just like "oh thank God he isn't dead"
that whole part about Cyberpunk just made me mad how much of scam that actually was. Especially considering how much praise it's getting now for being finished 3 years after release, like great guys
It’s getting praise because on release it was still incredibly fun with an amazing story. Baldur’s Gate 3, as good as it was, was just as broken on release but gets a free pass for some reason.
@@MrMetalforever5 It's actually pretty simple, if a game is enjoyable, people are willing to look past the flaws. For example: Cyberpunk was a buggy mess at launch, but the people who toughed it out found the story to be amazing, hence why they cheer now that it's fixed. Act 1 and most of 2 of Baldur's Gate were polished on release, and Larian has a reputation for continuing to support games years after release, so fans were willing to wait while they fixed act 3. And on the flip side: Starfield wasn't a buggy mess at launch (bugs still exist, but none of them game breaking as far as I could tell), but people found the story or the game's atmosphere to be bland, so the fan base didn't stick with the game for long. Modern call of duty games get released and almost always abandoned soon after, even copyright striking unofficial clients that keep the fan bases alive and fixing issues (Do not play old call of duty games on steam, you will be doxxed by the games themselves), leaving the fan base bitter of the new releases. And of course, Baldur's Gate and Cyberpunk costed $60 on release, while Modern Warfare 3 and Starfield had the looming shadow of the $70 price hike over them.
@@MrMetalforever5 baldurs gate 3 gets free pass for the exact reason you said about cp, fun and amazing story. And the broken bugs is quickly patched after 1-4 weeks after launch, not an entire year
@@MrMetalforever5Well the biggest difference is the care put into the games. Baldur’s Gate was broken for such a short time before fixed that I didn’t even know it was broken on release until you just now said it while Cyberpunk has been broken since release and is still broken in really important ways, 3 years after release. I love both games but to say that it deserves praise for minimal upkeep is straight up insane.
I remember Jake being on the hype train for Cyberpunk and then going dark on Twitter for a while after it came out 💀 I was like "oh no, we're gonna get a video on this one aren't we" and here we are a few years later haha
As someone who got Cyberpunk 2077 in 2022 when the next-gen patch came out, I loved it. It was everything I ever hoped for and I would love another game. ... because I didn't pre-order.
@@adrianbrodin1319 Yup, I purchased the game last June and loved every single second of it. Currently on my third play through and eagerly awaiting the DLC/Orion, but because I waited so long it’s easier for me to defend the game when TH-camrs or commenters still to this day dogpile onto it. The game released HORRIBLY broken and in a terrible state which is not excusable in any world, I just hope more people give it a second chance and experience the story because it’s a whole other game now
@@robloxpwnr7604i got the game pre ordered (i know i am mentally challenged) and through out all the dogshit there was still that magic there, but goddamn the bugs were inexcusable, really frustrating cause cp2077 is a really special game but it needed like 2 more years at least
Another shady thing about the Cyberpunk release he didn't mention is how some console copies got shipped early by accident and CDPR publicly threatened DMCA strikes for anyone who released pre-release footage trying to warn people. And the fans ate it up because "it will defend us from spoilers!" It's not even like they have legal grounds to take down transformative works using the game, even if it's before the release date.
@@robloxpwnr7604 I think it's valid to hate on it. The game was delayed twice I believe, and came out that bad. They could have told the truth. "You guys can have this glitchy version, let us see our family and we'll fix it". That being said, I do want to try it later so I can't really complain when I didn't preorder it
@@Dorraj Yeah, and now the new shit they do is delay the game a few days unless you pay 20 bucks extra to get early access. And people will pay the extra 20. 💀
@@rerere284 The movie Tarzan never gave Clayton any other name, we don’t even know if that’s his forename or surname, however his one closest named inspiration from the books is name William, so close, but no cigar.
"It's just cosmetics, brah", They said. "What do you care what I do with my money?", They said. Then actiblizz thought it'd be fun to charge people ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a skin and They were gobsmacked because literally no one saw that coming (except for everyone who predicted it but who listens to haters, they're just too broke to afford it, amirite). /s
I saw the horrors of gaming, when I saw Capcom release SFIV with DLC plus (after SSFIV) allowed you to UNLOCK characters and content, one last time before SSFIV, allowed you to have everyone unlocked from the start. 0_0 20+ years layer and fighting game monetization has gotten worse and worse! Now F2P is the way to go these days.
Yknow what's funny? Michael Clayton's first 15 minutes has the titular character get out of his car to try to pet some wild horses. This leads to him surviving a car bomb as the horses inadvertently made him leave the car before the bomb went off. So, in a way, the wild horses were plot armor. ....also the movie, as well as that scene, take place in New York, where no wild horses live.
Lol can you imagine if movies were released like that? “Oh yeah I saw avatar but it was weird, there weren’t any blue aliens just people in motion capture suits…”
@@ironichamster8197 imagine if anything OTHER than video games were 90% finished. cars, oven, airplanes, computers... "sorry, if you want the 5th gear for this car you will have to wait" and then people would actually defend the car company, claiming that us car owners are entitled.
@@pierreo33 the ONLY REASON gaming companies get away with it , is because all the boomers in congress have ZERO idea what a videogame is or how the culture around it works... If they got to experience what all the common folk experience , they would sanction the crap out of these scammers
Your humor is exactly my type. i love the effort you put into these videos. i don't care how long you take i'll always appreciate your work. thanks for the entertainment Jakey.
@@NakeyJakey Your humor isn’t exactly my type. I hate the effort you put in to these videos. i don’t care how long you take i’ll never appreciate your work. I guess this qualifies as entertainment Jakey
@@twonicelol You have some of the humor of all time, I think the effort you put into your videos is kinda mid. You take your time man cause I'ma watch somethin' else instead. It aight.
It's so funny to me as a person who isn't involved in the gaming scene at all, that I can still enjoy this man sitting on an inflatable ball give me all these facts on video games and be super interested the whole way through.
I've been a gamer for most of life and I've followed my dream to work in the industry to create the experiences that I had when I grew up. To give to the next generation of gamers what I got when a kid as well. There are many subjects that you briefly touched that i want to respond to but I'll try to keep this short. What you see in games nowadays is the result of managers pushing the release date before the production team even get started. Like any development software, there are many changes to the direction of a certain feature we don't have the time to properly develop and test. Tight deadlines, unrealistic expectations and the occasional game design directors butting their heads between each and changing one single thing that is connected to 10 other features will cause game breaking bugs to appear.
Games are bigger than ever, too. Some of these open-world games are so massive and so complex that it almost seems impossible to truly refine them and iron out all the bugs.
@@spikef1114 Completely depends on the field. If you're looking to get into art, work as hard as you can and develop a portfolio you're proud of. Talk to other artists, get advice and feedback, and improve. I got into the industry after about 2 years of doing nothing but 3D art.
There's even more to it than that like the colossal bubble of expectations in the HD era. This wasn't a problem when we didn't spend years iterating on models. The industry overextended its grasp and instead letting thing catch up, they just keep overextending. And Jakey blaming all of this on consumer preordering was sincerely baffling.
7:48 -- That part about Sony being careful that they offer bug-free games is pretty ironic considering the recent release state of The Last of Us Part I pc port. I think it's not risky to state that it shows that our trust as consumers has less and less value to a compagny that can rely on big and already popular franchises. With that in mind, I'm now a bit worried for the upcoming Zelda game, wich I thought and hoped would never happen.
That's outsourced work though. Not defending them, just making a distinction, as they should still hold that stuff to the same QA standards. Every time a reputable studio has a bad release (Rockstar, Nintendo, Sony), it's almost always a port they outsourced to Chinese studio X and never QA'd it. Cash grab.
I mean, it's just the most obvious reasoning: it's an exclusive. When you only have to build for one platform, suddenly everything gets six times easier than if you are having to support Mac, windows, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation, and [insert Nintendo device here].
Dont install paypal honey, its a trash intrusive spyware software that steals your data and sell it. why jakey? thought you wuzz a good guy.. disapoinTED
Naked Jacob is like a father to me. He’s usually absent from my life but that feeling of realizing he’s back again, even if it’s just for a short moment, is a feeling like no other.
Jakey, on the off chance you see this in the deluge of comments, just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for the music, thank you for the videos, thanks for getting the Menard’s jingle stuck in my head to this day. Thank you Jakey, for being you, and being an inspiration to a generation of jaded youth.
