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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Asmongold Clips / Asmongold Reacts To: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II terrible numbers and very short runtime has players up in arms
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"Making video games is hard". The second you see this you know it's over
They always forget the second part: "Making video games is hard when you're stupid"
I mean it's pretty hard right and hard wrong too
@@Uryendel You think these developers are stupid? This game looks incredible. Sure they made some compromises with the playability but I wouldnt call that stupid, just a different vision.
Ain't even hard, just requires some creativity, passion, and _not_ allowing oneself to get GOATSE'd by fat cat shareholders.
i mean... it is though.
Ever since TLOU2 I have always thought Western game devs are frustrated movie producers who didn't make it in hollywood
Kojima would agree
Tlou 2 is much more of a videogame than most "interactive movie" games though, it lasts for at least 20+ hours and both protagonists have different arsenal and moveset. It might have a lot of cutscenes, but it also has a shit ton of gameplay as well.
Which is funny cause the bar for Hollywood is already so low
@@itryesitr8053 It was utter garbage.
Neil Druckmann is a tard, the favored passenger on the shortest of buses.
@@itryesitr8053 The short bus is waiting on you
Hellblade 1 was self-published and cheap and short. Hellblade 2 is published by Microsoft, expensive and short.
I'm seriously having trouble understanding what people were expecting out of this game. It's the exact same as the first game. only even more cinematic
The problem is it's essentially the same game and same audience but everyone loses. It's more expensive to play for a similar experience and on their side it cost them way more to make.
Price is too high for the content. Just make it €35 and it's fine
When I saw the trailer it looked like another woke fемinist garbage game, so I never bothered with it. 😂
@@metallboy25 It's far from it believe it or not. At no point do they try to push any kind of agenda. The game is solely about Senua's tragic story
@@aClownBaby- It's free on Xbox Game Pass, so that's probably why I'm not complaining about the price
The first game was an indie title... Now the second one is called a triple A game? Wtf?! it's the same studio making the same type of game ffs...
Its xbot cope since its the only game they have...which is funny since its on PC too. There is no exclusives for them anymore
edit: I hated Jim Ryan too, apes. I own a 4080.
well when you make $ you can become a bigger studio
being "indie" has nothing to do with budget, but if you have a traditional publisher of if you are self publishing.
The Witcher 3 is an indie game and one can argue that Cyberpunk 2077, even though it's from a publicly traded company, is also an indie game because said company is not a publisher.
@@M_CFVplaystation day 1 is coming to PC. Stay in your lane and enjoy your "timed" exclusives.
Ninja Theory even said they were developing Hellblade 2 the with the exact same indie thought process in mind. Bigger budget but it seems they wanted to stick to that short niche experience
Short game doesn’t equal bad game, but value is something considered by gamers a lot these days as games are so expensive.
They’re really not expensive. Super Nintendo games were literally like double the price. I shit you negative, Final Fantasy 3/6 costed over a hundred dollars in today’s money. Until the bump to $70 game prices had stayed the same for like 25 years.
@@SpeedfreakUK "Final Fantasy 3/6 costed over a hundred dollars in today’s money"
ok but we werent spending a hundred bucks back then
@@SpeedfreakUK yeah and nearly 60 to 70% the cost back then are now not existend because of digital... fuck your argument. And I think most people dont think about the money but that this could have been just an DLC at this point instead of a full priced game. Especially if you consider that nearly all assets for the game already exist and they technically only had to write a story and put the assets together. It is just money grab for them thats it. And from a corporate standpoint its the right move because degenerate people still buy shit like that
Games are expensive, yes.
But it is not a basic service, it is a luxury good.
@@SpeedfreakUKDon't compare kids games into adults games
Still longer than the most recent Call of Duty campaign
Battle of mid
CoD is live service Multiplayer game, tho...
Yes but CoD can make you spend 10k hours on its shiddy multiplayer and earn millions from selling skins every single week
What can these guys make money from after the initial sales ? The initial sales are also looking like a disaster at this point
5 hour campaign might be good. Don't judge.
not for $69
It pisses me off that people don’t remember games used to have $60 price tags because of distribution costs…
That was the reason for a price tag that high.
Now it’s higher because producers said so.
modern day gamers are the biggest consumers of mass media. it's all fake outrage
Distribution, physical printing, design, neat boxes and all the tchotchkies/maps/art books... I had no problem paying 60 bucks for that.
Now? It's all digital. And the games have been... something... as of late, depending on who plops them out. And they can cut you from the digital store if they wanted to. -.-
But then you ignore a decade of inflation. Games are one of the few things that had consistent pricing despite everything else costing more, since money slowly loses value.
Whether or not the games are actually worth the price is another topic and probably very subjectiv.
@@dashwhatchamakalitplus AAA game now pretty much half baked while back then all of them was finished product who still got updated
Yeah, the 150 employees at 50 to 100k a year across a 3 to 5 year dev cycle definitely had no bearing on the cost... it was definitely the printing of cds and boxes that drove pricing. Keeping the lights on and your employees paid and happy dar outweighed any box cost.
Even if you take the lowest possible income, you were spending 37 million dollars just to pay your employees to make the game.
We shouldn't make any excuses for the sad state of triple A devs currently, but at least try and have the minimum understanding of how a business is run.
Shadow of the Erdtree is $40 and I’d probably spend 5 hours alone trying to figure out a cool new look for my character
Quality > quantity, enjoy your 200 hours of filler fetch-quests btw.
@@inputfunny You have very clearly not played Elden Ring.
@@inputfunny average brain rot maidenless found
@@inputfunny what quality are you talking about bruh
I don't think Shadow of the erdtree has facial captures of the characters involved, nor the level of graphical eye candy that Hellblade has. I love elden ring and played the whole thing, but the level of effort required to make it is different. Hellblade is meticulously made in every scene, elden ring is more generic and kinda repetitive, with lots of stuff among environments looking similar.
They were so busy about making a movie, that they forgot they were supposed to making a game...
First game was exactly like that. I don't know why people were expecting something else.
@@feykro222yeah no kidding, it’s the exact same game mechanics from the first
so... Hideo Kojima?
It's fine for there to be movie-like games? It's been very highly rated. If it's a flop that's unfortunate, won't stop me from enjoying it.
Hideo kojima games have actual gameplay this game is just a cutscene with invisible quicktime events.
Litreally zero marketing for this game. Xbox is doing this intentionally to shut down ninja theory.
You don't need marketing if the game is good. Not to mention the game is front page on Xbox and game pass. Where the hell do you people find out about games these days? In TV commercials LOL.
Good
Well, I mean... we know why. They had 0 confidence in this game. That studio is absolutely dead.
first of the game was shit in the first place so why would a second one be better? why should any major comany advertise for a woke ass game? go woke go broke i say
@@jacksnuller4867 Flayers you stupid capitalist
I dunno, tbh I played this game and enjoyed it.
