They keep releasing broken and buggy messes and expecting full priced seventy dollar releases. I’m not buying unfinished games anymore.

Prices are going up, quality is going down. End of story.

I reached the conclusion about a year ago that I pretty much don't care anymore. There is more than enough older classics to keep me busy throughout my lifetime and the same thing goes for movies as well. Not only has the quality dropped and prices have increased, but now I can't play anything or watch anything without propaganda shoved down my throat. For the most part everything gets a hard pass now.

When the video game companies sold actual copies of their games, they never experienced these issues.

I feel like we STILL haven't gotten a current gen game yet

The fact that games are coming out broken and not quality at launch is sickening. Also the fact that they can take your games you paid for away from you is something I will never support.

I miss e3. E3 used to force these companies to show something.

The old games were created with heart and soul. The modern games are pointless cash grabs with woke messaging. On top of that it has all these micro transactions, buggy issues, and paid DLCs. I been spending my money buying older games rather than any new ones.

This gen sucks. So I’ve gone back and I’m rocking 360/PS3 and haven’t looked back. So much fun. Games are actually complete, run off the disc, great single player adventure games, and the online still works on PS3. Even better, the games are $5-$10 on average. The graphics still hold up very well today and you don’t feel like you’re playing an older retro console.

Everything's overpriced, New and retro

The movie industry has suffered from this same problem in the video game industry. As you said, the 90s was a great era for video games. There were a ton of creativity that resulted in many great and unique games. The last decade or so has been plagued with reboots, remakes, and remasters, and it's sad people will spend so much money on this lazy garbage.

This is the indie companies time to shine. Triple A gaming companies are laying off and indie games are thriving. Walmart is selling their games cheap and physical games are starting to diminish.

It really feels like things are shifting in a direction nobody is sure of. Quite scary.

The biggest problem with the gaming industry are the investors and their unreasonable expectations. FF7 Remake vs Rebirth is a prime example. Rebirth is a better game, but is considered a “failure” because it was released on PS5 (with less than half the install size of the PS4) and because it had no pandemic to push it, it didn’t sell as well. Also the fatigue of over saturation in FF and other RPGs and blockbuster games was to blame. We just got FF16 last year and I still haven’t had a chance to play that one yet (couldn’t put down Tears of the Kingdom at the time).

When games increased in price I expected an increase in quality as well. So far that has not really been the case.

There's only one thing that's destroying the Gaming Industry?? 💷💰Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed💰💷

I've been following games industry for the last 13 years, and for the first time I have lost interest in current era gaming. And I think things are just going to get worse. Im glad that back in 2019 I decided to skip this generation and instead play my backlog of games.

I feel like it's not just the game or even the movie industry suffering. The world feels "off" and things have a certain sense of dread about it. Even classic gaming is taking a hit. I have 3 classic game stores within my area that are all shutting down due to horrible sales. Strange times indeed.

Why does everyone keep putting out broken and unfinished products and then expect $70 for them. The video game industry is VERY drunk

1) Games need to stop focusing on insane graphics and be more about innovation. It should help games keep higher frame rates too. Art direction is why older games still look really good today. 2) The reason why there is less competition is because of game price/creation inflation. More people were in the race because it was affordable and you could take some L’s. That’s just not the case anymore. Which is Xbox and PlayStation are branching out from their consoles so they can make more revenue

This Spawnwave rivalry is getting real… and I’m here for it. Love both you guys. 😂

Got a gamecube with picoboot and a 1tb sd card, a 1tb modded ps vita and a 512gb modded new nintendo 3ds xl. Ain't no reason to play modern games when there are so many actual good games that came out in the past. I'm literally set for life. More if I could live longer.

All the video game companies are laying off employees…. Because none of them are making games, at least not fast enough

I’m actually not surprised. Out of the big 3, Sony relies on 3rd party support the most and Nintendo the least.

The time of the "AAA Games" has ended, the rise of "INDIE Games" has begun. 🤓

I’ve pretty much been jumping back into older games and battling through my bag log of games. We’re pretty much beta testers for newer titles these days.

Getting back into emulation. I got a Miyoo Mini Plus and loaded it with a ton of roms. It's a pretty awesome device especially how small it is. Going to play through Final Fantasy 9 for the first time heh.

