1: never preorder 2: wait for reviews 3: be safe and give it a couple months to get patched properly if it looks good but needs some fixes 4: only buy games that respect your money and time These are my rules after cyberpunk launch and battlefield 2042
no he did not say that, if the game is "good" for its price and its something that you will want to play then go for it. The problem is the fact the customers have been stung so many times for excellent trailers and still expecting to get that same content as you did from the trailer only for it to be a pile of shit, this is where preorders come in from the fools thinking it WOULD be a decent game and it was not. HELL it gets even worst when reviewers dont get a review copy RIGHT before the release date so people are in a bind whether to pre order or not to. (personally i would never again). @@warlock7078
Yeah, I actually came here to say that. Watch_Dogs was hyped as the capabilities the next generation could bring, but when it was released it was widely mocked. I guess patches and fan fixes eventually turned the game around. Likewise, I feel like this, FC4, and AC Unity really hold up graphically, it's a shame Ubisoft doesn't really make spectacle games anymore.
Tbf GTA 4 shouldn't really be compared to anything because it makes all other games look like ass in comparison. It's the same even when comparing GTA 4 to it's direct sequel, GTA 4 wins almost every time. Watch Dogs is an amazing game though.
@@alexandercatterson223Eh, IV vs V is moreso a personal choice, as most of the issues of V (such as the physics) were either outside of R* control or they course corrected way too much to apologize for IV (believe or not, a lot of people back then hated IV.)
@@andreyvolkov3117 Only thing is, is that watch dogs has better on foot traversal while GTA has better driving and in the case of GTA 4 it has better hand to hand combat. All three games are similarly tied in gun focused combat though, they each have their own shooting but they are mostly the same.
Its crazy how skyrim has so much more detail than Starfield considering Starfield was meant to be a start to whole new franchise while Skyrim was just another entry in an already established one.
@@Diamond-w1o3u Dusk Prodeus Amid Evil The Quake remasters Ultra Kill HROT Mullet Madjack (coming soon) Forgive Me Father Before we even start on the Doom(93/94) and Black Ops 3's extremely dedicated mapping communities.
And to think, everybody criticized Watchdogs when it came out for not looking like it did in the trailer. Now, similar games made 10 years later look and play worse than Watchdogs.
@@littlefrank90Yeah but we're clearly talking about AAA games here. There's a blatant regression on what's supposed to be technical showcases of the industry.
@@ShayCormac0dragon's dogma 2, helldivers 2, like a dragon infinite wealth, persona 3 reloaded, final fantasy 7 rebirth are some AAA games that came out this year and they're all 10/10s if you wanna focus on great games there's a lot of great games to dive into but you know gaming community they see someone hate on a bad game and jump on the bandwagon and forget about all the good one's if you think about it 2023 is like THE best year in gaming with all the massive releases that are masterpieces and they're all AAA games too so I don't think AAA games are regressing unless you wanna just stick to bad one's like ubi or EA or Bethesda
@@okami9039 Yeah cool how many of them are remakes and remasters ? You're making a big deal of something not so big. Even random years like 2005 have way more interesting stuff qualitatively speaking. All of those publishers are so quick to make us pay more for something that isn't really up to the technology we have today, comparatively to what people have been able to put on modest systems back then. Dude, you can't even build a PC without people screaming VRAM at you. People made incredible stuff run on 32 mb video memory. And today you want us to jump to the ceiling for them remaking that and selling DLC's out of it. There's no way we can all get so enthusiastic about it. Still I agree, we shouldn't jump on a bandwagon and doom the entire market. Unfortunately we also need to call out what's happening.
Just an animation, no physics being run at all. But yeah, well done anyways Just like water, people all the time say "Wow look at these physics!" but theres literally no water physics at all in like 99,99% of games, i dont know why people assume everything in games is "physics" while its just animations and moving textures, sometimes animated vertex displacements, but almost always there are no "physics"
@NikTek there were some problems with WD1 (graphics downgrade was egregious and there was no real ragdoll system when people got shot, but rather pre-made death animations)... but it's definitely much better than Legion is in almost every metric
@@vishensivparsad "Boy, I sure love my immaculate gaming experince of rolling around, over and over so that the enemy doesn't kill me in one strike." Don't make me get the broom.
To bait and push you to have mid or higher tier specs. Not worth until some gaming reinassance happens. I will stick on my humble barely mid rig for 1080p gaming because today games are a pain for my eyes sometimes, some are enjoyable counted with fingers of one hand but of those some have so shitty grainy shadows and you are stuck to have them instead removing them entirely like in the past for instance.
Look at that garbage NFS unbound. It looks shit compared to the ever so gorgeous and photorealistic NFS 2016. Yet requires a beefy upgrade of hardware to run properly, whereas that same hardware can run NFS 2016 at 60fps.
They looks worse because art team and graphics team are just not that good. You can dodge technical limitations if you have competent team but if your art team sucks your art style is boring and you cant balance this with polygon count, textures resolution or ray tracing.
Thats because Crowbcats video was full of cherry picking.He only cherry picked some bad things and told that the was bad.When the game had alot of good things even better than Gta-5 in some cases.He even made video where he told gta-4 is better than 5.Which is his another cherry pick video and just showed good side of gta-4 but never 5.This is why his that video got massive dislike,even his new resident evil video got huge dislike because of his bait and cherry picking.I like some of crowbcats video,but not all of them are correct.He even made video about Battlefield-1 and said its bad but now it is considered one of the bf games,so not all his videos or opinions are correct, sometimes he want to make controversial videos for shock value thats all.
