YOu though we woudn't notice how you ignored the mutant elephant in the room of gaming right? Identity politics, gender crap and feminist shit in games have single handedly drove entire studios to closure, games to be cancelled, lay offs, and overoll downfall of the entire industry. I'd say that is kinda big right? From Star Wars and Dragon age to indies, people have beend actively avoiding this sickness that has been infecting gaming since at least 5 years ago, and the industyr is finally suffering for their own stupidity. THis has been the biggest game changer in the industry in recent years and yet you didn't make a single mention. Interesting.
Every generation that grew up will say that (insert their generation) was their best generation for games. Mostly based on nostalgia and also accessibility. Gamers that are growing up with games nowadays will say that this current gen is the best or maybe a gen before. It's all subjective, and will continue to grow and evolve.
Modern gaming needs a 1983-style hard reset. Loot boxes, micro transactions, pay-to-win mechanics, early access, content locked behind paywalls, day one patches, unfinished games being released. This isn’t supposed to be the norm!
The Early Access, day one patches and content behind paywall is not going away anytime soon it's here to stay but I do agree with you about the microtransactions most studios these days think you can get more money by having a video game be a live service game no I'm not saying that video game companies have to abandon live service games they just need to not make so many and still make single player games
Modern gaming honestly needs to go back to the roots. We don't need hyper realistic graphics that take 15 years just so you can get the eyebrows juuuuuust right. And while Nintendo IS making game preservation more difficult than they should, their games have been a ton of fun to play AND they've been on a roll with releases. Now if we could just see what is cooking for the next generation...
Oh and they need to back out from live service cause they keep trying to be the new fortnite Sony lack exclusive games it like the Disney plus promblem they new game soon go to stream
I think 2024 has been the year I've bought the fewest new games since before I had a job, which would've been back in the mid-90's. There just aren't enough big budget games that are very appealing to someone like me who grew up largely on the SNES and PS1. I don't go in for live service or multi player only titles. My favorite game this year was Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and I'm struggling to come up with even 5 top games for the whole year across Switch, PS5 and PC considering big and small budget titles.
Another thing that needs to change is AAA game budgets. Not every game they make needs to be $100 million or more. Have a few that are closer to $50 million or even less. Don’t bet all on red.
Game companies need to realize all you need to do is make a game that will please the fans, don't put anything really divisive, don't add a ton of microtransactions and the game will sell.
If a game is sold at a full price then it should be illegal to have micro transaction, on the other hand if it's a free to play with micro transaction then it is somewhat acceptable. You can't have it both ways with your greed.
It should be a full priced bugged-out or at least mostly bug free games that are finished at launch with absolutely no microtransactions in sight no matter if the investors cry.
It's actually a problem that goes beyond gaming. They have to stop making products for shareholders, and once again start making products for consumers
I think my main issue with modern gaming is the lack of ownership. With digital gaming being more prevalent, companies can just as easily remove them. Rockstar removed the GTA trilogy games to sell their remaster, and Ubisoft is no better. Sony blocks purchasing classic games without their higher tier membership plan. I'm not even sure if you keep those games once your membership expires.
its like $350 on sales.. i still won't get it. its not the money. SONY sold out. and is trying to own and fck us all. DIGITAL version.. you can even play the DISCs from older versions. They push the digital on purpose. PC for me.
Been gaming my entire life since I was old enough to sit up. Some of my earliest memories are playing sonic on the sega mega drive in the early 90s. I've really fallen out of love with gaming over the last 8 or so years. The down hill road started with DLC then season passes now live service and subscriptions are the worst. I prefer single player games now rather than online as it's just not as fun or engaging as it once was. You will never beat peak Xbox live in 2006 - 2010 those were the best years for online gaming. What I hate most of all now are games releasing unfinished and buggy being the norm. I don't do day one releases anymore as it's almost always a mess. It may be my age or nostalgia talking but I think gaming peaked a few years ago and it's been taken over by corporate greed only worried about money. That's why we are getting so many remasters. Recycle what sold well In the past that's why all COD and EA sports games are the same thing every year yet people still buy them.
I think the dislike for heavy monetization comes from a generation that didn't experience gaming in arcades. I find this stuff normal, valid, and fair, because it's not mandatory to buy anything to play the game, and it's not mandatory to finish the game in 10 hours.
Been gaming since the SNES days when I was 6 years old in the 90s. Definitely look into a Steam Deck dude. I fell out of gaming too, but it brought it back. It can play all the old gen consoles up to PS3 and it can play all the Nintendo consoles including Switch. Hell, I even have Windows 98 on there to play games that I haven't even seen since I was like 8 years old lol.
The fact that Sony and Microsoft are obsessed with realistic graphics not only means that games cost years and millions to make, it also means that games often look ugly if they are too realistic. What looks better, a game with colorful worlds and beautiful backgrounds with funny, cute or cool characters. or a game with graphics with gray backgrounds and only normal buildings and only characters that look like they are in their 60s
Yeah, but people might not be interested in games just talked about they want mind blowing graphics and wowed like back in 2007 when the first crysis game released and at the time that game blew gamers away with graphics
Nintendo is thriving. People are anxiously waiting for Switch 2...Sony and Xbox on the other hand are focused waaay to much on graphics and forgetting it's about the innovation and fun gameplay.
But graphics are more important than gameplay and fun and innovation. An example of this is the first crysis game in 2007. It blew everybody’s mind especially how graphically intensive PC was or even gears of war 1 released in 2006 because of the graphics but also the great multiplayer and the single player stuff
These days it feels like the best games are the ones we come up with ourselves amid moments of fanfiction-like creativity (for me personally I often fantasize about narrative games done in the style of Telltale Games, with IP`s I wished had their own official titles such as Bobs Burgers, The Super Mario Bros series and even lesser known titles like Boomer Express (this furry webcomic I read in 2016)).
Something devs should do No liveservice, no microtransactions, no season pass, no modern audience, more hairstyle variety for black characters, don't attack gamers or blame them for the game failing, don't make female characters look like the crimson chin, if trying to remake old game no censorship
Modern-day gaming has definitely become more of a lottery in terms of gamers getting high-quality games due to corporate greed taking the soul out of the games we play compared to games of yesterday (ESPECIALLY sports titles).
