Apology Graphics, Rise Of Kong, And Regulating Bad Games (The Jimquisition)
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Skull Island: Rise of Kong has quickly become a legend of bad videogame lore. Astoundingly unfinished garbage, it's giving even that dreadful Gollum game a run for its money. In a year of abysmal videogames, many of which inspired Solemn JPEG apology graphics, let's start wondering if game quality needs some sort of standard enforcement.
#RiseOfKong #SkullIsland #Redfall #StraySouls #BadGames #GameMill #JimSterling #Jimquisition #StephanieSterling #Games #Gaming #Videogames
The heart sinks when you hear the phrase "patch culture" or "horse armour" and reflect on how far we've sunken.
Horse armour always gets me, not only is it now positively benign by comparison it has been for *years*
I do miss the days where we were just complaining about enormously overpriced products.
(Though I suppose my comment has less to do with shovelware - which has always been with us, at least for as long as I've been around- and more monetisation)
As Steph obliquely points out towards the end, though, this has been going on basically forever. Humans are terrible at remembering stuff we dismissed for low quality because we engage with it so little. The video game industry has had a wide-ranging culture of reviews that persists to this day because all of us have been burned by it, probably multiple times.
I'd estimate at least half of the reason people say the phrase "NES hard" is because of unplayable garbage that managed to filter onto that system alone. We had an Atari 2600 growing up and it was very obvious why the industry crashed and burned when playing some of the crap games we had. It was literally a coin flip if we could even figure out how to play a given cartridge.
I appreciate that Steph called out Gamemills more than the actual game studio who is also kind of the victim in this case.
Not kind of they ARE the victim
The game developers are individually victims, but I do think that this was a studio deliberately started to grab inexperienced talent who are struggling to find anywhere else and use them to rinse out games I until they've been there long enough to put "three years professional development" before their portfolio.
If the studio has a system for taking on projects which it doesn't even have an idea for yet, you know the studio is part of the same machine and the studio heads are very aware of what they're doing to their staff.
A lot of development studios are the victims of shitty publishers. It's actually a bit rare to see ones like Blizzard Entertainment's dev side, Gearbox, and Riot Games.
I remember how Activision once had a studio called Fun Labs, which mostly made Cabela's franchise games, make Chaotic: Shadow Warriors which was a neat dive into the world of Perim but was also kind of shit because of course the studio had no clue what it was doing with an action adventure game with a vauge RPG battle system based on a trading card game similar to the RPG battle system in Yugioh Falsebound Kingdom but at least the Yugioh video games didn't _start_ with Falsebound Kingdom. This same studio also made MIB: Alien Crisis which was apparently also shit.
I mean really I'm not sure why Acitivision had in their minds that a studio that mostly made hunting and fishing games could make licensed action adventure games or licensed rail shooters.
@@michaelwoods2672 Exactly this, and from the perspective of the "inexperienced talent," imagine getting into game dev because you fucking love video games and that's what you want to do, make games. And all you end up being able to get are positions on these games that you know are bad, like you don't even have any personal confidence in them, you know what a good game made with love and hard work is, and these aren't it. You've become a cog in a machine that literally call themselves a mill shilling out the worst of your favourite art. Imagine how soul crushing that has to be. I 100% agree these poor devs are victims of the publisher and their studio heads. Had it been me, I wouldn't even want my name on these. Beginners have it rough af, no wonder everyone's going indie.
@@michaelwoods2672 That was Gamemil's trend not Iguana Games' . They did make G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout and Little League World Series Baseball 2022 as well but those seem to be the only other licenced games, three out of ten games so far (remains to be seen if The Amazing Crackpots Club will release though)
I love the idea of an independent body giving ratings for product quality apart from the ESRB.
"This game is rated F for actually fucking Finished."
6 months after it's created, it's lobbied by the big three and large devs like EA, and no different than the ESRB. Then who do gamers have to blame?
@@tymmezinni or taken over by political radicals who condemn any game that doesn't push their chosen narrative.. or.. consumers can do their own research and rely on themselves and voices they trust to find products worth spending money on
I fear that one day, we have a "shittiest game of the year" list where gilson b pontes doesn't make it.
holy, if that happens the world might end
Terrifying thought.
I’m not ready. Somebody hold me, if that happens….
2023 happened to be that year.
