The State of Modern Gaming Today

In this video, I do a deep dive into the video game industry; my personal upbringing and early love for games, the rot with monetization schemes and other industry practices, the downfall of Xbox, and my personal take regarding an upcoming entertainment product. Leave a like and subscribe for more real content 👍 Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:14 My relationship with video games 03:10 What got me into gaming 04:17 My interests in single-player games and a critique of modern multiplayer games 05:47 Corporations' impact 07:15 The downfall of Xbox 11:14 What we all have been waiting for 15:00 Outro 📄 Image credits and licensing: Royalty-free stock images used from Unsplash and Pexels. Other images are in my ownership. 🎮 Gaming & Official Media GTA VI / V / Bully: Owned by Rockstar Games. Red Dead Redemption 2 (Art): via rocketchainsaw.com. Fallout 76: via Wikipedia (Bethesda Softworks). Rust: via themodernwarfare2.com. NFS Underground 2: via LaunchBox Games Database. Battlefield 4 Cover Art: Sourced from r/battlefield_4 (DICE / EA). COD 4 Weapons: Sourced from callofdutymaps.com COD 4 All Ghillied Up: Sourced from callofduty.fandom.com Redfall: Owned by Bethesda Softworks don-t-know-meme-drawing: Sourced from exeqserve.com Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Cover Art: Sourced from thegamesdb.net 🤖 Reddit Community Art & Upscales COD: Modern Warfare: via u/Weeaboo_God COD: Modern Warfare II (Art): via u/_Sagittarius_A COD 4 Multiplayer Maps: via u/ProblemGamer18 Battlefield 6 (Unofficial Art): via u/Butwholez NFS Hot Pursuit 2010: via u/fearnoid NFS ProStreet / Most Wanted (4K): via u/acoolrocket NFS Undercover: via u/themicsik NFS Carbon: via u/Fathom_324 Gears of War: via r/GearsOfWar [Funny Trope] Sweating Character: via u/vbt31 Arthur Morgan: via u/wholelottahate19 ULTRA HD HALO 3 POSTER: via u/BobaFett_1980 Battlefield 4 (Reddit Image): via u/Turbopipieyes Battlefield 1 (Reddit Image): via u/BobMama Mass Effect Box Art: via u/Phil_aka_Dirk21 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Megathread (Steam/PC): via u/Successful-Wasabi704 Starfield: via u/siddny27 Glorious PC Gaming Master Race: via u/SgtDeathAdder 🏛️ Public Domain & Creative Commons Rockstar Games, Ubisoft, Activision, Square Enix Logos: via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). Criterion Games & EA Logos: via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). Gamer with friends (2020): by LondonWater (CC BY 4.0). Dan & Sam Houser (Rockstar): by Anthony Parello (CC BY 4.0). Need for Speed logo: by Aboodmc43 (Public Domain) Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare: by N8 Balcom (CC BY 4.0) 🎵 Music Credits and Licensing: Music: Sunset Static by Joshua Moses https://joshuamosesmusic.bandcamp.com License: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/JmY Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube Music: Nostalgia Neuralgia by Joshua Moses https://joshuamosesmusic.bandcamp.com License: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/xPc Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube First Light - Atch   / atch-music   Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/atch/... Music promoted by Audio Library    • First Light – Atch (No Copyright Music)   Music: Black Vortex by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com License: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/1xH Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube Music: Transmission X by Mehul Choudhary   / mehulchoudhary   License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/Anb Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube Music: memories by Rexlambo   / rexlambo   License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/6Fx Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube Music: Believe by Wanheda   / user-724527508   License: Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported - CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://links.al/HPp Music promoted by Audio Library: https://links.al/youtube Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This video uses images as visual aids (B-roll) to support the original commentary and analysis.