"I'm too sick to do this in person, so I will give Justin, who's also sick, more work to do creating an animated version of me." It's good being the boss.
"While I also continue to make videos complaining about the capitalist system, that I'm benefiting from, for the way it forces people to work long hours while sick because of deadlines that they're held to by the people they work under."
The only reason that came out this year is that Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 are still years away and Activision forced Blizard to release a game this year.
@@troyjardine5850 They could had released WC3: Reforged later this year and have more time work around it but of course Activision is that greedy that it just couldn't allow Blizzard work around it any longer.
@@coreyander286 "heard on facebook" No the best place to take advice, source from. Honestly though i was just making a joke about jim.Most likely it's just the flu.
@@leosabat4636 I would so be into a Hellraiser / Event Horizon crossover lol. Horror movie nostalgia is so much more fun than the irl box of nightmares
Or hope. It depends on perspective. Well, that and you don't see the most amazing stuff because it doesn't generate clicks like a switch on amphetamines and the "News" doesn't report on what's good in the world. :3
Me seeing the video link: "Oh boy, I can't wait to see Jim in his hat and tie!" Me at the end: "My disappointment is immersurable and my day is ruined."
"The future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares" so wonderfully encapsulates the existential dread of adult awareness. That quote belongs on a t-shirt.
You don't need the hat and tie Jim. For instance: Jimquisition: After Dark. Jim wears a night shirt and long stocking cap to complain about video games. People would watch that.
9:58 - this, right there. Nail on the head. Right on the noggin. That hypothesis is the biggest issue with video games today. SO sick of everything these days that we're dying for GAMEPLAY and STORY, instead of which mohawk looks better on your @#$&'in gun.
western publisher are too focusing how make money with less effort than make better quality game that's the problem but no consumer are now are fking sheep to waste the money on mobile game or virtual cosmetic so the circle never end
Part of Divinity's appeal is being a turn-based RPG. You know, the "outdated" genre the industry declared dead all the time, we all want realtime RPGs I hear. Just like all the other RPGs the industry has no faith in.
Not dead, but the turn based on Divinity is more like a chess game. The old Final fantasy games were just menus. Good menus, but still I feel it is different from turn based like Arc the lad 3, divinity, or Disgaea. Love Final fantasy Tactics.
You know, I do have to wonder. While there is definitely a market for real-time RPGs (I've certainly been enjoying Tower of Time recently, and its combat system is real-time), and not everybody's into turn-based combat, I have a suspicion that one of the reasons why dev houses moved away from turn-based combat might be because some of them don't want to? Other than the more obvious reason being that publishers don't see the value in turn-based combat, I feel like maybe some studios feel like they're "above" making turn-based strategy. For me, personally, I like turn-based combat when there's more to it than having a bunch of characters in a row. I like my turn-based combat to be more strategic, involving positioning and proximity where the characters and the enemies are all moving around on the battlefield. Stuff like Heroes of Might & Magic, XCOM, Endless Legend, etc. As for real-time RPGs, I still very much like those (again, Tower of Time is pretty cool). But I kinda want to see more real-time RPGs that play like Dungeon Siege, blurring the lines between RPG and RTS by having 6 or more fighters (6 being the absolute minimum) roaming around like squad-based Diablo. In fact, that's one of my problems with many RPGs, where you technically only have 3 or 4 party members in the battle at once while everyone else in the roster is stuck warming the bleachers. Instead, rather than varying up your options while forcing you to decide who to take with you, RPGs should instead just increase the number of party members in combat as more of them join your party, and have encounters scale by adding more enemies to tango with. Admittedly earlier games had hardware and engine limitations as an excuse for not having EVERYONE in the battle at once, but in this era where we have a lot of power to work with and can make games look however we damn well please, I feel like there are fewer and fewer excuses for not having the whole party join the fray. In fact, if Chrono Trigger ever ends up getting remade, they should just have every party member on the field at once, so that Crono's team feels more like a true posse.
@@arr165 I personally dont play either of those, but I see those are super popular, a friend of mine played persona 4 maybe 20 times since I recommended Persona for psp years ago.
The irony of it is also just how wonderful SEs team for it is, a rare display of an AAA company doing a fantastic job, but he has some weird dismissal for it.
Games behaved the most like art back when everyone thought they were toys, nowadays most big budget releases behave the most like toys now that it's generally accepted that games are art.
As a regular viewer of Jim I cracked up when he took a shot at my most played game of this year, FF14 Shadowbringers, briefly. Just didn't expect it to ever appear on their channel even mentioned briefly lmao.
I haven't seen the episode yet, but oooh I can't wait to see Jim with that hat, and oooh that tie, ooh he does wear 'em nicely doe, doesn't he? Phwoah.
I hear what you're saying Jim but just this year were getting DOOM Eternal, Last Of Us Part II, Cyberpunk, Ghost Of Tsushima, Halo Infinite(jury still out on that), and then the remakes with FF7 and RE3. Plenty of great games to play on my end.
Yeah, but most of those are still a ways away. With no Demo to see just how good or bad it is in practice. Jim is hyped about the FFVII remake as there's been quite a few improvements since earlier gameplay, AND they added in MORE story. Meanwhile we'll have to wait to see how well the others actually do. Though I would be SHOCKED if Cyberpunk was even as low as "Good". FFVII is a Known Value, everything else still remains to be seen just how good it is at launch. Which may require some more patching down the line in order to ACTUALLY be anything better than "Good" at best. Let's not forget all those times that games hyped us up in the past, lots of preorders, and then things turned to crap once we got our hands on the actual games. We also don't know if some of these games might have microtransaction BS added in later, like we saw with Crash Team Racing, for instance.
FF was always bollocks. Cliché jrpg, but that's fine there are people playing it. But also there are tons of sliding puzzles "animé" games on steam that sell like crazy aperently, otherwise there wouldn't be tons of this garbage. So take it as you will
@@theblackbaron4119 The second largest and most subed mmorpg to date is "jrpg" garbage. So you're one of those dudes who just reads a game title, remembers your favorite streamer/youtuber didn't like that series and just regurgitates what ever they said without ever having played said games or know even the most basic info (the type of game...) about said title. Good for you little guy ^w&
@@Wraithfighter Yes... With more content, more interactions with characters, new never before seen scenes with information you're usually only going to get by hearing second hand by npc you aren't required to talk to, midgar is going to be full length game in itself, I'm for one happy to have all the extra stuff going on in the first portion of the game. I don't remember the bombing mission taking an hour and 30 minutes in the original.
@@Nicolai-Syn Not only that, but also the models are done, core repetitive animations are done, core game mechanics are programmed and ready for re-use, etc. Just on those alone, you have a large chunk of the game.
I mean full priced game plus expansion, plus monthly fee, plus cash shop. I can understand why you'd want to call it "bollocks". Even if the story make it one of the best final fantasy thanks to Shadowbringer
The story was good, yes. They gutted combat as their patches come in at a terrible drip feed. I hate giving blizzard any kind of complement (which this is not) BFA launched with more content and had beefier patches than shadowbringers. Which is also to say BFA also shut the bed in all fronts. Not $60 worth of story, though.
Poor TB. He spent his career trying to inform gamers about their rights as consumers and advocate for said rights, then we pissed it all away when he died
If we could bring back lives with human sacrifices, I think we'd all be eager to drain the blood of several dark triad CEOs to bring TB back from the winnowing clutches of oblivion. Even if he had to come back as a vampire, forced to maintain his undead existence with the life-blood of mortals, I reckon we'd still welcome him back with open arms and bared necks. "Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Count Bain. So, tonight I drank the blood of some people, but the people were on drugs, and now I'M THE FUCKING ARCHMAGE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!"
@@jackielinde7568 "You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation Jack, 'Cause it's just you against your tattered libido, the bank and the mortician forever, man. And it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive." ~G&R Kockin' on Heavens Door
"Some FF bollocks" The rest of this video earns enough good will to get a pass on that take That said, the rest of the video is spot on. Says a lot that CTR was one of the most beloved and refreshing takes on a racer in some fuckin time and was beloved by the community, until *_the fuckin SECOND_* Activision couldn't help themselves and monetized the crap outta it.
1:36 FFXIV Shadowbringers is actually awesome, I think it's the best FF game I've played since X or VII and I put its story and characters on par with those of the greatest single-player RPGs of the decade like the Mass Effect saga or the Witcher games. The only problem (but it's a massive one) is that base FFXIV is the textbook definition of the "it gets better later" MMOs and the game deserves every negative critique and bad reviews it gets for that.
They are fixing the base game soon (think 5.3) and trying to make it better for new players, removing the teadium (and those shitty 100 quests before HW). I love the story in both HW and ShB but I get why some people stop. But I'll definitely push the game more when they do the updates.
I dunno. People keep saying that ARR is shit, but I enjoyed it the first time I played it. Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely a slog to get through if you decide to level an alt or something, but people act like it's garbage, while I thought it was a perfectly enjoyable experience the first time through. Up until the final MSQ dungeons, though. Those uh. Those did not age well. At all. But I mean, yeah, I liked it enough to keep playing. And once you hit Heavensward, then goddamn. THAT was the moment I kind of understood why people were saying ARR wasn't great. Because once you've played Heavensward, ARR does kinda look like shit by comparison. But still, I don't think it deserves the shit it gets.
ARR has too much of the, "Oh wow, political intrigue, magic and destiny! I can't wait to see what happens n- sorry what? I have to do a 7 quest chain of BS involving making a banquet for jerks while a god threatens us all?" happening over and over again. You could literally cut dozens of quests from that to get the story going at a better pace. Just like you could allow a system to check if everyone's seen the cutscenes for the MSQ dungeons and allow people to skip 20 minutes of dialogue they already watched every time.