Rise Of Kong reminds me of those games I would get at a rental store for a week as a kid because I didn't know games could be bad yet
For me, I would rent the game on the weekend, because that was when I was allowed to play games, and then my whole weekend was ruined by this shitty game.
Like something AVGN would have a field day with.
It reminds me of those novelty games they used to make for random marketing campaigns just so they could say they had a game tie in, like the Burger King games or something.
And the weird thing is how there would be an entire shelf of copies occupying prime eye level shelf space too.
honestly, burger king put out bangers and sold them for less than their, excuse me, "meals". and that was what, 150 years ago?
I worked on the Skull Island animated show that came out on Netflix this year, a show that received no marketing from Netflix and most people probably don't even know came out and it sure does it hurt my heart that the King Kong project that was shit out without any care is the thing that got people's attention this year.
I vaguely remember seeing that while browsing Netflix and being surprised as i'd heard nothing about it, i'll definitely check it out for your sake.
Have seen it, is good. I gave it a "love this" feedback, recommend to anyone who had their heart broken on seeing Rise of Kong.
I didn't even know that was a thing at all, never mind missing that it came out. Yikes.
Friend, I’m going to check it out!
@@malkyn9998 Rise of Kong was fine
When Second Wind was announced, my immediate thought was... well, my first thought was "Wow, Yahtzee and everyone really have a lot of integrity leaving The Escapist after Nick Calandra got unfairly fired, mad respect for them!", but my second thought was "Oh, I hope they do something with James Stephanie Sterling and MovieBob, relive the glory days of The Escapist". Like, you guys can totally stay independent and separate from Second Wind, I'd just like to see all of you do some kind of collab or something.
Yes yes yes yes yes I CAN'T WAIT!!!!! I hope it happens.
Stirling yes but movie Bob? No way, have you seen the stuff he's said/posted in recent years? Dudes a sociopath 😅
Given how Jim was very positive of Nick and Yahtzee's move to create Second wind it does sound like a possibility. Sounds like Jim is still on some good terms with them.
@@Sonichero151 *Steph. Jim does not exist.
@@dannygrover595 You subscribe to PewDiePie and calling others sociopaths? Might wanna reevaluate your life, kid.
That Thong Song parody went so hard, absolutely genius stuff by Zilla. That extra poo really must make a lot of difference!
I've enjoyed broken games that are sold for a buck and made by one person chasing their dream game while not having *nearly* the skill to pull it off. It's charming to see someone's dream, roughly hewn from whatever they had on hand. This is not that.
Steph, could we try to go ONE week without you reviving a hidden memory of my childhood? At some point instead of a toy I'd totally forgotten I had as a kid and it'll be some kind of major trauma instead.
Don't worry. Rise Of Kong hadn't released back then!
She broke it. 💔
Thank goodness steph doesn't have Reams grocery store where you dad goes to pick up whores. That's just me though.
I used to looooove Supernaturals! Steph's fave was my fave too!
I never knew about Supernaturals or Visionaries until Ashens paraded them across his iconic brown sofa about 6 years ago. Even without personal nostalgic attachments, I still found them pretty neat.
Today Steph learns the meaning of Unsafe Sex when one of her henchmen loses an arm...
His*
@@FrenchFryCheese04right, sorry, one of her henchmen loses *his* arm
@@koganusan4025 Perfect 👍
Okay, but that "oozing in" effect with textures could be pretty cool, if used intentionally and with purpose
Glad someone else had the same thought. A dedicated horror game with this trick, and an aesthetic that works around it, could be amazing.
It looked a tiny bit like dust settling over a surface.
Put that on like. An arid dusty canyon, figure out how to make it look more intentional and I think that could be cool.
I remember seeing something similar in one of the good parts of Fallout: The Frontier.
As a feature I'm pretty sure its in a bunch of games you play and you've just never noticed it. I've spotted it in certain other games though i couldn't tell you which, its just one of many ways of doing level of detail rendering in games.
The comment about an "independent trading standards body" really struck a chord for me. For a while I've talked with my friends about video games and how in basically any other industry, they'd never get away with stuff that the gaming industry does without being sued. You could not advertise a car as having certain features and then sell it without those features, you would get sued for false advertising. Just like how you couldn't make a shitty car that doesn't work or is even unsafe because it will get recalled and also probably sued. Now obviously these entities aren't perfect and there are plenty of examples of companies and industries getting away with it, but the point is that there even is a speedbump on that path.