No politics, no agenda, no DEI. Just a story of branching more into nordic culture, fighting mythical creatures with pretty neat story, not going into it as a videogame, but just as an experience. I think it's highly enjoyable if you don't have TikTok brain with attention span of 2 minutes with need to smashing buttons. Considering it was studio of 80 guys putting effort to release AAA game in 4 years without any bugs, it's crazy.
But on the other hand, I'm the type of guy who enjoyed the sh*t out of narrative focused Telltale Games releases.
why is nobody playing this game???
Because is not even a game, its a literal movie with barely interactable sections that cost 50 bucks for 5 hours of entertainment, ripoff
To be fair there's a lot of entertainment IRL that cost the same for like an hour of time instead
Most of the game is just cutscenes 💀
do you think that about the first game, too?
Because I didn't feel the first game was lacking. It was quite amazing. Short, but great and fun.
Its even had hardly any marketing. The only thing we saw is was one gameplay, trailer and thats all. 90% of people did not saw this game is a thing.
@@6ch6ris6Did it cost 50 bucks though? I believe it was cheaper
I hate when people state "We see and hear you." So cringe.
That's manufactured White House twitter kind of language. Very cringe. Woke speak.
Video game companies love to say that but they do the opposite.
@@karlhans6678fr in literally every single one of these you will find at least one "we see and hear you"
@@ashentwo6608 It's basically a patronizing pat on the head.
Yep. 100% agree, it’s cringe as F
In an age where AAA games are routinely maligned for focusing on graphics over gameplay, "we focused on graphics over gameplay on purpose" is a bold strategy.
Tooooooooo be fair....its a lose lose. One half of the gamers complain that games dont need to have epic graphics to be good, and the other half complain that games havent been mext gen on next gen consoles. They put all their effort into next gen immersion. And then the people complain because its too short.
You cant win unless the game hits the middle spot and has been in production for over 10 years, which is a damn risky move.
@@iabaca It's not a lose lose if you can make a good game. In the last 10 years, Overwatch, BoTW, Sekiro, It Takes Two, and ER won GOTY. None of these games even strived for high-fidelity realism.
@@iabaca Elden ring wants to say hello.
These AAA game companies should just make movies at this point if graphics is all that matters to them.
Hellblade 1 was already like this, and ppl like me liked it. Wouldn't make sense to make it different in the sequence
I saw on Reddit someone took A WEEK off work to play this game. RIP them 😂
you only need a break , game seems to be 4-5 hours long
I may be wrong on this but if I remember correctly, when the 1st game came out they said they were a small team attempting to make a AAA quality game with understandable limitations. They said they'd charge about half the price of AAA game since they'd offer a detailed but shorter experience, which was about 6-7h long. Now suddenly short games is something "our fans like" and the price is even higher, not to mention it was meant to be one of xbox's biggest releases. Something doesn't seem right.
Ninja Theory as a company and development team has always had a history of contradicting itself and bouncing back and forth between indie and AA/AAA, but the Microsoft buyout probably doesn't help the matters since they now have to cater to them and the investors rather than the public.
Tbh Im someone who likes short games and often seek them out. But when I think of short games, I'm thinking of something indie or a walking simulator. Nothing priced triple a or even anywhere close to that.
@@spencer6736 One of my favorite indie games is "Renowned Explorers: Internation Society". Rogue-lite game where you play explorers around the early 20th century and you go around exploring different locales (deserts, jungles, transylvania, that type of stuff) to discover mystical things and treasures. Each playthrough only takes about 2-3 hours, yet I've still managed to get about 90+ hours out of the game over the years, because it always feels different with the huge number of characters to choose from.
If I were to buy Hellblade 1 or Hellblade 2, I'd play it once. That's it. These types of story-heavy, short games are a mix between video game and movie. This means they have zero replayability unless you magically forget what happened.
The Steam reviews are very positive. Who cares about people that haven't even played the game complaining? You don't play Ninja Theory's games, so it being shut down or not shouldn't even matter to you.
@@1Synnerit's an Indie studio making a AAA game dude AAA doesn't mean. The size of the studio it just means hoe much money was poured into the game
Ever since developers started focusing on graphics instead of replay value and how the game plays , gaming as a whole has been in the dump
There was always big focus on graphics, especially in AAA. Too many people even focus on graphics first more than gameplay. If you would release for full price 20+ hour game with great gameplay and graphics like Monster Hunter World (for example), bunch of nerds would complain that it looks like early PS4 game and that its too expensive. You just have no way to win over some people.
Hell some people actually complained about graphics in Elden Ring.
Doesn't even need to be rep;ayable for me just something that leaves me happy and satisfied with the time I put into it. The game doesn't need to be 40 plus hours long to convince me to play it, but I will say a shorter game will need and smaller price tag if it is not designed to be infinitely replayable.
Graphics are nice but the most important thing for me in a game is first how it plays and then second is engaging me with the character's or plot and the direction they are going.
What rubbish, there’s not enough games that actually look this good. People want more single players games but now we’re bashing them?
@@boringpatron6225 You wanna mention graphic kids that Guerrillas sent???
Replay value is worthless. The majority of people who play games never actually finish them. Focusing on replay value would only make games focus on something worthless. People love criticizing graphics like it's impossible for a game to have good graphics and remain good, which isn't true. GOW games are great, RDR2 is great, and both have good graphics.
This entire game is shorter than some free demos. It's crazy.
final fantasy 16 demo is almost as long as this full game
@@ricardomilos10 really? That is something.
Dragon quest 11 demo is roughly 10 hrs😂
Unicorn Overlord's Demo was 8 hours long
shorter than the first one? for real?
They spent the last 7 years focusing purely on visuals, mo-cap, acting, and sound design, but forgot they were making a video game and not a movie. Doesn't help that they started promoting the game literally 4 and a half years ago in December of 2019 which created a massive lull in hype and expectation with very little promotion anywhere near release. This games life cycle genuinely makes no sense.
he ps fanboy he didn't say nothing about spiderman miles morales 5 hour game ratchet and clank 5 hour and hitman 5 hour resedent evil 7 5 hour game Where his anger or he just negative because it is an Xbox game? The game is amazing and a masterpiece. I don't care about the opinion of the haters. he disgrace to the gaming community because he biased towards PlayStation. Damn he is hypocritical press. shame on him
@@lofi1598I was so confused when people were hating on it when I was having a blast. Gamers are so toxic it sucks
@@lofi1598omg it's a real one in the flesh. And it lacks self awareness. This is amazing, I love this. All your comments are on xbox related videos white knighting. Keep up the good work little soldier 💪
@@lofi1598 are you broken?
Isn't Hellblade 1 like this? I think Hellblade 2 sticking to its identity is better than trying to be something else
Dead Space 3 went more action because of Resident Evil 6?
