We have been met with nothing but dissatisfaction and disappointment for 10+ years now. Back in the 2000s games actually lived up to the hype

@sirkingjames4656

2 ай бұрын

I mean there’s been plenty of games that have even exceeded the hype in the pass few years like red dead 2, Elden Ring, Helldivers 2 and a lot of others so it isn’t just doom and gloom when you look around.

@narutobroken

2 ай бұрын

@@sirkingjames4656 I can count on one hand the good games. All the major franchises have turned to garbage. Halo, mass effect, call of duty, battlefield, battle front, Madden, Star-field, Fallout 76, etc.

@mackantosh

2 ай бұрын

@@narutobroken You must have many fingers on your hand then, I have to agree with @sirkingjames4656. In the past year alone I have been very excited for several games that I bought day 1 and those have either met or exceeded my expectations. Games like Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2, Helldivers 2, Armored Core 6, Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Xenonauts 2, maybe forgetting one or two. Right now I am most excited for Into the Radius 2, which I almost cannot wait to play. Gaming is not all about the major franchises and newest releases, want an multiplayer FPS that is slow and tactical? Insurgency Sandstorm. Want Singleplayer or Co-op and breaching rooms? Ready or Not has you covered. You want an FPS with exploration and inventory management? Blood West. Good games are still coming out. You just need to find them.

@ClaseyMeanAh

2 ай бұрын

Yep all the way to the 2010s, but ever since 2018 companies seem stuck.

@jasoninkurai5463

25 күн бұрын

Nintendo has been killing it. Pikmin 4, TOTK, Paper Mario, Super Mario RPG, Splatoon 3, Xenoblade 3... There are a lot of great games nowadays from multiple companies. Biggest issues are lack of direction, bloated budgets and crunch. It's a miracle how good X-Defiant and Hi-Fi Rush are.

The last AAA game I was hyped for was Borderlands 3. It was the last time I can remember having genuine excitement and hyped for playing. Couldn't wait and replayed every previous game leading up to it's launch. Then I played it. While the gameplay was massively improved the story was significantly deproved. I tried going along with it but after...a certain death (if you know you know), I lost almost all remaining joy I was having and quickly became miserable while finishing the rest of the story. I purchased the special edition of the game but only played 2 of the 4 story DLC's before I got bored and left. I remember finishing them later but by then, I was completely disconnecting from the game itself and I felt like a spectator while playing. That amongst other reasons (never forget the nerfpocalypse), is why I never got hyped for another game ever again to this day. Not even GTA VI is bringing that level of hype for me. What I realized because of BL3 was that while gameplay is important, the story will always be just a tad bit more. Story matters the most and determines replayability. And while even critical like me praise the gameplay for the most part, the thought of replaying the story to enjoy the gameplay is simply unappealing and not worth it.

@Itz2Cat

2 ай бұрын

Borderlands 3 is such a sad case. The good parts of the game are insanely good. Things like the music is outstanding. Animations are so creative and well done. Visual effects and the some of the art style are amazing. But then you have everything around that. Sad case.

Using the halo games as the background video is perfect for this video you really couldn’t beat that insane amount of hype that everyone had for the games to the point of mass hysteria these days some games make me feel that way again but never on that exact level as back then…

@lukedstaten

2 ай бұрын

I grew up with Halo as a kid. I had the best childhood. Now, I am proudly not a halo fan as Microsoft has clearly removed everything that made halo special in the first place. Nothing but empty promises and no original fans left to enjoy it

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

@@lukedstaten EXACTLY! I grew up with the damn franchise and it feels like I, a legacy fan, was booted out of the party. I actually get berated by extremely toxic people saying "but you are just wrong" and then they go on some spiel while the only game in the series to get updates now has a PVP sandbox SMALLER than Halo 3 or Reach. Most of the previous entry weapons aren't even available to use, and as the taxi driver of the team, I felt saddened by the lack of team-oriented vehicles in the sandbox and so many maps that harmed the fun of using vehicles (plus fragile vehicles too!).

Cyberpunk 2077, Halo infinite, Battlefield 2042 need i say more?

@Itz2Cat

2 ай бұрын

My lord. Cyberpunk... It annoys me that the sentiment around that game has shifted, when the game still feels so cheap. For crying out loud, you cant even get cybernetics that enhance your body other than your arms. (im not counting all the internal stuff.)

@Phillyfresh209

2 ай бұрын

Agree. Gotta give credit to cyberpunk for not leaving everyone in the dust and fixing their game though (yes, still has minor issues here and there unlike release). And no mans sky as well. Those are the only 2 companies that gave enough crap at least, but yes they should have never released in the state that they were.