Yes RGT, you are right for many of your points listed. The console wars were a healthy competitive atmosphere that brought us great games months after months, year after year, til smartphones / Internet / computers / greed took over the industry. Its more complicated than that i know, but gaming in general was at it's best in the 90s.

I bought a Mega Drive a month ago and now I like gaming again. Sega did it right back then.

Good video and I'm glad you talked about riding dev costs. It is wild that games are taking longer and longer to make and expected to sell 10s of million of copies or they "failed."

Metal gear solid 2 and 3 was awesome in nostalgia of metal gear What really blew my mind was Metal Gear Soild 4 since day one. It was a mind-blowing on the PS3 that was even better.

This is why since the n64 as a kid I chose to stay 2-3 years behind the gaming industry. After n64 I bought a PS1 and then a Dreamcast when they announced the discontinuation and huge price drop. Same with PS2 and xbox360. I’m able to save $$$ because I buy used consoles and only get the great games after all the hype. I didn’t have a Switch until last year as a “modern” console. I did buy a Quest 2 about 6-12 months after launch. It’s similar to waiting for movies to hit streaming. Probably not great for the industry but for sure great for me as a consumer.

"how many 2d pixel roguelites do you need? how many cozy farm sims do you need?" THANK YOU

Some video game companies even encourage us that owning is bad.

It doesnt help that every game now has content held behind paywalls even though theyre completely done on launch...

I thought video games would grow with me as I aged, they did and I thought my love and enjoyment for them would grow, but that's no longer the case having been a gamer since the Atari and NES. The heart and soul that gaming used to have, with the exception being Baldurs Gate 3 isn't there anymore. Can't support sports games anymore and now Fighting Games is the next genre I'm done with after Tekken 8. Definitely the last console generation I'll be part of because I'm not buying your consoles if I'm renting and not owning the few good games you sell me.

Good stuff. Loved the topic and the discussion, bro. I agree most entirely. Gaming is great nowadays, but also in a rut. I think both are true…imo.

I have never worried about playing games when they release. I buy games when they are on sale and most of the time I buy them used. Then, I play whatever I feel like no matter the age of the game. I play on Xbox consoles of all generations and PC, the generations aren't really a criteria for me. I just play what sounds good at the time.

RGT, this is a good video. That said, there is enough topics in here for at least 5 full videos!

Id rather have small studios making smaller games they are actually passionate about, than have to buy one more AAA title that crashes, has framerate issues, have server problems, and constantly ask you to buy a battlepass.

I haven't given this much thought but maybe the game should be about fun and less realism.

Well said my man. It should be interesting the way things play out over the next few years. Nice shirt btw. Peace ✌️

PCMR has been eating pretty well on the indie/AA side. We've always had a way bigger pool to draw from in that realm, though.

I mean it takes 5 years to make a new AAA game or longer. There are gonna be slow years it is what it is.

Love your shirt bro!!!!

I did the unthinkable… bought a miyoo mini and joined the retro gaming peeps. Sure the nostalgia factor is fun, but honestly just enjoying the old games more (even on emulator). So many I haven’t played. I still play some new pc titles… but less than ever… and happier gaming than in the last few years.

The last few years I have been accustomed to and accept missing out on many games and knowing I will never play them. Due to the direction gaming has gone to. I have significantly spent a ton less yearly on gaming. Plus I also have other hobbies that take my time. Im tired of hearing, seeing broken released games, chores to grind modes so that your tempted to pay ect. I just abandoned all of it and usually just buy later on major sales and at all costs avoid the micro grinds.

Has anyone actually said, that the bait to not call him out as an obvious Nintendo KZfaqr, is just a way to ensure we're all commenting?

It is difficult to buy video games when inflation is financially destroying the average person. For most of us, there is no choice since we are struggling just to feed our families.

I been at it since the 2600, but imo the PS2\Gamecube era was the BEST...😎🇹🇹👍

Good stuff. I agree with pretty much everything there!

Just having fun with the ROG Ally. And PC modding. But times have changed in video games with games having budgets and having kinematics rivaling the motion picture industry. People just not being satisfied with the profits unless they make like 10x their budget or something.

Happy weekend 😀

Back in the days, developers created a game and then looked for games to sell it. But the annual revenue line must go up, so today, the monetization model comes first and everything else later, if there is some time left for it.

