It’s a joke but you ain’t wrong. The industry has gotten in their heads that women in video games cannot look attractive. Can’t have defined butts or chests, also give them very masculine jawlines with weirdly shaped heads. Just look at MJ in Spider-Man 2 vs 1, Aloy in HZ Dawn vs Forbidden West, Kay Vest in SW Outlaws, even how they changed Tomb Raider over the years. Then when games like Stellar Blade comes around the gaming “journalists” freak out
@@gameranxTV We are under attack by Evil corrupt rich individuals They want us to be weak and corrupt like them so they can control us, dont fall for their tricks
This is kinda coming back in games where New Game + doesnt just make all enemies damage sponges. The God of War reboots and Ghost of Tshushima have great unlockables which you can only get in NG+. Its similar to unlockables in older games just more streamlined because its now part of the regular gameplay loop. Ghost of Tsushima is my favourite version of this. NG+ feels much more sandboxy.
Can we please bring back kind girlfriends for protagonists? I’m tired of the bitter girlfriend, the divorce idea(really overused), or the whole break up(then getting back together) nonsense. That was the only thing I despised in Spiderman PS4. The break up stuff with MJ is so exhausting.
@@JohnMarston-lo5qk First of all, I’m not a kid. I was born in 93 man. Second, well I was lumping in movies/TV shows as well. Like for example Amber from Invincible. Plus the whole girlfriend or divorced drama is getting old. They pulled that nonsense in Uncharted 3. Oook so all of that build up for Nate & Elena’s relationship in the second game has drama again for Uncharted 3. So original 🙄. Or Dead Space 3 with the love triangle. Ellie is a cool character but that drama didn’t add anything. That’s my point.
The fact that games have become more like business projects is sad. This is why indie games are so loved. The developers can do whatever they want, and put in the passion to make it fun.
I’m not being mean but, they always were business projects. Businesses are essentially obliged to make profit over anything else. Hence it being a business. I don’t like this and it’s fucked games up, but that’s the nature of the market.
The problem is we constantly say we want smaller, more innovative games, more often. But every time that happens not enough people buy the games. Games get criticism for not being long enough, or not having top end graphics. It's why AA games have almost died out. We have AAA or Indie and virtually everything in the middle has died off.
I like how these companies say live service is the future but yet they're so blinded by their own greed to where they don't notice live services are failing left and right.🤯 SHOCKER🤯
I think it's because they see it from a board room and not from the ground level. On average Live Sevice games are massively successful. Overwhelmingly successful. Basically making all the money ever, as all corporations desire too. Unfortunately for them, reality is like the joke about how on average everyone eats 10 spiders in their sleep, but Johnny 'Eats 10,000 spiders' was clearly an outlier who should not have been counted.
Its been far too long since I've been able to play a game on day 1, that I now no longer look forward to it. Every time a big game is coming out my first thought is always "oh, another game that won't work for 30 days.. so anyways"
I gotta strongly disagree with #1. I don’t want my games to be like real life lol. I want cheats, I want unpatched exploits, I want to be a god-like, overpowered badass and clap everything in my path.😂
Unpopular take: _It's our fault why publishers don't attempt more risks_ Here's some recent titles no one bought: Evotinction (a pretty good MGS-like and published by Sony!) Prince of Persia: Lost Crown Reynatis (a DMC-like aRPG) Wild Hearts (a MHW clone) and countless others... At best most games can only reach modest success: Armored Core 6, Stellar Blade, GhostRunner2, etc.
Funfact; if the original Resident Evil 4 was made with the safety mindset that AAA studios currently tricked themselves into, it wouldn't have been one of the greatest games of all time, it would basically be Code Veronica and DMC wouldn't exist. AAA needs that risk, but they don't have the cushion of AA anymore.
I have a love/hate relationship with RE4. It’s one of the greatest games ever made and I replay it on a regular basis but at the same time…as a Resident Evil purist, I somewhat resent it in the sense that it took the series into a more action, almost Micheal bay-esque direction.
The cost of games are so high especially after games like GTA V, Witcher 3, RDR2 that now it hurting the industry itself. Not every studio want to put that much money on mocap, and audiences counts even the polygon of a tin can now that it is very difficult for a studio to convince investors into a new creative thing which will cost loads. So we get safe style same copy paste similar looking AAA games so that investors agree to put their money. So as an audience I think we should stop with our graphical nitpick and rather focus on gameplay mechanics. So, cool if you make a good graphics game but it will sell even if you don't focus so much on it.
@@bronzin1445 but that's the thing. If they don't people will burn them. Can you really think people will accept if the next Spiderman Or God of War be a downgrade from the current one. Let's be real here. Like look at Starfield. It was a meh game sure but the earliest critique wasn't about gameplay. It was about that it looked bad so it's a trash game. Then there is whole lot of comparison videos with RDR2 and Cyberpunk. Now those two looked good but to expect every game to look that good while neglecting what Bethesda studios offers isn't a right thing. Count the inflation and then see the prices of the game. How can someone profit from a $70 at full price which won't be for very long and plan to cover 200 million dollars. I think as consumers we have become very whiny. Appreciating a good looking game should definitely be done but making it a norm and a standard for every AAA game will hurt us gamers in the long run, cuz these creative studios, they don't have that kind of money. And those investors, they only care about their excel sheets and profit margins. So we will keep getting copy paste Ubisoft like games unless we stop our graphical obsession.