@KrisKlicks

2 ай бұрын

Im just using these as examples for how hype we were for them just to be the biggest let downs

@lukedstaten

2 ай бұрын

Halo infinite is a great example of a terrible game with marketing that misled everyone. The only thing that was infinite was my disappointment

@narutobroken

2 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Mass Effect and call of duty

You used to be able to trust marketing for the quality of games. Good marketing usually meant a good game. Now its faking gameplay and lying about your game to make it seem better

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

This was especially true with Halo Infinite

I started watching your essays a few days ago and they go so hard and are so entertaining, keep up the amazing work👍🏼

There was a time before the curse of annual releases where creators took their time to create original games. GTA always surpassed themselves after each release, surprising us every time in a good way, just like Assassin's creed before Unity. You could feel that by playing . Now, even if this year's Call of duty or Assassin's creed are objectively better than the ones of our generation, they will still be seen as inferior because they couldn't reproduce the initial impact that the old games had on us. Great video, you're speaking for all of our generation !

One of the biggest trends that needs to die is the battle pass. Development companies have become extremely saturated and the focus has become about profit instead of fun.

There was a period of time where, despite games being disappointing for years, we still got hyped. Right around 2019, games took a turn from disappointing and buggy, to downright unforgivably bad. There were still people holding on hope, believing games most thought to be bad as good, but most people were losing hope. I still hold out hope for Call of Duty longer than I should have. Blame Truth kept telling everyone to stop preordering games and stop buying them. I didn't listen. I still bought the new MW2. Then I realized that despite the camo challenges being easy, I totally lost interest in playing it, so I stopped. I haven't played new cod since.

I remember years ago when we had year after year of awe drawdropping inspiring releases that moved the gaming genre as an art and as an entertainment forward. We’ve definitely been seeing similar innovations but not nearly in such a rose tinted way as we did before. Whether it’s the actual quality or simply just stuff slowing down who knows but I’m hoping gaming had a surge of great things in the future

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

The actual quality is taking a massive dive. I dusted off the old xbox 360 library, all of these titles I played were physicals on an xbox 360 not connected to the internet, so I can have the 1.0 experience, and I can absolutely confirm that game francises like Assassin's creed, Halo, COD, and more were better back then than compared to now! I also feel like I need to point out that there are even more inactive franchises now than ever, Rock Band, Guitar Hero (Yeah, I am surprised both haven't had anything new in a while), Fable, Bioshock, Dead Rising, Rayman, Castlevania, Viva Pinata, Perfect Dark, and more have not had brand new outings in at least a decade, potentially even more. Wanna know how many console generations that is? 2, soon to be 3 (especially 3 if it is a wii game, since we are likely to see the switch 2 before the ps6 or the next xbox). THATS WAY TOO LONG FOR THESE GOOD GAMES!

3:42 I'm too experienced with life now to care about new video games anymore, because it doesn't make a difference to how sick and evil the world is. They are pastimes at best

There are two years that killed my hype for future games. 2017 and 2018. Those two years had some of my moat hyped games releasing. Black Ops 4, Just Cause 4, Sonic Forces, etc And all of the games i was hyped for disappointed me. So now i no longer get hyped for games.

You know, it's funny because it's a very factual point. You look at a lot of the games and when you look at the advertisement and marketing the effort that was put into those categories usually ends up being like mad world or believe as a conception. On the other end, there's also triple-a games that. Like batman for instance the series it's got some of the best trailers, we dont get that anymore

I remember getting so hyped when cs go came out, and then when cs2 came out, I was like, "This is cool, but... it's not that big of a jump in visuals from 1.6->source->go." Plus, that game is a mess now because people care more about weapon skins than the actual gameplay. At least, that's the vibe I get from it. Which is unfortunate. 1.6 was my comfort game as a kid now. cs just seems like competitive, only gambling skin sweatfest, and the casual audience left a long time ago. Even something like halo infinite dropped the ball by catering to esports style game play and killed off the chance of gathering a large casual audience. I was so hyped for infinite man, and it didn't live up to it. It's in a good place now but it feels too late.

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

Honestly, the fact that CS has devolved so much actually stopped me from getting into the game. Also, I must concur, these companies focusing hard on esports without giving a reason for casuals to play is not good. People who play on comp servers only do so because they can build skills in social servers, it is essentially the big playground that helps people find new strats to use in comp. Before they absolutely ruined krunker, I used to enjoy the social part so much that I actually got into playing comp and did pretty well in it!

