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@@jarlfenrir holy hell, that's a detail i never would've thought of haha!

It was much more manageable than the goofy handling GTA 4 had for some reason.

It's a shame how it all ended up for the studio. Bethesda are pretty terrible as publishers, and they manage the feat of not being as such due to a mindset of "we'll buy you down the line and sell you to pieces". Just plain old incompetence

I remember that too, it fits perfectly with your average EA decision-making.

Joke's that Finnish is almost impossible to decipher for non-native speaker

@@DarthZombie510 Nonsense, are you telling me that "limanuljaska" doesn't just roll off the tongue?

Iit can work, yeah. It's the Disney half of the equation that's more of an issue though.

@@islamtawfeek642 it is, was pretty blindsided when I saw what it has under the hood

It's very real, and very janky lol! Quite charming in its own way though

@@solidus1995at least there you can point out to either transparent stats in the name of balance or to netcode issues when your shots inexplicably not hitting where they're supposed to (and that's a whole can of worms i lack the technical knowledge to put to the test to begin with). Here it's (thankfully) a fairly inconsequential quirk that only messes with your timings if you play long enough to learn them

@@tollutollu thanks man! It's been forever since I made it, loved replaying Populous 3

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated. When you're small, you rely on the luck of the algorithm beyond a certain point I guess. As a fun fact, since I posted my Humankind re-visit video in December, I gained +50% subscribers compared to the previous 3 years combined, and many more people seem to see my videos in their feeds compared to before. And I can't say I did anything radically different on either side of this moment besides my constant path of learning. Either way I don't complain, I like doing what I do, and only my real-life responsibilities stop me from making them more often. I actually never got to play B&W2, so I'm definitely interested in getting my hands on it. I remember that a criticism it had was the creature interactions being simplified, hence why I didn't try it back then.

-Radial wheel? Ew, no. The game already had clickable miracle icons next to the display for the gestures you could use to activate them. Clicking the button wouldn't give you as powerful a cast of the ability as you could get with a precise gesture, but would give you better than the bottom-tier version of a messed up input. Also, the tracking wasn't nearly as glitchy as this video suggests, but the game was the first one to prompt me to actually be careful about keeping my mouse ball clean (because it's old enough that optical mice were still quite rare). Given that there was a click to select spell option, hotkeys for them would have made sense. -Aiming and throwing was reliable if you had a good mouse and were good with it. A slingshot mechanic wouldn't be any less fiddly or idiosyncratic, and wouldn't be any less prone to glitches caused by the engine not being designed with modern hardware in mind. -I'd actually say "add WASD movement" rather than "replace" - allow the dragging mechanic to still be used, if the player wants. -A customisable (but still limited and streamlined) HUD would be a good option too, but a "press tab to see more information" option would probably help a lot too. -I disagree on this one. But then, I trained my creature to eat rocks and taught it to throw fireballs by setting it on fire a bunch -_- I was a monster. -I'd be in favour of building/crafting menus, but not radial ones. Except if that's limited to the console/gamepad controls, make it a proper menu designed for a mouse and keyboard when you're using a mouse and keyboard.

I think my complaints regarding the accuracy of gesture recognition are due to me playing on widescreen instead of 4:3 as most monitors were back then. I remember that some spells were annoyingly difficult to trigger even when done correctly even the first time I played it, but I was a dumb kid so what the hell did I know lol

@@DarthZombie510 When the game came out, optical mice were rare, and not reliable unless you had a specialised mousepad to use them on. Most people used analog ball mice, and those needed careful and regular cleaning to have a decent degree of precision. If you weren't regularly opening up your mouse and cleaning the ball and rollers, playing Black&White would have made the gestures suck. And I haven't tried playing the game on a widescreen computer (not yet anyway, I still have my CD somewhere), but I've heard it doesn't like modern PCs, and that might be part of the reason. There were reasons it would often feel janky without *technically* being the game itself at fault, though, and there are more reasons now than there were back then. It did have its flaws, of course, but the controls being unresponsive wasn't one of them if you knew how to look after your mouse.

@@a-blivvy-yus i had an analog mouse back then, opticals were ridiculously expensive in 2001

@@DarthZombie510 Yup, most people did.

@@nalcarya Morrowind is special, that's a proper way to break the ice into this hobby

I saw a really negative and dismissive ad/review for Morowind on Toonami, but was captivated by the images. Gave it a try and sure-enough, double platinum.

@@operator8014 Nah man. For all the dunking Todd Howard takes nowadays, Morrowind influenced RPGs ever since with its design. Haters don't know how important it was.