I think it's hard to really state that the Steamdeck has taken handheld gaming to a new level, I believe that recent sales figures are between 3-4 million, and the Steamdeck is the most popular PC handheld. So whilst this is great and has clearly driven interest in handheld gaming, the Steamdeck and its peers make up such a small part of the handheld market, less than 10% of total Switch sales. The Switch has 140million + consoles sold. It's entirely in a class of it's own.
I also wanna add on. I am well aware that it has lots of problems. I am very well aware of that. I just think in order to enjoy modern gaming. You have to have an open mind before you go out on the Internet to complain about shit. that’s just me personally.
@@Dan.Rolen.20I respect your opinion and here are the video game companies that I think both Sony and Microsoft should buy Here they are For Sony 6 Embracer Group (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Destroy All Humans! franchise) 5 Konami (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Silent Hill franchise) 4 Square Enix (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Just Cause franchise) 3 Capcom (Why? To get the rights to the Resident Evil franchise) 2 Ubisoft (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Assassin’s Creed franchise) 1 EA Games (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Mass Effect franchise) For Microsoft 4 Sega Sammy Holdings (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise) 3 Bandai Namco Holdings (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Pac-Man franchise) 2 Take Two Interactive (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Red Dead Redemption franchise) 1 Valve Corporation (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Half-Life franchise) What do you think?
I play my N64 and GameCube far more than my PS5. We need games that engage us through gameplay and level design. There’s a reason the classics hold up after all these years.
2 Cents Time: 1. "That's it? That's the Pro Console? THAT WAS JUST AN OVERPRICED UPGRADE WITHOUT A BUILT-IN DISC DRIVE!" "What a rip." 2. All companies are doing by shutting down online storefronts is pushing people towards piracy by NOT preserving their games! 3. The worst part about all these layoffs is that over half of them are due to greed rather than bad business. And when it IS due to bad business, the people who were ACTUALLY responsible never get the boot. Look, if an employee or studio is genuinely bad or does some bad business decisions, then they DEFINITELY deserve to be let go. However, I CANNOT and WILL NOT advocate for any poorly concieved mass layoffs or studio shutdowns of any kind, especially for greed. What kind of image do you think that makes for the industry?! Seems to me that they're just paint a target on their backs for several wrongful termination lawsuits. THIS IS JUST MIND-BOGGLING, I THOUGHT THE PANDEMIC WAS OVER, WHY IS BUSINESS SO CRAPPY?!!! It feels like instead of learning to better themselves, companies and humanity just keep thinking a bunch of bass-ackwards sense because their bizarro brains think "It MAkeS tHEm ThE BiG BUckS!" 4. How long before anarchy becomes the only solution left?
The fact they are the only company that still supports physical media. I really love them for this. Their games also are just built different, yes they have a few games that required patches, but it's not very common like most other games. For the most part, if you bought a game day one, it just worked! Online or offline.
I lost a lot of sleep trying to get my hands on a PS5. I hate scalpers. I was hoping I could get it by the release of Rift Apart but that didn't happen. That was my reason for getting a PS5. I hacked my 3DS so I can still install stuff on it. I'm not a fan of subscriptions for games. AAA game companies will collapse into itself. 8:09 Why is he hanging around? Wasn't Rock Steady forced to make a game they didn't like? I don't think they wanted to make a live service title. I never paying extra for early access, especially after what Ubisoft did. The original Last of Us still looks good. I'm not buying the remake.
I really hate modern monetization and FOMO. I want to play at my own pace and access content at a reasonable pace by playing. I also wish so many games didn't force players to wait so long before getting to experience the main gameplay loop (tons of walking and exposition before the first combat and having full control over the character).
The concept of needing to continue your PSN subscription to play the monthly games you've already collected needs to go. Amazon Prime has games every month that are yours to keep even if you cancel Prime.
I'm not gonna claim that any of these negatives are not negatives, but let's not pretend that we as consumers are without fault. The levels of entitlement I heard when I sold games and even now are insane. We want these huge, billion dollar games, but don't want to pay $100+, which I get, but that means they have to sell millions to even break even, let alone turn a profit. So we have Season passes, microtransactions, etc to make up that difference, and then we complain about that. The reality we're hopefully close to realizing is that making games is hard, expensive, and time-consuming, and if we can't patiently wait for an awesome game that's completely finished without bankrupting money or man-hours, the current rate of development is unsustainable, and that leads to the layoffs, underwhelming sales, and many (not all) of the issues in the industry today. Again, I'm not saying there aren't major problems from developers, publishers, etc, but I think we as consumers are causing problems too.
My PSN account has been hacked which started with that Sony data breach awhile back and Sony even after getting the better business bureau involved to get them to connect me with the American side call center (since I believe its the Indian call center that continued to breach my account). Sony said I was practically screwed and they can't get my account back even though there is so much evidence it's MY account for over a decade and I had all of their security measures enabled. So Goodbye thousands of dollars in digital purchases and pretty much bricking my new console
When the pandemic started, it felt like it was also the end of game creativity. Even for hardwares like ps5 pro was no longer exciting as evidenced by too much remakes and unfinished games that need Day 1 patches/updates. Games are getting expensive, but gamers play more of 3D sprites and pixel indie games which is quite ironic, knowing we have powerful consoles like the series X and ps5 pro/ ps5.
You really miss the issue.. It’s not that the standards are too high.. It’s the lack of vision that makes empty shells of games and titles. The studio’s that were once successful for visionary games became money hungry machines, their “games” now are merely front ends of money making projects. The standards are not high, they are exactly the way they were 20 years ago, and now especially there are no excuses with all the experience, technology and resources not to make great games.