@@swapnilgopalka I’m not so sure about that honestly. AA is literally thriving because they’re often 1/10th the size and budget of AAA. Hell, just look at Kingdom Come: Deliverance. That game was made on a budget of $36M and graphically, it’s blows most games today out of the water.
Devs need to stop wasting time adding rt into games for consoles that barely run them. It's basically a mode so you can see what graphics will look like next generation. Then switch back to performance mode for an actually playable experience
I’ll go even further and say that we need to stop wasting time worrying about 4K. It looks nice and all but much like with RayTracing, it’s an absolute resource hog and not worth halving your framerate. I’ll take 1080p/144hz over 4K/30hz any day
As a small startup gaming studio, I'm happy to contribute to gaming through AA, compare to AAA due to the independent developers and publishers having their shit together. Currently finishing up on my company's first gaming bible before crowdfunding next year which I should be done with the second gaming bible.
Customizable experience in games. Not just difficulty but time limit mods, rogue style gameplay, enemy modifications like every enemy having an instant devil trigger, Combat speed. Thing is if developers took the time to add different modifiers and collect the data, see what works and what doesn't they'd have a good idea of what players might want in another installment. It's like every gamer is a potential tester for experiments.
I think a big problem with number 9 is that nobody has the same time to play games as we used to, life’s getting harder and needs aren’t getting met. So getting slammed with too many games wouldn’t satisfy anything but being able to play a really good select few games is almost better
Battlefield Hardline is another game where AAA devs tried something new and it was really cool but fans were unhappy bc they weren’t aware ahead of time it was going to be that different. Just to go along with Banjo not setting expectations correctly which hurt an otherwise good game
I would have disagreed with you a week ago, but I watched a gameranx video recommending Inscryption, and I’m completely obsessed with it!! Now I’m with you! Let’s do more unique, small, games like back in the old PS1 days
NPCs not shutting up EVER annoyed me most in Skyrim. And they only have 3-5 lines! So it's the same stuff over and over and over and over and over... By quantity the smithing lady annoyed me the most (I grinded that skill and spent a lot of time there), but the most aggravating incident was the court mage when I was trying to concentrate on planning my double enchantments for my armor and jewelry sets and he was just blabbering incessantly. Decided to mute my TV instead of killing him.
Number 1 step to most of this happening is for the companies to fire the suite of MBA execs and put actual devs and artists in charge. These fancy "market analysts" and execs are the ones responsible for 9 of the 10 issues here. Which will never ever happen because cApiTaLisM
right now it's like they get handed a list of quotas they need to have in the game, and they rather focus on meeting those than delivering a good finished product.
(12:00) If devs brought back functional menus, they would have more money. The curser style menus (as demonstrated in number 7) add extra wear and tear on the joycons and make stick drift happen much sooner. The less that players need to use the joycons, the longer that their controllers last. The longer their controllers last, the more money they gave to spend on DLC, merch like T-Shirts with the game on them, loot boxes, in-game purchases, etc.
"fans market discontentment" is a great way to word that. Very true. It's a great way to destroy people's joy and make them feel miserable like (hypothetical) you are. 😆 "Everybody should hate this thing because I hate this thing, come hate with me my brothas, we shall ride these steeds of hatred to the rims of Ragnarok! 😤🤮"
I played 2 action Yakuza games and I thought that coming from the makers of Virtua Fighter, they would have made melee combat a bit more fun than "mash one button" > "finisher" 2 1,2 1,1,2 1,1,1,2 1,1,1,1,2 Every combo. Sometimes, there may be a 2,2, such as: 2,2 1,2,2 1,1,2,2 1,1,1,2,2 1,1,1,1,2,2 They can have all the other moves (that must be unlocked... like parrying), but when it comes to doing damage, it's these combos.
Ah the silence thing. What a great point. It's one of the things I loved about Elden Ring. ... The lack of banter made me feel like I was in a world wandering by myself which, I was. In some ways it could have used slightly more talking when it came to figuring out where the hell to go but I get that's part of the aesthetic of Fromsoftware games. Still, I feel like game devs think more talking means more immersion, when in fact it's quite the opposite a lot of times.
I remember when it wasn’t required to have a publisher account to play the game. You know to play a game published by EA, you are required to have a EA Play account. Or to play something like Helldivers 2, the required PS account along with the Steam account. Used to never be a requirement….good times.
about the spliscreen couch co-op thing.. given that most of us have giant 50" - 60" TVs at home nowadays..now is the best time to bring that back. back to stay.