@@note4note804 I love FFXIV, I hate the MSQ. It's so fucking tedious. Although I hate dialogue in general in that game because it's so slow. I read really fast, and then I need to watch someone bowing for 5 seconds, like what the fuck?
I really tried my best to get back into FFXIV but ARR is soooo fucking boring that my friend and I decided that it wasn't worth paying for another month for a game that wasn't really _that_ fun. Then I hear all this glowing praise for every thing AFTER ARR and it makes me think "maybe it DOES get really good, but how long do I have to walk through a boring slog of fetch quests and random crap?"
@@Olsenator I keep seeing this opinion and I don't understand how people think that would be sustainable. They had to scrap and redo all of CC2's work and the first part alone takes multiple blue ray discs Making FF7R one huge game that costs $60 would likely not make its money back unless if they shoehorned tons of microtansactions and predatory tactics in. The multipart-saga strategy really is the only way they can make this whole project profitable while doing everything that they want to.
@@CandelaShred indeed. The (clear) idiots saying it won't be a complete game show you they've done literally 0 amount of research on the game, and have just ate the already regurgitated word vomit from other fools.
@@Olsenator To remake FF7 like that, fit it on a single disc, Square would have to outsource it's development to NASA and then it still wouldn't be able to run on the PS4 Pro, not even most PC's
That's what people with the coronavirus WANT you to think. That's how they get you. They WANT you to think they're dead, and are now ghosts. Because when you're too busy being in shock from thinking you're seeing an actual fucking GHOST, coronavirus carriers jump out of nowhere, cough on you, and BOOM, now you have the coronavirus. Don't fall for their tricks!!
@@vault13dweller15 agreed, a actual FF villain that had a perfectly understandable reason for his actions and why he needs to oppose you. Hes not just a bad person. The whole last zone, wandering the city with almost no combat was great, the end dungeons were solid, and that cutscene before the fight was beyond hype when the music starts.
@@TheNewMaxico I like hookers because they don't fuck around with mind games. Well... they do fuck around... you know what I mean. Damn you corona virus. I miss you so much Krystal with the K.
Actually, I feel that when you're talking about nostalgia, "current year argument" suddenly becomes quite relevant, as time is how nostalgia is measured. So yes, it's 2020 and games from over 20 years ago are more fresh and exciting than current releases. You're supposed to *improve* as time goes on "triple aaaaaa..." industry, not devolve!
I'd say that this sentimentality is a bit fallacious. In the last 20 years, there weren't that many great horror games, especially of RE's type. This gave the game the chance to feel fresh again. Remember, there is a time in which, if you release a game too similar to another previous game, it will not only not feel fresh, it will start to feel stale. Look at Call of Duty, for instance. Now imagine if no more Cod, or any of it's major competitors got released for 10-15 years. Then suddenly one of the best CoD (whichever you prefer for the sake of argument) gets a remaster (and for argument's sake, lets assume that they don't fuck it up). It will feel fresh. Because you didn't quite play many games of it's like in ages. My point is, it's entirely likely that some of the older games feel fresh because you haven't played their like since their original release, giving you an opportunity to revisit old ideas that haven't been touched in a while.
@@dimitrizagotsis7115 Resident Evil 4 was actually the first game with its style of over the shoulder 3rd person, and other companies seeing how well it worked as a midway between true 1st Person and most 3rd person cameras of the day, adopted it for quite a while. I do agree though that RE5 and 6 went way too Action Movie for the series, getting away from the gameplay of the core series, but you also have to remember that RE5 and RE6 came out on the 360, during the Console Online Multiplayer boom of the mid 2000s. Every game *had* to have some form of Xbox Live feature, and since most of the multiplayer RE games failed miserably in the West, like Resident Evil: Survivor, along with poor reception of Resident Evil 0 compared to Resident Evil 4, you can't blame Capcom for going the more action packed route for RE5. Sauce: www.giantbomb.com/over-the-shoulder/3015-2621/
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringer is a great expansion so far. If Jim had to time to actually play the game I think he would like it. Granted playing through the base game and three expansion would easily take 200 hours if not more. Also I have a feeling that post-arr has claim many sprouts and I don't think Jim can make it through that slog.
I started playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time and what Jim said was true I’ve been more excited to play a game older than I am over anything to come out in the past 3 years (not including RE2 remake that game is amazing)
Seconded. Shadowbringers is one of the best final fantasy games in a decade but a lot of people can't get into except for going through the rest of the expansions.
a weed they like the story although its shit, luckely it also happens to be the best mmo out there with excellent raid content, many fun classes ( you can all play within the same charakter and just switch between in when you want )
@a weed Base Game (ARR): Adventurer arrives in new land 5 years after Bahamut blew it up, becomes chosen one, stops evil empire based on Empire from FF6 + Shinra from conquering new land. Heavensward: Settle 1000-year war between dragons and religious fanatics. Stormblood: Help samurai, mongols, and desert folk revolt against evil empire. Shadowbringers: Travel to parallel world, stop it from being overrun with light. Across everything, there's a group of ancient sorcerers manipulating events.
I like Jim's honesty. You can tell that while he's very opinionated, he himself doesn't go to the length where he's coercing others. He'll explain his side and why he disagrees on certain choices, but he's not going to tell you to do it or even agree with him, and when he does act narcissistic, he's doing out of laughs. I think most outrage TH-camrs don't realize it's not all about being mad or loud, but being firm but respectful and truthful without it sounding like propaganda. Heck, I think even Jim realizes it since he seems actually much calmer and wiser then he was in his early days. I wish more TH-camrs were like this. They'll tell you what you think, but they won't force you or smash it in your head over and over. Hell, I think even Jim is fine with people disagreeing with him since it makes a healthy relationship. Jim ain't perfect, and he's aware of it and wants all of us to be to. What he wants is to hopefully listen to him and see his PoV, and form our own thoughts and feelings. It's rare to find someone who has does talk about controversy, but does it with class and dignity with some of his own personality mix with it.
Calling Shadowbringers "Final Fanatasy Bollocks" makes me sad to hear because its Story was actually pretty good in JRPG standards and really fcking good in MMORPG standards
Plus, Enchanted Arms was developed by FromSoftware before they made Dark Souls and is actually a pretty good game, if a bit campy. But one would think that'd be up Jim's alley so I'm not sure what he has against it. The only thing I have against it is the massive difficulty spike at the end. Was never actually able to finish that game myself.
@@XDieKillDieX I don't care who made it, you let me go full pokemon on the enemies in the game and I'm there. Make RPG chess on top of that and that's just bonus goodness
Iiked it until that bullshit multi fight boss section. Took me ages to beat the first part only to find out there was a second part with no save inbetween and I lost. I rage quit and never played it again.
@@notjake2089 Think you'd really enjoy Devil Summoner then, from the PS2 generation. Basically just imagine if pokemon were instead demons and Japanese folklore critters that go bump in the night. I actually think the Devil Summoner games far surpass anything from Pokemon, just because the stories in Pokemon are worthless.
Jim's finest podium performance to date. An emotional tour de force, I've never seen Jim so animated, alive and believable. Even David Cage would weep for all the emotions we now feel. Bravo bravissimo!
God bless you Jim/Justin for using the Director's cut music for the end credits. How they thought that was appropriate for a horror game is still one of gaming's greatest mysteries.
Cyberpunk doesn't exist. It's not out yet. Also, Jim didn't forget CD Projekt Red, he actively avoids praising them because he feels they don't deserve praise as long as they're engaging in crunch.
@@sheriffaboubakar9720 Bollocks to that. You honestly think any perspective employer is going to cross reference your academic qualifications, stumble upon an essay, and go "Wow, this guy really went all out on this. I think I'll hire him *with* a raise." ? No. They only care about the GPA. As long as you can maintain a slightly above average GPA, don't bother with above and beyond. Unless you're studying in a cutting edge technological, medical, or scientific field, literally *no one* is going to care about word count or how consistent your adjective use was. Do what you need to pass and chill.
FreshBeats for what reason? An arbitrary number on a qualification certificate? Having a degree and a 25k student debt myself, I can honestly say having a degree has never got me a job in the 4 years since i’ve left uni; never even had an employer ask to see proof of my qualifications. Seems to be that experience is more valued than higher education.
This is a comment for the machine overlords: Awesome video Jim! A thrilling take on the problems of the gaming industry. Your thoughts and views are clear and well put together as always. I want to see content from you! I like the stuff you do. Thank god for you, Jim!
As always, well said sir. Been a sub, and viewer , for a bit now. Always enjoy your insight and N.F.G. viewpoints.One of the most interesting and insightful channels for the games industry. Would be interested in seeing Colin Moriarty and yourself having a chat about life and games again. Keep that good stuff coming, and thank you for all the entertainment. 👍
Your mention of Divinity and Larian is quite spot on - Larian are working on Baldur's Gate 3, a modern entry in a nostalgic CRPG series that we don't get a lot of these days.
It's no wonder older games are better than newer ones, back then they actually cared about the game itself so that it would sell well because DLC was not a thing then. I do know that there were plenty of crap games back then too, but the top point stands as a general, not the exception as it is today.
@@kylecampbell565 Yes, I do realize this is only 1 part in probably a 4 or 5 part game even though the original was 3 parts and sold in one package. I am cautiously optimistic, but I also have little faith in today's Square-Enix (SoM remake, FF and CT phone ports). I can only hope for the best at this time, but also not be disappointed if it doesn't come out that way.
@@kylecampbell565 As long as it does somewhat well, they'll easily be able to make the following parts, because there's not much programming to do. The cost of making them would be much lower. They can also spend less money on marketing.