It's not that their fans enjoy shorter games. They accepted the first title's game length and limited scope because it was promoted as "not a AAA game" and was priced accordingly cheaper. The whole point of the project was supposed to be a smaller scope game on a smaller budget with a lower sale price could generate enough profit to be a successful business, which it proved true.
i accepted it was short because the length worked perfectly for the set of mechanics the game had and for the story they went with. I found the price to experience ratio to be more than fair.
I enjoy shorter stories and good pacing, i hate padded content. Short games are fine.
What's not fine is to lie that game is 9 hours long when it is 5 hours long. That is simply false marketing and in case of game this short should be accepted as a valid reason to return the game - If it was used in marketing and not just taken out of something someone said early in the development.
Even if (like the first game) it's made to be shared with people that aren't hardcore gamers saying it's 9 hours long because subset of players will definitely take that long is just as wrong as saying game is short because speedruners are beating it in minutes.
@@Sam_but_not_really tbf I took about 9 hours to complete that's because the photo mode is really fun to use
To be fair, it's still not a AAA game. It's barely a AA game. Having said that, I'm a big fan of the first game and I absolutely prefer shorter games. I'd rather have my mind blown for 6 hours and then move on with my life than slog through padded nonsense for 60 and not have time to have other experiences because my time is limited.
@@lazerpants9026100%
@@roderickmiller3199That just means you spent plenty of time not actually playing the game.
5 years development for a 5 hour game at $50.
That is what Microsoft will look at this game as and heads will be scratched with no live service or microtransactions to bolster revenue as it's a one and done title.
Always remember these developers under Microsoft aren't out to please the consumer, they have to please Microsoft & investors now with ROI above all.
So how much per hour is the right amount? $1 per hour? $5 per hour? $20 per hour?
It's included in Game Pass... so less than $15.
@@PaelmoonIt's the 5 years spent for such little profit that will be the concern. It's the business model Microsoft went for, which basically screams live service & battle passes in order to break out and get a return of profit for Microsoft.
Having the team tied up and paid by Microsoft to release a 5 hour game in exchange for practically no return is the problem, especially after recently acquiring the studio.
Its very different. Studios that are owned by corporations had It too Easy. They did not have to make good games because Microsoft of Sony would be the One losing Money. They could just mess around all day and farm Money. Thankfully this Is changing
Yes 5 hours of quality content. Since when is a game being short a problem ?
The only problem this game had is the marketing.
R.I.P Ninja theory.
rip skkibidi toilat
"Ninja tradition is no match for pure and everlasting evil!"
-Akuma
their games were never actually good anyway. The only actual decent game that they have are DmC but unfortunately, it has dmc name so the game is like another smear right after dmc 2 to the franchise.
o7 Ninja Theory
good old day one Game Pass wrecking another one
"5 hours!? There's no way. You must be expert speedrunners because all of our game journalists took at least 15 hours to complete this game"
he ps fanboy he didn't say nothing about spiderman miles morales 5 hour game ratchet and clank 5 hour and hitman 5 hour resedent evil 7 5 hour game with 70 price Where his anger or he just negative because it is an Xbox game? The game is amazing and a masterpiece. I don't care about the opinion of the haters. he disgrace to the gaming community because he biased towards PlayStation. Damn he is hypocritical press. shame on him
@@lofi1598stop the hate towards PlayStation,resident-ratchet are way over 5 hours Xclown fanboy.LMFAO!!
@@virtualDanstay in school.
@@lofi1598 last Playstation I've ever owned was the ps2 then og xbox, 360, one, then series s, what're you trying to say?
Graphics budget: $21,000,000
Gameplay budget: $120
It's just a different artistic approach to a game, Hellblade 1 was the same.
@@ThisIsMeArnoldHellblade 1 didn't take 7 years to make and release.
@@OilFreeFeathers Hellblade 2 took 4 years to develop.
@@OilFreeFeathers4 years between DmC and Hellblade. 3 years for Bleeding Edge. 4 years for Hellblade 2
That's the only strat they need. It draws in all the lowest common denominators.
They didn''t promote it, because there was nothing to promote.
Xbox promoted their downfall 💀
Just like the first game, it's a 5-6hrs asmr walking sim
If they made some trailers to promote it, they would spoil the whole game. 😂
It’s a tech demo for a larger project whatever that is.
senua was always a niche franchise. even the 1st game didnt got much attention which its obvious. its a "Movie Game genre". it was great, with great storywriting, sound & graphic. idk about the new one cuz its not a game for me. but i suppose its about the same. basically a world to "explore" the story of Senua & have the least of repeatable game mechanics in there, except the walking sim. Hellblade 1 & 2 are game movies u play & want to feel it as a movie. & Hellblade 1 wsa already shorter as advertised (but not 4 hours shorter)
I don't mind the game being short if it's good, but to a lot of people the amount of playtime you can get for your money matters a lot.
The problem isn't that it's short but that it hardly has any gameplay and it's boring as hell.
@@selenium9479 speak for yourself
for game that like movie its enough lol
It’s on gamepass
@@kingm3llo Let me say this: Katana ZERO, an indie game with similar length to Hellblade, is not only on Gamepass too but also provides a much better gameplay and narrative experience with endless replayability. Games like that would definitely not be a waste of time and money compared to a glorified cinematic that adds nothing meaningful to the first part of an engaging story.
Honestly, I don't mind short games, the first Hellblade was amazing and short, but at some point you have to consider charging a lower price for your game. 20$ would have been fine, too.
Exactly. If you have enough resources that you have to charge $50 for the game, you can surely make it 20 hours long.
I would've bought it for 20 but definitely not 50.
Don't blame Ninja Theory for the price. It's Xbox who set the price
@@jeremiah4979 Well you still might, just on sale then whenever it's 20$ haha
It is less than 20 dollars get on gamepass beat it and your done like everyone else..
I've been bombarded by articles saying that Senua was the most hyped and anticipated game of 2024. I thought I was losing my mind because my impression was that Senua was a niche game that nobody cared. Good to see that jornos and a few influencers are still gaslighting their audiences.
It was a niche game, that a niche audience cared about, (like me) and they still do. Why people still even consider the words of jounros is beyond me. Or you just wat something to bitch about for the sake of it, that's also very possible.
imo, Black Myth Wukong is the most hyped/anticipated game of 2024. August 20 for release is approaching.
@@DrTheRich he is bitching about astroturfing which is a very legitimate compliant. Moronic 15-year old comment from you
@@SapiaNt0mata never heard of it
@@SapiaNt0matanah, it’s the same thing, the game had great trailers and showcases, so people that usually fall for hype traps are hyping it up despite all the signs that usually point to a massive disappointment.
Modern gaming in the toilet
the industry is going to collapse soon
modern _everything_ pretty much
POV your bat shit delusional about how the past was
@@NikoMoraKamu Good riddance. Indies are way more fun anyway.