I still do not see how the removal of a thing is an upgrade. Like when they had the iphone without the headphone jack. Like , no one asked for that. There should never have been a series S. I'm really getting tired of them trying to push non physical stuff. Pretty soon, all consoles will probably be like that. The thing about Digital that sucks is that you don't own the game, you own the licensing to it. But the developers can still remove the game at any time that they want. And with what's happened with destiny 2 where they've removed paid content and the original game and DLCs. They removed the Destiny 2 story from Destiny 2. Not only was there no refund, but they didn't even have contract that told you this until a year after the game had come out. The game just loaded up and so I was under the impression that I actually had the game and owned it. Then a year later , They started making these contracts that you had to sign if you wanted to play the game. Then they proceeded a few years after that to start just taking stuff out at random including paid DLC. Seriously, What a terrible time to be a gamer. it's sad when the only good games are just remasters of older games
The golden age of PC games was in the late 1990s and early 2000s It ended with DRM DLC and Live services. The golden age of the Console ended when consoles got Storage Drives and Network Adapters/Modems. This is when Console games started being released in a broken state and would receive patches after release.
I feel like the last consoles were about making games for competition and this gen is about competition first to make a game, ridiculous, still we do get some high quality games
Micro transactions aren’t going away. It’s the easiest way for game companies to make tons of money. Hell, your best bet for a cash cow these days is to make mobile games. THAT’S where the money is.
Remember back in the 90s and early 2000s how companies tried to make everything “rad” and “extreme” and put rap and hip hop in everything? All because that’s what they thought the modern audience wanted. No one wanted Vanilla Ice in TMNT or Fat Albert to rap his theme song
Having to install license to play a single player game it feels like we don't own anything we're just borrowing time to play these games until they decide to take the license away
Anything live service cause once the servers go down that’s it can’t play it anymore and early access cause they take your money and bounce. Good thing baldurs gate 3 is a success story.
Sadly most games now are trying to be more like movies & focus more on Microtransactions instead of Quality Content. Just look at Tekken 8 Backlash over a DLC Level that was suppose to come with a season pass.
Gaming is better than it's been since the PS2 era. Anything you can possibly complain about in 2024 could almost certainly be applied to gaming for at least the last decade. The only truly bad parts I can think of are more related to the current economic situation, not gaming specifically, and is largely tied to capitalism and the continued suppression of income.
1. Game companies shouldn't hire Sweet Baby Inc. anymore.. 2. no more DEI bullsh** 3. GAAS is a no no.. 4. Bring back more single player, story-rich games 5. Not every game needs Ray Tracing
Personally i believe gamepass is ruining xbox and if xbox doubles down on it in the future instead of aboloshing it the company will suffer and might end up like sega…for context gamestop has already taken out the xbox games section of the store cause apparently they barely have any physical copies sold
"You shouldnt spend money on a product that doesn't actually exist yet" This. There is no rational reason to ever pre-order a game. You will almost always get the worst version of the game, at the highest price
It's simple.. Gaming developers have gotten greedy and squeeze their customers out of every last nickel that they can. The only difference is that Western Dev teams either try to get our money with remakes, live service games, or try to shove their political agenda down your throat, whereas OTHER studios with a degree of creative integrity actually try to deliver a somewhat original and nuanced gaming experience
Love most of the new games, specially the ones made in Japan, but the micro transactions and the rely on the terribly unoptimized unreal engine is making some games needing more resources to be playable and it increases the cost, not to tell lots of western AAA games being associated to sweet baby inc...
Much like the PS3 gen, it feels like a "lost gen". There were some of the best games ever but they were always restrained by bad tech and cross gen, 5 years into the cycle .
The gaming business has completely lost its way. I personally welcome the disaster that awaits these companies if they keep looking at dollars instead of developer input.
There's always the possibility that the future is still bright. I can't ignore the current state, it really is struggling at the moment. But I have a few reasons to believe it'll bounce right back, well eventually. First lets look at the X-Box and PlayStation. The current gen is such a disaster no doubt mostly due to its stumble right out of the gate. But we're past the semiconductor chip shortage, and we're finally past the scalper situation (aside from special edition models) and can finally go to the store to buy these machines. I expect the remainder of this generation to be a failure because of this rough beginning and because of stupid decisions like the PS5 Pro (self explanatory). I think this will all be fixed with the following generation in about 3 years from now. I imagine these companies are already preparing for that future as this generation is a lost cause, but with all those acquisitions by Microsoft and all the IPs under Sony's belt, they can come out swinging when the next generation launches. Then there's Nintendo who's been on top of their game ever since the Switch launched. If rumors are to be believed, it sounds like they're making another hybrid machine, which is what most people seem to want. If they can nail this next launch sometime late next year they can continue down the road of success. They just need to keep the momentum of big releases coupled with smaller supplemental titles like they have been and they should remain solid. And the PC market has been booming lately with all the games from other major companies making their debut on their platform. Also portable PCs like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally have seen great success. With a new generation of graphics cards on the horizon and modern platforms finally getting current gen games instead of still supporting PS4 and X-Box One, it means more games coming to PC will finally start pushing those new visuals on the upcoming GPU hardware. And with this recent push for Ai, I'm also excited to see how it can be implemented into games. We can already talk to Ai and it can carry out somewhat convincing conversations. With a few more years, this tech could probably make interactive experiences in games more personal than ever. I'm imagining carrying out a unique conversation with a character in Dark Souls 4 where the Ai believes the world they're in is real and can give you actual in game advice or talk about their job or family in that world and make every players experience unique. I also wonder if this kind of technology could improve enemy movements and attack patterns. Imagine CPU opponents in fighting games actually playing like real people, so you can really practice against them and translate that experience against your friends rather than the janky almost too precise reactions they currently have when set to higher levels.
Most of this video highlighted western gaming market problems just saying. Even in sonys case its western divisions. Im all for inclusivity but the overpandering and overreliance of microtransactions is whats hurting the western gaming industry.
Modern gaming is still doing fine, despite the occasional corporate greed tactics. I think people just want to rant no matter how many good games we get.
@@tonidkk Chasing dying trends, profiteering execs, lack of innovation are the actual big problems. You are seeing things that aren’t there. Blaming “DEI” is disingenuous and you know it.
