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The Game Industry Is Choking Itself To Death (The Jimquisition)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มี.ค. 2019
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February was ridiculous. Anthem, Apex Legends, Metro Exodus, Far Cry New Dawn, and Crackdown 3 all going head to head, and all of them demanding a silly amount of time.
The game industry is an uncoordinated mess of market saturation and nonexistent long-term planning. The industry wide adoption of "live services" with long content "roadmaps" is already at breaking point.
Companies have their hands around their own necks and we're supposed to believe everything is normal. This ain't normal.
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Here's another video of Jim doom saying about the "game industry"...which is apparently comprised entirely by a only the few large predatory companies. No one else putting out any video games. Just EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Bethesda, WB...no one else. Such a small industry.
You're gonna feel like a tool when you get to the bit about indie games in this video.
They're all huge companies employing bunches upon bunches of people. If they crash, then those people are hosed. That's not good!
@@JimSterling O O F
@@JimSterling Ha, yes...yes I will. Eight minutes in so far. Looking forward to hearing about them though. Fuck the cookie cutter corporate drivel.
They aren't AAA, though. That's, like, the divide - Triple A on one side and Indie on the other.
Games still have like 10 hours of content.. but you are supposed to play 1000 hours to find it.
What about Fallout 76? How much "content" does it have?
This sums up the state of so many games so well. WoW: Legion, for example, didn't have significantly more content than WoD, it just gave you more reasons to do said content over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, while also requiring you to play at least 5x more than in previous expansions to keep up.
10 hours? That's being generous
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@@SpiritofNature Indeed. There's nothing in the whole game. But there was a guy that managed to put 900 hours into it.
This is the type of people that keep "games as a service" alive.
I have heard of people putting 6000 hours into Destiny. I'm not joking. I wish i was.
1.) Bombard gamers with grindy "live services" -
2.) Gamers have no time to grind every game
3.) Introduce pay to win for "players that don't have time"
4.) ????
5.) PROFIT
6.) Game gets reputation for being P2W and cannot attract new players.
7.) Further updates consist of little more than cosmetics packs and fanservice as the dev team is downsized.
8.) battle royale BUT NOW IN VR!!!!!!! WITH JETPACKS AND EVERYTHING
9.) Repeat.
Spot on.
Grade A meme 👌
gonna play pokemon gold again...
Brilliant comment!
I miss those 8-10 hours "straightforward experiences". Hell, those kinds of games sometimes had more replay-ability than those giant 80 hours monoliths.
Sekiro..... Dark Souls..... Resident Evil 2..... they still exist.... find them... but don't go alone, take this:
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Yeah, that's kind of the problem with creating a very large, dense game like the AssCreed series or Elder Scrolls or whatever. They tend to overstay their welcome, and then you either feel guilty for giving up, or force yourself through and lose interest in the game and any existing/future sequels. A game can be too long, and many these days are.
Those shorter games that were able to focus on a fun core experience are exactly the ones I find myself replaying. I don't have the time to replay an 80+ hour game "just for fun" because in all reality, those 80 hours are probably "replaying" some core gameplay loop just to drag things out. Nothing against titles like _Skyrim_ or _Monster Hunter_ (I love that series) but they sacrifice "replayability" for longevity, that constantly evolving experience that builds off a feedback loop.
We're a rare bunch, my friend. If a game is over 100 hours you wouldnt wanna play it again for ages let's be honest. I always prefer a smaller, well made and tightly paced linear game with an interesting story and legit replayability. Black Ops 2 did this legitimately fantastically
Too many financial analists in the industry that have little to do with actual gaming...
"We need to push Anthem out now cause market predictions for the next year indicate there will be no more demand for destiny-like shooter" - someone said. Forgetting the fact that there was a time, we would wait for a BioWare game with our tongues out for years, even if it were to be a golf simulator. Now, after rushed Andromeda, and more importantly - nightmarish Anthem, the percentage of gamers that would still do that is significantly lower. Great job, business analists.
HMMM...mmmmm..aybe its 4D chess! They purposefully killed off the Mass Effect Franchise after 3 had such a shit ending by pushing out Andromeda by an inexperienced team quickly, they'd still make sales on the game but no one could blame them at this point for pulling the plug on the franchise (or at least everyone would understand why a big bad corp would do that) then Anthem comes out to middling success so they can again make some money to keep them afloat but looks down in the dumps failure after failure, Mass Effect and Dragon age are essentially dead we think right? EXCEPT it was all an extremely long-con and the new Dragon age and Mass Effect will show a return to form of the type of RPG's that made Bioware it's name in the first place, consumers tired of hype campaigns will ramp up the hype on their own! All according to their masterful 10 year plan, IM NOT CRAZY, YOUR CRAZY!
While I agree that some analyst in the industry know shite about the market, and what makes a successful video game company, we have to remember that Feburary was just another November, who was another September, and that was another August - This Generation for games have been massive, but I do find Jim's issue with the number of games that came out on Feb 15-22 to be a smaller problem, not necessarily one to the majority of gamers.
The majority of gamers only bought the games they are interested in. The industry isn't per se choking itself, more like stuffing it's gut too fast with the same food over and over. Some people who bought Metro were less likely to buy Anthem, and play Apex, because most of those people wanted a Single player game, while those who bought Anthem, would more likely play Far cry, Apex and maybe crackdown. That's because they want more extensive games. So while I do feel for journalist and creators who have to suffer the cost of all these games coming out at once, rarely are they ever pleasing the same crowd with one review or impression, and that's what makes it's annoying for them, really.
EA has always deemed short term gains a higher priority than long term profits and gaining customer loyalty. They are all about the now. That's why they chew up and spit out so many great studios.
They're so short sighted that pleasing stock holders with immediate results blinds them to the profits they can reap down the line for years to come. They just don't understand fostering long term success.
@@BennyGoId ma bad man, judging by that post, English is obviously not my first language : ]
This is also true of big-budget films, which is why we get so many bland, repetitive movies.
Jim should create a wrestling move called the *TRIPLE AAAAAA*
He could do triple flip in the air off the top rope lol
"OH Jim just performed his signature Triple AAAAA move, effectively crippling the opponent! He shouldn't even be able to get up after that! How could such a shallow move be so powerful!?"
Okay... Well played. That comment made my day.
Only if it crashes and burns and has to fire eight percent of its momentum.
@@Rickkysimo i doubt he could get to the top of the turnbuckle without assistance
There's a phrase for this that's been around for a while. It's called a "crisis of overproduction" and it's related to how most major economic crashes have occurred.
The market has changed since the Atari days, it's physically incapable of crashing now. I don't recall how it works but the fact that this has happened with CoD, MMOs and for an even briefer period of time, MOBAs, is already is a clear indicator that the market will survive to make new mistakes... How the mobile market is surviving with the Atari-level saturation of shovelware is frankly baffling to me and whales alone can't properly explain it at the level that it is currently at.
Yeah, thats called a bell graph and it is the literal function of capitalism itself. Another term for it is "Pump and Dump".
@@divergentevolution8114 Far as I can tell "pump and dump" refers to stock inflation caused *_solely_* by false statements to artificially boost the value of the stocks. It has nothing to do with aggressive monetization models or oversaturation. It's also a term used in relation to breastfeeding and slang for one-night stand but I feel like those definitions aren't really all that relevant.
@@mattwo7 I think major publishers could be headed for a crash, but I'm sure indie devs would thrive if that happened. I just wish Disney gave the Star Wars rights to someone other than EA 😒
@@DrJuice1 Keep dreaming and keep dreaming. The reality of the situation is as I laid it out to you and Disney has expressed zero interest in giving the Star Wars game license to anyone else because Iger sees EA as kindred spirits and lied about their reason to not give the rights to someone else to cover for them. "Duur, we can't vidya games so they can keep the rights huuur" pft as if we're supposed to buy that BS when Squeenix still has Kingdom Hearts? When Sega and Capcom had been making and publishing Disney games for (a) decade(s)? When Warner Brothers Interactive currently owns the rights to Pixar games (Cars 3 and Toy Story 4)?