@@BlipperOfRaysthis is indie..it's a medium sized team doing something "weird" and for $50. First one got praised for looking so good and made by a small team and low budget.
10$ per hour.
That's almost mobile phone internet costs around the 2000's.
Times change, cry harder...
or better, work harder, stop wasting your time commenting online.
@@DrTheRich The lack of self awareness
@@DrTheRich Cringe.
@@DrTheRich Dude is saying that you have to be dumb af to buy a 5h trash game for 50dollars but apparently you just showed that there are indeed dumb af people like you.
@@DrTheRich I gotta agree with everyone else. Hop off that cucumber, you don't need it.
Was it a walkingsimulator? yes.
Was it the most immersive, most beautifully crafted and sometimes beyond breathtakingly entertaining walkingsimulator? yes.
xD
After the first hour it becomes boring and unplayable
After playing Hellblade 1 you should've known that 2 would be nothing but a movie with minor interaction.
Exactly, people in comments are bunch of idiots for expecting something else
I mean, I think people did know that, which is why only about 3k people are playing it.
Yeah this is just another thing that Asmon is complaining about for no reason. Everyone knew what this game was. It’s not shocking to anyone but him.
@@Hirome_Satou it’s actually more to do with the fact that they have done a terrible job of marketing it. People actually liked the first game but many probably don’t even know this game is out.
6 to 7 years of development, for a 5 hour campaign, bad ending, prettier graphics and no gameplay improvements.
I really liked Senua's sacrifice. But I questioned what more could be done with such a concept. The first game really felt like the kind of game you can only make once. When I heard a Hellblade 2 was in the the works, I was skeptical. Just didn't think it would be this bad
Hellblade 2 is senua's sacrifice 💀💀
@@x8Ghostyx You're mistaken. Hellblade 2 is Senua's saga. Hellblade 1 is Senua's sacrifice
i really didn't like the first one, the combat was cheap, the mechanics also, the concept was cool but it did not deliver at all for me
@@yuriyutani7907 I meant its senua's sacrifice, cuz the game kinda flopped and xbox might shut down the studio
yea the first one was great but new didn't really improve on anything except graphics
50 dollars for a 5 hour game is actually insane.
For 10 dollars per hour you get more value watching a movie in the cinema imo.
I think the idea was to put game on GP and make people to play through service.
No you wouldn't - I checked. To go to see the new Furiosa movie (just as an example), with the family, would cost $122.60 (4 tickets). That's just the tickets. Lets say another $50 for overpriced food (I would bring sweets from the supermarket, but lets go with the venues pricing). That's the thick end of $200 for 2 hours. That's $100 an hour.
Hellblade 2 costs $79 - and I can keep it forever. And lets say its the 5 hours people are saying (I took my time so it was a bit longer). That's $15.80 per hour + what time I might replay it later.
It's less than $15... It's on Game Pass. And when you are done, you have other games you can play. If you are already a subscriber to Game Pass, the game is "free".
@@Paelmoon are you playing Senua with your family? no? So this is invalid argument, and i can buy sweets and play the game, does it increase the cost? Replayability in 5h game with no gameplay, good luck
KEEP COPING.
This isnt new. Do we just want new shit to shit on? Senua Sacrifice 1 had the same exact "issue" and complaints. Its a short game with an experience you can't explain. Its a journey more than a game. People complained its too easy and the combat isnt like dark souls, it never tried to be that. Its like saying pokemon is bad cause it doesn't have weapons and team deathmatch
Th worst thing about the game is how it’s $50. It should be 30 imo. You just don’t get enough content for that price.
AAA studios destroyed game industry with this price-length ratio. I don't want another boring 100+ hours open world game. I want experiences like this. Also it's in game pass, if you don't want to pay 50€/$ for it.
@@bugarsandor2504you want short film movies with horrible gameplay and sub par stories? 😭
Hades 2 takes 5 hours at most too beat if you are good. But the game was 30$ and can be played for 100+ hours if u wanted too.😂 hades 2 is wort like 5x this game and is 50% the price.
People like you is why gaming is in the dumps. You support games with no gameplay😂
Exactly
@@bugarsandor2504You want walking and talking segments with occasional sprouts of generic gameplay? Goddamn, dude.
@@forcebrand4678 For me the story, the characters and the experience it gives me is far more important than the gameplay. I want something, that makes an impact on me. And fancy weapon upgrades, stats and exploration don't give me that. Good gameplay is also important, but I will choose games like Hellblade over any generic open world, hack and slash action "rpg".
I played for 3 hrs. This game is not worth $50 more like $20. The gameplay is bland, the only thing it has going is the visuals, which isn't important. People want a fun game not a boring one.
This probably Nintendo is the only one actually making money.
A masterpiece of a video:
1. Uses the amount of active players as a sign for the quality of the game. Because that's what makes great games, the amount of active recurring players according to steam. After all a game can't be good, because you as an individual would like it, no it has to be everyone and the players need to be a high amount that are always playing it. (Doesn't matter that this is a singleplayer game.)
2. Uses IGN for reference. If IGN hates on something you don't agree with they are no valid source, if they make statements that support your point of view, they are trustworthy.
This man is always on the right side, the one that is more popular.
Well, no. 1 is a good indicator, not to differentiate between game A with 40000 players and game B with 50000 players. But when a game has numbers as low as 4000 at launch, then that's a red flag to me. It's not a deal breaker in itself, but it would tell me something is wrong with it.
It still flopped worse than Redfall on Steam.
I'm having a blast playing it. I didn't pay 50$ for it, I paid 14$ for Game Pass and this is the third title I'm playing this month. Totally worth it.
Shhhh, the neckbards who were never gonna play this game will call you a shill
@@Fender666Bass Its literally only 1 euro if you make a new game pass account :D
@@Fender666BassIt was so worth it in fact that he didn't buy it for the price of $50 cause no one in their right mind even an idiot like you think is worth $50 😂
And GamePass is responsible for shutting down Tango, despite them delivering the only game worth a damn on XBox.
But keep eating your slop, because content is king.
@@CloakofAuron Dude you know those studios sign a contract and get paid for having their game in the catalogue. I'm not saying is profitable for the studio in long terms, nevertheless justifying Xbox decisions but they literally CHOSE to do that.
Isn't this comparable to The Order 1886? Almost 10 years after and devs commit the same mistakes wth
The Order 1886 actually had fun gameplay, though.
Very standard 3rd person shooter with some interesting steampunk guns.
Still got bored after 2 hours though
@@tyronebiggums4798 go play fortnite kid
Order 1886 was a great game, but it felt incomplete and was over-ambitious.
The exact same. Good graphics but underdeveloped gameplay and laughably short. Letterboxed image to make the game look “cinematic” when in reality it’s just to render less pixels to make the game run on consoles.
