More recently, Square's CEO telling us that video games aren't meant to be fun and are meant to help develop NFTs was pretty unsettling.

@RavenLotz

Жыл бұрын

That sure was confusing. Like does he not know what video games are?

I could listen to this guy talk about video games ALL. DAMN. DAY

@perfectlyslicedegg3348

Жыл бұрын

He is very chill.

@robardian3697

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@8thLife

Жыл бұрын

Really though! Also, top tier profile picture :)

This is the kind of content I sub for. I like the throwback stories, gaming history, personal tales. Feels like you took a break from it for a bit this year. Glad it’s back!

@JL-ep6op

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, there have been a lot if top 10, best or worst lists, game hauls and games we are playing videos on his channel lately. Which is fine, but not what hcg really built his channel on.

@famousashtray

Жыл бұрын

Thats where HCG really shines. This is his best kind of content. Hes such a great storyteller

@offroad5798

Жыл бұрын

I prefer the top 10s, games were playing, etc

@arfarfarf256

Жыл бұрын

Old time stories are why i subscribe!

@jedisith3864

Жыл бұрын

Nothing on the internet compares to the personal connection some of the greats from early youtube have given us. I watch every video from like 4 channels and all of them go back to like 2010 at the latest. They've remained true to self and given so much more than the shills that dance for sponsors or giant sub counts that chase algorithms. We are so spoiled and it is beyond what we could even dream let alone deserve.

Those microtransactions and loot boxes really scares me a lot tbh, you need to pay something on the game that you already pay. unlike back in the 90's you need a certain condition, effort, or beating the game to unlock characters and skins, as well as digital and gamepass that needed to play a game.

@sholva6809

Жыл бұрын

I just steer away from games that have them and if a singleplayer game has them I just never buy them, they also scare me but it seems they aren't in games as much now except for EA games.

Every time people say only digital and gamepass and competitors are the future, that scares me like shit everyday

@iempire100

Жыл бұрын

Same. Gaming is going to be a dumpster fire. Digital has pushed incomplete, unfinished, bug filled games that care more about pushing their dlc. A lot of gamers just accept the state of these games and expect it. Going gold means nothing now. Used to mean a game was complete and off to the publisher. Now digital is on to pushing games as a service that is even worse. Want an example, see Halo and how it has been ruined by that concept. Digital games just hold no value to me. I want a collection of physical games not a pile of drives with games on them. We should never want the physical option to be taken away. edit: I forgot to mention game preservation- In games that are only digital they can be taken away in an instant and never be played and appreciated again.

@karmad.twelve6613

Жыл бұрын

@Mister Black Are you trolling or being contrarian on purpose? If trolling, it's kinda funny. If serious, wtf? You do realize physical objects are required in life right? Should be just hook you up to the Metaverse now or?

@tr1bes

Жыл бұрын

@Mister Black I like them both. It depend on where is the digital games come from. If it's by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, digital games from those are only to that specific devices. If it's from steam, it would last maybe forever. Digital games can get delisted and can be taken away. You probably ask why taken away. I give you 2 examples. If one is banned from a particular console, digital games from within cannot be playable even if one purchased that game. The other one is banned from that country. Iran did that to Modern Warfare. Physical. I have both physical and digital of Castlevania SOTN. The difference between this 2 are astounding. Voice and unlockable content are preserved on the Physical. But the digital got rid of the unlockable and the voices are different. I prefer the physical version because the voice is more sophisticated European accent vs the younger American accent. That's why many collectors wanted the physical version of SOTN. And the price tag of SOTN is more expensive to get.

@tr1bes

Жыл бұрын

@Mister Black Here is another game that there is a difference. Contra Hard Corps on the Genesis. With physical when fighting a boss, the boss flashes on screen while being hit on an old CRTV and or tube TV. With digital, the boss doesn't flash being hit. Emulation of games can only do so much. I do see a plus on digital games. Some physical games are just too expensive to get like Panzer Dragoon Saga. Therefore digital is one way to play that game. It also a way to not always pre-order games. I don't see a rarity of games anymore because digital eliminate that prospect. Maybe on older games but not from generation 7 and onwards. That's also dealing with sealed games on gen 7 and up but that's a different topic. Basically sealed games from gen7 and up are useless.