''Some Final Fantasy bollocks!'' I spat my drink out laughing! Even though I main a Warrior/Paladin now in FFXIV I thought it was some bollocks as well before I played it! LMAO
Well I dont play MMOs but I can clearly see that ff14 has tons of merit. I hear more about it than even WoW nowadays. Must be doing something right. It was a weird thing for jim to say.
It really easy to diss that game until you've played it. For some time it totally flew under my radar, and after it I was like "yeah it's just an other subscription based mmorpg, that will fade into irrelevancy". I totally forgot about it. Then some of my friends started to play it, and I gave it a chance. Since then, this is basically the only game I play... It's bollocks, that how much it can drag you in...
@@seaofrage A good chunk of newer FFXIV players, myself included, are former WoW players who became disenfranchised with the game (and/or Blizzard as a whole) and ended up looking elsewhere for something to scratch their MMO itch. I took a gap playing Destiny 2 for a while, and then the base game for FFXIV happened to be going free with Twitch Prime. So I figured, it's free, why not give it a whirl? It's been a year and I've sunk in about 1500 hours and counting.
@Conrad Ferrus How much do you think they would charge for a pong remake that had no difference And it was the same game that released in 1972. Probably a dollar.
Depends, pong made by EA or Activision would be 50$ and have paid micro transactions, ubisoft would only charge 20 but there would be a subscription service of 19.99 a month. Bethesda on the other hand would sell us a broken game with promises to fix it but here it is I've boughten the same game on ps4 ps5 switch and vr but it still has the same game breaking glitch. Lucky for you pc guys the community will patch that shit asap. If from software gets ahold of it itll be amazing but force me to rage quit in difficulty at least once a week for the next year of my life while I try to hammer through its numerous boss stages. Mm, you create the pong. CD projeckt red, the pong ball is a boob with a 45 hour backstory.
Another excellent video and a surprise new favourite in Spectral Jim! - it's comforting to know that when you have died from your corona virus then at least i'll still be able to see you wrestling and laughing at Anthem onstage as a hologram, like that recent Whitney Houston "Live" concert.
"Nostalgia sound, because the past is familiar and the future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares" So true, better words for describe the times werent said before
Was listening to this on my drive, and when I heard you say, “Some Final Fantasy bollocks,” I thought to myself, “I bet he’s talking about xiv. Maybe I should take offense that he called my game bollocks....eh, I get it.”
Final Fantasy XIV is incredibly successful and hands down has the best muscial score of any game I've ever seen. Just a metric fuckload of top tier songs of all different genres. It's not my style of MMORPG, so I don't play it, but I have infinite respect for the game and it's success speaks for itself. Also, I like how No Man's Sky became the poster child just for FINISHING it's game when Final Fantasy XIV completely rebuilt it's game from scratch and went from bad MMO to the MMO that World of Warcraft keeps looking over it's shoulder at worriedly.
Ralathar44 Holy crap, the musical scores! I agree with you there, so many different songs blow me away. Completely understand when some say it’s not their style. As far as No Man’s Sky, specifically in regards to Jim mentioning it in tandem with Anthem’s upcoming overhaul, I think Jim sees ffxiv apart from Anthem and No Man’s on the mmo vs rpg level. They’re arguably similar, since the idea of “live services” (said it in Jim’s voice) is essentially mmo’ing a game that isn’t marketed as an mmo.
sungiant2000 I hear you there. Didn’t love Stormblood, it had its moments. I count myself lucky that I got into the game on ARR release, because I don’t know if I could make it through that slog now. I don’t blame a soul when they complain about the lead up to the first expansion (which was fantastic).
@@kenaw6186 If it's as good or better than Persona 5, then I'm going to be plenty satisfied, and everything In seeing seems to indicate that it's going to be Persona 5 + a ton of content. Only Trails of Cold Steel 4 or the Trails series' Crossbell Duology getting localized in 2020 would really compare, IMO.
Its probably best to look backwards to SMT, P5R is rough, and after all that time spent in the original you might not want to spend it in the new shiny.
Remastering old games and even selling them in small chunks, because "old games were much longer". Sounds about great. Looking forward to see what you think when Konami starts remaking all MGS games. And EA, and Activision, and all the rest. Remaking old games is the new cow to milk.
@TheDiabeticGameMaster They got you covered, bud. Don't you worry, it's coming to your favorite store soon. Half the job for a product you sell at full price (or in chunks at full price), some executive is currently having a massive boner thinking about it.
Weirdly the majority of the MGS series is one of the few where I think it's aged so well that a remake would have absolutely no purpose. Other titles I can understand updating as stuff like RE2 has felt clunky for quite awhile. And with what they're doing with FFVII and totally overhauling every aspect aside from the story I'm genuinely curious about how it's going to turn out, the demo was more enjoyable than I expected.
@@lowbarscooter Not really for the general populace, the vast majority of gamers have no conenction to the FF franchise and don't hold FF in any high regard.
To be fair Half Life is a sequel/spin-off, Doom Eternal is also a sequel/Spinoff and Animal Crossing is old as fuck is it not? Cyberpunk btw is also just an adaptation of a tabletop RPG so even that's not an original idea. The mainstream game industry is devoid of original ideas.
I'm hyped for RE3 because that was literally my first RE game and i love the Raccoon city incident story so much. Like it started off with mysterious murders that eventually snowball into a few days of pure terror where over the course of several nights multiple people discover what truly happened and try to make their great escape. Its really the most interesting story line in RE to me at least. Everything Post Raccoon is cool but no where near my favorite. And im so happy to be able to return to my beloved City pf the dead reimagined
So far, I think my favorite post-Raccoon City storyline in the series is the Eastern Slav War shown in the animated RE Damnation movie. In that movie, we finally see B.O.W.s like the Lickers and Tyrants being used in actual warfare (giving payoff to what was foreshadowed since the very first game), there is a nice blending of the horror and more action-oriented sides of the Resident Evil franchise, the Las Plagas parasites finally feel like a worthy addition to the lineup of monsters with their function in the story, and the storyline itself is relatively simple and self-contained.
RE3 was my first in the series and will forever encapsulate what RE means to me. Burning store fronts, multiple enemies, narrow streets, and Nemesis. All the games afer feel like a different series. 4 is good but I still think of it as the new breed. It was only years later I played 1&2 and discovered most of them take place indoors, in enclosed spaces or underground. Nothing matched RE3 for apocalyptic atmosphere. Can't wait to see it updated and given a beautiful overhaul. Loved RE2 remake. Rightly regarded as one of the best games last year and has surely done a lot in given developers the idea to remake more PS1 era games. *crosses fingers for Konami to get on board*
I wish someone would talk about the fact that FFVII's remaster is going to be released in three seperate games over time. The game we'll be getting is only the first of three parts and the total for all the games total could end up being around $180 if they charge full price just to get the full Final Fantasy VII story experience. Even if you're willing to forgive that, given how Square Enix handled FFXV and cut support off from the game even though they promised more, I don't think they have the track record to be trusted with a trilogy.
There's a huge difference between FF15 and 7R's development. 15 had to be restarted multiple times from scratch and traded directors several times 7R has had Nomura at the helm since day one and, while having massive restructuring to the project due to CC2's supposed incompetence, has had no major setbacks on the level of FF15 In addition, Square Enix's track record for post-launch support has actually been staggeringly good if you look at FF14, DQ10, most of their other properties (barring PC ports, those always get shafted on updates)
This first part is supposed to be 40 to 60 hours long and has enough content that it can't fit on a single Blu Ray disk. In my book that definitely warrants a $60 price tag.
Yeah, I keep hearing that but that argument doesn't hold much water when there are games like The Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Red Dead Redemption 2 that tell a complete story, with easily enough content for 200+ hours if you're measuring their worth by how long you can play them. Final Fantasy 7 Remake isn't a remaster of three games, it's a remaster of one. It will be the story of one game cut across three when it's been shown before that that's not necessary at all.
@@johnfodge3909 It absolutely isn't necessary. They could have stayed stricter to the original game and just remade what was necessary, resulting in a single 100 hour product. But it seems Nomura and the team want to completely expand on the story, which is resulting in just the Midgar section to (reportedly) be a full 100 hour experience (including side content). In addition, FF7 originally took place on a much larger scale than most modern open-world games, so comparing them by scale probably won't be applicable, assumimg they go that far. Either way, they've already had to restart the development of this game once, and I highly doubt they would be able to make a profit if they released one massively sized game at this point And this is all not even discussing the draw-backs of releasing too large a game and the negative impact retainability such a length would have Honestly, it's scummy that they aren't putting "Part 1" in the title, but releasing these games as a trilogy/saga is the only correct decision from a business sense
I'm Italian, I live in Italy, I don't have a flu (neither the normal annual one neither the Chinese corona virus one). And here living has become basically the same as the thing they describe in zombie games for the "outbreak" phase before the events of the game itself happen. Thanks god for mass media, politicians and widely spread ignorance: now I can finally live a videogame scenario in real life! Wow! (Please inject 20 ml of sarcasm in your brain if you cannot read the previous 2 sentences correctly) On topic: I think it's mainly telling us all we need to know about the status of modern game development and publishing when you combine the fact that "new" titles are published in an half baked and/or identity-less status, while remakes of waaaaay older games feel and play so smooth and nice. I mean: in modern games' development, triple A ones in particular, they - very often don't have a clear idea of what they want to do to begin with, - they just as often are unable to organize a logic and straightforward working process during development - and after they reach a playable "anything" they quite rarely manage to correctly evaluate what they produced in order to identify and correct any kind of flaw, especially in respect of experience balance, of gameplay loop difficulty vs satisfaction of the given rewards, and of length vs significance of the story narrated (if there is one in the 1st place, that is). - As a plus one: they more and more avoid, partially or altogether, the bug fixing phase of development, which, thanks to gaming platforms being universally always online, is basically done by the paying players themselves. When they remake an older game they already have a finished product they start from, so during development they know what they aim at (1st point of previous list), they have a reference which makes easier to have an idea of what they want to expand or shrink or bring up to date from the original material (2nd and 3rd point) and, when the original game is a masterpiece of the past, they also have a high standard of quality of the product they're publishing to satisfy (4th point). Thanks for your videos
Baldur's Gate 3 is on the horizon too if you're looking for another dormant IP being revived to great interest. Even though it appears they've stripped out the RTS combat in favor of a more turn-based approach, I'm still looking to get it when it is released. And I hope you're feeling better, Jim. also I want a FF8 remake with a far less grindy magic mechanic, and not because they have a micro-transaction to make it less grindy, but because they fixed what was broken with the system in the first place.
Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringer’s story is undoubtably the BEST addition to the game~ I had never pushed so hard to play the next MSQ~ best game of the year for me.
I'm interested in seeing how people will react when they play FF7, get to the end of the Midgard section, and the game just ends. That will be a nice way to gauge the acceptance of the game having been carved in parts, and apparently not even Square-Enix knowing how many parts it will be. RE3 at least will be a complete game.
Agreed on that. My quess after reaching that point of the game. There is in game message pop in, something like "You have reached end of part 1. You can't exit midgar for time being. But you can freeroam the city meenwhile. Hope to see you in part 2 - square ff team."
Just put it on the back burner and hit the store when everything is out as a package for half the price. Sure, it might take a few years, but I'm patient and my backlog has plenty of replay value. I want it to be one smooth ride, anything else would be disappointing. And if Knights of the Round doesn't have an unskippable one-minute animation and is cryptic af to get, I'll not be buying anything.
yeah it was a huge thing for me when you discover that midgard isn't the whole game, big mind blown moment. i understand it's a good cut off point but your kinda miss on that :/ anyway will wait until it's all done because i have trust issues toward entertainment companies (big firefly-shaped hole in my heart)
That is one of the many reasons I'm giving it a miss. I've still got my original FF7 discs so I can always pop those in an emulator if I want to have a mess about with Cloud and friends.
"I'm too sick to do this in person, so I will give Justin, who's also sick, more work to do creating an animated version of me." It's good being the boss.
At least he's not an apple.
@@deathproof8732 But is he a TV that looks like an apple?
"While I also continue to make videos complaining about the capitalist system, that I'm benefiting from, for the way it forces people to work long hours while sick because of deadlines that they're held to by the people they work under."
@@beauleidig8670 loser
Oh, Pissboy!
And then there's Warcraft 3: Reforged...
The only reason that came out this year is that Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 are still years away and Activision forced Blizard to release a game this year.
@@troyjardine5850 They could had released WC3: Reforged later this year and have more time work around it but of course Activision is that greedy that it just couldn't allow Blizzard work around it any longer.
HA!
@@troyjardine5850 That's no excuse for releasing it in a state that actively made the version that already existed worse.
And then, there’s Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition.
Jim: "It isn't Coronavirus"
Everyone: "That's what someone with Coronavirus would say"
Unless he’s officially been tested for it he can’t say it’s not.
LOL
@@coreyander286 buy toilet paper
@@coreyander286 "heard on facebook" No the best place to take advice, source from.
Honestly though i was just making a joke about jim.Most likely it's just the flu.
demonetized
"Nostalgia sells because the past is familiar, and the future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares."
BIG OOF
You solved the box, we came
We have such sights to show you
@@leosabat4636 I would so be into a Hellraiser / Event Horizon crossover lol. Horror movie nostalgia is so much more fun than the irl box of nightmares
@@crystaleidson6042 a person of culture XD
Or hope. It depends on perspective. Well, that and you don't see the most amazing stuff because it doesn't generate clicks like a switch on amphetamines and the "News" doesn't report on what's good in the world. :3
Me seeing the video link: "Oh boy, I can't wait to see Jim in his hat and tie!"
Me at the end: "My disappointment is immersurable and my day is ruined."
Isn't a remake of Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing coming in 2020?
It's Jim remake
His “Porky Pig does steampunk Greenday” look.
o -
"The future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares" so wonderfully encapsulates the existential dread of adult awareness. That quote belongs on a t-shirt.
You don't need the hat and tie Jim. For instance:
Jimquisition: After Dark.
Jim wears a night shirt and long stocking cap to complain about video games.
People would watch that.
"After Dark"
>Gets Digibro ptsd
*ignorant cunts would watch that.
KahosSaint amen brother. I’ll be watching as well.
9:58 - this, right there. Nail on the head. Right on the noggin. That hypothesis is the biggest issue with video games today. SO sick of everything these days that we're dying for GAMEPLAY and STORY, instead of which mohawk looks better on your @#$&'in gun.
Is that the right timestamp? Can't work out what you're referring to.
@@davidmoore1253 I think he meant 9:28
western publisher are too focusing how make money with less effort than make better quality game that's the problem but no consumer are now are fking sheep to waste the money on mobile game or virtual cosmetic so the circle never end
My future child, if I ever have one: "Mommy, what's Anthem?"
Me: *[shrugs]*
"Go to your room. I told you never to use that word in this house!"
Me: Anthems just like you a mistake
*Snerk*
I love this.
why the hell would anyone in the future still know Anthem?
@@zUJ7EjVD get out, commie
"The future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares"
Well said!
Sentiment of the year for sure 🤣
Part of Divinity's appeal is being a turn-based RPG. You know, the "outdated" genre the industry declared dead all the time, we all want realtime RPGs I hear. Just like all the other RPGs the industry has no faith in.
Not dead, but the turn based on Divinity is more like a chess game.
The old Final fantasy games were just menus.
Good menus, but still I feel it is different from turn based like Arc the lad 3, divinity, or Disgaea.
Love Final fantasy Tactics.
You know, I do have to wonder. While there is definitely a market for real-time RPGs (I've certainly been enjoying Tower of Time recently, and its combat system is real-time), and not everybody's into turn-based combat, I have a suspicion that one of the reasons why dev houses moved away from turn-based combat might be because some of them don't want to? Other than the more obvious reason being that publishers don't see the value in turn-based combat, I feel like maybe some studios feel like they're "above" making turn-based strategy.
For me, personally, I like turn-based combat when there's more to it than having a bunch of characters in a row. I like my turn-based combat to be more strategic, involving positioning and proximity where the characters and the enemies are all moving around on the battlefield. Stuff like Heroes of Might & Magic, XCOM, Endless Legend, etc.
As for real-time RPGs, I still very much like those (again, Tower of Time is pretty cool). But I kinda want to see more real-time RPGs that play like Dungeon Siege, blurring the lines between RPG and RTS by having 6 or more fighters (6 being the absolute minimum) roaming around like squad-based Diablo. In fact, that's one of my problems with many RPGs, where you technically only have 3 or 4 party members in the battle at once while everyone else in the roster is stuck warming the bleachers. Instead, rather than varying up your options while forcing you to decide who to take with you, RPGs should instead just increase the number of party members in combat as more of them join your party, and have encounters scale by adding more enemies to tango with.
Admittedly earlier games had hardware and engine limitations as an excuse for not having EVERYONE in the battle at once, but in this era where we have a lot of power to work with and can make games look however we damn well please, I feel like there are fewer and fewer excuses for not having the whole party join the fray. In fact, if Chrono Trigger ever ends up getting remade, they should just have every party member on the field at once, so that Crono's team feels more like a true posse.
Oh yeah those small indie wonders like pokemon and persona, no one clearly has faith in those.
@@arr165 I personally dont play either of those, but I see those are super popular, a friend of mine played persona 4 maybe 20 times since I recommended Persona for psp years ago.
It's funny because the number 1 turn off I see that people have from that game IS the combat.
The horrible face "animation" in the beginning... never, EVER do that again. Please and thank you.
*Covers face in a bag* eh I dunno what your on about.. Looked on point 👌
The face animation at the end is perfectly fine, though.
No... Jim should absolutely do this again, maybe even make it a permeant change :-p
The horror industry ain't got nothing on that ghostly abomination
Jim Sterling as presented by Electronic Arts.
2:03 You think that's bad, look up the Red Faction Guerilla's remaster, it's called *Remarstered* because it's set on *Mars*.
"Some Final Fantasy bollocks"
*glances over at XIV on main monitor*
Was a fucking amazing expansion..idk what he’s salty about.
Wish he wouldn’t dismiss it. That expansion was the best FF story in years
The irony of it is also just how wonderful SEs team for it is, a rare display of an AAA company doing a fantastic job, but he has some weird dismissal for it.
Not just the expansion but FFXIV AAR till this day!Till this day is one of THE BEST MMO for this generation or last decade!
@@nanashi1173 In terms of both story and music Shadowbringers put a lot of the main final fantasy games to shame honestly.
Games behaved the most like art back when everyone thought they were toys, nowadays most big budget releases behave the most like toys now that it's generally accepted that games are art.
complacency?
@@luigivercotti6410 With a side of greed.
Rumour has it if you say sterling 3 times in the mirror you get a finger in the bum.
Tried it. Turns out it was just my own finger.
@@dr.chungusphd108 your finger is good enough for me. :)
That's not a finger.
if you say it six times do you get a second finger in there?
No wonder Randy was so scared to say it out loud on camera
As a regular viewer of Jim I cracked up when he took a shot at my most played game of this year, FF14 Shadowbringers, briefly.
Just didn't expect it to ever appear on their channel even mentioned briefly lmao.
I haven't seen the episode yet, but oooh I can't wait to see Jim with that hat, and oooh that tie, ooh he does wear 'em nicely doe, doesn't he? Phwoah.
Let's be real, Jim is only dismissing Shadowbringers because it's not strictly a beautiful boy adventure.