Western big budget AAA games are struggling (Ha ha! Suck on that!) whereas Indie, AA and Japanese made software are in a fine state. I don’t care what anybody says about the PS5 (I’m so sick of creators thinking consoles are dying! Imagine PS5/SX fanboys sending death threats to people who make those videos), it’s my main gaming machine besides my Deck, I ignore the big budget western slop coming out for it but buy the Japanese made, AA or indie games coming out for the system. It doesn’t really matter if they’re cross-gen, I always get it on PS5 when available because it’s my main machine. If that game is only on Switch (and Steam) and not PS5, I’d beg for it. Looking at you, certain shmups and Doujins which I’m a big fan of btw. I always buy it on my PS5 whenever possible. Physical media is also doing fine despite BS rumours (I wonder how game collectors deal with that) and physical games come out regularly, even in Japan/Asia. Gaming subscriptions suck. I’d rather buy them digitally or on disc. The layoffs send me into a fit of rage, like when will they fucking stop. I swear, if that number of job losses surpasses the all time record or last year, somebody’s gonna be in big trouble. It feels like big companies are being trigger happy with letting go of employees these days and I wish it would stop. Why haven’t lawyers stepped in to reduce layoffs yet? I wish the PS5 and Series X would get price drops already. With all that said, I’d say the gaming industry is in a half good, half bad state.
Cross-gen releases aren’t that big of a deal. I wish the PS5 and Series X had been released a year later, like with the DS, systems I felt came out too soon. I’m happy that Hi-Fi Rush came out on the PS5 and bought it there but I won’t forgive Microsoft for shutting down Tango. I won’t forgive Sony for shutting down Japan Studio either. Fucking anti-weebs like Inafune was back in 2010. That’s the moment I lost respect for Inafune where he shat on the Japanese games industry. It feels like Microsoft was trigger happy there. It’s like no matter how well it does, they’re getting shut down anyways. Yeah, I always thought Microsoft bought studios in a desperate attempt to get the upper hand on Sony but I know the PS5 is beating the Series X, no question. But the chip shortages were frustrating as hell to deal with, I couldn’t get my PS5 that year but the next year I did, thanks mom. PS5 is doing okay in sales but the Series X is struggling even compared to the Switch. Dying for Switch 2 reveal however. I also have no problem with remakes/remasters if done right. I look up to Nintendo and Sony despite their imperfect track records btw.
I’m also happy to see live service games dying out. Screw big budget modern western AAA games. You guys suck. Games made by indie/doujin and AA teams and Japanese made games (aka games that appeal to weeaboos like myself) for the goddamn win yo! You guys rule!🤘
did the ignorant writers actually call Alan Wake 2 a "monster hit?" both the narrator and the writers who contributed to this video are examples of the unintelligent masses that refer to themselves as "gaming journalists." gaming journalists= talentless folks who couldn't make it in any profession that asks for accountability, originality, and integrity.
The state of modern gaming in 2024 is bad. The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, Super Mario Party Jamboree and Sonic X Shadow Generations would beg to disagree. And you really can’t blame S Squad Kill the Justice League for failing, and I’m saying S because I don’t want to be hit by TH-cam’s ban hammer, because one, Rocksteady weren’t ready for doing live service games, and two, its Warner Bros that are mostly at fault as they were the ones that wanted S Squad Kill the Justice League.
As much as I love The Last of Us (2013), I hate that they've remade this game so many times and came out with a sequel that I hated... It should have just been a good 2013 game with a PS4 Remaster and that's it
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YOu though we woudn't notice how you ignored the mutant elephant in the room of gaming right? Identity politics, gender crap and feminist shit in games have single handedly drove entire studios to closure, games to be cancelled, lay offs, and overoll downfall of the entire industry. I'd say that is kinda big right? From Star Wars and Dragon age to indies, people have beend actively avoiding this sickness that has been infecting gaming since at least 5 years ago, and the industyr is finally suffering for their own stupidity. THis has been the biggest game changer in the industry in recent years and yet you didn't make a single mention. Interesting.
Every generation that grew up will say that (insert their generation) was their best generation for games. Mostly based on nostalgia and also accessibility. Gamers that are growing up with games nowadays will say that this current gen is the best or maybe a gen before. It's all subjective, and will continue to grow and evolve.
@@charlyrob7334 just admit that you don't like diversity in video games. Diversity has never been a problem for modern games.
@@charlyrob7334They didn't mention it because nobody cares about it outside of the particularly whiny parts of social media.
@@charlyrob7334That sounds like a you problem.
Single player games should never require an active internet connection or service log in to be playable. Utterly ridiculous
Modern gaming needs a 1983-style hard reset. Loot boxes, micro transactions, pay-to-win mechanics, early access, content locked behind paywalls, day one patches, unfinished games being released. This isn’t supposed to be the norm!
Naw still a lot of great games out there. A crash doesn't fix things.
Don’t you mean 1985? 1983 was when the gaming industry was overbloated with way too many ideas.
The Early Access, day one patches and content behind paywall is not going away anytime soon it's here to stay but I do agree with you about the microtransactions most studios these days think you can get more money by having a video game be a live service game no I'm not saying that video game companies have to abandon live service games they just need to not make so many and still make single player games
Can someone explains to me what he means by 1983 reset. I grew up during the original xbox in the 2000s
Killer Instinct 2013 is one of them
Requiring PSN a single player game and Not owning game is the Biggest BS in 2024.
We need an organisation that does consumer protection. To protect gamers
How does this organization make money or sustain itself? Is it magically free protection?
Intention versus reality.
@mindful_clip it's a government one most likely. Has money from taxes
Modern gaming honestly needs to go back to the roots. We don't need hyper realistic graphics that take 15 years just so you can get the eyebrows juuuuuust right. And while Nintendo IS making game preservation more difficult than they should, their games have been a ton of fun to play AND they've been on a roll with releases. Now if we could just see what is cooking for the next generation...
Oh and they need to back out from live service cause they keep trying to be the new fortnite Sony lack exclusive games it like the Disney plus promblem they new game soon go to stream
A second CRASH would be great
Let's hope they stay on a roll with the Switch 2 cuz I'm looking forward to it
I think 2024 has been the year I've bought the fewest new games since before I had a job, which would've been back in the mid-90's. There just aren't enough big budget games that are very appealing to someone like me who grew up largely on the SNES and PS1. I don't go in for live service or multi player only titles. My favorite game this year was Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and I'm struggling to come up with even 5 top games for the whole year across Switch, PS5 and PC considering big and small budget titles.