I find it funny when people complain about a game being "Only 30 hours". I think Jim really hit it on the head here. Not EVERY game should be an epic. Bayonetta is my favourite game. Short, sweet, a masterpiece in a bite. Skyrim is a XL pepperoni Pizza. Bioshock is a steak. Both good. Both have their place.
This. I love Bethesda (obviously not F76) and CDPR epics, but no one has time for every game to be that. And live services are the bastardization of that, a game with 20 hours of content and 200 hours of grind. 10-20 hours of quality content is all I need from a game for it to be worthwhile. And if a game requires multiple playthroughs to do everything, please keep that thing under 20 hours. If someone wants to play through the same story 10 times good for them, but now if a game is less than 50 hours long it seems like multiple playthroughs are almost mandatory to get all the content. Just learn from Diablo 3 and add a fast paced adventure mode or something for people who want to experience every class/race/build/whatever.
I recently wanted to play a good pirate game just to play a pirate game. Went back and played did Meyers pirates for a night and it was great. One day or playing and I've almost beaten it. Totally worth the time and saited my taste for it.
As a horror game fan, I live by the old adage, "It's about quality, not quantity".
One of my favorite all-time games, Fatal Frame 2, can be beaten (by exploring all content in a single run- it has NG+) between 9-12 hours. And that is fantastic.
See Fatal Frame 2 does it correct by eating up more time with side content, multiple endings, harder difficulties, collectibles (in the way of capturing all ghosts) and all of that adds to the gametime.
Instead of a billion dumbass flags to collect and grindy quests that eat up time, it settles on content of merit and actual storytelling.
Can that be monetized in microtransactions? No, but these fucking vampires need to understand that sucking all of the life outta a game with nonsense isn't gonna last forever. Eventually, the blood runs out.
It actually took me quite a while to finish Bayonetta because of that one boss Jeanne.... JEANNE!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Explains why i like skyrim so much
Jim is a realist, not negativist. More and more I find myself playing "older" games in the time between the few and far between good (that's relative) new releases. Open world has become a synonym for chore/work rather than the joy of discovery.
CJS929 I just bought Beyond Good & Evil HD for €4 and having a fucking blast I haven’t had in a very, very long time. Naturally, it raised the question: when did it all go so wrong?
@@adaptorperish1322 I'd say around the late 2000's early 2010's, when the first microtransactions were implemented and ubi launched AC. Then ow launched in 2016, popularizing the fucking plague that are loot boxes.
@Data Null Void There's a big difference between the joy of discovery/exploration and a CHORE, something placed in the game to solely appeal to the OCD 100% completionist mentality --- the "solely" is my issue here. I love long games .... and I'm one of those people that takes 100 hours to complete a game others seem to be completing in 30-50 hours.
@Data Null Void Yes, there are crazy people in the world that enjoy crap like that.
@Data Null Void For me it depends on the specific game. Like Horizon Zero Dawn, that one felt like a genuine adventure with exploration. It mostly comes down to what I get out of it. Do I actually like running around finding the things, or do I just feel compelled to do it to fill the percentage bar? Like you said, it depends on preference.
"This is coming from someone who dictates their own hours and talks about video games for a living, and *I* don't have time for this shit. I have the luxury of not having to be as selective as those in less privileged positions will have to be, but even I am being selective now, because I don't have the resources that the games' industry demands from us."
Amen. Amen. I make great money, I am a maximum enthusiast for gaming (hobby, enthusiast, profession, etc) and I work on games during the day and play games during the night. I can't play these games anymore. Not only can I not play them, I don't even want to; how many gear treadmills can a man climb before his legs start to buckle, you know?
Derek Czerkaski that last line was very good, bravo good sir
Exactly. When do those "legendaries" just become ordinary?
Got a great point there. I don't want another game like WoW. I'm looking for games that doesn't eat up almost 1/4 of my SSD drive space. Doesn't require 8GB of memory. Doesn't require the latest $800 video card to "play well". And most of all isn't full of trolls and misfits with customer service that takes 4 weeks -- yes 4 freaking weeks -- to answer A question about their game rules.
They want to act like King Louis XVI, fine, let them decapitate themselves. I'll just spend my money on electronics on Amazon then.
Yeah yeah yeah, but listen... Can you buy me a ps4 pro though?
Jim will make a positive video when things get better. Simple as that.
That's basically the long and short of it. Hell, YongYea does the same thing - when something positive comes up, like news about Death Stranding, or when there's an actual good bit of news, he'll make a video about it and show his praise. The rest of the time, though, he'll report on the usual news which is typically negative given how AAA studios have decided to take crazy pills, and unless the industry gets better, it will stay that way.
Jim's negativity is usually a good indicator of how good a game is. Jim said Apex is good, and damn is it good considering it's yet another battle royale. Likewise he said Anthem is shit, and turns out the game is about as enjoyable as brain death. If anything, Jim's videos are understated. Thank God for Jim.
This should get pinned
Praise the Sterling
His videos on Apex Legends warm my heart.
The games industry either piles 5 triple A games on top of each other or goes 4 months in the summer with NOTHING! Great plan guys.
Might have something to do with the income statement and please the share holders.
@@Generic8864 but the summer months? How would publishers know if they never try? And how much damage does it do the industry to have such a long time with low activity every year?
Can't you (or anyone) buy the games before and play them during summer? Or buy the games during summer after you're (or anyone) done with one thing?
In the past, as a poor kid, I had a very steady stream of games. I played one game until I got tired of it, then I went to a store and bought the next most interesting/affordable thing.
I'm also tired of most all games trying to stretch so little content into so exhausting grind journeys, but we always have the ability to pick and choose. Anything else sounds like "I want everything now" kind of mentality. Or "If I was a CEO I would do smarter moves"ism
Jim mentioned game reviewers and there I agree, they're forced to play the games and to do good work they should be able to play the damn game almost fully. It's really sad to see reviews where the reviewer states he played a 1000 hour game for 10 hours and wrote the review. It almost makes the whole work obsolete.
I guess that the idea is that during the summer months people have free time to do things *other* then playing video games. You still have time for videogames usual, but you also usually do other things like vacationing, sleep overs, crying into the shoulder of your best friend after downing half a bottle of Jack. So, maybe that's why.
This aged so well, look at Ubisoft releasing Assassins Creed, Watch Dogs, Far Cry AND Immortals in a span of a month lmao
Being a college student, it's increasingly difficult for me to really invest in open world games or multiplayers anymore.
Gone are the days when you could easily squeeze in 30 to 45 minutes in a game and get a good experience out of it.
While Red Dead 2 is one of my favourite games, it was still agonizing to play through considering a busy schedule, and gaming is the only bit of entertainment I can easily digest.
No one has time for open worlds anymore. The best example I can give is of the Book Industry. Fiction evolved significantly with the times. Before people had time to just push in to large novels with hardly any real substance, seeing as no real competitors existed. Now? People hardly have time for big novels that need multiple sittings to finish. It's either novellas or short story collections which give a powerful and entertaining experience in a good 15 minutes.
But rather than staying at that position, the game industry is devolving, going backwards, thinking that people actually have time to play big games like this.
It seems like the gaming industry is competing with other entertainment industries for our time and money, but no one ever plays games every single waking moment of their life. These days, people scrape their time over different forms of media.
I'm just glad games like DMC5 and Sekiro are coming in March. Resident Evil 2 and 7 were the only real games I've played and enjoyed without crippling my schedule.
