Use code GATEKEEP50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box plus 20% off your next box at bit.ly/3IJRP6t also pls lmk what indie games you think i might like

@TCave

2 ай бұрын

We love you thank you for helping with my mental health ❤❤❤

@london2753

2 ай бұрын

If you've never played Outer Wilds . . . play Outer Wilds. It'll restore your faith in gaming. ::)

@MrSwordsofvaul

2 ай бұрын

ok, but whats girl dinner?

@jimshorts7935

2 ай бұрын

Thanks to Sponsor for Factoring this video.

@palthea6468

2 ай бұрын

i'm currently playing Dungeon Munchies. the controlls are a bit janky but it's a fine game otherwise

Read the title as "greed ruined gambling" and thought we might get a harrowing tale of gabi losing it all at the Las Vegas slots

@Quintruple

2 ай бұрын

same!

@williammurray7520

2 ай бұрын

Fuck I did too 😅 had to do a double take

@07Flash11MRC

2 ай бұрын

"greed ruined gambling": That might be a good thing, if it ever happened.

@attrakteve

2 ай бұрын

relatable

@dbagette

2 ай бұрын

could be a crossover if gabi got obsessed over Balatro

It really goes to show how shitty the gaming industry has gotten when Baldur’s Gate 3 won so many rewards and, yet, set a ton of “unrealistic standards” according to other grimey companies when all Larian did was release a complete game and put tons of energy, time, and love into the game. I absolutely love the game and the amount of awards it won were so deserved. They simply just reminded other companies how games used to be and that scared the other scum of the industry.

@RainyDays2790

2 ай бұрын

thank the gods for modders without them wed be screwed

@Dave-bw3gl

2 ай бұрын

Same with Elden Ring the year before. The fact that these two games exist and are so much discussed about are a sign of hope for the AAA Industry for me. For no other reason than greed do we get a CoD or Assassins Creed every Year or two. I can´t imagine the gaming community complaining if they take a break for a few years to take a breath and sort things out to make fresh and compelling new titles. (I know it´s not THAT easy. You know what i mean)

@MissDarknSpooky

2 ай бұрын

This! When I saw the title I instantly thought about all the poor sport devs who lost at the game awards. Baulders Gate 3 is what video games should be.

@randomtinypotatocried

2 ай бұрын

I love BG3, but the bugs in the last few updates have been making it difficulty with touching it again

@Starrykitkat1

2 ай бұрын

Baldur’s Gate 3 IS an unrealistic expectation not every game should be baldur’s gate. Larian nearly SHUT DOWN trying to finish Baldur’s Gate. However, we should expect games to be released finished. I just get frustrated when people seem to act like Baldur’s Gate is a what everyone should be doing.

No joke a Blizzard manager just suggested that the industry should make a tipping system for developers. Like tell me you don't want to pay your workers without telling me you don't want to pay your workers.

@PhoenicopterusR

Ай бұрын

Wonder how much of those tips would go into that manager's pocket, too. Not only is it "I don't want to pay you as much", it's also "I'll give myself a raise for it".

@TheMunky25

5 сағат бұрын

Former manager he wasn't with the company when he made that stupid ass statement.

On celebrating indie games, gabi didnt mention them but Hades and Dredge are some of the coolest experiences ive ever had gaming

@Literallydissociating

2 ай бұрын

This!!! Hades is such an immaculate game. It’s gorgeous, fun, has a good story, and is just overall amazing. Cannot praise that game enough honestly.

@A1stardan

2 ай бұрын

​@@Literallydissociating I bought it on sale and played it, then I felt I robbed the devs. This has never happened before 😂.

@Literallydissociating

Ай бұрын

@@A1stardan lmao right? It’s just so well-made!

@jamiedavies3810

Ай бұрын

Hades is fantastic, cannot recommend it enough! I'm very excited for the second one!

@Literallydissociating

Ай бұрын

@@jamiedavies3810 same here!!!

Ubisoft more like Ubistupid

@suudbe1665

2 ай бұрын

You gottem, saucyboy1065

@itsgabibelle

2 ай бұрын

absolutely destroyed them

@TCave

2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah you get them 😂

@djtoxicdhg

2 ай бұрын

Godam

@pbrownie4

2 ай бұрын

Classic

just FYI, john ratatouille is not the CEO of unity anymore. He "stepped down" after the Unity runtime fee debacle last year

@itsgabibelle

2 ай бұрын

shit lmao thanks for the correction!!

@Swaxol

2 ай бұрын

thank god

@Piiiiiiiiit

2 ай бұрын

oh thank fuck

@strictnine5684

2 ай бұрын

Dudes grubby little goblin fingers finally got him bumped lmfaooooo

@devilmikey00

2 ай бұрын

Off to be the CEO of another company where he'll come up with a new way to ruin whatever it is involved with.

big companies do not care about us. and its such a weird thought of ''why would you sell this, yet nobody buys it, just so your stakeholders are happy and then complain when it does not sell''

@PhoenicopterusR

Ай бұрын

It's really about how high you go up the chain. Generally, the people making it want to give us a game, the people selling it want to give us a "product". Unfortunately, the latter are the ones making the big decisions at the cost of the former's process.

I think the fact that Helldivers 2, a game that got so popular there were server issues for the first month or so, was only forty dollars, and got released in a basically finished state, is one of the reasons I still play it today.

@BrianHopson

Ай бұрын

HD2 is one of my dream games come true now all i need is a sequel to prey 2017

@SaxguyTR

Ай бұрын

Whats your take on the psn drama?

@BrianHopson

Ай бұрын

@@SaxguyTR it sucked and I boycotted playing for they days the battle between Arrowhead & fans vs Sony. I'm skeptical on whether Sony will actually back down from ever implementing the PSN, I think they'll just get more crafty about it, I'm still kind of pissed at Arrowhead and Sony for dragging a beautiful game through the mud, also unrelated but Arrowhead needs to stop massacring the Eruptor Weapon.

@ExtantPerson

Ай бұрын

@@BrianHopsonArrowhead didn’t have much of a say in the PSN thing. It was 99% Sony. In fact, Arrowhead devs actually encouraged the bad reviews because it gave them leverage against Sony.

@BrianHopson

Ай бұрын

@@ExtantPerson nah Arrowhead could have warned us better about there being a supposed grace period from the whole 'needing to sign up to PSN thing', After not needing it for so long then switching it out on us was just cruel. Not very knowledgeable but apparently a few of the community managers in the beginning were rude to the fans too, not too sure on this one though.

This is why I love Stardew. Concerned Ape keeps releasing incredible new content for the game, totally free of charge. And the game is less than half of the price of a AAA game.

@borkolan821

2 ай бұрын

This is why I love indie games overall

@miZuZYN

2 ай бұрын

​@@borkolan821yep. Most indie devs have the passion for their game. One of the reasons why I love New Blood so much, who are one of the few good companies left. They see interesting games THEY WANT TO PLAY being made and want to fund them. And thanks to it we've gotten bangers like ULTRAKILL and Faith.

@brieoshiro

2 ай бұрын

Honestly it's the best $15 I've ever spent haha It's given me YEARS of joy.

@miZuZYN

2 ай бұрын

@@brieoshiro it's wild to think you can barely finish the Year 1 in the time you are done with a AAA game's campaign that might not even work lol

@Beefusan

2 ай бұрын

So much content I almost feel like I am ripping them off. I bought this game years ago. On sale. And I just got a free update with new content a few weeks ago, what?

I have no shame in admitting that every Ubisoft game I've ever played was acquired sailing the seven seas

@spuriousgeorge7233

2 ай бұрын

If anything you should be proud

@SuspiciousSilence

2 ай бұрын

If buying a game online does not count as ownership, downloading a game online does not count as piracy.

@igetmoreassthanatoiletseat8264

2 ай бұрын

YUUUUPPPPP​@@SuspiciousSilence

@Kate-is5mz

2 ай бұрын

No shame is due, carry on sir.

@alba.l6745

2 ай бұрын

Me too, also EA games. I refuse to pay more money for unfinished products 😅

I'm in my 40s and I remember this is exactly how NES games were in the 80s, and independent game magazines debuted as a way to worn consumers about the unplayable garbage being pumped into stores. A sort of "game journalism" if you will, because the concept was new and parents didn't know any better. This is why my family mostly rented game cartridges and only bought the game if it was good.

