I used to work at a company that was outsourced to do QA for League of Legends. I wasn't on the team but sat near them. The team exclusively recruited league players, I think silver of higher ranked only, and put them on these private servers exclusive for testing. They were yelling at each other into headsets at work for not playing perfectly in these testing servers that exist to find and report bugs. They would also yell at each other for trying to reproduce bugs, the job I will remind everyone that sees this they were being paid to do, instead of playing optimally. The leads of the non-League teams at the company regularly had to go to the leads of the league teams to get them to remind their teams that this is supposed to be a professional environment and that other people are either having phone calls or just trying to work in peace. Whatever stereotypes you think of league players they are absolutely true. I've never seen such a toxic community in all my 35 years gaming

I just miss good single player offline story based games and couch co op multiplayer games i know they still get made but it feels like good games in either category are getting fewer and further between release

What Jules said about Destiny 2 being all effed up for new players is spot on. I wanted to get into it but by the time I did it's story had already been carved up, shifted around, and chunks of it flat out removed, and I had zero idea WTF was going on or what I should be doing. Major turnoff.

Old video? Dragons Dogma 2 been out for a min now lol

Suggesting people stop after ME2 is bonkers. Even if the ending isn’t perfect, there’s so much closure you’re missing out on in ME3, not to mention arguably the best combat of the 3 games.

Ashamed to admit I feel this way about Red Dead Redemption 2. I know it's an amazing game, but its just too much game to handle as a working man!

Mass Effect 3 is a good game - the ending isn't that big of a deal. The overall game is fantastic and you should play it. It's funny, it has a ton of heart, and has lots of great moments. Everyone wanted more of the ending - we get it - but that shouldn't be enough to not play it. As for FFXV - it's a good game - stop comparing it to FF7. Nothing can top that game. It tells a good story, it's incredibly entertaining, and considering it's production issues, the final edition is fantastic. Play it.

As a longtime Destiny 2 player, who won't buy the next expansion until it will be something like 5$ :D I couldn't agree more and I'm happy i broke this particular addiction xD

League isn’t just a toxic community problem (major issue for real) but champion balance has large amount of the cast unplayable, for seasons!

Oh, hey, Pokemon is going to be 30 years old in a couple of years. You're welcome.

I'm still playing Dragons Dogma and think it's great. Dark Arisen and the addition of the Eternal Runestone does help that though because having to travel across the map each time would be very frustrating.

better title would be something like "10 fantastic video games that are incredibly tough to get into"

Riot have done a ton of fantastic worldbuilding and have a massive roster of wonderful characters. Maybe one day they'll put them in a game that isn't a toxic exclusion zone.

For me my canonical ME3 Ending is that Shepard and co throw the best house party on the Citadel and the Reapers go to Andromeda to harvest those races instead.

When I saw Dragon's Dogma and the mainline Pokemon games on this list, I kind of flinched since I actually still play and love those games to death. I do agree though that there should be some innovation in the Pokemon mainline series. Some world building, though this is just my opinion, would be really nice... maybe building cities and building your league from scratch or something... as for Dragon's Dogma: yeah it didn't age well but it is still fun despite it's flaws.

Personally, I feel a bigger blemish on FFXV is having the 'run' and 'attack' buttons the same, so you're partway through running where you want to go, and are suddenly stuck in battle with something you couldn't see ahead of time.

I love Mass Effect 3. Sure it has its issues, but I play it because it's fun. I also take great issue with suggesting leaving a game series with a cliffhanger is better than an actual ending, because the ending of Mass Effect 2 is no matter what, a cliffhanger. Was the ending for Mass Effect 3 controversial? Yes. Was it at least better than a cliffhanger? Also yes.

totally agree specially for destiny 2 and rs3 XXD

Couldn't of explained Destiny 2 any better Jules. Once one of my favorite games ever ( 41, been gaming since the NES/Genesis days ) and trying to come back to it after almost a 2 year break was jarring and absolutely heartbreaking. It's actually impressive the sheer amount of incompetence and ignorance Bungie has accomplished with this one. Really sucks as my son is now old enough to play and I've been waiting and wanting so much to experience it with him, the campaign really was awesome at one point. Now most of the best parts of the story are outright gone, the experience is gone, it all makes zero sense for a new player and is about as soul less as an experience as you can have in gaming. Compared to Destiny 2 in 2020/21 of course. Just got him the Master Chief Collection instead ( $10 sale on Steam ). While me and my friends all loved and rearranged entire houses, apartments and lives just to play it together, I ended up liking Destiny 2 more, for the story/campaign and lore....until logging in a few months ago, seeing what state it is now became one of my worst experiences in gaming, ever. Only thing that can top it is Vic Ireland and Working Designs promising Lunar 3, even stating it was in development more than once, hell it was mentioned in Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Sega CD manual....for it all to be a lie and 25 years later we STILL don't have a part 3 to the greatest JRPG Series of all time. I'm aware Game Arts made Lunar but Vic made the promises. If you're still reading this and love JRPGs, do yourself a favor, get a Sega CD emulator and play Lunar 1 & 2 back to back. Not the kiddie, watered down, cringy PS Complete versions either, just the OG's. Come back and comment if you are a Lunar fan or took my advice, played and now love it too.