You chose college, stop complaining. We don't give a fuck.
There was a time when looking forward to a Triple AAA game was all excitement and hype. Now, all about suspicion due to these publishers.
Got to agree with you there. Was watching a video on a new version of settlers based more on the original game, but all I could think was how are they going to screw us over with microtransactions in the game, as it is an Ubisoft game. It wasn't OH great I love the original settlers games, I can't wait, it was more, I wont be buying that.
So it's an AAA AAA AAA industry now? What happened thave given them more A's? Or is that a representation of the amount of Ass the major publishers and their video games are swimming in these days? And for the record when I say they are swimming in ass I mean it literally not figuratively.
Long the road is to win the trust of the people back after endless false advertisements
The main problem with AAA titles these days is a lack of depth. They expect to hold their audience on game-play through repetition alone and hoping that the map filled with time wasters is enough for most gamers. This is what happens when you try to make a game accessible to everyone in the vain hope that it will sell more copies. What they now have is a false accessibility where the game is easy to pick up and learn but just not fun to play.
I'd say it runs deeper than that (though your point is, I think, one of many valid surface issues to call out). In the main, the problem at it core seems to be that creativity and the advancement of the medium on an artistic level isn't even priority 2, much less priority 1. In the AAA space, I'm not sure it even exists on a list of priorities at all at this point (I'm sure you can find contradicting exceptions to the rule, but for the most part, it's a wash).
Were that a significant priority, these companies would have the money to find the right skilled designers to build their games and do them really well. It's not a herculean task. But instead, they'll do things like push out creative people and foster environments in which profit is more important than anything else and creativity doesn't really matter.
And of course, relating to the point you make, the schemes of monetization mean that it's not necessarily a good thing for a company to release a game that is incredible to play for $60 as is and doesn't need any kind of live service updates, or DLC, or microtransactions, or season passes, or loot boxes, or gold editions, or silver editions. Leaving a game in a depth-lacking state is likely more often intentional than not in the AAA space these days. And I'm not sure it's because of an attempt to have mass appeal; I think it's because it's cheaper to do than something obscenely creative that may fail and it's because leaving people wanting is what helps sell more and more and more products relating to the game.
Edit: There is also a possible psychological argument to be made that the types of games made in the AAA space these days are more likely to burn peoples' brains out in the ways that they latch onto addiction and dopamine triggers, and cause people to become more exhausted in general with the whole prospect of playing a video game. I never remember feeling particular worn out playing a game like KOTOR other than normal tiredness from staring at a screen too long, but I can remember feeling like I never wanted to play a game ever again after chasing meaningless "rewards" from daily quest completion in an MMO. To put it one way, I think game loops that lack no convincing argument of meaning for the player are depressing.
@@TransparentLabyrinth TransparentLabyrinth You've actually hinted at one of the things that actually goes further into what I would argue is the main problem, that being creativity and innovative design can actually run counter to a game's perceived accessibility. Allow me to explain.
The main driving force behind the argument of making games more accessible is that it will appeal to a wider audience and more people will want to play it, in theory anyways. To a publisher it would seem therefore that making the game more accessible will always lead to higher sales. The problem is that any personality within a particular game may have to be tossed aside for this ideal of accessibility as quirks would make the game seem less accessible. For example, a franchise that is known for having hard difficulty (such as for example the Ninja Gaiden games) may see their difficulty reduced to make it easier for more people to play them. You could argue "why not just add an easy mode" but then the publisher would simply ask "why does the standard difficulty need to be so hard," which is more or less what killed Ninja Gaiden 3 and that reboot franchise in general.
We can also see the argument of accessibility being used to even butcher entire genres like what happened to the horror genre last gen. As nutty as it sounds, not everyone likes scary games, unfortunately one of the ways publishers tried to make these games appeal to more people is by making them less scary and therefore more accessible. It actually makes sense then why they would add needless coop modes to horror games when having multiplayer is the fastest way to make a game less scary.
Another way to make your game more accessible is to copy the things other publishers are doing as well, this is because they are following established game mechanics and therefore someone who has played games of a particular genre before will be able to jump right in without difficulty. It is important to note that sometimes the copycat is actually able to outpace the original in terms of popularity. Call of Duty itself gained its biggest successes after copying ideas from the Halo and Battlefield franchises, even even copying entire missions from Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and putting them into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Back to what you've said, there is one thing I must categorically disagree with you on, and that is the notion that games with creativity are more expensive than the things AAA publishers put out these days. The indie market in general has demonstrated that it is fully capable of making games more creative and carving out niches all the while lacking the capital or resources of EA or Activision.
I've even done a video myself on this whole issue in far greater depth:
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TL;DR Creativity and Accessibility can often be outright at odds and Publishers are constantly siding with Accessibility.
All of them are some of the most bland, soulless, generic, unenthusiastic, colorless games in the market. Like every single one of these pieces of filth are extremely low quality
They are all just garbage man. I would never allow such trash to clog up my hardware and space
@@iago9711 I mean you're not entirely wrong, but the thing is the industry and gamers as a whole can handle 1 or 2 games like that, but they can't handle all the AAA games being like that.
In the early days of AC and Far Cry I was amazed at how packed full of "content" the maps were, didn't take long to realize how it was just 3 or 4 activities cloned 20 times apiece in order to pad out the length of their repetitive games. Games, for the most part, have no soul...no personality anymore.
Can we just downgrade them to triple BBB games until they pull their socks up.
Triple BBB games? As in BBB BBB BBB games?
Haha
BBBBBBBBB
That’s kinda crazy to think, if Portal were made today it would HAVE to be an indie title
To be honest it probably would've had to have been one back in 07 too, to get a wholly singular release. Do people forget portal was released as part of a three game bundle on consoles (4-5 if you count the half life 2 expansions) - the Orange box? 4 hour games weren't a popular phenomenon in the 360/ps3 era either.
Well to be fair it DID start out as an indie title. Valve, much like Double Fine and some other developers, used to look to indie games quite a lot and hold game jams and such to generate ideas that they could later choose from when making a larger project. Of course, Valve doesn't make games at all anymore, so the only way we could get a good new official Portal game would be if they let the original developers go and sold the license back to them (which, naturally, they would never ever do).
WE MUST ATTACK THE HEART, STERLING
FIRST WE ATTACK THE HEART
-Willem Defoe, 2019
Melo Dotty
You know, I’m something of a gamer myself.
"We gotta cut her heart out!" William Dafoe 2k19
*Willem
@@stoom9118 just woke up when typed that. WHOOPS. I think I also butchered the quote, but I'm still pleased with the result. XD Editted, thank you!
Games are starting to feel like a job. Thats why I loved the RE2 remake. You can finish it in a couple of hours and is highly replayable if you wish to come back.
The RE2 remake is a gift from god honestly, live services are the worst
Its leading the pack as my GotY for a reason :)
Metro Exodus isn't a full time job.
But why are people in such a hurry to finish a videogame? Isn't it supposed to last? Why would anyone want to rush, for the sake of not feeling like a job, The Witcher 3, for example?
It feels like a job when they are so repetitive and boring to the extreme (Anthem? Fallout 76?) If a gamer just repeats the same task over and over, only with small changes here and there, it will obviously and literally, take the life out of almost anyone. Save exceptions ofc.
Kind of seems like Jim is just complaining about his own job, and lack of time to cover all these games.
One epic a week?
Shit, I've got such a backlog of games I haven't played yet, I could probably spend the rest of my life playing the games I already own!
I know the feeling. On the plus side, that means we can comfortably flip off EA and the other festering plagues on the industry every time they barf up a slightly different iteration of some series/format or other.^^
How i miss the glorious times of 2010-2012, when all we were bickering about was Call of Duty. At least those were complete at release.