How about this: 1. Don't hire openly toxic people who hate the fandom and want to retcon lore in any part of the creation process. 2. Dont release buggy broken games (The caveate here is no detrimental bugs as a software developer bugs always exist in some form or another) 3. Seperately tune your console and pc ports so consoles can have a playable experience but make sure to leave extra utilization so they rarely see lag, Also perform these tests in temperature controlled labs, but also allow pcs to crank it up as they see fit. 4. Be transparent with cutomers or potential customers, If you do get caught in a lie don't lie again and sky daddy forbid dont double down, If your wrong own up and apologise. 5. Be aware that customers may choose to buy your software based on its content, If there are elements in it they dont approve of they simply may choose not to purchase it, Probably do some research on how much of the market you could potentially gain or lose for adding certain elements into the game, Its impossible to capture 100% of the market so dont risk 50% for the 10% you are chasing.
Disabling achievements with cheats on is fine. The problem (at least in terms of single player elements) is that modern games refuse to let you turn off cheats to get access back to achievements. Example: I started playing Minecraft on Xbox in November of last year. I was advancing my world and learning a lot. I decided to copy the world to test out Creative mode. Naturally, this disables cheats. The problem came later, after I deleted the copy. I went back to my Survival version, made advancements, and decided to check out some free add-ons. Nowhere in the marketplace nor menu does it say Add-Ons disable achievements. So I was surprised when the notice popped up. I went to press "Cancel" and the menu loved my selection twice! Meaning it moved it back to "Confirm" instead. But I didn't learn of this until after I had already pressed it! I immediately lost all the achievement access in my world. Thus rendering it, basically, pointless at that time. I didn't want to start over! I finally managed, after months of trying, to get achievements back on my world. But by that time, I had already jumped on a free Achievement granting realm. Gamers should not be punished for wanting to explore the game's possibilities and options. And certainly not for wanting to have a little fun in a SINGLE-PLAYER environment!!
There is one case in modern gaming where a huge AAA company put all their eggs into too many different baskets and it had the same effect as the opposite had in the past...... UBISOFT. They actually need to try putting more eggs into 1 basket so we can get a "quality over quantity" title for a change. You know what I mean. 👍
This is a great list! Number 6 is my favorite. They need to bring cheats back. It brings replay ability to the game and it just makes games more fun in general. Like imagine a cheat for a dark souls type game that turns you into the boss among bosses. Yes that’s not how the game is meant to be played originally but if you beat it once or simply are unable to beat it. Then a cheat could turn the game into something completely different and I think that’s biggest part of the fun in cheats.
There is nothing that gets on my nerves in single player games more than when the character goes "hmm I need to do this/go here" every 15 seconds. I thought I was just going crazy, I'm glad someone else noticed it lol
100% with you on bringing back couch coop!!!!! I remember playing on a 22" 4:3 tv on the PS1 in college. Now, we have 55" (or larger) TV's that are 16:9 so it could be split right down the middle & look great. It would be awesome to play games with my kids/family the same room. Thank you for putting this on the list
Baldur's Gate 3 was kind of a bad example when talking about games not being released unfinished. BG 3 was pretty broken at launch. Especially Act 3. It was also unfinished where they had to add missing dialogue a couple months later. They did fix it a little faster than others, but they most definitely did not release a finished and unbroken game.
The biggest AAA game this year imo, is definitely Metaphor Refantazio. They did so much right with it, and feels like a complete game. I havent enjoyed a new AAA IP this much in a long time
The only thing that make the launch state of game tolerable is that there is always tons of other things to jump to. I bought Cyberpunk at launch on PS4 to play on PS5. I started it and didn't have issues really, but didn't want to encounter the things I heard about so I put it down and went back 6 months later and had a good experience.
The ability to rent a game for a weekend would be fantastic. Nothing will ever replace the trips to the video store to see what’s new every weekend, sadly.
Far Cry 2 runs perfectly on my modern rig. Far Cry 3 and 4 require that I reduce the number of cores they run on every time I boot them. I go back to 2, wish I could 3 and 4.
The issue with publishers/studios creating many new experimental games is that it's just not very viable with the current shape of AAA games. AAA games take 5 years to make and millions of pounds, it's not exactly surprising that such a commitment heavy industry is playing it safe over gambling on something less reliable.
When it comes to number 10, I think Square Enix has been taking some massive risks. And in doing so they’ve made most of the purists upset because they’re too simple minded to appreciate and understand what they’re trying to accomplish…..
I've grown tired of Baldur's Gate 3. I've beat it twice and the thought of going through Act 1 again makes me sick. It was a great game, I'm not saying it wasn't, it's just that it almost had too much going on. The character banter used to drive me nuts until, on my second playthrough, I found a slider where you can reduce that. But the biggest problem is having every objective marker on the screen at the same time, with no way to turn off objective markers for quests you're not currently doing. So the map gets extra cluttered and, for an exploration game, the game tried to hold your hand way too much. Act 2 was better but Act 3 was just as bad as Act 1. I want to do as close to a completionist run at some time but once I start into Act 1, and I know how the main quest will end, I just don't want to do it anymore. For a video game, there's an awful lot of ridiculous and unnecessary talking that can happen because literally, you can speak to almost every living (and sometimes dead) person and animal in the game. It really gets old.
Number 2. Dear god is it bad in some games. Despite its many other issues, I actually think companions who never shut up might have actually been what pushed people away from Starfield the hardest. You can only hear Sarah say "Don't leave anything behind"/"That junk is seriously slowing you down" so many times before you start looking for a "killable Sarah" mod, and they ALL act like that on some level, even the more basic followers.