Well said. Gave away my ps5 & ordered the steam deck. Planning on enjoying a mix of older titles we grew up with.
Another thing that needs to change is AAA game budgets. Not every game they make needs to be $100 million or more. Have a few that are closer to $50 million or even less. Don’t bet all on red.
Game companies need to realize all you need to do is make a game that will please the fans, don't put anything really divisive, don't add a ton of microtransactions and the game will sell.
If a game is sold at a full price then it should be illegal to have micro transaction, on the other hand if it's a free to play with micro transaction then it is somewhat acceptable. You can't have it both ways with your greed.
It should be a full priced bugged-out or at least mostly bug free games that are finished at launch with absolutely no microtransactions in sight no matter if the investors cry.
It's actually a problem that goes beyond gaming. They have to stop making products for shareholders, and once again start making products for consumers
I think my main issue with modern gaming is the lack of ownership. With digital gaming being more prevalent, companies can just as easily remove them.
Rockstar removed the GTA trilogy games to sell their remaster, and Ubisoft is no better.
Sony blocks purchasing classic games without their higher tier membership plan. I'm not even sure if you keep those games once your membership expires.
I love Playstation but a $700 digital console with mild upgrades is just insane, especially when there are so few new first party games coming out.
its like $350 on sales.. i still won't get it. its not the money.
SONY sold out. and is trying to own and fck us all.
DIGITAL version.. you can even play the DISCs from older versions. They push the digital on purpose.
PC for me.
It's hilarious that nothing that is considered positive in 2024 is actually from 2024... Not Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2 or the Steam Deck.
No wonder why many players are going back to retro gaming. To be honest, I think Nintendo and Capcom are doing great with remakes
RIP golden age of gaming
1985 - 2010
Buy physical everyone. Don't let these companies mess with your library.
Been gaming my entire life since I was old enough to sit up. Some of my earliest memories are playing sonic on the sega mega drive in the early 90s. I've really fallen out of love with gaming over the last 8 or so years. The down hill road started with DLC then season passes now live service and subscriptions are the worst. I prefer single player games now rather than online as it's just not as fun or engaging as it once was. You will never beat peak Xbox live in 2006 - 2010 those were the best years for online gaming.
What I hate most of all now are games releasing unfinished and buggy being the norm. I don't do day one releases anymore as it's almost always a mess. It may be my age or nostalgia talking but I think gaming peaked a few years ago and it's been taken over by corporate greed only worried about money. That's why we are getting so many remasters. Recycle what sold well In the past that's why all COD and EA sports games are the same thing every year yet people still buy them.
I think the dislike for heavy monetization comes from a generation that didn't experience gaming in arcades. I find this stuff normal, valid, and fair, because it's not mandatory to buy anything to play the game, and it's not mandatory to finish the game in 10 hours.
Been gaming since the SNES days when I was 6 years old in the 90s. Definitely look into a Steam Deck dude. I fell out of gaming too, but it brought it back. It can play all the old gen consoles up to PS3 and it can play all the Nintendo consoles including Switch. Hell, I even have Windows 98 on there to play games that I haven't even seen since I was like 8 years old lol.
A crash can't happen soon enough. The industry needs a reality check.
The fact that Sony and Microsoft are obsessed with realistic graphics not only means that games cost years and millions to make, it also means that games often look ugly if they are too realistic.
What looks better, a game with colorful worlds and beautiful backgrounds with funny, cute or cool characters. or a game with graphics with gray backgrounds and only normal buildings and only characters that look like they are in their 60s
Yeah, but people might not be interested in games just talked about they want mind blowing graphics and wowed like back in 2007 when the first crysis game released and at the time that game blew gamers away with graphics
Nintendo is thriving. People are anxiously waiting for Switch 2...Sony and Xbox on the other hand are focused waaay to much on graphics and forgetting it's about the innovation and fun gameplay.
But graphics are more important than gameplay and fun and innovation. An example of this is the first crysis game in 2007. It blew everybody’s mind especially how graphically intensive PC was or even gears of war 1 released in 2006 because of the graphics but also the great multiplayer and the single player stuff
These days it feels like the best games are the ones we come up with ourselves amid moments of fanfiction-like creativity (for me personally I often fantasize about narrative games done in the style of Telltale Games, with IP`s I wished had their own official titles such as Bobs Burgers, The Super Mario Bros series and even lesser known titles like Boomer Express (this furry webcomic I read in 2016)).
The state of modern gaming is not the worst, but not the BEST because it is just good, but the state of classic gaming was the BEST!
Something devs should do
No liveservice, no microtransactions, no season pass, no modern audience, more hairstyle variety for black characters, don't attack gamers or blame them for the game failing, don't make female characters look like the crimson chin, if trying to remake old game no censorship
Am I the only one who was expecting horror-themed videos for Halloween?
same, im expecting watch mojo or ms mojo doing a horror themed vid for halloween, but mojo plays i dont expect loll
I would like to see that as well by the way a happy Halloween to you
For the record the fact the gaming industry is in this state is actually a kind of horror 😢
Back in my day, once the game was released, that was it. No going back and fixing it. No locked content. No early access. No pay to win
And they wonder why piracy is on the rise 😂
*Will you make what happened to Syphon Filter video?*
Modern-day gaming has definitely become more of a lottery in terms of gamers getting high-quality games due to corporate greed taking the soul out of the games we play compared to games of yesterday (ESPECIALLY sports titles).
I think it's hard to really state that the Steamdeck has taken handheld gaming to a new level, I believe that recent sales figures are between 3-4 million, and the Steamdeck is the most popular PC handheld. So whilst this is great and has clearly driven interest in handheld gaming, the Steamdeck and its peers make up such a small part of the handheld market, less than 10% of total Switch sales.
The Switch has 140million + consoles sold. It's entirely in a class of it's own.
