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- [Falcon] As time passes, we
expect things to get bigger,00:00:05
better, or at least develop in some way.00:00:08
But there are some things00:00:09
that are going in the wrong direction.00:00:11
Hi folks, it's Falcon00:00:12
and today on Gameranx, 10 game features00:00:15
that are evolving backwards.00:00:17
Starting off at number
10, it's Unlockables.00:00:20
Now lists like this can easily
dip into old man yells at00:00:24
cloud territory, just a bunch of out00:00:26
of touch complaining
about games these days.00:00:28
So let me just start off
by saying that in general,00:00:32
gaming is better.00:00:34
You could even say it's
better than it's ever been,00:00:36
from a technology standpoint,
from a variety standpoint,00:00:39
from a possibility standpoint.00:00:41
There's just more a developer can do.00:00:45
There's also so much stuff out there,00:00:47
it's nearly impossible to play all of it.00:00:49
There's so much that for pretty much all00:00:51
of the complaints listed here,
you'll be able to come up00:00:53
with a counter example from a modern game00:00:55
that didn't evolve backwards.00:00:57
So I wanna nip that right in the bud.00:00:59
I am completely aware that there's stuff00:01:01
that does things right.00:01:03
That said, video game Unlockables
seem like they've kind00:01:06
of been on a downward decline.00:01:07
What used to be a bunch of
bonus material, extra weapons,00:01:11
new costumes, stuff that
rewards players for completion,00:01:14
and adds re playability to games.00:01:16
It's been replaced with Microtransactions00:01:18
and in-Game stores.00:01:19
All that stuff that used to
be free has been ripped out00:01:22
and sold back to us.00:01:23
Ubisoft particularly bad about this.00:01:26
Take any recent Assassins Creed game,00:01:28
and you'll find a cash
shop filled with stuff00:01:30
that older entries would've
just had you unlock it by,00:01:33
you know, playing the
game that you bought.00:01:35
There are counter examples,
Insomniac's Marvel's00:01:39
Spiderman, gives you a ton of costumes00:01:41
that can all be earned in the game.00:01:43
There are a few pre order bonuses00:01:45
so it's not a perfect counter,00:01:46
but same time they give
you a lot for free.00:01:50
Well maybe not free, time is money,00:01:51
and you get it with your time.00:01:53
But still fighting games,00:01:55
however, have really
gotten hit hard with this.00:01:58
Take some of the older Dead or Alive games00:01:59
where you could unlock seven00:02:00
or eight costumes for each00:02:02
of the characters and it was all free.00:02:03
And then look at the most
recent game, Dead or Alive Six,00:02:06
you don't even get a
fraction of that for free.00:02:08
There's hundreds of other costumes,00:02:10
and you have to pay for them.00:02:11
And that's not even getting
into multiplayer games00:02:14
where the Battle pass has taken
over as the preferred form00:02:16
of Micro transaction.00:02:18
There's still the classic unlock
track where you get rewards00:02:21
for leveling up, but now you
get the privilege of paying00:02:24
to level up like it's a
better system than Loot boxes.00:02:28
Not gonna say it's not, it is.00:02:30
And a lot of these cosmetics
probably wouldn't even exist if00:02:33
not for the battle pass.00:02:35
But it's also hard not to look
at the state of these games,00:02:37
and wonder if it really would be00:02:39
so bad if you could just
buy a multiplayer game00:02:42
and play it, you know, without
the whole getting nickel00:02:45
and dime at every single corner approach.00:02:49
Like I, it really does feel
like that's a de evolution.00:02:53
So crack that whip.00:02:54
We're gonna continue on with number nine,00:02:57
multiplayer modes in single player games.00:03:00
Do you remember when for a
while every single player game00:03:03
had attacked on multi-player component?00:03:05
There were a lot of bad ones,00:03:06
but there were a few that
were actually pretty fun.00:03:08
Also, they would not exist
in today's gaming landscape.00:03:12
I, I'm talking about stuff like00:03:13
Assassin's creed multi-player,00:03:15
or Last of Us factions, stuff like that.00:03:18
Both Last of Us remakes, cut factions00:03:21
even though it was in extremely
popular mode for a while.00:03:24
Multiplayer games are just in00:03:25
general struggling at the moment.00:03:27
It seems like for a game
to last, it either needs00:03:29
to be small enough to survive
on relatively low player00:03:32
counts or be the biggest thing ever.00:03:34
So many multiplayer
games have been canceled00:03:37
or had a beta then get quietly dropped.00:03:39
Not 'cause the game was bad, but00:03:40
because it wouldn't be profitable enough.00:03:43
It's not confirmed,00:03:44
but that's probably what
happened to factions.00:03:47
Multiplayer games can't
just be fun additions00:03:50
that add some value to the
game, they have to be cash cows00:03:52
that will generate
infinite wealth forever.00:03:55
Obviously that's not true of every game.00:03:57
There's still some games that
have a pretty large amount00:03:59
of fun added via multiplayer,00:04:02