@@dropkickpherby6994 Red Hook Studios did a great job (and are currently doing a great job) with their two Darkest Dungeon titles. But yes early access has a bad rep for a reason and that's so sad because the format is so good on paper.
Jakey, the candid heart-to-heart shit at the end is one of my favorite parts (aside from the parts with Jakey) of every video AND a very cool way to keep people watching until the end. I like it. Narratively it's like a lovely sigh of relief after the journey of the video.
Thank you for making the distinction between the developers and the publishers, so many people love to blame the devs who pull 16 hour days and miss their child’s first words or first steps to get these products to us and even then when it’s not enough they do the same thing for another few months to get it fixed and finished. Cyberpunk is in my top 3 games ever and I still see the dev team getting so much hate online for how the release happened, but it’s all on the shoulders of investors and executives. Remember guys, we speak with our wallets not our words.
That is the problem people hire people with a life who got kids a family etc and expect them to be there 24/7 , instead thry should be hiring people who got no life who been locked up etc. They Will make sure that you will enjoy yourr game with you're hard earned dollars
Cyberpunk is an okay game, but it's still not even close to what was promised. They spent 10 years showing insane realistic gameplay and talking about how much the story changes with each decision and all the classes coming back plus new ones and insane character creation and then in 2018 they ditched the animations and graphics for much lesser quality and basically gave us Saints Row 4 if it had a better storyline and less grinding. They lied about what they were releasing because they thought they could top Rockstar as the kings of video games who actually managed to have insane detail and thought put into every inch of RDR2 while also having a rich and amazing story all with little to no bugs. Meanwhile, Cyberpunk is STILL very buggy. I'm about halfway done with my second playthrough playing on good, widely supported hardware and yet there have been countless times where I have to reload a mission because prompts just don't show up when they're supposed to.
I like how the industry standard just sneakily shifted from "we'll ship when it's ready" to "we'll ship when the publisher says so and fix it later" and the consumers still eat it up, and even praise the publishers finishing the half finished meal they got, with the fucking sauce sold as a pre-order bonus. Hahahaha our world is just so wacky and fun, haha.
Tbf i don't think people give the pricing of videogames enough thought, 60 bucks it not a lot for modern AAA videogames, considering their budget and scope. Most games of this nature sought these alternative avenues of reveneus that everyone hates like microtransactions and shit, but they would probably cry even harder if games became 70-100 dollars/euros baseline.
@@beric0bartman it is alot ad ridiculous pricing ..if most games weren't broke and actually didn't suck most of the time I'd understand...video games brand new should've never went over $40-$50 bucks.
5:35 THANK YOU I swear I'm not even a boomer about tech stuff, I like knowing the details and names of stuff. But TO THIS DAY I still get the xbox consoles confused, I remember the xbox one announcement and making fun of that. Now it's like they are making it intentionally confusing so your grandma buys you the wrong version of the game you wanted for christmas.
You’re so right about fans applauding post release patches like with cyberpunk (especially with that anime they released bringing in new players who only experienced the game after a year of patches), some fans have become basically free pr it’s like I’m witnessing revisionist history in the making. So many videos and comments and posts about how the game was a masterpiece all along and people hated on it too much
I don't think the point of the video is that "games broken on release are never gonna be good or worthy of praise" because he says quite the opposite of that.
thats not my point either lol i have an embarrassing amount of hours in the game and enjoyed it a lot both at launch and after the recent expansion i just wanted to point out that it's worth remembering the serious flaws it had. it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to think that a company can just gloss over their mistakes by finishing a game a year or three after the fact@@kyletheidi0t456
People spend time talking about the fucking STORES in games now. Like "the store has some great stuff and it's mostly pretty well-priced" my guy does a game come with the store?
Good thing I guess is that I saved money. But I cant stress this enough, stop giving them money. Even on sale, I have yet to pull the trigger on Dying light 2, Far Cry 6, Cyberpunk and similar titles since they are STILL hot garbage
@@n_quintero Cyberpunk is far from "hot garbage". Yes it is not the game that we were expecting it to be and was broken on most systems at launch but it is one of the better AAA games i've played for a while despite it not being an RPG with any real diverging paths as originally advertised. If you have a decent enough PC to run it then it's perfectly fine and i'd rank it considerably higher than any of the other games you mentioned.
at 6:16 you he promised a spin yet no spin was in the video. im so fucking tired of these big hotshot companies that keep making big promises and then dont follow up on them just to make a quick buck. truly disgusting.
You're talking about outsourced PC ports tho. Yes they should still check the quality but ALL big studios often fail in this area. His point is the studios doing their own next big IP internally with their best people and still ending up with crap.
imagine not understanding the definition of the word rarely, but you knew, you knew even as you were typing it that it was fucked but you just couldn't help yourself couldn't resist leaving your little "ha gotcha" comment even if it doesn't make sense
Fallout 76 was the game that finally snapped me out of the loop. I pre-ordered it and of course was met with immense disappointment. I'm glad you were able to capture the feeling of that in a great video!
Last game I pre-ordered was Doom Eternal. Considering the DLC and Mick Gordon controversies, it was the one and only time I pre-ordered a game. I don't trust the industry enough to do it again
Right, it's almost like when we give content creators time to fully develop what they want to put out it usually works out for not only them but the consumers as well. Looking at you publishers!!!
@FutaCatto politics have always been in games and that's a good thing. Bioshock? Politics. Metal Gear Solid? Politics. Literally every Battlefield game? Politics.
@FutaCatto Bioshock and MGS are literally political games. The theme of the game, is politics. How do you miss that 😅 Also PSA: including a woman in a game isn't what politics are.
I found the analogy flawed. for two reasons. the food doesn't equal the advertised product and the other reason is that food expires much faster than digital product. Once the game is out , it stays forever while something like taco have a short span to br consumed.
@@y.a.p8951better analogy: you buy a car and they give you the frame with none of the internals. year later they give you half of them and then the next year they give you other half.
I love how he didn't do the easy thing and just blame it all on the devs, the studios and suck off old games like 98% of gaming TH-camrs do. I love that he also draws attention to the very real, hard-working individuals who genuinely put time and effort into their projects just so we can succesfully ignore our reality for a couple of hours. I also love how he puts blame on the audience since, again, most people just like to point their fingers at the big, bad and mean company instead of actually stop and analize their toxic behavior as consumers.
I mean if anything, gamers are fundamentally the reason why triple A gaming has gone to shit. Publishers respond to demand. Players demand nonsensical and bullshit stuff like overly polished graphics which leaves the actual gameplay being barebones.
@@GutsTheBeast At this point I blame shareholders that invest against themselves for "maximum profits" then wonder why they have more flops than successes. Only they give a shit about 2Q profits and oh shit 70% of them flopped because they need to cook one more year.
Hey man, I appreciate the time you take to make the sponsors segment more enjoyable to the viewer. Normally I would skip the moment I see Honey, but you somehow make it entertaining to watch.
@@iitzfizz Thats like saying "I heard your phones track your location". Of course they do. They aren't stealing it either, you're selling it. Thats literally how their whole buisness works. They give you free discounts for basically every store online and in turn they can sell your data to turn a profit. Did you think they were just running their business out of the kindness of their hearts to give you free deals?
Totally agree. Martincitopants was the first I noticed to do this and make it part of their content. Then I started seeing it more and appreciate the extra work they put in to make it funny
It turns out that growing up playing on video game consoles that are outdated by at least one console generation naturally led to me only buying games that have been out for years. I am quite blessed to have rarely been disappointed by a video game I bought due to bugs, overhype, or simply being bad. Those things become evident after a year or two.
I did once buy a game, a whole console for it too, thinking it would be a better version of the game with the same name and company a decade before. Not only was Star wars battlefront (the bad one: 2017) not splitscreen, which was basically my only requirement to be playable with my brother, but it was also bad. I actually got the better star wars battlefront game from 2004 for my last birthday. (Of course, star wars battlefront 2 from 2005 was the best.)
