The Creative Bankruptcy in the Gaming Industry.
6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE NOTE THE DELOREAN AT 43:50 IS A MOD, NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL VANILLA GAME, I WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS WHILE MAKING THE VIDEO AND THIS WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION AFTER THE FACT, MY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Recorded on all kinds of dates, over the course of the past year. For simplicity's sake, the majority of the narration heard was recorded on November 26th, 2022, but the final thoughts were recorded on September 12th, 2023, so I've set that as the recording date.
At long last. Almost a year in the making, started by a simple comment chain left on Episode 8 of my Watch Dogs 2 police series, at long last it is here - the video affectionately nicknamed the "Megarant" by my friends, a video where I go into detail regarding my thoughts and feelings about the creative bankruptcy in the gaming industry, the loss of identity sweeping franchises (especially open world franchises) like a tidal wave, and also, the reason why I hate Watch Dogs 2's main story. Here you will learn the true meaning of the words "Colorful and stupid" and considering how long this took to make, I hope you enjoy 75 minutes worth of a rather different side of me, the fiery side that gets fed up with corporate trash just like the next guy, but the one that I usually keep to myself in videos. But, now that side finally has almost 76 minutes worth of time to rant, so for those who enjoy listening to me rant, kick up your feet and bust out your popcorn because we're going to be here a while.
Full list of mods seen in this video:
- The clips of Battlefield 1942 were played on the custom map "Battle of the Bulge Soviet Assault" - a custom map that replaces the Germans on the map Battle of the Bulge with the Soviet Union instead. This map variant was created personally by me, though I haven't chosen to release it yet so there is no link for it to be downloaded.
- In the clips of GTA San Andreas, I'm using an alternate Premier design for the police cars in San Fierro, found here:
https://www.gtainside.com/en/sanandreas/cars/134096-sfpd-premier/
- My GTA IV is modded to include the second generation Vapid Stanier design from GTA V for the police and NOoSE Cruisers, which can be found here:
https://www.gtainside.com/en/gta4/cars/148699-iv-style-2nd-gen-vapid-staniers-police-noose-taxi-v-1-0/
- A massive expansion-sized mod for Saints Row 2 adding dozens of new features including stability improvements and most importantly (to me) the ability to buy law enforcement uniforms from Let's Pretend, the mod seen in all of the clips of Saints Row 2 is the iconic Gentlemen of the Row mod, which can be found on ModDB.com here:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/gentlemen-of-the-row
- The mod that I mentioned that changes the textures of the Army of Chaos in Just Cause IV from a flashy graffiti-esque purple/yellow/teal color scheme to a more realistic green camouflage is the Organized Army of Chaos mod, found here:
https://videogamemods.com/justcause4/mods/organized-chaos-army-of-chaos-retextures/
- Eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted in the Fallout: New Vegas clip that the Remnants Power Armor I'm wearing isn't exactly the right color. That's because it's retextured to resemble the Enclave Power Armor seen in Fallout 2, thanks to this mod found here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/64911?tab=description
- Similarly, in the clip of Fallout 3, I'm running a few Enclave-themed mods there too. For starters, I'm wearing the modded Enclave Advanced Power Armor Mk. III:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/10814/
- In addition to the above, some of the Enclave troops I faced in the clip of Fallout 3 were wearing the modded Classic Advanced Power Armor, with a custom black texture applied to them from a separate retexture submod, both of these mods can be found here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/4641
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/6038
If I forgot any of the mods I was using let me know and I'll put them here in the description of the video.
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