but there are so many games00:04:03
where single player is the focus,00:04:05
and multi-player is planned00:04:07
to split off, but it's just abandoned.00:04:09
And I know that like in all honesty,00:04:11
I've complained a lot
about there not being00:04:12
enough single player games.00:04:14
But I'll also say this,
this used to be something00:04:17
that you just thought about
with single player games.00:04:20
How do they make this
into a multiplayer game?00:04:23
Because so many single player
games had a multiplayer00:04:26
component, even if you didn't necessarily00:04:28
think it was the best thing ever.00:04:30
And I know it's also odd00:04:31
to say something like this in a world00:04:32
where games like Fortnite, a
free game brings in billions00:04:36
of dollars a year, and Call
of Duty always tops the charts00:04:39
with multiplayer games, whether
they're standalone or not.00:04:43
Like the big fish, you're doing just fine,00:04:44
but everybody else is
struggling to keep up.00:04:47
I wish more multiplayer games came out00:04:49
that were just creative and clever,00:04:51
and were less about trying to find new00:04:53
and exciting ways to extract
money out of the player base.00:04:56
And, and maybe that's
the real problem here.00:04:59
And number eight is in-game level editors00:05:01
and mod support.00:05:02
As gaming on the PC grew,00:05:04
one thing developers did
to build community, which00:05:06
to include mod support,00:05:07
and give players access to a level editor.00:05:10
Of course some of the biggest
games right now do have this.00:05:13
I mean that's basically what ROBLOX is00:05:16
and Fortnite's creative
mode keeps getting bigger.00:05:18
Hell, Halo Infinite's Forge
mode got a big update recently00:05:21
that puts AI into the maps.00:05:23
So it's not like level editors are dead,00:05:25
they're just not what they once were.00:05:27
Games like Duke Nukem
3D, Crysis, Far Cry two00:05:30
and five, at the list it goes on.00:05:32
These games had some really amazing tools00:05:34
that let the community run wild00:05:37
with their creations.00:05:38
Some games remain relevant
just because of level editors.00:05:41
Like the Doom community is
still going strong 30 years00:05:44
later, three decades in,
because of fan created content.00:05:48
At a certain point though,
many developers just started00:05:51
to give up on including
editors in their games.00:05:53
For a lot of reasons too.00:05:55
Some devs wanted a curb rampant cheating.00:05:57
Others maybe not necessarily
entirely on the dev side,00:06:01
maybe on the publishing side
realize there isn't a lot00:06:04
of value in editing tools.00:06:06
Kind of gives the player infinite content00:06:08
that they don't have to buy.00:06:10
So that kind of gave up on 'em.00:06:11
These days the only games that
have level editors are kind00:06:15
of specifically made for level editors.00:06:18
They're games that are
still heavily modded,00:06:20
but it just requires some
extremely dedicated fans00:06:22
reverse engineering code to do it.00:06:24
Games like ROBLOX and Fortnite
are closed systems as well.00:06:28
It's not like the golden era00:06:29
of PC game Modding in the late nineties,00:06:31
where games like Half Life
had entire communities00:06:34
extensively modding the game00:06:36
to essentially create new games.00:06:38
So many amateurs were able
to take their creations,00:06:41
and build a career out of it from there.00:06:43
With games like ROBLOX, you
make something to the game,00:06:45
and it's the property of the developer.00:06:47
You can make some money off of it,00:06:49
but I, I, it is a really
exploitative business model00:06:53
that's actually arguably
employing child labor.00:06:57
I don't know, if you wanna
go look into that one.00:06:59
It's, it's depressing.00:07:01
And number seven, damage
in realistic physics.00:07:03
This one is a sore spot,00:07:05
and you'll find out why immediately.00:07:08
In the Xbox 360 slash PSS three era,00:07:11
there were some truly reactive worlds.00:07:13
We had games like Red Faction
Guerrilla, Battlefield00:07:16
Bad Company two, I mean
we really had potential.00:07:20
Rockets didn't leave a black
scorch mark on the wall,00:07:23
they blew the wall the hell up,00:07:25
chunks flew off of walls, ground deformed.00:07:28
Red Faction Guerrilla let me destroy00:07:31
buildings with a hammer.00:07:33
It was so good.00:07:35
But even so there was
room for improvement,00:07:38
and then it all just stopped.00:07:41
Instead of trying to make more destruction00:07:43
or more realistic
destruction, games stopped.00:07:46
Everything became static, less reactive.00:07:49
Like look at Far Cry,00:07:50
like look at the second
game versus the later games.00:07:53
At some point developers were
just like, you know what?00:07:55
I don't really care what happens00:07:57
to the tree when you shoot the tree.00:07:59
They gave up on what happens,00:08:02
and focused on what it looks like.00:08:04
Which yeah, a focus on fidelity
definitely does result in00:08:07
everything looking more realistic when00:08:09
you're taking a screenshot.00:08:10
But I mean it's a play set.