Spot on sir!

Last game I got hyped for was Destiny. The first one. Learned my lesson

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

I never got past the first boss fight in Destiny...

I think the problem has got to be the explosion of Live service games. Because game studios are making so much money from live service games they advertise the crap out of the next battle pass or the latest skins And so development and advertising for everything else gets put on the back burner

I completely agree with you. I think part of the reason I get less hyped as I get older is-well, I’m older 😂 More things going on, more games on the backlog, less time to play them. Plus all the things you mentioned. The industry has just changed, and the really exciting releases seem fewer and farther between.

I live in a third world country. Back in 2020 we were barely surviving. there was Covid, An almost 100% inflation, lots of riots and protests, and there was always an internet, water or electricity outage caused by the government. We had nothing to enjoy in our lives, we still don't. Except videogames and movies, those were the only forms of entertainment that we could enjoy by pirating them. i always dreamed of having a decent pc that could run new AAA games since 2016. But well, here a mid range Graphics card costs as much as the average monthly salary. One of the games that i always wanted to play was Cyberpunk. Since i watched that 48 minute gameplay demo, there wasn't a day that i didn't dream about playing it one day. And finally, 3 days after it's release, i did whatever i could to buy a 1650S and just immerse myself in night city. i loved that dystopian setting, probably because it feels real, it resonates with this shithole that we live in. So i downloaded it as soon as i could, launched the game, spent an hour customizing my character, and..... After that, i was just fucking disappointed. Nothing was barely close to what they showed us. these games were the only things we had in our lives, and they were taken from us. Same thing happened to many of my friends who were hyped for TLOU2 and Death stranding. After Cyberpunk, i couldn't trust any comapny. I lost all my hype for Dying Light 2 and BF 2042. Nowadays i barely turn on my pc, i'v just lost my interest in videogames.

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

It helps to just immerse yourself in the indie game landscape. It actually was the only reason I continued to play video games. Also all of the valve games still hold up!

Halo really was the benchmark: the "Do you wonder what's out there" TV Spot, Chopin's Raindrop while the camera pans around the diorama - Chief animates as the camera pulls in. Hell, even We Are ODST went hard, with the russian(?) melancholic chanting song playing as it shows the full combat life of the Private from the beginning. Where did all those people who made those go? It's not just getting older. There is a felt lacking of earnestness, creativity and love of the property. Are games made and/or marketed by people who would play those same games otherwise? Seems less likely nowadays...

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

Indeed feels like the case, like these games FEEL like they are being made to fit this inaccurate vision that the board has.

In my opinion, the quality of games hasn’t been this bad since the 80’s. But it’s crazy because games are more profitable than they’ve ever been so I don’t think things are going to get better, but I hope I’m wrong.

@Itz2Cat

2 ай бұрын

I think they are already getting better. Indie games are on the up and up. Games like lethal company and deep rock are getting bigger and bigger, while games that priorities the customer, like hell divers are also seeing huge success. Then you have games like cod that i believe will start to fall off. Or suicide squad that was a massive failure.

If every time you went on a first date it went was terrible, You wouldn't be excited to go on first dates. That is how the game industry has become for new games. almost Every launch has massive flaws. I dont buy games until they are 50% off or at least 6 months to 1 year past launch. I literally just Wishlist things so I can track the price and not forget about it. You enjoy games so much more this way I HIGHLY advise it.

The issue is that back then, there were a lot more good games than there were bad games, meanwhile, now the good games are the rare ones. You notice the two examples you used where hype was still in play were Bethesda and Rockstar? What do they have in common? They barely release games so the last time they released them was before this shift to this modern crashing industry began. The last GTA game was 2013. We have no idea with how much the studio has changed if they do still got it or not, but they did last time they did one... 11 years ago. And Bethesda as well, the last times they released a game in either of their series was 2011 and 2015 respectively (and that 2015 one wasn't even that great already) but it's been so long you're going off of just those old things they did because we have no idea what to otherwise expect. The gaming industry is crashing and has been going down for years. We just need to wait for the crash to actually finish happening and hope those who rise up from the ashes are better for it.