@Samzsquanch

Жыл бұрын

@Mister Black that's leaping over what's scary about digital, which is that at any point, poof the game could be gone, at any point poof, an update drops, and all the music channels to an open-world game are changed. Physical gave developers a definitive endgame. It's true, back when it was all physical, games still released buggy with cruddy frame rates and on, but i'd argue they generally released more complete visions, these days it's like a game will release missing the last levels, that's something that didn't happen back then, and I'd prefer that in a way, I'd rather have a game that's a focused complete product that I could have access to whenever I please then something that might be the thing it was marketed as in five years after updates. Also physical gives you more access to sharing with friends ( something all the big companies are cracking down on with digital), with physical you have more wiggle room with prices, with physical you own a product and have multiple options with the product. With digital you're buying access, not the product, at any point, they could say "well to access this thing you bought, you have to buy these other things which tie in with this thing" they'd just dress it up in fancy corpo talk. You give all the power to the corporations and as a consumer you have little.

A digital only future scares me. That's why I am fortifying my back log now. I think I have at least 20 years of games to play. Let's hope companies like LRG stick around.

@Milkiy-Hazard

Жыл бұрын

Same, but you know what is even scarier.. DISC ROT.

@vol_opt

Жыл бұрын

@@Milkiy-Hazard Not really. There's always a way.

@airdrighmor1439

Жыл бұрын

@@vol_opt indeed.

@shazmanbound1496

Жыл бұрын

Pointless to collect physical games for PS4 and beyond. The games are not fully complete without the massive patches.

@vol_opt

Жыл бұрын

@@shazmanbound1496 Pointless to not back them up, whether physical or digital.

The rise of motion controls and microtransactions. We dodged the bullet with the first one, but we're suffering greatly from the latter. More recently, the release of unfinished games.

@gligarguy4010

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the former is still around, and it's doing great things. For example, it's universally agreed that the only correct way to play Splatoon is with the motion controls on (your aiming is far too slow without it)

@withoutthejuice7193

Жыл бұрын

@@gligarguy4010 I also played the entirety of Horizon Forbidden west with gyro on PS5 and it seriously elevated the experience. I even got the platinum which i rarely do, just shows the motion controls are starting to find their place

@fritzthecat8158

Жыл бұрын

Motion controls are not bad. Yall just didn't have your wiimote sensor set up right. When people come over to my house to play wii stuff they can't believe how well pretty much every game reads your motion leading me to believe everyone be fuckin up

@OtakuDYT

Жыл бұрын

TBh I think VR is the evolution of motion controls

@GalathNox

Жыл бұрын

@@fritzthecat8158 Has nothing to do with setup. Our setup worked just fine. I simply prefer using a traditional controller.

For me, the scariest time in gaming was the late 00s and early 10s. I grew up on platformers, then got into RPGs with the PSone and PS2, which became my favorite genre to this day. But as anyone who was a game enthusiast in that era knows, that era of the PS3/360 was all about brown, grey, guns, gore, grit and anger. Japanese games in general took a backseat, largely relegated to handhelds and smaller scale releases. I was honestly afraid the games I loved most were going to die out. Thankfully, as we got deeper into the 10s with PS4 and especially Switch, RPGs are back in a big way and I feel, in general, game releases are the most even and balanced for all tastes that they've been in a long time

I think it's a combination of many things that really tested my passion for videogames. For me it was all about seeing the business side start to heavily outweigh the desire to make a great game. Getting rid of game manuals, cutting content to sell as DLC, microtransactions, season passes that don't tell you what you're buying, paying more to get less, releasing games unfinished, lazy ports, DRM, pre order bonuses, the list goes on forever.