Big old plastic play set.00:08:13
Like not to say that, games don't have00:08:16
impressive destruction now.00:08:17
When they feel like it,00:08:18
this stuff usually only
happens in like scripted events00:08:21
or in places where they
decided to put in the effort.00:08:24
But it's always selective and limited.00:08:26
There's just been no other game
that it has attempted to do00:08:29
what Red Faction Guerrilla did
with its destruction physics.00:08:32
And that's a huge shame.00:08:34
Some, some will say, ah, there
was a Red Faction Armageddon.00:08:37
It, it's no, for whatever reason00:08:39
that is an extremely limited
game versus Guerrilla.00:08:43
First off, it's not open world.00:08:44
It's based almost entirely in corridors.00:08:46
And you'd think that that would mean,00:08:47
oh well the destruction
physics can be ramped up.00:08:50
They were not, they were
actually not as good.00:08:53
They were there but not as much.00:08:55
I don't know if it was a
hardware thing or what,00:08:57
but it just felt like less than Guerrilla.00:08:59
Nowadays games are so busy looking good,00:09:02
running in 4K,00:09:03
and having Ray tracing that a lot00:09:05
of immersive elements
like this have fallen00:09:07
to the side and it's a shame.00:09:09
Yeah, Ray tracing does look great,00:09:12
and there are instances
where I will definitely agree00:09:14
that it adds to immersion.00:09:16
When a mirror doesn't look like a00:09:18
big slop but rather it
looks like a mirror.00:09:21
I don't know that does
actually help the world,00:09:23
but it's expensive,00:09:25
and destruction clearly is less expensive.00:09:28
They were doing it a long time
ago with much worse hardware,00:09:32
and realistic destruction
doesn't just look cool.00:09:35
It makes the games that
have it way more fun.00:09:39
At number six, commanding allies in FPS00:09:42
or third person shooter games.00:09:43
Almost every game has an ally
tag along with you nowadays.00:09:47
And there's usually two options
for how you can control 'em.00:09:50
Either you get full control
of your allies at all times,00:09:53
and it's an RPG or it's a
hybrid and something else00:09:56
and you get zero control.00:09:58
At Balder's Gate three full party control.00:10:00
But what about Final Fantasy
16, they just do whatever.00:10:03
Ashley, and the Resident Evil four remake00:10:05
requires less babysitting.00:10:07
And I'm gonna say that in
a way it's an improvement,00:10:10
but the loss of control also does feel00:10:13
a bit like a regression.00:10:14
I, I feel like the Resident
Evil four remake maybe has a bit00:10:18
more of a both sides
discussion merited than00:10:20
we have time for here.00:10:22
But like the original Gears
of War, it allowed you00:10:24
to command your allies and
move to certain locations.00:10:27
It gave it a little bit
more of a tactical feel,00:10:29
and no other Gears Game had it
or, or the mass effect games.00:10:33
You could order your
teammates to positions.00:10:35
Use special abilities,00:10:37
and it made these games more fun.00:10:39
There's just enough tactical depth here00:10:41
to make these fights more interesting00:10:42
than, if it was just a
first person shooter.00:10:44
Andromeda took those games away much00:10:46
to the game's detriment, and
also look at these people.00:10:51
Oof. Another perfect example of this kind00:10:53