@peachesnola7860

13 күн бұрын

We always rented, then when all the rental stores closed I moved over to GameFly (the original Netflix of gaming). I really miss that, cause I don't want to spend all my money on a game I don't end up liking, and don't want to spend all my time looking up videos of gameplay that don't actually help you decide.

@xCindyLouWhox

9 күн бұрын

Are there any video game rental services still in operation? Like is this still a thing you can do? Because that would be a lifesaver. The only one I know of is GameFly. I remember renting games as a child, my cousins would almost exclusively rent games because they couldn’t afford to buy the game, but that way they could still play it and enjoy it for a little. Company gets a small profit from the rental and then another if the customer actually buys the game, and even if they don’t buy the game, they still made a little profit off of their curiosity in renting it to try it out. Too much overhead cost to be profitable maybe? A better option for consumers though. This could even translate digitally, just allow access for a restricted amount of time.

My most played game is Factorio. One time purchase, can play offline, small install size, official mod support for lots of replayability, and devs that actually listen to feedback and interact with the community. They even hired a mod maker to turn the mod into a full fledged expansion.

@cascadecontroller

8 күн бұрын

Yeah and all of that for the small, little price of ALL YOUR FREETIME, PLEASE I HAVEN'T SEEN MY FAMILY IN MONTHS!!!

Can we also gripe about the horrible horrible lack of couch co-op these days? My husband and I live in the same house but need to buy most games TWICE to play together and are expected to have TWO consoles with TWO yearly subscriptions!! It’s so stupid!!! So we just never get to play anything together anymore

@Kryxx07

2 ай бұрын

I miss couch co-op games so much.

@sleepymarauder4178

2 ай бұрын

Overcooked, Unrailed etc. There are still many. Just not from the big names.

@zaidabraham7310

2 ай бұрын

On Xbox/Playstation, you don't need to buy games twice or have 2 subscriptions. There's a way to set it up (it's not entirely straightforward on either system), but you can play one Playstation/Xbox account's digital library on two consoles at the same time

@glumdrops3678

2 ай бұрын

It takes two was brilliant

@lolno6465

2 ай бұрын

I just started playing old games again because of this 😭 y'all will catch me playing castle crashers with my friends in the year 2024

Fun roller coaster tycoon fact: It was written in a language so basic that it could run on anything no matter what, ergo the strategy of putting it everywhere as a demo meant that people could see it ran on their system perfectly fine, even if their system was ancient. THAT is beyond what Triple A studios do now.

@PsyX99

2 ай бұрын

These games still exist you know ?

@Milan____

2 ай бұрын

@@PsyX99 of course some games are optimized for low-spec computers, but no notable games since RCT have been written in assembly. Significantly, assembly is very difficult to manage on scale, therefore, as insane as it was to have 1 developer write a non-trivial game in it, it's 100x more unfeasible for teams of developers larger than can fit in one room, to ever use assembly language on scale (i.e. besides optimizing a few routines here and there). Also, now that Rust the programming language exists, using assembly to write games has even fewer justifications than before.

@MsVilecat

2 ай бұрын

This reminds me a lot of the Oregon Trail story. The recent video on it is a treat of a documentary. It was just 2 programmer buds helping their teacher friend to make his class as entertaining as he always tried to make it.

@pAWNproductionsDE

2 ай бұрын

She already kind of covers this in the video. And a previous video if I remember correctly

@evilemuempire9550

2 ай бұрын

Writing ANYTHING in assembly is impressive, making a whole game by yourself is insane

a significant reason why games need so many gigabytes nowadays is due to the textures they use, since especially higher quality textures need a lot of space and often when you download a game it installs every texture quality from lowest to the highest taking the maximum amount of space. it does make it easier and faster to change the texture quality from the settings but with the added cost of requiring a lot more space.

@reaganharder1480

Ай бұрын

I will also note that the highest texture qualities are typically well into the range of diminishing returns. A lot of times I have even found myself thinking older Xbox 360 games with like 10GB file sizes look better than new games with 100GB file sizes, because the new games look too clean and shiny.

@xCindyLouWhox

9 күн бұрын

⁠@@reaganharder1480Agreed, and if you don’t have the newest, most optimized hardware to view it on, then good luck lol.

9:10 "Thanks to sponsor for factoring this video" had me rewind fast as hell cause i thought I had a stroke 😂

@becky46n2

16 күн бұрын

Me too 🤣🤣

The way animal crossing was basically unfinished and relied on updates to keep it going but then the updates stopped after 2 years

@masterseal0418

2 ай бұрын

This reason makes me wish Nintendo could give New Horizons the 'Welcome Amiibo' treatment.

@Matanumi

2 ай бұрын

I mean Nintendo studios aren't exempt from this Star allies, Mario sports games all suffered from being unfinished And low on sales because of this

@Vyz3r

2 ай бұрын

The director for Animal Crossing is the same director for Splatoon. Splatoon has an update feed in which it releases free new updates to lengths the life/replayability of the game. This works fine with Splatoon because it's a competitive multiplayer game. The director tried to emulate this with Animal Crossing, but it doesn't work as well because it's mainly a single player game which requires more content to be available at release.

@wiltfoster5386

2 ай бұрын

yeah but....Still finish animal crossing? And then for the next animal crossing game learn from those mistakes and impliment updates better ​@@Vyz3r

@HatsuneMikuXNegi

2 ай бұрын

​@@Vyz3r and us splatoon players are STILL disappointed witht the updates ending so soon.... there's so much more life the game could have but this wierd artificial "2 years of updates and no more" thing has been so bad for their games! Animal crossing still had a lot of things it needed like bulk crafting and far more dialogue and the devs just didn't get a chance to really dig their feet in. Sometimes you gotta see how a game does in longevity, yknow?

I think you nailed it. We just need the gaming community to: 1) STOP PREORDERING! Don't pay money for the promise of a product. Wait for release and balanced reviews. 2) Stop equating open world with good game. Huge open spaces filled with nothing but scenery or irrelevant and tedious tasks is not actual gameplay. 3) Stop defending crappy practices. This is best done with your wallet but also going online to defend microtransactions or crappy dlc that should have been included in the original release, that needs to stop happening. We need to be willing to push back on crappy practices and say we don't give a damn about your shareholders (publicly traded companies suck) and refuse to fund companies that don't care. Over in Total War Warhammer, we pushed back on their new crappy dlc policy so successfully that we actually won. The next dlc is looking great and they added additional content to the previous shamefully overpriced dlc. It's possible to make things change, we just need to be willing to fight for it and maybe sacrifice not getting to play the latest call of assassin's mon hyper remake 3.

@Tamaki742

2 ай бұрын

Also stop buying games just because it seems interesting when all they showed you was vertical slice trailers. I thought we've learnt from Aliens Colonial Marines. Moreover stop buying from company with very well known bad reputations, because as long as they know it doesn't hinder you from buying their next shiny product, they're gonna keep thinking they can get away with more egregious shit. Like Konami, EA, ActiBlizzard, Ubisoft, Warner Bros, etc.

@kylespevak6781

2 ай бұрын

Idk how in the fuck people preorder games still

@Tamaki742

2 ай бұрын

@@kylespevak6781 They want the bonuses most of the time, you can get collector's items. But at the same time, is the collector's items even worth it every single time??? They definitely aren't imo.

@Breensprout17

2 ай бұрын

@@Tamaki742I play World of Warcraft, I run a guild with my husband in the community. We preorder or get gifted preorders from Family because we all play together. We’re across the country from each other, so it’s the only way we all get together and connect these days. Which sucks but financially it’s cheaper than plane tickets. We understand we’re all here for nostalgia, we also love the community we built. 400+ people all coming together for weekly raids, dungeons, content we enjoy farming out together. We have babies and we share the joy and excitement, we argue and fight like siblings. But we all come together after long workdays and relax together. There’s something actually really beautiful about being able to facilitate that environment. So yes, 80$ gone for preorders. And we’re probably going to keep doing it. We have sh*t to deal with from Blizzard but we help each other where we can. Just some perspective. Because there’s still a huge side to modern gaming people miss. We’re still here for the community, for each other.