@jmlchaosdragon

Жыл бұрын

amen to that, At least indie game and smaller company brought back a bit of the old spirit of gaming, but yes. I also got a hard time going for any AAA game on release scare that the game will just be a mess.

@fishingmule3266

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the no manuals is still the most petty thing to me. I mean, how much could these big companies possibly save by not printing a little paper pamphlet that discount indie games never seem to have a problem including?

The popularity of always online, or multiplayer only games started to scare the bejesus out of me. Luckily there's still plenty of other other titles that have stayed catering to what I like, but the popularity of the alternative for sure had me worried at times because games tend to follow patterns of what's selling well.

Xenosaga Ep. 1 was the kind of game that helped you believe all the hype about the PS2. There was a PAUSE BUTTON for cutscenes. That was something I'd never seen before in video games--and you needed it, because some of those scenes lasted for like 45 min. It really impressed upon you what the PS2 and the DVD medium were capable of, and I remember at the time that _Official PlayStation Magazine_ reviewed the game and said something to the effect of, "This is the kind of game where you just have to stop everything and devote your life to it for a solid month or so." So true.

This is why I love your channel Johnny. Honest to God, that’s exactly how I felt when I played Xenosaga. The early 2000’s were all about crazy long cinemas, and it absolutely felt like they were getting away from focusing on gameplay.

I actually started getting scared a while ago with digital only games, download codes, DLCs, lack of physical manuals, artificial scarcity, etc. Eventually my fears were confirmed, and I've since quit buying games for those reasons.

@ZombieChimps

Жыл бұрын

same

The direction smart phone games and microtransactions are heading scares me... Auto play in games???

@blueslime3963

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, im not a fan of my favorite series acting like casino games

I think that’s one of the reasons Elden Ring became so popular. It’s basically, “you’re a nobody, here’s this world, good luck”. And most of the cutscenes are brief.

Every time I watch one of Johnny's videos my day gets a little better

Thank you for taking about these awesome topics man. Love your content

For me digital only games with little to no refund options aside from steam , is a fearful thing for me

MGS4, 8hrs of cutscenes, one of my fav in the series 😎

Memory Cards. Having to go from the transition of battery back up on your cartridge based games to having to posses something external to save your game was a massive shock to me. Not to mention the looming fear of loosing it and having to kiss all your saved data goodbye. That shook me up big time.

@newgameaaaa

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. You should watch the KZread channel called mylifeingaming. They just talked about saving and memory cards. This is how I see it. I have played the game all the way through and I probably won't play that file again. Sometimes I do just to play it and see where I was at. I have lost a bucnh of game data before , but it wasn't that bad because I already had the full experience.

@lordeilluminati

Жыл бұрын

@@newgameaaaa but some games it is good to have backups, especially long games. I hated that I took almost 10 years to finish Final Fantasy XII because at some point I lost my save. I didnt want to play another 35 hours or so of the same game back to back, but I still really liked the game so I was invested in playing it in bits until I actually finished it. If I had the save backed up I would had finished the game earlier and even be invested in side content.

One of my favorite JRPG'S of all time is the Xenosaga series. I'm very very hopeful it will eventually get a remake or fantastic remaster. I love Kos-Mos

@MoonOvIce

Жыл бұрын

Or that we would get the other 3 episodes that were cancelled. It was originally supposed to be 6 games and then was heavily cut down to a trilogy abruptly. I think lack of enough sales compared to the budget didn't help.

I haven't heard the Xenosaga car story before 😂 Legit made me snort I was having such a good laugh as you were describing that!

I think some 3d games lack the ‘magic’ or ‘soul’ of 2d 90s games. That’s what still scares me

I'm a forever 90s gamer, so the open world stuff scares me...

What worries me is most games today are downloaded and the online function that is tied to dlc sometimes can be turned off. I had to download a game because it was taken off the steam store and with its dlc. Preservation for games in the future worry me.

@newgameaaaa

Жыл бұрын

Yes I agree

I freaking love the Xenosaga trilogy...I loved the cinematics. Bought all of them DAY 1.