In gaming, as long as the lie isn't egregiously false you can get away with it and the worst thing that happens is some small internet pushback and maybe some bad reviews. We desperately need some form of oversight or legal authority able to hold companies accountable for when they just make shit up to sell games, or try to sell an obvious scam as a full-price game.
Amen to that. The first and loudest to cry about increasing regulation are always the high-income corpos, the owners, the do-nothings who somehow deserve the majority of money and power in our society. Sure, a few folks near the ground will echo and parrot the talking points as they flow down through edgy right-wing talk show hosts 'telling it like it is' (according to CEOs, of course) but the fact remains - regulation helps more people than it hurts. Well, unless it actually goes overboard, but that's not the situation anywhere I can think of, so much as it is the made up villain of the disingenuous, scaremongering "Oh no! More government! You don't like government, folks, doooo you?" dog and pony show so beloved by the aforementioned talk show personalities and their sugar daddies.
@@hazukichanx408EU tech regulation has entered the chat.
yes and that would also be the death of indy games company's
@@awakeandwatching953No, they wouldn't be.
Holy crap... I've been following JSS so long that I forgot I originally discovered the Jimquisition through the Escapist.
It's the ten year anniversary of Ride to Hell. Of course the game industry has to honor it with releasing tons of shit! :D
But seriously, remember when people were saying Forespoken would've been the worst game of the year? Fun times.
Still just under seven weeks left in the year. Plenty of time for a turd to drop that makes Kong look like Ocarina.
Forspoken wasn't even the worst game of its own release date
Last year marked the 40 year anniversary of the release of ET on the Atari 2600. This entire industry was built on shitty business practices, and almost killed it once if it weren't for Nintendo executing perfectly with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 in the United States. This time around, I don't know if they have what's needed to save it again, especially if their "community guidelines" (which attack the modding community, streaming community, and anyone looking to share their passion of games with others online) are anything to go by.
Time to break out your micros, we're in for a wild couple of years...
it was fine. except its last two hours lol. god that was awful
I recall people claiming Redfall was a contender for worst game when it came out. Redfall! Sure, it tops out at mediocre, but it's revolutionary brilliance compared to the true contenders for that title.
Sometimes I feel I'm screaming into the void about patch culture, having remembered a time where games had to be finished before release. It's always nice to know that JSS is screaming into the void with me.
I feel that way about a lot of things, all too often. So at least there are three of us screaming into that void!
The only Apology they need to release are Refunds
You wouldn't have to worry abouta refund if you didn't blindly buy the shitty product in the first place.
@@tymmezinni Wanna say that a few more million times so everyone hears it?
Haven’t watched in like a year and I love that you’re still consistent. Within the first 5 minutes we still got a “pounding it” and I laughed so hard like an inside joke between old friends.
I pulled up Game Mill's Wikipedia page to see what other games they have made and the first thing I saw was Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing... Kinda tells you everything you need to know.
Biiiiig motherfuckin' rigs! How do you screw up a platformer beat em up where you play as king kong and punch dinosaurs in the face? Oh, you're the guys that made Big Rigs. That's how 😂 Crazy.
BIG RIGS IS A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND I WILL HEAR NO FURTHER SLANDER
YOU'RE WINNER
@@ZMannZilla don't forget to drive backwards
TO THE GREY VOID WE GO
You could try acetone also known as model glue. It's not really glue, it creates chemical welds because it dissolves certain plastics. With a collection like yours it's probably worth it to find out what you can weld with it and what you can clean with it. Because it's also know as paint thinner. Very versatile stuff.
lol yes, acetone is nail polish remover so Steph's probably familiar.
The Kong song was actually cracking. I'd welcome more bad videogame review videos with lyrically reworked early 00's hip-hop.
It truly was a thing of joy1
Whole video was a banger. From a kick to the face lap dance to a hairy ass thong song.
The comments sections on some of the videos about the Escapist situation I've seen are downright wild. It's amazing how so many of The Gamers are so dedicated to hating anything with even a hint of mainstream journalism they'll end up with a permanent layer of corporate exec shoe leather on their tongues when stories about critics, reporters ect. getting screwed over by management decisions come out.
Some people have gotten so used to living under a corporate boot that they demand the rest of us do so as well, in order to validate their surrender.