I remember Crowbcat uploaded a video related to Watch Dogs in 2014 titled 'True next gen experience' something like that, basically shitting on the game that what kind of next gen is that. And I never thought we things would be so bad after that that we have to look back at watch dogs as an inpiration in the future. We peaked gaming a decade ago.
The fact that the already downgraded watch dogs 1 manages to look better than legion is just humilating, however watch dogs 1 now has a mod that restores the E3 features and graphics.
Game studios today care more about DEI and shitting out a game every year than actually making a great game with a great story and great gameplay that people will love.
Its not D and E and I but D and I and E.(need to write the and inbetween for this msg to be shown) Because thats whats happening to everything that comes in contact with it.
@@J.Crime123 I genuinely hate how TH-cam censors comments by not showing them if they have certain words, what's worse is they don't even notify you. I remember the day where the first amendment meant something, those were good days.
Nah, that's the least of issues, shiit started going downhill when gaming became mainstream and casuals like you started flooding the community and demanding better and better graphics and "muh story"
@natmarelnam4871 i would not surprised if all this turns out to be business plan to corrupt and close competitive studios, to sell their IP to "right group of people" later, like it was with EA and Activision in early 00's and Disney.
Its also crazy that some olde games looks almost the sams or even better then new games , but new games require RTX 2060 while older require 4-6gb GPU like GTX 1050, GTX 1060 6gb
And the thing is they take much more time and money to make, like Skyrim took 85M$ and 6YRS to develop while Starfield took 400M$ and 11YRS to develop.
What would happen if you "let go" of the talented, visionary, and fun developers in the name of "Growth", "Profits", "Imaginary income milestone"? This.
It's crazy to think that not only AAA games are getting "worse," but GPUs too. Back in the 900s and 10s, Nvidia, the vast majority of games would play pretty well on them, even on the cheapest ones like the 50s. Nowadays, you need a 70s card to play at 1080p ultra without any kind of magic tool they want you to use so bad.
Basically they're complaining about the increasing complexity and price of graphics processing units, not to mention today's graphics cards have 32x the RAM and such The era of the budget graphics card is coming to an end, slowly, and APUs are coming to replace them @natmarelnam4871
I truly don't understand how most Triple A games have a higher dev count, 2-3x the development time, a ridiculous budget and yet are somehow worst than the previous games. What are they actually doing with all the time and resources?
Too many cooks in the kitchen man. Imagine steering a Creative Vision amongst 10 Teams and 500 People... and against your Marketing and Supervisors + getting worse Devs that literally can't fucking code anymore. Every change must be checked in meetings etc... you spend more time in board rooms then on your actual work....
Not to mention performance has taken a giant hit as well, even though the graphics are often the same or even worse. All the lazy devs just rely on upscaling now instead of properly optimizing.
Watch Dogs was never viewed as a well respected franchise. There are plenty of viral videos from 2014 dunking on the game. Watch Dogs 2 was generally received well, but It didn't sell that great.
@@iamthenati well being 14 at the time, I thought watchdogs was pretty good game but no comparison to gta saints row or sleeping dogs in that time but overall was fun
@@iamthenati Yeah but the main problem with the watch dog 1 wasn't that it was broken or had shit graphics but rather it wasn't as realistic as it was showcased in the E3. Much like the division. But they were good for their times. Compare them to games of 2022-2023, they still shit on them
I sold my Xbox series x to get a ps2 for real games and a switch for indies (first parties on switch are a complete scam compared to their older consoles)
no thats not true there are currently loads of lay offs over different companies AAA or AA it makes no difference not many people are buying games anymore. @@Jackfromshack
It's amazing how we used to bash fully optimised and full owned games for not looking as realistic as the trailers (Watch dogs) to this broken micro transaction filled buggy mess of triple AAA games. To this day I still play COD old games before black ops 3 and they were all so fuckin perfect compared to today's garbage.
Unfortunately, America is the only country that mass-produces games and movies, when America got sick with sjw and lgbt shit everything went to hell, now I am forced to look at pumped-up women with the face of a Schwarzneiger and gay men. and okay, that would be half the trouble, but now the same contingent works as game developers, because they were recruited based on quotas, and not on skills
For me the most shocking is the animations in Ubisoft games. I played Assassin's Creed III and AC odyssey, and the animations are much more smooth and detailed in the first one! The parkour in odyssey feels kinda slow and jerky compare to Odyssey... Here it is the same with the clothes of black flag and skull and bones
Thats because Crowbcats video was full of cherry picking.He only cherry picked some bad things and told that the was bad.When the game had alot of good things even better than Gta-5 in some cases.He even made video where he told gta-4 is better than 5.Which is his another cherry pick video and just showed good side of gta-4 but never 5.This is why his that video got massive dislike,even his new resident evil video got huge dislike because of his bait and cherry picking.I like some of crowbcats video,but not all of them are correct.He even made video about Battlefield-1 and said its bad but now it is considered one of the bf games,so not all his videos or opinions are correct, sometimes he want to make controversial videos for shock value thats all.
Watch Dogs was criticized because Ubisoft deceived everyone (at that time this was not a common sight), the game was not what was shown at E3, and the main character looked too ridiculous in these clothes, plus a lot of pathos was not in fashion at that time time. and at that time there was no video game crisis yet, there was a lot of stuff that could be played
I consider myself lucky to have fallen so behind with my gaming backlog that Ive yet to experience and play pretty much every single one of these older games and not having to touch any of the newer ones. And as Ive been trying to say to newer generation of players, go back in history to play older games that you might have missed out on than buying and playing modern "triple A" titles that are more often than not waste of your time and money. Ofc there are exceptions too like we did last year but if you are in situation where you are waiting just for the next big new triple A game to be released, go and play some older games instead
WD 1 already was a piece of soap. If only I knew then that things could get even worse...Helplessness is the worst thing. We see the agony, but can't stop the Ripper.