There are many things that worry me in gaming but the prevalence and reliance on cutscenes is a big one. Games are capable of telling story interactively, having the player learn information from context or just notice things as they play. Too often it feels to me like the designers dont trust the players (or themselves) to notice things unless the game stops all interaction and gets the characters to discuss it out loud. Ive been playing through the Ys series for the first time over the past few months (so many fantastic games!) and Ive been dissapointed to see the rise in cutscenes throughout it, specifically im playing Memories of Celceta just now which set up a great moment with "the tower" as the next big thing to find, I came over the crest of a hill and I saw that tower surrounded by thunderstorms, framed by the ground below and town beside it. Then the game immediately halted so the characters could say "Oh, is that the tower we have been looking for? Oh, is that a nearby town we thought would be here? We should go there" which destroyed that moment for me and then characters had a conversation about if its that tower and what to do about it. Personally, I want the primary storytelling in a game to be interactive and not a movie, the same as I want a movie to tell its story primarily through audio/visual and not through text. Cutscenes have a place I just think not as often as I generally see with current games.

I remember preaching the greatness of FF VII to a friend of mine. I was explaining to him how the game was really deep and it made you think about different things. I didn't realize that his parents were a bit freaked out by all this, and they considered the game demonic, and they did not want my friend playing this game. They were fine with their son playing GTA III, but anything FF VII was not allowed in their house.

@fishingmule3266

Жыл бұрын

That’s wild. I could see that for some other FF games or something like SMT, but FF7 is a pretty pro-spiritual, save the Earth kind of a game. I guess anti-corporate hippie kind of things or anything involving magic scare certain religious people. Their loss, lol.

@torrvic1156

26 күн бұрын

That’s utter nonsense. They allowed him GTA where people are treated like shite and which shows criminal way of life but at the same time they forbid him a very humanistic and nature loving game. Can’t believe it.

This is an excellent video, I love your channel. Thank you again for sharing!

Wow, excellent video, just subscribed. Really liked the fact that you combined your personal experience with a bit of gaming history. Yes, Xenosaga was HUGE on the movie department, you could just sit back and enjoy your popcorn. Fortunately there is a great game in there as well, and I really think it deserves a remake or a remaster! (same goes for Xenogears of course). What is really outstanding is the comparison between the early 90's and the early 00's. Games changed so much during this decade! Modern-era games and the ones that came out during the early 00's have much more in common, than games between the early 90's and early 00's.

@sunlitsonata6853

Жыл бұрын

Xenosaga III I think is a Top 10 PS2 game

It's funny you talk about Xenosaga. I just started playing the whole series this week. Bought all 3 games and strategy guides. I say "playing" but 5 hours in and I haven't actually played much at all. Still, it is a really gorgeous and engaging game.

@sunlitsonata6853

Жыл бұрын

Xenosaga III is fantastic payoff but hopefully you can power through the second one. A guide should help a LOT

Great video! My personal ultimate nemesis trio in games is cutscenes, mandatory online, and motion controls. I utterly loathe those things!

What’s kind of scary is how many digital only games we’ve lost and will continue to loose. In particular the unique Wii Ware games, DSi digital games and the Wii U & 3DS digital only games from the soon to be closed eShop. So many wonderful digital games on those platforms.

Thanks. Really super episode and super pleased to support my fave channel on YT

Johnny gaming scared me when jrpgs of ps3 Xbox 360 era were barren all we had was abysmal final fantasy 13

I'm so glad you brought up Xenosaga that I changed my comment on the video. I wanted to love it, I tried to love it, but I +NEVER+ finished it. I went from cut scene to cut scene without actually doing anything and I got so frustrated by the lack of interactivity I quit. I bought Episode II and never even played it because I never finished the first game. It was too much, man.