@drewgoin8849

2 ай бұрын

Video games moving away from physical copies to digital subscription-based services appears inevitable at this point.

The PS2 was the golden era of gaming. They managed to stuff as much content as they could fit into a compact disc you owned, with a finished full offline game, additional game modes, online multiplayer and unlockables without installing anything. For less than $60. I had a 8mb memory card with more than 10 games saved on it.

@fluorotoluene

Ай бұрын

Oh great I just flashed back to original Summoner and I now I hear that voice saying T-H-Q

@Solarstormflare

Ай бұрын

most of my fave games were from ps2

@alicatdotcom

Ай бұрын

Games in 2004: Cheat codes unlock cosmetics and bonus content! Games in 2024: Give us more money.

My girlfriend was spending the last few weeks with me help me after getting my hips replaced, so we have had a lot of time to play games together lately, we went through all the normal ones pretty quickly and I can be bad about finding new media to try, where she is way more open to that kind is thing, we decided to try a study based game called “A Way Out” about two guys in prison, and it was a blast, not a super long game, but such a good time and something I never would have played on my own. It’s definitely helped me to step out of my comfort zone and try a bunch of these games I’ve never heard of. Another great one of The Long Dark. It’s my favorite survival game I’ve ever played by a mile and I’m usually not really a fan of that genre, but I highly highly recommend it

@laurenclearman3771

6 күн бұрын

I’ve played that game too! If you like A Way Out deff try It Takes Two! Similar in that your working together to move forward, very fun to play with a partner ☺️

@thomasredden4263

14 сағат бұрын

@@laurenclearman3771 yeah I got her that for Christmas this past year, it’s such a creative game and truly artistically beautiful to look at

Stardew Valley (Concerned Ape) also just released a significant update to the game. For free. 8 years after launch. It is excellent. That’s why it’s made $300,000,000.

@DeadStawker

2 ай бұрын

I mean it is certainly appreciated, and I'd do it even with much less success than that, but it's easy to do so after selling that much.

@awkwardotter13

2 ай бұрын

And the fandom is so loyal and love the game so much that a lot of players buy multiple copies of the game

@Bubble-Foam

2 ай бұрын

@@DeadStawker No it isn’t? Money doesn’t just linearly correlate to more content like that.

@bunnyellabell

2 ай бұрын

​@@awkwardotter13 yep! got it on switch first then wanted it on pc too! would even buy again if i needed to. it's practically free at that price for the amount of content

@Alex_the_Dad

2 ай бұрын

​@@awkwardotter13 not me owning I think 6 or 7 copies of stardew across old Google accounts and consoles and pc

the rollercoaster tycoon dev making it in assembly language is actually terrifying, i never knew that.

@garrkell

2 ай бұрын

ELi5...

@shadowsoulless6227

2 ай бұрын

I still play roller coaster tycoon 2

@Xx2Devexia2xX

2 ай бұрын

Learned it through this vid too holy shit

@kaitthemom

2 ай бұрын

​@@garrkellto my knowledge (not very much, I do not do Coding™ but I have done some stuff) it's like if instead of running a program called "take a shower" you did a bunch of different individual things like "go to bathroom" "turn on water" "get towel ready" etc. until a game is made. It's like using ms paint to make a feature length movie. Or using an ADHD brain when you're used to a typical one. It's what he knew and what worked, so the extra work it took was worth it to make sure it was 💯 but if I'm wrong explaining, I actually would love a correction

@kaitthemom

2 ай бұрын

​@@garrkellI really respect Mr Sawyer for his work, so I've left my KZread comment hermit hole for this lmao

I'm a Kingdom Hearts fan and I think I speak for us all when I say: we are demons who thrive on introducing people to the first game and watching them experience hell. it actually makes my skin physically healthier when they get confused and lost in the Tarzan world! I am also a Sonic fan- the same applies.

2:30 "so we couldn't even enjoy our Chad Chad Eddy Burback warrior roleplay" IM CRYING?????

the sims team youtube channel has a community page where they talk about updates to the game, new items, new packs, etc. but most of the comments under those posts go along the lines of “wow thats great! fix the game.” it honestly makes me so mad just how greedy these big gaming companies are.

@all1764

2 ай бұрын

Bro EA is the worst 😭😭😭 I'm a part of the Sims community and it is terribleeee They need some competition fr fr

@coco_rthritis6462

2 ай бұрын

What's crazy to me is that I wanted to BUY the Sims 2 but it seems EA fucking erased it from the internet. I couldn't even find any ROMs. Probably cause it's an old and relatively unpopular pc game that wasn't just DOS. Like I was gonna GIVE THEM MONEY stupid as it is, but they're basically promoting piracy at this point lol. Literally actively losing out on money. I mean why? The people that want to play Sims 2 won't just magically want to play 3 or 4 if 2 isn't available. We just won't play!

@jude2839

Ай бұрын

​@@coco_rthritis6462fr. The only way to get ts2 this days is piracy or buying the physical copies from someone

@Silly_Explosions_Sounds

Ай бұрын

I really hope they convince the unpaid intern to fix the game

@jamiedavies3810

Ай бұрын

I was hoping to get a copy of The Sims 2 as I never really played it that much. But yeah, ES seems to have just wiped it off the map...

not to mention the artistic variety in indie games. just so many visually stunning games made by indie creators, while it feels like big title games all look near-identical nowadays...

@Mr-tu4cj

2 ай бұрын

I don’t know, a lot of indie games blend together visually as generic indie slop. I mean, if you watch any of Nintendo’s indie showcases you’ll see what I mean. There’s rarely unique visual identity because most of these projects don’t have good art directors or good graphic budgets. Of course there are some beautiful outliers, but the same can be said for big studio games.

@Metahunt638

2 ай бұрын

Stardew valleys graphics are amazing. Expect that harsh orange color most of the time

@hahano5523

2 ай бұрын

Mutazione is a game i immediately thought of but sadly the studio is apparently shutting down yet triple A studio's are releasing trash and staying in business

@RecentCobra

2 ай бұрын

Honestly a lot of Indie games look the same now. And like 70% of them about mental health

@PugsyP

2 ай бұрын

False, most indie games are unoriginal copycats

18:36 the sub button did the light up thingy i already know it's a feature but i get so excited when ever it happens

@nilladrawsstuff

Ай бұрын

LITERALLYYY THE SILLY LITTLE COLORS HSIDBSJDB

Absolutely love when you do videos like this, Gabi. Pointing out the issues that sit within the gaming industry like the lack of effort being put into those third party games, but also shining a light on some specific indie games but also indie games in general. Amazing stuff!

It should be illegal to release a product in an unfinished state. You can just make us pay $100 to give us shit and make it better through years of updates.

@maggie6152

2 ай бұрын

This is able to be done for video games because in US law they are considered "services" instead of "products" thanks to an out of date law made in the 80s. If you want games (and software) to change, that law needs to change.

@breawycker

2 ай бұрын

I'm technically they're not allowed to. False advertising is illegal in multiple countries. No Man's Sky was actually investigated and cleared of charges by the Advertising Standards Authority of the UK.

@yurisei6732

2 ай бұрын

The problem is you'd have to define "finished". There's not really anything you can do to prove that a company didn't intend a game to be more than it released as. Best case scenario you could do it by bugs since it's hard to argue they're intentional, but then you don't get companies making better products, you get companies spending more on bugfixing and less on adding features, making for an even hollower experience.

@jodicaryn

2 ай бұрын

I mean I was working at a software store when MS-Dos 6.0 was released. It was so freaking buggy that a week later they shipped a patch to our stores that we had to charge $10 for. $10 extra to. make. the. OPERATING SYSTEM. you. already. bought. work.

@WilliamMullaney

2 ай бұрын

Ehhh I dont think making it a crime is really the move. Really, if you have a problem with unfinished games, you should just wait for it to release and look at other people playing it to decide whether its worth it. I did that for both Kerbal Space Program 2 and Cities Skylines 2, and in my opinion they weren’t worth the money yet, so i didnt buy them. Making it illegal would also mean no more early access games, and there are some great games out there in early access

"in true Ubisoft fashion it kinda sucked" one of the most accurate sentences said in history

@Juniberserker

2 ай бұрын

*Y O U*

@DeniseRafih

2 ай бұрын

Are you literally e v e r y w h e r e ?!

