My bones cracked and creaked.

Excellent. Doed that mean I can quash the first flame and fade into the dark with my Firekeeper waifu?

See... we can blame mobile gaming for everything thats wrong with modern gaming...without even turning on our super awesome PC or World changing console.

We live...in a decaying age...

I dunno about that. That would imply that there's a fair fight with a chance to win.

Agreed. We so often boil "influential" down to "what I liked them most this decade". In reality you have to look at what aped the practices and how much of it did so. Unfortunate that the most aped thing was single-handedly the one practice that has deteriorated gaming to a mere shell of it's former self. I mean, in my opinion the 2000's lost a lot from the invention of smaller DLC in general but I digress...

I was gonna say...influence isn't necessarily a good thing. Fortnite pretty much ruined the gaming space because everyone was trying to copy it.

Hmmm... Ohhh!

This is exactly why I say that Ronald Reagan was one of the two most influential presidents of the 20th century

@@tehbeernerd I read your comment and heard triggers going off all over the place xD

*You Died*

We already know what happens when you argue with an idiot.

Well, it's not necessarily the loot box itself that is the problem, it's that companies tend to use it in an awful way. ... I mean, maybe with the exception of how it can spoil a gambling addict's enjoyment maybe... But yeah, if you say loot boxes themselves are an issue, pretty much any game with RNG is bad too, especially where rewards are concerned... A bigger issue is when there are no alternatives and real money is used as part of it, I think... But yeah, many companies have shown that they can't be trusted with it, so maybe it's best to not have them... I dunno...

@@KitsyX Lootbox itself is a problem. You should not be paying money for a random chance for an item. Loot chances in monster drops is not the same thing. A more apt comparison would be card packs for card trading games. And yes, those are a bad thing.

@THAT GUY This is a teachable moment people. Don't be that guy.

Yeah, the weirdest part of this video is where Jim just looks you dead in the eyes and says he can tell you didn't get 8 hours of sleep last night and then reads off a list of possible side effects.

@@MaxiemumKarnage what the hell? I went to sleep at 2:00 AM and woke up at 8:00

*Oh no they're becoming self-aware*

You look like the Irate Gamer.

@@OmarAlikaj Yeah, so does his name. In Spanish.

The best thing I heard this decade.

Jim Sterling is what Boglins look like in human form. Discuss 😁

I feel happy knowing I've never played or never will play any of those CCCODCOC

yup, Time's person of the year wasn't always given to the person that influenced the year most positively....

heroin also has an influence

darkninjafirefox We get it! Wonder Woman was a good movie!

So true. Sterdust to AEW

maybe because you’re a god and batman just punched you with a kyptonite thingy? idfk

we're talking about games, not abot pure shit for uninformed casuals

What the fuck is Clash of Clans? Never heard of it.. EVER

Carewolf well I’ve never heard of you.

King Delirium, since you didn't watch it, I'll tell you that most of the video did quite a good job explaining that there is a quite a world of difference in Most INFLUENTIAL game of the decade, and best game of the decade.

Jim Sterling is the Beatles of people.

"Superbly kissable". :)

Jim Sterling is the Jim Sterling of the Jim Sterling

Which God? There are thousands of them.

He's like Skyrim with Boglins

Michael Piperni jesus....even channels I follow that have NOTHING to do with gaming, AT ALL......I still get the Raid Shadow Legends bullshit.

@@Deeplycloseted435 Let's go whalling!

@@Deeplycloseted435 All your channels belong to us. *SO PLAY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, FREE TODAY!*

@@Deeplycloseted435 *Looks at BazBattles, a damn good historic battle channel but even they see a few mobile ads every now and then*

deleterious....wow. Another word in the D column. Anyone else notice that? Under D in the dictionary has most derogative words of all.

In itself, pronouncing it "Codcock" is nice enough for the concept to stick around, which I'd like to see

@@Wolfeur Be careful in fish and chip shops tho

@@Wolfeur It's not pronounced "Codcock", but "C-c-Codcock".