of de evolution is in
the Rainbow Six games.00:10:56
They started off as
hardcore tactical shooters,00:10:59
where half the mission was
just planning out your teams00:11:01
and movements, giving
them orders, you know,00:11:03
well later games kept dumbing it down more00:11:05
and more until we got
to Siege, which might00:11:06
as well be a completely different game.00:11:08
A good game. I'm not gonna
say Siege is a bad game,00:11:11
it just has nothing to do
with where the series started.00:11:14
So many games used to give
us control of our allies,00:11:16
but it, it not a lot anymore.00:11:19
Now they're mostly just
there to let you know00:11:21
that they exist, but don't
do a lot other than that,00:11:24
at least that's the way
it is in most games now.00:11:27
And number five is enemy AI.00:11:29
Early stealth games put a
lot of emphasis on enemy AI.00:11:33
They weren't just dummies for
your main guy to brutalize.00:11:36
Each enemy was meant to
be a challenging puzzle00:11:38
the player had to overcome.00:11:39
The AI in games like
Thief were hardly it's,00:11:42
it's not genius stuff,00:11:43
but they reacted
differently to light levels.00:11:46
The sound of footsteps
on different surfaces.00:11:49
Like in Metal Gear guards would
notice your footsteps in the00:11:51
snow and metal gear solid two,00:11:53
they wouldn't give up just
if they lost sight of you.00:11:55
They'd go through and
check, see if you're hiding.00:11:58
Maybe that's not the
smartest thing to do in terms00:12:01
of staying alive,00:12:02
but like in terms of the job description,00:12:05
they're doing what they're supposed to do.00:12:07
No one lives forever Two was a game00:12:08
with some really clever guards.00:12:10
They would notice if doors were left open,00:12:12
they'd go and close them.00:12:14
If the lights were off, they'd
try to switch 'em back on.00:12:16
If lights were shot out for instance,00:12:19
they'd react appropriately to that.00:12:20
It was cool seeing AI
evolve in all these games.00:12:23
And at a certain point
they just kind of stopped,00:12:26
and they didn't just stop
actually, they regress.00:12:28
They got dumber.00:12:29
At a certain point, a lot of developers00:12:30
recognize smarter guards didn't00:12:32
automatically equal more fun.00:12:33
And yeah, you get a game
like Batman Arkham Asylum00:12:35
that had fun reactive
enemies that raised the bar,00:12:38
but everything else
had brain dead enemies.00:12:40
You could just run circles00:12:41
around basically, most
Assassin's Creed games00:12:44
is what I'm pointing at here.00:12:45
As stealth games have
gotten more forgiving,00:12:47
guards have become
nearsighted, slow witted,00:12:50
dinguses, ding guy.00:12:52
No, that sounds like dingoes now.00:12:54
Stupid people that are easily fooled00:12:56
by the most obvious tricks.00:12:58
It makes stealth seem easier and smoother,00:13:01
but what are you really
accomplishing when you00:13:03
sneak by Simple Jack?00:13:05
(tense music)00:13:10
(swords clanging)00:13:20
(gun firing)00:13:22
And number four is Easter
Eggs in oddball modes.00:13:25
Gaming used to have all
this like nerdy outcasty00:13:29
type stuff in it.00:13:30
And it's because it used to be for nerds00:13:32
and outcasts, it wasn't quite the billion00:13:35
dollar industry it is today.00:13:36
That's not a bad thing either.