@bendy514

2 ай бұрын

they made like 2 unique and decent games since like rayman legends (which was supposed to be a wii u exclusive but failed) and one of them was a toy to life game designed with swtich in mind (which also didn't do that well) and the other is a mario game if it was xcom and had half the worlds of a normal mario game and doesn't have enough content to call it a mario or a xcom game

@Ketraar

2 ай бұрын

I get that its fun and quirky to bash Ubisoft, but like it or not they have a huge catalogue of very popular games. And sure they have games that seem made based on a formula at times (looking at you Assassin's Creed and co), but they also have very good games, Anno Series, Splinter Cell Series (especially the older ones), many of the Tom Clancy branded games are decent. Do they awe inspiring games that enhance our philosophical minds? Probably not, because we don't want those, we want to sneak in a shadow, climb up a tube and snap a neck while no one is looking. EA is not the greatest, but Mass Effect is still one of my favourite games. So yes, demand more, but we should not fall into a trap to deny our involvement in setting the trends.

@Chewberto

2 ай бұрын

@@Ketraar I think one of Raycevick's recent videos put it best: Ubisoft isn't bad, it's infuriating. Nearly every single one of their games is, at its core, an extremely creative and unique idea that few other AAA companies would ever dare to attempt. The problem is that they often copy and paste design between games to such an extent that it can feel like you're playing the same game with a different skin on. Really, it's the main reason why Ubisoft gets so much hate, IMO. Their games are rarely ever given the creative freedom to experiment and make the most of their awesome premises, because those premises are why people buy their games and get disappointed when its just Assassin's Cry #55.

I'n glad you show-cased "Unpacking". Such a good game, with a beautiful and unique way of telling a story. It's an amazing piece of art and one I wished more people got to enjoy.

I recently repurchased Rollercoaster Tycoon because it was on sale on steam and it is literally every bit as fun now as it was back in the 2000s when I had no internet and the whole house shared 1 computer so me and brother would fight over which Rollercoaster to build. Not to mention it wasn't anywhere near as frustrating to get working (run it on windows 98/ME compatibility and force the resolution to 640x480 and the weird error is fixed) as ANY new game I've purchased recently.

2:31 not the kind of roleplaying im usually involved with but hell yeah

@transstarry2133

2 ай бұрын

Is your name REALLY Chad Chad? I feel like you never explain that in your videos :(

@aria_slayz_fr

2 ай бұрын

ITS CHAD CHAD!

@aria_slayz_fr

2 ай бұрын

@@transstarry2133it isn’t Chad Chad, doesn’t she say “it’s me, Chad Chad! (Not really)” Or maybe it’s a joke and I don’t get it idfk

@iricandescence

2 ай бұрын

Love you Ms. Chad Chad. Hope your knee is doing better! 😅

@brookejon3695

2 ай бұрын

​@@aria_slayz_fr the person you're replying to is joking, friend

I'm telling you, Cult of the Lamb has a chokehold on my soul right now. I'm 80 hours in and still not bored. And the devs are so active on reddit, and even gave us a big patch with new content for FREE. Unpacking was also on sale for $4 and I've now played it twice and still cried. Indie games are my current bread and butter.

@pipticken

2 ай бұрын

Cult of the lamb is the first game I've ever played on console, and I love it so much! I only ever had the money to pay off computer games or mobile games until my friend sold me her second hand switch cheap, and I feel like I've missed out on so much

@editsblazing

2 ай бұрын

Fool 😂

@Brentaxe

2 ай бұрын

Cult of the lamb is great but the end game had so much lag it was unplayable at launch. Good game, bad example in this context haha

@alice0601

2 ай бұрын

​@@Brentaxe Fair, I didn't play at launch. I only picked it up in February this year.

I really hate how certain communities blame "diversity" for bad games. When its clear as day corperate who cut corners, restrict game developers from making a game they want. And forcing a game model that design to maximize profit instead making a fun game has been a disease plaguing the community.

@daisy9181

13 күн бұрын

The forced diversity is also an issue. Pandering and virtue signaling are not great tools and they are heavily employed in many modern games.

@lazysnorlax3015

12 күн бұрын

​@@daisy9181 It depends on the creators intentions. Because if they have a character who well writing and expand on the story like Angrboda from gow ragnarok thats an example of good diversity. If they are lazy about it and have diversity for the sake of it. It's mostly due to incompetency rather than diversity itself. And some executives usually do the diversity inclusion thing to get the most people to buy their product.

@daisy9181

6 күн бұрын

@@lazysnorlax3015 I disagree, I think telling stories that are organic and don't have any pandering or virtue signaling for ANY reason are always more pure, and capable of success.

@lazysnorlax3015

5 күн бұрын

@@daisy9181 Stories like dune was inspired by real life events and politics. Dune was inspired by the conflict in the middle east and oil disputes. And uses themes of colonization, religion, tyranny. Many good stories draw inspiration from real life especially sci fi and fantasy stories. Then expand on it. Both right leaning and left leaning always whine about a messages they disagree with. Before denis dune came out right leaning people had a fuss over chani skin color being changed then after it came out left leaning complained about the story being a white savior story. To me its neccessarly the message being potrayed its mostly the writers competency in giving that message.

@daisy9181

5 күн бұрын

@@lazysnorlax3015 Yeah but they didn't shoehorn it in, they didn't parade around with meta references to oil throughout, it was subtle and allowed the viewer to take away from it what they wanted to. I get what you're saying, but there's a big difference between stories that run along similar lines, vs a character breaking the 4th wall, looking directly into the camera, and saying "Oh so it's just like OPEC?" if that makes sense? I was using movies as my reference here since you brought up Dune, but it's the same thing when in a game I'm like walking around with a qualified female scientist who keeps making quips about the role of women in their game world, and yet she's a highly paid successful Dr. It just... is unnecessary. If you want to show that women in your world are suffering, just show it, it's like walking around with the Prince of Egypt and he's just going "Yeah being Royalty is hard, boy it's so hard, so so hard, wow it's so hard." How about just let me hang out with the dude, and see what his day is like, then I CAN SEE with my own eyes, how hard his world is. Something like that...

I stopped buying triple A games for the most part. The only ones I do buy are either old and on a really good sale (with good reviews) or I just wait a few days after release to see if the game is actually worth the full price tag or not. This is saving me so much money and many many brain cells.

It is hard to overstate how insane the roller coaster tycoon guy was for writing it in assembly code. For the unaware, you cannot get closer to literally writing 1's and 0's than writing in assembly. Nobody does that today because it takes significantly longer to write with little real benefit considering the strength of modern computers

@yellobb3848

2 ай бұрын

This omg. I remember learning that roller coaster tycoon was written in assembly while I was learning how to just READ IT for my computer science degree. I was completely flabbergasted

@klti0815

2 ай бұрын

Seriously, even really talented programmers targeting very underpowered hardware (say John Carmack for Quake) used assembler only rarely, to optimize some critical logic that was used a lot, because it's just so much work, so hard to read, and so easy to screw up quite badly. For assembler to be worth the effort and the pain, you need to be able to not just write working assembler, you actually need to be better at writing assembler than your C Compiler for your code. Even back then, this was quite hard.

@thalloutboy

Ай бұрын

There _is_ tangible benefit to writing in assembly: -The code can be fully optimized. -No compiling means the software can run pretty much ASAP. -No linking means that there is absolutely no unused code. This reduces file sizes. But this comes at the cost of spending significantly more time and effort on development, and absolutely no cross-platform support. So... yes. He's completely insane.

The timing of this is perfect. Ubisoft just removed the online game "The Crew" from players libraries after taking the servers offline

@Lustrum0005

2 ай бұрын

I did not buy the game The Crew but I am telling everyone in hopes that all 12 million people that bought this game join the mass campaign at stop Killing Games website. I wish I bought this game so i can join this fight, I hate what developers have done to games, it's nothing but micro transaction bate traps design to suck parent's and kid's money. This is why I mainly play xbox 360 and the Nintendo Mini systems, Sega mini etc, My Xbox one is literally a paper weight, I only bought it to play Red Dead Redemption 2

@MsVilecat

2 ай бұрын

They didn't just remove the game, they removed the right for those who bought it to even try to launch it by taking the license right away.

