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Dude! I thought I was the only one who has stopped playing video games but continued to watch mostly video game content. Playing games feels like work anymore.

"I think I watch more videos about gaming than gaming" bro that hit home really really close to home

First they thought: fun = money Then they thought: more fun = more money Then they realized: addiction = way more money Then they realized: loyal addicts = best customers ever Therefore today: games = addiction + loyalty

I think the problem is there are too many games and most of them feel like the same chore.

Triple A games have definitely gotten to that point of soulless and boring for the multitude of reasons you mentioned, however just like movies or music, if you look through the crowd enough, there’s so much good content still being made. Ignore the EA, Activision and Ubisoft’s of the world and you still have a treasure trove of games out there to play. Broaden your taste and you’ll be pleasantly surprised! Indie developers have been on fire in recent years especially.

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I felt that message about watching more about videogames then playing videogames. It do be like that. Everytime I play it just doesn't feel fun anymore, making me quit after like 1 hour of playtime....

Its no wonder I enjoy games from the 90's - 2013. They're is a goldmine of excellent games. I've been into the darkstalkers series as of rn

As someone who’s said this, I can differentiate between games no longer being fun and not having the time to have the fun these games are supposed to give us. Games are no longer fun but we also as a whole grow up and realize we no longer have the infinite amount of time we thought we had as a kid.

Games are just overly complicated now. It's too much going on whether it's in the options menu or just the game play itself. Sometimes simplicity is key which is what made some of the older games so fun. You'd didn't have to spend 30 minutes customizing your character before you could play. All you had to do was choose a player and hop into the game and reach the end goal. Now it feels more of a chore when you're gaming

Unfortunately, this isn't just the gaming industry. This is every Saas/App company we know today. It's not that they didn't complete the game on time - this is actually a tech business model. 1. Ship MVP (minimum viable product) - basic core game/app/software & minimum features enticing enough for customers to buy. 2. Customer Analytics & Feedback - track customer usage, product performance, etc. 3. Push Updates - bug fixes and next add-on or feature. Rinse, Repeat. Awesome video! Saw this on another channel and had to come over and support! PS Love the Marty McFly vibes :)

I find myself having the most fun with random indie games that try crazy new ideas and are just focused on having fun

When: Gamers and hobbyists are the developers: FUN Employees and business man are the developers: DIARRHEA

The problem is that we are being overstimulated in every single way possible especially from social media so what is happening is our attention span is getting so low we cant even watch a video for 5 min so how can we play a game! Games take time and energy something that we no longer have

Last game I finished and enjoyed was Disco Elysium in April of this year. I have been gaming 2-5 hours a month since. I'm 35 and spent most of my life gaming, but I just struggle to enjoy games anymore. Gaming now feels more like a chore than the mean of escapism from chores.

Single Player gamer to Multiplayer gamer: “Wow, sucks to be you.”

I knew almost immediately after starting this video that you were a quality creator. So many people cover this subject but you did it uniquely and very well. You’ve gained a new sub. GG 🤙

Awesome video! Really informative, and sick edits 🤙🏼 I do hope that this sentiment regarding games not feeling fun anymore makes its way into the eyes and ears of large gaming studios/developers. If they know that as a collective we feel games aren’t so fun anymore, hopefully, they’ll begin a journey to change that in games for our future!

I've sat on my PlayStation for hours trying to find something to do, but nothing looks remotely interesting.

Gotta say I love the editing in this video! It really helped show you story telling chops! Kept me invested!

It’s gotten really bad that I’ve been watching streams of my favorite old games. (Years ago I hated watching people play) Like you said I still follow game news and that ends up being more interesting than the games themselves

It's really fun watching your videos and those editor notes😂 Zenaki Editor Numba 1 I am subscribing!