@TheRogueWolf Gamers don't care about the boot. They care only about having their escapism and resent being told that the people who make their escapism are fuckwads, or that the fuckwads making decisions are being fuckwads to the people making their escapism. All they care about is throwing money at whatever game the next pretty trailer shows them.
It's aspirational. Many will always side with the powerful because deep inside they believe they can become them. It's the same reason why people vote for politicians who are clearly tyrants with interests that are in no way aligned to their own: because they want to be the alpha male/female with full impunity to do what they want.
@@TheRogueWolf Indeed, it's a sort of Sunk Cost Fallacy; "I paid all this money for (for example) NFTs... shit, well, I wasn't wrong. People will catch on. The whole thing's great, it was a smart investment. Maybe I'll buy some more, and let people know how cool they are, help get the ball rolling. It's inevitable but can't hurt to help out a bit. Huh, why are all these fools so resistant to a decision that was _definitely_ good and smart and responsible...?" And so forth. Only, in this case, they invested _trust_ in those who have a vested interest in deceiving and cajoling them. Having listened and believed and trusted for so long, they find it is now painful for them to doubt the 'reality' they've been sold...
Pride does bad things to people's minds. Few things are certain; far more likely is the incorrect assumption. Couple that with a deliberately misleading media titan or two, and you've got a pretty screwed planet. Still, it's never too late for people to be shaken awake by a sufficiently explicit elaboration of facts, or a nasty shock about their 'trusted' outlet... at least, I hope not.
@TheRogueWolf I thought the whole point of hating mainstream journalism was to get _out_ from under the boot, can people not even keep their scripts straight anymore?
Gollum and Redfall were hit with a thing that has been an issue since the 90's, and has only gotten worse as the gaming industry has grown larger: Being shafted by the new owners following a buyout of the parrent company of the developer. Aka The EA Shuffle.
Careful Stephanie, with the ironic escape of Escapist's last quality staff, the wrestling brand you manage, and your acquisition of ZMann's incredible skill you have lived long enough to start your shift from underdog hero to corporate villian rise 😂
I wonder if it's related to the henchman uniform I just received in the mail.
@@ZMannZilla Their name is Steph and I'll do what they say. Whoop whoop!
@@ZMannZillaYou mean gimp suit, right? :P
@@1IGG its really more gimp casual
Corporate Commander Sterling
Hearing a remix to a song that came out when I was like 5 or some shit because of a bad video game is so cathartic, I cannot begin to express it with words. Dear God, Steph and team, please never stop making content ilysm😭😭💖💖😂🤣
Ok, I am here for this phase of the Jimquisition where every video has a custom-written song parody. HELL yeah.
(I mean, I'm here for every phase of the Jimquisition, but I'm really loving this one)
Blizzard announced they want to make the expansion cycle faster which makes me worried something like this will happen
It is worrisome, but to be fair in WoW's history we've seen over a year on a single patch at the end of Mists of Pandaria only to be rewarded for waiting with Warlords of Draenor. Time ain't the best metric for assessin' em, so I'll remain tentatively optimistic following how neat Dragonflight was
We might end up getting less content per expansion but the quality and quantity of dragonflight content has been pretty good. So I think the next expansion should be good.
The Kong Song goes to show that it really is the extra poo that makes all the difference
I honestly have no idea why anyone buys video games on the first week anymore. How many times do you need to get screwed over before you lose trust?
The Guru Larry jumpscare gave me a hearty chuckle. But I'm here to say, Why Helloooo You!
There was this old series by TH-camr Spiffing Brit where he played Game Dev Tycoon style games, where the goal was to make as much money by doing as little as possible. His companies would release the shittiest games possible, spending no time on development, only on advertising. Then he'd use the proceeds from those game sales to acquire bigger IPs and release those with as little development and the biggest advertising biggest as possible. Slowly buying bigger and bigger IPs, and slowly ruining the game industry.
It was intended as a scathing critique of the practices of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft, but it's also literally what Game Mill Entertainment is doing right now with whatever random IP they can get their grubby hands on.
Love the new outro, Steph.
Also, standards? For video games? Hah! There are imbeciles out there calling for food regulatory bodies to be dissolved because corporations can't sell liquid shit in a bottle. And we expect quality controls for our entertainment content?
This is why education is important. The whole reason food regulations exist in the US was because corpos sold "milk" that was more worms than liquid.
