Best games ever 1,2,3

That’s one of my favorite runs

Literally opened this video to leave this comment, beat me to it 😂

Same here :)

Baby don't herd me Don't herd me no more (that's more like)

All these chores, all day long, every week.. Is no funn, so please .. Fomo dont hurt me, don't hurt me Noo more .. 🤭🤣

I'm not alone 🤣

Tim is a goddam treasure.

Don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, No more 🕺

Baby don't bore me

Balance should be used in a singleplayer to make it more fun. Going overboard on balance can detract from fun. For example all weapons deal the same dps. Enemies level with you to the letter so you never get to feel powerful. But at the same time having to little balance will detract from the fun. For example you get a spell that insta kills anything and has little to no limits in use. As soon as the player gets the spell some players will be bored etc.

@@fredrik3880 The instant death spell in Arcanum is fun. Id also point out not all fun is combat, some people want an easy option for combat so they can focus on the fun in the rest of the game.

Balanced doesn't mean everything is equally good but it is also about meaning. The last part you said is what i call a part of balancing, that you make everything worthwhile in a way. Arcanum is a good example, almost 3/4 of the guns are useless because you get better guns way earlier and way cheaper. There are so many cool looking guns that are trash be cause their stat are not balanced. You could get a fine Revolver early in the game before Tarant and it is already one of the best guns in the game. Also many weapon melee weapon are totally useless because you can create balanced sword in the first town and you are set for most of the game. Balancing is just not about equally good no matter your skill choice but about give items meaning. If you finish a quest to a get schematics for a cool machine gun in the late game then it should also shred. If it is not the case it is not balanced and also not fun.

@@fredrik3880 Absolutely, most games are still best when there's some challenge. But even then, there's still some kind of fun in turning your character into a living god for the last little bit of the game, like in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a game that ends with giving the player an absurdly powerful weapon and letting you rip through the last mission as a sort of victory lap. Depends what the developers are going for, like with all design decisions, but I think as a general rule, you shouldn't focus much development time on balance. No reason to make every character build equally viable, every gun feel equally useful or make all enemies equally challenging to fight. Fun should always be the #1 priority.

@@darq7000 To me, balancing means ensuring viability, when I say every build has to be worthwhile, that's more of a design question. You could make a build worthwhile by making it very powerful, which is a balancing thing, or you could make it viable by being a novel and different experience that makes subsequent playthroughs mechanically interesting even when you've learned all the mechanics of one build. Like playing a mage vs playing a thief in something like Oblivion. The thief is by far the strongest option, being able to take out most enemies in a single stealth critical or just walk right by the ones you don't need to fight. But a mage is still absolutely worth playing because of spell crafting and the more dynamic, decision based playstyle. Not at all balanced, but designed differently enough to where they don't need to be. That's what I mean when I say SP games don't need balancing.

I don't get what pacing has to do with fun, unless you mean slow class-building or character progression in general.

@@renaighI find Deus Ex Human Revolution or Mass Effect a lot more fun than the current RPG darling Cyberpunk. They don't have the fancy animations or flashy(by modern standards) set pieces, but I enjoyed talking to the characters on my ship in ME a lot more because I found the story a million times more interesting.

​@@heavyartillery-qm5huyou really like human revolutions story more than cyberpunks?

​@@avatarname0008 yeah, as much as I enjoy Jensen, that game is disappointing, the story unfinished, and overall lacking ambition. Major step down from the OG. For all of 77s flaws it had a realized identity and was capable of sincerity.

@@cdubsb3831 it's got a solid hook and some interesting characters but alot of the story is fuzzy except for the initial hook and the ending cyberpunks I recall most of the main quest and a decent chunk of side content

Balance testing should be a division at any game company. Have your most high IQ gamers doing this. The challenge to the balance tester: its all about exploiting the system to see if you can break it and prove it's bad. If you can do that you often have the solution to nerf the class that can abuse the broken system. A lot of game companies that make fighting games often patch and patch their fighting games over time thanks to knowledge gained from high level tournaments in competitive play. Balance testing is important for multiplayer but not so much for single player games. In single player games majority are happy if they can just complete the main quest in the game. If they can't there is always difficulty sliders and other things you can do to pass through the bad balance. (it's why as much as I hate changing the difficulty if I encounter a difficulty spike; because it feels like I am cheating, I rely on it if I am not having fun and just want to progress a story)

​@@UToobUsername01 I love when single player games have unbalanced and "broken" OP stuff. It can create a sort of choose your own difficulty (In the original Pokemon, choosing charmander as your starter was essentially the hard mode, squirtle normal mode, bulbasaur easy mode) and it can also lead to very fun and silly OP stuff like Morrowind's intelligence potions stacking and allowing you to create increasingly better intelligence potions

@@cleverman383Yes exploits are fun but if reviewers punish you for it then it can hurt your reputation. For single player I can feel like "I made the right choice in how to be overpowered" and feel like that is part of the game. Like choosing the best weapon in megaman to fight the right boss with it to kill them faster. (it's knowledge of the lore outside the intended game universe - like knowing the cave where the best monsters exist to farming experience points - it can be the reward for exploring a lot)

@@UToobUsername01 Here's an interesting quote from the lead developer of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom about no longer treating exploits as flaws when designing their games: "When you think about people... cheating is fun! [laughs] They like it! Finding that shortcut is enjoyable. People will look for an easy way to do something if they can avoid struggling. We want to make sure that is something that stayed in this game. When thinking of games in the past that we've worked on, where there was a puzzle to solve and only one answer, that's kind of the past way of developing games. Now, I'm happy that we've arrived at this method where we're giving people lots of options, and there are many answers to a single problem, and all of them can potentially be correct. I feel happy that we've arrived at this type of development style."

