Gaming is Dying, and HYPE is Killing it
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- Elden Ring is releasing next month, so I think we should talk about hype. Getting excited for new video game releases used to be really fun, until AAA publishers started spending 100 million dollars on marketing instead of making good games. Over the past 10 years, countless disappointments have released. While I still have faith in From Software, I used to say the same about CD Projekt Red, and, well...you know the rest.
/ syntheticman
0:00 Intro
3:26 Rambling About Disappointing Games from the Last 8 Years
13:07 My Concerns With Elden Ring
17:50 Loving Dark Souls and Hating DS3
21:00 Conclusion - เกม
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I'm having the opposite problem. Ive yet to see a game reveal that can make me hyped in recent times
with you on that one
Same, there aren't many great games coming out anymore so it sorta just makes me more pessimistic and unable to be excited for upcoming games because I just expect them to be a disappointment like most games are these days.
every year i see people on social media going crazy on some generic games, i never understand why they act like they're seeing something awesome
Same
I remember the days of mass effect trailers or witcher 3. Nowadays it's just boring multiplayer games that dont even work.
When mediocre has become the standard/Good you know something is wrong with today's gaming
Sorry most people don't just shit on Medicare games because they're Medicore but I'd argue video games even back then weren't great you're all just blinded by nostalgia really bad
@@jub8951 sorry, but I’m 14 so I wasn’t old enough to have nostalgia for old games. So here’s my standpoint. Though many people are nostalgia blinded I’ll just show you this what games are objectively better than the modern ones (not my opinion this is games that are objectively better)
Fallout new Vegas is better than fallout 4
Far cry 2&3 and blood dragon is better than far cry 5&6 and new dawn (or whatever the pink one was called)
Halo 3 is better than halo 5
Every old call of duty is better then the ones out now
Every old sports game from 2014 and under is better then the ones now
Old Pokémon is better than new Pokémon sword and shield.
Any battlefield game is better than 2042 (including fricking hardline)
Borderlands 2 is better than 3
Final fantasy back than was better then the ones now
GTA San Andreas is better than the remake. ( or gta V that ones up for debates)
Just cause 2 is better than 4
I can go on and on, I don’t know what else is proof that it’s not just nostalgia. Keep in mind those listings aren’t just my opinion those games are objectively better than the shit we got today.
@@Sonny2299 resident evil 2 remake and biohazard are literally loved by many and is better than 5 or 6 and the originals since they are much scarier, devil may cry 5 is objectively the best devil may cry, doom 2016 and doom eternal are objectively the best doom games, also talking about Halo I heard infinites good, god of war PS4 is objectively the best god of war, not to mention, spiderman PS4 is objectively the best spiderman game, not to mention horizon, nioh, nioh 2, Bloodborne, sekiro, ghost of Tsushima, not to mention indie games as well, but we're just talking triple AAA not mention games coming out like dying light 2, horizon forbidden west, and oh yeah elden ring and I can go on and on if you want to focuse on the negative expects on a gaming generation? You know how many bad movie tie in games were in the PS2 and Xbox? Alot of them and those aren't the only bad games in that generation because I played alot of them
Mediocre was always the standard in gaming. That's why there are great games, bad games and midling games. Great games, even back then, are rare compared to most other bad and mediocre games. That was always the case.
it was like 3 companies making games back then now there’s at least 10 big ones. More companies means more games. More games means more of a chance for a mediocre game.
It's not about hype...it's about preorders, microtransactions, and early access.
We need to stop giving companies money for incomplete products. They're not incentivized to actually complete the product once they have the money in pocket.
Microtransactions are a completely seperate issue.
And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with Early Access. Plenty of great games have come out of it.
Hype is the reason people pre-order. It's also the reason people read blatantly undeliverable Early Access promises and support the game anyway.
@@SpadeDraco Microtransactions are a different issue, of course...but it leads to the same shady business practices.
And as far as early access goes...maybe it's my age showing, but I miss the days of games being released COMPLETED. You bought a game, and the game was ready. No patches were needed, no day-one updates, etc. Just a complete game for your hard-earned money.
I have a really hard time believing that with all the technological advances we've made over the years, game development has taken steps backward. No. These changes are in the name of lining people's pockets, at the expense of the consumer. And we've convinced ourselves to just take it with a smile.
There's no justifiable reason for every game to need countless updates, patches, and day-one dl's to be in a playable state. Especially since we know it wasn't like this ten or so years ago.
@@tizodd6 I think you might misunderstand the concept of Early Access a bit, I'm pretty sure the idea is that if you have a partially made game but lack funds to finish it you can release what you have as proof of concept and people can choose to pay you less than full price so that you can finish it and in exchange for you basically allowing them to be your beta testers and they get upgraded to the full game at no additional cost upon the proper release.
obviously there are some people that misuse it, sometimes people waste the money they get or abandon the project, and it's definitely something made more for indie games than for AAA but I've seen it used really well a few times.
@@Eclipsed_Embers I understand what it is. I also know it can be useful for studios that don't have a lot of funds. I'm just tired of seeing it misused, and seeing games stay in EA for years and never get a full release.
Like I said...I just miss the days of buying a complete game and calling it a day. The constant nickel and diming is annoying.
@@tizodd6 You made your TH-cam account in 2006 and you have a playlist of Old School songs from the 1970s/1980s. So I think I already see where you're coming from.
I'm certainly much older than Synthetic Man himself is, but I respect him a little because he brings up a lot of great points in this video. Seeing games in a constant unfinished state is the reason why I no longer preorder games, and haven't done so for years.
These days I wait until everyone else has moved on from a game, then I just go and buy that very game for $20 - 30. Fully complete, with all the patch updates the devs made after the game launched, no longer have to worry about unfinished crap.
I did this for Red Dead Redemption 2. Picked it up for $30, and despite it's slow pace, I'm really enjoying the game.
Mate, From Software , at least until now, has never disappointed with its games and I don’t see why Elden Ring should be any different, their games never had micro transactions and all their games have always been single player focused, these two reasons alone would be already enough for me completely trust them on any new game that they could release
careful, you sound like the people who were saying the same thing about CDPR and the witcher series, right before Cyberpunk
Hopefully that won’t happen with Elder Ring and From, otherwise I will get back on this comment section just to that I was wrong
@@letsgovideogames4190 CDPR made ONE good game. Fromsoft hasn’t missed since Demons Souls. It’s not the same.
@@letsgovideogames4190 but unlike cyberpunk they gave us gameplay of the game before release that isn’t prerecorded super specific scenarios. I mean the closed network test alone was pretty goddamn good especially for such a small portion of the game
@@letsgovideogames4190 Sorry to join the bully train, but I have to agree with most of the guys here. FromSoft has had a great track record with almost all of the games they have released up until this point with a huge dedicated player base for all of them.
I don't see Elden Ring failing at all, even if it comes out with some bugs.
People are literally paying 60$ for incomplete games
But the worst part of it all are TH-camRS lying to their viewers saying that the games are not broken
Everyone's in on it.
TH-camrs are incentivized by money and access. Websites like IGN shill to get kick backs from publishers. Publishers lie and deceive all in the name of money.
The masses gets tricked and buy into it, and the cycle repeats itself.
There's too much money involved not to lie.
you realy think elden ring wil release broken this is from were talking about here
@@penguin4241 after cyberpunk i wont put anything past any game studio, from has investors and stockholders to please just like any other studio
@@tylerhill40 you forgot that the people that complain about it, just to buy the best gave. It's for content.
A better description would be "gaming is dying and greed is killing it"
That's democracy nowadays. Except for the fact that democracy never worked as intended.
I mean its the greed of the company but its the hype of the consumer that keeps supporting it.
The price we had to pay to move gaming into the mainstream
@@LastGhost12 I still remember the days where playing games got you teased and made fun of, though I grew up right on the tail end of it.
In my older brother's day it'd get your ass kicked! He used to hide his Comodore 64 in the garage under a blanket whenever friends came over.
@@planescaped I'm curious as to how old you are. People were still teasing kids for playing video games back in the 1990s. Even with DOOM, gaming was still a largely niche hobby. Some grown ups who were like John Romero and John Carmack were into gaming as a hobby, but a large demographic of gamers were kids, including myself.
Battlefield 2042 getting 8, 9, or even 10 from most gaming news outlets basically says all you need to know about them. Thank god we have SOME major TH-camrs who keep it real.
Mostly smaller TH-camrs. The big ones usually shill since they have connections with publishers and developers.
@@KratostheThird Depends I guess who you follow. Angry Joe and Skill Up both didn’t hold much back from giving the game a good beating telling people not to play it.
@@blairalexander3009 I haven't looked at Angry Joe the same way ever since his copyright rant back in December of 2013.
He certainly has talent and charisma, but compared to his old stuff Angry Joe just comes off as being lazy and uninspired.
The reason Angry Joe stood out was because he was one of the first guys to cover video game reviews in a polished format. He came onto the scene back in 2009/2010ish when most TH-camrs didn't have the resources to make decent video game reviews.
Now he's looking like the old guy who has seen better days. He's certainly not bad, far from it, I just don't think he is as great as he used to be.