No matter how big the gaps of time between your videos, its always resonating and worth it! Always happy to see new content at a healthy pace that works for you.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Its a smart way to go, unless you care about online game which I don't anymore. With games being almost guaranteed to be on sale some period after its release, you can get and enjoy many great games (also in a much better and more updated state) for 1/3 of the price if you wait a bit after release. For single player focused games, I don't see much point buying it on release unless you know its good are are super hyped for it these days.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Even indie games are not free of greed. Look at Squad, Ready or Not, or Escape from Tarkov. The greedy practices exist in those circles as well, they're just slightly different. They're starting to sell out to publishers as well. The precedent is already there, it's just a matter of time at this point.
The only game I felt good about pre-ordering was ghost of Tsushima. They actually delivered everything they promised. I got a golden horse, an extra skill point, an extra set of armor, an extra charm, some music soundtrack to listen to and some concept art to look at.
I really like how much of a case study NakeyJakey could be if you thought about it. TH-cam is absolutely littered with content creators that dedicate themselves to rehashing their literal personalities almost every single day, and it eventually wears their content, their audiences, and their personhoods depressingly thin. Jakey on the other hand is an increasingly rare breed of diamonds in the rough on TH-cam. Not only is his content and editing just genuinely good and that he not only has a broad yet specific audience, but he doesn’t upload all the time and-like someone else said-makes his uploads feel like a holiday. This creates an audience that truly anticipates his next video, while also disrupting his own personal dependency on his channel for income AND validation. These two things combine to create a TH-cam personality who truly “never misses”. Really like your stuff, Jakey. Keep it up.
My biggest pet peeve is when Content Creators encourage people to leave a comment and never actually engage with their audience in the comments section. Unless, of course, they monetize said engagement by uploading Q&A videos (give me a break!) C'mon, comments are a staple to this platform, and they're so often treated as an afterthought by its own creators.
@@pierreo33 that’s what I’m saying. He’s aware that he doesn’t have to upload a video every single day like other TH-camrs with his level of popularity to stay relevant or entertaining, and his content is just better as a result. Whether he knows he makes money elsewhere, or if he just doesn’t want to upload everyday, or both, I can’t truthfully say. But what his channel has made apparent is that it is possible to be a solid, entertaining, and celebrated TH-camr without making it your life.
The fact that a 13 minute video with an ad break in the middle can still feel like a 30 minute video with meaning proves why you are one of the greats on this website. Thank you Jakey
@@pierreo33 I think the commenter means that it's so tightly packed and edited that it accomplishes more than most thirty minute analysis videos in significantly less time.
I've been hearing people say don't pre order games for 15 years man. The problem is people learn their lesson, stop doing it, but there's always new younger gamers who haven't learned that lesson and still preorder games.
Exactly, if you already don't do something, you can't take a stand by not doing it because you already don't count towards those statistics. I haven't preordered a game since I think FEAR in 2005, and that was only because I lived a long way from the game shop and didn't want risk it not being there in the one trip a month I might go there.
At 6:11 we were promised a spinning Jakey, and alas we were given nothing. Anyone have a connection at Jakey, Jakey, and Jakey attorneys at law? I plan on suing.
i will never complain because i find *a glitch* in a program between the millions of lines of code and thousands of interlocking functions handling thousands of variables its not really possible to make a program where a few things just go wrong BUT with a lot of programs i use today and this goes beyond just video games i find that *LITERALLY NOTHING* works completely as intended sometimes its just minor little thing and sometimes the entire functionality is broken or non existent we live in an age where it is seemingly acceptable to find a bug with every 2-3 clicks or key strokes
I don’t really mind if it ends up being a shitty game or not, it wouldn’t be the worst thing I ever bought. However sometimes the shitting on companies comes off so vitriolic that I feel like someone needs to tell them to calm down. Even if the game was crap, that company still has actual people in it; why do you need to call them every insult under the sun? We can critique companies without sounding like the video game equivalent of Kaczynski. I wish TH-cam commenters would get that, but it can turn into Reddit at the drop of a hat here.
I wish more people would talk about the very serious issues Jakey brings up in this video instead of repeated comments of "happy you're back!" over and over again
@@drunk6133 Well personally, and I know this is a hot take, but I wish games wouldn't release with bugs. I know I'm gonna get flack for this one, but I gotta say my truth.
@@tylarjackson7928 that is virtually impossible, you can't make a game with very little bugs but no game developer has made a game that has NO bugs at all. As making a game causes unseen bugs to happen and patching a game causes new bugs to pop up.
Cyberpunk 2077 with no actual update and only bugfix patches in the last year won the 2022 labor of love on steam. The state of the industry is 100% the consumer's fault.
Totally...i mean he has a point devs actually work hard and most of the time they are the losers...but also companies fire the great devs for more shit lazy cheaper ones... Ive worked on games and i know how the shit goes... haven't worked at EA but i know whats the problem and im blackpilled..i dont buy CDs anymore i just buy keys sadly, because CDs are just pointless unleas you are a colelctor and i want to collect games but the games are so broken in 1.0...wich true always there have been broken games and all that crap but the state they release the games is just far back from being finished... Cyberpunk is just total scam...the devs saw the pre sales and they didnt bother to fix the issues...no mans sky at least they tried to make the game fun and now its an amazing game
This is the most fair review of the current game industry I’ve seen in a while. Explaining the full thought process behind production of games and both the problems between publishers and developer communication as well as the modern state of gaming consumption in terms of monetary game. It’s pretty good to see blame and leniency placed on both the devs and the owners of companies.
After witnessing the aftermath of the disastrous release of Aliens: Colonial Marines back in the elder days of 2013. I made a sacred gamer oath to our Lord Gabe Newell on holy relics (a case of Monster Energy and a copy of Game Informer about Halo: Reach) to never ever preorder a video game. You have no idea how many hundreds of dollars and hours of frustration it has saved me over these past 10 years.
I pre-ordered only 3 games in my entire life: Red dead redemption 2, Hitman and Death Stranding. I was absolutely sure that the devs would deliver and they didn't disappoint.
Real MFs never preorder! Dying Light was one of my top 3 games ever, I've dumped over a thousand hours into it, and I never even considered a solitary thought of preordering the sequel.
It's already great enough that you bestowed us a new video, but all that Ace Attorney OST in the background transcend this video to a new plane....I just love Ace Attorney
This is a good example for the digital vs physical statement. I love the disks and wish we would get our money's worth like adding more artwork or a simple manual. Now if the disk is just the licence to own, then I feel we should get a discount for the digital version even if it's $5 for the case and disk for what it's worth.
Cyberpunk 2077 won the best ongoing game in TGA 2023 is pure recency bias and a joke. Guess fixing a game they’ve false advertised and dropping a DLC after 2 years since it’s release deserves an award for that
Nothing makes me say "oh yeah" under my breath as I eat lunch quite like a jakey video showing up in my feed. Turned a good day into a great one thanks brother.
I'm so glad someone made this video. I've been thinking of this exact stuff for so long. I'm very glad that you especially are the one who released it. I'm glad to see you making videos again!
Great video! I think being openly critical of the games we love and just not buying a clearly unfinished product is fair. I think a great note that was missed was the lack of demos. I think Corps may have done a way with them with how they release games in bad states. They kind of got swept away with the wind and rarely see them now. Luckily with the new Resident Evil remakes they they just dropped a demo for RE4 remake and that is something people will pre-order with how well it is unlike the others where it's just ign and game spot playing a bit of an out dated passable version.
No more DEMOs just play an extra $30 and play it a week sooner. What bugs? Those will get fixed later. What stress test? We're doing that now, silly. why I smell smoke...
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jakey is like that one cousin you like but can't see till christmas and when you see him you're entertained for the time he's there, thank you jakey
Nailed it!
So accurate. Then he leaves and it’s not as fun :(
This is EXACTLY who Jakey is
couldn't have put it better myself
Best description ever
Don't worry guys the spin (10:39) will be fixed in a later patch
I was wondering about that lol.
I was about to unsub, thank the naked gods 😅
Good.
Speen
And I'll applaud when it's fixed
had to pause Michael Clayton for this I hope you're happy
Jakey should know not to upload on Michael Clayton day smh
Now I gotta start from the beginning again
I wish Michael Clayton time didn’t have to be when I’m at my busiest
All jokes aside, Michael Clayton is the most underrated film of our era. Clooney's performance was Oscar worthy. I haven't seen it.
God I fucking love Michael Clayton. Jesus Christ. What a film. What a ride. George Clooney is the greatest actor of our age. Seeing someone else mention this masterpiece has brought me to my knees. I’m in tears. Michael Clayton. My God.