Is anything else worth the time?
it can be if you want it to be, there are some fabulous catboy's floating around that game.
You clearly don't spend enough time at Limsa :')
Are you trying to say that Urianger isn't the most beautiful boy in the game?
I hear what you're saying Jim but just this year were getting DOOM Eternal, Last Of Us Part II, Cyberpunk, Ghost Of Tsushima, Halo Infinite(jury still out on that), and then the remakes with FF7 and RE3. Plenty of great games to play on my end.
You're assuming every one of them games are going to live up to the hype.
@@edl01reviews Not really, I doubt any of them will be bad except for maybe Halo Infinite.
Yeah, but most of those are still a ways away. With no Demo to see just how good or bad it is in practice. Jim is hyped about the FFVII remake as there's been quite a few improvements since earlier gameplay, AND they added in MORE story.
Meanwhile we'll have to wait to see how well the others actually do. Though I would be SHOCKED if Cyberpunk was even as low as "Good".
FFVII is a Known Value, everything else still remains to be seen just how good it is at launch. Which may require some more patching down the line in order to ACTUALLY be anything better than "Good" at best.
Let's not forget all those times that games hyped us up in the past, lots of preorders, and then things turned to crap once we got our hands on the actual games. We also don't know if some of these games might have microtransaction BS added in later, like we saw with Crash Team Racing, for instance.
@@TheAyanamiRei Doom, RE3, FF7 Remake, and TLOU 2 are in the next 1 to 2 months.
Pretty sure I'm gonna play Doom Eternal 5 or 6 times a month until Cyberpunk comes out.
"Final fantasy bollocks"
Comment section: we will have your head on a pike
FF was always bollocks. Cliché jrpg, but that's fine there are people playing it. But also there are tons of sliding puzzles "animé" games on steam that sell like crazy aperently, otherwise there wouldn't be tons of this garbage. So take it as you will
/scans comment section
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@@theblackbaron4119 You don't even know what you're talking about lol. What he showed in the video was FF14, the MMORPG, not any of the JRPG's.
@@theblackbaron4119 The second largest and most subed mmorpg to date is "jrpg" garbage.
So you're one of those dudes who just reads a game title, remembers your favorite streamer/youtuber didn't like that series and just regurgitates what ever they said without ever having played said games or know even the most basic info (the type of game...) about said title. Good for you little guy ^w&
@@theblackbaron4119 this has to be a joke
*Blizzard:* _Making a remake is too hard, we simply can't do the full 4 hours of reforged cutscenes._
*Square:* _Hold my beer..._
Where did you get that 20% of yours hmm.... nice try bud
Hopefully CyberConnect2 managed to slap some sense into Sqeenix before CC2 got kicked off the project. :/
@@Wraithfighter Yes... With more content, more interactions with characters, new never before seen scenes with information you're usually only going to get by hearing second hand by npc you aren't required to talk to, midgar is going to be full length game in itself, I'm for one happy to have all the extra stuff going on in the first portion of the game.
I don't remember the bombing mission taking an hour and 30 minutes in the original.
Hold my sake*
@@Nicolai-Syn Not only that, but also the models are done, core repetitive animations are done, core game mechanics are programmed and ready for re-use, etc. Just on those alone, you have a large chunk of the game.
Hey, that “Final Fantasy bollocks” is really freaking good.
agreed.
I heard it's improved quite a lot.
Shadowbringers had, somehow, the absolute best story of last year for me.
I mean full priced game plus expansion, plus monthly fee, plus cash shop. I can understand why you'd want to call it "bollocks". Even if the story make it one of the best final fantasy thanks to Shadowbringer
The story was good, yes. They gutted combat as their patches come in at a terrible drip feed. I hate giving blizzard any kind of complement (which this is not) BFA launched with more content and had beefier patches than shadowbringers. Which is also to say BFA also shut the bed in all fronts.
Not $60 worth of story, though.
Hope you all get better soon.
Thanks for the video content Jim.
Thanks for the editing Justin.
Great video.
Also, FFXIV: Shadowbringers is fantastic.
"I will now talk about Resident Evil and FFVII remake for about 13 minutes."
Man, I miss me some TotalBiscuit
Yeah no kidding, I wish I could hear his thoughts on the current state of gaming one last time.
Poor TB. He spent his career trying to inform gamers about their rights as consumers and advocate for said rights, then we pissed it all away when he died
@@exantiuse497 Nah people were pissing it away years ago and are still doing so today
If we could bring back lives with human sacrifices, I think we'd all be eager to drain the blood of several dark triad CEOs to bring TB back from the winnowing clutches of oblivion. Even if he had to come back as a vampire, forced to maintain his undead existence with the life-blood of mortals, I reckon we'd still welcome him back with open arms and bared necks.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Count Bain. So, tonight I drank the blood of some people, but the people were on drugs, and now I'M THE FUCKING ARCHMAGE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!"
I know this is a reference to TotalBiscuit but at this point all I hear is a Bernie Sanders meme when I read that.
Oooo I can't wait to see Jim Sterling in his little hat and tie this week.
_"We are all dying, and we are dead."_
_-Jim Sterling 2020_
Just remember, nobody gets out of Life alive. It's just more of a race to the finish line where the last car to cross wins.
"The past is familiar, and the future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares." Ah, the horrible brilliance of Jim Sterling strikes again!
@@jackielinde7568 "You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation Jack, 'Cause it's just you against your tattered libido, the bank and the mortician forever, man. And it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive." ~G&R Kockin' on Heavens Door
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you. :D
@@dosbilliam ooo, good one, hadn't heard that one before. So true.
"Final Fantasy Bollocks...."
cvc will remember that.
Everyone's excited about these remakes and I'm just sitting here excited for the Battle For Bikini Bottom remake.
RavenStation is that a real thing or are you just meming?
@@WaltonHalo3 it's real
"Some FF bollocks"
The rest of this video earns enough good will to get a pass on that take
That said, the rest of the video is spot on. Says a lot that CTR was one of the most beloved and refreshing takes on a racer in some fuckin time and was beloved by the community, until *_the fuckin SECOND_* Activision couldn't help themselves and monetized the crap outta it.
Right? Shadowbringers delivered one of the best FF plotlines in a very very long time with an OST that continues to get better every patch.
I don't think he was saying it was crap. I think he was saying he didn't care.
@@DragonNexus Yeah, Jim generally don't care about MMO's, so that was mostly my take-away as well.
My kneejerk reaction was an audible "Oi"
But it's Jim so it's understandable.
@@themissinggene Yeah except you have to play the game for ages before you get anything out of the game. This is why many people do not like MMOs.
1:36 FFXIV Shadowbringers is actually awesome, I think it's the best FF game I've played since X or VII and I put its story and characters on par with those of the greatest single-player RPGs of the decade like the Mass Effect saga or the Witcher games. The only problem (but it's a massive one) is that base FFXIV is the textbook definition of the "it gets better later" MMOs and the game deserves every negative critique and bad reviews it gets for that.
They are fixing the base game soon (think 5.3) and trying to make it better for new players, removing the teadium (and those shitty 100 quests before HW). I love the story in both HW and ShB but I get why some people stop. But I'll definitely push the game more when they do the updates.
I dunno. People keep saying that ARR is shit, but I enjoyed it the first time I played it. Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely a slog to get through if you decide to level an alt or something, but people act like it's garbage, while I thought it was a perfectly enjoyable experience the first time through. Up until the final MSQ dungeons, though. Those uh. Those did not age well. At all.
But I mean, yeah, I liked it enough to keep playing. And once you hit Heavensward, then goddamn. THAT was the moment I kind of understood why people were saying ARR wasn't great. Because once you've played Heavensward, ARR does kinda look like shit by comparison. But still, I don't think it deserves the shit it gets.
ARR has too much of the, "Oh wow, political intrigue, magic and destiny! I can't wait to see what happens n- sorry what? I have to do a 7 quest chain of BS involving making a banquet for jerks while a god threatens us all?" happening over and over again. You could literally cut dozens of quests from that to get the story going at a better pace. Just like you could allow a system to check if everyone's seen the cutscenes for the MSQ dungeons and allow people to skip 20 minutes of dialogue they already watched every time.
@@note4note804 I love FFXIV, I hate the MSQ. It's so fucking tedious. Although I hate dialogue in general in that game because it's so slow. I read really fast, and then I need to watch someone bowing for 5 seconds, like what the fuck?
I really tried my best to get back into FFXIV but ARR is soooo fucking boring that my friend and I decided that it wasn't worth paying for another month for a game that wasn't really _that_ fun.
Then I hear all this glowing praise for every thing AFTER ARR and it makes me think "maybe it DOES get really good, but how long do I have to walk through a boring slog of fetch quests and random crap?"
The JimApparition
Well done.
Now pack your shit and get out.
What, you'd have preferred JimSpectre?
Does this include In App-arition purchases?
Still better than the Haunted Mansion film, and I love the ride to...well, death.
Jimtergeist works
The FF7 remake will be the best 'first part of a game of the year'
Department of Defense don't worry, in 25 years you can buy the Complete Edition all over again
@@Olsenator I keep seeing this opinion and I don't understand how people think that would be sustainable.
They had to scrap and redo all of CC2's work and the first part alone takes multiple blue ray discs
Making FF7R one huge game that costs $60 would likely not make its money back unless if they shoehorned tons of microtansactions and predatory tactics in.
The multipart-saga strategy really is the only way they can make this whole project profitable while doing everything that they want to.
@@awsomeDualshock this, the amount of care they put into this game is astonishing, also game awards are bullshit and game of the year means nothing
@@CandelaShred indeed. The (clear) idiots saying it won't be a complete game show you they've done literally 0 amount of research on the game, and have just ate the already regurgitated word vomit from other fools.