@@KratostheThird well sure I can echo some of that. I have some problems with his past actions too but he’s still a big TH-camr and I can always count on him being honest and not shilling.
This is actually one of the only few times I can agree with Synthetic man
I will agree hype can ruin a game, but there is a difference between hype and excitement to a certain degree. The casual hype is what I hate personally.
Your pfp… LMFAO
like bf2042 the whole thing was just for casuals
This guy is a little too much doom and gloom… even classic franchises, throughout all he does is shit talk all gaming and make it depressing. Seriously listen to what he says about MGS and Resident evil as a series, he actually doesn’t say much of a single positive thing. He’s just too bitter at this point, it’s not funny or enjoyable to watch like an angry joe or AVGN or even a YongYea, just some guy who’s way to obsessed with how his opinion is perceived in TH-cam comments. I still will hope his content takes a turn, but there’s a fine line between sardonic and dour.
@@djandjb1 You realize he is ranting, right?
Half of the ranters on TH-cam do the same thing. Also, he's said a lot of positive about Resident Evil.
@@KratostheThird Even if he’s “ranting”, it’s honestly a bad rant and it’s just rambling about personal opinions, that he applies to everyone. Even talking about the Souls games, he talks like an entitled child who wants his little perfect game, because he has grown so good at video games that he can’t even die in the Souls series anymore, and nothing surprises him at all. Like, if nothing surprises you in gaming, then why do you play videogames? Maybe it’s time you grow out of it and find another hobby, cause you’ve definitely lost interest in it…
This video was kind of a disaster honestly, could’ve been handled much better if not for most of the non sensical takes…
As someone who has played the Elden ring beta, I have to say it isn’t just ds3 rollspam generics, it’s a little slower, and focuses on strategy a lot more with the spell system being overhauled, ashes of war bringing tons of variety, and just general additions like stealthing, sleep arrows, power standing which emphasises weapon diversity. They’re making the gameplay more varied which is overall a good thing. I’m personally very hyped for Elden ring, but that’s because Elden ring is the only game I can get hyped for anymore. Most videogames that come out are shit, and with the rise of NFTs, it’s only going to get worse. Elden ring could be terrible but like you said, it’s very unlikely. I’d be cautiously optimistic.
fromsoftware is one of the few game developers that I feel safe about getting hyped about, they have been making amazing games for over 20 years now. I am a old school fan been playing sense kings field and armored core. the thing that he's failing to bring up is that there are always obvious signs when a game compony is about to release a shit game. and fromsoftware is showing none right now. its ok to be hyped, just do your research first, is what I say.
No offense or anything but do you know how many times people have said they beta tested a game and it was amazing, only for it to be a giant turd when it released? There's a fairly popular TH-cam who got invited to play Cyberpunk around 6 months before it released and made a gushing 30 minute video about how blown away he was by what he saw. We know how that turned out...
Still already bought it
Someone telling me I shouldn’t be hyped
That’s BullShit
@@Aethelhald well we all know that the people who sung high praises for cyber punk beta were abject liars. you could see the cracks in it there and they chose to ignore it.
@@Aethelhald There were obvious signs cyberpunk was not going to be what the developer were saying, honestly the lengthy development and delays was a huge sign that things were not going as planned. Also before the beta they only showed scripted gameplay not actual real gameplay which is also a sign that developers are hiding things and or lying.
Wanted to elaborate even further cdprojekt red only had one successful game under their belt, which is the Witcher three. Witcher one and two are just OK games, not good and not bad. So it’s not like they’ve had a very great track record to even start. unlike fromsoft who has released successful game after successful game after successful game for over 20 years now.
Tears of th kingdom is the perfect encapsulation of this point. I feel as though Nintendo could release literally anything, call it Zelda, and it would get perfect scores across the board.
Tears of the kingdom deserves every 10/10 though. Your just upset and hate nintendo, because your just one of those nintendo haters lol.
It's legit a perfect game.
@@ash8244oh dear
@@ash8244 Somehow people like you is the kind of people Synthetic Man talks about in his videos. 💀
“Praising” a game then immediately calling “hater” out of nowhere.
Would love Zelda CDI sequel.
@@ash8244 "y - you're just a hater!!!!!!"
i can play at that game too, mr fanboy shill
but obviously i won't because calling people names for disagreeing with you is something i grew out of once i got into elementary school
TL;DR:
The thing is, developers aren't hyping up Elden Ring. They teased the title and then stayed quiet for like, 2 years & then announced it'll be coming in 1 year. We have been counting down the days since and now it's just 2 days away!!
They haven't been hyping it up like Cyberpunk, they know they don't need to.
The hype that exists, does so due to fans of Fromsoft games. Fromsoft have put so much heart & soul into their games, that they've never disappointed.
As a company, they've literally earned the hype that Elden Ring is getting. They've never disappointed and released banger after banger. Dark Souls, Bloodborne & Sekiro are all amazing and this is their magnum opus.
We all know by now that Fromsoft are NOT a sellout company. They want to give people the absolute best gaming experience they can and they've revolutionised gaming. So many other companies have followed in their footsteps, making "souls-like" games.
There's hype for a reason and the fact it's the fan base making all the hype & not the company tells you all you need to know.
Also, next gen has come out. Developers got complacent and lazy on the last platform, but with next gen coming out, developers are realising they need to up their game as people want more. They can't just release shit anymore. In 3 years time, there will be countless amazing PS5/XboxSX games. I think developers will start listening to their audiences more and delivering more. Elden Ring will be a great example of what developers need to be doing.
We need more horror/action games like Dead Space and open world games that aren't just empty and I'm confident we'll get that & more.
Elden Ring is most certainly NOT next-gen. Another video I watched, two visual artists in the gaming industry revealed just how things work visually in the game, and talked about how old the engine is that FromSoftware is using. If we're being honest here, Elden Ring was an asset flip. From is going to have to adopt a newer game / graphics engine going forward.
Cyberpunk really killed my hype for anything I don’t feel anything now for most games
I had my expectations low for CP and everyone thought I was stupid for having low expectations. I love how it took a turn.
Patrick Bateman doesn’t feel anything anyway 😉.
I didn't follow Cyberpunk at all despite loving The Witcher 3 and being one of the 16 people who bought, played and beat the first game *pre-enhanced edition*
From the little I knew of it, it was a combination of me not being as interested in the setting and concerned by how overly ambitious they were being for what was the 4th game they had ever made... A lot of people were very, very derp in their following of CDPR and Cyberpunk honestly, and had incredible over-reactions to what happened as well.
Everyone wants to blame CDPR for fooling them despite a lot of people going out of their way to be fools. >__> It's okay, I was there myself once with Dragon Age 2. I adored Origins and Mass Effect at Mass Effect 2... So I followed Dragon Age 2 intently, preordered and was super excited. I knew EA had a reputation and was fully aware of the warning signs, but this was Bioware! This was Dragon Age! But DA2 was just your typical shoveled out EA trash with none of the passion or care that went into Origins, I was a fool and I got burned.
Instead of being the type who gets mad that a hotplate doesn't have a "caution hot" warning, learn from the mistake and be more aware in future.
Man cdpr screwed us all lol. I loved their previous game the witcher 3 but damn even playing that now it's still kinda janky in some ways and I've seen a decent number of bugs. But that was a fantastic game. Cyberpunk was a shitty rpg.
Fucking hell man, did you guys just start playing games a few months before Cyberpunk came out or something?
Your points about RE and MGS are exactly what i've been saying for some years. The old way of making game is in the past, and it's really hard to get excited for anything new to come out.
How does this comment not have replies?
IT's not all doom and gloom though, there are decent games still be made in the AA or even just A industry. There are games that barely got any budget and ended up being good, the core gameplay more than making up for simpler visuals.
@@bloody4558 so sad that a game needs tons of money to be AAA quality but the more money is spent in a game the more the devs (or rather, the shareholders and executives) will have to play safe, leading to games becoming more of the same
The last triple A game I got *seriously* hyped for was DMC5, because I know the devs actually take time to make good games
Capcom in avg makes decent games.
@@digduck9463 have you *played* DMC 3?
If not please do, it’s a masterpiece
@@digduck9463 🤡🤡
The beginning of the decline of gaming for me started with the swift rise and increase in remakes and remasters.
You could very well be onto something there, that must be when originality started to die
That's with all entertainment. These diddlers that make up being gay their whole personality is obsessed with forcing that personality on everyone else too such an extent they get jobs in education and entertainment to do it on a larger scale. Sense being gay is their whole personality they don't have the skill or talent to make content so they copy and steal from previous content. Games movies TV shows comics everything is a rehashed trash copy of true entertainment.
Growing up on : banjo kazooie, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Super Mario 64, Star Fox, Super Smash Bros., Final Fantasy 7, Diablo 2, warcraft 3, starcraft, dungeon siege, age of empires, project IGI, Max Payne, blood omen legacy of kain, Soul Reaver 2, baldur's gate series, half life 1, half life 2, vampire the masquerade bloodlines, gta san andreas, supersmash brothers and many many more fantastic games makes me so grateful. They made my childhood magical and nothing could ever replace those experiences.