It was bound to happen when games became popular. For the longest time games were for kids or a niche market. But now everyone, including your mom, plays some type of "video game." From Skyrim to Candy Crush to Fifa there is a game for you! And all that consumer interest attracted corporate attention. Games like Fallout were made by hobbysists for hobbyists: that's why there is passion behind the project making something truly unique and memorable. Now? Corporate suites rushing out half finished games because "fuck it, it'll sell enough" to satisfy their greed. They slaughtered some back alley hobos and used their blood to divine the perfect price point between money/time invested and potential profits. Sure, more development will make the game "better," But will it make hte game more "profitable?" The hobo blood says otherwise! Patch it later if you must, then get that DLC chart out made from content we told you to cut from the game to sell back to the consumers later! P-R-O-F-I-T-S! Now, enough of that, ROYSTAN! ROYSTAN WHERE IS MY HOBO HUNTING RIFLE!?

ah c'mon man you gotta like the art style... no, no fuck off, I'm sick of these ultra-bright colorful "artstyles". I'm not against them, but now they are over used. I actually kind of get disappointed when someone on the internet looks at say a game like killzone or gears of war (as just examples) and says "oh only shades of brown and grey" like no shit, they are games about war. I miss when that "dark,gritty" was the overused style honestly. And the fact that such colorful games are much more kid targeted with micro-transactions make them all the more slimey looking.

@@plasmaoctopus1728 Although I largely prefer colourful and won't be sick of it anytime soon, I get your point. Style and theme is absolutely necessary, and for games about war it makes sense for them to be brown. Still, really? You're gonna critique Clash of Clans for friggin' style of all things?

I don't think it's actually for all the wrong reasons, just not the comfortable reasons that Gamers want to admit to. Gamers want to think that this entire industry still has some Grass Roots influence upon it , but the reality is it's the most profitable entertainment media. Do you like Esports? Couldn't have happened without the huge money surrounding the industry that has attracted ESPN to cover tournaments.

My lips pressed together, I inhaled deeply, and knew instantly that he was perhaps the most correct he has ever been.

Ryan Gallagher agreed

Facts! Mass Effect: cancelled. The Sims: half-baked. Star Wars: court hearings. Dragon Age: MIA. Only thing they did right was Apex Legends, and that's cuz Respawn was like not today, Satan.

C&C.... feelsbad

@@gorromoro yeah, I hear ya. Somehow some FIFA garbage got remembered before command and conquer.

Dungeon Keeper... *sheds tear 😢*

their take on simcity was horrible. and the total neglect of spore after buying maxis.... i hate EA.

Michael: Or can it?

Right when you're drifting off to sleep... BAM! - a cringey memory appears. Wake up sweating. Every time.

But are memories the past or the past remembered in the present.

@Con Morr I take it you had a very *loving* uncle that called you kiddo when you were growing up.

Until you remember it ..

I bought Skyrim literally solely because my friends had nothing else to talk about, so it was either buy the game or isolate myself for a month or two

Lest we forget all the arrow in the knee jokes that lasted a fucking year at least

Further proof for Skyrims influence is the comparisons made between it and TW3 for best RPG, despite the release of each game being years apart. Especially important for a time when games usually had a single year lifespan due to yearly releases from the likes of EA sports, Ubisoft, Call of Dutys, and a few more.

I don't remember that happening since. Closest case was probably God of war.

And it is still doing it in 2020

Not the 2010s, just 2019.

And still nobody plays it

only 2019, 2010's is owned by Dollar Shave club.

I’m that petty I click off if I see anyone promoting that shite. Only exception is Internet Historian. He gets a pass for taking the piss.

Time well spent

DayZ was based on a arma mod! XD

DayZ IS an arma mod. And so was the first Battleroyal, that snowballed into what it is today.

All of the most played games of the decade starter as mods to another game. Proof that devs don't know what players want?

Counter-Strike was a Half-Life mod.

DOTA2 started as a Warcraft 3 mod. Teamfortress started as a Quake mod. DayZ started as an Arma mod. PUBG (and by extension Fortnite) started as an Arma mod.