It's both hilarious and depressing how Ubisoft was used as an example twice just to show the massive dip in quality with their recent releases. I still can't believe that they once made great games that were pretty (dare I say) revolutionary for their time but now, they're only known for not innovating let alone doing the bare minimum in their games, the only thing they've tried revolutionizing was microtransactions lol
I feel only Sony Studios is actually pushing the AAA games to new heights. Sweet Baby Inc is also one of the reasons that the fun wacky elements of the game get removed from the final product.
Saints Row games were just meant to be a parody on GTA games so its original mistakes are forgivable but the new one is taking itself seriously and its are not.
@@verifeli Eh, Definitely was an okay game, I didn’t like it very much, Very clunky camera controls and a fairly simple and forgettable story especially compared to previous AAA games like RDR2 which overall for me is much more enjoyable and has IMO much better characters that you actually feel genuinely attached too.
Back 4 Blood actually better in terms of gameplay. People should stop living in an echo chamber, and believing everything that Crowbcat shows in his videos. Play yourself and get real opinion
@@Jackfromshack I did play it myself it's actually worse than L4D1 that was made by Turtle Rock but then again most of the people that made the first do not work there lmao
@@Jackfromshack I did actually. I've played it from release and refunded it. For how much TR like to throw "From the Creators of Left 4 Dead" around on promotional material, it's funny that it can't even hold a candle to it.
I do not remember why Watch Dogs 1 was hated back then. When I was a kid, I actually loved the game and the trailer. It was EPIC! Until a few years later, I saw one video about "Ubisoft downgrade". It was a video about comparing the games from E3/demo and the released versions. It really does sucks tbh. I wish many people could've implemented these beautiful graphics and details on the full release, even if it takes years to animate every bit of detail. Watch Dogs 1 for life! Also, no money for Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda and other big companies. Always support the indie developers!
It's obvious that U.S and it's entertainment industries are in a free fall. Look at the music industry at 00's 10's and now, compare holywood old vs new, and gaming industry you just watched. I have a guess over it, if you put PC behaviour over creativeness and hardwork, this happens. Downfall of an empire shows its signs
@@smrah8750 Of course, it's too early to tell, but since RDR2's release TakeTwo has officially become affiliated with BlackRock and its woke ESG score. Devs have stated they "don't want humor that punches down", and several key Rockstar members have left. I would love to be wrong, but there are red flags, and remember that no studio is infallible. I remember vividly of people treating CD Projekt Red as infallible and being willfully blind with hype prior to Cyberpunk 2077's release.
Going Indie does a great analysis and theory on this that makes sense. AAA games nowadays have too many investors that demand a game get released as closely to its intended release date to get their money back (if not more of what they invested) which is why they get released as it is and do so with the same expectation as regular software: example, they treat games like a new piece of software that Microsoft releases. In the software dev cycle you release a software in its early stages to end users and they’ll give feedback and you fix and send patches to what these users have issues with, simple right? Except you can’t use this software dev model with VIDEO GAMES. We as gamers want a FULLY FINISHED product on release, not to have it essentially unfinished come launch day. A year or two down the road it’s finally playable, but again that model just doesn’t work as the fan base would have most likely already left long before the patches even began.
Сreative directors those pink & purple hair, who don't really have a vision to the title or at least honor to speak with audience honestly. Only money money and more money.
@@daseinstudioua2609 Where I work there is a game Dev school in Sweden we are in same building I see their Students, 90% of them are those blue, pink hair people + Emos and cosplays e-people
I genuinely think this has more to do with top talent leaving AAA studios after years of bullshit and crunch, this is what the newbies are capable of creating....
They would rather get investments from ESG (Sweet baby and others) and make the game woke AND shiit , than have any amount of love or passion for game. The games nowadays have no souls aside from privately owned studios like Larian or Japanese game devs like FromSoft. Ghost of Tsushima was great as well. So was God Of war 2018 (new one is also woke af)
Really? fromsoft? You know their games have a LOT of issues, right? From releasing literally unfinished games to rushing games and having poor design choices, fromsoft regularly have lack of technical polish in their games. Infact, modders have to do the work of removing these dumb limitations, similar to bethesda. All this generates artificial difficulty from tedium, frustration and confusion, and that ain't real difficulty. And the rest of the game's aspect like world, story, etc.? Its not the greatest either. This ''vague'' story is also told in other games like skyrim or CP2077. They literally have hidden plots and stories. This is speaking of their souls titles and ER, not gonna say on BB and sekiro. And god of war 1? Its combat was not satisfying, only focused on story and graphics. They took a game known for its combat and turned it into a story focused game. Why?
In 2014, a game creator driven by a passion for game development aims to introduce single cosmetic item sales at AAA game prices. However, it looks that only producers like Rockstar, Remedy, and small studios retain that passion for gaming.
1: never preorder
2: wait for reviews
3: be safe and give it a couple months to get patched properly if it looks good but needs some fixes
4: only buy games that respect your money and time
These are my rules after cyberpunk launch and battlefield 2042
Basically, never buy something full price
@@warlock7078 true
@@warlock7078indeed
no he did not say that, if the game is "good" for its price and its something that you will want to play then go for it.
The problem is the fact the customers have been stung so many times for excellent trailers and still expecting to get that same content as you did from the trailer only for it to be a pile of shit, this is where preorders come in from the fools thinking it WOULD be a decent game and it was not.