I agree. I find myself still playing PS3 games because they were all so great. I think I’m gonna buy a ps2 in the future
Ive started playing DS and 3Ds games more and more. Just plain fun. No BS
I downloaded retroarch on the xbox and brother I didn't remember how much fun the wii ps2 and ps1 games were brother and the vast majority of titles that I buy in the series are 360 and they are much better than what we have today.
@@Dusterdimmu81 ps1,ps2, nds, psp, gba
Has been my friends for years
I just got one now I'm slowly getting stuff for it. It's a shame when you realize the best games were in our past.
I ordered a Retroid Pocket 2+ and praying that i get it in the next few months. They are on back order and they look fun as hell.
Comparing all the latest Ubisoft games is also a very good example of them killing their own games series
Ac origins was good though.
Still better than brotherhood or rogue
@@ExtremeMan10 🧢
Man I get so bummed out when you talk about video games, I'm only 17 but I remember when I was younger and this might be the ol' nostalgia talking but games were so much different back then. I'm not gonna come up with the drab list you are usually used to when people complain about gaming because you know much better than me how they were different but most importantly how they were better than the capital G-Slop we get today.
Stop talking like your ass is old, you are not even an adult, talking about back in the day 😂😂😂 go do your homework jesus
this whole comment section and elden ring is out of hand
makes me wonder if they've actually kept up with from software and how their games are on pc, especially currently with multiplayer completely disabled due to people being able to remote acces someone elses computer through dark souls, funtimes
dont get me wrong, i think their games are a great experience but sucking up from software this much saying they've never disappointed are seriously oblivious to flaws that have been going on on dark souls for ages
and thats all after people managed to corrupt savefiles, get people banned with cheated in items among other things
nothing in life is perfect, and if you have these kind of mindsets you're bound to be disappointed with what you will end up with
About 10 or 15 years ago I saw a shift in the gaming industry, I saw the shift from games that were developed for the love of the game to the shift of games made for profit only. Profit only games are easy to spot, I think that's why all games from our past felt like they were better games.
yup. Games used to be developed by passionate and CREATIVE gamers. Also gen x and boomer developers were just smarter and had more vocabulary
@@FSVR54 the generations of the people developing games could not be more irrelevant to how good the games are. Boomers and gen X had no more pure intentions than current devs do
@@ryanmcmahon7805 they were smarter overall. just look at the quality of games
@@ryanmcmahon7805 you're probably a salty zoomer
@@FSVR54 I'm not a zoomer but it shouldn't matter anyway. We've had plenty of dogshit games in the past prior to the 2010s. There was a literal market crash caused by shitty games back when it probably was boomers making them. Just because you feel a certain way about this subject doesn't make it actually true
I've had the suspicion that gaming was going the way of tv and movies for a while now. By this I mean that the "gaming community" is being slowly filled with normies to the point where companies will begin to cater to them instead of the og gamers.
Another industry where you can see this starting to happen is anime and manga, little by little more normies are entering it and anime and manga are becoming more and more progressive and westernized.
Yeah animes nowadays are much worse apart from a few its shameful most good ones nowadays are short while longer ones like Dragon Ball Super, AoT, One piece is just complete garbage. 7 deadly sins had so many animation blunders. The only good ones i've seen lately are Zombieland saga and happy sugar life.
OG animes like squid girl, DBZ, HxH, Sailor Moon are amazing and different unlike newer ones
You started seeing that shit in the 2010s. In the 00s, normies knew to stay away from Anime and Manga.
That happened to gaming in the late 2010's...
The golden age has long since passed and we're in the age of big business, highly corportized AAA games.
The easy solution is stop just following big game releases and look for the hidden treasures that are out there, of which there's a fuckton.
Case in point, Yoku's Island Express was a great and unique game that I am betting 90% of the people reading this have never even heard of. And Pathologic 2 was a legitimate fucking masterpiece, one of the best games ever made, and it only came out a couple years ago and most also haven't played it.
Hearing people lament gaming is dead while they bury their head in figurative sand and garbage is very frustrating... Instead of looking at the trending list on Steam, try digging through the new releases sometimes and looking at things other than what Gamespot has done a spotlight on.
I'm personally really looking forward to Eiyuden Chronicles and this game th-cam.com/video/mQwOWME2N-Q/w-d-xo.html
@@YBNKASHWAYS little by little identity politics are being injected into anime, it may only be a couple series right now but give it a few years and you'll start seeing where I was coming from.
Yeah, I agree, I more or less said the same thing in the Video Game Awards video. Personally, I blame the success of Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us. Now every Sony exclusive, and to a lesser extent other AAA publishers, make these "movie games" that appeal to normies. Of course, wokeness soon followed.
I can't stand constant cutscenes, forced walking sequences, etc especially when the story usually sucks.
What i've noticed is when there is too many cooks in the kitchen, the game is rarely that great.
*Too many women in the development.
The reason I look to Indie studios now more than ever.
Backing potentially good games and seeing them grow into something great and successful
brings a certain satisfaction to me. Plus other people then get to experience the game aswell. Win-win.
Like Mighty n#9 lol
Even indie games are dying though. Every single fucking indie game I’ve seen for the past couple years has been so mediocre at best. Every indie game has the same annoying “quirky” art style and direction, way too many fucking pixelated and 2D games with no creative thought put in the art direction, gameplay is often mediocre at best, every indie story is either non existent or tries too hard to be “deep”. Hell I haven’t seen save for few exceptions any indie game just try to be plain fun without having some “deep” meaning that’s just straight unimaginative.
Normies ruined everything like usual. Music, games, anime, movies.
It's not normies....
But basic idiots who can't get their heads straight
The society becoming so robotic that the space for different views have literally died by now
Censorship doesn't allows us to be different and diverse which is so ironic
Back when games where made, people of different lives made it, you could see the passion and endeavour devs took to make games
Now it's just cash grab industry
I think you made a lot of good points in the video. Modern AAA titles have become focused on graphics and animations. If you go on social media you always see how people brag about how "gorgeous" the game looks versus the story and gameplay. After I played AC Odyssey which I didn't even finish, I felt like what made gaming the best hobby ever was gone.
Honestly, the animation isn’t even good, just basic. I also hate mo-cap. For faces it’s fine, but movement/action it’s terrible. It looks like a stunted rehearsal in slow-mo. Hand-animated looks more realistic. But they want to be more like Hollywood so they gotta do mo-cap, face-scanning, Hollywood actors, and terrible stories like Hollywood too.
I got 20 minutes into Assassin;s Creed Odyssey, turned it off, and never played it again. >__>
The first time I felt legitimate boredom from a big AAA game, usually I get at least some cheap thrills out of it... but no, just pure ennui.
@@mrshmuga9 also seems like single player is becoming less and less relevant, since being perpetually online to collect their daily rewards or chewing thru lootboxes for a skin are the only things the audience today is concerned with. Even the few so called glorified single player "games" such as death stranding, hardly involves any gameplay.
@@joshjonson2368 And that's a Hideo Kojima game, so you already knew what he was going to put into it.
People must realize these games are a past time for us but its is literally developers job to make good games. They should take pride in the games they produce
ohhh, there's plenty of pride. That's part of the problem.
Its not even developers, its publishers and shareholders that don't Let them do what they were hired to do
Still after getting disappointed by Cyberpunk, BF2042, and so many recent games, I can't help but get hyped for Elden ring. The fact they let everyone post the entire network test, and there were little to no negative things to say about the game, plus waiting for the game for many years, I'm hyped for Elden ring. I am confident From Software won't let me down
From Software hasn’t released a bad game yet imo. There’s no reason to not be hyped for Elden Ring after the network test footage. I heard they’re supposed to be releasing ray tracing too it once it releases too
Forbidden west is pretty good
It feels like we're in a curve. Golden ages of early 2010s and before were about innovating to get a place in the market. Now that it's done, every big company just playing safe even if it means letting down the community, because money first. We're in the low of the curve right now, it just hope it can go up again. If yes, I'll be here first to witness it
Early 2010s? Please zoomer, gaming was long dead before that.
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w Nah, PS3 was an amazing console.
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w early 2010's isn't my favorite gen but 2011 to 2012 we've got Minecraft, Dark Souls and the last good pokémon and COD game
imo mainstream video games have gone downhill after GTA5 in 2013
@@pikminologueraisin2139 dark souls is the only good game out of that list and that is precisely because it was not a game of it's time, the rest you listed was zoomer garbage.
@@YBNKASHWAYS HD era was when games began to die, developers started focusing on graphics instead of gameplay inovation.
Elden Ring is probably the only game I'm looking forward to getting this year. I haven't really watched too much gameplay of it, but even if it's just more Dark Souls 3, that's still better than anything i can see coming from any other major studio in 2022. Not super hyped, but it would have to be pretty bad to disappoint me completely.
im hyped for the zelda botw sequel
@@user-xo5zu1lw2w Eldin Ring will shit on BoTW, let's be honest
@@Evergrimrecordings that is cap bro
@@H3Li0SS no, it's my opinion. BoTW is overrated.