You should go watch basically any video on loot boxes, bethesda, and Konami. His utter disgust for them is impeccable

Honestly, Jim's best video is probably the one on why he hates the word "consumer." It'll not only explain pretty much this whole channel, but also get you to think about commercialism in a new way.

@@TFGRhinehart IMO the best one is the pasta sause one.

Turning players in to payers was also good. It shows very well how the industry view us.

The past may not be able to hurt you, but Jim's past content is sure to please

For real. Now lets get sterdust in AEW

But the past can hurt you tho.

I'd like to introduce you to this thing called disease

Some one pass me my time machine !

Imagine thinking there's actually gonna be a world war. Do y'all even know what a world war is? Fearmongering bullshittery.

@@Dharengo I know man, it's honestly worrying how people can be so easily scared.

Beam me up Scotty I'm done with this shit

It's sickening that people can just so casually afford a night when most people are struggling paycheck to paycheck with no substantial emergency fund to speak of.

So how's space?

Can I have your stuff then?

@@acedias12 it's cold....... and floaty!

Getting old but games used to offer those experiences in 09 07 and 2008 complete games with minimal bugs it was literally 10 years ago when children used to buy complete 60 dollar games you didn't grow too old crime in marketing surpass regulations by a landslide

The Battle Pass at least is relatively inexpensive and has guaranteed content. I know that maybe sounds a little sparse still but in a post-lootboxes world I feel we have to give credit. It's too bad he didn't get Fortnite Save The World, that's apparently the GOOD version of the game- and I say this as someone who plays Fortnite Battle Royale.

"For everyone, microtransactions have had a significant detrimental effect on gaming." FTFY

yea. Because of this I research a lot before buying any game. Sometimes they make good games.

"All of those companies are huge and could make dozens of games of the quality of, say, The Last Of Us" Ah, yes, The Last of Us: a game with a pay to win multiplayer mode where the loading screens were constantly advertising the pay to win items to you. Top notch quality right there. Don't forget to buy your crossbow that causes a unique bleeding effect that nothing else in the game can cause! 🙄🤮

Sure, the gem-production methods are a thing, but they are just. So. SLOOOOW!

Yeah, and that's just how free to wait games manipulate the discussion about their volatility. They can "technically" claim to be beatable without microtransactions, but never really explain how long that will take and how utterly boring it would be to do so. And most people don't do the math to figure it out, hence they get hooked and end up spending money to speed it up. It's incredibly sinister -- just totally fucked up -- this idea that you can win an argument and discussion simply by holding out for so long that the discussion doesn't matter anymore because by the time you can prove anything it's too late and the damage is done.

My dad is retired and plays CoC. He got into legend league last month and hes not spent a dime on it and i know he doesnt because his income is incredibly limited.

"free to wait"lol

When it comes to cost, we consider money only. But time is also part of the cost.

I genuinely thought it was screen burn and checked if netflix was open in the background

I saw that too, literally the moment he started talking I got distracted. Now Hulu's up somehow and I'm already watching a generic-faced no-name box some killer kangaroo while some model is coaching him. There goes my day today...

One of the best shows ever made. Saw an article about them rumoring they would get back together and make more of the show. I really hope it's true.

I figured it might be testing for Copyright Deadlock 2.0? More subtle than an abrupt jump to chains of love?

lee2win please Jim be in Mighty Boosh 4

I had to go back and re-watch from that point. I was laughing so much I couldn't hear what Jim was saying after that.

When has it not been? Even that time they named "You" as their person of the year, it was more condemnatory that praiseful!

I guess sadness, shock and anger are feelings that you just remember more clearly. Everyone remembers that Jack The Ripper killed prostitutes, but nobody remembers the people that helped them instead. We know who Adolf Hitler was, but who was in power before and after him? You remember that time your brother ate all your candy, but not all the times he didn't do it.

I also lost my shit in that very part as well, jesus christ jim, whats wrong with u

As someone who knows nothing about the game, is it just tossing on a bunch of random letters or some specific acronym/whatever?

Tymme Zinni He’s referencing Candy Crush, Call Of Duty and Clash Of Clans. CCCODCOC

@@lilagtook Makes sense as soon as I read it, but musta missed the joke that people are finding funny about it.