It’s finny hearing you talk about the cinematic cutscenes in gaming. Forst game I played was Sonic 2 on the mega drive, 1st game I owned was Tekken 3 on the PS1 and I remember thinking back then…. I was i could explore the lore/world of Tekken more. The. the PS2 came out and prior to this point i was way to young to know of or know anybody who was in RPGs/JRPGs but my best friends bought a PS2 with FF X on it, I played and thats when I realized videos games were art and could tell the greatest stories better than any medium and that what made me love video games till this day. And I REALLY relate to actually missing more cutscenes, back then a cutscene felt like a reward for all the hard work you put into the game, getting treated to a brand new visual. That’s more or less gone now tho with gameplay being on par with graphics back then as technology has moved forward. I need one of these indies companies to basically make a PS2 love letter game

The quick-time events era is when I completely checked out.

@GrimmHollywood

Жыл бұрын

Legitimately curious, what do you mean QT event era? Like The Quarry and Heavy Rain style games? What about Resident Evil 4's QT events? Those were dope, you gotta admit haha 🤝

Going from 2D to 3D was difficult to put it mildly, some games pulled it off nicely, others felt like you were fighting with the camera view to control the game. The one game that still resonates with me during this era was Silent Hill, the camera worked beautifully in a 3D space compared to most games of the time, and the cut scenes complemented the game rather than stalled the gameplay. Excellent video as always.

Storytime vids are my favorite part of this channel

Great video and discussion. Video games are such a unique medium, they can inject us into an experience and it is concerning that AAA games will have a movie experience first and gameplay experience 2nd.

I wish xenosaga would get a trilogy port. I have 1 and 2 in english but 3 in Japanese physically. Ep 3 is just so much. Bandai Namco has close relationship with Nintendo so I don't see why we can't. I'm scared of the idea of not being able to own my games and them being taken away from me

@newgameaaaa

Жыл бұрын

Yes I hope they make a trilogy port of that too.

It’s funny how similar our experiences were. I loved Xenogears and was so fired up to get Xenosaga. My brother picked it up first and told me about the hours and hours of movies, and it really crushed my desire to even play it. Also, in MGS2 there’s the 40 minute cut-scene after the opening section. I never made it past there.

That’s what the whole PS2 era felt like to me. It seemed like a lot of games while looking great took a lot of short cuts in the game play. Like you said cinema was taking over and the game play itself especially in RPGs was bare. Exploration was mostly gone , there were a lot of point and click maps to traverse and going from point A to point Z was excessively linear. While RPGs in the era before the early 2000s still actually were pretty linear they weren’t so up front with it. Giving you plots of land to explore that helped the world building and the gameplay itself had more to it. I know exactly what you’re talking about Johnny. I felt the same way back then!

That story of you looking at your copy of the game in the car and some other random dude doing the exact same thing cracked me up man 😂 Love your content Johnny, don't ever change

Been looking forward to your vid all week this rocked! I'll take a spam message to comment on your page any day Johnny!

The game that really scared the bejeezus out of me and my cousins when it came out was Resident Evil 2.. that game freaked us out back then when it dropped ha!! We were fresh teens thought we were all that.. oh boy my cousin and I the next day called each other because we both didn't sleep that night. Epic times my friend. Your stories take me back over the years. Salud mi amigo!!Take us back Johnny!!! 👍 #2satanik

You got so many stories and I could hear them all so cool well back to playing more games🙂🙂🙂😄😄✨🎇🎆✨🎆

Keep this kind of content coming please! 😊

For me, the industry is more terrifying now than ever. With companies pushing to digital and subscription services, I think my time gaming may be numbered

Hi Johnny I’m a huge fan and watch every episode ,I love all of your content (especially with the rob man ) and hope you keep up the good work. Do you have any advice for someone trying to make a channel of there own because I keep trying but it always feels more like a rubbish version of someone else is channel rather then something new and fresh. Much love from the uk

I felt the exact same way but then I played metal gear and ff7 and I was like we are in a great transition it was a great time to be alive ❤

i remember that john… really scary times lol cheers brother

That's really interesting. I remember being excited for longer cinematics, because anime was so expensive, so it felt like more bang for my buck. I'm scared to revisit Xenosaga though because I'm unsure if I'd be into 40 minute cutscenes these days lol.

Awesome video, Johnny!