Great video - I really enjoyed it! I can relate - many modern games just aren't very fun to me. There's too much effort required; too much complexity. Fortunately, I've held onto my classic consoles, and many of my favorite retro games are just as fun today as they were years ago. Also, there are indie devs creating new games that don't embrace the trends described in this video. Unfortunately, it's hard for them to get attention... the AAA studios and games get the spotlight.

I'm glad I stumbled across your channel and subbed. You really put together quality stuff. Keep it up

Great video! I've been basically only playing Tears of the Kingdom and indies lately. You know, TOTK is such a massive game it's nice to take breaks with smaller games like Death's door, or Tunic, or Planet of Lana. Also stopped playing MP games altogether. It's just too much. Especially nowadays in 2023.

your videos are amazing man. I could watch this all day I can tell you and your editor have great chemistry

I grew up playing games in the 90s played them with my family family and friends i think for me its the price increase on game the more minimization and lack of couch coop and splitscreen on games now of days .

New Sub here.... 👋🏿 I absolutely can relate. I'm a 90's kid. I've officially turned into a retro gamer now. Video games today have turned into a bottomless money pit. It's like they put an arcade in your house, where you gotta keep paying to play.. just ridiculous.

I feel like a point that Emplemon made in his video about games rings true that for most of the online component, it just feels like you're playing against advanced bots who happen to be able to trash talk as well, especially becoming more prevalent as more & more games focus on competitive play & trying to be tournament-worthy so to speak. Games have also driven further & further away from local-play niches like split-screen, system-link/LAN parties & local network play like the 3DS would allow. The most fun times I had were when I would play video games with friends I knew from school. Now with everything having shifted to online play only, I find myself getting frustrated because as mentioned, the people I match with just feel like advanced bots; I haven't got to know any of these people in the real world and in an era of games like the battle royale genre & speedy FPS action, matches go by too fast to even bother spending time getting to know the people you match with to have a chance at building relationships.

It unironically became super industrialised, by the numbers, print out husks of what they used to be. Games very rarely have soul now. Make money, cater to streamers and the top 1%, increase revenue quick and fast

Probably the best ‘out of love’ video on you tube about gaming. Great job

Great content, great editing. Like your way of speaking and your message. Keep it up! 👌🏻💪🏻

I gotta say man. love your vids. keep it up! high production quality and great story telling. And a fellow Canadian!

I've loved videogames for a long time myself: but the reason it's not fun to play anymore is because people that make games are only interested in money and microtransactions and multiplayer. They are interested in making customers constantly have to spend money in some way rather than making better products that will garner success on their own merits. Recently i've been playing Baldur's Gate 3, Fear and Hunger and Cruelty Squad. All of these games are vastly different but what i enjoy about each of them is that they are made with artistic creativity and talent. They have intriguing and captivating stories that make me want to explore them and play them and suffer through the difficulties and consequences. I used to feel a thrill and a sense of intense enjoyment whenever i played competitive online game or shooters. Now everybody is so ganked on those types of games that it's impossible to tell if people are hacking or they are just ridiculously good to the point where it's not worth trying anymore (which still feels inhuman and sus) Now i just enjoy a good story, good characters and an enjoyable experience.

Saw tim the tatman reacted to this, so I skipped his video and came straight here. Really well made video, you def have what it takes to make it on YT . Great job. New Sub here

Last game I thoroughly enjoyed was Red Dead Redemption 2 and that was 2018. Kinda got into the assassins creed valhalla and the drastically lost enjoyment out of recent games. I find myself going through my backlog of games that are actually fun. This video really makes me feel good knowing I'm not the only one that's felt this way lately. I used to get excited for new stuff not anymore.

It's sad to see a generation who grew up during the golden age of gaming so full of hope and excitement for what future technology will bring, only to be utterly demoralized by corporate greed. This isn't how it was supposed to be. It's like we're at the point in technological advancement where these mindblowing video games are supposed to flood the market any second now, but they're all being killed off by these companies. Where's the creativity and passion? It's all wasted potential.

