Yet again, I lean a little towards ranting with this one, but I’ve found myself thinking back to the seventh generation of consoles (PS3, Wii, Xbox 360), and how utterly infested it was with weird trends, outsourcing, and in some cases, stagnation. While also being one of experimentation, this period produced some real stinkers, even in spite of all the classics that eventually emerged.
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➤ CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
4:34 Bad Games: Copycats, Clones, and Licensed Trash
11:55 Bad Mechanics: The Motion Control and QTE Plague
18:22 Console Problems: Shovelware, No Games, and Red Rings
27:00 Online: Predatory DLC and Tacked-On Multiplayer
32:37 Publishers: The Greats Become Not-So-Great
39:06 Aesthetics: Grey, Brown, Piss, and Grit
45:08 Bonus: Weird Anti-Japanese Game Sentiment
48:20 Closing
➤MUSIC CREDITS
Sezherad:
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➤ MY OTHER VIDEOS
Evil Empire: EA’s History of Acquisitions and Closures:
https://youtu.be/mB15JySmmCU
What is Survival Horror? – The Genre’s History and Defining Characteristics:
https://youtu.be/Op8sJT1V0_w
The Frustration of Digital Gaming:
https://youtu.be/F9I56cvGhnM
What Is a 10/10 Game?:
https://youtu.be/C9Z4_gTWGYE
The Problem with NFTs:
https://youtu.be/GTxuXiZ5SKQ
1998: The Greatest Year in Gaming:
https://youtu.be/7dh1UB1IFaQ
Game of Thrones: A Song of Promise and Disaster:
https://youtu.be/jIdN5Lo08Qo
Why Video Games Need Piracy – The Industry’s Preservation Problem:
https://youtu.be/-49OrV_Dg3k
Piracy: DRM and “Lost Sales”:
https://youtu.be/iKC0dtamfIU
The Growing Problem of Video Game File Size:
https://youtu.be/tmGoRB9DFKs
Analysis: Elden Ring and Open World Design:
https://youtu.be/mhhMotaLMX4
Analysis: Dark Souls II and Creating Build Variety:
https://youtu.be/-1hF92UIcnY
Analysis: Devil May Cry and the Perception of Combat Depth:
https://youtu.be/3T1xACoiWtg
2020: The Year of Video Game Remakes:
https://youtu.be/HnRh_hYOryc
Elden Ring Review:
https://youtu.be/6Jlsy1r0AdA
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Review:
https://youtu.be/5q90UEW1iJM
Lost Judgment Review:
https://youtu.be/4dqxNGg5XVk
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sleeping dogs la was the second game
Big fan of your channel
Great video. The shovelware shit is insane on playstation. It's no wonder pc attributes most of gamings failures to consoles.
6:40 Its so shamefull that I actually was waiting for the game footage to start because I thought you showed Gears first as a comparison
Great video, putting this on after work while playing Nier on Switch and relaxing.
No mention of Guitar Hero? Strange. 🤔
3:33 Feeling edgy today. Good, let everyone know. Spare no one.
I disagree with the "anti Japanese sentiment" theory. I think it's an era of the reviewers, in the words of The Critical Drinker, "political activists…I mean, games journalists", and how that type of person fits in a pretty specific box, which includes characteristics like no self-awareness or self-critique, so not only do they not learn from their own mistakes, but they fail to see the existence of their own mistakes. I think they are personally too stupid and therefore unable to appreciate a hard, silly and "offensive" game like God Hand.
What a massive cynic. Matt hazard is a hidden gem.
The Kinect is a pretty funny device in retrospect. While it was a failure in the gaming space it was made for, it was (and probably still is) huge in tech research, and it wasn't uncommon to see Xboxes in Defense research departments. Notably, smartphones with facial recognition are essentially using a miniaturised Kinect to do it.
7th Generation was amazing. Wii, 360 and PS3 all competed against eachother. 8th Generation was trash, it was soley the PS4 carrying things because the XBO and Wii U did not have that much content.