I'm surprised Hellblade II is a AAA title in the first place. The first game seemed like an indie title with AAA level graphics, and for that one I have 11 hours recorded in Steam (though I don't know if any of that was idling for cards.)
That was literally the pitch of the first game. As a more modestly budget game with AAA level visuals. Bumping up the budget for what is a niche game makes no sense.
There are actually losers that idle their games for cards? What?
My God gamers are truly degenerate freaks.
Anything and everything is branding itself as "AAA" these days, that's why that one mouthbreather wanted to sell his game as "AAAA" recently. It all means nothing. Just like the "country financial credit scores" by these disgusting ratings agencies this was taken from in 2008.
The budget was only 11 million though. They already made their money back according to them? @@suplextrain
yeah, it's not. Being owned by microsoft does not a AAA studio make.
Also,
@@suplextrain that's not at all what the pitch for the first game was. The pitch for the first game was to use their in-house mocap techniques to tell an engaging story for less than 1/10th the price without sacrificing any of the quality. And they succeeded both times. The game is good. Asmon is, as usual, talking out his ass without even bothering to look into it.
Zero Marketing, niche series to begin with, biggest feedback is that there is no gameplay, "game" is only 5 hours long.
Yeah they aren't surviving this year.
Lol u forgot to mention that one of the selling points was photo mode, who the fucks uses photo mode 😂😂😂
The Steam reviews are very positive. Who cares about people that haven't even played the game complaining? You don't play Ninja Theory's games, so it being shut down or not shouldn't even matter to you.
@@DBTHEPLUG Very positive reviews dont matter if nobody bought the game, my dude.
@@DBTHEPLUGyou fail to see the overarching issue with the game and that’s that Xbox NEEDED a win here and their general fan base doesn’t consist of people who wanna play an interactive movie the general consensus is that it’s a trash game but a great tech demo as an Xbox fanboy this shit was wack not to mention they literally didn’t improve on the combat whatsoever and instead just got rid of the dodge attack like did you even play the original? Say what you want but you and many like you on the internet are in the minority
@@immortaldragon8018 Me in Assassins creed games xD
This is the biggest GOTY contender so far. Wonderful visuals, sound design, music. Gameplay is minimalistic but not annoying. It is an ASMR for eyes and ears.
I'm laughing at you, and so is Stellar Blade and Helldivers 2. Even with their controversies, they're far more a lock for GotY than Hellblade 2.
@@CloakofAuron Oh no, definitely not.
"Hellblade 2 is indie AA game made by 80 people"
it was made by 4 people.
Yeah, I thought it's a AA game
It's not AAA.
1 graphics programmer and 79 HR personnel
It is either indie or AAA. There is no in-between and the terms are incompatible. Pick 1.
To be fair, it's "free" on gamepass, so there's no point to buy it on steam for millions of people.
Exactly. It's essentially free to play for people that subscribe to Game Pass. And if you don't, you pay $15 to play the game. Really decent actually.
I never got this argument that 'It's free if you pay for it, monthly and continuously''. But yeah most people aren't gonna buy it on steam if theyre already paying monthy for gamepass.
That's not an excuse for games to be shitty and giving then a pass for being on gamepass. It's lowering your standards and making excuses
Yeah so is Netflix, Ubisoft+ but never mind how these subscription services will only become more predatory and hike up prices per month while simultaneously only putting out premiere content once per year or every every two years.
@@kay_keik7842the game isnt shitty.
A 5 HOURS FULL PRICED MOVIE GAME?
I am sure game journos would love this one, but people that actually like videogames wont
its 50 not full price
but also 5 hours is not worth 50 lol
surprisingly I saw several game journos who didn’t like its focus on graphics and cinematics over gameplay. Mild faith in games journalism somewhat restored (it’ll be gone tomorrow)
@@ashenone6150 the price is also high to incentivise people to get game pass instead
@@ashenone6150 10 f ing bucks per hour... yikes.
It's less then 10 dollars. Just don't buy it on steam pay for 1 month of gamepass instead.
The runtime is easy pickings, when the game itself is a carbon copy of the OG.
The real problem is game "sequels" being anything more than straight up expansions, these days :/
Xbox gonna shut down the studio, ninja theory's done for 💀💀
@@FirewynnTV they judged hi-fi rush based on sales and not players, that's why they shut down the studio
@@x8Ghostyx They didn't judge hi-fi rush, microsoft judged the current work of the studio when closing them down.
Wtf @@FirewynnTV where is your analysis coming from? Sarah Bond and Phil Spencer in late fiscal quarter both stated that Starfield did not move the GamePass numbers above 2%, surely you don't think Hellblade will convince people to subscribe to a dying subscription service.
Nooo, not the guys that made Ninja Gaiden games😭
Oh wait, that's Team Ninja.
@@FirewynnTVThe number of Game Pass subscribers hasn't increased in two years to date.
Why does it matter how long a game is? You should be concerned with QUALITY, not quantity like you would get in a slogfest filled with pointless side quests and tedious filler content no one cares about. Just shove it.
The idea of playing a game for less than 200 hours and finishing it for that matter is completely alien to modern kids. They think that all games should be open world 400 hour map vacuum cleaning and horse riding simulators.
If you cant make entertaining game, maybe you shouldnt be making them
What made the first game so special was because it was an indie game with breathtaking production values. Showing one didn't need to be AAA to get to that level. It was the quintessential "double A;" game.
So the second game is then picked up by a big publisher, and charges full price without actually changing anything, and they're surprised there is backlash? Also wtf did Xbox Game Studios do for Ninja Theory anyway? Certainly not marketing... that's for damn sure.
Hellblade 1 was a cinematic pretending to be a game, did anyone expect this to be good?
You go in expecting that though and rate it for what’s it’s going for. I’m not gonna rate a game that’s not for me cause i’m not the audience.
Just for a comparison: Stellar Blade also took 5 years to develop. It is a brand-new IP and Shift Up has never made any AAA console exclusives before.
They promoted the hell out of this game with all that facetech with that lady, but did nothing recently.
"Enjoy shorter games" is the equivalent to "enjoy spending more money on more games".
Shorter games with great pace are better than time waters
Not saying this game is good, but I prefer a 5 hour blast over a 80 hour nothing burger
@@gaminggaming.6071 unrelated to what I wrote.
@@bragagamingz cool story. Has nothing to do with my comment.
@@FatManJackson how so? are you dense? I'm saying I disagree with the presumption making shorter games is a money move, because game length is not a factor for quality
Game is way too short to not have regional prices as well. It's way too expensive for just 4-5 hours.
If you cannot afford it you don't play it, or you get gamepass, or you pirate it.
@haurg7418 Either way, the game studio dies.