Based and correct. Elden kino shits on botw
Tragically funny thing is seeing people still hyping up new Pokemon games. I find it hard to believe they've actually played Pokemon prior to Gen 6, especially with the Gen 5 games being pretty much the best the franchise had to offer.
Hype is indeed dangerous, and specially when is promoted by the Developer. When a developer can just put a trailer with great soundtrack/gameplay/atmosphere and let it speak by itself, then I feel respect for the developer and their work. On the other hand, oversaturation and over the top marketing usually is a meh for me.
To be fair, the hype for Elden Ring is quite more healthy. The developers are very honest with expectations, we are not full of trailers. If anything, it's a mix of community and media speculation which in part in kind of magical. I was part of the long waiting of radio silence and it has been quite magical to be from there to here now. But I agree, that the media and part of the community is pushing too much
Gamers have become fanboys who defend bad games and policies, which is weird by itself, but more than that, they take criticism of games they play personally. It reminds me of how Gen X treated music bands in the late 90’s. And you know what happened there? Popular music pretty much died. Now gaming may not die, but it’s going to fall of a cliff if it isn’t careful.
No, the internet killed off music. The music industry started to placate to international markets (that prefer pop music) to make a profit since everyone was downloading their music for free. You will enjoy your synthetic music and you will like it.
@@sweetmcnasty The music industry killed itself and just uses piracy as the scapegoat for its sucking and refusing to adapt. It shambles around as a parasitic zombie that brain drains actual talented creatives to prolong it's pathetic existince while bribing governments to enable it to better bully people.
Normies, know nothing kids with their parents credit cards, and whales will basically keep it afloat pretty much indefinitely. I suspect a parralell industry of real games, as opposed to "games as service" fraud rackets and gacha casinos, will emerge and basically soft reboot the industry. I just hope we can get back to the middleware glory days soon because as good as the indie scene is now it's still kinda stuck fixating on just 4 genres, it really wasn't worth the death of middleware that happened towards the tail end of 7th gen. That was basically the flashpoint of where gaming split into nothing but whatever the factory form trend chasing with increasingly predatory monetization, that passes itself off as AAA it or the low budget treasure hunt padded to the gills with walking similators about depression, Roguelikes, Crafting survival shlock, and Metroidvanias. Avo help you if you don't like those genres or just want actual variety because you gotta dig to find anything else that's of quality and there's NOTHING in between the two extremes aside from arguably From Software games.
@@GodOfOrphans Gen X made the last truly good popular music. Millennials basically killed what was left and it reflected the sheer narcissism they they had/have. And don't get me started on how terrible Zoomer music is. It's not even music.
@@GodOfOrphans It's better to just play retro games anyway. AA games like Dante's Inferno and Darksiders were good, it's a shame the AAA industry doesn't even acknowledge the middle tier market.
Holy crap, Kingdom Hearts 3. Not only was it a massive expectation for the next title after KH2 and all the filler games, but they showed off most if not all of the areas giving no surprise to the players. Same with FighterZ and Kakarot which, yes we know what happens, but keep those animations tight for a nice surprise.
Japan doesn't have spoiler culture. Kh3 just wasn't good either way, loll
Yeah exactly. Like I had fun with KH3 for the most part, but they literally shoved the main plot behind all the Disney worlds and then rushed the ending.
Your mistake was assuming those we're filler games
@@Klonoahedgehog the bigger problem is most of them felt like filler games but had actual narrative sandwiched into filler crap
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 Isnt That just Kingdom hearts as a whole though?
Been a fan of the series for what feels like my whole life and there's always been a Lot of filler me in the games
None of fromsofts souls games have ever been bad in my opinion so the hype for another amazing souls/souls like from them is justified. Also I don’t understand what you mean by roll spamming as a problem because rolling is your primary source of defense in every souls game. I get the amount of stamina used for rolling was around its lowest in ds3 and the speed of said rolls but you can argue that every souls game was about roll spam except ds2 because adaptability limits your I frames to a stat so you have to actually time your rolls unless you wanna dump levels into it or sekiro sense dashing doesn’t give I frames. I was prepared for a shit show against the bed of chaos due to everything I’ve ever heard about it but all I did was spam ninja rolls and never got touched once.
In DS1, in order to fast roll, you had to either wear relatively light armor that offered little defense or use up one of your two ring slots to wear medium armor for okay defense. Mid-rolling wasn't really spam-able without getting hit and fat rolling was VERY difficult to make work. Even then, your shield was your primary method of defending yourself.
In DS2, you HAD to time your rolls. ADP made the timing less precise but you weren't going to roll spam your way through a boss. Most enemies were designed to punish you if you tried to roll-spam. Heck, the game even had a stamina penalty for roll spamming. The primary method of defense in DS2 was probably just positioning. You can get away with a lot in DS2 just by moving your character in the correct direction, only rolling when absolutely necessary. (I suppose Shields were still a thing, but I've never really tried to use them in DS2.)
In DS3, Armor offered little difference in defense so everyone wore whatever let them fast roll. This made your stamina meter essentially an i-frame meter. Yes, you could get roll-caught, but it was to the point that really only players could do it reliably. Bosses don't have an AI to time their attacks to roll catch you, so the game relied on SOME bosses having combos that would catch you if you were roll spamming IF you didn't roll out of range.
Off the top of my head, the only bosses with "roll-spam-catching-combos" were The Dancer, Nameless, Midir, and Gael. Of those, Gael and Nameless were the only ones you couldn't just roll away from to evade combos. They would track you and chase you down. (Dancer kinda did too, but by the time she actually started to chase you, the attack was almost over. Unless she caught you in a corner, you were going to be fine.) Midir just started flailing madly in one direction until his combo ended. If you just roll through the beginning of the combo, you were fine (minus having to chase him across the arena.)
Ds2 despite the hate nailed the roll in my opinion (so long as you had at least 100 agility; a lack of s is not optimal but the actual slow methodical premise of rolling was the best in regards to balancing rolling, especially in regards to pvp).
@ghosty99 Maybe because he's completely wrong? I'm playing a lot of DS1 right now, and to suggest that's a roll spam game is completely fucking wrong and you obviously never played it.
Shields are actually viable in that game. Play it before commenting and crying.
@ghosty99 Not really what I was addressing, I was countering the suggestion that DS1 is a roll spam game - it's not. I'm running a tank build right now, large shield with heavy armor. My defense is my shield and poise from the heavy armor so I never get stun locked. The diversity within defensive builds in DS1 were greater - if you want to be a quick dex build, you could be. You want to be a fat rolling tank with high poise? You could be. Both viable.
Just wanted to add that the dash in Sekiro actually does have i-frames, but the timing is *very* tight. And there's a much longer delay after one of them, so you can't really use it to dodge more than one hit.
In my experience, it’s high budget triple gaming that has astronomically declined in quality over the past 8 or so years. There’s definitely some good triple a games, but they are very few and far between. But indie games for me have saved my interest in gaming. There are so many friggin amazing indies pushing the boundaries or just plain fun. They’re some of the best games ever made in my book. Examples: Undertale, Everhood, Ready or Not, Before Your Eyes, Hell Let Loose, Deltarune, Ultrakill, Ravenfield, Firewatch, Boneworks, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, Hotline Miami 1 and 2, Enter The Gungeon, Friday Night Funkin, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, The Stanley Parable, The Beginners Guide, Minecraft, Megaton Rainfall, Splitgate, Inscryption, Loop Hero, The Long Dark, This War of Mine, Furi, My Friend Pedro, Pavlov, Cities Skylines, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, Teardown, Tetris Effect, Oneshot, Slime Rancher, Night In The Woods, Haven, Duck Season, Doki Doki Literature Club, Ghost Runner, Ori, Cuphead, Don’t Starve, Katana Zero, Stardew Valley, Outer Wilds, Carrion, Omori, Lisa, Frostpunk, Hades, Superhot, It Takes Two, Project Zomboid.
I haven´t played a lot of them, but the reason they are so good is that they stem from pure creativity and love for gaming. My current favorite is Death´s Gambit which was remade after getting feedback to improve it even further.
oh ho man doki doki was amazing, such a mind fuck. you neeed to get pathologic 2 thats the best indie ever. and if you like telltale walking dead the wolf among us is a masterpiece and gonna have a season 2 coming out soon.
LOL. Undertale is mediocre at best
Man from software have yet to disappoint me with their games. Even after all these years they are still the games I go back to. And having played the network test I can safely say that elden ring is everything I was expecting and more. Just hope the final release is stable and I'll be there Day 1 for sure.
Bloodborne and demon souls are in my to ten there great and I play ds3 every day
Thank you! And fromsoft fans know exactly what to expect from elden ring.
there is a fist for everything so i wouldn't be suprised anymore tbh
yeah this isn’t blind hype we know exactly what we’re getting and it’ll be good
I don't think Miyazaki would allow a game he worked on to be bad at release, or bad period. He has a, to my knowledge, nigh spotless record, at least in terms of dark souls and souls inspired games.
It's not hype.
It's these companies continuously churning out shit quality.
I was so hyped for Cyberpunk, but I paid attention to what was happening in the lead up to the game. No last gen footage? Uh oh. Better pump the brakes. Now over two years later it's looking maybe worth the price now, but still waiting for deep discount.