HELL it gets even worst when reviewers dont get a review copy RIGHT before the release date so people are in a bind whether to pre order or not to. (personally i would never again). @@warlock7078
@@warlock7078 I bought elden ring, baldurs gate 3, and helldivers 2 at full price using these rules
It's funny to see how Watch Dogs was considered a disappointment in the past and now compared to latest one in the series it's actually good
Let's see what Rockstar delivers with GTA 6.
Here comes the "nah I always liked it" comments
@@okami9039Well your mom always liked it. That can't be denied.
Not to mention, the modding scene has become so great for that game that it now looks better than e3.
Yeah, I actually came here to say that. Watch_Dogs was hyped as the capabilities the next generation could bring, but when it was released it was widely mocked. I guess patches and fan fixes eventually turned the game around. Likewise, I feel like this, FC4, and AC Unity really hold up graphically, it's a shame Ubisoft doesn't really make spectacle games anymore.
I remember comparisons of Watch Dogs with GTA 4.
WD lost. Badly.
Now we compare Watch Dogs with Watch Dogs Legion and Legion *IS EVEN WORSE!*
Tbf GTA 4 shouldn't really be compared to anything because it makes all other games look like ass in comparison.
It's the same even when comparing GTA 4 to it's direct sequel, GTA 4 wins almost every time.
Watch Dogs is an amazing game though.
Sadly, Watch Dogs 2 is actually good and major improvement. But Legion comes 😢
@@alexandercatterson223Eh, IV vs V is moreso a personal choice, as most of the issues of V (such as the physics) were either outside of R* control or they course corrected way too much to apologize for IV (believe or not, a lot of people back then hated IV.)
Well in terms of graphics WD is better than GTA 4 and 5. (Not talking about gameplay and broken promises)
@@andreyvolkov3117 Only thing is, is that watch dogs has better on foot traversal while GTA has better driving and in the case of GTA 4 it has better hand to hand combat.
All three games are similarly tied in gun focused combat though, they each have their own shooting but they are mostly the same.
Its crazy how skyrim has so much more detail than Starfield considering Starfield was meant to be a start to whole new franchise while Skyrim was just another entry in an already established one.
Might need to upgrade your PC to unlock the full "fun" factor of Starfield, lmfao
It's a next-gen title.
One is developed to be a game while the other one, to milk our money
Bethesda Magic. Bioware Magic. CDPR Magic. Arkane Magic. They are all gone.
@@kylemelo6921I think cdpr still gets a pass after their correction
We need a AAA industry crash to reset. Indies are killing it.
Indie game also garbage most of the part
Hades, Ready or Not (Some gore). Sorry don't really play many gory games.
@@Diamond-w1o3uGloomwood, ultrakill
@@Diamond-w1o3u trepang fits the bill. if cartoonish gore is fine then ultrakill is great and angerfoot should be out soon
@@Diamond-w1o3u
Dusk
Prodeus
Amid Evil
The Quake remasters
Ultra Kill
HROT
Mullet Madjack (coming soon)
Forgive Me Father
Before we even start on the Doom(93/94) and Black Ops 3's extremely dedicated mapping communities.
And to think, everybody criticized Watchdogs when it came out for not looking like it did in the trailer. Now, similar games made 10 years later look and play worse than Watchdogs.
To be fair, it was kind of a big deal.
Ubisoft put themselves on that corner after trying to "overtake" GTA V too much tbh.
keep in mind he recorded this on PC, not console
@@mrkowalski2522 It looks kick ass on console too.
Like what bullshit are you on
😂
Its funny to see how games after 201X stopped trying much
After about 2013 AAA gaming has been in the gutter.
you mean games after 2019
2020 and later are the worse
Elden Ring being a huge exception
@@kingthehacker9061No 2013 , it started slowly from there if you pay attention.
This upcoming Video game crash is gonna be wild.
Not for indie developers. I'm playing Pacific Drive and that game has WILD quality.
There are good games, you just need to stop buying s**t.
@@littlefrank90Yeah but we're clearly talking about AAA games here. There's a blatant regression on what's supposed to be technical showcases of the industry.
@@ShayCormac0dragon's dogma 2, helldivers 2, like a dragon infinite wealth, persona 3 reloaded, final fantasy 7 rebirth are some AAA games that came out this year and they're all 10/10s if you wanna focus on great games there's a lot of great games to dive into but you know gaming community they see someone hate on a bad game and jump on the bandwagon and forget about all the good one's if you think about it 2023 is like THE best year in gaming with all the massive releases that are masterpieces and they're all AAA games too so I don't think AAA games are regressing unless you wanna just stick to bad one's like ubi or EA or Bethesda
@@okami9039 Yeah cool how many of them are remakes and remasters ? You're making a big deal of something not so big. Even random years like 2005 have way more interesting stuff qualitatively speaking.
All of those publishers are so quick to make us pay more for something that isn't really up to the technology we have today, comparatively to what people have been able to put on modest systems back then.
Dude, you can't even build a PC without people screaming VRAM at you. People made incredible stuff run on 32 mb video memory. And today you want us to jump to the ceiling for them remaking that and selling DLC's out of it. There's no way we can all get so enthusiastic about it.
Still I agree, we shouldn't jump on a bandwagon and doom the entire market.
Unfortunately we also need to call out what's happening.