They need to stop the trend of releasing broken games, especially when there's a pre-order option. Just deliver a finished working product. Sure, there will always be some minor fixes needed, but currenlty the gaming community isn’t even surprised when a game launches full of bugs, sometimes so bad that it’s unplayable.
And AAA games......how do we describe them? Imagine you order a hand-tossed pizza from a local coal-oven gourmet shop snd its fantastic. But then, every 6 months, the quality dips just a little. 10 years later, they're basically bringing you Ellios frozen pizza (if you dont't know, it makes public school pizza look edible) and the downgrade was so gradual you didnt notice. And you don't even know what good pizza tastes like anymore, but its got that label, so you think its "da best".
The first and best thing the industry could do for itself is to kick out the investors from any decision making, and let the devs do their job in peace instead of forcing them to deliver an unfinished game because they didn't have any more time.
If I'm being completely honest, while I didn't love the astroid mission in Dead Space I didn't love it either. However, I still miss having "those levels."
#6 that’s why games are not living up to sales targets in the first few years. The collective gamers are smarter now and wait until the game is truly 100% to gave the best experience. 20$ game w/ no bugs ✅
I would like to mention how that when they release these new remasters, remakes nd new bundles, they are removing previous bundles from the store and you are having to buy the games over again.
I understand and mostly agree with the points about the state of the industry. However, I have a lot of free time to game and finish around 50 games a year and yet the backlog still just keeps growing. Despite all these issues we still get a ton of incredibly games every year both in AAA and indie.
23:43 Another side to this is get rid of all of the Navi clones like Morgana! At least Morgana was toned down a bit in Personal 5 Royal, but Gallica in Metaphor: ReFantazio is as bad as the original. Along with that, your side characters speak up when you are moving around as well.
Gameranx knew what they were doing with the thumbnail :P
Pretty cringe.
They even liked you're comment, they definitely knew lol 😂
@@Mrchair905 why?
her ass was one of the only great things about that game
We are under attack by Evil corrupt rich individuals
They want us to be weak and corrupt like them so they can control us, dont fall for their tricks
We need bigger butts in our faces!
Hurry it up game devs!
It’s a joke but you ain’t wrong. The industry has gotten in their heads that women in video games cannot look attractive. Can’t have defined butts or chests, also give them very masculine jawlines with weirdly shaped heads. Just look at MJ in Spider-Man 2 vs 1, Aloy in HZ Dawn vs Forbidden West, Kay Vest in SW Outlaws, even how they changed Tomb Raider over the years.
Then when games like Stellar Blade comes around the gaming “journalists” freak out
Yes. As a fellow man of culture, More big butts would be lovely
@@Lawrence_Talbotpreach to the choir brutha someone tell me why all the female characters look like men / trans in games these days lmao ugh
@@Lawrence_Talbot but it’s okay for male protagonists to be unattractive to women?
@@blacksailsfan4life go back to nexusmods to complain and comment about every single nude mod lmao
The thumbnail is correct. Games need to bring back that cake in their character designs
They're gonna change it
And the booba
Dump trucks? Agreed
I second this 😅
Dumps like a truck...Truck. Truck.
Fr dawg
Releasing in a good playable state would be nice for 70€
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@@gameranxTV We are under attack by Evil corrupt rich individuals
They want us to be weak and corrupt like them so they can control us, dont fall for their tricks
Agree
Even some games cost 99 Bucks for a deluxe or ultimate package
For a broken mess
We are under attack by Evil rich individuals
They want us to be weak and corrupt so they can control us, dont fall for their tricks
@@gameranxTV lets hope saudi arabia buys all gaming companies and save gaming from corrupt people just like what they did with spider man 2
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I agree. AAA games need to bring back prominent rears.
🍑 Amen
Looks at Kat-B320 from Noble Team.
Bring back some A S S plz.
Bring back full day 1 games, hidden characters u get by battle conditions/unlock requirements & cheat codes for fun
This is kinda coming back in games where New Game + doesnt just make all enemies damage sponges. The God of War reboots and Ghost of Tshushima have great unlockables which you can only get in NG+. Its similar to unlockables in older games just more streamlined because its now part of the regular gameplay loop. Ghost of Tsushima is my favourite version of this. NG+ feels much more sandboxy.
Thumbnail guy deserves a raise
Oh, somebody got a raise for sure😂
Can we please bring back kind girlfriends for protagonists? I’m tired of the bitter girlfriend, the divorce idea(really overused), or the whole break up(then getting back together) nonsense. That was the only thing I despised in Spiderman PS4. The break up stuff with MJ is so exhausting.
What if you just get a real girlfriend (or boyfriend)
which games have you been playing kid? when did bitter gfs and divorces become a staple in gaming...are you just another brainwashed sigma?
@@JohnMarston-lo5qk First of all, I’m not a kid. I was born in 93 man. Second, well I was lumping in movies/TV shows as well. Like for example Amber from Invincible. Plus the whole girlfriend or divorced drama is getting old. They pulled that nonsense in Uncharted 3. Oook so all of that build up for Nate & Elena’s relationship in the second game has drama again for Uncharted 3. So original 🙄. Or Dead Space 3 with the love triangle. Ellie is a cool character but that drama didn’t add anything. That’s my point.