The past 2 years have been some of the best years for gaming personally. First off i do not play games i do not like ever and put a lot of reseach before buying. I honestly feel people dwell way to much on negativity now a days, and constantly watching videos making them even more down. Also every reference is primarily pointing at mainstream games which i do not play but there are millions of videos and advertisers threwing them at your face making you think those are your only option when that is not true.

indie dev here.. I have this feeling too.. its a bit sad sometimes.. mind you, my own game does not solve this issue but its small and Id say it represents less than 10% of my image for it. My dream is to be like games such as battlebit. What I will say is, when you have to pay the bills, its difficult to not look at the competition making bank and go "they do this, theyre successful, let me try" Id say, theres 2 types of games on the market... the business games and the art games (games designed as experiences first), business games took over because they were willing to pay anyone and everyone to share their content which means no eyes for the art focused games. While its easy to say, make what you love, Its painful to work on something for hundreds of days on end/with investors money - for it to not go anywhere, so, it makes sense some developers yield. Streamers also affected this massively since not all experiences are stream friendly, which means only X types of games get streamed, the rest get no eyes and devs try to make whats stream friendly.

Agree with everything in this video. Games used to be about the developers passion for a game, look at cliff blezinski for GoW. Why do you think we don't get developer diaries anymore on how games are made? It's because 1000s of people are being flogged like workhorses to develop a sub par product with corporate suits hanging over them to incorporate microtransactions in everything. Think about how much better these complex games could be if all these 'in game purchases' were earnt through gameplay. It's not so much the retention element that is the bad thing, it's how they implement this element through further costs to the player. Games have always been about retention but the difference 10 years ago compared to now was that you could earn EVERYTHING in a game by playing it for a moderate amount of time or doing some in game feat. Halos Hyabusa armour is a testament to that for completing the game on legendary and feeling proud to earn the armour through mastering a part of the game. A message for anyone who endorses microtransactions, nobody gives a damn about your rainbow coloured pistol with your flaming helmet because we know you were sad enough to spend extra money on a game and giving in to what the industry wants you to do. Rant over.

I'm too busy enjoying Baldur's Gate 3 to be bothered by all the sub-par games.

Saw this video on another KZfaq channel. Had to come by and show some love. Great video and well said sir.

A very well done video! This video is best in terms of quality and reality check. You said everything that I wanted to hear❤ Big love brother

Let's go! New upload! Your editing is insane!

Okay this was actually the first video I “watched” cause I listened to it at work today 😂 so I’m gonna watch the rest of the videos on your channel now, thanks!

This video needs more views the industry has lost its way. We need to get back to FUN!

Just watched this from Time page. Extremely well done. Spot on.

Great Video, i've been playing videos games seense kindergarden days, and still playing today as an adult, ether nerding out in pokemon or playing intresting games like Kenshi or Zelda TotK, while form time to time replaying old games i loved in my youth days. During the late 90's towards the late 2013 games were fun play, had enganging stories and pletty things to do during and after the game is beaten. Or in old Wow days, were an friend mentioned. There was a charm of talking with peoples across the world, to join in party's or a guild's to do PvP Raids, Dungeons runs or World boss hunting, before the LFG fonction started. Games had started to become unintressted for me, just around those years wen gaming have started to become big on E-Sports events. everytime i hear any games being realised on the same year it's being announced. I alway expect, the next day after a small resreach about the game that. It's just a fiesta of bug's and day 1 patches, booming with ether mircotransactions or it cannot be played at all, go do some 8h file work just get the game running on the title screen just for the game to crash again form pressing the start button. There are also to many games, it takes to many years to get it past off beta phase, only for there game to still be as broken or not as engaging like an today Triple A game. And MMORPG's power level new players in to late game, taking away the charm of organicly growing a toon and learning the game, as well of it's story.