@@ShayCormac0 literally none of the games I mentioned are remakes or remasters except persona 3 💀💀
That ball scene on watch dogs omg. The physics and the whole surroundings amazing.
we treated Watch Dogs 1 too harshly
Just an animation, no physics being run at all. But yeah, well done anyways
Just like water, people all the time say "Wow look at these physics!" but theres literally no water physics at all in like 99,99% of games, i dont know why people assume everything in games is "physics" while its just animations and moving textures, sometimes animated vertex displacements, but almost always there are no "physics"
@@NikTek it's Ubisoft's fault for overpromising and downgrading. They didn't handle it the way it should and it backfired
@NikTek there were some problems with WD1 (graphics downgrade was egregious and there was no real ragdoll system when people got shot, but rather pre-made death animations)... but it's definitely much better than Legion is in almost every metric
@@mschulmeister6519 I haven't played it so I judged but those clips. Still as you say....
The Golden Age of gaming is but a warm memory some of us will remember.
Fromsoftware got us covered
Thats why i keep my 2008 pc and collect physical games of that era. Play everything from early 00 to mid 10s.
@@vishensivparsad "Boy, I sure love my immaculate gaming experince of rolling around, over and over so that the enemy doesn't kill me in one strike."
Don't make me get the broom.
First console was the NES a year before the SNES was released. It ain't too bad gettin near 40 when u look at it like that 😏
Dont worry
Aa and indie got you Buddy
The worst thing about this is that the newer games look worse as well graphically but they push a lot more polygons for whatever reason.
To bait and push you to have mid or higher tier specs. Not worth until some gaming reinassance happens.
I will stick on my humble barely mid rig for 1080p gaming because today games are a pain for my eyes sometimes, some are enjoyable counted with fingers of one hand but of those some have so shitty grainy shadows and you are stuck to have them instead removing them entirely like in the past for instance.
Look at that garbage NFS unbound. It looks shit compared to the ever so gorgeous and photorealistic NFS 2016. Yet requires a beefy upgrade of hardware to run properly, whereas that same hardware can run NFS 2016 at 60fps.
They looks worse because art team and graphics team are just not that good. You can dodge technical limitations if you have competent team but if your art team sucks your art style is boring and you cant balance this with polygon count, textures resolution or ray tracing.
@@Rick-bn5bs baked textures
No strong art direction anymore, just unreal engine asset flips
Support indies, ya'll!
Indies games are great!
i think you hate AAA studios, especially epic games
Are you the mod of r/fuepic ?
Yeah, right to the point where the Triple A virus infects it's way into it, these platforms need to remain humble.
Came here to pretty much echo this sentiment. Lots of great games still being made, just rarely in "trippleA" vacuum
Can you imagine Watch Dogs being a "good old times" game? Strange days we live in...
Thats because Crowbcats video was full of cherry picking.He only cherry picked some bad things and told that the was bad.When the game had alot of good things even better than Gta-5 in some cases.He even made video where he told gta-4 is better than 5.Which is his another cherry pick video and just showed good side of gta-4 but never 5.This is why his that video got massive dislike,even his new resident evil video got huge dislike because of his bait and cherry picking.I like some of crowbcats video,but not all of them are correct.He even made video about Battlefield-1 and said its bad but now it is considered one of the bf games,so not all his videos or opinions are correct, sometimes he want to make controversial videos for shock value thats all.
@@contra7631 When did they bring up Crowbcat?
✨Minimum Viable Product✨
I remember Crowbcat uploaded a video related to Watch Dogs in 2014 titled 'True next gen experience' something like that, basically shitting on the game that what kind of next gen is that. And I never thought we things would be so bad after that that we have to look back at watch dogs as an inpiration in the future. We peaked gaming a decade ago.
This video is basically "Ubisoft Downgrades 2.0" as the most prominent part of this video is two Ubisoft's games
Gaming has never been better
@@jackmak2980 ok, gen z
@@jackmak2980All the layoffs employees would like to have a word with you
@@jackmak2980Cope
The fact that the already downgraded watch dogs 1 manages to look better than legion is just humilating, however watch dogs 1 now has a mod that restores the E3 features and graphics.
What's the name of the mod? Is it on Nexus?
watch dogs definitive e3 mod 2012 reimagining and yes its on nexus
@@pchtommy1268 thanks mate. I hope it's a good one
The arkham knight vs suicide squad comparision is just ludicrous. The suicide looks like a mobile game
Ikr!
No one commenting about it.
SS is an insult to the GOATed Arkham series
We should call them all Triple-F!
Nah…. Quadruple F
Quadruple T
Can't we call them just shite?
For triple respect😂
Triple L
Art vs Product
Once upon a time, games were released ready to play. No huge patches and micro transactions were but a dream.
the level of quality/creativity regreression in ubisoft has always been baffling to me
Quality regression is directly proportionate to the number of progressive hires and policies.
@@ahmataevo lol nope bad leadership is always to blame
@@Anonihmus2567 - Bad leadership always existed at these companies. DEI scaled up in the past 10 years. That's the connection.
@@ahmataevo always looking for a Boogeyman earth isn't flat either
@@Anonihmus2567 - Why are you defending a repugnant and reprehensible ideology?
Game studios today care more about DEI and shitting out a game every year than actually making a great game with a great story and great gameplay that people will love.
SJWs destroying everything they touch
Its not
D and E and I but
D and I and E.(need to write the and inbetween for this msg to be shown)
Because thats whats happening to everything that comes in contact with it.
Test
@@J.Crime123 I genuinely hate how TH-cam censors comments by not showing them if they have certain words, what's worse is they don't even notify you. I remember the day where the first amendment meant something, those were good days.
Nah, that's the least of issues, shiit started going downhill when gaming became mainstream and casuals like you started flooding the community and demanding better and better graphics and "muh story"
Maybe there is point in retaining a work-force that actually know's what it's doing
No they would unjustly metoo older men and place inexperienced women to make this trash. It is a cult.
but muh stock price
But sweet sweet ESG money won't get themselves
@natmarelnam4871 i would not surprised if all this turns out to be business plan to corrupt and close competitive studios, to sell their IP to "right group of people" later, like it was with EA and Activision in early 00's and Disney.
