Palworld and Lethal Company Killed Modern Gaming

Gaming is dead. Or is it? Although many are quick to say modern gaming is trash, indie gaming is quickly rising to question this narrative. Palworld and Lethal Company are proof to a rising positive trend of indie game successes rivaling and overcoming competition from AAA games, and hopefully this trend continues to pick up steam in the future.

Special thanks to my friends who played alongside me:
@Relaxed008, Lone, and Dark!

Music used from these soundtracks:
Terraria
Doom (2016)
Risk of Rain
Risk of Rain 2
Faster Than Light
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Battle Block Theater
Into the Breach
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

0:00 Season 1
0:50 Season 2
2:00 Season 3
10:46 Season 4

#palworld #lethalcompany #palworldgame

[Karmanara]

Kinda crazy how multi million companies are saying games like Lethal Company (mind you, made by ONE GUY) is considered unfair...

[HyperDashYT]

seeing Lethal Company outsell Call Of Duty was what I needed in my life

[NedInYaHead]

There's also a massive phenomenon of big name individual developers splitting off from the company that they got known for working at, to pursue projects made with smaller, closer-knit teams with better communication and lower budgets. That, along with a greater awareness of indie games on the consumer side, is a big win for passion over profit and trend-chasing.

The games industry is coming into a golden age, I can feel it.

[jelkbaker]

Battlebit is another great example of a recent game made by 3 devs that raked in millions in the first month because it was..actually just a well made game.

[wander]

I once saw someone comparing the Gaming Downfall with Revolutions through history, and predicted at some point someone would release Triple-A indie games that would shake off the industry, and raise the standard for companies who sunk deeper and deeper into mediocrisy.

It was a Youtube comment was 5-6 years ago.

[DintheGoblinQueen]

it is sad that EFFORT is now considered "unfair standards" by modern gaming and well the entertainment industry as a whole really.

[zachhollingsworth]

Idk. This isn't the first time this has happened. Remember when Among Us and Falls Guys became popular back to back as well?

[TheEmeraldSword]

13:46 I thought my PC broke for a minute there.

[rogercromeans]

"And if PETA hates your game, its bound to be a success" 😂

[YukiteruGasai]

Wow here is a novel idea it is almost like if you create a game that is fun people will buy and play it.

[fadedrai]

I feel that this video dances around the core issue, that being that the hype builds and dies around games within a few months. It’s not worth AAA companies investing tons of money and years of effort if their games likely won’t be popular for a year. As the gaming market has changed, so has the style of games that are popular. Unique experiences are more important than a rehashed shooter, even if that experience is buggy.

[kar]

Ppl always use lucario, forgetting that ANUBIS is literally an ancient Egyptian character.

[PrecisaS]

ALSO ABOUT PALWORLD: It features a server browser. Like the early 2000s. And you can run clientside and serverside mods with ease. It's literally my dream to have this all come back, a game that is close to the barebones netcode so we can mod it and run our own servers. it's so good. it reminds me of garry's mod almost.

[omegaminoseer]

That was so terrifying hearing the crash noise. I actually was one minute off a force-reset for my computer. The metacommentary on the games industry is something I didn't expect. This was a very effective video essay and I was glad that it came into my feed, Nikos. Well done.

[doremiancleff]

2023 was an amazing year for gaming and 2024 followed up with some great releases. Nobody talked much about it, but Enshrouded also had great player numbers, despite releasing in same time with Palworld. Now we are having Helldivers 2. This is a first time, since that funny timeskip bit we had couple years ago, that we had so many great games released at regular intervals. Which is more to do with studios finally recovering, having enough time and resources to release new products, multiplying by the general state of industry.

It's not a result of any particular game or a studio, but rather many factors that led us into this world.

[cambamslam]

Using the Risk of Rain music really pulls the point together even more.

[Goofy_Prussian]

Palworld: Pokémon in 1860
Lethal Company: *HELLLP MEEEE*

[alphaomega]

I love how he says "ensure you have a solid internet connection" at the beginning while I am actively using the hotspot in my mom's car

[greyarea]

The triple A industry is a pack of shit, no doubt and no argument from me there.

But you're a fool if you think that smaller studios are saints by virtue of being the underdog, lmao.

[jjaa]

I love when my TOTALLY unbiased YouTuber lies saying "AlL receNT PoKemoN games arE baggy SLOP" (lil' bro forgot about legends arceus and he was being hypocritical.