Worth it
The most braindead thing about pre-orders is that back in the day, when physical disc copies were the only way to play games, pre-ordering was a way to guarantee that you got a copy even if the entire Gamestop sold out. Nowadays digital copies of games makes it totally obsolete, you can buy it from the comfort of your couch and install it day one. It's a blatant scam and the fact people fall for it makes me depressed
if its the same price i dont think preorders are neccesarly bad. i remember i needed days to download gtav and it let you start the download earlier. thats wass reason enough for me xD
@@derGerharti like waiting at least a week. It’s usually easy to avoid spoilers at that point and if the game is a hot mess you’ll know within a few hours. Plus, I don’t trust companies like IGN to give good reviews, so it gives independent reviewers like ACG time to get their review out.
I do pre order sometimes for the same reason as you though if I’m very confident that the game will be good; I pre ordered RDR2 and Elden Ring and did not regret it.
I also pre ordered No Mans Sky, which is the reason I’m reluctant to pre order nowadays 😂
I see a lot of times if you pre-order with PS+ they'll give you like 10% off and being able to pre-download nowadays is pretty fucking dope. I was able to start playing Jedi: Survivor right at midnight I didn't start the download at midnight
The benefit to preorders now is installing the game before the release date. It eliminates the problem of buying a new game on release date and being excited to play it, only to have to wait 4 hours for it to install.
That being said, yeah, modern preorders are still fucking dumb
At this point you're pre-ordering it just to say you got it before anyone else. It gives people a sense of elitism
Jakey is wild. Drops an album, radio silence for months, then randomly drops a video on a Thursday at 2:45pm. Sensational.
Certainly
You know when you follow a friend's TH-cam and he just drops when he feels like it, not like he's even trying to make it a job. That's Jakey but with almost two million subscribers.
@@TheSuckoShow that's 2 million friends mang
It really feels like our expectations have been lowered so much that game companies fixing their bugs is seen as going above and beyond.
Yep, and we can see that in a lot of our society today. Shit getting worse and there being no consequences for anyone responsible is just the norm now, so when something doesn't go quite as bad as it could have, people are pleased.
Bots programmed by the company itself to create that illusion
@@SteveOnlin major point no one realizes. Comments sections full of bots now
Late stage capitalism. It's actually super sad that we're from the time we are
Cyberpunk winning the Steam Awards "Labour of Love" award was the biggest joke! They fixed a completely broken game and these gormless morons praised them up the a** for it!
Imagine if Hollywood expected people to pay to go to the theaters to watch a movie they haven’t finished filming or editing yet.
Or buy a house or apartment before it has even started being built. oh wait...
@@Decodeish1💀
Imagine a big movie company announcing release dates for movies they haven't even begun writing and/or imagine that same company reshooting entire chunks of story a month before a movie's release and crunching VFX artists so that said movie ends up looking like PS2 cutscenes.
It’s halfway shot and the rest is streamed to theaters
it's almost like a lot of problems with society stem from people being able to have things before they exist - like usury!
To add to Jake's point, I think the issue got worse when Open World games became commonplace. Instead of scaling the bug checking and QA to the larger size of the game's worlds, they kept the same development times and release windows to appease stockholders, which led to crunch as an industry standard, and corporate greed as an acceptable reason to release broken games to make money NOW and fix problems later. (If ever.)
I say it on my own comment, but even the fact they just keep releasing humongous worlds is itself bullshit marketing crap (remember the "the biggerer you ever seen" marketing era? that came literally from marketing departments). So you just have to make a super large environment that maybe look cool at places (but definitelly not enough to fill the map), often times stappled to a game that shouldn't even be an open world in the first place, filled with arbitrary collectatons for the illusions of content. Had devs just made the game map that fits their actual game, all those resources could have gone into making the actual game, and not having superflous parts means fewer things that can and will go wrong in the first place.
@@louisvictor3473 I remember playing arkham city for the first time (after asylum) and being slightly disappointed at the map size for a few minutes before I realised it looks so much better working in reasonable constraints. I'd take that any day over a vast but less memorable tundra (unless the game was specifically using a tundra or distances to it's advantage)
And while exploiting and overworking its employees
@@spacebassist Funny you mention that, because that was deliberated by the game devs. Sefton Hill (the game's director) said on a talk once that they wanted to create a very richly designed and gameplay intensive open world, so what the team thought is that they should go smaller while everyone was going bigger and bigger, so that they could make someting more unique, with each bit being handcraft and intentionally placed where it is. Search Sefton HIll DICE 2012 Session if interested (at 7:37 if you get the gamespot video)..
@@louisvictor3473 i think a great counter example is breath of the wild, there are vast plains, but the world feels very intentionally designed and it isn't too big over all
Jakey is never late nor early, he appears when we need him most
God he’s the best.
Dude seriously last Friday I was thinking man when's the next jakey coming out and boom here it is
Just like Gandalf. Lol
mom!!!! he’s back!!! the yoga ball gamer is back!
Eddy, you need to tell him that I'm waiting for that spin he promised us.
@@Jackle02 the spin will come on day 1 patch of the video trust me i believe him and the video already looks very good 9/10
Bro just typed his previous comment back again 💀
This is the type of comment that you reread again when naked disappears again in like 4 or 5 months
Hey its that youtube guy I saw on youtube
Yes i absolutely agree on the "praising the overlords of shitty corporations because they keep releasing patches to games that should have been from day one"! It frustrates me how many people defend these companies for releasing garbage only because some name is attached to it.
Can't believe Jakey released an unfinished video, never saw that spin he promised.
okay but you just have to wait for the Day 1 patch because you know you can trust the yoga ball gamer to deliver on his spins. this is just part of the way things are. maybe don't read everything you read on the internet lol can't spell IGN without ignorant.
@@TheHighestStakes or ants...
10:39
You left to watch dunkey, didn't you.
@Psyklops of course this happens while he's talking about people with toaster brains 😂
Watched the first minute. Went to see what Micheal Clayton was. Watched the trailer. Rented the move. Watched the movie. Went to work. Had the weekend. Came back here, then realised this was the video that made me watch Michael Clayton.
Do you have ADHD lol
@n30n oh dear. Another rabbit hole.
@@UnbelievableOdyssey spooky clown gliders. Now you are haunted. (Jk I think I got the name of it wrong)
i just returned to this video because I watched Michael Clayton
who tf is michael clayton
originally i wrote something super dumb for this pinned message but after reading some really kind comments i just wanted to say thanks for watching and showing up. whether you love the vid or hate it for whatever reason - means a lot that you gave me a chance. xoxo
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Is this comment a day one patch?
Thank you for making my day better Naked Jacobson
Literally texted my girlfriend babe new jakey upload unironically
Love u
Jakey is like that one homeless guy you used to see a lot and now isn't around anymore but once or twice a year you see him and are just like "oh thank God he isn't dead"
Dude this is the best description I’ve ever seen.
Lol Wtf I feel thisss. I still see the same homeless man when I was a kid like 10 years later. Fucking crazy system we’re in
cringe
No, f%#k homeless
What??? 😂
The spin is at 10:38 glad to see Jakey is really stepping up his content!
That does not count!
I missed this channel so much
👍
Very nice
Very nice
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Good
I cant describe the happiness I feel at seeing this video pop up in my feed. Looking healthy and happy Jakey, love it !!!
Same. Always nice to see a new video from him.
when jakey posts, world peace is given another chance
makin me do UwU shit rn thank you so much
@@NakeyJakey OwO
Absolutely agree
Love how he makes 2 videos in a whole year and it’s like he hasn’t missed a step.
Fr
that whole part about Cyberpunk just made me mad how much of scam that actually was. Especially considering how much praise it's getting now for being finished 3 years after release, like great guys
winning awards for best ongoing game lol it's wild
It’s getting praise because on release it was still incredibly fun with an amazing story.
Baldur’s Gate 3, as good as it was, was just as broken on release but gets a free pass for some reason.
@@MrMetalforever5 It's actually pretty simple, if a game is enjoyable, people are willing to look past the flaws. For example:
Cyberpunk was a buggy mess at launch, but the people who toughed it out found the story to be amazing, hence why they cheer now that it's fixed.
Act 1 and most of 2 of Baldur's Gate were polished on release, and Larian has a reputation for continuing to support games years after release, so fans were willing to wait while they fixed act 3.