DBZ poster/scroll thingy nice!!! Love the 90s room set up!

When he had to start paying for Costumes in games - Tales of Vesperia 2008.

Awesome video John!

A big thing that scares me in video gaming is the life span of physical games. I feel like it may be like the situation in the twilight zone episode where 1 guy survives a bomb. He says there's time now, but can't read. Like when I have free time which is rare I can play my backlog of physical games that I bought. Or when I retire, but I shouldn't wait for that. Its hard to find time to play games. Physical games deteriorating over time. Playstation1 games that I bought but didn't have time to play yet. I just barely had the time to finish Grandia on PS1. I still have more to go.

For me it was playing Dragon's Lair and Mad Dog McCree in arcades. Not only was it the first time I ever saw an arcade cabinet accept paper money, but I had no clue what the heck I was doing and I hit that game over WAY quick. More recently, and aligned with your story: MGSV. I had previously only played Metal Gear on NES and MGS on PS1, but my friend wanted to play multiplayer MGSV with me. So I waited half a day for the game and all of its DLC to download to my PS4. Then I started the game, ready to hop into multiplayer and... I woke up after nodding off and the intro cinematic was still playing. Finally after an eternity we got to play, but I only played it that one time. I eventually deleted the game to make space for something else, and now when I see it in my download catalog all I can think is: "Never again."

Back when Xenosaga came out, my friend got it and he knew I loved JRPGs but hated overly long huge cutscenes... I had no clue what Xenosaga was but he was like "Give it a shot you'll probably like it".... I don't think I even made it through the opening cutscene before I turned it off, he was cracking up knowing I'd hate it.

I enjoy your videos very much on KZread Johnny sincerely Wayne

Totally agree, I want to play the games, not watch them. Some cinematics is totally fine, but they should add to the game, not feel like they replace it. One thing that has not really been scaring me, but I don't like the directions it's been headed recently, is how boss battles tend to progress. I don't like it when a boss battle is 30-50 minutes long, with cutscenes and all that. That's one reason I always play games on Easy difficulty now because I don't like replaying a boss battle that long if I lose near the end. The biggest thing however is when you deplete a boss' health bar and it completely recovers and the 2nd, 3rd or 4th phase of the boss starts. When you finally finish the boss instead of going "Yes! I did it!" you sit there thinking "Is it over? ok good/finally". At one point it's just so long that all the excitement is gone, and as for myself that point in time might be earlier than many others. They just keep getting longer though.

Hahaha I always saying too my brother "I need more cinema for Ys" I never thought someone has the same request 🤣

Awesome video man 😎!

Very interesting video. I remember having similar thoughts at the time. The game that gave me this reaction the most was Final Fantasy X. Square Enix as a whole seemed to be pushing hard to make games more like cinema.

Xenosaga was the first game I ever preordered. I remember that I got a cool t shirt with the cover of the game with KOS-MOS on it. Did anyone else get this? It was definitely through gamestop. I wish I still had it, but I definitely wore the shit out of that shirt. But damn I remember those massive cut scenes and having the same feeling about where games were heading. I think I did see the game through to the end, but I never played any of the following games.

Mine I'm already happening....no manuals, digital only games and installation discs only (meaning I have to update for even hours a brand new game in order to play it)... It's sucks but I'm glad I'm into retro gaming as well

For me it was when AAA was first growing big early to mid 2000’s the development costs for games were reaching heights never seen before and thought the small niche games I loved so much were going away.

For me the early HD period where we saw a steady decline in Japanese games really bummed me out. I honestly thought games like dragon quest, ff, resident evil etc were going to die in those years, and it would make me so sad. I stopped playing new games for a few years. E3 2015 was the moment the ship turned around for me, and the ffvii remake trailer excited me so much i bought a ps4, and went back to university to study art for games. Im a full time studio game artist now because of that E3!