Just found out there was a Runescape 3. So I guess there was also a 2? Honestly I haven't played in over a decade and didn't know it was still going.

Runescape 3 suffers a similar problem for players that have been away for a long period. I was away from the game for a few years, and returned, only to be taken aback by how things had changed.

I need to send this video back in time to my younger self

I have to say, both Dragon's Dogma and Mass Effect 3 are fully worth playing today. Dragon's Dogma's fast travel and single-save system are fundamental to it's gameplay, and the quest system is meant to be resolved utilising the environment and things people say, rather than obvious UI 'quest markers' - it's not obtuse, it's just in the world rather than in the menus. And people need to play ME3 if only to know the terror of seeing a Banshee on the field....

I tried playing Dragon's Dogma, but once you reach the city and start getting side quests, it is just a slog. I stopped having fun. Is the second any better?

Disagree with Dragon's Dogma to a degree. As long as you're playing Dark Arisen then there's no reason not to play it. It's perfect at what it does.

League's community was so Toxic I quit never wanting to touch a social game again, IF you pointed back to a game that closed me off from wanting to interact with people, League is it.

ME3 is worth a playthrough. Its the only game to have crushed me so hard with the choices i had to make that i stopped playing for 6 months. They got me attached to those characters and literally broke me when i couldnt save them all. That is good writing

This is exactly what I like to see- making my backlog just a little bit shorter. Thanks as always Jules!

Destiny is worth playing if you have a great team of people to join already, buy dlcs on sale and avoid the cosmetic microtransactions. You can enjoy TONS of it with those alone... But yeah, its got lots of problems. If you enjoy the lore from a distance then you're a huge winner 😅

11:10 I loved FF15!! Preferred it to FF7 remake

7:27. How the hell was Mass effect 2 "the perfect place to leave things"? The Reaper threat was yet to be resolved by that point.

"We can't wait to see what Dragon's Dogma 2 delivers later this year" Had this video on the backburner eh Jules?

I started playing Destiny 2 in 2018, and it used to be pretty good, but they drove me away with the Solar 3.0 'update' completely removed the subclass I played, which had been great for the story's PvE.

I wish I could just disable the "consumed by darkness" mechanic in destiny 2... Anymore whenever I revisit the game I bail at the boss fight that has the death sends you back to a checkpoint instead of just respawning like you normally do.

A lot of these are online multiplayer games which require you to pay extra

Glad to see someone mention the issues with FFXV. It's the 2nd game in my life that I have booted up, started playing, and then sat there open mouthed wondering "is this a joke game?" And I speak as the owner and player of every Final Fantasy game up to that point. 8 years into a FFXIV sub after paying for FFXI for 11 years. I'm done with buying Final Fantasy games from here on out. I've not played FFXVI but it actually looks worse than FFXV from videos I have seen of it.

I think everyone knows about the ending of the Mass Effect Trilogy now. If you are going in with the knowledge that the ending is dissatisfying; and again at this point it may as well have a giant sticker on the front stating as much, everyone should play the 3rd game for the story anyway. It’s brilliant and quite beautiful. I am quite sad about how it ended but it is so worth playing. Skipping it entirely due to just the ending is a mistake.

I think I counted 4 games on this list that are actually great. And 3 of them, you should absolutely play.

I play Destiny 2. It used to be fun, now it’s more just sticking around until the end. The tutorials for new players were made worse and content that has been paid for was made free and then removed. I don’t recommend it to anyone.

Pokemon has something that majority of games don't get close to. That's nearly infinite replay ability. No two play throughs will be the same you have so much variety of choice and with gen 9 you can even tackle the challenges in whatever order you'd like. Gamefreak has built enough of something I'd like to call brand equity with pokemon. We know what we're getting with pokemon. If they decide to shake up the formula majorly or shift the tone scale or scope of the projects then the risk isn't worth the reward. As you said they still guarantee to have 2 of the top 10 best selling games any year they release. From a business standpoint there is no upside at all. You can't please everyone after all

Yes, the game didn't have the payoff(s) it needed, but the flawed end results for ME3 don't outshine the many MORE reasons to go back to it or introduce other players to it. I'm only annoyed that they couldn't carry over that absolutely stellar PvE multiplayer in the update.