With your lungs.

I shall continue to be the only person who calls it the tenties (pronounced tentees) so it falls in line with the rest of the decades.

Aw man I felt that in my *bones*.

call it the chicken tendies

Jim to crimp about shit EA and Bethesda in future videos?

@@ebenezeryubblesworth8717 I think most devs at EA and Bethesda have been to the Crunch.

*@Saberspark* did a review of it.

Your comment has a "read more" option that does nothing. Why KZfaq.

Don’t look at it! Oh no I. . .

Which is quite unfortunate, because Amnesia was absolutely boring and now every other horror game is absolutely boring. When I hear "horror game" I now think "Oh, so some ineffectual jump scares and baby's first puzzles. Hard pass."

I would say Magic the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh were more influential than Hearthstone. Yu-Gi-Oh could have been so much better but the games sucked cause they were made by Konami. Which of course reminds me of Jim Sterling's Fuck Konami News videos. lol

Blizzard games are allways special in this regard; yes everybody tries to copy their succes, no the consumer often isn't looking for that. How many MMOs have actually been a success since WOW? How many card games since hearth stone? How many shooter thingies since that shooterthingie game? How many ill concieved diablo clones have there been? Yet blizzard is hardly ever original. They grab something that's there and on the rise and feed it to the mainstream public with great succes. Wow is the best example of that by far, excellent timing.

@@bsherder Not when it comes to digital card games

@@mjc0961 If you say Amnesia was all about jumpscare then you're so fucking wrong, or just simply lying because of simple hatred you somehow have for this game and you can't make up an actual legit reason to hate it... Amnesia is in fact one of the survival horror games that ACTUALLY didn't played much on jumpscare but more on its pretty gruesome ambiance and pretty sick story dealing with tortures and constant feel of not being safe anywhere (that is...until you knows the heavy scripting of the game... but that shouldn't happened in your first playthrough). Claiming Amnesia is about jumpscare is such a fucking bullshit like saying Star Wars movies are all about dragons and elfs... It's just like : wut, didn't you actually played the game ?... One thing is entirely true though, in what you said: It inspired a fuck ton of horror game that tried to be Amnesia. And among them, a lot of them didn't understood how to make proper unease to players and a stressfull ambiance, and so relied on cheap jump scares. That is much very true! I'm a big fan of horror game genre, and I really, REALLY, despised the cheap use of jumpscare... but HELL NO, Amnesia was not about ineffectual jump scares, that is just a blatant stupid lie... Baby puzzle though... yes, lol... Sure it's far from puzzle you could find on Resident Evil or Silent Hill games but well, keep in mind the budget between CAPCOM games and an indie studio (don't know if they are anymore, but the guys who made Amnesia, at least back then, were only a bunch with no AAA company budget...) TL;DR: Your criticism on Amnesia relying on cheap jumpscare is a blatant bad faith lie or a proof that you didn't played the game you decided to pissed on. + It's not Amnesia's fault if other horror game are "absolutely boring now" (which is also very much false... Just take Outlast games who came after... You can't objectively claim they are absolutely boring). So yeah, stop being this salty, it makes you say overly exagerate bs.

No other company wants to slave their own employees so much...

Or lack thereof

No it's not influential because there were games five years ahead of the witcher in gameplay and lore but made no impact

@@bigcapper2689 Assassin's Creed is pretty much Witcher lite now so that's a lie.

@@BIadelores You can point out plenty of earlier games with similar mechanics who did it first. Don't get me wrong, TW has a higher level of lore and the games are robust with things to learn about the world. But mechanically nothing new

yay capitalism...

I was actually surprised Jim didn't mention that it's actually multiple games that influence the industry in any given area or decade. Just take Call of Duty, it's the perfect combination of a first person shooter, with RPG elements, with an easy multiplayer interface... that's an impressive amalgamation of various genres. But Clash of Clans does have the best business model ever , that much is true.

Bethesda WAS never cool in the first place, it's just that people loved their games not them.