@@Olsenator To remake FF7 like that, fit it on a single disc, Square would have to outsource it's development to NASA and then it still wouldn't be able to run on the PS4 Pro, not even most PC's
"We are all dying"
_ Jim Sterling 2020
Like a woman who hasn't juiced the taco.
It figures that the Jim goes out sick when he does a positive story... Get well soon and thank God for you.
It's not really a positive story though.
Its not positive..
Jim’s at deaths door and still has a video.
I give you a 7/10.
Not quite Breath of the Wild then?
10/10 with rice
Jim doesn't have the coronavirus because he's already dead. That's how ghosts work.
Indeed. And it's not like Jim would let something as silly as death make him miss a Monday.
That's what people with the coronavirus WANT you to think. That's how they get you. They WANT you to think they're dead, and are now ghosts. Because when you're too busy being in shock from thinking you're seeing an actual fucking GHOST, coronavirus carriers jump out of nowhere, cough on you, and BOOM, now you have the coronavirus. Don't fall for their tricks!!
"Some Final Fantasy bollocks"
Well that sounds like someone who has made twenty different beautiful boys in the character creator
Come on Jim, FFXIV Shadowbringers was amazing and easily the best written and emotional final boss fight and ending sequence of any FF game.
Hell would freeze over before Jim would acknowledge a Final Fantasy live service game being well received.
Mohamed Nur I mean it’s an mmo..it kind of has to be live unlike single player games.
For me Emet -Selch is my favorite antagonist in any game ever. The ending was just so well written.
It's a great game.
@@vault13dweller15 agreed, a actual FF villain that had a perfectly understandable reason for his actions and why he needs to oppose you. Hes not just a bad person. The whole last zone, wandering the city with almost no combat was great, the end dungeons were solid, and that cutscene before the fight was beyond hype when the music starts.
"... and this, Johnny, is why we don't use animatronics from literal hell in our graphic design classes."
The ffxiv expansion is one of the best ff stories in recent memory.
Hmmm jim knows how to get clicks
“Tifa thumbnail”
“Clicks w/o thinking”
Me: waht? What just happened @_@
sex
I never even played the original FF7 and i insta clicked...i'm such a sucker for good character designs!
@@Haysey_Draws i like hookers because they dress like good character designs!
@@TheNewMaxico I like hookers because they don't fuck around with mind games. Well... they do fuck around... you know what I mean. Damn you corona virus. I miss you so much Krystal with the K.
Actually, I feel that when you're talking about nostalgia, "current year argument" suddenly becomes quite relevant, as time is how nostalgia is measured.
So yes, it's 2020 and games from over 20 years ago are more fresh and exciting than current releases. You're supposed to *improve* as time goes on "triple aaaaaa..." industry, not devolve!
I'd say that this sentimentality is a bit fallacious.
In the last 20 years, there weren't that many great horror games, especially of RE's type. This gave the game the chance to feel fresh again. Remember, there is a time in which, if you release a game too similar to another previous game, it will not only not feel fresh, it will start to feel stale.
Look at Call of Duty, for instance. Now imagine if no more Cod, or any of it's major competitors got released for 10-15 years. Then suddenly one of the best CoD (whichever you prefer for the sake of argument) gets a remaster (and for argument's sake, lets assume that they don't fuck it up). It will feel fresh. Because you didn't quite play many games of it's like in ages.
My point is, it's entirely likely that some of the older games feel fresh because you haven't played their like since their original release, giving you an opportunity to revisit old ideas that haven't been touched in a while.
@@dimitrizagotsis7115 Resident Evil 4 was actually the first game with its style of over the shoulder 3rd person, and other companies seeing how well it worked as a midway between true 1st Person and most 3rd person cameras of the day, adopted it for quite a while.
I do agree though that RE5 and 6 went way too Action Movie for the series, getting away from the gameplay of the core series, but you also have to remember that RE5 and RE6 came out on the 360, during the Console Online Multiplayer boom of the mid 2000s. Every game *had* to have some form of Xbox Live feature, and since most of the multiplayer RE games failed miserably in the West, like Resident Evil: Survivor, along with poor reception of Resident Evil 0 compared to Resident Evil 4, you can't blame Capcom for going the more action packed route for RE5.
Sauce: www.giantbomb.com/over-the-shoulder/3015-2621/
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringer is a great expansion so far. If Jim had to time to actually play the game I think he would like it. Granted playing through the base game and three expansion would easily take 200 hours if not more. Also I have a feeling that post-arr has claim many sprouts and I don't think Jim can make it through that slog.
With the updates they are going to be doing to the ARR patch story it likely won't be that bad at all.
I started playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time and what Jim said was true I’ve been more excited to play a game older than I am over anything to come out in the past 3 years (not including RE2 remake that game is amazing)
That "FF bollocks" is probably the best FF has been in years, possibly ever, but that's okay I still like you Jim
Seconded. Shadowbringers is one of the best final fantasy games in a decade but a lot of people can't get into except for going through the rest of the expansions.
Wanted to say this. Shadowbringers is fucking brilliant, not "bollocks."
a weed they like the story although its shit, luckely it also happens to be the best mmo out there with excellent raid content, many fun classes ( you can all play within the same charakter and just switch between in when you want )
@a weed Base Game (ARR): Adventurer arrives in new land 5 years after Bahamut blew it up, becomes chosen one, stops evil empire based on Empire from FF6 + Shinra from conquering new land. Heavensward: Settle 1000-year war between dragons and religious fanatics. Stormblood: Help samurai, mongols, and desert folk revolt against evil empire. Shadowbringers: Travel to parallel world, stop it from being overrun with light. Across everything, there's a group of ancient sorcerers manipulating events.
I like Jim's honesty. You can tell that while he's very opinionated, he himself doesn't go to the length where he's coercing others. He'll explain his side and why he disagrees on certain choices, but he's not going to tell you to do it or even agree with him, and when he does act narcissistic, he's doing out of laughs. I think most outrage TH-camrs don't realize it's not all about being mad or loud, but being firm but respectful and truthful without it sounding like propaganda. Heck, I think even Jim realizes it since he seems actually much calmer and wiser then he was in his early days.
I wish more TH-camrs were like this. They'll tell you what you think, but they won't force you or smash it in your head over and over. Hell, I think even Jim is fine with people disagreeing with him since it makes a healthy relationship. Jim ain't perfect, and he's aware of it and wants all of us to be to. What he wants is to hopefully listen to him and see his PoV, and form our own thoughts and feelings. It's rare to find someone who has does talk about controversy, but does it with class and dignity with some of his own personality mix with it.
Calling Shadowbringers "Final Fanatasy Bollocks" makes me sad to hear because its Story was actually pretty good in JRPG standards and really fcking good in MMORPG standards
Honestly it was probably the best jrpg story I've played in years. Brought back why I loved playing jrpgs when I was younger.
Best thing to happen to the franchise since ff9
Zura ja nai Sephiroth da It’s pretty good by fantasy literature standards in general.
@@chillhour6155
FFXI was great, mate. Don't diss it if you're going to praise FFXIV.
"Some Final Fantasy bullocks"
Shadowbringers is the best Final Fantasy game in years. And it's a damn MMO!
6:20 "...overpriced theme-park" Should have added Gold Saucer theme.
I feel seen and attacked... I love Enchanted Arms and Shadowbringers and he so casually tossed my feeling on the floor T.T
Thanks for telling me what the game he was referring to was.
Plus, Enchanted Arms was developed by FromSoftware before they made Dark Souls and is actually a pretty good game, if a bit campy. But one would think that'd be up Jim's alley so I'm not sure what he has against it. The only thing I have against it is the massive difficulty spike at the end. Was never actually able to finish that game myself.
@@XDieKillDieX I don't care who made it, you let me go full pokemon on the enemies in the game and I'm there. Make RPG chess on top of that and that's just bonus goodness
Iiked it until that bullshit multi fight boss section. Took me ages to beat the first part only to find out there was a second part with no save inbetween and I lost. I rage quit and never played it again.
@@notjake2089 Think you'd really enjoy Devil Summoner then, from the PS2 generation. Basically just imagine if pokemon were instead demons and Japanese folklore critters that go bump in the night. I actually think the Devil Summoner games far surpass anything from Pokemon, just because the stories in Pokemon are worthless.
Jim's finest podium performance to date. An emotional tour de force, I've never seen Jim so animated, alive and believable. Even David Cage would weep for all the emotions we now feel. Bravo bravissimo!
King's Gambit best he’s looked in years.
top needed remakes we need now
Xenogears, Armored Core, Bloody Roar, Chrono Trigger, Megaman Legends
Damnit, now I"m yearning for some Armored core...
Xenogears remake would be amazing. Also Parasite Eve.
Raid Shadow Legends*
Xenogears yaaaaaaaaaaasssss!
Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, Jade Cacoon.
AAA: "Single player games are dead."
2020: "Ummmm, you're gonna want to look away..."
therealbahamut That’s like saying movies are dead. Games are basically controllable movies.
therealbahamut That’s like saying movies are dead. Games are basically controllable movies.
therealbahamut That’s like saying movies are dead. Games are basically controllable movies.
therealbahamut That’s like saying movies are dead. Games are basically controllable movies.
@@8lorko8 I think perhaps my joke has been...misunderstood? The joke's on the AAA industry here...
God bless you Jim/Justin for using the Director's cut music for the end credits. How they thought that was appropriate for a horror game is still one of gaming's greatest mysteries.
That time jim forgot that cyberpunk and CD project red existed...
oh great! another open world fps rpg but with cyberpunk aesthetics! how original.....
@@smashfam1 shoulda been witcher 4 instead
@@plank9456 And yet it wasn't. Wamp wamp.