@Lustrum0005

2 ай бұрын

@MsVilecat Exactly, they removed the game from existence, and they stole people's money. It's like buying a painting, then one day the artist walks in your home, takes the painting and now you are both out of money and out of your painting.. then to make matters worse, the painter offers to sell you a 2nd painting. Theze companies are out of line and laws need to change to protect the consumer. This is why we need to spread the word, if anyone bought The Crew they need to visit Stop Killing Games follpw the instructions and join the fight

@ily_777

2 ай бұрын

@@Lustrum0005oh wow. Thanks for letting me know about the website. I actually bought The Crew. I played it all throughout February because I knew Ubiscam was gonna take it away. Stuff like that should be illegal.

@picahudsoniaunflocked5426

2 ай бұрын

Ross from Accursed Farms YT channel put together a multi-country effort to try to change consumer laws. The Crew was part of his impetus. If you check out his channel, he explains the efforts. Bc they are concentrating on a country-by-country effort with lawmakers, politically petitioning for consumer protections, they mostly need citizens of various countries to help by signing the legal petitions (eg if it takes 5,000 signatures from constituents to force parliament to discuss it in session, they need 5000 signatories who are legit citizens in that country). I believe the UK petition just came open to sign. Please, if you care about this issue, Go see the video at Accursed Farms where he explains it. I have no skin in this game. I watch the channels's game reviews, so I know this has been a pet issue for the channel creator Ross for literally years, & he did all the hard work of finding out how different regions would need to be approached, & all the details. They have a range of acceptable outcomes, from making it illegal for companies to withdraw support from games to the bare minimum, which is if they shut down a game, they'd be obligated to release the code so other people could reconstruct the servers & keep playing the game.

I never understood why people HAVE to be in one of these two camps: Camp 1: Old games are shit and nostalgia is bad. Camp 2: Old games are better and new games suck. Why can't we just be like, hey, some aspects were better then and some aspects are better now? Its called BALANCE, people.

The =3 scene change sound at 17:51..... This is why I love this channel

I’ve met the creator of Roller Coaster Tycoon, he was teaching students how to 3d model, he was so chill and showed us a 3d model of his fancy house

@SuspiciousSilence

2 ай бұрын

That dude is a madlad, he programmed those games in Assembly which is incredibly hard and arduous to do (RCT 1 & 2, anyways. Another Dev picked up RCT 3). Mad respect because apparently one of the hardest ways to program a game.

@thecupofno

2 ай бұрын

That guy might just be the Hillenburg of gaming. He made a cool little project about his passion and then a big company came and ruined everything about it after he stepped back.

this whole problem got so apparent when baldur's gate 3 released and other devs of major game companies started to complain and asking gamers to "not get used to this" because "this is not the norm" and "larian was in a uniquely fortunate position" (which is not true at all btw like their servers got flooded, there was a whole war in the ukraine and they were close to bankruptcy at least once) but really it just boiled down to those devs being scared cuz suddenly people got what they were paying for elsewhere.

@mandu6665

2 ай бұрын

I guess you missed the part where Larian took money from a disgusting greedy publisher TenCent and launched a broken ass Baldur's Gate 3. Gamer hypocrisy is fucking absurd and you didn't even understand the initial discussion nor did many of the idiotic capital G gamerz.

@Pushing_Pixels

2 ай бұрын

The big studios have been deliberately lowering the public's expectations for years, then Larian comes along and reminds everyone where the bar is meant to be. It set back the big player's efforts, and pissed them off, because it will cost them money either through spending more on development or selling less games due to being obviously sub-standard.

@Bubble-Foam

2 ай бұрын

That literally isn’t what happened though. That’s a narrative people invented. The original concerns were raised by an indie developer, and he listed the specific reasons baldurs gate was able to succeed in the ways that it did. The original thread even said you should still be demanding finished, stable games without micro transactions. The actual problem with raising standards for games to match the scope of baldurs gate is that game developers are already overworked and treated like garbage. AAA games aren’t bad because the people making them are lazy or whatever, it’s because the release dates are determined by marketing departments and shareholders, not the people who want to make the games. Believe it or not, devs actually want to make fun games.

@BigGomer

2 ай бұрын

​@@Bubble-Foambut people would have to read more then just the headline or watch some click bait KZread video to learn that that's why this entire mess exists

@snintendog

2 ай бұрын

@@Bubble-Foam Except what you just made was PURE FICTION. We have Ubisoft devs block pissing and maoning on twitter. Blizzard class act joining in and even the classic God of War creator joining in.

For some reason my algorithm included your Twilight saga review, and being a degen OSRS gamer I gotta say - I love how you edit a bunch of OSRS music into everything!! Amazing content, keep it up :D

On a totally unrelated note The sims 4 did an update adding a shopping cart to the main screen. As you ply this cart icon can flash at you if there are dlc items you haven’t bought yet even though the Home Screen has a literal list of the games as well as pop up ads for games you haven’t bought! If you’ve sadly already sold your literal soul for better quality games too bad because most of the dlc is buggy and so is the base game! Good luck simmers! 💚

@franzosisch5965

2 ай бұрын

The current price for every DLC item for Sims 4 is currently $1,224.24 before tax.

@Unfortunately_Mickey

2 ай бұрын

EA wants their customers to experience pain and the only thing good they ever did was encourage mods and CC for the Sims. Otherwise that game wouldn't have been touched in years

@MissDarknSpooky

2 ай бұрын

As a lifelong simmer, we are accepting thoughts and prayers 😅

@ratat0ullie

2 ай бұрын

It also flashes if you've bought every pack already, unless that got changed recently

@skunkjo3195

2 ай бұрын

Yesss saw the title for this vid and immediately thought, where's my simmers at? Haha

The fact that this video drops right when I have to write an essay on video games and micro transactions feels like a sign. THANK YOU GABI ❤

@goldenfiberwheat238

2 ай бұрын

Copy and paste her script

@Linkman8912

2 ай бұрын

​@goldenfiberwheat238 just edit any bad language words and anything with 'like' or 'subscribe'

@goldenfiberwheat238

2 ай бұрын

@@Linkman8912 lol yeah

I think the very name "Skull & Bones" was to warn us that there's no meat on this game and that it's barren with little to do.

Ive been binge watching you all day, why did yhe youtube alg take so long to bring me here!!

As an indie developer, thank you so much for putting the spotlight on indie games. I'm not saying that all indie games are amazing, but there are soooo many talented devs out there doing incredible stuff and many of these games goes unnoticed by the larger public. Check games like Dotage, Wartales, Core Keeper, Wayward, WitchHand, Songs of Conquest, Cyber Knights, Path of Achra, Dwarf Fortress. I could go on and on and on. I hope people get inspired by your video to dig in to the magical world of indie games. There are so may to discover. Thank you again for the video.

@Stopaskingwhyandjustreadit

Ай бұрын

Indie games are pretty amazing as a whole. I often cite the indie market when talking to people about my job (working with AI) and how it's proof that there'll always be enough people who value human passion that there'll be room in the market for both purely human works and AI works.

@alphonsejohnson5601

Ай бұрын

Freedom Planet, Shantae, and Hollow Knight are some of the best indie franchises to ever be played. Genuinely love these 3 and I am collecting physical versions of all 5 Shantae games for my backlog as I've already collected freedom Planet( And the sequel isn't on limited run yet).

@RubenTheCartographer

Ай бұрын

I strongly believe that Indie games are the way the game market should be. The bigger the company and budget, the more likely they are going to start squeezing every single cent out of something with the power of addictive psychology hacking your dopamine system.

1:02 "remember when releasing a game meant that it was done" Well, we're off to a good start😂

@Dr.Quarex

2 ай бұрын

I appreciated her nod to the pedantic ancient assholes like me who always get mad hearing statements like that as though we were not screamingly furious about buggy games in the 1990s (or earlier!). But yes, unless you were already online you were usually out of luck if a game needed a patch, since as she mentioned they would usually have to ship out new disks if things were bad enough (looking at you, Ultima IX)

@thepubknight6144

2 ай бұрын

​​@@Dr.QuarexNba 2k and Wwe 2k fans especially get on my nerves with that Its like they think every player is an online player I'm not and all these off-line options i can play in both is extremely awesome to me They don't even remember Michael Jordan wasn't playable for near 20 years until 2012

I really loved Chants of Sennaar! It’s a puzzle game based on decoding languages. Super fun and would be fun to stream/film fs! 20:50

I just gotta be that person and state that technically, megalovania did not come out first with undertale. It was a calling card that Tobyfox used on a lot of his projects more notably in Homestuck before Undertale was ever made. I believe the first ever use was in a Earthbound Halloween hack that he was working on in 2009.