I think it might be far more societal than ever. Back in 2019, my big concern was that too many games were coming out, and there were some titles that we wind up passing up. As a Switch owner, I have managed to pick up some games that I passed up in the previous years. But I think the problem is far worse than ever when we all have far shorter attention spans than we used to. Case in point: I do want to finish up on a game that I've been playing. But at the same time, other games try to grab my attention span and I want to go play those instead. Worst case scenario is that I don't even bother to play a game because of that, or because of other things I want to do, like drawing, writing a fanfic, and other projects. Or even real life gets in the way. As someone who is aware of the Switch 2, I'm not as concerned about it as I'm supposed to. Why? I think I've gotten to the point where I have enough games to last the rest of my lifetime. Sure I know there won't be any games I will be able to finish. But I'll be glad to have played to my dying breath.

just wait when I finish making my fighting/beat them up brawler game idea.... I call it "Adrendline Rushs"

Is Stellar blade really that good or is it just the only thing coming out

I respect your opinions RGT85 and I fully agree with many of the statements that you made in this video. I have taken a trip to the past by revisiting older games and going back to the quality and sheer variety of gaming that you could find in abundance on the classic consoles. I am a bit curious though as to why you think Spawn Wave "sucks". I don't mind his videos and wonder what it is about him, or maybe his channel, that you seem to dislike.

All that I know is I'm going to make my game the best it can be, I'm 3 years into development now and still going strong.

Iv been playing gamecube games too through emulation . Idk something about gaming right now is so slow.

You highlighted that hardware and software are growing points , but I also think game input is just as important . Finding new game mechanic input creates a more immersive experience.

Helldivers 2 and FFVII Rebirth recently came out, and Hellblade II, Avowed and Stellar Blade will be coming out soon. Pacific Drive is an indie that that is phenomenal that does new interesting things. I still think this is a super exciting amazing time to be a gamer. I feel like there is a LOT of competition producing incredible stuff. That’s how I see it. It is interesting and insightful to see such a downer pessimistic perspective about the industry though.

Real close to that 500k milestone. ☝️🙌✨️

Some day i will go back and play all the time splitters 1 2 and future perfect. there is a small catalog of ps2 that I have an itch to go back and play. I tried the hacked gamecube rom set that allowed mouse and keyboard but shoot i'm getting old and cant do that posture anymore so I need to use controllers, its a relife that lots of new games are now controller supported, I was beyond excited when nightdive remade quake 1 and shortly after quake 2 and now allows me to use my xbox controller with them so I don't cramp up my hands.

Thanks!

I'm on that same page, just finally got an N64 flash cart. Summer of N64 here we come!

I’m on the fence with it I feel like you said it’s all about perspective. Yes I’ve always told people that rushing to finish. Games is the dumbest thing you can do because are you really getting your moneys worth by rushing through the game but then I always say that this hobby is very expensive And a lot of people don’t like spoilers a lot of people don’t like things being told to them before they can experience it themselves, and with social media being so rampant with their video sharing I think people finish off their games quickly due to spoilers, and due to talks online until that they’re not Being stolen of their surprise

The way I see it, backlogs are a thing many people should be looking at. I frankly don't get this fixation with getting showered with new things while ignoring the remaining 95%+ things gathering dust in a corner and pretending there's this contrived sense of scarcity people just make up to rationalize their outrage over relatively dry release periods, especially now when undercooked new things are notoriously broken on release.

i been feeling bored with gaming for a while now, and i came to the conclusion for me is games now and days are way to easy for me so about a year ago. I just really started playing all souls and soul like games that's a lot harder and i been on a roll ever since, gaming is fun again!

I think this malaise has been bubbling in the background since the start of the 8th gen. I noticed that while first party PS4 games certainly looked better, I didn't enjoy them as much as PS3 games. Even then people were complaining about games getting dumbed down for normies. This was also the time scummy mobile business practices began to be incorporated into traditional gaming. GG 1.0 and ESG also dropped, which led to the industry over-correcting and hiring on a ton of these vapid activists. Skip ahead to today, and there's really nothing coming down the pipe that I'm excited about. I'm not spending $650 Canuck Kopeks for a PS5 just to play Stellar Blade. I don't play online, so none of these live services appeal to me. Most games now are too expensive, lazy, money grubbing, and broken. Investors keep trying to squeeze more blood from a saturated industry. The politics stuff is getting worse. Even Nintendo have been absolute butt nuggets lately with their crap customer service, broken controllers, online service shutdowns, and the war on emulation. It's all very exhausting. I've gone back to playing older stuff, and even there, almost entirely Japanese games. Definitely the worst it's been in my 30 years of gaming.