I remember when i was getting a copy of xenosaga 1. It was monday that time and i had to go to EB games to buy it and all my allowance i put in that game...i was so excited of buying that game then the worker of EB games told me that it will be release tomorrow...that just broke my heart and excitement for it and i just walked home for 2 1/2 hrs thinking bout it...goodness that xenosaga 1 story that i had

Wonderful video. I remember thinking playing Xenosaga Episode I and between long cutscenes when does gameplay get to start up again ? I think Xenosaga Episode II improved by allowing skipping cutscenes.

I'm with you man - By the time MGS 3 came out, I was so turned off by the game trying to be a movie that I never finished it. I'm a little more forgiving these days but PS2 / Xbox was the era where my love for gaming faltered a bit

The funny thing about Xenosaga is that even though the cutscenes feel like they take up a majority, they don't. Across the 3 episodes it took me about 150 hours and there's about 24 hours of cutscenes; meaning cutscenes only take up about 1/6 of the whole experience.

ye i agree they have the balance about right now, i dont mind about 1 or 2 minutes of cut scene but anymore and I tend to skip it and get back into the gameplay, unless its a story heavy game. But then i am more of a arcade game kind of guy :)

I remember back in the PS3/Xbox360 era whenever I buy a game for $60, then that game would get a lot of DLC, then around 1 year later (or even less) we would get the complete version of the game for $40, and you have to pay that in order to get the improved version of the game, I know Capcom did that with a lot of their games in that generation. I was also getting worried whenever they announce a DLC around release or sometimes releasing a DLC at release. Sometimes the DLC would be a harder mode of the story mode. Even this generation I am getting a bit worried with all the subscriptions such as PS+ and Gamepass. I am a bit worried that physical games would become less in demand, and game sales might go much lower that companies might no longer develop great games.

That era was kind of notorious for unskippable cutscenes.

Going into Wal Mart and seeing a sign that says " Were not gonna carry PS5 consoles in store " scared me . I haven't seen a ps4 in my local Wal Mart since before 2020 pandemic. Last Elder Scrolls game 2011 ....Last Fallout Game 2014 ....Last Grand Theft Auto Game 2013 ........The entire run of the PS4 there was no new GTA or Elder Scrolls .....only re boots . That scared me . The smartphones took over video game market . ......and that sucks !!!

My favorite gaming KZreadr!

I actually fell asleep during one of the cutscenes towards/at the end of MGS 4 and woke up however many minutes later and it was still going… I loved that game (and xenosaga too!) but anyway yea lol, enjoyed the car story!!!

It's interesting listening from Johnny story about his time of gaming during the late 90s & early 2000s because I got into gaming in the mid late 2000s & played games like the Uncharted series, Assassin's Creed, The Last of US than later tried RPGs like Dragon Quest XI, Persona 5 Royal & the Tales of series so I have got in use to games with story telling that has long cinematic cutscenes to the point that I am expecting these games to have them & if they don't have it it is off putting for myself that is why I have always been interested in Retro games I hope I have the time & opportunity to try them

My honest opinion that i share with developers is that it's that what we asked for, what we wanted and even tempo of releasing is faster but public is forgetting easily listening KZread gaming channels that... people deserves to be happy and i won't entering discussion but this channel and couple of them are making sense, a gaming channel talking about experience while big majority is talking almost like they don't know what they are saying and same "Reality TV " vibe is present and everything is bad and they are emiting low level energy which you don't need , but reality is different and offering much more than ever before. Life is Beautiful

What the hell you own a EJ civic coupe! That is really cool and love the color. It's so bone stock too which is nuts. Anyways thanks for sharing. Our good friend here is a JDM fan!!!!

@SuileDearg

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So to reel it back to gaming. I think my biggest concern is right now is with PlayStation. They are focusing on the western market with games that target western mature themes (too serious at times), gritty real life art direction and movie quality cinematics. I love J-RPGs and sure there is the long list of third party exclusives coming to PS5 but they don't have any 1st party output. It's almost not fair but after completing Monolith Softs third mainline entry in the Xenoblade Chronicles series I just felt like PlayStation was lacking. That's despite FFVIIR, Tales of Arise, Nier games and so much more being expreinces held on PS4/5. I just ask myself what would a modern 1st party PlayStation J-RPG look like today. I am also concerned about PlayStations sales performance in Japan and what Japanese developers catering to the western market might look like some time from now.