I quit playing League of Legends after 6 years of non stop playing and it was probably the best decision I made in my life. Found a lot more joy and relaxation in single player games and I think a lot of toxic competitive players would benefit from this as well.

This video was released 4 days ago? Sounds like it was recorded a few months ago before Dragons Dogma 2 and FF7 Rebirth came out.

I liked your feedback on Destiny 2. I stopped playing a season ago, but I can't lie, it was a great game when I was playing. Aside from the blatant issues in Crucible its a great game

6:23 How long ago was this filmed? Jules referring to Dragon's Dogma 2 as "later this year" suggests to me that this was filmed 3 or 4 months ago

Too late to tell me about Destiny 2! I did play that 😂🕹

This video must have been in the vault for a WHILE given the entry on DD2 and FF7R saying they arent out yet. I kinda gotta disagree with the Dogma entry though. I didnt play it until the 1st time last year and I absolutely loved it, and it didn't feel archaic at all to me personally.

Anyone know the song that's playing in the background?

I love League of Legends, but with my social anxiety makes it hard to dare playing it most of the time.

Hah! Jokes on you, gatekeeper: I played ME3 with the new ending and loved it, as much as the rest of the Trilogy.

I did love the multiplayer in Mass Effect 2, I played the hell out of that. Too bad they never finished the story, I ended up having to headcanon an ending...

The pkmn entry stings a bit because Ive been trying to hang on with the series but man...ive been getting fatigued for a while. I love the creature collecting the most and PLA felt like it revitalized my love for the game. Then SV happened and killed it. I really don't buy Nintendo consoles for many games but pkmn is one of them. I feel like Im finally ready to hang up the series and just not get any more Nintendo systems.

Bs there's so much to do in gta online you can play for hours without actually being in the open world (for long) where the scum of the earth dwell. Aside from that I also noticed the smaller the lobby the smaller the chance you run into them, trouble tends to start around 10-15 players

You can always mute the other players in League to ignore the toxic players

A great idea for a video, your reason for not playing gta online is so true. You will just get murdered a lot and rage quit !

While watching this, I kept having hallucinations of looking at the desserts display in a high-end restaurant while being dead broke.

World of warcraft falls into the "been around so long that the story became so convoluted it's unplayable."

How long ago was this made. Dragon's Dogma 2 was out for maybe a month now.

You know another popular game with a troubling player base people shouldn't play. Warhammer 40k! *laughs in Adeptus sororitus* But not playing is heresy so

The only reason I can’t agree with the Mass Effect 3 take is because the game is absolutely amazing. Mass Effect2 was an incredibly high bar, and the third one honestly blew it out of the water. You honestly can’t give up an experience like that just because the final 10 minutes are a dumpster fire

Destiny 2 having "neglected PVP" is a claim I heard way back when I was playing, and it was a silly thought even then. Neglected, when they force PVE players to play Crucible for PVE gear that's locked behind PVP all the time? Come on.

Top 10 best fishing systems in games of all time

Phantom Pain is a good game. It might not be the best MGS but it's good

Hard disagree on Mass Effect 3.If you've put in the time and effort to get through the first two games, you owe it to yourself to finish the trilogy. I never had a problem with the way it ended, as lackluster as it was, but there was DLC that served to give a better final send off for the series and it is included on the Legendary Edition. Plus some of the character interactions and relationships in ME3 are among the best in the business.

you can tell this video was made a while ago because you said Dragon dogma 2 is not out yet when it been out for almost 2 months now also Pal world lost a huge chunk of it's player base and is almost dead

Screw you Jules. The mainline Pokémon franchise is great, but Scarlet and Violet have been redeemed with great DLC. Don’t make me regret my love of the Pokémon franchise.

And that was it. The episode was over.

Mass effect 3 is a fantastic game. The second best in the series after the first one. 2 is a bit overrated to me but still great

Two words: Eve Online.

Some friends tried to get me to play league of legends as I was installing it I had a low key panic attack remembering how it was and by the time it was installed I just couldn't do it. I can handle hard gamesI like difficulty I like smashing my head against the wall till I get better but the group of screaming harpies dragging me down as I do it just sucks. Love the game will never play again.

Dragon's Dogma certainly isn't for everyone, though for a certain type of player, it's gold. No harm at all in admitting if it's not your kind of game. But Mass Effect 3 should be on every player's must-play list. The trilogy in its entirety is a gaming experience the likes of which we might never see again. I know y'all are smoking something there, but really, don't do it at work.