Hi Falcon! It’s folks
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Make good game again✊
What him say☝️
I just voted to make games good again, from Portland oregon ❤️🤍💙
@@Jogoat-rh5ou yup we talking bout YOU sparkling mid. akira didnt die for that mid slop.
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@@Jogoat-rh5ou i didnt stutter .
The fact that games have become more like business projects is sad. This is why indie games are so loved. The developers can do whatever they want, and put in the passion to make it fun.
I’m not being mean but, they always were business projects. Businesses are essentially obliged to make profit over anything else. Hence it being a business.
I don’t like this and it’s fucked games up, but that’s the nature of the market.
Quality over Quantity 😮
Its the cost, the cost of triple A goes directly against the idea of taking risks sadly this is the situation we are in...
The problem is we constantly say we want smaller, more innovative games, more often. But every time that happens not enough people buy the games. Games get criticism for not being long enough, or not having top end graphics. It's why AA games have almost died out. We have AAA or Indie and virtually everything in the middle has died off.
I like how these companies say live service is the future but yet they're so blinded by their own greed to where they don't notice live services are failing left and right.🤯 SHOCKER🤯
It’s funny because there’s only 3-4 live service games that are ACTUALLY successful…
I think it's because they see it from a board room and not from the ground level. On average Live Sevice games are massively successful. Overwhelmingly successful. Basically making all the money ever, as all corporations desire too.
Unfortunately for them, reality is like the joke about how on average everyone eats 10 spiders in their sleep, but Johnny 'Eats 10,000 spiders' was clearly an outlier who should not have been counted.
Its been far too long since I've been able to play a game on day 1, that I now no longer look forward to it. Every time a big game is coming out my first thought is always "oh, another game that won't work for 30 days.. so anyways"
I gotta strongly disagree with #1. I don’t want my games to be like real life lol. I want cheats, I want unpatched exploits, I want to be a god-like, overpowered badass and clap everything in my path.😂
Well games are a medium to escape reality but damn I see alot of shit wanting to bring reality into my safe space 😂
Character creator, no one complained back then about the main character; just let us create our own.
Like in AC Odyssey or Divinity Original Sin 1 I prefer just having a couple choices like male or female and move on without having to customize
Voice options too. The new saints row had so many issues, but not having the cockney accent or the ability to set the pitch really high...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 basically set a new standard in terms of character creators. Seriously, the creations people made in that game is actually insane
Unpopular take: _It's our fault why publishers don't attempt more risks_
Here's some recent titles no one bought:
Evotinction (a pretty good MGS-like and published by Sony!)
Prince of Persia: Lost Crown
Reynatis (a DMC-like aRPG)
Wild Hearts (a MHW clone)
and countless others...
At best most games can only reach modest success: Armored Core 6, Stellar Blade, GhostRunner2, etc.
Funfact; if the original Resident Evil 4 was made with the safety mindset that AAA studios currently tricked themselves into, it wouldn't have been one of the greatest games of all time, it would basically be Code Veronica and DMC wouldn't exist.
AAA needs that risk, but they don't have the cushion of AA anymore.
I have a love/hate relationship with RE4. It’s one of the greatest games ever made and I replay it on a regular basis but at the same time…as a Resident Evil purist, I somewhat resent it in the sense that it took the series into a more action, almost Micheal bay-esque direction.
The cost of games are so high especially after games like GTA V, Witcher 3, RDR2 that now it hurting the industry itself.
Not every studio want to put that much money on mocap, and audiences counts even the polygon of a tin can now that it is very difficult for a studio to convince investors into a new creative thing which will cost loads. So we get safe style same copy paste similar looking AAA games so that investors agree to put their money.
So as an audience I think we should stop with our graphical nitpick and rather focus on gameplay mechanics. So, cool if you make a good graphics game but it will sell even if you don't focus so much on it.
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Here’s the thing though. They don’t NEED to cost $200m+. Hell, even $100M is pushing it
@@bronzin1445 but that's the thing. If they don't people will burn them. Can you really think people will accept if the next Spiderman Or God of War be a downgrade from the current one. Let's be real here.
Like look at Starfield. It was a meh game sure but the earliest critique wasn't about gameplay. It was about that it looked bad so it's a trash game. Then there is whole lot of comparison videos with RDR2 and Cyberpunk.
Now those two looked good but to expect every game to look that good while neglecting what Bethesda studios offers isn't a right thing.
Count the inflation and then see the prices of the game. How can someone profit from a $70 at full price which won't be for very long and plan to cover 200 million dollars. I think as consumers we have become very whiny. Appreciating a good looking game should definitely be done but making it a norm and a standard for every AAA game will hurt us gamers in the long run, cuz these creative studios, they don't have that kind of money. And those investors, they only care about their excel sheets and profit margins. So we will keep getting copy paste Ubisoft like games unless we stop our graphical obsession.