Waiting on the remake of Max Payne.
We don’t get a lot of 3-D platformers or on rail shooters these days, at least Fur Squadron Phoenix is showing as much promise as Yooka RepLaylee.
Modern games are doing fine but of course there are some problems
I also wanna add on. I am well aware that it has lots of problems. I am very well aware of that. I just think in order to enjoy modern gaming. You have to have an open mind before you go out on the Internet to complain about shit. that’s just me personally.
@@Dan.Rolen.20I respect your opinion and here are the video game companies that I think both Sony and Microsoft should buy
Here they are
For Sony
6 Embracer Group (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Destroy All Humans! franchise)
5 Konami (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Silent Hill franchise)
4 Square Enix (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Just Cause franchise)
3 Capcom (Why? To get the rights to the Resident Evil franchise)
2 Ubisoft (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Assassin’s Creed franchise)
1 EA Games (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Mass Effect franchise)
For Microsoft
4 Sega Sammy Holdings (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise)
3 Bandai Namco Holdings (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Pac-Man franchise)
2 Take Two Interactive (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Red Dead Redemption franchise)
1 Valve Corporation (Why? The Answer. To get the rights to the Half-Life franchise)
What do you think?
I play my N64 and GameCube far more than my PS5. We need games that engage us through gameplay and level design. There’s a reason the classics hold up after all these years.
Wow, this video is 180 degrees from what I do in gaming.
2 Cents Time:
1. "That's it? That's the Pro Console? THAT WAS JUST AN OVERPRICED UPGRADE WITHOUT A BUILT-IN DISC DRIVE!"
"What a rip."
2. All companies are doing by shutting down online storefronts is pushing people towards piracy by NOT preserving their games!
3. The worst part about all these layoffs is that over half of them are due to greed rather than bad business. And when it IS due to bad business, the people who were ACTUALLY responsible never get the boot. Look, if an employee or studio is genuinely bad or does some bad business decisions, then they DEFINITELY deserve to be let go. However, I CANNOT and WILL NOT advocate for any poorly concieved mass layoffs or studio shutdowns of any kind, especially for greed. What kind of image do you think that makes for the industry?!
Seems to me that they're just paint a target on their backs for several wrongful termination lawsuits.
THIS IS JUST MIND-BOGGLING, I THOUGHT THE PANDEMIC WAS OVER, WHY IS BUSINESS SO CRAPPY?!!! It feels like instead of learning to better themselves, companies and humanity just keep thinking a bunch of bass-ackwards sense because their bizarro brains think "It MAkeS tHEm ThE BiG BUckS!"
4. How long before anarchy becomes the only solution left?
These are good days to be a Nintendo fan.
It seems 90% of the gaming issues nowadays are Microsoft and Sony's fault.
The fact they are the only company that still supports physical media. I really love them for this.
Their games also are just built different, yes they have a few games that required patches, but it's not very common like most other games.
For the most part, if you bought a game day one, it just worked! Online or offline.
9:37 Microsoft has been nerfing the Rewards program to hell and back to compensate
I lost a lot of sleep trying to get my hands on a PS5. I hate scalpers. I was hoping I could get it by the release of Rift Apart but that didn't happen. That was my reason for getting a PS5.
I hacked my 3DS so I can still install stuff on it.
I'm not a fan of subscriptions for games.
AAA game companies will collapse into itself.
8:09 Why is he hanging around?
Wasn't Rock Steady forced to make a game they didn't like? I don't think they wanted to make a live service title.
I never paying extra for early access, especially after what Ubisoft did.
The original Last of Us still looks good. I'm not buying the remake.
The gaming community attacking each other for having a different opinion when they love a game due to their own preferences.
I really hate modern monetization and FOMO. I want to play at my own pace and access content at a reasonable pace by playing. I also wish so many games didn't force players to wait so long before getting to experience the main gameplay loop (tons of walking and exposition before the first combat and having full control over the character).
And now, DEI games, shoving politics and woke down our throats
I am so game with going back to the old model of buying the game when it comes out, own it, play it, and play it 10 yrs from cause I still own it.
The future is portable pc gaming, rog ally, steam deck and others
The concept of needing to continue your PSN subscription to play the monthly games you've already collected needs to go. Amazon Prime has games every month that are yours to keep even if you cancel Prime.
I'm not gonna claim that any of these negatives are not negatives, but let's not pretend that we as consumers are without fault. The levels of entitlement I heard when I sold games and even now are insane. We want these huge, billion dollar games, but don't want to pay $100+, which I get, but that means they have to sell millions to even break even, let alone turn a profit. So we have Season passes, microtransactions, etc to make up that difference, and then we complain about that. The reality we're hopefully close to realizing is that making games is hard, expensive, and time-consuming, and if we can't patiently wait for an awesome game that's completely finished without bankrupting money or man-hours, the current rate of development is unsustainable, and that leads to the layoffs, underwhelming sales, and many (not all) of the issues in the industry today. Again, I'm not saying there aren't major problems from developers, publishers, etc, but I think we as consumers are causing problems too.
I honestly think the average consumer is just as bad, if not worse.
Well said.
My PSN account has been hacked which started with that Sony data breach awhile back and Sony even after getting the better business bureau involved to get them to connect me with the American side call center (since I believe its the Indian call center that continued to breach my account). Sony said I was practically screwed and they can't get my account back even though there is so much evidence it's MY account for over a decade and I had all of their security measures enabled.
So Goodbye thousands of dollars in digital purchases and pretty much bricking my new console
When the pandemic started, it felt like it was also the end of game creativity. Even for hardwares like ps5 pro was no longer exciting as evidenced by too much remakes and unfinished games that need Day 1 patches/updates. Games are getting expensive, but gamers play more of 3D sprites and pixel indie games which is quite ironic, knowing we have powerful consoles like the series X and ps5 pro/ ps5.
so many assumptions about GamePsss its insane.
Microsoft just had the highest increase of subscribers thanks to BO6 lol
these guys don't know anything and they're so biased
I can't wait for HZD to come out so I can immerse myself in it ❤🔥🥺
You really miss the issue..