GTA V, Skyrim and Minecraft seem to be overlooked frequently, I'm glad Jim mentioned Skyrim but the influence MC has had on gaming is not insignificant as well as the influence on culture seeing as it's the best selling game of all time

Rockstar jumped rather late on that train. Nothing they invented

@@mychemicalbromance97 being best selling doesn't mean most influential, just most profitable

Gta 5, skyrim and minecraft are trash

Yep. My life flashed before my eyes.

That inside gaming nostalgia

Now not even Lawrence or Bruce are in FunHaus anymore.

Crizznik shhhhh it's still too soon for my heart

“NO LICKITUNG!?!”

But can androids truly die? they could just be repaired or have their brain-program installed on another android.

If he is truly an android he will never die, and his CPU will be inserted into his successor upon his expiration date.

It didnt even register to me that he said it. Lol

Caspar I think he’s too fat to get married

His gravestone will say "Fuckonami"

THIS

Why not, I did.

Just as god intended

And once people stop paying for the subs, it'll go out of vogue again. Time is a flat circle.

@@HollowGolem But no one actually stopped paying for subscriptions. World of Warcraft has been running that model from it's inception, and there are a number of other online games that started running subscription services, and continue to do so. People just couldn't afford to pay a subscription for every damn game that came out and had some form of online. Thats market saturation. Market saturation is still something companies just cant seem to get a grasp on. It is the reason loot boxes are about to be regulated, it's the reason only a handful of battle royals remain in popularity at any one time, it's the reason so many MOBA's fail. Not every game can be a persistent online game with a subscription model.

Razelluxe what quote?

As he damn well shouldn't.

@@heathenpride7931 that Far Cry 3 is like "Skyrim with guns"

@@neoinuyashafight omg he really said that?

@@jak3w lol yes he did sadly and here is the only video I could find of him saying it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrZmdNZyvc-neZs.html

Big shout out to the people at Ridge wallet

last year's most influential game not decade :p

@OzarkoBlam Coronavirus: hold my pathogens!

Oh how right you were...

Although a lot of them were made better this decade, such as Fallout 3 and New Vegas, through modding.

Ikr

Let's open our arms and hearts to embrace the cleansing nuclear fires. Thank god for Jim.

@@FroggyMosh The might of Atom shall cleanse our souls with its warmth.

@@MetaL556 The Light shall guide mine path. For In the wake of it's glow lingers naught but shadow... And naught but shadow shall be testament to mine passing existence.

Ah men...Sterdust to AEW

I feel the exact same way. I feel like there are more games inspired by shovel knight, than undertale.

Undertale was far more culturally influential, whereas Shovel Knight was a shining beacon to indie games and devs specifically.

At least Yooka-Laylee got itself a very good sequel in The Impossible Lair.

@@crazyluigi6664 I meant base game Yooka-laylee

@@examinedyeti4392 Honestly even that game wasn't bad. It was mainly buried by all the controversy around it that was mostly blown out of proportion.

C-C-C

CoD

COC

(C)andy (C)rush, (C)all (o)f (D)uty, (C)lash (o)f (C)lans... candy crush is 2 Cs, not 3.

Its the sound that plays when Jim gets an AAA Industry Kill Streak

Vega what statement?

DUN DUN DADADUN DUN DUN DADADADADUN

Evidently, it hasn't stopped the "live service apocalypse". Every tent pole release now is a live service. Indie games aren't but they were never going to be. All it did was add 1 to the number of AAA games that weren't. And this was in 2015, before live services totally eclipsed the AAA games industry.

Which it is

@@angryoldgamer4845 It's also psychologically manipulative.

@@CasaiAgicap and that's the issue, what if its "just cosmetic" this time? Then next time it's not and its normalized by then? 😑

sh4d0w2013 Seems strange that Capcom never rereleased it on any other platform till the Switch. It’s the kind of game I can see people buying on no fewer than 12 different platforms. I’d even go as far to say I’ll buy it at a high price. I mean I could bust out my old GameCube out of the closet to play it, but that’s a lot of work for one game no matter how good it is.