It definitely was a cool game, despite the things I say about it

The sad thing is that you're right, but at the same time in the past he wasn't like this. Black & White was the first time he over promised, and he did so by a long shot. He did quite a few good things before he ended up as Todd Howard without as anything to show for it

@@DarthZombie510 At least Sid Meyers is still our here making games for game's sake. Are the new civilizations a little, meh? Sure, but they're trying new stuff and I've never heard anyone say, "DARN that Sid Meiers!" Maybe I'm just biased because Pirates! Is like, one of the best games of all time. Lol

@@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz Civ benefits from having different main designers in charge of each game. Sid Meiers has an important role, but each new title dares to experiment and push new ideas. That, and he had a good eye on finding and nurturing talent like Soren Johnson, Jake Solomon with XCOM, Jon Shafer and so on. In other words, Sid Meier didn't have the ego of trying to do everything by himself and saw value in fresh blood pushing concepts forward.

@@DarthZombie510 I sort of figured as much, yeah. Yeah, that's generally how competent management works. Delegation not interference. I don't know that Paul does much if any delegations and I can imagine him staring over the desk of the artists making a million anal insights no one can do anything about. Like how I can imagine Todd Howard reading the update logs, getting frustrated his favorite pet NPC didn't get the dialogue he included yet, then shutting down production for two weeks to go through ALL the dailogue because now he's paranoid more dialogue is missing. Mind you, he doesn't care about the dialogue, he only hired one voice actor, he's terrified one of his quips didn't make it in and knows with his full heart of hearts without that quip, that side-bar joke, people won't fully appreciate his autistic genius. Yeah, my bad. I need to actively avoid Howard or I go off. Lmao, Sid is a hero tho. At least comparatively. Then there's studios like From and Larion (now). Some older studios are still kicking and still basically the same like Obsidian. Largely, and I'm just realizing this, any studio that didn't cash in and start making Console Exclusives regularly. There's also many new studios where unfortunately the publisher, like Paradox, isn't evil but still greedy and that makes them do stupid sh*t but otherwise the games are good and the deva don't push agendas or leave things half-finished. I just play the sh*t out of indy, I'm so over saturated by video games that the quality doesn't even matter so much, you can tell when a game is made for the enjoyment of playing the game and when it's a cash grab and I just assume from the sales pages what the intention is. If you insist on the look and feel of your game, emphasis on the quality of story and you released your first dlc within a year from launch I know you put all your money into the lighting effects and your story is written by a fanfic author off of fiver. Good games flatly tell you what they're about, how they're basically played, with a short theming that actually exposits part of the story rather than tout on that the story is wonderful. Basically, I don't play Triple A or anything adjacent and if ypur game's description or ad reads or watches like a AAA studio, telling me nothing and hiding behind a thin veil of flashy action and thunderous title cards straight from PowerPoint, I just don't. I also just don't play any game from any studio that has had anti-consumer controversy more than a couple times. That's as much for my own sanity as it is for the industry. The Uh, "titans" of this industry (and the players too for that matter) don't seem to realize that we don't have to put up with ANY bull. Between Indy Devs, Dev Farms, Back-Logs, Roms, and the handful of exemplar AA studios the gaming market is actually massively over saturated and without doing any research I know the AAA world knows this because for the longest time and even now to some degree they refuse to allow backwards compatability with Nintendo going so far as to release the same titles since N64 with minor paint jobs GOING SO FAR that now they just flat-out remaster old games and slap a brand new price on them. I think Mario RPG (The First One) is 70 dollars where it was 35 back in the day brand new. Damn, I'm rambling this week. My bad. Lmao

Was it just as annoying?

@@DarthZombie510 yep. Mainly because the system was designed for lower resolution CRT monitors. I suspect that’s the case for black and white as well

Thanks, man!

@@hegotnoenemies thanks man, I appreciate it!

@@acaracaraorange7685 Appreciate it! I wish the game had more in terms of variety

@@ebulliball Fable was better, they somehow got Peter to stay more quiet

@@DarthZombie510 Disagree about fable being better. Black and White was an awesome, unique game that has never really been replicated before or since. Fable was a kind of generic ARPG. Not a BAD game exactly, just not anything that stands out. I would replay Black and White RIGHT NOW if I could get saving to work properly. I see no reason to ever replay Fable. To be clear, I'd never even heard of Black and White either when I bought it. Just saw it on a shelf somewhere at CompUSA possibly in a discount bin and picked it up on the box alone. Also, I look at B&W more as a simulator and less a competition even in the maps that are set up as god vs god. I very much appreciate the slow pace and love developing the creature and villiage. Moving on to the next island is the last thing I want to do and only once I've exhausted the available content and collected tons of stuff (miracles, resources, unique items) that I can carry through the portal do I ever consider it. B&W2 completely lost that and made the focus entirely on winning, which is the real reason why that game was completely awful.

Fable was ok and charming in its own way, but definitely not overhyped like B&W was. You can keep saves of B&W, that's how i kept playing after almost giving up on it. If you install the game and patches (including the community) in Program Files and run the exe in Administrator, it works fine.

@@DarthZombie510 I had an issue with it the last time I attempted to play where basically no userdata was able to save. That means things like the creature's brain file and your god icon. Pretty sure actual game progress worked, but without the creature "remembering" it was kind of pointless.