You were much kinder to Xenosaga then I would ever be 😊. I just remember watching a friend play it and thinking when do we get to even play this?

I was a big sucker for FMV games back then when the CD ROM technology was new. This video also reminded me of Sakurai's latest video

Hey Johnny, have you thought about doing a top 10 JRPG soundtracks of all time video?

I still remember that 4 hour long disc, because I loved it, it was one of the best moments in gaming for me and I was so stoked to play the game and then I couldn't LOL. Only got episode 2 here and for some reason I could not understand the battles. I was gutted.

Clock tower back in the day creeped me out. Now I look at it and laugh. Still. Cool game tho lol

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He unfortunately doesn't mean scary games but scary practises

That’s what scared me off Triangle Strategy for a while but I’m so happy I tried it. I’m so into the story

Funny coincidence you talk about this, Sakurai uploaded a video on his game design channel on getting straight to gameplay unless story is absolutely necessary, the same day you uploaded this video.

Times when gaming scared me - The switch to 3D and the prevalence of open world sandbox games.

Yeah i felt exactly this way with METAL GEAR SOLID 4, while i enjoy the cut scenes and i realised it was going to be the last in the chronilogical timeline i felt there was WAY TO MUCH cinematic cut scenes, even ones of action that could have been made playable for the player. after i finished the game i realised i had pretty much watched a 70% movie with 30% gameplay and i was wishing that the next kojima production was not going to do the same thing.

Final Fantsy 7 scared me. It took me 100 hours to beat, and in the end, it ruined games for me. I got scared of committing that much time again to a single game. This is when my backlog started growing, because i became a commitment phobe. I like pick up and play games of yore. I don't like how much time and energy I need to commit to learn how to play these seemingly neverending games.

As soon as you started talking about games that have so much story that it sacrifices gameplay, I instantly thought of Xenosaga. I still love that first game though. I'm having similar feelings about Triangle Strategy which has tons of story between battles. I can see why it's not everyone's thing, but as long as the characters/story are good, I don't mind too much.

I loved the Xenosaga series. There was that one cutscene that was like 45min. I loved that the story was becoming more and more important - some of the pacing wasn't quite right, but still an amazing series.

I have this experience with online gaming and mobile gaming. Knowing how massive online gaming was at one point during ps3 transition from ps2, especially with computer game grow up, there's a point I'm afraid developers will start to focus on that kind of a game rather than story-driven game that u can enjoy yourself. Glad single player game still going strong, but rn about how big mobile market is and how can a simple game can makes million within microtransaction, I hope it won't affect console market ever.

When you started talking about MGS 2, I was thinking "Man, is he really gonna complain about cinema length in games back then, when one of his favorite RPG's is notorious for cinema length?" and then you pulled out Xenosaga 1, and was glad that even you recognized how egregious they were lol. I remember playing Episode 1 on a school night, and I remember going "Okay, after this scene, I'm gonna save and go to bed." and the damn thing took almost an hour to get through! I was so tired in school cause I was watching Xenosaga cinemas all night!

They should have just made Xenosaga a movie lol. 🤷‍♂️ Another great video dude!👍

Xenosaga is one of the only games that I've played that I just didn't bother finishing because I had enough of all the cutscenes, so yeah I get you there. Maybe should try it again sometime.

The things that have scared me the most with gaming are: 1. The obsession with multiplayer the industry went through at one point made me fear for single player games since I have no interest in multiplayer. 2. The death of physical media 3. Loot box's undermining the very foundation of gaming. 4. DLC, just how much more do I need to pay to get the full experience. I loved Xenosaga, it's one of my favorite PS2 games and I was actually amazed by the cutscenes, I felt they made the game seem so epic and polished. I definitely remember the discussion around those cutscenes at that time though, they were fairly divisive.