It’s not that the standards are too high..
It’s the lack of vision that makes empty shells of games and titles.
The studio’s that were once successful for visionary games became money hungry machines, their “games” now are merely front ends of money making projects.
The standards are not high, they are exactly the way they were 20 years ago, and now especially there are no excuses with all the experience, technology and resources not to make great games.
Gaming used to be fun.
I still do not see how the removal of a thing is an upgrade. Like when they had the iphone without the headphone jack. Like , no one asked for that. There should never have been a series S. I'm really getting tired of them trying to push non physical stuff.
Pretty soon, all consoles will probably be like that. The thing about Digital that sucks is that you don't own the game, you own the licensing to it. But the developers can still remove the game at any time that they want. And with what's happened with destiny 2 where they've removed paid content and the original game and DLCs. They removed the Destiny 2 story from Destiny 2. Not only was there no refund, but they didn't even have contract that told you this until a year after the game had come out. The game just loaded up and so I was under the impression that I actually had the game and owned it. Then a year later , They started making these contracts that you had to sign if you wanted to play the game. Then they proceeded a few years after that to start just taking stuff out at random including paid DLC. Seriously, What a terrible time to be a gamer. it's sad when the only good games are just remasters of older games
Western aaa games only, not japanese.
The golden age of PC games was in the late 1990s and early 2000s It ended with DRM DLC and Live services.
The golden age of the Console ended when consoles got Storage Drives and Network Adapters/Modems. This is when Console games started being released in a broken state and would receive patches after release.
I feel like the last consoles were about making games for competition and this gen is about competition first to make a game, ridiculous, still we do get some high quality games
Love your video
Didn’t even get to touch on the impact of DEI on game and storytelling
Micro transactions aren’t going away. It’s the easiest way for game companies to make tons of money. Hell, your best bet for a cash cow these days is to make mobile games. THAT’S where the money is.
Remember back in the 90s and early 2000s how companies tried to make everything “rad” and “extreme” and put rap and hip hop in everything? All because that’s what they thought the modern audience wanted. No one wanted Vanilla Ice in TMNT or Fat Albert to rap his theme song
I think Modern Gaming should take a few steps back
Having to install license to play a single player game it feels like we don't own anything we're just borrowing time to play these games until they decide to take the license away
Anything live service cause once the servers go down that’s it can’t play it anymore and early access cause they take your money and bounce. Good thing baldurs gate 3 is a success story.
Like it or not, anyone referring to their game as "Modern" is seeking failure. Both sides annoy me.
Sadly most games now are trying to be more like movies & focus more on Microtransactions instead of Quality Content. Just look at Tekken 8 Backlash over a DLC Level that was suppose to come with a season pass.
A quote from the show Smiling Friends:
“Now it’s all DLC and micro transactions and f___ you!”
That literally sums up modern gaming.
This... is a very hard time for video games
I would like to add the isulting ways of owning beloved IP people still hold dear to them
Gaming is better than it's been since the PS2 era. Anything you can possibly complain about in 2024 could almost certainly be applied to gaming for at least the last decade. The only truly bad parts I can think of are more related to the current economic situation, not gaming specifically, and is largely tied to capitalism and the continued suppression of income.
tbh the most fun i have been having gaming in 2024 is playing old mmorpgs on private servers x'D
0:38 Yes, Alan Wake 2 a "monster hit". Right...
That greed has ruined gaming
Happy Halloween 🎃
I think game Dev's should unionize to have better job security and greater protection from layoff's
Ew
1. Game companies shouldn't hire Sweet Baby Inc. anymore..
2. no more DEI bullsh**
3. GAAS is a no no..
4. Bring back more single player, story-rich games
5. Not every game needs Ray Tracing
Personally i believe gamepass is ruining xbox and if xbox doubles down on it in the future instead of aboloshing it the company will suffer and might end up like sega…for context gamestop has already taken out the xbox games section of the store cause apparently they barely have any physical copies sold
"You shouldnt spend money on a product that doesn't actually exist yet"
This. There is no rational reason to ever pre-order a game. You will almost always get the worst version of the game, at the highest price
Corporate greed and the consumer allows it
It's simple.. Gaming developers have gotten greedy and squeeze their customers out of every last nickel that they can. The only difference is that Western Dev teams either try to get our money with remakes, live service games, or try to shove their political agenda down your throat, whereas OTHER studios with a degree of creative integrity actually try to deliver a somewhat original and nuanced gaming experience
Love most of the new games, specially the ones made in Japan, but the micro transactions and the rely on the terribly unoptimized unreal engine is making some games needing more resources to be playable and it increases the cost, not to tell lots of western AAA games being associated to sweet baby inc...
Much like the PS3 gen, it feels like a "lost gen". There were some of the best games ever but they were always restrained by bad tech and cross gen, 5 years into the cycle .
The gaming industry has gotten lazy nothing but remake after remake. It’s safe to say we’ll be getting remakes then original projects.
The gaming business has completely lost its way. I personally welcome the disaster that awaits these companies if they keep looking at dollars instead of developer input.
Ya that patent they are suing pocket pair over is not new it's from 2014
Canceling game pass subscription in droves? *laughs in COD: BO6* #stoptheliesmojostation 🐴
Right!! lol they're a bunch of clowns
There's always the possibility that the future is still bright. I can't ignore the current state, it really is struggling at the moment. But I have a few reasons to believe it'll bounce right back, well eventually. First lets look at the X-Box and PlayStation. The current gen is such a disaster no doubt mostly due to its stumble right out of the gate. But we're past the semiconductor chip shortage, and we're finally past the scalper situation (aside from special edition models) and can finally go to the store to buy these machines. I expect the remainder of this generation to be a failure because of this rough beginning and because of stupid decisions like the PS5 Pro (self explanatory). I think this will all be fixed with the following generation in about 3 years from now. I imagine these companies are already preparing for that future as this generation is a lost cause, but with all those acquisitions by Microsoft and all the IPs under Sony's belt, they can come out swinging when the next generation launches.