Is anybody else excited that after so long Willem Defoe was back on the podium today?
Samantha Bland he’s smaller than I imagined.
I feel ashamed to admit I wasn't aware he was there prior, nor aware of his absence.
Miniature Fantasy Willem Dafoe was a staple of the podium for years. Nice to see him back. ^.^
I have absolutely missed Miniature Fantasy Willam DeFoe.
My view of the AAA game industry can best be summarized by Ivan Drago:
"If it dies, it dies."
Pretty much, a lot of people will lose their jobs but the AAA industry is an Ouroboros and sooner or later it will consume itself.
Wait until a crusted doornob tells you that you do not know what you are talking about and that you are an idiot for using your free speech against obvious corrupted capitalism.
And when the shit hits the fan these crusted doornobs are nowhere to the seen, already onto the next discussion punishing people for having an opinion.
Googles biggest mistake was not installing a recaptcha system and not punishing accounts for disrespecting chat rules.
That'll be the collapse of the game industry at large, then. Proving again that gamers are morons who dont know the first clue what they're talking about.
People can have their opinions. Opinions can also be ignorant, though. And there's nothing wrong with pointing it out. You dont get to have an opinion and then say people aren't allowed to criticize it. smh
@@maynardburger There is a difference between criticizing and attempting to shutdown opinions.
I bought Witcher 3 on release and I'm STILL playing it. Seriously, who are these people with the time and money to get more than like 3 triiiiple aaayyy games a year?
I just started up borderlands 2 again with legit playthrough of all characters and the reborn mod.
You've been playing witcher 3 for 4 years?
@@jimbogreen7029 I played Skyrim for 4 years. And that's nothing compared to Witcher 3
I'll expect Jim to talk about positive things when the industry does something positive. The last events were: firing a ton of people and releasing a ton of unremarkable crap. What is he supposed to talk about? How he witnessed an EA executive petting a stray cat on one occasion 11 years ago?
Meanwhile Nintendo is just like "lol Italy man jump good"
And that’s why they’re my go-to game company.
Yet it’s always good. I don’t know what black magic lets them keep putting out awesome games one after another. Even their missteps are still better than a lot of “Triple AAAehh” releases.
@@XShadOBabeX That's why outside of pc they're my console of choice. I'm usually confident with whatever I buy with them at the end of the day.
@@GamerFromJump The black magic? It's their concern with making good, fun games, not making literally all the money ever.
Himiko - It was for sure a rhetorical question, but your summary is good. I guess it’s more like white magic, in that it heals the heart of gaming.
15:34 Given this segment, I can genuinely say, thank god for you, Jim.
I'm glad you do this, otherwise, I may have had to take up the mantle myself way back when. I'm glad I discovered your channel long ago, as I practically mirror you in stance, and opinion. Glad I don't have to drudge through this garbage industry to produce videos covering it. It certainly can't be fun in the least.
So, thanks for sticking with it really. You could easily shift stances to more "click friendly" bullshit, but you stand your ground, and that's certainly commendable in its own right.
Keep doing your thing, Jim Fucking Sterling Son.
I'm like one full gen behind on my playlist of games, the amount of time games require nowadays is ridiculous.
And it's not even because they're so full of content, they just take up time. Games today are the equivalent of scrolling through posts/comments on social media - you spend a ton of time doing it without actually doing anything.
I'm a few gens behind, still playing classic Battlefront 2 and Kotor
well im still on ps1... and i tell you this is great! come back!!
@@abadenoughdude300 or TH-cam comments.
I'm not sure why someone would even want to play a grind game on console. At least with PC it's pretty easy to mute or lower the sound and put a podcast over them.
I agree. Played 200 hs to BOTW because Ioved it, but I won't do it again. Now I'm playing through Doom 2016 for the third time, without ever playing multiplayer. In the realm of videogames, mechanics and not "content" is king.
I never even finished BotW's story. Still dont regret buying it, I loved it.
WTF is BOTW?
@@TFrills, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. You're f*cking welcome.
@@lucianonicolasgarcia7311 ok. I want to play that game too, but I just don't have time.
@@TFrills too bad, it's really good. At least give it a try.
"Sony is making first party games. Nintendo is making first party games. Microsoft is. Ya know." 10/10
Sony make games, Nintendo make games, Microsoft makes controllers for $500 bluray players
Hey now they gave us tetris back in 95
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan TBH though, Sony and Nintendo are very bad at hardware. I don't know what it is but my PS4 just feels like a really cheap product, controller included. If there is one thing that Microsoft does right, it is the quality of the hardware. I would really like to buy an Xbox One X for example, because it feels like a solid console, for third parties at least
Hear me out on this. Long games are actually great, when the content is actually worth doing and is fun.
So not the AAA long video game.
Agreed. Final Fantasy series comes to my mind. I easily spend hundreds of hours in those games and love every hour.
This is why retail games should be $40
I've pumped over 100 hours into Dragon Quest XI, the post game is as interesting and fun as the primary game.
I really enjoyed the collectables in spiderman ps4 because of the dialogue he would give when he found them or the thought that had to go into them (black cats). Wish more games would put in effort like that.
I've got 2000 hours in DotA and I'm still a beginner. How long is this game!? 🍄
Games Industry: "AAA single-player games are dying."
Cyberpunk 2077: *is released and starts selling like hotcakes*
Games industry: [surprised pikachu face]
This comment aged rather poorly.
@@miguelcondadoolivar5149 To be Fair Cyberpunk still did sell very well all things considered. The demand was there, the quality was not.
I don't know how to fix the AAA industry, but from an individual perspective, one way to stop feeling suffocated by the ever growing pile of life-consuming AAA games, is to simply play less of them.
Seriously. If big budget games won't respect your time, then you have to start respecting it yourself.
Feel like Anthem, Apex, Far Cry, Metro or Crackdown demand too much from you? Then bin 'em. Move on. Don't sweat it. Play something you actually want rather than what EA, Ubisoft, Deep Silver or Microsoft's marketing budget tells you to play.
The hype and "conversation" isn't that important. There are no special rewards for being on the ground floor for every release.
My point is: the passion you have for your hobbies, and the spare time you spend on them, is extremely valuable. Don't spunk that away on things you find exhausting.
Honestly, take the whiners in this comments section, get 'em to buy Hitman 2, and then tell me spending a few dozen hours on a game can't be fun.
WickedRibbon, true
Honestly, I find myself spending most of my time on my Switch these days, or with a handful of games that I can sit down and truly enjoy, regardless of hype or their popularity or any of that nonsense. It's *my* hobby, and like you said there's no reason to be part of the "conversation" for every release.
Some of my favorite things to play are highly technical things like Arma, flight sims like IL2, etc. I can get into them, really learn them, and actively challenge myself to improve, rather than playing the same mindless, easy open world game over and over again (they're mostly all the same, after all)
I now exactly how to fix it.Just release a fully polished game like they used to, with no micrtransactions.The witcher 3 was the last really good game released in my opinion.I hope the industry does go into the ground.Maybe then we'll see change.
Being a huge fan of the Battlefield franchise, I didn't purchase BFV.
I also didn't buy into the Fallout 76 hype, because I had a feeling Bethesda was using it as a fundraiser for Elder Scrolls 6...
Then there's Anthem, I didn't buy into that either! It's actually unbelievable the amount of games I haven't bought, simply because AAA has gone to shit.
So whatve I been doing? I've actually enjoyed going back an playing Xbox backwards compatible games lol
They're full, complete games that are generally under $15 and I've been having a blast!
Currently playing through the Dead Space Trilogy, going to play Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning next. After those I might even play through the Witcher 2 again!
Great stories and fantastic experiences from those games, not like the current state of gaming.