@@onhillsgaming Nah Microsoft has approved a new project from Ninja Theory
@@haurg7418 Because game studios NEVER get shut down unexpectedly. Especially not after a low selling sequel releasing 7 years after the first game.
@@orbbb24 We found the expert!
Bro judges games just by the steam charts thinking it’s what gaming is revolved around
Nope but its a good indication. If no one comes and eats at your restaurant its probably because the food sucks.
Hellblades gameplay sucks.😭
@@Odyssey636 he ps fanboy he didn't say nothing about spiderman miles morales 5 hour game ratchet and clank 5 hour and hitman 5 hour resedent evil 7 5 hour game with 70 price Where his anger or he just negative because it is an Xbox game? The game is amazing and a masterpiece. I don't care about the opinion of the haters. he disgrace to the gaming community because he biased towards PlayStation. Damn he is hypocritical press. shame on him
@@lofi1598Imagine being a Sony or Microsoft fanboy. What a pathetic life reduced to a number 🤣
@@Odyssey636 how is steam a good indication, when the game is available on game pass and many people inlcuding me just bought game pass and played it there?
Hellblade 1 was a complete story. It didn't need a sequel.
💯
I feel like half the people playing this game are playing with the wrong mindset when approaching this game. It's pretty much a playable movie with a very interesting story and concept, not skyrim or total war warhammer or whatever other game people want to compare it to. The game was made to tell a story and to demonstrate that visually through our eyes so that we could understand how someone with symptoms of psychosis can see things entirely different than those around them. A beautiful story but yes its a shame it was as short as it was.
It's also like their other games it's not got any Uncharted speedrunning or secrets or multiplayer that makes it more than the usual story playing fewer hours it's pure story, combat and puzzles.
I never played Hellblade but I did Heavenly Sword, Enslaved & DMC reboot. Even if I hadn't I still do research on a studio of their games, staff count and have context.
People don't have context or want what they enjoy but don't understand what the game is, what the studio is known for. People miss the context, get hyped and complain it's hilarious.
Not everyone makes open worlds and those that fail at it gets laughed at. Not all can do an open world , multiplayer or other types of games not everyone needs to.
UE5, mo cap, their Dev logs, the trailers, it all makes sense in the right context. People think too high when Hellblade 1 wasn't AAA. But people go OH MICROSOFT HAS AAA. Well not always they look at graphics and can't tell when they are a small studio of people besides the graphics quality.
@@suntannedduck2388 Exactly, thank you and Well said.
I felt like her story kinda ended after the first game. She got closure and got over the death of her lover, she can finally move on and stop being a warrior and risking her life. Kinda dont even wanna know what the second game is about :P
First game was defeating what had control over her mind, and defeat that. This game she has the control back and is now going to use that to save others who also have been wronged. Seems perfectly logical sequence for a sequel
@@DrTheRichSeven. Years.
7 years for a 5 hour game and the best thing people are saying about it are the graphics, hind sight those people saying that are playing it on their maxed out 3090 P.C's.
Good graphic are easily done nowadays thanks to Newer game engine
Might as well make a CGI movie
Imagine mistakenly equating quality with duration... Have fun in your empty Ubisoft open worlds raiding the same camp for the 200th time...
@@DrTheRich🤡
@@DrTheRichBoth can be bad, and are bad. Go home. Tameem is waiting for you.
@@OilFreeFeathers You need mental help.
I swear, these thumbnails are ALWAYS him doing the same pose as fucking usual, like his hands were glued to his head💀
I’m so sick of seeing his stupid face on this site
Glued to head 😂😂😂
It's ok to release shorter game, some of my favorite games are short, but not for such ridiculous price. I'm sure there are people who want to play it but wait for some kind of Steam deal.
Xbox really has gone downward spiral ever since that unveiling of the Xbox One. That previous Head of Xbox's decision really killed this console. Sheeeesh
right?? it's crazy a single decision like that destroyed the console
@@PochichitataIt was more then a single decision. Keep in mind, the "The Red Ring of Death" and "The Kinect" was pissing people off long before the "The Xbox One Reveal." The reveal was just the straw that broke the camels back.
What was wrong with the Xbox one? It was a huge improvement and even had better hardware then its competitors??? Yes forcing Kinect was weird but man that thing was WAAAY ahead of its time in terms of tech
@@phatdog If I recall correctly, with the Xbox One, Microsoft tried to do always online, game disk DRMs to prevent resale, and pivoted away from good games to focus on multimedia like sports streaming and Netflix. Afterward, Microsoft walked most of that stuff back, but it was too late. Sony seized the moment with the PlayStation IV and did the opposite with no always online, game disks can be resold, and focused on games.
@@phatdog The launch Xbox 1 was actually weaker than the launch PS4 (720p vs 900+p on the launch PS4). The Xbox 1 S reached parity with the launch PS4 (and the slim) while the Xbox 1 X was the most powerful console of that gen. That said, as worldtownfc noted - Microsoft tried to kill the second-hand market, have always online requirements, and were more focused on being a multimedia center than a console at the time.
I haven't even HEARD of this game.
Horrible marketing.
Because the gameplay is boring af.
Its been shown countless times over the years i dont understand how you could miss it?
Its literally been shown at so many events its become a meme.
The game had a lot of marketing
Crazy how you easily get 200+ hours from a 6 euro indie game.
People don’t know what they want. A lot advocate for shorter games with more quality, now one is here, now it’s too expensive.
@jgooner894 this game isnt good though😂? Its also not a game its a movie.
@@jgunner94also animal well is longer than this shit and it was made by 1 person
@@Odyssey636 Tell that to the people who liked the first game and who gave this good reviews.
@@Odyssey636 What says a game can’t mostly be an interactive movie either? There can be more of them cause the market is saturated in other genres.
I’m someone who it tired of every single player game being 20-40 hours. Pay $10 for gamepass and give this a try. It’s a truly wonderful cinematic experience and that's coming from a PS fan. Stop shitting on games you haven't even tried yourself. Watching a playthrough is not the same thing as experiencing it yourself.
Hellblade 1 was an AA game, why would this be a AAA game? If it was $30-40 like the first game this wouldn't be a problem. It's just another management and xbox fail like always.
Inflation already makes those $40 from 2017 turn into more than $50 today genius.
@@ramr7051im genuinely saddened by how utterly stupid this community is proven to be with this video/comment section....like wow people are crying over the completely wrong game here.
Well, AA vs AAA isn't differentiated by the price itself. As for AAA, I heard they themselves used the term "indie AAA" to describe themselves. Make of that what you will. I think some people are treating video games like ballet or something. I get that video games are art, but some are a bit too snobbish, favouring the artsy side drinking tea with their pinkies up over the fun side in defending this game. I respect art, but video games should also entertain instead of wow through beautiful visuals alone, while the gameplay is... lacking. Literally lacking, because as far as I can tell it's almost a walking simulator with little to do beyond just moving forward. There has to be more... interaction, more to do in a video game beyond that.