Litteraly goosebumps.., amazing work! as always :)

Its people buying everything regardless of quality, creativity died with buyers restraint. If you know a whale SHAME them into oblivion.

what you said at 2:20 really hits. i remember staying up all night on school nights playing pokémon black on the ds under my covers hoping my mother wouldn’t catch me.

i have finished all those old games but i still replay those game to feel nostalgic and makes me happy

Another thing really killing the fun in games is the censorship driving people away from communicating for fear of bans. No one is in game chat anymore because of this.

Indie games saved gaming.

How does this only have 57k views? It’s a brilliant video. Well done

It's very rare that I find a channel on games that's equal parts charming and entertaining as it is informative. Your videos are fantastic

I can't believe how good is this video! Thanks for your great job.

Just found your page and this is the second vid of your i see. I can totally relate. Gaming just isnt the same anymore. To me gaming peaked during the xbox360/ps3 era. After that, i feel gaming has become a chore with little to no stand out games since then. I watch gaming content just gine and am entertained but 0laying myself feels like a chore/grind now. Aside from ff7 remake, rebirth, and soon gta 6, ive bought and half finished so many games its not even funny. -_- my.back log is littered with games that hinestly i dont even feel like going back too.

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"Berry is the best" you say with the Lime Green in the background. Ouch. Anyways, as you get older you lose that sense of wonder since you've experienced so much. Been loving these small gaming channels I've been finding. Got my sub.

That's why i stick to nintendo only games. Simple, fun and easy to put down again.

Your correct. I been having a lot of fun in a F2P game world of tanks and they have removed some sources of revenue out of the game, they have added others but nothing game breaking or balance breaking.

Awesome video I enjoyed it and by the way Zenaki Editor Numba 1!

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is one of my favourite games of all time. It has one level, one difficulty setting, 2 dimensions, and I could still sit and play it forever trying to beat my high score. Funmaxxing at its peak.

Just subscribed. Great video. My same feelings for modern games too. That's why my MisterFPGA is doing a great job for me for the past 2 years.

I never leave comments, but wanted to pop in and say this was a really good video. Good job, subscribed!

Simple answer, people are just playing the wrong stuff and haven't fully explored whats out there. Personally im overwhelmed by how many games are out there that I'm unable to just decide what to play.

I play Planetside 2 and that's about it. I've taken on the challenge of writing and illustrating my own comic for entertainment and I'm having a lot more fun creating my own world than consuming unispired corpo slop.

Should I give Zenkai Editor a promotion or a firm hug?

Love your content. I think you need to zoom out a bit. This is very focused on one particular issue which is most prevalent in a specific genre. Arena shooter bros, i get you're upset but there are other games/genres out there.

Ill tell u the 4 best memories I had about video games. one was when I played Warcraft 2 Tides of darkness at my middle school in the mid 90's. that game hooked me to RTS games forever. and i played them for many years after that. and the 2nd best memory was 2002 when I got the original xbox and me and my friends would play would play Halo Combat evolved split screen until 5am. we were addicted to multiplayer of that game. that was before Online was around. and my 3rd best memory was 2006 when I played Guild Wars online with 2 of my friends. I was so addicted to that MMO game that I would spend 5+ hours a day playing it and on weekends 12 hours. I literally had no life for like 6 months cause of how addicted I was. that was my first MMO Experience. and my 4th best memory was late 2007 when Call of Duty 4 Modern warfare came out and a few guys created a squad and we would dominate multiplayer online. it was awesome.

I’ve spent $100s on games just this year. Got like 7 new games. Played them all less than 4 hours. Just not fun at all

Now games have to compete with social media. And so have movies, TV, music. So they have to adapt (and devolve). For fun and creativity, indie games are the way.

I wish we could turn back time with gaming

I chose to not get the ps5. I'm going retro. Now that I have more time, I can actually play more games.

Its the monetization of the battle pass. And now game are just released half done.

Zenaki Editor Numba 1 😮

Best games I played this generation are Witcher 3, Days Gone, Silent Hill 2, golden eye (rare replay) and the Thing Pinball. So thats a huge problem. This is my last console generation. Great video my dude you are 100 percent over the target.