I'm so happy you're living your best wresting life. It really does go to show that you shouldn't give up on a dream just because you didn't get in early. Gives me hope for maybe starting some of the things I've been wanting to do.
Okay, that "Thong Song" parody on Kong was absolutely brilliant.
A little levity is just what we needed, it's nice to see Steph just enjoy themselves with a good old fashioned asset flip squirty play again.
This looks like a game you'd get a demo of in a cereal packet for the PS1
The Kong Song WRECKED me 🤣🤣🤣
I know it's old news for many years now, but I love the show-and-tell segments. It's just so nice to see you happy!
I was wondering what Second Wind was. Heard the name but didn’t know the details. Definitely supporting. You and most of the old Escapist crew are really the only game reviews and commentators I watch lately.
Oh wow I was not expecting that kick, really well sold!
Thanks for doing the work explaining what's wrong with Kong. Some creators just showed some footage and said "look at it" which only showed it was low budget.
Hope you and Yahtzee do a new Uncivil War on Second Wind
They have to
I had no idea that a Rise of Kong themed spoof of Cisco’s “The Thong Song” was what I needed today. 😂😂😂
I'm with Sterling, it should be illegal to sell broken games. I don't think it would help, because the second a title is over the legal limit, they will ship it.
UK has laws in place to protect consumers. When I attempted to get a refund for a buggy broken game I'd purchased and had played for 2h and 2m (just over the 2h arbitrary limit most platforms use) for refunds, I was told I'd signed away my legal protections when I bought the game. When I then quoted the exact text of the law that Gas wording to the effect "this law applies even when an agreement says it doesn't" I was told that company policy supercedes the law! 😂 When I then requested details of thier legally required appointed 3rd party arbitrator to deal with claims such as these, I was told this multi national corporation didn't have one, despite it being a legal requirement for them to sell digital products in the UK.
I forwarded my experience to every UK consumer watchdog, most of whom responded to the effect of "we are aware of this and thank you for your testimony as we are currently building a legal case to take the company in question to court for failing to follow UK law.
The company in question lost my subscription to all their online services and I've spent way less on their platform then I would normally have done. They refused me a £7.99 refund. They've lost over £100 in subscription and £200 in other sales. 😂 I emailed them a year after my last contact, and got a response saying they were sad that I had chosen to cancel my sub but could still not offer me a refund.
That Kong Song. Chef's kiss. Steph had be realizing that December is coming soon and their best and worst games is almost inbound. That's gonna be some heat.
Z. Mann Zilla is a great addition to an already great channel. I agree!!
The Kong Song at the end really puts this video over the top for me. I was enjoying it and then the song started and I was like "this might be one of Stephanie's best videos yet" haha
Digging the new outro. Also the amount of solemn jpeg made me realize that despite me enjoying this year as a gamer generally, a lot of garbage came out in 2023.
We got a lot of great games but also a lot of garbage. And developers sadly got a lot of layoffs.
@@mjc0961 indeed 😢
Always here for the Steph's Massive Toy Chest segment
The little musical bits at the end lately have more effort and polish than the games they're roasting.
Now I have the image of Kong in a thong burned into my retina. Thanks for that Steph.
that witty song and the mention of the escapist reminded me that I loved the rhymedown spectacular from back in the days. Maybe recent events will lead to some new quality colab
Zilla just keeps getting better and better! That credits sequence, wow! And the song, ace!
I was not expecting a Thong Song parody but here we are and I am glad for it.
Oh remember that FNAF game that had storyboards instead of animated cutscenes for most of the endings because they couldn't be bothered to actually finish the game?
I was wondering if you was gonna do a whole video on the escapist situation.
I asked Nick if you had reached out and was glad to hear you had so I was kinda expecting a massive escapist take down video 😂
Probably would take more than a week to put that together. It might still be coming.
I was expecting this week to be about the Escapist, but really, I think Steph covered everything there is to say about it right now. There may be a later video that digs deeper into just why the Escapist is bad and what led up to them thinking that firing Nick was a good idea (since that would take quite a bit more research and journalism than can be expected on 6 days' notice), but as far as commenting on the specific events of last week goes, the important parts are to applaud the video team for their solidarity, be pleased that there's been so much community support for the team going independent, and flip the appropriate bird to the corporate dickwaffles that created the problem, and they've hit all three of those points.