Better yet, be careful what you get hyped for. I get hyped for Souls games, Monster Hunter games and jrpgs like Dragon Quest 11, Tales of Arise, Persona 5, Nier etc, and not a single one has disappointed me in any way.
I hate to sound like a weeb, but a lot of Japanese produced games have a much higher chance of being great and satisfying than most western released stuff like Cyberpunk or Call of Duty.
Starting to think at this point, all the good games have already been made.
Pretty much
Same thing with music and movies but I reckon it’ll all bounce back in about 10 years
Nah they're just not making them for gamers anymore, that's the problem
Sadly but, games its not for gamers anymore.
I feel that they've gotten to greedy and it's no longer about the vision
"Don't be too hyped for a game"
There is no hype to be had in all honesty, but perception of community hype via PR teams, biased games journalism, and marketing departments that polish a turd and pretend it's gold.
I've recently played the ME Legendary Edition,and it's leaps and bounds beyond anything put out today, 10+ years later. The gameplay mechanics are solid, the story is top notch, and (barring the old ME1) it's not buggy as hell, nor is the game incomplete and broken on Day 1, requiring substantial patches.
People don't need to "stop hyping games", what they need to do is stop incentivizing and encouraging a marketplace where a broken glitchy mess is worth $60.
gaming's decline: Hi
indie game creators: No
I subscribed, because we need more people like you, cause, I’m so over buying games , cuz it was hyped by youtubers….keep going with this man, seriously need more people like you
Facts
It’s so sad what gaming has come to
Feminism in video games.
Gaming was great when it was a niche hobby, when it hit mainstream the companies only see one thing $$$£££$$$
@@8-bitsteve500 that's actually a good point I havent considered. When gaming was just a nerd hobby, most developers were one of us as well.
@@martymcfly88mph35 not really but keep telling yourself that
@@jub8951 what do you mean? You think gaming developers were slaying big booty instagram babes?
I think is exaggerated blaming an entire generation for "ruining an entire industry" because they are just the ones who buy the games(and not all consumers are blind fanboys), the majority of the fault from the corporations because they are the ones who blatantly lie to people with trailers with almost no gameplay and then they rush to complete the development with crunch and then don't refund the people who got disappointed, they are the ones who fix problems with paid DLCs and milk the franchises nowadays.
The people who buy games can do some changes in the way they approach games for example by stopping preordering, stopping buy useless DLCs and seeing some benchmarks or gameplays before to get the game. I miss the free demos, not a lot of companies do them anymore.
So yeah hype can kill games but I think that companies nowadays force people to be hyped by exploiting the dopamine's secretion showing us beautiful graphics instead of gameplay
Hey Synthetic man. Good vid, as a fan of FPS/Military sims I am noticing a trend I wish would stop. There is so many games that are pre released while they are very far from completion and never get completed. Some have kept their promise (HLL, Post Scriptum etc) but there are some I have paid for and seem like they just quit on them.
Always glad to watch your videos , these days I mostly play endless space 2.
I got "hyped" for a game in the last 5 years and it was BF 2042 , they did it very well and they give the middle finger to everyone , this games is a disaster . The gaming industry is such in a bad state ....
Hype after the Trailers? hahahahahahahahah :D
@@Hunkyger nope the actual "gameplay" trailer that wasnt gameplay at all , another lie and the beta was not that bad compare to the "final" product but yeah they F everyone ...
So we just going to ignore all the good games just to prove your point or...
Prove my point , what point ? The gaming industry ? If you think its in a good state well 🤣🤣🤦🤦
@@JayCord00 not saying it's in a good state I'm saying you all over hype older games way to much and just ignore all the good games that have come out these past few years
Just found your content you are my favorite Doomer game reviewer...That's a compliment by the way.. I've power watched all your content the last 2 weeks
ya same with movies. my solution: play old games and watch old movies
I am part of “Gen-Z” and I do agree with your point about that the majority of AAA games seem to be either disappointing or “incomplete” to some, but I do not think that the game is then instantly labeled as “bad.” Games are quite subjective, if you enjoy a game, don’t let anyone waver your opinion by telling you that it’s “bad,” disappointing, or “incomplete.”Games were created for enjoyment, but I do understand how you feel about this subject.
Pretty much the only thing that is subjective in games is story, pretty much everything else is objective like for instance gameplay, how responsive the buttons is level design.
@The Leaprachaun Well as 31 year old gamer cannot say im surprised, but it is just crazy to me how there are games that sells really well and actually leave the soul of the former games from the past.
You can find objective flaws in something and call it bad, and still enjoy it. Modern games have been objectively bad (the majority of them are not finished on launch and are blatantly broken like 2042 and 2077) and this whole "hurr durr it's subjective" shit is getting real old.
Watch Dogs was one of the most hyped games of the 2010s and what's so crazy is it got 2 sequels. it's like when games do bad now people rely on assuming the squeal will be better when it should not deserve a sequel at all meanwhile games that deserve a squeals take years to come out or they never get released.
To be honest if they did Not fuck up the Marketing watch dogs woud have Gotten a good reception. it had some good ideas yeah the driving sucks but its the better out of all the ones in the franchise from as far as i can Tell. The second one has ludonarrative disonance and i dont know about the third one dont even plan on playing it. Got better games to play or to replay
@@christophbeck1305 yeah definitely the best out of the 3 it definitely had some good ideas but were executed poorly or just removed for something even worse like repetitive mission types etc. The game did improve overtime with more content(never finished the game fully but heard from feedback it was good) but the hyped will definitely be remembered to the point of people saying it was the gta 5 killer at the time
@@yxrackman2397 it Was overhyped and had some fun ideas some Bad ideas the biggest flaw in my opinion Was the shit driving and General ubisoft bs. Story Was somewhere between good and ok and if you ignor the Marketing it looked good But the Marketing fucked the game over i played it years after Release and i found it to be one of the better ubisoft games of the last gen. They nailed the Atmosphere in that game and gave you some cool Tools but i still woud rather play that game over any of its sequels
People don't care. As long as it looks pretty and they don't have to think, they'll buy it, play it, say it was the greatest thing ever
Literally every time:
-Ghost of Tsushima is such a masterpiece
-God of War 4 is such a masterpiece
-Horizon Zero Dawn is such a masterpiece
Jeez...
@@SilverWarrior95 don't forget that the same people will defend games like these and will say "it might be your CD that's at fault" if you ever point out a flaw in any of these games. My CD? Don't they know how console CDs work nowadays? It's just a one time install then it's only used for ownership verification. So if there's a fucking bug,it's the game not a scratch
@@novapit935 these are dark times...stupidity, greed, ignorance and disrespect for what came before, are ruining everything.
@@SilverWarrior95 agreed. Even irl is the same shit. At this point ,I may as well move to Russia since they're the least woke Caucasian country. Hell, they even torrent games like a based Chad. These liberated fanboys of shitty AAA game's are so against piracy to the point of shitting on you for pirating a game from a greedy publisher like ea. Shows a lot of their mindset.
@@SilverWarrior95 tlou 2 is greatest game ever. .
Game company makes unbelievably wretched game. Fans tell them why it’s bad. Company labels critical fans as toxic racists. That’s the entire entertainment industry.
Hype/anticipation goes beyond gaming. As the old saying goes, anticipation is often greater than the outcome itself.
I haven't been hyped for a game since 2017 and I still think gaming has taken a nosedive quality wise. New games are just that bad and underwhelming. With or without hype.
2017 was the goat year for gaming to me and probably the last year that I also got hype for anything.
@@T-Bonez Let's face it, the goat of gaming was the PS2 era, it peaked in that era. PS3 era (7th gen) wasn't bad either, but it started to decline since then.
@@outlawfly664 its the goat era for the amount of effort put into games to satisfy customers 100% people may disagree if the actual products were the goat but definitely after that era games started to water down.
@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 You're talking about the 6th generation (PS2 era)?
@@outlawfly664 yeah. When devs and people making decisions cared about the quality of their games and the people playing them.
I really have given up on modern gaming and i will just stick with retro since there is so much i have not played yet
2d índies are awesome. They also carry that retro vibe
Just played the original Deus Ex for the very first time about a month ago and it's STILL super fun to this day.
Definitely revisting it at some point in the future.
@@joeking6972 Ironic I come across this comment. Did you hit the point in the game where UNATCO turns on you?
enough modern games out there too...
a lot of indie devs create the 90s games they would have loved to play when they were kids.
and enough indie devs create stuff their wildest dreams are made of.
Wrought Flesh, Highfleet,... all those things are packed full of originality.
Modern gaming isnt dead.
you just have a different taste.
nothing is wrong with that.... but please stop crying over it... nobody forces you to play Battle royal game number 8558
@@KratostheThird no I switched sides first chance I got.
I even killed Navarre in one hit with the PS20.
When I betrayed them I first cleared the entire facility of personnel by slowly positioning barrels(explosive and toxic) and then shooting them. Simons was impressed I had killed them all without him noticing. It took a good 30 minutes or so since I didn't have the ability to lift heavy objects.