@@cleverman383For open ended games he is correct but some critics feel like linear experiences cause you to become a better or stronger person for enduring pain. I will give you one example that rings true for hardcore gamers: the very first big monster you fight in Monster Hunter Tri. It was a Great Jaggi. Many people may try it the first time and fail at it because the weapon they have is too weak to end its life quickly. But the struggle of trying to beat the time limit forces you to concentrate and focus hard on not missing it, making sure you have good sense of timing and studying its movement pattern so you can predict where it will go before it goes there. This shaves some precious seconds off the time it takes to beat it but when you finally do succeed at it you feel really good for accomplishing this task. Nintendo is correct we need more multiple solutions for single problems, ..but you cannot deny the critics of cheasy (cheap and easy) methods to win are right too. Yes two things can be true. The world is more complex than we like to think. If I am fighting a boss and let us say there is only 1 way to beat it because he has NO weaknesses, and you have to figure it out, then won't you feel joy when you finally do that? (as opposed to exploits?) In many RPGs the end of game boss is equivalent to fighting God himself. So you should fear the enemy enough that it causes you to try everything you can think of to win and only feel satisfied until you did it. If you make that end of game boss too easy the reviewers will say it was anti-climactic or something and feel like you made bad design choices. Thankfully we live in a time where you can have your cake and eat it. The "new game plus" modes in today's games could be considered the new "exploit" because you are essentially a demi-god amoung normal people returning to the world you were once a weak person in. In new game plus you are bad ass from the start and everyone around you is cannon fodder for entertainment. (it is a whole different game when you play the castlevania titles on the nintendo DS because it turns into a arcadey action game to speed run and not a RPG-grinding game where struggling to survive is part of the experience of being low stats and working your grey matter to beat things with limited resources and lifebar)

I love games that mix both like playing Halo 1,2,3 back in the day. You can go try hard or see who can get the silliest kills or most sticks or funny moves

I haven't seen this kind of cocksuckery anywhere outside of pornography.

Ahh but sometimes the chemicals attack my brain or my brain is attacking the chemicals and that's no fun

@@avatarname0008 those are the bad chemicals. I'm talkin' about Dopamine my brotha. Get that in yer system.

and what is _"one’s value"_ ? or what is _"value"_ in general?

@@fixpontt “ones value” is anything that person sees as a value. And then achieves it. And “value” is anything you identity as a benefit to your life

@@LakevusParadiceSo in other words, a value is something that when you achieve makes you happy. now compare this with the original: _"Happiness is the state of consciousness that proceeds from the achievement of one’s values."_ can you see the inherent problem?

@@fixpontt no. A value is something that you’ve first identified as a positive to your life. THEN. After consciously knowing it and you achieve it. You feel happiness. If you climb Mount Everest and don’t first identify it as a value to do so. Would you feel happiness at the top of it? You can not have value without recognizing it as a value first

Realism in games is strictly unfun. Realism takes so much to actualize that by the time you have a "real" experience for your virtual game, it was all wasted effort. No one wants to play that game. Pick a different word. Realism is the wrong word for the concept(s) that people actually want in their game.

What was in there? Just normal stuff im guessing

@@davidburnett5049 Well, it's probably the hardest lock in the game and for a good reason. If you lockpick it or try twice and fail, everyone becomes hostile. There are crates full of weapons and loads of ammo (all kinds even bombs and grenades) and most of the weapons are endgame stuff, also two more power armors. Good if you have a companion mod. Also stuff like motion sensor, stealth boy and such.

@@FluffySylveonBoi Thank you. I remember wondering back in the late 90s

This person gets it

On an almost regular basis, i happen to play games made by DigiPen students. Can you work be found on steam as well?

I'm playing sekrio for first time right now , I like setting etc but still not sure if it's going to work out for me , quite hard so far and I've only fought minor bosses

Sekiro gives you the tools to solve problems in various different ways, sometimes theres a good choice thats easy, and a bad choice that is hard, and everything in between. People like to go on and on about just parry everything, but that's like playing a piano and only using the B keys.

@@ChernobylComedyAndWings true, although it's a narrower set of tools than Elden Ring.

@@PatGunn You're comparing an RPG to an action game.

@@ChernobylComedyAndWings as it so happens, the host of this channel did a good video on what makes an rpg

Deus Ex was way ahead of its time. I played it for the first time somewhere around 2015 and was amazed by the gameplay it allowed that modern 2015 games didn't even enable.

It's probably my favorite game of all time. It has its roots in the System Shock series. System Shock 2 with mods to make it feel modern is a very fun game to play, possibly more fun than many AAA games made last year.@@thedavischanger

Increasingly difficult, video game addiction actually having become a thing -- by design. My feeling on that is that if one becomes addicted to video gaming (as opposed to being an enthusiast), there is some underlying inclination there to begin with. If not video games, then it would be something else and it's the inclination that actually requires treatment. Children, of course, haven't built up any defenses against the kinds of manipulative tactics we're seeing used deliberately in the industry today, so parenting plays an important role as well. (As if parents didn't have enough to worry about.) It's become a serious public health concern and that is, I think, among the reasons why so many of us just don't find video games "fun" anymore. It's hard to sit back, relax and enjoy something then when you're expecting manipulative tactics to be flying your way hot and heavy. (That's why I don't play online video games anymore. SP games are still somewhat free of that.) Thankfully, there are still industry veterans like Tim around "who can remember freedom," as Ursula K. LeGuin put it.