I'm not, I'm not saying that.00:13:40
I actually like that games are
made with some consideration00:13:44
for the idea that normal
people might play them,00:13:46
but it has taken quite
a bit of personality out00:13:49
of a lot of modern games.00:13:51
(techno music)00:14:03
One of my favorite optional modes in games00:14:05
was the Wild Wasteland
in Fallout New Vegas.00:14:08
A totally optional perk,00:14:10
that you can take the start of the game.00:14:11
It adds a bunch of jokes, Easter eggs,00:14:13
and weird encounters in the
game that aren't normally there.00:14:16
The old Fallout games too
filled with Easter eggs.00:14:18
In Fallout Twos case,00:14:20
maybe too many of them.00:14:21
But it gave the games a
sort of scrappy character00:14:23
that you just don't see
nowadays, this willingness00:14:26
to pull back the curtain
and make a joke about stuff.00:14:28
Another thing you don't see a a lot00:14:30
of anymore is developer rooms
or even developer messages.00:14:34
I I guess with the internet making00:14:35
devs more accessible than ever.00:14:37
They don't feel the need
to include this sort00:14:39
of thing in their games, but
to me at least, it's kind00:14:41
of a shame that this sort of thing isn't00:14:43
as popular as it used to be.00:14:44
It's nice to be reminded that
devs realize it's just a game,00:14:48
especially inside of the game.00:14:50
I don't know, as far as these things go,00:14:52
it's not super important, but00:14:54
after Star Field's,
mostly dry Easter eggs.00:14:56
I kind of long to go back to the days00:14:58
of the Wild Wasteland in a Bethesda game,00:15:00
although that is also an obsidian game.00:15:03
We don't have to get into,00:15:04
how much more I think obsidian
gets Bethesda than Bethesda00:15:08
does, yet again.00:15:10
But yeah.00:15:12
And number three is graphic settings.00:15:14
And maybe this isn't super fair,00:15:16
but it feels like recently PC
games have been not better,00:15:19
with performance actually worse.00:15:22
And you'd think tools like
DLSS, FSR, and frame generation,00:15:26
frame rates should be overall improving00:15:29
rather than getting worse.00:15:30
But yeah, this isn't everyone,00:15:33
but instead of taking tools
like DLSS as something00:15:36
that could be used to improve frame rate00:15:38
but isn't a requirement,
developers are kind of using it00:15:41
as a necessary part of getting their games00:15:43
to run at stable frame rates.00:15:46
Sometimes it's worse too.00:15:47
The whole thing is, umm, I don't know,00:15:49
and there's these really
bad in game settings00:15:52
that forced ray tracing
on higher graphical00:15:54
settings, et cetera, that kind of thing.00:15:56
I don't know, it just feels
like lately frame rate,00:15:58
and graphic settings have
gotten more complicated00:16:01
and yet also limited.00:16:02
It's very frustrating.00:16:03
You'd think now that
PC ports are so common,00:16:06
developers would have
this thing figured out.00:16:08
But I mean we've made videos
about that not being true.00:16:12
I search gameranx, PC ports,00:16:15
and you'll see what we're talking about.00:16:17
But even though like a lot00:16:18
of the time games are clearly
running on superior hardware00:16:21
with the PC, they're ported in a bad way00:16:24
and do not run well,00:16:26
and it's not 'cause
there's a hardware issue,00:16:28
they're just not optimized well.00:16:29
For at least a little while,00:16:31
things like DLSS was a net
positive for PC gamers,00:16:34
but lately it feels a
bit like an albatross.00:16:37
Developers, I don't wanna say are skimping00:16:39
because a lot of the times
it's not really their decision.00:16:43
They're given a certain amount of time00:16:44
and money to complete a task,00:16:46
and optimization ends up kind
of falling by the wayside00:16:50
'cause they can fall back on DLSS,00:16:52
but it's not a silver bullet solution.00:16:54
It's become exceedingly
clear that it is not that00:16:57
like, also can we just
say it's not even designed00:17:00
to be a solution at all.00:17:02
It's designed to be a thing00:17:04
that makes games run better on top00:17:07
of already being optimized
and running well.00:17:09
It's not good.00:17:11
And number two is the camera in00:17:12
RTS or Top down games.00:17:14
It's one of those things
that's extremely specific,00:17:16
and maybe I'm the only one who caress.00:17:18
But seriously, why does every modern RTS00:17:21
or top down game have a camera
that's so close to the ground00:17:24
and you can't zoom out.00:17:26
It's not StarCraft anymore.