And on the flip side:
Starfield wasn't a buggy mess at launch (bugs still exist, but none of them game breaking as far as I could tell), but people found the story or the game's atmosphere to be bland, so the fan base didn't stick with the game for long.
Modern call of duty games get released and almost always abandoned soon after, even copyright striking unofficial clients that keep the fan bases alive and fixing issues (Do not play old call of duty games on steam, you will be doxxed by the games themselves), leaving the fan base bitter of the new releases.
And of course, Baldur's Gate and Cyberpunk costed $60 on release, while Modern Warfare 3 and Starfield had the looming shadow of the $70 price hike over them.
@@MrMetalforever5 baldurs gate 3 gets free pass for the exact reason you said about cp, fun and amazing story. And the broken bugs is quickly patched after 1-4 weeks after launch, not an entire year
@@MrMetalforever5Well the biggest difference is the care put into the games. Baldur’s Gate was broken for such a short time before fixed that I didn’t even know it was broken on release until you just now said it while Cyberpunk has been broken since release and is still broken in really important ways, 3 years after release. I love both games but to say that it deserves praise for minimal upkeep is straight up insane.
I remember Jake being on the hype train for Cyberpunk and then going dark on Twitter for a while after it came out 💀 I was like "oh no, we're gonna get a video on this one aren't we" and here we are a few years later haha
As someone who got Cyberpunk 2077 in 2022 when the next-gen patch came out, I loved it. It was everything I ever hoped for and I would love another game.
... because I didn't pre-order.
@@adrianbrodin1319 Yup, I purchased the game last June and loved every single second of it. Currently on my third play through and eagerly awaiting the DLC/Orion, but because I waited so long it’s easier for me to defend the game when TH-camrs or commenters still to this day dogpile onto it. The game released HORRIBLY broken and in a terrible state which is not excusable in any world, I just hope more people give it a second chance and experience the story because it’s a whole other game now
@@robloxpwnr7604i got the game pre ordered (i know i am mentally challenged) and through out all the dogshit there was still that magic there, but goddamn the bugs were inexcusable, really frustrating cause cp2077 is a really special game but it needed like 2 more years at least
Another shady thing about the Cyberpunk release he didn't mention is how some console copies got shipped early by accident and CDPR publicly threatened DMCA strikes for anyone who released pre-release footage trying to warn people. And the fans ate it up because "it will defend us from spoilers!" It's not even like they have legal grounds to take down transformative works using the game, even if it's before the release date.
@@robloxpwnr7604 I think it's valid to hate on it. The game was delayed twice I believe, and came out that bad. They could have told the truth. "You guys can have this glitchy version, let us see our family and we'll fix it". That being said, I do want to try it later so I can't really complain when I didn't preorder it
The fact that this is #8 on Trending when I type this comment is insane. Jakey still has that magic touch of making a Gem of a video every 6 months.
Right next to Taylor Swift no less
The Pizza Hut demo disc video is the high watermark.
#8 on trending and not a soul will listen to this man and will continue to pre-order the next broken pokemon game
Weaker Jontron
@@Dorraj Yeah, and now the new shit they do is delay the game a few days unless you pay 20 bucks extra to get early access. And people will pay the extra 20. 💀
I’ve never even heard of Michael Clayton until 10 minutes ago. What a classic. Definitely in my list of movies that exist, just wow
Oh man, Michael Clayton flew under the radar. It’s terrific. Enjoy it. And thank you Jakey for making me feel old as shit realizing it came out in ‘07
ah yes, that name that Tarzan thought was what a gunshot was called
@@rerere284 The movie Tarzan never gave Clayton any other name, we don’t even know if that’s his forename or surname, however his one closest named inspiration from the books is name William, so close, but no cigar.
Easily one of the movies of all time
ok
I saw the horrors of our current reality as gamers when the first Horse Armor DLC dropped for Oblivion.
"It's just cosmetics, brah", They said.
"What do you care what I do with my money?", They said.
Then actiblizz thought it'd be fun to charge people ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a skin and They were gobsmacked because literally no one saw that coming (except for everyone who predicted it but who listens to haters, they're just too broke to afford it, amirite). /s
I saw the horrors of gaming, when I saw Capcom release SFIV with DLC plus (after SSFIV) allowed you to UNLOCK characters and content, one last time before SSFIV, allowed you to have everyone unlocked from the start. 0_0 20+ years layer and fighting game monetization has gotten worse and worse! Now F2P is the way to go these days.
Yknow what's funny? Michael Clayton's first 15 minutes has the titular character get out of his car to try to pet some wild horses.
This leads to him surviving a car bomb as the horses inadvertently made him leave the car before the bomb went off. So, in a way, the wild horses were plot armor.
....also the movie, as well as that scene, take place in New York, where no wild horses live.
It's comforting to think we're all looking up at the same gamer night sky.
And wishing on the same gamer shining stars.
@@MonsterBunx and contemplating the same gamer universe
Day one patches are like the "We'll fix it in post" of the gaming industry
Lol can you imagine if movies were released like that? “Oh yeah I saw avatar but it was weird, there weren’t any blue aliens just people in motion capture suits…”
ok
@@ironichamster8197 imagine if anything OTHER than video games were 90% finished. cars, oven, airplanes, computers... "sorry, if you want the 5th gear for this car you will have to wait" and then people would actually defend the car company, claiming that us car owners are entitled.
@@pierreo33 the ONLY REASON gaming companies get away with it , is because all the boomers in congress have ZERO idea what a videogame is or how the culture around it works...
If they got to experience what all the common folk experience , they would sanction the crap out of these scammers
“We’ll Fix it in Post” is still done *before the film ships*
Your humor is exactly my type. i love the effort you put into these videos. i don't care how long you take i'll always appreciate your work. thanks for the entertainment Jakey.
thanks so much for watching larry
@@NakeyJakey Your humor isn’t exactly my type. I hate the effort you put in to these videos. i don’t care how long you take i’ll never appreciate your work. I guess this qualifies as entertainment Jakey
@@twonicelol lmao
@@twonicelol You have some of the humor of all time, I think the effort you put into your videos is kinda mid. You take your time man cause I'ma watch somethin' else instead. It aight.
0:02 I thought my ps4 turned on
your editing is incredible, so many background music changes and yet it always feels natural and flows well, and you talk fast but never too fast
he's been doing this for a long time so naturally he's good at it!
cloe thats really sweet of you to point out and take the time to comment. thanks so much for watching
It's so funny to me as a person who isn't involved in the gaming scene at all, that I can still enjoy this man sitting on an inflatable ball give me all these facts on video games and be super interested the whole way through.
ok
me too hahaha he makes me wanna play
I think you just might be in love 😌
@@zhin8294 Funny you say that. I am in the market for a bf, don't think Jakey is quite my type though haha
@@tamtran-lx6zr ok
I've been a gamer for most of life and I've followed my dream to work in the industry to create the experiences that I had when I grew up. To give to the next generation of gamers what I got when a kid as well.
There are many subjects that you briefly touched that i want to respond to but I'll try to keep this short. What you see in games nowadays is the result of managers pushing the release date before the production team even get started. Like any development software, there are many changes to the direction of a certain feature we don't have the time to properly develop and test. Tight deadlines, unrealistic expectations and the occasional game design directors butting their heads between each and changing one single thing that is connected to 10 other features will cause game breaking bugs to appear.
Any advice for someone looking to get into that industry?
As they say, you can know what will ship in a release or you can know when it will ship, but not both...
Games are bigger than ever, too. Some of these open-world games are so massive and so complex that it almost seems impossible to truly refine them and iron out all the bugs.
@@spikef1114 Completely depends on the field. If you're looking to get into art, work as hard as you can and develop a portfolio you're proud of. Talk to other artists, get advice and feedback, and improve. I got into the industry after about 2 years of doing nothing but 3D art.
There's even more to it than that like the colossal bubble of expectations in the HD era. This wasn't a problem when we didn't spend years iterating on models. The industry overextended its grasp and instead letting thing catch up, they just keep overextending. And Jakey blaming all of this on consumer preordering was sincerely baffling.
7:48 -- That part about Sony being careful that they offer bug-free games is pretty ironic considering the recent release state of The Last of Us Part I pc port.
I think it's not risky to state that it shows that our trust as consumers has less and less value to a compagny that can rely on big and already popular franchises.