Then there's Nintendo who's been on top of their game ever since the Switch launched. If rumors are to be believed, it sounds like they're making another hybrid machine, which is what most people seem to want. If they can nail this next launch sometime late next year they can continue down the road of success. They just need to keep the momentum of big releases coupled with smaller supplemental titles like they have been and they should remain solid.
And the PC market has been booming lately with all the games from other major companies making their debut on their platform. Also portable PCs like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally have seen great success. With a new generation of graphics cards on the horizon and modern platforms finally getting current gen games instead of still supporting PS4 and X-Box One, it means more games coming to PC will finally start pushing those new visuals on the upcoming GPU hardware.
And with this recent push for Ai, I'm also excited to see how it can be implemented into games. We can already talk to Ai and it can carry out somewhat convincing conversations. With a few more years, this tech could probably make interactive experiences in games more personal than ever. I'm imagining carrying out a unique conversation with a character in Dark Souls 4 where the Ai believes the world they're in is real and can give you actual in game advice or talk about their job or family in that world and make every players experience unique. I also wonder if this kind of technology could improve enemy movements and attack patterns. Imagine CPU opponents in fighting games actually playing like real people, so you can really practice against them and translate that experience against your friends rather than the janky almost too precise reactions they currently have when set to higher levels.
Most of this video highlighted western gaming market problems just saying. Even in sonys case its western divisions. Im all for inclusivity but the overpandering and overreliance of microtransactions is whats hurting the western gaming industry.
Modern gaming is still doing fine, despite the occasional corporate greed tactics. I think people just want to rant no matter how many good games we get.
Define the word “fine” when it comes to the mess of the entire AAA industry.
Please elaborate. Your stance is a little unclear.
I think we need a crash, just for triple A games tho. Like seriously
Also, divisive politics here. We are all here to have fun. That's killing gaming.
No
Your guys not even talking about DEI, why?
that is not the problem of modern games.
@@tonidkk Because it’s a problem only for wannabe blackshirts who are afraid of others having fun
@JamiePokemonTrainer oh c'mon
because Wokemojo are a bunch of radical left-wing idiots
@@tonidkk Chasing dying trends, profiteering execs, lack of innovation are the actual big problems. You are seeing things that aren’t there. Blaming “DEI” is disingenuous and you know it.
Western big budget AAA games are struggling (Ha ha! Suck on that!) whereas Indie, AA and Japanese made software are in a fine state. I don’t care what anybody says about the PS5 (I’m so sick of creators thinking consoles are dying! Imagine PS5/SX fanboys sending death threats to people who make those videos), it’s my main gaming machine besides my Deck, I ignore the big budget western slop coming out for it but buy the Japanese made, AA or indie games coming out for the system. It doesn’t really matter if they’re cross-gen, I always get it on PS5 when available because it’s my main machine. If that game is only on Switch (and Steam) and not PS5, I’d beg for it. Looking at you, certain shmups and Doujins which I’m a big fan of btw. I always buy it on my PS5 whenever possible. Physical media is also doing fine despite BS rumours (I wonder how game collectors deal with that) and physical games come out regularly, even in Japan/Asia. Gaming subscriptions suck. I’d rather buy them digitally or on disc. The layoffs send me into a fit of rage, like when will they fucking stop. I swear, if that number of job losses surpasses the all time record or last year, somebody’s gonna be in big trouble. It feels like big companies are being trigger happy with letting go of employees these days and I wish it would stop. Why haven’t lawyers stepped in to reduce layoffs yet? I wish the PS5 and Series X would get price drops already. With all that said, I’d say the gaming industry is in a half good, half bad state.
Cross-gen releases aren’t that big of a deal. I wish the PS5 and Series X had been released a year later, like with the DS, systems I felt came out too soon. I’m happy that Hi-Fi Rush came out on the PS5 and bought it there but I won’t forgive Microsoft for shutting down Tango. I won’t forgive Sony for shutting down Japan Studio either. Fucking anti-weebs like Inafune was back in 2010. That’s the moment I lost respect for Inafune where he shat on the Japanese games industry. It feels like Microsoft was trigger happy there. It’s like no matter how well it does, they’re getting shut down anyways. Yeah, I always thought Microsoft bought studios in a desperate attempt to get the upper hand on Sony but I know the PS5 is beating the Series X, no question. But the chip shortages were frustrating as hell to deal with, I couldn’t get my PS5 that year but the next year I did, thanks mom. PS5 is doing okay in sales but the Series X is struggling even compared to the Switch. Dying for Switch 2 reveal however. I also have no problem with remakes/remasters if done right. I look up to Nintendo and Sony despite their imperfect track records btw.
I’m also happy to see live service games dying out. Screw big budget modern western AAA games. You guys suck. Games made by indie/doujin and AA teams and Japanese made games (aka games that appeal to weeaboos like myself) for the goddamn win yo! You guys rule!🤘
You licensing games, playa
Blockbuster showed more love than these game companies
Woke garbage, forced identity politics & lgbt propaganda, are ruining gaming industry.
We hope BLackrock, SweetBabyInc & co leave our favorite hobby alone.
Seems more like a video crapping on Xbox/Microsoft.
The Industry needs to collapse again abd be saved, like what happened in the 90s.
I see no other way from coming back from this.
Gaming has to crash and burn and rebirth.
did the ignorant writers actually call Alan Wake 2 a "monster hit?"
both the narrator and the writers who contributed to this video are examples of the unintelligent masses that refer to themselves as "gaming journalists."
gaming journalists= talentless folks who couldn't make it in any profession that asks for accountability, originality, and integrity.
Really sad
The state of modern gaming in 2024 is bad. The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, Super Mario Party Jamboree and Sonic X Shadow Generations would beg to disagree. And you really can’t blame S Squad Kill the Justice League for failing, and I’m saying S because I don’t want to be hit by TH-cam’s ban hammer, because one, Rocksteady weren’t ready for doing live service games, and two, its Warner Bros that are mostly at fault as they were the ones that wanted S Squad Kill the Justice League.
As much as I love The Last of Us (2013), I hate that they've remade this game so many times and came out with a sequel that I hated... It should have just been a good 2013 game with a PS4 Remaster and that's it