Excellent presentation Jim, cheers from Canada.
Same here. I loved Battlefield, I even played it competitively in the ESL. I stopped playing it after all the expansion garbage with BF2. Then I tried giving BF1 a shot, and quit after 2 hours.
Sameee. I saved over 200 dollars in last 12 months. That 200 dollars these companies lost out on cause of their BS the last 3 years!. Especially EA.... How da fuck do you ruin one of the best mid consols starwars game imo... Starwars battlefront. And battlefront 2. Fuck. I learned right there and then EA is dead to me. And I saw it all when battlefront trailer released then the free beta I tried. Bethesda should be sitting itself cause I'm worried for starfield which still nothing to show cause I can only imagine. Same with future elder scrolls if that even happens due to all this bs. I only bought 2 games metro 3 and red dead 2 even tho Rockstar how good they are fucked over multiplayer. I might get Ace combat 7. I loved 4. but other than that the games released are just not for me. Without assassin's creed reskins and far cry reskins what good are they?
Ya i reinstalled natural selection 2. Its great
Im playing Saints row the third and im loving it. This is good times for the back log!
Enjoy your Dead Space run through :)
"Yes Sony is still pumping out amazing solo content, Yes Nintendo is pumping out amazing solo content, yes Microsoft is still uh you know"
As the children say nowadays, I'm dead.
Vince g Cause it's true?...
Microsoft is trying its best. 🐑😊
To make ppl with 10years of gold move to ps5/pc?
You forgot the gratuitous 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 FTFY
Gotta say, buying a PS4 for solo games and a Blu Ray player in the living room was an incredibly solid purchase.
I don't know what their talking about, most of your videos are extremely positive.... Positive that the AAA industry is full of F*** Ups. :)
It is arguably a positive thing to see someone else notice how insane things are in the games industry. It's nice to have at least a few people talking sense on a regular basis while all the official outlets are owned by the same companies mangling everything video games used to be...
I feel like a 10-15 hour game is more satisfying and it's an obtainable goal. I like the sense of accomplishment when I complete it. 60+ hour games can be great, especially rpg's etc... But it can be overwhelming and can easily become a chore if it's repetitive and the story doesn't hold interest.
It is better for a game to leave me wanting more than to leave me wanting less.
How about it leaving you blue balled and ripped off?
@@inthefade Yeah, that's the bad way to leave someone wanting more. I miss when games were satisfying all on their own but we still got excited at the thought of more of them.
Well said!
@@inthefade If you feel ripped off, the game never truly started. But like, at the end of Portal, we wanted more. Then there was Portal 2, but the point is that Portal was a good game, left us wanting more and not ripped off.
Before we were complaining certain games were too short now we're complaining they take up too much of oue time. The purpose of a game is to last anyway
When just 1 failure means studio shutdowns, u know the industry is screwed.
Define failure. Because bioware has had their "best years" behind them for going on 20 years, at least according to consensus, and is still going strong.
Especially when "failure" means "a game that made a healthy profit, but not as much money as the most successful game there's ever been."
@@DorkingtonHacker or sometime loses the company money, but gets sheltered by the closure of unrelated and profitable endeavors because pet project... Cough visceral cough. 😭
I have never just outright stayed this, but I will. Visceral died to protect Bioware. Bioware and their continued incompetence destroyed one of my favorite studios. Grrrrrr.
Not so sure. This has been the case since the Xbox 360-days.
@@Armataan because Anthem was in the oven and ME: Andromeda was kinda selling OK (which is fucking depressing if your game doesn't sell past HALF of Andromeda.) This is their death though...this failure is death for the corpse that once was Bioware.
Jim, thank you for taking my comment onboard! I am glad to see no ads on the screenshots you/your team has taken! Also thank god for you
I love single player finite games, open world games I can’t get through they are mainly boring busy work and forget about multiplayer.
I like single player games :)
So do I. This week yet again I have played exclusively single player.
Me too. Especially ones made by people who care.
I finished Yokus Island Express recently and enjoyed every minute. Jim dedicated a ~5 minute long video that got lost in the flood of Fallout76 or whatever the latest shitshow was. But I guess it's easier to agree on bad stuff then agreeing on good things.
I know, right?
Also, this made me realize something. The most recently released game on my shelf is... Nier Automata, released in 2017. The other major titles were all released in 2016 (Persona 5, Ys 8, Dark Souls 3) or earlier. In the past two years, I've only bought rereleases of older games (FF X HD, NES Classic, SNES Classic).
Last Gen, I bought lots of new games on release day and bought DLC for those games - and all of them were dedicated, story-driven single player experiences. Since the current generation began, I've bought fewer and fewer games (even though I now have more time to play games) and instead turn more and more to playing older titles from the PS3 era and older. Triple A publishers have completely stopped getting money from me at this point - they lost me as a customer due to the Live Service model and lack of single player games.
Wanna know the name?...DEVIL MAY CRY. So excited man...
I can only speak from personal experience but I hear this all the time: "Come on man, give Apex Legends a chance! Go back to PUBG! Try CoD Blackout out! Here are dozens upon dozens of other games that feature season passes and live services and they're all great games!"
Here's the thing though: I already play Fortnite and I don't need or want to keep up with a dozen different games with their own season passes and daily challenges and in-game Christmas, Halloween and Lunar New Year events. I'd rather play those things called video games that have beginnings, middles and ends. Or better yet, I'd rather just play any regular multiplayer game that's confident enough in itself to not constantly nag me to log in and "collect" my daily achievement.
An executive at EA recently gave a presentation at Goldman Sachs (evil loves company I guess) and declared - and I swear this is true - that "the live service video game model is bringing a lot of good to the world by providing happiness and joy to customers around the world." What the fuck? EA, you're not curing cancer or solving the obesity epidemic. Get over yourself!
I'm on the other side of the spectrum and I still have problems, I want to play for honor, titanfall 2, and apex but I just don't have the time! I've settled for exclusively playing one until I get bored it during my leisure time.
So ignore stuff instead if being whiny little bitch like Jim. He’s doing it because he’s desperate for content and can’t think of anything else. What’s your excuse.
I just stop playing these online game.
I still remember the time where online game was exciting! I can find people! Play with them!
Nowadays, fuck it, too much! I just gonna stick with 1 and play that.
And after that, just play some regular singleplayer game. Or some casual puzzle games that i can relax, while giving me some difficulty.
Im playing osu as my main, and i keep indie game from steam as a pass timer as i got plenty of game i can play whenver i feel like i want to. No need to rush
@@Davelever366 Shut up.
Uh, EA won't proposition for those. Cancer and unhealth are big money pits, and their investors are likely already involved elsewhere. If anything, they'll shift focus to causing MORE of it.
"Microsoft is...you know."
Best line in the video, bar none.
New background looks awesome! Great vid as always.
"I am not under the obligation to present the illusion of balance" That's why i love ya Jim
This just depresses me. Growing up, I had always been very enthusiastic about games and their continued advancement. I was there at the dawn of 3D console gaming, when Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Banjo Kazooie were my main sources of joy. I remember being amazed at Halo, with its huge vistas and smart enemies. I remember the dawn of HD gaming, and soaking in the lush, breathtaking jungles of Uncharted, and having countless hours of fun playing, shooting, and building in the last couple Halo games by Bungie. I remember the optimism gaming inspired in me. And now, I can’t help but feel tired of my favorite medium. Every live service, every long tail, feels like a suggestion to get out. To go outside, to take my passions elsewhere.
I hear you there. I'm actually getting back into reading, I plan on breaking into a new career narrating for e-books.
You've literally only mentioned first party or platform exclusive titles. These are still pretty good, as Jim mentioned. It just takes effort to figure out which games are good-good and which games are successfully hyped. I've mentioned this elsewhere in this comments thread, but basically EA and Ubisoft as publishers can generally be trusted to peddle worthless, shiny shit.