@@swapnilgopalka I’m not so sure about that honestly. AA is literally thriving because they’re often 1/10th the size and budget of AAA.
Hell, just look at Kingdom Come: Deliverance. That game was made on a budget of $36M and graphically, it’s blows most games today out of the water.
Sleeping Dogs is a great example here.
It doesn't have 1/3 of the content or detail of GTA V or RDR2, but its still a fantastic game.
Devs need to stop wasting time adding rt into games for consoles that barely run them. It's basically a mode so you can see what graphics will look like next generation. Then switch back to performance mode for an actually playable experience
I’ll go even further and say that we need to stop wasting time worrying about 4K. It looks nice and all but much like with RayTracing, it’s an absolute resource hog and not worth halving your framerate.
I’ll take 1080p/144hz over 4K/30hz any day
As a small startup gaming studio, I'm happy to contribute to gaming through AA, compare to AAA due to the independent developers and publishers having their shit together. Currently finishing up on my company's first gaming bible before crowdfunding next year which I should be done with the second gaming bible.
Glad you bigger channels are finally speaking up about this stuff. It will have a positive impact on the industry. Thank you!
Far Cry 2 Fans can REJOICE! Because today is the day we were finally HEARD!
Far Cry 2 is best of the franchise
Getting wrecked by malaria is tight!
I feel like I’m the only that unironically thinks that Far Cry 3 was a downgrade; 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards
Customizable experience in games. Not just difficulty but time limit mods, rogue style gameplay, enemy modifications like every enemy having an instant devil trigger, Combat speed. Thing is if developers took the time to add different modifiers and collect the data, see what works and what doesn't they'd have a good idea of what players might want in another installment. It's like every gamer is a potential tester for experiments.
Jake and Falcon on the same day 🎉
I think a big problem with number 9 is that nobody has the same time to play games as we used to, life’s getting harder and needs aren’t getting met. So getting slammed with too many games wouldn’t satisfy anything but being able to play a really good select few games is almost better
Battlefield Hardline is another game where AAA devs tried something new and it was really cool but fans were unhappy bc they weren’t aware ahead of time it was going to be that different. Just to go along with Banjo not setting expectations correctly which hurt an otherwise good game
Also the pricing didnt help. It shouldn't have been sold as a full price game
I blame Ubisoft for all of this
I dunno about that.
These things weren't problems before Obama took office. Coincidence?... 😂
@@TheJohhnyEyour comment is dumb and irrelevant.
Yes, I agree, the Batgirl model was done really well in Gotham Knights.
Only reason why I tried the game out lol
The thumbnail is perfect
My biggest complaint is releasing games unfinished/bugged out, as well as lack of new ip’s
Make Bottoms Great Again
I would have disagreed with you a week ago, but I watched a gameranx video recommending Inscryption, and I’m completely obsessed with it!!
Now I’m with you! Let’s do more unique, small, games like back in the old PS1 days
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"weaponized discontent"
Toxic artists need to learn to give the audience what they want instead of telling the audience what they should want.
Native, non-mod, macro functionality like in final fantasy 11 and 12
Concord should have been an adventure game. When I saw the trailer I thought we were getting a Guardians of the Galaxy type heist game.
Weaponized discontent and hate-tourists
What a time to be a gamer..
Journey has a successor in the form of sky children of the light made by the same developer
Something the NEED to bring back, is actually giving a damn about their games. Not pushing out garbage riddled with bugs for a 130$ price point
I wouldn't mind devs bringing back classic remakes. Driver? Far cry 1/2? Omg imagine it.
Two videos in one day? Oh we’re being fed!
NPCs not shutting up EVER annoyed me most in Skyrim. And they only have 3-5 lines! So it's the same stuff over and over and over and over and over...
By quantity the smithing lady annoyed me the most (I grinded that skill and spent a lot of time there), but the most aggravating incident was the court mage when I was trying to concentrate on planning my double enchantments for my armor and jewelry sets and he was just blabbering incessantly. Decided to mute my TV instead of killing him.
Number 1 step to most of this happening is for the companies to fire the suite of MBA execs and put actual devs and artists in charge. These fancy "market analysts" and execs are the ones responsible for 9 of the 10 issues here. Which will never ever happen because cApiTaLisM
people like you are so retar ded🤣🤣
@@JohnMarston-lo5qk oh wow so original omg.
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right now it's like they get handed a list of quotas they need to have in the game, and they rather focus on meeting those than delivering a good finished product.
(12:00) If devs brought back functional menus, they would have more money. The curser style menus (as demonstrated in number 7) add extra wear and tear on the joycons and make stick drift happen much sooner.
The less that players need to use the joycons, the longer that their controllers last. The longer their controllers last, the more money they gave to spend on DLC, merch like T-Shirts with the game on them, loot boxes, in-game purchases, etc.
I absolutely agree with #2. I'm playing more and more games with the sound muted in between cutscenes.
Yes, I hate the annoying Destiny style menus!
"fans market discontentment" is a great way to word that. Very true. It's a great way to destroy people's joy and make them feel miserable like (hypothetical) you are. 😆 "Everybody should hate this thing because I hate this thing, come hate with me my brothas, we shall ride these steeds of hatred to the rims of Ragnarok! 😤🤮"
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#4 is relevant as I used to do couch co-op with Borderlands and Halo.