Yeah, i had that issue too until i ran the exe in admin mode

@@morganhay3968 I share the same sadness. He went from being behind very forward-thinking games to something closer to scams. What a fall from grace!

Has to happen sooner or later!

@@DarthZombie510 😡😡😡😂😂😂

@@plunderersparadise i still doubt my sanity lol

Funnily enough, I thought it was the other way around. Shows how much our brains can screw us over without hard numbers in front of us. Glad that you enjoyed it, much appreciated!

@@DarthZombie510 100% its been spread around as a known bug from hunt vets for a long time, same thing with people thinking the allamo is slower cycle time then normal romero, just a feelings over facts thing. and of course!

In some cases i think it's a feature, but in others it looks like an oversight. I like the Pax, it feels easy to control too, getting the follow-up shot is a bit more tricky on the other one.. Shame they put all the custom ammo on the Scottfield, because the Spitfire is really strong with FMJ.

@@monked86 to its credit, this one is very hard to spot. I've seen absolutely nobody talk about it before. But i agree, it should be looked at

@@dem4xed Haha, wouldn't surprise me! But truth be told, I speak a lot faster in my native tongue

@@DarthZombie510 That's understandable. I know that english is a lot harder for people who speak slavic languages natively. I think your prounounciation and articulation is great though! (Besides giving great information about swap times, I am now interested in peoples individual time perception. So thanks a lot! :D)

@@dem4xed i'm romanian, despite how the accent sounds in english, it's actually a romance language. The issue is that most sounds are formed in different areas of the mouth and throat, hence the transitions i can use in my language are useless in english and vice-versa. People who know me say that I sound like a completely different person, so I'm not surprised lol

@@DarthZombie510 Aha romanian! Then forgive me the mistake. I understand this well though, since I currently try to learn polish (coming from german and english) and I notice that I also have to learn many sounds completely new and speak slower therefor. And even just switching from german to english makes my voice change a lot, so I cam imagine that the voice change must be huge for you 😄

@@dem4xed polish? My condolences 😂

@@gryspnikngrysp2821 not even a hot take

Unless the mechanic is intentional [which I doubt it is for all guns], no QA would check this honestly.

@@KrucyG i hope so too. Or at least, i wish it had more consistency, because some stuff looks illogical if it was indeed intentional

@@Air420 haha, that's the spirit!

@@kam3shek that's how the idea behind the video was born. I was sure something was off with the Officer, and naturally I had to expand to all guns so I catch all discrepancies

Happy that you like it. I thought it's important to note when each weapon was added, because the weapon posture thing showed that Crytek forgot about that particular attribute some time after release, so it made me wonder if the same thing happened here. I am not as pessimistic about the bullet drop changes, because Crytek is pretty thorough when they put their minds to it. This weapon swap thing most likely happened because they stopped paying attention about it at least intermittently [since some things DO make sense]. And 100% agree about the shooting range. A bunch of guns don't show up, including stuff that was already in the game when they released the new mode. Same for traits and custom ammo types. Their resources were stretched pretty thin, so stuff like this makes me think they added it mostly due to player demand, not because they thought it was an important thing to add.

@@DarthZombie510 Besides a new map being an obvious win, every other change has me pretty happy, especially the trap rework. The weirdest thing about the range is they still were updating it, adding an event table for Tide of Desolation. However, after the event they removed the table and those weapons can't be found in the range now. And because you need to have a character with the gear enter the range, if you don't have everything unlocked or the hunt dollars to purchase, you just can't access them in the range at all. On a similar note, I hope the trials "explore" mode gets kept and updated to include ai and weapons, but we'll see.

@@LeMicronaut yeah, they should put a free roam mode for all maps so players can explore freely and get to learn compounds

I am curious if they'll ever address this. It's a very small thing compared to the stuff they tackle already, but who knows

Granted, it's not terrible. If this was documented somewhere it would be better though

Yup, i wanted to avoid saying "zero point fifty" throughout the video and that part got lost in translation 😅

Glad you liked it!

Thing is it's not straightforward to test, especially since i'm not a master quickswapper usually. Also i'm afraid i might miss some details since i started playing around the time Crytek did its last adjustment on it, so I don't have the context of pre-nerf quickswapping

@@DarthZombie510 one way you could streamline it is using a macro. most gaming mouse brands have a decent macro system. As far as the old context... i wouldn't worry about that. just collect data on time between firing one gun to firing the other. thats all we need in practice. I really do feel that people would be surprised at the variation in quickswap timings with some guns. Mako is probably the newest gun with horrid QS time. Looking forward to whatever data dump you do next ;)

So you were the Nitro gunslinger all along!

@@DarthZombie510 that genuinely made me laugh out loud haha let darkness reign! Haha

It's that good!

I thought about it but decided against it, because it would've risked being more inconsistent. I'm also not sure if ADS "locks" the firing at its end like aiming from the hip does