I'm pretty much right there with you, only difference is that I've given up on AAA games long ago at this point and most the games I play (or re-play) these days are older games and the occasional live service such as warframe, the only new games I tend purchase are $5 on a steam sale/humble bundle.
@@vgamesx1 there's actually loads of great indie games if you learn how to tune in to the right channels socially. Or maybe not even indie, but smaller publishers. I could probably live off of the output from Devolver Digital alone. And the great thing is, the money you put in to these companies generally gets reinvested in games and paying for talented people to stay in the industry rather than syphoned off to buy execs a new yacht.
True brother follow your instinct
Amazing video as always, you lead Jim! ;)
Avril Lavigne's Complicated.. An appropriate musical choice for the topic at hand.
I hear "live service" and I puke
Im a simple man
You may have underlying health issues
Spider-man felt highly respectful of the player's time to me, bought it during final exams and finished it comfortably without having to cut on work on any of my projects.
I felt the same but I think that's because at no point did it feel like a chore... It could have been a bit longer, but everything unlocked at a decent pace and it was very fun to traverse
You have a group of people screaming "value per hour" and arguing that a game worth playing X hours is a good game and you got your moneys worth.
You have companies pushing out 20 hour campaigns because now the value per hour looks more favorable and theres collectables and side quests to make it last even longer to add even more value per hour.
And then you have people with jobs and families, and lives that are full of things going on and don't have time to play multiple long narrative gsmes.
I have to chapters and the epilogue left in red dead 2, I'm trying to squeeze out a few personal goals in anthem before I put it down, I have school and work, studying for certification tests, job hunting, and no time for more games as service. And I don't think I'm alone in that category.
I do not understand why this is a bad thing. If you don't have time to play large games, don't get large games. There are smaller games to get...
RDR2 had no busy work whatsoever. It had a slow pace, both in gameplay and story, but that just makes it a long game, with no compromise in quality or production design, nothing cynical. I don't know why you would criticize a game for giving you more for your money than most companies do.
it's like food. it's healthier to leave the table with a slight feeling of hunger than with your stomack about to explode. it's ok for a game to end when you still want to play it, in comparison to when you want it to end sooner because you ran out of your free time and you're still not seeing the end of the story
vsm1 that is not on the game though. I love the length. I think if it were a 30 hour game, the story and the world wouldn’t work. At the end of the day, you still have to value ambition and not having enough free time should nit stop you from doing that. I think if you are someone that cannot finish a long game, then you should simply not buy the longer games, especially rdr2, that has one of the longest narratives ever.
@@hammadkhan450 "you should simply not buy the longer games" - which become less and less common because of the "value per hour" talks and the push to live services - that was the point of his comment, not dissing on your beloved rdr
The noises you made before 1:20 seconds made my depressed dog very happy.
I'll keep supporting Playstation and Nintendo for as long as they continue to produce exceptional single-player, first-party games, because the AAA publishers ONLY care about turning my console and PC into an unregulated, untaxed slot machine.
So true, Nintendo and Sony are in a bubble where good games that don't hide content beyond a paywall can exist in their own space.
I did think GOW and Spiderman was a weird example when he brought up long games. Pretty spot on otherwise just thought GOW and Spiderman weren't really all that long unless you do sidemissions but Resi2 would be long if you did everything possible as well.
Sony has been killing studios left and right, as bad if not worse than EA. Twisted Metal, Wipeout, Socom, Ape Escape, Syphon Filter, all classic franchises, all dead.
I'm a Sony fanboy but the company has gone to shit with censorship.
The Problem isn´t game length, it´s the Combination of annual franchises and live services turning games repetitive and uniform. Baldurs Gate took me half a year to complete, didnt mind that at all.
Cilvar Frey that’s why I loved the rdr2 single player and Witcher 3. Long games great quality. Also a soft spot for the older Pokemon games that actually required some grind to complete. Sped thru alpha sapphire in about 7 hours
9:45 Yay! I'm very happy to see a bit where you're plugging the smaller guys who are doing good work... and on your flagship show! With regards to the closing, I can definitely respect and understand that the rants garner more views than the glowing praises, so I'm happy to see you sneaking the praise in where you can.
Hey man, love the channel, long time watcher. If I could just toss out on bit of technical advice? If you've got the room in your setup to do it, take a few steps forward away from the green screen. It will help a lot with the green edging you get sometimes by reducing the green light spill bouncing back from the material. You might need as much as a few feet though, again not sure of your available space and setup. Otherwise, cheers to you and the rest of the crew for keeping the channel going.
Its the same thing in almost every industry. Look at whats happening to video streaming services. It uses to be just Netflix. Now Disney is making one, HBO has one, there's Hulu, Amazon, crackle etc. Basically, every channel has a streaming service now. Hell, some companies have multiple different streaming services. And do you know what they are going to do with that. THey are going to start to bundle the streaming services together for a cheaper price and then were back to square one.
The same thing will happen in the game industry. Currently, Microsoft and EA have a subscription service. Eventually, Activision will make their own, then Ubisoft, etc. Subscription services are bullshit for the video game industry. It's just a way to fuck over retail and lower peoples standards by thinking oh this game only cost me X number of dollars. Not to mention they can steadily keep increasing the price and most people won't notice because they don't look at their credit card statements or forget they even have the subscription. Hell game pass now is in the reeling people in phase. Offering free months cheap months etc. Then after people get used to the idea of game pass they will phase out the deals and steadily start increasing the price.
And dont even get me started on the game streaming. Then next bullshit meme of the video game industry
Screw streaming. That is the worst idea ever for gaming.
got it in one.
@@utisti4976 totally agree
@@utisti4976 people said the same thing about streaming movies/shows
You don't belong in the internet. You make too much sense.
Sad thing is that the only people to suffer are the low paid developers when shit hits the fan.
Cpt. Shmitt Yep; every studio I busted my arse in 90 hour work weeks, 10-month crunches, and a non-existent work/life balance, laid me off when the retards at the helm crashed into another iceberg of failure and sailed to another host studio on their golden parachute.
These parasites in charge have successfully chased away nearly all actually competent game designers from the industry now. Looks like what’s stuck around isn’t even the D-team these days.
Ash Kitt unfortunately murder is illegal, even if the shithead ceo's deserve it.
They deserve it for choosing to work for shitty companies!
They've signed their own death warrants when they applied for the job/sold their studios. They really should organise group resignations and form crowdfunded indie studios - you know, before they get mixed with the shit and dropped on the industrial fan that's already gaining momentum. The option is more accessible than ever, and their experience will make them that much more credible and trustworthy.
Yet another great piece of content. Much love from across the pond.
“Something to Protect intensifies in the Background*
Goddamn brilliant.
JIM YOU HAVE AWAKENED REPRESSED MEMORIES OF OAKEY DOKE AND I AM NOT OAKAY WITH IT
Me too
Me three...
XD
Okey doke, you four. : )
I had flashbacks.
Dont buy Anthem. You may be banned for exploiting flaws in their loot system. Keep in mind this is in a pve game where exploits wont even harm other player's experience. They are basically saying if you dont buy microtransactions because of mistakes in our game, we will take your 60 dollars and kick you out.
Please if you exploits you deserve to get banned. One thing is sure i better not leave my car unlocked with you because you will saying its your that i stole it. 😃
@@personalspace6270 don't just blame the thief if your lock can be beaten with a chicken bone.
Remeber when you could cheat however you wanted in your games? Now we cant even do that cus big brother is allways watching, just waiting to get banned from sims 4 for cheating in insane ammounts of money
Mate, saying not to buy Anthem in Jim's comments is just preaching to the choir.