This is the most true to from best video i have watched great job buddy

I love your shout out to Ape Escape and Geometry Wars 2. I still play Geometry Wars 1 and 2 just to feel something lol. So intense; I always end up screaming towards the end

I just watched him reviewing every rockstar game I subscribed and then I watched this video

It’s not fun anymore because instead of making fun innovative games, they listen to all the cry babies and we end up with a shitty product because they tried to please the babies instead of entertaining the masses.

I feel the same mate. I buy so many games and return them the next day. I recently went back and started playing the original Doom and the goldeneye re release. Goldeneye is still AMAZING. Also the new Robocop game is great too, a real throwback to when games were good. Also the new Mario rules too

People have been mentally conditioned to do things for XP/rewards/cosmetics/etc instead of just playing for competition and fun. Same way people have been mentally conditioned to think the government aren't useless idiots--remember those good ol days? It's a psychological contagion. We are to blame for how bad games are now.

You give matthew lillard from SLC PUNK vibes sometimes with your story telling and It's dope!

I own both next gen consoles and couldn't be more disappointed with each. Barely anything to play on them.

I distinctly remember being ~13/14, knee deep in a 12 hour gaming sesh with a bunch of friends during a middle school summer and thinking: “I’ll never be the one that says he doesn’t play video games ‘like that’ anymore”. Fast forward through becoming an adult in a relationship, multiple new responsibilities, and working a job - I now game maybe twice a month. Granted those few gaming sessions are most likely old, nostalgic games. Otherwise, I’m an avid consumer of gaming playthroughs and video essays as a replacement.

Much like where it was around 2005-2006, gaming is in a very transitional state. Things will improve when the new things release.

😭😢 13:23 the feels, you are a legend for that

Couldn’t agree more!! I actually stopped playing Zelda:TOTK because it felt like work.

Pokemon red with the clear purple Gameboy color was my very own official purchase with Christmas money. ill never forget it

Cool video man. I quit gaming a while back because of how everything is now

Gaming has to be one of the most interesting “arts”. So much so the potential market for fun has become super complicated. There are people who only stick to a single game series. Like people who ONLY play Cod or AC, TF2, etc. Sadly I blame these people for being the “WHALES” that created the current gaming casino situation. Then there is the collector gamer. Although some have created literal IRL libraries, those who are in the middle of the spectrum are the ones that spawned the “collectors edition” for all big release, just getting the game is not enough, it’s a lifestyle of CONSUMING! Then there is the Pirate gamer. People who turn their PC’s into emulator machines, and those who reached terminal levels will even try to pirate month 1 games. Funnily enough, these pirate are also the equivalent of the people who watch gaming videos over playing them. The pirate has access to more games than he will have time to live, so he is overwhelmed by choice and simply doesn’t pick. While the viewer has the ability to watch all games, but because he knows the game he no longer feels the need to buy the game for himself. And after I grouped the consumer… ITS THE SURFACE LEVEL! People can partake in many more consuming habits with games and sadly it’s the choices of a few that have changed the fun of the many (referring to the creation of Micro-transactions + big DLC’s).

This video almost made me shed a tear over how things have turned out. I didn't turn my back on gaming the gaming industry turned their back on me..

I have bought TOTK in September and haven't finished it yet. I play it roughly once per week and only do side missions, I have almost 200 hours and have completed only a handful of main story missions. I keep telling myself it's because I want to savour every single moment of it and every inch of the map but deep down I know it because there will not be something similar for many years

last aaa game i played was gta5 and it was free....then i went back to cheap older games and have fun

I literally watch play throughs of older ps2-3 & Xbox /360 games that’s how much I miss the old games & their style

Games back in the day were truly new!! Never played anything like it before. Now rinse and repeat

Games that repeatedly hands you your ass on a plate in the first couple of hours are the worse