I played 2 action Yakuza games and I thought that coming from the makers of Virtua Fighter, they would have made melee combat a bit more fun than "mash one button" > "finisher"
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Every combo. Sometimes, there may be a 2,2, such as:
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They can have all the other moves (that must be unlocked... like parrying), but when it comes to doing damage, it's these combos.
Ah the silence thing. What a great point. It's one of the things I loved about Elden Ring. ... The lack of banter made me feel like I was in a world wandering by myself which, I was. In some ways it could have used slightly more talking when it came to figuring out where the hell to go but I get that's part of the aesthetic of Fromsoftware games.
Still, I feel like game devs think more talking means more immersion, when in fact it's quite the opposite a lot of times.
I remember when it wasn’t required to have a publisher account to play the game. You know to play a game published by EA, you are required to have a EA Play account. Or to play something like Helldivers 2, the required PS account along with the Steam account. Used to never be a requirement….good times.
about the spliscreen couch co-op thing.. given that most of us have giant 50" - 60" TVs at home nowadays..now is the best time to bring that back. back to stay.
Two videos in two hours?
Feeling generous 😅
One of the biggest reasons is because there's no originality anymore. Everything's been derivative since the 90's
I play mostly Indie games these days
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How about this:
1. Don't hire openly toxic people who hate the fandom and want to retcon lore in any part of the creation process.
2. Dont release buggy broken games (The caveate here is no detrimental bugs as a software developer bugs always exist in some form or another)
3. Seperately tune your console and pc ports so consoles can have a playable experience but make sure to leave extra utilization so they rarely see lag, Also perform these tests in temperature controlled labs, but also allow pcs to crank it up as they see fit.
4. Be transparent with cutomers or potential customers, If you do get caught in a lie don't lie again and sky daddy forbid dont double down, If your wrong own up and apologise.
5. Be aware that customers may choose to buy your software based on its content, If there are elements in it they dont approve of they simply may choose not to purchase it, Probably do some research on how much of the market you could potentially gain or lose for adding certain elements into the game, Its impossible to capture 100% of the market so dont risk 50% for the 10% you are chasing.
Disabling achievements with cheats on is fine. The problem (at least in terms of single player elements) is that modern games refuse to let you turn off cheats to get access back to achievements.
Example:
I started playing Minecraft on Xbox in November of last year. I was advancing my world and learning a lot. I decided to copy the world to test out Creative mode. Naturally, this disables cheats.
The problem came later, after I deleted the copy. I went back to my Survival version, made advancements, and decided to check out some free add-ons. Nowhere in the marketplace nor menu does it say Add-Ons disable achievements. So I was surprised when the notice popped up. I went to press "Cancel" and the menu loved my selection twice! Meaning it moved it back to "Confirm" instead. But I didn't learn of this until after I had already pressed it!
I immediately lost all the achievement access in my world. Thus rendering it, basically, pointless at that time. I didn't want to start over! I finally managed, after months of trying, to get achievements back on my world. But by that time, I had already jumped on a free Achievement granting realm.
Gamers should not be punished for wanting to explore the game's possibilities and options. And certainly not for wanting to have a little fun in a SINGLE-PLAYER environment!!
2 gameranx uploads in 1 day? Let's go! 🔥 ❤😊
There is one case in modern gaming where a huge AAA company put all their eggs into too many different baskets and it had the same effect as the opposite had in the past...... UBISOFT. They actually need to try putting more eggs into 1 basket so we can get a "quality over quantity" title for a change. You know what I mean. 👍
This is a great list! Number 6 is my favorite. They need to bring cheats back. It brings replay ability to the game and it just makes games more fun in general. Like imagine a cheat for a dark souls type game that turns you into the boss among bosses. Yes that’s not how the game is meant to be played originally but if you beat it once or simply are unable to beat it. Then a cheat could turn the game into something completely different and I think that’s biggest part of the fun in cheats.
Spider-Man talking a lot is kind of fitting for the character. In comics, people are always complaining about how much he's always yapping. 😂
Cheat codes man bring them back now!!!!!!!!!
There is nothing that gets on my nerves in single player games more than when the character goes "hmm I need to do this/go here" every 15 seconds. I thought I was just going crazy, I'm glad someone else noticed it lol
100% with you on bringing back couch coop!!!!! I remember playing on a 22" 4:3 tv on the PS1 in college. Now, we have 55" (or larger) TV's that are 16:9 so it could be split right down the middle & look great. It would be awesome to play games with my kids/family the same room. Thank you for putting this on the list
They need to bring back making good games
Baldur's Gate 3 was kind of a bad example when talking about games not being released unfinished. BG 3 was pretty broken at launch. Especially Act 3. It was also unfinished where they had to add missing dialogue a couple months later. They did fix it a little faster than others, but they most definitely did not release a finished and unbroken game.