@@Sam-Cain I'm sure there're a few guys here who bought that waste of time and energy.
You bring us that balance, Jim, it's why we love you! :)
omg Mr Oakey Doke!!!
This was my childhood right there :D
if i wanted to log in too a video game every day and waste money on it i would open my warcraft account.
I still remember spending 700 days in wow.....
And that's the thing, every game is trying to be a half-MMO these days.
@@legorobot2369 That's the even sadder part. MMOs would offer you hundreds of hours of content and things to do with friends, with huge update patches with new content, all for a fixed monthly fee, everything in the game could be earned through gameplay. None of the bullshit cash shops until much later. Even though the endgame was mostly a grindy timesink there were still epic bossfights, world events and raids. Today's "service" games still come with a $60 pricetag, have a short story mode and then an endless grind of repeating the same tiny amount of content whilst you wait to pay for more DLC to actually give you something new to do. The value comparison isn't anywhere near close, plus today you can play a lot of MMOs Free to play until endgame. Modern games as service model is just a scam to force people into buying $60 games with DLC, season passes and micro transactions just to have a complete experience.
@@cattysplat I fully agree with that. Games are no longer being made to entertain us, but to be a second job we have to pay to do.
@Bill Hill Sorry, I occasionally do that by accident. What was the first complaint about though?
And Resident Evil 2 Remake has been released with an 8 hour experience. And it is awesome.
I'm not paying 45 quid for an 8 hour game, I don't care how good it is...and it isn't without it's own problems either.
It's a REMAKE in an already established FRANCHISE.
These don't count!
@@sunnyjim1355 It's seriously worth the money, dude. It isn't 8 hours anyway. It took me 8 to beat one campaign, 7 to beat the other, and then 3 each to beat each of the 2nd scenarios. Thats 22 hours, plus the ghost survivor free DLC adds a few more hours, and so does the 4th Survivor and Tofu modes. It has a few faults but pretty much any game has some. It's worth the money, especially if you are a fan of the original. It does the original a lot of justice.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Actually 4 campaigns! The other 2 are just slightly shorter is all, since you already know the layout of everything and it is just you having to adapt to new enemy and item placements
Some people buy games based on length and other factors, while you might see an 8-hour experience and go, yay, some people won't buy an 8-hour game for 45-60 dollar and want that, it's too short. Personally, I don't buy games that often, so lengthier games are my go to, and I don't buy them at full price so a few times here and there, I'll buy a shorter experience, like OG Metros, and fighting games. But that's just me, some people buy games thrice yearly, some weekly and some quarterly, or monthly, people are different, so I find it senseless to say, shorter is better.
The wink at the end was just TASTY
Bravo! Jim, Bravo! Keep it up. Give the man a standing ovation!
I've noticed the same about the modern games industry, sadly. How they tend to pursue short term gains and ignore the long term consequences over and over again... and like you pointed out, there's only so much consumer time/money to go around in the market during any given period.
that is literally how our entire economic system is set up though, that's why we have huge financial crashes on a fairly regular basis
They ignore the consequences because for the people on top they aren't consequences. They don't care if the industry crashes and burns in 3, 4 or 5 years. They and their most important investors are getting money now. The CEO and other top dickheads have golden parachutes. When/if Activision Blizzard goes bankrupt, Bobby Dickhead will have his billions, he will get another CEO level job, the top investors will pull out early and get their money. Who will face the consequences? The honest worker and lower tier investors. And Bobby definitely doesn't give a single fuck if Bill from QA will be able to feed his newborn child when they crash.
Welcome to XXI century capitalism.
@@Nuvizzle crashes happen in every economic system. they happen in capitalism, socialism, and communism.
you are wrong, though. there is only so much money in socialist and communist economies because they don't promote growth. they rely on recycling the same amount of money, even if the population changes. when they crash, there is no recovery. at least when capitalism crashes, there are ways out to recover.
Meanwhile I'm still playing Minecraft purchased many years ago for less than $20 USD. I must spend 90% of the time play the same 5 games.
Quite sad, isn't it? I myself have devoted over 2600 hours to Terraria, which only costed me $10. The only AAA game to ever come more than halfway to that for me right now is Skyrim, but that's only because of the modding community. If Skyrim didn't have a modding community, I probably would have dumped it after about 40 hours. Sad truth is that real AAA titles are a dying breed.
best part about games like minecraft and terraria is that they use heavy creative elements on the player's end, so you could literally play them forever as long as new content gets streamed in via the developers or mods.
I am pretty much doing the same, I've been playing Boundless, a nice little indy mmo/rpg/voxel builder which I have over 1000 hours in, I haven't purchased an AAA game in a long time.
I still play ps3 titles LOL
Caveblazers is something I recommend for anyone looking for an entertaining solo 'play when you have some spare time' game.
Minecraft and Terraria I used to enjoy but there's too much freedom now that Ive become a less creative person who has also been somewhat tainted by the games of today where you pay for a grindey job.
Complicated playing in the background was a beautiful touch
your playing that song in the backround and my head fills in the weird al version
Did... Did Jim just shake his Willem at me?
He's such an embarrassment. If he were my father, and he did that in public, I would disown him.
He's gonna be demonetized for that!
"Seriously, have you seen Willem Dafoe's penis?... It's massive." A little something that Jim himself mentioned at one point in the past. So of course he's going to shake his Willem at us. Wouldn't you?
Powerful Anne Robinson "Join us again on the Weakest Link... Goodbye ;-)" vibes from that finishing wink.
Jim, at 9:08 I couldn't help but start singing "somebody else, round everyone else. you're watchin' your back, like you can't relax, you're trying to be cool, you look like a fool TO MEEE," and it was oddly appropriate. Good song choice.
Ironic, isn't it? *Live* services are what's *killing* the game industry.
Ha
Couldn't agree more with this. I really don't understand what's wrong with a relatively simple, 10 hour, skill based, linear, story driven game to most publishers. They are still very popular, and the beautiful thing about them is that they compete with each other less, meaning we should be able to have more.
I really miss those days. Detroit Become Human was the perfect length. And I am enjoying God of War. At least in that game, I don't feel so bogged down by the side quests.
@@Drstrange3000 God of War is great. The main story is nice and lengthy but not needlessly long. And side quests are there for those who want extra content but aren't shoved in your face at the expense of getting in the way of the main quest.
@@evilduck1000 Agreed. Its has some of the least intrusive side quests which is very welcome!
I don't think I will ever get tired of your videos, Jim. Thank God for you. Your skills in analyzing this whole mess are just stunningly brilliant.
That intro was your best beside one that has STURDUST in it.
It's not just games, it's movies and much of pop culture, everything has to be bigger, longer, and simply _more_ than what has come before. Look at new versions of Jurassic Park, Predator, Terminator, Alien - all far, far too long with 100 different plot threads packed in so as to render it nonsensical. They can't just make a simple story like any of the originals.
More plot lines, more characters, more creatures, more scenery = more merchandising opportunities
Because one franchise (Marvel) is actually critically successful at it, everyone everywhere has to ape it and pretend they are too.
@@wokeupinapanic
Which kinda proves Jim right, so many companies playing follow the leader but end up failing.
YAY, we're bringing back Miniature Fantasy Willem Dafoe, I missed him.
Hopefully, he'll stop voicing his desire to kill all the pandas.
The reason time is more important than money for gaming: Theres no REASONABLE maximum on how much money people may have if they are rich enough. but there IS a maximum on time. nobody can play for more than 24 hours in one day.
Keep doing what youre doing jim. never compromise. thank god for you.