"But they are too white, HR won't like this".
Corporatism in the industry is one of the causes why shit like this is happening and more and more I understand why some people publicly hate them
Well it’s requires to make game the problem is when they went full on money only mode and not fun mode that time fun and game both dies
"corporatism in the industry" is redundant.
Its also crazy that some olde games looks almost the sams or even better then new games , but new games require RTX 2060 while older require 4-6gb GPU like GTX 1050, GTX 1060 6gb
And the thing is they take much more time and money to make, like Skyrim took 85M$ and 6YRS to develop while Starfield took 400M$ and 11YRS to develop.
The even sadder part is that these were done at least a decade ago on the Xbox 360 and PS3...
When you try to make money instead of art.
NikTek must've taken out Crowbcat since he took things over.
What would happen if you "let go" of the talented, visionary, and fun developers in the name of "Growth", "Profits", "Imaginary income milestone"?
This.
2:24 - it's pretty badass how the cops went more balls to the wall than you there.
It's crazy to think that not only AAA games are getting "worse," but GPUs too. Back in the 900s and 10s, Nvidia, the vast majority of games would play pretty well on them, even on the cheapest ones like the 50s. Nowadays, you need a 70s card to play at 1080p ultra without any kind of magic tool they want you to use so bad.
Basically they're complaining about the increasing complexity and price of graphics processing units, not to mention today's graphics cards have 32x the RAM and such
The era of the budget graphics card is coming to an end, slowly, and APUs are coming to replace them @natmarelnam4871
gaming evolving backwards
The term is Devolution
I don't want to live in a world with people that watched a whole 14 minute video in just 2 minutes
git gud
Skill issue
More like not having ADHD and being a normal human.@@killermario8458
6:41 You... kicked that lady cop in the balls and she bled out. 😆
Equality in action
Trans ppl before everyone started doing it
Same goes with skull and bones lol. Love the uploads as always NikTek ur amazing :)
I truly don't understand how most Triple A games have a higher dev count, 2-3x the development time, a ridiculous budget and yet are somehow worst than the previous games. What are they actually doing with all the time and resources?
Too many cooks in the kitchen man. Imagine steering a Creative Vision amongst 10 Teams and 500 People... and against your Marketing and Supervisors + getting worse Devs that literally can't fucking code anymore.
Every change must be checked in meetings etc... you spend more time in board rooms then on your actual work....
they fired white male devs and replaced them with women and "minorities".
Not to mention performance has taken a giant hit as well, even though the graphics are often the same or even worse. All the lazy devs just rely on upscaling now instead of properly optimizing.
1:40 "I'm down!"
Are you sure about that?
we are in the Sweet Baby inc. era
What's that?
@@GamingNationShm A garbage company.
@@GamingNationShm propagandists, in short, making games objectively worse
@@Jackfromshack Doesn't it depend on the producers' decisions on how much they pay/allow the developers and also the developers' skills?
hopefully not for long,thank god for indies anyways
sad to see WatchDogs go from a well respected franchise to deplorable game in the future
yeah 2 was pretty good a big upgrade from one interms of story the moment i saw what they planned for legion i skipped it entirely
Watch Dogs was never viewed as a well respected franchise. There are plenty of viral videos from 2014 dunking on the game. Watch Dogs 2 was generally received well, but It didn't sell that great.
@@iamthenati Nostalgia is sadly a hell of a drug.
@@iamthenati well being 14 at the time, I thought watchdogs was pretty good game but no comparison to gta saints row or sleeping dogs in that time but overall was fun
@@iamthenati Yeah but the main problem with the watch dog 1 wasn't that it was broken or had shit graphics but rather it wasn't as realistic as it was showcased in the E3. Much like the division. But they were good for their times. Compare them to games of 2022-2023, they still shit on them
I sold my Xbox series x to get a ps2 for real games and a switch for indies (first parties on switch are a complete scam compared to their older consoles)
Dude I bought a PlayStation 3 in 2023. Motorstorm, GoW trilogy,.... such a worthy investment. It didn't even cost me 70€ for the whole set
i still have my xbox360 Slim and i will NEVER Sell it to buy those MODERN consoles
i hope someday these studios will go broke
Never, while you're still buying them, even at a discount.
Shouldn’t wish that on anyone tbh
no thats not true there are currently loads of lay offs over different companies AAA or AA it makes no difference not many people are buying games anymore. @@Jackfromshack
Their are broke😂 the final results of the game that they made are the proof
Which would mean these franchises never get continued. No, I wish they'd just start making good games again.
It's amazing how we used to bash fully optimised and full owned games for not looking as realistic as the trailers (Watch dogs) to this broken micro transaction filled buggy mess of triple AAA games. To this day I still play COD old games before black ops 3 and they were all so fuckin perfect compared to today's garbage.
And still requirements for these new games are going sky high.
While I was playing watchdogs 1 I had noticed a couple of homeboys freestylin some lit verses on the street
Powered by Sweet Baby inc
Unfortunately, America is the only country that mass-produces games and movies, when America got sick with sjw and lgbt shit everything went to hell, now I am forced to look at pumped-up women with the face of a Schwarzneiger and gay men. and okay, that would be half the trouble, but now the same contingent works as game developers, because they were recruited based on quotas, and not on skills
To be continued?
Yes please.