@@Giliver ps fanboys they not cry about R and clank 5 hour game and miles morales 5 hour game thy buy them with 70 price clowns
@@lofi1598 except those games are much longer than 5 hours and ACTUALLY HAVE GAMEPLAY LOOOOL. Hellblade wishes it had spiderman traversal fun or ratchet and clank zany shooting
And when a new CoD trailer is available, Microsoft will make sure that you see it even when you look up to the sky... the clouds will be modified with the CoD and Microsoft logo on it. You'll sit on the toilet with your phone and you're get an amber alert for a new CoD game. The marketing team will show their true powers when a new CoD game is ready to be shown.
Clearly if your game is 5 hours long and 3 hours and a half of it is cutscenes and a large amount of the gameplay is walking, you didn't want to make a video game. You wanted to make a movie.
SO MAKE FUCKING MOVIES.
9 hours look to be quite ideal. But 5 hours can be nice too provided it’s 5 hours of gameplay. I saw the gameplay, no way combat made up more than 2 hours. WTF is this ? Is it even a game ?
he ps fanboy he didn't say nothing about spiderman miles morales 5 hour game ratchet and clank 5 hour and hitman 5 hour resedent evil 7 5 hour game with 70 price Where his anger or he just negative because it is an Xbox game? The game is amazing and a masterpiece. I don't care about the opinion of the haters. he disgrace to the gaming community because he biased towards PlayStation. Damn he is hypocritical press. shame on him
It's on gamepass day 0. I finished it, it's an 8/10. The game never wanted to be a GOW, it is something "different". It lasts 8 hours or so, it is enjoyed with headphones. Microsoft gave them the green light for another game.
You must be slow at games if it took you 8 hours it's a 5-6 hour game max
Also greenlight means nothing your not gonna have a studio sitting there doing nothing getting paid while you decide if they're gonna be cut or not
@@weplayvrgames Little monkey, I've been playing video games for 30 years, I played it slowly because that's how I wanted it. 2nd, Senua is not the only video game project they were working on.
@@weplayvrgames Senua is not the only video game project they were working on. I've been playing for 30 years, I played it that way because I decided to play it that way.
@@kakaroten what way dying over and over again , standing there doing nothing , you must have just been staring at nothing for 2 hours of your time to make it last that long , did you just get lost and keep walking In circles or something?and so because you decided to meander and waste time you say the game is an 8 hour game.....most people are finishing it in 5-6 hours so why are you trying to mislead people into thinking the game is going to last 8 hours when self admittedly you say it lasted that long because you had to make it last that long, see how it comes off dude
@@weplayvrgameslol, how old are you?
How many tabs does bro HAVE OPEN!?
lol.. he cleaned it up.. he usually has 2-3 times more than that open. I have about 30 open right now lol
like 30 but thoses are rookie numbers I have 130 opened right now
All of them.
@@bobtheape lol yikes, thats too much memory being eaten up.
Yes
I don't even know how this qualifies as a video "game", this is a Zack Snyder's extended cut.
I feel like we're being too harsh on it, although I do agree that in the value department this game absolutely is cheeks however we've also seen how fucking awful games that are on the other side of this spectrum can be, and yes there is middle ground to this but personally I think we should criticize the game for it's short comings and also celebrate its strengths and hope the game studios continue to publish artistic treats with gameplay and playtime to back it up.
I personally enjoyed the game, all the Hiddenfolk trials and revelations were visually STUNNING and were delivered masterfully.
The combat was decent, all the finishers and parries were satisfying.
The character development was really nice, Thorgester was one of my favs.
Overall, I'd recommend people to play this game if they want a break from their valorants, elden rings, fifa or whatever your current game rotation is, and enjoy this visually stunning art playable art piece.
Also the bandwagon mindset is crazy how people who haven't played the game or it's predecessor for a single minute just start shitting on it for reasons other than the playtime and gameplay.
Imagine buying Senua's Saga: Hellblade II for 50$ which is 5h instead of Another Crab's Treasure for 30$ which has over 15h.
You could play F2P games 0 money invinite playtime. Isnt this better? Or maybe it not a best metric?
They should have made a video game. Instead of an interactive movie.
Its almost as if you didnt play the first game.
@@GiliverDid you watch the video? No one did, that's the point. Ninja theory has never made a good game so I don't see why they would suddenly start now.
@@saysalla Then why are you complaining? Just don't play it?
I mean, the length of the game is really not a surprise. The first game was only aroung seven hours or so for me and that was with alot of wandering around trying to find stuff. So for me the issue is not that the game is short. I dont need every game i play to be 150 hours long. The issue is that many reviewers that claim to have enjoyed the first game are saying that they not only simplified the puzzles, but also that there is fewer combat encounters in the game when compared to the first gane. And I cannot imagine why a decision like that would have been made. Nobody that played the original expected to have deep variety in the gameplay. And the combat was already pretty bare bones to begin with. To lessen it even further is a very strange decision and i cannot understand why they chose to do that.
And it gets even worse; the whole thing is scaled back, despite having what appears to be a 5 year development frame, and a substantially higher budget than the first. How can it, then, be shorter than the first, with key gameplay elements being cut back, not to mention barely any improvement on the combat front.
To be fair, if I wanted 200 hours of Skyrim, I’d play Skyrim. If I want an endless game, I’ve got Football Manager
WHAT? Senuas Saga is one of my most anticipated games, and I had NO idea it was out till this video. What a failure of marketing.
Did you see the trailers at the game awards, any articles, their Dev logs on their RUclips channel? I never saw ads but I knew the studio from their PS3/360 titles.
@@suntannedduck2388 reveal trailer and first gameplay trailer. Have heard not a whisper since
Yeah, same.
I never understood the first ones reputation. Seemed like an okay story, vutni was so bored for so long i never finished it.
Felt no reason or curiosity about what was going on. Really only stuck on because of its reputation.
So im not surprised the second one is also boring.
Pat Stares At suddenly appearing on Asmon's stream, you love to see it.
abusing his Crazy Talk stand once again!
Complaining about paying $50 for a 5 hour gaming experience is weird to me... I can think of TONS of things people spend money on that cost more in terms of money spent vs amount of time engaged, where no one bats an eye. Meals out (fast food, chip trucks, restaurants, etc), snacks/treats out (iced cream, smoothies, desserts, etc), smoking/drinking, movie theaters, live entertainment, general activities (rock climbing, escape rooms, axe throwing, range shooting, etc.) Virtually any activity out of the home that you have to pay for is more expensive than a AAA game, when you compare cost vs time engaged.
I chuckle everytime someone pre-orders an AAA that flops
It's not AAA.
Can't reason with these troglodytes@@Agherosh
Thats like saying No man sky is a AAA studio just cause its $60 game. Thats not how it works.