I buy cheap games so ill likely play many games like the ones on this list. Im starting Dragons Dogma one day. Btw maybe the witcher 1 and 2 could count for this list, and im not sure anybody should play The Elders Scrolls 4 Oblivion with its dungeons with one exit only, having to backtrack so much that you have no idea how you escaped such maze.

But....i like ff15. 😅 Honestly, i feel sorry for the game because it had some great story elements that got lost and cut. And i like pokemon too. Opps on me. 😅

Never put money into a live service game that doesn't have a single player mode. One day those servers will be taken down and it's always sooner than you expect.

Do one on great quiz show games like Whacked, south park chefs live shack im sure theres others

How old is this and did Julz write this?

You talked about lost ark and never mentioned money. You guys made it sound like the “rng” wasn’t specifically made the way it is to force you to spend money (10s of thousands).

For the foreseeable future, I will only play older Pokémon games, no newer than Gen 6.

How old is this video DD2 is out already maybe its old clips pasted together

Another great video.

Some hard pills to swallow on this list but I think all of them (that I'm familiar with) belong here. As a big time MGS fan I'm glad to see MGSV on the list. It's a well-crafted game and most people I know who had very high opinions of it had never played other MGS games. I always say it's a really good game, but a pretty terrible MGS game, and that's why non-fans enjoy it more.

dragons dogma sequel coming sometime this year....? How long have you been sitting on this video to be released? lol

Seriously, we have to stop comparing Pokémon to Palworld. Palworld is an early access game in which you can see everything it has to offer in 2 hours. Pokémon has a lot of flaws and are years behind in terms of performance, but is still more enjoyable.

I thought this list would be full of cringe, but I actually agree with everything. Mostly at least, you can play any Pokemon game up to Black, White 2, after that the quality of the games just starts rolling down a hill.

Having ME3 here is a bad take, it's an incredible game with a meh ending. Every part of it before the last 5 minutes is exceptional.

I love Gameranx but come on! Dragon's Dogma? Mass Effect 3? Seriously??

for mmo's ... well im literally just there for the RPG story -- if it has a decent one that can hold my attention -- i dont care about raiding or the 'endgame grind' or min/maxing whatever spec i wanna play ... so i dont ever have to deal with players being dicks about me needing to 'git gud' ...and in terms of games like GTA Online -- well thats why i host my own private 'local to my pc' server when i play dont hafta deal with asshat toxic players if the world is only generating NPCs

9:00 ...now don't listen to lore abiding citizens... 🤣

Dragon's Dogma......wtf are you on lol. It's still worth laying even with Dragon's Dogma 2 being out. It still has it's own flavor. Also Mass Effect 3.....just dumb....gotta downvote this one sadly lol.

Dragons dogma 2 has already come out

Outro? There's no outro... Wow, this is new. What's happened?

Mass Effect 3 shoudlnt be on this list. its not perfect but anyone that enjoyed the first two games should absolutely play 3.

You're tripping. Destiny 2 is a great have regardless of the issues. I came to the game 2 years ago and absolutely love it. Every single game has problems and this one still has a killer story, amazing gun play, and competitors who I wish I could match in skill during trials.

I adore rune scape 3

This is an oldish recording... rebirth and dragons dogma 2 has come out

Wtf are you on about Mass Effect 3? It’s a masterpiece that is well worth the ride - not matter the ending- and anyone who hasn’t played it is missing out. The same goes for MGSV. It’s a gameplay masterclass! Not playing means you are missing out on the best stealth action game ever! Wtf is this list?

I'm waiting to see when FF15 comes into it via the preview bit 😂

Pokemon has tried different gimmicks with every generation and most of them failed.

ofc he forgot to mention about dota2, mario kart, world of warcraft, each more toxic than lol and gta combined and insane community, oh, yes, wow is not fantastic xD; also he forgot to say: ''spoiler alert'' like, ''you had x years to play the certain game until now'' or so most youtubers are saying (dude, most ppls barely have 2 hours of time for gaming or less, not everyone is gaming 15 hours a day and editing+researching stuff for about 10 a week or less) Final Fantasy 15 may have 2-3 flaws, but is a great game, Metal Gear 5 is also amazing, Gta and Destiny 2 are ok with friends, ofc, no pvp stuff, just hanging out and doing some missions or some mobs killing, pvp sux in most online games where is a level difference, rest of games i didn't really play from this list so no idea, but we all can check gameplays on internet and if we like it, why not play?

This has to be a repost. DD2 is already out.