For me the most shocking is the animations in Ubisoft games. I played Assassin's Creed III and AC odyssey, and the animations are much more smooth and detailed in the first one! The parkour in odyssey feels kinda slow and jerky compare to Odyssey... Here it is the same with the clothes of black flag and skull and bones
Imagine a pirate based game where you are not even allowed to swim 😂😂
Or compared to today, an "Outlaws" game where you aren't able to anything an outlaw would do.
The worst thing in Skull & Bones is the shanties. Especially "Leave Her Johnny".
Today its: "stop raping her johnny"
Helldiver's 2, Palworld, and last Epoch are some of the best gaming experiences I've had in decades
The funny thing is when watch dogs 1 came out people thought it was insanely janky. So the fact that we've fallen further from that is really sad
Thats because Crowbcats video was full of cherry picking.He only cherry picked some bad things and told that the was bad.When the game had alot of good things even better than Gta-5 in some cases.He even made video where he told gta-4 is better than 5.Which is his another cherry pick video and just showed good side of gta-4 but never 5.This is why his that video got massive dislike,even his new resident evil video got huge dislike because of his bait and cherry picking.I like some of crowbcats video,but not all of them are correct.He even made video about Battlefield-1 and said its bad but now it is considered one of the bf games,so not all his videos or opinions are correct, sometimes he want to make controversial videos for shock value thats all.
Watchdogs was downgraded but it's such a Banger of a game.
Legion? I couldn't play 10 minutes, lol.
WD deserves a Remake.
Watch Dogs was criticized because Ubisoft deceived everyone (at that time this was not a common sight), the game was not what was shown at E3, and the main character looked too ridiculous in these clothes, plus a lot of pathos was not in fashion at that time time. and at that time there was no video game crisis yet, there was a lot of stuff that could be played
I consider myself lucky to have fallen so behind with my gaming backlog that Ive yet to experience and play pretty much every single one of these older games and not having to touch any of the newer ones.
And as Ive been trying to say to newer generation of players, go back in history to play older games that you might have missed out on than buying and playing modern "triple A" titles that are more often than not waste of your time and money. Ofc there are exceptions too like we did last year but if you are in situation where you are waiting just for the next big new triple A game to be released, go and play some older games instead
WD 1 already was a piece of soap. If only I knew then that things could get even worse...Helplessness is the worst thing. We see the agony, but can't stop the Ripper.
When corpo doesn't wanna hire Japanese/European nerdy dudes anymore
It's both hilarious and depressing how Ubisoft was used as an example twice just to show the massive dip in quality with their recent releases. I still can't believe that they once made great games that were pretty (dare I say) revolutionary for their time but now, they're only known for not innovating let alone doing the bare minimum in their games, the only thing they've tried revolutionizing was microtransactions lol
I'm sticking to AA and Single A... Now to Indie😎💀😎
Tsl, it's not even a question about the graphics anymore. Recent AAA games lost its soul.
Hirata state soundtrack fits so well
AAA game studios are evolving, backwards.
I feel only Sony Studios is actually pushing the AAA games to new heights. Sweet Baby Inc is also one of the reasons that the fun wacky elements of the game get removed from the final product.
Spiderman 2 could have been handled better.
So we have reached the point where old games being bad at the time of their release, are now better than the games being released in last few mon😢
I don't mind graphics as long as gameplay and the features are fun.
But yeah, they even downgrade those
Saints Row games were just meant to be a parody on GTA games so its original mistakes are forgivable but the new one is taking itself seriously and its are not.
That Saint Row 2 night club comparison man. Direct down grade, only one thing come to mind.
Watch Dog 1 wasn't supposed to be a example 💀
1:40 why would a civilian say "I'm down!"?
Not even triple-A gentlemen we are getting to Quadruplo-A Levels of quality with the last one
Kinda crazy the last AAA game that felt like the money was well spent I can name is RDR2
And BG3...
@@verifeli Eh, Definitely was an okay game, I didn’t like it very much, Very clunky camera controls and a fairly simple and forgettable story especially compared to previous AAA games like RDR2 which overall for me is much more enjoyable and has IMO much better characters that you actually feel genuinely attached too.
Only thing that stopped BG3 from being a good game was its last chapter.@@GEK0dev
BG3 isn't a triple-A game.
@@moxn115 It’s a AAA indie hybrid or something right?
Should change the title into THE FALL OF WESTERN AAA GAMES,games from Far East (China,Korea and Japan) still doing better even improving
Developers vs Diversity hire. But hey, at least they got 10000+ ESG points lmao.
They chose their own destiny. Don't feel sorry for them.
I might be playing rdr2 until I’m old and grey
To be continued wish list
Back 4 blood vs Left for dead
Any bungie halo vs halo infinite
2007-2012 cod vs mw3 2023
Og gears of war vs gears 5
Back 4 Blood actually better in terms of gameplay. People should stop living in an echo chamber, and believing everything that Crowbcat shows in his videos. Play yourself and get real opinion
@@JackfromshackNo, its not.
@@Jackfromshack I did play it myself it's actually worse than L4D1 that was made by Turtle Rock but then again most of the people that made the first do not work there lmao
@@riven4121 you did not played it
@@Jackfromshack I did actually. I've played it from release and refunded it. For how much TR like to throw "From the Creators of Left 4 Dead" around on promotional material, it's funny that it can't even hold a candle to it.
This is just depressing. Lately been playing 10/15 year old games with tons of texture mods etc. Wasn't sure why but maybe this is the reason
Gaming has been downhill ever since we heard RTX.
And why did you ignore watch dogs 2?
I do not remember why Watch Dogs 1 was hated back then. When I was a kid, I actually loved the game and the trailer. It was EPIC!
Until a few years later, I saw one video about "Ubisoft downgrade". It was a video about comparing the games from E3/demo and the released versions. It really does sucks tbh.