These are not sprites.00:17:28
They're 3D, and you can
move the camera wherever you00:17:31
want, but you also can't.00:17:33
Games like Supreme Commander,00:17:35
and World in Conflict solve these00:17:36
problems more than a decade ago.00:17:38
You could zoom out the
camera and rotate it.00:17:40
Players had control over how
they saw the battlefield,00:17:43
and ultimately that
helped you see everything00:17:46
very easily and well.00:17:47
But for some reason, every new
game that comes out now wants00:17:50
to be StarCraft two, which
means the camera's locked down00:17:53
for no reason other than it's
like that in StarCraft two.00:17:57
It adds nothing to the experience,00:17:58
and it makes these games
more frustrating to play,00:18:01
and it's just a case00:18:02
to follow the leader
rather than innovating.00:18:04
I know that's harsh, but it is not so hard00:18:07
to have a functional camera
in a top down game where00:18:11
to be frank, angle is not something you're00:18:14
really worrying about a lot.00:18:15
It's 2023. I think we can
push the camera back a bit.00:18:19
I know everybody wants to be
the next pro MLG eSports king.00:18:23
But is having the exact same camera,00:18:25
as a game from 1995 necessary for that.00:18:28
I don't think it is.00:18:30
- Reach the last way point.00:18:31
(explosion booming)00:18:42
- [Falcon] And finally at
number one, the interfaces.00:18:45
This is one of the most
common complaints I hear about00:18:48
so many games that are released lately.00:18:50
The menu and interface.00:18:52
You'd think at this point menus
would basically be a solved00:18:55
problem, but it's not even close.00:18:57
Like Windows has remained
basically the same00:18:59
since the mid nineties.00:19:01
You could argue it, it looks better now,00:19:04
but maybe not as good as
it did a couple years ago.00:19:07
But I, I mean if Windows is like that,00:19:09
what hope the video games have,00:19:11
the latest innovation is
basically copy Destiny two,00:19:15
which is basically a PC menu00:19:16
with a cursor that you
control with the stick.00:19:18
Aesthetically it can look okay,00:19:20
but for a lot of players these
are clunky, awkward, crowded,00:19:23
and slow in terms of actual use.00:19:27
And I am very much in that Camp.00:19:30
Bethesda games require a ton00:19:31
of menu navigation and
inventory management.00:19:34
And although I, I, I
don't want to like say00:19:36
that there's no improvement on that front.00:19:38
Fallout 76 sucks ass,00:19:40
but they added this new items
thing to your inventory,00:19:44
so that you had a chronological
way of accessing items,00:19:48
so you could toss out something
you didn't want to pick up.00:19:50
They included that in
Starfield. That's great.00:19:53
I like that. Good feature.00:19:54
But like somebody came out with a mod00:19:57
for Starfield almost day one,00:19:58
that greatly improved the menu UI.00:20:01
And unsurprisingly, a lot
of players swear by it.00:20:04
Like why do developers
still struggle so much00:20:07
with crafting a usable set of menus?00:20:09
We're talking about AAA
game development here.00:20:12
Millions of dollars and decades
of experience to draw from.00:20:16
Like we've seen menus for decades!00:20:19
Now, I'm not gonna claim
to be like a professional00:20:21
graphic designer or anything.00:20:23
I probably shouldn't be
asked what makes a good menu,00:20:26
but I'm also not a game developer.00:20:28
That being said, let's say I
am for whatever reason, allowed00:20:33
to hire staff to make a game.00:20:35
Do you know how easy it
is to look at resumes,00:20:39
and hire UI slash UX people?00:20:42
I have never been in
charge of hiring anybody,00:20:45
so maybe I'm wrong about this.00:20:47
But I feel like you could put it out there00:20:49
that you want somebody who's good at this00:20:51
and get submissions.00:20:53
'cause you're, I don't know,
like Bethesda or something00:20:56
and people want to work at Bethesda00:20:58
because then their name
goes into the credits,00:21:00
the Bethesda game, that
a million people see.00:21:02
Even if it's only for that reason,00:21:04
many people are gonna be
huge fans of Bethesda games,00:21:07
and have intimate experience with the UI,00:21:10
possibly having many thoughts
on how it could be improved.00:21:13
It seems to me like this is a viable path,00:21:15
and yet why have no developers taken it?00:21:18
It's confusing to me
to say the very least,00:21:20
why this is devolved in such a way.00:21:23
But that's all for today.00:21:24
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Some video game features don't quite hit like they used to. Here are some examples of game mechanics and features that feel like they're moving backwards for various reasons. Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/gameranxTV?sub_confirmation=1 0:00 Intro 0:17 Number 10 2:56 Number 9 5:00 Number 8 7:01 Number 7 9:39 Number 6 11:28 Number 5 13:22 Number 4 15:12 Number 3 17:11 Number 2 18:19 Number 1
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