Well said; I've been saying this since 2014 when the actual drop off in quality began. Btw, loved how you had Monster Rancher in the background. One of my favorite games from the Golden Era.
Glad to know I'm not the only one that knows that game.
@@KratostheThird I see your a man of culture...🧐😌
2017 was the best year of this console generation
I always appreciate your take on the industry, I share some of the same sentiments. I was almost about to skip Elden because it looks so similar to all the other soul games. I started playing them back from the demon soul days and I feel like I have already had my fill of this genre.
Gaming has been dead for me for a good five years
I mean the "trust" people put in CDPR was unwarranted to say the least.
What had they done pre-cyberpunk?
- Were a tiny indie dev studio that made witcher 1 which, although it was one of those cult favorite games at the time, has horrific gameplay.
- Released Witcher 2 which was decent but extremely small scale
- Managed to deliver, for the most part, on Witcher 3 but left a lot of promises on the table and the game was a glitch fiesta for a while after release
So 2 small games and 1 big game where they MOSTLY delivered, yet people put their complete trust in the company as if they had some flawless track record. I was saying it was gonna be a shitty game when I saw the early trailers where it just looked like scuffed "future" GTA rather than an actual dark dystopian atmosphere. From software on the other hand:
- They did stuff pre Souls which gave them a lot of experience (they're actually a very old studio)
- They release Demon Souls which was extremely well received to spite its flaws
- They released Dark Souls 1 which was so well received it spawned an entirely new genre
- They released Dark Souls 2 which was still good (compared to the rest of the gaming industry) but it fell short of expectations because the main team was doing Bloodborne
- They released Bloodborne which is great
- Released Dark Souls 3 which is great
- Released Sekiro which is fantastic
They have a proven track record of over a decade now and if you count their extremely old games the studio has almost 30 years of experience under its belt vs a 1 hit wonder that only recently "got big" as a studio.
EDIT: And forgot to mention, there's virtually 0 chance of moronic leftist politics being involved. If we're honest the problem with the politics is mostly OUTSIDE the games. A studio gets cucked and they start diversity hiring and fill their studio with talentless idiots who can't do anything right because they fit a race or gender quota instead of looking for the best possible people.
Japan isn't infected with this tumor yet, Sony might be after they moved their HQ to California years ago but I trust Japanese devs to not self destruct via moronic politics.
The thing about Witcher 1 and 2 is that at about the two year mark of both games there was the updated versions to both that improved the gameplay. It why my joke is you can’t judge Cyberpunk til it’s second year.
Thing is there has been a decline in the Souls Games since DS2, it was way worse than 1, and then DS3 was extremely mainstream and bland. If Elden Ring looked more original I would be happy because of their games like Bloodborne which is a soulslike not a souls game, and Sekiro was great too. But Elden Ring just looks like an open world Dark Souls 3 with a jump button and Dark Souls 3 already has many flaws closely linked to making the game more available for normies
CDPR were victims of their own success. The Witcher 3 was so extraordinarily good that it gave them a rabid following, one with expectations they were never going to meet.
I feel bad for the company and hope they can bounce back like Obsidian, as most people wanted their heads and damned them after KOTOR 2. I just hope they learn from their mistakes going forward.
@@planescaped I don't feel bad at all. If they didn't blatantly lie about countless aspects of Cyberpunk pre-release they'd have some sympathy from me, if they were an Indie game that got swept up in a hype storm like No Man's Sky was then they'd have some sympathy from me.
This a massive company that was ran by idiots, blatantly lied countless times to the consumers, proudly flaunted their moronic politics in peoples faces and then delivered a steamy pile of shit. They're a shitty scummy company that is also full of incompetent idiots (most likely diversity hires) and I wouldn't care if they went bankrupt tomorrow. We need to stop this whole "think of the company :( " shit, whether your intentions are good or not is irrelevant the outcome is the same: developers getting more and more leeway to be lazy which publishers react to and rush unfinished games onto the market because the customer will buy it anyways since its "not the poor dev's fault :( "
@@inksword6029 you act like ds1 itself doesn't have a lot of problem itself. But ehh keep thinking ds3 is the worst and thinking elden ring doesn't fix the problem that ds3 have i guess.
I think one of the major concerns that even myself have failed to consider is that within the last gaming generation hardware has opened up so many possibilities that for some developers the temptation to make the biggest world possible outweighs the ability to put content into the world. I think it will balance out overtime once developers have had a decade or so with this hardware
I definitely understand this mentality. It's hype and our eager hands ready to throw any amount of money for new games, regardless of the quality.
Fallout 4's issue, on a narrative level, was twofold; the shift to a talk-wheel and voiced protagonist, and a general lack of polish. The world actually has a fantastic level of depth - it's just hidden behind far more mundane things which are shoved in the player's face.
For example? All those super mutants you see roaming the wastes? Those are the people kidnapped by the institute, which are then replaced by synths. They don't just kill the people kidnap, they experiment on them and release them back out as super mutants because of an administrator's insistence that they could 'perfect' the FEV.
A really interesting plot line covered up by mundane things like piper, hunting for the player character's child, etc.
Something I enjoyed about Skyrim when it first came out was the story. I liked dragons growing up and the idea that you’d be the Dragonborn, literally the chosen one, was enticing.
However, looking back, I had made more characters that outright avoided the main quest line to the point that I never used shouts. I played through the main quests only a couple of times.
Upon realizing this, I found that I didn’t actually value the story as much as I thought I did. Was it the mechanics? No. They felt lazy. I shouldn’t be able to make an Orc Archmage.
That’s why I loved Oblivion so much more than Skyrim. Your choices in character creation actually mattered. It wasn’t just some unique dialogue or racial power. ALL of your stats revolved around those initial decisions.
There was more behind the scenes in Oblivion. I couldn’t waltz around the early game slinging magic as an Orc on the same level as an Elf. I could go all-in on an archer and play a wood elf or something.
It felt more structured. Also, Skyrim’s graphics haven’t aged very well. Neither have Oblivion’s, but Skyrim’s vanilla graphics look like an acrylic painting sometimes.
Think Bethesda just doesn't know jow to make their main quests engaging anymore. I remember morrowind, oblivion and Fallout 3 for the most part, i was pretty engaged most of the time. In Skyrim and fallout 4 though, I've done all in my power to avoid it, without actually wanting to avoid it. Exploring a building filled with toxic gas that made the gunners all turn on each other making it a warzone, or rescuing a guy from thalmor prison was much more fun than looking for your son or w/e the fuck the goal was in skyrim. Clocked over 300h in both of those games, and all playthroughs I'd just ditch the main quests after killing a dragon in front of whiterun or reaching Diamond City. Never finished either game
I feels skyrims graphics have aged pretty well. I played it on a PS4 pro without mods and for the most part it looks great
Lol learn how the turbo garbage leveling system works and you do even goofier shit in Oblivion
Play Morrowind
What many don't seem to understand is that great graphics are meant to enhance our experience, not... make the experience.
Throughout this era a few rarities, Doom Eternal, Ghost of Tsushima showed what to do from trailer to end product. The scope has to be clearly defined and reasonable and in game progression should be enticing by advertising how fun and versatile advanced gameplay looks.
100% agree. It's almost impossible for me to get hyped about anything now. I've been let down so many times now.
You talked about dark souls leaning more and more action. I feelt the same way about mass effect. Yes the orginal had clunky shooting but I missed the party customisation and micro management. The 3rd just turnt into a REPEATING arena full of enemy's that you had to kill to progress with cutscenes in between them.
I didn't like Mass Effect 3. The mysterious "kid", the god awful ending, something felt very wrong and off when I first played thru it.
But I think what really has killed my hype was the fact that a lot of big name franchises and sequels in the past had notable improvements. Mass Effect 2 was a leap above Mass Effect 1. Uncharted 2 had more exotic locations and more interesting villains. Dead Space 2 kept the horror element while featuring a talking protagonist along with other changes. Then Dead Space 3 comes out and we find that the series was turned into a more generic co-op shooter, rather than a survival horror set in space.
Today there's barely anything keeping my interest.
@@KratostheThird Yeah they try to make games for everyone while also trying to milk us dry.
I understand why they do this as a vast majority of people only buy a handful of games a year, while gamers will buy loads.
The issue is the "normies" or casual market that only play and buy cod and fifa each year and publishers thinking what works with them will work for the more engaged audience.
After the release of fallout 4, I majorly lowered my expectations for basically any AAA title. For the past decade it’s just been constant releases of unfinished games that instantly die because they were so broken at launch. I just hope that they’re some indie developers making great games that focus on quality more than making broken cash grabs.
Don't worry they are basically the only people that gives a shit about gaming.
To be honest in recent years the only games that I've been interested in are Kingdom Come Deliverance and Ghost Of Tsushima. I love history and I love Samurai cinema. I play games for the story and for the characters, I've been playing Call Of Duty 2 (2005), World At War, Dragon Age Origins, Fallout New Vegas and the original Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2.
It's From man. Not whomever the fuck made Cyberpunk.