I wish many people could've implemented these beautiful graphics and details on the full release, even if it takes years to animate every bit of detail.
Watch Dogs 1 for life!
Also, no money for Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda and other big companies. Always support the indie developers!
It's obvious that U.S and it's entertainment industries are in a free fall. Look at the music industry at 00's 10's and now, compare holywood old vs new, and gaming industry you just watched. I have a guess over it, if you put PC behaviour over creativeness and hardwork, this happens. Downfall of an empire shows its signs
The spirit of Crowbcat lives on through NikTek. Good job mang!
GTA VI is going to be trash. The gaming industry is fucked
AA and indie carrying gaming industry
thats such a reach. u are acting as if anything rockstar has put out has been bad. and if u say the trilogy, that wasnt done by them
@JamesGhodbane lol this kid is crying
@@smrah8750 Of course, it's too early to tell, but since RDR2's release TakeTwo has officially become affiliated with BlackRock and its woke ESG score. Devs have stated they "don't want humor that punches down", and several key Rockstar members have left. I would love to be wrong, but there are red flags, and remember that no studio is infallible.
I remember vividly of people treating CD Projekt Red as infallible and being willfully blind with hype prior to Cyberpunk 2077's release.
@@iicustodianlawyou will be the only one who's gonna cry if it comes out just as bad as Cyberpunk did. But hey...let's hope that won't happen.
Going Indie does a great analysis and theory on this that makes sense. AAA games nowadays have too many investors that demand a game get released as closely to its intended release date to get their money back (if not more of what they invested) which is why they get released as it is and do so with the same expectation as regular software: example, they treat games like a new piece of software that Microsoft releases. In the software dev cycle you release a software in its early stages to end users and they’ll give feedback and you fix and send patches to what these users have issues with, simple right? Except you can’t use this software dev model with VIDEO GAMES. We as gamers want a FULLY FINISHED product on release, not to have it essentially unfinished come launch day. A year or two down the road it’s finally playable, but again that model just doesn’t work as the fan base would have most likely already left long before the patches even began.
you know why?
coz new generation of Devs are those pink & purple hair people working in the industry
Сreative directors those pink & purple hair, who don't really have a vision to the title or at least honor to speak with audience honestly. Only money money and more money.
@@daseinstudioua2609 Where I work there is a game Dev school in Sweden we are in same building I see their Students, 90% of them are those blue, pink hair people + Emos and cosplays e-people
And remember that the original Watch dogs was not even a good game technical wise.
6:21 woman anger
ON GOD, that sent me 😂😂😭😭
I like the background music choice. Sekiro has such a fantastic soundtrack. Same with the Batman Games.
Thank you for this video.
Too much pink and blue hair devs these days..
What does that have to do with anything?
@@littlefrank90politically motivated people
Ok boomer
@@mikaela43523 What does that have to do with anything shown in this video?
@@wendellcosta4921 downfall of AAA games is because of politically motivated people
Why cant all game industry join hands and give us games like witcher 3,gta 4, batman ak, mad max, NFS the run, dying light1, AC4 max payne 3
I think we can all agree that Ubisoft hires the worst motion-capture actors around.
4:19 the explosion was so destructive it played an ad
These are indeed sad times we live in LMFAO lol😅
I genuinely think this has more to do with top talent leaving AAA studios after years of bullshit and crunch, this is what the newbies are capable of creating....
2:53 I lost it hahahahaha
6:08 , wow, that scene is awesome❤
They would rather get investments from ESG (Sweet baby and others) and make the game woke AND shiit , than have any amount of love or passion for game. The games nowadays have no souls aside from privately owned studios like Larian or Japanese game devs like FromSoft. Ghost of Tsushima was great as well. So was God Of war 2018 (new one is also woke af)
Really? fromsoft? You know their games have a LOT of issues, right? From releasing literally unfinished games to rushing games and having poor design choices, fromsoft regularly have lack of technical polish in their games. Infact, modders have to do the work of removing these dumb limitations, similar to bethesda. All this generates artificial difficulty from tedium, frustration and confusion, and that ain't real difficulty. And the rest of the game's aspect like world, story, etc.? Its not the greatest either. This ''vague'' story is also told in other games like skyrim or CP2077. They literally have hidden plots and stories. This is speaking of their souls titles and ER, not gonna say on BB and sekiro.
And god of war 1? Its combat was not satisfying, only focused on story and graphics. They took a game known for its combat and turned it into a story focused game. Why?
Agreed, but while being a bit woke, at least GoW Ragnarok is the least woke AAA recent game.
The question is, whose fault is this? Is it the fault of management or the incompetent developers?
The developers are trying their best. The management is mostly to blame.
Baldur's gate III
Helldivers
Darkest Dungeon
Elite Dangerous
THE FINALS
...
Insert here your quality certified video game that worth your money !!!!
hitman world of assassination
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Also Baldur's Gate III
Another one, is Devil May Cry 5. Probably the first game I've beaten since I've gotten my PC built.
Minecraft
Undertale
Dark souls 3 (only worth on sale bc high price)
Terraria
Valheim
i pirated all of them guys , no need for money !the wokeness is killing the games industry , not the pirating !
In 2014, a game creator driven by a passion for game development aims to introduce single cosmetic item sales at AAA game prices. However, it looks that only producers like Rockstar, Remedy, and small studios retain that passion for gaming.
notice the lack of sony LOL
Your point?
@@lenoirxSony is making less games in general, but making good ones
@@grezzo2 Yeah agree, the guy is just an xbox fanboy
Modern AAA games put all its efforts on the graphic, live as a service, microtransaction, everything is rushed and barely fun in it
That's why I love from