The AAA gaming industry managed to kill off the consoles again. Back in the day it took ET to destroy the industry, nowadays AAA devs released multiple ETs a year, year after year after year to take down the industry.

I’ve been back to collecting and playing 360 games, and playing ps2 emulated on the Ally.

Me and my kids took turns over the weekend playing the PS2 Transformer Armada game. They were blown away by the Tidal Wave boss fight! Games like that are few and far between these days.

“Spawnwave will probably be talking about this too but he sucks.” 😂

I stopped playing, watching, and reading new things about 7 years ago and I don't feel as though I've missed out on anything. I always recommend others who are fed up of the state of modern media to do the same. There's lots of good stuff from the past out there and in many respects - old is truly gold. I never really listened to anything 'new' to begin with so nothing has changed in that respect lol.

The entire entertainment industry is in this Atlas Shrugged mode where all the talented people have been either forced out or voluntarily left and the people that are still in are untalented and uncreative.

I think there's a number of things that are happening. First, the game industry is still recovering from the pandemic. Yes, the US opened up really quickly but a lot of nations didn't lift lockdowns and restrictions until relatively recently. This affected game release schedules and caused year 3 and year 4 games to get pushed back even further. Second, because of how Covid affected things, big companies are looking to make more money. One of the ways of doing that is remakes and remasters. Another way is live service games. This makes the AAA industry look as though it's stagnating, which, it kind of is. Companies aren't willing to take risks on new and original ideas because they just can't afford to. Third, when a company does actually make a big budget single player game, many times they lack the polish and quality that games of the past had because there's so much more going on in them now, they were made at a time where most people were working from home so there wasn't as much QA, and the publishers want to put them out before they're actually finished despite the developers telling them they need more time. Fourth, the indie scene is definitely over saturated. There's way too many games and way too many same template but slightly different theme games. Don't get me wrong, there's still original stuff out there, but it's few and far between in comparison to everything else.

Been a subscriber for a long time but never comment much, as a gamer that’s your age I think you hit the nail on the head. I thought i was losing interest in gaming just cause I was getting older have a family etc. but I think it’s just the lack of competition and inovation on developers part but I gotta play devils advocate and look in the mirror. I think a lot of gamers 30+ years old including myself are a little weary of games that don’t have a familiar track of quality now that were the ones spending our earned money. When I was a kid my parents would buy me a game for snes and if I didn’t like it oh well now if I spend 70 bucks on a game in this economy and don’t like it..well that sucks big that was my water bill for the month I just wasted. Honestly though I think the constant flood of games that no mortal man has enough time to play while also excelling to their fullest in life is a big problem too. When we were kids and had one system only a couple good games came out per year so you’d play them, beat them then play them again until the next good game came out plus if you remember they were 70 dollars back then for a brand new game so they were more of a luxury like when older generations only drank soda as a treat now people drink soda like it’s water. Idk I’m rambling cause I’m drunk but like you said it’s a very nuanced situation with the way the video game industry has become especially for older gamers that have experienced it from its starting point basically the NES era and onward

Single Player Games requiring an internet connection to install let alone play as well as games releasing unfinished and are dependent on updates to play are the #1 issues for me.

I think its a bunch of many factors. One of the main i feel is just desensitization to the games themselves even if they are great and compelling. As a kid i would replay the same game all the time because i loved it but also there was not as many other games being released at the same time. The market is so flooded with games being released every few weeks of all different genres added to the fact that we only have a certain amount of life to play them leads to constant switching and moving onto the next thing. I guess its just FOMO in a lot of cases

I don't rush to beat games that's why I have a backlog.

I feel its 50/50 like the gaming industry is in a rut but at the same time their are some bangers that keep it from fully dying but I don't normally buy games as soon as they come out and if I do its rare that I will play them right away especially if its a AAA. It normally take me a good few years before I even start playing most of the games I buy and those are the ones I tend to enjoy the most vs something like Dragons Dogma 2 which is a AAA and I'm sure is fun but it needs a lot of patches on PC so it kills the fun and it'll sit in my backlog for probably a good 2 maybe 3 years while games like Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes will get played right away because its not a AAA game so far better chance its not a broken mess and if it is I got 700 games I still need to play like all the old Yakuza games are the upcoming game Sand Land which drop a few days later which to me looks like a banger.