I was just about to comment on the amazing Thong Song parody that ZManzilla added and then immediately following it I hear my Born Depressed rendition start blaring!
I love your rendition and have been aching for an excuse to use it ever since I got the co-editor gig! Thank you so much for your kind words!
AH, the love is real. You're doing an amazing job, ZMan. Loving the ideas you're bringing to the production. You took it up a notch this episode!@@ZMannZilla
This might be a year where you extend the Shittiest Games list from 10 to 20. Just in case you miss some absolute trash on the final cut list.
Steph, you need to release Zman's song as a single video. It's more tangible platinum than the Kong's broken achievement trophies
Bruh, Zmanzilla is so goddamn funny 🤣
And this video actually brings up good points about the value of art and products. Not that I’m saying anything Games Mill makes is art, I’m just saying it made me think more about customer rights around products.
Yes, I imagine even relatively chill, broadminded people like artists would be rather annoyed if a company called itself The Art Mill and immediately started farting out really crappy reproductions of various famous works of art. And of course, this company would be touting its "products" alongside the legitimate ones, eroding public interest in real art by the sheer low quality of its output.
We all need to stop saying "They can do whatever they want, so what" and start going "Stop, or we dissolve your shitty company."
Great episode and then the final song, wow.
The Kong song at the end was just *chef’s kiss* perfect
Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake have really made this a fantastic year for me, but I acknowledge that they had the benefit of building on a foundation from a less exploitive era of gaming
omg.. OMG! The "Kong Song" at the end 😂😂
I'd still love to see you do a video on the predatory business practices of Games Workshop. They are heavily linked to the AAA video game model.
I've figured it out! The Kong footage really highlighted it - what we're seeing is another MMO boom/bust - in this case it's just games in general but this is the exact same bubble/boom+bust cycle that we saw in the 00's with MMORPG's - all the big popular names got bought up by giant developers, the original teams leave, then the game turns into a hollow facsimile of its original format, and then they all slowly died out except for the handful of passion projects that didn't get bought out.
Mark my words, this will get worse before it gets better. Just remember, you don't see many successful MMORPG's around these days, but the ones that are, are run by dedicated teams. You can already see this is the difference between ~"AAA"~ studios and indie devs this year. Indie devs are booming, but ~"AAA"~ devs are plummeting like a rock in a jar of old semen.
That's the usual affair for licensed games, not a boom/bust.
@@arturoaguilar6002 How is it the usual fair? Sure it's the standard right now, but that's the point. This is like saying in 2007 there is no housing bubble.
Just because it's currently the default/standard mode of operations, does not mean it is not a bubble.
Meh, haven't cared for big publisher games since decades. Indies, on the other side, get better and better.
@@1IGG I understand the sentiment, I mostly feel the same way. But the "money" is from the average person not from gamers ironically, so as long as the market is dominated by these megacorps - the "big budget" games will continue down this path. Just look at Marvel - comic book movies used to be for the nerds but accessible to the general public, now they're for the general public and barely accessible to the nerds...
what i love about steph videos is the random toys they bring to play with xD
I had to stop at the intro to do research cuz I had no idea about what went down at the escapist
i usually can’t stand when ppl make parody songs about games cuz they’re just…bad. this one was actually funny and respected the original bar structure 😹😹😹 give Z Manzilla a raise fr
Thank you for that! I used to work with a nerd-rock group called Ookla The Mok, they taught me that a good pop culture song parody needs to be more than "this thing exists". I try to reflect that in my parodies.
@@ZMannZilla as a rapper/singer/producer i really appreciate that! i was like “ngl this kinda bangs” ❤️
Awesome shout out to Second Wind. Zero Punctuation tied for first of my favorite game related video series (can you guess the other #1?) so I was bummed to see it end so soon. I think he new material will be great in the long-run
Zero Punctuation had a 16-year run, but, yeah, I'd still say "so soon," too. I'm looking forward to the new thing.
“End so soon” isn’t something I thought I’d see about ZP considering it’s been going since 2008. I think that by now I’ve personally tuned in each week for at least a decade.
I think by ending "so soon" I meant "so abruptly"
I'm not sure when I first started watching but I swear I must have seen at least 90% of the episodes
These bad videogames make me think of those awful restaurants that no matter how much they stink, they don't close. It's like if they were laundering money.