As you said hype is just part of the problem with gaming, to me the real reason gaming has taken a significant nose dive in the last decade or so is that gamers are becoming far too complacent in regards to not just the overall quality of a game but the amount of monetized bullshit they are willing to put up with.
An example of quality (or lack thereof): Cyberpunk. I don't need to go into detail as we all know what happened but even on release when it was at its most broken and buggy (it still is now just less so) I saw tons of people defending it. The fact that a game can come out in that state and people will still defend it says everything, in no other industry would companies be able to get away with releasing completely broken products. CDPR basically scammed everyone who bought that game and somehow got praise for it from some people, it honestly boggles my mind. Then the cycle continues because the devs release a few patches and all is forgiven. We need to stop giving publishers credit for fixing what should not have been broken in the first place.
An example of monetized bullshit: There is far too many games to choose from in this field but a game I don't see getting as much criticism as it should despite how badly it has been monetized: Halo Infinite. For the most part I enjoyed the campaign, not a patch on the OG trilogy but I wasn't expecting that. I also wasn't expecting the multiplayer to be so restricted in terms of customization that I played one game, realised how bad it was and never touched it again. Battle passes are absolute cancer, I don't give a shit if something is F2P, you are literally paying to unlock stuff through gameplay. I feel like I'm the only one who sees how fucking stupid that is with the amount of people who are just fine with them.
It really does feel like publishers have got modern gamers brain washed into thinking that games have to be this way now, kids born in 2010 have basically grown up knowing nothing but all these problems and it's probably the norm for them. As someone that started gaming at the age of 4 on the PS1 and grew up through the PS2/OG Xbox and Xbox 360/PS3 era I know they don't have to be. I don't believe we will ever go back to anything even resembling those times any more but at the very least we could all do our bit to discourage the bullshit.
You can't expect kids aged 10 - 12 to know any of this stuff because obviously they're getting suckered in anyway. They're impressionable kids, plain and simple. The gaming industry is simply leading on with these lies, with this bullshit, with these outward claims that these kids are truly on board with.
It's probably safe to say that assuming you're in your late 20s, early 30s, you are probably older than a lot of these "kids" and "normies" the industry is targeting. Young people are much more easily manipulated than older folk.
@@KratostheThird I agree with you, I do not in any way expect kids to know any of this stuff, like I said they've probably grown up with all these systems in their games and so don't know any different.
With that being said there is a still a sizable chunk of the gaming market that are adults over the age of 18 that still defend these publishers and buy into the hype. Those are the people I'm talking about. Again, using Cyberpunk as an example, if you go to the Cyberpunk Reddit and check posts from around the time of release you'll find hundreds if not thousands of threads of arguments of people defending what was one of the most botched releases in history. I very much doubt these are kids aged 10-12 that were doing that and that's just one game.
There are plenty of examples of gamers that are clearly adults buying into the bullshit time and time again, pre-ordering shit that doesn't need to be pre-ordered, getting mad when something releases broken and then pre-ordering the next game anyway. Publishers have demographic charts, they know these people exist and so think it's okay to keep doing what they've been doing for years because they know kids will buy into anything and so will a good chunk of adult players.
You know the type I'm talking about, the ones that hype themselves into oblivion and can't accept when something is bad. Those are the ones I'm talking about.
I’m 15 and I agree with everything you said there.
If you go look at a release calendar from 20 years ago (2001/2002), more good games released in any 3 months of those years than release in an entire calendar year now--industry is creatively/spiritually bankrupt.
This video is going to aged REALLY poorly. It's going to blow everything in the past few years out of the water.
Edit: I was correct.
You were correct
This video aged like milk, and I'm glad. I'm happy Elden Ring is amazing.
The other insane issue I see today as a primarily PC gamer is whenever I switch to console or play a game out of the box without setting changes the input delay is so incredible it’s nearly unenjoyable. Red dead demotion 2 was astounding, over complex sure, but astounding. But the movement in that game and gta 5 as well tbh is utterly criminal. Because we are trying to get too far ahead of our technological capabilities. We are packing so much animation and real-time rendering into the games that we cannot have responsive movements anymore. I miss when games felt like an extension of my hands. Maybe it’s just a flawed memory because I’ve transitioned into adulthood but I remember ps2 and ps3 shooters being so much more fluid and easy to control. Idk. I think gameplay should always be tantamount to graphics. And you work from there. The best companies can achieve a decent balance of the two, like Santa Monica. But even then most of the combat is just cleverly layered animation that we are kind of funneled into in one way or another. It’s rare that anything truly gives the feeling of immersion or spontaneity anymore. But that could again be because I’m an adult and understand it better from a algorithmic POV. Idk. I feel like sports games present the best chance of this but they again have such bad input delay it’s horrrendous. NBA is a joke.
Rocket league with settings changes on PC can be decent. But again it’s simplicity over complexity. And that leads to replay ability and fun, because you feel more in control.
Just the title alone made me like this video. I've been saying this for awhile now, the thing that leads to constant disappointment is unreal expectations. Also NEVER pre-order... More people need to talk about this, the mainstream overhyping isn't helping anyone.
i preoredered the collectors edition for elden ring
I also pre ordered elden ring
Cyberpunk is literally the perfect example of hype killing a game, they got Soo many preorders because their marketing team was smart and they didn't even have to make a game lol I hate my life
preordering outside of physical copies should be banned, this would solve alot of problems
@ZernoHD the city is fun to explore but theres no interactivity, the gun combat is fun despite the fact enemies are bullet sponges and the AI is pretty damn simple, I'll say this it's not a crime to enjoy the game but your feeding into the machine that is "modern gaming" by buying and playing it then spreading news about how it isnt as bad as everyone is saying it is.
@ZernoHD you are the most obvious paid shill ive seen, go home
Or maybe we were too naive to see
@ZernoHD "theres no conspiracy" - paid shill
I haven't followed games from announcement to release in quite some years and I'm honestly rarely disappointed because I expected absolutely nothing and hope for nothing. If I happen to enjoy it I play it if not I don't. You have honestly put some of my thoughts and feelings towards modern games into words, I agree with a lot of what you say as for the rest we each have our own perspective of what is enjoyable in games.
Today's gaming industry is more so about numbers and greed Than actual quality and fun.
Your videos really upset a certain type of viewer. Left a comment on your last one and had loads of them reeeing at me in the replies. So I'll repeat it again just to annoy them.
It's rare now for TH-camrs to speak their mind without worrying about views or putting off future sponsors. Keep it up, it's refreshing. Hope you can make a success of it.
As someone who was taking the fight to said shrieking harpies I vouch for and second this.
Agreed. Don't back down.
Dark souls 3 isn't about dodge spamming... With appropriate placement you can avoid many attacks by backpedaling or stafing in the correct direction . This is however advanced, not many try to experiment with to conserve stamina. This is true for all soulsborne games.
There's no need to do that in DS3 lol since you almost never run out of stamina. Once you learn how to kill a basic roll boss you learn how to kill them all unlike in ds1 where at least half of the bosses had unique mechanics
@@inksword6029 just don't use crest shield and +3 stamina ring doubt you can roll spam after that.
@@FireGiantFoot i don't
@@inksword6029 boooo
@@FireGiantFoot did you have to like your own comment? Anyways just play an actual good game like DS1 or Bloodborne instead of defending the mainstream mess that is DS3
Honestly I'm happy elden ring is coming out, I was skeptical as we should with all the games coming out. But once I saw the gameplay, just reminded me of more dark souls 3. Which is really what I wanted. I'm sure they have innovated in same way , hell the jump button enough adds a lot. I just expect more dark souls and I'm happy for it.
Exactly. I don’t think anyone is going to except it to be a masterpiece but honestly people just want it to be fun.
@@lcameron4802 Uhh I absolutely expect it to be a masterpiece.
@@TheStraightestWhitest well don’t. There’s obviously gonna be issues with it when it releases.
@@lcameron4802 Such as? Plus, flaws are literally unavoidable. It'll still be the greatest game ever made.
@@lcameron4802 by that logic no game is a masterpiece, every game has some issues.
I've felt like this for years aswell. In the last 8 years or so, there will be maybe 2-3 good AAA games per year, while before that I could be excited for pretty much every AAA release and even the most disappointing games from a decade ago are still better products than the average AAA game of now. I kinda noticed that there was a shift in quality ever since the 8th gen came in. It seemed to me like all they cared about since then was to make their games as pretty as possible, everything else is secondary. I think the 8th gen was the point when gaming became fully corporate. It was the age when most game companies that used to have a good reputation threw it all out the window.
I disagree the gaming industry has always had shit games since the first Xbox and disappointing games that didn't deliver on promises like fable, but 2018 had alot of great games you're just so focused on nostalgia that you don't realize the problem we have now has always been a problem since early days of gaming which is something I noticed
Yeah sure mate I want to see you play the old Silver Surfer games and then I want to hear about how its better than even god damned fortnite...
Creating games has never been so accessible.
Uncountable numbers of devs from all around the world are able to create their dream. I mean a russian dude making a game about flying fortresses ripping each other apart before nuking cities to kill a tarkhan would be undoable twenty years ago and today? Highfleet !!
just look around and youll find everything you want..