@@plank9456 Witcher isnt dead. Geralt's story has just ended. CD Projekt will keep working in the universe. Just be happy about that
Cyberpunk doesn't exist. It's not out yet.
Also, Jim didn't forget CD Projekt Red, he actively avoids praising them because he feels they don't deserve praise as long as they're engaging in crunch.
Just submitted a VERY sub par essay. Watching this to forget about it.
Just as long as you pass the class, keep at it man :)
Your time would be better spent playing a video game.
JasRabbit You gotta go above and beyond, fuck “as long as you pass.”
@@sheriffaboubakar9720 Bollocks to that. You honestly think any perspective employer is going to cross reference your academic qualifications, stumble upon an essay, and go "Wow, this guy really went all out on this. I think I'll hire him *with* a raise." ?
No. They only care about the GPA. As long as you can maintain a slightly above average GPA, don't bother with above and beyond. Unless you're studying in a cutting edge technological, medical, or scientific field, literally *no one* is going to care about word count or how consistent your adjective use was. Do what you need to pass and chill.
FreshBeats for what reason? An arbitrary number on a qualification certificate?
Having a degree and a 25k student debt myself, I can honestly say having a degree has never got me a job in the 4 years since i’ve left uni; never even had an employer ask to see proof of my qualifications.
Seems to be that experience is more valued than higher education.
"the past is familiar and the future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares " that's a really good line!
This is a comment for the machine overlords: Awesome video Jim! A thrilling take on the problems of the gaming industry. Your thoughts and views are clear and well put together as always. I want to see content from you! I like the stuff you do. Thank god for you, Jim!
As always, well said sir. Been a sub, and viewer , for a bit now. Always enjoy your insight and N.F.G. viewpoints.One of the most interesting and insightful channels for the games industry. Would be interested in seeing Colin Moriarty and yourself having a chat about life and games again. Keep that good stuff coming, and thank you for all the entertainment. 👍
"Some final fantasy bollocks" for Shadowbringers. Jim...
5:01
The only good thing about Anthem is the song JT Music made about it.
Amen
All ea games this gen suck hard I tried all of them on ea access and delayed after 2 hours each the only good game is titan fall 2
Or the fact that it could've been a good iron man game.
Even sick, Jim has the energy to bless us with his rants about the shit that is modern gaming culture!
A few years back he did one from inside the hospital, and not as a bit.
@@evilbob840 Yeah, I remember!
Your mention of Divinity and Larian is quite spot on - Larian are working on Baldur's Gate 3, a modern entry in a nostalgic CRPG series that we don't get a lot of these days.
Nothing sells quite as well as nostalgia.
Well, except maybe sex.
Ff7 has both
And crack cocaine.
So you're saying old sex has to be the best seller of anything?
....
that doesn't sound right.
@@SupaDanteX You kiddin me?
Sign me on!
It's not old, it's vintage. ;p
Oh Jim as MMOs go Final Fantasy 14 shadowbringers is the best one for this decade.
I'd even go as far as say that if you take off nostalgia glasses, it's the best FF game we've ever got. Damn good game
Wish he wouldnt dismiss Shadowbringers like that, its the best ff in years!
Just finished it the other night, it really is. Felt like I finally got the FF13 I wanted all those years ago.
FFXIV is the ultimate final fantasy
Fucking amazing final boss in that one!
I agree >.>
Shadowbringers is easily the best FF game
It's no wonder older games are better than newer ones, back then they actually cared about the game itself so that it would sell well because DLC was not a thing then.
I do know that there were plenty of crap games back then too, but the top point stands as a general, not the exception as it is today.
Damn right. Back then when you bought game you got whole experience.
Mecha82 you Guys do realize the FFVII remake only covers the Midgar chapter right?
@@kylecampbell565 Yes, I do realize this is only 1 part in probably a 4 or 5 part game even though the original was 3 parts and sold in one package. I am cautiously optimistic, but I also have little faith in today's Square-Enix (SoM remake, FF and CT phone ports). I can only hope for the best at this time, but also not be disappointed if it doesn't come out that way.
@@kylecampbell565 As long as it does somewhat well, they'll easily be able to make the following parts, because there's not much programming to do. The cost of making them would be much lower. They can also spend less money on marketing.
''Some Final Fantasy bollocks!''
I spat my drink out laughing!
Even though I main a Warrior/Paladin now in FFXIV I thought it was some bollocks as well before I played it! LMAO
Agreed it's a good game. It's easy to think a game is terrible if you don't you know...play it.
Well I dont play MMOs but I can clearly see that ff14 has tons of merit. I hear more about it than even WoW nowadays. Must be doing something right. It was a weird thing for jim to say.
It really easy to diss that game until you've played it.
For some time it totally flew under my radar, and after it I was like "yeah it's just an other subscription based mmorpg, that will fade into irrelevancy".
I totally forgot about it. Then some of my friends started to play it, and I gave it a chance.
Since then, this is basically the only game I play...
It's bollocks, that how much it can drag you in...
@@seaofrage A good chunk of newer FFXIV players, myself included, are former WoW players who became disenfranchised with the game (and/or Blizzard as a whole) and ended up looking elsewhere for something to scratch their MMO itch. I took a gap playing Destiny 2 for a while, and then the base game for FFXIV happened to be going free with Twitch Prime. So I figured, it's free, why not give it a whirl?
It's been a year and I've sunk in about 1500 hours and counting.
0:10 It's pretty impressive when Resident Evil isn't even the scariest damn thing in your video.
I'm so ready for a Custers Revenge remake! It's been 38 years already!
@Conrad Ferrus there have been like a dozen.
@Conrad Ferrus How much do you think they would charge for a pong remake that had no difference And it was the same game that released in 1972. Probably a dollar.
Depends, pong made by EA or Activision would be 50$ and have paid micro transactions, ubisoft would only charge 20 but there would be a subscription service of 19.99 a month. Bethesda on the other hand would sell us a broken game with promises to fix it but here it is I've boughten the same game on ps4 ps5 switch and vr but it still has the same game breaking glitch. Lucky for you pc guys the community will patch that shit asap. If from software gets ahold of it itll be amazing but force me to rage quit in difficulty at least once a week for the next year of my life while I try to hammer through its numerous boss stages. Mm, you create the pong. CD projeckt red, the pong ball is a boob with a 45 hour backstory.
@@dustinp120 I didn't know that I wanted this lol
Dustin P
Okay.
Now how does every company handle a remake of Custer’s Revenge?
The only Ubisoft RPG I remember from last generation was Child of Light, which was pretty good actually...
Number one thing someone with coronavirus says:
“it’s not coronavirus”
I'm pretty sure you can't say anything from inside quarantine. XD
You know of Turbo Kid and even think it is wonderful and it pleases me to no end. Thank god for you, Jim Sterling. You made my day.
Jim, I was listening to this on my phone. I never would've known you were in ghost form. You gave yourself away. Ya blew it.
Hey, that final fantasy bollocks was really good final fantasy bollocks!
Jim: Some final fantasy bollocks
Me: *reeeee's in Eorzean*
Some final fantasy bollocks? I mean, sure if that’s how you want to characterize one of the best MMO expansions in history.
Base game is dirt.
@@abitofthisnthat Base game is getting a full rework in about 4 months :)
@@QisTopTier Lemme know if it's any good in 4 months
@@AuraCreed Will do if I remember. Keep an eye out for ff14 5.3 news in a couple months
@@QisTopTier interesting. OK il bide my time. Thanks.
Another excellent video and a surprise new favourite in Spectral Jim! - it's comforting to know that when you have died from your corona virus then at least i'll still be able to see you wrestling and laughing at Anthem onstage as a hologram, like that recent Whitney Houston "Live" concert.
"Nostalgia sound, because the past is familiar and the future is a stranger with a box full of nightmares" So true, better words for describe the times werent said before
Was listening to this on my drive, and when I heard you say, “Some Final Fantasy bollocks,” I thought to myself, “I bet he’s talking about xiv. Maybe I should take offense that he called my game bollocks....eh, I get it.”
Final Fantasy XIV is incredibly successful and hands down has the best muscial score of any game I've ever seen. Just a metric fuckload of top tier songs of all different genres. It's not my style of MMORPG, so I don't play it, but I have infinite respect for the game and it's success speaks for itself. Also, I like how No Man's Sky became the poster child just for FINISHING it's game when Final Fantasy XIV completely rebuilt it's game from scratch and went from bad MMO to the MMO that World of Warcraft keeps looking over it's shoulder at worriedly.
shadowbringers was fantastic, coming from somebody who didn't love the stormblood or realm reborn's stories
Well, color me curious cause I don't get it. If Shadowbringers were a bad expansion then ok.
Ralathar44 Holy crap, the musical scores! I agree with you there, so many different songs blow me away. Completely understand when some say it’s not their style. As far as No Man’s Sky, specifically in regards to Jim mentioning it in tandem with Anthem’s upcoming overhaul, I think Jim sees ffxiv apart from Anthem and No Man’s on the mmo vs rpg level. They’re arguably similar, since the idea of “live services” (said it in Jim’s voice) is essentially mmo’ing a game that isn’t marketed as an mmo.
sungiant2000 I hear you there. Didn’t love Stormblood, it had its moments. I count myself lucky that I got into the game on ARR release, because I don’t know if I could make it through that slog now. I don’t blame a soul when they complain about the lead up to the first expansion (which was fantastic).
Persona 5 Royal is the game I am most looking forward to, personally.
Agreed.
U gonna be disappointed. It's good, but not that good.
@@kenaw6186 If it's as good or better than Persona 5, then I'm going to be plenty satisfied, and everything In seeing seems to indicate that it's going to be Persona 5 + a ton of content.
Only Trails of Cold Steel 4 or the Trails series' Crossbell Duology getting localized in 2020 would really compare, IMO.