With that in mind, I'm now a bit worried for the upcoming Zelda game, wich I thought and hoped would never happen.
Ngl I forgot The Last Of Us was ported on PC
Hey man future guy here, the new Zelda game actually was awesome and you can rest easy
That's outsourced work though. Not defending them, just making a distinction, as they should still hold that stuff to the same QA standards. Every time a reputable studio has a bad release (Rockstar, Nintendo, Sony), it's almost always a port they outsourced to Chinese studio X and never QA'd it. Cash grab.
I mean, it's just the most obvious reasoning: it's an exclusive. When you only have to build for one platform, suddenly everything gets six times easier than if you are having to support Mac, windows, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation, and [insert Nintendo device here].
I like how when jakey starts talking about greed he cuts to a sponsor that’s a nice touch
I appreciated the ign or ant(s) joke lol. He’s so clever
Dont install paypal honey, its a trash intrusive spyware software that steals your data and sell it. why jakey? thought you wuzz a good guy.. disapoinTED
Naked Jacob is like a father to me. He’s usually absent from my life but that feeling of realizing he’s back again, even if it’s just for a short moment, is a feeling like no other.
But what about Liquid Jacob? Solid Jacob?
Hes going down to the store right now for some milk, he'll be back real soon.
It’s actually pronounced Nakob Jacob
Always utilize the strafe when 'driving' James Bond in Goldeneye, and reap the benefits in multiplayer.
Big fan. Glad we all happy to see jakey upload!
You can use the C-buttons to move if you change control types. It's crazy broken in multi-player
Alright, this one day I was playing Goldeneye 64
Completely forgot brew loves golden eye up untill now
Me and Jakey Rutzou
that VTMB OST at the part you tell about unrealistic deadlines and shipping broken games just hit me in the heart
YES same reaction
Jakey, on the off chance you see this in the deluge of comments, just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for the music, thank you for the videos, thanks for getting the Menard’s jingle stuck in my head to this day. Thank you Jakey, for being you, and being an inspiration to a generation of jaded youth.
REAL
SAVE BIG MONEY AT MENARDS!!!
Cringe
@@trevmizer9784 💩
🗣️🗣️🗣️ SAAAAVE BIG MMONEY AT MENARD'S 🔥🔥
As the old saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, smash it with a hammer and monetize the pieces”
No one says that
@@Elphienis missed the point didn't you
Do more hitman
Fancy seeing you here sneaky boy
@@Elphienis whooooooosh
Would love to see Jake do a follow-up video on a similar topic... early access games.
seeing those 2 words together gives me nausea.
early acc-🤢🤢
Hades is the ONLY game I have ever seen do Early Access right
@@dropkickpherby6994 Black Mesa also did it well
@@dropkickpherby6994 Valheim?
@@dropkickpherby6994 Red Hook Studios did a great job (and are currently doing a great job) with their two Darkest Dungeon titles. But yes early access has a bad rep for a reason and that's so sad because the format is so good on paper.
Jakey, the candid heart-to-heart shit at the end is one of my favorite parts (aside from the parts with Jakey) of every video AND a very cool way to keep people watching until the end.
I like it. Narratively it's like a lovely sigh of relief after the journey of the video.
Jakey somehow always shows up when the world needs him most
Thank you for making the distinction between the developers and the publishers, so many people love to blame the devs who pull 16 hour days and miss their child’s first words or first steps to get these products to us and even then when it’s not enough they do the same thing for another few months to get it fixed and finished. Cyberpunk is in my top 3 games ever and I still see the dev team getting so much hate online for how the release happened, but it’s all on the shoulders of investors and executives. Remember guys, we speak with our wallets not our words.
That is the problem people hire people with a life who got kids a family etc and expect them to be there 24/7 , instead thry should be hiring people who got no life who been locked up etc. They Will make sure that you will enjoy yourr game with you're hard earned dollars
@@mikehall737 you really thought you said something 😂
@@mikehall737Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
I bet Mike Hall preorders all his games
Cyberpunk is an okay game, but it's still not even close to what was promised. They spent 10 years showing insane realistic gameplay and talking about how much the story changes with each decision and all the classes coming back plus new ones and insane character creation and then in 2018 they ditched the animations and graphics for much lesser quality and basically gave us Saints Row 4 if it had a better storyline and less grinding.
They lied about what they were releasing because they thought they could top Rockstar as the kings of video games who actually managed to have insane detail and thought put into every inch of RDR2 while also having a rich and amazing story all with little to no bugs.
Meanwhile, Cyberpunk is STILL very buggy. I'm about halfway done with my second playthrough playing on good, widely supported hardware and yet there have been countless times where I have to reload a mission because prompts just don't show up when they're supposed to.
Only Jakey would throw a Michael Clayton reference into a random piece about videogames. Such a masterpiece.
Is it any good though? I've never even heard of it lol
@@shuruff904 It's a masterpiece. Great film.
This video just became incredibly relevant again with everyone's attitude to the Cyberpunk update
I like how the industry standard just sneakily shifted from "we'll ship when it's ready" to "we'll ship when the publisher says so and fix it later" and the consumers still eat it up, and even praise the publishers finishing the half finished meal they got, with the fucking sauce sold as a pre-order bonus. Hahahaha our world is just so wacky and fun, haha.
xbox one ans ps4 was the worst gen
@@spechti2045 yep that's when everything went to crap
Tbf i don't think people give the pricing of videogames enough thought, 60 bucks it not a lot for modern AAA videogames, considering their budget and scope. Most games of this nature sought these alternative avenues of reveneus that everyone hates like microtransactions and shit, but they would probably cry even harder if games became 70-100 dollars/euros baseline.
@@beric0bartman it is alot ad ridiculous pricing ..if most games weren't broke and actually didn't suck most of the time I'd understand...video games brand new should've never went over $40-$50 bucks.
The average gamer is a mindless consoomer, unfortunately.
5:35 THANK YOU
I swear I'm not even a boomer about tech stuff, I like knowing the details and names of stuff. But TO THIS DAY I still get the xbox consoles confused, I remember the xbox one announcement and making fun of that. Now it's like they are making it intentionally confusing so your grandma buys you the wrong version of the game you wanted for christmas.
Good to have you back !
We gamergirls became fully independent gamerwomen now and will stick with you because we want to and not because we have to xx
Bro 😂😂
Lololol😂😅
You’re so right about fans applauding post release patches like with cyberpunk (especially with that anime they released bringing in new players who only experienced the game after a year of patches), some fans have become basically free pr it’s like I’m witnessing revisionist history in the making. So many videos and comments and posts about how the game was a masterpiece all along and people hated on it too much
I don't think the point of the video is that "games broken on release are never gonna be good or worthy of praise" because he says quite the opposite of that.
thats not my point either lol i have an embarrassing amount of hours in the game and enjoyed it a lot both at launch and after the recent expansion i just wanted to point out that it's worth remembering the serious flaws it had. it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to think that a company can just gloss over their mistakes by finishing a game a year or three after the fact@@kyletheidi0t456
This is the exact reason I never pre-order anything and wait a few months after release to hear anecdotes/reviews about games before buying
There are only two companies I would pre-order from right now and that would be FromSoftware and TeamNinja.
Appreciated the use of the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines music. One of my favourite games, incredibly broken at launch.
That’s why that was familiar lol. I was wondering. At least modders cared to save it.
glad i wasn’t the only one that noticed!!
I could just watch Jakey, Jakey and Jakey Attorneys at Law doing commercials for random companies all day
And Jakey, and Jakey, and Jakey, and Jakey..
@@BiggusNickus also Jakey, Jakey, Jakey, Jakey, and Jakey as well...
Reminds me of some adult swim shit 😂
Sustained AND overruled, shit heh heh
This is such a small detail but the cutoff from "Attorneys at law" absolutely killed me lmao 😭 4:01
Glad to see you back Jakey. Your videos always make me smile and I feel like this is one of my favorite videos youve made recently!
poggers
Michael Clayton is SO GOOD.
Hadn't thought about that movie in years but yes, great film, glad this reminded me lol.
My favourite horse-girl movie
just watched it for the first time last week, fantastic movie from start to finish
some great head bobbing from our boy Georgie Bobbley in there for sure
PSA for anybody out there who liked Andor, Michael Clayton was made by the same writer/director so if you like one you'll like the other
The fact that nowadays broken games are seen as the norm and a well-made game as an exception is goddamn depressing.