That's why I like to play the nostalgia games like the ps2 On my PS3 three backwards compatible It's not the same when compared to the 7th generations gaming consoles. I just gotta say different time and company layoffs and different era.. Then the next big thing is we own nothing when it comes to digital.

Yeah. The video game industry feels empty right now in 2024. It feels like there’s no motion or nothing really going on from Sony, Xbox or Nintendo. No recent showcases or directs, about 1st party games or major news.

My entire video game lifestyle is a stagnation, leading to wasted time, loss of money, and world burning in front of my face.

I like to do a much as I can in a game without having to pay to unlock a pay wall. I really don't get people who act like they have no attention span never beat a game or only do the storyline and move on... if the gameplay is fun you think they'd want to explore every nook and uncover as many secrets as possible. But feel like a lot people feel like they have to keep up with streamers or their friends and it's a bad mentality. You shouldn't try to keep up with someone who does gaming as a job they have tons of time to put hours in to make content. Now as an adult I'm not quite as 'I need to do everything' but that's because I have less time to play. Thus sacrifices must be made to get to back log of games.

I recently bought a gamecube and no regrets. Besides Elden Ring Dlc and Thousand Year Door nothing eventful going on for months.

-Microtransactions -Too focused on online multiplayer -Short single player campaigns -No competition (specifically sports games) -We're getting older -Backed into an innovative corner (The next step seems to be VR and numbers show that the gaming community doesn't want that.) -Too many games. Like music and literally everything else, there's an obvious saturation. -Content creators. Gaming is such big business now, everybody streams, everybody's doing a review, everybody's uploading something. -Trash communities. The level of trolling, hate, anti-whatever, pro-whatever, "satire bro", shock jocks etc., has grown exponentially. -Invasion of the casuals... Seems now that there are way more casuals gaming, the games feel like they're being developed for those people so they can create content and for people to spend money on to act like douche canoes. -Publicly traded companies. Greed. Bottom lines. Etc.. Pick one, or all. There's a lot of reasons. We need a hard reset... Blow in the cartridge. #nodiddy

My feeling on this is that video games haven really changed a whole lot from the last generation into what is about the halfway point in our current gen of video games. I do think this year will not be that banger year we had last year or the year before.

The game commercials in the 90’s were the best. Especially Sega’s commercials. The Nintendo/Sega war was peak entertainment.

I play WWE 2K19. "That games old." Also the same person. "it's the same game every year"

If it aint physical i don' buy it, if it's woke i don't buy it, if i don't like the gameplay i don't buy it. I am saving money and not missing out.

With my backlog of games to play, I'm not concerned about stagnation of new releases; to a degree, I find it relieving actually.

Nintendo will be the last console standing. The rest will be set top pc boxes that are able to play everything except Nintendo games

Nice to see a video that's not just about Nintendo =P

I'm playing so much modded Oblivion and Fallout NV and the newest stuff I'm playing is Atelier Ryza trilogy, FFXIV and I am considering going through FF Tactics or FF7. New stuff.. not so much, really.

I play a lot of PS 1&2 Enjoy myself a lot when doing so...✌️

I always said one of the reasons why the console wars of the 90s and even early 2000s was good was because companies were competing against one another. And that that made them all pump out amazing title one after another. And like RGT points out, in a world where remakes/remasters are around because its essentially a "safe bet" and it stunts creativity.

Everything has also been done and redone...and mixed up versions of the same games. Developers I feel have run out of ideas. You can only put a new skin on games for so long.

For me personally, I can’t play every game that comes out because work or unreasonable prices. But it’s also because, most games aren’t good enough for my time. Either it be unfinished & buggy games, or microtransactions & battle passes. (Suicide Squad…) But I can safely say for the time being, the only games I’m looking forward to that will fulfill my gaming needs are *Hades 2*, *Dragon Ball Sparking Zero*, (Even tho I think their will be DLC, the base game content might be justified for purchase) *Stellar Blade* *Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2*, *Black Myth Wukong* and even games that came out earlier are also pretty good. *Tekken 8*, *Persona 3 Reload*, *FF Rebirth* even though two of these are remakes, they’re built from the ground up and excel the originals in many ways