I stopped preordering after no man's sky
Thank God the devs didn't abandon it
I haven't pre-ordered a single product in my entire life and not planning on pre-ordering anything in the future either. Why people can't simply wait a few days for reviews is completely beyond me, utterly incomprehensible. Just go for a damn walk when it's time for the game to be released and by the time you're back there will already be a review out there, just stop pre-ordering.
People: We want shorter games!
People when they get shorter games: BOO
Note: the game started developing in 2020 but had to shut down due to covid, it didn't take 7 years like some people say
another note, I'm 6 hours through the game and I still feel like I'm pretty early on. It's probably because I don't rush playing games and actually take the time to explore everything
@@PurpleFX1 It's because you're slow.
Y tf does Microsoft love buying these gaming companies if they're not gonna do shit to actually promote their games? Do they think people just magically know a game exists.
i guess there's a business strategy where you just buy your competition instead of trying to, you know, compete...
Hellblade 1 $30 about 8 hrs.
Hellblade 2 $50 about 6 1/2 hrs.
Todays gaming in a nutshell, pay more for less.
They never should have made a sequel anyway; the first one was mid, it was not bad, fairly interesting and unique but not even close to being a great game, it's relatively unknown and 7 years old. At least with the OG they leaned into the fact that 20 devs made a semi-experimental art piece about psychosis which should have been (and basically was) a self-contained complete one-off story based on that idea. Trying to cash grab on the notoriety of a game that barely sold 500k copies and only surpassed 1 mil AFTER waiting almost a year to bring it to Xbox and 2 years to Switch is highly questionable in the first place. That's not even acknowledging the absurdly scant amount of actual gameplay in the sequel.
The first one was pretty good, I think. It was just a nice take on the classic hero's journey. Simple but it worked.
Imagine paying $10 an hour to play a game.
Worst part is that it's 4 to 5 hours of fluff. 80% of the "gameplay" is just walking in a straight line and the rest is super bland, shallow, mind numbing combat.
Worst part is that the story and dialogue are mediocre at best. Like, it barely classifies as a videogame.
Then you clearly never played the first game because the first game is exactly the same gameplay as this. This is a narrative linear game that wasn't made for people like you. But I agree with the story. The first game had a better story than this
AAA games are $70 now. This was $50. Discounted by $20 on release is a sign the game is shorter than most.
5 hours isn't a game, it is a small DLC.
5 hours is the introduction of an the Witcher 3 dlc
No it's a piece of art, your small brain cannot get it, and it's fine.
@@haurg7418me huge brain me likey movie and no game me adult.
@@kaanarmutcu6740 me hardcore player, me can enjoy no hardcore videogames, you stoopid.
5 hour tech demo with minimal gameplay mechanics gets 9's and 10's. 80 hours game that is praised by the creator of the legendary game that it got inspired from, with a deep lore and multiple gameplay mechanics, naaah, it's a PS5 exclusive, we will bury it.
Yea, cause PS5 exclusive's obviously not get highscore's right... smdh
Rebirth got amazing scores though, like 10s across the board
Scores and sales aren’t the same
Any console exclusive deserves to get trashed upon. And yeah, go play gay vikings for 400 hours in an annual Ubisoft AssCreed release.
That is not true ,there are a lot of gameplay
i presume you are talking about stellar blade.
Yeh for this garbage ass game to have the same critic score as stellar blade which is an absolute delight to play is an affront to any gamer's intelligence. And if anyone tries to reason both game having the same scores is correct that person has lower iq than a chimp.
Are we surprised? Hellblade was never god of war, it was always a small game. If you look up the first game the peak concurrent players is 5619. Idk why they insist on dumping millions of dollars and hyping up these small indie games like this because all it is going to do is look like a failure when it comes out.
he ps fanboy he didn't say nothing about spiderman miles morales 5 hour game ratchet and clank 5 hour and hitman 5 hour resedent evil 7 5 hour game with 70 price Where his anger or he just negative because it is an Xbox game? The game is amazing and a masterpiece. I don't care about the opinion of the haters. he disgrace to the gaming community because he biased towards PlayStation. Damn he is hypocritical press. shame on him
@@lofi1598 Spiderman miles morales (40 dollars when was launch) has side quest and is free world same as rachet and clank, all the games are like 5 to 10 hours only with the principal mission, but with the sidequest is always more. in all the games that exists only a few are longer than that, miles morales is like 20 hours with side quest and principal misión (40 dollars at launch), rachet and clank is 24/ 30 hours with the side quest, now hellblade is 6 to 7 hours and exaggerating doing everything, so u can't not compared
If the creator of this video never heard anything about Hellblade 2 coming out he surely lives under a rock...
accurate
Why are we talking about number of people on steam playing this single player 5-7 hour long game? It released on Gamepass. I literally bought it on steam, then saw it released on Gamepass and refunded it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who played it on gamepass over playing it on Steam. In fact, I feel confident that the majority of Senua's Saga players played it on Gamepass.
But hey, tripping out that the main character of the next AC is black is starting to fade, so gotta fall for a different ragebait amirite?
What does that have to do with anything?😂 if the games free it doesnt change its still bad.
This may be the most 🤡 take ive ever read
Er, No one called the game bad. The video is about the number of people buying it on steam, the editor points out too that it's a short game. I'm pointing out that low sales on steam is due to it being on Gamepass.
Watch the video again, maybe play it at half speed so you have plenty of time to understand everything that's being said. There's a pause button too if you need more time.
@@Rynosnoborder fr
Redfall had a larger player count at launch. Sad.
that's a steam count, it's free at launch with game pass, soo the numbers are actually higher
This also isn't a Live Service game. That 3k peak means probably at least 20k people have launched and played it on Steam alone, then there's players on Gamepass to consider which will be substantially higher since it's cheaper to buy over there or free if you have the subscription. Game has probably hit 100k total unique players in the last 24 hours.
@@digiquo8143which is horrible😂for a massive tripple A release they couldnt even break 100k across all platforms 🤣
Indie games like last epoch broke multiple 100k on just steam
@@frankmuffin353 Redfall also launched on gamepass so your point isn't very good.
he ps fanboy he didn't say nothing about spiderman miles morales 5 hour game ratchet and clank 5 hour and hitman 5 hour resedent evil 7 5 hour game with 70 price Where his anger or he just negative because it is an Xbox game? The game is amazing and a masterpiece. I don't care about the opinion of the haters. he disgrace to the gaming community because he biased towards PlayStation. Damn he is hypocritical press. shame on him
There is nothing wrong with short games, but when you charge 50 bucks for that short game that's where the problem starts
The first Sennua was mad overrated. Every single level played exactly the same. It was also just as short as this one. These games shouldn't get the budgets they have so they can release at an appropriate price. If this was an Indie with a $20 price tag no one would have an issue.