Preach it's hard to get excited for new releases nowadays when most aren't fully ready after a couple of updates
People spend time talking about the fucking STORES in games now. Like "the store has some great stuff and it's mostly pretty well-priced" my guy does a game come with the store?
Good thing I guess is that I saved money. But I cant stress this enough, stop giving them money. Even on sale, I have yet to pull the trigger on Dying light 2, Far Cry 6, Cyberpunk and similar titles since they are STILL hot garbage
Please buy games that are *finished* and made by passionate people.
*Pizza Tower* developers released the game (Fully finished and great 👍)
@@n_quintero Cyberpunk is far from "hot garbage". Yes it is not the game that we were expecting it to be and was broken on most systems at launch but it is one of the better AAA games i've played for a while despite it not being an RPG with any real diverging paths as originally advertised.
If you have a decent enough PC to run it then it's perfectly fine and i'd rank it considerably higher than any of the other games you mentioned.
He never spun.
10:38
at 6:16 you he promised a spin yet no spin was in the video.
im so fucking tired of these big hotshot companies that keep making big promises and then dont follow up on them just to make a quick buck. truly disgusting.
I like to imagine that Jakey merely exists on the exercise ball when he’s not making videos. He must be absolutely shredded.
"You rarely see Sony publish a big, broken, unfinished mess"
Jesus! That line didn't even manage to age 2 weeks.
look up the word "rarely" and you will get it
@@deltacity3292 Look up the word "irony" and you will get it.
You're talking about outsourced PC ports tho.
Yes they should still check the quality but ALL big studios often fail in this area. His point is the studios doing their own next big IP internally with their best people and still ending up with crap.
imagine not understanding the definition of the word rarely, but you knew, you knew even as you were typing it that it was fucked but you just couldn't help yourself couldn't resist leaving your little "ha gotcha" comment even if it doesn't make sense
@@AlexanderNash Imagine getting this mad over a joke 😂
Fallout 76 was the game that finally snapped me out of the loop. I pre-ordered it and of course was met with immense disappointment. I'm glad you were able to capture the feeling of that in a great video!
Haha for me it was Anthem, haven't pre ordered a game since
Someone at Bethesda should gone to jail for that crime against humanity of a game 😕
Rule 1: never ever NEVER pre-order anything
Last game I pre-ordered was Doom Eternal. Considering the DLC and Mick Gordon controversies, it was the one and only time I pre-ordered a game. I don't trust the industry enough to do it again
Hearing the vampire the masquerade bloodlines soundtrack at 6:26 was an ethereal experience.
This man delivers 10/10 videos every single time
Right, it's almost like when we give content creators time to fully develop what they want to put out it usually works out for not only them but the consumers as well. Looking at you publishers!!!
ok
we should be preordering youtube videos instead smh
@FutaCatto politics have always been in games and that's a good thing. Bioshock? Politics. Metal Gear Solid? Politics. Literally every Battlefield game? Politics.
@FutaCatto Bioshock and MGS are literally political games. The theme of the game, is politics. How do you miss that 😅
Also PSA: including a woman in a game isn't what politics are.
The taco analogy was perfect and there are SO many good points in this video
I found the analogy flawed.
for two reasons.
the food doesn't equal the advertised product and the other reason is that food expires much faster than digital product.
Once the game is out , it stays forever while something like taco have a short span to br consumed.
@@y.a.p8951better analogy: you buy a car and they give you the frame with none of the internals. year later they give you half of them and then the next year they give you other half.
I love how he didn't do the easy thing and just blame it all on the devs, the studios and suck off old games like 98% of gaming TH-camrs do. I love that he also draws attention to the very real, hard-working individuals who genuinely put time and effort into their projects just so we can succesfully ignore our reality for a couple of hours. I also love how he puts blame on the audience since, again, most people just like to point their fingers at the big, bad and mean company instead of actually stop and analize their toxic behavior as consumers.
I mean if anything, gamers are fundamentally the reason why triple A gaming has gone to shit.
Publishers respond to demand. Players demand nonsensical and bullshit stuff like overly polished graphics which leaves the actual gameplay being barebones.
@@GutsTheBeast At this point I blame shareholders that invest against themselves for "maximum profits" then wonder why they have more flops than successes. Only they give a shit about 2Q profits and oh shit 70% of them flopped because they need to cook one more year.
@@GutsTheBeast don't blame the customer ffs
@@NEELZE99 Did you watch the video? Butthurt that you pre-ordered Cyberpunk?
@@ExeErdna this ^
Unlike these AAA games, Nakey Jakey videos are always perfect.
@Txxx Cxxx i will turn your eyeballs inside out
Nah
Hey man, I appreciate the time you take to make the sponsors segment more enjoyable to the viewer. Normally I would skip the moment I see Honey, but you somehow make it entertaining to watch.
I heard they steal your data
@@iitzfizz Thats like saying "I heard your phones track your location". Of course they do. They aren't stealing it either, you're selling it. Thats literally how their whole buisness works. They give you free discounts for basically every store online and in turn they can sell your data to turn a profit. Did you think they were just running their business out of the kindness of their hearts to give you free deals?
@@brood5184 yup, it would be like saying that social media is free, they profit with your information in order to show you ads and stuff.
Totally agree. Martincitopants was the first I noticed to do this and make it part of their content. Then I started seeing it more and appreciate the extra work they put in to make it funny
ok
It turns out that growing up playing on video game consoles that are outdated by at least one console generation naturally led to me only buying games that have been out for years. I am quite blessed to have rarely been disappointed by a video game I bought due to bugs, overhype, or simply being bad. Those things become evident after a year or two.
I did once buy a game, a whole console for it too, thinking it would be a better version of the game with the same name and company a decade before.
Not only was Star wars battlefront (the bad one: 2017) not splitscreen, which was basically my only requirement to be playable with my brother, but it was also bad. I actually got the better star wars battlefront game from 2004 for my last birthday. (Of course, star wars battlefront 2 from 2005 was the best.)
'It is 2007, I just saw Michael Clayton"
This resonated with me for scary and obtuse reasons.
No matter how big the gaps of time between your videos, its always resonating and worth it! Always happy to see new content at a healthy pace that works for you.
I never pre-order. No matter what benefit they'll promise, I won't do it. I do it for Totalbiscuit, and I do it for every gamer who deserves better.
I pre order if it's a small indie company. But never for the big ones. I play AAA games 3-4 years after release anyway
I’ll buy day one but never preorder, sometimes in person they’ll give you the slip for the preorder bonus anyways even when you didn’t. Win win
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Its a smart way to go, unless you care about online game which I don't anymore. With games being almost guaranteed to be on sale some period after its release, you can get and enjoy many great games (also in a much better and more updated state) for 1/3 of the price if you wait a bit after release. For single player focused games, I don't see much point buying it on release unless you know its good are are super hyped for it these days.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Even indie games are not free of greed. Look at Squad, Ready or Not, or Escape from Tarkov. The greedy practices exist in those circles as well, they're just slightly different. They're starting to sell out to publishers as well. The precedent is already there, it's just a matter of time at this point.
The only game I felt good about pre-ordering was ghost of Tsushima. They actually delivered everything they promised. I got a golden horse, an extra skill point, an extra set of armor, an extra charm, some music soundtrack to listen to and some concept art to look at.
Relying on individual action to change the games industry is like relying on jake from state farm to tell you the benefits of his competitors.
I really like how much of a case study NakeyJakey could be if you thought about it. TH-cam is absolutely littered with content creators that dedicate themselves to rehashing their literal personalities almost every single day, and it eventually wears their content, their audiences, and their personhoods depressingly thin.
Jakey on the other hand is an increasingly rare breed of diamonds in the rough on TH-cam. Not only is his content and editing just genuinely good and that he not only has a broad yet specific audience, but he doesn’t upload all the time and-like someone else said-makes his uploads feel like a holiday. This creates an audience that truly anticipates his next video, while also disrupting his own personal dependency on his channel for income AND validation. These two things combine to create a TH-cam personality who truly “never misses”.
Really like your stuff, Jakey. Keep it up.
My biggest pet peeve is when Content Creators encourage people to leave a comment and never actually engage with their audience in the comments section. Unless, of course, they monetize said engagement by uploading Q&A videos (give me a break!)