Indie Gamedev here. Seeing a lot of my collagues who work in AAA lose their job and a lot of mid-sized studios closing down. The AAA model is simply not working anymore and AA also seems affected. A studio from our city had to close down because even though they released an amazing game, 40€ was too high of a price point when Baldurs gate released the week before and people had already spend a lot of money on that game. also... AGE OF MYTHOLOGY YESSS!!! (they are making a remasterd version... really skeptical because we haven't seen any gameplay footage :'D )

@noticiasinmundicias

2 ай бұрын

Most industries in general are not working because salaries have stagnated over the last 40 years.

@AaronHendu

2 ай бұрын

Because people make garbage AAA games. Give us the next actual memorable AAA and see it boom again. We are just tired of being burned by copy paste after copy paste. I habe a backlog that could easily last until I die...i would never have to buy a new game if I didnt want to, and I largrly dont. Capitalism ruined it. Greed...ruined it. And now there is no faith.

@pencileva_art

2 ай бұрын

@@AaronHendu Baldurs Gate 3 is a good example of what those memorable AAA games should be. I hope more companies will follow Larian in this aspect.

13:54 You’re absolutely right about having physical copies of media. People have gotten comfortable with the idea of renting access instead of buying, but it puts you at the mercy of censorship and changes in licensing agreements that may result in unwanted changes to your media or even not having access anymore.

@rhonwenbaker2448

2 ай бұрын

^^ My issue with Adobe's shift to the CS model, Office's shift to 365... I'd rather not go on

@BlastKast

2 ай бұрын

Steam remains to be one of the good guys. They make sure you own that game for life as soon as you purchase it.

@tallybarnie5453

2 ай бұрын

I learned my lesson after American McGees Alice 😢😢

@Gamez4eveR

2 ай бұрын

@@BlastKastthey make sure i own it? How do I sell a game I own on Steam?

@LoyalAce14

2 ай бұрын

Fact of the matter is, how do you fit 50gbs+ of data on a CD, the multiple-discs format already proved it isn’t feasible for consumers to have to switch between discs constantly just to play different game modes on the same game

Just discovered your channel a few days ago... I have now binged a lot of your videos. I love your sense of humor. More please. ❤

13:59 the 6th opening of Inuyasha is such a banger too and really unique among anime opening songs

Its mind boggling to me how far pokemon has fallen in terms of quality, and how staunchly people will defend every greedy actions the CEO’s take, no matter how much they are ruining the series.

@sleepymarauder4178

2 ай бұрын

Haven't played Pokemon after Diamond and Pearl. Legend Arceus was fun but could have been a lot more. It feels lacking

@ledemduso5827

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, Pokémon fans are just built different. My favorite is when they cut gamefreak slack because they haven't made a big open world before. Like they don't have the money to hire people who know what the fuck they're doing. But if the games keep up the current trend, gen11 won't even boot anymore. Maybe then the fans will get fed up.

@marshallteach9006

2 ай бұрын

Both sides of the argument are annoying though. Too many people refuse to hear that a game like Pokémon Scarlet, while undeniably unfinished and full of flaws, can still be genuinely fun to play.

@kbattraw

2 ай бұрын

All they had to do was make Palworld, and I cant figure out why they didnt (or wouldnt). As buggy as that game is, it is everything I ever wanted out of the franchise. If that game had the dev resources and the IP attached... would've been a crazy hit

@Bokatisha1234

2 ай бұрын

A streamer I like was talking about how she delighted her friends while playing the new Pokémon games by showing them "the mud that crashes the game". $60 AAA game has a mud pit that crashes your Switch if you get close. Love it.

imagine if any other industry did that, where they said they're done but actually not really.

@GamingintheAM0801

2 ай бұрын

*Spider-Verse backs away nervously*

@wartygourd

2 ай бұрын

@@GamingintheAM0801 they worked on that movie for years with 73 animators and crunch dead lines. it was originally meant to be a trilogy anyways and the end result is really good imo.

@lee2791

2 ай бұрын

@@GamingintheAM0801? can you elaborate on that? was spider verse unfinished?

@carolineholland5841

2 ай бұрын

@@GamingintheAM0801No, Spider-verse isn’t the same thing. Spider-verse is hardly the first to do a cliffhanger ending like they did. I would argue they were following in the footsteps of Marvel Studios with that move. Cliffhanger endings have legitimacy in story telling and have been part of Hollywood since the days of serials (which predate tv shows). The movie is especially valid because it’s obvious the story they wanted to tell was too long for one movie (at least, a movie with a reasonable length lol). Heck, comics themselves often end on cliffhangers because they can’t fit the whole story in one issue. Like, feel free not to like cliffhangers or criticize them, but I would not say they’re the same thing as getting an unfinished game.

@hitopstl

2 ай бұрын

Boeing has entered the chat

I noticed two games you showed that I've played: unpacking & moonlighter. Both very fun, one relaxing, other very cool. Enjoyed them both.

I SAW ME!!!

Night in the Woods changed my relationship with gaming, for the better. I used to just pick up big titles after my husband got through with them then put them down after not more than a couple dozen hours so I didn't think gaming was really for me. Night in the Woods made me realize there are games out there for me and I've been seeking out indie games everywhere ever since.

Fun fact about Ubi. They shutdown The Crew and I bet many people here already heard about that but they also took all the assets away so you can’t even make a private server like the fans of Lego Universe did with LU Darkflame.

@RSAgility

2 ай бұрын

History erasure inching closer and closer.

@klti0815

2 ай бұрын

Honestly, the level of stupidity in Ubisoft with this one is just next level, not only did they make a game you bought effectively unplayable by shuting down the servers for their always online nonsense, but then they revoked your license so you couldn't even start or install it if you had it in your library, and the after everyone was already pissed at them, they though the perfect way to calm down the criticism was to remove the game from everyones library, just to really hammer home that you don't own anything anymore, you just paid the publisher for a license they can unilaterally revoke whenever they feel like it.

@Smollusk76

2 ай бұрын

no way the crew is gone?? Can I play it still? That game was like my whole childhood

@breezywinter4646

Ай бұрын

@@Smollusk76 It is no longer playable sadly even if you have the disc you still can’t play it.

@adrianocs4

Ай бұрын

​@@breezywinter4646 don't forget that they even erased the purchase history in their website, it is next level ant consumer. I heard that if you bought the game on Play station sony was actually refunding it, they want to stay away from that trainwreck as much as possible.

Enter the Gungeon has to be my favorite indie game, so many bosses and random generated rooms keep it fresh and it forces you to explore different kits of different characters in order to get all the endings. I got it for free on epic a while ago and even after beating the 4 main characters still come back occasionally.

Hi gabi, thank you so much for mentioning Moonlighter as it has been one of my fave roguelikes that I randomly found on the Nintendo E-shop. Also, even though it is a Ubisoft title, I would highly reccomend anyone give Child of Light a try. It has a beautiful artstyle and really solid rpg mechanics for a 10 year old game.

I'm a game developer and I have a lot of conversations with other devs talking about the exact issues you're describing from the inside out. A LOT of the buggy and unfinished games comes from shifting to a live service model instead of just a flat purchase price for the whole game, and it's extremely damaging to prioritization of features. You *can* do a live service model in an ethical way (see: Helldivers 2), but the fact that no big companies do it that way because it's less profitable is such a rampant issue. I've seen devs looking for jobs in the "traditional gaming space" just to get away from it Game studios becoming servants to investors also sucks

“Remember when games meant that they were done when released?” Yup, back in the PS2 days. Freaking miss that era.

@jack-a-lopium

2 ай бұрын

No indie games have been released since the PS2 era. You're so right.