If you only go by then mainstream market then dont cry when your taste doesnt fit it anymore.
I dont watch the channels I watched when I was a kid anymore either.
Great content. Thank you so much, i am glad i stumbled upon your channel.
Tbh you coulda not been hyped for BF 2042 for example and the industry would still feel like it’s dying
Seriously. Thank you for this video. The hype is a lot of times in this day and age more crazier than the game itself. Nintendo has been on point and the sales show that.
tbh you've made some solid points but in my opinion the hype for elden ring is different than other games cuz actually we know almost for sure what we are getting ,for me personally Im excited to get more of the same old souls formula that (at least for me) it works well as it is and all it needs isn't a drastic change but rather a small refinements , while for other games I usually focus more on the new features
Really appreciate the honesty you're putting forth here. I respect somebody that forms their own view by themselves instead of following the 'Group Think' mentality many others seem to express.
He just tries so hard to be anti mainstream its actually cringe. He is just a little depressed loser nothing more
@@phil_5430 I understand your opinion. But at least he tries to be real and honest, unlike a lot of TH-camrs who just pander entirely to the algorithm and avoid certain dialogue to prevent their videos from being flagged.
I mean the dudes whole opinion is "GAMING IS DEAD" and has been for at least a few years ....
Just like many others he just grew up and realized mainstream companies want to make money.
But reality is that Gamins has never been more alive and accessible, for players and developers alike.
You can play games made by dudes from Russia or women from India with just a few clicks on your computer. Stuff like Highfleet, Aurora, Dwarf Fortress, Wrought Flesh, etc....
SO many options !!
Back in the day you could only get what was in your local shop. Not everyone could get their games there...
50$ for a game you've never heard of... and then it sucks ass and youre just dissapointed. Then a few years later the console is shut down and thats it.
Maisntream is mainstream ... like in music... dont like it then dont listen to it. Enough other artists out there
More and more people are flocking to the hobby.
If you want simulators, racing games, hyper realistic air combat, fire fighting, grand strategy, or just sailing... you have hundreds of choices for each of those topics....
Video Games have never been more alive !
And I love it !!
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 This guy properly critiques games. You're the very type of person he mentions in his video.
@@KratostheThird ?? Yeah but why does he critique games he doesnt even show any interest too?
Why should I buy a game that is clearly not marketed towards certain interest I like or in any way interesting for me?
I mean come on.
He critiques games because they are popular yet he is angry over the route mainstream video games are going.
Thats just dumb. Dont you see it?
Thats like watching a grown dude critique cartoons because they dont meet his expectations even tough its marketed towards damn toddlers.
CDPR ruin gaming for everyone...now I'm not as hyped anymore as Im used to.
Reject buying games, embrace piracy.
As a gamer that came up at the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s it is disheartening to have witnessed the leaps and bounds we have made in technological advancements only to see the developers of AAA titles take the absolute easiest route in terms of incorporating that new technology in current games.
I 100% agree with zoomers being the cause, they've never played a good game in their life because they refuse to go backwards so they think current games are good, also idiots will always buy games and defend companies no matter the age, also as someone who got the platinum on Fallout 3 and New Vegas before playing 4 I still really liked it so I guess I'm an idiot idk
As a zoomer(born in 01) I agree. Even though I grew up with golden games in the ps2 to 360 era ,the fucking generation of gaming is dumb as hell. They'll defend any corporation and spout leftist horseshit and be scared of attractive women. Back in the ps2 era, I remember seeing hot women ,now it's just ugly fuckin mg ducklings because beauty is offensive now apparently. I swear I just wanna fucking die
I like both Fallout: New Vegas and 4. 2 playthroughs for NV, and 4 playthroughs for FO4.
I treat NV as more of a RPG, and I treat 4 as a shooter.
I hate being gen z because of this and people from older generation is bashing us for like ruining society, the industries and everything.
I am tried of my generation. I wish l was born in a other era where could just not being bashed by other people liking other stuff. Even though you guys are right about statement about. Think there is a time now to change up things before it gets worse and boring.
I thinking of playing old games that you guys grew up.
One of the big problems with hype is that it plays perfectly into one of the largest software development trends plaguing multiple industries right now.
As someone with an organizational management background, I can tell you that a lot of game developers, especially AAA ones, use some variation of the Sprint or Agile methodology. When you boil away all the marketing meme talk, this ultimately means they focus on rushing a product to market as fast as possible while worrying about doing iterative improvements after release in order to properly "finish" their product. Companies are shipping bare bones products and buying good will from consumers by selling the actual finished product as "continued" or "post-launch" support.
Hype is ultimately the measure of conscious real estate a product occupies in a consumer's mind, and the more condensed methodology of the Sprint cycle let's developers take full advantage of that. Every day a game spends in develop is another it risks falling from memory or not making money. Sprint let's companies maximize the initial buy-in hype can create, thereby pumping those sales figures and laying the groundwork for the classic sunken cost trap.
You sound like an older individual who knows his stuff. It's refreshing to hear someone that presents logic and makes rational points. Game testers are a thing of the past. Having early access on Steam and elsewhere was really the beginning of the end when it comes to expecting a quality, fully ready product on release day.
Your argument basically explains Ubisoft in a nutshell.
@@KratostheThird The "beginning of the end" was the shift away from static releases and towards "live service" which occurred around the mid to late 2000s. Just look at the number and kinds of updates you'd get on 7th generations consoles compared to 8th generation ones. It's the same thing with Steam as well, updates used to be much less frequent.
Prolific and consistent high-speed internet connectivity was the key ingredient that allowed for this change and the widespread adoption of Sprint-based models to occur. Games updating post-launch is so ingrained and expected at this point that not updating - be that frequently enough or at all - is enough to seriously damage the sales and longevity of a company's releases.
@@spnked9516 Mind if I ask how long you've been in this business?
But yes. Everything you said here is true. I can tell you from first hand experience that many games from roughly 2006 to 2010 had far less updates. What happened after was a real shift towards "live service".
I'm with Synthetic Man regarding his opinions. He, like I, are what are now considered OG gamers, or old school gamers. He's covered a number of old games including the Resident Evil remake, Thief and Prototype. I played Prototype within the second or third day of release back in 2009 and I can tell you the game was actually complete. You didn't sit around waiting for updates to install, you just popped the game into the system and you were good to go.
That game was published by Activision, who has now been bought out by Microsoft.
Personally, I blame the success of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, The Last of Us, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Heavy Rain for where we are today. Every other big budget AAA game is more like a "movie game". Every Call of Duty and Battlefield is trying to be like this, chock full of microtransactions and lootboxes.
With all these updates, we don't exactly have true single player games anymore. Everything is online integrated, which goes back to your point on high speed internet connectivity which accounts for games being broken on release day and being patched later on.
The decline started early in the PS3/360 era. The PS2 generation was the last time we could truly say we owned our games and we were able to buy complete games on release. Made perfect sense to preorder back then. Now, there is no point whatsoever.
You bring up some great points. Especially the fact that people just don't know what is good anymore. Same with movies and shows, they eat up every Marvel Movie and can't stand criticism. Being critical is looked down on, when it should be embraced. I think we are pointing out an issue with our society/ social media validation/ the whole schabang. I respect your opinion because people don't seem to even know what really makes em happy. They are always affiliating with things because of hidden narratives or alignments. Some of us , though, still like challenge, ingenuity, and the like. We exist and we appreciate the counter point.
I'm replaying this and still like it about as much as when it came out. For me it was definitely a case of a game living up to my hype, but my expectations were literally on this being Dark Souls but an open world twist. If you were expecting it to reinvent the wheel, that's where I could see it being disappointing. Taking the game for what it is and how well it managed to bring together many of the things From Software has learned over their previous games and bring it into an open world, I still think Elden Ring is nothing short of an amazing game.
People playing the same game mode with the same guns every day… but saying that the game changed BECAUSE IT HAS NEW SKINS 💀
You make a good point.
Just don't be hyped for anything! Trust me, the games that have blown me away recently were games I went into with no expectations, such as Valfaris. I just grabbed it on sale because the art looked cool and whadduya know, it ends up being one of my favorite games of all time, at least in the top 30, up there with the Contra's, Metal Slugs, and other great run & gun games. Literally never heard anything about it or read any reviews before purchasing and it was awesome
I had the same thing with the Danganronpa series, before playing these games I thought that they would be boring for me, because there is barely any gameplay, and now it's my favorite franchise next to Rayman
A few games that really surprised me where, cross code, unsighted, indivisible and the Darksiders series.
Nah, i am hype as shit for elden ring
Valfaris is amazing. The dev for that game also made Slain: Back from Hell which is another fantastic game.
@@fragileglass9622 I'm playing Slain right now after enjoying Valfaris! It's good, not quite as good as Valfaris, but I still dig it.
The best aspect of the open world design of breath of the wild and soon elden ring, is that you actually have to use your eyes to explore and discover things and not by following quest markers littered around the map with chores to do and using a gps to navigate an empty world just to get from point A to point B making the open world feel like just another linear game
Guy crying with smiling mask: STOP! GETTING HYPED!!!!
Chad: This new dark souls game is really cool, just like the trailers.