The biggest AAA game this year imo, is definitely Metaphor Refantazio. They did so much right with it, and feels like a complete game. I havent enjoyed a new AAA IP this much in a long time
The only thing that make the launch state of game tolerable is that there is always tons of other things to jump to. I bought Cyberpunk at launch on PS4 to play on PS5. I started it and didn't have issues really, but didn't want to encounter the things I heard about so I put it down and went back 6 months later and had a good experience.
you can see the genius in the usage of own assets in Infinite Wealths main side quest.
they made a smaller Animal Crossing style game just like that.
bro, that thumbnail is no lie. I played that GK game when it was on PS+ and yeah, Barabara got cakes 🎂👌❤️
The ability to rent a game for a weekend would be fantastic. Nothing will ever replace the trips to the video store to see what’s new every weekend, sadly.
Far Cry 2 runs perfectly on my modern rig. Far Cry 3 and 4 require that I reduce the number of cores they run on every time I boot them. I go back to 2, wish I could 3 and 4.
Not being afraid to make a game that’s dark and gritty and showing the human body. Just don’t censor ant anything at all.
Never thought gameranx needed such thumbnails..
Also it worked..
The issue with publishers/studios creating many new experimental games is that it's just not very viable with the current shape of AAA games. AAA games take 5 years to make and millions of pounds, it's not exactly surprising that such a commitment heavy industry is playing it safe over gambling on something less reliable.
When it comes to number 10, I think Square Enix has been taking some massive risks.
And in doing so they’ve made most of the purists upset because they’re too simple minded to appreciate and understand what they’re trying to accomplish…..
I miss when games were finished being made before they got released
I've grown tired of Baldur's Gate 3. I've beat it twice and the thought of going through Act 1 again makes me sick. It was a great game, I'm not saying it wasn't, it's just that it almost had too much going on. The character banter used to drive me nuts until, on my second playthrough, I found a slider where you can reduce that. But the biggest problem is having every objective marker on the screen at the same time, with no way to turn off objective markers for quests you're not currently doing. So the map gets extra cluttered and, for an exploration game, the game tried to hold your hand way too much. Act 2 was better but Act 3 was just as bad as Act 1. I want to do as close to a completionist run at some time but once I start into Act 1, and I know how the main quest will end, I just don't want to do it anymore. For a video game, there's an awful lot of ridiculous and unnecessary talking that can happen because literally, you can speak to almost every living (and sometimes dead) person and animal in the game. It really gets old.
Number 2. Dear god is it bad in some games. Despite its many other issues, I actually think companions who never shut up might have actually been what pushed people away from Starfield the hardest. You can only hear Sarah say "Don't leave anything behind"/"That junk is seriously slowing you down" so many times before you start looking for a "killable Sarah" mod, and they ALL act like that on some level, even the more basic followers.
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Id settle for just not having reboot/sequel/remake or dare i say a full functioning game that doesnt need 23 dlc packs to be complete😂
Well, not every game is the Sims 4.
Make in game assets great again.
They need to stop the trend of releasing broken games, especially when there's a pre-order option. Just deliver a finished working product. Sure, there will always be some minor fixes needed, but currenlty the gaming community isn’t even surprised when a game launches full of bugs, sometimes so bad that it’s unplayable.
And AAA games......how do we describe them?
Imagine you order a hand-tossed pizza from a local coal-oven gourmet shop snd its fantastic. But then, every 6 months, the quality dips just a little. 10 years later, they're basically bringing you Ellios frozen pizza (if you dont't know, it makes public school pizza look edible) and the downgrade was so gradual you didnt notice. And you don't even know what good pizza tastes like anymore, but its got that label, so you think its "da best".
For anyone playing Sparking Zero on PC - LFSE from Nexus Mods, lets you bypass the stage selection restrictions on split-screen.
MGS2 is great example here, the internet would not let you away with that today. I was 14 and loved it even tho Snake was my hero
The first and best thing the industry could do for itself is to kick out the investors from any decision making, and let the devs do their job in peace instead of forcing them to deliver an unfinished game because they didn't have any more time.
If I'm being completely honest, while I didn't love the astroid mission in Dead Space I didn't love it either. However, I still miss having "those levels."
Studios- "What's your monetization scheme"?
Devs- "Create a brilliant game"...
Studios- "Pass"
#8 "You're basically paying to be a beta tester.."
This is so true
#6 that’s why games are not living up to sales targets in the first few years. The collective gamers are smarter now and wait until the game is truly 100% to gave the best experience. 20$ game w/ no bugs ✅
I would like to mention how that when they release these new remasters, remakes nd new bundles, they are removing previous bundles from the store and you are having to buy the games over again.
Offline multiplayer
I understand and mostly agree with the points about the state of the industry. However, I have a lot of free time to game and finish around 50 games a year and yet the backlog still just keeps growing. Despite all these issues we still get a ton of incredibly games every year both in AAA and indie.
yeah, good games fly under the radar all the time
The silence thing you mentioned, bring back silent protagonists.
23:43 Another side to this is get rid of all of the Navi clones like Morgana! At least Morgana was toned down a bit in Personal 5 Royal, but Gallica in Metaphor: ReFantazio is as bad as the original. Along with that, your side characters speak up when you are moving around as well.
Falcon, everytime you said "Far Cry 2", I sighed with nostalgia.