For me, the last game i was truly exited by was infinite. I would watch videos, analyse trailers and theories on what this game could be. It was so fun to just be excited. Then the first game play dropped and my excitement dropped. From that point on i knew that this isnt going to be the game i was waiting for. But oh boy was i in for a surprise. The game made me feel some emotions i have never felt before. It was the biggest disappointment i have ever felt with video games. I remember playing the multiplayer and being hit with disappointment after disappointment. The game felt strange. It looked like halo but felt so off. It felt cheap. The store, my lord the store. I thought to myself, "Story, thats where its at!" It came out, i played it all in one day and didnt feel anything. And that first tutorial you get. Oh my god it felt like a marvel writer wrote it. To this day, infinite is my most hated game i have ever looked forward to and i have a resentment for that company. I genuinely dont think halo could be in a worse spot than it is now. For me, if a new halo is announced, the chances of me buying it are close to none as long as the 343i logo is on it. Even though i know its non nonsensical, it frustrates me seeing people defend it, when the company that makes it literally disposes you. £40 bundles. £70 to recreate my reach spartan. Zero content in a live service game. Literal satan company.

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

Halo Infinite pissed me off so much I actually unplugged my xbox! Oh, AND AND, I COULD NOT MAKE MY REACH SPARTAN! They forgot to add the classic Reach EOD for so damn long, and I missed out on buying it in the shop!

I was really hyped for Halo Infinite, they marketed some breathtaking stuff with what slipspace was supposed to be, when the campaign came out, I was livid, not only were the environments more plain than a British meal, they didn't even add any wildlife! They used em as a BIG marketing point, yet I can't see any damn space deer! It fell WAY below the standards set, and despite them pushing for "It runs on old gen hardware", it looked ugly as sin! Supraland looked more realistic than these clay dolls we had for spartans!

Wow, I just said this on one of your videos 😂 earned a sub

For me Lords of the Fallen broke the norm and lived up to its marketing trailers which were so impressive in my eyes I took a gamble and preordered and I wasn’t disappointed I found it very enjoyable. And with the new upcoming S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 that’s been on my radar for years now and I’m obsessed consuming as much information and relevance to the franchise as possible. Beyond that maybe the MGS3 remake

Its a can of worms thats for sure.

The games that i was waiting and at least have some hype was Resident Evil 7 and 8, alongside 2 and 4 Remake. And Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and that's it. Cyberpunk at least redeem itself. GTA VI meanwhile, i think it will share the same fate as V, and Online will only get DLC'S and left the single player part stagnant and left out.

The level of hype i have for gta 6 is unlike anything

Correction: When it was easier to lie to us about how good a game was going to be Just having to take a magazines word for it when I was 12 sure as hell had me way more excited for the next Lame Sequel #69

Gaming hasn’t been the same for so long now. It’s all half baked, micro transaction heavy, full price bullshit. Every game is just a way to squeeze more money out of the consumer instead of actually making a quality game. All these developers are leaving their companies more than ever because publishers just want them to create cash generators instead of quality products. It’s impacting all entertainment like tv and film. Fuck what the consumer wants, just give them stuff that will make more money.

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I still get hyped for Halo games considering their releases are spread far apart from each other.

Bro this guy never misses! Wheezy is underrated asf

That quality guarantee died I think after Colonial Marines came out. It was a terrible game. But it sold well. Ever since, we've been getting games with lots of marketing and promise but almost always falls flat, either being outright terrible or buggy and unfinished for the first year or even two years until its actually competent, like Cyberpunk. The fact Colonial Marines sold well was a signal to the industry that yes, they can get away with selling a broken product with no QA.

My last hype was in 2019 with AC7

The first halo infinite trailer gave me so many goose bumps. Second one made me think the pilot would be a good character (ended up being annoying). Game ended up being a disappointment

I was hyped for halo 5, now I dread the possibility of a halo 7. For me its not "whats coming next?" anymore but rather "how much more are they going to butcher this former masterpiece?!". With halo wars 2, halo infinite and to some extent even halo 5 it became clear that 343 stopped being original. But honestly, I mainly blame the puritanism of the fanbase for this.

I like your videos but they are so depressive lol

we are also dead inside 🤷‍♂️

Halo infinite really put a dent in getting hype for anything.

Can’t get hyped for games anymore after halo infinite, the last of us part 2 and kingdom hearts 3. Gaming too me has just died and mainly playing with old games now.

Games got big, but shallow

The last great AAA game that slapped was Elden ring imo. FPS as a genre has fallen off so hard

@JamesTDG

2 ай бұрын

The main issue is that they stopped catering towards the casual players and the ones who have fun experimenting

Age not the reason bro I promise

lol I saw skull and bones a year before it came out and immediately saw it was just a realistic sea of theives and sea of theives is boring ass with no progression

2:08 Halo 2 took what Halo created and trashed it. Halo: Combat Evolved (into garbage)

We just old af now . Instead of games on my mind, I have Tax season on my mind 😆

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