@@MungkaeX They are releasing RE3 this year. RE4 is next probably.

@@glikorgo Woosh

@@MungkaeX I feel like I'm missing a joke here, but you can play RE:4 on Xbox One. It's on game pass.

@@MungkaeX They have released Resident Evil 4 on a ton of systems. I own the ps2 version of it. They released a wii version of it using the wii remote. They also have a remastered version of it on the ps4.

Depressing as hell

If you think about it objectively , the business aspect of that game is in itself a revolutionary achievement for the industry. You look upon it with disgust but that same success is why ESPN, NFL owners, and award-winning movie directors are trying to get into the industry. It couldn't have happened without COC.

@@shindean I think the world could live without those groups getting into gaming.

@@qv43v oh, the list goes on and on. You think I'm going to give a complete summary of every single National and international organization that has been investing in Esports? This thing is now bigger then you could ever fathom , you probably didn't even know that video games are the highest entertainment media on the planet... you can't hide that much money.

It's a testament to how much income it generates without for me personally instantly recognized and knowable. There may have been adverts for this or other games with great art and character design that looks nothing like the actual game play itself, but it's also not something I see a lot of conversations or comments off. So it doesn't take a lot for word of mouth to get round about a mobile game and then to lure in other people who then spend a few quid here and there and so on. It's easy for me to turn off because it's not designed for me in mind. My mother on the other hand who enjoyed the puzzle platform games of the past, had to cut out the F2P games as it was too demoralizing. Thankfully she realised it before it got too bad, but for others that's not going to have the same ending.

Justin is a silly goose

If you are lucky.

I remember waiting to get home from middle school to play it rip

I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee.

How far Bethesda have fallen...

With WW3 starting and anti-vaxxers starting a new plague... I don't think you'll have to worry about getting old.

As authentic as that is most people will always know it as fist of the north star.

Farmville pales in comparison

You can't claim Clash of Clans defined micro-transaction gaming when 4 years earlier farmville was destroying family credit cards. Farmville is the mack daddy of disgusting freemium micro-transaction exploitation.

@@mrscreamer379 Go look at the figures. Farmville is nothing compared to clash. So yes in comparison farmville is a joke.

Mr Screamer Thank you for keeping such an inspiring, original, witty, clever meme alive. You're a hero for bringing such culture and genius to our lives. Truly, you are the Dark Souls of commenters.

@@ironrose6 We all stopped talking about this 3 weeks ago, dickhead.

I'm not sure I agree. It made the most money, but Jim didn't really justify it's influence, except that lots of people know about it. It influenced monetisation, but how did it influence game mechanics?

Plus12 Gaming because there are soooo many games that are knock offs of it with the same “build a base and attack others concept”

@@bbqR0ADK1LL Why does it have to have an effect on game mechanics to be influential? For example Battlefront 2 contributed nothing to game mechanics whatsoever but had a catalytic and cataclysmic effect on EA and the game industry as a whole.

@@bbqR0ADK1LL like it or not, gameplay is only a small piece of the puzzle of modern games as a whole. To publishers, gameplay is mostly irrelevant, monetisation is king and what better example than coc. Games today are less like games and more like business products unfortunately.

*satanic parasite and apocalypse-bringer

Cash of Clans.

Cash of Fans

Clash of Wallets

@@FelisImpurrator Clash of Cash

Clash of normies with too big of a wallet to mind getting scammed. I'm not talking about the whales pf course, those people need help, but my dumbass classmates who were all hooked on this shit

There won't be a ww3, if there was humanity will cease to exist.

@Nathan-DTS You probably dense to not know how many innocent people live there.

In many ways, it might be that historians consider ww3 to have started in 2001, and still going strong. There are war all over the world, but none of them are conventional. As we are unlikely to ever have a situation where one country declaring war on another, these informal "certainly not war" wars might be what it boils down to. If it escalates into a proper war where all goes to shit for us as well as for brown people you can't place on a map, remains to be seen.