@Megaman231122

2 ай бұрын

Bro there was so much broken and unfinished shit on the PS2

@emcee_spokesman

2 ай бұрын

Here's the thing: you can still play the older generation content, either on original hardware or through emulation. There may be some glaring exceptions, but it's all still out there. I still have an Atari 2600 with over a dozen games sitting in storage under my stack of 7th & 8th gen consoles & games

I played through Tunic recently. It's like a Zelda type game but the central puzzle is finding all the pages to the game manual and understanding them. Sounds weird but it makes sooo much sense while you play it! Honestly one of the best games I've played in recent years and can easily be placed next to games like Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds.

Blizzard’s loot boxes weren’t nearly as predatory as EA’s are still to this day makes me so depressed we got robbed because of EA

Stardew Valley is my favorite example of how to treat games and their players right. Not only did the developer make and release the game on his own. But the continued development on it with game changing free updates. But he also gets communication right. He teased the updates yes, but he has been sure to provide updates when it's important, such as progress on the console ports of the game. I loved it when he tweeted about pausing development on Haunted Chocolatier so that they could get the update on Stardew Valley polished. I respect him for doing that and it makes me look forward to Haunted Chocolatier that much more

It's a shame seeing how much gaming has declined in recent years to greed. Pokemon vs Zelda is probably the best example show casing what rushing out games for money does to a series

@AquamentusLives

2 ай бұрын

Zelda, what? It was 6 years between BotW and TotK

@MomirsLabTech

2 ай бұрын

​@@AquamentusLives they were using Zelda as the good example, and Pokémon being the rushed example.

@AquamentusLives

2 ай бұрын

@@MomirsLabTech okay, that makes sense, thx

@MogamiKyoko13

2 ай бұрын

Too true. Like, they did a showcase of BotW in 2014 and meant to release it for the WiiU, but decided it wasn't good enough and worked on it for 3 MORE YEARS! I love Pokemon, and I even love Scarlet/Violet, but Game Freak has really shat the bed in comparison.

@naesala

2 ай бұрын

imo, Fire Emblem is a better comparison as they're both developed by third party companies with strong ties to Nintendo, and even as Pokemon shifted to yearly releases, Fire Emblem has typically kept to 2-3 years between games. As a result, most Fire Emblem games feel complete and like they fully realized their vision, at least to the hardware's limit. Back in the day they liked to take the consoles to their limits, to the point that a major reason FE64 was famously cancelled was because they could not get it to run. Now that that's not an issue, we usually see the full narrative they wanted to portray, and if it's rushed like Three Houses was, it's painfully obvious there's something missing.

Your N64 collection is like the exact same games I had as a kid, granted I did not have 2 copies of 1080 snowboarding but I did enjoy the game all the same

I had actually backed Sea of Stars on kickstarter! Glad to see it getting even more exposure. Honestly this is also why I typically go to the indie booths whenever I go PAX East too (although the big publishers don't really go anymore aside from a few). Usually way more cool and unique games to see and you're likely talking to the actual dev team there.

*leo pointing at screen* NakeyJakey

@ShadowEl

2 ай бұрын

Really lost it at the mini exercise ball.

@marcusgarcia6463

Ай бұрын

Op, op, *whistles*

Dang that pikachu sleeping sleeping

Love your commentary and glad you cover gaming as well

Unpacking was such a soothing play thru. I wish it were longer

As someone that sells lots of video games, I love when people ask me for the "Call of Duty" and I get to have a 20 minute back and forth with them to determine which "Modern Warfare" (of the 8 options) they actually need.

@CeeJayThe13th

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I've never understood that. Well, I guess I do but why not just give each new series a new subtitle or something?

@cupaj0e245

2 ай бұрын

Why don’t you ask them if they are referring to the latest one?

@svenson7777

2 ай бұрын

@@cupaj0e245 I suppose sometimes they will say yes, but the majority of times they would say now (I sell a lot of older gen games). But yes, my questions are geared in such a way as to try to find out what they are looking for

Outer Wilds is one more recent-ish game that really hits home. Very affordable, can finish it and the dlc within a work week, it's got a ton of repayability and the story makes me cry every time

@uberculex

2 ай бұрын

I'd argue it has the opposite of replayability since discovering how things work is the game but it is still an absolutely incredible game.

@mrfrand0

2 ай бұрын

outer wilds is really a gem of a game! artistically, poetically and gameplay-wise, it's just so well curated and you really feel the heart behind it. also yeah i turn into a fountain too whenever i think back to the ending lmfao

@kirrb-dot-exe

2 ай бұрын

Wasn’t it made by the ppl behind fallout new vegas?

@interrobangZ

2 ай бұрын

​@@kirrb-dot-exe you're thinking of Outer Worlds. Common mistake. Also a fun game, but very different.

@kirrb-dot-exe

2 ай бұрын

@@interrobangZ ohh whoopsies! Those names are super similar lmao

As an Indie Dev myself, I'm kinda expecting the AAA Industry to crash within 10-20 Years. Their current business Models aren't sustainable, life service games are dying left and right, and stuff like loot boxes become more and more regulated. But man, I can't wait to see what future stuff indies are going to make. The next Undertale or Minecraft is being developed at this moment.

Sea of Stars mention!!!! I noticed you playing the music from it in your videos months ago. That game is so much fun

This video reminded me of my brother's rants. He was a Overwatch 1 superfan and has repeatedly told us how much Overwatch 2 was a disappointment due to leadership in the start. He still plays overwatch 2 but had over 200 hours in overwatch 1.

@rx500android

2 ай бұрын

I dropped overwatch completely once they dropped the new “update” that basically deleted the original game and replaced it with “Overwatch 2”. It’s one of the worst decisions ever made in the gaming world. To… just like that delete a whole game and somehow make it worse.

@brainbox9219

Ай бұрын

200 hrs in Overwatch is so little lol I got like 2000 hrs across two platforms and yeah, felt the same way and still playing it in 2024

@avesavis

Ай бұрын

Yeah I had a long ass time in OW1, and then they completely murdered it with the "transition" to OW2. It isn't even a real sequel. They somehow changed it enough to ruin it and yet too little for it to be a real sequel. Blizzard truely continues to impress me by drilling the bar into the ground. I no longer play that because I don't hate myself XD if I want to play a game I've spent too much money on I'll play sims more : p still trying to make the money I've spent on EA worthwhile.

9:09 “thanks to sponsor for factoring this video” 😆 love it

@bryunnabrown5860

2 ай бұрын

I’ve been looking for this comment!! 😂

I still feel like cyberpunk never got it's try at it I love the game it's become one of my favorite as I have never seen a game with such good story and side quests, story wise it's amazing, the visuals now are amazing. I wish more people would give it a chance but I also fully understand the thought.

While it wasn’t touched on, I think that early access cable be great for indie games. A game I’ve been playing recently on early access is the wandering village. It’s a colony sim where you have to take care of both your villagers and the creature they live on top off. Early access has allowed the team to see how people react to the game, as well as allowing players to vote for or suggest changes on the discord. It’s legitimately one of my favorite games right now and i recommend it!

I'm so glad HellDivers 2 is showing what happens when a company is actually passionate. Also Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight are both masterpieces.

@coolchameleon21

2 ай бұрын

the ori games are amazing as well. they’re probably the most visually stunning games i’ve ever played

@Sh1tora

2 ай бұрын

Helldivers 2 is buggy unfinished game with bad servers. Really passionate

@Andlekin

2 ай бұрын

@@Sh1tora - The server issues have been fixed for weeks. They didn't expect the tremendous success. Go watch Act Man's video on the game if you want to be something other than a toxic pile of human sludge.

@Sh1tora

2 ай бұрын

@@Andlekin facts = toxic? Ok mr butthurt

@Redbikemaster

2 ай бұрын

@@Sh1tora I'm playing right now without issues. Sounds like undemocratic propaganda

There's a quote from an excellent mini-documentary on the North American Video Game Crash of 1983 that I think fits here. "...Shelf space was stretched thin. and per-game revenue, raced to the bottom. Atari weren't concerned. They were in the lead. Millions of dollars spent on exclusive licences, tie-ins and massive marketing budgets. The more they spent, the more they earned. The games themselves, didn't matter." 40 years later, seems like we still suffer the same problem.