Pretty sure my local Arby’s is a front for a meth lab that pays people to pretend to eat there
@@Necroskull388what
In the year 2023, never did I think I'd be thinking about the "Thong Song" again.
I definitely needed this criticism in song form, thank you.
I think the one thing Gollum and Rise of Kong have done is renew my respect for modelers and character animators. In the age of Unreal 5, and other engines and modeling programs that can provide a easy interface for game development, I just kind of assumed making characters that looked and moved in ways at least weren't offensively unappealing was almost as simple as snap your fingers and it's done. Clearly I was very, very, VERY wrong.
Love the Guru Larry that went by when the word "fact" was mentioned
Also I love how Starfield went from "OMG best game ever" upon release to "what a pile of junk" in such a short time. I know Stephanie always felt that way, it was a great review, but I was surprised at how quickly the rest of the internet turned on it.
That "Kong Song" video was legitimately hilarious.
I don't watch wrestling but intros like this one are changing my mind. That kick was legit
The Kong song wasn't how I expected my Monday to go but well...
Nice job. That rap is pretty good too. Thanks for spreading the word of 2nd wind
Blazing Ballsacks! You just reminded me I had a membership to the escapist Channel on TH-cam that I needed to cancel. That's done and I'll look forward to what second wind will do.
Just when I thought that gaming industry couldn't get worse they go to new lows. Looking forward to the worst games years. Love to be reading the reviews. Keep up the good work.
"The Kong Song" is fucking brilliant.
I ultimately agree, these games should not have been sold... But it’s so strange to see this right alongside WB choosing to NOT release certain films for a tax cut...
Yeah, how come no Skull Island burial and tax cut? Wouldn't that be a use of taxpayer dollars that actually _benefits_ the people?
The Thong Song parody at the end, I can't. 😂
The game industry may be hitting a low point, but the Jimquisition just keeps getting better! Keep it up Steph!
It's like everyone looked at Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, a game that has been the first or only game in the 2010s with a zero or even a negative score, and said: "we can do this AND WORSE!", and then started selling it for 60 USD or more...
I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS SLANDER OF BIG RIGS, THE GAME SO GREAT IT BROKE THE SYSTEM AND LEFT ALEX NAVARRO SPEECHLESS
YOU'RE WINNER
@@ZMannZilla Exactly, Big Rigs at least did something. It was literally NOTHING, but it was also not doing it for 60 USD!
Honestly at this point, you might even just be able to make a Best Games, Worst Games AND Most Broken Games video considering nowadays those can all be very distinct categories
Jump scare Larry Bundy Jr in there.
2023 has been a year of amazing highs and unfathomable lows for games. It's quite an interesting case study.
Holy crap I cannot believe that game came out in 2023
I cannot wait for the imminent new feature of a pre-order bonus being the apology message.
Seriously though, I buy about 300 games a year across loads of platforms, new and old. I've been at this since the late 1970s. Yet this has been the first year where I'm yet to buy a single game that came out this year.
I normally buy a console when there's about 6 or so exclusives I want. So far, I haven't bought a PS5 nor Xbox Series Bollocks because they haven't met this basic standard.
It's really really sad.
Nice shoutout to the Second Wind crew, hope ya can collaborate with them one day ^^
Another great video.
Really poundin' it.
Steph, you and I were poor 80s kids together, so it's healing to you play with all this fun stuff that was unaffordable as kids XD
As someone who hasn't been able to catch any of your wrestling shows live: I really appreciate your clips from your various showings! ❤😂 Sending love & well wishes from Boston!
I really love the addition Z. Mann Zilla brings to your channel these days! The videos have never been better.
Wait..... GAMEMILL??? THEY MADE THIS!!!!! No wonder its so shit. I remember Scott the Woz and Matt McMuscles discussing how they were absolute kings of wii era shovelware...... I thought they went bankrupt!!!!
a parody of the thong song was not on my bingo card
Every Monday I thank god for Stephanie, and also the other days of the week, and the additional days of the week that government won’t recognize
Wow you continue to recover toys from my childhood that I had completely forgotten about!
I had a bunch of Supernaturals when I was a kid. Thought they were pretty neat. Speaking of toys using holograms, does anyone remember some line of slightly larger than GI Joe sized action figures that had holograms on their chests and were some sort of futuristic undersea guys?