@@Taeerom You can take that thread and follow it from the WTC bombing in ‘93, through the Iran/Iraq war in the 80's, and the weapons and training the USA gave to the future founders of Al Qaeda. The Iranian Revolution of the 70's, British Imperialism a century before that, or the Crusades a millennia ago. In the words of Billy Joel, "We didn't start the fire / It was always burning / Since the world's been turning."

Nathan-DTS You’re a fool if you think that removing America from the globe would solve all world problems. China and India release far more emissions if you’re concerned about the environment. Australia is not far behind. As far as imperialism is concerned, there are many other countries actively partaking in various forms of imperialism right now. Russia annexed Crimea and Ukraine despite the protests of the people living there. The Ukrainians are actively fighting against Russia right now to maintain their sovereignty. Saudi Arabia has used its wealth and influence over Islam to fund numerous terrorism groups, including those that caused 9/11. They are committing literal genocide against the people of Yemen right now. Meanwhile, China is continuing to oppress and kill dissidents and non-Han groups within its borders. China is also all giving out monetary loans to developing countries in South America and Africa to build out infrastructure for cheaper manufacturing than is even possible within China-essentially exporting their manufacturing to other countries. But it comes with a catch-if any of these countries defy China in the future in any way, the money and jobs will dry up, and China will blockade them from the trade network. In essence, this is a soft form of imperialism that turns many developing countries into effective slaves and serfs whose only purpose is to make things for the average Chinese consumer. You could argue that that’s what America did, except the Chinese were clever and used the situation to pull one over on America, and are more turning around and strong-arming these poorer countries in ways that America would never dare. And these poorer countries will never be able to find other countries to turn around and do this to, because China has targeted all remaining undeveloped countries with this strategy. They’re doomed to be China’s manufacturing slaves with no escape. Now I’d call eternal economic slavery the ultimate imperialism!

'Member going to midnight release of skyrim? I 'member

backlog rampage, i love that word

You rised gamer

@Pferd Schild It depends which aspect of the game you are talking about.

@Pferd Schild i would say that oblivion worse is than Skyrim

You absolutely did not

I thought the exact same thing when he said that! Totally ruined the first game's boss battles for me.

weird, I had no real trouble with that boss. Ceaseless Discharge on the other hand ... 🤷‍♂️

The sad truth none of us like to face

@King of Scrubs that line legit made me spit out my juice I laughed so hard.

NO LICKITUNG?!?

No Ekans!?

Here's a TV that looks like a ninja block on prom night.

Simply grind your employees into a fine meat paste. They had some serious crunch cruelty going on from what I understand. We like to glorify the developers but quality unfortunately comes at a cost.

@@datlad35960 problem is they all do that. From the middle time dev's all the way up to the AAA publishers.

@@datlad35960 yeah but unfortunately that's a constant in the experiment at this point, not a variable.

Witcher 3 cost 81 million dollars to make. Fair amount of cash i would say

You mean the first seconds of the video?

@@shinkiro403 yeah. Lemme edit quick

Yeah, I've heard it in many places though, probably from a sound library. Also, on PS2 I had this game called Prisoner of War, and a character dies and makes the *exact* same scream as an X-Com soldier getting killed in the original X-Com.

@@ouroldhouse3674 Would place money on C&C being the first game to use it; being made in the early-mid 90s :) Doesn't matter tho tbh, it was just a nice little memory to suddenly pop up when not expected :)

Notoriety isn't influence. Dark souls was artistically influential, but artistic influence has nowhere near the same power as financial influence.

Dellovan it really isn’t as bad as Skyrim is in my opinion I can’t deny it didn’t influence a lot of games

I think the ubiquity of Skyrim and its grotesque ports and re-releases dulled the shine for a lot of people, especially after Bethesda did a great big poopsex all over its modding community. But if nothing else I can be grateful to Skyrim for inspiring that gay orc dating sim.

@@JesusKrispies The biggest of those porting crimes would be 0 bug fixes in the subsequent releases.

@@LLAAPPSSEE Nah, the biggest crime would be introducing NEW bugs in the subsequent releases.

@@mjc0961 XD

Yeah I don't get the joke on that one

Always happy to see the Boosh in the wild.