U better look up Persona 5 Royal dissapointing cause those in Japan aren't exactly impressed by it either. I even quit wanting it.
Its probably best to look backwards to SMT, P5R is rough, and after all that time spent in the original you might not want to spend it in the new shiny.
Any format that suits your needs is perfect, I found the art-style to be hilarious.
Do whatever you need Son, we fucking love you sterling.
wow your gaming News Videos keep getting better, great video dude !!
Remastering old games and even selling them in small chunks, because "old games were much longer". Sounds about great. Looking forward to see what you think when Konami starts remaking all MGS games. And EA, and Activision, and all the rest. Remaking old games is the new cow to milk.
@TheDiabeticGameMaster They got you covered, bud. Don't you worry, it's coming to your favorite store soon. Half the job for a product you sell at full price (or in chunks at full price), some executive is currently having a massive boner thinking about it.
Weirdly the majority of the MGS series is one of the few where I think it's aged so well that a remake would have absolutely no purpose. Other titles I can understand updating as stuff like RE2 has felt clunky for quite awhile. And with what they're doing with FFVII and totally overhauling every aspect aside from the story I'm genuinely curious about how it's going to turn out, the demo was more enjoyable than I expected.
Half Life Alyx, Cyberpunk, Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing are all at least on the same level of anticipation as RE 3 and FF7 if not surpassing them.
Not really for the general populace. Cyberpunk maybe in terms of widespread anticipation but people have been waiting 23 years for FF7
The Last of Us 2 aswell.
@@lowbarscooter Not really for the general populace, the vast majority of gamers have no conenction to the FF franchise and don't hold FF in any high regard.
To be fair Half Life is a sequel/spin-off, Doom Eternal is also a sequel/Spinoff and Animal Crossing is old as fuck is it not?
Cyberpunk btw is also just an adaptation of a tabletop RPG so even that's not an original idea. The mainstream game industry is devoid of original ideas.
Jake
Final Fantasy 14 and it’s popularity with major streamers definitely put the series back in the cultural conscience.
1:36
That's a paddlin'.
Fully armoured healer?
That’s a Paladin.
@@sirapple589 Goddamn you for beating me to it.
@@sirapple589 Quick call up Spoony, we finally found out what's a paladin!
GhostNappa
Don’t you need to go and get the Champ ready for his climatic showdown with Cell?
Kefka Palazzo
Okay, I do not get this one.
I request an explanation.
Did Jim just call Shadowbringers BALLOCKS
You don't have to run away from me yelling...
I tell that to all the men I've ever loved...
I'm hyped for RE3 because that was literally my first RE game and i love the Raccoon city incident story so much. Like it started off with mysterious murders that eventually snowball into a few days of pure terror where over the course of several nights multiple people discover what truly happened and try to make their great escape. Its really the most interesting story line in RE to me at least. Everything Post Raccoon is cool but no where near my favorite. And im so happy to be able to return to my beloved City pf the dead reimagined
So far, I think my favorite post-Raccoon City storyline in the series is the Eastern Slav War shown in the animated RE Damnation movie. In that movie, we finally see B.O.W.s like the Lickers and Tyrants being used in actual warfare (giving payoff to what was foreshadowed since the very first game), there is a nice blending of the horror and more action-oriented sides of the Resident Evil franchise, the Las Plagas parasites finally feel like a worthy addition to the lineup of monsters with their function in the story, and the storyline itself is relatively simple and self-contained.
RE3 was my first in the series and will forever encapsulate what RE means to me. Burning store fronts, multiple enemies, narrow streets, and Nemesis. All the games afer feel like a different series. 4 is good but I still think of it as the new breed. It was only years later I played 1&2 and discovered most of them take place indoors, in enclosed spaces or underground. Nothing matched RE3 for apocalyptic atmosphere. Can't wait to see it updated and given a beautiful overhaul. Loved RE2 remake. Rightly regarded as one of the best games last year and has surely done a lot in given developers the idea to remake more PS1 era games.
*crosses fingers for Konami to get on board*
I wish someone would talk about the fact that FFVII's remaster is going to be released in three seperate games over time. The game we'll be getting is only the first of three parts and the total for all the games total could end up being around $180 if they charge full price just to get the full Final Fantasy VII story experience. Even if you're willing to forgive that, given how Square Enix handled FFXV and cut support off from the game even though they promised more, I don't think they have the track record to be trusted with a trilogy.
There's a huge difference between FF15 and 7R's development. 15 had to be restarted multiple times from scratch and traded directors several times
7R has had Nomura at the helm since day one and, while having massive restructuring to the project due to CC2's supposed incompetence, has had no major setbacks on the level of FF15
In addition, Square Enix's track record for post-launch support has actually been staggeringly good if you look at FF14, DQ10, most of their other properties (barring PC ports, those always get shafted on updates)
This first part is supposed to be 40 to 60 hours long and has enough content that it can't fit on a single Blu Ray disk. In my book that definitely warrants a $60 price tag.
Yeah, I keep hearing that but that argument doesn't hold much water when there are games like The Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Red Dead Redemption 2 that tell a complete story, with easily enough content for 200+ hours if you're measuring their worth by how long you can play them. Final Fantasy 7 Remake isn't a remaster of three games, it's a remaster of one. It will be the story of one game cut across three when it's been shown before that that's not necessary at all.
@@johnfodge3909 It absolutely isn't necessary. They could have stayed stricter to the original game and just remade what was necessary, resulting in a single 100 hour product.
But it seems Nomura and the team want to completely expand on the story, which is resulting in just the Midgar section to (reportedly) be a full 100 hour experience (including side content).
In addition, FF7 originally took place on a much larger scale than most modern open-world games, so comparing them by scale probably won't be applicable, assumimg they go that far.
Either way, they've already had to restart the development of this game once, and I highly doubt they would be able to make a profit if they released one massively sized game at this point
And this is all not even discussing the draw-backs of releasing too large a game and the negative impact retainability such a length would have
Honestly, it's scummy that they aren't putting "Part 1" in the title, but releasing these games as a trilogy/saga is the only correct decision from a business sense
its not a remaster...
”Overpriced theme parks” are there other kinds?
I'm Italian, I live in Italy, I don't have a flu (neither the normal annual one neither the Chinese corona virus one). And here living has become basically the same as the thing they describe in zombie games for the "outbreak" phase before the events of the game itself happen. Thanks god for mass media, politicians and widely spread ignorance: now I can finally live a videogame scenario in real life! Wow!
(Please inject 20 ml of sarcasm in your brain if you cannot read the previous 2 sentences correctly)
On topic:
I think it's mainly telling us all we need to know about the status of modern game development and publishing when you combine the fact that "new" titles are published in an half baked and/or identity-less status, while remakes of waaaaay older games feel and play so smooth and nice.
I mean: in modern games' development, triple A ones in particular, they
- very often don't have a clear idea of what they want to do to begin with,
- they just as often are unable to organize a logic and straightforward working process during development
- and after they reach a playable "anything" they quite rarely manage to correctly evaluate what they produced in order to identify and correct any kind of flaw, especially in respect of experience balance, of gameplay loop difficulty vs satisfaction of the given rewards, and of length vs significance of the story narrated (if there is one in the 1st place, that is).
- As a plus one: they more and more avoid, partially or altogether, the bug fixing phase of development, which, thanks to gaming platforms being universally always online, is basically done by the paying players themselves.
When they remake an older game they already have a finished product they start from, so during development they know what they aim at (1st point of previous list), they have a reference which makes easier to have an idea of what they want to expand or shrink or bring up to date from the original material (2nd and 3rd point) and, when the original game is a masterpiece of the past, they also have a high standard of quality of the product they're publishing to satisfy (4th point).
Thanks for your videos
Baldur's Gate 3 is on the horizon too if you're looking for another dormant IP being revived to great interest. Even though it appears they've stripped out the RTS combat in favor of a more turn-based approach, I'm still looking to get it when it is released. And I hope you're feeling better, Jim.
also I want a FF8 remake with a far less grindy magic mechanic, and not because they have a micro-transaction to make it less grindy, but because they fixed what was broken with the system in the first place.
For the love of jim, make a video on that disgusting slimmy Pete Hines interview
Something about the eyes and teeth makes this intro perfectly creepy
Some Final Fanatsy bollocks. Oh, that ran me through the heart. How very cruel of you.
Wishing you guys a speedy recovery! ♥♥
Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringer’s story is undoubtably the BEST addition to the game~ I had never pushed so hard to play the next MSQ~ best game of the year for me.
I'm interested in seeing how people will react when they play FF7, get to the end of the Midgard section, and the game just ends. That will be a nice way to gauge the acceptance of the game having been carved in parts, and apparently not even Square-Enix knowing how many parts it will be. RE3 at least will be a complete game.
Agreed on that. My quess after reaching that point of the game. There is in game message pop in, something like "You have reached end of part 1. You can't exit midgar for time being. But you can freeroam the city meenwhile. Hope to see you in part 2 - square ff team."
Just put it on the back burner and hit the store when everything is out as a package for half the price. Sure, it might take a few years, but I'm patient and my backlog has plenty of replay value. I want it to be one smooth ride, anything else would be disappointing.
And if Knights of the Round doesn't have an unskippable one-minute animation and is cryptic af to get, I'll not be buying anything.
I'm curious about that as well. Reason I am going to wait a decade when all the parts are out and on sale for $30.
yeah it was a huge thing for me when you discover that midgard isn't the whole game, big mind blown moment. i understand it's a good cut off point but your kinda miss on that :/ anyway will wait until it's all done because i have trust issues toward entertainment companies (big firefly-shaped hole in my heart)
That is one of the many reasons I'm giving it a miss. I've still got my original FF7 discs so I can always pop those in an emulator if I want to have a mess about with Cloud and friends.