9:08 Thanks to sponsor for factor this video

16:31 MOVING ON ☝🏾😭

On top of the issues mentioned in the video you also have the fact that more and more AAA games are live service games that depend on servers operated by developer/publisher and in most cases there are no plans for an offline patch or making the server software available for players. The Crew, a racing game made by Ubisoft which was played by 12 million people, is a recent example of this. This prompted Ross Scott, creator of machinimas such as Freeman's Mind and Civil Protection, to start a campaign against this practice called Stop Killing Games with instructions on how to report it to consumer protection agencies and how to support government petitions aiming at preventing this from happening in the future.

@1983SpringBonnie

2 ай бұрын

Yes, yes yes, this. This is a scummy thing. It is happening everywhere, though, and hidden deep in "Terms of Service" sheets. Amazon does the same thing with their digital content like E-books. If you don't want swashbucklers running rampant, stop renting boats to them and start selling.

@Nomis90000

Ай бұрын

God's work trying to sort this out.

@moirafleming7412

Ай бұрын

this should 100% be boosted

Ever since Baldur’s Gate, other companies have been shocked. I didn’t think it was so bad until I looked at companies with games I wouldn’t dare touch. I feel bad for those who were affected. Y’all deserve better treatment.

@TheConst4nt

2 ай бұрын

oh yes, baldurs gate. the game with over 20 patches because act 3 was literally broken on release, the game that patched in extra ending scenes because they were cut last moment before release due to having to rush it out, the game that had literally dogwater performance in baldurs gate for months

@quinniwe

2 ай бұрын

@@TheConst4nt Dogs drink the same water as humans and plants.

@mandu6665

2 ай бұрын

@@TheConst4nt Don't forget Larian took money from fucking TenCent of all places, BG3 launched a month earlier and launched with fucking broken party members in a party based CRPG. People handwaving or ignoring how bad the launch was while lobbing shit at games made with less manpower, less time and less money makes me want to cheer on Ubisoft, Take Two and EA.

@sniperfi4532

2 ай бұрын

@@TheConst4ntmy brother in Christ baldurs gate 3 was early access for 2 years before release they didn’t rush anything.

Who remembers Battlecruiser 3000 AD back in the early 90's? Derek Smart and Take 2 looking like true pioneers these days.. lol

Don’t think I didn’t notice that =3 transition sound. 😂😂😂 Oh man Ray William Johnson, what a throwback….I used to watch his content a lot!

I worked at a gaming company for almost 3y. The whole core business of most games nowadays is monetize by live operations, be it purchases, events or other type of transaction based interactions. Having those systems functioning in the game is top priority in game companies so the rest of problems are under looked leading to final version bugs not being corrected on time. Atop of that there is the fact that games take a long time to make, it is almost impossible to get a good game done with less than 1.5/2 years making it and this is something the technology industry doesn’t accept well anymore. The sum of bad prioritization, greed, terrible deadlines, massive layoffs and investors pressure are currently destroying the industry, the games and the people who make them

@relo999

2 ай бұрын

Having worked in the industry for a decade, and also am a business owner the reason is MUCH simpler. The sheer growth of cost and significant increase in risk when it comes to game development. Back in the mid 90's for a AAA game you wouldn't find it weird to have 15 people full time working on a game for a year, 2 if it was a big one, and at retail asking 130 USD in USD adjusted for inflation. In the modern day for a AAA game you'd have 100+ people working for 3 or more years (if you dont want to have it be a rushed mess) for a game that costs 60 USD. While it economies of scale certainly help offset the cost a bit as gaming has become more popular it certainly hasn't adjusted for a lot of it. In the modern era, unless you're one of the top players a single bad game can be a kiss of death. As for a lot of companies a single game needs to make so much money they can sustain themselves multiple years from, while you can't really pivot. This is why you bad prioritisation, terrible deadlines, massive layoffs and investors pressure. Gaming has become just quite an awful business to be in due to extremely high risks and low rewards, outside of layoffs all the things you name are attempts to mitigate the risk of outright failure. And mass layoffs are the result of how awful the business side of game development is. All this can only really change with consumer action and consumers adjusting their spending. For one don't buy games with predatory micro transactions (and no buying it but then complaining doesn't count) and don't complain when the market significantly shrink (and the layoffs that that includes) or be happy with notably smaller games for the same sticker price or be willing to pay a notably higher sticker price.

@ashton9699

2 ай бұрын

Recurring revenue. Top priority because the investors continue to prove that those with the most money have the least brains.

@michaelh878

2 ай бұрын

​@@relo999Do many AAA studios only work on one game at a time though?

@rhonwenbaker2448

2 ай бұрын

Smells of ESO, bugs in the crown store fixed within hours whilst gameplay bugs from release a decade ago haven't been touched & now "affectionately" go by term 'features'

@assis9009

2 ай бұрын

@@rhonwenbaker2448 not a bug, a surprise feature

I would like to nitpick just a tiny bit - assembly language used in RCT isn't archaic, it's low level. It's very modern, in the sense that assembly compilers are still updated to work on modern CPUs, which is how you'd write some parts of operating systems or drivers, when you need minute control over every CPU instruction cycle. If anything, it's *arcane*, because knowing assembly well is level 9000 wizardry.

GUNGEON LETS GO! ETG is one of the best roguelites out there and I’ve logged an ungodly amount of time in it lol I highly recommend rain world for another unique experience to anyone who hasn’t already tried it. Ember knights is also a fantastic roguelite game with a story, slay the princess is the best visual novel I have ever played, everhood is a lovely rhythm game with a touching and heartbreaking story, anyone who hasn’t played risk of rain 2 is missing out, grow home is an adorable short game to play, coffee talk is a visual novel that made me wanna cry, and streets of rogue is an underrated roguelite that has an insane amount of things to do (and I’ve yet to beat a single run of).

Youre the second youtuber I follow to bring up inuyasha this week and I JUST rewatched all of it and the spin off last year buuttttt

I remember when you beat the game or a certain time to unlock more levels, characters and cosmetics.

@randomtinypotatocried

2 ай бұрын

I miss that being the norm

@wifehasmywallet8894

2 ай бұрын

I remember spending an entire summer unlocking everything 100% in mario kart wii. Mario kart on the switch already has everything unlocked. I haven't played the new game since I bought it two years ago.

@viscountrainbows2857

2 ай бұрын

I miss when cheat codes were something you had fun either looking up online, in magazines or books, from a friend, or earning via gameplay, and not just Credit Card no Jutsu.

What are the odds that all of these 100-200 GB games like COD, Fortnite, and 2K have such massive file sizes on purpose solely so they can take up as much storage space on your console as possible so that you're forced to have fewer games and they have fewer games to compete with for your attention. I mean just look at a massive, complex game like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice that only takes up 15 GB. Even Elden Ring on the PS5 is only 50 GB

@AdasiekkkTrzeci

2 ай бұрын

It also means that it becomes impractical (if not impossible) to store those games permanently, thus one day they can be pulled from the store, unable to ever be re-downloaded again and disappearing so you can't keep replaying them. "Own nothing - be happy".

@1D991

2 ай бұрын

Hell, Valheim - while not graphically impressive - Is only 1gb

@franzosisch5965

2 ай бұрын

It's because they're too lazy to properly packaged their files.

@lucass8119

2 ай бұрын

I mean the real reason is that they just didn't compress their assets. The code and libraries are exceedingly small, its the textures, models, and especially audio that take up 99% of the space. Its trivial to compress these but maybe they forgot, or maybe they figured out the CPU time to decompress them causes loading screens or stutter. But it is literally so, so, SO easy to avoid.

@randomtinypotatocried

2 ай бұрын

@@lucass8119Explains a bit

I'm so glad you mentioned moonlighter. It such a great game to just take your time with. Also, to whoever see this, play Eastward and its DLC, Octopia. Absolutely stellar indie game.

Hi Gabi, first time listener here; dig the chill/funny style. I just wanted to add that Rockstar's RDR2 actually released buggy on PC but that mess has always made the most sense to me compared to the bugs from unfininished content in other games. Many PC reviewers still give bad (sometimes tentative) scores on poor PC optimizations even its incredibily hit or miss. I feel though, if this becomes prevalent in all gaming then we're just going to expect the "unoptimized" period of every game.