C'mon, comments are a staple to this platform, and they're so often treated as an afterthought by its own creators.
@@TomBombadil515 yeah I kinda noticed that too!
the man gets $2000 every month on patreon, he's not sacrificing anything with the four yearly uploads he makes
@@pierreo33 that’s what I’m saying. He’s aware that he doesn’t have to upload a video every single day like other TH-camrs with his level of popularity to stay relevant or entertaining, and his content is just better as a result. Whether he knows he makes money elsewhere, or if he just doesn’t want to upload everyday, or both, I can’t truthfully say. But what his channel has made apparent is that it is possible to be a solid, entertaining, and celebrated TH-camr without making it your life.
potentially hot take: he's like the frank ocean of youtube
Phoniex Wright has such a good soundtrack. Love how much Jake uses it in his videos.
Japanese pop/synth mix
Do you know the song at 3:38?
@@whatevsnevs7689it's a Trauma Centre/Trauma Team track, not sure of the actual name
AGREED
The fact that a 13 minute video with an ad break in the middle can still feel like a 30 minute video with meaning proves why you are one of the greats on this website. Thank you Jakey
nah, it felt shorter than 13 minutes
lol it's usually a bad thing if something feels longer than what it is
@@pierreo33 I think the commenter means that it's so tightly packed and edited that it accomplishes more than most thirty minute analysis videos in significantly less time.
For real. I felt he'd said so much at first, then I looked at the time and I was like "It's only been TWO MINUTES??"
the fact that nakey jakey managed to provide us with multiple noises proves why very epic very good
Jakey always brings the laughs and good vibes. You are the one friend everyone needs in their lives. Thank you man!
I've been hearing people say don't pre order games for 15 years man. The problem is people learn their lesson, stop doing it, but there's always new younger gamers who haven't learned that lesson and still preorder games.
Exactly, if you already don't do something, you can't take a stand by not doing it because you already don't count towards those statistics. I haven't preordered a game since I think FEAR in 2005, and that was only because I lived a long way from the game shop and didn't want risk it not being there in the one trip a month I might go there.
dammit he lured me in with the promised spin at the end. well played
10:39
@@drag0ngam31ng6 Thank you, I missed it and was like "where's the spiiiin!"
I think they'll patch that in v1.1
At 6:11 we were promised a spinning Jakey, and alas we were given nothing. Anyone have a connection at Jakey, Jakey, and Jakey attorneys at law? I plan on suing.
i will never complain because i find *a glitch* in a program
between the millions of lines of code and thousands of interlocking functions handling thousands of variables its not really possible to make a program where a few things just go wrong
BUT
with a lot of programs i use today and this goes beyond just video games
i find that *LITERALLY NOTHING* works completely as intended
sometimes its just minor little thing and sometimes the entire functionality is broken or non existent
we live in an age where it is seemingly acceptable to find a bug with every 2-3 clicks or key strokes
The problem is really just people being too insecure to admit they made a bad purchase / their favorite franchise had a bad release
I don’t really mind if it ends up being a shitty game or not, it wouldn’t be the worst thing I ever bought. However sometimes the shitting on companies comes off so vitriolic that I feel like someone needs to tell them to calm down. Even if the game was crap, that company still has actual people in it; why do you need to call them every insult under the sun?
We can critique companies without sounding like the video game equivalent of Kaczynski. I wish TH-cam commenters would get that, but it can turn into Reddit at the drop of a hat here.
Hearing "It's good to be back" put the biggest smile on my face. Can't wait to see what comes next. :)
thanks for watching rubberduck ill see you for bathtime
@@NakeyJakey Wth this is way funnier than it should be XD LOL
I wish more people would talk about the very serious issues Jakey brings up in this video instead of repeated comments of "happy you're back!" over and over again
ok let’s talk about it
@@diavolosteddy7594i just don't like it
What is there to say? Everyone's already said this topic a million times.
@@drunk6133 Well personally, and I know this is a hot take, but I wish games wouldn't release with bugs. I know I'm gonna get flack for this one, but I gotta say my truth.
@@tylarjackson7928 that is virtually impossible, you can't make a game with very little bugs but no game developer has made a game that has NO bugs at all. As making a game causes unseen bugs to happen and patching a game causes new bugs to pop up.
Cyberpunk 2077 with no actual update and only bugfix patches in the last year won the 2022 labor of love on steam. The state of the industry is 100% the consumer's fault.
Totally...i mean he has a point devs actually work hard and most of the time they are the losers...but also companies fire the great devs for more shit lazy cheaper ones...
Ive worked on games and i know how the shit goes... haven't worked at EA but i know whats the problem and im blackpilled..i dont buy CDs anymore i just buy keys sadly, because CDs are just pointless unleas you are a colelctor and i want to collect games but the games are so broken in 1.0...wich true always there have been broken games and all that crap but the state they release the games is just far back from being finished... Cyberpunk is just total scam...the devs saw the pre sales and they didnt bother to fix the issues...no mans sky at least they tried to make the game fun and now its an amazing game
Jakey has probably set the record for most utterances of the word “Gamer” in 60 seconds
This is the most fair review of the current game industry I’ve seen in a while. Explaining the full thought process behind production of games and both the problems between publishers and developer communication as well as the modern state of gaming consumption in terms of monetary game. It’s pretty good to see blame and leniency placed on both the devs and the owners of companies.
After witnessing the aftermath of the disastrous release of Aliens: Colonial Marines back in the elder days of 2013. I made a sacred gamer oath to our Lord Gabe Newell on holy relics (a case of Monster Energy and a copy of Game Informer about Halo: Reach) to never ever preorder a video game. You have no idea how many hundreds of dollars and hours of frustration it has saved me over these past 10 years.
I pre-ordered only 3 games in my entire life: Red dead redemption 2, Hitman and Death Stranding.
I was absolutely sure that the devs would deliver and they didn't disappoint.
Damn bro you got me with the Halo Reach Game Informer
Real MFs never preorder! Dying Light was one of my top 3 games ever, I've dumped over a thousand hours into it, and I never even considered a solitary thought of preordering the sequel.
DOOM has stuck the landing since the 90's. I love how the enemies fight each other.
It's already great enough that you bestowed us a new video, but all that Ace Attorney OST in the background transcend this video to a new plane....I just love Ace Attorney
Thinking about it, I think this issue could be avoided if game devs have strong unions.
This is a good example for the digital vs physical statement. I love the disks and wish we would get our money's worth like adding more artwork or a simple manual. Now if the disk is just the licence to own, then I feel we should get a discount for the digital version even if it's $5 for the case and disk for what it's worth.
They "promised" that games going digital would lower the price.
Cyberpunk 2077 won the best ongoing game in TGA 2023 is pure recency bias and a joke. Guess fixing a game they’ve false advertised and dropping a DLC after 2 years since it’s release deserves an award for that
Nothing makes me say "oh yeah" under my breath as I eat lunch quite like a jakey video showing up in my feed. Turned a good day into a great one thanks brother.
It really does feel like Christmas morning when Jakey uploads. Welcome back man, we missed you
Ty Jakey for summing up my thoughts on the current video game climate in a smart and funny way. Ur an amazing creator don't stop putting out bangers.
3:24 right there is the main problem in the video game industry
Micheal Clayton is legit one of my favorite movies of all time. Everyone should watch it and read the script as well. It is fantastic.
Definitely George Clooneys best movie imo. Feel like it’s really underrated
You can tell Jake enjoys being the only person who remembers Michael Clayton
I'm so glad someone made this video. I've been thinking of this exact stuff for so long. I'm very glad that you especially are the one who released it. I'm glad to see you making videos again!
6:32 I HEAR THAT VTMB SOUNDTRACK
FK yeah
Great video! I think being openly critical of the games we love and just not buying a clearly unfinished product is fair. I think a great note that was missed was the lack of demos. I think Corps may have done a way with them with how they release games in bad states. They kind of got swept away with the wind and rarely see them now. Luckily with the new Resident Evil remakes they they just dropped a demo for RE4 remake and that is something people will pre-order with how well it is unlike the others where it's just ign and game spot playing a bit of an out dated passable version.
No more DEMOs just play an extra $30 and play it a week sooner. What bugs? Those will get fixed later. What stress test? We're doing that now, silly. why I smell smoke...