The TRIPUL AYYYY industry is too afraid of risk. When someone strikes gold, pretty much everyone else follows suit until the trend dies. Rinse and repeat. In fact, this behavior isn't even exclusive to the TRIPUL AYYYY side. I remember about a decade ago when WoW was still good (yes, it's been that long!), there was some unknown company that made 11 different MMOs. You read that right, ELEVEN separate MMOs by one company. I don't think any of them even lasted a year, because nobody was playing them, surprise surprise. The point is, if you want to be a smash hit, you have to stand out. Playing it safe is ironically an easy way to fail.
big companies with big budgets and investors who neither understand or care about the industry find themselves having to justify their financing of projects by statistics. it's actually a great example of how reductive, statistical views on the world frequently fail to actually describe reality.
thats why with the current Battle Royale trend every new game is trying to twist it in some way with new mechanics and so far the current leader is Apex due to it's faster pace and "Hero" based gameplay as well as smarter designs like contexual pings/voiceline callouts
You should play #ACECOMBAT7 , it breaks the norm:
1. No microtransactions
2. Finished on release
3. Single-player focused
4. Includes multiplayer
5. High quality soundtrack
6. PSVR
Dero Gs it’s also a jet fight game, which you only wanna play in short bursts before you can get invested in it
Air combat games are niche though comparatively but I totally understand where You're coming from. I always got them on console and now on PC hasn't let me down yet
Well there is World of Warplanes if you want the pseudo MMO / live service version of a jet fighter game. (no idea if that is any good though, i'm perfectly fin with Ace Combat, i just wish there was more of it, burned through those 20 Missions on one weekend and don't really feel like replaying it over and over again like i did with AC6).
I've heard much "RUINED FOREVER" from that way. On the plus side I care very little about the plot of the ace combat games so I'll probably check it out anyway.
@@RAFMnBgaming just don't be surprised when your jet plane began scaling an elevator that reaches the exosphere.
Or when lasers are being shot from a large tower build on magic.
Thank you Jim, you are doing what you can love ya and keep up the great work. Thank the God's for Jim.
I’ve recently started to watch your videos but nowadays I’m watching them religiously and enjoy every minute of them! You’re the best !
Man this is why I buy way fewer games now than I did 2-3 years ago. I don't have time to sink 30 hrs into a Far Cry, fuck knows how long into Metro, 50 hrs into Anthem and whatever else. Especially since they're all expensive and got average reviews. I'm just sat here finishing up a Witcher 3 NG+ that I started last year watching the disappointment from a distance...
Was going to mention Witcher 3 but here you went first. So that's a good choice, buddy friend! 🍄 Pal! 🍄
Don't be so ADD and do like myself (and apparently yourself with Witcher 3) and take your time and enjoy the game. You don't HAVE to buy anything
I bought more games while unable to afford them ten years ago than I do now that I have a stable income with cash to burn. And the games I do buy now are indie darlings which cost around $5 or $10.
It's even worse for ppl like me who love the idea of secondary and tertiary runs. I just love restarting single player games for challenge runs and such. Played RE 2 six times already. Games are overcompeting so hard with each other over free time to the point I couldnt play most even if they were free.
I had to seriously think about how I wanted to spend my free time this year, since my backlog is just ballooning every year because I can’t stop buying cheap games. I still have stuff in my collection like Witcher 3 and life is strange that I want to start but then other games come along and it just snow balls.
There's a silent majority that appreciates your dogged determination in continuing to cover these issues, Jim. Keep up the good work!
gods bless you Jim, we need more people like you
Agree 100%. I'm honestly so tired of long games that I buy games that sit there for a year sometimes, before I get to them, because I know they are going to be insanely long and i just dont have it in me to start them. I've had the last 2 AC games sitting there for ages, but I got about half way through Origins and haven't even started Odyssey. My purchases have actually slowed down heaps now, cos i got sick of buying games and then realising i couldn't be bothered suffering through them. The only recent game i actually got through was RDR2, because i love Rockstar's games and they rarely come out. It sucks knowing that it is no longer worth buying the latest games, because they are more like a chore I have to tick off than something I enjoy
Given the state of AAA games....Tetris 99 for early Jim Sterling GOTY?
For real though that game was more fun than I thought it was gonna be. I've been having a blast with it.
Not deserving of the title being honest, this game could be on pc and took no time or effort just used a classic game and made it multiplayer BR...
This is actually how a major studio should move into new genres: Nintendo wanted to test out netcode and other tech for a battle royale, so they made a small, minimally featured tetris game, and sold it for the price of an online subscription. And now when they want to make, say Splatoon 3 with a battle royale mode, they'll have people who were able to learn how to do that in a few months vs. 5+ years.
Cinnamon Panda I mean, you’re not wrong, but it’s Tetris, Man. All it needs to be a Tetris game is to put blocks in their place. Any innovations to that is pretty much just changing the conditions under which the players do that. You’re entitled to your opinion, but I think “not deserving of the title of Tetris” is a bit extreme.
Well, that game is related to the massive incompetence known as Nintendo Online, so it's not gonna be GOTY-worthy.
this is very true. im a student who doesn't have a lot of time and if im honest, when the outer worlds was confirmed to be 15-40 hours and not 100+, I rejoiced. and given how hyped I am for that game, I don't think thats a positive for the industry.
Same here. Nowadays, the feature "200h+ of gameplay" is more of deterrence than anything else. And the thing is: Mostly those 200h+ are filled with time sink content like FedEx missions or "kill 200 of X and 300 of Y". It's possible to sink several hundred hours into those games, but in the end nothing of value remains. You won't remember those 50 hours of grind. What really remains are memorable characters and stories. Hopefully, other publishers and developers are able to offer more 'mid-range games' like "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice" that offer good, memorable experiences without unnecessary filler and time sink material.
Yep, game length is not everything. If a studio you trust is making a game that is being led by designers and writers and directors that you trust, then we need to just trust them. If their creative drive leads them to make a shorter game, then they should do exactly that. If they genuinely want to leave out MP or something, then they should do that. If they want to make the game long because it genuinely does feel like part of their vision, then they should do that. Some of the best gaming experiences I've had have been games that had shortish story-lines. It's all about context.
@@AlbertCole_ I have 105 hours in Endernal. And still not bored. Mostly because its singleplayer.
Not here, that make me not want Outer Worlds anymore.
there is a oversaturation of open world games, way too many of them with pointless clutter as jim put it nicely, i miss the simple linear games of the past.
Dude you're awesome! How have I never seen your channel before!? Must have been living under a rock.
New sub and like here. Thanks for the raw truth and entertainment my friend :D
I enjoy your videos very much the way they are and so do many others! Thank God for Jim, best wishes
I'm old school. I only play single player adventures and move on.
My gameplan: RE2, Metro Exodus, DMC 5, Sekiro, Days Gone, MK 11, Rage 2, Doom eternal, hollow knight silksong, Dying Light 2 etc.
Cyberpunk, Last of us 2, Ghosts of Tsushima..
You get the idea.
Same here, during the 7th gen I mainly played multiplayer games and as a result I missed out on so many great games because I dedicated those hours to the same game.
Me as well, this is the single player gamers section.
I'm guessing this is because we're older? I'm over 40 and yeah, multi-player has never been my thing either. Can't wait for borderlands 3 which I will play SOLO.
Their roadmaps made you make your own roadmap... What is this world coming too!?
Same here. I use to love multiplayer last gen because it had so many great games (Call of Duty, Halo, Gears, Borderlands, etc.), but in today’s generation of games they only care about milking every single dollar out of you with loot boxes, micro transactions, and bunch of live service BS while devs working on the single player side listens to the consumers and actually makes a finished product with occasional free/paid dlc.
*random Dafoe noises*
What a brilliant actor! Such an inspiration!
Thank you Jim. Your voice of reason, in these fucking crazy times, is a tonic. Keep up the excellent work. ^^
Christ I love this man. Excellent closing point.